Chapter 56 Chapter 56 Poachers
The sun was too strong, and the nocturnal animals could not stay in the open space for long. After the "banquet" was over, they all slipped back to their sheltered places.
Li Xingyan drove the car closer.
There were two corpses not far apart under the tree.
Based on the degree of decay, it can be determined that the two people died at different times. The torso of the person whose body was still fresh was twisted, and it was likely that he was mauled to death by a wild animal while still conscious.
If Banlie was present, he would definitely recognize that these two people were the poachers who were tortured and killed by the perverted mixed-race man that night.
It’s a pity that they couldn’t communicate with Yun Ti, so they knew nothing about it.
There was hardly any intact part on the two bodies, and their clothes were torn into tassels and scattered all over the ground.
Yun Ti kicked one of them and turned it over.
Sure enough, there was a bullet hole in the part of the body that had not been eaten.
Li Xingyan hissed, not caring about the nausea, and looked around vigilantly.
"Were they killed by their own people?"
In the savanna, humans can sometimes be scarier than wild animals. Wild animals generally won't attack humans, especially if they're driving a car. Most animals will choose to avoid them.
But humans are different. They can think, know how to hide themselves, and will kill for profit.
Yun Ti squatted down with a gloomy look and inserted two fingers directly into the bullet hole.
Li Xingyan didn't have time to be shocked. He saw her bend her knuckles slightly and pull out a metal shell from the rotten flesh.
Judging from the appearance, it is the same model as the bullet taken out of Banban's leg.
But Yun Ti knew nothing about these things, so she could only keep it for now and ask Ye Xuan in detail after meeting him.
She wiped the blood off the surface of the bullet with her fingertips and put it in her pocket. Then she stood up and found that Li Xingyan had gone berserk.
He rushed into the car with a sharp bang, took out disinfectant and sterile towels, and then ran back in a hurry.
"Ahhhhh you you you! How can you just touch it with your bare hands? What if it gets infected with bacteria..."
Like an old mother, he kept chattering while his hands kept moving, holding her ten fingers and rubbing them back and forth with disinfectant.
Yun Ti didn't feel annoyed at all.
Leopards are introverted and reserved members of the cat family Panthera genus. Their long period of solitary life has made most of them independent and calm in character.
The most cheerful and playful time is when the cub is young, but the love of a leopard mother is also silent. Yun Ti rarely meets someone as emotionally outgoing as Li Xingyan.
Thinking of the time when she beat up little Li Xingyan as a child, Yun Ti suddenly laughed, "My other fingers aren't dirty, so why do I have to wash them too?"
Li Xingyan paused his fingertips, secretly wanting to hold Yun Ti's fingers tightly, but silently withdrew his fingers.
Oops, I was caught taking advantage of the opportunity.
"The more, the better..."
His ears were red, and he was about to use a towel to help her dry her hands, as if feeling guilty.
Yun Ti held his face and rubbed the palms and backs of her hands a few times until the water droplets on her hands were successfully transferred.
She patted Li Xingyan's soft and rosy face and imitated him: "The more the better."
The other person stammered twice, trying to speak but forgetting what to say, and his face became even hotter.
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After discovering the human corpse, Yun Ti did not choose to move forward. She decided to stay nearby for one night.
Although she didn't know whether these two people died at the hands of their companions or were killed by another group, she always felt that something was wrong.
The elephant riot and Banban's injury do not seem to be a coincidence.
In the grassland ecosystem, the most important rule of survival is "the lips and teeth are interdependent".
At night.
Young Master Li, who had volunteered to keep watch at night, fished a few times with his head down, then fell asleep unconscious.
His courage has indeed improved a lot during this period, but in essence he is still a useless mascot vase that looks good but is not practical.
After all, there is still a big difference between greenhouse-fed chickens and wild free-range chickens.
Yun Ti has gladly accepted this.
The more useless he is, the more secure Yun Ti feels.
This is the rebelliousness brought about by long-term fierce competition of the survival of the fittest. She rejects those unstable factors that may suppress her, although such people have not appeared yet.
Yun Ti took his eyes off the boy's peaceful sleeping face, yawned, and actually began to feel a little sleepy.
Just closed my eyes.
The cheetah that was resting under the car suddenly came out.
It walked a few steps with its head turned, then stopped facing east with its back slightly arched.
Its hearing is more sensitive than Yunti's, who is a human.
A few kilometers away on the river bank, there were reports of unusual movements among the elephants.
Yun Ti quickly stood up, supported herself on the back of the chair with one hand and flipped to the driver's seat.
Turn the key, start the engine...
She had never learned to drive systematically, just like when she first rode a motorcycle, all her actions were based on imitation.
The car body shook violently and stalled.
A trace of anxiety appeared on the cheetah's usually honest face. It suddenly climbed onto the roof of the car, stretched out its claws and slapped Li Xingyan, who was sleeping soundly in the back seat.
Then he jumped out of the car and ran away without looking back.
"Man, I can only help you so far."
In the circle of top predators, cheetahs are at the bottom of their ecological niche and cannot be defeated by anyone, so running away is the best strategy.
Before escaping, he did not forget to remind the human being he had only met once, which can be regarded as a kind act and he did his utmost.
When Li Xingyan opened his eyes in confusion, the car was already rushing across the grassland.
I don't understand what happened, but Titi must have her reasons for doing this.
Adrenaline surged.
Li Xingyan quickly fastened his seat belt and pursed his lips tightly, not making a sound, for fear that he would become a stupid teammate who would cause trouble.
Yun Ti didn't turn on the car lights, but her night vision was enough to accurately navigate through the weeds.
The grassland is vast and is an excellent place to practice driving. As long as you don’t roll over, you can quickly improve your driving skills through trial and error.
The convertible off-road driving becomes more and more stable.
Beside the lake not far away, a herd of elephants fled in disorder, shaking the ground.
A beam of car light came from the opposite direction, reflecting on the water, making it sparkle.
There is an alien invasion.
The old mother elephant swung her long trunk and made a deafening roar.
This is a warning to the group, telling them to calm down as soon as possible.
"What's that on the other side?"
Li Xingyan held onto the handlebars tightly with both hands and asked in horror.
The car drove even wilder than Yunti's. It moved in a serpentine manner to avoid attacks from wild elephants, while at the same time it seemed to deliberately guide them in a certain direction.
Yun Ti narrowed her eyes and the tips of her ears moved slightly.
She heard the faint sound of a bullet being fired.
"Poacher," she said sullenly, turning the steering wheel and stepping on the accelerator, "Hold on tight."
Yun Ti is no stranger to this kind of people.
Before she was born, poaching was rampant in the Serengeti National Reserve.
Humans love leopard prints, and the leopard's fur is undoubtedly the most exquisite and gorgeous. Therefore, they have become the most hunted animals.
The mother leopard has seen the tragic scene of her own kind being hunted and killed. In order to avoid this situation, she will often look for uninhabited territories and will not stay in the same place for too long.
Thanks to its strength and agility, Yunti spent a peaceful childhood under the guidance of words and deeds.
Unlike the lone leopard, which moves erratically, elephants are large in number and easy to find.
Yunti had witnessed poachers killing elephants with spears and poison, and then chopping off their tusks with machetes or chainsaws.
If only the outer layer of an elephant's tusks were sawed off, it wouldn't be fatal, but that part would be easily broken and less valuable. The roots of ivory extend deep into the skull, and according to human standards, the red ivory, which is filled with nerves and blood vessels inside the skull, is the most valuable and is called "blood tusk."
In order to maximize their profits, poachers will only choose to kill the tusker elephants once and for all, cut open their skulls and take out the complete tusks.
However, it is precisely this kind of hunting method that has led to the extreme rarity of elephants with tusks. Genetic degeneration has become a roundabout survival advantage, and more and more female elephants are growing up without tusks.
Yun Ti was also puzzled. What special meaning did leopard skins and ivory have for humans that made them so eager to kill them all?
It wasn't until she became human that she realized that perhaps meaning wasn't necessary.
The rules of this world are made by humans, including the concept of "survival of the fittest", and they can give "meaning" to anything as long as they want.
The elephants were rioting and the poachers' cars were roaring non-stop.
It turned out to be a good cover-up.
As if entering an empty space, Yun Ti chased all the way.
Because the night lights were not on, in such a chaotic environment, the other party didn't even notice that there was a car following behind him.
"Idiot, you had such a good chance just now, why didn't you shoot?"
The thin, dark man driving the car was furious. He turned around and cursed in a foreign language: "It was a wrong decision to bring an idiot like you out here."
The slightly immature young man in the passenger seat chuckled and put away his gun. "Joseph and Mills are so skilled and they still couldn't catch the prey, so it's normal for me to fail for a moment, right?"
"Besides, you saw that a jackal over there tipped off the elephants, which is why we were exposed..."
They were accomplices of the two poachers who died. As lawless outlaws, they had captured a lot of prey in hunting reserves in many countries. This was their first time to set foot on this "deserted island".
Generally speaking, poachers are usually indigenous people living near protected areas. They are familiar with the terrain and know how to exploit management loopholes in protected areas.
Those who came "from afar" like the four of them mostly heard the news in the circle or received a designated reward, and only took the risk to get involved because they thought it was profitable.
If the first shot fails and alerts the elephants, the situation will become complicated.
However, they were well prepared. As long as they lured the long-tusked elephant into the trap, the herd would know that they were unable to rescue their companions, and the old female elephants would take the initiative to leave in order to protect the young elephants of the herd.
The plan was perfect. However clever the elephants were, and however united the creatures here were, they were no match for human strategy, nor were they capable of foreseeing events.
An enraged herd of elephants will only vent their anger by chasing wildly, just like now.
Looking through the rearview mirror, the behemoth crushed a bush with one foot.
After flashing his high beams twice and seeing the marks made in advance, the thin dark man swerved the steering wheel, went around behind the marks, and waited for them to rush towards him.
There is a high-voltage electric grid surrounding this area, which is enough to stun or even kill large animals if touched.
Moonlight cuts through the grass.
The elephant's ear was hit by a bullet, and blood was still oozing from the wound.
The young man placed the hunting rifle across his knees, held his breath, and repeatedly stroked the oily gun body.
Just as the giant elephants couldn't stop and were about to swarm onto the electric fence.
There was a loud "bang".
Their broken jeep was knocked away by a powerful backward thrust.
The spear fell from the car window in a parabola, and several sparks flashed.
The next second, the car body fell accurately into the electric grid.
Suddenly, electric currents ran rampant and flames shot up into the sky, almost illuminating the entire grassland.
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