Chapter 66

It grabbed a handful of corn kernels and ran off to join the other dogs.

No wonder it was acting so suspiciously yesterday!

Shi Wen in amazement, "It's incredibly brave!"

Yan Kexing pointed to the screen. "Heiwa also has something in his mouth."

"Heiwa's mouth has this—" Shi Wen a screenshot, then zoomed in, "Their breakfast meat! Wait, the Hu Zai are also carrying meat in their mouths!"

Yan Kexing confirmed, "Yes."

"I'm a little confused. Why are they carrying so much food out? Are they keeping other small animals outside behind my back?" A bizarre thought popped into Shi Wen's mind, "Could they be keeping pets?"

Yan Kexing: "If it were a regular dog, I'm sure they wouldn't have the concept of a pet, Heiwa and the others might not."

Both of them felt that things were developing in a completely unexpected direction.

Shi Wen manually fast-forward, quickly moving the video content forward.

The next part describes them carrying food and making their way, but there's not much focus on that.

The Shi Wen immediately switched to live feed.

In the real-time monitoring footage, they are still moving forward.

Based on the footage, Shi Wen determined their current location. "They should be on the north side of the ranch now; they seem to be running towards the outside of the barbed wire fence."

"It's not just a 'seems'; they're definitely heading outwards." Yan Kexing opened the ranch map. "Look, their path is very clear; they're going to run out from here."

Shi Wen looked at the map and said, "It really is."

The little ones ran for a few more minutes and reached the edge of the barbed wire fence.

Then, the little guys started jumping in place. Two Hu Zai jumped over the barbed wire fence, which was more than two meters high. The other dogs and the Wolf King took a running start and pushed off the barbed wire fence with that little bit of help to climb over it.

Shi Wen, "No wonder they wouldn't take the Langwa with them; the Langwa definitely couldn't jump that height."

Yan Kexing: "Cong Zai isn't here either. They went to a far place, Cong Zai doesn't have enough stamina."

Shi Wen, "It's unbelievable. What are they trying to do?"

"We'll know soon enough; their destination should be further north," Shi Wen, looking at the map. "They're almost at the foot of the mountain."

Shi Wen still has absolutely no idea what the little ones are up to.

The two could only sit in front of the computer screen and watch the video intently.

The dogs kept running, and you could hear the whooshing wind and their heavy breathing in the video.

After running for quite a distance, Heiwa barked once.

The dogs stopped and began to walk slowly forward.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing showed no signs of anything amiss in the video until they walked to a dark burrow and placed what they were carrying on the soil in front of it.

Shi Wen, "Why is this behavior so strange? Are the small animals they're raising inside the burrow?"

Yan Kexing pondered for a moment and said, "I think they might not be looking to keep small animals, but rather to hunt."

"Hunting?" Shi Wen looked at the video footage. "If it's hunting, they're doing this—putting food at the entrance of the burrow to lure the prey out."

Shi Wen exclaimed incredulously, "That movement looks just like fishing! Are they really that smart?!"

Yan Kexing: "Perhaps it really is true. Wolves are so cunning, the Wolf King may have done similar things quite a few times when it was in the wild."

Shi Wen didn't know what to say.

He watched as the little ones placed food at the entrance of the hole, not in the way of piling it all up, but by first putting the corn kernels inside, then arranging them in a line, with one end of the line connected to the entrance and the other end containing the meat that Heiwa and the Hu Zai were carrying.

The food they brought was not much; it was definitely not enough for the small animals inside the cave to eat their fill at the cave entrance.

If the small animals want to eat more, they must walk out step by step along the direction of the corn kernels to eat, so that when the dogs suddenly pounce, they won't have time to go back to their burrows to hide.

This is a textbook example of a trap!

All they did combined the cunning of wild animals with the intelligence of domesticated animals.

Shi Wen was speechless Shi Wen saw them working together.

Yan Kexing observed, recorded, and analyzed their situations.

After placing the bait, the group of little creatures slowly retreated into the withered grass, where they lay down to let the grass conceal their bodies.

Then they remained still and silent, patiently waiting in the withered grass.

Waiting for the prey to appear.

Chapter 66

The Wolf King, Hu Zai, and dogs waited outside the cave entrance, Shi Wen and Yan Kexing waited in front of the screen.

Time seemed to stand still.

The dark cave entrance remained completely silent, making Shi Wen wonder if there were really any animals inside.

He said to Yan Kexing, "What do you think is inside the cave? Or is there nothing at all?"

Yan Kexing stared at the screen. "Probably not. They're waiting outside the cave entrance, so they must know there are animals inside, otherwise they wouldn't be behaving this way. As for what's inside the cave, it's too hard to guess."

Shi Wen carefully observed the hole. "This hole should be a marmot's burrow. Look at its size and shape, it's clearly a marmot's burrow."

Having lived on the ranch for a long time and seen many marmot burrows, he is now quite experienced.

Yan Kexing agreed, "It is indeed a marmot burrow, but the animals inside may not be marmots. Wild animals like foxes often eat marmots and then take over their burrows."

Shi Wen sighed, "It's truly a case of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."

If Shi Wen were to go and observe in person, he might be able to figure out what the small animals in the cave actually are.

Now, separated by a screen, he can neither see the paw prints or fur of the small animals inside the cave, nor smell their scent. Even with Qilin Bloodline, he couldn't guess what was inside.

However, he had a feeling that the small animals inside wouldn't be too small, at least not pikas. Pikas wouldn't even be enough to fill these guys' teeth, and they wouldn't all appear here at once.