Chapter 363: You shouldn’t hold grudges, right?
After a second of buzzing from the intercom, Zhao Yeqing's hurried and flustered voice was heard.
"Mu Xi, come quickly! Go to the tourist area... and get closer... to this side! There's one... chasing me!"
The voice was intermittent, and it sounded like the person was speaking while shaking on the horse, and the microphone was full of the sound of the wind.
When Mu Xi heard the first few words, he ran into the house, grabbed his gun, got into the car, and stepped on the accelerator in one go.
The car whooshed out of the house and headed straight for the lake.
He guessed that another reason for Zhao Yeqing's intermittent voice might be that the distance of the walkie-talkie had reached its limit. The two of them had tested the limit before, which was almost to the lakeside and a little further into the tourist area.
He didn't hear clearly what kind of animal it was, but he had to hurry over after receiving the signal. Asking questions now would hinder Zhao Yeqing's escape.
Hearing only the two words "there is one", he analyzed that it should be a single animal.
Could it be that the tiger in the mountain has come out, or that some other carnivore has come to the meadow?
If it were a herbivore, Zhao Yeqing would not have spoken in this tone.
The car was driving very fast. Mu Xi gripped the steering wheel tightly and drove the car to more than a hundred yards. It took only a few minutes to reach the lake. He slowed down and started looking for someone.
Until they went around a small hill, they saw Zhao Yeqing riding a horse and circling around a small hill from afar.
After a while, the animal behind her also appeared from behind the hill.
Gray, 2 meters long, over one meter tall, with a long nose and big ears.
Mu Xi stopped the car immediately and pulled the handbrake, listening to someone's excited scream of "Woo-hoo" outside the car window.
What about panicking?
When Zhao Yeqing went around the small dirt slope again, he saw a car parked not far away. He picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted excitedly: "Mu Xi, did you see it? It's an elephant!"
Mu Xi raised his intercom with a smile: "The elephant didn't see it, but the unweaned baby elephant behind you did see it."
It is quite dangerous to encounter an elephant in the wild. They will charge directly at people. They basically live in groups and are large in size. If you meet one, you will definitely not be able to defeat it.
Mu Xi picked up the intercom again: "Okay, stop playing. There won't be any baby elephants left alone. Don't let his mother come to our door soon."
"Come and get me."
Mu Xi released the handbrake and drove over. When he was almost nearby, he honked the horn, and the baby elephant was frightened and ran away.
Normally, if you encounter a herd of elephants, honking the car horn is useless as it can easily make them panic and run around. But there was only one baby elephant and the place was wide, so scaring it away was enough.
Zhao Yeqing rode over on his horse, his eyes sparkling, "Did you see that? There are elephants on the meadow!"
"I saw it, I saw it, go home quickly, the mother will come to your house soon, you can't beat her."
This mountain range stretches for a long time, extending east to Hunan Province, across Guizhou and Guangxi provinces to the border of the motherland, with branches going up to Sichuan Province and down to Yunnan Province.
What's more, elephants can be found at altitudes of more than 4,000 meters, so it is reasonable for them to appear here.
Zhao Yeqing kept exclaiming in amazement along the way. After the excitement wore off, she began to think about how the two of them should prevent the appearance of elephants on the meadow.
"I was hunting rabbits just now, and I wanted to come and see how the grass we spread on the meadow was doing. Just as I got near the pasture, I saw this little guy rolling around in the grass field."
There was no mother elephant around, so she wondered if she could get closer to take a look. After all, the little guy was so small now, not even as tall as her, and he couldn't use his nose smoothly.
She watched from a distance and saw that the baby elephant accidentally hit its own face several times when it swung its trunk.
What danger could such a tiny thing pose to her?
Xiaohong seemed to be a little afraid of this animal she had never seen before and was unwilling to go forward, so Zhao Yeqing had to dismount and go over to take a look.
But I didn't expect that the little elephant had a bad temper. Before I got close enough, I just looked at it a few more times and then the little elephant rushed over.
She was so scared that she quickly turned around and ran back to Xiaohong and climbed onto the horse. She felt safe riding the horse and teased the little elephant to run in circles.
The little elephant was chasing after him with small steps, which made Zhao Yeqing melted by its cuteness.
But Mu Xi was right. Elephants live in groups. It is impossible that there is only one unweaned baby elephant here.
The lactation period of elephants usually lasts for more than two years, and the longest is five years before weaning. Judging from the height of this baby elephant, it is estimated that it was born not long ago, and at this time it usually follows its mother.
The two returned home. Mu Xi parked the car and led Xiaohong to the stable. Zhao Yeqing put the rabbit in a stainless steel basin in the kitchen and prepared to fry it in the evening. When he saw him come in, he poured him a glass of water and handed it to him.
"Could it be that a herd of elephants passed by here and the baby elephant got left behind?"
Mu Xi took a sip of water and replied, "That's possible, but if that's the case, the mother elephant should come back to look for it, and the baby elephant can also find the herd's route and catch up with it."
This touched upon Zhao Yeqing's blind spot in knowledge. Generally speaking, it would be difficult for animals that fell behind during migration to find their own group, let alone such a small one.
"Don't underestimate elephants. Their sense of smell is twice that of dogs. They can smell the scent of their own group and chase after them along the route. But it's also possible that the herd of elephants is near the lake. Given the current climate here, it's normal for them to stay and survive."
The biological community succession in the tropical rainforest climate is extremely fast, and the emergence of new animal communities means that the nearby plant communities will also undergo certain changes, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Zhao Yeqing was a little worried. If the herd of elephants came towards them, the crops in his family’s farmland would probably be lost.
If their sense of smell is really that sensitive, how could they not be excited when they smell the fresh rapeseed and corn stalks at home?
Moreover, among the weapons they have now, the one with the highest power value is the double-barreled shotgun. If a large group of elephants come over, even if the two of them have used up all their bullets, they probably won't be able to solve the problem completely.
Mu Xi was also silent for a while, then patted Zhao Yeqing on the shoulder and comforted him, "It's okay, if that's the case, just consider it a loss to ward off disaster."
Zhao Yeqing took out another popsicle from the refrigerator. The popsicle was made by freezing freshly squeezed sweet potato juice in the freezer. It was sweet and thirst-quenching.
After taking a bite of the cool popsicle, the coolness brought back her rationality. She suddenly felt a little regretful. "If I had known, I would not have teased the little elephant just now.
Elephants should... not bear grudges, right?"
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