The Strongest Lion

Chapter 57 The Plan to Kill Two Birds with One Stone

Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Plan to Kill Two Birds with One Stone

Although the lion cubs are all brothers and sisters, they are fiercely competitive when it comes to food. For survival, no one cares about brotherly affection or sisterly considerations. These lion cubs fought and tore each other apart over rabbit meat.

Chu Ye managed to snatch a rabbit leg, and he hid in the nearby bushes to eat it by himself.

After finishing a rabbit thigh, Chu Ye felt his body brimming with energy again. After all, he wasn't grown up yet, so his appetite wasn't large; a few pounds of meat would be enough to fill him up.

This morning, Chu Ye didn't see the lion Jike. He felt that the reason the lion cubs were able to eat the rabbit was because Jike wasn't home. If he had been home, the rabbit would probably have been eaten by itself.

Jike wouldn't feel sorry for the lion cubs; when he was hungry, he would never share his food with them. This is the difference between male and female lions: male lions are completely devoid of emotion, while female lions do have some affection for their cubs.

Even after finishing his meal, Chu Ye was still thinking about Mao Mao. He knew that he couldn't save Mao Mao on his own. It seemed that to save Mao Mao, he would have to ask the lioness Lisa to personally intervene.

Chu Ye initially planned to take Lisa to rescue Mao Mao right away. However, he reconsidered, thinking that wouldn't be a good idea. Mao Mao lived with a large group of baboons. Even if he brought the lioness, they might not be able to rescue Mao Mao.

"Forget it, I'd better not let the lioness know where Mao Mao is for now. I need to observe this group of baboons. If I wait until one of the female baboons is alone with Mao Mao, then I'll take Lisa to rescue him."

After much deliberation, Chu Ye realized he couldn't act rashly and needed to find a suitable opportunity. Only when the female baboon and Mao Mao were alone together could he take Lisa to rescue Mao Mao.

The weather was getting warmer. Lisa and Elsa were also very hungry, but they couldn't hunt anymore. With the temperature rising, all they could do was rest under the shade of a big tree.

Chu Ye and the other lion cubs played and frolicked for a while before finally settling down to sleep beside the two lionesses.

They slept until the afternoon before becoming active again. By then, the outside temperature was no longer very high.

Although the temperature wasn't very high, the two lionesses would wait until nightfall to hunt. This was because they weren't very skilled at hunting; their success rate during the day was too low, and they could only easily catch prey at night.

Seeing that the weather wasn't too hot anymore, Chu Ye felt he could go check on the baboon troop again to see if Mao Mao was still with that female baboon.

So Chu Ye secretly slipped into the bushes again and walked to the big tree where he had seen Mao Mao before.

Chu Ye had initially thought he might never see Mao Mao again. After all, he had probably only seen Mao Mao by chance that time. How could he possibly see it now?

But to Chu Ye's surprise, when he went there again, he saw the female baboon hugging Mao Mao on that big tree. There were no other baboons around, just this one.

"Hey, what's going on? Why isn't this baboon with the others? It fought with itself last time, shouldn't it be with the other baboons? Why is it all alone here?"

Chu Ye was also completely baffled by what he was seeing. After all, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. This female baboon was still up in this big tree—wasn't that dangerous? He had almost caught it last time; how could it still be up there?

As Chu Ye looked at the baboon, this same thought crossed his mind again. The baboon, however, was completely unaware that Chu Ye was watching it from below. After all, Chu Ye was hiding in a thicket of bushes; the baboon couldn't possibly see him.

Chu Ye looked at the baboon and thought about this matter again. At first, he couldn't understand it, but suddenly, he seemed to understand what was going on.

"Oh, I see. This baboon must have been driven out of its clan by the baboon leader, and now it has to live alone with its cub."

Chu Ye was quite familiar with the lives of the baboon troop. He knew that if a female baboon did something unusual that offended the others, she would definitely be expelled from the troop by the leader.

"Alright, now that you're alone, I should be able to catch you. This time, I'm not only going to rescue Momo, but also catch you, this lone baboon."

Chu Ye had a bold idea: to capture this lone baboon. After all, this baboon was now outnumbered and outmatched; it had been driven out of its troop and had nowhere to go but live on this big tree every day.

"But I'm afraid I can't catch this baboon by myself! Last time, I already chased it down from the tree. But it still escaped. If I chase it down again today, won't it just come down from the tree and run away again?"

Although Chu Ye wanted to catch this baboon, he didn't know how to do so.

"Let's go back and call Lisa over! If Lisa comes too, I can climb up the tree and chase the female baboon down. Then Lisa can ambush her in the bushes nearby, and when the female baboon comes down from the tree, Lisa can launch a surprise attack. That way, we can catch the female baboon in one go, killing two birds with one stone—we can not only rescue Momo, but also catch a female baboon."

Chu Ye came up with a brilliant idea: he decided to kill two birds with one stone. Not only could he rescue Mao Mao, but he could also capture an adult baboon so that the lion cubs could taste what baboon meat was like.

"Okay, I'll go back and get Lisa."

After figuring out his plan, Chu Ye ran back to the lion pride.

Lisa and Elsa were still lying under the big tree, resting. However, they had already noticed that the sun was setting, and it was time for them to hunt again.

So, even though Lisa and Elsa were resting on the ground, they would still open their eyes from time to time and stare at the sunset, as if they wanted the sunset to set quickly so they could hurry up and go hunting.

Just then, Chu Ye ran back to Lisa. It looked at Lisa and barked a few times, "Awooo! Awooo! Awooo!"

Lisa didn't pay much attention to Chu Ye's actions at first, thinking that Chu Ye was just playing with her. So, after hearing Chu Ye's bark, Lisa only looked up at him briefly before lying back down to rest.

Chu Ye called out several more times. He knew that if he didn't call out a few more times, Lisa would definitely not understand what he meant by calling out like that.

Lisa noticed that Chu Ye kept calling out to her and sensed something was wrong. So she stood up, looked at Chu Ye, and tried to figure out what was going on.

Aisha looked at Chu Ye in confusion, not understanding what was wrong with him. Why was he constantly howling at Lisa?

Seeing that Lisa had stood up, Chu Ye immediately walked towards the bushes nearby. He clearly wanted Lisa to follow him.

Lisa, a very intelligent lioness, sensed something was amiss as soon as she saw Chu Ye's behavior. Chu Ye's performance over the past two months had already surpassed that of the other cubs, and Lisa was already treating him with special regard.

Now, Lisa saw Chu Ye call out to her a few times before running into the bushes nearby. So, Lisa followed him.

After disappearing into the bushes, Chu Ye paused for a moment. He wanted to see if Lisa would follow him. If she didn't, he would go back and continue howling at her.

Fortunately, Lisa quickly understood what Chu Ye meant. It immediately followed her.

Chu Ye then led Lisa to a large tree a few hundred meters away. However, fearing that they might disturb the baboons in the tree, he had Lisa and him hide together in the nearby bushes.

In this way, he and Lisa could observe the baboons in the trees from among the bushes, while the baboons in the trees would not be paying attention to what was happening below.

It was quite a coincidence. When Lisa arrived at the big tree, the baboon on the tree was holding Mao Mao and squatting on the lowest branch of the tree.

Lisa spotted the baboon holding the furry creature immediately.

Lisa's eyesight is definitely better than Chu Ye's. Furthermore, her ability to sense scent is also superior. After all, Lisa is a fully grown lioness, and all her organs are already fully developed.

Lisa spotted Momo immediately and recognized her.

That one glance was enough to make Lisa's eyes widen in surprise. At the same time, she let out some low growls.

Seeing Lisa's angry expression, Chu Ye feared she might do something rash, so he quickly signaled for her to hide in the bushes. He was going to go up and chase the baboon down.

Lisa seemed to understand Chu Ye's meaning very quickly, so she lay down in the bushes.

Chu Ye then leaped out of the bushes and onto a large tree, climbing upwards at incredible speed.

The baboon was sitting on a branch of a big tree, hugging Mao Mao, completely unaware that two lions had noticed it. One of the lion cubs had already climbed up the tree.