Mountain Looting: Targeted by a Leopard at the Start
Chapter 117: The Tiger’s Butt... Pretty Nice to Touch!

Chapter 117: Chapter 117: The Tiger’s Butt... Pretty Nice to Touch!

Under the gaze of more than 100,000 online viewers, the tiger drank all the milk from the bottle.

Everyone watched the live broadcast with bated breath.

They didn’t know what was going to happen next.

Many thought that after the tiger finished the milk, it would attack the somewhat suicidal human next to it.

Nobody had the heart to witness such a bloody and cruel scene.

"That’s all." Xu Yang put away the bottle and said to the tiger.

The tiger licked its lips, savoring the taste of the sheep’s milk.

Sheep’s milk is easier for animals to digest and more suitable for feeding cubs, and that’s what Xu Yang brought.

Then the tiger rubbed its head against Xu Yang’s body and lay down on its side.

In the language of tigers, a head rub is a sign of friendliness.

The tiger bore no ill will towards Xu Yang.

Only when they saw the tiger lie down did the viewers let their tense hearts settle back down.

The tiger really had no ill will towards him.

It just lay down like that.

As if it was very familiar with the situation.

People had only seen such scenes at zoos.

Xu Yang took the opportunity to sit down and pet the tiger’s head.

He put the mountain-rushing aside for the moment, as having the chance to touch a big tiger was worth lingering over.

This big chubby tiger had a surprisingly soft face.

"It means no harm to me, everyone can relax," Xu Yang said with a smile to the viewers.

At this moment, the live stream room had exploded into a frenzy.

Various comments surged wildly.

[Is this really a wild Northeast Tiger? So gentle?]

[Maybe it’s just gentle towards the broadcaster. Ordinary people should still run away fast if they encounter this creature!]

[I was worried for Old Xu for a long time, and now he’s on good terms with the tiger?]

[The number one Beast Tamer in the Northeast?]

[I’m still a bit shaken up now! My heart’s beating wildly!]

Xu Yang stroked the tiger’s face, then started to scratch its chin.

The tiger felt comfortable, stretched its neck out, squinted its eyes, and enjoyed the treatment contentedly.

It had never experienced such service before.

And it had to be a human to do it.

The tiger’s tail swayed gently, long and flicking the grass with each sweep.

It looked especially relaxed.

The atmosphere in the live stream room had completely changed.

The tension from before was gone, leaving only joy.

At this moment, inside the Tiger Leopard Monitoring Station, Wang Jianghai stared at the live broadcast of Xu Yang and the Northeast Tiger with astonishment written all over his face.

He started to question his life for a moment.

He even wondered if he was dreaming of a scenario in which a broadcaster was getting along amiably with a wild Northeast Tiger.

But the clear footage made it obvious that it was all real.

"No way, how can a wild Northeast Tiger show such trust towards a human?" he wondered.

"This makes no sense!"

"What method did this broadcaster use?"

Wang Jianghai didn’t know Xu Yang and had never heard his story.

So he typed "Mountain Chaser Xu Yang" into the search bar.

Then, many videos about Xu Yang popped up.

Wrestling with wild boars

Raising a leopard

Walking together with a little leopard and its mother

Discovering old ginseng while mountain-rushing

Every video stunned Wang Jianghai.

Especially the footage of Xu Yang walking side by side with the little leopard and its mother, which numbed him completely.

"How did he manage that?"

"Is that even possible?"

"Helping the female leopard and then she showed affection for him?"

"We’ve rescued so many tigers and leopards at the station, and every one of them is fierce. We have to use iron cages to transport them to the wild for release and retreat before daring to let them out."

"This guy is quite extraordinary!"

"It’s a pity if he doesn’t become a Patrol Guard!"

Wang Jianghai kept exclaiming.

After today, Xu Yang’s exploits spread throughout the Tiger Leopard Monitoring Station.

Even the staff there planned to invite him over to talk about his experiences with tigers and leopards.

Xu Yang’s response was that people are different; he could feel that tigers and leopards bore him no ill will, but as for why, he was unsure.

Xu Yang played with the tiger for a while longer.

Petting it on one hand and giving it a massage with the other.

He even patted the tiger’s backside when they were finished.

With his light slap on the tiger’s rump, the tiger’s behind wobbled a few times, causing the viewers’ hearts to wobble along.

As the saying goes, the backside of a tiger must not be touched, but Xu Yang not only touched it, but also gave the tiger’s rump a slap.

The tiger acted as if nothing had happened, still lying on its side, maintaining a comfortable sleeping position.

Absolutely unbelievable!

The live stream was unexpectedly hot.

Word had spread that someone had tamed a wild Northeast Tiger, and netizens flocked to the stream.

There was a miracle man in the mountain!

Xu Yang glanced at the barrage of comments and saw many questions, which he addressed:

"The tiger is showing affection to me probably because of the two bottles of milk."

"The patrol guard told me that this tiger was abandoned by its mother and survived on its own."

"Back then, it must have been four or five months old and was also injured. In the icy and snowy lands of the Northeast, I don’t know how it overcame those difficulties to survive."

"Now that I provided it with sheep’s milk, it might have felt something like the longing for its mother."

"That’s why it just laid down."

"It must be reminiscing about its life as a cub now,"

Xu Yang’s reasoning was quite sound.

With that explanation, everything made sense!

[So that’s why the tiger bears no ill will towards Old Xu!]

[It’s missing its mom!]

[The tiger must think of Xu Yang as its foster dad!]

[How come all the big cats recognize him as their dad, both the leopard and the tiger!]

The netizens had a sudden realization following Xu Yang’s train of thought.

So the tiger was homesick.

That’s why it didn’t attack Xu Yang.

"I’m not quite sure how long this emotional state of the tiger will last,"

"But for now, it seems quite stable,"

Xu Yang explained further.

He stood up and shouldered his backpack.

Playing with the tiger for a while was enough; he had his own tasks to attend to next.

Most tigers prefer to live alone, though sometimes you will see two or three together.

This tiger was a solitary type, accustomed to living alone.

It simply found Xu Yang congenial and decided to play with him briefly.

They were just passing through each other’s lives.

Of course, if Xu Yang had time in the future, he would come by again and might play with it once more.

As long as he could find it.

"I still need to look for some mountain goods; the vegetation here is quite lush,"

"I’m a lot more relaxed now,"

"This mountain is its territory; as long as the tiger is around, there won’t be other large beasts,"

"So I don’t have to worry about safety issues when I enter the mountain,"

Xu Yang told his online audience.

He got up and began to walk away.

The tiger lay on its side, looking in Xu Yang’s direction.

It made no other movement.

Without any display of appeasement or submission, it remained itself, a solitary predator, the king of the forest.

As he walked, Xu Yang thought of the little leopard.

The little leopard was adorable but had a completely different temperament from the tiger.

Not only was it clingy, but it constantly demanded cuddles and refused to walk by itself.

It didn’t act like a big cat at all.

When Xu Yang rushed through the mountain, it became his little shadow, following him everywhere.

However, Xu Yang liked it just the way it was, cute and lovable.

The drone captured footage of the tiger.

[Old Xu, the tiger is watching you!]

[Tiger: Leave quickly before I get hungry!]

[I sense a killing intent!]

Everyone chimed in with warnings.

Yet Xu Yang replied, "Don’t worry, this fellow doesn’t have much malice towards me."

"If I have time, I’ll bring more milk bottles next time just to feed it,"

"I only brought two bottles of milk this time, intending to feed the little sika deer and the roe deer. There are lots of little roe deer in these woods, they come running when called,"

"Didn’t expect the two bottles of milk would come in handy here."

The netizens finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The personality of a grown tiger is still mostly aloof.

In zoos as well, young tigers are silly and adorable, but they become cooler once they grow up.

Grown tigers who maintain their cuteness are rare.

Noticing a variety of vegetation in this area, Xu Yang decided to use the Treasure Compass to search for treasures in the mountain.

Pick up anything good along the way.

Like mushrooms, Lingzhi, medicinal herbs, and so on.

Generally speaking, stumbling upon a spot in the mountain with goods is enough work for the whole day.

Xu Yang found several such spots but couldn’t take anything with him, so he had to leave them be.

Since he was venturing into the deep mountain, he was surely hoping to find something more valuable.

Mainly ginseng.

There tends to be more ginseng in the deeper parts of the mountain.

Wild Ginseng is what Changbai Mountain is most famous for, and Xu Yang had come for it this time.

He walked, stopping now and then.

Moving through the thick forest.

He had used the Treasure Compass twice yesterday and it had recharged once today, so there were still four uses left.

The results of the four treasure hunts were fairly good.

He found a piece of Wild Ginseng with sixth-grade leaves, seventy to eighty years old, but there were no other ginsengs nearby, puzzling him how it managed to take root and grow there.

With this piece of Wild Ginseng, his trip to the mountain had more than paid for itself; in fact, it was a big profit!

Apart from that, there were protected trees he couldn’t pick.

On his last compass use, he found a meteorite about the size of a tennis ball.

The system alerted that the meteorite had a slight radioactivity, causing minor harm to the body if in prolonged contact, but the impact was not significant.

According to national regulations, meteorites of scientific value belong to the state, also to aid the development of the aerospace industry.

To Xu Yang, this meteorite was of no use.

Nor could he sell it.

However, Xu Yang decided to take it regardless, partly to have something interesting for the live stream and create some buzz, and partly with the intention of turning it over to the local police at the town station, letting someone else get the credit for it.

After all, the farm dealt with the police station quite often.

The buzz from his mountain-rushing adventure had died down a bit, but there were still many viewers.

Once he had used up all his Treasure Compass uses, Xu Yang planned to check on the Northeast Tiger again.

The tiger didn’t patrol the mountain very quickly; after eating, it would just lie down to rest, and at that moment, it was still lying there.

Like a boss.

After all, it was in its own territory, having carved out such a vast domain, why not enjoy it?