Chapter 159 Snow Leopard (Seventeen)
Upon realizing that a second female leopard had invaded the territory, Yu Yiyun, the leopard lord...ran away.
How could the pig have ever seen such a scene? He was so scared that he left his territory without even looking back, running away faster than a rabbit.
The Himalayas have peaks connected to peaks, and there is plenty of territory.
If he is caught by the female leopard, he will never be able to escape!
The pig's four paws tapped so hard that sparks almost flew, but he managed to run two miles before the female leopard caught him.
I don’t know if it’s because Yu Yiyun’s sense of direction is too poor, or if the female leopard has more endurance than ordinary cats.
After running for most of the day, I was just about to find a place to rest.
In the blink of an eye, the female leopard was already lying behind him, with her hind legs resting on the pig's soft belly, licking the hair on the back of its neck slowly.
“Meow!”
Yu Yiyun felt the back of his neck being licked until it was wet. He meowed, arched his body and jumped up, looking at the female leopard vigilantly!
Only by being there in person did Yu Yiyun understand why dates between solitary wild animals are often accompanied by fierce fights.
The female leopard was within reach. Her aura, body shape, and the murderous aura emanating from her eyes all indicated that she was the queen of the snow mountains, a strong and ferocious beast.
The sharp fangs flash with cold light, and with a little force they can pierce the skin of the same kind and even break bones.
Seeing the piglet jump away as if frightened, the Snow Leopard Queen did not chase after it, but continued to lie there and clean its paws slowly.
Her paws were wet, and there was bright red blood from her right paw to her chest, with a few drops on her face.
In the process of chasing her mate, the queen was at ease and found time to complete a hunt.
Yu Yijun retreated several meters, opened his eyes wide with vigilance, and watched the Snow Leopard Queen lick the blood off her paws bit by bit, her amber eyes were cruelly clear.
She washed her face with her clean paws, then kicked up her paws and rolled twice on the spot.
If humans saw a snow leopard rolling on the ground, they would probably be so cute that they would lose their minds and want to bury themselves in its belly and take a deep breath.
In fact, the queen's rolling around had nothing to do with being cute, but was using the snow to clean the blood off her body.
After cleaning herself up, the queen slowly stood up and walked towards Piglet step by step.
She was estimated to be about four or five years old, at the peak of her snow leopard age. Her sharp claws and beautiful fur showed that she had the ability to control all snow-capped mountains and was the absolute ruler of the Himalayas.
When such a powerful queen is choosing a mate, she will naturally not stay in the territory and wait for the male leopard to be picky about her.
In the late winter and early spring of the past, the queen met several male leopards one after another, but none of them met her expectations.
When most male leopards see her, they immediately rush over to sniff her scent, or directly ride on the queen.
The queen was too wild to accept such an aggressive and offensive dating method, so she couldn't help but stretch out her claws towards the male leopard.
After several fights, the male leopards were defeated and ran away in shame.
The queen had high standards for her partner and was unwilling to marry her defeated enemy, so she embarked on another journey of searching.
From South Mountain to East Mountain, from West Mountain to North Mountain, the queen trekked hundreds of kilometers to this mountain and noticed a special male leopard.
She has been observing the pigs for a long time.
The male leopard is young, strong, and has a high hunting success rate, but these are not the most attractive points for the queen.
A strange leopard approached Piglet. Instead of showing his claws, he made friendly sounds to approach her.
Even though the strange leopard got angry and scratched the piglet twice, he still had no intention of catching or driving it away, and let the strange leopard swagger away from his territory.
Queen: I am in a stable mood and want to talk.
The queen slowly came to the piglet, as if catching the prey she had already locked onto.
Yu Yijun took several steps back and saw a bottomless abyss behind him.
Although snow leopards are resistant to falls, we pigs were so scared that we didn't dare to jump down.
The queen succeeded in getting close to the piglet and rubbed him affectionately.
"Huh?" Leopard, date?
The little snow leopard, who had never seen the world, was so scared that the hair all over its body stood up!
Until this moment, he finally understood why people always said that the most difficult part of "Journey to the West" was the Kingdom of Women.
In the past, when pigs encountered ferocious and powerful beasts, they would either run away or fight head-on.
Now facing the queen, he could not find any way to resist except to curl up his tail and tremble in fear.
"Meow, meow?" Can I refuse?
But the queen could not sense the pig's resistance. Instead, she came closer and closer and took the initiative to be intimate with him.
It was as if the Queen of the Kingdom of Women had spring in her eyes, spoke with a smile, and said shyly to Tang Seng, "Open your eyes and look at me. I don't believe that your eyes are empty."
"Meow, meow." Yu Yijun called weakly, trying to reason with the queen and beg her to let her go.
Piglet’s experience in animal life tells him that the more ferocious the animal, the more unreasonable it is.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing the piglet's cry, the queen actually stepped back and crawled back to her original position.
Zhumi was afraid that she would come close to him again, so he stepped back several steps, turned around and ran away.
After running a few hundred meters, he turned around and saw the queen still lying there licking her fur, with an elegant and calm posture.
God knows whether she really let the pig go or just enjoyed the fun of cat catching mouse.
Yu Yiyun didn't have time to think about it and ran wildly along the mountain road, intending to find an area where humans gathered to avoid the spring.
Snow leopards have a natural tendency to seek benefits and avoid harm, and usually do not actively approach humans.
Of course, pigs don't dare to enter human residential areas casually, for fear of causing a commotion or getting hurt.
After searching for a long time following the little man's scent, Piglet finally found a suitable place: the temple.
The Himalayas serve as the border for several countries, and many of the nearby countries have religious beliefs, mainly Buddhism.
Before the liberation of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Buddhism was dominant and divided the Tibetan people into three classes: upper, middle and lower. Each class was further divided into three classes. This was a true division of three, six, nine classes, which is similar to the Hinduism of today.
Because of the local people's selfless devotion to "Buddha", the local temples were built magnificently and covered a very large area.
For example, the Potala Palace, the most famous attraction in Tibet, is as magnificent as an imperial palace.
Yu Yiyun hid in a temple, no one knew which temple it was, but it was very lively.
At the beginning of spring, many locals and foreign tourists came to the temple to offer sacrifices, turn prayer wheels, and pray for blessings from the gods. Everything seemed to be no different from that of an ordinary temple.
Taking advantage of the dead of night, Yu Yiyun sneaked in from the back of the temple. Looking at the kind-looking Bodhisattva in the main hall, she felt quite complicated.
Even though he has experienced too many "unscientific" events, Yu Yiyun is still a loyal atheist and does not believe in so-called ghosts and gods.
Although he has no faith, Yu Yiyun respects all normal beliefs and sincerely hopes that all gods can bless his devout believers.
Tibetan Buddhism in the past definitely did not fall within the scope of "normal beliefs".
Tibetan Buddhism had a dark moment. Not only did it divide people into different classes and exploit the labor value of the lower class people, but it also wantonly exploited the value of their lives and treated them as "talking cattle and sheep."
Anyone who has read a little historical material or folk legends probably knows about the "past glory" of Tibetan Buddhism.
At that time, people worshipped Buddha statues not only with incense but also with various "ritual instruments".
The most famous instrument among them is the "Ajie Drum".
Just by listening to the name, Ajie drum sounds like a young girl from a minority ethnic group dressed in gorgeous clothes, with a small drum on her waist, playing tunes as clear as silver bells.
In fact, the real Ajie drum is made of the skin of young girls. It is best to use girls who are born mute, which means they have never said anything disrespectful to the gods.
If the girl was not mute, they would cut off her tongue and use two human skulls as the drum body.
In addition to the Ajie drum, the offerings also include clothing made from human bone fragments, rosary beads made from 108 human brow bones, flutes made from the leg bones of a grieving person, and bowls made from human skulls...
Yu Yiyun walked through the hall, looking at the solemn Buddha statues in their treasure chests, imagining that they were once covered with magical instruments.
As we all know, there is nothing wrong with the gods themselves.
The most terrifying thing in this world is always the human heart.
In 1951, the People's Liberation Army, known as "Jinzhu Mami", came to Tibet and allowed the "talking cows and sheep" to become the masters of this place.
Subsequently, the new government abolished serfdom and banned the use of all human instruments.
Many of the confiscated magical instruments are still on display in the exhibition hall.
Yu Yiyun suddenly stopped and squatted in the middle of the hall.
If he came here as a human being, he would probably simply sympathize with that era.
It's different now.
It wasn't just slaves who were sacrificed to the gods.
Throughout history, thousands of animals have been deprived of their lives in the name of "sacrifice".
Can "lowly" animals really be saved and reborn by the gods?
Yu Yiyun looked up and met the half-closed eyes of the Buddha statue.
If gods and Buddhas exist, when can all lives be truly equal?
When this thought came to Yu Yiyun’s mind, she was suddenly stunned.
Even after being a beast for several lifetimes, his humanity has not been completely erased.
It’s not because he can’t survive as a beast, but because Yu Yiyun realized:
There is still hope in my heart and I can still make a wish.
Only people hope for light in darkness.
He likes the humanity he retains.
In the end, the snow leopard did not pray to the gods and Buddhas to fulfill his wish.
He knew very well that the Buddha was not the main character in this matter.
There is no equality among human beings, and people are divided into different classes based on various standards.
There is still a long way to go before we can get them to put aside their arrogance and treat every unique life equally.
Zhumi went back to the back of the temple and found a flat and secluded place to sleep.
At noon, he was awakened by noisy voices and realized that the place he chose happened to be the entrance through the back mountain.
The tourists were blocked and did not dare to approach the snow leopard. They secretly took photos from several meters away and asked the people practicing in the temple.
"Is he your cat?"
"No." The practitioner shook his head. "He was inspired by the Buddha and has been here for several days."
"Meow?" Yu Yiyun was surprised.
A pig thought it was hiding secretly, but it turned out that the people in the temple had discovered it several days ago and did not drive it away.
In the eyes of practitioners, snow leopards are no different from ordinary pilgrims.
An old lady with gray hair on her temples asked kindly, "What do you want? An afterlife?"
"Meow!" Yu Yijun denied.
Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism both have the concept of "afterlife", believing that suffering as an inferior person in this life is to pave the way for becoming a superior person in the next life.
It's not that Yu Yiyun doesn't believe in their concept of "afterlife", but Zhumi knows his afterlife...
Most likely he doesn't know where to go to be a beast.
Just go with the flow.
Zhumi lazily got up and moved to the side, clearing the way to the back mountain.
When the crowd saw how well behaved the snow leopard was, a little girl with two buns on her hair broke free from her mother's hand, ran over and handed him a lollipop.
"Mom said good children should be rewarded."
"Girl, come back!"
The mother ran over, grabbed her daughter, and explained to her carefully, "The kitten doesn't eat lollipops. He can't taste sweetness. He wants to eat meat."
The girl kicked the lollipop into her pocket, fumbled for a long time, and took out a piece of beef jerky.
My mother has raised cats before, so she knows a lot about felines. "He can't eat beef jerky either. It has too much salt."
The girl was unhappy and pouted her lips and asked, "Can't he eat what I eat?"
The mother was not angry, and patiently asked her, "The kitten didn't feed you the raw meat he ate, why did you insist on giving it to him?"
The girl blinked her watery eyes but couldn't answer.
"The kitten doesn't need you to share food, because his diet is different from that of humans. You will get sick if you eat his diet, and he will also get sick if he eats your food." The mother stroked her daughter's head and looked at the little snow leopard lying far away, "You only have one life, so you must take good care of it."
The girl seemed to understand what he said, so she put the beef jerky back into her pocket and apologized to Zhumi in a crisp voice.
"I'm sorry, little kitty, but mommy won't let me feed you."
After hearing what she said, Yu Yijun knew that the little girl had missed the point.
But it doesn't matter.
With a gentle and mature mother by her side, she will definitely understand.
When I thought about the increasing number of such educations, Zhumi suddenly felt that equality for all might really be possible.
Zhumi stayed near the temple for more than half a month, but left quietly because he often blocked the way for pilgrims to offer their sacrifices.
On the eve of his departure, Yu Yiyun returned to the main hall, looked at the golden statue of Buddha that had been worshipped for generations, and made a pious wish:
I hope that in the near future, animals can be truly free.
Even without so-called 'protection', it is not threatened with extinction.
“Meow~!”
Please fulfill my wish first because I am a little kitten!
The pig left his wish, swung his big furry tail, and walked away under the bright moonlight.
It is springtime, and the hillsides and surrounding plateaus are covered with spring flowers, attracting many cute little animals.
Yu Yiyun loves cute little animals the most!
After walking and eating like this, Yu Yiyun raised her head again and found that she had unknowingly returned to a familiar place.
"Meow?"
The pig, who had no idea about his sense of direction, climbed up the mountain in a few steps and carefully observed the surrounding scenery.
"Wow--"
A bird cry, similar to a baby crying, circling overhead.
"Meow!" Confirmed!
"Meow~" is my mountain~
Yu Yiyun was very excited to return to the mountain he had marked. He muttered, "Mountain, you are destined to belong to me," and happily ran into the familiar territory.
After running for a while, Yu Yiyun felt something was wrong.
He left the mountain last summer and returned this spring, rounding off the past year.
The scent markings left by cats must be reinforced every two or three days.
Some diligent lords would like to urinate around their territory every day.
If the lord beast leaves the territory for more than 3 days, the scent will become weaker.
After more than a week, the smell in open areas will be blown away by the wind, and only the smell of tree trunks and grass will remain for a longer time.
Even so, the smell should have disappeared after being away from the territory for two or three months.
So here comes the question.
More than half a year later, Yu Yiyun smelled the scent of snow leopard again.
"Meow?" Is my body odor so strong?
The pig was a little panicked and put its paw close to its nose to sniff the scent glands.
Obviously, he is a little snow leopard who loves cleanliness.
He lowered his head again to confirm that the smell left on the surface of the mountain was not his.
It seems that during the half year that I was missing, a leopard had taken a fancy to the same territory as me.
"Meow!" New neighbor!
The pig, who has no sense of boundaries, doesn't mind sharing territory with other animals. It would be boring for a leopard alone to stay in such a big mountain anyway.
He followed the snow leopard's footprints, winding up the mountain, and smelled the scent of another leopard marking its territory.
Judging by the smell, the neighbor is a female leopard in her prime, and she smells familiar.
Before Yu Yijun could start to match the scent, she heard a bleating sound from above the mountain and a mountain goat jumped down the cliff.
Behind it, a snow leopard appeared, jumped down without hesitation, and actually caught the ibex in its mouth in mid-air!
When a snow leopard attacks a blue sheep, it will usually take the sheep down the cliff with it.
The snow leopard was different. She grabbed the back of the mountain goat's neck tightly and used the strength of her waist and abdomen to roll down a nearby hillside.
After landing, the snow leopard slid down a bit and stopped just barely on the edge of the cliff.
She held down the still struggling mountain goat with her claws, opened her mouth and bit off its throat, and the splattering blood soaked her claws, chest and abdomen.
The female snow leopard licked the blood off her face and looked down.
Yu Yijun recognized her as the Snow Leopard Queen whom she had met before.
Judging from the smell, she is past her estrus period.
I don’t know whether the queen found the male leopard she liked later, or whether she happened to come here or followed him here based on a faint scent.
In short, she glanced at Zhumi indifferently, picked up the mountain goat she had hunted, and turned back to her territory.
Zhumi originally wanted to retreat, but his intuition told him that this was no longer a suitable territory.
The queen's hunting ability is so strong that before I reach my peak, I will most likely not be able to snatch it from her.
Besides, he had rejected the queen's courtship before. What if the queen got angry and ran down the mountain to beat him up?
The pig was hesitant and couldn't make up his mind, so he simply decided not to mark his territory and stay on this hill for a while.
Soon, he realized that he was worrying too much.
The queen is very territorial and rarely leaves her territory to hunt.
Occasionally, when they met, she turned around and walked away as if she had never known Zhumi before.
After a few days of observation, the pig believed that the queen would not attack him for no reason, so he safely fenced off his own territory. Every day, apart from eating and sleeping, he observed the queen hunting.
The queen's hunting style is radical, different from that of Zhumi and other snow leopards she has encountered.
All snow leopards, including Yu Yiyun, will subconsciously slow down when chasing prey near a cliff.
The Queen never slows down and always pursues her prey at full strength.
If she doesn't slow down, the mountain goat, which could lose its life if it's not careful, won't dare to slow down either. This way, it won't have time to get its hooves stuck in the cracks of the rocks, and the probability of falling off the cliff will be higher.
At this time, the queen will seize the opportunity and attack the ibex from the air.
The posture is more like an eagle spreading its wings in flight than a snow leopard.
The slope of the mountain was steep, and although she managed to kill the mountain goat, she still had to face the danger of falling off the cliff.
Next, the most exciting moment of the Queen's Hunt comes!
She is a female leopard in her prime, at the peak of her powers.
In addition, she likes steep territories, and just patrolling the territory every day can fully train her body and give her strong waist and abdominal strength.
She could even flip in the air like a diver, changing direction to save herself from falling into the abyss.
Yu Yiyun watched it several times, expressing her amazement and wanting to try it herself.
To be on the safe side, he found a relatively safe place and was badly beaten the first time.
It’s not that Yu Yiyun didn’t learn the essence, but…
My waist is too thick and I can’t twist it.
"Meow, meow?" How, how could this be?
Yu Yijun put her paws on Pangpang's waist and felt like her heart was shattered.
It is impossible to lose weight by losing weight!
Zhumi persevered and tried several times, and finally figured out a way to rely on the strength of the shoulders and hips to drive the waist to change direction.
Although his success rate and aesthetics were not as good as the Queen's, at least he had mastered a new hunting method that could handle more terrains.
In the blink of an eye, summer is here and we pigs have to face a new problem.
Lose hair!
Last year, he was still a little leopard and liked to hang out everywhere, so the problem of hair loss was not too bothersome.
This year, the pig found a fixed territory and went into the cave to sleep every day.
During the day, sunlight shines into the cave, and the air is filled with pig hairs. A yawn can inhale dozens of them.
The piglet put his paws in his pockets, looked at the flying hair, and fell into deep thought.
How to say it.
He now even had an urge to sneak into a pet supply store and show off two tubes of hair-removing cream.
Yu Yiyun sneezed and coughed out saliva covered with cat hair.
Snow leopards have high fur density, so molting is of course more troublesome for the animal.
The second time, the pig rolled Maomao into a ball bigger than its head. With a belly full of cat hair, it finally exploded in silence!
"Meow!" Annoying cat!
"Meow!" I want to duel with all the hair on my body!
The next day, a nature photographer who often wanders in the Himalayas released a video of a crazy animal that could "decisive battle to the top of the sand sculpture."
I saw a beautiful little snow leopard, which was suddenly stimulated by something and ran around its tail twice. Then it grabbed the tip of its tail tightly and bit all the way to the base of the tail. It also tried to bite its own butt.
As a result, because Pangpang's waist was stuck, he couldn't bite the butt even if he stretched his neck two miles.
The snow leopard roared angrily, holding its soft belly and rolling around on the ground.
[xswl, how come there are kittens whose butts can’t be licked?]
[My fat cat weighs more than 20 kilograms, and I really can’t lick its butt]
[I thought of a very popular video, where a fat cat holds his huge belly, but is so fat that he can’t lick his anus no matter what]
[I've seen that video! I thought only pet cats had that ability, who would have thought (dog head)
[You only noticed that he couldn't lick the butt, am I the only one who noticed that he couldn't even lick the belly button? ]
[What? Snow leopards have belly buttons? ]
Yu Yiyun collapsed into a heap, and after thinking it over, he made an important decision:
I'd better go steal the hair removal cream QAQ.
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