Chapter Twenty-Nine: "The Cunning Ball"

Before you see anyone, you hear it first.

Hearing its excited cry, Li Hang guessed that it must have caught a small prey.

Sure enough, the cat jumped out of the grass with a limp on her front legs, and she still had a large soft-shelled turtle with a twisted neck to her back in her mouth.

Seeing its embarrassed appearance, Li Hang hurriedly took a closer look.

Fortunately, there was no trace of the wound, maybe it was just bitten by the old turtle on the leg, and it didn't hurt the flesh, at most it would hurt for a while.

Staring at the cat Xiaomi who came over angrily and funny, Li Hang responded from the tree.

When the little clouded leopard heard this, he jumped up the tree with his prey in his mouth and proudly.

The days of recuperation will always pass slowly, but time is still passing day by day.

Coyote Matt was never seen nearby again.

It was the winner, but it strangely gave up its territory.

After a long time, Li Hang actually doesn't hate it anymore.

At the beginning, although it was a task request, after all, it was he who came to provoke the other party first.

With the wrong information, he was conceited to the point of losing his former caution, probably because he was too close to the human gathering place to meet a beast that could compete with him for too long.

This made him rashly intrude into the territory of another strange carnivore without any preparation, and he also roamed around the enemy's territory as if he was provocative, which was like pointing at the other party's nose and saying: "I'm here to grab the territory, you bite me!"

Li Hang reflected on his stupidity and naivety.

I think that when he went to the clouded leopard territory to investigate, although his caution was useless, if he really met the clouded leopard who had bad intentions towards him, even if he died, there was still a glimmer of life.

And at that time, if he had used the strength of his original body and the laxity when he was looking for the coyote, the result would have been ten deaths, and he would never have been spared.

He had no reason to complain about the cunning of the coyote.

He was also a predator, and he would do the same himself, but this laxity caused him to become the prey of the cunning himself.

Li Hang even admired the amazing cunning of this coyote.

Few animals will behave like this, and they will be suspicious of other predators and unprepared.

Admiration does not mean that Li Hang will give up the task. Out of respect, he won't let "Cat Mi" mix in and bully him,

Instead, use a one-on-one duel to engage in a life-and-death duel between predators with the cunning and strength of the other party.

This is not only a sign of respect for the other party, but more importantly, an opportunity to erase one's own rashness.

Of course, all of this can only be done if he is fully recovered.

After eating the soft-shelled turtle according to the rules of the little clouded leopard, Li Hang entered the state of cultivation, although the proficiency of the exercises had been completed, but he was still habitually running the true qi over and over again, without slackness.

Li Hang and Mao Xiaomi are on their way in the mountains.

His injuries had barely recovered on the surface, and his new skin and long-weakened body had made him only four or five percent of his heyday, including the bonus of the new tail.

Along the way, the order of hunting between them was reversed.

In the past, it was the cat and the cat that drove it away, and Li Hang robbed and killed.

And now, Li Hang's physical state is definitely not up to the strength to suppress his prey.

At the beginning, the cat Xiaomi missed the opportunity many times and couldn't kill it with one hit, and even escaped by the prey, with the increase in the number of hunting, it can already entangle the prey, waiting for Li Hang to come over, and kill with one tail.

Cat Xiaomi's talent is very good, even among clouded leopards.

It is always quick to learn the various demonstrations that Li Hang has made with the carcasses of his prey, from jerky to gradually proficient.

Hunt, hurry, rest, and hunt!

Li Hang squatted on the top of a small mountain, distinguishing several mountains not far away, looking for his target.

The cat looked at the human villages below the mountain with interest.

After looking at it for a long time, according to the distribution of villages in the distance, Li Hang finally found the location of Zhongnan Mountain.

Yes, they came all the way, and the destination was Zhongnan Mountain, where mission 2 was located.

This decision was made after Li Hang's careful consideration.

This idea had already occurred when Li Hang felt that his injury could support him to jump off the tree.

After all, wouldn't it be stupid and time-consuming to wait there until his injuries healed and then go to a coyote to duel.

Although if you go to Zhongnan Mountain first, you have to come back, and it is inevitable that there will be some delay in the middle, but this is not worth mentioning compared to the time spent recuperating from the injury.

No matter how you think about it, it is the best choice to find the mountain spirit required in mission 2 first.

Searching for something in a mountain range close to a human gathering place, as long as you deliberately avoid humans, you will never encounter too many dangers.

In fact, the small mountain they are now on is also Zhongnan Mountain in a broad sense, and even all the mountains that Li Hang has walked all the way belong to Zhongnan Mountain.

But in fact, there is indeed a mountain called Jungnan Mountain.

The Jungnam Mountain Range is actually the entire mountain range that the locals habitually call Nanshan.

As the so-called picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely see the South Mountain, which is to describe the Zhongnan Mountain Range.

Therefore, the place Li Hang is looking for is the peak called "Zhongnan Mountain" in the middle of the mountain range!

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Avoiding tourists from a distance again, Li Hang was a little annoyed and anxious!

He had been searching in Zhongnan Mountain for more than half a month, and he hadn't found any clues related to the "Spirit of the Mountain" listening to something tall.

On the contrary, after a while, there will be a traveler and a tourist, which makes him annoyed and delays a lot of time.

If it was just him, it would be nothing, but there was a small clouded leopard with him, a young clouded leopard and a spotted domestic cat mixed together, it would have been a discordant scene.

How could a person like Li Hang, who was afraid of trouble, have time to deal with those tourists who could not easily distinguish between good and evil, and he had less than two months to spare.

Time is running out.

As the wound gradually healed, Li Hang was left with a bare and unsightly scar on his waist, which seriously affected the flexibility of his body.

Of course, compared to the still slightly immature cat Xiaomi, he once again returned to the position of hunting ambushers. But occasionally, when the prey is too weak, it will also switch positions with the little clouded leopard and use practice to help it improve its hunting skills.

Li Hang returned to strength, and the cat and Xiaomi gradually matured, but the two of them were still hungry and hungry.

Originally, there were not many prey in the vicinity because of the frequent human sightings, and they had to avoid these tourists often, which made the harvest even less.

After looking for so long, with the strength of the two of them, even rabbits have not eaten a few times.

Therefore, this is why Li Hang is so unkind to tourists.

"Woo~"

"Whoosh!"

In the second half of the night, when the stars dimmed, the cries of clouded leopards echoed in the canyon woods.

The cat frightened the strange creature in front of her, trying to drive it away in the direction of Li Hang's ambush.

This animal has a very strange appearance, and the little clouded leopard has never seen anything like this.

It bears a resemblance to the yellow-throated marten, which it has seen not long ago, with a long narrow body and a thick tail.

However, its whole body is covered with dense scales and a long pointed head, so it does not look like a yellow-throated marten, but rather a large lizard with fish scales.

Not long after the little clouded leopard drove away, the strange animal in front of him curled up in a ball, as if it was covered with scales and a football.

The cat Xiaomi hurriedly walked over and dialed the "ball" curiously.

The other party did not react to its actions and stayed there motionless.

The little clouded leopard was playful, and it had also seen a ball of hedgehogs, but the spikes on the other party's body could not help Li Hang at all.

Li Hang just gently pushed it into the stream, and after a while, the hedgehog opened its body because of poor breathing, and was quickly killed by Li Hang, who had been waiting for a long time.

This time the animal didn't have a single thorn on its body, and it seemed to be fun.

It stretched out its paws and flicked the "ball" again and again, and the poor animal was rolled around by the cat's little cat, and his heart was terrified.

The little clouded leopard played for a while, and thought of reporting to Li Hang, so he pushed the animal and rolled in the direction of Li Hang.

Along the way, it was playful, and it was defenseless against the animal that would not resist, and it pushed it this way and that way.

Walking to a rocky beach, he had already seen Li Hang's eyes shining green in the dark night, and he shouted excitedly to Li Hang, anxious to share his toys with him.

The "ball", which had always been honest, seemed to sense its position, realized that the opportunity had come, and suddenly opened its body and stretched out four small short legs, and quickly ran from the rocky beach to the edge of the valley.

The cat Xiaomi, who was caught off guard, didn't react, was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly pounced, trying to stop the cunning animal.

But the scales on the animal's body were hard and smooth, and the little clouded leopard grabbed its tail with its paws, and it was actually slipped away.

Seeing that Li Hang had already run over quickly, Mao Xiaomi didn't want to be seen by Li Hang when she was defeated, so she stared at the figure of the animal and chased after her.

Li Hang heard the signal of the little clouded leopard, and lay in ambush for a long time, and finally waited until the cat Xiaomi came over with a curled pangolin, and was about to meet it, but who knew that the cunning pangolin actually escaped under his nose.

He quickly quickened his pace, and saw that the cat and Xiaomi had already chased after him, and after a while, both disappeared into the night.

Although he knew that the pangolins had no attack power except for escaping, Li Hang was still worried that the cat and Xiaomi would encounter some accidents, so he chased after them.

When he chased to the stone wall on the side of the valley, the pangolin and the cat Xiaomi disappeared.

He sniffed the lingering scent of cats in the air and found a hidden crevice in the stone wall.

Looking at this stone crevice with obvious scratches and widening marks, and thinking of the pangolin that escaped all the way, it is not difficult to guess that it is the masterpiece of that pangolin.