Tiger, I rejected the iron rice bowl.

Su Chengwang was about to reply when Su Yingxiu interrupted him.

She chuckled and said, "I don't know how many years I'll get, but I do know that the skin and bones that my second grandfather's family kept can now be dealt with properly."

The two of them reacted instantly, their eyes lighting up.

"Let's go! Hurry back to the village and tell Second Grandpa about seeing the tiger!" Su Yingxiu was the first to get up and quickly put on her skis.

"Okay!" Su Chengwang and Ran Yuting quickly followed.

The three of them, on their skis, slid down the ridge with a "whoosh," snow flying behind them.

Meanwhile, Wang Yuyu, who was down on the mountain, was busy devouring his fresh prey, completely unaware that the three people on the ridge had already made their escape.

He had no idea that his perfectly normal hunting trip had unwittingly made him an accomplice and a "shield" for others to handle evidence.

More than an hour later, Wang Yuyu had eaten the entire roe deer clean, licking even the scraps of meat clean.

He raised his head, stuck out his tongue and carefully licked the bloodstains from the corner of his mouth, then shook off the crumbs stuck to his fur.

Looking down at the scattered bones and fur on the ground, its amber eyes were full of disdain as it muttered to itself, "Damn, it's delicious, but there's too little meat. It's barely enough to fill me up, not satisfying at all!"

"These silly roe deer are so useless! Don't they know how to eat more and grow stronger? They only gain 70 or 80 pounds and then stop growing. It's so annoying!"

"If you guys weren't so stupid, running a couple of steps and then looking back, you'd be easy to catch. I wouldn't even bother eating you!"

After venting his frustration, he used his tongue to thoroughly clean the remaining bloodstains from his body. Only after confirming that he was clean again did he slowly climb towards the ridge.

I need to patrol the territory a bit more, and I also want to find a sunny, sheltered spot to catch up on some sleep.

As you walk along the ridge, the view opens up.

Wang Yuyu stood on high ground, his sharp gaze sweeping across the mountains and forests below. He watched the rabbits and squirrels darting around in his territory, and a group of wild boars leisurely foraging in the distance. He nodded in satisfaction and swayed his tail gently.

These are his "reserve food," and he must protect them well to prevent other wild beasts from stealing them.

As I walked, a soft "whimpering" sound suddenly drifted into my ears. It was a sobbing sound, filled with an indescribable grievance and a hint of pain, and it was particularly clear in the quiet mountain forest.

"Holy crap! What the hell is that?!"

Wang Yu was so frightened that his whole body stiffened, his ears drooped instantly, and all the tiger fur on his body stood on end.

He immediately dodged behind a thick pine tree, only revealing half of his head, his amber eyes scanning the surroundings warily.

"Where did that child's crying come from in this desolate wilderness? Could we have encountered a ghost?"

"Could I be that unlucky? Encountering a ghost in broad daylight?"

"No, no, we must believe in science! There are no ghosts in this world!"

"I'm from another time. If time travel is possible, there's no reason for it to be a ghost..."

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. His claws instinctively dug into the snow, and he quietly took two steps back, wanting nothing more than to get away from that eerie sound as quickly as possible.

But after taking only two steps back, the crying suddenly grew louder, and the sobbing became even more pitiful.

Wang Yu trembled with fear, unable to hold back any longer. He turned and ran in the opposite direction, yelling, "Believe my ass! If I can time travel, there must be ghosts in this world!"

"Run! Run! Get away from this awful place!"

After running for more than ten meters, Wang Yuyu suddenly stopped abruptly, leaving a long skid mark on the snow, splashing snow all over his face.

He stood there, stunned, his tail frozen in mid-air: "Wait? Why am I running?"

He turned to look in the direction the sound came from, his mind racing: "I'm a Siberian tiger! King of the forest, a body of pure yang, impervious to all evil! What do I have to be afraid of?"

"Everyone says 'to act as an accomplice to a tiger,' meaning the ghosts are afraid of me, not the other way around!"

"Yes, yes, yes! I shouldn't have run away, it was that ghost who should have run!"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid! The sun is so strong in broad daylight, ghosts are definitely weak. They'll have to run away when they see me!"

"I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid!"

After a period of self-hypnosis, Wang Yuyu finally mustered up some courage.

He shook the snow off his head, lowered his body, and carefully moved slowly toward the direction from which the sound came, afraid of disturbing the "ghost".

After walking a few dozen meters further, the "whimpering" sound became clearer and clearer.

Wang Yuyu hid behind a tree, slowly peeked out, and looked in the direction of the sound.

On the snow, a pure white fox lay there, calling weakly.

Upon seeing Wang Yuyu's large head, it instantly tensed up, struggled desperately, and was in a state of extreme stress, letting out a fierce growl.

However, one of its front paws was tightly bound by a steel wire, which was deeply embedded in its flesh. The paw thrashed unnaturally as it struggled, clearly indicating that its bones had been injured.

This fox probably came out to look for food at the crack of dawn, but it had been trapped here for a long time and was exhausted. It struggled for a few moments before losing its strength and collapsed on the snow, only able to bare its teeth weakly at Wang Yuyu.

Looking at the "ugly" fox on the snow, the tiger, being a dichroic observer, couldn't see the red and green colors. So, in Wang Yuyu's eyes, the snow-white fur wasn't actually snow-white at all, and the fox looked quite ugly.

He rolled his eyes dramatically, quietly took two steps back, and completely disappeared from the fox's sight.

He feared that if he stayed any longer, the injured little fox would be scared to death by him, this "beast".

After all, he was the king of the mountains and forests, and his power was undeniable.

After moving to a safe distance, Wang Yuyu spat out a small ball from her mouth and placed it on the snow, quietly waiting for the people at the research base to come online.

"Damn it, I thought I'd encountered a ghost, but it's just this wretched fox! It really scared the hell out of me!"

"If I hadn't just eaten a silly roe deer and was in a good mood, I would have killed you, you damned fox, for scaring me with your ghostly howls!"

"Everyone online says foxes are cute, but I don't think they're cute at all! That creepy voice of theirs would give you a heart attack if you heard it in the middle of the night!"

"..."

He cursed at the air for a long time, and the fear in his heart finally dissipated.

Suddenly, he turned to look at the opposite mountain ridge, his amber eyes narrowing as if he could see across the ridge to the small village at the foot of the mountain.

"How could there be a trap here?"

Wang Yuyu's tone turned serious. "Could it be a setup by the people of that small mountain village at the foot of the mountain?"

"But this place is so close to the village, and the forest rangers patrol here every day. There's no way they wouldn't have noticed... Could someone have stolen it from here?"

Thinking of this, Wang Yuyu's eyes instantly turned dangerous, her amber eyes filled with coldness.

They dared to set a trap in his territory and even dared to plot against his "food reserves"—they were simply asking for trouble!