It's a leopard.

To be precise, it is a leopard, because it has a round head with short ears, a long tail, slightly shorter limbs, and a bright golden fur with many oval black-brown spots.

The leopard in front of him stood quietly in the moonlight, and the white outline line on his belly was particularly clear. Its body is curvaceous, its limbs look very muscular, its slender body, its slightly upturned tail, and its cold eyes all indicate that it is extremely aggressive.

"Do you see what it is?" Bai Yueling stared at the black shadow in the distance, pulled Li Changjing's arm, and asked nervously, "How do I feel that it is looking at me?" ”

Li Changjing frowned and said truthfully: "This is a golden leopard, weighing about 150 catties, with a bright coat color, it should be just an adult." ”

"Leopard?" Bai Yueling was surprised: "How can I meet such a difficult guy, what can I do?" ”

"Don't be nervous just yet." Li Changjing looked at the eyes of the leopard in the distance, and said softly: "As long as people don't move, don't run around, or shout loudly, the leopard will generally take the initiative to avoid it, unless it ......"

Bai Yueling was not a fool, and her breathing became tight: "Unless it's a hungry leopard, right?" ”

Li Changjing nodded, there was bad news he didn't tell Bai Yueling.

Now it is the depths of winter, the weather is cold, and the animals that can eat are either hibernate or hiding in the nest, so this leopard is actually a hungry leopard, which can be clearly seen from its penetrating gaze.

"What should I do?" Bai Yueling grabbed Li Changjing's hand a little harder: "Why don't we go up the tree, I'm going to climb the tree very fast!" ”

Li Changjing glanced at her and said strangely: "What a leopard is best at is climbing trees, if you compare this thing with him, aren't you looking for death." ”

"Right?" Bai Yueling muttered to herself, but then stomped her feet again, and said anxiously: "Then what should I do, run away?" ”

Li Changjing motioned for her to shut up, and said in a low voice: "If you want to live, don't make noise, leopards are very smart and will judge from your emotions whether you are afraid or not." ”

This is not an alarmist statement, the leopard is the most perfect hunter of all large carnivores, with vigorous movements, agility, running speeds of up to 90 kilometers per hour, can swim and climb trees, has a sharp temperament, and has a very good sense of smell, hearing and vision; Superior intelligence and strong concealment, these are things that tigers and lions can't do. Moreover, the leopard has excellent physical fitness, an alert temperament, is good at jumping and climbing, and climbs trees in front of it to escape, purely looking for death.

The leopard has a very high IQ and likes to attack the vital parts of the prey, such as the throat, stomach and other soft places, Li Changjing took the extinguished torch in his hand and used it as a stick, and then asked Bai Yueling to protect his neck, and by the way, let her also hold the dagger in her hand, just in case.

I don't know if it was because of their numerical superiority, the leopard stood in the distance and watched them quietly, neither moving nor coming up to attack.

"Hey, it seems to be scared of us!" Through the white moonlight in the sky, Bai Yueling finally saw the true face of the leopard, and after seeing that it had not moved for a long time, she breathed a long sigh of relief.

"That's not right!" Li Changjing stared at the leopard closely, and suddenly saw a hint of conspiracy in its eyes.

Bai Yueling was surprised: "What's wrong?" ”

"You're from Orion, so you should know that leopards are solitary animals, right?"

"Of course I do." Bai Yueling pouted and said: "Leopards generally only look for a mate in March and April, when early spring comes, and have a short two-person world, and the rest of the year is almost a lone ranger." ”

Li Changjing's face was slightly gloomy, "It's because it's like this, it's wrong." ”

He reached out and whispered, "Grab my hand, hurry!" ”

Bai Yueling didn't know why, but listening to his anxious tone, she still obediently did what he said.

Li Changjing suddenly snorted coldly, hugged Bai Yueling by the waist, and threw himself forward.

At the same time, a slender figure swooped down from the tree overhead, landing just where they had just stood.

"Sure enough, there's another."

Li Changjing secretly scolded, it is winter, and it is not yet the mating period, why these two leopards stay together, it is really unreasonable.

Li Changjing hugged Bai Yueling and rolled on the ground twice, and soon turned over, Bai Yueling was already stunned, and was about to get up, Li Changjing shouted in a low voice: "Get down!" He pushed her back to the ground.

The next moment, a gust of fishy wind quickly swept over the heads of the two, and the leopard, which had not moved at the beginning, finally launched an attack.

Li Changjing held a stick in his hand, knelt on one knee, looked around vigilantly, and found that in the dark, two leopards had converged in one place, sure enough, one big and one small, one male and one female, their eyes were extremely vicious, like four green lights, exuding infiltrating light in the darkness.

Bai Yueling looked at the two leopards, their faces were bloodless, lying on the ground in a daze, not knowing what to do at all.

Li Changjing helped her up hard, dragged her and began to run back, the two leopards soon followed, the speed became faster and faster, and before they could run far, they all pounced forward, opened their bloody mouths in the air, and approached the throats of the two.

Li Changjing saw that Bai Yueling was still sluggish, and couldn't help but secretly curse that stupidity is more harmful than a woman, and once again hugged her and fell to the ground, avoiding the attack of the two leopards.

The two leopards pounced in the air three or four times, and couldn't help but become irritable, the smaller female leopard simply trotted to the front, and began to scratch Bai Yueling's face with her front paws, Li Changjing pulled her, and she could dodge, but her arm was scratched by the female leopard A bloody wound, and the pain in his heart hit for a while, making him angry, and he couldn't help but scold: "If you don't want to live, then say it, don't take me with you!" ”

Bai Yueling roared at him, and finally had some energy, her face was pale, and her voice trembled: "You...... If you look at the female leopard, is she missing an ear? ”

Li Changjing frowned, and subconsciously looked at the smaller female leopard, and found that it was indeed missing a left ear, but because the leopard's ears were already short, and the situation was urgent, he didn't see it just now.

"That's right, it's true that the left ear is missing, and the wound is very flat, so it should have been cut with a sharp weapon. Why do you ask this? ”

Bai Yueling's face turned even paler, she looked at the leopard skin skirt she was wearing, and muttered: "The leopard I killed last year was the mother of the female leopard in front of me, and because she was still an adult, and she was injured, and even her ears were cut off by poachers, so I let ......it go."

"Oh, it turned out that you killed its mother, and now she's back with her boyfriend to get revenge on you." Li Changjing suddenly realized, and snorted coldly: "Since you even dare to kill her mother, why are you still afraid of this little one, is it possible that you feel ashamed?" ”

"That female leopard was shot three times last year, and if I don't kill it, it will die too!" Bai Yueling screamed: "I just don't want to waste it, so I made its leather into a skirt......"

Li Changjing sneered, "I don't care about the grievances between you, but if you don't want to die, you have to listen to me obediently." ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Bai Yueling wiped the cold sweat on her forehead, grabbed Li Changjing's arm again, as if grasping a life-saving straw, and said in a trembling voice: "What to do next, you say." ”

Li Changjing shook his shoulders, didn't shake off her hand, and said with an unnatural face: "Hurry up and take off your skirt." ”

"What?!" , Bai Yueling's pale face turned red all of a sudden: "You, you ......"

"Don't get me wrong." Li Changjing explained: "This female leopard is not looking for you to take revenge, but wants to get back her mother's leopard skin. ”

"This ......" Bai Yueling covered her collar and was speechless for a while.

At this moment, a large firelight lit up in the darkness behind him, and then a familiar and rough voice came from afar: "Little sister, listen to him, take off your skirt." ”

Seeing Bai Tianhua appear in sight with four or five people, Bai Yueling exclaimed in surprise: "Brother! ”

"Stop rubbing, take off your skirt quickly." Bai Baihua also carried a fat roe deer with a white butt on his shoulder, and another villager behind him also carried a smaller one, in addition, the remaining few people also seemed to be holding a few animals like grouse, it seems that tonight's harvest is very rich.

Seeing that her brother also said so, Bai Yueling made up her mind, and the brother and sister immediately went to a dark place not far away, and after two minutes of return, Bai Yueling's leopard skin skirt had been taken off and changed into her brother's loose top.

"How do you know they want my dress?" Bai Yueling handed the skirt to Li Changjing and asked.

Li Changjing didn't answer, after taking the skirt, he looked at the two leopards who were hiding in the distance because he was afraid of this group of hunters, and said loudly: "The things you want are here!" Come and get it. ”

The two leopards seemed to really understand his words, and quietly turned back, and the stronger male leopard was more courageous, and cautiously came to Li Changjing, put the skirt in his mouth with one mouth, and then glanced at Li Changjing again. At this time, Li Changjing found that there was no longer the previous violence in his eyes, and he was quiet, as if he was still very grateful to him.

The shirtless strong man behind him, Bai Baihuaqi, said: "Brother Changjing, you are really a god, you can actually understand the meaning of the leopard." ”

Li Changjing still didn't answer, but said to the female leopard: "For the sake of getting things back, and that little girl saw you injured last year, she didn't bear to hurt you, can you stop worrying about her?" ”

The two leopards quietly glanced at Li Changjing, and then at Bai Yueling behind them, although they didn't make a sound, Li Changjing could see from their eyes that they had agreed.

Li Changjing breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned to Bai Tianhua and said, "Brother Bai, these two leopards have no malicious intent, and they promise not to trouble you again, and please see them in the future, you can be merciful." ”

"Of course." Bai Tianhua walked up and patted Li Changjing on the shoulder with his big hand, "The preciousness of this animal is so precious that even ten of us dare not fight it." No, there was a group of poaching bastards last year who drove us away, and the female leopard in that skirt was also seriously injured by that gang. At this, he sighed, and the faces of several of his companions behind him also became heavy.

The two leopards didn't care what they said, and when they got something, they made a few jumps and disappeared into the darkness in the blink of an eye.

Li Changjing breathed a sigh of relief and was about to go back with Bai Baihua, but at this moment, Bai Yueling exclaimed: "Look, they're back again!" ”

Li Changjing looked back, and sure enough, he saw the two leopards going and turning back, this time the female leopard ran directly in front of him, raised her head to look at him, and then looked at the direction they had just left.

"Where are you trying to take me?" Li Changjing was a little surprised, and instantly figured out what it meant.