Tiger, I rejected the iron rice bowl.

Looking at her lively and adorable "neighbors," Wang Yuyu's mouth watered, and she felt a surge of joy: "This place is so much better! There's food everywhere, it's so much better than that other area!"

He glanced down at the frozen, hard ground and suddenly an idea popped into his head: "Should I grab a spicy snack? It's freezing cold now, the snakes are all hibernating, hiding in their burrows, motionless. They should be much easier to catch than in the summer!"

As he thought about it, he left his scent mark on the tree trunk with his claws, occasionally stopping to sniff and make sure no other large predators had invaded his territory.

After patrolling for most of the night, the mission was finally completed. Wang Yuyu turned around and headed towards the place where the deer carcass was hidden.

By the time he returned to the food hiding place, it was already dawn, and the east was turning a pale white.

Wang Yuyu used her claws to dig through the snow and dragged out the deer carcass.

After a day and a night of freezing, the body was frozen solid, like a huge block of ice.

He patted the deer carcass with his paw and then bit it with his teeth, but the tough flesh was not easy to chew.

"Forget it, let's find a place to sunbathe and speed up the thawing process!"

Wang Yuyu abandoned the idea of ​​directly biting into the deer, instead biting its neck and dragging the carcass away into the distance.

He found a sunny slope with few trees, threw the deer carcass onto a flat rock, and lay down next to it, squinting his eyes to rest.

The sun slowly rose, and its warm rays shone on her body, making Wang Yuyu so comfortable that she couldn't help but let out a soft snore.

Under the sunlight, the frost on the deer carcass gradually melted, and a faint smell of blood slowly spread.

In the surrounding forest, many predators with a keen sense of smell were attracted by the scent and peeked out from their hiding places, looking towards the sunny slope.

But when they saw Wang Yuyu lying next to the red deer, they were so frightened that they immediately shrank back, turned around and ran away, not daring to stay for even a second. None of them dared to compete with an adult Siberian tiger for food.

Wang Yuyu slept until the sun was high in the sky before slowly waking up.

He stretched out his arms and legs, his joints clicking. He then looked down and played with the positioning ball that had rolled to his side for a while. After confirming that there was nothing wrong, he slowly walked to the deer carcass and began to enjoy his breakfast.

He ate slowly and deliberately, finishing off all the meat from the deer, leaving only a complete skeleton.

After finishing eating, Wang Yuyu licked his paws and mouth, let out a satisfied burp, turned around and left the sunny slope, leaving the skeleton behind and some "leftovers" for the little cleaners who had been waiting around.

As soon as he left, a wolverine that had been waiting rushed over first.

Known as the "wildest rascal" in the forest, and also called the "Forest Wolverine," it is the bravest of all the scavengers.

Normally, it not only dares to steal food from wolves and lynxes, but it even dares to covet food from bears, not to mention stealing scraps when tigers are not around.

The wolverine circled the skeleton once, and once it was sure that Wang Yuyu was far away, it immediately pounced on it, using its sharp claws to pry at the skeleton and gnaw on the remaining bits of meat and tendons.

Before long, a group of wild boars came over, grunting and snorting, and began to root around the skeleton, cleaning up the remaining bits of meat on the ground and the scraps of meat in the crevices of the bones.

Finally, various birds and small mammals arrived one after another. Crows and magpies landed on the skeleton to peck at it, while foxes and sables searched around for any remaining scraps of meat.

Not long after Wang Yu left, the deer skeleton was cleaned up, leaving only some scattered bones in place.

Wang Yuyu, however, only walked about a kilometer before giving up.

He found a sunny, sheltered earthen slope, curled up, and closed his eyes again, falling asleep.

For a tiger, the most pleasant life is to eat and drink its fill, then sunbathe and sleep.

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A few days later, Wang Yu walked slowly to the very edge of his territory, stepping on withered branches and fallen leaves.

A two-way, four-lane asphalt road stretched out before us, the roar of vehicles passing by breaking the silence of the mountains and forests.

He crouched in the roadside grass, his yellow tiger fur trembling slightly in the wind, his amber eyes fixed on this "unfamiliar border line," his heart filled with turmoil.

"There are only two grain depots left, and this little space is simply not enough to feed us."

He flicked his tail irritably, his paws unconsciously scratching the ground. "If Tang Li were willing to adopt me, I'd have plenty to eat and drink every day back at the zoo. Why would I need to worry about this?"

"But they always turned me away when I tried to approach them before, so this path is definitely not going to work."

He looked up at the mountains and forests across the road, then looked down at his familiar territory, his heart wavering.

After hesitating for a full ten minutes, Wang Yuyu suddenly raised his head, his eyes hardening: "Damn it, relying on others is not as good as relying on myself! I'm a mighty Siberian tiger, am I supposed to starve to death here?"

"Let's go out and explore, expand our territory! Let's do it!"

He let out a low growl in his heart, making a final decision for himself.

At this moment, his appearance had caused a long traffic jam on the highway.

The drivers peered through their car windows at Wang Yuyu, who was squatting by the fence, with a mixture of curiosity and fear. No one dared to approach her rashly; they all stopped far away. Many even took out their phones to take photos and videos cautiously.

No one wants to miss the rare sight of a wild Siberian tiger appearing on the highway.

Ignoring the onlookers, Wang Yu stood up, tensed her body, and quickly scanned the traffic on both sides of the road with her amber eyes. After confirming that no vehicles were approaching, she suddenly pushed off with her hind legs and lightly leaped over the roadside guardrail, rushing towards the other side of the road.

With its four paws treading on the asphalt, making a soft "tap-tap" sound, it rushed to the other side in just a few seconds, leaped over the fence again, and instantly disappeared into the dense forest.

Only after he disappeared from sight did the onlookers breathe a sigh of relief. Some were still discussing the scene with lingering interest as they put away their phones and slowly started their vehicles to leave.

Meanwhile, at the research base, Ji Yongjun was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, and the air in the office seemed to freeze.

He gripped the phone tightly, his voice trembling slightly with urgency: "Yes, yes, yes! The 'iron rice bowl' has already escaped the protected area! It's heading towards your city! You must set up roadblocks along the way and stop it! We absolutely cannot let it into the city!"

"I'll emphasize again, you absolutely must not hurt him! He's our key research subject. You need to communicate with him like a human being. He can understand human language, understand?"

"We will send someone over to assist as soon as possible. She can communicate with people with stable jobs. Before she arrives, please do not make any rash moves!"

After repeating the instructions five or six times to make sure the other party understood, Ji Yongjun hung up the phone, his forehead already covered in cold sweat.