Chapter 33 Changing Sleeping Places Los: I want to move
After Xu Nian lost his sense of smell, he spent a few days recuperating, but these happy times were always very short and passed in a flash. After making sure that he had no headache, Los immediately took him hunting again.
Xu Nian sighed. Fortunately, there were too few prey now. Even Los could not afford the loss of the prey escaping, so he just asked Xu Nian to cooperate and said, "I will teach you how to hunt when spring comes."
This reason convinced Xu Nian and also convinced Los himself.
But the long winter has just officially begun, and spring is still a long way off. As wild animals, their top priority is to survive this harsh winter.
Marmots are a favorite prey of snow leopards. Generally, where there are marmots, there are always many snow leopards. However, marmots are very alert animals. They like to stand outside, alert to the movements around them. If they feel something is wrong, they will immediately hide back in their caves. Therefore, even the most sophisticated predators cannot successfully catch them every time.
Just like Los, there are times when he fails.
Los climbed out of the snow pile, shook his head to shake off the snow on his body, and his eyes fell on Xu Nian who was walking towards him with a cheerful pace.
As Xu Nian was about to approach, he noticed that Los had failed to successfully hunt the marmot. After a moment of shock, he quickly reacted and pretended nothing had happened. He moved closer to Los and asked, "You're running too fast! I can't keep up."
He never mentioned the marmot, let alone Los's failed hunt.
"Hunting marmots." Los flicked his tail lightly. It frowned and said, "This thing runs fast, but it's also timid and knows how to hide."
Xu Nian nodded immediately when he saw Los took the initiative to mention the failed hunting.
"But they're perfect for hunting. They usually appear in groups, so you can catch anyone you want." Los looked at Xu Nian and reminded him, "But you have to be careful not to get stuck in the cracks of the rocks when chasing them."
Xu Nian: ...
This sentence sounded like something from experience. Xu Nian glanced at Los secretly, wondering if Los had fallen into a crevice in the rocks while hunting and got stuck, so he knew it so clearly.
Luo Si only glanced at him and immediately understood what Xu Nian meant. His tail was raised high, almost like his fur was about to explode. He said angrily: "It's not me! It's Luo Yin. It got stuck in the pit. Stupid."
Xu Nian nodded hurriedly, quickly offering the snow leopard emotional value. Sure enough, he saw Luo Si's tail wagging gently. It was obvious that Xu Nian's gesture had coaxed it. It lowered its head and licked its paws, then said, "When we were little, my mother taught Luo Yin and me to hunt. That useless snow leopard actually fell into a rock crevice while chasing a marmot. If my mother hadn't picked it out later... hehe."
The last interjection of Los expressed its meaning vividly. Xu Nian praised obediently: "Los is indeed the most powerful snow leopard."
Los didn't agree with Xu Nian's words, but he raised his tail high and accepted the compliment.
Los would never tell Xu Nian that it was not just Luo Yin who fell into a crevice in the rocks while chasing a marmot, and so later hated eating marmots.
Los himself fell off a mountain wall while chasing a plateau rabbit and almost broke his spine, so he later hated plateau rabbits.
But unfortunately, Xu Nian had the highest success rate in hunting rabbits.
"Let's go." Ross said, "Get ready to go back."
As it spoke, it lowered its head and took out a marmot from behind the rock under its claws, then walked ahead. The moment Xu Nian saw the marmot, he was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise: "You caught a marmot?"
Los turned to look at him, tilted his head slightly, and asked, "Of course, the one that escaped was the second one. The one I killed cried out before it died, alerting the other marmots. Otherwise, where would they think they could hide?"
If the marmot in his mouth had not been such a nuisance that it actually cried out, Los would not have caught only one. He lowered his eyes and glanced at the marmot hiding in the cave, remembering this place.
Where there are marmots, other snow leopards will be attracted, but Luo Yin hates marmots, so he will not come here. In Los's opinion, this is the perfect place to teach Xu Nian hunting.
As they returned to their nest one after another, Los suddenly stopped on the road, turned his head and sniffed gently, then put down the marmot in Xu Nian's puzzled gaze and signaled Xu Nian to hold the marmot in his mouth.
Xu Nian immediately understood and walked forward to hold the marmot in his mouth. Then he saw Los suddenly turn around, lower his body, and let out a warning growl towards a rock.
The rock was not small, and Xu Nian immediately became alert. He tensed his back and stared at the rock.
"Why don't you get out of here? Do you want to fight me?" Los let out two low growls, and then took a step and slowly approached the rock, as if he was ready to fight if they had a disagreement.
When it comes to fighting, Los has never been defeated, at least before Xu Nian appeared.
The snow leopard hiding behind the rock thought for a moment, and seeing that Los was coming towards them, it gritted its teeth, turned around and ran away without even having the courage to face Los.
Only then did Xu Nian realize that the person hiding behind the rock was not Kaie, but a strange snow leopard. The leopard seemed to be injured. After escaping, Xu Nian found a series of dripping blood on the snow, extending all the way along the direction of the snow leopard's escape.
Judging from the situation, he was seriously injured.
"I thought it was just you, me and Kaie here." Xu Nian said. He still sniffed out of habit, although he could no longer smell anything.
It's funny, when he just became a snow leopard, he was not used to smelling at all, but after being a snow leopard for a month, he had become accustomed to sniffing a place first. Now he can't smell anything, at best he has just returned to the starting point, but he is already a little uncomfortable.
"It was like this before, but now there are no prey in many places, so other snow leopards can't find prey and will migrate here." Los said: "After the blizzard, there will be no food here either, and we will have to go further away."
Generally, snow leopards will move with their prey, but there are a lot of prey in the territory chosen by Los, so it has no need to move its territory before. But if it really comes to that, in order to survive, it will have to move to another place.
"Don't worry." Seeing Xu Nian didn't say anything, Los thought Xu Nian was worried that he wouldn't take him with him, so he simply leaned over and licked Xu Nian's cheek, gently nuzzling him, and said, "I'll take you wherever I go."
Xu Nian nodded. Apart from nodding, he really didn't dare to have any other reaction, for fear that the emotionally unstable snow leopard would get angry again.
It snowed a little yesterday and it cleared up this morning, but it started to get cloudy in the afternoon. After a while, the light snow turned into heavy snow, and large flakes of snow as big as goose feathers fell on Xu Nian.
The patterns on these snow leopards are unique, and no two snow leopards are exactly the same. There is actually a little bit of black hair on the top of the white base fur, but it is not conspicuous.
After bringing the hunted marmots back to their nest, Xu Nian and Los ate them all up, and then Xu Nian lay comfortably on the ground. According to Los, this was to keep consumption as low as possible.
When he rolls on the ground a few times, he likes to rub his back, exposing his soft belly, and hooking his big furry paws. The big furry tail, which is almost as long as his body, is like a big feather duster at this time, sweeping out two small piles of snow on the ground.
The newly fallen heavy snow is always very soft and comfortable to step on, not to mention rolling around on it.
"...It's up to you." Los stared at Xu Nian's actions for a long time, then gently shook his tail and said this nonsense. Xu Nian was a little puzzled and looked up at him.
But Los was already half-lying there resting, his eyes slightly half-closed, but his ears were still erect, proving that Los was not soundly asleep.
Xu Nian always slept more comfortably when Los was around. He moved closer to Los and whispered, "Why don't you take a nap? I'll watch over you. I can do it."
Ross opened his eyes, lowered his head and moved closer to Xu Nian, looking down at him for a long time before slowly saying, "Okay."
It stood up from its half-lying position, moved to their nest, and then lay down to rest. As soon as it lay down, it subconsciously moved its nose slightly and could smell the scent belonging to Xu Nian.
Snow leopards usually leave their scent in their territory to warn other snow leopards.
This breath contains information about the snow leopard, including who the snow leopard is, how old it is, its gender, and even whether it is powerful.
But Xu Nian didn't know, no one had taught him, so he could only simply identify whose breath it was, and now he couldn't smell anything at all.
Los sniffed Xu Nian's scent. Because Xu Nian had just rolled around several times, his scent was everywhere. If it was another snow leopard's scent, Los would be really annoyed, but Xu Nian's...
Los felt that Xu Nian's smell seemed different from that of other snow leopards and was much better.
It was half-lying on the ground, unable to fall asleep. It began to wonder if there was something wrong with it. Otherwise, why did the image of Xu Nian looking at it obediently instantly appear in its mind when it smelled Xu Nian's scent?
Ross let out a long sigh.
"What's wrong?" Xu Nian was strolling around. When he heard the voice, he immediately came over. He put his furry face in front of Los and asked, "Are you looking for me?"
The image of Xu Nian in his mind overlapped with the well-behaved and curious look of Xu Nian in front of him, and Los really began to doubt himself.
"Today..." Los climbed out of the nest, thought for a moment, and said, "We'll sleep separately."
Xu Nian was stunned for a moment. He hadn't thought of this, but since Los mentioned it, he had no reason to object. He nodded decisively and said, "Okay, then I'll find a place to sleep."
After saying that, he turned around and picked up his tail, ready to find a place to stay, but Los was one step faster than him, walked in front of Xu Nian, and said, "You sleep here, I'll go somewhere else."
"Oh...oh, okay." Xu Nian nodded blankly.
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