Volume 2 Southern Xinjiang Gunsmoke Chapter 063 The Fallen Elephant Mother and Son
Seven days later, Hong Yan was running through the dense forest when he suddenly heard a rapid and terrible elephant chirping. He followed the sound as he went, but when he arrived, he was stunned by what he saw. A baby elephant is entwined by a giant black and green snake and is making its final struggle. An anxious adult female elephant let out an angry roar and curled the serpent with a proboscis in vain. The bucket-thick giant snake, which should be called a giant python or a forest snake, wrapped around the baby elephant three or four times, and the body was at least ten meters long.
The head of the snake shakes with the elephant's proboscis of the elephant.
Hong Yan was quite surprised: he couldn't swallow the baby elephant, why did the snake attack it? And the female elephant is faltering, crumbling, and could fall at any moment. If you look closely, it turns out that the female elephant's right front ankle bone is covered with a huge ring-shaped toothed trap, and the ankle epidermis has rotted. Do the forest beetles bully the weak?
Elephants are social animals. Only adult male elephants leave the herd, while female and juvenile calves are unlikely to survive when they leave the herd. At least within a kilometer, there is no cluster of occurrence phenomena in the flood rock. The last elephant herd was already the day before yesterday, which means that it is at least a hundred kilometers away from here.
The Asian elephant is the largest surviving animal on the Asian continent and the second largest continental animal in the world today after the African elephant. The mother is tall, at least 2.8 meters tall. Elephants are large but docile and do not actively attack humans or other animals. However, they have acts of self-defense and retaliation against provocations that destroy their living environment, harm their own kind, and offend their dignity.
Hong Yan looked at this pair of mother and son in distress, and his heart shook. The mother and son in distress lived in the African savannah, only to be afraid that they would be followed by a group of lions or mustache dogs. Anyway, there are no wolves here, otherwise, they are about to fall into the belly of the wolves.
In his previous life, Hong Yan accompanied his daughter to watch the animal world elephant album, one of which was that the elephant's mother died, and the short and weak baby elephant kept trying in vain to push the mother up, and finally fell to the ground tired. At that time, her daughter was crying, and Hong Yan also accompanied her daughter to cry. That scene will forever be imprinted in Hong Yan's mind, who knows, another tragedy is about to happen.
If you don't see it, it's just that!
The baby elephant is struggling, and its strength is getting smaller and smaller; The mother elephant was screaming, and there seemed to be a shiny liquid sliding from the corners of her eyes. Human nature, kill the forest python and save the elephant mother and child. It would be best if the forest worm gave up on his own.
The intrusion of the uninvited guest aroused the vigilance of the forest snake. Its cold and ruthless eyes were fixed on Hong Yan, and the snake letter stretched and contracted. The mother elephant also noticed Hong Yan's existence, just glanced at him, and continued to roll the forest snake in vain.
Hongyan lightly verticalized, spanned more than ten meters, and fell outside the ten-meter circle of the forest dragon. The forest snake was startled, and its head suddenly moved forward about a meter before retracting. Hong Yan stared at its eyes and moved left and right. The head of the snake turned. The dagger suddenly appeared, and the forest python sensed the danger and immediately let go of its tail, let go of the baby elephant, and swam towards Hongyan.
The baby elephant fell silently to the ground. The mother elephant screamed and pushed it with her nose, trying to get it to its feet.
Hong Yan waved his left hand at the snake and motioned for it to go. But where could the forest snake understand, about five meters away from him, no longer swimming to confront him. The snake letter retracted, bursts of fishy breath, and the middle man wanted to vomit. Hong Yan is very helpless, and if you want to die, you will be fulfilled.
Hong Yan quickly flashed to the left, and immediately flashed back halfway. The head of the forest snake shot to the left like an arrow from the string, and the distance of five meters was just a flash. Behemoths are extremely flexible. It's just a big snake, not a snake demon who has practiced for thousands of years. Hong Yan just made a little trick to fool it, and then swung his sword at the snake's head. Sensing the danger, the snake's head sank, and its long tail swung towards Hongyan.
It's a pity that the idea of the forest snake is good. Where can its speed be compared to Hongyan. The head of the snake sank, but it was broken by the neck, and it could not get up again. The stout snake body was still writhing. Hong Yan's short sword cut open the snake's belly, took out a huge snake gall, which was ten centimeters in size, and threw it into a jar of wine.
Peel off a piece of snakeskin intact while hot. It's a big one, and it's definitely a good skin. After half an hour of recovery, the baby elephant had recovered and was still unable to stand up on the ground. Hong Yan took out a bottle of rapid recovery liquid and poured it into the mouth of the baby elephant under the gaze of the mother elephant.
Greens, emerald green corn stalks, bananas, and large buckets are laid out, and baby elephant trunks are rolled up and slowly fed into their mouths. Then the mother elephant also ate greedily. The baby elephant learned from its mother to stick its little nose into the big bucket and drank a few sips.
Hong Yan observed elephants drinking water up close for the first time. Elephants do drink from their noses. However, I was surprised to see this image from TV for the first time, and if I drink water through my nose, won't the water choke into my lungs? Later, I checked the animal encyclopedia and found out that there is a special cartilage behind the elephant's nasal cavity and above the esophagus, which acts as a "valve". As when water is absorbed, the muscles in the throat contract, the "valve" closes, and the water can enter the esophagus without entering the trachea. After drinking water, the residual water in the nose is sprayed, and at this time, the "valve" automatically opens, and the breathing is carried out normally.
The baby elephant also learned that after his mother drank the water, the mother elephant sucked up the remaining water and gave him a shower. Drink enough water, like a mother showing a brief comfortable look.
After eating the corn stalks, the mother elephant took the baby elephant close to Hong Yan, sniffed it all over his body with her nose, and then raised her head and chirped. The baby elephant then tried to sniff the flood rock. The elephant's trunk is a vital organ as well as a weapon. They often have their long snouts pricked up and swing in the air, allowing them to sniff scents hundreds of meters away or more. It can also determine whether there is danger or not, and if it realizes that it is in danger, it will either flee against the wind or rush and fight to the death.
Hong Yan restrained his breath and stretched out his little hand to touch the rough nose of the elephant mother and her stubby ivory tusks—not the long, large white that I had seen on TV in my previous life—only male Asian elephants would have grown tusks, and then tried to reach ears bigger than a fan. He touched the baby elephant again. The baby elephant seems to like it. It is said to be touched, but in fact, there is a thin layer of true qi between the palm of the hand and the elephant. It is said that baby elephants are tainted with human breath and will be abandoned by the herd.
Hong Yan pointed to her ankle and gestured to break it open. Hong Yan didn't expect his mother to understand what he meant. However, Mother Elephant did stop and lift her right leg. It's as smart as the legend says! Hong Yan was pleasantly surprised.
Hong Yan gently patted his mother's ear, pointed to her ankle again, and pulled up a few dead grasses to drive away the flies. Then he crouched down and clicked on the iron clip. The wound smelled of decay and was disgusting. Hong Yan held his breath, and the broken blade that appeared in his hand flashed through the trap.
The clever elephant mother cooperated with the lifting of her feet, and Hong Yan removed the trap that had been broken stuck in the flesh. He lifted the beast and shook it in front of the elephant mother, and threw it far away. Then, a large glass of pale golden rapid recovery liquid appeared in his hand, pointing at the elephant mother's mouth and making an open shape. After doing this a few times, the mother elephant opened her mouth, and Hong Yan quickly poured the liquid into the elephant's throat.
Next, it's time to deal with the ankle injury. The wound of the animal clamp is deep to the bone, and if the sores are not clear, it may have to affect life due to severe inflammation leading to sepsis. Although the rapid recovery solution can speed up the recovery of the wound, if the source of the disease is not eliminated, it may eventually become serious.
The baby elephant is not a good baby, just got out of the python's mouth, recovered a little, and touched the mother from time to time with his little nose. Like a mother stretched out her nose to touch Hong Yan, and looked up to the sky and let out a long scream, as if thanking! Then he stretched out his nose and wanted to move forward. Hong Yan got up and smiled and patted her long nose. Then, several bottles of Yunnan Baiyao appeared in her hand and pointed at her ankles. Mother Xiang really settled down.
Hong Yan pulled out the weeds around the sole of his right forefoot, then took out a large basin of water and quickly cleaned the wound. The pain was much lighter than before. He didn't dare to use alcohol for fear of irritating the elephants. After cleaning, Hong Yan put several bottles of white medicine into the wound. There is no need to worry about the powder falling off at all for the huge wound. Finally, put a circle of gauze to avoid being scraped off by wild grass leaves.
Hong Yan actually noticed that his mother's eyes were moist when she looked at him. He wondered if it was an illusion that his mother would have such a rich and delicate expression of feelings. She let out a soft cry and pushed the baby elephant with her nose. This time the baby elephant finally stood up, but staggered. The elephant mother proboscis rolled around Hong Yan's waist and placed around her neck. Hong Yan moved back to her back and patted her gently to express his gratitude.
One man and two elephants are on the road again. Mother Elephant's footsteps were much easier and faster, as if she was chasing the herd of elephants in front of herd. Yes, it could be an elephant herd. The dense and heavy footprints, the destroyed rotten leaves, and the large pieces of eaten stumps and broken leaves are the proof. Elephant's mother was left behind because of her slow steps. However, the baby elephant has just left the tiger's mouth, where can it go fast. However, with plenty of food and the quick recovery fluid provided by Hongyan, the baby elephant could barely keep up.
In the evening, they still did not catch up with the elephant herd. Generally speaking, during the hot season, the elephant herd rests during the day and comes out to forage at night. But not necessarily this season. Mother and son, who had been on the road for most of the day, were tired, but their ankles didn't seem to get worse. Hong Yan jumped off his mother's thick back and motioned for her to stop.
Remove the tattered gauze for the elephant's mother, wash the wound with alcohol this time, and reapply the medicine. It rained lightly at night, but the mother elephant continued to move forward with the baby elephant after eating and drinking. No, it's a lot slower. The elephant's mother was still very stable under her feet, and she did not touch the trunk branches. Hong Yan didn't know how they could see in the dark.
Suddenly, Mother Elephant slowed down, sniffed hard, and then, warily, glanced up at the forest in the night. She arched the baby elephant, and the baby elephant looked down and sniffed. Hong Yan knew that the mother elephant must have sensed the breath of a dangerous creature, and at the same time taught the baby elephant to distinguish the smell and remember the danger.
The peculiar breath left by the animals divides the territory. Animals can smell it, but humans can't smell it. He also didn't feel the presence of large animals within a kilometer of his surroundings. In addition to elephants and wild boars, there is a very fierce animal in the primeval forests of Indochina, and that is the tiger.
Unlike China, which can only be seen in zoos in later generations, there are still a large number of tigers living in the forests of South Asia and Southeast Asia. In this inaccessible primeval forest, there is a considerable chance of tigers. However, Hong Yan really hasn't met him along the way.
The baby elephant got closer, and the mother elephant continued to move on, though at regular intervals she would let out a long chirping. I don't know if it's to intimidate or summon companions.
An hour later, Hong Yan finally sensed a large animal and two much smaller animals sneaking up the mountain. Dizzy, finally met. One big, two small, three tigers. According to the habits of tigers, this is a tiger mother and her tiger cubs foraging for food.
The elephant mother will stagger the direction of the three tigers within 500 meters. When she got closer, the mother elephant, sensing the danger, screamed vigilantly and issued a threat. The tiger mother did not show weakness, and also let out a long howl. However, the two mothers were undisturbed. Each of them walked away according to the established route.
Tigers are large mammals with a keen sense of hearing, smell, and force, and they hunt at night. Tigers are very territorial, but they are still self-aware of behemoths like elephants. Even the most ferocious African lions will not provoke the elephant herd. Of course, lonely sick signs and baby elephants are a different matter.
Although the tiger is precious, Hong Yan also has the ability to capture it, but he will not take the initiative to attack.