Chapter 12: Ancient Beast World 06

Ye Xi'an was suddenly picked up, and instinctively she wrapped her arms around Bao Jing's neck.

She could even feel Bao Jing's scorching breath spraying onto her face.

No, too close, too close, my social anxiety is acting up.

Her complexion visibly reddened rapidly, and the air in her nostrils felt as if it had been heated by a furnace.

Ye Xi'an braced against Bao Jing's chest, straining to lean back, trying to put distance between them.

"Don't move!"

"Why are you hugging me? I can walk on my own."

Bao Jing lowered his head to look at Ye Xi'an, whose face was almost bleeding red, even the corners of her eyes were moist and red; he found it strange—could this vicious female actually be shy?

He immediately dismissed the thought; this vicious female had no sense of propriety or shame, how could she be shy? She probably just wanted to mess with him.

"Your foot isn't hurt."

"Then just put me down to sit; why do you have to bring me along?"

Bao Jing scoffed: "What do you think! If I left, and a tiger or wolf showed up, could you beat it? Your death wouldn't matter, but I don't want to die young just to accompany you in burial."

"You!"

Ye Xi'an bit her lip, gave up struggling, let Bao Jing hold her, and knew this male wasn't so kind-hearted.

Along the forest path, they searched for game all the way.

They were lucky; not far along they encountered a wild boar.

Bao Jing held Ye Xi'an without it affecting his hunt at all; the male's gaze sharpened, a gentle breeze formed into a sharp wind blade, and in the blink of an eye it slit the wild boar's throat.

The wild boar screamed a few times, then gradually lost its vitality.

Catching the prey was easy, but roasting it became a problem; out in the wilderness there was no natural gas, nor any fire-abled beastfolk.

Bao Jing used the wind blade to cut the fattest piece of meat from the wild boar's thigh and handed it to Ye Xi'an.

"Or you could just eat it raw; a few parasites, you can buy some deworming medicine later."

Faced with the bloody pork before her, Ye Xi'an found it intolerable; the stench made her want to vomit, and she quickly pushed Bao Jing's arm away: "No, figure out how to cook it—how can you eat it raw?"

Bao Jing knew the female was being finicky, and with a look of 'take it or leave it' he took the meat back.

"Hmph, you say it lightly, but out in the wilderness how am I supposed to cook it for you? If you're capable, roast one and show me."

Ye Xi'an clicked her tongue, wondering if the beastfolk on Zhu Shen Xing didn't watch wilderness survival shows.

Making a fire in the wild is something she can do.

She stood up, patted her dirty clothes, gathered some dry twigs and leaves from around, and simply constructed a fire-making device.

She prepared to drill wood for fire, which she had learned from educational videos.

But drilling hard definitely wouldn't work; it's too slow. Just need to tie a stone to the stick, and by using the stone's inertia while rotating, the fire-making efficiency can be increased.

She laid the leaves on the wood, drilled while blowing, and it actually succeeded.

The dry leaves sparked little embers, and a choking white smoke drifted up from beneath them.

"Look, isn't there fire now?"

Bao Jing also didn't expect this vicious female to actually know how to make fire; he looked at Ye Xi'an in surprise, wondering if all her previous uselessness had been an act.

Even though he harbored some doubts, he still took the fire starter ungraciously and began to tend the fire to roast the meat.

"Just some primitive methods; if Ji Jiangci were here, we wouldn't need to go through all this trouble."

After eating the roasted meat, Ye Xi'an's eyes were so heavy she could barely keep them open; she thought it must be almost midnight.

Ye Xi'an, eyes glazed, patted Bao Jing: "Bao Jing, we need to find a safe place to sleep soon."

She could barely hold on.

"Hmm, I noticed a cave ahead earlier; let's go there."

"Okay."

Ye Xi'an spoke weakly, staggered up and started to walk.

Bao Jing frowned, watching Ye Xi'an stagger like she was drunk, swaying left and right, nearly hitting trees several times: "Just that sleepy?"

"Or I'll just carry you."

Ye Xi'an was about to say she didn't need it, but as soon as she touched the warm embrace she passed out.

When Bao Jing carried Ye Xi'an to the cave, she had already begun to snore softly.

He had originally wanted to throw her onto the ground to make her hurt a bit, as revenge for Ye Xi'an's past deeds.

Just as he was about to let go, his peripheral vision caught the female's peaceful sleeping face, and his motion suddenly halted.

Her seaweed-like light purple hair spread across her chest, framing Ye Xi'an's delicate, lovely face; her slender brows relaxed, and her lashes cast a faint shadow beneath her eyes.

Her skin was tender like tofu soaked in water, her pinkish cherry lips unconsciously slightly parted, revealing two front teeth like pearls.

Forget it, there's no point arguing with someone who's asleep.

He pursed his lips, gently placed Ye Xi'an on the ground, then crouched beside her, sizing up this female who had marked him.

Although he had been married to Ye Xi'an for two months and thirteen days, he had never really looked at her properly; now that the female was cleaned up, she was actually quite pretty.

After a while, Bao Jing, compelled by some impulse, reached out and pinched Ye Xi'an's soft white cheek; indeed it was as soft as he had imagined.

"She sleeps like a pig; if we males were like that, we'd have woken up long ago."

Bao Jing withdrew his hand, lay down beside Ye Xi'an; although he disliked this vicious female, with only him as the male nearby, it was still prudent to sleep close to her.

The next day, Ye Xi'an and Bao Jing continued searching for pineapple honey, but never saw any.

"We've found so much fruit, how come we haven't seen a single pineapple honey?"

Bao Jing climbed the high slope, pulling Ye Xi'an up: "We've barely begun; you thought the mission target would be that easy to find?"

Ye Xi'an inwardly inspected the fruits in her Xiao Shijie, faintly seeing signs of rot, and complained: "If we keep not finding them, the fruits and meat in my Xiao Shijie will spoil."

Bao Jing stopped, turned to look at Ye Xi'an with her worried frown, and said: "Isn't time supposed to be static inside the space?"

Although he has come into contact with few females, he knows many married males, though; during casual chats, he happened to hear that time in female spaces is static.

Even if you put freshly cooked hot rice into the space for ten years, when you take it out it's still steaming hot.

"Definitely not static.", Ye Xi'an took a bunch of grapes from inside the Xiao Shijie; the grapes, which were originally round and plump, are now somewhat soft and have even exuded moisture.

This is troublesome; if you stay out too long, the loot will surely rot away.

"However," Ye Xi'an crossed her arms, tapping her chin twice with her fingers: "There is still a way."

Bao Jing looked at Ye Xi'an with a bland expression: "What way?"

"You say we just uproot the trees and plant them in the Xiao Shijie? Maybe we could even raise animals."

Ye Xi'an had surveyed that Xiao Shijie; it has soil, water, and air, and even the sunlight is abundant.

It merely lacks any living beings.

(End of chapter)