0304 People and Nature
The cart had a good line of sight and could look at everything that was going on in a certain area from a relatively high vantage point, and in Lynch's eyes, there were bushes of grass constantly shaking in all directions, as if something was hiding in the grass and moving rapidly.
These are the predators of the grasslands, and they are currently the main predator species in Nagalil - leopard lions.
The leopard lion is neither a leopard nor a lion, it is a separate feline that has a pattern similar to that of a spotted leopard, as well as a ring of golden hair on its neck (do not bring it in).
Because of its appearance, people call it the leopard lion.
In the past, there were lions and leopards in this grassland, but as the leopard lion population grew, the leopard and lion were driven farther and deeper and even to other places, and the main carnivorous hunters here are leopard lions and spotted wolves.
Spotted wolves have a strong territoriality, they have their own territory, because spotted wolves are more hungry than leopard lions, and their environmental requirements for survival are not as high as those of leopard lions, so they will not migrate with the migration of some herbivores.
And spotted wolves are very intelligent, they know that humans are dangerous, and most of the time they stay in their own territory, except for the occasional attack on the village when there is a shortage of food.
Only leopard lions, who always need enough food to ensure their fighting ability and to raise their calves, do not have to migrate with their food.
After a few minutes, the boiling grass on the grassland was completely quiet, but the silence at this time gave people a feeling of oppression.
The hunters in the cart got out of the cart, ropes in their hands and nets in their hands, and began to walk slowly towards the herd.
At this time, Lynch noticed that the knights were constantly restraining the hammerhead ox to try to be in a certain area, which was also to better hunt those predators in the next step.
As time passed, a hammer-headed cow with a twitching back suddenly raised its head vigilantly, looked around, and seemed to find some danger.
But it reflected too slowly, and at this moment, in the sun, a golden figure shot out of the grass like lightning, and jumped onto the back of the hammerhead bull at once.
The leopard lion, which has always been an adult and strong, its fur glittering in the sun, especially the golden hair on its neck, must have been desired by the ladies of Boupayne.
The leopard lion's claws were three or four inches long, very sharp, and at once they were buckled into the flesh of the hammerhead cow, and it tore at the wound on the hammerhead cow's back, and the blood stained its golden hair, adding a special beauty.
The second leopard lion also jumped out of the grass, the third, and more.
The whole herd was in chaos in an instant, and these already frightened and injured hammerhead cattle were not as able to unite together as they had been in danger before, forming a force of relative superiority against the predators.
The wounds on their bodies made them think that they had been ridden by predators, and this fear allowed instinct to dominate their already underdeveloped little heads, and naturally they could not gather together.
The knights gradually retreated, and then the hunters in their gear began to move.
It's a little funny, but there's a kind of indescribable heaviness.
"We could have used guns and knives, but the whole fur is more expensive, and so are the live, so we have to get some live, some full fur, and I told them, not with weapons!", Hasanna's eyes flashed with a certain greedy and bloodthirsty glint as he picked up an old telescope and began to enjoy the hunt.
Behind the lenses, the hunters on foot were already approaching the hunting circle, and they set their first target on a hammerhead cow that had given up resistance.
Beside the hammerhead cow, which had fallen to the ground and struggled weakly, there were seven or eight leopard lions, some of which were choking the throat of the hammerhead, some of which were pulling at its eggs, and others were tearing at its abdomen, which was the softest place.
Blood, internal organs, strong and pungent smell of blood, the hammerhead cow has not died, it can only watch its stomach being cut open, internal organs flowing to the ground, can only helplessly wait for death to come.
As the hunter approached, the feeding leopard lion squeezed out a low cry full of warning through his throat.
It's their prey!
The two feeding leopard lions began to press down, their hind legs had begun to accumulate, ready to eject anytime and anywhere, and if these two-legged animals in front of them did not leave, they would inevitably attack in order to protect their prey.
It's just that they got something wrong, and these humans didn't come to snatch their prey, but for themselves!
Delicious beef poses a life-threatening danger to hammerheads, so these beautiful furs pose great danger to leopard lions!
The humans didn't back down, and this attitude of transcending the species made the leopard lions understand in an instant that they could not reach unity with the humans in front of them.
When the first leopard lion ejected, its target and several people next to it raised the net in their hands at the same time.
The net was very strong, and it was accurately put on the leopard lion's body, but the leopard lion still collided with the person's body.
One man, one leopard lion, rolled out at the same time for a long distance.
The person who was knocked out by it had barely gotten up and walked a few steps when his face changed suddenly and he fell to the ground again.
His nostrils began to bleed, he wiped it with his hands, but it couldn't be wiped clean, no matter how much it was wiped off, new nosebleeds would come out, he might have been injured, but no one knew if his condition was serious or not, and no one cared about him.
When he coughed up a mouthful of blood, people stopped looking at him.
If you suffer such an injury in such a place, there is no need to treat it at all, because it can't be cured!
When the leopard lion broke out instantly, it hit a person at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, which was actually a car accident.
The cowhide and pieces of iron on his body had cut some of the impact, but his ribs were still broken, not only broken, but also inserted into the lobes of his lungs.
The blood quickly occupied, flooding the lobes of his lungs, and it was difficult for oxygen to be transported into the blood through the alveoli, and it was only a dozen seconds before the brain lost its ability to balance due to lack of oxygen.
He was finished, staring at the sky with godless eyes, but he didn't know why, even though it was the brightest time of the day, his world was getting darker and darker?
The departure of a man is a trivial matter to the animals of the steppe, and to the society of Nagalil.
The others were still desperate, and the leopard lion trapped in the net struggled to break free from the things that were bound to it, it had no nimble fingers, no clever brain, and using brute force would only make it struggle deeper and deeper.
People pounced on it, pressed it, and tied ropes to it.
At this time, the other leopard lions no longer had brains, and realized that this was not an ordinary group of opponents, and they immediately gave up dealing with the dying hammerhead cows and began to deal with these humans.
As one leopard lion made a similar "ho-ho" call, more leopard lions converged in this direction.
Sitting in the big car, Hassana gave a smile on the corner of his mouth, he loved to watch this, he liked to see the tenacity of human beings and nature when they struggled, which made his blood boil!
But people who are facing a great crisis don't think so, if it weren't for money, if it wasn't for the 1 in 10,000 chance to change the status of the family, no one would want to die!
In their opinion, this is to send them to death.
The man and the leopard lion got into a mess, two or three, three or four people against one leopard lion, because of Hassana's request, it was not allowed to use weapons to destroy the fur of these leopard lions, they could only use ropes or nets.
They didn't have a tranquilizer gun, and they didn't have a narcotic, and even Hassana didn't want to touch poison - just as some countries had strict controls on arms and certain sensitive goods, in Nagalil the rulers had a strict system for all kinds of poisonous things.
Coupled with some natural toxins, the color of the fur can be damaged, so in the end it will be a brutal, terrifying, and exciting hand-to-hand fight.
Hand-to-hand combat between humans and predators at the top of the food chain!
Lynch looked at it for a moment and said, "It's too slow, maybe you can let them use weapons." ”
Hassana looked back at Lynch with a smirk, "Is torn fur and whole fur the same price?"
Lynch shook his head and stopped talking about it, in fact, they weren't talking about it, but it was it.
The fight lasted for more than ten minutes before it gradually ended, and some leopard lions abandoned their prey and quickly disappeared into the grass, while the rest were either strangled or trapped in nets and unable to break free.
Hassana looked at the prey with great satisfaction, as for the wounded all over the ground, he didn't pay attention to it at all, he paid the money, these people fulfilled the commission, and they should even thank themselves for their generosity.
The next step was to clean up the battlefield, and the knights returned from afar, first breaking down the hammerhead oxen and wrapping them in their hides to make sure that the delicate furs would not be damaged during transportation.
Then they started handing out simple things to the wounded, like strips of cloth, some grass ash and so on.
Lynch looked at these people and sighed silently, most of these people probably wouldn't survive, it wasn't that their injuries would kill them.
Those bites look terrible, as long as they are handled properly, they will not actually affect people's lives, what really makes it difficult for them to live is the bacteria in the wounds.
These leopard lions have a large number of bacteria and viruses hidden in their teeth and claws, and these things have no problems on their bodies, but when they enter the human body, it will be fatal.
More than half an hour later, Hasana's nephew happily appeared in front of Lynch and Hassana and reported the good news, "There are fourteen leopard lions in total, three of them are alive, the others are dead, the fur is very well preserved, I have never seen such high-quality fur!"
In fact, five of them were alive at first, but two of them broke their legs in the process of struggling, and Lynch probably wouldn't want this kind of crippled leopard lion, and no one wanted to go to the zoo or somewhere to see a group of cripples.
But their fur was still well preserved, so Hassana strangled them directly.