novelhk Chapter 105 Evolution Again
Chapter 105 Evolution Again
The tent fell silent again.
This time the quiet lasted even longer.
Kaller turned the bag of soil in his hand around without saying a word.
Kenneth placed the two photos side by side: the left side showed the panoramic view of the lettering, and the right side showed the data from the indentation modeling. He stared at the two photos, his expression shifting from hard to something indefinable.
"Report to Linton," he said finally, his voice a notch lower than before, "and attach Kaller's modeling data and Ella's coordinate analysis, and send them over together."
Ella picked up the photo and slid it back into the evidence bag.
"Kenneth," she said, without looking up, "if there really are people behind us, what is their purpose?"
Kenneth did not answer immediately.
Outside the tent, the heatwave pressed the white tarpaulin inwards slightly, like a giant hand pressing down.
"They're interfering with our investigation and leading us astray," he said.
Ella's hand paused on the zipper of the evidence bag for about two seconds before she zipped it up.
The wildebeest herd appeared the following afternoon.
It was about three hours earlier than Chen Fei had estimated, but the route was exactly the same.
He lay prone in the ditch, watching the lead wildebeest enter the alleyway, followed by a dense herd of at least twenty.
opportunity.
He counted in his head.
When the lead wildebeest reached the narrowest part of the passage, Chen Fei stood up. He didn't move fast, but each step landed on the hardest part of the ground without making any extra noise.
He crouched low to the ground along the left side of the thorny path, locking onto the third wildebeest near the outer edge. It was medium to small in size, with a slightly irregular gait on its right hind leg, indicating it had been injured and was moving slower than the group average.
locking.
Tuck your legs in.
At the moment of takeoff, Big Head burst out from behind the acacia tree at the top of the slope, letting out a hoarse roar, completely sealing off the escape space on the right side of the alley.
The wildebeest herd was in an uproar.
But there's only one direction for the explosion.
They rushed forward, running out along the narrow passage, crowding together in the narrowest part, trampling each other.
Chen Fei adjusted his position halfway in the air, his front paws landing precisely on the back of the target wildebeest behind its shoulder blades. He pressed down with all his weight, used his hind paws to push off the ground, and simultaneously activated the heat flow in his right paw, slapping it towards the side of its neck.
The wildebeest fell down in just three seconds.
Big Head ran down the slope, trembling with excitement. It circled its prey twice, then raised its head and let out a series of short meows at Chen Fei, its tail swishing as if it were about to break off.
It's probably asking, "How did I perform?"
Chen Fei used its paws to push its head open and began to eat.
Big Head moved half a step to the side, looking aggrieved, then shamelessly moved back and buried his head on the other side.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 1074↑]
At night, the split mouth appeared.
Not a striker.
It was a complete harassment squad, about twelve of them, roaming back and forth along the southern border of the Alliance territory, their howls surging in waves, making the night wind dirty and chaotic.
Chen Fei did not move.
He knew the strategy of splitting his lips.
Exhaustion tactics. This involves keeping the prey awake all night, draining their energy, and then launching a full-scale attack when they are most fatigued before dawn. This tactic, evolved over millions of years, has proven highly effective against most predators.
But Chen Fei is not one of the majority of predators.
He estimated the distance in his mind to be about 600 meters, which was still within the boundary.
We will refrain from taking action for the time being.
He rested his chin back on his front paws, slowing his breathing and heartbeat to stay awake with minimal energy expenditure.
The insomnia I suffered from in my past life has completely disappeared from this body, replaced by a state of stillness similar to being on standby in battle—awake, but not exhausted.
The howling lasted for about two hours.
Then, from the easternmost point of the southern boundary, a different voice came.
It was a short, abrupt, cut-off scream.
Chen Fei's ears immediately perked up.
He identified the source of the sound.
He is a homeless person.
He stood up quickly and was already moving towards the southern border. Behind him, Sel and Meimei also stood up at the same time. The three lions made no sound and spread out in the southeast direction, keeping their bodies low in the moonlight.
When they arrived, the homeless man was lying on the ground with a deep bite wound on his right shoulder, which was still bleeding.
The split jaw has receded.
They retreated quickly and neatly, as if they had completed a pre-arranged task.
Chen Fei stood next to the homeless man, glanced at the depth of the wound, and then looked in the direction the man with the split mouth had retreated.
Sel lowered his head and gently touched the head of the wanderer B with his nose.
The homeless man let out a low, hoarse groan.
The second wave of thermal imaging by the investigation team was launched three days later.
Chen Fei sensed their presence about two kilometers away from their advance route.
At a distance of two kilometers, his 800-point super-long-range vision was enough for him to see everyone clearly. Three people, two handheld thermal imaging devices, and one fixed thermal imager mounted on a tripod.
He lay down on a granite slab about three meters wide.
The rock had been exposed to the sun for nearly six hours, and its surface temperature was around 52 degrees Celsius.
Chen Fei focused his attention on his body, sensing the amount of energy stored in that familiar point.
1076 points.
There are still 24 points to go to reach 1100.
He took a breath and refocused his attention on the advance team in front of him.
Two kilometers to go, and at their current pace, they should be within the effective range of thermal imaging in about forty minutes.
Forty minutes.
He began high-intensity training, repeatedly sprinting and stopping near the rocks, using the elevation differences of the dry season terrain to make short-distance zip lines, his body began to heat up, and his energy points rose at a much faster rate than usual.
Thirty minutes later,
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 1100↑]
Something quietly opened a door inside him.
A slow, precise penetration sensation began in the middle of the spine and extended to the extremities, as if something had readjusted the parameters at the base of the fur.
He tried to focus his attention on the surface of his body.
A barrier-like layer appeared under my skin.
He focused again, pushing this sense of isolation outwards, to the surface of the fur.
The temperature of the rock is fifty-two degrees.
He aligns his body surface with that number.
The heat flow begins to permeate outwards from the limbs, precisely synchronizing with the external temperature, like a manual temperature control system slowly starting up.
Three minutes later, the temperature of his body surface was no more than two degrees different from that of the granite rock surface.
He lay back on the rock and remained motionless.
The advance team has entered the thermal imaging range.
Through his super vision, he saw one of the investigators point a handheld thermal imager in his direction, scan him once, then again, before finally putting the device down, shaking his head, and saying something to the person next to him.
Chen Fei couldn't hear what they were saying.
But he could see the expression on the investigator's face.
Puzzled.
He was all too familiar with that expression.