Tiger, I rejected the iron rice bowl.

Following her memory, Wang Yuyu arrived at the place where she had heard the wolf howls three days ago.

This was a planned inspection point for him.

The snow on the ground had long since buried the messy hoofprints left by the wolf pack. If it weren't for his keen sense of smell, he would hardly have been able to tell that a pack of wolves had ever been there.

He lowered his head, his nostrils twitching slightly on the snow, and quickly caught a lingering scent of wolves. The smell was spreading outwards from the territory, indicating that the group had wisely left.

"Hmph, you guys got away fast." Wang Yuyu let out a disdainful snort, a hint of arrogance flashing in her amber eyes.

He shook the snow off his paws and continued along his familiar patrol route, leaving his scent mark on tree trunks or rocks every so often to assert his dominance.

After traveling for more than ten kilometers, a series of abrupt marks on the snow made his tiger fur stand on end.

He abruptly stopped, cautiously approached for a closer look, and his pupils contracted sharply. His mind went blank: "Holy crap! Human footprints?!"

The footprints were clearly imprinted in the soft snow. They were quite large and clearly left by an adult male. Moreover, the pattern was regular and did not resemble the footprints of sneakers commonly found in the mountains. They looked more like the marks left by specialized outdoor boots.

Wang Yuyu's nerves tensed up instantly. Almost instinctively, he lunged forward, his massive body disappearing into the thick snow, leaving only his wary eyes peeking out as he stared intently at his surroundings.

He knew that human night vision devices and thermal imaging cameras are sensitive to body temperature, and only in this way could he conceal his scent and body temperature as much as possible so as not to be easily detected.

After completing this series of actions, he slowly held his breath, pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the sounds around him, and turned his head to warily survey every corner of the dense forest.

The night was thick, and apart from the rustling of leaves in the wind, the surroundings were eerily quiet, without a single extra sound.

But the more this was the case, the more uneasy he felt; behind the calm, there often lay deadly danger.

Wang Yu observed the situation without moving for a full five minutes. Only after confirming that there was no unusual activity did she relax her vigilance slightly, but her body remained in a posture ready to fight or flee at any moment.

He slowly poked his head out of the snow, carefully lay down on the set of footprints, and sniffed carefully again. A faint human scent mixed with the smell of tobacco wafted towards him, and the smell was still quite strong. Obviously, the other person had just passed through here not long ago, no more than three hours ago.

"Is it coming for me?" Wang Yuyu's eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at the trail of footprints extending toward the core of his territory, his mind racing.

He had spent over a year in this mountain forest and knew the area inside and out. He first ruled out the possibility of researchers: "This was definitely not left by a research team! Now that the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, they have long since suspended their field investigations. I haven't seen any trace of them for almost a month."

"Moreover, they always operate only during the day and never venture into the mountains at night."

"Then there's only one possibility!"

A chilling killing intent flashed in Wang Yuyu's eyes, and her heart clenched. "Are they poachers? Or... trying to capture me for research?"

"Could it be true, as Tang Li said, that I'm too clever and have attracted the attention of certain people?"

He recalled that after he transmigrated into a tiger, he not only retained human thinking but was also more human-like than ordinary tigers. If he were discovered by someone with ulterior motives, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"No! We absolutely cannot sit idly by and wait to die!"

He had a bad feeling. "If they really are poachers, they must have guns!"

"No matter how skilled I am, I can't withstand bullets. I'm no match for them. I need to find someone to help me!"

Tang Li's image instantly flashed into his mind, but right now he couldn't even protect himself, let alone contact her.

He remained hidden in place for a while longer, and there was still no movement around him, but Wang Yuyu dared not be careless in the slightest.

He knew poachers all too well. These people, driven by profit, often had extraordinary patience. They might be hiding in the shadows right now, aiming a gun at him, just waiting for him to make a mistake.

He decided he couldn't wait any longer and had to leave as soon as possible.

Wang Yuyu used all his strength to retreat silently, carefully observing his surroundings with each step until his back hit a thick tree. Only then did he use the tree trunk for cover, turn around abruptly, and run into the depths of the dense forest.

He deliberately chose the densest part of the trees, using the intertwined branches to conceal his figure and minimize the chances of being discovered.

"Damn it, why am I so unlucky!"

As Wang Yuyu ran, her heart was filled with despair and wailing. "Being transmigrated into a tiger is bad enough, but I run into guns everywhere I go. I didn't even get a stable job, and now I'm being targeted by these damn bad guys. Are they even letting a tiger live?!"

"God, did you send me here to enjoy life, or to make me struggle to survive every day?!"

He grew angrier the more he thought about it, and his pace quickened even further. "Can you please stop messing with me like this? I just want to be a quiet tiger, eating and sleeping all day!"

He was so focused on running away that he didn't notice an inconspicuous black device hanging on a branch of a large tree.

That was an infrared camera left by poachers. Just as he was running past the tree in a panic, the camera was instantly triggered, clearly capturing a tiger's shadow, and then automatically transmitting the image back.

On the other side of the mountain, the wind and snow were even fiercer.

The brothers Zhang Baohai and Zhang Baotian trudged through the snow, which was up to their calves, and each step required a great deal of effort.

The two men were wrapped tightly in heavy winter clothes, their breath dissipating instantly in the cold air. Their faces were red from the cold, and their eyebrows and beards were covered with a layer of frost.

Suddenly, a rapid "beep beep beep" sound came from Zhang Baohai's waist as he walked ahead, which was particularly jarring in the quiet mountain forest.

"Brother! It's a security camera alarm!"

Zhang Baotian, who was walking behind, suddenly brightened up and quickly lowered his voice, shouting with urgency and excitement, "Quick, take a look! Is this the secure job we've been looking for?"

The two brothers waited in the snow for three whole days for this intelligent Siberian tiger, hoping for this moment.

Zhang Baohai's expression hardened, and he immediately raised his hand to signal his younger brother to be quiet, saying in a deep voice, "Brother, don't make a sound, rest where you are!"

He cautiously looked around, and only after confirming that there was nothing unusual did he slowly sit down under a big tree and take out a palm-sized display screen from his backpack.

With a light tap of the finger on the screen, a clear photo immediately pops up.