109 Danger
◎Without any other options, Qiao Jinnian had to turn around and leave, not daring to stay any longer, or else the father and daughter would start a fight with the baboon group.◎
The reason why the lion father left with peace of mind was that now all the sub-adults have become adult lions, and all his daughters have grown up and can reproduce.
There are now ten female lions in the lion group, including Sister Sa, Little Sister Sa, and Sa Claw Claw, as well as three male lions, Reiner, F4, and Xiaobai, and thirteen adult lions. What a huge lion group it is!
Both Reiner and F4 are male lions in their prime. Xiaobai has also reached adulthood. I believe he will become more and more powerful under the training of his two predecessors.
Perhaps, after a few months, the pride will have many cubs, but with so many lions hunting together, raising children will not be a problem.
So, the lion father thought about all this and decided to start wandering.
Of course, wherever the lion father goes, Qiao Jinnian will go there. Where the father is, that is home.
Seeing the cub following him, the lion father did not refuse. He lay down and let the cub ride on his back.
Qiao Jinnian got on the bike, but this might be the last time she rode on her father's back.
Because she suddenly realized that her father's age, if converted into human years, would make him a grandfather, and she would weigh about 40 or 50 kilograms, which would be bad for her father's spine.
Dad must have planned it long ago and carried her on his back towards the south.
When she arrived at Dazhuang's tribe, her father knew that she liked the baboon leader there, so he probably asked her to come and say goodbye to Dazhuang.
The father and daughter left the lion group and did not take the animals with them because it was the father who wanted to leave and start wandering alone, not Qiao Jinnian.
So, between her father and her friends, Qiao Jinnian chose to follow her father.
Dazhuang is also old, and it is unknown how many more years he can be the leader. Maybe he will be defeated by a younger and stronger leader, or killed in a battle, but it is enough that he is fine now.
After saying goodbye to Dazhuang, the father and daughter continued to walk towards the south, but just like when they were on the northern grasslands, the lion father would smell carefully along the way to make sure that he would not accidentally enter the territory of other lion groups. He would bypass the lion group's territory all the way and only walk on unowned land.
This is Dad's way of saving his life. He doesn't like disputes or fighting. Perhaps this is why he finds the next successor for his lion group in advance when there is no invasion, and leaves the territory and wanders around before he is too old to walk.
Because he doesn't want to die on the battlefield.
After bypassing the F3 lion group's territory, they continued to move southwest.
Most of the land here is sandy, but there is no shortage of food, and the scenery is very different from the northern grasslands.
This should be the first time for the lion father to come here. I don’t know why he chose this direction, but Qiao Jinnian likes her father’s decision very much. She also wants to go out more and see what kind of grassland she lives on.
The F3 lion group was very large. Dad circled the border for a long time before finally arriving at an unowned sandy area. He also found a water source by smelling the air.
It is difficult to find water sources in the desert area, but there are many underground rivers here with water that is relatively clear.
Qiao Jinnian likes this kind of water because it doesn’t have that stinky smell.
Most of the time she boiled water to drink, but sometimes she didn't have time to light a fire to boil water.
So, she suspected that there must be a lot of parasites in her body, but she currently has no reaction.
Fortunately, she has not suffered from any fatal diseases in recent years. Maybe it is because she drank the milk of a lioness for a period of time and has acquired the strong immunity of a lion?
Qiao Jinnian sometimes thinks about this problem. She is not afraid of any specific external injuries. When there are external injuries, as long as the lion is given enough rest time and sufficient nutrition, it can slowly recover.
What she fears most are those invisible viruses, oh no, and poisonous snakes. Viruses and poisonous snakes are the truly scary things.
So she kept hitting the ground with her spear along the way, fearing that snakes or scorpions would appear in the desert.
Of course, she always wore hemp rope shoes she made herself to protect the soles of her feet.
Walking on the soft sand is very comfortable for big cats like Dad. Their paw pads make no sound even when they pass by.
Therefore, when Dad is hunting here, he has more advantages, and the prey cannot detect him at all.
Qiao Jinnian didn't make things difficult for herself. Since her father was hunting, she was just waiting to eat meat.
But in order to exercise herself, she would spend most of her time running and jumping, climbing trees, or practicing her arm strength, otherwise she would definitely degenerate and lose the ability to protect herself.
She never asked her lion father to carry her again, but ran along with him.
A strong wind blew, blowing yellow sand all over the sky. The climate here is very dry. It hasn't rained for a long time. The grass and trees are withered and yellow. It must be the dry season.
Drought-resistant animals will stay and remain in their homes, and these will be the future food for the father and daughter.
Qiao Jinnian didn't bring any guinea fowl, she didn't bring anything this time, only her own weapons and water cup.
There are fewer fruits here, but there are many drought-resistant plants, such as cacti, which are the foods she uses to supplement vitamins.
There are many giant lizards here. They live in caves, and some of the nests of birds have been occupied by them.
Faced with so many lizards, the lion father had no reaction at all. Qiao Jinnian knew that he was a bit picky about food and would not eat these strange things.
Of course, Qiao Jinnian couldn't go and eat it. It looked so scary.
Disdaining these small animals, the lion father lowered his head to smell and capture the scent in the air. Finally, they found a group of bow-horned antelopes in the desert.
This type of antelope is well-suited to living in the desert because they do not need to drink water and are very drought-resistant.
There are only a dozen antelopes in a whole herd.
Because their feet are well-suited for walking in the desert and don't easily sink into the sand, they are really suitable for living here.
Seeing the herd of antelopes, the lion father's eyes lit up, which meant he was going to start hunting.
This was the first time Qiao Jinnian saw his father hunting during the day in the dry season, and running in the desert.
But, Dad is still Dad. No matter how fast these antelopes run, they cannot withstand Dad’s throat-locking skills.
The most classic throat-locking technique of the lion father is to fly forward directly from the left rear of the prey, pounce on the prey's neck, bite the prey below the neck, and then hang his entire body of more than 300 pounds in the air on the prey.
In this way, the prey will be pulled to the ground in an instant, and its neck will be injured. Within a few seconds, the prey will die from excessive blood loss.
This throat-locking technique looks simple, but it can only be performed perfectly after hundreds of times of practice, and it is somewhat dangerous.
For example, if you fail to pounce on your prey and jump too low, you will crash directly into the prey, or if you fail to bite the prey's throat, you will fall to the ground and cause spinal injuries.
Or, if you are accidentally attacked by the long horns on the prey's head, that would be even more terrifying, as it would make a hole in your body.
Although herbivores eat grass, the horns on their heads are not for decoration. Many lions have died from the long horns of herbivores.
What carnivores fear most is getting injured, because if they are injured they cannot hunt, and if they cannot hunt they will starve to death. Therefore, the scary thing is not the wound itself, but the fact that no other members are willing to take care of you for free.
Qiao Jinnian was not afraid. If the lion father was injured, she was still there. As long as she could catch prey, it would give her father enough time to recover.
Dad dragged the prey under a tree and lay there eating slowly, while Qiao Jinnian sat beside him and grilled the meat for himself.
Fortunately, there are cacti here, otherwise I would get a sore throat if I ate barbecue all day.
No tubers or other foods have been found here yet, and she has no other food to eat.
The number of leopards and baboons here is not as large as the lion group in F3, but there is no shortage of them. So, Qiao Jinnian plans to go and see what the baboons eat, maybe he can find some food that he can eat.
The next day, she pointed out the baboon territory to her father and asked him to go find the baboon group in the desert area.
They deliberately chose to look for it early in the morning when it wasn't too hot so that they would have more time.
I believe that it won’t be long before my father becomes a nocturnal animal again. By then, she won’t know what to eat.
From a distance, the group of baboons living on the rocks saw the lion-two-legged invaders.
So the baboons were very angry and ran over, shouting "wa wa wa" to drive them away.
Qiao Jinnian was helpless and wanted to let them know that they were not here to invade. After thinking for a while, he took out a piece of cactus from his bag and handed it to the leader.
As a result, the leader only took a look and showed no interest at all. She had no choice but to take out another piece of dried meat.
Unexpectedly, the baboon leader was determined to drive her away.
All the baboons bared their teeth and shouted loudly to drive them away.
There was no other way, so Qiao Jinnian had to turn around and leave, not daring to stay any longer, otherwise the father and daughter would have to fight with the baboon group.
This group of baboons was difficult to communicate with, so Qiao Jinnian went to observe what other groups were eating, hoping to learn something.
Now, they have no fixed place to stay. They just walk a distance every day, then hunt, eat and sleep, and then continue walking the next day. They don’t know where their father is going.
That day, they came to the southwest. The weather here was particularly dry. Because of the change in temperature, the air in the distance seemed to have been deformed, which was a bit scary.
The lion father also discovered this, so he simply stopped leaving and took her to find a bush, where they lay down in the shade of the bush to rest for a while.
With her father by her side, Qiao Jinnian always slept soundly.
But that night, my father, who never got up before, suddenly stood up.
So, Qiao Jinnian was also woken up. She rubbed her eyes and saw fear in her father's eyes. She didn't know what had happened.
Following her father's gaze, she also looked at the grassland in the distance, but after looking for a long time, she seemed to only see a huge black shadow.
Her night vision was poor, and she could only vaguely make out that it was a lion.
But Dad is still very strong now. Would he be afraid of another lion?
Gradually, she discovered something was wrong with the lion. It didn't walk in a straight line at all. Instead, it started to circle after a while, then fell to the ground, twitching non-stop, as if it were having an epileptic seizure.
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