PFC Chapter 1217: The Man-Eating Lion Appears
Chapter 1217: The Man-Eating Lion Appears
Seventeen looked at the tour guide apologetically and got off the bus with others.
The driver and the tour guide were communicating in the indigenous language. Everyone got off the bus and they didn't get any extra money. The tour guide and the driver felt they were losing out. They tried to make money on every trip, so they were naturally unwilling to accept not getting any today.
The car backed up about ten meters and did not return immediately.
Tourists gathered in groups of three or four, and someone suggested they all walk around the park together. Taking a sightseeing bus only takes you a little further; the wildlife park is so large that it would take two or three days to walk the entire reserve without stopping.
Seventeen and Zhou Haoyu had no choice but to follow the main group. Seventeen's face was a little unhappy. She came here to have fun, not to suffer. Why did these black people care so much? She had already paid a thousand dollars, and they were still reluctant to give her two hundred shillings?
Seventeen followed her husband, carrying a camera and looking extremely depressed.
Zhou Haoyu chuckled and patted Seventeen on the shoulder. "Just treat it as exercise. It's okay. I'm here."
Seventeen frowned, lowered his head and walked forward.
According to tourists who have been here once, not far ahead is Mount Hulu. The mountain is very young, formed only about a hundred years ago, and is the result of repeated volcanic eruptions. The biggest difference between Tsavo West and Tsavo East is that the terrain here is very complex, with many volcanic hills and mountains.
Seventeen carried a camera to take pictures. Not only was the land reddish-brown, but even the elephants were red.
More and more animals appeared, including impalas, gazelles, zebras, kudus, and many long-horned oryx and scimitar-horned oryx.
There was a dead giraffe beside the river. It was eaten by a lion. It is said that a lion has only one chance to eat a giraffe, and that is when the giraffe is drinking water.
Seventeen's initial annoyance had gradually faded, and he'd occasionally chat with those around him. Seeing the dead giraffe gave him a chill. This was nature's cruel law of survival. The giraffe's neck had been bitten off, its flesh devoured, leaving only a small shell, its hide still wet. It must have happened within the past two days.
Seventeen quickly took a few photos and left, fearing that he would have nightmares at night.
"Will there be lions?" a tourist asked loudly.
Seventeen subconsciously got goosebumps, and the image of the dead giraffe instantly popped up in her mind. She quickly turned around to look for Zhou Haoyu, but found that her husband was talking to the only two Asians. Seventeen was stunned for a moment and quickly ran towards her husband.
“Haoyu…”
Zhou Haoyu raised his eyes, smiled at her, and reached out to hold her hand.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Haoyu asked.
Seventeen shook his head. "There's a giraffe over there that was eaten by a lion. Did you see it?"
"Yeah." Zhou Haoyu nodded almost imperceptibly in response. There are many carnivorous beasts here, and it is very common to see animals bitten to death here.
Seventeen glanced back at the two Asians, then hid beside her husband and whispered, "Weren't they ignoring us? Why are they talking to you again?"
"It may be because of the language barrier." Zhou Haoyu said.
"Which country are you from?"
"Vietnam." Zhou Haoyu glanced sideways and replied.
Seventeen hugged Zhou Haoyu's arm and rubbed it, her little face buried in his arms, so Zhou Haoyu simply hugged her.
"What are you rubbing against, little guy?" He touched Seventeen's face, with sweetness in his eyes.
Seventeen shook her head, took down the SLR and handed it to her husband, "I'd better use a digital camera. This one is too heavy."
Holding a palm-sized digital camera, she followed a group of people to the black rhino reserve. After walking a few steps, she looked back at her husband and only felt relieved when she was sure he was behind her.
The tour guide suddenly started shouting something into a loudspeaker, and the place was filled with noise and bustle. Seventeen looked back and saw her husband also stopping to listen carefully.
"What is the tour guide saying?" Seventeen asked the black girl next to him.
"It seems to be saying... there's an adult male lion approaching, and we should all get in the car quickly..."
"Don't listen to the tour guide's nonsense. You have to pay more money when you get on the bus..."
Before the person next to him could finish his words, a lion's roar shook the heavens, like thunder piercing his ears. Seventeen's face turned pale, "There really is a lion!"
"Don't worry, even if a lion approaches, it won't hurt anyone. There is a safety net and it's electrified." Someone on the side said loudly, trying to comfort the panicked tourists.
The main road was only wide enough for two cars to drive side by side, but the road leading to the black rhino reserve that Seventeen and his companions were taking was only accessible on foot.
Seventeen looked back at her husband who was still standing on the avenue. Seeing his determined look, she smiled, waved her hands and shouted, "I'm fine."
Zhou Haoyu blew a kiss to his wife and his smile grew wider.
Perhaps he was overthinking it. These two Asians were not sent by Mr. Zhuang Sanye. It was true that people with hidden motives were very suspicious.
The tour guide's voice became louder and louder. He and the driver got out of the car to push the tourists into the car. No one could hear what they said in a hurry.
The people around him rioted, and Seventeen was forced to push the car away. Zhou Haoyu saw that something was wrong and immediately ran towards his wife, shouting, "Qiqi, don't be afraid, it's okay."
Seventeen had no idea what was going on and could only subconsciously follow the crowd and run back. She didn't hear her husband's call. When she stood on tiptoe and looked at the road again, her husband was gone. This made Seventeen very anxious.
"Haoyu, Haoyu, where are you?"
Seventeen shouted loudly as she ran, her eyes quickly searching for her husband through the crowd. There were seventy or eighty people in the large group, and all the people were individual tourists from all over the world who signed up to join. They didn't know who was who.
As soon as one person panicked, everyone else lost control and ran onto the road for no apparent reason.
The tour guide used a loudspeaker to shout at everyone to get on the bus immediately. It was the dry season and the lions were very eager to prey. Except for the lions in the lion reserve, the lions outside were not protected by the national government, so everyone was asked to be vigilant.
But after the crowd returned to the main road, they were reluctant to get on the bus again because after ten minutes they hadn't even seen the shadow of a lion.
The tour guide took the telescope and looked again, and indeed he did not see the lion that had just run towards them. The tour guide took the telescope and bargained.
"How about this? I'll give you the telescope for 20 shillings, and then we'll give you a discount in each of the subsequent protected areas..."
"We can leave on our own. There's no need for that. We've already called the police. Just wait for the sanctions!" someone in the crowd shouted.
Tourists who were closer paid to use binoculars to look in the direction the guide was looking, but saw nothing. "Where is the lion? There is no lion at all!"
"Piff—"
With a crisp thud, the binoculars were slammed to the ground. "You poor bastards, are you just going to get rich by defrauding tourists? No wonder such a large wildlife park isn't listed as a national tourism promotion project."
The words were a mixture of English and the indigenous language of a certain country or place, and the angry mood helped a lot.