novelsite Chapter 106 Application
Chapter 106 Application
The advance team wandered around the area aimlessly for about twenty minutes, but found nothing, and slunk away.
Chen Fei lay on the rock for a while, slowly adjusting his body temperature back to normal.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 1098↑]
Activating this ability just cost two points of energy.
He mentally reviewed the energy consumption range of body temperature regulation. He would need to use this skill many more times in the future, and it consumed very little energy, which was truly excellent.
The wound on Homeless Person B the next morning was even more painful than the one he had suffered the night before.
The bite wound on his shoulder had torn out a piece of subcutaneous muscle, its edges crooked and twisted—clearly the bite of a hyena. It had pierced the skin, twisted, and then been pulled out with a sharp tug. Stray B lay awkwardly in the shade of the acacia tree, his right foreleg resting on the ground. His breathing was steady, though very shallow.
Sel squatted beside it, occasionally lowering his head to lick the edge of the wound.
Chen Fei stood two meters away, glanced at the depth of the wound, and then looked into the eyes of the homeless man.
His eyes were still bright; he hadn't wilted.
This is a good thing.
He looked away and didn't look at it anymore.
Big Head walked around from behind him, craned his neck to stare at the wound of the homeless man, then raised his head and looked at Chen Fei with a serious expression.
The question is clearly: How serious is this injury?
Chen Fei flicked his tail and smacked it.
Big Head hopped half a step to the side, looked down and checked himself to make sure he wasn't hurt, then looked up again, his serious face turning into one of utter bewilderment.
It never expected this reaction.
Chen Fei had already turned and left.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 1101↑]
Last night, those guys with the split mouths retreated too swiftly. They came in, took a bite, and ran away in less than two minutes, as if they came specifically to leave a mark. Chen Fei looked down and stared intently at the ground beneath his feet.
Examine the soil quality.
On the eleventh day of the dry season, the surface of this red soil had already developed fine cracks, some as shallow as two millimeters, others deep enough to insert half a finger. There was still some moisture left in the soil; it was hard to say what would happen in another four or five days.
Once the ground was completely dry, the sound of footsteps carried even further.
Soft soil absorbs vibrations, while dry, cracked hard ground sends vibrations further away.
This is not a good thing for an ambush.
He revised the ambush time he had calculated in his mind, reducing the original three days to two days.
We must have one more fight before the land is completely hardened.
in the afternoon.
One-Legged was patrolling the western side of the Alliance, with Big Head following behind. When they reached a clump of bushes, they spotted a small wildebeest stuck in the thorns.
The one leg didn't move.
It was waiting for Chen Fei's instructions.
Big Head waited for three seconds, but didn't get a signal, so he just went up by himself.
Its leaping motion was flawless, and its landing point was accurate. The problem was that after it pounced, the little wildebeest struggled much more fiercely in the thorns than it had anticipated, dragging it along with it into the thicket.
The one-legged man watched from the side.
A crackling sound came from the thicket, mixed with Big Head's low growl and the increasingly frantic kicking of the little wildebeest.
Then came a crisp snap.
Then it became completely quiet.
The one-legged creature waited a while, then tilted its head to look at the thicket of thorns.
Big Head emerged from inside, prey in its mouth, with seven or eight thorns hanging from its body. Two thorns were embedded in the skin behind its ears, and another was inexplicably hanging from the tip of its tail, swaying with every step it took.
The one-legged creature glanced at it.
Big Head put down his prey, tilted his head back, and looked like he was waiting to be praised.
The one-legged man had no expression.
Big Head lowered his head listlessly and began to eat.
Their movements were a complete mess, but they got their prey.
I sat on one leg beside it, waiting for it to finish eating.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 1104↑]
The second wave of harassment from the split-mouthed creature arrived on the third night.
Still on the south side, this time the circle is even larger, stretching from the southeast corner all the way to the southwest corner, covering almost two-thirds of the southern boundary.
The howling was much more frequent than last time.
Chen Fei lay prone on the high ground in the middle of the territory, listening to the movements on the south side for ten minutes.
He counted the sources of the cries.
More than seventeen.
There were only twelve last time.
Sel and Meimei had already spread out to his right, the two lionesses lowering their bodies and staring towards the south. Wandering Armor guarded the outermost edge, its one leg planted firmly on the southeastern boundary point.
Big Head huddled two meters behind Chen Fei to the left, tail tucked between his legs, much more docile than during the day.
It's not that noisy at night anyway.
Chen Fei listened intently for a while longer, marking the direction of the sound in his mind.
west.
The whole thing is moving westward.
The western side is the weakest link in the alliance's territory. The upstream area has just been integrated, and the patrol frequency on the western side has not yet been fully replenished. This is an obvious gap.
Chen Fei stood up, bent over, and moved westward along the high ground, signaling Meimei to follow, while Sai'er stayed behind.
The two walked four hundred meters and stopped behind a low slope on the western boundary.
The howling sound was 300 meters ahead, not crossing the boundary, but the direction of movement did not change.
Chen Fei lay down behind the low slope to steady himself.
The howling grew closer and stopped at a distance of 150 meters.
It was a standstill for three minutes.
Then they slowly retreated.
They retreated slowly, with the composure of having thoroughly explored the area.
Chen Fei listened to the whole thing without moving an inch.
The enemy has thoroughly investigated the strength of their forces on the west side.
He kept this in mind and glanced back at Meimei.
Meimei was staring at the direction where the split-mouthed creature had retreated, its ears standing straight up, and the tip of its tail lightly brushing the ground.
Chen Fei glanced at her for a second, then looked away.
The two lions lay side by side behind the low slope, about half a body length apart.
The night wind blew from the west, bending a row of grass stems.
No one moved.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 1106↑]
Only one camping lamp was lit inside the tent.
The dim light made the three faces look listless. Ella slammed the third thermal imaging data back onto the table, sat back in her chair, and remained silent.
Kenneth stood in the corner of the tent, holding a metal cup, but didn't drink a drop.
Kaller sat opposite him, elbows on his knees, head down staring at the ground.
"This is the third time," Kenneth spoke first, his tone as flat as water. "This is the third time today, and we haven't detected a single heat source target. The equipment tests are normal, the battery is full, and the operating procedures are correct."
Ella opened a data file, pushed it to the center of the table, and poked a waveform with the tip of her pen: "This is the scan record from 2:40 pm. There is an anomaly here for eleven minutes. A heat source signal appeared, but the value is stuck between fifty and fifty-three degrees, exactly the same as the surface temperature of the granite next to it."
"The device misread it," Kenneth said.
"Is it another case of all three devices misreading the code?"
The water in the cup remained completely still.
Kaller looked up at Ella, then at Kenneth: "The rocks don't move. This signal has shifted. In eleven minutes, the center of the heat source has moved fourteen meters eastward."
Something moved in the grass outside the tent, and all three of them looked toward the tent door at the same time.
There was nothing there.
Kenneth put down his cup and slowly began, "You mean, there was a living thing that could actively adjust its body temperature to be like a rock, and moved fourteen meters under thermal imaging without being recognized as a living being?"
"I didn't mean anything by it," Caler said. "I was just reading out the data."
Ella took back the record and didn't say anything.
Kenneth stared at her: "What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking," Ella said slowly, folding the data and flattening it. "Someone has been interfering with and monitoring us."
The tent remained quiet for a long time.
The camping light cast a yellow circle on the top of the tent. When the wind blew, the tent fabric trembled, and the circle of light swayed, then stabilized.
Kenneth picked up the cup again and took a sip.
"Send a report to Linton," he said. "Attach all three data sets today, plus Kaller's displacement analysis." He paused, then added, "The wording should be 'equipment malfunction.'"
Ella glanced at him.
"Equipment malfunction." She repeated it, her tone completely flat.
"Yes, that way we can apply for new exploration methods."
Ella picked up the data bag, got up, walked to the tent entrance, and peeked out from behind the curtain.
The grassland was so black you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
The moon was hidden behind the clouds, and the outlines of the grass were not even visible.
"Kaller." She didn't turn around. "You're on the first shift tonight."
Kaller stood up from his chair, put the bag of mud on the table, clapped his hands, and said in a low voice, "Ella, haven't you ever thought about it? Maybe someone has been loitering around nearby all along."
Ella didn't lower the curtain in her hand.
She stood there with her back to the two of them, staring into the darkness outside.
The wind blew again, lifting a corner of the curtain.