"Our correspondent reports: yesterday, a tiger and an ape injured visitors and escaped from Qingshan Zoo in the Imperial Capital. Experts believe these two animals may head into the mountains and forests. Residents of the Imperial Capital are advised not to go out over the next few days..."
Imperial Capital.
Nanhai Mountain.
A young woman hiked through the mountain forest, talking and laughing.
She held a selfie stick with a phone mounted on it, and a microphone was clipped to the collar of her clothes.
She was livestreaming.
The young woman's name was Li Yanran.
She was a student at Imperial Capital University.
She was also the university's acknowledged campus beauty.
What was more, she was a video creator with ten million followers on Douyin.
She smiled sweetly at the camera.
"Guys, I promised I'd take you to see Nanhai Lake, and this time, I'm keeping my word."
"Wow, Yanran's really going! Awesome!"
"Enough said. Sending a Dream Castle right now!"
"You've got guts, streamer. Didn't you see the Imperial Capital news this morning?"
"Take it easy, streamer. If you run into those vicious animals that escaped from the zoo, you're done for."
"There have been more and more animal attacks lately. You'd better be careful."
"Heh, you're worried about this woman? You must be new followers. She might look gentle, but she's actually a tigress. And you're worried about her?"
"..."
Some viewers warned Li Yanran in the scrolling comments.
Reading them, Li Yanran felt a little worried too.
But thinking it over, she had always been lucky since childhood.
Surely she wouldn't be unlucky enough to run into those two animals that had fought their way out of the zoo.
Li Yanran smiled and said, "I've always been lucky, so don't worry. Even if I really run into that escaped tiger, I can take it down with a single sliding tackle!"
"Hahaha, are you talking out of your ass?"
"Tiger: thanks for nature's bounty!"
"Ape: let's see you try that sliding tackle on me?"
"You? I think you've lost your little mind."
"I believe in her. She can definitely kill a tiger with a sliding tackle!"
"..."
The scrolling comments mocked Li Yanran.
Li Yanran smiled and continued up the mountain.
There was a natural lake on Nanhai Mountain called Nanhai Lake.
That was Li Yanran's destination this time.
An hour later.
Li Yanran made her way through the forest, panting.
She stopped and leaned against a tree.
"Huff, huff, huff."
"Guys, can you see it? That shimmering lake up ahead is Nanhai Lake. We're almost at our destination!"
Li Yanran pointed at the lake a short distance ahead and spoke between breaths.
Climbing a mountain really was exhausting.
"Yanran, look ahead! What's that?"
"Look, streamer! It looks like a pretty girl!"
"Wow, go over there! I want to see what she looks like!"
"Ooh, look at that long hair blowing in the wind. She must be gorgeous."
"Why do I feel like that's a guy..."
"..."
Li Yanran froze for a moment as she read the comments.
Someone's there?
But I didn't see anyone just now.
She looked ahead.
There was indeed a tall, straight-backed figure beside Nanhai Lake.
But she couldn't see very clearly.
She swiped the screen to zoom in, finally getting a look at that tall figure. Still, he was a little too far away, and she could only vaguely make out his tight black combat outfit and the overlapping red armor he wore over it.
His long hair flowed in the wind. From a distance, he looked like a general who had stepped out of ancient times.
That's obviously a man, okay? And a historical costume enthusiast at that... Li Yanran grumbled to herself.
But she seemed to think of something.
Li Yanran switched the camera to selfie mode.
"Guys, change of plans. Today, I'm going to show you my charm! I'll go straight over and get his WeChat in under a minute!"
"Huh?" Li Yanran realized something was wrong.
Because the comments all seemed to be telling her to run?
"Run, streamer! There's a tiger behind you!"
"Run!"
"Is she going to show us that sliding tackle?"
"Get out of there!!"
"Don't run or walk away now. Just lie down and play dead."
"Tiger: oh, today's food is lying down on the plate all by itself."
"..."
Li Yanran's heart jolted, and she forced herself to turn around.
An imposing tiger stood there, powerful and tall, its beautiful coat orange-yellow all over, staring at her hungrily.
Its sharp claws left scratches in the ground, as though it was preparing to pounce straight at Li Yanran like a starving tiger lunging for prey.
"Roar!"
The tiger suddenly let out a mighty roar.
Like rolling thunder, that deafening roar terrified Li Yanran so much that she unwittingly collapsed to the ground.
Her whole body trembled. She wanted to stand and run, but her body was weak and completely beyond her control. Was this the legendary overwhelming might of a tiger?
It truly left her in despair!
At the same time, Li Yanran was filled with regret.
If I'd known, I wouldn't have come here.
I should have left immediately when the viewers warned me... Now it's too late to say anything.
It had to be said that tigers truly deserved their place among the world's greatest predators.
Once they discovered their prey could no longer resist, they seized the opportunity and struck!
Seeing Li Yanran collapse, the tiger pushed off hard with all four limbs, bared its fangs, and lunged at her!
At the sight, Li Yanran's beautiful eyes filled with despair. Trembling, she squeezed her eyes shut.
It's over. I'm going to die just like this... I can't accept this!
But in the next second, she felt no pain.
She opened her eyes and saw a tall, straight-backed man standing in front of her, his black hair flowing.
The enormous tiger had been seized tightly by the throat and lifted bodily into the air by the man in red armor before her.
Li Yanran covered her little mouth in shock, her beautiful eyes filled with astonishment.
This man subdued a tiger in one move, seizing it by the throat and lifting it up! Like grabbing a chick! My god, is he even human?
The livestream chat was stunned.
"What am I seeing? A man lifting a tiger with one hand! This has to be fake..."
"That can't be a fake tiger, can it..."
"Is he even human?"
"Whoa! Could he be from one of those legendary ancient martial arts families?"
"Holy shit, subduing a tiger with one hand! You're even more badass than Wu Song!"
"..."
The tiger kept trembling and trying to resist, but nothing worked. The man's hand was like a steel vise. Even with all its strength, the tiger still couldn't break free.
"Is this all the strength you have? How boring."
Shen Fei coldly watched the tiger he held aloft. The fighting spirit that had filled his red eyes slowly faded.
A tiger? The king of beasts? Nothing more than this.
Suddenly, the tiger's body began to change. White light enveloped it, and its aura kept rising.
Fierce fighting spirit blazed once more in Shen Fei's eyes, where it had faded a moment before.
"Oh? Now this is interesting."
With a flick of his hand, Shen Fei tossed the tiger into the distance like a piece of trash.
He let the tiger evolve.
(This is a Madara Uchiha roleplay novel. The personality and behavior will be kept as close to Madara Uchiha's as possible.)
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