Former war correspondent Lin He sneaks into Africa to expose a cross-border poaching bloodline.
His mission is exposed, and he is left gravely wounded and near death. The ones waiting for him are not rescuers, but a pride of lions on the brink of extinction.
They see him neither as an enemy nor as one of their own, but as a "crippled hyena that uses strange tools": useful and harmless.
From then on, the grasslands have a most peculiar strategist.
He uses tactical manuals to defuse infighting within the pride, reconnaissance skills to warn them of predators, and even teaches the lionesses to flank and encircle their foes, turning the tables on rogue male lions.
He thinks he is taming beasts, never realizing that he is the one being tamed. He begins to think like a beast, calculating life and death by the logic of claws and fangs.
Until the poachers' gunfire brings this "symbiosis experiment" to an end.
Watching the cubs being taken away and the lion king crash to the ground, Lin He calmly picks up the wisdom that once belonged to humanity.
But this time, he will declare war on the human world on behalf of the beasts.
When the satellite images reach headquarters, everyone is stunned:
A "multispecies allied force" of lions, rogue male lions, and African wild dogs is silently charging toward the steel bastions of modern civilization in standard tactical formation.
- They call me an honorary hyena.
- I teach them what war is.
