Chapter 26: "Discovery"

No one cares if an unknown fox lives or dies.

Just like Li Hang, he doesn't care about the residual smell on his body.

He found an upwind spot and began to eat along the wound.

Because at the upwind port, the smell of the fox was blown away by the wind, and he felt a lot better to eat.

As he was eating, a faint strange smell drifted over with the wind.

Enduring the smell of meat, Li Hang suddenly smelled this smell, and couldn't help but raise his head and sniff behind him.

This smell......

Li Hang's body was about to tremble with instant excitement!

That's right, it had a faint musk-like smell, exactly the same thing he smelled in the zoo's coyote section.

It's really a poor mountain and a water, and there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village.

He searched for so many days, and he couldn't find it in the seven peaks demarcated according to the coyote's species habits, but who would have thought that it would be hidden in this mountain!

Li Hang couldn't care about eating the fox, turned around and faced the wind, chasing the taste, and ran all the way.

Over a few small hills, the strange musk smell in the air became heavier and heavier, and came from several directions.

Li Hang hesitated for a moment, followed the one with the heaviest smell, and found only a pile of coyote feces at the source.

Undeterred, he continued to search for several other scents.

Unfortunately, there are still no coyotes near the source of several other smells.

Although he didn't find it, Li Hang was still very excited, the task that he had already given up suddenly had such an obvious clue, compared to his state in the past two days, could he not be happy?

Li Hang forgot about hunger for a while, and looked for these strong or light flavors with great interest.

But I searched for an afternoon to no avail.

He was going to go back and get something to eat before continuing to look for it.

To his surprise again, the fox was rarely cut off by other animals, and Li Hang suddenly felt that his bad luck was really over.

After eating the fox quickly, Li Hang didn't have time to delay, and then turned back to look for the coyote.

Well?

There's a heavier smell here, I haven't been here before, I think it wasn't so long ago.

Sniffing this new breath, he quickly searched for the source.

The smell finally came from a few tall and dry bushes on a dirt slope, and Li Hang ran over in a hurry.

I just ran to the nearest bush and the accident happened!

"Meow~嗷~"

In the bushes next to him, a hideous head stretched out without warning, and bit Li Hang like lightning.

In an instant, the wound on Li Hang's waist that was bitten was like a spring.

Careless!

Li Hang thought in annoyance, and at the same time felt that the back half of his body seemed to be numb, and he couldn't exert any strength.

He hurriedly transformed into a rabbit.

The wound didn't seem to improve because of the change, but rather because it was a little bigger, allowing the coyote's teeth to bite into the flesh a little deeper.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the endurance tenacity of the rabbit is much better than that of the cat.

It's too late to continue to reflect on your own stupidity.

Li Hang endured the coyote's tearing, and did not hesitate to tear off a small piece of flesh by its sharp teeth, and struggled to break free when the coyote was startled by his sudden transformation.

For the first time, he felt that death was so close to him.

The thick fur on the rabbit's body was stained with blood, and blood was still flowing from the torn wound.

Matt is a coyote, a coyote born and raised in a safari park.

Its parents were also born in the zoo.

As for further afield, it doesn't know.

From an early age, it can feel different from other coyotes.

The difference is not in appearances, but in ideas and thought patterns.

Yes, this is a coyote with its own thinking patterns and ideas!

For this reason alone, it is destined to be different from other coyotes.

When I was young, I didn't think it was wrong, that is, I played with other baby coyotes, coquettishly followed my mother, and ate the food delivered regularly from the zoo, and I took it all for granted and normal.

Except for the evil neighbor hyena next door......

Until the appearance of that day.

Matt now remembers that day, the afternoon that shattered its carefree life.

It was a rainy afternoon, and the hyenas barked wildly as usual, most of them were born in the zoo like him, and they were already used to the presence of the neighboring coyotes, and they knew that they could not help the coyotes separated by an iron fence, but they still liked to bark.

Before the rain rained too much, the park sent a few new hyenas to the hyena area next door, and in order to prevent conflicts between them, the old and new hyenas were deliberately separated by barbed wire.

The hyena area is divided into two, and next to the coyote area are the new hyenas.

At that time, Matt was still an active and playful age, relying on his size to be slightly larger than the other little coyotes, and became the eldest of their little coyotes.

They didn't think there was anything wrong with the more identical hyenas next door, and they were still playing around in the light rain as usual.

Matt overhears of a hyena next door scratching at the bottom of the barbed wire, where the rusty corner has been bitten through a small gap.

Matt was curious, curious about what the hyena was doing?

I couldn't help but walk over.

The hyena ignored him, still biting hard, and the blood foaming from the corner of his mouth could not make it stop.

Matt couldn't help but get closer, wanting to take a closer look at this guy who usually only screams and doesn't know that it hurts.

Before it could take a closer look, the barbed wire was finally bitten by the hyena and made a small bowl-sized gap.

The hyena tried twice, jerked its head out of the barbed wire, and bit Matt's big tail.

"Whoa, whoa"

Matt was startled by the sudden attack, and instantly felt a piercing pain coming from his tail, and he couldn't help but scream loudly.

The coyotes and hyenas who heard its bark all looked over.

"Whoop~whoa"

The moment its mother heard the cry, she hurried over and howled wildly around Matt.

The hyena's outstretched head was still biting Matt's tail, unmoved.

The panicked mother saw that her screams were useless, and Matt's hoarse screams made it even more anxious.

It couldn't help but lower its head and bite the hyena with its own child in its mouth.

The hyena was like an experienced hunter, and the moment Mait's mother bit him, he let go of Mait's tail, turned his head sideways to meet him, and accurately bit the other's neck, and at the same time retracted his head into the barbed wire, so that all the poor mother's counterattacks were useless.

Matt watched as his mother was dragged by the hyena by the neck and dragged to the barbed wire, her neck was gushing with blood, her limbs were struggling helplessly, and her mouth could only let out a low moan of "whine".

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa"

Matt barked frantically, looking back at the other coyotes behind him from time to time, trying to ask for their help.

To its disappointment, there was no hint of wanting to come up and help in their eyes, except for timidity and cowardice, including its father.

The coyotes cowered in the corners, and they didn't even have the courage to come close and take a look, except for the wild barking of coloring.

Also, a group of animals who are timid by nature and born in a zoo, how much blood can they be expected to have?

The rain was getting lighter and lighter, and it was hitting the ground in front of me.

Matt was in utter despair, its mother's struggling body stopped shaking, and the hyena behind the barbed wire reached out and began to devour the flesh of its mother's wound.

Matt's hoarse cry stopped, and it looked numbly at the scene before it, as if frightened, and the pestle was there, motionless.

The rain gradually stopped, and the ground was damp, with traces of water and blood.

A security guard noticed something unusual and hurriedly called the zoo staff into the intercom.

Soon, a group of park staff rushed over, drove away the hyenas and Matt, and took away the coyote, who had lost most of his neck.

When he was busy, Matt didn't go too far, and watched with blank eyes as it all gradually calmed down.

As night fell, it had not yet slept, thinking quietly.

From that day on, Matt changed, and it seemed that overnight it became a completely different coyote.

He began to deliberately imitate the hyena next door that killed his mother, as if it was biting food, as if it were bullying its own kind, and as if he was scratching at a new barbed wire.

The little coyotes that had followed behind its buttocks had been bitten by it one by one, and if their mother hadn't rushed over to stop them, they might have been bitten to death by one or two.

As the days passed, Matt grew bigger and bigger, bigger than any other coyote, and the slightly smaller hyenas were about the same size.

Its ferocity also slowly manifested itself, and when it had just caught up with the size of other adult coyotes, he provoked and bit all the adult coyotes in turn, even if he was besieged by two adult coyotes once, he bit one to death by wounding in exchange for injury.

It brutally tore half of the same kind it had bitten to death as food.

When the breeder found out, Matt was quarantined.

Isolated alone in the deep corners of the coyote colony, it still refuses to be at peace, always looking for every opportunity to provoke its kind.

It wasn't until later that the keeper was careless.

Matt found an opportunity to escape from the safari park and into the Qinling Mountains.

In the mountains, it forced itself not to eat insects and corpses, but to hunt all living creatures.

At the beginning, it was always hungry, but fortunately it didn't have the same appetite as Li Hang, and it was okay to eat once and skip a meal for a day or two, but slowly, when it became familiar with its own environment, its powerful hunting talent gradually became prominent.

In this valley, not too far from the human settlement, Matt used his cunning and strength to become the new lord, and most of the predators were turned into food for his stomach.

Although humans occasionally come in here, Matt, who is familiar with the smell of humans, never meets humans, and only quietly dominates here.