Chapter 214: Female Battle in the Valley
In fact, Chu Ye didn't know that within this week, the power of the lions on the other side of the river had undergone tremendous changes.
Originally, there were several large prides of lions on the other side of the river, but in the past month, three powerful wandering male lions quickly defeated several other lion kings with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
The three brothers became the most powerful lion kings. They owned more than 20 female lions.
These three powerful wandering male lions, their strength at the beginning was not very good. They have competed for the lion king several times, but they have never succeeded.
But one night a month ago, when a black cloud appeared above their heads, the strength of their three male lions changed greatly overnight.
The weight of the three male lions suddenly increased from about 200 kilograms to 300 kilograms. If a male lion weighs more than 300 kilograms, it has basically no opponent in the entire savanna.
After the strength of the three stray male lions suddenly increased, they immediately began their glorious lion lives. Relying on the strong strength of the three brothers, they are unable to resist other lion kings when competing with them.
Originally there was only one king among many lions. When they meet male lion brothers, they will naturally suffer more. Even if some lion kings are also male lion brothers, their strength is far inferior to the three male lion brothers who suddenly mutated.
In this way, the three lion brothers defeated all the lion kings they could encounter within a month.
The three male lion brothers defeated six lion kings, occupied their territories, and confiscated their female lions.
The sudden changes caused the psychology of the three lion brothers to continue to expand. The process of lions fighting for the lion king is the same as the process of some heroes and soldiers fighting for the throne in ancient times. This is all a manifestation of a strong desire for power.
When these three male lions defeated several lion kings and became the most powerful lion kings on the prairie, they became ambitious.
Although these three male lions occupied hundreds of square kilometers of land across the river, they were still not satisfied.
Because the terrain on the other side of the river is dominated by mountains and forests, there are not many animals living there. Relatively speaking, the terrain on the south bank of the river is flatter, and there are more herbivores living along the river.
The three male lions also knew that there were a lot of prey to hunt in the south on the other side of the river. They have long wanted to cross this big river and go to the south bank of the river.
However, because the river is relatively deep, there are many crocodiles in the river. It would be more dangerous for male lions to encounter crocodiles in deep water.
Because lions are land animals, no matter how powerful they are, when they enter the water, they appear relatively weak in front of crocodiles. The crocodile's attack power in the water is very strong, and the lion is no match for the crocodile in the water.
Therefore, the three lion brothers never made it to the other side of the river. But they are always thinking about how to get to the other side of the river.
Today, when they once again led the lionesses to the river to drink water, they felt that the width of the river had suddenly decreased a lot.
The three male lions were very happy about this phenomenon. They knew that if the water in the river could be reduced further, they could cross this big river and get to the other side. As long as they cross the other side of the river, they can continue to defeat the lion king on the other side of the river, making their group of lions stronger.
But when the three lion brothers saw Chu Ye on the other side of the river, they were a little surprised. After all, Chu Ye was much larger than an ordinary male lion, basically as big as two ordinary male lions.
Facing Chu Ye, who weighed nearly 400 kilograms, the three male lions were a little nervous. Although they weigh 300 kilograms, they still appear much smaller than Chu Ye.
But no matter what, they are three male lion brothers, a team of three male lions.
Even though Chu Ye is very big, if the three lion brothers unite, they will naturally not be afraid of Chu Ye. Moreover, the three brothers felt that no matter what, they three male lions could defeat Chu Ye, a male lion.
Today is the first time Chu Ye and the three lion brothers have met. This result may be beyond the other party's expectations.
Chu Ye did not expect that there was such a powerful lion group on the other side of the river, led by three huge male lions.
The strength of these three male lions will never be less than that of the mutated giant python. Even more powerful than that mutant giant python.
Chu Ye had always wanted to develop on the other side of the river. After all, people's ambitions would continue to expand. Although Chu Ye already owned more than fifty square kilometers of land, he still felt that his territory was too small.
There is too little prey to hunt. After all, the dry season is still going on and has no end in sight. If Chu Ye could not continue to expand his territory, then their pride of lions would not be able to survive.
Before the wildebeest and zebra returned to the southern areas of the Serengeti savanna. The carnivores living on the Serengeti face the risk of starvation every day.
Because in the savanna, only wildebeest and zebra are the main food sources for many carnivores. Although other herbivores can also become prey for carnivores, the total number of other herbivores on the prairie is not even one-tenth of the wildebeest army.
In this way, the lives of carnivores will certainly be very difficult in the days without wildebeests and zebras.
For a large pride of lions, if they are unable to hunt wildebeest and zebra, their lives will be in extreme danger.
During the dry season, many lion prides will disband due to lack of food. Many lion kings also ended their career as kings early because they could not beat other lion kings.
For a large pride of lions like Chuye, life will become increasingly difficult as the dry season continues.
Fortunately, their territory is close to the Grumedi River, so they can continue to survive.
However, in recent days, the water level of this large river has dropped sharply. The river surface was originally more than 50 meters, but now it is 20 or 30 meters. And, it continues to drop every day.
Seeing that the river around him was getting narrower, Chu Ye had a bad feeling. Because this is not a normal phenomenon. Usually in November, the dry season is almost over, and then it rains.
Due to the arrival of the rainy season, the flow of this Grumedi River will suddenly increase and the river surface will become wider and wider.
But the current situation is exactly the opposite of previous years. The rainy season has yet to come, and the dry season continues. All animals on the prairie are suffering from the heat.
Many animals now depend on this Grumedi River. It can be said that this big river is a river of life. Without this big river, none of the animals on this prairie would be able to survive.
Water is the source of life. Without water, there would be no life on earth. If there was no water now, life on earth would cease to exist.
But no matter what, the Grumedi River is still flowing slowly. There are lives on both sides of this big river, and this is the only water source that can support them.
Chu Ye already knew the situation on the other side of the river. He knew that there lived a powerful pride of lions on the other side of the river. The lion kings were three male lion brothers. They were all tall and strong.
Facing a powerful opponent, Chu Ye felt a little uneasy. After all, when the river dies, the two lions face each other, and a bloody battle is inevitable.
But right now, this big river has not stopped flowing, and the animals living on both sides of the river will not meet each other in the river valley for the time being.
Chu Ye looked at the three powerful lions, and he was already thinking about how to deal with them. When these three male lions saw Chu Ye, they were also thinking about how to defeat Chu Ye, a male lion that was taller and stronger than them.
Even Nika and Feifei were a little nervous. There are more than twenty female lions on the other side, one-third more than the number of female lions in their pride.
The three male lions on the other side of the river immediately started shouting bluffingly when they saw Chu Ye. They just wanted to overwhelm Chu Ye in terms of momentum.
Chu Ye didn't want to pay attention to them at all. He believed that he had a way to deal with these three proud lions. After all, he has human intelligence, but he can't deal with these three lions with simple minds and well-developed limbs.
Chu Ye watched Nika and the others drink water and then led them back. As for the three male lions on the other side of the river, he didn't look at them again and pretended they didn't exist.
The three male lions on the other side of the river were roaring on the other side and walking to the river from time to time, as if they wanted to come to the river to compete with Chu Ye.
Chu Ye did not stay any longer and led the lionesses back to their camp. The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and Chu Ye and the lionesses need to rest.
The three male lion brothers, after seeing Chu Ye leave, also left this place and returned to their camp.
Today's events have passed. But for Chu Ye and the three male lion brothers, they all knew that a war had begun.
The dry season continues, and there are fewer herbivores. The only place they can drink water is the increasingly narrow Grumedi River.
If carnivores want to hunt, they basically have to hunt by the river. Because herbivores can no longer survive elsewhere, they can only find some grass to eat in the bushes near the river.
The grass far away from the river bank has been eaten up by these herbivores. On land that is not moistened by rain, once the grass is eaten by herbivores, it is difficult for new grass to sprout and grow, and it can only come back to life when the rainy season comes.
The hunting battlefield of the lions in Chu Ye also moved from a place far away from the river to the river.
Rivers are now even more important to carnivores. Because this is not only a place for them to drink water, but also a place for them to hunt.
Lionesses like Nika and Feifei can only go to the river to try their luck in hunting these days.
But the riverside is a relatively open area, and it is very difficult to hunt prey here. Moreover, there are crocodiles in the river, and they will compete with lions for prey.
But no matter what, Nika and the others were still able to hunt some prey. They can also sustain the life of an entire pride of lions.
But on days like this, problems soon occurred again.
A week later, the once turbulent Grumedi River shrank into a small river. The river has become very shallow, and the middle part is only about one meter deep.
Of course, not the entire river has become a small river with a depth of only more than one meter. The terrain in some places is relatively low, and the rivers in these places are still very deep.
But no matter what, this big river that previously split the entire Serengeti prairie into two parts has lost its original meaning. It can no longer prevent the Serengeti savanna from blending into one.
This big river is not far away from the end of its flow. The animals on both sides of the river can also freely shuttle between the two banks.
Herbivores can live not only on this side of the river, but also on the other side of the river. For them, life seems to be better than before. After all, they have more grass to eat.
Since then, more herbivores have been attracted to the river to eat green grass. When there are many herbivores, carnivores will naturally follow.
For a time, the riverside became a place where many animals on the prairie gathered, including not only herbivores, but also many carnivores.
Nika leads their group of more than ten female lions and often hunts by the river. They were able to hunt some impalas that came to the river to drink water, as well as some smaller buffalo. Of course, sometimes, they also attack giraffes and baby elephants.
Besides, there are more than twenty female lions in the lion group on the other side of the river. The eldest sister of these lionesses is a mature lioness named Liz. It weighs 150 kilograms and is a very small and powerful female lion.
Liz led their group of more than 20 female lions and often came to the river to hunt. The three male lion brothers rarely come to the river. They are lion kings and generally do not hunt.
This kind of hunting is of course done by the lionesses. Especially for a group as powerful as the three male lion brothers, with more than 20 female lions, they don't need to hunt at all, they just need to protect their territory.
The three lion brothers are very powerful. They defeated six lion kings on the other side of the river within a month, and they became the most powerful lion king on the prairie on the other side of the river.
Lionesses usually hunt in groups, but sometimes they hunt alone. Although the success rate of team hunting is relatively high, once the prey is obtained, there will be a situation where there are too many people and too few people.
Especially for a large group of lions like the Chuye group and the three male lion brothers, if they go hunting together, not much of the prey will be left if the prey is divided into one lion. There may be some lions who still can't get their share of food.
Therefore, in some prides with more female lions, these female lions will not only hunt together, but sometimes they will hunt alone, or several of them will hunt together.
Although there are many female lions in a large pride. However, they come from different sources, which means that in daily life, they will also form a small group.
Just like the female lions in the Chuye lion group, the female lions of three groups are combined together. The female lions in the pride of three male lion brothers are composed of the female lions of six prides. These female lions also form their own small groups within their prides.
Nika and her two sisters formed a small group of them. Not only do they hunt together with other female lions, they also hunt with their two sisters.
On this day, Nika led his two female lion sisters to the river to hunt. They were lucky enough to see several impalas drinking water by the river.
These impalas were probably too thirsty and were just drinking water, not noticing that there were lions lurking nearby.
Of course, it's also possible that the impalas are just paying attention to what's going on in the water. After all, there may be terrible killers hiding in the water, and they may jump out of the water at any time and drag them directly into the water.
In short, Nika and the others easily caught an adult female impala this time. This adult female impala also weighs more than 100 kilograms.
Nika and their two sister lionesses were very happy to get more than one hundred kilograms of food, and they wanted to eat this delicious meal by the river.
But just when Nika and the others were about to eat the impala, they heard the cry of a lioness.
Soon, three female lions ran over from the other side of the river. The first one was tall and strong, and the other two were slightly smaller.
The river here is not very deep, and the deepest point is less than one meter. For adult lions who are more than one meter tall, they can wade through the water.
But even so, it is a big river after all, and there may be crocodiles lurking in the river. For Nika, although she felt that the three lionesses on the other side of the river were coming towards them, they wanted to snatch their prey.
But Nika was not worried, because if there was such a big river blocking it, it would be impossible for the three female lions on the opposite side to come over.
But the actual situation was not what Nika imagined. The three lionesses on the opposite side took a fancy to the impala that Nika and the others had hunted.
Because there is no such prey on the other side of the river, impalas like to live on the south bank of the Grumedi River, and they rarely go to live on the north bank of the river.
These three lionesses running over were not other lionesses, but three lionesses from the pride of the three male lion brothers. Moreover, they were the two older female lionesses led by the eldest lioness, Daris.
Maybe today is also a coincidence! Nika and her two female lion sisters wanted to go to the river to try their luck and find some food.
Liz on the other side of the river thought the same thing. She also led her two female lion sisters and wanted to go to the river to find some prey to eat.
But when they came to the river, they happened to see Nika and the others hunting an impala.
When Liz saw the impala, her mouth watered. It really wanted to taste the impala.
So, Liz decided to lead her two sister lionesses across the river to the other side of the river to snatch Nika and their prey.
For predators on the savanna, it is normal to hunt and steal other people's prey.
Whether they are hunting or robbing someone else's prey, it all feels the same to these predators. Because they have only one purpose, which is to find food that can sustain them.
After Nika and the others hunted their prey, they wanted to eat where they were. Nika and the others didn't pay much attention to the three lionesses on the other side of the river, feeling that it was impossible for them to come over.
After all, this river is the territorial boundary between their two lion groups. If Liz and the others came here, they would be invading the territory of their pride.
But the actual situation is that Liz led her two sister lionesses and waded directly across the river and came to Nika and the others.
When Nika saw that these three female lions had the audacity to cross the boundary river between the territories of their two prides and directly come to snatch the prey that the three sisters had just hunted, she immediately became furious.
The three Nika sisters are not vegetarians either, they also have rich combat experience. Facing Liz, the three lionesses, and the three Nika sisters, who were also three sisters, they were immediately ready to fight.
Three versus three is relatively fair in terms of quantity.
But Liz's weight obviously exceeded that of Nika, almost reaching the weight of a male lion. Perhaps it was because Liz felt that she was so powerful that she dared to cross the boundary river to snatch Nica and their prey.
Liz felt that she was very powerful, and she was determined to win this impala. And Nika and the others would never give up their hard-earned prey to these three robber lionesses.
The war was about to break out, and a melee between six female lions began.
Nika, her two sisters, and Liz's two sisters fought together. Of course, it was the powerful Liz who came to challenge the extraordinary Nika. The other two lionesses also found a rival for each other, and they immediately started biting each other.
'Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! ---'
The lionesses started fighting while roaring.
But it was obvious that this lioness named Liz was very powerful in combat. Nika was no match for her. After only one round, Nika was injured, and blood flowed from a relatively large wound on her stomach. come out.
Nika's two sisters were better off. However, they were also injured. There was also blood flowing out. After all, when lions fight, they bite each other. As long as they are ordinary lions, they will definitely be injured and bleed when biting each other.
Six female lions fought over an impala by the river, and the cobblestones by the river were soon stained with their blood.
All six female lions were injured. Even if Liz was powerful, she was also injured, but not that serious.
After fighting for a while, Nika felt that if the fight continued, the three lionesses would definitely be defeated. Because that Liz is too powerful. It can completely defeat Nika and possibly even kill Nika.
In the end, Nika decided to give up his prey. Even if he didn't want this impala, he couldn't lose his life because of this impala.
'Ouch! ——'
Nika saw that she was no match for Liz, so she had no choice but to roar at her two sister lionesses, asking them to retreat quickly.
The two sister lionesses also felt powerless and had multiple injuries on their bodies, bleeding profusely. They also feel that if they don't escape, they will die.
So, Nika quickly led his two sister lionesses and ran towards the bushes by the river, and soon they disappeared into the bushes in the distance.
Liz looked at Nika and the others running away, her eyes filled with pride. The same goes for its two sister lionesses. After seeing Nika and the others escaping, they were overjoyed and immediately came to the impala's body, ready to taste the impala's delicacy.
