Half a month later.
The wounds on Chu Xiaoye's body were finally completely healed.
At the same time, he discovered that a very special hair had grown on the healed wound on his neck near his shoulder.
This hair is different. It is not the brown or yellow color found on lions, but a real golden color.
In the sun, full of luster.
It is quite similar to the golden touch on the tip of the right claw.
However, this hair was very short and was buried among other hairs. No one could see it except him.
He felt that the heat in his body was still transforming his body.
Although the speed is very slow, the effect is obvious.
His right claw was now sharper and as hard as iron, and he could grasp into the tree trunk effortlessly.
The body seems to have become lighter, but the weight is still increasing.
The last few days.
The color of his feces was no longer as dark as before, and seemed to be returning to the color of normal feces.
As for farts, they still stink.
Maya also recovered with his help.
The dry season has officially arrived.
There are no traces of herbivores on the yellow and dry grasslands.
In the shrubbery behind, the number of small herbivores is also declining.
During the day, only some giraffes and elephants can be seen, using their tall bodies to look for buds on the branches of shrubs.
Leng's father's pride of lions has not eaten for three days.
For adult lions who have experienced many dry seasons, this is nothing. Even being hungry for a week is common.
However, this is not possible for the current Lengfu lion group.
The young lion cannot last long.
Moreover, Maya is pregnant.
And Kelly is about to give birth.
What's more, their current situation is very dangerous.
Next door, there are the Senor lions who are eyeing them, and there are wandering male lions who covet the lioness and their territory.
If Leng's father continues to suffer from hunger, he will not be able to protect them.
So, today, under the leadership of Aisha, the lions decided to go hunting together.
Their target is the giraffe.
Although giraffes look docile, they raise their necks all day long and only eat young leaves on the branches. They look cute and weak, but in fact, they are strong and brave. They are extremely lethal to lionesses and male lions!
They are huge in size, and both their forelimbs and hind limbs are powerful. When they run, their hooves fly like flying, and they can even break a lion's bones directly.
Generally, only the hind legs of hoofed animals can attack a lion. However, both their front legs and hind legs can be raised high to attack the enemy fiercely. With just one hoof, the lion may be kicked so hard that it cannot get up.
Chu Xiaoye once saw in the records that a group of hungry lions, led by a male lion, went to hunt giraffes.
As a result, several lionesses were knocked out by the giraffe as soon as they pounced on them. The male lion was kicked directly by the giraffe's hoof and his mouth was full of blood. He rolled over and couldn't get up for a long time.
This shows how terrifying this tall herbivore is!
Therefore, lions rarely hunt animals like giraffes unless absolutely necessary.
As for the elephant, it is even more terrifying.
But today, the Leng father lion group decided to take a desperate risk and hunt giraffes.
The amount of meat from one giraffe is enough to feed the lions for several days, and they will be fine without eating for half a month.
Kelly was about to give birth and she needed to eat.
Aisha led the lions, left the camp, and walked into the bushes behind.
Chu Xiaoye followed the lioness with Little Curly Tail and Meimei.
Father Leng and Lal walked at the back.
Father Leng's mane is lush, so when hunting, he must not move first to avoid alerting his prey.
And Lal, since he saw the tragic death of the stray lion that night, he became even more awed and flattered by his father.
Father Leng's attitude towards him was still very cold.
Lal will be two years old in more than a month, and some sparse manes have begun to grow on his neck. Although it is not obvious yet, it can attract the attention of male lions and lionesses.
Especially every time when there is a shortage of food, he wolfs it down extremely fiercely and domineeringly.
Catherine didn't seem to follow.
The pride of lions will not let a foreign lion cub follow them when hunting or eating.
Father Leng and Lal both hate her.
During the half-month period when Chu Xiaoye was recovering from his injuries, Catherine would go into the bushes to hunt at night.
Failed many times, but finally succeeded several times.
Finally didn't starve to death.
She put Chu Xiaoye's hunting skills and methods into practice and became more and more proficient.
Especially hiding in trees and jumping on prey from trees.
However, unpleasant things always happen.
That night, when she jumped down from the tree and bit a hare, a small leopard suddenly ran out of the bushes nearby, bared its fangs at her, and tried to rob her of the hare. .
Of course she's not afraid!
It's just a little leopard, even smaller than her!
She immediately killed the hare and raised her head, ready to teach the little leopard a lesson.
However, an adult female leopard walked out of the bush.
She slipped away immediately.
So angry!
The prey that you worked so hard to capture was snatched away!
That hateful little leopard was still shouting "ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" behind her, looking triumphant and gloating about her misfortune.
Fortunately, the female leopard did not chase and attack her.
Recently, there have been fewer and fewer prey in the bushes.
The entire pride eats so much that the lionesses ambush their prey in the bushes, day or night.
So, she hasn't eaten for four days.
She is so hungry.
When the Leng father lion group left the camp.
Catherine climbed up the baobab tree, walked to a branch hanging from the storage room, hesitated, and grabbed a piece of warthog without thighs from it.
This warthog has been skinned and dried, and has no sweet or savory flavor.
As for the warthog's lost thigh, after he bit it a few times that night, he threw it away luxuriously, and then entered her stomach, saving her life.
The storage room was filled with other prey, many of which had no legs.
Looking at these prey with missing thighs, Catherine's eyes were as gentle as water.
Very hungry.
She put the warthog back down, and then lay down on the branch where he usually lay, dazed.
She couldn't steal his food.
Tonight, she will hunt again.
At this time.
A huge mosquito with patterns all over its body flew over and landed on her back.
The sharp mouthpart, like a syringe needle, passed through her hair silently and penetrated her flesh.
"Snapped!"
Catherine's tail whipped up hard!
Didn't win.
The mosquito flew away to a place in the distance that was more humid and more densely populated.
dozens of kilometers away.
A rhinoceros fell in a pool of blood, with a terrible bloody hole on its head.
Rhino horns, gone.
further away.
A male lion patrolling its territory had its head cut off.
Even those majestic manes were missing.
Only half of the headless body with bloody flesh was left, lying quietly in a pool of blood, with a trace of warmth still remaining.
The mosquitoes continue to fly.
(End of chapter)