pertwk Chapter 41 Perspective
Chapter 41 Perspective
Three kilometers away is a wide, short grassland with a high density of prey, where wildebeest herds are located.
His gaze fell upon a wildebeest on the very edge—
Right hind leg.
There is a problem with the gait of the right hind leg.
Each time it lands, the right hind hoof lands at an angle about 15 degrees different from the left hind hoof, with the toes pointing inwards.
This angle indicates that there is an injury to the hoof, but it is not a new injury; rather, it is a long-term gait deviation caused by compensation for an old injury.
The fact that the adult wildebeest around it did not deliberately keep their distance indicates that its speed was within the average speed range of the herd, but it was only barely maintaining it.
It is a very good prey.
Three kilometers.
Chen Fei kept this information in mind.
He used to need to spread his sense of smell to complete the work.
Now use your eyes, three seconds.
The ability of grassland predators to recognize the gait of their prey is something they have honed over a long period of evolution.
Ordinary lions can detect a slight limp from hundreds of meters away because they are highly familiar with normal gait patterns; any deviation will trigger their hunting instincts.
The evolved super vision has extended this effective distance to three kilometers.
This means that the information gathering phase of hunting, which starts when you get close, is completed three kilometers away.
That's absolutely incredible!
Chen Fei stepped down from the sandstone platform.
Da Tou squatted down next to the platform, looking eastward from his own perspective with a focused expression, as if he were cooperating with Chen Fei to complete some kind of sacred ritual.
It saw nothing.
But it squatted very seriously.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 810↑]
The meal took almost two hours.
Big Head ate until he was stuffed. After finishing his meal, he found a flat spot to lie on his side, kicked his belly with his hind legs to check how full he was, let out a satisfied groan, and closed his eyes.
Sel was guarding the stingy guy at their lodgings. When Chen Fei returned, she raised her gaze, paused on him for a moment, then lowered it again to continue watching the stingy guy.
The little rascal rolled around next to her paws, picked up a blade of grass and put it in its mouth. After a couple of chews, the grass broke. It sniffed the broken half, picked it up, and continued rolling.
The sun was moving westward, and the shadows on the grass began to stretch eastward.
Chen Fei found a spot on the edge of the landing area and lay down to rest.
To allow the evolved eyes to adapt to the different levels of daylight.
The position of visual weight within the sensory system has subtly shifted over the past half-day.
Previously, his perception of the world was in the order of smell first, followed by hearing, and finally confirmed by sight.
Now, the visual aspect is taking the lead.
His eyes made the first judgment about the gait of the young wildebeest three kilometers away; his sense of smell hadn't even had a chance to participate yet.
He remained vigilant about this change.
The information density of smell and hearing is higher, making them more reliable in complex terrain and nighttime environments.
Vision is dominant in open environments.
However, it should not be allowed to dominate in situations with dense grass or low visibility.
This is because it combines night vision and farsightedness.
Rather than perspective.
But if it continues to evolve, it's not impossible that X-ray vision will become possible in the future.
As for now...
The sensory system needs to be recalibrated in terms of priorities. It's not about discarding the old ones, but about integrating the new ones to achieve the best coordination.
Night patrols begin after the moon reaches its zenith.
The other lions in the area had already fallen into a light sleep. Chen Fei got up and walked towards the south side of the territory. Mei Mei followed and landed on the left rear side.
Big Head followed suit.
It rolled over from its side and sat up, turning the wound on its left shoulder upwards to make sure it wasn't rubbing against the ground. It got up, caught up with the group, and its steps were more steady than during the day, with its limp narrowing further.
The moon was behind the clouds, and the light on the ground was extremely low.
Chen Fei walked into the grassy area on the south side of the hill and activated the night vision.
The perspective shifted at a certain moment.
It's like someone removing a gray filter that's been covering the image, revealing all the layers of the image itself.
Blue-gray tone, high contrast.
The edges of the grass blades are clear white lines, the texture of the sandy soil on the ground is a dark gray granular texture, and the outlines of the trees in the distance are a deeper black than the sky, with sharp outlines, as if they were cut by a knife.
The diffuse reflection of moonlight on the blades of grass transforms into countless tiny points of light in night vision, making each blade of grass glow slightly. In this visual system, the entire meadow appears as a breathable silver carpet covered in detail.
The density of rod cells in the retinas of ordinary lions is six times that of humans, which makes them far more sensitive to light at night than humans.
After evolving, Chen Fei's retinal structure underwent a qualitative change.
The distribution ratio of cone cells and rod cells is rearranged, the density of the reflective membrane is greatly increased, and the light entering the eyeball is utilized to a degree close to the physical limit.
He used human knowledge to understand this change, and the conclusion he reached was simple.
Now, he sees more details at night than an ordinary lion does during the day.
Chen Fei stood in the grass, keeping his night vision on for about ten seconds to allow his eyes to adjust to the new information density.
Then he shifted his gaze to the distance.
500 meters.
A jackal roams in the low grass, its fur a mottled mix of dark and light gray in the night, its tail wagging sluggishly, foraging for food rather than hunting.
One kilometer.
A lone hyena was walking northwest, its gait steady. It was carrying no prey and showed no signs of tracking scents; it was simply moving.
Chen Fei memorized the location of the hyena in his field of vision.
It's not a split-mouthed body shape.
A lone, average-sized hyena poses no threat.
He continued to look south, to the edge of an open area three kilometers away.
There were dense groups of moving creatures in the grass in the open area.
They are shorter than wildebeests and denser than hyenas. In his current field of vision, he can identify about twenty to thirty movement points, heading north at a slow pace, like a pre-migration wandering rather than a directed movement.
At that moment, Da Tou stepped on that dead branch.
The sound of a dry branch snapping echoed through the grass at night, crisp and clean, carrying for about two hundred meters.
Big Head's four legs lifted off the ground at the same time.
It completed a tiny, disproportionate leap in the air, landed, stood firmly with its four paws apart, and turned its head rapidly to the left, to the right, and to the back, checking the 360-degree darkness around it one by one. Then it pricked up its ears as straight as possible, its expression extremely serious, as if it were dealing with an emergency.
There was nothing around.
It held that position for about five seconds, then slowly turned its head back to face the front, narrowed the distance between its four legs, returned to a normal standing posture, and continued walking forward, its steps almost half as light as before.
Meimei is to Chen Fei's left, standing next to him. When they set off tonight, the distance was three meters, but now it has decreased to about one and a half meters.
Chen Fei's night vision lingered on her for a second.
In the night vision, her features were sharper than in the daytime; the bluish-gray tones brought out every muscle line in her face—the curve of her jaw, the thinness of her earlobes, and her eyes looking straight ahead—
Her eyes appeared as a very light gray in night vision, with wide-open pupils, like two deep wells that absorbed all the faint light around them.
Chen Fei looked away from her.
He pushed further south, finding the location of the densely moving objects again.
Three kilometers away, it moves northward slowly.
There are twenty to thirty, maybe more. The bushes obstruct part of the view, so the actual number is probably two to three times this.
Body type, gait characteristics, and population density.
He laid out this information side by side in his night vision and came up with a preliminary outline.
It wasn't a wildebeest, a zebra, or any of the large herds of herbivores he had ever seen migrating.
They are relatively short in stature, have a high population density, and are migrating northward.
Chen Fei pressed his claws firmly into the ground.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 820↑]
In the night vision, at the very front of the moving group, there was a figure that was significantly larger than the others around it, standing motionless with its head facing north.