Zhang Zian was a step late. He was worried about the safety of Pi and Richard, and in a hurry, he misheard Old Time Tea's words. He heard it as "That was …" What was it? Why didn't it say anything else?
But now was not the time to ask this. The coyotes near the campfire must be driven away first.
The spotted owl flew silently in the air like a ghost. It was the first to notice the approach of the coyotes and warn them.
Pi waved a thick branch in both hands and stood bravely at the entrance of the tent, confronting the coyotes across the campfire. From time to time, it squeaked to strengthen its momentum.
In fact, it was also afraid. These coyotes looked very fierce, as if they could jump over the fire and tear it apart at any time. But since entering Zhang Zian's dream and being bullied by the monkey, it knew that blindly retreating and forbearance would not be exchanged for the other party's pity. It would only make the other party think that it was weak and easy to bully. If it wanted to protect itself, it must be brave enough to resist.
Richard wanted to fly to a high place to hide, but it couldn't see anything in the dark. When it flew up, it hit the branch and fell back to the ground. There was a pool of green and yellow under its butt. It was so scared that it peed!
Compared with Pi, this cheap bird that only knew how to be a hero was too shameful. It was not even as good as the owl!
Seeing that the two of them were safe, Zhang Zian breathed a sigh of relief.
At a glance, he knew that the coyotes here were much more ferocious than the ones responsible for feigning attacks on the deer herd, and their size was also larger. When they saw Zhang Zian, they were not afraid at all. Instead, they threatened him and showed their fangs, warning him not to approach.
Famous rushed to the campfire and barked at the coyotes.
Pi saw that the big guy came back to support it, and it waved the branch more vigorously, squeaking at the coyotes. Zhang Zian thought about cutting a wooden stick for it tomorrow.
On the way back, Zhang Zian had already opened the bottle cap of the bear spray and held it in his hand. Although this thing was used to prevent bears, chili water was also easy to deal with coyotes.
Famous, Fina, Old Time Tea, and Vladimir were all good at fighting, so it was easy for them to deal with these coyotes. However, they were worried about the threat of prion proteins. God knew if these coyotes had eaten sick deer, so they just stayed alert and didn't rush forward.
Wu ~
Another low growl came from the darkness.
Zhang Zian and the elfins looked at the fire and saw another coyote coming out of the woods …
Wait a minute! Is this a coyote?
The new animal looked different from a coyote. It was much larger than a coyote and had black fur all over its body. It was more like a dog or a wolf.
It was not certain that it was a dog. Its eyes were more ferocious than dogs and coyotes, like a rare black wolf.
But that's not right. Wolves and coyotes are sworn enemies. It's absolutely impossible for a wolf to mix in the coyotes.
Zhang Zian turned on the flashlight and shone it over. He noticed that the wolf-like animal was not as strong as a wolf, but it was heavier and stronger.
He recognized it. It was a wolfdog!
If he wasn't mistaken, it should be the offspring of a wild dog or a stray dog combined with a coyote.
Wolfdogs were much more ferocious than coyotes, and this black wolfdog was obviously the leader of the coyotes.
Apart from that, his flashlight also swept across another animal.
The animal was much smaller than the black wolfdog and coyote. At first glance, it looked like a cute raccoon, but upon closer inspection, the animal was not cute at all – its head was flat, its fangs were exposed outside its mouth, its face was fierce, and its eyes were cunning. After it was illuminated by the flashlight, it seemed reluctant to let itself be exposed. It waved its two unusually sharp front claws and dug the ground. In a short time, it dug a pit and hid in it to avoid the flashlight.
Old Time Tea was secretly shocked. It had long heard rumors that there was a strange animal named "Bei" that was used to cooperating with wolves. The former was smart, and the latter was fierce. The two complemented each other, achieving the effect of 1 + 1 greater than 2. Hence, the idiom "Wolves work together."
Old Time Tea used to wander in the forests of southern China for a period of time and encountered wolves more than once, but it had never seen the legendary Bei. It once doubted whether the so-called Bei really existed. But now that it saw this animal, wasn't it somewhat similar to the legendary Bei?
If it was just a pack of wolves, it would not be scary, but there were many incredible legends about the Bei. It was said that their intelligence was similar to that of humans, which made Old Time Tea deeply worried. It reminded Zhang Zian, "Zian, be careful! Is that the legendary Bei? "
The other elfins had never heard of such an animal, so they didn't know what Old Time Tea was talking about.
"Bei?"
Zhang Zian understood this time. It was not "by," but "Bei."
Before the animal hid in the pit, Zhang Zian roughly saw its appearance and recognized its identity — it was not a Bei, but an American badger!
"Badger" was not a very famous name, but there was a kind of badger among badgers, which was the honey badger known as the "African Flathead."
Honey badgers were the most famous badger species, but in fact, all badgers were similar. They had a fierce temperament, dared to fight with beasts several times larger than themselves, and dared to prey on poisonous snakes.
Badgers were not only fierce, but also very smart. They were incredibly smart. Not only could they effectively use the sharp teeth and claws on their bodies to hunt, but they could also skillfully use tools. What was even more strange was that they could also cooperate with other animals to hunt.
In Africa, honey badgers would cooperate with black-throated rattlesnake honey badgers to steal honey. Scientists had witnessed more than once that American badgers would cooperate with coyotes to hunt various animals in North America.
From fish, shrimps, birds, to young deer, and even young black bears, everything was in the American badger's diet. If fresh food could not be found, they did not mind eating carrion.
Of course, there were no American badgers in China, but there were dog badgers, which were Eurasian badgers. In addition, there were no coyotes in China. Since American badgers could form an alliance with coyotes, who knew if dog badgers had formed an alliance with some kind of wolf in Eurasia thousands of years ago?
In this sense, badgers were indeed quite similar to the legendary Bei. Maybe they were the original animal of the Bei.
The ancients did not have such powerful lighting tools as modern times. When the ancients encountered a small wolf pack in the dark wilderness, they probably did not have time to carefully identify the strange animal mixed in the wolf pack. After luckily saving their lives, when they told others about their experience of escaping death, they gave them a name like "Bei" …
Suburban wolves, black wolfhounds, and this American badger. These three animals colluded together to form a strange and powerful combination.
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