[Chapter 26: Blooming to the end]

The snow-capped mountains are covered with misty people. Ji Xiaoou walked for two hours and felt something was wrong.

When she was thrown out of the space yesterday, there were obviously many small animals nearby, such as snow ferrets, sparrows, marten rats... they were all looking for food in the snow, with a variety of footprints printed on the ground.

However, now, not only has she never seen a single animal, but she has no extra footprints on the ground.

Looking around, she was the only one walking alone.

Is it too cold that they don’t want to come out?

Ji Xiaoou thought that it was not impossible. She was still wandering around in such cold weather and was homeless.

Ji Xiaoou sniffed to the palm of his hand, wrapped his clothes tightly, and continued to move forward.

In order to keep the cold, she wore all the warm clothes in the space on her body, but she was still so cold that her hands and feet were numb and her lips were purple.

The eyelashes were frozen with snowflakes, and I couldn't see the way ahead. Ji Xiaoou didn't dare to rub them, for fear that the eyelashes would break down one by one, so he lowered his head and buried it in Renne's neck.

Renne's body temperature was higher than hers, and in a short while, the frost on his eyelashes slowly melted.

She blinked her eyes, rubbed her gently against his fur, rubbing off the water droplets, and asked, "Taotao, are you cold?"

The girl's cold cheeks pressed against his skin, and Renn said nothing.

The animal has a layer of warm fur, and he is much colder than hers.

What's more, in order to keep him cold, she even stuffed him into her clothes. She resisted most of the cold wind for him.

...

One more effort.

Renn looked silently at the girl who was so close to her. The girl's skin was white and was even whiter and more transparent at this time.

He thought, was she so unreservedly kind to everyone?

It took a long time for Renne to take his eyes off her face, drooping his eyelids, allowing her to hold him to keep warm.

As he walked, Ji Xiaoou finally saw a snow squirrel.

The little squirrel stood not far away, holding a pine cone with its short paws, and was staring at them blankly.

Ji Xiaoou felt relieved.

It turns out that there are still creatures living here, and she is not the only one left!

She was about to go up and say hello to the little guy, but as soon as she moved, the little squirrel suddenly threw away the pine cone in her hand, frightened, and ran away "guujiji".

Ji Xiaoou stood there in a daze: "??"

She doesn't look like a fierce beast with strong aggressiveness, why did this little squirrel run away when she saw her?

Ji Xiaoou remembers reading a book before, which said that abnormal animal performance was a sign that disaster was about to come.

The disaster in the snow-capped mountains...is it an avalanche?

Ji Xiaoou was shocked and looked up at the mountain. The sun was shining and the snow-capped mountains were quiet, not like an avalanche.

But... I'm not afraid of ten thousand, but I'm afraid of anything. Ji Xiaoou quickly took out his compass, determined the direction, and wanted to leave here as soon as possible.

There was a brass convex mirror on the compass. Ji Xiaoou pressed his thumb against the edge of the mirror. He raised his eyes casually and saw the image on the mirror, and suddenly froze.

The mirror clearly reflects the outline of a beast, with dark fur and strong limbs. It follows itself, neither far nor near.

The pale yellow pupils stared at themselves, full of aggressiveness.

It's not an orc form, but a real black panther.

Ji Xiaoou was shocked and the compass fell to the ground with a "smacking" sound.

At this moment, her mind was blank, but she was extremely clear.

No wonder I didn't see any small animals along the way, no wonder the squirrel ran away when he saw her...

Not an avalanche, but—

Ji Xiaoou forced himself to remain calm, but his hand bent down to pick up the compass trembled uncontrollably.

——How did Raulses catch up?

How long has he been following himself? When did he start?

A series of questions filled my mind, and Ji Xiaoou could not think normally.

Both palms were sweaty, and she held the compass tightly, a little overwhelmed.

what to do?

Ji Xiaoou accelerated his pace without any trace, walked behind a large stone, leaning against the stone wall, and was panicked.

Last time she and Taotao hid in the space before escaping. Can they hide in this time?

Ji Xiaoou forced herself to calm down, closed her eyes, and tried to "put" herself into the space. However, she tried twice, but it was fruitless.

She is still in place, without any change.

Last time it was like an accident, and no matter how many times she tried it again, it was useless.

*

Ji Xiaoou finally gave up and stopped wasting time and planned to escape.

However, as soon as she took a step, she met a pair of pale yellow eyes.

Ji Xiaoou was shocked and retreated repeatedly.

When Raulses followed, he stopped outside the stone and still maintained his beastly posture.

"Where do you go?" Black Panther stared at her steadily, opening and closing the beast's mouth.

Ji Xiaoou's legs became weak and almost fell to the ground. The first time she saw a talking leopard, but this experience was not pleasant at all.

The black panther moved forward step by step, and Ji Xiaoou stepped back step by step.

Raulses's claws clasped against the ground, and with every step he took, the snow fell one inch.

His eyes were accurate and locked on Rennes.

Yesterday they disappeared for no reason. He took a lot of effort to find out their whereabouts. He would not let them go no matter what he said this time.

Raulses leaped up with all his strength and rushed towards Ji Xiaoou!

Ji Xiaoou leaned back and retreated in panic.

There was a slope behind her. She stepped on the air and her body suddenly eased. Before she could react, she rolled down the slope.

She subconsciously closed her body and protected the little leopard in her arms.

When she rolled down the hillside, Taotao was safe and sound, but her back and hands and feet were damaged by stones.

Especially the ankle, it hurts so much that it seems to have sprained.

Before Ji Xiaoou could stand up, his arms suddenly loosened, and Renn rolled out of her arms.

The blue eyes were cold and the air pressure was low, and he looked straight at Raulses.

Raulses looked back at him on the hillside.

A young leopard and an adult leopard have a huge difference in size between the two sides, and as for their strength... there is no need to say anything about it.

Seeing Renn arching his back and ready to go, looking like he was going to fight alone with Raulses, Ji Xiaoou hurriedly hugged Renn's body, "Taotao, don't go over... You are not his opponent at all, you will be killed by him!"

Renne struggled in her arms, the dignity of the leopard tribe could not allow him to hide in the female's arms and be a coward.

"Wululu" a monotonous anger overflowed from his throat.

Ji Xiaoou hugged him and refused to let go. Seeing that Raulses was about to walk up to her, she made up her mind, closed her eyes, and quickly put him in the space.

She couldn't hide in the space, but Taotao could.

She must keep him safe.

*

Once again, Raulses watched as Rennes disappeared from under his nose.

——Because that female.

Raulses's eyes suddenly sank, his eyes looking at Ji Xiaoou were filled with anger, and he screamed and jumped down from the hillside.

Ji Xiaoou endured the pain and stood up from the ground, staggered and turned around and ran away.

Helplessly, human legs cannot be compared with leopard limbs, not to mention that one of Ji Xiaoou's left foot was sprained.

Before he could run far, Raulses caught up from behind, jumped over, threw Ji Xiaoou down and pressed him under him.

Ji Xiaoou's forehead hit a raised stone surface heavily, and his mind was confused and he felt a "buzzing" in his ears.

Meanwhile, Raulses flipped her body and pressed her throat: "Female, hand over Rennes."

The moment he bumped so hard that Ji Xiaoou didn't hear him clearly, and asked with difficulty: "...who?"

Raulses's tail wrapped around her neck, cold, word by word: "Ren, hand him over."
To be continued...