48 Treatment
◎ "Awoo, awoo——" Qiao Jinnian kissed him on the forehead to express her love.◎
This is the cruel side of the animal world. The mother lioness herself knows that she may have suffered serious internal injuries and will not survive. There is no need for her to eat, so she has to find a place where she can't be seen by the lion group and leave this world alone.
Qiao Jinnian watched her from afar until her figure completely disappeared behind a rock and could no longer be seen.
Even the lioness mother's good sister did not show any sadness, which made Qiao Jinnian most unhappy.
But perhaps the animals also felt a little sad, but as a human, she couldn't see it.
At this moment, she thought of the short lifespan of lions in the wild. Even lions in captivity only have a lifespan of more than 20 years. Female lions in the wild have a longer lifespan than male lions. After all, male lions have been facing various foreign invasions and a wandering life.
Looking at the cubs across from me who have lost their mother but are still ignorant, I wonder if they know that their mother is dying. I wonder if they will remember their mother?
At this moment, Qiao Jinnian suddenly thought of her lion father. If, as she speculated, Ryan was already over 8 years old, then, according to the average age of 13 or 14 years old of male lions in the wild, when Ryan grew old, she would only be 6 or 7 years old.
Thinking of this, Qiao Jinnian felt an endless sense of panic in her heart. She didn't want the lion father to grow old alone like the lioness mother.
Without even bothering to ride on Reiner, Qiao Jinnian suddenly turned around, climbed down the rock, and ran towards her own lion group. She ran back to Ryan in one breath, crying and throwing herself into the arms of the lion father.
Unconsciously, her face was covered with tears, and she choked with sobs: "Awoo, awoo——"
Ryan was dozing off under a big tree when he suddenly smelled the cub's scent. He didn't take it seriously and just changed his position and continued sleeping. However, the more he slept, the stranger it felt. Suddenly, there were many water stains on the cub's face.
So he stuck out his tongue to lick the water stains on the cub's face, which tasted salty. He then heard her voice was strange, as if she was afraid of something, and her mouth made a 'whooshing' sound. He licked her hair even harder, remembering that the cub liked his mane, and he even put his big head on her neck and rubbed it hard.
Until Qiao Jinnian felt a little itchy from being rubbed by the lion father, she pushed his lion head away, held his face with both hands, and said seriously: "Ryan, I will become very, very strong to protect you!"
"Awoo, awoo--" Qiao Jinnian kissed him on the forehead to express her love.
The lion father also looked very happy, with his mouth wide open, eyes closed, and rubbing his forehead against hers.
Qiao Jinnian felt that in order to become stronger on the grassland, she must have a stronger body, at least she had to become a long-distance running expert.
In the animal world, although cheetahs run fast, accelerating to 100 meters in just 3 seconds, herbivores such as gazelles and cows run extremely fast. Even the three tank-level animals on land run faster than humans.
However, the greatest advantage of humans is that they have a strong sweating function. They can sweat at any time to cool themselves down. They can also free their hands and carry water with them to replenish their water.
Unlike cheetahs, which will burn themselves to death if they run fast for more than 3 minutes, herbivores such as antelopes have very poor sweating functions and the high temperature will make them tired to death.
If he couldn't compete with other animals in speed, Qiao Jinnian planned to train his body in terms of endurance.
Moreover, when humans stand up, they are already taller than most animals. When they grow up, except for rhinos, hippos and elephants, most animals will not be able to hurt them easily, so they will definitely become very powerful.
By the time her father lion grows old, she will be strong enough to protect the animals she cares about!
On this day, Qiao Jinnian wanted to find a good running partner for herself, because the four little ones had started to be taken by Sister Sa to watch hunting and learn skills. She and Reiner came to the western grassland and accidentally met the cheetah mother and child who were rescued by the kind elephant.
However, the cheetah gave birth to five cubs, but now only three of them are half a year old.
Qiao Jinnian lay down beside the bushes, carefully observing the cheetah mother, but they were too fast. When she found someone was following them, the cheetah mother ran away quickly with her children.
Oh, Qiao Jinnian suddenly began to miss the cute cheetah she met on the migration route, which she had even let her pet.
Perhaps it is because the cheetah mother has cubs, so she is particularly vigilant and afraid that any creature will harm her cubs.
Qiao Jinnian didn't give up. She still liked cheetahs very much because their streamlined bodies were particularly handsome when they ran.
However, she followed them for several days in a row, and they all ran away like mice seeing a cat.
There was no other way, Qiao Jinnian had to let Reiner run in front and she chased him from behind, just as an exercise. If she ran every day, her body would always be very strong.
However, Reiner doesn't want to run. When a lion is not hunting, it just wants to sleep. This is because Reiner's current job is to look after the cubs, so he doesn't have to hunt at night and has the energy to accompany her everywhere. Just look at Ryan and Sister Sa, they wish they could sleep 18 hours a day.
Qiao Jinnian found it extremely boring and especially disliked her lion brother, who was worse than chasing a jackal.
However, the jackal is also very busy looking for prey. Food is already scarce in the dry season, so who would be willing to waste their energy?
So, Qiao Jinnian had no choice but to run around the grassland by herself, and Reiner simply lay in the shade of a tree beside the bushes and watched her run.
One day, while Qiao Jinnian was running, she saw a cheetah cub lying in the bushes.
In fact, Qiao Jinnian couldn't tell the identity of the animals, but there was only that family of cheetahs on this grassland, and this one was obviously a cheetah cub.
When she approached, the cub did not run away, but just kept looking at her and calling for its mother: "Meow, meow——"
When Qiao Jinnian heard him calling for his mother, she was afraid that the cheetah mother would think she wanted to hurt her cub, so she did not move closer. Instead, she stopped and waited for the cheetah mother to appear.
However, several minutes passed and she still didn't see the cheetah mother.
At this moment, she suddenly noticed that the cub was also lying on the ground, as if it couldn't stand up at all.
She hurried forward, wanting to see if the cheetah cub was injured, but the cub howled frantically: "Meow——"
Qiao Jinnian ignored his fear and went straight to see if he had any wounds. Only then did she discover that his hind legs were covered with ants and bleeding profusely.
It seemed that his leg was seriously injured. Qiao Jinnian was very anxious. If a wild animal was injured, especially in the leg, the only way out was to wait for death.
It seems that the mother cheetah deliberately gave up the cub because she knew that the cub would not survive.
Qiao Jinnian was very sad. The little cheetah must be so sad to be abandoned by its biological mother.
She had no other options. She didn't have the disinfection methods that humans had. Even when Ryan was injured, she had to lick her wounds herself.
However, she could first clean up the ants and clean the cheetah's wound. She could use the remaining salt and mix it with some saline solution. Of course, she was not sure if it could be disinfected, so she decided to give it a try, which was better than watching the cheetah die alone.
When she wanted to take the little cheetah back to the lion group, she was met with strong resistance from the little cheetah and was almost bitten by it.
Seeing the little cheetah being so mean to his sister, Reiner got angry, rushed over, and roared at the little cheetah: "Roar——"
The half-year-old cheetah was so frightened that its body began to tremble, and it kept meowing with its head down.
However, Qiao Jinnian couldn't even hold the little cheetah. After all, it was already half the size of an adult cheetah. In the end, she could only ask brother lion to drag the little cheetah back.
Reiner was stunned, because he had only dragged prey that had been bitten to death, so was his sister asking him to bite the little cheetah to death?
The look in his eyes was so easy to understand. Qiao Jinnian was so frightened that she waved her hands repeatedly: "Roar——"
In fact, especially in the dry season, lions and leopards often bite cheetah cubs to death because they are competitors for the future grassland. This is the right thing to do. Therefore, Reiner himself may not be able to guarantee whether he will bite the cheetah cubs to death. This is their nature.
There was no other way. Qiao Jinnian didn't dare to let Reiner carry the little cheetah back, so she made a simple stretcher with branches, tied it to a row of branches with hemp rope, and pulled the little cheetah back.
This is so tiring for her!
The little cheetah did not run away. After all, his hind legs were injured. He felt helpless in facing life and death. After all, even his mother didn't want him anymore.
Qiao Jinnian was afraid that he would bite her, so she simply tied up his mouth with a hemp bag and tied up his front legs as well.
The little cheetah kept making whimpering sounds of "meow" and kept calling for its mother, looking so miserable.
Qiao Jinnian ignored him. Now she could perform the operation on him without worries. She first boiled some water and cooked some rags to clean his wound. She then estimated the situation and got some water with salt to disinfect it. The little cheetah was obviously in great pain. It kept struggling with its hind legs, but she pulled it away again.
She looked carefully and found that there seemed to be some rotten flesh, so she used a flint knife to cut off all the rotten flesh, and finally cleaned it before stopping.
There was no clean gauze here, so it was difficult to bandage him. Qiao Jinnian had no choice but to let his wound heal on its own.
The little cheetah was tied pitifully under a big tree, unable to move. There were also many lions around him, looking at him curiously, but he didn't even dare to look them around.
Especially this two-legged beast, it didn't know what to do.
Then, when he thought he was about to become food for the Twolegs, the Twolegs actually put a container in front of him. The container contained something liquid. He had never eaten it before, but it seemed edible?
What Qiao Jin read to him was a basin of eggs. This basin was also dug out from a tree root when she was free. It was a container for holding water.
The little cheetah was already starving, so he didn't hesitate and lowered his head to lick the food he had never eaten before. He had been hungry for many days and ate very quickly.
Qiao Jinnian gently placed her hand on his head. He hesitated for a moment before continuing to eat the delicious food in the bowl.
Looking at the little cheetah, Qiao Jinnian thought that if his wounds healed, she would send him back to his mother. Otherwise, the cheetah would be completely useless without its mother to teach it how to hunt.
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