It added with excitement bordering on anger, "Before all this, I ate well and slept well. I'd lived around here for five or six years, and life was peaceful enough. It wasn't as carefree as the lives of some ambitious Elemental Beasts, but people differ from one another, and beasts are no different. Whatever suits you is best."
"But that brat's constant divinations have let those damned hunters catch more and more prey. The rabbits, pheasants, turtledoves, frogs... everything on my menu has become harder to find, at least around my home. Sometimes I go days without getting a scrap of meat and have to make do with gnawing on bark. I may be a little omnivore, but even I'll waste away if all I eat is bark and grass. At this rate, I won't die of old age. I'll die of sickness, starvation, or malnutrition."
Hearing this, Zeng Mu instinctively asked, "Then why not move? Move somewhere the hunters don't visit so often. There's plenty of food in those forests."
"Move? Six-Eyed Raccoons don't move lightly. Absolutely not. We have our principles. Want to hear them?"
Zeng Mu nodded, looking eager to learn, and the Six-Eyed Raccoon began, "They say that long, long ago, our ancestors were friends with hunters. The closest kind of friends, like hunting dogs and hunters today. That was the relationship our ancestors had with hunters in ancient times. Neither side was particularly powerful back then, so they needed to help each other survive."
"That sounds pretty good. So something like that actually happened?" Zeng Mu was surprised. It was his first time hearing such a story. The thought of Six-Eyed Raccoons going hunting alongside hunters suddenly struck him as rather funny, but fortunately, he managed not to smile in front of it. Otherwise, he