Go through the wild and seek life

Chapter 12 The Perseid Meteor Shower
Unexpectedly, the tighter and tighter the entanglement, the half-closed eyes suddenly opened wide, revealing a sad look from inside.Rudama twitched his eyes and compromised.

"Scratch for a while longer."

As he spoke, he stretched his hand towards the black panther's chin again.

After a while, the black leopard who had been scratched suddenly turned over, with all fours facing up, presenting his entire belly in front of Rudama.The long tail circled Rudama's arm and caressed towards his belly, which meant to scratch here too.

Rudama stared at the black leopard lying sprawled in front of her, and was stunned for a moment.

Animals don't easily show their abdomens to people, because that's where they are most vulnerable. However, is this black leopard too vigilant?
If you say it shouldn't, otherwise, it would have died ten times a hundred times in this perilous prairie.

So, is it too trusting of itself?

However, it has only been in contact with it for two days, where does its sense of trust come from?

Just as Rudama was thinking about it in a daze, the black panther had an opinion.

It rubbed its back against the ground, moved its head closer to Rudama, arched her legs, and let out a long "whimper" sound from its throat. With such anticipation.

Facing the black panther who can roll and show cuteness, Rudama is completely defeated.

She began to suspect that this big guy in front of her was really a real leopard?Didn't it suffer from gigantism, er... no, it was a mutant domestic cat suffering from gigantism?No, sometimes it's more like a dog.

Rudama resigned himself to helping the black leopard scratch his belly and chin while thinking wildly.

Feeling that the black panther had fallen asleep, Rudama tentatively stopped.

Immediately, the black panther half-closed one eye and opened one eye. Fortunately, it just glanced at Rudama, then turned sideways, buried its big head in a pair of forelimbs, and fell asleep in a ball.

Rudama gently scratched the back of its neck.The book says: If a person naturally rolls himself up when sleeping, as if he were a baby in the mother's womb, it is a sign of extreme insecurity.I don't know if it is applicable to big cats. Anyway, Rudama has applied it to black leopards.

"Sleep in peace, I'll watch over you." Rudama stroked the black leopard's back twice more, and when he finished chattering like an old hen, he remembered that he wanted to make a pair of shoes.

Pull out a few pieces of skin from the remains of the giant python.

The leather has not been processed, and it has been exposed to the scorching sun for half a day, and many of them are already curled and stiff.

Rudama spread out the leather on the ground, grabbed some soil and mixed it with plant ash, and kept polishing it on the python skin. There was no water, so he had to use this soil method to clean off the remaining blood stains and some sticky meat on the leather.

At this time, Rudama is especially grateful to her parents who are archaeologists. When she is bored, she will read their books that are strange to her.

In which book does she think she has seen the treatment of the leather? It is said that in a long time ago, people "burned" the dried leather with grass ash water, which is the so-called tanning, to make the leather strong, flexible and durable.

Rudama didn't understand the principle, and didn't delve into it. Anyway, he thought it was interesting and remembered it. Who would have thought that it would be useful one day.

What are those unreliable scholar parents doing now?Ever think about yourself?Did you find yourself missing?Rudama pulled the corners of his lips and smiled darkly. They should be in some unlucky ghost's tomb right now. I remember when they left they said they were going to inspect some ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty.

How could two people who could even forget to eat during work think of themselves, this unlucky child.However, she misses them, misses them very much, never thought of them this way.

Rudama squeezed the crystal pendant on his chest, and raised his arm to wipe away the tears from his eyes, as if to erase the trace of sadness and loneliness that had just arisen in his heart.

Let it be at ease, she has to work hard to survive.

In this regard, Rudama is very similar to her "unreliable" parents, who are happy with the situation and can always find some fun and hope.

After polishing the leather, Rudama dug a shallow pit with a bone knife, and stacked a layer of plant ash and python skin.

She doesn't want to use the water in the shallow stone trough, it's not much, of course she should keep it for drinking, and wait until tomorrow morning to collect more dew and pour it into the shallow pit, and then cook the leather.

There are quite a few large pieces of python skin, so it would be interesting to make a piece of clothing.

When it comes to making clothes, you can't do without needles.What did ancient people use?Stone needles, bone needles.

Recalling the appearance of the bone needles he saw in books, Rudama began to draw pictures of cats and tigers.

However, the species in this world are generally too large, and it is impossible to find the basic material for grinding bone needles from the existing animal bones. Rudama thinks that he does not have the spirit of "grinding an iron pestle into a needle", which will only make people She is "nervous".

Without a suitable bone, Rudama found a substitute—a python's tooth.

Although it has some curvature, it looks like a surgical needle.However, Rudama was still very satisfied, she tapped on the root of the python's tooth to make it smoother.

However, how to punch the "needle" stumped Rudama.

The python teeth are too hard, even if she "attacked" the teeth with her teeth, she failed.

Rudama decided to change things up a bit. If it is not possible to make a "needle", it can be changed to an "awl". A hook-shaped awl, um, yes, the thickness and size are more like an awl.

After putting away the python tooth awl, Rudama felt that she was consummated today.

When the sunset hides the last ray of sunlight into the sky, the black curtain draws up the sky again.

Rudama made a mat out of hay and lay on his back.The black leopard also seemed to see that it was comfortable here, so he walked over and lay down beside her.

Rudama looked at the black panther, and the black panther also looked at her. His dark purple eyes revealed the eyes of a highly intelligent human being. It curled its long tail around Rudama's arm, and shook it slightly , like a coquettish child.It made Rudama feel warm and friendly.

Rudama was half leaning on the black leopard, and the dancing flames not far away reflected her bright black eyes, revealing a touch of vivid color.

This was the first comfortable night she spent in this era, this world, inexplicably.

No hunger, no fear, no despair.She can lean here leisurely, listen to the insects, and look up at the sky.

Raising her hand, Rudama gently rubbed the big head of the black leopard, the peace it brought her.

The feigned black leopard slightly lifted one eyelid, revealing half of a dark purple sleepy eye, glanced at Rudama, let out a "grunt" from the depths of his throat, and closed his eyelids again.

Rudama looked at it half awake, half sleepy like a sleeping cat, and became very playful.She leaned her head close to the small round ear of the black panther, and gently blew into it.

(End of this chapter)