Wilderness Survival with Druid System-Chapter 375 - 44: Leopard

The night grew deeper.

Chen Wen slowly fell asleep amidst the snoring sounds of feeding hippos.

After the hippos finished eating the grass nearby, they began to move to further places.

The camp plunged into silence, with only the chirping of insects and the crackling of the campfire proving life still existed here.

But even in this extremely quiet atmosphere,

a nimble figure arrived in the woods where Chen Wen was.

Skillfully, it bypassed the areas marked by hippo dung and came under a tree.

With a whoosh.

The figure swiftly jumped onto the tree.

Under the moonlight, its true form was revealed.

A mature leopard.

Leopards and cheetahs are different.

It’s a very fierce predator, extremely dangerous.

At this moment, the leopard climbed up the tree, lying in a place resembling a nest, drooling as it looked in a particular direction.

This direction was exactly where Chen Wen was.

The leopard felt a bit frustrated at this time.

Why, just a dozen days after leaving home, did a magical creature suddenly appear here?

Moreover, inside the nest of this magical creature, there were many things that smelled delicious.

The leopard wanted to snatch the creature’s food, yet it dared not.

Just like a tiger meeting a mule, the leopard remained cautious until it understood what it was dealing with.

After all, no one could be sure if it encountered a mule or a real beast!

The leopard stayed in the nest for a while, then lightly jumped down again.

It moved slowly, probing constantly, and gradually approached Chen Wen’s shelter.

This was something it had tried for several days.

But last night, Chen Wen smoked meat, and hippos stayed here intermittently for half the night.

The leopard dared not come close.

It dared not provoke the hippos.

The night before last, Brad came.

The leopard also dared not come close.

Even earlier, the day before yesterday, the leopard had ambushed baboons from afar.

Hence, tonight was the closest the leopard had gotten to Chen Wen.

The faint aroma coming from the shelter made the leopard’s urge to attack rise.

It hadn’t eaten much in the past two days and had returned from a long journey.

A lot of nutrition was consumed on the way.

Therefore, the leopard urgently needed to replenish its energy.

The seemingly non-threatening and food-rich camp of Chen Wen was clearly the leopard’s best nutrient supplement station.

After stopping for a while, the leopard advanced again.

Now the distance between it and Chen Wen’s shelter was very close, no more than ten meters.

This distance had already fallen within the leopard’s attack range.

No more waiting!

The leopard slowly crouched down, crawling forward.

It already had a desire to attack.

But just as the leopard planned to climb up the tree, it suddenly got confused by something surrounding the tree.

What is this?

The leopard slowly approached, stretching out its claws to touch the ’caltrop’ around the tree.

Ow!

The leopard let out a soft roar.

It was unfortunate. Its claw happened to touch the sharp tip of the caltrop.

After feeling pain, the leopard became more vigilant and hurriedly retreated.

What it didn’t know was.

That this soft roar suddenly awakened Chen Wen from above.

Though Chen Wen was asleep, he was fully alert.

At this moment, Chen Wen had already heard something approaching his camp, pacing just below the tree.

He calmly picked up his spear, eyes wide open.

Ready to confront the threat.

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Under the tree, after suffering a small loss, the leopard was both ashamed and annoyed.

Its wild nature was ignited.

The leopard circled Chen Wen’s treehouse twice, discovering that this mysterious creature’s nest was somewhat different from before.

There were more unusual things on it.

The leopard intended to use its powerful jumping ability to leap up to Chen Wen’s shelter.

But the air caltrop added today by Chen Wen made the leopard hesitate.

With its excellent night vision, the leopard sensed that those sharp things were very dangerous.

As the leopard maneuvered to the side without a wall, Chen Wen also spotted the leopard.

Shit, it’s really a leopard!

With the night vision capability provided by the [Ultimate Vision], Chen Wen also spotted the leopard.

He cursed silently in his heart.

This creature dared to get this close; it might have been observing from afar for several days!

If he hadn’t suddenly remembered to reinforce the shelter today, it might’ve succeeded in its sneak attack tonight.

Indeed, sometimes you have to trust your sixth sense!

Chen Wen slowly sat up, no longer hiding.

He added some dried grass to the campfire—gathered while collecting firewood earlier.

The fire blazed up immediately.

Seeing the suddenly vigorous flame, a faint fear appeared in the leopard’s eyes.

It instinctively backed off a bit.

Then Chen Wen picked up a burning log and swung it twice at the leopard: "Get lost! Come closer, and I won’t be polite!"

The leopard made a sound similar to "huh-huh" when hearing Chen Wen’s words of expulsion.

Knowing a lot about leopards, Chen Wen knew this was a sound leopards made to drive off other animals.

So, this was the creature that hung that antelope on the tree?

Chen Wen thought secretly.

But verbally, he was unceremonious, still expelling the leopard.

The reason for not hunting the leopard is that leopards are considered one of the most challenging creatures allowed to hunt by the show’s crew.

Leopards have a high protection level, something Chen Wen never expected before learning about it.

In eleven countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, the trade quota for leopard skins and products is set at 2560 per year.

This number is already very challenging to achieve in this region.

The show’s crew spent a lot of effort to get three quotas from the local government.

Abel was earnestly advising.

Unless it’s a life-or-death situation, do not use them.

Leopard meat isn’t tasty, or even hard to eat.

Most survivors wouldn’t consider killing a leopard.

Chen Wen isn’t bloodthirsty; with enough food, he wouldn’t want to kill these endangered species needlessly.

Therefore, he intended to drive the leopard away.

But the leopard seemed unmoved by this.

After retreating some distance, it began endlessly roaring at Chen Wen.

And moved back and forth angrily, as if about to pounce.

Chen Wen felt a bit angry.

"Hey, strange indeed, do you think you can hunt me? Fine, let me show you what this can do."

He found a wooden spear.

Gathered strength, aiming at the ground in front of the leopard.

Chen Wen threw the spear forcefully.

The spear exploded with incredible speed, thrusting hard into the ground in front of the leopard.

The leopard was startled by this action.

It turned around and ran.

After running more than thirty meters, it stopped.

Seeing the leopard still lingering around, Chen Wen took out another wooden spear and threw!

This time, it was even more accurate, almost skimming the leopard’s body, sticking into the land in front of its chest.

The leopard stopped roaring and instead ran away fast.

"Little rascal."

Chen Wen took out a drone, using it as his eyes, starting to pursue the leopard’s figure.

Soon, under the drone’s night vision mode.

Chen Wen saw the leopard crossing a river.

After crossing the river, it hurriedly went to the reed marsh from this afternoon.

Entering the reed marsh, the leopard sprinted wildly.

Under the drone’s surveillance.

Chen Wen saw the leopard running nearly five hundred meters, disappearing into a forest across the river.

"So it was indeed leaving those footprints."

Chen Wen said, completely resolving his doubts.

"Currently, it seems this leopard was surveying its territory or hunting, returned a few days ago, stayed in this forest for a while, and finally decided to make a move on me tonight."

Chen Wen analyzed the leopard’s movements, more or less accurately.

Finally, he sighed: "Indeed, my sixth sense did help me once again. If I hadn’t pushed out the caltrop this afternoon, I might have suffered tonight, or even been injured!"