Chapter 177: Smell the real murderer
But suddenly, Chu Ye saw a problem. One of the lionesses was missing. There were six female lions, but now one was missing.
'Why is there a missing lioness? Where did that lioness go? 'This is something Chu Ye has never encountered since he took over this lion group.
For a moment, Chu Ye was a little confused. I don’t know how the six good lionesses suddenly lost one.
There are six female lions in this pride, and Chu Ye is very clear about this. Of course, not every lioness is remembered by Chu Ye. He mainly remembered the two female lions, Nika and Feifei. As for the other four female lions, Chu Ye only regarded them as members of his own pride and did not usually communicate with them much.
But after spending more than a month together, Chu Ye also knew some basic information about each female lion in his pride.
The missing lioness was an older lioness, possibly the oldest among the six.
'How could it be lost? Could it be that a large prey such as a buffalo was killed during hunting? '
Chu Ye's preliminary analysis suggested that Nika and the others were hunting large prey such as buffalo again, and then during the hunting process, the buffalo was killed.
In fact, lions often encounter dangers when hunting. Especially when hunting large prey like buffalo, the dangers can be imagined.
Every time lionesses go out to hunt, it's almost like warriors going to war. Since it is a battlefield, there will definitely be casualties.
Chu Ye's first thought was that the older lioness must have killed a large prey like buffalo while hunting.
After thinking of this, Chu Ye felt that this was a normal thing. After all, as long as they are hunting large prey like buffalo, danger is always present for lionesses.
'Forget it, since the buffalo is allowed to fight back, then it must be the fate of this lioness! 'Most female lions will die in the process of hunting, just like most male lions will die in the battle for the lion king.
Nika and the others couldn't tell anything to Chuye. Although there would be some emotional exchanges between the lions, they could only express some simple things. For example, when to hunt and how to hunt.
As for expressing what just happened, for the lions, this is impossible.
Only a lion like Chu Ye who has human thinking can possibly understand some more complex things.
Therefore, Nika could not express it correctly to Chu Ye about the loss of a lioness. Chu Ye could only slowly ponder this matter by himself.
When Chu Ye felt that the lioness was hunting and let the powerful buffalo herd fight back, Chu Ye no longer thought about this matter. There are six female lions in its pride. Even if one is missing, there are still five female lions, which is still a relatively large lion pride.
Although Nika and the others failed to hunt again, to Chu Ye, this felt like a normal thing. How can hunting be successful every time? Failure is very common.
The five female lions are now lying listlessly in the shade of a tree to rest. Several lion cubs came over to play with the lionesses, but the lionesses seemed very upset and did not want to play with the lion cubs.
After Chu Ye played with these little lions for a while, he felt that they were not interesting. So, he went to patrol his territory.
The main responsibility of a lion is to patrol its territory. Now Chu Ye began to patrol his territory again. Since there was no food to eat today, he might as well go to his territory to see if there were any small animals that could satisfy his craving.
Chu Ye would not always rely on these lionesses to find food for him. He had to find some food himself.
So, Chu Ye walked towards the east of his territory again. Because Chu Ye's territory is a narrow strip of land near the river, and most of the places where the lionesses hunt are on the east side of the territory.
Therefore, when Chu Ye inspects the territory, he usually visits the east side of the territory. This time it was the same. He came to the east of the territory again, wanting to see if there were any small animals that he could hunt to satisfy his greed.
It's just that Chu Ye wandered around for a long time and didn't see any small animals. Not even a little rabbit was seen, only a few little mice with long noses.
Chu Ye knew that this was the elephant shrew, a mouse unique to the prairie. Such a small prey is of no interest to Chu Ye at all.
For large carnivores like lions, they also like to hunt some large animals when hunting. Because only by hunting large animals can they have a full meal.
The smallest prey that lions hunt is the jumping rabbit. If the prey is smaller than the jumping rabbit, the lions feel that there is no value in hunting.
Although Chu Ye saw a few baby elephant shrews, how could he hunt these prey that were not enough to fill his teeth?
So Chu Ye continued to wander around his territory. It's just that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and he doesn't want to come back and walk around anymore.
Chu Ye took a look and felt that there was a big tree in front of him. He wanted to take a rest in the shade under this big tree.
But when Chu Ye was about to reach the big tree, he suddenly saw a lion lying under the shade of the big tree.
Chu Ye was startled when he saw this situation. Because this is his territory, in this territory, there will only be lions from their pride, and no other lions.
'Huh! Is it the stray lion that invaded in the morning? Could it be that one of them is hiding in this place? '
Since Chu Ye was still more than ten meters away from the big tree, he couldn't see clearly what kind of lion was lying in the grass. But he immediately thought of the roar like a lion he heard in the morning.
'Hmph, you are so brave, you are still in my territory after all this time. Now you are so bold to sleep here, let's see how I deal with you. '
Chu Ye saw the male lion lying on the ground from a distance and immediately identified it as the invading lion.
Therefore, Chu Ye wanted to go over and teach this lion a lesson. For Chu Ye, any male lion on this prairie is no match for him. He does not need to be afraid of anything. As long as he sees a male lion invading his territory, he can directly go up and teach them a lesson.
But when Chu Ye came to this 'male lion', he was immediately stunned.
Chu Ye looked at this 'male lion' for a full minute, and he finally saw clearly what this 'male lion' looked like.
Because this 'male lion' is not a male lion, but a female lion. It is the older female lion that was lost in their pride. It was dead, with several bloody holes on its neck. It was obvious that a wild animal had killed it.
'How could this happen? How could this lioness die here? 'Chu Ye was very surprised and didn't understand how this female lion in his pride could die in the territory for no reason.
At first, Chu Ye thought that Nika and the others had defeated the buffalo while they were hunting. The buffalo killed the lioness.
But Chu Ye took a closer look at the wound on the lioness and found that it was not left by a buffalo. If it is a buffalo, it will usually pierce the lion's belly with its sharp horns. Or use strong horns to knock the lion to the ground and gore him to death. If this is the case, lions usually die from internal injuries, and there may be no external wounds.
The injury on the neck of this lioness is very obvious. It can be seen at a glance that it was caused by the canine teeth of the beast.
'What kind of beast did this lioness encounter? Are there other wild beasts in my territory of Chu Ye? 'Chu Ye didn't quite understand this issue.
'Also, why only this one lioness was killed, but nothing happened to the other lionesses! If there is any other beast, if it can kill a lioness, it is also a very powerful beast. And why did it only kill this one lioness and not several more! '
'What's even more strange is that the body of this lioness is good. If a beast killed this lioness, why didn't it eat it? '
When Chu Ye saw the body of the lioness, a lot of questions appeared in his mind.
But Chu Ye couldn't figure it out for a moment, and he felt a little confused. After all, how could he judge with so many questions!
But at this moment, Chu Ye suddenly smelled a familiar smell. These smells seemed to be what he had just smelled yesterday.
Chu Ye felt strange and sniffed it hard again. This smell soon entered Chu Ye's nose again.
This time, Chu Ye immediately smelled the owner of this smell.
'It turned out to be Laura, the smell of Laura here. '
For all animals, the sense of smell is very sensitive. It can be said that the sense of smell of any animal is much more sensitive than that of humans.
Animals not only use their sense of smell to sense enemies, but they can also use it to communicate. Also, animals also use their sense of smell to identify each other.
Just like lions, to us humans they all look pretty much the same. It seems that they can't tell each other apart.
And how do lions distinguish themselves when they live together? Of course it depends on the sense of smell. Each lion will have a different scent. Lions can tell who the other person is by distinguishing each other's scent.
Although each lion has a different smell, for lions, as long as they smell the smell of a certain lion, they can remember this smell. Even after a long time, if they smell this smell from other places, they can immediately think that this smell comes from that lion.
This ability of lions must feel magical to humans, just like a special function.
In fact, for lions, this is just the most common ability. As long as it is a lion, it has the ability to identify other lions by smell.
Chu Ye now used his sense of smell and soon discovered that Laura had left her scent on the body of this lioness. Especially the wound on the neck of this lioness had a strong smell of Laura.
'Humph, I know, it was Laura who killed this lioness. '
Chu Ye was now certain that it was Laura who killed this female lion. As for how it did it, Chu Ye couldn't figure it out.
You know, in the morning, this female lion went out to hunt with Nika and the others. They were female lions of a pride, and they would always be together even if they went out to hunt. But what people don't understand is how this lioness died under Laura's mouth. The other lionesses were not injured.
'How could this happen? Does Laura have such a great ability! Can one female lion kill the female lions of other lions? 'Chu Ye is still a little confused about this issue.
But no matter what, he knew that Laura must have killed this lioness. And this female lion is one of the female lions in their pride.
'Okay, since it was Laura who killed the lioness of our pride, then I must avenge her, and I must kill Laura. '
Chu Ye doesn't like to make grudges with others, nor does he want to be enemies with others. But he has his own principles of life, that is, if others do not offend me, I will not offend others. If someone offends me, I will offend him.
After knowing how the lioness of his pride died, Chu Ye decided to avenge his lioness.
He knew that the reason why Laura wanted to kill this lioness was probably because she wanted revenge. After all, Chu Ye taught Luo La and them a lesson yesterday morning.
Laura must have hated Chu Ye very much. But it knew that it was no match for Chu Ye. Not to mention that it couldn't defeat Chu Ye alone, even if they combined all the female lions in their pride, they couldn't defeat Chu Ye.
There was no other way, so Laura had no choice but to take out her anger on one of the lionesses in the Chuye lion group. It found an opportunity to kill the lioness and abandoned it in Chu Ye's territory. It seemed that it was just to anger Chu Ye.
If Laura dragged the body of the lioness away, Chu Ye would not be able to see it.
'You are so arrogant. You killed our lioness and still deliberately showed it to me here. Is this obviously a deliberate provocation? '
Chu Ye was very angry and decided to kill Laura to avenge the lioness in his pride.
But now is not the time to fight. The weather is very hot and not suitable for fighting.
So, Chu Ye returned to his camp first. The lionesses were still resting under the big tree. When Chu Ye came to them, they all stared at Chu Ye blankly, as if they wanted to say something but couldn't.
Chu Ye already knew the truth of the matter. He just had to wait until tomorrow morning to avenge the lioness.
