Tiger, I rejected the iron rice bowl.

"Hello! Uncle Zhang!" Tang Li's voice was choked with tears as soon as the call connected. "Iron Rice Bowl has been provoked and is running around the park! Quickly open the iron gate at the back, I'll lead him out that way, and make sure he doesn't hurt anyone!"

"Got it! Open it right away!" Security guard Uncle Zhang knew the seriousness of the matter. He had personally witnessed Wang Yuyu's power and dared not delay. He hung up the phone, grabbed the keys, rushed out of the security room, and struggled to open the heavy iron door.

Tang Li hung up the phone and glanced at an electric delivery tricycle parked by the roadside, with the key still in the ignition.

She climbed onto the tricycle, twisted the throttle, and the tricycle sped off, the vegetable baskets in the cargo bed rattling loudly.

She hadn't run far when she saw Wang Yuyu running towards the wall behind the zoo, the place where he had climbed over the wall earlier.

"Your job is secure, the back door is open, you can go out directly without having to climb over the wall!"

"That wall is over seven meters high; you can't jump over it!"

Tang Li shouted several times at the top of her lungs, but the wind drowned out her voice. Wang Yuyu didn't even turn around and ran even faster.

"The sound is too soft; it can't hear you!"

Tang Li was sweating with anxiety. Her eyes swept across the truck bed and she suddenly saw the loudspeaker hanging on it.

She grabbed the loudspeaker, turned it on, and yelled at Wang Yuyu's retreating figure, "Secure job! The back door is open! Go through the back door! No need to climb over the wall!"

The sound of the loudspeaker finally reached Wang Yuyu's ears.

He slowed down and looked back at the approaching tricycle, his amber eyes filled with complex emotions.

He knew Tang Li meant no harm, but those real guns just now really frightened him!

He no longer dared to stay in this seemingly safe place.

"Roar!" Wang Yuyu let out a long howl in Tang Li's direction as a response.

He abruptly turned around and ran towards the back door, his massive body leaving a trail of deep footprints in the snow.

Tang Li followed behind on her tricycle. Seeing that he had taken the wrong turn, she immediately shouted through the loudspeaker, "Turn left! It's closer that way!"

Upon hearing the command, Wang Yuyu turned onto the side road without hesitation. The cooperation between the man and the tiger was even more seamless than that of a trained partner.

Outside the canteen, Wang Weiguo was leaning back in the command vehicle seat, rubbing his buzzing ears.

Fan Zhengcheng sat beside him, his face full of guilt: "Uncle Wang, I'm sorry, I was too impulsive! When I saw the tiger pounce on people, I gave the order in a moment of anger and messed things up."

Wang Weiguo waved his hand, his gaze falling on the surveillance footage, where Tang Li was riding a tricycle chasing after the tiger, the two working together seamlessly.

He sighed, his voice filled with disappointment: "Captain Fan, it's not your fault. You don't understand Tiger. It's normal for you to think that a secure job means wanting to hurt Tang Li!"

"He is ultimately a wild tiger; the wild is his true home!"

"It's just a pity for Xiao Tang; that kid really loves a stable job! He'll probably be heartbroken for a long time now!"

Fan Zhengcheng also fell silent. He stared at the figures of a man and a tiger in the surveillance footage and sighed softly.

Behind Tang Li, the forest police followed closely in the park's sightseeing vehicle, but always maintained a safe distance.

Soon, Wang Yu rushed out of the back gate of the zoo and plunged into the forest outside the park.

The tricycle braked sharply at the door, and Tang Li rushed out the back door. Standing in the snow, watching the yellow figure speeding ahead, she suddenly shouted, "A secure job! If you ever get hungry, come here, I'll save some jerky for you!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Yuyu immediately stopped and turned to stare at Tang Li.

In the sky, tiny snowflakes landed on Wang Yuyu's tiger fur and on Tang Li's hair.

"roar!"

Wang Yu let out a long howl, the sound piercing through the wind and snow. Gone was the previous intimidation; instead, it carried a lingering reluctance.

With a sudden flick of its tail, it swept up the snowflakes on the ground, and its massive body, like a yellow lightning bolt, disappeared into the dense forest behind the mountain.

The snow on the branches was knocked off by his impact, and in just a few seconds, the familiar figure disappeared completely into the vast forest, leaving only a series of deep footprints extending to the edge of the forest.

Tang Li stood frozen in place, gazing in the direction Wang Yuyu had left.

Only when the tiger was completely out of sight did her legs give way, and she squatted down in the snow, her shoulders trembling uncontrollably.

At first, there were suppressed gasps, but soon they turned into pitiful sobs: "Waaah..."

The zoo staff who arrived stood a short distance away, and no one dared to approach and disturb them.

They looked at that lone figure in the snow and quietly turned their heads away; some of the female employees even secretly wiped away their tears.

Everyone knows that Tang Li's obsession with tigers is well-known.

She remembers the birthdays of every tiger in the park, and even the pickiest eater, Shanzi, has been tamed by her.

She treasured Wang Yuyu, the wild Siberian tiger, so much that she spent a whole night thinking about how to name it "Iron Rice Bowl."

"How did things turn out like this..." a zookeeper sighed softly. "I quite liked my stable job, but after what happened today, I doubt it'll ever come back!"

A female employee in the crowd suddenly looked at security guard Uncle Zhang and raised her voice, "Uncle Zhang, you've been in the monitoring room the whole time, what's going on? Who's pissed off this secure job?"

Uncle Zhang rubbed his frozen hands and recounted the footage from the surveillance camera in detail, from the tiger pouncing on Tang Li, to the forest police rushing in with real guns, and then to the tiger roaring and running away in fright.

Several employees who were watching the commotion outside the cafeteria also came over to add to the story, recounting how Tang Li lured the tiger away on her tricycle and used a loudspeaker to shout for directions.

After piecing together the complete account, the crowd fell completely silent.

"You really can't blame the police for this."

Old Zhou, who was in charge of feeding the wild animals, sighed. He had been in this line of work for over thirty years and had seen far too many dangerous scenes.

"The surveillance footage showed the tiger pinning Xiao Tang underneath him; Xiao Tang was terrified. Who would have thought it was just playful fighting?"

"If it were me, I would have ordered someone to rush in and open fire immediately. I couldn't just stand by and watch people get hurt."

Everyone nodded in agreement. Anyone in that situation would have chosen to kill!

"you do not say."

"It's already a miracle that the tiger was lured out without harming anyone."

Tang Li had stood up at some point, her eyes red, and walked towards the crowd.

But as soon as she got closer, the employees who had been gathered together suddenly took a half step back in unison, their faces showing subtle expressions.

Someone quietly covered their nose with their sleeve, then quickly put it down, afraid that she would see it.

Immersed in her grief, Tang Li was completely unaware that she had returned the tricycle to the cafeteria and headed straight for the tiger enclosure.

She wanted to hug the old friends in the park, the tigers she had watched grow up, who always soothed her sad little heart.