15 War
◎ Before Ryan arrived, the animals on the other side were walking across the river.◎
After nightfall, Qiao Jinnian didn't know whether the crocodile would come to eat the little ostrich again, so she ate a full meal during the day and began to sleep leaning on Ryan. She had to stay up late at night and must catch the crocodile. She couldn't even sleep well unless she taught him a lesson.
Ryan looked a little worried by her unusual behavior, and he kept licking her face as if he thought she was sick.
Because usually she would be doing something strange during the day, weaving the grass cloth, but this afternoon she was sleeping all the time.
Being licked by Ryan, Qiao Jinnian felt a little irritated. She covered his mouth, pointed at the calm river surface, and said to him: "Roar——"
This was an imitation of his warning voice. Sure enough, Ryan seemed to understand it. He stood up, urinated by the river, and roared at the river surface, which was full of warning.
Qiao Jinnian is now a little afraid of the crocodile and dare not come up. This is because Ryan has warned her that if Ryan is not around one day, the crocodile will come back to eat the ostrich.
However, Qiao Jinnian slept a lot during the day, so she didn't go to the tree. She just kept her eyes open, leaning in Ryan's arms, staring at the river, wanting to see if he would come.
Obviously she overestimated herself. Her body was too young for her age and she couldn't stay up all night. She fell asleep in a short while.
When she got up early in the morning, she ran to count the number of ostriches. She counted them several times and there were 26 of them. She felt relieved that they had not been stolen last night.
Ryan also knew that there were dangers in the river, so he stayed with her for a few nights.
But he mostly went hunting at night. After all, it was too hot during the day and he would easily get heatstroke.
That night, perhaps because the smell of the lion's urine had faded, the crocodile came up again to steal the little ostrich.
By the time Qiao Jinnian was woken up, the crocodile had already dived into the river.
Qiao Jinnian was so angry that she wanted to crawl into the water and pull him out.
There was no other way. She knew that it was the dry season and the animals were short of food, so they would try to eat things they didn't eat often. But those baby ostriches were so small that they wouldn't even be enough to fill their teeth. This was too much. She had watched them grow up.
Qiao Jinnian called Dazhuang again and asked him to put her on the tree. This time, she was really angry. She made a big bag with the rough cloth she had just woven and put almost all the nearby stones into it. She was ready to harass the crocodile crazily all night and make him angry to death.
If I can't kill him, I must let him know that this cub, which seems harmless in his eyes, also has a bad temper!
This time she was particularly well prepared. Even Dazhuang was curious about what she was going to do, so he sat on a tree branch and watched the movements in the river with her.
After getting ready, Qiao Jinnian began to slowly throw stones into the river, not in a hurry at all. His main goal was to harass him all night long and annoy him to death.
She just didn't believe that the crocodile couldn't hear the "dong dong" sound in the water.
This time she had enough ammunition, so she was not in a hurry. In between shooting the slingshot, she was in the mood to look at the scenery in the distance, thinking about things while busy with the work in her hands.
Then, she met a pair of eyes across the river that looked like searchlights in the night.
Her night vision was not very good, and she could not identify the animal. She was not sure whether it was a lion or a leopard.
The crocodile must have been really annoyed, and actually came out of the water, opened its mouth wide, and ran towards the ostrich's nest again.
After all, he knew that the species attacking him had been in the trees, so he climbed towards the ostrich.
The ostrich mother and father were so scared that they ran over and kicked him, and Qiao Jinnian quickly took out a stone. This time it was easier to aim, after all, his body was very large, and she specifically shot the stone at his head.
He didn't even react when the stone hit his thick hide, but when the stone hit him around his eyes, his mouth opened very wide, and he turned around and crawled towards the tree where she was, as if he wanted to eat the root, with his upper body lying on the tree.
How could Qiao Jinnian let him go? So he used the loudest volume and yelled towards the distance: "Roar——"
I hope Ryan heard her roar.
Ryan was hunting in the river lion territory, but the lion's roar could be heard up to eight kilometers away, so her voice was still too soft.
To ensure Ryan heard her, she shouted a few more times until her voice was almost hoarse.
However, before Ryan arrived, the animals on the opposite side came over across the river.
When he got closer, Qiao Jinnian realized that this was the leopard from a few days ago. He wondered if he had found food in the past two days. He must still be too hungry to eat.
The leopard raised its head, looked at her, then pounced at the crocodile from behind, lay on the crocodile, and pounced forward to bite the crocodile's neck.
But the crocodile was not so easy to deal with. It turned around and opened its mouth wide, trying to swallow the leopard's entire head, and crawled towards the leopard, looking a little scary.
Qiao Jinnian did not forget his job and continued to throw stones at the crocodile. Although these stones did not have much effect, they could at least disrupt his rhythm.
The leopard had help and bit the crocodile fiercely. The crocodile began to struggle frantically and became more and more ferocious. The scene was in chaos.
The crocodile's tail was very powerful. With a sweep of its hard tail, it swept across the tree trunk, and the whole tree began to shake. Qiao Jinnian was so scared that she quickly hugged the branch tightly.
Da Zhuang had already run away, making "wow wow wow" sounds continuously from his mouth.
The battlefield here was too intense, and the baboons were not trying to steal food or seek revenge, so of course they ran away.
Poor Qiao Jinnian was afraid that she would fall and be swallowed by the crocodile, so she had to stop what she was doing and just focus on holding on to the branch.
I don't know how long the battle lasted, but in the distance I heard Ryan's huge roar, "Roar, roar——"
Ryan saw the chaos from afar, ran up to it in a few big strides, and without saying a word, bit the crocodile's face directly. With one bite from the huge lion's mouth, the crocodile's eyeball was bitten, and the pain made the crocodile move more violently.
Ryan was more experienced in combat, and he targeted the crocodile's weak spot to attack, biting it tightly until the crocodile bled to death and became completely motionless.
After a while, Ryan opened his mouth, his mouth full of blood, gasping for breath, looking at another top predator in front of him.
Under normal circumstances, leopards and lions would be irreconcilable, competing with each other for prey and even eating each other's cubs.
However, at this moment, both sides knew that they had just worked together to bite a crocodile to death.
After biting the crocodile to death, Ryan did not go to see the leopard. He climbed the tree carefully, wanting to take Qiao Jinnian down.
The leopard tilted its head and saw the lion climbing the tree clumsily. It couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so it jumped directly onto the lion, and then ran two steps and came to Qiao Jinnian.
Seeing the leopard approaching Qiao Jinnian, Ryan became very anxious and roared a warning at the leopard, "Roar--".
Qiao Jinnian was not afraid of the leopard because she could see that the leopard remembered that she had helped it, and also that the leopard regarded the crocodile as its dinner.
Seeing Ryan so anxious, she was afraid that he would fall off the tree because of his anxiety, so she comforted him: "Awoo——"
She imitated the coquettish voices of the little lion and the lion father, saying that she was fine and not to worry.
Ryan was successfully calmed down and realized that the leopard had just cooperated with him and would not hurt her, so she simply jumped off the tree.
As an expert in tree climbing, leopards are sometimes more agile than monkeys and can run fast on trees. They eat and sleep on trees, so it is normal for a leopard to jump up in three or two steps.
The leopard understood that Ryan wanted to bring the cub down. He hesitated where to start, and finally chose her thin legs. He bit them and knocked her down. With a few big steps, they returned to the ground.
I have to say, Qiao Jinnian didn't even have time to react, but the leopard was so fast.
The leopard had no cubs with it, and she didn't know whether it was a male or a female. It was too difficult, and she felt like a fool on the savannah.
After completing its task, the leopard roared at Ryan a few times, indicating that it wanted to eat.
Ryan growled back, but didn't go forward to eat.
Maybe he had just eaten with the river lions and just came back, so the crocodile became the leopard's dinner.
But the crocodile's skin was too thick and not tasty, so the leopard had to eat slowly while looking around vigilantly.
After eating, the leopard licked its mouth clean and roared at Ryan: "Woo-hoo..."
Ryan simply walked away, saying out of sight, out of mind.
It seems that Ryan doesn't like crocodile meat at all. After all, he has been hunting large animals with river lions recently and has no shortage of food.
Unlike lions, which are the only cats that live in groups and cooperate in hunting, thus having a naturally high success rate, leopards are loners, so it is naturally much more difficult for them to obtain prey.
Seeing that Ryan had no objection, the leopard looked at her again, then took the remaining crocodile meat in its mouth, and the long crocodile tail was dragged on the ground.
The leopard slowly waded across the river. After reaching the other side, it looked back at them, then sped up and ran forward.
Qiao Jinnian secretly guessed that this must be a mother leopard, because only a mother leopard would bring back prey to feed her cubs.
So, Qiao Jinnian named the leopard Diandian because she had beautiful dots on her body.
After Diandian's figure completely disappeared, Ryan came over and licked her all over, as if to comfort her.
"I'm not scared, I'm just angry because the crocodile always comes to steal ostriches. I wanted to make him angry, so I climbed up a tree. But he was so powerful that his tail almost shook me off the tree..." Qiao Jinnian rubbed his mane and talked about what had just happened.
He didn't understand, but her tone was calm and there was no fear in her. So he calmed down, lay down under the tree, turned over his belly, and curled up his front paws, inviting her to lie down too.
Qiao Jinnian laughed and pounced on him, rolling on his round belly, hugging his long mane and making the coquettish sound of a little lion: "Awoo, awoo——"
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