rebirth squirrel battle

Chapter 30 Overcoming Fear Hot Springs
[Squirrel Calendar] No.70: Six days, cloudy to overcast.

The creek to the west of Lufeng's territory was still looming among the rocks and dead leaves. Suddenly, the rock was sunken, and the gurgling stream converged into a shallow pool. After a while, it continued to travel far away.

"Squeak~!"

With a neighing sound, Lu Feng jumped down from the canopy of the tree, climbed down flexibly along the thick trunk of the stream, came to the quiet and shallow pond, and squatted up.

Lu Feng's figure and the reflection of the mottled sky above were reflected in the water surface. From time to time, small insects the size of rice grains landed on the water surface and flew away quickly, creating small ripples in circles.

Lu Feng squatted quietly by the stream, looking at the mirror-like stream with big black eyes, motionless, motionless.

Returning from the trip to explore the beehive yesterday, Lu Feng understood two things. One is that his body is too thin and fragile to fully exert the effect of his physical strength. In order to improve his ability to survive in the mountains and forests, Lu Feng urgently needs Build a strong body.

And the second thing is that Lu Feng discovered another shortcoming of his own, that is, his aversion and fear of water!This is why Lu Feng is standing by the small pond now.

After squatting for a long time, Lu Feng finally moved slowly.

He stood up sideways, stretched out his hind legs, and slowly moved forward, approaching the shallow pond less than one centimeter in front of him bit by bit. He wanted to touch the water surface, but suddenly retracted the moment he approached the water surface!
"squeak--!"

Damn!

Instinct surpassed will!
Do you really hate water so much?
Lu Feng's big black eyes narrowed, and just now he was squatting by the pond, looking at the water surface, Lu Feng felt waves of disgust from the depths of his memory and body, urging him to stay away from this pond.

Lu Feng overcame this disgust with firm will, but when he controlled his body, stretched out his hind legs, and wanted to touch the water, the disgust in his body and in the depths of his memory suddenly increased several times, making him He couldn't control his body with his will, and he retracted his hind legs like an electric shock.

"Squeak~!"

continue!

Squinting his eyes slightly, Lu Feng stretched out his hind legs again after brewing again, touching the water surface, but the disgust came again as promised, and pulled Lu Feng's hind legs back again!

"Squeak~!"

The mouse still doesn't believe it!

continue!

As time passed, Lu Feng's attempts to stretch out his hind legs to touch the water were withdrawn time and time again by his body's instinctive control, but he persisted in stretching his legs and trying hard to achieve his goal!

"squeak!"

On the canopy that Lu Feng didn't pay attention to, Scarface's head observed Lu Feng from the gaps in the leaves. She watched Lu Feng curiously try again and again, and failed again and again.

This is her territory. In the past when Lu Feng entered, if he met her, there would be a fierce battle, but now, Scarface just followed Lu Feng quietly, watching quietly.

"squeak!"

No.20 three times!
Lu Feng's big eyes were completely narrowed into a thin slit, and his hind legs felt slightly numb when he was squatting, but he still stretched out his hind legs tremblingly, touching the shallow pond slightly rippling in front of him.

retract!

catch!

The instinct of the body reacted immediately, Lu Feng's hind legs suddenly bent, and he wanted to retract from the water, but Lu Feng's claws had been waiting for a long time, and it happened that the numbness of the hind legs slowed down the speed of retraction, and Lu Feng was immediately caught. Grab it with its front paws!
press!

"Whoa~!"

The clear sound of water splashed with shallow splashes, spreading all over Lu Feng's body, but Lu Feng neighed happily.

"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!"

YES!

Ben Rat did it!
Ben Rat finally got over his hydrophobia!

Bump, wipe!Bump, wipe!Bump, wipe!
The elated Lu Feng kept jumping in the shallow pond, and without paying attention, he jumped out of the rhythm of three beats.

. . . . . .

Hydrophobia is naturally not so easy to overcome, but Lu Feng, who seized the opportunity, finally took the first step successfully. Next, he only needs to continue to approach the creek and gradually move downstream, so that the water flow he faces will become wider and faster. Naturally, he was able to wear away the fear in his heart little by little, and eventually he was no longer afraid of the stream at all.

After the autumn wind, the stream water is no longer suitable for playing in the water. The drop in temperature will make it easier for the stream water to take away body heat, causing the body temperature to be too low and causing discomfort.

However, after playing in the shallow pond for a while, Lu Feng found that he didn't feel the cold, and even felt a little bit of warmth.

"squeak!"

Why is it not cold?

Could it be. . .It's a hot spring! ?
Putting his front paws into the water and feeling it carefully, Lu Feng was immediately delighted, because the temperature of the stream was only slightly lower than his own body temperature.

"squeak!"

GO!

Let's start looking for hot springs!

Crawling out of the small pond, Lu Feng shook his body violently to shake off the splashed water. However, squirrels are different from otters that live in water. There is no oily substance on their fur, and it is also different from polar bears, which have thick layers of dense skin. Natural fluff, it is inevitable that the hair will be soaked.

However, Lu Feng didn't care about so much, and immediately set off with great interest!

Strictly speaking, as long as it gushes from the ground, the natural water whose water temperature is higher than the local surface temperature can be called hot springs. However, in the traditional sense, only natural springs with a gushing temperature higher than four Ten degrees of spring water can be dubbed the name of hot springs.

Hot spring water is full of chloride ions, carbonate ions, and sulfate ions, which have a good effect on relaxing the body and healing wounds. This is why modern people gradually regard hot springs as a way of leisure, health care, and relaxation. The reason it spread all over the world.

Naturally, the source of the creek that Lu Feng is tracking at this moment can only be a natural spring-type hot spring. The body temperature of squirrels is generally 37 degrees, which is basically the same as that of humans. On the other hand, this can only show that either the source of the hot spring of the creek is nearby, or the temperature of the hot spring at the source of the creek is quite high!
"squeak!"

found it!
Following the stream, Lu Feng did not climb the tree, but crawled briskly all the way, and soon saw white smoke rising from the front.That is the white mist that condenses from the heat-containing water vapor of the hot spring meeting the cold autumn mountain wind.

After crawling for a further distance, Lu Feng finally saw the whole picture of the source of the creek.

A one-meter-square rock pit, like a boiling farm stove, is constantly spewing hot liquid upwards!
Within the range of nearly ten meters from the pothole, there are no trees growing, only shallow aquatic weeds, covering the soft soil, which is still green and lush like summer in the cold autumn wind.

(End of this chapter)