Chapter 157: Cruelty
Looking out into the river from where Catherine was standing, it was obvious that in the clear waters of the Tanatos River, there was a leopard with a brown and yellow body swimming leisurely, its fur was brown and yellow, covered with pale black black spots, making it look like an ordinary leopard, and this leopard had a groove on each side of his cheek, indicating that it was a male leopard. There is a handful of bulging hair on the groove, which is puffing outward with its breathing, making its expression look like it is smiling, and people feel that this leopard has a gentle temperament.
But Catherine, who has been dealing with felines for a long time, knows that the leopard's 'smile' actually means that they are very hungry, and the more obvious the groove of the smile, the more like the 'dimple' leopard, the longer the hunger will be! In the wilderness, if you see a leopard smiling at you, like a beautiful woman, then you have to be careful, it means that it has taken you as its prey!
However, at this time, the leopard smiled a little strangely, it was actually smiling at the bottom of the Tanatos River, could it be that there is still its prey in this river?
Ling Mo casually glanced at the leopard, moved a step slightly, blocked Catherine and Wayne behind him, and explained: "I didn't expect that so soon, we will see the first strange creature in the Warcraft Rainforest, and the leopard in front of us is a close relative of the sixth-level Warcraft 'Flash Leopard', whose name is 'Impreza'. β
Wayne rolled his eyes and said, "Master, don't you want to be deceived again, do you?" The Impreza has a pair of huge wings with a wingspan of four meters, and its speed in the air is almost comparable to that of an albatross.
Ling Mo smiled, pointed to the impreza in front of him, and said, "Take a closer look at the ribs of this leopard, and see that bulge that is almost the size of three palms? β
Wayne and Catherine's eyes widened, and it took them a long time to see that under the cover of the leopard's black spotted fur, there was a piece of 'wings' with the same camouflage color!
Catherine muttered, "It's not so much that these two things are wings, but rather that these are fins, right?"
"You're really right, the Impreza along the Tanatos River, their wings do have the function of fins!" Ling Mo nodded in approval, " Whenever the rainy season in the rainforest comes, every river in the rainforest will rise, especially the low-lying terrain along the Tanatos River, before the rainy season is halfway through, it will become an ocean, although the imparta has wings, but its bones are solid after all, and its weight is much heavier than that of birds, it is impossible to stay in the air for a long time, and must force itself to forage in the water, so this adaptive evolution is completed. β
Wayne's face was a little strange, she gestured and asked, "Master, do you mean to say that this leopard's staple food is fish?"
"Not really," Ling Mo denied Wayne's speculation, "although it has adapted to life in the water, it still swims far inferior to fish in the water, and its success rate is too low, so its staple food is turtles in the river, as well as crocodiles." β
"Turtle?crocodile?!"
Catherine never imagined that in her impression, the leopard, which had always been famous for its galloping speed, as if it was chasing prey such as sheep and deer every day, would actually switch to eating turtles! (This is not the author's fabrication, the leopard staple food in the lower reaches of the river in the rainforest is indeed turtles and crocodiles.) οΌ
"But, but...... I'm not surprised to catch a tortoise, but how does it eat? Are its claws harder than a tortoise's shell?" asked Catherine curiously.
Ling Mo motioned for her to shut up for the time being, and took her and Wayne cautiously towards the bank of the Tanatos River, the leopard swimming on the river gave them a cold look, and raised its neck slightly as a warning, but it may not have any experience in fighting with humans, so it did not make any drastic movements. The three of them took a few more steps closer, and finally could fully see that the leopard that was constantly swimming diagonally was a huge turtle resting!
Through the clear river water, you can clearly see the mysterious lines on its carapace, which is dark green, and although it is resting on a stone at the bottom of the river, its limbs and head are half-shrunk and exposed, and its fin-like forelimbs have already been angled, and as long as there is the slightest wind and grass, it will stroke hard! Don't look at the turtle's slow movements on the shore, as long as it is in the water, its explosive power is not inferior to most fish!
This turtle actually knew that the impreza was on its head, but it was not afraid at all, now the distance between the two sides was too far, it was 100% sure that it would escape when the leopard got into the water!
It's over!
It screamed in its heart, and its two hind limbs kicked violently on the rocks lying on its stomach, and at the same time, the two forelimbs slashed backwards with all their might, and at the same time the huge turtle body shot out, its tail swayed quickly like the tail of the most flexible puppy, chopping the waves, and making it start this time out of the afterimage!
However, it was still too late! The moment the turtle's neck twisted, the impreza had already started, and the two 'fins' on the limbs and ribs were opened wide, and at the same time quickly fanned, from the surface of the water to the bottom of the water, after drawing a graceful trajectory, the big mouth full of sharp teeth had already bitten hard on the turtle shell! The huge force of the tortoise's forward stroke took it forward, but in the end it could not get rid of its sharp teeth, and the turtle saw that it could not do anything, and did not continue to exert force, and directly put its head, tail, All the limbs were retracted into the shell, and a few pieces of bone blocked the hole, making it a veritable 'shrunken turtle'.
The two hind legs of the imparted leopard kicked at the bottom of the river, and it quickly rushed to the surface of the river, swam a few times and went ashore, and soon, Catherine knew how the leopard was going to eat the tortoise, it shook its fur very casually on the shore, and between the water droplets, its whole body became dry in less than two seconds, and then its ridiculous wings like fish fins on its ribs suddenly expanded, turning into two giant wings with a wingspan of five meters! I saw this imparted leopard kick with four paws, soaring into the sky, and in the blink of an eye, it flew up to a thousand meters in the air with a huge turtle in its mouth!
It circled in the air a few times, found the angle, and then dived down like a sharp sword, and when it reached the predetermined position, it easily opened its mouth, and the huge turtle slammed like a cannonball through a graceful arc towards the raised rocks on the cliff!
"Thisβthis is the method used by the sandpiper to prey on the river mussel!" Catherine patted her brain in annoyance, secretly hating her stupidity, her IQ was not as good as that of a leopard! When she was a child, she once learned the story of the sandpiper and the clam competing for the fisherman's profit, and thought that she was poured by the wisdom of the ancients, and when she grew up, she did the wilderness anchor business, only to know that the ancients were all fucking nonsense, when the sandpiper ate the creatures with shells, they were picked up and flew to a height of several hundred meters, and then thrown on the rocky beach to break, and then slowly pecked at the fat soft muscles!
The head of the sandpiper is the size of a melon seed, so stupid brains can think of this way, there is no reason why this kind of imparted leopard can't think of it, and, with Catherine's strengthened eyesight many times, like a titanium alloy dog's eye, the stone that the turtle is about to load is dark brown, glowing with the warm light unique to extremely hard spars, the whole stone is covered with blood, and all kinds of carapace fragments are scattered around, and you can tell at a glance how many hard-shelled creatures have fallen to death!
While!!!
The edge of the tortoiseshell slammed against the brown hedron with a dull loud thud like a metal sledgehammer striking a cast-iron embryo, and the tortoise shell 'soared', bouncing several meters high, and then falling to the ground and rolling a few times, and then fell silent.
The impreza flipped its wings, landed next to the upside-down turtle shell with a hula, flicked its paws, and found that the six limbs of the giant turtle were still well shrunk in the shell, and there was not even a trace of it exposed, and there was not even a single scar on the entire carapace, as if the ferocious collision just now had not caused the slightest damage.
Seeing this situation, the impreza was obviously a little unhappy, the corners of its mouth grinned again, and two shallow dimples appeared on its cheeks again, it stretched out its claws, popped sharp nails from the thick flesh pads, and knocked on the shell of the turtle with one ear, listening to the sound of each tap, that look, a little similar to the uncles and aunts in the vegetable market when they picked watermelons.
"Dingding!"
When the Impreza knocked the whole tortoise shell over and over again, and the leopard had a clear expression of disappointment on its face, and was about to give up, suddenly! Its nails hit the belly of the giant tortoise, and the carapace near the tail was clear, and the sound it made there was very crisp, which was obviously very different from the other parts!
Like a big cat, it whimpered happily from its throat, then picked up the giant tortoise, soared into the sky again, adjusted the angle in mid-air, and threw the tortoise shell at the brown spar again! Under the lens of the ultra-high-definition magic eye elf, everyone clearly saw that this leopard threw the 'frisbee' extremely skillfully, and the tail of the tortoise shell belly armor hit the brown rock straight away!
While!
The sound of the impact this time was almost the same as the first one, but if your ears were sensitive enough, or if you blessed yourself with the curse spell 'Pain Deepening', you could make out a faint cracking sound, mixed with a huge crash!
The Impreza is obviously distinguished, it whined a long howl, landed next to the giant tortoise, turned it over, checked the abdominal carapace part, and soon, a trace of extremely fine cracks came into its eyes, stroking this crack, the movement of the impreza leopard was gentle as if touching the milk of the female leopard, after a while, its mouth let out an excited long roar, jumped in place several times, and danced a dance full of leopard style!
Shaking the head, twisting the body, flapping the wings, stretching the claws back and forth, and spinning the tail like a propeller, making all kinds of movements, used to vent the joy in their hearts, it is this kind of irregular movement full of wildness, after watching it for a long time, it feels a little similar to the Terran breakdance!
"I'm so godly when I wipe this leopard!"
"That action of stretching out the claws back and forth is so cute!"
"I think it's cuter when it laughs!"
"If it's a size or two smaller and the fangs aren't so prominent, it's the cutest pet in the world!"
"Wake up! Impreza is a fifth-level demonic beast!"
"There are no wonders in the world, the staple food of leopards is turtles, I really have a lot of knowledge!"
"What's so nice about smashing a turtle! I want to see an impreza hunt crocodile!"
"The stupid X in front? The crocodile is also a beast of prey, and there are turtles that don't catch them, so they have to eat crocodiles that may cause themselves to be injured? Do you think the impreza is as stupid as you?"
β......β
The disputed imprezag in the barrage naturally didn't know, it made trouble for a while, and after venting the excitement in its heart, it picked up the giant turtle again, rose into the sky again, crossed the same arc again, and repeated the same action again!
Once.
Twice.
Three times.
Four......
At the beginning, there were still a few people in the live broadcast room arguing about something inexplicably, but after ten minutes passed, after the Impreza's actions were repeated seven or eight times, the entire live broadcast room was silent, and all the sailors watched the Impreza work hard for their survival again and again with an inexplicable mood.
Its eyes are very serious, its movements are mechanical and precise, like a tireless machine, and strive to hit the vulnerable parts of the giant turtle with every impact, obviously, such a continuous rise in the air, for its hundreds of kilograms of body is a great load, so that it involuntarily panting, but whenever it falls from the sky, it always cares about taking a breath, and with infinite hope, it goes to the tail of the giant turtle to see if there is a crack.
As a result, it was naturally disappointed every time, its eyes dimmed, and then it shook its head again, cheered up, picked up the giant tortoise again, flew high into the air with difficulty, and threw the giant tortoise on the brown spar again!
Click!
An extremely crisp cracking sound sounded, and the turtle shell, which had been smashed more than a dozen times, was finally overwhelmed, and the moment the tail of the abdominal armor hit the brown spar, it exploded directly! The upper part of the entire turtle shell was covered with horizontal and vertical cracks, and before it could fall to the ground, it shattered into many pieces, swirling in mid-air and flying everywhere, like a goddess scattering flowers! Only then did Catherine see that the soft part of the giant turtle's shell had fallen into a meat pie at some point, and its head was twisted into a mass of paste and squeezed into the abdominal cavity, and it was already dead and could no longer die!
Before she could feel relieved for the impreza, at the bottom of the cliff, a majestic hyena like a bull pounced out of the slanted thorns, like catching a frisbee, and directly bit the giant turtle whirling in mid-air.
At this time, the panting imparta had just landed, and it ran hard, trying to catch up with the hyena and snatch back its turtle, but like a toddler, its left front foot tripped over its right front foot, and rolled directly to the ground, rolling several times! It faced the sky on its back, and the leopard had a very, very exaggerated smile on its face, and then opened its big mouth, which was already so tired that it was foaming at the mouth, and let out a roar of great grief and indignation!
However, it couldn't even finish roaring! Facing up to the sky, it showed too many flaws, and a huge shadow as high as five meters enveloped it at once, and before it could make any movement, an incomparably sharp dagger had pierced into its soft abdominal cavity like a fang, and then it was extremely vicious and pulled hard in the direction of oblique downward!
In the impreza's extremely painful struggle, the intestines, stomach, eggs, stomach pouch and other organs, accompanied by a blowout of surging blood, flowed out, it let out a puppy-like scream, straightened up, fiercely stared at the human in front of it who attacked it, used all the remaining strength to incite its wings, dragged the intestines all over the ground and sprinted a few steps, and finally fell to the ground.
With infinite nostalgia, the Impreza took another look at this beautiful world and slowly closed its eyes. 8)