If Only It Tasted Like Barbecue

The movements etched deep into his genes came instinctively, without Xu Yang needing to think.

His nostrils flared lightly, and the pads of his paws carefully brushed across the gravel, afraid of making even the slightest sound that did not belong in the surroundings.

"It's a deer."

Thanks to the wolves' natural advantage in vision, Xu Yang clearly saw the creature in the darkness.

A deer lowered its head and cautiously nibbled at the mossy grass on the ground. It was not small; standing upright on all four legs, it was at least 1.4 meters tall.

A faint deer scent drifted over from upwind.

"I'm so hungry..." Xu Yang felt his abdomen cramp. His stomach was protesting!

He missed his old days so much, when all he had to do was move a finger and someone would deliver takeout to him... Uh, though he had been the one delivering takeout.

But at least the human world had order and money. Even if you became a Sanhe loafer, you would not starve to death. But now that he had transmigrated into a wolf, if he did not hunt, he really would die!

Perhaps the hungrier he became, the more distractions filled his mind. Xu Yang found himself reminiscing about the past again.

Crack.

The sound of a dead branch snapping.

The Wild Deer that had been feeding with its head lowered immediately became alert. Its head constantly turned atop its upright body, while its two ears keenly received information from the surrounding environment.

Xu Yang was startled by the sound as well. He instinctively lowered himself to the ground, terrified that the Wild Deer would discover him.

He had finally come across prey. If it ran away, he would have to go hungry...

A full two minutes passed before the Wild Deer relaxed its guard. Perhaps the dead branch had broken on its own, and there was no predator nearby.

Phew~~

Xu Yang breathed a sigh of relief as well. He became even more cautious, throwing all distractions to the back of his mind. His Eyes held only the Wild Deer fifty meters away.

Wolves were iron, meat was steel; skip one meal and hunger would hit hard.

He cautiously approached, Xu Yang nearly pressing his belly against the damp soil.

Forty meters.

Thirty meters.

Twenty meters.

"Rustle—"

The Wild Deer seemed to sense something. Perhaps it was an instinctive intuition honed In the dark; without needing to see anything with its own Eyes, the Wild Deer began to grow restless. Its four hard hooves struck the soft black earth, producing dull echoes.

Looking at the large, delicious patch of mossy grass before it, the Wild Deer hesitated. It was unsure whether it should leave first.

Meanwhile, Xu Yang buried himself in the weeds, barely daring to breathe. His eyelids drooped halfway, only to conceal his ghostfire-like green pupils.

"Deer calls~~~~"

A deer's cry drifted over from afar. The herd was calling for this solitary companion.

"Damn it!"

He could not wait any longer. Even though it was his first time being a wolf, Xu Yang knew how lucky he was to encounter a lone Wild Deer like this!

Whenever he watched Animal World, the deer herds always had sentries while feeding. How could they possibly allow a hunter to approach within twenty meters?

"Rustle, rustle, rustle~~~"

Xu Yang sprang into action, bending his hind legs before forcefully kicking off the ground and propelling himself forward. At the same time, his front paws stretched forward with all their might. The sharp claws on the third joints curled inward, his paw pads touched the ground, and he rebounded forward even faster.

Like a gust of wind, his wolf fur rubbed against the weeds with a rustling sound.

"Deer! Deer!"

The Wild Deer had already been half on guard. The moment Xu Yang charged out, it let out a frantic cry. The sound was sharp and trembling, echoing through the silent forest and sounding especially piercing.

Almost at the same instant, the Wild Deer's limbs suddenly exerted force. Its body sprang up like a coiled spring and raced wildly toward the depths of the forest. Its hooves left deep prints in the ground, Every step urgent and powerful. Driven by the instinct to survive, the Wild Deer displayed astonishing speed and agility, Attempting to escape this sudden danger.

"You're afraid I'll kill you. I'm afraid I'll starve to death..."

A distance of twenty meters vanished in an instant for Xu Yang, who could reach sixty kilometers per hour. His front paws had barely touched the ground before his hind paws propelled his body forward again.

Without realizing it, Xu Yang's tail tilted slightly upward, helping him maintain his balance.

"Deer! Deer!"

Perhaps driven by the power of hunger, Xu Yang was actually a little faster than the Wild Deer. The distance between them visibly closed to the Naked eye.

Splash!

The Wild Deer's hoof heavily stepped into a puddle of standing water, splashing muddy water everywhere.

Xu Yang neither dodged nor avoided it. He narrowed his eyes slightly to keep the muddy water out and darted straight through after it.

Though he had become a "drenched wolf," the green light in Xu Yang's Eyes flared brightly.

Just a little more, just a little more! He was about to touch the Wild Deer's butt!

Screech—

When it rained, it poured. In its panic, the Wild Deer failed to find its footing and stepped onto slippery moss... then slipped.

Roar!

Xu Yang was overjoyed. With a flying pounce, the claws on the third joints of his two front paws shot out and viciously hooked into the Wild Deer's body.

He had it pinned!

Like a koala, Xu Yang clung to the stumbling Wild Deer with his sharp claws, using his own weight to wrench it down.

Boom!

The Wild Deer crashed unwillingly to the ground. In its instinctive desire to survive, it Burst forth with violent struggles, but Xu Yang's sharp claws were embedded deep in its body like steel nails.

Pain and fear drove the Wild Deer to Burst forth with all its strength, struggling madly.

Xu Yang could only roll along with the Wild Deer, the wounds on his body scraping against gravel and aching again.

The pain made him bare his teeth.

Why was getting a meal so damn hard...

Perhaps the Wild Deer's prolonged struggle triggered this body's instincts once more. Xu Yang suddenly found the neck beneath the Wild Deer's mournfully crying head so enticing... It looked like a soft, delicious tiramisu cheesecake, making him swallow involuntarily.

"This... looks delicious."

Hunger drove Xu Yang to bite down without hesitation.

Rip!

It sounded like a sharp blade slicing through rotten leather. Then, like a tomato bursting, thick liquid poured down Xu Yang's throat and into his stomach.

Ding! A very faint notification sounded.

Resource +1

Gulp, gulp...

Xu Yang was too hungry to hear it at all.

"Delicious, truly delicious..." Xu Yang forgot himself as he sucked greedily and viciously.

Slowly, slowly, the Wild Deer beneath Xu Yang stopped struggling. The temperature of its Body surface rapidly fell as well, leaving only the residual warmth of a corpse.

"Roar, roar~~"

About ten minutes later, a slight sense of fullness rose from Xu Yang's belly, finally pulling him out of his absorbed state of enjoying the delicacy.

Roar!

Only after filling his stomach a little did Xu Yang feel slightly Shocked... Just now... had he directly bitten a deer to death? And enjoyed drinking its blood?

His long life as a human in his previous life made Xu Yang somewhat uncomfortable psychologically. Physically, however, he felt no discomfort whatsoever. Perhaps it was because he had taken over this wild wolf's body.

Eating raw meat and drinking blood had been the way of nature since ancient times.

Just as his moral conditioning was about to pull Xu Yang into a vicious cycle of "reflection and self-blame," he quickly slapped himself across the face.

Damn it, he had been reborn as a wolf already. Why the hell was he still following that crap?

I'm going to eat meat by the mouthful and drink wine by the mouthful—uh, no, drink blood...

With savage force, Xu Yang's sharp canine teeth tore open the Wild Deer's hide, exposing the fresh Flesh and blood inside.

Smack, smack.

Salty and moist. As for any gamey taste, he did not notice one...

It was unexpectedly delicious. Ahem, it would have been even better if it tasted like barbecue.

That was what Xu Yang thought.