Ancient Eden Chapter 17:

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Mu Qing has been unable to sleep, turning over and over on the piece of animal skin, feeling the smooth leather clinging tightly to his back. She turned over and heard a slight "hiss" in her ears. It was the sound made when her wet back and leather surface separated.

She actually felt a little uncomfortable without his domineering hold and entanglement.

But she was not in the mood to dwell on the fact that she was not used to it. She just kept her ears open to pay attention to the movement outside, hoping to hear his footsteps coming back.

He never came back. Mu Qing was so tired that she finally fell asleep, but her sleep was extremely uneasy. The slightest sound of breaking branches in the wind outside could wake her up.

The sky is bright again. When she stood up, she felt a little dizzy. After sitting on the animal hide for a while, a thought suddenly popped into his mind: What if Li Mang never comes back?

This thought startled her.

She had non-consensual **** with him. She is still eager to return to her original world, but she also hopes that he can return safely and everything will be fine.

She quickly drove this thought out of her mind, not wanting to stay here alone anymore. She wanted to be with Nado.

Nado should be the closest person to Li Mang here. Seeing her, Mu Qing felt that he felt more at ease.

When she came out, she was surprised to see the leader here. He was standing in front of the trench outside the settlement, silently looking westward into the jungle. That should be the direction Li Mang and the others left the night before.

Ever since she deceived him and escaped, she has been carefully avoiding him, although she knew that Li Mang should have convinced him not to pursue her anymore. It was the same now. She walked carefully towards Naduo's shack, but the noise still alerted the leader. He turned his head and their eyes met.

Mu Qing was slightly nervous, not knowing whether she should show respect to him or what. But she didn't need to think too much. The leader had already walked past her without looking away, as if he hadn't seen her.

Mu Qing breathed a sigh of relief and saw that he was a little far away from her. He was about to continue going to Na Duo when he suddenly saw him stop, turned around and waved to her, and then continued to move straight forward.

There is no one else around her, so the person he is waving to must be herself.

Mu Qing hesitated for a moment, then followed with some anxiety.

He is the leader here, and Li Mang doesn't. She can't resist his wishes. And Naduo, who was coming out of her home not far away, happened to notice this scene and was looking at herself. This made her feel somewhat confident.

Mu Qing slowly followed the leader into his house and breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't do anything, he just threw a ball of rope in front of her and made a knotting motion.

I just asked her to teach her some more rope-tying techniques.

The last time Mu Qing made fixed knots, this time he racked his brains and recalled several kinds of knots and protective knots, and slowly demonstrated them to the leader.

The leader was quite smart. He read it a few times and then started practicing it himself, concentrating on it.

Mu Qing held her breath and slowly backed out. As soon as she reached the door, she almost collided with Yaoyao who was coming towards her.

Ya Yao, maybe it’s because he didn’t sleep well last night, but his normally round eyes now look a little puffy. She seemed a little surprised to meet Mu Qing here. She rolled her eyes at her, pushed her away, and walked into the house while shouting. When Mu Qingbu left, he vaguely heard her shouting Li Mang's name.

For more than half a day, Mu Qing has been with Na Duo. I went with her to pick some fruits, used clay pots to collect water for later use, watched her weave baskets from dried vines, and then she tried to do it herself. When she was half-way through her clumsy compilation, she heard several long whistles coming from the west direction of the forest.

She had heard this sound before. When Li Mang brought her here on the first day, he used this sound to summon his people to carry the prey together.

She suddenly looked up at Naduo and saw a relieved smile on her face.

It should be Li Mang and the others who are back!

Mu Qing almost jumped up, dropped everything in his hands and ran towards the source of the sound.

She ran a few steps and stopped hesitantly.

A lot of people had already poured out around her, all running in that direction. Yaoyao flew past her almost like the wind and ran ahead.

Mu Qing came back, picked up the basket she had dropped just now, and continued to knit it slowly.

Nado didn't go there, she still sat in her usual place. Mu Qing raised his head and saw her looking at him with a smile. He suddenly felt guilty as if her thoughts had been revealed and hurriedly lowered his head.

There was a burst of cheering and noise in the woods. The sound is getting closer, they are back. Mu Qing couldn't hold back and finally looked up.

Li Mang and Yi Jia walked in front together, chatting and laughing with the people around them, and seemed to be in a good mood. Behind them, a man was lying prone. He was **** with simple branches and was carried on a stretcher. His hip seemed to be injured and was dripping with blood, but he didn't look very painful. Instead, he kept talking to the people around him. , looking at his expression, as if being injured like this is still an honor.

Ya Yao had already rushed in front of them, and Mu Qing thought she would pounce on Li Mang like last time. But it was strange that she just stopped in front of them, as if hesitating for something.

Li Mang's eyes flew past Yaoyao and looked ahead. He soon found Mu Qing and grinned at her from afar.

The bright sunshine was shining unreservedly on his smile. For a moment, Mu Qing even felt a sense of dazzling.

She lowered her head quickly, but her hand shook slightly, and a thin thorn on the vine that had not yet been scraped off pierced her fingertips.

She already understands. They had gone to track down a ferocious beast the night before, and they had only returned victoriously now. At a glance, she saw the carcass of a huge and colorful tiger being carried over and thrown heavily to the ground. Immediately, many people gathered around to watch, and there was a lot of noise.

Nado suddenly stood up. Mu Qing looked up and saw that the woman who had been talking to her yesterday with a very sad expression was trying her best to push through the crowd and rush to the tiger corpse. She was chopping away at the tiger's body with a stone knife like crazy. , his eyes widened, looking like he had deep-seated hatred. Naduo and some others were trying to persuade her, when the woman suddenly dropped the stone knife in her hand, and Naduo cried bitterly on her shoulders, looking very sad.

Mu Qing was a little confused at first. Even if a ferocious beast accidentally entered the place in the middle of the night, they would just drive it away. Why would they pursue it at the risk of being counterattacked, and only come back after killing it a few days later? Now she vaguely understood that this huge guy should have a grudge with this tribesman, and might have hurt the woman's relatives. The wide trench they dug might also be used to defend against it. So when the hunters in the tribe discovered that it was out at night again, they pursued it until the hidden danger was eliminated.

Yuyuya squeezed into the crowd and seemed very excited. He kept screaming at Muqing and waving her to come over. Mu Qing was afraid that she would be pushed, so he stood up and wanted to pull her back. She went over to hold Yu Youshi and took a look at the tiger corpse out of curiosity. Then she froze for a moment.

On both sides of the tiger's upper jaw, there were two huge dagger-like fangs that extended to its chin.

Mu Qing felt as if someone had strangled his neck and couldn't breathe.

She didn't study biology very seriously when she was in school, but no matter how bad this subject was, most people should know that with such a pair of protruding dagger-like fangs, a tiger would have become extinct on the earth long ago. From the cartoon movie "Ice World", she got to know Diego, the bad-tempered saber-toothed tiger. At this moment, the dead animal body lying in front of her, she realized that if it was not an hallucination, this was the kind of prehistoric beast that completely disappeared from the earth due to lack of food and human interference about 10,000 years ago, Diego. relative.

Mu Qing's ears were still filled with various noises from the people around him, but everything seemed a bit distant and empty. She just stared at the long fangs of the tiger on the ground, and all the strange things she had seen since then flashed through her mind: the strange bird, the ridiculously big mosquitoes, the dense and primitive jungle, and... people who still live here use Stone tool people, a tribe with no trace of modern civilization...

If this tiger is not a genetic throwback, then here...she had vague suspicions about prehistoric times. Fifteen days ago, she was sent back to the prehistoric era by that weird thunder...

Mu Qing's face turned pale, his expression was stiff, and his eyes were empty as if possessed by an evil spirit. Youyou was a little painful from being caught by her. When he raised his head and saw her appearance, he screamed in fright and shook her hand, causing people on the side to look over.

Mu Qing was shocked and let go of Youyou's hand. She looked up unconsciously and saw Li Mang looking at her with a worried expression. But soon, he was surrounded by people carrying the tiger to the center of the settlement. He looked back several times until he saw Naduo coming over, holding her shoulders and patting her face in confusion.

Mu Qing smiled reluctantly at her, said "I'm fine", and then rubbed his face vigorously.

Nado smiled. Then he let go of her and headed towards the crowd. Her man and Li Mang walked together.

Mu Qing felt that cold sweat was constantly oozing out of his body, and his whole body was as wet as if he had just been fished out of the water. The sun was shining brightly on her sweaty skin, but her back felt wet and cold. When she woke up, she realized that she had reached the stream outside the forest.

It must have rained heavily upstream last night, and the water flow was much faster than usual.

After arriving, she noticed that Naduo and the others drank raw water directly from the upper reaches of the stream. Although the water here looked crystal clear, she was still used to boiling it to drink, and tried to get Youyou and the others to drink the boiled water with her. The effect was not very obvious, and she gave up after calling a few times.

Now she feels very thirsty. If she doesn't drink some water, she will really die of thirst like a fish in the pond due to the sun above her head.

She lay down by the stream, put her face into the flowing water, and drank large gulps of water until her belly was so bloated that she could no longer hold it, then she buried her head completely in the water and remained motionless. .

There was silence in the eardrums, except for the muffled sound of the rushing water. She felt a chill and her mind suddenly became clearer.

When her lungs were so choked that they were about to explode, she suddenly raised her head from the water, looked up to the sky and let out a long breath.

The water she drank just now was water from at least ten thousand years ago, the air she breathed was air from at least ten thousand years ago, and the extraordinarily high sky above her head was also the sky from at least ten thousand years ago.

But she has been alive and has lived well for fifteen days. She had no reason not to keep living.

She closed her eyes and wiped the water droplets from her head and face.

She has been away from the settlement for a while. If she doesn't go back, Li Mang may come looking for her again when he finds out that she is missing.

She stood up and when she turned around, she found that there was someone behind her.

Yiga stood behind her like a ghost, with a smile on his face that was exactly the same as the one he saw by the stream that day, frivolous and arrogant.

Mu Qing was caught off guard and startled.

But her anger immediately rose when she saw him taking out something from behind, pinching it with two fingers, and shaking it teasingly in front of her.

That was the pair of underwear that was stolen from her.

Mu Qing felt that if she wore this thing again in the future, she would definitely have a mental disorder. But even if she didn't want this thing anymore, she couldn't keep this piece of fabric on her hands.

Li Mang knew it was her personal belongings. If she couldn't get it back, and one day he found out that it fell into Yijia's hands, it would definitely not be a fun thing. Based on her observation of the living habits of the people here in the past half month, although most of the men's belongings belong to the public, this does not include their women. Even those few families with one woman and two men do not coexist completely peacefully. There was a fight between two men a few days ago, and the leader finally came out to quell the fight. But the two men looked at each other in the midst of everyone's laughter, completely incompatible with each other. The desire for offspring to have a pure bloodline that is completely their own may be an innate desire of male animals. Once the conditions are met, this desire will be expressed in an exclusive form.

Before today, Mu Qing might not have cared so much about the lost underwear, or in other words, she didn't care very much about Li Mangcun. But things are different now. She knew her situation. From now on, as long as she wants to live well, she must rely on Li Mang, the only man she seems to be able to capture so far. Although this was a bit sad, she had to face reality. She didn't want Li Mang to misunderstand her because the man in front of her was obviously just teasing and toying with her, especially since she couldn't explain the situation at all.

Mu Qing didn't look at the thing in his hand, just stared at Yi Jia, a smile slowly appeared on his face.

Yijia originally thought that when she saw something being taken away from him, she would immediately come up to **** it away. He had already prepared to tease her as if he were prey.

But her reaction left him in a daze for a moment.

Mu Qing smiled at him again, suddenly raised his hand, pointed at his back and shouted happily: "Limang!"

Yijia turned around subconsciously and found that there was no one behind him. When he turned around again, the thing in his hand had been quickly snatched back by the woman opposite.

He then reacted and wanted to take it back, but it was already too late. The thing was **** in a knot by her and thrown far into the middle of the stream, and soon it went downstream with the rapid water.

He felt a little regretful, shook his head, and looked at the woman who had easily deceived him just now. He saw her standing there, looking at him coldly.