Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Tiger Cub is Like a Child (Part I)

Early the next morning, Xiao Ziyang came to the stream with a hunting fork, and there was no trace of the internal organs and frozen meat.

After chasing Rich, he found blood stains on the side of the plum blossom footprints, and judging from the relative position of this trace of blood and the footprints on the ground, eighty percent of the blood was spit out of the mouth of a leopard!

After chasing seven or eight miles, he found that the blood stains appeared more and more frequently, and he also found traces of a leopard lying down under a tree.

Then he tracked down, and the traces of the leopard lying down and resting became more and more frequent along the way, and after chasing four or five miles, he found that there was a foot wide indentation on the snow, which was the trace that the leopard had no strength to stand and dragged out when crawling!

Xiao Ziyang thought to himself, but to his surprise, he chased three or four miles again, but still didn't see the corpse of the leopard!

Finally, after trekking forward for another three or four miles, and after crossing a mountain beam, he finally saw the target of this pursuit, which was actually a snow-white tiger!

It's a snow tiger! No wonder it has such a strong vitality and can struggle for so long even when its internal organs are seriously injured.

Snow Tiger is the totem of many grassland tribes outside Jinzhou Pass, this is an extremely fierce predator, much smaller than ordinary tigers, but with great strength and speed, it can feed on black bears, tigers and other beasts larger than its size!

What made him strange was that generally speaking, a seriously injured beast would usually lie quietly in a place and wait for death after losing its physical strength, and would never drag a seriously injured body to crawl for so long, what made this snow tiger do this?

When he came to the snow tiger and turned its body over, he finally understood the reason, and couldn't help but regret it very much, this is a tigress, with six ** high swelling abdomen, clearly breastfeeding, and it is the cub in the nest that is supporting it to crawl in the snow for more than ten miles!

Very few animals give birth in winter, but the snow tiger is one of them, because the snow is the best hunting ground for the snow tiger.

However, I heard that snow tigers mostly live in the northern part of the prairie and are covered with snow all year round, and I have never heard that there is such a fierce beast as snow tigers in this Taifu Mountain.

Xiao Ziyang shook his head and searched the vicinity, he was not familiar with the habits of the snow tiger, and he didn't know where it would build its nest, he only hoped to find the footprints left by the snow tiger when it left.

If he left with the tiger now, the cubs in its nest would surely die.

The hard work paid off, and Xiao Ziyang finally found a plum-shaped footprint outside the corpse of the snow tiger.

Following the footsteps, he soon came to the bottom of a cliff, which was a straight cliff, and at a height of seven or eight feet above the ground, there was a small cave.

Xiao Ziyang took a few steps back, carefully looked at a few places where he landed, and began to climb up the cliff.

Although the cliff is steep, it is difficult for people who practice martial arts, although he does not know how to do light skills, but he has great strength in his body, and it is several times easier to climb than ordinary people.

But with a cup of tea, Xiao Ziyang climbed up to the cave on the cliff.

The cave is not deep, less than two feet, at the bottom of the cave, there is a soft nest made of withered grass, in the nest two small snow tigers covered in snow-white fluff, eyes have not yet opened are huddled together and shivering. Looking at these two tiger cubs, Xiao Ziyang sighed, they are too small, they haven't even opened their eyes, they seem to be born only five or six days old, without their mother's breastfeeding, it is extremely difficult to survive!

Although Zhilu Dao had little hope, Xiao Ziyang couldn't bear to leave them, he stepped forward and gently picked up the two little snow tigers.

The two little guys didn't know how to distinguish their mother, and they felt Xiao Ziyang's warm big hands, and they couldn't help but call softly, as if they were begging for milk.

Xiao Ziyang opened the placket of his clothes and stuffed the two little guys who were only seven or eight inches long into his arms. Turning around and going out of the cave, he climbed down lightly, for fear of overexerting himself and squeezing the two little ones.

Descending the mountain, he walked again towards the place where the tigress had fallen, and the two little snow tigers fell asleep in his warm arms.

When he came to the tigress, Xiao Ziyang hesitated for a while, and finally dragged it towards the stone mountain where he was sheltering.

Back in the cave, Xiao Ziyang first made a small circle with branches in the corner of the cave, so as not to prevent the two little guys from running around and being burned by the bonfire when he was no longer there. Then he made a small nest with animal skins and put it in the circle.

When Xiao Ziyang took the two little ones out of his arms, they were extremely reluctant to leave this warm place, and their claws clawed at his clothes, and he took them off with great effort.

Fortunately, they were also very satisfied with the nest made by Xiao Ziyang, and when he put the two little snow tigers with teeth and claws into the fur nest, they suddenly fell silent.

After settling the two little snow tigers, Xiao Ziyang began to get busy again, he brought firewood, lit a bonfire, hung the hanging pot on the iron hook under the tripod, and heated the remaining half pot of medicinal food inside.

He cut down a section of the trunk from the outside and took it into the hole, and began to carve it with his hands, and after half an hour, the broth in the pot began to tumble, and the trunk in his hand became a very ugly square trough, which was intended for the two little snow tigers.

Xiao Ziyang filled half a tank of medicinal soup, and then fished out a few pieces of stewed extremely bad meat from the bottom of the pot and put them into the trough.

With the trough, he came to the outside of the leopard enclosure, put the trough on the edge of the nest with some trepidation, and reluctantly carried the two leopards out of the nest.

Under Xiao Ziyang's worried gaze, the two little guys sniffed at the trough for a moment, and then stepped forward to eat it. Maybe they were hungry, but they ate the unpalatable medicinal food very sweetly.

He watched as the two little leopards had eaten and drunk, and then put them back into their nests. Although the two little ones ate the broth in the trough and did not let him rest assured, the broth naturally could not be compared to the mother's milk, they were too small, and he did not know if he could digest the broth.

Xiao Ziyang cultivated twice, and after eating the remaining half pot of medicinal food, it was already dark.

Tonight was a sunny day, and a crescent moon hung in the air, illuminating the earth very brightly under the hidden light of the snow.

Xiao Ziyang took advantage of the moonlight and took the frozen meat wrapped in a deadly wooden stick to the opposite hillside, where the bear's habitat lurked.

The temperature had been getting low for the past two days, and he was a little worried that the bear had begun to hibernate, but he planned to try it anyway.

He lurked thirty feet away from the hole in the tree where the bear hibernated, threw two pieces of frozen meat on a large rock, and then turned away, without much hope in his heart.