Chapter 25: ◎Prairie Model Working Leopard (25)◎
It's a pity that the little leopard now can't guess what the other person is thinking. She was bitten for no reason, and she felt innocent even if it didn't hurt.
Shi Qiao thought for a while and simply stood up and assumed a fighting posture.
Isn't it just a fight? If it doesn't work out, she can also fight with the boss.
Klein looked at the little leopard across from him and was speechless. He left the remains of the prey on the spot, stepped forward, grabbed the skin of the little leopard by the back of her neck, and walked back.
As Shi Qiao was being dragged away, she looked back at the carcass that the hyenas had come up to plunder. She felt a little reluctant to let go. The wildebeests were really delicious and she wanted to catch them next time.
It's just that she doesn't always have the chance to catch wildebeest. The group of wildebeest that set off north first left their territory. If they want to find wildebeest again, they have to travel long distances around the territory, which is really not cost-effective.
Things are rare and valuable. Shi Qiao felt that she had never tasted them before, so she couldn't stop eating them once she tasted them.
After a while, when the rainy season comes to an end, more herbivores will pass through here. They just need to wait patiently.
The rain is no longer as frequent as before, but the temperature is getting lower and lower. This kind of weather is not common. At least Shi Qiao had never experienced such cold weather since she came to the grassland, and she was a little uncomfortable for a while.
The clusters of white flowers on the acacia trees had withered and fallen in the previous heavy rains, falling to the ground and becoming fertilizer. The crown of the tree looked quite bald.
The gaps between the branches of the trees become larger, making it easier for cold air to invade after the temperature drops, especially after the sun is blocked by clouds.
When Shi Qiao went to bed at night, she couldn't help but want to crawl into the boss's arms.
Fortunately, leopards have warm fur, otherwise, the temperature difference between day and night would be really unbearable. She had thought that it would be fine after the heavy rain and that there would be no such bad weather in the future. Unexpectedly, she still underestimated the uncertainty of nature.
Shi Qiao had heard before that humans living in equatorial countries would freeze to death when the temperature dropped by more than ten degrees. When she heard that at the time, she was just surprised. Now that she thinks about it, it has something to do with their physical constitution.
The animals are accustomed to a climate where the grassland is higher than the temperate zone, and the sudden change from warm to cold is very unbearable for the animals.
Not to mention the drizzle that occasionally mixes with it, making the fur on the body damp, and freezing at night. Many small animals froze to death in such weather.
For leopards, the only thing they can do is lick their fur every day and try to keep themselves dry. Fortunately, they don't live alone, Shi Qiao thought.
If she could only shive in a tree alone on such a cold night, she would probably freeze out in a few days.
The little leopard wanted to stand up and shake off the dew dripping from the leaves on her head. As soon as she shook herself, she felt the cold wind whizzing into the cracks in her hair. She was so cold that she quickly lay back to find the Big Brother stove next to her to keep warm.
She originally wanted to strike while the iron was hot and catch a few more prey, but in the blink of an eye, she encountered a catastrophic drop in temperature.
The plan to gain weight also completely failed.
Fortunately, she had a good meal before the temperature dropped, so she didn't have to waste her own energy searching for food all over the world in this weather.
Shi Qiao felt that her wet head was slowly drying up under the big man's licking, and then she breathed a sigh of relief and stuffed her cold hind legs under the other man's belly.
There is no way, who makes the other person feel warm?
She also eats the same thing every day, and the boss is neither afraid of heat nor cold, which makes him look good.
The little leopard, who was afraid of the cold, curled up into a ball, wishing to shrink itself back into its cub form and get into his belly.
Feeling the coldness of the other party, Klein took the little leopard into his arms and circled his tail around the other party to block the cold wind blowing from all directions.
After she warmed up, she felt much more comfortable, and Shi Qiao no longer wanted to sleep.
She doesn't have to go out to hunt in the middle of the night. She slept too much during the day and now she can't sleep. She moves her front paws and kicks her back legs, trying to keep every paw warm.
The more dishonest she was, the hotter the big leopard next to her became. Shi Qiao only thought that the friction between the fur and the fur could generate heat. There was no static electricity everywhere, so she simply continued to move around to help the other person get warmer.
The little leopard was patted on the back in warning by the tip of the opponent's tail, but the little leopard didn't take it to heart at all and continued to keep warm on the "leopard print blanket" happily.
Suddenly her movements froze, as if she had touched something special, and she instantly retracted her legs.
So embarrassing.
Shi Qiao couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to crawl in. She just accidentally molested the boss without knowing it!
When the little leopard thought that she could move around freely in the big boss's arms as a child, she forgot that her current figure was much better than before. If she wasn't careful, she might dig her toes into the ground like she is now.
After all, she is not a purebred leopard. She is still a little more human-like at heart, which makes me feel embarrassed no matter how much she thinks about it.
Shi Qiao lay there for a long time with her eyes and nose and nose in mind, and then she dared to glance at the other party quietly.
She found that Klein's expression was normal except for warning her with his tail just now. When she became more honest, he closed his eyes and continued to rest with his eyes closed, and then she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Even if she had a hundred more courage, she wouldn't dare to move. She even wanted to climb to another tree branch to calm down.
In the past, she was busy growing up and ignored these problems. Just now, Shi Qiao realized for the first time in her life that even if he was a male mother with a cub, Klein was the opposite sex to her.
After spending time together day and night, she unknowingly formed a habit of being close to the boss.
It was understandable when they were still cubs and sub-adults, but in the special period when they were about to become adults, it was a bit unreasonable.
Shi Qiao was thinking about things in her mind, feeling the warmth around her that could not be ignored, and felt that she could no longer be as clingy to each other as she was when she was a child, so she had to sleep separately!
After making up its mind, the little leopard slowly lifted its head first from the opponent's paw and moved it out quietly, and then stretched out her two front paws from each other's arms to try, and then she lay back down again because of the cold.
Shi Qiao closed her eyes and brainwashed herself, forget it, death in society is better than death in the cold.
After going back and forth several times, she was frightened again just now, and her brain, which was just about to get sleepy, became more alert. The little leopard simply broke the jar, exposed its head to the branches, and blew it away to cool off, blowing away all the messy thoughts in its mind.
Before Shi Qiao fell asleep, she was still thinking that to prevent this situation from happening again today, she would still find an opportunity to sleep under a separate tree with the boss after the temperature rose again.
No matter how bad it is, she has to stay on other branches. She can't be the same as before.
Fortunately, the cold air on the grassland lasted for a short time. Within two days, the humidity in the air dropped, and it was not so cold even if the wind blew again.
After several days of cuddling together in the trees to keep warm, relying on the heat stored in the previous meals to maintain their strength, the little food in their stomachs was consumed, and it was time to hunt again.
Shi Qiao went down from the tree to stretch her bones, which had been weak in the tree for the past few days, and couldn't wait to walk ahead.
Hunt and hunt, and let the fragrant prey appease her hungry stomach for several days.
The little leopard has always been active in hunting activities, and Klein also followed behind her, sniffing carefully for the smell of prey along the way.
Seeing that the boss had taken over the task of finding food, Shi Qiao obediently let him lead the way while she returned to follow.
The temperature has dropped sharply in the past few days, and many small animals have frozen to death. However, after a few days, we were spoiled a lot by vultures, hyenas, and wild dogs that were not afraid of the cold. When they saw a corpse, it was just a piece of chicken and a dog. The leopard had no way to eat it, so it had to hunt it by itself.
Shi Qiao didn't know how many times she saw a hare carcass with no good meat, and finally gave up the plan of picking it up.
Klein slowed down a bit, apparently noticing traces of other animals.
Shi Qiao followed the other person's gaze and listened carefully, and then heard the heavy sound of hooves. The sound was neither impala nor gazelle nor wildebeest nor zebra. It was a bit duller than these herbivores.
The little leopard was inexperienced, and before she could tell what kind of prey it was from the footsteps, she heard their cries again.
It turns out to be one of the five ugly animals in Africa, the African buffalo.
The wildebeest, a close relative of the cow that had just eaten a meal last time, are they going to challenge the more powerful buffalo this time?
When Shi Qiao thought about the smell of wildebeest, she felt a little excited. She stopped thinking about the ferocious buffalo she had seen before. This kind of large prey was something that leopards would never dare to think about. It made her even more nervous than hunting wildebeest.
Just as she was about to persuade the boss to give up and look for easy prey elsewhere, she saw the other party running in the direction of the buffalo without hesitation.
Shi Qiao was so impressed by Klein's courage that if the big boss wanted to come forward, the little follower would have no choice but to just follow him and it would be done.
The buffaloes who were shifting their positions were to their north. The little leopard still hesitated when she ran over and saw a group of buffaloes.
They have arrived at the place where the lions live, and there is no guarantee that they will encounter the lions.
She was right, the lionesses of the lion group were now closing in on the buffaloes.
When the buffaloes saw the lions jumping out to hunt, they fled in haste. Then they made a heavy stamping sound that the predators could not ignore. The soft and wet soil was trampled into messy hoof prints.
When Shi Qiao saw a large buffalo that was twice as big as herself, she gave up hunting.
It would be impossible for her and Klein alone to catch prey that even a lion would need to be surrounded by several lions to capture.
Fortunately, a certain male leopard is not so bold as to use the lightweight body of a leopard to challenge a large prey like a buffalo. He had just seen the figure of a lioness hunting, so he came over to see if he could eat another round after the lion's meal was over.
Only then did Shi Qiao feel relieved.
She couldn't challenge a buffalo, so she could get a free meal from a lion's mouth.
The two leopards each climbed up a tree and watched from a distance as the lionesses surrounded the oldest buffalo in the group.
Compared to wildebeests and zebras that panic when they see predators, buffaloes have more ways to scare lions. They have rough skin and thick flesh, and the horns on their heads are thick and strong. It is no joke to hit them.
There are four female lions in total. Each one is about the same size and well-proportioned. They are not as strong as the male lions.
However, they are naturally good hunters. Compared with male lions, they have more experience in cooperative hunting. In cooperative combat when they are familiar with each other, they are already familiar with chasing and intercepting.
Two lionesses ran beside the buffalo, and the two behind them struck from behind the prey. Several lions worked together to knock a buffalo to the ground.
The big guy weighing nearly a ton was killed by the lionesses together. This level of prey is enough for their group to have a full meal. The lionesses who successfully hunted did not wait for the male lion Sunny to eat together but barked a few times in the distance to let other members come over to eat.
Shi Qiao thought to herself that the lionesses of the group were quite capable and were not stingy with other sub-adults. Even if the male lion leader is replaced by another lion, they will still be able to live well.
If a certain male lion knew what she was thinking, he would definitely become furious and look good to the little leopard who despised the lion.
After finally waiting for the lions to finish their meal, the male lion Sunny slowly ended his patrol and came over to eat.
It ate the prey caught by its own wife as a matter of course. While eating, it cast a loving look at the lionesses who had retreated to rest far away. As a result, the females didn't see any of them, and they were helping each other take care of their hair.
Sunny was stunned and concentrated on eating.
The lion leader came over, and the hyenas were dispersed. The bad-tempered lion did not allow the rival hyena to snatch his wife's beloved buffalo and would run over to scare the hyena after eating two bites.
Shi Qiao was very annoyed by it.
Don't be too lazy to eat for some lions, there are still some who are hungry.
Fortunately, the buffalo was of sufficient tonnage. After the lions finished their meal in turn, half of the carcass was left. Almost as soon as the male lion went to find his own wife, Shi Qiao got off the tree with her hind legs and ran over with the boss.
Taking the best position first, the little leopard gave it to the big one without even bothering to eat, and she went to threaten the hyena ferociously.
She felt that the most correct thing she do was to kill the hyena leader, which immediately gained a lot of power for the leopard, and even now that the hyena group had changed its leader, she was a little scared.
In fact, the little leopard has broken away from the bully-prone sub-adult group, and the sensible hyenas do not dare to act rashly in front of the even more powerful Klein.
Shi Qiao waited for a long time, and now she was so hungry that she was panicking. As soon as she turned around and prepared to eat, the hyena leader behind her, who had also not eaten for several days, lost her patience and ran closer.
Klein turned his head and roared at the hyena, lowered his body, and took a few steps closer to the hyena army, his golden eyes narrowed dangerously.
Thinking that he had not hunted and eaten in the past few days to keep her warm, the boss must also be hungry. Shi Qiao deliberately changed places with the other party, letting the other party eat first while she guarded.
Before the little leopard could walk over, the male leopard blocked it and turned it back to its prey: "Eat yours."
Klein put on a fighting stance and rushed toward the hyena group. Before he could get close to the opposite camp, they scattered like animals, without even using the strength to attack.
Keeping the order of eating after the lions, Shi Qiao happily ate the prey she picked up for free. The buffalo eats young leaves and grass like the wildebeest, and even the skin and meat have the aroma of green grass.
Although this buffalo is old, the meat inside is still pink and tender, not as juicy as the wildebeest, and it is still very satisfying to fill the stomach.
The lion Sunny noticed the two leopards who were eating and swung his tail but did not step forward to deliberately cause trouble to drive each other away.
It is still communicating with its wife and does not want to waste time on the leopard.
After helping the lions drive away stray lions and successfully protecting his cub that had not yet grown up, Sunny felt the long-lost enthusiasm of the lionesses, but it only lasted a few days.
When the weather is not so cold, the lionesses will go out to patrol every day again.
A lion is much more tired than other lions in an alliance. Fortunately, it is strong. Today, it finally took some time to come back for a meal and bumped into its old rival, the leopard.
The male lions acquiesced to the leopard's eating behavior, and the lionesses didn't bother to care. It was rare for the male lion leader to have time to communicate with his cubs, so he let the little ones crawl around on him by their manes and licked the cubs' fur with their big mouths imitating a lioness.
However, his skills still need to be improved, so he licked the little lion into a Super Saiyan Lion. The lioness glanced at the unattractive male lion, and her eyes became much softer when she looked at her cub. She lowered her head and licked the cub's messy hair.
The lion cubs still liked their mother more than their father, rolling around and playing around the lioness. Shi Qiao couldn't help but look up when she heard the cub's tender voice.
Everywhere she looks are balls of fluffy lion cubs.
They were born during the rainy season and are now several months old. They can run and jump and are so cute that Shi Qiao even forgot about the ferocious appearance of lions.
She was so attracted by the cub's naive appearance, that she turned around and poked Klein: "Look, boss, those little lions are so cute."
Klein has no interest in the lion cub. If it accidentally falls into his hands, he might want to bite the little head off.
The way the little leopard can't look away now doesn't show the cuteness of the lion at all, forcing the other person to return his attention to the food.
After eating enough and heading back home, the little leopard was still talking about the group of lion cubs on the way.
They look nothing like their father. They look more like a lioness. They are much prettier than Sunny. This is the first time she has seen a lion cub so close.
Klein sneered: "What's the matter? I've raised a cuter one."
Shi Qiao was about to say where did you raise a lion and then realized that the other person was not talking about lion cubs.
So she blushed very shamefully.
Although the boss was praising her, she was too caught off guard.
Fortunately, leopards also have fur on their faces, otherwise what the other party would see now would be the world's first pink leopard as red as the sunset on the horizon.
Shi Qiao had to admit that if she had the chance to see Klein as a child, she would definitely hold him in her arms, knead him vigorously, and then kiss him to take advantage of him in advance.
Of course, she doesn't dare to face the big boss in his adult form now, she only dares to think about it in her heart.
From the perspective of a young follower, this was a huge act of rebellion against the boss. Looking at the other person's back walking in front, Shi Qiao was filled with a deep sense of guilt.
How can this be done?
It seems that she has "evil thoughts" about the leopard that is pulling her up with one hand, and she wants to stick to him at any time even if she is not a cub.
Shocked by her own inexplicable thoughts, Shi Qiao stood there for a long time before hearing Klein's voice calling her. She hurriedly shook her head and lifted her heels.
Along the way, the little leopard didn't dare to look at him, and in her heart, she despised herself in every aspect.
Just imagine rubbing the boss in his cub stage, how come she can even imagine the adult form?!
The way the boss turned over his belly like a group of lion cubs and rubbed against each other should have made other beasts on the grassland feel very frightened, but Shi Qiao felt a little itchy. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that not only her face was red, but the tip of her tail was infected with heat.
Shi Qiao climbed up the tree first and hit her head on the branch twice.
She felt that the impact of the rainy season was not only on her body size but also on her head, which made her unable to face the boss.
When Klein below also climbed up, he lay down next to her. Smelling the fragrance of the other party mixed with the fragrance of grass and trees, the little leopard who was depressed when she hit the tree just now couldn't help but shrug her nose and subconsciously moved closer, wanting to bury her face in the fur and take a good smell.
Shi Qiao suddenly came to her senses, immediately jumped up, and jumped onto the opposite branch.
She wrapped her tail around her eyes and growled randomly at the male leopard below: "I will sleep by myself from now on. Boss, don't come over"
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Klein was not happy anymore and raised his foot to go over and take the little leopard back.
Shi Qiao hurriedly jumped onto the branch above her head. The branch became thinner as she went up. The male leopard below her looked up at her, signaling the little leopard to be more conscious and come down to rest.
Unable to do anything else, Shi Qiao simply climbed up again.
She needed a little independent space to control the water in her head, untie the messy ball of yarn in her head, and wash away her dirty thoughts.
Seeing that the little leopard was determined not to come down, Klein narrowed his eyes and climbed up toward the other party's position.
However, he did not settle on the branch of the tree. The male leopard grabbed the little leopard in his mouth without any effort and brought the little leopard back down.
Shi Qiao did not expect that this would not stop him, so she jumped back to the ground from the tree, found another tree, climbed up, and firmly hugged the branch under her with her claws as if she was about to separate today.
He doesn't know if all leopards will start to disobey when they are raised to this age. Klein himself has no experience, but he just feels that the little leopard is particularly rebellious today.
He called to the other party under the tree: "Come down."
The little leopard scratched its neck with dignity: "I won't go down."
Shi Qiao looked left and right, looking for the next place to stay. Judging from the way the boss was accumulating strength, she estimated that if she stayed in this small tree, even the trunk would be broken by a few slaps from the male leopard who was not easy to mess with.
Before the other party came up to catch her, Shi Qiao jumped directly onto the branch of another tree nearby. This trick was learned by Jeremy.
Jumping back and forth between the acacias not far away.
Cudi, the cheetah who came to hunt, saw two leopards jumping up and down on the tree playing a cat-and-mouse game from afar. Shaking his head pretentiously, it knew that Klein would have to spoil the little leopard sooner or later, and now it was time for him to admit defeat.
If any other animal dared to walk Klein like this, the male leopard would have jumped up, caught him, and eaten him alive. How could he have struggled for so long?
In fact, it's pretty much what Cheetah thinks.
Klein just thought that the little leopard was not chasing prey today and had too much energy to expend. Only then did he remember that it was one thing at a time, so he simply chased the other person to consume her energy and then picked it back up when the other person was tired.
It's just that he underestimated Shi Qiao's determination to sleep on her own.
The little leopard couldn't escape the opponent's claws, so it jumped back to the ground and ran away.
Leave her alone!
Her brain is now short-circuited and she doesn't dare to look directly at the boss. She just wants to run away and be quiet and analyze the current situation.
The more the opponent chased her, the more she wanted to run away. Looking back at the male leopard following her, Shi Qiao thought of an ancient classic line that fit the actual situation.
——She ran away, he chased, but they were unable to fly.
Shi Qiao: "..."
Just run up to the tree trunk and knock it out.
Shi Qiao walked in circles around the woods with the other party. What started as a thought of sleeping as a leopard turned into running around blindly until she fainted from exhaustion. When she fainted from exhaustion, she no longer had to face the mess in her head.
The baboon on the tree let out a cry of "wú wú" and stared at it with great interest. This pair of leopards, who are so in love, are finally going to fight, Wuhu!
The pampered little leopard was being chased by the male leopard, and it seemed that he would not give up until he chased her. The little leopard did not want to passively wait for death, so she ran for her slife.
From the looks of it, the group was probably going to break up sooner or later, so the baboon gloated and clapped his hands and shouted.
When the big-eared fox heard the cry of the baboon, it brought its meerkat brother to watch. There are only a few animals on the grassland that like to watch the excitement. Now they all gathered under the acacia tree to watch the two leopards chasing each other.
The little leopard felt embarrassed. After all, she couldn't outrun the big boss. On the surface, she was walking him, but in fact, she was being walked by him.
Shi Qiao finally got tired of running and thought that she would forget about today and discuss sleeping separately tomorrow.
Just as she was about to slow down and raise the white flag to surrender, she saw another leopard suddenly jump out of the bushes.
The other party also had a warthog in his mouth. He was very happy when he saw her. He put down the prey and started shouting: "Nice to meet you again, Little Rose."
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What little rose?
This leopard looked familiar. Shi Qiao took a few steps back to see the other person's face clearly. It was actually the male leopard named Felix from last time.
When Felix saw that the little leopard was being chased by the powerful male leopard, he felt that it was time for him to perform well, so he offered the warthog with a righteous look on his face.
"Don't be afraid, honey, go to my territory and I will protect you."
While speaking, Klein had already caught up with him.
He didn't use all his strength to begin with, and he thought the little leopard would be tired, so he took a few steps faster. Unexpectedly, an unknown leopard came out halfway.
When Shi Qiao heard the words "rose" and "honey", she was so shocked that she was so afraid that she quickly ran back to Klein.
Boss, come and get me, there's a lunatic here!