Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

"Run! I have to run!"

Poro gritted his teeth, using all his strength to run towards the center of the forest.

To prevent being tracked by the hunter, he deliberately stepped into several streams to eliminate his footprints and traces.

The place where he met the hunter was actually already considered a deep forest.

But he didn't dare to gamble, turning back to run outwards, wondering if he would run into the hunter again - so, he decided to cross the forest and leave from the other side!

Just then, in the dark green forest, a bright red figure suddenly flashed out!

It was a girl wearing a bright red cloak.

Under the scarlet hood, the girl's face was delicate and refined, and the golden hair fluttering in the breeze sparkled like the sun.

And those pure blue eyes, like deep-sea gems, revealed a hint of cunning.

"Hey, silly wolf, where are you going in such a hurry?"

The red-cloaked girl saw Poro, her eyes lit up, raised her white and jade-like arms, and waved cheerfully.

"It's Little Red Riding Hood..."

Poro gave a wry smile, thought for a while, and stopped anyway. "It's getting dark, you should go home early. Although I'm the only wolf in the forest, what if some beasts come from other forests?"

Not long after crossing over, Poro met Little Red Riding Hood.

Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother are the only two humans Poro knows of who live in the center of the forest. In Poro's memory, they never seem to have left the forest.

At first, Poro did suspect that they had something special.

But after a long period of observation, Poro discovered that they ate self-grown crops and drank water from the forest streams.

The grandmother always lay on the rocking chair in the house, and Little Red Riding Hood spent more time with herself, but she was just an ordinary girl.

Any other strange things would not be stranger than the talking animals in the forest!

"Silly wolf, I told you, the forest is very safe."

Little Red Riding Hood waved her hand, disapprovingly, and said, "You haven't told me why you're running so fast!"

This forest is safe for you, but for me... it's not necessarily!

Poro sighed and had to say:

"I may have to leave this forest. Today may be the last time we meet!"

"Hmm?"

Little Red Riding Hood's bright eyes widened when she heard this.

Before Poro could react, Little Red Riding Hood stepped forward in two or three steps and grabbed Poro's tail:

"Why?"

"I..."

Poro looked at Little Red Riding Hood's clear blue eyes and had to explain, "A hunter came to the forest and almost killed me. I managed to fool him!"

"Hunter?"

A trace of astonishment flashed in the red-cloaked girl's eyes. "How could that be? Hunters are usually only in the shallow forest. The animals there are already enough. How could they come to the deep forest? How can ordinary people come in?"

"Okay, should you let go?"

Poro turned his head, looked at his tail being grabbed, and looked at the girl's cheeks under the red hood.

He also felt a little reluctant in his heart.

Although he is a wolf, his human soul makes it difficult for him not to feel affection for such an angelic, beautiful, and stream-like pure girl.

But... life is important.

"Little Red Riding Hood, if you can't bear to part with me, I can let you hug me, but if the hunter catches up, I'm probably going to be finished - it would be even worse to implicate you!"

Little Red Riding Hood actually stepped forward and hugged Poro's waist!

"Uh... what are you doing? Do you like to hug from behind?"

Soon, Poro noticed something was wrong. This girl seemed to want to drag him to the center of the forest.

"Stop playing around, that hunter is really dangerous!"

"Don't go, go to my house!"

The red-hatted girl put her face to Poro's ear and said in a somewhat forceful voice, "You'll be fine - I promise!"

Poro took a deep breath and had to resign himself to fate:

"Then... as fast as possible, let go of me, I'm going to be strangled to death!"

"Then don't run!"

"I won't run."

......

The very center of the forest is a small open space. In the center is a wooden house with a natural style.

Behind the house, in the vegetable garden, several poultry are wandering.

"Silly wolf, are you hungry?"

Inside the house, Little Red Riding Hood brought up a plate of steaming roast chicken and placed it in front of Poro, "Here, it's cheap for you. I don't usually get to eat meat very often!"

Poro wanted to say some words of refusal, but the smell of meat entered his nose, and he couldn't say anything.

"Do you want to eat together?"

Poro looked at the girl in front of him, supporting her cheek with her hand, and asked a little embarrassedly.

"It's okay, you can just eat."

Little Red Riding Hood thought for a while, then took out a pottery jar from under the table, poured out a glass of light yellow juice, and pushed it towards Poro,

"If you feel choked, you can drink some mango juice, um... if you're full, tell me about that hunter."

"Hunter..."

Although Poro didn't limit his dining habits much after becoming a wolf, Poro still showed the politeness of being human when visiting Little Red Riding Hood's house - eating little by little with a knife and fork.

"That guy is definitely very dangerous. I'll eat and tell you quickly. Although I've cleaned up the traces of running away, I may not be able to hide it from that kind of hunter!"

Then, Poro thought briefly, and then opened his mouth and said,

"In the morning, I originally wanted to go out and get something to eat. You know, wolves always have to eat some small animals. I'll eat some rabbits, snakes, and frogs that can't talk. If that doesn't work, it's okay to eat some bugs... uh, I'm getting off topic.

Anyway, I haven't seen anyone other than you for a long time. The hunter suddenly popped out like a ghost. I wanted to run, and he cut down the tree behind me with a knife!"

Poro felt a little flustered when he said this.

Since crossing over, he has seen talking animals, but it was the first time he had seen a hunter like that, a truly different individual power from his previous life!

"Can you imagine? A tree as thick as one person can hug! The hunter used a small knife a few fingers long!"

Poro gestured and continued, "Then, he put the knife back on his waist and took out a shotgun with his other hand and held it against my chest..."

Then, Poro told everything that he and the hunter said, word for word, and focused on describing the hunter's "act" of skinning the rabbit with a few knives.

After speaking, Poro still felt a little uneasy. He picked up the glass of juice, did not lick it, but poured it into his mouth, and finally opened his mouth and said:

"Or... forget it? I don't think you can protect me."

"Hey, silly wolf, you've already eaten, and you still want to leave? You don't believe me!"

Little Red Riding Hood puffed up her cheeks angrily when she heard this. "Don't worry, my grandma is very powerful!"

Very powerful? How powerful can that ordinary old woman be?

The image of the silver-haired old man... always lying on the rocking chair outside, sunbathing, instantly appeared in Poro's mind.

But he hesitated and asked:

"By the way, you have lived in the forest for so long, have you ever heard of witches in the forest?"

Little Red Riding Hood shook her head affirmatively:

"I haven't heard of it. Only my grandma and I have lived in the center of the forest!"

"I knew it..."

"But my grandma is a forest witch!"

"Pfft-"

The mango juice that Poro had just poured into his mouth instantly spurted out, "What did you say your grandma is?"

"Hey, silly wolf, that's really rude. If you do that, I'll have to wipe the table later!"

Little Red Riding Hood muttered, and then said in a clearer voice, "My grandma is a for-est witch, did you hear that clearly this time?"

"Isn't that still a witch!"

"Hey, you really dare to say that? Spit out the chicken you just ate!"

......

This forest is probably divided into three parts.

The most vast outer shallow forest is accessible to ordinary people, nourishing many surrounding villages and hunters, and between the shallow forest and the deep forest, there is an unknownmaze.

Most ordinary people cannot enter it. In the deep forest, they will unconsciously get lost and return to the shallow forest.

And the center of the deep forest, which is the real center of the entire forest, is where Little Red Riding Hood's home is located.

The woods here are not large, but the magic covering them is no longer as simple as a "maze".

The sun sets, and it is pitch black.

But there is an uninvited guest standing outside the central forest at this time!

"Heh, little wolf, you can run quite well?"

In the hunter's hand, an iron box lighter shone with flickering light, and the flesh on his face twitched unconsciously.

He looked at the forest in front of him, as if he sensed something, and actually chuckled strangely.

"Finally, I smell... real prey!

My knives and guns can't wait any longer. I really hope I can... get the long-lost satisfaction!"

Saying that, he took a step forward -

The next moment, the silent forest suddenly boiled!

Countless branches, leaves, ground grass stems, vines... like poisonous snakes spitting letters, surged and swept towards the hunter from all directions!

Rustling, like the roar of the forest!