Discovering Surprising Species

Lu Zhe pulled Jiang Yao up, and the two of them circled around a clump of grass, following the sound, and ended up seeing a shocking scene!

A large orange bull, its hind legs sunk in the mucky marsh, was struggling. Its right front leg and neck were entangled by a large Burmese python, about the same size as the first one Lu Zhe had encountered!

After a long struggle, the bull was already exhausted and could only let out faint moans.

Lu Zhe was dumbfounded!

"Damn, it really is a bull fight!"

Jiang Yao said in surprise, "Cows and pythons doing this kind of thing too, what they produce must be a bull snake... No, a rogue!"

"Yao Yao, they're not doing that."

"Then what are they doing?"

Lu Zhe was also puzzled, not knowing what had happened to get the two completely unrelated animals tangled up together.

Although the python was large, it couldn't possibly swallow such a large bull whole, so there was no need to take the risk of attacking such a big bull!

First, not considering these issues, the appearance of a bull on the island made all the other species seem unimportant.

He put his paratrooper knife in his mouth, grabbed the python's tail, wrapped it in the opposite direction, found its cloaca, and stabbed the paratrooper knife in!

The Burmese python immediately went limp, its body loosening, then Lu Zhe stabbed the blade of the knife into the snake's heart area, commonly known as its "seven inches".

He shoved the paratrooper knife directly into the belly scales crevice, stabbing until blood gushed out of the snake.

Throwing it aside, it probably wouldn't live much longer, and could be kept for reserves later.

Jiang Yao exclaimed, "This bull is so beautiful, what breed is it?"

Then Lu Zhe put his hand on the bull's horns.

"Congratulations host, you have discovered an eastern island wild bull subspecies. +1 potential point!"

At first Lu Zhe was puzzled, but then realized that this was probably a similar species to the wild bulls on China's Woody Island in the South China Sea's Paracel Islands.

He had heard his adoptive father talk about it before. As early as 2003, when China's first scientific expedition team landed on Woody Island, they discovered that more than 400 heads of an unknown breed of orange wild bulls lived on the tiny 1.7 square kilometer island far from the mainland.

Everyone called them eastern island wild bulls!

At first no one knew why such a large herd of wild bulls would be on such a small island. Later, through comparison of fecal fossils, a conjecture was put forward:

It was possible that during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, someone had brought cows to the island and they had multiplied over three hundred years.

It wasn't really clear if that was exactly what happened.

But in ancient times, it was common for ships to leave livestock on islands for various reasons, allowing them to multiply into herds.

After hundreds of years of breeding, they gradually formed distinct characteristics.

Even on the uninhabited Evlanov Island in Bear Grylls' Man vs Wild 60 days challenge, there were seven feral sheep!

And the island Lu Zhe was on was 17 times bigger than Woody Island, and nearly 100 times bigger than Evlanov Island.

The existence of creatures like bulls here was not surprising.

Seeing this one bull, Lu Zhe determined there must be at least a herd of 30 or more on this island, possibly even more.

In that case, they wouldn't have to worry about beef, cow's milk, or cowhide products in the future.

At this time, the bull before him was weakly mooing, looking at Lu Zhe with an expression that seemed to plead!

Lu Zhe clearly saw tears in the bull's eyes.

Lu Zhe patted its head, "It seems you'd rather be our food than be eaten by the python. However, you may be disappointed, I may not eat you but use you for plowing instead."

"Lu Zhe, it looks a little pitiful!"

Lu Zhe nodded, "Let's save it first before discussing, Yao Yao, you pull its horns, I'll drag its body."

Lu Zhe and Jiang Yao worked together, the bull cooperated by lurching forward, but when Lu Zhe touched its belly, it stopped moving again, continuing to moo weakly.

Jiang Yao said, "Did you touch its sensitive spot?"

"Sensitive spots are on the belly!" Lu Zhe looked.

The bull's belly was round and swollen, with two rows of sagging teats.

"Damn, it really is...and this cow seems to be pregnant!"

"A mama cow?"

"No mistake!"

"What should we do?"

"We can't forcefully drag it, we need to come up with a strategy. I'll get some branches to lay in the marsh to make it easier for its hind legs to push, you first give it some water."

"Okay!" Jiang Yao took out a bottle of water and poured it into the cow's mouth. The cow stuck out its tongue and quickly drank up the water.

"It was terribly thirsty! I'll feed it some grass!" Jiang Yao broke off some bamboo leaves and held them to the cow's mouth. The cow hesitated then really opened its mouth to eat.

Lu Zhe broke off a large bundle of branches and threw them next to the cow, then stepped on the branches to pull the cow's legs.

Fortunately the legs weren't sunk too deep, and though it took some effort, he managed to pull them out, leaving Lu Zhe covered in mud along with Jiang Yao.

With the legs pulled out it became easy. The cow stepped on the branches to stand up and quickly walked out of the marsh.

"Moo... moo..." It didn't leave but seemed to be calling to Lu Zhe.

Lu Zhe guessed, "Yao Yao, it couldn't have taken us for benefactors right!"

Jiang Yao nodded, "It's possible, so leading it should make it follow us right!"

"Let's try!"

Lu Zhe took out a coil of rope from his bag, tied it to the cow's horns, and pulled one end walking forward. Sure enough, the cow actually followed him.

Lu Zhe knew it was highly likely that like the eastern island wild bulls, after domesticated cattle returned to the wild and bred for generations until today.

There was still some inexplicable goodwill towards humans in their genes.

Capturing such a big guy in one outing was a huge gain. Let's not go to the lake and just directly return to camp!

Lu Zhe and Jiang Yao led the wild bull back along their original route, returning to camp.

Seeing Lu Zhe leading a cow, all the girls were dumbfounded.

"Can anyone tell me if there are other inhabitants on this island?"

"Of course not!"

"Then whose cow did Lu Zhe steal!"

"It's a wild bull!"

"How could a wild bull be so obedient?"

Lu Zhe held up one finger, "Perhaps it's my unique personal charm."

Just then, the bull's body swayed and collapsed to the ground again, letting out a weak moo.

"What's wrong with it?"

Lu Zhe felt the cow's belly, and a message sounded in his mind: "Ding! The mother cow has reached full term. Please assist the mother cow in giving birth appropriately! +5 potential points!"

"Class monitor, you've got work to do!"

Ning Shu was stunned, "Do what?"

"This cow's about to give birth, you've got to help deliver its calf!"

"Huh?" Ning Shu almost fainted in shock, "How would I know how to do that?"

"Aren't you Miss Perfect? After reading so many professional books, helping a cow give birth should be reasonable right!"

"Reasonable my ass! Those were novels, I've never done anything like this!"

"Everything has a first time! Once this cow gives birth we'll have cow's milk to drink."

"It sounds good, but I still don't know how!"

At this time, Shen Bing said, "When I was little I saw my grandfather help cows give birth before, let me try!"

Ning Shu breathed a sigh of relief, "Sister Bing you really are a goddess, I'll be your assistant!"

Lu Zhe was just about to take the two girls to the creek to fetch water, but at this moment a drizzling rain started falling from the sky.