Catch a Fat Sheep

In the distant African savanna, there is a magical animal called the hyena.

They do not have huge bodies to form a force of suppression, nor do they have long fangs to pierce the carotid artery of prey. Yet they can firmly occupy the second throne of top predators in the cruel natural environment. How?

Two points:

One is that the majority bullies the minority!

Two is that they are not afraid of stench and are brave enough to dig into anuses!

That place is no different from other places. Once seriously injured, it will completely lose the ability to resist, almost no chance of escape.

Many gazelles and zebras, even if they are blind, can still kick around randomly. But once their anuses are dug into, they can only lie there and watch a group of hyenas come over to tear off their flesh piece by piece and eat it.

Lu Zhe was inspired by the second brother of the grassland.

The firepower at hand is too weak now to cause fatal damage to the goat, so attacking vulnerabilities is the best choice.

"Slap!"

Another bullet accurately hit the target. The goat stood on its hind legs and gave a surprisingly lifelike demonstration of goose calls!

This was the first time Lu Zhe knew that goats actually have this talent.

It makes people amazed and admiring.

Lu Zhe ran over. It turned and ran in fright, but with both testicles damaged, it simply could not lift its agile pace. It could only rely on its front legs to exert force while its hind legs followed with chaotic jumps.

In this state, the goat was completely unable to accelerate.

At this time, Lu Zhe was like an experienced hunter, with agile and swift movements. He quickly ran to its side, pounced heavily, and knocked it to the ground, holding it down tightly.

Then he took out a rope and tied its four hooves together.

"Ding! Acquired one wild mountain goat from Southeast Asia. Potential points +1!"

Looking down further, its fur was similar to that of a Bharal sheep, but with the bloodline of a black goat...

The two girls also hurried over to help.

"Caught it!"

"Is this wild mountain goat also purely wild?"

Lu Zhe shook his head: "It must be one of the few sheep released on the island many years ago. Over the years they have bred into a relatively independent herd."

Lin Qianqian thought for a moment: "Won't inbreeding be a problem at the beginning?"

"Definitely. The first few generations will have a large number of defective sheep, but at the same time, there will also be normal sheep. Those normal sheep will highlight and amplify the genetic characteristics of the first few sheep. After a period of time, the same genes will be recombined and mutated again and again, gradually eliminating the defective sheep, thus stabilizing the population and forming an independent sheep breed."

"I see. Are there any cases..."

"The Galapagos Islands, which have a climate somewhat similar to ours, once had three sheep released on the island. Without natural predators, the number of mountain goats increased to more than 30,000 in a few decades, and later surged to 250,000. If the government hadn't ordered them to be hunted down, the whole island would have been ruined by the mountain goats."

Tang Xiaoguo exclaimed: "That powerful?"

Lin Qianqian looked at Lu Zhe, then at Tang Xiaoguo, and came up with a strange idea:

"So even if humankind perishes, as long as we few are still around, we can still preserve the spark of humankind!"

Lu Zhe helplessly said: "Could my darlings think a little more normally?"

Then he picked up the goat and carried it.

This goat weighed about 90 kilograms, almost the same as Lin Qianqian's weight.

"Actually, we should be grateful to the predators on the island. Without them, the cows and sheep could really ruin this island. Alright, we finally have presentable game, let's go back to camp!"

On the way back, Lin Qianqian asked, "Lu Zhe, should we raise a few sheep?"

Lu Zhe shook his head: "I don't plan to do that for now. The sheep here are too cunning to keep locked up. It's better to let them breed freely and hunt one when we need it."

Tang Xiaoguo was a little worried: "Won't the sheep meat be eaten up by so many predators on the island? When the time comes we won't have little fat sheep to eat."

"We can hunt some carnivores to control their numbers, then let the sheep herd expand, and then hunt some sheep to control the number of sheep. Thus achieving a new balance in the food chain."

Speaking of this, Lu Zhe sighed regretfully: "Although cruel, this is unavoidable."

And to achieve this, slingshots and pellets alone would not suffice. Better weapons were still needed.

When the three returned to the camp it was already quite late.

Before reaching the camp, Lu Zhe caught a desperate stench of urine.

"What are those three doing?"

"Boiling urine?"

"We're not out of water, what's boiling that for?"

Hurrying back, they found Shen Bingning, Shu and Jiang Yao each wearing simple homemade masks, sitting in the camp looking utterly confused.

Not far away, the cows were bellowing incessantly from the stench!

Lu Zhe walked over and found that the camp had already been set up beautifully.

Just as he was about to speak, Shen Bingning quickly said, "Please believe us classmates, we really didn't boil urine!"

"Then why is there such a smell?"

"It seems... it's still coming from the helmet!"

"Helmet? I remember it has another identity - it's our pot!"

"Ah??"

Lu Zhe's first reaction was that maybe the monkeys took revenge while everyone was away and urinated into the helmet.

But when he walked over, the truth became apparent at once.

"This is... a stingray?"

"What's wrong with stingray!"

"They excrete water containing high levels of ammonia through their skin. Their entire bodies are cartilage, but the meat stinks. In Japan and Korea, some people specially order this stuff to eat. If you don't like it, why make it?"

Jiang Yao helplessly said: "Who would have thought the smell would be so strong, Senior Sister Bingning and Class Monitor misunderstood us."

"You caught it?"

"Yeah!"

Lu Zhe was a little worried: "Were you stung?"

Jiang Yao shook her head: "I didn't unhook it, poked it from a distance with a bamboo pole. Senior Sister Bing said its tail is poisonous, so she chopped the tail off with an axe."

Lu Zhe understood. Jiang Yao had processed the stingray and was going to cook it into soup, but forgot that stingrays, like sharks, urinate through their skin.

Lu Zhe picked up the stingray spikes on the ground and nodded: "The stench is no big deal, as long as you didn't get stung by the poisonous spikes on its tail! This fish still has quite high nutritional value, and can absolutely be used as food in extreme cases. Anyway, since it's cooked already, why don't we give it a try?"

The few girls all shook their heads vigorously, looking like rattles.

Only Lin Qianqian frowned in disgust: "I can only accept our companions'."

"But it doesn't matter, we have better food now!"

He kicked the mountain goat by his feet.

"How did you catch it?"

"Although a bit unsportsmanlike, there was no other way on this deserted island! We can have little fat lamb today!"

"That's awesome!"

"It's the Double Seventh Festival tomorrow, so what do we eat tomorrow after eating this today?"

"Today, we can eat its lower legs, then wrap its body frame with banana leaves, marinate it overnight with salt, chili, pandan leaves and dried scallops. Tomorrow we can eat it."