Chapter 160 Snow Leopard (XVIII)
The grand plan of 'stealing hair remover cream from the pet store' did not go smoothly.
Mainly because...
Here! There is no pet store at all!!!
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Yu Yiyun has been away from human society for too long and has forgotten that the cattle and sheep raised in Tibet do not need to eat hair-removing cream.
This place is remote, too far away from the urban area of Tibet, and the only pet shop here definitely cannot open here.
Haha, the local cats are born with a 500 square meter litter box and endless fresh mice to eat, so why do they need a pet store?
The piglet, with its hair falling out, seems to have lost all its strength and power.
They can only compete with mountain goats for food every day and chew some wild 'cat grass' to promote digestion.
Fortunately, the summer in the high mountains is not too long. Once the temperature starts to drop, it is time for the snow leopard to change into its winter coat.
By autumn, the pigs' hair loss had eased and we thought the hard times were finally over.
After so many lives, he should have learned a lesson:
As animals living in this world, how can there be so many "thoughts"?
Some accidents can't even wait until tomorrow.
At the beginning of autumn, a few drizzles of rain soaked the entire mountain.
Snow leopards are not water-loving big cats. Yu Yiyun hates the feeling of her fur getting wet by the rain, so she prepares her food supplies early, hides deep in her den, and sleeps soundly to the white noise of the rain.
He crossed his legs and smacked his lips. His dreams were all about roast duck, roast chicken and roast goose. Fortunately, he didn't die of greed.
It drizzled for three days, and the piglet didn't leave its den. It slept soundly with its head resting on the lamb's leg, not knowing what year it was.
On the fourth day, bright sunlight shone through the cave, and the pig dragged its lazy body and reluctantly walked out of the den.
The rain washed away the marks, so he had to mark his territory again.
When I reached the edge of the area, I smelled blood.
It had just rained, and most of the smell was blown away by the wind and rain.
The smell of blood was so strong, it was probably the 'neighbor upstairs' hunting in the rain.
Yu Yiyun didn't take it seriously and slowly strengthened his territory mark.
When he marked the third stone, he vaguely realized that something was wrong.
After smelling it carefully, I found that the bleeding one was not the ibex, but a member of the same species.
Wait, the Queen is injured?
Yu Yiyun couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Although he was a little scared by the queen's fierce offensive during the breeding season, he rolled over and crawled to reject her courtship.
But after living together for the past two months, he has adapted to life as the Queen's neighbor, and will meow to say hello when they occasionally meet.
Of course, the Queen never responded to him.
If the queen met with an accident, and she was the only leopard left alone in such a vast mountain, how boring would that be?
Piglet made a decision and followed the smell of blood to the Queen's territory.
The Queen has a strong sense of boundaries and has never violated the Piglets' boundaries.
Every time the pig crosses the line, the queen won't breathe to drive it away, but she can't hide her eyes that want to kill a cat.
The piglet is too timid and only dares to explore the edge of its territory.
Now, the smell of blood in the air was getting stronger and stronger. Yu Yiyun could not care less and followed the smell to the foot of a rock.
The queen was as elegant and noble as ever, lying there cleaning her paws, her fur wet from the rain.
Wild animals are good at camouflage, especially fierce beasts, who must not let their prey or natural enemies see that they are weak.
Judging from the appearance alone, it is hard to tell that this noble and arrogant female leopard is injured.
However, there were clear traces of her blood on the nearby rocks and ground, dotted all over.
Yu Yiyun followed the bloodstains and basically pieced together what had happened.
It rained heavily for several days, and the hungry queen didn't know when the rain would stop. Hunger prompted her to decide to hunt in the rain.
She bit the mountain goat to death in mid-air using the method she knew best, and was about to lean against a nearby hillside to stop her fall.
The continuous rain made the surface of the hillside wet, which reduced the friction a lot.
The snow leopard's big claws could not hold on and slid down.
As the body fell, it hit the protruding sharp rocks and scratched the thick fur.
The gushing blood fell from the air, and the smell drifted to Yu Yiyun's territory.
The queen lay there, trying her best to hide her wound, not wanting Yu Yijun to see her flaw.
However, the mountain goat, as evidence, was still hanging on the sharp rock above her head.
Yu Yiyun had witnessed the queen's cruelty, so she did not approach her directly. Instead, she jumped to a high place and kicked the mountain goat down, landing directly in front of the queen.
The queen moved forward, opened her mouth wide, and enjoyed her prey without any hesitation.
Yu Yiyun observed carefully, and when the female leopard changed her posture, she keenly caught the wound from her abdomen to her knee, which was at least 20 centimeters long, making it a very large wound.
Judging from her vital signs, the injury was not deep and her internal organs should not have been affected.
But for snow leopards, abdominal injuries are more troublesome than leg injuries.
Not only does it affect daily activities, but it also carries the risk of infection and ulceration.
Unfortunately, this mountain is located between two protected areas and is not covered by the monitoring range of the Little Remi, so the rescue station cannot provide timely assistance.
No matter which rescue station Yu Yiyun sought help from, it would take several days to go back and forth, even if she didn't get lost.
By the time he called someone over, the queen would either have recovered or be dead.
After last year's 'ghost incident', the popularity of this mountain has faded and few adventurers have challenged it.
Finished.
Zhumi thought desperately: This time, there are really no savages to help Baobao.
After much deliberation, Yu Yijun decided to stand up and take back his glory as the "wild little Hua Tuo".
While the queen was concentrating on eating, Yu Yiyun ran to the place where she often ate cat grass, plucked dozens of ordinary green grass, and chewed them in her mouth.
Snow leopards are pure carnivores. Yu Yiyun usually eats only one or two pieces of cat grass, using the indigestible plant fiber to bring out the cat hair in her stomach.
Now the pig has to eat so much that it is so bitter that its plasmolysis is almost happening, and its stomach is craving for sex.
After capturing the wild grass, Yu Yiyun returned to the queen as quickly as possible.
Seeing that she didn't stop him from approaching, Zhumi bravely went around behind her.
The queen was used to living alone, and regarded her own kind as enemies. She was not used to the pig getting too close to her, so she subconsciously kicked the pig's nose with her hind paws.
This action just happened to expose the wound on the back of the abdomen, and there was a large area of blood.
Yu Yiyun applied the juice of crushed green grass as a paste, which had a certain analgesic and hemostatic effect.
With limited resources, wild animals can only relieve their pain by eating the most common grass.
But this is the Himalayas, and what we have the most is rare herbs!
The Himalayas have a special geographical location and are sparsely populated, so they are home to precious plants that take countless years to grow and have higher medicinal value than one another.
The high mountain snow lotus, thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, and ten-thousand-year-old ginseng mentioned in martial arts novels can all be found in this area.
Yu Yiyun jumped up and down, searching for a while, and finally found the Cordyceps sinensis, which is famous in the human world, sold by the roots, and regarded as a holy tonic.
As the name suggests, 'Cordyceps sinensis' is a bug in winter and a grass in summer. It mainly refers to the fruiting body and insect body of the Cordyceps sinensis fungus that parasitizes on the larvae of the bat moth.
It can nourish the kidneys and lungs, stop bleeding and resolve phlegm, and enhance immunity.
Strong immunity can fight bacteria and viruses and prevent body infections.
Cordyceps sinensis mainly grows in areas above 4,500 meters above sea level, which is not a difficult height for snow leopards.
The difficulty is that the roots of the Cordyceps are mixed into the soil, leaving only the seedlings exposed.
The snow leopard's sense of smell and vision, which it uses to distinguish prey, make it difficult to break through layers of camouflage and find Cordyceps seedlings as small as the tip of a fingernail.
“Meow!”
Yu Yiyun took great pains to bring back a few Cordyceps sinensis plants.
He could only find grasses with particularly large seedlings, each of which was a rare divine product in the eyes of humans.
The queen had finished her meal and was lying there with her eyes closed, ignoring the Cordyceps thrown in front of her.
She often encountered that thing, but never thought of taking a bite of it.
“Meow!”
Yu Yiyun is angry!
“Meow!”
Yu Yiyun’s defense is broken!
If he could speak human language, he would definitely throw out the most classic phrase of many parents, "I'm doing this for your own good."
However, the pig quickly calmed down.
He is a kitten now, and the person opposite him is also a kitten.
You can't reason with a kitten.
Seeing that the queen had no interest in Cordyceps, Piglet thought of the common way that evil two-legged beasts tricked domestic cats into taking medicine.
He bit off a piece of meat, poked two holes with his canine teeth, and stuffed the Cordyceps into the holes.
"Meow." Eat it.
"call?"
The queen was confused.
Poisoning in front of others, without even hiding it?
The queen was probably shocked by Yu Yiyun's frankness. After hesitating for a while, she actually ate the mutton with Cordyceps in it.
After eating a few cordyceps, the little Hua Tuo of the Himalayas started his journey to find medicine again.
This time it went more smoothly. I didn't have to run far before I caught a large wild Ganoderma lucidum. It must have been at least ten years old, if not a hundred years old.
Before peeling open the Ganoderma lucidum, he used his nose to nudge the cap of the plant to spread the spores and turn them into new Ganoderma lucidum next year.
Ganoderma lucidum contains a variety of active ingredients that promote cell proliferation, among which three mushroom compounds can also fight inflammation.
The wild white-fleshed Ganoderma lucidum in Tibet is rare, has a high content of polysaccharides, and is more effective than ordinary Ganoderma lucidum.
Yu Yiyun was not satisfied with just picking up the Ganoderma lucidum.
If we have thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, how can we not have ten-thousand-year-old ginseng?
Tibetan ginseng is shaped like a palm and is also called palm ginseng.
It has a special growing environment and a long growth cycle, and is also a rare medicinal material that is hard to come by.
Yu Yiyun: You little guy is so pitiful, these things are clearly all over the floor.
Palm ginseng can help a weakened body after an injury to quickly recover strength.
Pig once used the whiskers on his palm to exchange for a chicken with Little Man, so he knew where it grew.
Soon, the pig bit off a piece of ginseng and jumped back to the queen with the Ganoderma lucidum.
The queen ate the meat and seemed to regain some strength, and tried to stand up.
After taking two steps, he fell down again due to the pain from the wound on his abdomen that was connected to his thigh.
Seeing the piglet coming back, the queen immediately adjusted her posture, not allowing her fellows to see any sign of weakness.
After several contacts, Zhumi got used to her silence and stubbornness, and prepared to feed her Ganoderma lucidum and palm ginseng in the same way as before.
The queen felt the pain in her legs eased slightly, and seemed to realize that the food Yu Yiyun fed her could help her body recover.
Before he could stuff the herbs into the meat, the queen picked up the ginseng, chewed it up and swallowed it into her stomach.
"Meow?"
Yu Yiyun clearly felt that the queen was chewing herbs with unhappiness written all over her face.
The taste of fresh palm ginseng is slightly sweet and mainly bitter.
Cats have special taste buds. They cannot taste sweetness, but can taste bitterness and spicy flavors.
After the queen finished eating the bitter ginseng and picked up the Ganoderma lucidum, her expression became even more unhappy.
Wild Ganoderma lucidum, especially the white-fleshed Ganoderma lucidum that has grown for many years, has a more distinctly bitter taste.
The Queen probably feels that this thing is more miserable than her life.
"Meow." Leopard, good medicine tastes bitter.
Yu Yiyun tried to explain.
The Queen ignored him and buried her head between her shoulders and arms.
She was temporarily unable to walk and had no way to return to her nest, so she could only lie on the hillside.
It rained for two days. Fortunately, the wound was on the abdomen and was not soaked by the rain.
Yu Yiyun invited the queen to rest in her lair, but she was obviously not happy about it.
The pig is timid and doesn't dare to let such a ferocious leopard live in its home.
What if the Queen gets angrier and teaches the scumbag Leopard a lesson for 'rejecting my courtship' and 'poisoning me'? Then Piglet will really be suffering for inviting a leopard into its lair.
As autumn approaches, water accumulates everywhere in the mountains and the temperature gets lower and lower.
The Queen lying there wet like this will definitely affect the recovery of her wounds.
The pig returned to its nest, took out the hay that it had used to make its nest, and made a simple straw mat for the queen.
“…”
The queen lowered her eyes and looked at him in silence.
Due to the limitations of the living environment, even when female snow leopards give birth to cubs, they will not decorate their nests with hay.
When they are not with their cubs, snow leopards are too lazy to even look for caves and simply sleep on rocky peaks or under stones.
The leopard in front of us must go back to the cave to sleep unless there are special circumstances. He also makes his own nest very soft. It is really an outlier among snow leopards.
The queen barely propped herself up and slowly moved to the straw mat that was stained with the scent of the male snow leopard. She felt that the ground beneath her was no longer cold and hard.
Being an outlier doesn't seem so bad.
"Meow~" Sleep well, I'll come to see you tomorrow.
The pig had been struggling for a long time and was already tired and hungry.
His little conscience suddenly came into play and he did not covet the food the queen was using to heal her wounds.
Leopard's stamina was too poor and he no longer had the energy to catch the blue sheep, so he caught a few plateau rabbits to fill his stomach.
The next day, before Yu Yiyun went to find the queen, he first wandered around the low-altitude area, trying to see if he could rob any passing little people.
After walking for a long time away from the foot of the mountain, he finally found the first person, leaning against an off-road vehicle and smoking.
Judging from his appearance, he should be on a road trip and passing by here to rest.
Self-driving tour is great, it means there is enough luggage in the car!
In that case, I won’t be polite!
"Meow!" Stop, robbery!
Yu Yijun rushed over with lightning speed, let out a low growl, pounced on the little man leaning against the car, and bit the corner of his clothes.
Little Man was stunned for a moment, but he didn't hide. Instead, he looked at Pig and said, "They told me that snow leopards in the mountains won't attack people."
"Meow, meow!" This, this mountain is mine!
Yu Yiyun spoke stutteringly, thinking of a serious question.
If he attacks the little man and gets on the leopard, he will have a criminal record and the entire race may be implicated.
For a long time to come, when people mention snow leopards, they will add a sentence "I heard that a snow leopard bit someone."
The owner of the off-road vehicle was a muscular man with a height of 1.9 meters and a body full of tendons. He was obviously not afraid of the snow leopard.
With his fighting ability, in a head-on confrontation, he could probably throw the weak Leopard over his shoulder.
When Zhu Mi saw him put out his cigarette and open his arms to prepare for a fight, he decided to change his strategy.
He kicked off with his hind legs, using the excellent jumping ability of a cat to rush to the top of the SUV and get into the car from the other side.
The muscle maniac was stunned for a few seconds, then opened the car door a little late. Yu Yijun had already happily run away with his trophy - a pure cotton blanket.
“…”
The muscle maniac was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly realized that the snow leopard just now was planning to steal his clothes.
Clothes, blankets...
Thinking of the similarities between the two things, the muscle maniac laughed angrily.
"You are a snow mountain animal, are you afraid of the cold when you sleep?"
The blanket that the 1.9-meter-tall man was covering himself with was too big. Yu Yiyun ran a few steps with it in his mouth and almost fell down because he stepped on the blanket.
He struggled for a long time, rolled up the blanket, draped half of it over himself, and dragged himself up the mountain.
By the time we got to the mountain, the pink blanket had become extremely dirty.
Yu Yiyun dissed in her heart, "Why does the muscle maniac like pink?" and "Buy black so it won't get dirty."
Fortunately, the blanket was not covered by the mysophobic pig. He climbed up the hillside, shook it perfunctorily, and then covered the queen with it.
"???"
The queen slowly typed a few question marks.
Having lived in the wild for so long, I have never heard of a snow leopard asking for a blanket.
The queen was annoyed and was about to push it away, but her claws suddenly stopped.
This blanket is dirty, but the material is good and it feels soft, like a mother's embrace.
Even though the Queen has been away from her mother for a long time, she still remembers the touch of her mother's arms.
Moreover, the blanket can keep her warm and conceal the wound, so she doesn't have to hold herself together all the time and worry about exposing the wound.
The female leopard curled up and pulled her entire body into the blanket.
Yu Yijun meowed proudly.
snort!
What kitten doesn’t like fur?
After seven or eight days of this care, the queen recovered quickly and was basically able to stand up and jump.
Yu Yiyun came to the place where she was recuperating again and found that the straw mat was still there, and the queen had taken the blanket away.
At first, Yu Yiyun was a little worried.
Her injuries haven't healed completely yet. Living at such a high place, what if her injuries get worse?
Soon, Yu Yiyun realized that she was worrying too much.
It was a snow leopard, the ruler of the mountains.
She has an extremely strong adaptability. Even if she can't catch blue sheep, she can still fill her stomach by eating plateau rabbits and marmots.
Before winter came, the queen chased the blue sheep again, which flew bravely over her head.
Yu Yijun was lying on her back, still thinking, "No matter how many times I watch it, the Queen's Hunting is really cool."
She held the mountain goat in her mouth and broke into her own territory for the first time.
"Meow?" Neighbor, are you here to visit?
Yu Yiyun blinked her cat eyes and was about to make room for the queen.
The queen glanced down at him condescendingly, left the mountain goat behind, turned around without hesitation and disappeared into the mountains.
Piglet looked at the queen walking away, then looked at the mountain goat in front of him, and an incredible idea came to his mind:
Thank you gift?!
The cold, mysterious and isolated Alpine Hunter Claw actually understands the ways of the world?
Yu Yiyun didn't have time to think too much.
Because the mountain goat sent by the Queen is so delicious!
The fact that you can enjoy mountain goats without hunting them yourself almost made Zhumi dizzy.
The "fragrant and confused" days don't last long. The short autumn ends and the winter snow covers the entire mountain.
The mountain goats all hid themselves away, and Yu Yiyun and the queen's neighbors all had to face the distress of a lack of prey.
His new territory was located in a remote area, with no pasture areas and even less villages of the little people.
As winter approaches, the temperature drops sharply and even tourists don’t pass by here.
To survive this winter, Leopard must rely on himself.
For three consecutive days the queen failed to catch any mountain goats or find any marmots to fill her stomach.
She left her territory, bypassed Zhumi's home, and went to low-altitude areas to look for prey.
After searching for half a day, the queen found nothing and looked in the direction of Pig in confusion.
She was a little confused. It had been several days since the first snow of winter fell, and the prey in the mountains had disappeared. Why did the pigs still have meat to eat?
Could it be that all the prey in the mountains have hidden in his territory?
——Of course not!
Ever since Yu Yiyun became a Siberian Tiger, he has developed the good habit of "storing food".
The past two winters made Yu Yiyun fully realize how scarce food was in the mountainous areas, so he caught several sheep in advance and buried them in the snow.
Snow leopards are big cats with relatively small appetites. If they eat sparingly, one blue sheep can be enough for a snow leopard to survive for more than half a month.
Taking his appetite into consideration, Zhumi prepared five ibex!
During the period before winter, even if Yu Yiyun was not hungry, he would go out hunting mountain goats, causing the mountain goats in the mountains to curse.
After happily finishing her stored food, Yu Yijun heard some noise outside and guessed that the queen probably hadn't found any prey again.
After the snow, prey hides deeper, so it is normal not to find food for ten days or half a month.
A healthy and strong snow leopard can survive for about ten days without food.
Yu Yiyun heard the noise but felt a little confused.
After hesitating for a long time, he tore off one of its legs, sneaked up to the queen, and threw it into the path she had to pass.
The queen smelled the scent and knew it was fed by her neighbor.
She took a look at the leg but didn't eat it, and her figure disappeared into the mountains again.
"Meow?" Leopard, aren't you hungry?
Yu Yiyun was curious, so she buried the lamb leg again and followed the queen to watch.
The queen left her habitat and followed a faint smell in the air until she found the remains of a Tibetan fox that had died for unknown reasons.
The queen sniffed the remains, trying to identify them carefully.
After making sure it was edible, she laid down beside the remains and slowly enjoyed the food.
In the cold Himalayas, not only snow leopards find it difficult to survive the winter, but other animals do as well.
Whenever an animal dies, its carcass becomes food for the snow leopard.
The bearded vulture hovering in the sky stared at the snow leopard with a pair of desolate eyes, waiting to enjoy her remaining bones.
Here, no food will be wasted. All of it will be turned into nutrients for snow mountain animals, helping them survive the cold winter.
The queen replenished her strength, regained her spirit, looked into the distance, and shouted to Yu Yijun without turning back.
Before Yu Yijun could understand what was going on, the indomitable snow leopard once again merged into the depths of the snow-capped mountains to accept the challenge posed by nature.
Yu Yiyun looked at her back and thought about the four and a half blue sheep in his family.
He could spend the rest of the winter staying in his den, waiting for spring to arrive.
Seeing her fellow creatures fearlessly rushing towards the ice and snow, Yu Yijun was inexplicably encouraged and shouted at her.
"Meow!" Wait for me!
Snow leopards are elves leaping in the mountains, fearless of the cold and danger.
Even though it is the roof of the world where humans cannot live, they can still display the grandeur and miracles of life here.
It would be comfortable to spend the cold winter peacefully, but he was born a leopard and his name contained the word "snow", so how could he lose to the vast ice field?
"Meow!" Prey, here I come!
"Meow~" Feel the oppression of the ruler of the snow mountain!
The endless snowy plain and two lines of plum blossom footprints extend to the direction where the sky meets.
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