64 Enemy
◎This is a grudge. Is it too late for her to escape now?◎
Qiao Jinnian had seen in those videos that rescue workers used several vehicles to pull the elephant, and only then did they pull the several-ton elephant out of the mud.
Even though the elephants' trunks are very strong, they can't use their strength well. The mud is so big that you can't tell where the real ground is and where the mud is that can kill people.
Therefore, the herd of elephants did not dare to get too close, which made the task of rescuing the elephant stuck in the mud extremely difficult.
This is almost an impossible task.
However, they were members of their tribe, and the elephant queen would not easily abandon the lives of her companions, so they kept tirelessly nudging the elephant's back with their long trunks, and the elephant also struggled hard to stand up.
Unfortunately, as time passed, all efforts became futile and useless.
Qiao Jinnian was also very anxious. If she had a rope that could bear a lot of weight, she could tie it to several elephants. Unfortunately, the hemp rope she twisted herself could not bear the weight of such a heavy elephant.
Last time, it was because the quagmire was very shallow and the elephant didn't get stuck very deeply. This time, with such a large quagmire, Ryan didn't allow her to get close to this area.
Finally, one of the elephants that was helping with the rescue slipped and sank into the mud, beginning to struggle in panic.
Fortunately, she was trapped for a short time and was close to the edge, so she was quickly pulled up by her companions.
Until this time, all the elephants were silent. Finally, the elephant queen decided that for the overall interests of the tribe, they had to give up this elephant.
All the elephants raised their trunks and howled in pain: "Moo--"
It was like he was seeing off his companion. His companion was helpless and stopped struggling. He could only continue to lie in the mud, having accepted this outcome.
Finally, Qiao Jinnian watched the elephant queen and her tribe leave this land of death.
Qiao Jinnian shook her head. This was too cruel. This was not a battle between carnivores and herbivores, but a decisive battle between animals and nature.
After patting Ryan on the back and signaling him to leave, the whole family turned around and returned to their own territory.
Perhaps, the swamp was too shallow, which is why it turned into a quagmire due to the drought.
In addition to the scavengers that have been lurking in that swamp, a steady stream of scavengers from other places have continued to fly here in the past two days.
I don’t know how much time passed. Perhaps the animals that could not move finally lost their lives, and the scavengers had eaten a sumptuous meal for several days in a row before they circled away.
Qiao Jinnian sat by the river, holding his head in his hand and staring blankly, not understanding why God designed it this way, why the precipitation belt had to move, and why the grasslands in the north didn't become bigger. It was so crowded, leading to increased competition.
In short, animals will starve to death if they do not migrate, and migration is a natural elimination process.
She didn't practice running today and was in a bad mood, so she sat by the river and looked at the plants in the river.
At this time, there was a shoebill standing opposite her, also standing motionless.
However, she was daydreaming, thinking about something, while the shoebill was hunting.
In order to hunt, he can stay motionless for hours. If you don’t know him, you might think he is a tree. This way he can deceive many prey and make them come to him, such as little crocodiles.
At this moment, after remaining motionless for several hours, the shoebill suddenly lowered its head and grabbed a, uh, a snake from the water?
Well, when Qiao Jinnian saw that he had found food, he gave him a thumbs up and congratulated him on his successful hunting.
He finished his meal, opened his confused eyes, tilted his head, and looked at her carefully, as if he didn't understand why he had never seen such a creature before.
The last time she saw a shoebill was on the southern grasslands. At that time, Qiao Jinnian was in the mood to dance with it. Now, because of what happened in the swamp next door, she was not in the mood to dance for the time being.
She was not afraid of him, so she sat by the river, holding her head and continuing to look at him.
Then, he flapped his wings, flew over, opened his mouth wide, blinked his eyes, and looked at her like that.
Qiao Jinnian just smiled at him and had no intention of standing up and playing with him.
As a result, the shoebill shook its head left and right, looked into the distance, then lowered its head, plucked a gray feather from its body with its big beak, held it in its mouth, walked over, and wanted to give the feather to her.
Qiao Jinnian: "..."
No, this silly bird is too generous. No, she has to reciprocate. After thinking about it, she stood up, took out a few pieces of dried meat from her pocket and handed it over.
These are all salted dried meats. Qiao Jinnian wonders if he likes to eat them. It seems that venison is not on his menu.
She was wondering if he would eat it, but he lowered his head and took all the dried meat out of her mouth.
After finishing eating, he actually looked at her pocket with an unsatisfied look.
"Next time I'll make some dried fish for you to eat, instead of eating messy meat!" Qiao Jinnian didn't care whether he could understand or not, and just said it casually.
After saying this, Qiao Jinnian bowed to him again, fearing that he didn't understand, and he bowed as well.
Then, she didn't know what to say.
After waiting for a long time, the shoebill felt that nothing seemed to be happening, so it flapped its wings and flew away.
Holding the gray feather that was a token of great sentiment in her hand, Qiao Jinnian's mood improved again. She decided not to be sad anymore. She didn't have the time to be in a daze. She should become stronger as soon as possible to avoid being eliminated in this world of survival of the fittest.
"Xingxing! Freckles!" After calling two cheetahs, Qiao Jinnian followed them to hunt, actually just to run and exercise.
Now, she didn't know how fast she was running. In short, for a three-year-old cub, if she went back to participate in the 800-meter race now, she would definitely break the school record.
While running, Qiao Jinnian was thinking about all these messy things.
As long as there were two cheetahs around her, Ryan was not too worried about her safety. After all, the cheetahs were hunting around here and would not run too far.
Ryan seemed to know what his cubs were busy with, and he was very indulgent of their abnormal behavior. After all, few lions needed to practice running. They could run when they were born, and the only thing they needed to train was hunting skills.
That day, she lost Star and Freckles again, but she ran into a lone Addams. This antelope was only about one meter long and almost one meter tall, but the horns on its head were almost two meters long.
If she was hit by this antelope, she would probably be able to see the other side from her belly...
But how could an antelope have hit her for no apparent reason? The addax saw her and began to run forward, as if being hunted by a lion.
Oh, by the way, she seems to be barely a sub-adult lion.
So she simply started to think of herself as a lion and began to chase the prey.
It ran faster and faster, and it was unknown how long it had been running. The antelope was extremely fast, but Qiao Jinnian now had great endurance and would not be easily left behind by it. Moreover, he had a water bottle on his back, so he could drink water continuously when he was thirsty.
On the contrary, the antelope needs to rest in the shade of the tree for a while and wait for the temperature to drop before they can continue running.
Originally, he ran to the shade of the tree in front in one breath and lay down to rest, and did not see the sub-adult lion. However, after a while, the figure of the sub-adult lion appeared from the end of the grassland in the distance.
Addax: "..." I want to say a dirty word.
So, the poor addax had to continue running away. Qiao Jinnian suddenly felt like the tortoise in the tortoise and the hare race, and the addax was the hare, running and resting at the same time.
So, in the end, she, the turtle, must be the winner!
As they ran, they ran out of the edge of the territory. Qiao Jinnian hesitated, afraid that they would be eaten by other carnivores if they went out. So he gave up chasing them, as his life was more important.
So, when the poor addax looked back again, the sub-adult lion was no longer there. But based on the experience of the previous two times, he did not dare to rest and ran a few more kilometers before finding a shade under a tree to continue resting.
When Xingxing followed the scent and came over, he looked incredulous, mainly surprised at how Qiao Jinnian had run so far away in the blink of an eye, almost running into the territory of another lion group.
As for Qiao Jinnian, she didn't have a lion's nose, so how could she smell whose territory was next door? No one told her.
Qiao Jinnian didn’t run to her heart’s content, and planned to run back with Xingxing and his sister.
However, before they started running, they were greeted by the roar of a lion.
Qiao Jinnian was very familiar with this kind of expulsion sound, and nodded repeatedly: "Oh, okay, we'll leave right away, woooo——"
Originally, she was just used to imitating the cub's voice to the male lion, so that she would not appear threatening. However, she obviously forgot that the male lions were not kind to the cubs of other lion groups. They were all future competitors for the grassland. Some of them were so cruel that they would bite the cubs to death first.
However, the lion saw two cheetahs standing next to the cub.
The lion's golden eyes were wide open, looking confused, as if he was pondering a very complicated question: was this cub a lion cub or a sub-adult cheetah?
That’s not right. In his entire life as a lion, he had never seen such a strange lion. What on earth was this?
While he was stunned, a lioness followed him out, glanced at Qiao Jinnian opposite, and seemed to remember something, and growled a few times at the lion.
The lion scratched the grass on the ground with its front paws, with a strong sense of expulsion.
Without saying a word, Qiao Jinnian ran and returned home in one breath.
Leaning on the lion father, Qiao Jinnian always felt that the lioness seemed to know her, but unfortunately she couldn't tell who was who at all. This was too miserable.
However, she soon found out, because the lioness often brought her cubs and wandered around the edge of the territories of the two lion groups, as if she was waiting for her on purpose.
It was obvious that they had no ill intentions. Qiao Jinnian even interacted with the cubs, and it seemed that they really knew her.
It was not until Qiao Jinnian saw the lioness leader with a rotten mouth that she realized, ha, isn’t this the lioness whose mouth was bitten by Sister Sa?
This is a grudge. Is it too late for her to escape now?
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