The Strongest Lion

Chapter 79 Chu Ye Sympathizes with Those Little Lions

Chapter Seventy-Nine: Chu Ye Sympathizes with the Little Lions

The situation that followed was truly spectacular. Of course, that was only from Chu Ye's perspective. For the lion pride, however, the situation was far from dire.

The situation that followed was truly spectacular. Of course, that was only from Chu Ye's perspective. For the lion pride, however, the situation was far from dire.

The buffalo were initially quite afraid of the lions. After all, herbivores are naturally more afraid of carnivores. Even buffalo, upon seeing lions, would generally try to run away.

Just like before, when the pride of lions surrounded the herd of buffalo, they immediately began to run away.

However, buffaloes don't always run away when they encounter lions. Sometimes, they will band together to fight against them.

Especially when a herd of buffalo sees a group of lion cubs, they become even more frenzied. The lion cubs seem to stimulate the buffalo's frenzied nerves.

When a herd of buffalo suddenly goes berserk, they don't even consider lions a threat.

Just like the situation now, this group of buffalo was terrified when they saw a group of lions, and they all ran away.

But when the buffaloes saw a pride of lion cubs, they stopped running away. They were determined to kill the cubs.

On the African savanna, the roles of prey and hunter are never static. A hunter attacking prey can sometimes become the prey attacking them. An animal that was once the hunter can become the prey, and vice versa.

The roles of animals on the savanna are constantly changing. Every hunt is a battle. And in every battle, the carnivore doesn't always win. The herbivore might also emerge victorious.

Carnivores don't always succeed when they go hunting. In fact, their hunting success rate is quite low, around 30%. That means that out of ten hunts, they might only succeed three times.

If carnivores fail to hunt successfully, it means that herbivores have successfully counter-hunted.

Herbivores can not only escape attacks from carnivores, but sometimes they can even turn the tables and kill the carnivores.

Many carnivores die either in competition with their own kind or on the battlefield of hunting.

Carnivores do indeed eat a lot of herbivores. But conversely, many carnivores lose their lives because they want to eat meat.

It can be said that on the grasslands, carnivores do not necessarily kill more herbivores than herbivores kill carnivores.

In fact, if you think about it, nature is inherently in a state of mutual checks and balances. If herbivores couldn't keep the carnivores in check, wouldn't the carnivores just eat all the herbivores?

Therefore, a balanced relationship exists among all animals on the savanna. There is no inherent superiority or inferiority among them. Even lions are frequently attacked by other predators.

Furthermore, even when lions hunt buffalo, they often get injured, or even end up being killed by the buffalo.

Especially for lion cubs in a pride, encountering a herd of buffalo is a time of misfortune.

This is the situation now: when the herd of buffalo saw the lion cubs, they immediately stopped running away and began attacking them.

Even after the lion cubs' mothers and fathers returned, the buffalo herd showed no sign of fleeing. Composed of dozens of adult buffalo, how could they possibly fear a few adult lions?

These six adult lions, who had seemed so powerful just moments before, chasing a large herd of buffalo across the savanna, were quickly losing their bravado. Their cubs were now being attacked by these African giants.

The lions and lionesses of this pride can only roar around the buffalo now, trying to scare them away.

But it was all in vain. When the herd of buffalo saw the lion cubs, they immediately turned into frenzied behemoths.

Standing atop this large tree, Chu Ye saw that the lion pride's home was in complete chaos.

The buffaloes were all running wildly through the grass where the lion cubs were hiding, trampling and stamping, all looking completely frenzied.

The six lions could only watch from the sidelines, not daring to approach and drive away the frenzied buffalo. They could only roar at the buffalo, hoping their roars would scare them away.

But these frenzied buffalo completely ignored the fierce lions; they only wanted to kill the cubs.

Although the six adult lions were extremely angry, it was all in vain. The buffaloes were in a state of complete frenzy.

Chu Ye, perched atop a large tree, watched the scene unfold before him, utterly astonished. After all, since arriving on the African savanna, he had never witnessed such a terrifying sight.

"Damn it, I wonder how the lion cubs are doing? I can't see a single one. Could it be that these cubs were all killed by this herd of rampaging buffalo?"

Chu Ye was originally a lion cub, and when he saw other lion cubs suffering misfortune, he naturally felt compassion for them.

But the scene was now in complete chaos. These frenzied buffaloes were running wildly through the grass, trampling and kicking up dust, making it impossible to see what was happening.

Nobody knows what's happening to the lion cubs. Not only does Chu Ye not know, but even the six lions standing to the side roaring at the buffaloes have no idea what's going on with their cubs.

Time ticked by, and Chu Ye stood atop a large tree. The tree was only about twenty meters away from the water buffaloes, allowing Chu Ye a clear view of the situation. However, due to the swirling dust on the ground, he couldn't yet determine how many of the lion cubs were still alive.

Chu Ye felt that after that violent storm, few of the dozen or so lion cubs would survive.

More than ten minutes later, the herd of frenzied buffaloes finally vented their anger and began to run away again.

After the frenzied buffaloes had run off into the distance, the situation gradually became clear.

The six lions had lost all interest in chasing the buffalo; their attention was entirely focused on the cubs.

Once the buffalo army had finally fled, the six lions immediately went into the bushes to search for their cubs.

"Awooo! — Awooo! —"

The six lions began calling to their cubs from the bushes. Normally, male lions are very attentive to their offspring. However, this particular male lion was somewhat different; he was now roaring and calling to his cubs alongside the lionesses in the bushes.

The six lions were also very worried, wondering if all their cubs had been killed by that herd of frenzied buffalo.

Fortunately, perhaps God took pity on them and didn't let all the lion cubs be killed by the frenzied buffalo.

After the six male lions called out, several tender cubs responded from the bushes.

Soon, several lion cubs ran out of the bushes.

These lion cubs were about the same size as Chu Ye and his family, probably around five or six months old. They ran out of the bushes after hearing their parents' calls.

One, two, three---

When Chu Ye saw the lion cubs run out of the bushes, he felt a little relieved. He couldn't help but start counting them.

Chu Ye counted them; there were ten lion cubs in total, which ran out of the bushes.

After that, no more lion cubs came running over.

Although there were still ten lion cubs, Chu Ye knew that there had been many more, at least fifteen or sixteen, playing in this open area earlier. Now, only these ten cubs remained.

The lionesses seemed quite excited when they saw ten cubs emerge from the bushes. After all, this outcome had likely exceeded their expectations. They were probably wondering if all their cubs had perished.

Fortunately, ten lion cubs escaped this ordeal. This outcome already made the lionesses very happy.

Of course, this male lion was also very happy. After all, it seemed different from other male lions; it seemed to care especially about its cubs.

When Chu Ye saw that there were still ten lion cubs left, he felt somewhat better. Although this was something that happened to another pride of lions.

But for Chu Ye, this was something it didn't want to see either. After all, it was also a little lion, and when it saw its kind suffering such a disaster, it naturally felt some sympathy.

After finding the ten cubs, the lionesses happily spent some time cuddling with them.

After that, the lionesses went back into the bushes to look for other cubs. After all, there were still five or six cubs that hadn't emerged from the bushes yet.

However, the lionesses already sensed that the other cubs were likely in grave danger. Nevertheless, they still set out to find them.

So the lionesses went back into the bushes to search for the cubs that hadn't yet emerged.