In the sandy land of Namibia, in southwestern Africa, a female cheetah looks around vigilantly every few minutes.

Its body was lying on the grass, but its head was held high, and it looked around deeply.

After several hours of repeated patrolling of the surroundings, it was relieved to burrow into a tall grass.

In the hidden grass, a litter of six cheetah cubs that were less than a day old were hidden.

"Meow meow......" The cubs chirped sporadically.

Their bodies are so fragile that it can take up to ten days to open their eyes, and they hide in the grass for almost a month.

During the dry season, when the competition among carnivores is even more brutal, the female cheetah, who feeds six cubs, is destined to face the most severe test of survival.

Fortunately, all the animals will congregate near the water source as much as possible, so this meadow away from the river will be slightly safer.

The mother cheetah looked around vigilantly again before lying on her side next to her cub and letting her children follow their instincts and suck the milk.

However, one of the six cheetahs doesn't seem to drink like his siblings, but kicks the compacted grass nest to get up.

The fluffy fluff on its back floated with its movements, and its four calves trembled, but it could not stand up.

This little leopard has just been born, and it will not climb until at least two or three days later, but at this moment, he does not want to eat enough, and tries to stand up in vain, which is really a waste of strength.

The mother cheetah moved her body slightly, changed her lying position, and moved closer to it, hoping that the baby leopard would smell the milk and do the right thing.

However, the little leopard leaned on its mother with half of its body, and slowly borrowed strength, but instead stood up.

The little leopard took a step forward, but its fragile body just stumbled forward and fell again.

The female cheetah had finally given up on guiding the little one, and her experience had taught her ...... Six cubs is just too many.

This maverick little leopard may be a defective product that is destined to be eliminated from birth.

The female cheetah's body structure is not destined to store a large amount of fat, which means that it cannot store food in the body to convert into milk, and it must hunt and eat every day during lactation, otherwise the litter will starve.

For this reason, it is impossible for it to waste too much time on the feeding of this baby leopard alone.

After feeding, the female cheetah stood up, and she had to fill her belly.

I saw it lick the cubs, waiting for them to sleep peacefully.

The five cubs fell asleep obediently after eating, but only the little leopard, who couldn't even open his eyes, was still wasting his strength trying to get up.

Upon closer inspection, the female cheetah noticed that as the little guy tossed, the surrounding air and even some grass clippings were eerily disappearing.

It had never seen such a phenomenon before, and it was impossible to know what it meant.

"Meow ......" seemed to be so tired from tossing and turning that it finally made a cry and lay down on the grass without moving.

This is really a maverick little leopard, and when the other cubs bark, he doesn't say a word.

Now everyone is asleep, but it is crying.

After vigilantly observing the surroundings, the female cheetah repeatedly comforted it for a long time, but when she saw that the cry of the little leopard did not stop, she had to pick it up and move it to another bush more than 30 meters away from the grass nest.

There's no way around it, the cry will attract other predators.

After isolating the baby leopard, the mother cheetah moved away from the nest in search of prey.

It wasn't until dusk that it dragged its tired body back, and it was evident from its shriveled stomach that it hadn't eaten today.

Back in the nest, it licks the cubs one by one to confirm the number.

Five, which reminded it of transferring one. The female cheetah hadn't abandoned her, so she went there to check on the baby leopard.

"Meow ......" It finally stopped, and lay very weak and tired in the grass.

The she-cheetah picked it up and tried to take it back to the den, but after two steps she stopped.

After not eating all day and with a severe shortage of milk, it was unable to feed six cubs.

Even the other five couldn't eat enough.

Eventually, the mother cheetah put it down again, licked the baby, and returned to the nest of the five cubs.

After a difficult night, the female cheetah did not sleep almost all night, always vigilant around her.

It is only during the day, when its vision is widened, that it replenishes its sleep.

But I still wake up every few minutes and look around.

It wasn't until the afternoon that he felt that he was almost rested, so he chose to go out hunting.

It can't fail again today, it has to eat, or none of the six cubs will survive.

Fortunately, she is a female leopard with excellent hunting skills, and with unremitting efforts, she finally succeeded in catching a springbok and feasted on it.

The female cheetah returns to the nest in good spirits, but in the vicinity of the nest she sees the last thing she wants...... A lion.

The lioness was injured on her hind legs and was very old, and seemed to have been driven out of the lions and lived alone.

Near the nest where the cubs were hidden, a lion passed by, which made the female cheetah very anxious.

But it did not dare to approach the place where the cubs were hidden, because the lioness apparently did not find the cubs and was staring at her fiercely at the moment.

"Roar!"

The lioness roared and warned the cheetah.

The cheetah fled in fright, but kept its distance and did not completely flee the area.

It tried to lure the lion away, but the lion was not interested in it, and when it was wounded, it knew that it would never be able to chase the cheetah, so it did not want to chase the other person at all.

The lion didn't think much about the female cheetah's actions and was about to leave.

However, as if alarmed by the previous roar, the cries of five cheetah cubs came out of the grass nest.

I see...... The lioness finally understood that the cubs of the she-cheetah were nearby, and immediately followed the sound into the grass.

The female cheetah was so anxious that she dared to approach the lion, but the lioness only turned around and pretended to bite, forcing the female cheetah back.

It is impossible to fight, and it is never possible to fight except for the necessary hunting, which is the common sense imprinted in the bones of the cheetah.

Therefore, the female cheetah just constantly provoked the lion, but never dared to really touch, relying on her speed to jump up and down around the lion.

However, the lion ignored it and followed the sound to find the cubs.

After a while, the lion departed proudly, and it was not until she was out of sight that the female cheetah returned to the grass nest to check.

Dead, the bodies of the three cubs were scattered in the grass coldly, and they were bitten to death by lions.

Thankfully, two cubs had learned to crawl, and they had jokingly crawled out of the haystack before the lion didn't notice them, allowing them to escape.

There is no doubt that they are two strong cheetah cubs, and they are only two days old and can climb so far.

"Meow Meow...... Meow!" The she-cheetah called out to the missing cubs and followed the response to find them.

Not only that, but it also brought back the baby leopard that was quarantined the day before.

Three cubs, this is the only child it has left. The number has plummeted by half.

"Meow ......"

The maverick baby leopard has not had milk for two days since it was born, and although it is dying, it is not dead after all.

It was as if in this weak body, there was a tenacious will, supporting its last breath.

The female cheetah leaned over to nurse her three cubs, and this time, the maverick little one finally knew how to feed.

Gulping and voraciously sucking on what would keep it alive.

Five days later, the baby leopard looked no different from the sisters around her.

Feeding, playing, and practicing crawling in ignorance.

Every day the female cheetah comes back to nurse them, and although they don't have enough to eat at all, they are still tenaciously alive.

After ten days, all the cubs have opened their eyes.

Two of them took a curious look at the world, playing together and observing their surroundings.

Playing with the earth and stones, crushing the weeds with his body, correlating the sensations and smells, as well as the properties of overpowering and manipulating, with the things he sees in front of him, and using these playful behaviors to become familiar with the grass, trees, soil and stones around him.

But only the little leopard was maverick again.

It opened its eyes dimly, but suddenly lost its playful nature, as if being in a daze was the greatest pleasure in itself.

Unlike the other sisters, it feels so familiar with everything around it that it doesn't have to be tempted at all.

The sky, the clouds, the sun, the grass, the sand, the flies, and the two cheetah cubs that are its sisters.

It felt like it knew all of them, and even knew what they did.

It lay quietly on the grass, staring blankly at the two little cheetahs that were playing, and its mind was thinking involuntarily.

"This is a cheetah cub...... Am I a cheetah, too? Eh? Why do I know?"

"Huh, me, why do I know 'me'?"

"What is 'me', where do I come from, and where am I going?"

After opening his eyes, the cognition of too many things filled the brain of this little leopard at once.

It knows the heavens, the earth, and all the plants and animals in front of it, and there seems to be nothing new about them.

It can even clearly recognize the concept of 'me' and judge and think with subjective will.

As a result, even if it wasn't playing, it gradually became tired and fell asleep after less than an hour.

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