The lion goes wandering

Chapter 8
For half a year, the four and a half male lions lived a miserable life of wandering.

The most annoying thing is not the food problem, but that they don't have a territory of their own.They circled the oval-shaped Rollian prairie, from east to west, from south to north, almost everywhere, and could not find a piece of unowned land.There are lions everywhere: the Patilu lions in the north, the Kaza lions in the northeast, the ultra-short mane lions in the northwest, the grey-nosed lions in the west, and the Shatla lions in the southwest In the south is the Changmu lion group, and in the southwest corner is the one-eared lion group... The huge Lolian prairie and the adjacent vast Sischa swamp are cut into pieces like a birthday cake , has already been divided up.

The sky and the earth are so vast, but there is no cloud of their own, nor is there a place for them to stand.

A lion who has never been a homeless man, no matter how rich his imagination is, it is hard to imagine how difficult life is for a homeless man without a territory.They are males, born unwanted characters, driven and hunted relentlessly wherever they go.Those big male lions who are kings in enclosures and have groups of wives and concubines, without exception, regard them as ambitious and aggressors, as real troublemakers and potential huge threats, and they don't talk about the same kind of friendship at all, and they don't show compassion at all. As long as they enter the territory of a certain lion group, once they are discovered, they will immediately attract rough reprimands and terrible pursuits.

Those big male lions usually look quite lazy, even the lioness has to do the hunting for them, and they rarely do it themselves, but they are surprisingly diligent when driving them away, as long as they smell their scent or see their traces , no matter how far away they are, whether they are sleeping or eating or making love to lionesses, they will immediately put aside what they are doing and come roaring and galloping to drive them away with their own hands, always trying to drive them away completely. Only when you leave the territory will you be willing to give up.

This is hard for the four brothers.The swamp and grassland are divided into pieces, and each lion pride occupies a piece; between two adjacent lion prides, there is no gap, no gap, and no vacuum that no one can control.That is to say, no matter where they go, they are illegally intruding into the territory of other lions, playing the role of intruders every second, always in the position of attack, not a minute is safe, There is not a single minute of peace.

Sometimes, just as they found a shady tree to lie down, a roaring lion came in front of them. They had no choice but to dive into the blazing sun again, and ran away desperately; A big banyan tree that can shelter from the wind and rain, squeezed into the tree hole and hadn't dried its wet body yet, suddenly a fierce lion appeared again. Sometimes, when the night is too dark to see their own tails, they don't care about the thorns that will scratch their skin, and force their way into the dense bushes, thinking that they can sleep peacefully, but unexpectedly, their eyes are not there yet. When you close it, you can see that the big male lion with bared teeth has been standing outside the bushes and waiting for them for a long time...

Rats crossing the street, everyone yells to beat them; stray lions, lions and lions yell to kill them.

Not having their own territory means not having their own hunting base, and thus no stable and reliable source of food.No matter where they find and catch their prey, they are all poaching or stealing within the territory of other lions, and will be robbed and confiscated by aggressive lions.

It is impossible for a lion to hunt stealthily and silently like a snake. There must always be some noise, either the roar of the lions or the roar of the prey.The cry spreads with the wind, and soon it will get into the ears of the overlord of this land - the big lion, and the big lion will come to Xingshi to question the crime.Many times, they had just knocked down an antelope with great effort, and before they had time to eat a bite, the unreasonable big lion rushed to the hunting ground like a whirlwind and snatched the antelope away.If they don't stay on the hunting ground ignorantly and want to discuss with the big male lion, they will attract fatal bites like a storm...

For half a year, they barely had a full night's sleep. It is not uncommon for them to move their nests seven or eight times a day; Eating rotten and decomposed animal carcasses, once you eat it, you will have diarrhea, and you can't stop it.

Soon, they became so thin that their heads were raised with three tendons, their spines and shoulder blades protruded, and their ribs protruded clearly one by one like a washboard; After combing the fur, the manes are messy and unkempt; the body is covered with dust, and there are lumps of grass sap sticking to the hair, which is as messy as a group of down-and-out beggars.

On this day, the big lion with scarred face, peach blossom eyes and red ribbon used an ambush method to catch a fat tapir, and was about to eat it, when suddenly, there was the roar of the big male lion.Looking up, a red-faced male lion and a yellow-faced male lion are galloping along a fine hair path in the grass. Behind the two big male lions are five or six adult female lions.The red-faced lion and the yellow-faced lion roared as they ran, as if the police were on the scene of a crime.Alas, the big lion sighed in his heart, it seemed that he was making wedding clothes for others again, and his hard work was in vain.It shook its tail at the three brothers, let's go, let's go, I hope this tapir is poisonous, whoever snatches it and eats it will have diarrhea!

Peach Blossom Eyes and Red Streamer dropped the tapir knowingly, turned around and left.There is no indignation or even regret in their eyes. This kind of thing happens repeatedly, and they have long been accustomed to it and become numb.

The big-headed lion is the leading lion. According to its habit, it usually walks last when retreating. Seeing that Scar's face was still licking the blood mushrooms emerging from the wound of the dead tapir, it roared twice again, urging Scar to Face quickly leave.

——Don’t make a big mistake because of a small loss, and lose your life just to eat an extra bite of blood mushrooms.

Scarface looked up at it, then turned his head to look at the red-faced lion and the yellow-faced lion who were getting closer. Instead of throwing away the dead tapir and running away like Peach Blossom Eye and Red Ribbon, he caught the tapir in one bite. neck, dragging the tapir away.

Tapir is a unique animal in the African grasslands. It is shaped like a pig, but its snout is longer than that of a pig, and its size is similar to that of a pig. It weighs about [-] to [-] kilograms.

If it is a particularly strong male lion, it can barely pick up a tapir and run for a distance.Scarface is still a half-big lion, and his strength is limited. After half a year of hard life, he is skinny and extremely weak. He can't hold a tapir, let alone run with a tapir. He can only drag it slowly. Walk.

——You look like this, not to mention that you can’t take the tapir away, even you yourself will fall into the same fate as the tapir!

The big lion walked over anxiously and hit Scarface's neck with his body, asking him to spit out the tapir, throw away the pots and pans, leave behind his burden, and run for his life, only then could he escape from the clutches of the red-faced and yellow-faced lions!

Scarface refused to listen to it, and stubbornly dragged the tapir away, slower than the pangolin.

The big-headed lion bit a tapir's leg with one bite, pulled the tapir out of Scarface's mouth, and threw it aside. Then, with its head against Scarface's waist, it forced Scarface to turn around and run for his life. .

——A tapir, if you throw it away, just throw it away, keep the green hills, and don’t worry about running out of firewood.

Scarface was forced to follow it five or six steps away, twisted suddenly, escaped its control, turned around and ran back to the dead tapir, lay down on the dead tapir, and slowly ate the tapir's meat.This is definitely not normal behavior for a normal lion.The big-headed lion walked over in surprise and saw that the expression on Scarface's face was calm and unrestrained. There was a kind of indifference to whoever wants to take it. He was as calm as a death row prisoner. Chic.The big lion's heart skipped a beat. It understood that Scarface was not blind or inaudible. The red-faced lion and the yellow-faced lion were rushing over with malicious intentions, but would rather be a dead ghost!
The red-faced male lion and the yellow-faced male lion are only 50 meters away from here, and their eyes are gloomy, revealing murderous intent.The lioness following behind also opened her bloody mouth and was ready to bite.The danger was imminent, and the big lion didn't want to leave or stay, so he was so anxious that he walked around Scarface.

If it ignores Scarface and walks away by itself, it is safe, but it seems a bit unreasonable: it is now the leading lion among the four brothers, and it is responsible for taking care of Scarface so that it will not suffer unnecessary harm. sacrifice.If it continues to stay beside Scarface, it is likely to accompany Scarface to death, which is also a very uneconomical move.It seems that only drastic measures are taken.

The big lion raised its right paw, and slapped Scarface's left cheek with a slap.Although the lion's face has a thick layer of short hair, no matter how hard you slap it, you can't slap it crisply and loudly, but the nails on the lion's paws are like sharp daggers. A flower of blood burst out on the face immediately, forming a symmetry with the original scar on the right face, and the face with the scar turned into a face with a big scar.

——You bastard, you pussy, you can't stand it after two meals?If you want to exchange your life for a meal, your life is too worthless!

Scarface jumped up in pain, his mane stood on end, and roared:

——The sky bullies me, the earth bullies me, the big lions of all lions bully me, even you bully me, I don't want to live anymore, I will fight with you!

The big lion wanted to achieve the goal of stimulating Scarface to chase after him. It turned around and ran away, and Scarface followed and chased like crazy...

From behind came the puzzled roars of the red-faced lion and the yellow-faced lion.

No sooner had this hunger crisis subsided than another sleepiness crisis came.

The next morning, the big lion led the three brothers around several pastures, and finally found a quiet depression in the southwest corner of the Sischa swamp. There were a few long-stalked plantains in the depression, and the wide leaves could block the sun. habitat.

Four half-sized male lions ran around the grassland all night, worked hard all night, and finally picked up a sick and dead little warthog at dawn. After eating half full, the hunger disappeared for a while, and the sleepy bug crawled on it. Everyone was so tired that they couldn't even open their eyes.The four brothers each found a banana tree, lay down under the root of the tree, and fell asleep.

I don't know if it's God deliberately making trouble with them, or the Shatla lion occupying this land is particularly sensitive. Just as the big lion closed its eyes in a daze, there was a thunderous roar.It was taken aback, gritted its teeth to drive the sleepy bug out of its head, forced its eyelids open, and walked out of the depression to see, good guy, the Shatla male lion led a large group of male lions and female lions, sniffing them to stay in the grass The footprints on the ground came to search for the depression.

It hurriedly woke up the three brothers for emergency transfer.Although the scarred face and the red streamer were full of frustration, they were quite obedient. They stood up and shook their heads to beat the drowsiness, while slipping away along a looming path trampled by wild beasts in the grass.But Peach Blossom Eye was uncharacteristically, after being awakened, he stood up mechanically, opened his sleepy eyes, took a look at it, his knees softened, and then lay down on the spot again; his head tilted, his eyes closed, and he fell into a deep sleep .

At first, the big-headed lion thought that Taohuayan was over-tired, sleepwalking too deeply, ignorant, and didn't understand what was going on, so he turned over and continued to sleep.It held one of Taohuayan's ears, forcibly lifted Taohuayan's crooked head, and let out a series of lion-like alarms from its mouth.

(End of this chapter)