Chapter 179: Jackal
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Nature is truly magical, and sunlight is like nature's hand, with magical powers. Just now, it was a dark and terrifying area like a demon world, but at this time, it was actually colorful, and under the sunlight, the cave showed a gorgeous Ambilight.
Blue, green, purple, yellow...... Stalactites in the sunlight, showing their original color, next to the water source, is a natural mirror, their brilliance to ten times a hundred times magnified, exaggerated, as if the entire cave, have become colorful.
The countless beasts in the dark forest, with inexplicable roars, seemed to welcome the sunlight that rarely appeared. Overcoming their fears, they ran out of the depths of the forest one by one, standing in the sunshine, screaming excitedly.
Of course, danger is everywhere, and one day carnivores, waiting for an opportunity to come out to feed, and the little beasts standing in the sun are exactly what they are targeting. For a while, a faint smell of blood also wafted out.
"Let's go, take advantage of the sunshine, and get to the cabin halfway up the mountain. Li Qingyun shouted, picked up Michelle, who was admiring the wonders of the cave, and ran on the path.
At this time, the light was better than their torches and searchlights combined, and they could see not only the thick foliage on the ground, but also the dry bones and animal droppings of many small animals.
From this, it can be deduced that this huge underground cave should have formed its own unique small ecological environment, and I don't know if the balance is unbalanced, but as long as there are enough small beasts, there should be no shortage of large carnivores standing at the top of the food chain.
A clouded leopard with colorful patterns poked its head out from behind the treetops and jumped to the place where Li Qingyun had just stood. Sniffed, and let out a low moan. It's kind of like a cat meow.
Although the clouded leopard is also stained with the word "leopard", it is different from the leopard, it belongs to small and medium-sized carnivores, only twenty or thirty kilograms, and its body length is only about one meter, which is quite different from the real leopard. Its tail is almost as long as its body, and it hides in trees, making it almost impossible to see them.
Take Li Qingyun's eyesight and hearing. There was no hiding place for it just now.
The clouded leopard only stayed on the ground for a moment before jumping up the branches of the tree as it heard a group of monkeys approaching from a distance. A playful little monkey landed on the branch where the clouded leopard was hiding, and before it could react, it was pounced on by the clouded leopard, bit its head, and disappeared into the depths of the woods in a blink of an eye.
The other monkeys screamed loudly. Slapping the branches and branches vigorously, trying to chase the clouded leopard, its shadow has long been gone.
Li Qingyun didn't know what was going on after his death, because there were still many dangers in front of him, and there were always fights on this path, but the depths of the forest were even more dangerous.
He didn't know how long the sun above his head would last. Before the sun faded, he had to reach the hut halfway up the mountain in the middle of the cave.
A white wild horse ran out of the depths of the forest curiously, followed behind Li Qingyun and Michelle, and made a loud "stampede" sound. Seeing Li Qingyun turn around. Instead of relenting, the wild horses felt a sense of pride. There was even some hissing.
These horses are very miraculous, with huge skeletons, like Tibetan horses, and in ancient times, they have been used as war horses. Because in the records of Sichuan and Shu, there is no wild horse herd in the local area, let alone such a tall wild horse. Farther afield, the wild horses produced are relatively small and too far from here.
Li Qingyun glanced at this wild horse in surprise, he didn't know what kind of nerves this thing was, and he actually followed behind him. However, it is impossible for a single wild horse to survive here, and there should be a herd of wild horses to survive.
Sure enough, a majestic and loud wild horse neighed in the depths of the forest, and the lively and naughty white wild horse was stunned for a moment, unwilling to raise its two front legs, and also neighed, turned around, but rushed into the depths of the forest.
Well, even the almost impossible herd of wild horses has appeared, Li Qingyun feels that this underground cave must not be small, and the age of formation is not something he can study. Even if a few tigers appeared, he would not be surprised.
Under the protection of a shotgun, repel the attacks of several ferocious beasts like wolf cubs, and before they form an encirclement shì, they descend to the bottom of the steep hill where the wooden house is located.
When he arrived here, Li Qingyun took a breath, thinking about the group of vicious beasts that he didn't know how many he had just now, and felt that he was more like the legendary jackal, which has rarely been seen in recent years, and is now listed as a national second-class protected animal.
The jackal, also known as the jackal, the red-haired dog, the red-haired wolf, is similar in appearance to the dog and the wolf, the body size is smaller than the wolf, the body length is about one meter, and the weight is about twenty kilograms. The jackal's mouth is square, its temperament is very fierce, and it likes to live in groups, but it failed to form a circle just now, probably because the members of the group did not come, so Li Qingyun escaped by luck.
Jackals are not only ferocious, but also very bold, and are feared by all animals they encounter. Usually very silent and alert, but when hunting, it can make a summoning howl. Hunting is mostly done in the early morning and dusk, and sometimes during the day. He is good at chasing prey, and often hunts by siege.
They are very agile and good at jumping, they can jump more than three meters away on the spot, with the help of fast running, they can jump over five or six meters wide trenches, and they can also jump over obstacles such as rock walls and low walls more than three meters high, and their flexibility is better than that of lions, tigers, bears, wolves and other fierce beasts, and is close to the most flexible lynx and clouded leopard in the feline.
There were only three or five jackals I saw just now, and because of their extreme speed, they were shuttling behind the trees and screaming, and with Li Qingyun's eyesight, he didn't count how many there were. Michelle fired a few shots decisively, startling the one chasing in front, as if she had injured her leg, and screamed miserably, and the chase slowed down.
"Oh, I'm tired...... What the hell are those damn wolf-like beasts just now?How do they look a bit like jackals?" Standing on the hillside below the wooden house, Michelle held on to an unknown tree next to her, gasping for breath in horror.
"Don't doubt it, it's jackals! I haven't seen them in the local area for years, so I didn't expect to see them in this underground cave. Li Qingyun replied, but he was observing the steep hill in front of him.
This hillside is very steep, almost close to 7o degrees, but there are traces of artificial excavation on the hillside, not deep, every other step, there is a foot of more than ten centimeters, like a ladder, leading to the top of the mountain.
There are not only countless stalactites in this underground cave, but also more than a dozen small hills, this hillside is closer to the edge of a corner, I wonder if the person who dug this path in the first place, did he want to escape from the gap at the top of this small hill?
As he was talking, he suddenly heard a terrible cry from the forest behind him, like a wolf's howl, but it was a little sharp and high-pitched, and a brownish-red jackal head larger than an ordinary jackal appeared behind a tree on the side of the road. Behind it, more than a dozen ordinary jackals of various sizes emerged.
The jackal head, also known as the jackal king, is the leader of a group of jackals, not only stronger than ordinary jackals, but also slightly better in intelligence. If the Jackal King appears, it means that all the combatable members of the group have been gathered.
Li Qingyun had a headache, encountering these jackals was really more terrible than encountering a pack of wolves. I heard the old hunter in the village say that jackals can kill tigers after thirty, don't look at them small, as long as there are enough of them, the whole group can stand at the top of the food chain.
Li Qingyun had watched a foreign video before, a group of jackals actually killed and ate an elephant, that scene was really shocking, and he remembered it vividly. It's just that those jackals are a little different from the local jackals, and he didn't remember it for a while.
"Oh my God, they're chasing after me. Michelle remembered the wolf's temperament and characteristics, and was very nervous.
"You climb up first, and I'll come to the back of the temple. With that, he took Michelle's shotgun and aimed it at the jackal.
"Well, be careful, if they don't attack, don't shoot, you have to save bullets, and it takes time to reload them. Michelle didn't waste any time, and as she spoke, she had already begun to climb.
She knew that ordinary jackals could easily jump to a height of three or four meters, and she had to climb higher to be relatively safe. However, the hill is too steep, and there are some slippery water beads that seep out of nowhere, and they are always attached to the grooves of the hillside, making it very difficult to climb.
Li Qingyun held the gun, very calm, not as nervous as Michelle imagined. Of course, Michelle didn't know, and he was wondering if he wanted to summon the Golden Python to help in the fight. With the huge size of the golden python, it should be able to swallow a few ordinary jackals in a row.
But after thinking about it, Li Qingyun thought that if the golden python was summoned, it might scare Michelle to death...... If the situation is really dangerous, it is better to use the power of the small space to collect all the jackals that pounce into the small space, and in the small space, tie them one by one to the sun stone to dry the oil.
The jackal king saw that the human beings actually began to climb upwards, a little anxious, it ran out and walked around, and returned to the back of the tree, and screamed sharply, and suddenly more than ten brown-red jackals jumped out, extremely fast, jumped one by one, like the wind, and approached a hundred meters in a blink of an eye.
Li Qingyun's marksmanship is not as good as Michelle's, but after shooting indiscriminately at the jackals, it is difficult to miss. With a few "whoops", two jackals fell, blood gushed out of their bodies, and their cries gradually weakened, and finally they could only whine and hiss.
The sound of gunfire echoed in the huge cavern, startling the first few jackals, who were known for their ferocity, and stopped halfway through.
The jackals, hiding behind the trees, roared angrily, urging them to continue their attack. At this time, the jackals seemed to have forgotten their fears and dangers, and rushed forward in a swarm.
Li Qingyun's bullets had already run out, and he didn't stop at all, as soon as he turned around, he jumped on the groove of the hillside, using his hands and feet at the same time, and in a few seconds, he climbed to a height of more than ten meters, and had already chased behind Michelle's buttocks.
The jackals that ran the fastest had already chased to the side of the hillside, and jumped up, and their sharp claws could actually climb four or five meters with them, before they used up their momentum and couldn't climb such a steep stone slope, and they slipped down unwillingly.