After Turning Into An Animal, I Rely On My Face To Make A Living

Chapter 20: ◎Prairie Model Working Leopard (20)◎



The months of the rainy season are the happiest times of the year for animals, with abundant water and lush grass. Tens of thousands of herbivores continue their bloodlines at this time.

Female animals with cubs can be seen everywhere, and the beasts feel happy when they see these offspring, which are their current and future food!

Both herbivores and carnivores feel that the future is promising. Compared with the dry season when they are hungry and thirsty, the current grassland is simply a paradise.

It just so happens that some animals like to fight around in paradise.

When Shi Qiao and Klein were drinking water by the pond, they heard the roar of a lion from a distance.

The male leopard next to her didn't bother to raise his head. He was accustomed to such fights that could happen anytime and anywhere. The little leopard relied on her good eyesight and stretched her neck to look at the source of the noisy sound.

It turned out that two lionesses had given birth to a new litter of cubs in the lion group where Sunny was. As the father, the lion Sunny carelessly went to visit his cub, but was beaten back by the lionesses who were eager to protect the cub.

After being beaten by the lioness and unable to fight back, Sunny lost all face and angrily left the dead bush where the cub was hiding.

Breastfeeding mothers are not easy to deal with, so they were deliberately trying to annoy them. When Shi Qiao saw the lion leader deflated, she looked away and continued to drink her own water.

Unexpectedly, the male lion also came straight towards the pond, but it was opposite them, with most of the pond between them.

Sunny became wary as soon as he saw the familiar enemy leopard. He could even run into it even if he drank water. It was really a narrow road for enemies.

It just happened that he had a bad encounter with the lioness and was in a bad mood. When he saw other animals, he wanted to fight to relieve his anger.

Sunny shouted to the leopard from the other side. The lion's thunderous movement was a challenge to them, and Shi Qiao automatically translated it in her mind: Come here!

The male leopard next to her raised his head and looked at him when he heard the very pointed roar.

What a stupid guy, he can't show off his authority to his wife, so he just wants to find face somewhere else.

Klein didn't even look at him. He turned around to see if the little leopard beside him had finished drinking the water. After drinking the water, Klein went home.

As the little leopard grows older, she becomes more capable and can help with hunting and other tasks. There is nothing for the leopard to worry about. He has been comfortable raising his cubs recently, and his scaly skin and bad temper have been subdued. He is different from some lions who are beaten by their wives and hidden by their cubs.

If you don't want to fight, you just don't want to fight. No matter how provocative you are, it's useless.

When the Lion saw that he had been rejected in the afternoon, he felt like he had been punched in the cotton.

There is a pond between it and the other party. It's a bit redundant to chase after someone and force a fight. It's like asking for trouble. If the other party gets crazy again, the lioness and cub on the other side may see the absurd scene of the dignified leader being blasted by a leopard.

Sunny pinned himself to the spot in frustration, drinking water to extinguish the fire in his heart.

Seeing that Klein didn't have the impulse to step forward to fight this time, Shi Qiao felt relieved that her persuasion for so long had finally been listened to.

She thought that Klein would be quick to respond, so she rushed forward to fight and felt a little sweat in her heart.

Fights are also classified. Some have to be fought, and some can be avoided completely. Like the situation just now, the boss's choice was very correct and wise.

The little leopard patted the male leopard next to her and praised: "Klein is awesome."

? ? ?

The male leopard was hit by an inexplicable rainbow fart. He didn't understand why the other party was suddenly so sweet, but it didn't stop him from raising his tail immediately. His mood was all written on his tail.

The emotions of big cats can be conveyed to the same kind by the smell of pheromones they emit, and Shi Qiao also rolls her eyes happily.

The rainy season is really a good season for leopards to have no worries!

Soon she stopped thinking so.

The old acacia they live in has small white rice-like buds. After a while, they will bloom when the rain is the most abundant. The canopy of the tree is lush and green, and even the sunlight can only shine down through the gaps in the leaves, just falling on the eyes of the little leopard.

Only her eyes were burned by the sun. Shi Qiao didn't sleep too deeply during her nap. From time to time, she wanted to shake her head to throw away the annoying light.

Suddenly she felt that the naughty sunshine was gone. Just as she was about to turn over and have a good sleep, her face was touched by something cool and smooth.

She thought it was Klein who was playing a childish prank. She was about to frown and slap him with her tail, but when she opened her eyes, her hair suddenly exploded.

A flower snake with a thick wrist was hanging upside down on her head from the tree crown above.

With such a long snake, no wonder the light is blocked!

The little leopard roared and jumped directly from the tree, even the male leopard next to it was startled.

After discovering a python that was hissing and spitting messages hanging above his head, Klein realized that the other party was scared away by the snake, and he felt helpless.

This non-venomous python often appears in the rainy season and is sometimes caught and eaten by leopards. It can be regarded as a snack on the menu.

The male leopard climbed to the top and slapped the python hanging on the tree to the ground with his paws. The little leopard still on the ground ejected directly and quickly climbed up another tree.

Shi Qiao looked at the python twisting on the ground, resistance written on her face.

It's definitely not that she is timid. If anyone was sleeping well and suddenly there was a snake above their head, they would be scared out of their wits, right?

Once upon a time, before she came to the grassland, she had always been in awe of reptiles. They had no arms, legs, or hair, were slippery, and had sharp teeth. They were not creatures she could play with casually.

Just looking at it like this can make her break into a cold sweat.

Seeing that the little leopard was so scared, the male leopard decided to desensitize the little leopard.

He went down to the ground and caught up with the snake that was about to flee deep into the woods. He stretched out his claws and slapped the connection between the opponent's head and body several times without any burden. The python opened its mouth wide and exposed its sharp teeth, preparing to take a big bite at the furry "bad guy", but it was dodged nimbly.

Klein went around to the side, specializing in hitting the snake seven inches.

Wait until the opponent is unable to parry, then bite him to death and drag him back to the tree for today's snack.

Every hair of the little leopard showed her rejection. Forget about the snake meat. She felt a little sick when she thought about the smooth texture of the snakeskin in her mouth. She couldn't enjoy this blessing.

But even if she doesn't want to eat, the boss won't let her escape success.

Klein's principle is that the more you are afraid of something, the more you have to face it, otherwise sooner or later you will be manipulated by the person you are afraid of.

A certain "devil coach" is still ruthless, giving no room for fear when it comes to educating the little leopard. Even though the little leopard resisted, she was force-fed a mouthful of snake meat.

Shi Qiao closed her mouth bitterly and prepared to swallow it. Then she chewed it experimentally and was surprised to find that the taste was not bad, more delicious than she expected, like eating more tender fish.

The snake skin was also peeled off by the boss first, and there was no disgusting feeling that was difficult to eat.

Shi Qiao didn't expect that her awe for snakes would be easily overcome by the delicious snake meat.

After being able to accept eating snake meat, Klein found other pythons from other places, specially caught them alive, and put them in front of the little leopard for her to kill herself. After many times, the little leopard accepted the snack of snake meat.

As a leopard, everything that flies in the sky, swims in the water, and crawls on the ground can become food.

No prey can escape from the leopard's mouth alive!

After this exercise, Shi Qiao felt that she had been turned into steel by the boss. Whenever she had time, she wanted to climb up the tree and pull the leaves twice to see if there were any snakes inside. She would eat the ones that were not poisonous and kill the poisonous ones with her claws.

As long as it is an animal that the boss is not afraid of, she has nothing to be afraid of. If it is an animal that the boss is afraid of...

Haven't found it yet.

Klein also didn't expect that he was just desensitizing the little leopard so that the other party wouldn't be afraid of snakes, and accidentally developed the other party's new entertainment project, causing the little leopard to want to catch a snake and play with it whenever she had nothing to do.

During the rainy season, prey is everywhere, so they don't have to go hungry every day, and they will feel bored after eating and drinking enough.

She can catch a snake to practice hunting, and she can eat it after practice. The taste is also very satisfying, which is perfect.

She is now a one-year-old sub-adult, and considering that the boss has begun to live independently at her age, Shi Qiao felt that apart from serious business such as hunting and drinking water that required traveling far away, she could go out alone for small things like catching a snake and a guinea fowl. 

Whose leopard is so big and still follows its parents every day as if it has not been weaned?

Oh, there is a loser brother like this.

Shi Qiao thought to herself that she must not be a follower like Corel who annoyed the big leopard. Even a small follower cannot stay behind the big boss like she did when she was a child.

According to the growth process of ordinary leopards, this is the stage where the mother takes the initiative to let go of her hands and feet and gives enough freedom.

Some leopard mothers with bad tempers will evict sub-adults while eating to prepare their cubs to leave their territory in advance.

Shi Qiao glanced at Klein, who was no different from before. He was not a leopard mother, and he probably wouldn't do everything the way a female leopard would.

The little leopard offered to go out and catch some small prey by herself today, so she didn't need the big boss to accompany her.

This proposal was opposed by the other party.

Whether it's sitting on the tree, and following the little leopard around doesn't matter. The main thing is that he will be worried if the little leopard is out of sight, so it is better to keep her by his side.

The little leopard patted its chest: "Don't worry, I'm already a big leopard and I know how to protect myself."

Besides, she wouldn't run very far unless she caught some big prey. The most she could do was climb trees near this new territory. If she encountered any unbeatable beast, she could run back in just a few steps.

Klein took the little leopard back to his side, stood up from the tree, and prepared to go down with her.

Shi Qiao wanted to continue saying something.

She felt that the other person didn't seem to realize that she no longer had to live completely under a protective umbrella and was about to reach the age where she could be independent.

Shi Qiao jumped down from the tree, pushed the other person back with her head, and said seriously: "I've grown up, I don't need help from the boss."

In the past, she had done all her hunting under the opponent's nose. With Klein here, she was indeed very confident.

But what about when the other person is away?

The boss himself hates leopards like Corel, but if he continues to be unwilling to let go and let the little leopard go out on her own, it is hard to say that he will not raise a second Corel.

Of course, Shi Qiao is still confident in her own character. She just wants her boss to have more confidence in her future independence.

Wanting to be independent and not wanting to be separated from Klein are two things that do not interfere with each other. Independence can also refer to being psychologically independent and having the courage to solve problems independently when the other person is not around.

She didn't know if she would fail in hunting a leopard, but she wanted to give it a try.

What's the point of living under the wings forever? From now on, she will be a little follower who will fight side by side with the big boss!

Unable to bear the little leopard's constant teasing, Klein finally nodded and agreed to let the other party go out on his own, but she had to come back before the sunset.

Shi Qiao readily agreed. She didn't plan to go too far anyway.

Watching the little leopard leave, the male leopard, who was alone in the tree, felt for the first time the feeling of an empty nester. No wonder the little leopard was unwilling to guard the house by herself.

Fortunately, the little cub kept her word and came back happily with her prey as soon as a ray of sunset appeared on the horizon.

No snake was found, so Shi Qiao caught a small warthog at the edge of the acacia forest.

This was the first time she was completely away from the boss and caught prey alone. She felt as proud as the first time she caught a warthog.

After sharing her prey with the other party, the little leopard has nothing to worry about in the next few days. The area near the acacia forest is far from the lion's habitat, and there are no other ferocious beasts. It is completely her world.

It felt great to play wild at home, and Shi Qiao felt a joy she had never experienced before.

Seeing that the little leopard was so happy to go out for a walk on her own, Klein no longer had any worries as before, and would occasionally follow her secretly from a distance where she could not notice.

When she was about to come back, he returned to the tree one step ahead, pretending to be nonchalant and waiting for the other person to return home.

At this time, she was kept in the dark. She was still thinking about where to catch the prey today.

The snakes in the acacia forest were almost extinct by her. When she got tired of eating snake meat, Shi Qiao gave up catching snakes and simply went to catch some more difficult prey.

For example, the antelope.

The antelope is smaller than the impala and gazelle, looks mini and cute, runs very nimbly, and is good at jumping.

This kind of herbivore does not live in tall grass. They are not tall. Living in tall grass plains is to die. Predators cannot be seen clearly, and they usually wander in bare shrubs.

Shi Qiao became more and more courageous and walked further into the jungle to look for the antelope.

As soon as she walked away with her front legs, the male leopard was about to catch up with her hind legs.

Unexpectedly, before leaving the acacia forest, another stray leopard blocked the way.

It turned out that the other party noticed that Jeremy's territory markings were getting weaker and weaker, so he sneaked directly from an easy-to-invade position into a large territory with no similar species in the back and then saw the new lord male leopard next to the acacia tree deep in the hinterland.

To seize this resource-rich place, the three-year-old wandering leopard Sally wants to defeat the lord leopard and replace him.

If Klein abandons the opponent and goes after the little leopard, he will be regarded as a deserter and the opponent will usurp the territory just snatched from Jeremy.

His territory is already large enough. It doesn't matter whether he wants this acacia forest territory or not, but it's just that it's hard to find such a big tree that he likes.

The male leopard was restrained and turned to pounce on the stray leopard.

All accidents can happen in an instant. Unexpectedly, another stray leopard appeared in the territory, and Shi Qiao had already run away.

She was very lucky. Not far into the bush, she encountered five or six antelopes gnawing at the stems and leaves of the bushes. The little leopard did not choose to rush over hastily. Every few steps, it had to choose the next bush to avoid.

Just sneaking closer and closer.

The small antelope is easily frightened, so if she wants to avoid being discovered, she must be extremely cautious and try not to make too sudden a sound.

The thick, soft flesh pads of cats play a vital role at this time. They walk almost silently, and the leopard's skill at hiding makes it look like a ghost.

When Shi Qiao quietly approached the group of antelopes, she selected the one she liked and launched a surprise attack.

The antelope lost the strength to struggle in her mouth, and today was also a day of great victory.

The little leopard was holding the little antelope in its mouth and was preparing to go back home. This place was a little far away from the acacia forest. She had to run quickly to get back before the sunset.

As she ran, there appeared in front of her the "tiger" who didn't want her to go back smoothly, the hyena leader Gnis.

The other party went out to look for food alone. When she was about to see a carcass or choose a prey, she called his men elsewhere to come over. By coincidence, she met a sub-adult leopard far away from the leopard's stronghold.

The moment she saw the other person, all Shi Qiao wanted to do was find a tree to climb up.

It was a pity that there were no trees where she was now, only shrubs. Shi Qiao's heart sank when she saw that the other party looked around but did not find another male leopard, and then suddenly showed interest in her eyes.

She was sure that the hyena had the idea of killing her alone.

Shi Qiao threw the hyena away and ran away, hoping to use the prey to slow down the opponent. After all, no hyena could chase a leopard without food.

But she met a hyena queen who was also ambitious and had already planned to hunt sub-adult leopards in advance.

Gnis glanced at the hyena that was thrown in the middle of the road and was not in a hurry to enjoy it in advance. It barked a few times in the distance, waiting for the hyena men to come and eat the prey, and she followed the sub-adult leopard to catch up.

Shi Qiao looked back while running, and saw that the other party was pursuing her. The little leopard could only run towards the place closest to the tree.

Of course, Gnis couldn't give a leopard a chance to climb a tree. She would chase the leopard a few steps before it ran out of the bare land and attack the sub-adult.

Shi Qiao remembered the hyena's "stunts" she had seen in the video, and hurriedly clamped her tail and turned around.

That damn hyena just wanted to sneak up on her ass!

What is intolerable is unbearable.

A fierce battle was inevitable, and Shi Qiao bravely faced it. She knew Gnis's weakness, and while avoiding the opponent's bite, she looked for opportunities to attack its right leg.

The beast's self-healing ability is terrifyingly strong. The opponent's hind legs, which were bleeding a few months ago, have now improved, forming a large conspicuous scar.

Although it seemed that her movements were fine, Shi Qiao knew that if she bit her again, the opponent's legs would be left with indelible consequences.

Seeing the sub-adult leopard staring at her hind legs that had been severely injured by a male leopard, Gnis remembered the humiliation of being crushed by a certain large leopard, a cold light flashed across her eyes, and her lower jaw became a little more fierce.

Shi Qiao dealt with the opponent mainly to protect herself from injury.

She couldn't be held back like this. If the other party called for more hyena men, she wouldn't be able to leave today.

The sub-adult leopard used the same skills that the male leopard had displayed in front of her time and time again. She turned her head and bit into the spotted hyena's neck. Her canine teeth scraped the skin and tore a wound. However, the angle was wrong and she was unable to restrain the hyena.

Shi Qiao warned herself in her mind, stay calm, not be afraid, and escape before other hyenas came to support her.

Or get rid of the other party.

The latter is almost impossible for a sub-adult to accomplish, but she is familiar with the opponent's weaknesses and remembers every attack method the boss used in his last battle with the hyena.

Maybe she has the strength to fight!

She doesn't know if the hyena men were far away. For a while, the little leopard didn't see any other hyenas. If there was only one hyena, there would be no need to worry about being attacked from both sides.

Shi Qiao concentrated on responding to every attack from the hyena leader and found the right position for her mouth before the opponent came over, trying her best to make the opponent more seriously injured even if she was injured.

Every time the hyena charged forward, its claws scratched the ground leaving dense marks. The passing guinea fowl cackled and flapped its wings away from the battlefield.

The sub-adult seemed to be suppressed, but in fact, she was still looking for openings to attack the opponent's spine and hind legs.

When Gnis finally opened her mouth to bite her side again, Shi Qiao jumped up, jumped out of the opponent's attack range with a big jump, lowered her head, and bit the opponent's right leg hard.

Gnis yelled angrily, her scream sounded like laughter and crying, but Shi Qiao felt that the other party should not be able to laugh now.

She licked the blood from the corner of her mouth and roared at the other party with great force.

This sound was not only to scare the other party to delay but also to try his luck to see if the boss could hear it: Come!

Shi Qiao continued to growl at the Hyena Queen. Today she risked her life and she would not leave this vengeful and cruel female hyena to become trouble for herself and her boss in the future.

Seeing the opponent looking left and right for the hyena's men, Shi Qiao was no longer passive and rushed forward.

When the opponent raised her head and bit her ear, she jumped up again, twisted her body in mid-air, landed on her back at a tricky angle that a hyena could not imagine, and bit the opponent's back and spine.

This hyena was so cruel that she even thought of biting her ear.

Shi Qiao tightened the bite of her jaw, restrained the opponent with her front paws, and at the same time kicked the opponent's injured leg hard with her hind legs. She used a multi-pronged approach to use all the parts with combat capability to hit the enemy with all her strength.

The hyena leader has never seen such a thief sub-adult leopard, and the fighting skills she uses are never seen on normal leopards.

Even when it faced Klein, it was not targeted so flawlessly.

The male leopard uses traditional fighting techniques, but this sub-adult has strange moves, which makes Gnis unable to figure out the opponent's routine every time.

Shi Qiao thought to herself, that this is called a lack of strength, and it is necessary to use tricks to make up.

She doesn't like to fight because she's afraid of getting hurt, but now she's being bullied by the hyenas like a weakling, and her life is about to be lost, so why does she care whether she gets hurt or not? 

Of course, we have to burn the boat!

Some beasts who don't use their brains and only know how to bully the weak do not have this kind of wisdom, and they cannot guess that a mere adult can dominate them.

She kicked hard, causing sharp pain in Gnis's hind legs, and her screams suddenly became sharp. She struggled out and bit the sub-adult leopard's back at the risk of her legs being kicked off.

Shi Qiao had already expected it. The moment she felt the fur on her back being penetrated by teeth, she kicked Gnis's right leg with all her strength. When the opponent couldn't help but let go and scream, she released her grip, put her claws on the hyena's neck, turned around, and bit the opponent's exposed and fragile throat.

She couldn't snap the spine like a big boss, and the neck would be different.

Shi Qiao decisively tightened her jaw and killed the hyena queen who had failed to kill the sub-adult but was killed in reverse.

She was in terrible pain, but her spirits were extremely high.

The winner takes all. The deeds of Hyena Queen Gnis have become history. As a sub-adult, she defeated the hyena leader. She must show off to Klein when she goes back!

When Shi Qiao was thinking about dragging the hyena's body back, there were gloomy glances around him.

Among them were the descendants and relatives of Gnis. Seeing the queen's body, their eyes were full of hatred.

Shi Qiao shrugged, and three or four hyenas surrounded her. She swallowed her saliva, she was so happy that she forgot that the hyena shook her little brother before he died.

Finished.

The little leopard put down the body of the hyena leader and took a few steps back despite the wounds on her back and her exhausted body. Now her life was about to be decided here.

Shi Qiao thought sadly that she had just experienced a glorious moment in her life, and before she had time to go back and share her excitement with Klein and make him proud of her, now the burping was just a pure joke.

Who wants to fight a hyena for one life?

Shi Qiao was cruel and wanted to rush forward to the extreme limit. Even if she died, it wouldn't be a loss to take away anyone. Unfortunately, she was not yet an adult. She would die at the hands of the hyena army before she could fight alongside the boss.

The little leopard took a heroic step forward, and the hyena in front of her shrank back.

? ? ?

Could it be that the look on her face of wanting to die together scared the other person away?

This doubt was soon answered. The familiar low roar of the male leopard came from behind Shi Qiao. It was more overwhelming and oppressive than the roar she had just learned and contained a signal of extreme danger.

The little leopard suddenly turned around and saw Klein walking towards the hyena circle step by step.

His eyes touched the oozing wounds on the sub-adult leopard's back, and the male leopard's golden eyes glowed with an icy cold look.

He was delayed because of being held back by a stray leopard, and the same kind of animal did not get a good harvest. If he encountered it again in the future, Klein would directly make the other party pay with his life for the time it wasted.

With the thighs she could hold, Shi Qiao finally lost the courage of a strong man to cut off her arms and die together. The hyena men were weaker than the queen. With the big boss around, the three or four hyena men were nothing to be afraid of.

"Big brother, help me kill them. They are the first to bully me."

The little leopard ran back and chirped like a cub that was bullied outside.

Her eyes were drooped, looking pitiful, as if the leopard that just killed the hyena leader was not her.

The male leopard glanced at the hyena's body and knew that the little leopard had suffered a lot. Killing the hyena leader by herself was indeed far beyond the limit of a sub-adult.

Rubbing the opponent's head as a way of comforting her, Klein turned his head and bit a hyena to throw the opponent away, opening a path for the little leopard to hide aside.

Shi Qiao was in a good mood as she listened to the sound of the leopard's sore teeth penetrating the flesh and bones.

It's more satisfying to watch the top combat power being crushed than to fight herself.

She was able to save her life and defeat the Hyena Queen at the same time. In the final analysis, it was the boss who severely injured the spotted hyena before, leaving a glimmer of hope for her now.

Even if a few hyena men come together, they are no match for the male leopard, not to mention that there is a sub-adult leopard behind him who waits for the right moment to quietly finish the attack. This time, Klein, who was ruthless, left no one alive, only the devastated hyena carcass.

After the crisis was resolved, Shi Qiao discovered that the boss also had fresh wounds on his body.

It was not bitten by the hyena's men just now. The claw marks and bite marks looked like the same kind.

When she heard the other party say that he fought with an adult stray leopard, Shi Qiao's face suddenly fell.

It's really a leaky house and it's windy and rainy.

When she was injured, the other party was also injured. She and the boss were the injured leopard team, and they needed to recuperate during this period.

The little leopard has never suffered such a serious injury since she followed the male leopard. She has calmed down a lot about going out and wandering around, and she stays by the big man's side honestly every day.

What she didn't know was that her rare fight had been witnessed by the wandering leopard following the boss, and it quickly spread throughout the territory.

Even outside the territory.

Not only Sally, the stray leopard, but also the male lions, cheetahs, the mother and child leopards Madeline and Corel further away, and Jeremy who was recovering from his injuries on the outskirts of the territory, all heard the huge news.

The sub-adult female accompanying the male leopard killed the hyena queen on her own.


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