Chapter 1558: The Guardian of nature
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Zhang Zian admitted that the two clouds in the sky were very interesting. If he was free, he would be willing to quietly watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the courtyard, and leisurely watch the clouds in the sky ... But unfortunately, the road ahead was still long, and he had to rely on his two feet to walk.
What was worrying was that, after he checked the supplies this morning, there was not much left, mainly because Fernando had eaten a day’s worth of food. If he did not reach the target, the return journey would not be too comfortable. Other than taking the shortest route to leave the forest and not going back the way he came, he would probably have to replenish his food with local materials.
The nearest road might not be the best choice. No one knew if there was a cliff or a Rapid River blocking the way, so they had to take a long detour. Turning back the original way was the most secure choice.
Fortunately, the forest was not as barren as the desert. As long as he was willing to think of a way, he would not starve to death in the forest.
The other Elfins had already gone far away. He called famous and old time tea to follow them.
Snowy Lionet was not used to trekking in the forest. It kept complaining about the dead branches sticking to its stomach and the muddy leaves dirtying its body ... As it walked, it suddenly stopped and looked forward in confusion.
Zhang Zian raised his binoculars and saw something furry lying in the grass in front of him. If he was not mistaken, it was another dead cat.
Snowy Lionet had not experienced what had happened yesterday. It squinted its eyes for a while, and its instinct told it that it was a ... Female cat?
Speaking of the female cat, snowy Lionet got excited. Seeing the cat lying in the grass, it didn’t think about how there were cats in the forest, and ran over with its short legs.
“Meow meow meow? It’s actually a dead one?”
As it got closer, snowy Lionet was surprised. There were two obvious holes on the neck of the female cat. It had died long ago, and the grass under it was stained red with blood.
“Don’t go near it! And don’t touch it!” Zhang Zian quickly caught up from behind and reminded him.
Snowy Lionet rolled its eyes at him. I’m different from you, I’m not so hungry that I’d have thoughts about corpses!”
Zhang Zian: “...” This guy’s mouth is really poisonous. Fortunately, it’s a cat. If it was a woman, it would probably make countless otakus heartbroken.
Old time tea could see everything clearly from the tree, and it said in a deep voice,””Zian, there’s more than one corpse.”
Zhang Zian was stunned for a moment. He made a gesture to the elves who had not arrived yet, indicating that everyone should be on guard. Then, he took a few steps forward and was suddenly stunned by the scene in front of him.
In front of him, there was a small open space. There were more than a dozen dead cats lying on the ground. They were all motionless and had lost their vitality. He couldn’t see clearly from the distance, but there were bite marks on the necks of the corpses nearby.
The cats he had met yesterday had all struggled to run to other places after being bitten before dying. However, the cats here all seemed to have been bitten very badly and died soon after being bitten.
Zhang Zian looked at the foreheads of the cats, and all of them had M-shaped lines. This had completely ruled out the possibility of a coincidence.
“Damn it! Who did this? You better not let me catch the murderer, or I won’t let him off!” Vladimir was furious.
This was a massacre that was shocking to the eyes.
Fina’s face was extremely cold, but her lips were tightly shut and she said nothing.
Old time tea sighed,”what a sin!” Who did these cats offend that they would be killed ...”
Usually, when something like this happened, Richard would always cleverly shut up and keep a low profile to prevent trouble from coming out of his mouth, especially when it was related to cats, such as the previous cat abuse incident. It liked to joke, but it also knew that it had to consider the occasion.
However, this time, Richard expressed his opinion, which was a rare sight, and it was a tit-for-tat opinion.
“Only the lives of cats are worth money, but the lives of birds are not? In the face of life and death, everyone was equal, right? Birds also have Bird rights ... Could it be that as a bird, you deserve to die?”
Richard’s voice was not loud, and he seemed a little guilty, but his pronouncing words were clear enough for everyone present to hear him. It knew that saying these words when the cat elves were angry was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, but if it played dumb and didn’t say it, who would fight for the right to live for birds?
The other Elfins quieted down at once and focused their eyes on Richard, not knowing what he meant.
Zhang Zian squatted down next to the nearest dead cat. He had just noticed that there seemed to be something in the cat’s mouth, but he had only noticed the lines on its forehead. At this time, he found two thin branches and forcibly pried open its mouth.
A few bloody feathers and a bloodied bird leg fell out of its throat.
The Elfins who had been indignant just now suddenly didn’t know what to say.
Zhang Zian found a few more dead cats and pried open their mouths. At least half of their mouths had the remains of birds and other small animals, but most of them were birds.
So that was how it was ...
No wonder the chirping of the birds in the forest was getting less and less, and today, it was almost completely inaudible ...
So many cats were brought into the forest. What did they eat every day? The answer was obvious.
Cats had always been famous for killing small animals. It was estimated that every year, there were billions of birds killed by domestic cats and stray cats, and tens of billions of small land animals were killed.
Most of the birds in the city were common birds. People would at most feel sympathy for them if they were killed. People would turn a blind eye to it out of their love for cats. However, in this primeval forest Park protected by the state, there were many birds that were endangered and birds that had not been discovered by humans, such as the spotted owl on the backpack. They were reduced to food for the cats.
The only native cats in this forest were the rare North American Mountain Cats and mountain lions. There should not be house cats, as they did not belong here.
A large number of domestic cats had come to the primitive forest to kill birds and small animals. There was no doubt that it was an invasion of foreign species, which would cause a huge disaster to the ecosystem here.
An ecological disaster might not cause any harm to humans in the short term, but one day, nature would take revenge on humans in its own unique way.
When the Elfins saw the remains of the birds in the mouths of the silly cats, they remembered the ecosystem that Zhang Zian had often mentioned along the way. Their mood became extremely complicated, and they suddenly didn’t know how to address the beast or group of beasts that killed these cats.
For cats, that or those beasts were undoubtedly cold and cruel murderers.
However, to the birds and small animals in this forest, that beast or those beasts were no different from saviors.
It all depended on whose position you stood on when you looked at the problem.
No matter what the purpose of the beasts biting the cats to death was, to a certain extent, they were the Guardians of the primitive forest.
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