Snow Leopard Elegy

Chapter 15 Snow Leopard Elegy (15)
In a blink of an eye, the snow demon had rushed in front of us, only four or five meters away.Jamba and I were like a wall, forcing it to stop.

"Go, don't mess around!" Qiangba snapped.

"Snow demon, be obedient, get out of here!" I also said loudly.

The snow demon shrugged its nostrils and exhaled viciously. It opened its teeth and danced its claws, and was about to pounce. The sharp teeth were stained with blood, vomit, and yelled at us shortly. Otherwise, I will deal with you as mercilessly as I did with the litter of cubs!
My legs began to tremble, and a cold air shot up my spine. Although we have been feeding it for half a year, and although it still knows us, I know that because of our repeated deprivation of its food, we have long been estranged from each other, or in other words, our relationship has long been estranged. When there is a crack, it has long been dissatisfied with us, and it will never be reluctant to bite us.It has become red-eyed, it is no longer a well-behaved big cat coiled around our knees, but a bloodthirsty beast, its fangs and claws are neither made of paper nor vegetarian, it really wants to kill Come up, my little life may be in danger.After all, Qiangba was born in hunting, and he was much more courageous than me. His legs didn't tremble, and his forehead didn't break out in cold sweat, but his face was like dust, and he was about to collapse from nervousness.

"How about it, shall I shoot?" Qiangba asked me anxiously, pointing his gun at Snow Demon's head.

Killing a two-and-a-half-year-old female leopard that is about to mature in order to save a cub that is still nursing is not a cost-effective thing from the perspective of protecting rare animals.The mission we received was to release the snow demon, we are only responsible for the snow demon, not the cub named Nao Nao, we shot and killed the one who should be responsible for us to protect Nao Nao who is not responsible for us Snow demon, isn't it an aggressive and strange thing?There are conspiracies and massacres every day in the wilderness jungle, we are not the animal police, can we control them so leniently!

After thinking for three seconds, I said firmly, "No shooting!"

The snow demon has already rushed over. Since we are not going to shoot, we can only get out of the way and obediently get out of the way.

The snow demon passed by us. I hated its savagery, so I kicked its ass, and Qiangba also spit on it. You should be shot for this kind of behavior. I kicked you and spit you. It is treated lightly!Its full attention was on the rogue cub that escaped, and it had no time to argue with us, so it ran over in a hurry.

Nao Nao's cub was still running in a hurry. He was too young and weak to escape fast. There were no caves to hide in this section of the ravine, so he was soon caught up by the Snow Demon. There was a slight fight, and then the cub's dying screams rang out. .

This guy is very clumsy at catching antelopes, but he is quite deft at slaughtering leopard cubs.

The tragedy has happened, the tragedy has been staged, and it’s meaningless for me and Qiangba to stay here any longer. I was also worried that the snow monster would come back to trouble us, so I quickly evacuated from the barren valley and returned to the Mani pile on the top of the mountain.

Continuing to observe with the binoculars, the Snow Demon is taking out the body of Jing Jing’s cub from the trumpet-shaped cave, struggling to climb the steep slope, up the ridge, to the edge of the cliff, loosen its mouth, and throw Jing Jing’s body into the abyss.

Then, it jumped down the barren valley to carry the carcass of the noisy cub.

It thought very carefully, destroyed the corpses and wiped out the traces, and made the three cubs disappear without a trace.

It is not difficult to guess the psychological motivation of the Snow Demon to do this. It needs the Big Dipper Mother Leopard. It hopes that the Big Dipper Mother Leopard will be by its side every second. It cannot tolerate the three younger siblings sharing this love.It has suffered and been wronged too much. It was once abandoned by its mother. It suffered from parting and longing, and finally found its mother again. Just a few hours a day with it.It has lost too much, according to the principle of mechanics, it wants too much, it hopes to get the mother's complete love.When it wanted to follow the Beidou mother leopard back to the lair, it was rejected, which made it jealous quickly, and malicious thoughts sprouted, looking for opportunities to kill the powerless siblings, so that the mother has no other concerns in her heart. The love of love belongs to it all.

It lost its mother's love since childhood, not only its hunting skills are blank, but its heart has also been distorted and deformed. Disasters and sufferings nourish its selfish nature, and everything is for its own sake.For animals like snow leopards, healthy maternal love creates a perfect character, while damaged maternal love creates incomplete virtue.

I understand the truth that if there is a lack of food and extreme hunger, the tragedy of cannibalism will happen. Similarly, the lack of maternal love and the hunger and thirst of love will inevitably lead to the tragedy of brotherhood.

Eight people betrayed relatives and relatives

With a broken heart, Beidou Leopard left Snow Demon forever.

Just when the Snow Demon climbed up the mountain ridge for the second time with the noisy cub's body in its mouth, suddenly, a ball of white light appeared at the end of the barren valley, like a snowball rolling fast, and it came to the small trumpet-shaped cave in a blink of an eye.

"The Beidou female leopard is back!" Qiangba said in a low voice with sharp eyes.

I took a look through the binoculars, and it turned out to be a Big Dipper female leopard.It has a high leopard tail and arched spine. It looks very nervous, panting heavily, poking its head into the small cave, and quickly retracting its head as if it had been scalded by a flame.It must have seen what it was least willing to see, the uncoagulated blood of the cub and the fluff that was bitten off when it struggled.It sniffed the smell on the ground, and soon found the body of the noisy cub lying among the rocks, let out a long growl in grief, and looked up to find the murderer.It saw the Snow Demon throwing his body on the edge of the cliff at a glance, roared, and jumped towards the mountain ridge in three steps at a time.

In the morning, the Big Dipper female leopard went to the crescent-shaped cave and found that the snow demon was not in the cave. She walked around the cave and shouted a few times, but there was no response from the snow demon. Feeling that something was wrong, she immediately rushed to her lair. , running wildly all the way, faster than chasing prey, but unfortunately still a step behind.

I don't think my judgment is wrong. It has been more than three months since the Big Dipper mother leopard and the snow demon have met, and they have never brought the snow demon back to their lair.When the snow demon stuck behind it yesterday and insisted on going home with it, it used its sharp claws and teeth to block the snow demon from the black bear-shaped rock, and even used residual hair and urine to set up a smell warning line. The snow demon approached the small trumpet-shaped cave.This strongly proves that the Beidou mother leopard does not trust the snow demon in the bottom of her heart. However, it has always been wary of the snow demon, and there is an indispellable shadow in its heart, that is, it is worried that the snow demon will hurt the three cubs who are still nursing out of selfish motives.It has long had this ominous premonition, and it has long been wary of it, but in the end it is impossible to guard against it.

I used to have a lot of opinions on the Big Dipper female leopard's resoluteness in not allowing the snow demon to approach its lair, thinking that it was narrow-minded and oversensitive, but now it seems that I was wrong.Known girl Mo Runiang, Beidou mother leopard understands the snow demon better than I do, understands the negative effects of disasters and suffering on life better than me, and understands the greedy and selfish nature of life better than I do.

I moved the binoculars to the Snow Demon, who had already thrown the body of the noisy cub into the abyss. Hearing the growling of the Big Dipper mother leopard, I was terrified. I looked around, and there were cliffs on three sides. Fleeing for his life, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and jump down from the mountain ridge.The snow leopard is an animal with claws that are hooked backwards. On a steep hillside, it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down the mountain.The Snow Demon jumped up and down clumsily, before it got down to the bottom of the ditch, the Big Dipper female leopard had already pounced on it.The two sides roared and bit, twisted into a ball, and rolled from the hillside to the bottom of the ditch, filled with dust and dust, like a battlefield of war.

After all, Snow Demon is young and lacks fighting experience. Maybe he knows that he has committed a lot of crimes.The place where they fight is not far from us, and they can be seen clearly without a telescope. The Big Dipper female leopard puts her forehead against the snow demon's chin, and the leopard's mouth penetrates the snow demon's soft neck, and the muscles of the shoulder blades and front legs twist. Trembling, there is no doubt that the leopard's teeth have grabbed the snow demon's throat and are biting hard.This is a deadly move. Even a burly yak will soon suffocate to death once the snow leopard holds its chin and holds its throat like this.The snow demon opened its mouth, but couldn't make a sound, its leopard eyes widened, like two glass balls, about to fall out of its eye sockets, its struggling movements became weaker and weaker, and it could no longer use any strength .

"Do you want to shoot into the sky?" Jamba asked me.

I was silent, not saying to shoot, not saying not to shoot.I know that the snow demon is almost finished, if we shoot into the sky, the deafening gunshots will scare the Big Dipper mother leopard away, and help the snow demon save a life.I have a certain responsibility for the life of the snow demon. For the past six months, I have lived like a savage in the snow line of Gaoligong Mountain. To survive well, in this sense, it should be shot into the sky to save its life.However, it bit and killed innocent brothers and sisters, applied human morality and law, and committed heinous crimes. I didn’t shoot it just now, and I already felt guilty for protecting the criminals. Is it too much to use gunshots to rescue it? Have you lost the principle of being a human being?

"It doesn't matter if we don't shoot it. Anyway, we didn't kill it. It asked for its own death. It has nothing to do with us." Jamba probably had the same feeling as me, and he put down the shotgun and muttered.

A trace of blood froth overflowed from the corner of Xue Yao's mouth, her limbs twitched, and she was about to step into the palace of Hades half a step away. Suddenly, we found that the muscles of the Big Dipper's shoulder blades and front legs stopped twisting and trembling, which indicated that its teeth had stopped biting. bite.It seemed to have just woken up from a dream, blinked its eyes, slowly let go of its mouth, stepped back from the snow demon, went to the corpse of the troubled cub, licked the already stiff little guy, and picked up some gravel On the body of the cub, Nao Nao walked out of the barren valley without looking back.It walked very slowly, as if its strength had been exhausted, as if its body and mind were exhausted to the extreme, and it made a heartbreaking whimper as it walked.

I can understand why the Beidou mother leopard gave up the idea of ​​killing the snow demon at the last second. The suckling cub has already suffered misfortune, and life has already brewed a cup of bitter wine. Killing the snow demon will not help, it is nothing more than brewing a second cup of bitter wine.

One glass of bitters is enough for it, there is no need to drink a second glass of bitters.

The snow demon lay on the ground writhing and panting, and after about 10 minutes, he turned over, and after about 10 minutes, he stood up tremblingly, spat out the blood foam from the corner of his mouth, and let out a desolate cry With a sound, he walked forward with difficulty.

After that, we never saw the Big Dipper female leopard again. I think she left Gaoligong Mountain forever with a wound that never healed and a broken heart.

We seldom see the snow demon anymore, it also moved from the crescent cave, and we can't find its new lair.Once, Qiangba and I set up a golden thread loop to catch white-eyes on a big tree, and suddenly saw a snow demon coming out from under another big tree next to it. Hanging with mud and weeds, the belly is also hollow, and the ribs on both sides of the chest are so thin that they protrude one by one. It can be seen that its life is not going well.It learned hunting skills from the Big Dipper female leopard. Although it has been learning for more than three months, it is too old and has poor foundation, so it has not learned the ability to survive independently.Generally, an adult snow leopard only succeeds twice out of ten hunting trips. With its ability, I think it can only succeed once out of ten hunting trips.If there is not enough food, of course it will appear to be down and out, and the spirit is listless.

When it came under the big tree where we were working, Jamba suddenly called it.It looked up at us with a cold gaze, as if looking at something it wasn't interested in at all, and then walked away nonchalantly wagging its dirty tail.

It doesn't want to talk to us anymore, it doesn't want to have anything to do with us anymore.

I think it sees us preventing it from slaughtering the three cubs that are still suckling as we are deliberately making things difficult for it and ruining its good deed.It may have thought that if we didn't stop it that time, it could throw the bodies of the three cubs into the abyss before the Big Dipper mother returned, and the Big Dipper mother would not find out that it committed the crime , so that it can achieve its goal and enjoy the care and love of the Beidou female leopard exclusively.

Nine Miserable Endings

Rather than saying that the Snow Demon was killed by jackals, it would be better to say that it was killed by greed and selfishness.

Time flies quickly, and half a year has passed in a blink of an eye.Gaoligong Mountain has entered a harsh winter, with heavy snow, north wind howling, and freezing weather.

At noon that day, the heavy snow that had been falling for several days stopped. Taking advantage of the clear weather, Qiangba and I went to the Gamar Grassland to check whether the traps we had planted caught the fat snow rabbits.As soon as they reached the mountainside, they heard fierce jackal yelling, one after another, and intermittent roars of snow leopards, as if they were fighting fiercely.

When Qiangba and I arrived at the foot of the mountain, the roar of jackals and leopards had subsided. From a distance, in the meadow covered with snow, there were dozens of jackals forming a circle and tearing up a snow leopard.Next to it was a jackal whose neck had been bitten off and lay in a pool of blood.Qiangba fired two shots into the sky, driving the jackals away.The two of us walked over and saw the snow leopard lying on the ground with round ears and short face, jet-black nose, dark blue eyes, slender and streamlined body, oh, it’s a snow demon!It was already dead, its buttocks and hind legs had been almost eaten by jackals, revealing its white bones.

It is not difficult to guess that food is in short supply in winter, and the low-quality hunting skills of the third-rate Snow Demon cannot catch prey in such harsh weather conditions. After starving for several days, there is no choice but to play the role of robber and beggar and wait by the roadside The pack of jackals waiting to return from the hunt grabs the meat held in the jackals' mouths.The Zitong old jackal chief took advantage of the snow demon's head buried in the wolf, and commanded the jackal group to surround the snow demon.When the snow demon realized that the situation was not good and wanted to resist and break through, it was already too late. The dirty claws of the copper old jackal had already penetrated the snow demon's anus, and the hot intestines were ripped out alive.After all, it was the snow leopard, the overlord of the mountains. Before dying, it grabbed a jackal and bit its neck off.

Xue Yao was less than three years old, and died young, a miserable death.If it is not so selfish, don't carry the Big Dipper mother leopard to kill the cubs that are still breastfeeding, and can understand the difficulties that the Big Dipper mother reluctantly abandoned her after it fell into the trap, and treat disasters and sufferings correctly, and be with you. The younger siblings share the care and love of the Big Dipper mother leopard, and continue to learn hunting knowledge from the Big Dipper mother leopard. Up to now, its ability to survive independently must have greatly improved. No matter how bad the weather is, it will not fail to catch prey for several days in a row , will not rob the jackals of food, and will not die unexpectedly.

In this sense, rather than saying that Snow Demon was killed by jackals, it would be better to say that it was killed by greed and selfishness.

Qiangba and I scraped through the snow, dug a pit, and buried the snow demon.In any case, it has been with us day and night for a long time, and we can't bear to watch it die in the wilderness.Besides, from the perspective of species, snow leopards are much more noble than jackals, and should not be food for jackals.

On the flat grassland, a tomb rises.I stood silently, full of apologies in my heart, I failed to release the snow demon into a real snow leopard, I failed.

(End of this chapter)