Chapter 208 - Sap from a Rotten Tree (1/2)

“They do pretty much the same things as a female’s mate. However, they can’t enter the place where the female sleeps as they please, and they also can’t have children with the females.” Parker did feel some sympathy towards those males, but that didn’t mean he could graciously accept this potential rival in love.

Bai Qingqing covered her face, on the brink of tears. She really didn’t want to take advantage of Winston and let him be her free manual laborer. She thought she should probably just squeeze into Curtis’s hibernation hole and wait for Parker to return.

But if she did this, firstly, she would be disturbing Curtis, and secondly, Winston was already here, so it didn’t seem very nice to ask him to go away. Bai Qingqing could only dismiss this idea.

Parker skinned the rabbit in no time. He also brought back a tree branch with thick tree leaves grown on it. He casually tore off a bunch of tree leaves and placed them into the animal skin, then wrapped up the animal skin and began rubbing it vigorously, as though he was washing clothes.

“You must be hungry. After I’m done handling these two prey I’ll go and cook for you,” Parker said as he rubbed the rabbit skin. Bloody bubbles kept coming out from the animal skin as he rubbed it. “This skin needs to be tanned while it’s still fresh, else the clothes made from it won’t be soft.”

“I’ve just eaten.” Bai Qingqing watched curiously. She saw that Parker would add tree leaves into the animal skin from time to time, so she reached out and plucked off a tree leaf, placed it under her nose to sniff, and smelled a pungent sour taste.

“Oooh—” Bai Qingqing wrinkled her nose. “What’s this? Smells awful.”

“Don’t touch, it’ll hurt.” Parker instantly freed one hand to take away the leaf in Bai Qingqing’s hand. Yet, he was still too late. As he retracted the leaf from her, the white sap at the part where the leaf was snapped off still touched Bai Qingqing’s finger.

“Ah!” Bai Qingqing shrieked, feeling a burning and painful sensation coming from her skin.

F*ck, is this sulfuric acid?

Bai Qingqing hurriedly washed her hands with water. With her hands soaked in water, the pain eased a little. She gazed at the tree leaves with lingering fear, then looked towards Parker. “Why are you unaffected by this?”

Parker’s heart ached to see her get injured. He washed his hands thoroughly, before picking up Bai Qingqing’s hands to take a look.