"Not seen it."
Then Zhang Ze switched to the next image, this ti it’s a square pig, "What about this one?"
Looking at the square pig, Su La tried to keep a straight face. After thinking for a while, she said softly, "I... haven’t seen it either, but I heard an elder in the tribe say he has seen this thing.
"This... let think, it seems to be seen ten years ago, on the other side of the forest."
Su La pointed to a direction opposite to Maomao’s location.
Zhang Ze looked at Su La, and after a brief silence, he spoke, "I see, then I want to et your Elder to inquire about so clues."
Su La was taken aback for a mont, but soon responded.
"Okay, if you wish, you can co back to the tribe with to have a look. We can act as your guides..."
Su La tried to appear submissive, but her flickering eyes showed how guilty she was.
Zhang Ze pretended not to notice and directly removed the restriction on her body.
"Lead the way, I’ll go take a look at your tribe."
Su La nodded, she got up and cautiously stretched her front legs, but instead of going into the forest, she went to the riverside, picked up her small bucket, and handed it to the already surfaced Fuji.
Little Fuji tilted her head at the bucket offered and quickly understood Su La’s intention. She picked a few large ones from the net and put them into Su La’s bucket.
Once those jellyfish-like water spirits entered the bucket, they lost their vitality, turning into a pool of clear water, while the red core floated on the surface like a fruit.
Su La carefully placed the ’fruit’ into a small bag at her waist, then poured the water from the bucket into a water pouch, ensuring not a drop was lost, before hopping towards the forest.
Zhang Ze led Maomao to follow.
Su La moved quickly through the forest, her magical hooves proved useful, gripping branches like a clamp, allowing her to hop through the forest in a teleportation-like style.
The forest contains so natural restriction to obscure perception and affect escape techniques, making it easy for outsiders to lose their way.
It seed Su La intended to ditch Zhang Ze.
But such a level of restriction was aningless in front of Zhang Ze and Maomao.
Little Fuji erged from Maomao’s fur and crawled to Zhang Ze’s ear, whispering, "The Half Deer Man is lying."
Zhang Ze, "I know."
Little Fuji, "Then why are you still going?"
Zhang Ze, "What else can I do, Li is there, and even if there’s a trap, I have to get Li out first. If we can fight, we’ll fight, if not, we’ll run."
"True, then be careful."
After saying this, Little Fuji shrunk back into Maomao’s fur.
As they spoke, Zhang Ze kept his eyes fixed on Su La’s hooves, not because of any foot fetish, but because he noticed Su La seed to be signaling with her hooves.
Each ti her hooves clamped onto a branch, they struck a few beats rhythmically, and every strike triggered a flow in the natural spiritual qi patterns within the trees, gathering signals in a certain place in the forest.
According to Maomao and Black Sword’s guidance, Li was also there, in Su La’s tribe.
Soon enough, Zhang Ze followed Su La to the location of their settlent.
It was a deep pit going downward.
Massive green trees rose out of the pit, reaching towards the sky, connected by vine walkways to form a three-dinsional village from subterranean to canopy.
Many Half Deer People like Su La erged from the vine-woven tree houses.
They were of the sa size as Su La, all adults, barely taller than Lily, it seed to be the standard adult size for their tribe.
Zhang Ze felt they seed not like deer, but more like tree monkeys, like water monkeys...
’Wait, no, monkeys usually live up in trees, so they’re deer monkeys?’
Zhang Ze’s mind habitually wandered off again.
While Zhang Ze was daydreaming, those Half Deer People looked down at Zhang Ze, the strange outsider.
Their eyes contained not only curiosity but also subtle vigilance.
Su La glanced back at Zhang Ze, then pointed towards the center of the village, "The Elder is there, please follow ."
Su La’s direction pointed to a platform woven from vines, at the center stood a vine house, connected by seven sturdy vine bridges to the surrounding giant trees, making the platform resemble a spider web.
Pretending to know nothing, Zhang Ze followed Su La to the center of the web.
Looking at Su La’s back, he felt a certain bold determination, a readiness to sacrifice, unhideable.
Zhang Ze wanted to remind her not to be so uptight.
Mostly because such behavior fools no one, but he was afraid of scaring her, scared she’d jump off from here.
Since these Half Deer People seed unable to fly and jumping off straight without any trees to break the fall could lead to death.
So Zhang Ze kept silent.
Lifting the vine door curtain, Zhang Ze followed Su La inside.
In the center of the vine house stood an elder, more robust compared to ordinary Half Deer People, but due to age shrinkage, shorter than Lily by a biscuit.
Upon entering the vine house, Su La naturally retreated behind Zhang Ze.
No greetings, no signal of cups smashing, Su La directly hugged Zhang Ze’s waist.
anwhile, the elder, shorter than Lily by a biscuit, charged at Zhang Ze.
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