Tiger, I rejected the iron rice bowl.

He instantly perked up, his tail twitching slightly involuntarily: "It's a silly roe deer!"

"Wow, it's like my wish came true! I just ate one the night before last, and another one delivered to my door tonight. My luck has finally turned around!"

Once the excitement kicked in, the resentment he had felt towards Tang Li faded somewhat.

Wang Yu immediately lowered his body and moved slowly with his limbs, his claws making almost no sound as he stepped on the snow.

He followed the footprints and the lingering scent of roe deer in the air, and silently pursued them.

After chasing for another kilometer, passing through a sparse grove of trees, Wang Yuyu finally spotted his target beside a dense thicket of bushes.

Five silly roe deer were huddled together there eating.

In winter, food is scarce, and even the roe deer, which usually prefer to live alone, have to huddle together for warmth and food.

They were seen with their heads down, slowly nibbling at the remaining plant shoots, bark, and shrub buds around them, while occasionally stopping to carefully dig through the snow with their hooves, searching for grass roots and berries covered in snow.

Even while eating, they remain vigilant, raising their heads every few seconds to look around, their ears twitching alertly, catching any unusual sounds.

At the slightest disturbance, these silly roe deer would leap up, take long strides, and run away in leaps and bounds for a distance until they were sure there was no danger, before slowly returning to continue eating.

Looking at their round, plump figures, Wang Yuyu's mouth almost watered, and a low whimper involuntarily rolled down her throat, her eyes filled with "fat meat that was about to be eaten".

He held his breath, pressed his body close to the ground, and used the shadows of the bushes and the cover of the tree trunks to crawl slowly toward the nearest roe deer.

Whenever the roe deer looks up to observe, he stops instantly, even his breathing becomes soft, like a sculpture embedded in the snow.

Only after the roe deer lowered its head to eat again did he take a few more steps forward.

It took a full five or six minutes for Wang Yuyu to finally reach a spot only ten meters away from her target.

He crouched down, his hind legs slightly braced, ready to pounce at any moment, his eyes gleaming with the ferocity of a predator.

Just then, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew by, and with a "whoosh," it blew the snow off a tree branch in the distance, which then hit the snow and made a soft sound.

This subtle movement instantly startled the wary roe deer.

Almost simultaneously, the five roe deer raised their heads in unison, their eyes filled with terror as they looked toward the source of the sound. Then, with a "whoosh," they all took long strides and leaped away into the depths of the dense forest, their movements as swift as the wind.

"Damn! This gust of wind couldn't have come at the worst possible time!"

Seeing the prize that was almost within his grasp slip away, Wang Yuyu was so angry she almost jumped up, cursing the heavens in her heart.

"The silly roe deer I was about to catch has flown away! God, are you deliberately working against me?"

Despite his complaints, he forced himself to calm down and remained lying motionless in the same spot.

He knew the roe deer was timid and might stop and look back after running a short distance.

Suddenly, a pitiful cry came from the direction the roe deer had fled.

Wang Yuyu immediately stood up and looked in the direction of the sound. She saw a roe deer that hadn't run far and was lying on the snow not far away, struggling desperately. Its limbs were kicking wildly, but it couldn't get up no matter what.

Seeing this, the other roe deer not only didn't stop to wait for their companions, but ran even faster, disappearing into the shadows of the bushes in the blink of an eye, leaving not a trace.

"Wow, is this what they call a fake friendship?"

Wang Yuyu stared in disbelief, inwardly grumbling, "As long as I run faster than my companions, the danger can't catch me, right? These heartless bastards actually abandoned their companions and ran away!"

Despite her complaints, Wang Yuyu didn't rush forward when she saw the roe deer struggling on the ground. Instead, she took a half step back and stared at it warily.

Something's definitely fishy going on. How could a perfectly healthy roe deer suddenly fall down and be unable to get up?

"Could this silly roe deer be sick? If I eat sick prey, will I be in trouble too?"

He squatted on the snow, tilting his head and struggling with the decision of whether to eat or not.

Just as Wang Yuyu was hesitating, a faint smell of blood suddenly drifted over on the wind.

"The smell of blood?"

He suddenly raised his head, sniffed hard, and his eyes instantly sharpened.

This smell is coming from that struggling roe deer!

"Could it be injured? It bled from a fall? This silly roe deer is way too delicate!"

Knowing that it was not an illness but an injury, Wang Yuyu's inner turmoil instantly dissipated.

He took careful steps toward the roe deer lying on the ground, scrutinizing the snow beneath his feet with each step, fearing some kind of ambush.

As he got closer, he finally saw the truth.

One of the roe deer's front legs was being tightly clamped by a gleaming iron object, and blood was dripping down its teeth, staining the surrounding snow red.

"Oh my god, it's an animal trap!"

Wang Yuyu's tiger fur bristled instantly, and he jumped back a large step, his alertness heightened, standing still without daring to move.

His amber eyes widened as he stared intently at the animal trap, then nervously glanced around, fearing that such a deadly trap might be lurking beneath his feet as well.

"Damn it! Those damn poachers!"

Wang Yuyu trembled with rage, low growls emanating from his throat, "Just how many traps have you set up in my territory? Even in such a remote place!"

"How the hell am I supposed to hunt with peace of mind after this? If I stepped on it, even if I didn't die, my leg would be ruined, and I'd need at least six months to recover!"

He had naively thought that as long as Tang Li and the others dismantled the electric fence, his territory would be safe.

But what happened today shattered his illusions. The poachers' traps were probably already laid out silently in this forest, like a large net.

Watching the silly roe deer on the ground howling and struggling in pain, which only made its wounds deeper, Wang Yu felt a pang of pity.

He took a deep breath, pounced, pinned the roe deer down, then lowered his head and bit off its neck, cleanly and decisively ending its suffering.

Looking at the trap covered in sharp teeth on the roe deer's leg, Wang Yuyu couldn't help but shudder: "That thing is so big, if I stepped on it, I'd probably be done for, right?"

"Never mind, let's eat first!"

Wang Yu suppressed the fear and anger in her heart, carefully using her paws to dig through the snow around the roe deer, checking the ground inch by inch. Only after confirming that there were no other hidden traps did she breathe a sigh of relief, lower her head, and begin to eat in peace.