They caught up.
Heh, ridiculous pride. Looks so calm, but the body is honest.
James, are you interested in that Chinese girl? Maybe when we get to Babati, we can get them drunk and let you have a night with her?
All of you shut up. I am loyal to Elizabeth! James said into the walkie talkie, while glancing at the blonde beauty in the passenger seat.
This beauty had not got out just now. Hearing James speak, she smiled lightly, opened the walkie talkie to the team channel and said, I have not agreed to you yet.
Urgh!
James, you are done for!
Hahaha, Elizabeth, your decision is right. Do not let James off so easy.
They were all rich kids from England. This trip to Africa was because James knew Elizabeth liked hunting, so he called friends and organised this event, hoping to make progress with her during the trip.
Just now, when getting out, some of it was to show Elizabeth that he was a kind and caring guy.
Elizabeth came along, but had not accepted James’s fierce pursuit. Still, James was not anxious. After all, her willingness to come out and play with him meant she did not dislike him, right?
The group joked around, advancing under the guard of two pickup trucks. Soon they rounded a few small hills, then saw a fairly large lake. Across the lake was a winding river.
The wildebeest herd they had chased earlier was drinking at the lake edge. A few young wildebeest played in the water.
On a hill not far from the lake, a male lion lay. Beside him, several cubs played.
In the grass on the other side, over a dozen hyenas gathered, patrolling not far from the wildebeest herd. They seemed interested in one older wildebeest.
The convoy stopped far away, without alerting the animals at the lake. Everyone got out. Some strained to look afar, others raised binoculars.
Lin Wan drove up too, but parked on top of another hill, some distance from James’s side.
There really are lion cubs! Lin Wan said, a bit surprised.
Along the way, they had only met a pride with cubs once. Lin Wan thought they would see more later, so she had not played enough. Who knew after that, they only saw adult lions, no cubs.
And five cubs too. That is rare. Lu Zheng said, Last pride had only two.
Lin Wan nodded with a smile. Later, help them hunt a wildebeest.
Up to you. Lu Zheng said indifferently.
The two groups stopped hundreds of metres apart, each watching their own way.
Lu Zheng and Lin Wan ignored the other side, but the other side pointed and whispered about them.
Then, the lions and hyenas did attack the wildebeest herd. But several adult male wildebeest were fierce and blocked several assaults from the lions and hyenas.
Soon after, a zebra herd passed by in the distance. The hyenas, led by the hyena queen, trotted after them, giving up the tough wildebeest here.
The lions pressed on and finally wore down an old and weak wildebeest. Then the male lion strode forward with a stride that recognised no kin, ready to enjoy his spoils.
…
After watching a hunt show, James and the others got back in the cars, still not satisfied, and left.
But to their surprise, Lu Zheng and Lin Wan did not follow. They stayed put, continuing to watch.
So they were not following us.
Gutsy. Just the two of them, easy to run into danger.
Whatever. We warned them anyway. We are not their nannies.
The five vehicles started and left. Then Lin Wan cheered, turned and pounced towards the bushes by a big tree behind.
Woo!
A leopard sprang up instantly, pouncing at Lin Wan too. But…
Lin Wan sidestepped and grabbed its neck.
Leopard: !!!
Little kitty, lucky you held back. If you had jumped just now, I would not know how to handle you.
Lin Wan grinned and stroked the leopard. Little kitty, I am going to play with the lion cubs. Want to come?
Leopard: ???
Lin Wan let go. The leopard jumped away whoosh, as if its tail was on fire, and fled fast.
Come on, lets find the little lions!
Seeing the pride had finished eating, the two did not drive. They walked closer to avoid startling the wildebeest and lions.
But when they got close enough to the pride, the lionesses all looked over, slowly stood, and growled low.
I just want to play with your kids a bit. Can I?
Roar!!!
Can I?
Woo…
Hehe, I knew it was fine.
…
Bang bang bang!
Tut tut tut! Tut tut tut!
Lu Zheng and Lin Wan were playing with the cubs by the lake when they heard gunshots from the north, then engine roars and explosions.
The wildebeest herd panicked and stampeded away in a group.
The pride was no stranger to this. They knew that sound meant death. After the shots, the male lion roared low. The lionesses rushed over to shield the cubs, following the male into dense grass fast.
What the hell? Lin Wan said, surprised. Such a racket?
Lu Zheng narrowed his eyes, sensed with divine sense. It is that convoy from before.
Lin Wan blinked. Those English folks? How do they have… No, they ran into trouble?
Engines roared. Three jeeps rounded from behind the left hill. One pickup guarded behind. A man in the back seat leaned out, firing an AK backwards.
Then, three more pickups appeared from behind, men in the beds shooting at the guard pickup.
Then…
A shot from behind hit the guard pickup’s rear tyre. The pickup swerved, flipped over.
The chasing pickups caught up, unloading a burst into the flipped pickup, killing everyone inside.
The three jeeps tried to go around the hill, but halfway, three more vehicles rounded ahead, blocking their path.
At the same time, guns poked from those vehicles, firing a burst ahead of the jeeps.
The three jeeps swerved in fright. Caught between foes front and back, they had to stop by the lake.
Three pickups on the left, two pickups and one jeep on the right, advanced slowly and leisurely, blocking the jeeps’ left and right escapes, then stopped.
And trapped in the middle with the three jeeps were the baffled Lu Zheng and Lin Wan.
