The lion goes wandering

Chapter 17 Seeing Through the Human Trap
It was very late at night, and a full full moon hung on the peacock-blue sky, painting the hot African land with a silvery white cool color.The barking of dogs and the hustle and bustle of people fell silent. Occasionally, a horned owl swooped down from the tree with flapping wings and plunged into the rat-infested grass, breaking the silence of the night.

Peach Blossom Eyes and Red Ribbon went ashore wet, shook off the water droplets on their bodies, and looked around for food to satisfy their hunger.They haven't eaten for almost two days, and their eyes are green with hunger; after running for a whole day, their energy is exhausted, and they are in urgent need of nutrition.

The cattle and sheep that can be seen everywhere on the grassland and along the river bank during the day are not allowed to enter the stables and sheepfolds surrounded by strong fences before dark.Passing through a few villages, I could hear old sows snoring and smell turkeys, but that was a place where humans lived, and there were groups of dogs closely guarding it, rushing into it was equivalent to rushing into hell.There are quite a few mice, but they are very clever, and they will go into the cave and disappear if there is any trouble.Unlucky, when the full moon was sinking in the west, the rooster crowed all over the place, but I didn't even see a rotting animal carcass.

If there is nothing to eat tonight, they will starve and collapse in the fields without bothering people and dogs to chase them down tomorrow.

A cobra was crawling slowly on the path, Tao Huayan hesitated for a moment, then ran after it.Generally speaking, when a lion encounters a cobra, it will shy away wisely.Although a lion is a large beast, it does not have the ability to resist snake venom. If it is bitten by a highly venomous cobra, it will die in a few minutes.A lion catching a cobra is like drinking poison to quench thirst.Peach Blossom Eyes is really hungry, a little desperate.

But before Taohuayan arrived, the cobra suddenly twisted its body, squeaked and jumped onto a small tree by the side of the road, and climbed up to the top of the tree as if flying.Peach Blossom eyes fluttered to nothing.The cobra's tail is hooked to a branch, its flat head hangs down from the treetop, and its bright red core is viciously swallowed at the peach blossom eyes standing under the tree, as if to say, if you have the ability, come to the tree to catch me!

Taohuayan stared dryly with anger.

At this moment, in the quiet night, the gentle wind, baa—a sheep blew, short and weak, if there was nothing, it was quickly drowned out by the rustling of the wind and grass.

The red ribbon thought it was an auditory hallucination caused by its excessive hunger, and it shook its head vigorously, trying to shake the illusory sheep bleating from its ears.

Baa—the cry of the sheep came again, real and clear, and there was no room for any doubts.The dim eyes of the two half-sized male lions suddenly brightened.There are no villages around, and sheep bleat in the wilderness. For the hungry lion, it is nothing less than a blessing from nature.They looked at each other excitedly in the dark, then turned around and ran towards the northwest where the sheep bleated.

Over a mound, through a bush, into a miscellaneous forest, from here came the sound of sheep bleating.

The moonlight was mottled in the woods, and it was dark.They opened their eyes wide and observed carefully, and found a mass of white things wriggling in a strange-shaped bush; they raised their noses to smell, and a sweet smell of mutton entered their nostrils.Sure enough, it was a snow-white lamb, curled up in a dark corner deep in the bushes.

Peach Blossom was so greedy that her saliva flowed out, and the red streamer wanted to swallow the whole lamb immediately. However, although the lamb was close at hand, it was not easy to get it. There were many wooden stakes nailed to the ground with the mouth of a bowl. They are arranged very densely one after the other, and the gap in the middle is so small that even a lion's claw can't get in. The height is about three meters, and there is a roof on it. The lamb stays in this sturdy wooden cage.The wooden cage is built in the bushes, and the wooden stakes and tree trunks are arranged together, which is very secretive and difficult to be found.

The two brothers hit the cage with their bodies, but the cage remained motionless; they scratched at the stake with their claws, and the claws hurt, but it still didn't help.

——Alas, I was so happy for nothing, after a long time, it turned out that it was a flower in the mirror, a moon in the water, and a sheep in a cage!

——Oh, I can hear the bleating of the sheep and smell the smell of the sheep, but I can't eat the lamb meat. I really want to starve to death!

Two half-sized male lions greedily looked at the shivering lamb in the dark cage, and slowly circled around the huge wooden cage, hoping to find a gap where the lion's claws could be inserted.

Walking around a dead tree that was struck to death by lightning, they suddenly discovered that there was a big hole on the side of the cage, which was big enough for a lion to get in.Peach Blossom Eyes tentatively protruded into half of the head from the hole. Although the cage was very dark, bits and pieces of moonlight permeated in, and everything inside could still be seen clearly: the little lamb was leaning against a wooden post in the center of the cage.Seeing the lion's face appearing at the entrance of the door, out of the instinctive fear of herbivores against carnivores, it struggled to back up, but couldn't move a step. It could be seen that the lamb was tied to a wooden post.

It was only a few steps from the door opening to the wooden post, and there was no barrier in between. With just a light jump, he could jump on the little lamb.This little lamb is so easy to catch, but Taohuayan has doubts.If this is really a closed sheepfold, why is the door wide open?It already knows that almost all the five animals and six grains on this land are raised and planted by humans. How could smart humans give a lamb to a lion to eat?Sheep pens are usually built on the edge of the village, and there are shepherd dogs guarding them day and night. Why did this wooden cage for sheep appear in the woods in the wilderness?This little lamb is probably not yet weaned. Isn't it too counterintuitive to stay here alone without the company of the ewe?There might be a ghost here, Tao Huayan withdrew from the door opening.

The red streamer took over from Peach Blossom Eye and stood at the door. Seeing the frightened little lamb, it suddenly remembered the scene of the pelican catching fish it had seen in the Lorian Swamp: the pelican would pick a fish from the bread tree. When the flower buds are eaten, they come to the shallow water beach where fish come and go, flick their necks, and throw the flower buds on the water surface; the greedy fish float to the surface to peck the flower buds, and the pelicans stretch out their large mouth shells like fishing nets like lightning. , Swallow the deceived fish into his mouth.Even if pelicans can use bait to catch fish, cunning humans can also use bait to catch lions!They have suffered from human beings, so they must be more careful.

The red streamer swallowed her mouth full of saliva, and left the door of the sheep cage in frustration.

Two half-grown male lions wandered painfully in front of the sheep cage, giving up the delicious meal in front of them, which meant that they would no longer have the strength to escape from the siege of humans and dogs tomorrow; but if they went to eat the lamb, the risk was too great If you want to enter, you dare not enter, and if you leave, you are reluctant to leave, so embarrassing to death.

Aww——At this moment, a cheetah roared from outside the miscellaneous forest. Peach Blossom Eyes and Red Ribbon looked at each other in the dark, and a brilliant idea came up in the heads of the two lions almost at the same time: let the cheetah enter the cage to catch it If you succeed in biting the lamb, you will not encounter any danger. As soon as the cheetahs come out of the cage, they will go up to cut the trail and rob. Two male lions, are they afraid of a cheetah?
If the lamb is the bait, as they fear, then the cheetah is their scapegoat.They go around the back of the wooden cage, stick their mouths against the gaps between the wooden posts, and blow on the lamb in the cage. The strong smell of carnivore blood blows on the lamb, like blowing from another world. The coming chilly wind frightened the little lamb to bleat continuously, sending a message to the cheetah that the delicious food is here.

After a while, there were rustling sounds in the miscellaneous woods, and a cheetah appeared in the moonlight.Its body hair is messy, the corners of its eyes are covered with goblins, it is old and ugly, and its stomach is empty. It can be seen that it has probably not eaten food for a day or two.It didn't have time to observe the movement around it. As soon as it reached the doorway, it rushed into the cage without hesitation. The peach blossom eyes and red ribbon could be seen clearly through the gap. The old cheetah threw itself in front of the wooden pillar and opened its mouth wide open. Can't wait to bite the lamb's neck and pull it hard. Boom, the wooden post that binds the lamb jumped up in an instant. Dead door.The sheep cage became the old cheetah's cage.The old cheetah bounced around, kicked, kicked, and rushed, but the wooden cage was very strong. It seemed that it would never want to break out of the cage again in this life.

The peach blossom eyes and the red streamer are shocking and jaw-dropping.

Aw——Aw—the old leopard roared angrily one after another.

Bow woof—woof woof—there was a violent dog barking outside the miscellaneous forest, and there were also faint shouts of people.

Peach Blossom Eyes and Red Ribbon were so frightened that they lost their souls, turned around and fled, and fled to the edge of the Batia Desert in one breath.

How dangerous, if it wasn't for an old cheetah to die for them, one of them would be trapped by humans and become a beast in a cage, and I still have lingering fears thinking about it.

A water-red morning glow appeared in the sky, and the bright light was like thousands of golden arrows, shooting through the thick night and casting a layer of morning light on the earth.They are standing on the boundary line between the desert and the oasis. Under the sun, the undulating sand dunes are like rushing lava, while the forests and grasslands on the oasis are floating with colorful clouds.Of course they like oases and don't want to step into the desert again.If they can choose freely, they hope to live in this rich land forever in this life.

However, it turned out to be an unattainable dream.Although the world is very big, the place left for lions to live is very small.For wild animals, humans are like gods, and they cannot compete with humans for living space.

Nawan Uerba, for human beings, may really be an angel ranch, but for lions, it is a devil's cemetery!
It was almost dawn, and since they were judged as man-eating lions, humans would not let them go. As soon as dawn, people and dogs would dispatch to carry out a larger-scale and more ferocious encirclement and suppression of them.They were hungry and exhausted, and they could no longer be as lucky as they were yesterday, escaping the pursuit of humans and dogs.The only way to survive is to go through the Batia Desert and return to the Lolian Prairie.

They shouldn't have left the Rollian Prairie in the first place.In order to find a paradise for lions, they crossed the Batia Desert with untold hardships, their scarred faces died unexpectedly, and the big lions also returned to the west, but what they found was a place that was more dangerous and difficult to gain a foothold than the Lolian Prairie.Perhaps, for the lion, there is no existing paradise in this world, and there is no happiness that can be obtained without bloodshed and struggle.

There are indeed many good places in the world, but those good places either belong to humans or are occupied by big lions. It is very difficult for a half-big lion to have a chance of survival!

The sun rose from the horizon, and dogs barked in the distance. Peach blossom eyes and red streamers gazed at this rich and fertile land for the last time, stepped into the dry and hot desert, and the beggars standing majestically on the horizon Mount Limanjaro guides them.

They had just crossed the desert once not long ago, so they knew the terrain and the route.Walking straight for half a day, they can reach the small pond where Scarface was martyred, where there is water to quench their thirst and the carcass of the black rhino to satisfy their hunger.They should be able to walk out of the desert alive and return to the Rollian Prairie.

(End of this chapter)