Tiger, I rejected the iron rice bowl.

Fan Zhengcheng, who had been anxiously watching from a distance, was overjoyed to hear this and his heart immediately settled down.

He waved his hand lightly, his tone full of excitement: "Let's go! Let's go take a look!"

The dozen or so police officers had been itching to get started, and upon hearing this, they immediately responded. They followed Fan Zhengcheng, trudging through the snow towards Tang Li and Wang Yuyu's location, the snow crunching under their feet, but none of them dared to slow down.

Fan Zhengcheng stopped instinctively when he was three meters away from Tang Li and Wang Yuyu.

Even with Tang Li by his side, he dared not be careless in the face of this adult Siberian tiger weighing over 400 kilograms.

He lowered his voice and asked, "Xiao Tang, what do you want us to do here?"

Tang Li pointed to the half-pig frozen solid in the snow and smiled helplessly: "As you can see, this guy with the iron rice bowl can't chew a frozen pig. Could you please help me build a fire to thaw it? Otherwise, this glutton will throw a tantrum at me."

"No problem! This is a piece of cake!" Fan Zhengcheng nodded immediately, then turned to his team members behind him and ordered, "Brothers, quickly gather wood and start a fire! Be careful!"

"Yes, Captain!" The dozen or so team members responded in unison and immediately scattered. Some bent down to pick up dry branches, while others found some flammable dry grass. They moved very quickly.

Before long, a roaring campfire was lit, the leaping flames dispelling the chill of the mountains and slowly melting the surrounding snow.

Fan Zhengcheng and his team sat on one side of the campfire, while Tang Li sat on the other side with Wang Yuyu, with a distance of four or five meters between them, forming a subtle "Chu River and Han Border".

Although Tang Li was watching from the side, everyone was still intimidated by Wang Yuyu's enormous body, glossy fur, and the occasional flick of its thick tail.

They all sat ramrod straight, glancing at Wang Yuyu every now and then, not daring to breathe loudly.

Tang Li immediately noticed the tension in everyone's eyes. She gently stroked Wang Yuyu's tiger head and comforted him with a smile, "Don't be afraid, everyone. Iron Rice Bowl is very reasonable; it won't bite anyone randomly!"

After saying that, she looked down at Wang Yuyu and deliberately asked, "Is it true, a secure job?"

"Roar!" Wang Yuyu insisted on going against her, showing no respect for Tang Li at all. He suddenly raised his head, opened his blood-red maw, and let out a low growl. His sharp fangs gleamed coldly in the firelight, clearly trying to scare people.

This low growl instantly scared Fan Zhengcheng and the others half to death. More than a dozen people shivered in unison, their bodies trembling slightly, and they almost dropped the firewood in their hands.

Seeing this, Tang Li quickly reached out and pressed down hard on Wang Yuyu's head, awkwardly explaining to everyone, "Don't panic! 'Iron Rice Bowl' is just joking with you! He's smart; he knows you're here to help, he definitely wouldn't dare to really bite anyone!"

"Roar!" Wang Yuyu growled in dissatisfaction, shook his head violently, and broke free from Tang Li's hand.

He stood up, took a step forward, picked up a piece of half-melted pork, slowly retreated to his original spot, and began to tear it into large bites.

Seeing how he could bite off a large chunk of meat in one bite, his tiger-like face trembling as he chewed, Fan Zhengcheng and the others subconsciously shrank back, their eyes filled with even more fear.

Tang Li, however, was already used to seeing tigers eating meat and didn't think much of it. Instead, she enthusiastically took out her phone and kept snapping photos of Wang Yuyu eating, and even took some pictures of the campfire, the frozen pig, and the surrounding environment from several angles, planning to send them to Su Yin when she got back.

Looking at Tang Li's calm and composed demeanor, Fan Zhengcheng secretly gave her a thumbs up: "As expected of a Sichuan girl, her courage and composure are truly unmatched by ordinary people! Anyone else would have been trembling with fear long ago."

After Wang Yu finished eating a piece of meat, Tang Li quickly brought him another piece, afraid that he would go hungry.

Soon, the skewers of meat she had grilled for herself were cooked.

Tang Li picked up a skewer of meat and stuffed it into her mouth. After chewing a couple of times, she frowned and couldn't help but complain, "No salt, no sauce, it has absolutely no flavor! It's awful!"

She turned to look at Fan Zhengcheng and the others who were sitting restlessly opposite her. Seeing that they were only staring at the campfire and Wang Yuyu, and hadn't touched the meat skewers in front of them, she immediately urged, "Captain Fan, why aren't you eating? Hurry up and eat!"

"If we don't eat now, once our secure jobs are secured, we'll have to go into the mountains with him, and then we won't have a chance to eat something hot anymore!"

As Tang Li spoke, she stuffed a meat skewer into her mouth, saying, "I need to fill my stomach to have the energy to work. I'm following him into the mountains, and who knows how much further we have to go!"

Fan Zhengcheng and his teammates looked at each other, then at Wang Yuyu, who was engrossed in eating, their faces full of hesitation.

One of the team members sidled up to Fan Zhengcheng and asked in a low voice, "Captain, are we... are we really going to eat this? We're sharing food right under the tiger's nose, isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

Fan Zhengcheng swallowed hard, glanced at his rumbling stomach, then at Tang Li's enjoyable meal, gritted his teeth, and shakily picked up a skewer of grilled meat: "Eat! Tang is right, we'll need strength to go into the mountains later. If we don't eat now, it'll be even more troublesome to go hungry later! With Tang here, our secure jobs shouldn't be a problem."

Tang Li noticed that everyone was still holding back and understood that they were frightened by Wang Yuyu's earlier appearance. So she moved forward and deliberately shielded Wang Yuyu behind her, like a mother hen protecting her chicks.

She smiled and reassured everyone, "Don't worry, everyone! This pig is so big, one person definitely can't finish it. It'll just go to waste anyway, so we might as well help him finish some off and avoid wasting it!"

"I'll shield you from it, don't be afraid!"

But just as everyone brought the meat skewers to their mouths, they caught a glimpse of half a tiger's eye peeking out from behind Tang Li.

Wang Yuyu was secretly lying next to Tang Li, staring intently at them with her amber eyes, her gaze full of amusement.

The crowd was so frightened that their hands trembled, and the meat skewers they were about to put in their mouths stopped abruptly. They dared not put them in their mouths anymore.

Tang Li turned around and immediately pushed Wang Yuyu's head back, warning him in a low voice, "You better behave! Don't scare them! If you dare to misbehave again, I won't go into the mountains with you, and you can forget about getting your venison!"

Upon hearing the words "venison," Wang Yuyu immediately shook his head vigorously and let out a rapid, low growl, his tone filled with impatience.

You can't leave!

Now that you're gone, who am I supposed to get my venison from?

Without you, those people definitely wouldn't have sent me venison!