Chapter 782 Hard Life

"I missed the feeding again..."

For several days, with inexplicable cognition and unstoppable thinking, the little leopard cub always fell asleep due to the heavy burden and missed the feeding.

Eating one day and starving the next day made it obviously thinner than the other two cubs. The mother cheetah was helpless about it, as if she had gotten used to the child's "nature" of not liking to drink milk.

But the little leopard cub was very unhappy, it wanted to drink milk!

"It's so annoying... How come I know everything!"

"Why do I know the bachelor tree? In this tropical arid area of ​​Africa, in order to reduce water evaporation, the leaves gradually degenerate or even disappear, the branches turn green, and the bare tree replaces the leaves for photosynthesis..."

The little leopard cub was confused and deeply shocked by his knowledge.

As time went by, the more things he saw, smelled, and felt, the richer his inexplicable cognition became.

If he thought about it, he could even know more.

However, hunger forced him to give up these, and knowledge could not be eaten, he wanted to drink milk!

"The lactation period is very important for cheetahs. If I continue like this, I will die!"

The little leopard cub made such a clear judgment, so he decided to forcibly restrain his thinking.

When his mother was away, he would never look around or think about anything, but lie down with his eyes closed, meditating on the darkness, waiting for milk.

After two days of this, the little leopard cub was finally able to control the knowledge that popped up from time to time.

When he didn't want it, it wouldn't pop up.

This made him very happy, and he could finally drink milk normally.

However, it didn't drink when he wanted to.

Sometimes, even if the little leopard cub waited for his mother soberly, there was no milk to drink, or only bland water.

In addition, he found a strange thing, that is, sometimes he was full, but his brain still felt very hungry.

It seemed that in a very distant place, there was a consciousness that was also hungry, and it was in tune with his mind.

"Hungry... meow..."

The little leopard cub was very disappointed, and couldn't help but start to think deeply again...As he thought about why there was no milk to drink, some cognitions about his mother immediately popped up in his mind.

The mother cheetah works very hard every day. She dares not sleep at night and always observes the environment vigilantly.

In the morning, she makes up for her sleep. She dares to go hunting only when the sun is at its hottest at noon. Because at this time, lions and hyenas are sleeping.

The prey resources in this area are quite scarce. It is now the dry season. Prey can only be found near water sources, where there are also many predators.

It must quickly catch prey without alarming other predators, and then take it away and eat it, so that it can come back with a full stomach to feed its cubs. It is very difficult.

Everything in the cheetah's body is born to chase prey quickly. Because the heat dissipation is too poor, its endurance is not enough to support it to run for a long time.

And because its teeth are too short, it can only bite the throat of the prey and suffocate it to death.

For various reasons, once the luck is bad, let alone feeding, it may starve to death.

After gradually understanding these, the little leopard cub stopped complaining, and his heart surged with attachment and understanding for his mother. It is too difficult for this young mother to feed their three cubs independently.

However, the little leopard cub had no way to deal with this. It was now difficult for it to move.

It could only huddle with its sisters during the day and lick its mother and rub its face with her at night.

The mother cheetah enjoyed the licking and licked the little guys with her soft tongue.

In this way, the cheetah family survived this difficult period.

Finally, 25 days after the little leopard cubs were born, they could follow their mother.

Although it was convenient to leave the cubs in the bushes and hunt alone, the safety of the cubs was not guaranteed at all.

As long as a predator found this place, they would almost certainly die.

So when the little leopard cubs could follow the mother cheetah stumbling, the mother cheetah began a more difficult life of hunting with the cubs.

"Meow!" The two ignorant little female leopards always interrupted the mother cheetah's hunting rhythm.

When the mother cheetah was lurking, their poor hiding skills or silly calls would alarm the prey.

This forced the female cheetah to charge ahead of time, which often ended up being a waste of effort and in vain.

"Idiot! Can you two shut up? If the prey runs away, we will all starve!" The little cheetah angrily criticized the two little female cheetahs.

The little female cheetahs certainly didn't understand the little cheetah's cry, but licked it instead...

"Meow?"

"..." The little cheetah lay speechlessly: "It's obviously the habit of male cheetahs to be ignorant, why are you two so noisy..."

Fortunately, they are precocious female cheetahs after all.

After seeing their mothers fail in hunting and then starving, they deeply remembered the connection between the two things.

In addition, the little cheetahs taught them frantically all day long in order to have enough milk, and finally after just two days, they learned to be silent and learned to hide themselves.

"Mom can finally hunt well..." The little cheetah was relieved.

However, the longed-for meal never came.

The mother cheetah wandered around with the three little ones. In this vast sand, they always had to walk a long way to find prey.

After seeing the prey, the mother cheetah did not choose to hunt. After hesitating for a while, she chose to take them away.

“Are there other predators?” The little cheetah was too short and could not see anything.

But it knew that the mother must have discovered the existence of lions or something like that.

In this way, the mother cheetah walked with them for a day and estimated that they had walked more than ten kilometers.

The three little ones were almost starving. The little cheetah was in a daze and wanted to sleep very much, but in order not to fall behind, he had to follow.

"It's night... It seems that there is no food today..." The little cheetah was desperate. Seeing the mother cheetah find a place to rest, he immediately lay on her and fell asleep.

When he woke up, the other two were still sleeping, and the mother cheetah was still alert around.

After not eating for three consecutive days and only drinking some clear milk... The little cheetah was almost crazy with hunger, and it felt that it was about to die.

The mother cheetah obviously knew this situation and was very depressed.

But life had to go on. It continued to lead the three little ones forward. After crossing a large area of ​​sand, they finally saw a tall guy.

"Ostrich..." The little cheetah recognized the target directly.

The mother cheetah hesitated and seemed to be hesitating.

The little leopard cub licked his mother pitifully: Ostrich, fuck it! No way? Have you never eaten it before?

This female cheetah must have eaten ostriches, but she may have been kicked by an ostrich before... or she is considering whether she can catch up with that guy at the moment... In short, she is considering whether to hunt.

Although she can still starve for two more days, the cubs can't. They are almost at their limit after being hungry for so long... She must catch prey.

"Come on! Mom!" The little leopard cub looked at the female cheetah lurking over expectantly.

However, the ostrich was too high. On the desolate sandy land with only a few shrubs and weeds dotted in this view, the cheetah approached from a hundred meters away.

It trotted a few steps to open the distance, looking very leisurely.

The female cheetah approached persistently, but the ostrich was obviously slipping away from it, always keeping a distance of no less than one hundred meters.

Finally, the female cheetah was forced to sprint directly, but the ostrich was not slow at all. It was too difficult for the hungry female cheetah to close the distance of 100 meters by speed.

After chasing for a while, the female cheetah, whose face was deliberately kicked by the ostrich's big feet, finally slowed down panting and gave up helplessly.

"No way! Will I starve to death today? I will starve to death!" The little cheetah was nervous and desperate.

It wanted to pounce on the ostrich's face and bite this guy to death.

"Puff!"

Suddenly, a stone was violently dug and shot straight at the ostrich.

It even crossed a distance of hundreds of meters and chased all the way to the ostrich's face, accurately hitting its eyes.

"Bang!"

This blow was not heavy, but the ostrich's head was small. Such a precise blow, coupled with the sharp edges of the stone, actually broke the eyeball at once, shocking the ostrich to fall headfirst and faint for a short time.

The female cheetah was startled, and immediately summoned up the remaining strength, regardless of the overloaded heart, rushed forward, and finally bit the guy's neck.

It succeeded, but the female cheetah collapsed on the ground, biting the ostrich's neck and panting.

It was too hot, and the explosive running caused its body temperature to rise sharply. If it was too hot, it would damage its internal organs and brain.

At this time, it had almost no ability to resist.

The little leopard cub hurriedly ran over with the two little ones. Seeing that the mother was in a bad situation, he hurriedly dragged the ostrich's fat body to cover her mother.

The ostrich's feathers were still very fluffy, blocking the direction of the sun, so that the female cheetah was on the shady side, which could help it recover its body temperature a little.

Otherwise, if exposed to the scorching sun, the sand might scald the female cheetah...

"Hold on!" The little leopard cub licked the female cheetah with his tongue, absorbing heat through saliva to evaporate to help dissipate heat.

The two little female leopards didn't understand, but they were also very nervous, so they followed suit.

Finally, after an hour of hard work, the mother cheetah slowly stood up and gradually regained her mobility.

She looked very weak, but she still insisted on dragging the ostrich away.

The three little ones helped push and shove, although it was a drop in the bucket, it was better than nothing.

After dragging the prey to the shade of a tall bush, the mother cheetah lay down tiredly again. The temperature was too high.

The little cheetah had to help pluck the hair with its newly grown milk teeth to save some time for its mother to eat.

It was the only one doing this, and the other two little female cheetahs were too tired to move.

For some reason, the little cheetah was very tired and even overwhelmed, but he could still hold on.

It felt that it could squeeze out the last bit of strength in its body, and this terrible self-control allowed it to continue to move.

Seeing that the little cheetah had plucked all the ostrich's feathers, the mother cheetah was very surprised, but she didn't know how to express or think about this matter. She just licked the little cheetah, got up and started eating.

It must be full, only when it is full, the cubs can have milk to drink.

"I want to drink milk... I want to drink milk..." The little leopard cub waited in a daze.

The mother cheetah swallowed in big mouthfuls, and looked left and right vigilantly from time to time.

The little leopard cub lamented the speed of eating: "Don't look, vigilant every day, aren't you tired... Eat quickly."

Suddenly! The mother cheetah stood up suddenly, holding three cubs in her mouth and ran.

Because of the rush, one of the cubs even fell from her mouth.

"What?" The little leopard cub vaguely saw something approaching this side.

After the mother cheetah hurriedly transported the cub to a few dozen meters away, she went back to pick up the one that fell.

At this time, the little leopard cub was finally able to look back and see the visitor clearly, it was a hyena dripping with saliva.

"Hehe!" The hyena let out a laugh-like cry and pounced on the mother cheetah.

The mother cheetah ran away with her cub in her mouth, watching the prey fall into the hyena's mouth.

"Was it...robbed?"

"Ah! Get out!" The little leopard cub was furious and rushed back directly.

The other two little female leopards followed their inner fear instinct and stared at the ferocious hyena blankly without any temper.

Unfortunately, the little leopard cub who wanted to kill back was stopped by his mother.

The mother watched the hyena greedily eating unwillingly, but she could only choose to retreat.

However, how could the little leopard cub be willing to let his mother give up the food that she had finally got? He would starve to death!

"Go to hell!"

"Bang!" A stone hit the hyena fiercely.

The hyena had already noticed the stone flying through the air and made an evasive move.

However, the stone turned directly and landed accurately on the dog's eyes.

It hit its eye sockets and blood spurted out.

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p.s: Sorry.