Chapter 68: Natural Selection



Under the gaze of Xiao Xiaoxiao, who almost exclaimed in surprise, Feng Yinglou reached out and picked up the little lion who smelled his mother's body and became obviously agitated, and strode towards the direction of four o'clock. Don't ask him why, in the dark, his vision is affected, but he just knows that the lioness lying in the weeds, slowly sneaking towards them, is the mother of the lion cub.

Feng Yinglou's gaze swept away, and sure enough, there were seven female leopards who were usually used to cooperating with each other when hunting, forming an encirclement posture against them, but he did not find a single male lion in the lion group.

And this is no accident. The female lions in the lion pack have lived together since childhood, and as the backbone of the family, they will never leave for the rest of their lives, and a new female lioness will take their place until they die. However, male lions only stay in the lion pack for an average of two years. Either the old male lion was defeated by the new male lion and took its place, or the male lion stayed in the same lion pack for too long, was bored, and got tired of it, so he ran away from home to find its second spring, the new harem.

"No lion, then ......"

Kazekagelou's gaze swept slightly, and finally locked on to the direction of the grass at four o'clock again. Then, the leader of this lion pack is the mother of this little lion cub in his hand.

Walking to a position about thirty meters away from the lioness, Kazekagelou stopped, put the cub in his arms on the ground, first reached out and gently stroked the little head of the cub, until it shook its head rebelliously, Kazekagelou smiled and withdrew his palm, and slowly withdrew a few steps back.

Through this behavior, the Wind Shadow House wants to convey a message to the lioness...... We have no ill will towards your child, on the contrary, we saved it.

Lions are not inferior in intelligence, they are more of an animal with clear grievances.

As for shooting...... Feng Yinglou has not yet told Xiao Xiaoxiao, a special soldier, if he must shoot to survive in nature, he can only be an alien who is excluded by nature. Once he meets a real special operations master, he is an outlier who cannot be integrated with the environment at all, so he is particularly eye-catching and conspicuous, and the final outcome is self-evident.

Because of this, China has received the strictest special forces, and they are trained to survive in the wilderness without guns.

The lioness was still quietly lurking in the grass, not coming out, and the Wind Shadow House didn't say anything more, or do anything more, just stood there quietly. A lion king who lives on the African savannah and leads his family to fight everywhere for survival, a professional soldier who has received the most rigorous training and can be more precise than a machine, more cold and ruthless, and a little lion cub who howls and screams, but because his hind limbs have just been undergo a simple bone surgery by the Wind Shadow Building, and he has temporarily lost his ability to move, they are facing each other.

Although the races are different, there is no possibility of verbal communication at all, but they still use the keenest intuition to sense each other's most terrifying power hidden in each other. In nature, two beasts of close strength face each other, and whoever loses their breath first often represents defeat.

In the end, it was the lioness who couldn't overcome her love for her child as a mother, and slowly walked out of the grass amid the howl of the little lion cub.

The eyes of a man and a lion collided in the air, and a few invisible sparks faintly collided. Under the vigilant gaze of the lioness, Wind Shadow House slowly retreated ten steps back. He did this, of course, out of fear, and not because he wanted to take a few steps back and then attack the lioness. He only found that the lioness was too nervous because of his presence, and was even too nervous to respond to the low cry of the lion cub, so he took a few steps back to give the mother and child more space.

Sure enough, as the Wind Shadow House retreated, the female lioness finally walked up to the cub and rubbed her chin against the cub's head.

"Hey, old wind, something is wrong!"

In the air, there was a small suppressed voice of laughter, and Fengyinglou's face changed slightly.

In front of them was a group of lions that had to move together and hunt halfway because the dry season lasted for several months, the rivers were cut off, the herbivores were wilted, and the herbivores migrated in large numbers. They have to move behind the herbivores, which exerts a lot of physical energy every day, and most importantly, now that the weeds have withered, they have lost their most important concealment, and are often spotted and fled by their prey before they can touch their prey.

In this case, the entire lion group is in a state of semi-starvation, including the patriarch, the seven female leopards are so hungry that they are skinny, looking at Xiao Xiaoxiao, Fengyinglou and Nona, their eyes are clearly like wolves of green light. More than a dozen lion cubs were lying on a rocky depression not far from them, squeaking impatiently.

This group of lions is not only to "rescue" the patriarch's children, but also to treat them as prey!

"What about the old wind?"

At this time, the wind shadow building faced the female lioness who was rubbing with the child and showing her intimacy, he still had a gentle and harmless smile on his face, but his hand was already on the self-defense pistol and automatic rifle at the same time. Hearing Xiao Xiaoxiao's inquiry, he only replied with one sentence: "Ready to do it." Not a single one is left. ”

In one sentence, but there are two meanings, Xiao Xiaoxiao still understands. Fengyinglou once said that the animals in the natural world are very good at holding grudges, once they make a move, not only the seven female lions in front of them will be killed, but even the dozen or so lion cubs behind them, including the injured hind leg in front of them, will all be killed.

At this moment, a wild howl suddenly rose from the mouth of the patriarch of the lion pack, and he found that he heard his own voice, and the other six lionesses hesitated, but did not immediately carry out the order, and the patriarch let out another roar.

Listening to the thick anger revealed in the roar, the other six female lions who had already surrounded the Wind Shadow Building and his party finally retreated. Another little lion cub came over, and the injured one lying on the ground rubbed and bit each other for a long time, and judging by their appearance, they should be brothers of the same mother.

After a moment of jostling with each other, the lion cub ended up walking slowly back into the grass with the lioness. Before leaving, the lioness turned around, glanced at the Wind Shadow Building again, let out a low roar that might be an apology, maybe a ding, maybe a pleading, and finally disappeared into the grass with another child.

As the leader of the lions, he must leave behind his badly injured child who can no longer follow the family in order to ensure the interests of the entire group. And it gave up the Wind Shadow Building, Xiao Xiaoxiao and Nona, the three "prey", that is, entrusted its children to the hands of the Wind Shadow Building.

This is natural selection in the African savannah, even for the lions at the top of the food chain.

(To be continued)