The small courtyard.
Ren Li carefully examined it again, then nodded solemnly.
"It's definitely a cub. It's in a period of rapid growth, so it needs to eat frequently."
"What exactly happened?"
Seeing that he had already worked out the general course of events, Du En asked directly.
"It came over during last year's typhoon season. The mother leopard was probably pregnant and about to give birth. To ensure she could deliver safely, she ate corpses first, then began hunting on her own."
"Those few foremen once joined forces to defeat and injure the mother leopard. That clearly disrupted its hunting process. Now that it has given birth, the strain must have made its injuries even worse. As a First-tier Perfection beast, it was severely wounded by Shi Lei's desperate counterattack while hunting him. In the end, it failed to eat his heart and liver and fled with its tail between its legs."
"That meant it could no longer care for these newborn cubs, so they naturally had to come out and hunt for themselves. In other words, your luck was pretty good. After breaking through, you only encountered such tender, newly born cubs."
Listening to Ren Li's explanation, Du En nodded slightly. Without giving him a chance to change the subject, he spoke on his own. "But if that's the case, I'll probably be targeted by the mother leopard?"
"Mm, exactly. It might even have spotted you from a distance on your way back and committed you firmly to memory!"
Ren Li voiced his speculation, but Du En didn't think so.
Because on the way back, he hadn't sensed any such spying.
It was only a First-tier Perfection demon beast, and it had suffered repeated injuries. There was no way it could hide from Du En now.
Conversely, its