Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
It was a porcupine!
Furthermore, it was not just any porcupine!
Fu Rui narrowed his eyes and looked at the nearly two-meter-tall figure. He felt a chill in his heart.
This creature was like the beast-eared girl Yuan. They were humanoid creatures that could walk upright.
However, what made it different from Yuan was that it did not have smooth skin like Yuan. Its body still retained the characteristics of a porcupine, and it had long and hard thorns on its back. Its entire body was covered in black fur, and it even had a pair of sharp teeth.
It looked extremely terrifying.
At this moment, this gigantic humanoid porcupine was slowly approaching them.
The sound of footsteps woke Yuan, who was still asleep. She sat up in a daze and was about to speak when Fu Rui covered her mouth.
“Shh, lower your voice. That thing doesn’t seem to have noticed us yet.” Fu Rui lowered his voice.
Yuan looked in the direction Fu Rui was pointing at and was shocked. “It’s a scout from the porcupine tribe!”
Her expression became anxious. “Rui, let’s go. If it catches you, you’re dead for sure!”
“It won’t come over, right?”
Fu Rui was not very sure. Under normal circumstances, wild animals were naturally afraid of fire. Perhaps the bonfire beside him could serve as a deterrent.
It was not yet dawn. If they left the shelter and rushed into the forest, they might encounter other wild beasts that were hunting. It was not a wise choice.
“It definitely will!”
A look of fear appeared on Yuan’s face. She was already pulling Fu Rui’s arm as she said, “The scout’s mission is to find tracks of its prey and the source of the fire. Furthermore, the porcupine tribe has always been in conflict with our beast-eared tribe. Our position is so obvious and we don’t have any weapons, so it will definitely come to plunder us!”
Fu Rui gritted his teeth. He could only grab a handful of dry charcoal beside the bonfire and quickly escape with Yuan.
“Hmph!”
The porcupine scout immediately discovered the two escaping people. With a loud roar, it chased closely after them.
As it ran, it also spoke in a language that Fu Rui could not understand.
“What is it saying? Is it calling for help?”
Fu Rui kept the charcoal close to his body and walked in the dark towards the higher ground, where the terrain was more complicated.
Although this choice was dangerous, it was also the best way to shake off the porcupine.
“I don’t understand it either. Every tribe has their own language.”
Yuan found that they had left the porcupine scout a distance away and heaved a sigh of relief. “However, I learned from the previous witch that the spoils of war obtained by the porcupine tribe are all personal. Therefore, they usually travel alone and will not travel with their tribesmen.”
“Do their scouts act in the same way?”
“It should be the same, meow.”
Fu Rui was slightly relieved. After all, the threat that a porcupine posed was rather limited.
However, as time passed, after they kept changing their hiding spots, they realized that something was wrong.
“Why is it still able to find us after we’ve run so far?”
Fu Rui panted heavily. It was very exhausting to run quickly in the forest, and the thorny branches on the way had already left many scratches on his body. This was undoubtedly adding insult to injury.
He really could not run anymore. He began to hold his knees and breathe heavily.
He looked back and saw that the porcupine had once again been left far behind. However, he knew that it would not take long for the porcupine to accurately locate their position in the darkness and catch up with them.
“Rui, should we climb up the tree to hide for a while?” Yuan was also very tired. Her body was slippery and covered in sweat.
“If he stays on guard on the ground, we’ll be in trouble when we run out of energy.”
Fu Rui didn’t want to be too passive. He looked at the time on the system panel and realized that it was midnight. Hence, he immediately chose to sign in.
“Ding, successfully signed in. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the technique for setting traps!”
On the second day after arriving in this world, the system gave him the knowledge of traps that could allow him to kill large animals.
Fu Rui frowned. This porcupine scout was no ordinary large animal. How much use could the knowledge of traps from Earth have on the creatures of this world?
He kept calculating the possibility of using a trap to kill the porcupine scout. However, there was currently something more important that he needed to resolve.
How did the porcupine scout accurately locate them?
Could it be… its sense of smell?
Fu Rui couldn’t help but look at the grass skirt that covered Yuan’s thighs.
If he did not remember wrongly, Yuan seemed to have placed the fish on the skirt when she felt that her hands were hot from eating the grilled fish.
Thus, he squatted down and buried his head between Yuan’s legs, carefully smelling the scent on the grass skirt.
Yuan did not show the slightest bit of shyness. To them, clothing during this period was only used to protect their soft and vulnerable parts, as well as to keep them warm.
Hence, she was simply curious about Fu Rui’s actions. “Rui, are you trying to mate with me?”
Fu Rui almost spat out a mouthful of blood and hurriedly explained. “Don’t misunderstand, don’t misunderstand. I just wanted to smell if this grass skirt of yours is tainted with the smell of roasted fish, causing the porcupine scout to be able to continue chasing us.”
Yuan very generously took off her grass skirt. She also took off the corset on her upper body and casually threw them aside.
“This will do, meow~”
Fu Rui was stunned.
Yuan wagged her tail. “If… Rui wants to mate, that’s fine too, meow~”
Fu Rui was almost tempted, but he knew that he was still in a dangerous situation, and it wasn’t the time to do such a thing. Thus, he immediately refused with slight reluctance.
“Let’s get rid of that stupid porcupine first.”
“Then let’s continue running now and see if it can still catch up.” Yuan took the initiative to hold Fu Rui’s hand and walked deeper into the forest.
Fu Rui couldn’t help but smack his lips when he saw her moving her graceful body as she walked. Living in a primitive society seemed even more wonderful than heaven!
After running for a while, he simply could not hold it in any longer. He grabbed the wagging tail behind Yuan and stroked it gently.
“Meow!”
Yuan turned her head with a large reaction. “Rui, stop touching me. It’s very ticklish!”
Fu Rui chuckled and squatted down with her slender waist in his arms. “Let’s wait and see.”
It was too dark in the forest, so they couldn’t see anything. They could only tell from the sound that the porcupine hadn’t approached them.
On the other hand, Yuan had a certain level of night vision and was constantly reporting the situation to Fu Rui.
“It’s coming.”
“It’s standing there motionless.”
“Rui, I think it really followed us all the way here because it smelled my skirt.”
Yuan was a little happy. “Meow~ We don’t have to die anymore~ Let’s take the chance to escape now, shall we?”
Fu Rui pressed down on her body that was about to slip away. “Don’t be anxious. Let’s observe for a while more. If possible, I want to kill it.”
Yuan widened her small mouth. “Rui, this is a scout from the porcupine tribe. Look at its size. Even Xia, who is the strongest in our tribe, is unable to fight with the porcupine tribe members alone. You… I don’t want you to die. Let’s leave this place and find our tribe first, alright? Meow?”
“I never said I wanted to compete with it in terms of strength.”
Fu Rui chuckled and pointed at his head. “Sometimes, you don’t have to hunt by yourself.”