Become a Cheetah
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A single adult female gerenuk was enough to feed five cheetahs, provided there were no other greedy scavengers around.
Not long after the gerenuk died, vultures began to gather in the sky, circling and hovering. The jackals, the cheetahs' constant followers, were also lurking nearby, their shrill cries echoing far and wide.
Jackals couldn't challenge cheetahs, but their cries could attract other predators, such as hyenas.
The first to arrive were three hyenas. These were strangers to Parson and Jairo's territory, and they all had some wounds and didn't look very strong, indicating that they were not having a good time.
For predators second only to lions on the grasslands, these hyenas were in a pretty miserable state.
Luo Qiao didn't recognize them, and the Parson and Jairo brothers were also seeing these three strange fellows for the first time in their territory. Both sides were cautious when they first met.
The three hyenas were from Nabi's hyena pack. Since Nabi's death, the hyena pack had completely disintegrated, and the thirty or so hyenas had split into four or five small groups, each led by a higher-ranking female hyena.
They fought for leadership, but none of them succeeded, and instead, the lion pride killed many of them. If the elephant herd hadn't suddenly appeared, these hyenas might have been killed by the Oros lion pride as well.
When the lion pride was trapped by the elephant herd, these hyenas took the opportunity to escape from the Oros lion pride's territory, temporarily saving their lives.
But without a territory, the hyenas could only wander on the grasslands. They had to be wary of lions all the time, as all lions were hostile to hyenas and would kill them if they had the chance.
Besides lions, they also had to watch out for other hyena packs. If they trespassed into other hyenas' territory, they would definitely not be welcomed warmly.
These three hyenas had separated from the other hyenas. The other hyenas had entered the Hosby lion pride's territory, while these three had wandered into the Parson brothers' territory.
Coincidentally, the Hosby lion pride was currently preoccupied with its own problems, and there were almost no lions or hyenas in the cheetah brothers' territory, which made the three hyenas think they had struck gold. Smelling the blood in the air, they rushed towards the place where Luo Qiao killed the gerenuk without hesitation.
Only three adult cheetahs!
The hyenas almost forgot their fear of the past few days. They formed a line, huddled together, lowered their heads, and approached the cheetahs and their prey with a threatening posture, their sharp cries as annoying as ever.
If these three hyenas thought they could get away with it as usual, they were wrong.
Luo Qiao's two cubs hadn't eaten for three days, and he would never give up this prey easily, even if it meant facing three hyenas!
If it were in the past, he would take his cubs away, but now, his cubs needed food, and for this, he was willing to risk being injured to stand in front of the hyenas.
Luo Qiao lowered his head, raised the fur on the back of his neck, pressed his tail against his body, and growled at the hyenas, raising his paw and slamming it on the ground, trying to warn the hyenas not to come any closer!
Luo Sen and Luo Rui were not facing this situation for the first time. They couldn't waste the precious time that their father had won for them. The two little cheetahs didn't look at the hyenas, they just started to devour the gerenuk as much as they could.
Parson and Jairo naturally couldn't let Luo Qiao face three hyenas alone. The two adult male cheetahs, who were larger and stronger than Luo Qiao, walked to Luo Qiao's side and used a threatening posture to warn the hyenas that this was their territory and they better behave!
The hyenas hesitated, but the attraction of the prey was too great. They were also hungry, and a clash was inevitable.
Parson and Jairo's tacit understanding was unmatched. The two cheetahs charged at the two female hyenas in the center and on the right, while the male hyena on the left was left to Luo Qiao.
Luo Qiao naturally wouldn't be polite at this time. Cheetahs were not good at fighting, so he changed his form, grabbed a few tough stalks of grass, and pounced on the low-growling male hyena.
Perhaps Parson and Jairo thought that Luo Qiao was just trying to drive away these hyenas, but Luo Qiao didn't think so. He wanted to kill these shameful robbers!
This male hyena was smaller than the Nali that Luo Qiao had killed before. Luo Qiao relied on his speed and experience, and circled behind the male hyena, kicking the male hyena's butt.
When the male hyena couldn't get up, he slammed his knee on the male hyena's back and quickly wrapped the grass stalks around the male hyena's neck!
The male hyena struggled to turn its head around, almost biting Luo Qiao's arm. Luo Qiao dodged, and his hands tightened, the tough grass stalks almost strangling the hyena's neck!
The cheetah brothers and the other two hyenas all widened their eyes. The weakest cheetah could actually kill a hyena in an instant?!
Perhaps it was because the hyenas had never encountered this kind of fighting style before, and they were careless for a moment. But Luo Qiao and the cheetah brothers didn't care about the process, they only cared about the result. The hyenas were dead, the prey was saved, and that was enough.
This was the first time Luo Qiao saw Jairo's human form. He had the same golden hair as Parson and amber eyes, but when Luo Qiao saw Jairo's appearance, he finally understood why he always maintained his cheetah form. According to the previous life's standards, Jairo was a standard loli face!
For predators who valued strength and killing, being young was not a good thing.
Seeing Luo Qiao staring at him, Jairo immediately turned back into a cheetah. He said he didn't like this look! He had no experience before, and he changed for the female cheetahs to see, but ten times out of ten, the female cheetahs who saw him would reject him, saying that they were not into loli!
One particularly blunt female said directly to Jairo, "You're brothers from the same litter, how can you and Parson be so different?"
It has to be said, it's really rare that Jairo hasn't developed an anti-social, anti-brother rebellious psychology after living for so long.
After dealing with the hyenas, the cheetahs continued to eat. The jackals who witnessed the scene just now turned around and ran hundreds of meters away, while the vultures immediately swooped down on the abandoned hyena carcasses. They were natural scavengers, the cleaners of the grasslands, and in their eyes, there was no difference between hyenas and antelopes.
After the cheetahs were full, there was still a lot of the large gerenuk left. Luo Qiao took the two little cheetahs, who were so full that their bellies were round, away from the antelope carcass, planning to find a shady place to rest, and let the little gluttons digest their food.
He knew that Parson and Jairo were following him, but this was their territory, and where to go was not up to Luo Qiao. He couldn't go to someone else's house for lodging and tell the host.
"I want to take a walk, don't follow me."
There were many bushes in the cheetah brothers' territory. On the first day Luo Qiao came here with the two little cheetahs, Parson told Luo Qiao not to approach there, because there were rhinos living there.
"These big guys have a strong sense of territory and a bad temper. They will rush out of the bushes and attack you without warning. Especially when a mother rhino is with her cubs, you have to stay far away."
Finally, Luo Qiao took the two little cheetahs to a shady spot a few hundred meters away from the bushes and lay down to rest.
Luo Sen and Luo Rui were full, and they returned to their playful nature. They chased and frolicked around Luo Qiao and the tree trunk, occasionally climbing the tree. After being called down by Luo Qiao, they hugged Luo Qiao's head and front paws and played, unwilling to stop for a moment.
Luo Qiao had always been very patient with the two little cheetahs. Parson, who was lying on the side, watched for a while "If you could give me a few cubs, they would grow into the best cheetahs."
What?!
"But you're a male, what a pity."
Oh, sorry, I'm a male! Bah, why should he apologize?!
"But mating is no problem, how about it?"
As Parson spoke, he stood up, walked to Luo Qiao, brushed the two little cheetahs aside with a paw, stepped on Luo Qiao's body, lowered his head, and said, "Do you want to come directly, or do you want me to do it again in the courtship way?"
The two little cheetahs cried and wanted to return to Luo Qiao's side, but Jairo held their tails down, and they couldn't break free at all.
Luo Qiao was a little confused. He had shared the prey with Parson and Jairo, so why was this guy still thinking about this? Or was it because he was thinking about that after eating his fill?
This was too unrighteous!
"Didn't I share the prey with you..."
"Yes, so I know how much you like me."
"Huh?"
"If you didn't like me, would you share the prey with me?" Seeing Luo Qiao start to struggle, Parson simply changed his form, knelt on one knee, directly held down Luo Qiao's front paw with one hand, grabbed the fur on Luo Qiao's neck with the other hand, lowered his head with a smile on his handsome face, and licked Luo Qiao's nose, "Besides, you came to my territory with me, everything here belongs to me, understand?"
What kind of bandit logic was this?!
"Could it be that you brought me here for this?"
"Yes."
Parson didn't hide his true intentions at all. Luo Qiao only felt his blood rushing up, almost spitting out a mouthful of blood. So, he was tricked by a cheetah?!
Didn't they say that cheetahs have a straightforward personality? How could there be such a mutated black-bellied one?
"Daddy, let go of Daddy!"
Luo Sen and Luo Rui shouted loudly, but they couldn't break free from Jairo's paws at all, and they were also rolled into a ball by a "childish" cheetah and pressed under his paws to play.
Luo Qiao's eyes were on fire. Damn it! It's not enough to hold me down, and you even bully my sons. This is too much bullying of a cheetah!
Just when Luo Qiao's cheetah life was facing the biggest crisis, Parson and Jairo raised their heads at the same time, looking seriously at the bushes not far away. As a puffing sound entered their ears, a huge figure appeared at the edge of the bushes. Luo Qiao turned his head suddenly, and the cheetah's excellent eyesight allowed him to see the black shadow clearly.
Rhino?!
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