DipNovel Chapter 42 Hyenas and Rifles!
Chapter 42 Hyenas and Rifles!
Three kilometers away, the outline remained unchanged.
The surrounding moving objects were slowly drifting north, and it stopped at the very front, like a stone nailed to the grass.
Chen Fei reviewed its body dimensions again using night vision.
Shoulder height.
The shoulder height is about one-third to one-half higher than that of the surrounding individuals.
The average hyena stands around 80 centimeters tall at the shoulder, and the individuals around it fall within this range.
So the silhouette at the very front has a shoulder height of approximately 110 to 120 centimeters.
It's still a hyena.
A hyena that is significantly larger than average!
Chen Fei firmly grasped this conclusion in his mind and did not rush to make the next judgment.
The problem isn’t the abnormal body shape itself, but the way it’s stuck there.
Its head faces north and remains motionless, but its center of gravity is on its forelegs, not evenly distributed as when it is standing and resting, but rather in a compressed posture that can be activated at any time.
It is being evaluated.
It wasn't wandering around, nor was it foraging; it was using a method that Chen Fei couldn't currently confirm through aura to determine the northern edge of the territory.
Chen Fei pressed his claws against the ground, but didn't move.
Three kilometers is a safe distance.
It cannot perceive him.
But I can see it clearly.
Big Head squatted down two meters behind him, perked up his ears, and tilted his head to the left, as if asking what had happened.
Chen Fei ignored it.
He shifted the focus of his night vision from that outline back to the entire moving group.
Twenty to thirty was his conservative estimate.
He now expands the field of vision to both sides, allowing the night vision to perform a rough quantity check over a larger area.
The grass obscured part of the area, but the uneven density of the movement indicated that the group was wider than he had initially seen, extending at least twice as far east as he had initially estimated.
The actual number is conservatively estimated to be over fifty.
This is not the size of an ordinary hyena pack.
A typical hyena pack typically consists of ten to twenty individuals.
A group of more than thirty is already considered a large group.
In Chen Fei's knowledge, there was only one group on this grassland that could reach more than fifty heads.
He rediscovered the large outline that had stopped at the very front.
It remains in its original position.
The direction of his head did not change, but the angle of his earlobe was slightly deflected in the night vision, from due north to north-northwest, which was the direction Chen Fei was in.
Chen Fei held his breath.
They were in an upwind position, so their aura wouldn't drift south, and the other party couldn't sense them.
The deflection of his ear is more likely an attempt to detect a sound that he cannot perceive at the edge of his territory, rather than a confirmation of his location.
But this deflection itself illustrates one thing.
Its senses are active, it's in an active detection state, not in a low-intensity standby state when it's just wandering around.
Chen Fei stared at the outline in the night vision for about ten seconds.
Then he took a half step back, lowering his center of gravity to below the edge of the grass.
Do not approach, do not confront, do not leave a trace.
That's enough information for tonight.
He turned around and walked towards where he was going to land, taking light steps and controlling the force of each step.
Meimei followed, and Datou followed. Their steps were lighter than when they came, as if they had read some kind of signal from Chen Fei's movements.
Chen Fei walked out of the bushes and returned to his spot. He lay down next to Sair and half-closed his eyes.
Energy Points: 820
Among the group of fifty or more, a large individual of unusual size stopped at the very front of the column, actively probing with its ears, and moved northward.
He laid out these data in his mind without drawing any conclusions; he just left them there.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 820↑]
The wind pressed down on the grass on the south side, pushing the blades of grass to the north.
Chen Fei's ears twitched.
The wind direction changed, but nothing came.
Chen Fei's ears remained in that position for about two minutes, taking in all the scents coming from the south.
The humus of grass and the dryness of sand.
The lingering droppings of a herbivore in the distance, and the collective scent of that hyena pack carried on the north wind—
light.
They are still far away, and there is no sign of them getting closer.
Chen Fei lowered his ears and closed his eyes.
They won't come tonight, so I can sleep peacefully.
The next morning, when the sun was a quarter of the way up in the sky, Chen Fei lay on a sandstone platform in the open grassland on the east side, stretching his super vision towards the northeast.
The wildebeest herd was two kilometers away. The young wildebeest with an old injury from yesterday was still on the edge of the herd. Its gait was more off-center than yesterday, and the inward turn of its right hind hoof was more pronounced.
The old injury may have been aggravated by a short run last night.
Chen Fei mentally marked the location of the young wildebeest.
He was about to turn his gaze south to check the distance the hyena pack had moved the previous night when a detail at the edge of his field of vision made him stop.
Three kilometers to the northeast, at the boundary between grassland and low shrubs.
There has been movement.
It is not an animal.
The movement method is incorrect.
Animals on the grassland move according to a fixed rhythm.
Herbivores roam freely, stopping and starting at will.
Carnivores either crawl low to the ground or dash at full speed in short bursts; there is no intermediate state.
But the three moving points he saw from three kilometers away were advancing in a straight line at a uniform speed, with fixed spacing, and maintaining a deliberately constructed queue relationship.
He focused on the highest precision.
Three.
Walking upright.
Two of them had a long, thin, dark outline on their right shoulder, slung diagonally across their bodies at an angle different from ordinary luggage—
Chen Fei's claws tightened subtly on the sandstone platform.
He had watched enough documentaries and read enough news in his previous life.
He recognized that silhouette.
gun!
Three upright-walking humans, each carrying a long spear, are advancing in a straight line from the northeast towards his territory.
Their speed was steady and uninterrupted, as if they had already determined their target direction.
Big Head was chasing a lizard below the platform. The lizard scurried into a crevice in the rocks, and Big Head stuck his claws in and dug around for a while, finally pulling out a handful of sand. He stared at the sand for a second and then sneezed.
Chen Fei did not move.
Three kilometers away.
Three humans.
Two long spears.
Advance in a straight line.
Unbeknownst to them, a pair of eyes were watching them clearly from three kilometers away.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 823↑]
At their current pace, the three-kilometer distance will take them about forty minutes.
The sandstone platform still carried the lingering coolness of the night.
Chen Fei lay on top of it, his chin resting on his front paws, his super-long-range vision fully activated.
Three kilometers away, three upright figures were advancing from the northeast.
The one at the very front took the biggest strides, with a dark cloth bag slung across his left shoulder and a gun in his right hand, barrel pointing downwards. He walked with a professional casualness—not laxity, but familiarity.
Chen Fei's gaze was fixed on the gun.
With its evolved super-long-range vision, it can see flies on a horse's face three kilometers away, so seeing the basic shape of these three guns is of course no problem.
A long rifle with a bolt-action firing mechanism; the magazine capacity appears to be around five rounds.
The effective range is estimated to be between 150 and 300 meters.
"It's a hunting rifle!"
Knowledge gained through BBC, Discovery, and military channels.
Chen Fei quickly checked in his mind.