Are all the love-brained villains my apprentices?

"Thirty-one, thirty-two—"

After Li Qingwu had counted the clouds in the sky three times and got three different answers, he became bored again.

Li Qingwu rubbed his sore neck with his hand, picked up the little guy lying on his legs and put him aside.

Li Qingwu stood up and stretched his body, his eyes inadvertently sweeping over Feng Qing and Yueming who had returned at some point.

Li Qingwu only took a few glances at the sweet interaction between the two young lovers and then looked away with an expression of "I can't bear to watch".

Suddenly, a strange "rustling" sound came from my ears.

It wasn't the sound of wind blowing through the grass, but rather like something was sliding across the grass.

Li Qingwu took a few steps forward with a puzzled look on his delicate face, but he still couldn't find the source of the sound.

The rustling sound was very small, but it kept lingering in my ears.

Just as Li Qingwu wanted to take a few more steps inside to check, a cold touch wrapped around her ankle.

"Eh!?"

Li Qingwu only had time to let out a low cry.

Feng Qing and Yue Ming, who were a few steps away, heard Li Qingwu's voice and immediately looked over here, but Li Qingwu was nowhere to be seen.

Feng Qing's whole crane was in a bad state, and he flapped his wings several times in a hurry.

Yueming was still relatively calm and calmed Fengqing down first.

Then the two cranes split up, Feng Qing went to find Lin Wenyu, and Yue Ming stayed here to see if he could get some clues from the small animals still left under the ancient tree.

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Li Qingwu, who was being worried about by Feng Qing and Yue Ming at this time, was also confused by the sudden change.

She just felt a cold touch around her ankle, and then she found herself in another place.

The cold feeling on the ankle also transferred to the wrist.

Li Qingwu looked at the empty surroundings and asked tentatively, "Um...Excuse me, is anyone here?"

There was a sudden noise above his head. Just as Li Qingwu raised his head, a little squirrel fell from the tree and pounced into his arms.

Li Qingwu was so scared that he almost threw it away.

Fortunately, at the last second before throwing it out, Li Qingwu recognized the little guy, thus avoiding a "tragedy".

"It's you." Li Qingwu quickly stopped what he was doing and smoothed down the squirrel's messy fur. "Did you bring me here?"

The little squirrel listened to Li Qingwu's question and tilted his head, as if trying to digest her question.

The little squirrel broke free from Li Qingwu's palm and jumped onto her wrist.

Li Qingwu was curious about what the little squirrel would do next, so he let it stand on his wrist.

Li Qingwu watched the little squirrel put its head close to his wrist, which felt the cool touch, and squeaked while dancing with joy.

It looked as funny as if he was in a comedy. Li Qingwu just curved his eyebrows and smiled.

But the smile froze on his face the next second.

Because Li Qingwu watched with her own eyes, just after the little squirrel squeaked a few times, something suddenly appeared on her wrist, which had originally felt cold.

That thing is a small emerald green snake!!!

Li Qingwu was so scared that he quickly shook his hand, trying to get rid of the snake on his wrist.

However, because the snake was coiled around her wrist, Li Qingwu's operation not only failed to successfully get rid of the snake, but also threw the poor little squirrel away.

"Ah... I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Li Qingwu looked at the little squirrel flying in the air with an incredulous look in his eyes. His hands kept moving and he was busy apologizing to the little squirrel.

The little snake seemed to have misunderstood Li Qingwu's meaning. It thought Li Qingwu was playing with it when it was swung around.

So while shaking violently, he did not forget to stick out his tongue and gently lick Li Qingwu's wrist.

"Ahhhh!"

Li Qingwu's face was visibly more panicked, and he was so scared that tears were about to come out.

The poor little squirrel shook its head after being thrown away, and quickly jumped onto Li Qingwu's shoulder.

She hugged Li Qingwu's arms with her whole body.

Li Qingwu noticed the little squirrel's intention, and also realized that the little snake coiled around his wrist had no ill intentions.

So I slowed down the frequency of shaking my hands and finally stopped.

But the hand that was wrapped around the little snake was kept as far away from the body as possible, and the head was tilted to the other side.

The little squirrel took the opportunity to jump onto Li Qingwu's wrist again, and squeaked twice at the little snake, gesturing with its claws as it spoke.

No one knew what the little squirrel said to the little snake, but the little snake took the initiative to loosen its body that was coiled around Li Qingwu's wrist and fell into the grass at Li Qingwu's feet.

The little squirrel also patted Li Qingwu's wrist very considerately, as if to comfort her.

The little snake that fell into the grass also climbed onto the grass and looked up at Li Qingwu.

Seeing the little snake let go on its own, Li Qingwu finally breathed a sigh of relief and moved back a few steps, keeping a distance of three steps from the little snake.

The little snake was very well-behaved. It lay quietly on the grass and no one came near it.

Li Qingwu recovered from his shock and finally remembered the question he had not finished asking.

She lowered her head and asked the little squirrel standing in front of her, "Why did you bring me here?"

The little squirrel tilted its head and thought for a while, then started gesticulating towards Li Qingwu.

However, perhaps because the little squirrel's gestures were too abstract, Li Qingwu couldn't understand it after watching for a long time.

Finally, the little squirrel found a small wooden stick from the ground, found an open space, and wrote the word "play" crookedly on the soil.

After writing it, I jumped around on the word "play" for a few seconds.

Li Qingwu tried to understand: "You mean... because you want to take me out to play?"

The little squirrel nodded.

The little squirrel pointed at the little snake lying beside it with its claws, then ran quickly from one end to the other, and then from the other end to this end.

After the run, the little squirrel was exhausted and out of breath, but he still looked at Li Qingwu with anticipation.

Li Qingwu continued to try to interpret it: "You mean... it ran very fast and brought me here?"

The little squirrel's eyes lit up and he nodded even harder to express his approval.

The little squirrel pointed at the little snake again, then searched on the ground for a long time, carefully selected a fallen leaf that was large enough, and stood it up with great effort.

It first poked its head out from behind the leaves, and then retracted its head behind the leaves.

It performed this back and forth several times, and then looked at Li Qingwu with hopeful eyes, hoping that Li Qingwu could understand its meaning.

But this "performance" was really beyond Li Qingwu's understanding.

Li Qingwu guessed three or four answers in a row but none of them were correct.

The little squirrel seemed a little discouraged, but still tried hard to convey his meaning.