coobybook Chapter 14 Tiger Mom's Long-Term Vision
Chapter 14 Tiger Mom's Long-Term Vision
After returning from the hunt, the tiger mother let Cangnian and her younger brother drink their fill of milk, and then helped the younger brother relieve himself before she could eat her own food.
Since Tiger Mom won't be going out for the next few days, Cangnian will naturally start training Tiger Brother.
The presence of the Tiger Mom gave Cang Nian the confidence to train without worry; otherwise, exhausting his physical strength in the dangerous wilderness would be an extremely foolish thing to do.
But with Tiger Mom around, there aren't so many concerns.
If someone can pose a threat to him while under the protection of his mother, then regardless of his physical strength, he will have no ability to resist.
Tiger Brother wasn't too stupid; he didn't forget everything he remembered. He understood that when Tiger Mom came back, she beat him to make him crawl and exercise, and when Tiger Mom wasn't around, she beat him to keep him from sleeping...
So Cangnian led Tiger Brother in rigorous training, disregarding the strain on his body.
In addition, he also began to study his newly unlocked skill—listening.
"Logically speaking, since I was born, except when I'm sound asleep, I've been listening to the sounds of the outside world every moment. Why is it only now that I'm unlocking it?"
Cang Nian thought to himself, somewhat puzzled.
"Could it be that I need to deliberately listen to distant sounds to unlock it? And to improve my proficiency in this skill, I also need to deliberately listen?"
Cang Nian thought about it for a while and had a few ideas.
Previously, his listening to others was always passive acceptance.
This time, having learned from the experience of the tiger mother's first hunt when her home was raided by a fox, she has been on guard against any outside activity.
However, there was no opportunity to verify this in the short term, so Cang Nian was too lazy to waste any more time.
If you improve your listening skills, they can be a great way to be on guard against enemies.
However, for the time being, improving his ability to escape and fight back is more important to Cang Nian!
On the other side of the cave, the tiger mother was eating quickly.
This was the first time Cangnian had ever seen the tiger mother eat.
Actually, all told, since Cang Nian's transmigration, including this time, Tiger Mom has only eaten three times.
The first time, they pulled prey prepared for reproduction from a pool deep in the cave.
However, that time, Cangnian hadn't opened his eyes yet; he had only heard the noise and filled in the blanks in his mind.
The second time was when Tiger Mom went hunting for the first time.
However, on that occasion, the mother tiger returned to the den after finishing her meal outside. Cang Nian could see her slightly bulging belly and judged that the mother tiger had successfully hunted and eaten.
This time, it's possible that because they were out eating last time and returned late, the scent of adult tigers in the cave had faded, which is why the starving fox dared to attack Cangnian and the tiger brother.
That's why Tiger Mom decided to return from the next hunt as soon as possible.
The location where the tiger mother successfully hunted this time was probably close to her den, and the prey was a small to medium-sized roe deer, which was easy for an adult tiger like the tiger mother to drag.
That's why the tiger mother eats in the den.
Looking at the silly roe deer that had been gutted by the tiger mother, and smelling the strong stench of blood, Cang Nian felt a little restless.
This is a deep-seated craving for fresh meat from the tiger's bloodline.
However, he is not yet able to eat meat. With his current weak digestive ability, he probably cannot digest raw meat.
Moreover, he has only just grown his milk teeth, which is much faster than the usual two weeks for tiger cubs to grow their milk teeth, but he is still a long way from being able to eat meat.
However, the skill of drinking milk has now accumulated ten more levels of proficiency after its qualitative change. There are still ninety levels to go before the next qualitative change, which is expected to take about ten days.
Cang Nian estimates that the next qualitative leap in this skill will be from drinking milk to eating meat!
By then, I will be less than a month old. Compared to the usual tiger cubs, which take two months to try eating meat, this will be much faster!
Compared to liquid tiger milk, solid flesh and blood are definitely more nutritious, and they will also accelerate your growth!
Swallowing hard, Cang Nian encouraged himself and then struggled to crawl.
My crawling skill is almost at level 70, and the next qualitative leap is not far away.
By then, my limbs will be much stronger, and I won't be able to walk so unsteadily as I am now!
Meanwhile, the tiger mother was eating very quickly, allowing Cang Nian to experience firsthand what it meant to wolf down food.
A roe deer weighing nearly 40 kilograms was reduced to a skeleton in just two and a half minutes.
The tiger mother was quite clever. After finishing eating, she first came out of the cave, brought back a pile of dry grass, and then wiped away the remaining skeleton of the silly roe deer, as well as the bloodstains that had dripped during the meal.
Then, the tiger mother wrapped the skeleton in the hay and threw it out of the den.
It was quite a while before Cangnian saw Tiger Mom return.
Clearly, Tiger Mom has thrown the trash far away.
Finally, the mother tiger went to the water pool in the den, dipped her paws in it, then returned to the place where she had been eating. She carefully wiped her water-dipped paws on the water to make sure there was no blood left before returning to the water pool to wash her paws.
This series of actions left Cang Nian completely stunned.
"This is to eliminate the source of the odor, so that predators won't be attracted by the scent once it dissipates?"
Cang Nian thought in amazement.
In his previous life, he didn't know much about tigers, but he felt that a tiger that could do something like the tiger mother must be one of the smartest among its kind.
With this in mind, Cang Nian felt even more at ease.
With a tiger mom like me, who is skilled at hunting and meticulous, my growth should be much smoother.
Aww~!
However, the tiger brother behind Cangnian was howling and wailing in agony.
It was already lazy, but when Cang Nian forced it to exercise, it was really tough!
Seeing this, Cangnian came up behind Tiger Brother and slapped its butt, urging it to work harder and not slack off!
[Ding! Claw swing once, Claw skill proficiency +1! (17/100)]
The system faithfully recorded Cangnian's all-out attack and converted it into proficiency in the claw skill.
Ouch~!
Now, Tiger Brother howled even more pitifully, but urged on by the old man, he could only crawl faster.
Meanwhile, the tiger mom, watching the two brothers interact, smiled contentedly after eating and drinking her fill.
It now understands that Cangnian wasn't playing around with Tiger Brother, but was purposefully training itself.
It was, of course, very pleased with this.
It knew very well that the stronger it was, the more likely it was to survive in this jungle.
For the male tiger, simply surviving is not enough.
In the wild Siberian tiger population, the vast majority of male tigers do not mate with female tigers and thus fail to produce offspring.
Only the alpha male of a region can win the right to mate with a female tiger!
The more the two cubs hone their skills, the stronger they will become in the future. Even if they are separated, they will be tiger kings of different regions, thus preserving their bloodline!
Cang Nian had no idea that his self-discipline, which was merely a means of survival, was something Tiger Mom had already thought so far ahead of.