Chapter 40: "The Battle of the Predators-I"
Mao Xiaomi naturally didn't know that Li Hang was about to leave, and after forming another layer of ice armor on her body, she rubbed mischievously on Li Hang's body, rubbing herself and Li Hang's hair into a mess.
Li Hang's heart was full of bitterness, but he didn't show the slightest trace on the surface, and he was still playing with the cat and Xiaomi.
At noon, the snow stopped, and the little clouded leopard seemed to be reluctant, looking up at the sky from time to time, hoping that the sky would fall snowflakes again.
The air in the mountains and forests is exceptionally fresh, especially after a light snowfall, and it is full of natural atmosphere.
Li Hang aimlessly walked with his cat and Xiaomi on this once vibrant mountain, and inadvertently, he saw a tree.
The tree that had been dry and still unchanged.
He was still in a daze, and the little clouded leopard had already remembered the tree, jumped and ran to the bottom of the tree, climbed up with a rub, and called at Li Hang with a "woo woo woo".
This scene...
Li Hang thought that he couldn't get off the tree because of his injury before, and every time he saw the cat Xiaomi scratching the insect not far away, he also looked at it like this.
I ran over quickly, and as soon as I approached the tree, I smelled a faint strange smell.
He became alert in an instant, leaning slightly down, his sharp gaze scanning around.
The smell with a faint musky scent was unforgettable for him.
Aardwolf!
It's been back too, just recently!
Although he is much stronger than he was now, every time he recalls that coyote, he is still deeply jealous of its cunning and treacherous beasts that are far beyond ordinary beasts.
It is like an experienced hunter who hides himself in a hidden place that his enemies subconsciously ignore, and when the opponent is misled by the misinformation it leaves, it suddenly attacks, hitting the point and even killing it with one hit.
Feeling the boiling and burning of blood in his body, Li Hang raised his head and signaled to the cat Xiaomi on the tree, indicating that he was going to look for the prey and drive it over, so that it could prepare for containment, and then left as if nothing happened.
Yes, he had decided from the beginning that it was a predator battle for himself and the coyote.
He doesn't allow anyone to meddle!
It is also thanks to the special smell of the coyote, otherwise, with this light snow, Li Hang can completely lose its traces.
He lowered his head and unhurriedly took the tree as the center of the circle, looking for new traces in circles, his body as he walked, and every muscle alternated between relaxation and tension, ensuring that he could attack at any time.
Perhaps this time the god of luck favored him again, and it didn't take long for Li Hang to find new traces under a pine tree whose roots had been cut open.
The mountains and forests in winter have lost their vitality in summer and autumn, but they are not only dead and silent, such as the whitebark pine in front of me, which is still green in the cold wind.
But under the tree, which was once covered with pine needles, it was now a mess, and the dug ground was littered with dry soil and soft dead grass.
Looking at this sign, Li Hang didn't have to guess to complete that picture in his heart.
An unknown little animal, prepared food for the winter, hid itself in a well-arranged nest, curled up, ready to survive another harsh winter in its life.
Unexpectedly, even though it had hidden its small home very carefully, it still couldn't guard against the cunning and cruel beast.
The beast, unsuspected, turned over the pine needles on the ground and the thick branches that covered the nest.
There is no escape......
It can only curl itself up in fear in the deepest part of the nest, praying for a miracle. But reality is not a fairy tale, and when the coyote completely dug open the hole of the den, its fate was already sealed.
Li Hang supported his ears to pay attention to the surrounding movements, stretched his paws into the hole that was dug up, felt the slightly warm dryness inside, and mentally calculated the approximate time when the coyote would leave.
The smell was already strong, and the burrows had not yet cooled, all of which fully meant that the coyotes were not very far away.
In the howling of the cold wind, he seemed to have the illusion that he was being watched secretly by the cunning animal.
Li Hang took a few deep breaths slowly, calmed himself down as much as possible, and cautiously followed the scent of the coyote.
Not for a while.
He cautiously walked through a sparse bush again, and saw a coyote covered in black and white stripes under a tree not far away, startled by the slight sound, and turned his head to look.
There was still a trace of blood sticking to the corner of its mouth, looking at Li Hang's two eyes were bloodshot, and his shriveled stomach was filled with a mountain mouse, and it did not become plump, but became even hungrier.
Li Hang looked at it with his gaze, and Sihao looked at it timidly, and walked out of the bush step by step.
The coyote's eyes narrowed, stretched out his tongue and licked the blood stains at the corners of his mouth that had not yet dried, stood up and walked towards Li Hang as well.
The two beasts with disparity in body seemed to sense each other's trickiness at this moment, and after getting close to a certain distance, they stared at each other with their eyes fixedly fixed on each other, and circled around the open space two meters in front of them.
The battle first starts with a competition of endurance, and whoever can't help it first will be seized by the opponent to calmly deal with the counterattack.
Although the other party looked much weaker than it, when it noticed the two tails that Li Hang was dragging on the ground, it already remembered the food that escaped from its mouth, and it was also the strange cat that was seriously injured and dying, and its two tails could also break branches.
Looking at the strange cat in front of him, which was far inferior to it, under the urging of a convulsion in his stomach, he still took the lead in attacking.
It had been in this mountain forest for a long time, and it knew that this feline animal was agile and fast, guarding against Li Hang's fast claws and tail, and pounced on it the moment his footsteps just fell.
"Huh"
Li Hang's reflexes were completely beyond the coyote's expectations, only to see him kick his hind legs, dodge to the side, and flick his tail while dodging the coyote's attack.
The tail that was pumped from bottom to top was like an iron whip, hitting the coyote's empty jaw.
The moment the coyote failed to pounce, it expected that it might be counterattacked by Li Hang. Looking at the tail that flicked over, it was too late to dodge, so he simply lowered his head and met it with a hard forehead.
Canines are often described as "copper-headed, iron-tailed, tofu-waisted", and the coyote knows how strong its head is, and is ready to bite off its tail after withstanding the blow.
"Smack!" a loud bang echoed nearby.
Li Hang didn't use his two tails to pull it together, just to throw out this whip tail with the strongest attack power.
The coyote still misestimated the power of the other party's whip tail, although it was barely blocked and not seriously injured, half of the ear on the head was directly cut off and fell to the ground in blood.
If it hadn't been for a tingling pain at the base of its ears, which made it wake up from its dizzy state and run a few steps, perhaps the outcome of this battle would have been decided.