10, Chapter 10
On Black Stone Mountain, Yang Fan quickly named the mountain they were climbing.
Nick climbed very hard. Yang Fan never thought he was hard before, because the earth rats were easy to catch, and they had never seen large hunting animals where they lived.
Yang Fan had previously guessed that Nick was not a beast animal. Although his claws were sharper than hers, his thick tail was like a weapon, and he ran very quickly. Although there were no other animals for reference, when he carried her on his back, she thought his speed should not be slow.
But she had never seen an animal that could fight Nick with her on the hillside or near the forest where they lived. The biggest animal she had ever seen there was a daily food rat.
So she treated Nick as a general danger. Considering that there were beasts such as lions, tigers or wolves in the past world, she dared not treat Nick as the most powerful animal in this world.
This is largely because of Nick's image, she has always regarded him as a more similar to reptiles. Although there are also strong people in reptiles, such as crocodiles or dinosaurs, Nick does not have the teeth of crocodiles and the huge size of dinosaurs.
If the danger level of animals in this world can be divided into five levels, Yang Fan conservatively estimates that Nick belongs to the second level. The first level is completely dangerous or herbivorous animals like earth rats.
She thought Nick had good luck finding a habitat without his natural enemies, which was the hillside where they lived before.
Now was the first time she had seen Nick fight so hard.
She was climbing a mountain behind her back, but she was still climbing such a steep and hard stone mountain. Yang Fan thought several times that Nick was normal to throw her away. She couldn't help but think so, but he never left her down.
She was a little moved, and then quickly suppressed the emotion the next moment when the emotion came. She reminded herself that Nick was a monster that could hurt people at any time, otherwise she would be worried about when she would cross the thunder pool. The last time she was lucky, but she might not have such good luck next time.
When Nick climbs to the point of being tired, he will hang on the rock wall to rest. He will rotate his hands to support him, and occasionally let one hand rest. If Yang Fan is tired of hugging his neck, he can sit on his tail to rest. She is always nervous, afraid that his tail will not support her, but every time the thick tail does not disappoint her. Although it is not comfortable to sit up now, the protruding barbs sometimes hurt her.
Nick's lint and barbs are both moving. When he wants to hurt people with them, the lint and barbs seem to stand up, with sharp side facing up. When he doesn't want to do so, the lint and barbs are almost harmless. Yang Fan never scratched his fingers when he touched his lint, and when she sat on his tail, the barbs never pierced her butt.
During this period, Nick carried her on her back and still tried her best to take care of her in this situation. Yang Fan couldn't control himself and felt that they were closer to each other, but this intimacy was unilateral because Nick's attitude towards her had not changed since day one.
She began to repel Nick so strongly. Sometimes she found that she would comb his hair and touch his elbow film like playing. She would call him "Nick" more, unlike before, she would avoid his sight, she no longer deliberately ignored his face, even if he looked much scary now.
Nick didn't mind her touching his newly grown hair, but instead he seemed to feel comfortable. Whenever she combed his hair with her fingers, he would make a series of soft cooing sounds from his throat.
She found that she hadn't heard Nick make such a sound that represents happiness and ease for a long time, and she actually missed it very much. They hung on the rock wall that day to rest, and she combed him for at least half an hour of hair. The length of time was just her guess.
When they continued to climb up, she realized that it might be that her hands were too strong, and her fingers were wrapped around her new hair growing from Nick's head.
Doesn't he feel pain?
She was brave enough to comb his hair again during the next break, but no matter how careful she was, she still had several white hairs wrapped around her fingers after combing.
He didn't seem to notice it at all.
She couldn't calculate the time very clearly when climbing the mountain. She was afraid that she would fall off his back after accidentally falling asleep. She kept trying to stay awake, but she was half-drowsy and half-awake all the time.
But she roughly judged that they had climbed on the rock wall for at least ten days before they saw that it should be Nick's destination.
A huge cave on the side of Black Rock Mountain.
There were a large number of stones and gravel piled up on both sides of the cave, and hundreds of Nixons who were exactly like Nick came out of the entrance of the cave!
Yang Fan couldn't help but stand up on his back, looking at everything in front of him with insufficient eyes.
This was the first time she had seen so many Nixons.
When she named Nick, she was just an idea. After all, there was no one Nick in this world. If that were the case, she would have been too lucky. But for so long she hadn't seen another monster of the same species of Nick, so she had long forgotten the Nicksons.
Now, just before her, hundreds or even more Nixons were busy.
"Oh my God..." Yang Fan couldn't help but sigh.
The huge cave in front of me should have been dug out by the Nixons with their claws, just like the cave where she and Nick lived, which should have been made by Nick after hollowing out a large stone. The gravel and stone piled outside were swept out from the inside with their tails.
As she had speculated at the beginning, Black Stone Mountain should be mostly hard stones. Even if there are other rock layers inside, black stone layers account for the vast majority. It can be seen from the gravel piled outside by the Nixons that there are also such black rocks in the mountain.
The Nixons seemed to be digging caves constantly, and might want to dig the caves bigger and deeper.
When Nick walked over with her back, no other Nixon came up to say hello, and they seemed to be not interested in their new couple at all.
Yang Fan didn't know if they had other communication methods, or they were as she had guessed before. The Nixons had no language yet. Their voices were usually only used at certain times, such as the last time Nick thought she was about to die, when she was sad, and the last time she angered him, or when she was angry, they might also use them in early warnings. Other times they rarely speak out.
Nick carried her into the cave. At the edge of the entrance of the cave, she saw the pile of earth rats there, at least nearly a thousand, all of which were killed, piled up against the rock wall.
They are storing food, too.
Yang Fan breathed a sigh of relief. If there were Nixons who promised food, she wouldn't have to worry too much.
The cave is surprisingly a bit boring. This may be because it is a cave that has not been opened and there is no air circulation. But it is so big that there will be such a big difference between air circulation or not?
The more you go in, the less light you are, and gradually there is a darkness that cannot be seen.
Yang Fan hugged Nick's neck tightly, and his whole body was on his back. She could hear his heavy footsteps, but in addition, she could feel that there were actually many other animals in the cave. There was breathing, the sound of turning the heavy body, and the crisp sound of hooves or paws stepping on the stone.
She felt that the cave was actually filled with animals, more than she thought. She became nervous. When Nick put her off her back, she hugged him and refused to come down, and in the end he pulled her down.
He put her on the ground. The ground was not very flat, with small gravel and uneven ground. But what shocked Yang Fan even more was that the ground was hot!
She put her hands carefully on the ground and felt it was the ground heat!
Under the hard rocks is the transpiration of hot air!
This Black Rock Mountain is a volcano!
Yang Fan calmed down a little after being shocked. This should be a dormant volcano. She believed in the intuition of the Nixonian beast.
The Nixons use volcanoes to survive the winter.
First of all, this is very smart, very smart. Yang Fan didn't know that this should be a symbol of the evolution of the Nixonian brain or a part of their wild beast's intuition, just like migratory birds will go to a warmer place to spend the winter before winter comes, maybe the Nixonians are the same.
Sometimes she would want to find Nick more like a human than a monster, but sometimes she felt rationally she should make the worst, that is, he is indeed a monster.
Secondly, she didn't have to worry that Nick would hibernate like a snake. She always felt that he was more like a reptile, so she was worried that in winter he would leave her, run to dig a hole in the ground to sleep, and sleep until spring. At that time, she was probably either in the belly of a beast or had been buried by ice and snow.
The warm ground was actually very comfortable, and Yang Fan felt that she wanted to lie down. But her spirit was highly concentrated because just when she was lost in her mind for the hot ground, Nick was gone.
She can't see anything now, what if he doesn't come back? So she forced herself to wait for him.
She sat on the ground, warm, drowsy, and her eyes could hardly open. Then she heard Nick's footsteps.
His tail was slightly raised when he walked and would not drag on the ground, but this new tail was obviously heavy, so when he walked, the tail would rub against the ground in a few steps.
Yang Fan found that he actually remembered so clearly.
When she heard the sound of the regular slashing on the ground, she was already lying on the warm and hard ground. When Nick squatted in front of her and dragged her up to feed her meat, she knew that she was actually asleep.
She subconsciously chewed the meat he fed into her mouth and swallowed it while half asleep. Then he drank her water again, but most of the water flowed down the corner of her mouth to her neck. Finally, he placed her flat on the ground against the rock wall, and her breasts lay on her body like a warm blanket.
Chapter completed!