The leopard cub had noticed something strange about itself a long time ago. Strange things kept happening around it.
For example, dust would mysteriously disappear, or things would mysteriously fly dozens of meters away.
In order not to get sleepy because of the crazy knowledge, it deliberately suppressed its understanding of the world.
But when it accidentally knocked the ostrich out with a rock, the leopard cub began to realize its importance.
The leopard cub began to realize the importance of this ability. It could help its mother hunt!
This was so important! Its mother's hunting success rate made it want to cry.
Therefore, when it saw the hyenas fighting over its food, the starving leopard cub dug at the rocks without hesitation, glaring at the guy who was eating the ostrich.
It just wanted to take back its mother's food!
The rock hit the hyenas' eyes with great precision. No matter how agile the hyenas were, the rock still hit them with great force, even though it had drawn a strange curve in the air.
It was seeing this amazing thing again!
The female cheetah finally gathered her courage and approached the hyenas, trying to take back her food.
However, the hyenas were much more thick-skinned than the ostrich. Although it was frightened by its injury, it had been hungry for a long time. More importantly, it knew the cheetahs better than anyone else.
It had stolen food from cheetahs too many times. Seeing the female cheetah sneaking back, the hyenas roared and pretended to chase after it.
Therefore, the hyenas chased the female cheetah away by biting the air a few times.
"Sigh …" The leopard cub looked helplessly at its mother, who was retreating.
It was too cowardly.
But it was not its fault. Cheetahs were very weak. They had just finished a hunt and were almost powerless.
If they fought, the hyenas would not be able to kill the female cheetah, but the female cheetah would not be able to defeat the hyenas either.
Once the female cheetah was injured, it would be doomed. Injury would affect its speed, and aside from speed, cheetahs were almost useless.
A cheetah that could not catch up with its prey was doomed.
The leopard cub would not let the female cheetah take this risk. It continued to dig at the rocks, using the remaining strength in its body to throw them at the hyenas.
The more it thought about it, the more it remembered how to use this ability.
The more it used it, the more proficient it became. It was as if it had practiced this ability thousands of times.
The only downside was that it was too weak.
Even so, Hyena was bleeding from the stones that kept flying at him.
All the sharp stones were concentrated on the same wound! Furthermore, those were fragile eyes.
"Keke … coo!" It cried out in pain. It couldn't understand when the cheetah had become so powerful.
It felt like it was facing an army of crazy baboons!
Finally, unable to withstand the long-range attacks, the hyena threw down its food and fled in panic.
However, even though it had fled dozens of meters away, the stone still chased after it for dozens of meters, circling around and smashing into its wound.
This was driving it crazy!
Suddenly, one of the hyenas' nerves was smashed, and the painful hyena finally collapsed in pain, lying on the ground and groaning.
Paralyzed, the hyena's brain was severely damaged. It could no longer control its own body.
At the same time, the leopard cub finally ran out of energy and passed out.
"I want milk!"
After an unknown amount of time, the cub woke up groggily. It was so hungry that it thought it was going to die.
Fortunately, the mother leopard had been guarding it. Smelling the rich milky scent, the cub instinctively swallowed and didn't even want to open its eyes.
After a full meal, it didn't want to move and went back to sleep.
It didn't regain its energy until a day and a night later.
"That's great, I survived …"
After the crisis, the cheetahs had changed.
The two female leopards had clearly matured a lot. They had already deeply felt how important hunting was and how arduous it was.
The mother leopard had obviously realized that the cub was different from the rest.
She had seen with her own eyes how the cub had smashed the hyena with rocks. In the end, the hyena had died of thirst in the wilderness and was eaten by the vultures.
The mother leopard realized the importance of the cub, so she guarded it until it woke up. She fed it immediately and made sure that it was full before she went hunting again.
Two days later, the cub had completely recovered.
Once again, the mother and three cubs began their migration while looking for prey.
This time, the two sensible female leopards imitated their mother very attentively. Their learning ability was very strong. When they were hunting, they stared nervously and seriously at their mother's strong figure to learn. Soon, they looked like they were on the right track.
As for the male leopard cub, it wasn't interested in learning this skill at all. Instead, it was thinking hard.
The more it thought and investigated, the more it learned. Some things kept surging out of its mind for no reason.
It had realized that the memories that had surged out of nowhere seemed to be very important.
It was the knowledge it had gained that allowed it to help the mother leopard when it was only 20 days old. It had helped the mother leopard cool down at a critical moment and save its mother's life.
Although it was very sleepy, its mother had learned to be partial and save milk for it. She would never go hungry again if she missed dinner.
Therefore, it was able to dig into the depths of its consciousness.
As for hunting, it wasn't in a hurry to hit the prey right away. Instead, it stood on a high ground and waited for its mother to sprint. Then, it threw the prey while it was moving at high speed.
This was the most efficient way. If a springbok or dog-antelope that was moving at high speed was suddenly hit in the head by a rock, it would definitely faint. Even if it didn't faint, it would stumble and slow down.
This was much more efficient than chasing and hitting the prey with rocks continuously.
With the help of the cub, the mother leopard's hunting success rate soared to 100%.
The mother leopard was in charge of chasing the prey, and the cub was in charge of long-range attacks. When the prey fell to the ground, the mother leopard would bite its neck and suffocate it.
The mother and the cub worked well together in one go.
The super efficient hunting made them never go hungry again. Their days were very good.
One day, the mother leopard didn't eat the springbok immediately after it was caught. Instead, she called her cubs to eat it.
The two female leopards excitedly sniffed the prey, scratched it with their little claws, and bit it with their little teeth. In the end, they only got a mouthful of fur.
The mother leopard rested on the side and habitually looked around, letting her cubs play with the prey's body.
However, the cub wasn't interested in playing at all. Instead, it quickly understood. "Oh … Is she going to start weaning?"
Looking at the two female leopards scratching anxiously, the leopard cub waited patiently for the exhausted leopard cub.
Sure enough, after resting for half an hour, his mother finally went up and bit off the prey's skin.
The two female leopards went up and sniffed the blood curiously. They looked at their mother, wondering what she would do.
However, the cub moved immediately and started licking the blood without hesitation.
"Weaning will last for about a month. During this time, I can't eat meat. I'll probably have to eat a mixture of blood and milk. When I'm about two months old, I'll be able to eat meat. Then, I'll stop drinking milk …
"But it'll take me a year to be able to hunt on my own … No, if I have the means, I'll be able to be independent when I'm six months old.
"Oh, I miss Mom so much. When I'm one year old, she'll probably abandon me and my sisters and leave by herself, right?"
The leopard cub pondered and licked the blood happily.
This thing was much more filling than milk.
Seeing that the cub was enjoying the blood, the two female leopards finally got used to the taste of the blood and started drinking as well.
"I feel like there's a lot more to be attached to. What am I? Where did I come from? And where am I going?
"Forget it … Eating is the most important thing!
"I've been eating more and more lately. If I keep thinking like this, I'll need a bottomless pit of nutrients."
The cub was full and looked forward to growing up quickly.
A month later, it was finally able to eat meat.
After eating meat, its body started to grow noticeably. Now was the time for it to grow up. For the sake of food, it decided to let its mother go out and hunt some big targets.
It was the seventieth day of its birth.
They had harvested a sturdy bison that weighed at least four hundred pounds!
This was a very rare food. It was already difficult for the female leopards to catch a wildebeest, let alone a bison.
If there were other options, the lions wouldn't want to provoke the bison.
But this time, they did it easily. When the adult bison was running, the cub tripped it.
Of course, the tripped bison was still very strong. The female leopard couldn't bite its neck at all, and the bison managed to escape.
Fortunately, the cub had prepared a backup plan! It had set up traps from many angles in advance. By hitting the bison's head with rocks twice, it had forced the bison to step into the pit and break its leg.
Without a doubt, this had alerted the nearby lions.
The pride surrounded them, wanting to kill the cheetah that had attacked their prey. At the same time, they wanted to kill the bison that was trapped in the pit and have a full meal.
However, the cub had already thought of this. Using its ability, it made the sticks and vines fly in the air and float slowly and weirdly.
The three leopard cubs were lying on the tree branches and flying in the air, ready to help their mother at any time.
When the lions surrounded the bison, they could only watch as the female leopard was taken away. Lying on the vines that were more than ten meters high, they couldn't catch up to her at all.
What was more infuriating was that the lions, who had always been fighting for food, were now working for the cheetahs.
After they happily bit the bison in the pit to death, a rope made of vines fell from the sky and wrapped around the bison's horns.
The bison was being dragged away! The lions put their mouths into the bison's stomach and gnawed at it. It wasn't until the bison was dragged a few meters away and started to rise into the air that they realized something was wrong.
But there was nothing they could do about this magical phenomenon.
A lioness lying on the bison's body rose into the air with it. She roared at the four cheetahs that were flying higher.
Three of the cheetahs were trembling in fear. No one knew if they were afraid of the lions or of falling.
Only the smallest of them was very calm. It even roared at the lioness, "Meow!"
Seeing that the bison was getting higher and higher, the lioness had no choice but to jump down.
The lions chased the bison on land for a while, but finally gave up and chose to conserve their strength to go back to hunting.
"The lion's claws and teeth are really useful. Without the lion, it would be really troublesome to kill the bison …"
"Well, I'll use fire next time … The lion won't be so easily fooled …"
After the four cheetahs enjoyed the big meal in a hidden place, there was still a lot of bison left.
This made the leopard cub even more eager to make a fire so that he could process the meat and preserve it for a longer time.
"It's easy to lead the kids astray. The two female cheetahs probably won't learn real hunting skills if they watch me hunt all day."
"Their survival rate is worrying when they grow up … Are they still wild animals if they rely on me so much?"
"Well, why am I thinking about this? Strange … What are they if not wild animals? From what point of view did I come up with this idea? "
"Ahhh … My head hurts. Am I really a cheetah cub? How can a cheetah cub know that it's a cheetah cub? "
"No, how can a cheetah cub know so many things? Who am I? "
Every time the cub thought about the three ultimate questions, he felt drowsy.
It seemed that thinking about such questions was too much for his brain.
But every time he thought about it, he felt that his way of thinking seemed to have changed. Then, more knowledge and certain habits began to appear.
In fact, there was even something called personality that was gradually being formed.
"Ow!"
Suddenly, the cub felt a sharp pain in his forelimbs.
"It's happening again! Ever since I opened my eyes, I've always felt an inexplicable pain in my body or extreme hunger. Ever since I stopped drinking milk, I can clearly feel that there's a consciousness in the distance that's closely connected to me. It's a strange yet familiar soul. That guy is either injured or starving. "
"It's been three months, and it hasn't made any progress. If it starves to death, will I be dragged down with it?"
"Should I go look for it?"
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