Deanna

The light glowed a faint red.

Wolf eyes were highly sensitive to light in the dark.

Even the faintest light would catch their attention.

Su Lin moved carefully,

and after circling around several bushes, he finally saw what was emitting that weak flicker.

"An infrared camera?"

Su Lin discovered that it was an infrared camera used for filming.

Presumably,

every animal on the Arctic Continent would keep its distance from such an unidentified flying object.

But Su Lin did not.

He examined it carefully and found that the infrared camera was drone-mounted.

It was not particularly high-tech.

He had used one himself while exploring in his previous life.

This kind of camera could be remotely controlled to fly from afar.

It seemed that even in the Arctic beneath the polar night, there were still people willing to take risks to document the habits of the Arctic Continent's animals.

Perhaps it was for academic purposes,

or perhaps it was for filming documentaries about wild animals.

After all, wildlife programs still had plenty of viewers.

But Su Lin had no fondness for this sort of camera.

He had set his sights on the grizzly bear. It was his prey.

Su Lin was less than twenty meters from the drone camera.

With a single burst of speed, he reached it in under a second.

Even if someone was controlling it from behind the scenes, they could react.

He leaped into the air, and his wolf claw slammed viciously into the camera.

"Bang!"

The camera was immediately knocked to the ground, its parts scattering everywhere.

Yet the camera still flashed with a faint red light.

Su Lin struck it twice more.

Its internal structure shattered from the impacts. The faint red light flickered twice, then went out.

After doing all of this, Su Lin turned and left, returning along the path he had taken.

Along the way, only the desolate silence of all things and the darkness kept him company.

Just as Su Lin was returning to the cave,

inside a grayish-white off-road vehicle two kilometers from the grizzly bear's cave,

Tiffany, with fair skin and rosy lips, stared at the pitch-black surveillance feed on her tablet, a frustrated expression appearing on her face.

"Oh my god! What was that white shadow just now?"

Tiffany spoke dejectedly.

She had come here, naturally, to film and document.

Since she wanted to publish footage of the unusual creatures of the Arctic Icefield and their activities beneath the polar night, she needed to record them.

Although she had not found the white wolf during this period,

she had discovered a grizzly bear that had just given birth.

Recording how a mother grizzly bear kept her cubs alive during the food-scarce polar night would also be quite worthwhile.

But unexpectedly, a white shadow had suddenly destroyed the drone camera.

It had moved too quickly. She had not captured what the white shadow was at all.

Could it have been a Snowy Owl? Tiffany wondered.

"Hmm? What's wrong, Tiffany?"

Her friend Deanna, who had been lying in the back seat catching up on sleep, opened her bleary eyes and asked sleepily.

Deanna and Tiffany were friends from the same school.

She also loved wild animals.

The polar night had arrived, and she had worried that Tiffany would be at risk filming here alone, so she had come along.

After arriving, she had fallen in love with this Arctic Continent.

Beneath the dim polar night, all things were silent.

They were like elves of the night, wandering the Arctic Continent and recording and filming every little detail of the animals' lives.

Here, she had seen adorable little Seals resting on the icy shore with their clumsy charm,

and witnessed the agility of the dominant polar bear as it entered the water to catch fish,

and witnessed the wisdom of the Arctic Wolf Pack as they cooperated to hunt.

Besides that,

she had heard Tiffany mention that there was also a lone white wolf in this area.

It was huge, with snow-white fur, extremely intelligent, and very bold. It dared to hunt large prey by itself.

Tiffany had even livestreamed a few times, and viewers in her stream had repeatedly brought up this white wolf.

This made Deanna incredibly curious.

What kind of white wolf could make online viewers so obsessed with it?

"Sweetheart, look. The drone camera was destroyed."

At that moment, Tiffany dejectedly handed her friend the tablet showing the surveillance footage.

"Oh! What happened?"

Deanna had just woken up and did not know what had happened.

Generally speaking, animals on the Arctic Continent would not casually touch unfamiliar objects.

Especially a drone camera that could fly and move.

"A white shadow. A white shadow moved so fast that it destroyed the drone camera."

Tiffany said.

"A white shadow? And it was fast? Could it have been a Snowy Owl?"

Deanna had the same reaction as Tiffany.

"I don't know!"

Tiffany spread her hands, looking both frustrated and helpless.

After discussing it, the two decided that since the drone camera had been destroyed, they should return and rest for a while, buy a new one, and come back to film again.

They would also buy a smaller drone, so they could fly it into the grizzly bear's cave and film the bear cubs.

Of course, they did not know that

when they returned to film, they might see only a few traces of blood left upon the icy snow.

In the pitch-black night, Su Lin returned to the cave.

He found that Cousin Sister was standing guard.

When she saw him return, she gave him two affectionate low howls.

"Awoo!"

Su Lin answered with a howl.

As for Wolf Sister, she was curled up against Cousin Sister, asleep.

The Gray-White Little Wolf was still using Little Gray as a pillow.

But the weather was frigid, and Little Gray could provide the Gray-White Little Wolf with some warmth this way.

After sweeping his gaze around the cave, Su Lin returned to his spot,

leaned against the cave's stone wall, and went to sleep.

He needed to conserve his energy over the next two days and bring his condition to its peak.

The night passed without incident.

The next day,

as soon as Su Lin woke up, he saw Little Gray crouching beside him. "Awoo! Awoo!"

Seeing that his boss had awakened, Little Gray howled excitedly.

He even stuck out his tongue and licked Su Lin's fur. "Smack!"

Su Lin immediately rewarded Little Gray with one claw.

Wolf Mom and Wolf Sister could not be refused, but that did not mean he accepted this sort of intimate gesture in his heart.

"Awoo!"

Little Gray did not feel wronged after being hit. Instead, he continued howling excitedly.

Because he felt that as long as his boss was still there,

and had not abandoned him, that was enough.

As for his boss disciplining a subordinate, he thought it was perfectly normal.

"Awoo!"

Su Lin stood up, stretched his wolf body, then gave a low howl and led Little Gray out of the cave to patrol nearby.

As the leader of the wolf pack, patrolling the territory was part of his daily routine.

Su Lin had also grown accustomed to it.

On the other hand, patrolling near the cave

would let him check whether any prey had accidentally wandered in.