Chapter 89: Three Tiger Cubs
The fury and killing intent rolling off the Bengal tiger hit Lin Jiangye—and Yuheng and Kaiyang—with bone-deep cold again.
The two wolves were so frightened they were about to collapse, but the moment they thought about protecting Lin Jiangye, they forced themselves upright—shaking, trembling, yet stubbornly standing guard at the young man’s side.
“Calm down… those humans have weapons. If you charge in recklessly, you’ll just die for nothing. And don’t forget what you asked of me—I still don’t even know where your cubs are.”
The moment he mentioned the cubs, the Bengal tiger finally regained a sliver of reason.
“How about this—don’t roar. Just make enough movement to draw their attention.” The intimidation might not be as strong as the original plan, but those people would still come out, just to be safe.
The Bengal tiger gave Lin Jiangye a long, heavy look. It said nothing more, only sprinted toward the cave’s other exit.
Once it left, Lin Jiangye immediately pulled his two wolf cubs into a tight hug and rubbed them hard.
“Don’t be scared, don’t be scared. Dad has a gun. If it comes to it, Dad will act.”
Of course, even if he acted, he wouldn’t actually shoot the tiger dead. At most, he’d stop it from moving.
Unless absolutely necessary, he didn’t want to fight wild animals.
“Wuu…” [We’re useless…] Yuheng and Kaiyang’s ears drooped in frustration. They’d never imagined that their usually unstoppable selves would ever meet an enemy they couldn’t beat.
Lin Jiangye smiled and ruffled their heads. “That’s normal. It’s a Bengal tiger!”
Bengal tigers and Amur tigers were the largest wild felines on Earth—adult weights basically started above 200 kilograms, equivalent to two or even three grey wolves.
There was no way to win.
“So don’t feel guilty. This is completely normal.” Lin Jiangye rubbed their heads again.
Not long after, the cave ahead erupted with panicked screams. The people hiding inside stumbled out in chaos.
“Now! Go!”
At Lin Jiangye’s command, Yuheng and Kaiyang shot forward, clamped down on one man’s arms, and used their weight to pin him hard to the ground.
Lin Jiangye fired at another man—tat-tat—and before the guy even understood what happened, he dropped.
Seeing their companions go down, the remaining two turned and ran without the slightest intention of fighting.
But in the next second, a black swarm of birds descended over their heads. With screams bursting out, their faces and arms were raked open by claws.
“Chang Geng, Qi Ming!” Lin Jiangye’s eyes lit up.
[Human! We’re here!]
With one fierce swipe, Chang Geng’s talons carved from that man’s forehead straight down to his chin. The bloody gash was so brutal that even Lin Jiangye felt his own face sting in sympathy.
The two men collapsed, in too much pain to rise. Lin Jiangye didn’t waste words—he bound all four of them together on the spot.
The Bengal tiger sauntered over. Seeing those humans covered in blood, its eyes were full of disgust.
After dealing with the men, Lin Jiangye cleaned Chang Geng and Qi Ming’s claws, then finally asked about the cubs’ location.
“Are your cubs far from here? If they’re far, I’ll take these people out first, then come back for your cubs. If they’re close, I’ll pick up the cubs first and bring everyone out together.” As he spoke, he also asked about the other officers’ position through Ciren Sangmu.
The Bengal tiger was about to answer, when in the next second it—and the other animals—turned toward one direction.
[There’s a sound.]
A sound? What sound?
Lin Jiangye’s senses were sharper than most humans, but he was still human. He couldn’t hear a tiny suppressed gunshot from two hundred meters away.
But seconds later, he heard a rustling—rapidly approaching.
“Hide!”
Not knowing whether the approaching presence was human or animal, Lin Jiangye quickly knocked the captured men out and shoved them back into the cave.
As for himself, he obviously wasn’t going to hide with the cultists. He flattened into the dense plants nearby, using the thick undergrowth as cover.
Chang Geng and the other birds scattered with a whoosh. Just as they got into position, a takin came barreling over, panting hard.
Lin Jiangye narrowed his eyes. He saw a scrape on the takin’s body, but couldn’t tell whether it was caused by poachers or another animal.
However, after the takin passed, the rustling didn’t stop—and Lin Jiangye even heard something that sounded like voices.
Good.
That confirmed it: the takin had been injured by the poachers.
He lifted his head immediately, and sure enough, he spotted a black shape not far away.
He raised a hand to his lips and blew a soft call—like a bird.
Hearing it, that black figure flew toward him. At the same time, the poachers below seemed startled by the shadow overhead and muttered something under their breath.
Unfortunately, they weren’t locals—Lin Jiangye couldn’t understand a word.
But that only confirmed his earlier guess: these poachers weren’t from here.
When Bixi returned to him, Lin Jiangye whispered instructions. Then the forest erupted with chirping and chattering—ji-ji-zha-zha—instantly drawing the poachers’ attention.
“What happened?” one of them lifted his head in alarm, only to be yanked forward by a companion. “Don’t care. Keep chasing that thing!”
They hadn’t managed to catch the Bengal tiger they dreamed of, so they had to settle for other wildlife.
But just as they raised their guns, a figure flashed through their line of fire. The shot didn’t kill the takin—only grazed its rear.
“Don’t let me find out who’s messing with us!” He’d skin them alive!
They’d finally found a takin—only for it to slip away!
As they hurried past the cave area, one man suddenly halted.
“No—there’s other breathing here!”
His eyes landed on a small, low cave at his side.
Lin Jiangye lifted an eyebrow. Sharp senses. Luckily, Lin Jiangye had already controlled his breathing, so they didn’t detect him.
While they faced away from him to examine the cave, Lin Jiangye quickly scanned them to confirm their situation.
There were five of them. Each carried at least one gun, and two even had rifles strapped on their backs.
Those rifles were more refined than the ones caught earlier at Taibai Mountain—longer range too.
Besides ordinary firearms, they also carried tranquilizer guns.
Lin Jiangye was still thinking how to deal with them when a huge tiger suddenly burst out beside them.
With a crack, it bit clean through the throat of the man at the very back.
Everyone—including Lin Jiangye—jerked in shock.
But Lin Jiangye’s reaction was faster than the others. Since the Bengal tiger had already made the first move, he couldn’t just stand there.
While the others were still frozen, Lin Jiangye raised his gun and dropped one man with a shot.
“Yuheng! Kaiyang! Move!”
The moment the command fell, the two grey wolves—and all the birds around—lunged in.
When one man reached for the gun at his chest, Lin Jiangye flicked his wrist and hurled his dagger. The blade punched precisely into the man’s wrist.
In the next second, he was subdued by Yuheng and Kaiyang working together.
Just then, Lin Jiangye felt his back prickle. He twisted instinctively—just as a bullet scraped past him.
Not five.
Six.
There was one more hiding in the dark!
“Careful! There’s another one over there!”
No sooner had he shouted than a blade cut through the air. Lin Jiangye ducked hard, barely dodging a knife slash from a poacher rushing him.
Seeing a knife instead of a sniper rifle, Lin Jiangye understood immediately:
This one didn’t have a close-range firearm.
So… heh.
Bang.
A bullet punched a bloody hole in the man’s shoulder—at the same time, the Bengal tiger swatted him away with one paw.
Judging by how the man’s head and neck bent, Lin Jiangye felt there was a ninety-nine percent chance he wouldn’t survive.
Four down in one breath—leaving one in front of him, plus the hidden one.
Lin Jiangye worried the Bengal tiger would get targeted. Seeing it still wanted to pounce, Lin Jiangye rushed over, grabbed it in a hug, and shoved it into the grass.
“They’re here for you! Hide!”
The Bengal tiger resisted.
[I want revenge! She died to poacher humans!]
It didn’t say who “she” was, but Lin Jiangye could tell—it had to be the cubs’ mother.
“But if something happens to you, what about the cubs?” Lin Jiangye stared at the tiger’s mouth, still dripping with blood, feeling his scalp go cold.
Human blood.
He needed to finish off the hidden one quickly, then rinse that blood out.
He couldn’t let this tiger truly taste and savor human flesh.
The Bengal tiger’s eyes were red with hatred. It could easily shove Lin Jiangye away—but doing that would injure him.
And if it injured him, then what about the cubs?
“I’ll handle it fast—trust me. And they need to be kept alive. Humans need answers—whether there’s another organization behind them! Really! Trust me! I swear on the Mountain God’s name!”
The Bengal tiger didn’t understand what a “Mountain God” was. But when it saw the wrist cord on Lin Jiangye’s arm, that faint, unfamiliar tiger scent soothed it.
It was the smell of trust—another tiger’s complete trust in this human.
The Bengal tiger growled twice, venting years of suppressed fury, then turned and crouched within the forest.
This time, it chose to trust a human.
As Lin Jiangye pulled it away, the hidden poacher didn’t fire again.
Lin Jiangye couldn’t tell whether the man had left or was still lying in ambush.
The fifth poacher tried to run, but Yuheng chased him down quickly. When he still struggled, Lin Jiangye sprinted over and knocked him out with one punch.
He tied the surviving poachers together and was about to call Ciren Sangmu when several uniformed officers walked over from the distance.
“Consultant Lin?”
Lin Jiangye glanced at them, scanning their bodies. Only after confirming they were real police did he speak.
“Come. All the cultists are here. And these foreign poachers… investigate them yourselves. One hiding in the dark seems to have slipped away.”
No wonder when Lin Jiangye was dealing with the poacher earlier, there was no reaction—most likely the hidden one had already sensed Chinese police approaching.
The officers stared at the bound men, completely stunned.
They knew the city bureau had brought in someone to help locate cultists in the forest, but they hadn’t expected—
how long had it even been?
And this man had already wiped out cultists, and even taken down poachers too?!
“Enough of that. You take them out. I’m going after the last poacher!” Lin Jiangye promised the Bengal tiger he’d catch them all.
If he didn’t, he’d be disgracing Tiger Mom’s name!
Thousands of kilometers away, Tiger Mom suddenly sneezed, froze in place, and stared blankly.
Why does my back feel cold all of a sudden???
“Eh? Ehh—Consultant Lin!”
They reached out like Erkang trying to stop him, but Lin Jiangye and his animals vanished into the forest in an instant.
When the officers handled the bodies and saw the wound on one corpse, cold sweat broke out on their backs.
They recognized it—those were bite marks from a large predator.
Meaning: one poacher had been killed by a large beast.
And in Heiyue County, the most famous large predator wasn’t the snow leopard.
It was the Bengal tiger.
“Here… uh… just now here… was there a tiger?”
No one dared answer. No one dared move. Everyone was terrified the beast that killed the poacher might still be nearby, watching them.
—
Elsewhere, Lin Jiangye ran at full speed. Not far ahead of him was Tianheng, leading the way.
The moment they realized there was a hidden poacher, Bixi had already started searching silently nearby—without Lin Jiangye even needing to speak.
Not only Bixi—the white-tailed sea eagle also led other birds in the search.
Otherwise, Lin Jiangye wouldn’t have sworn so confidently to the Bengal tiger.
Tianheng tracked along Bixi’s lingering scent, but at one point it had to stop.
“Wuu…” [Feels… like Bixi’s scent is everywhere.]
Lin Jiangye patted its head without blame. He looked around—deep forest like this was bound to have plenty of small animals.
So he asked for help again—this time clearly explaining what “poachers” were.
The moment the animals learned poachers were present, the once-quiet forest environment erupted into agitation. Not only birds—other animals started reporting what they’d seen.
[Monkey didn’t see humans here!]
[None here either!]
[Rat can’t see humans, but rat saw that injured takin!]
Amid the noisy chaos, a thin, faint hiss slid into Lin Jiangye’s ears:
[Snake saw that human… he went that way…]
Lin Jiangye looked up.
A thick black snake—about as thick as a wrist—was coiled on a branch, tongue flicking as it watched him.
“Thank you!” Lin Jiangye clasped his hands in a respectful salute and smiled at the snake, then pulled out a vacuum-sealed pack of meat from his bag, tore it open, and hung it on the branch.
Before the black snake could even react, the young man was already running far away.
The snake stared blankly at the meat in front of it. The smell was a little different from what it usually ate, but… it was edible!
The black snake opened its mouth wide and swallowed the entire chunk, then lay there contentedly on the branch, waiting to digest.
[So full… satisfied… burp!]
With the black snake’s directions, Lin Jiangye sprinted straight toward the right place. Very soon, he heard Bixi’s voice.
“Caw caw caw!” [Bad human! You’re the one who wanted to attack Dad! Hateful bad human! Throw him!]
In the next second, all kinds of furious, cursing voices burst out—mixed in with faint human shouting.
But maybe he really had been annoyed to the limit. The man stopped trying to hide and fired a shot into the sky.
Sure enough, the animals around instantly fell silent. That sound was simply too intimidating for them.
But just as he was feeling smug—
another gunshot rang out.
He froze in place, unmoving. Only after a long moment did he slowly lower his head and look at his chest.
Blood was surging out from where his heart was, quickly dyeing that patch of clothing red.
He tried to turn back, wanting to see who had attacked him—but before he could fully turn around, he collapsed to the ground.
Lin Jiangye didn’t really want to go over.
He scanned the area. A rotting stench filled the air around the man—monkeys had been pelting him with rotten fruit, and the moment it hit, it exploded into mush…
And besides rotten fruit, there was also some unknown feces, stones, animal bones, and who knew what else…
Kind of filthy.
Bixi swooped down, about to return to Lin Jiangye’s arms—only to be stopped for the first time, Lin Jiangye catching its wing.
“Wait. Did you touch any of that stuff?”
Bixi looked like a hen being grabbed by the wing—wide-eyed, confused, innocent bean eyes staring at Lin Jiangye.
After a long moment, it finally understood what the human meant.
[You’re disgusted with me—you think I’m gross!!!]
Ever since it had acknowledged him as “Dad,” Lin Jiangye hadn’t heard it call itself “this young master” in a long time.
Which told you exactly how much psychological trauma Lin Jiangye’s “disgust” had caused.
Crow has helped you so much, and you still dare to be disgusted by crow?!
Crow helps—crow is good!
Human disgusts—human is bad!!!
“No, no, no!” Lin Jiangye hurriedly hugged Bixi and kissed the top of its head several times.
“Dad isn’t disgusted with you. Dad just wants to wipe you clean. I’ve done this for you before, haven’t I? Or do you like touching that kind of thing?”
Bixi was smart and spirited, but… it was still just a little bird.
And an innocent little bird could never outplay a crafty human.
It thought seriously for a moment, remembered how Lin Jiangye always cleaned the grime off their claws after they fought, and shook its head.
“Right? You don’t like dirty things either. So what’s wrong with me asking you?”
Yeah… that actually made sense.
Realizing it had misunderstood Lin Jiangye, Bixi’s fluffed-up feathers immediately smoothed back down. It rubbed against Lin Jiangye’s chest.
[Crow misunderstood Dad.]
It wasn’t really a misunderstanding… ahem. Even though Lin Jiangye didn’t get a direct answer, from Bixi’s reaction he could already tell it hadn’t touched the mess.
After man and bird rubbed against each other for a bit, Lin Jiangye finally turned, preparing to call other officers to come take away the last poacher.
But the moment he turned around, he met a pair of wide eyes—round like bronze bells.
Oh. The Bengal tiger was back.
No wonder the surroundings had suddenly gone quiet…
[You… forget it. Is he dead?]
The Bengal tiger’s hesitating expression made Lin Jiangye a bit awkward, but it quickly moved on to business.
“Of course not. When I fired, I deliberately aimed a little lower—making sure it wouldn’t hit his heart.” Seeing the tiger look like it wanted to “finish him off,” Lin Jiangye quickly stopped it.
“This one can’t die. The others could—only this one can’t.”
He pointed at the man’s gear and the bag that had fallen beside him. From the open mouth of the bag, it was obvious they’d already taken a small batch of protected wildlife.
Carrying the “goods” bag on his person, and having weapons more refined than anyone else—this was clearly the leader of the poacher squad.
And if he was the leader, then he knew far more than the others.
For example: where were they planning to sell these “goods”? Were there more of their people in this forest—or even in the whole county? And where exactly had they smuggled in from?
One by one—every piece needed proper investigation.
Lin Jiangye didn’t try to trick the Bengal tiger. He patiently broke everything down and explained it.
Whether the tiger fully understood or not, it at least stopped wanting to attack.
Lin Jiangye had Qi Ming and the others go bring police over. While waiting, he seized the chance to rinse the blood off the tiger’s mouth, so it wouldn’t frighten people later.
When the police arrived, he explained who the man was, then prepared to leave with the Bengal tiger.
“C-Consultant Lin! Where are you going? Do you need us to accompany you?”
The officers who rushed over nearly drew their guns when they saw a huge tiger crouched beside Lin Jiangye.
They remembered the two corpses killed by a beast—one with a throat bitten through, one crushed flat by a massive paw.
Now, hearing Lin Jiangye say he was going to leave with the Bengal tiger, they were terrified for his safety.
If you must go, at least bring one more person! Just in case—just in case something happens, at least there’d be someone to shoot!
But Lin Jiangye waved them off.
“It’s fine. I’ll be right back.”
Then he suddenly remembered something. He pointed at the officers and shouted up into the forest canopy:
“If you want food, follow them out of the forest! The food is already prepared!”
The officers stared at one another, completely lost.
But the moment his words fell, they heard rustling above. Looking up—
Good heavens.
Countless pairs of eyes were watching them.
When they looked closely, it was all kinds of little birds and monkeys, and even a few squirrels.
“They’re…?”
Lin Jiangye waved at them, but with the Bengal tiger beside him, the little ones didn’t dare come down.
“They helped me find the cultists and the poachers, and they stopped them from escaping successfully. Ciren Sangmu and I already prepared food. When you take this poacher out, they’ll follow too. Whatever they want to eat, you feed them.”
It sounded unbelievable, but the officers had already seen Lin Jiangye calmly coexisting with a wild tiger, so they weren’t as shocked as they might’ve been.
After arranging everything, Lin Jiangye followed the Bengal tiger to find its cubs.
On the way, the tiger suddenly asked:
[Are you worried I’ll start eating humans?]
Clearly, it had remembered Lin Jiangye rinsing its mouth with cold water.
The moment it asked, Yuheng and Kaiyang instantly went into alert mode.
But Lin Jiangye stayed calm. He nodded bluntly.
“Yeah. If you develop a taste for humans, the nearby garrison will kill you.”
That was the reality.
Once a tiger eats a human, it might attack again. And for wild animals that have eaten people—if they can’t be controlled, the nearby military will eliminate them.
Hearing that, the Bengal tiger didn’t show fear or anger.
It fell silent. Lin Jiangye couldn’t read what it was thinking, but from its steady eyes, he could tell it wasn’t stupid.
Lin Jiangye thought, then added, “If someday you’re starving and desperately need food, or you’re injured and can’t recover, you can try asking the soldiers here for help. I don’t know if you’ve seen them, but they…”
The Bengal tiger’s eyes flickered with helplessness, and it cut him off:
[I’ve seen them. I’ve seen them—they haven’t seen me.]
As long as it had seen them, that was enough. As long as it knew which humans could be asked for help, it was fine.
The military would recognize it as a wild tiger and wouldn’t shoot without reason—its safety could be ensured.
As for whether it could communicate what it needed… that depended on the tiger’s own ability.
The Bengal tiger understood his meaning and even let out a faint, cold laugh.
Man and tiger, two wolves and three birds, walked slowly for nearly half an hour before reaching a secluded hidden cave.
Standing outside the entrance, Lin Jiangye faintly heard tiny crying sounds—almost like kittens mewing.
[Come in.] The Bengal tiger went in first. Then Yuheng rushed in to check. Only after confirming it was safe did it call Lin Jiangye over.
Before today, the only tiger cave Lin Jiangye had ever entered was Tiger Mom’s.
Compared to Tiger Mom’s den, this Bengal tiger’s den was… messy.
And the smell was intense.
The moment Lin Jiangye stepped inside, he almost got smoked right back out. If not for the cubs, he wouldn’t have wanted to enter at all.
“Your den really needs cleaning… bleh!” Lin Jiangye couldn’t help gagging.
The Bengal tiger snorted and looked toward a corner deeper in the cave.
[They’re all there. Take them all away.]
Following its gaze, Lin Jiangye narrowed his eyes and finally made out, in the dim light, three tiger cubs curled together in the corner.
Three skinny little tiger cubs huddled in a pile of dry grass, letting out weak crying sounds.
Judging by their size, they were probably only about a month old.
“So small!”
The Bengal tiger lay in its den, eyes closed, pretending to nap—like it didn’t want to care about anything afterward.
Lin Jiangye didn’t have time to argue with it. These cubs had to be taken out immediately.
A male tiger had no milk—who knew how many days these babies had gone hungry?
Just as Lin Jiangye hurried out with the cubs in his arms, the male tiger—who’d been “napping”—suddenly opened its eyes.
Before it could react, the young man who’d just left stuck his head back in like a sudden return strike.
“Remember what I told you. If you don’t have food or you’re hurt, go to the soldiers. Our soldiers will definitely help you.”
Don’t ask why soldiers would “care about a tiger.” They’d nursed injured wolves back to health and released them before—why couldn’t they do the same for a tiger?
The Bengal tiger slammed its head down on the ground and covered its ears with its thick paws.
Human! You’re so annoying!
“Heh.” Seeing its impatient look, Lin Jiangye hurried off with the cubs.
Bixi was curious about the babies. It landed on Lin Jiangye’s shoulder and stared at the cubs, who were about cat-sized.
After a long moment, it said:
[They look like Gaojiasuo…]
The other animals nearby crowded in too. After staring for a while, they all nodded.
Lin Jiangye didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Gaojiasuo was a tortoiseshell cat with black-and-yellow coloring—like a Bengal tiger. And tiger cubs really did look like cats when they were small, so of course they resembled it.
“These are tiger babies. They’ll grow into that huge size you saw earlier. But Gaojiasuo… Gaojiasuo can only ever be this big.”
On the way back, they didn’t run into any other animals. Lin Jiangye’s dream of seeing leopard cats, clouded leopards, civets—instantly deflated.
But then again, think about it: they’d all been inside a tiger den. Their whole bodies reeked of tiger. And the cubs, practically marinated in tiger scent in that cave—who would dare come close?
After leaving the forest, Lin Jiangye saw a crowd gathered nearby. The suspects were gone—probably already taken to the station or hospital.
The people left were either distributing food to the animals… or waiting for him.
Sure enough, when Lin Jiangye appeared, Ciren Sangmu and the others finally let out a huge breath of relief.
They didn’t know that the moment they heard from the first officers that a beast had killed someone, their hearts had shot into their throats.
If Lin Jiangye got hurt inside too, their city bureau would absolutely be torn down by Director Zhou and Shang Fuyan together.
Luckily, the second group of officers brought one piece of good news and one piece of news that was neither good nor bad:
Good: Lin Jiangye had stood beside a Bengal tiger, and it hadn’t attacked him.
Unclear: Lin Jiangye had left alone with the Bengal tiger.
The bureau leader nearly blacked out. He couldn’t understand why Lin Jiangye would do something that dangerous.
That was a Bengal tiger—not a house cat!
But at that point it was too late. If the tiger had malicious intent, even if they rushed in now, they’d probably only find half a body.
Thankfully, after an hour of agonized waiting, Lin Jiangye returned safely.
Not only did he come back intact—he brought back three Bengal tiger cubs!
“You stole its babies?!” Those were tiger cubs! Normally their mother would be nearby—how did this young man “snatch” them?
Lin Jiangye glared at him. “Don’t say ‘stole,’ that sounds awful! Their dad gave them to me. The mom… died to poachers.”
He didn’t know the details. Normally, tiger cubs were raised by the mother; a male wouldn’t live with them.
As for how that Bengal tiger learned something happened to its mate and managed to take the cubs away…
Lin Jiangye didn’t ask. He didn’t want to.
If he annoyed the tiger, he wouldn’t have left so easily.
“Is there goat milk?! Feed them first! Their bellies are completely flat!”
On the road, Lin Jiangye had noticed their stomachs were sunken.
The bureau leader didn’t even have time to ask how Lin Jiangye had survived leaving a grown tiger’s side. His attention was completely seized by the three cubs.
Wild Bengal tiger cubs!
They needed to contact the Forestry Bureau immediately.
Those people would be ecstatic.
Watching everyone scramble to organize care for the cubs, Lin Jiangye finally relaxed a little.
Wild Bengal tigers were extremely rare. If these three could be raised well and had no issues, they could be released back into the wild. That would mean three more Bengal tigers in the country.
“Caw caw!” [Not taking them home?]
Bixi perched on Lin Jiangye’s shoulder, curious. It had assumed Dad would bring these cubs home—just like he brought Bixi, Zang’ao, Mimi, Tianshu, and the others home.
Lin Jiangye shook his head and sighed.
“No. If my zoo were already finished, maybe I could take them home, raise them bigger, then bring them back and release them. But right now, the zoo isn’t completed. Yue City is far from here, and the back hill is still under construction—space isn’t enough.”
And most importantly: the household back home was full of old, weak, sick, and injured. That environment wasn’t suitable for proper wilderness training.
He was afraid he’d end up raising these tiger cubs with cat-like personalities…
Especially if they turned out like Zang’ao!
Like the clouded leopard cub he’d encountered in Nanhai, the best approach was to let the local Forestry Bureau handle and raise them.
Lin Jiangye looked down at the cubs still mewing softly and gently stroked their heads with a fingertip.
“As long as they can live well, I’ll be satisfied.”
He only wanted animal cubs to live well.
And he believed that Bengal tiger felt the same.
