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Qiao Jinnian's tears instantly welled up in her eyes, and she cried, "Awoo, awoo—"
Qiao Jinnian deliberately picked a lion farthest from Ryan and ran towards his butt.
Then, the angry buffalo charged straight at the lion's butt, knocking the lion three meters away.
A buffalo weighs much more than a lion. The two species are not in the same weight class at all. The lion fell to the ground and couldn't get up.
In the eyes of the buffalo, Qiao Jinnian is just a little lion, so his enemy is the entire lion group, and he begins to attack any lion indiscriminately.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qiao Jinnian ran towards the area where the lionesses and cubs were resting. Generally, female lions would not attack cubs like her, so she successfully passed through the lion group.
Then the buffalo discovered her escape route and started charging towards the lionesses again.
The lionesses would not care about the duel between male lions, but the little lions were too important to them. When such a huge beast suddenly appeared in the lion group and was about to rush over, the lionesses quickly stood up and ran towards the buffalo herd to protect the little lions.
The other two lions who were fighting with Ryan stopped fighting completely. They thought protecting their wives and children was more important. They turned around and attacked the invading adult buffalo together.
At this time, Qiao Jinnian hid in the bushes not far behind the lionesses, not daring to move, for fear that the buffalo would see her again and chase her.
Seeing that the volcanic lions and buffaloes were completely engaged in a melee, Qiao Jinnian dared to quietly crawl out of the bushes, walk around, and come to the outskirts of the battlefield.
Ryan was stunned by the chaos in front of him. He opened his mouth wide, gasped, and looked far behind the lioness, searching for Qiao Jinnian.
It was not until he saw a small dot appear in the bushes in the distance that Ryan quickly left the battlefield and ran out of the territory.
When the father and daughter met, Ryan trotted over to her, automatically lay down, and let her ride on him.
However, seeing Ryan covered in blood, Qiao Jinnian's tears instantly welled up in her eyes, and she cried, "Awoo, awoo--"
She shook her hands repeatedly, afraid that Ryan didn't understand that she was not rejecting him, but was afraid of aggravating his injury, so she had to run forward.
Ryan narrowed his eyes and had no choice but to follow her. It would be better for the father and daughter to leave this place of trouble first.
It was not until they returned to the small river where they had been staying temporarily that Qiao Jinnian pulled Ryan over and wet the hospital gown rag in her bag to clean the blood stains on his body.
Ryan just lay down obediently by the river and let her clean it up.
After finally cleaning up, Qiao Jinnian discovered that Ryan was indeed injured. He had quite a few wounds, but none of them were fatal. This was a blessing in disguise. After all, those were three adult male lions, all of whom wanted to kill him.
Looking at the lion father in front of him, Qiao Jinnian thought of a possibility.
That is, Ryan left the lion group in the valley before, perhaps because the female lions were attracted by his handsome appearance, which aroused the jealousy of Scarface and Golden Hair, so he was expelled by his allies. This may be the reason why Ryan is no longer willing to join the lion group, probably because he was hurt.
This time, the reason why the male lions of the Volcano Lion Pride wanted to bite Ryan to death was most likely because the female lions admired Ryan's appearance, so they were jealous and wanted to kill him completely to prevent future troubles.
This is really an unexpected disaster!
Ryan lay by the river and licked his wounds. He did not take these injuries seriously. After all, they were only minor injuries and no bones were broken.
However, the smell of blood still attracted the crocodiles in the river. But before the crocodiles could completely climb ashore, Ryan turned his head to look into the river, stared at the crocodiles, and growled in a low voice: "Roar--"
The crocodile originally thought that the lion was seriously injured and wanted to pick up some ready-made lion meat to eat, but he didn't expect that the lion sounded alive and well, so he fled in disappointment.
Having the same idea as the crocodiles was a group of spotted hyenas not far away.
These spotted hyenas were also hiding behind the hillside, wanting to see if the lion was about to die so that they could come forward and pick up some lion meat to eat, but they were also scared away by the lion's roar.
Seeing this scene, Qiao Jinnian knew that she had made a wrong decision. She should not have cleaned the lion father's wound directly by the river. The smell of blood was too strong, and animals have a very sensitive sense of smell. So she immediately stood up and pulled Ryan up the hillside.
Seeing that she was worried, Ryan licked the wound, then raised his head and licked her face again, leaving her face covered in the smell of blood, but she didn't dislike it at all. This was the joy of surviving a disaster.
At this moment, Qiao Jinnian felt that Ryan was her father in this life, as important as her parents in her previous life. Her parents in the previous life spent a lot of money, worried for 18 years, and tried all kinds of methods to keep her alive. In this life, her lion father and she depended on each other for life.
So she hugged her lion father's head, buried herself in his long mane, and quietly felt the satisfaction and tranquility of the moment.
Ryan also rubbed his head against hers, lowered his head, and concentrated on licking his wounds. The lion's saliva could disinfect the wounds.
The baboons and ostriches around saw the lion come back and knew he was still alive, so they didn't react much.
Although he knew that animals’ IQ was not up to par, Qiao Jinnian was still a little angry with them.
Last time, she was angry because the crocodile stole the baby ostrich, and she fought with the crocodile in a battle of wits and courage, but the ostrich and baboon were unwilling to help her.
By the way, where did the honey badger go?
Qiao Jinnian remembered that when she went to look for buffalo, she also saw the honey badger, but now the honey badger is not here.
Maybe the honey badger was just there to watch the fun.
The strong smell of blood has dissipated, and there are no more annoying guys lurking around waiting to pick up lion meat to eat. The world is quiet.
At night, Qiao Jinnian was sleeping in the lion father's mane, but suddenly she heard a rustling sound.
She was suddenly awakened, mainly because she was afraid that Ryan was injured and that other animals would attack him at night.
As a result, when she opened her eyes, she saw the honey badger crawling into the hole.
Since there was no danger, Qiao Jinnian fell asleep again.
However, the next day, Qiao Jinnian discovered that there were some other lions' huge manes around her!
After thinking about it, she felt that this should be the mane of the lion that was hit by the buffalo yesterday. So, is the lion dead?
Also, how did these bristles get to her side?
Flathead brother!
Qiao Jinnian recalled the sound of the honey badger crawling into the burrow that she heard last night. No other animal had the courage to go after the lion group, only the honey badger dared to do so.
So, she shouted to the surroundings: "Roar?"
The honey badger doesn't have a name yet. Qiao Jinnian thought that if the honey badger really bit off the lion's mane to vent her anger, she would definitely be very grateful to the honey badger in the future.
She thought the flat-headed man looked very handsome with his silver hair draped over his shoulders, so she decided to call him Silverback.
This honey badger seemed to have a very high IQ. When he heard her roar, he came out and looked at her with his small black eyes.
Qiao Jinnian was certain that the Flathead Brother did not go to watch the fun yesterday, but wanted to help her. The Flathead Brother was indeed as brave as the legend said.
Filled with emotion, Qiao Jinnian bent down and hugged the flat-headed brother in his arms, rubbing against him: "Silverback, this is your name. We will be good friends from now on. If you help me once, I will repay you in the future!"
The honey badger did not react to her now. He did not struggle when she held him up, and even lay in her arms obediently.
Qiao Jinnian took out all the dried meat that she had roasted a few days ago from her bag and stuffed it all into Yinbei's arms.
The silverback then struggled to get down, and Qiao Jinnian let him go.
The package was bitten open and the dried meat scattered all over the ground. The silverback lowered its head and began to eat the dried meat happily.
She threw the weapon at the buffalo, and Qiao Jinnian didn't dare to take it back. She didn't know what happened to the Volcano Lion Pride, but no matter how powerful the buffalo was, there were so many lions in the Volcano Lion Pride that they would definitely turn the buffalo into dinner.
Qiao Jinnian found a sturdier wooden stick, hollowed out the middle part with a flint knife, took a sharp stone, and started making the stone spear again.
This time she made an extra one just in case. After all, she would have to go hunting in the future, especially when it was not easy for Ryan to go hunting recently. It would be great if she could catch some prey.
It's no problem for her to go against the prey alone, she is not afraid of antelopes and the like, but the problem is that there are not only herbivores around here, almost all the carnivores in the entire grassland have come here, because now is the time of great migration of herbivores.
Therefore, Qiao Jinnian still couldn't go too far. If he was strangled by some animals that specialized in eating little lions, he would be doomed.
So, she started digging traps nearby again these two days. This cloak is very familiar.
Cloak watched her start digging a trap and came to help spontaneously, because he knew that by digging a trap he could catch animals to eat.
The silverbacks are also very good at digging holes. A jackal and a honey badger were digging their own holes, as if they were competing.
Qiao Jinnian didn't care, as long as there was a hole, she arranged spikes at the bottom of the pit and covered it with leaves, waiting for the jackals to lead the animals here on their migration route. If she was lucky, she could catch one.
Why not dig along the path that animals must pass? After all, this path is where animals migrate every time. What they want is food, not letting animals die inexplicably.
The jackal had some experience in luring herbivores and soon began to intercept passing antelopes. He only dared to intercept antelopes.
After he successfully completed a hunt, the honey badger seemed to have come to his senses and immediately understood a truth, which was that if he deliberately angered the animals passing by and led them to this cave, he could get free food!
So, the honey badger also embarked on this bright road, but unlike the jackal which only dared to provoke antelopes, the honey badger caused them a lot of trouble when he first appeared.
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