Leopard's Feud

Chapter 24 Attacked in the Dark Night
In the leopard's crypt, Kemi and his son Jesse are still alive and strong.

Kemi also tried many times to escape with his son, but every time he was easily captured by the leopard Kara back to the crypt.Kara seems to have thousands of pairs of eyes, no matter what time they can't escape the surveillance of the leopard Kara.

Carla's four leopard cubs live in the same crypt as them.Every day when Kaimi opened his eyes and saw the four leopard cubs, he seemed to see four adult leopards that would kill the baboon family in the future, wishing to strangle them one by one.Because it is under the control of the leopard Kara, although Kemi hates these cubs very much, it dare not take revenge on these cubs.

Day by day, the four cubs and Jessie the baboon grew up together.

Maybe it's because Jesse the baboon is too lonely to find a playmate.Whenever she had free time, Jesse would crawl among the four twisted cubs and roll and crawl with them.Whenever Cammy saw such a scene, he would immediately take Jesse away.But once Kemi was inattentive or fell asleep, Jessie would play with the leopard cubs again, as if they were his brothers and sisters.

Perhaps, in the depths of Jesse's young heart, he really thought so.Jesse was born when he first came here, and now he is three months old.In Jessie's consciousness, his dead sister Jessica has been blurred, but he completely regards the four leopard cubs as his own compatriots.

Jessie and the four leopard cubs played together happily and comfortably, reminding Kara the leopard of her childhood with her baboon brother.

If only Jack had been his real brother, Carla sometimes thought so too.At this time, Kara would rather be a baboon that she always hated, so that she could be Jack's sister and would not force Jack to do what she didn't want to do.However, Kara just thought about it, and in a blink of an eye, she dismissed this idea, and also dismissed her deep affection for her baboon brother Jack.

Kara has never forgotten that the baboon family is the sworn feud of the leopard family.

Jared stood on the baobab tree, looking into the distance with the last rays of the setting sun, but he didn't see Jack at all.It appears that Jack is not on the territory of the baboon family.When the white moon climbed up the baobab tree, Jack still didn't come back.

Where did Jack go?
Jared didn't know.Although Jack became a member of the baboon family on the baobab tree again, Jared didn't know what Jack was thinking, and his son always looked worried.Jared couldn't figure out why there was always an invisible gap between it and the lost son.

Maybe Jack will come back tomorrow; maybe Jack will never come back.

The hazy moonlight brought sleepiness, Jared thought about it, and unconsciously closed his eyes.

On the baobab tree under the moonlight, the baboons, old and young, were immersed in a peaceful dreamland.

Suddenly, there seemed to be rustling sounds in Jared's ears.

Jared opened his eyes alertly.

Around Jared, his children and grandchildren were still in a drowsy sleep, and the long-term comfortable life made them lose their due vigilance.Jared looked around carefully, but still found nothing unusual.Perhaps, it was too cautious, Jared shook his head and closed his eyes again.

Gray-black clouds drifted across the sky, covering the bright moonlight and dimming the earth.

The surroundings were very quiet, separated by the clear air, only the singing of crickets, the sound of owls flapping their wings, and the eerie calls of coyotes in the distance, nothing unusual.

Jared finally fell asleep.

In the dream, Jared smelled a familiar smell.

Is it its son Jeff?Is it its deputy Hall?Is it its daughter Yetta?Is it his wife Rita?It doesn't seem like it.It seemed to be a smell lingering in Jared's distant memory, but he couldn't remember whose smell it belonged to.Anyway, it's supposed to be a scent that belongs to Jared's baboon family.

Among them, there seems to be another smell... It's a bloody smell, and it belongs to a carnivorous beast.

It's a leopard!
Jared woke up suddenly from his sleep.It saw a dark figure rushing towards it along the branches of the baobab tree, and the pair of canine teeth glowing cold in the night were biting at its throat!

Jared rolled over on the tree branch, taking advantage of the momentum, and jumped from the gap between the branches to the next layer of branches below.Although Jared has passed the golden age of his life, the long-term experience of confronting leopards in his prime has trained his body to be extremely agile.

"Woo-hoo-ooh-," Jared roared.For the first time in four years, sirens sounded in the dark on the baobab trees.

(End of this chapter)