The Evolutionary Path of the Lion

Chapter 116 The more you do it, the better it feels

"I told you! Someone's training it!" Kenneth slammed his hand on the table and stood up. "How long have I been following this line? You just wouldn't believe me!"

"Training my ass!" Kaller spoke up, his voice lower than usual. "Training can strengthen movements, teach it to recognize frequency bands and adjust frequencies in real time? That requires understanding the principles; that's true intelligence! Not conditioned reflexes!"

Kenneth glared at him, wanting to say something, but in the end he just snorted, leaned back in his chair, threw the laser pointer on the table, and remained silent.

Kaller turned the comparison image to Linton, "It knows how our drones work, and it's doing targeted sabotage. This isn't something an ordinary lion could do."

"Nonsense!" Linton finally stopped tapping his fingers on the table, flipped through the report in front of him, closed it, placed it on the table, raised his head, and said in a low but chilling voice, "Perhaps, we are not facing a lion."

The meeting room fell completely silent.

Kenneth opened his mouth, but no words came out.

Ella stared at the comparison image, her brows furrowed tightly.

Kaller flipped the comparison image over, placed it face down on the table, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and said nothing.

Outside the window, the sky over London was overcast, as if it were about to rain. Meanwhile, on the distant African savanna, Chen Fei had returned to his base, lying on the ground, licking his paws, thinking: If they dare to send drones again, I'll keep attacking them and see who can outlast whom.

"Bang! Bang!"

Two more shots rang out, hitting the other two hyenas right in front of them. The accuracy of the shots was uncanny; each shot made one of the hyenas jump back more than three meters in fright.

Just play.

The four hyenas looked at each other for just a second.

They've withdrawn!

It wasn't moving slowly at all; it was a full-on jog, dashing south and disappearing into the bushes in the blink of an eye.

A warm current surged from his limbs inwards, gathering under his skin, as if something was pressing down on the cells layer by layer from the inside out, lasting for about ten minutes. It didn't hurt, just a tingling sensation, the kind of deep muscle tingling that comes from being massaged open, so tingling that he couldn't help but tremble.

After he finished, he scratched his forearm with the tip of his claw, with considerable force.

There was bleeding, but the wound was much shallower than before, and the bleeding stopped quickly, clotting almost half as fast as usual.

[Host: Chen Fei]

[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]

[Energy Points: 1600↑]

"Wound sealing, that's an amazing ability...it's got a bit of Wolverine vibes!"

Meimei is waiting by the pool.

She wasn't waiting for him on purpose. She was drinking water, and after she finished, she didn't leave. Instead, she lay down by the water, patting the ground with her tail intermittently, splashing some mud.

Chen Fei walked over and lay down two meters away from her. Neither of the lions said a word.

Occasionally a gust of wind blows, pressing down the grass blades and then bouncing them back up. Apart from that, the grassland is so quiet you can hear yourself breathing.

Meimei turned her head and glanced at the stingy guy.

The little guy had already returned to the camp, where Big Head was headbutting him. Big Head would nudge him once, and he would roll to the side, then Big Head would chase after him and nudge him again, making the little rascal meow and whimper as if its tail had been stepped on.

Meimei looked away and stared straight ahead. After a while, she swept her tail to the side.

It landed right on Chen Fei's tail for about three seconds, then pulled back and pressed it next to its own paw.

Chen Fei glanced at her sideways.

She didn't look at him, her eyes were fixed straight ahead, her ears twitched, she followed a bird that flew past her, circled halfway, and then turned back, as if nothing had happened.

Chen Fei looked away, resting his chin on his front paws again, wondering to himself, "What's with this tail? Is it trying to provoke me?"

The two lions lay down for a while longer. Mei Mei stood up first and walked towards the league. Her steps were very steady, and she didn't look back.

Chen Fei watched her walk away, and the tip of his tail twitched.

It's the tail again.

He lowered his head, took a sip of water, and pushed the matter to the back of his mind: "Thinking about these things is useless; important matters are more important."

Inside Ella's tent at the survey team's camp.

The kerosene lamp was lit, with the wick set very low, just enough to illuminate the tabletop.

Ella sat in a folding chair, her coat still on, her boots covered in mud from the day, half-dried with a layer of white salt stains around the edges.

Her mind was filled with the cub's eyes.

It has a bright yellow color and its pupils are vertical slits, the kind that are flat. When it looks at people, it neither looks away nor lunges forward, it just stares straight at them, as if it's figuring out whether you're a threat. After figuring it out and deciding that you're not, it just stands there.

She had seen countless lions, but none of them had ever looked at her like that.

"It's really weird," she muttered to herself.

She pushed aside a pile of equipment on the table, took out a hardcover notebook she had used for two years, and wrote a line in the blank space: The cub's eyes reminded me of something.

She stared at the line of text, her pen hovering for a long time, before adding: I can't explain it.

He tossed the pen aside, leaned back in his chair, and stared blankly at the top of the tent.

A low growl came from outside the tent, drifting over from afar, passing through the tent fabric, and disappearing after just a moment in my ear.

She suddenly looked up and peered into the tent entrance.

The curtains were hanging down, and there was no sound.

"Fortunately, it's safe for me." Ella breathed a sigh of relief.

...

The first to cause trouble was the leopard.

This thing has been squatting on the acacia tree on the north side of the pond for three days, like a sculpture.

Chen Fei knew it was there, and it knew Chen Fei knew it too. They just stayed there, neither of them making the first move.

Chen Fei knew exactly what the leopard was thinking: "It's safer perched in the tree. Waiting until I'm far away before coming down to drink? Dream on!"

Chen Fei's logic was even simpler: "The area north of the pool is the core area of ​​the alliance, and these trees are our territory too. Why should you take them? Do you really think I'm easy to bully?"

On the afternoon of the third day, the leopard couldn't hold back any longer.

It jumped down from the tree, landing about eight meters to Chen Fei's right front. It looked pretty cool, landing on all four paws at the same time and flicking its tail as if to run away.

Chen Fei had already anticipated its demise.

Jumping down from the mimosa tree, there are only two landing spots to choose from: the left is a thicket of thorns, which will prick you; the right is an open field, where you can run freely. It has to be the right!

A surge of heat instantly flowed into his limbs, and as soon as the leopard landed, Chen Fei's explosive sprint began.

In 0.5 seconds, he darted seven meters!

At this speed, even ten Olympic champions combined wouldn't be enough.

Before the leopard could even turn around properly, Chen Fei's paws were already on its back.

Just hold it down and teach it a lesson.

The leopard thrashed about on the ground for a couple of moments, but couldn't break free. It turned its head, baring its teeth, its eyes filled with both anger and fear, behaving just like prey being held down by its hunter.

Chen Fei pressed the heat into the tip of his claw and gently burned it on the back of its neck. The pressure wasn't great, just enough to let it taste the pain: "It's good that it feels pain."

The leopard immediately froze, as if it had been struck by a pressure point.

Chen Fei loosened his grip and took two steps back, leaving it a way out.

The leopard got up from the ground, glanced back, and was so frightened that it ran away at more than twice the speed of before, disappearing into the grass to the north in the blink of an eye.

Chen Fei lowered his head to drink water, feeling quite relieved: "That's right, it's better to be sensible."

"So this is what a philanthropist is like... First, you fight your way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and once you have the skills, you can start playing around like this, hehe."

[Host: Chen Fei]

[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]

[Energy Points: 1612↑]

"I believe in universal love for all living beings!"

The second target was the crocodile.

The old fox from the deep end of the pool, estimated to be 2.8 meters long, with armor plates as thick as if covered with tiles, was entrenched on the shallows on the east side of the pool. He was a man who would bite anyone he encountered, and would bristle if anyone got too close.

The lionesses in the alliance have to walk around it even when they're drinking water. If they can't avoid it, they'll suffer. One of them bit the leg of the one-legged lion, and it still limps around.

Chen Fei remembered the incident with the one-legged man, and he was determined to get revenge: "Dare to touch my man, and I'll teach you a lesson!"

He waded into the water, which went up to his belly, and slowly moved towards the crocodile.

The crocodile lay there motionless, its two eyes above the water's surface, like two yellow glass marbles, staring intently at him, exuding a fierce aura.

When Chen Fei got to within four meters, the crocodile moved.

It opened its mouth and charged forward, twice as fast as it would on land, creating a wave on the water's surface, which looked quite frightening.

Chen Fei dodged to the right, avoiding a frontal impact, and slammed his left forepaw, which was radiating heat, down onto the scales on its neck and back.

The concentrated release of heat softened the contact surface of the armor plates instantly, allowing the claw tip to cut in halfway.

The crocodile's tail swept across, whistling through the air. Chen Fei quickly jumped away, landing on the shallows. The heat returned to his claws, ready to fight again at any moment.

The crocodile turned around and opened its mouth to bite again, looking very fierce.

This time, Chen Fei didn't dodge. His right front paw plunged directly into the inside of its open jaw, and the heat was concentrated and released on the soft tissue inside the jawbone for a second.

The crocodile's mouth suddenly wouldn't close, as if it had dislocated.

It writhed and twisted on the shallows, its tail splashing the water like a madman. Finally, it had no choice but to turn around and flee into the deep water. It was incredibly fast and soon sank and disappeared from sight.

Chen Fei emerged from the water, shook the water off his legs, and thought to himself, "Finally, it'll be quiet here while the Alliance's lionesses drink water, hahaha... The more I do this, the better! Let's keep going!"