CHAPTER 444: CHAPTER 413: INTERNAL CONFLICTS

Mountain Eagle saw an irregularly shaped triangular valley, covering an area of about 15 square kilometers, lush with greenery.

The valley was home to hundreds of Reindeer, as well as dozens of stand-out Moose, and even more artificially bred Angus Cattle and over a hundred sheep.

At the first light of dawn, the valley was filled with the sound of barking dogs...

Dozens of Shepherd Dogs suddenly appeared from nowhere, starting to herd the animals for their collective migration.

Crow followed the migrating animals, quickly discovering that the vanguard turned an S-shaped bend through a valley passageway from the Northeast direction, moving into an even larger U-shaped valley.

The valley’s north end had a huge opening, through which the chilly winter winds could easily enter and gather the cold air to create a frightful low temperature.

But in the summer, as temperatures rise and the snow melts, vibrant vegetation wildly thrives, providing ample food for these animals.

Mountain Eagle hadn’t expected that the people in the mountains were executing a strategy of sustainable development...

During the day, the animals would graze in the larger outer valley, and at night, they’d rest in the inner valley, where the surrounding mountains provided a barrier against the cold winds, and with enough fodder, the animals could survive the winter.

Those intelligent-looking Shepherd Dogs had taken the Cowboy’s place!

The persons in charge merely needed to provide them with sufficient food on time and let them work daily according to their behavioral instincts to maintain a remarkably harmonious and ecological grazing system.

Of course, the Shepherd Dogs surely couldn’t solve overly complex problems, but seeing how these people had domesticated the large numbers of wild Reindeer, they probably didn’t care about the loss of one or two animals...

In Alaska, the labor-saving benefit far outweighed the value of one or two animals!

If it were simply grazing, Mountain Eagle actually quite appreciated this method, they certainly maximized the use of canine animals.

But those giant wolves made Mountain Eagle realize that these people wouldn’t just settle for better grazing practices, and not even just for modifying and controlling animals...

Because if the subjects of the experiment were just animals, even protected wildlife...

Given Victor Company’s senatorial backing, as long as it wasn’t held in New York or Washington, they could likely cover it all, with no need to come to a remote place with extreme weather like Alaska.

The cost of operating a laboratory here was horrific!

Mountain Eagle scouted the general structure of the valley and, while it was still not fully light, he climbed up the side of a hill from the valley path, found a huge boulder about 200 meters from the valley, and under the boulder’s shadow, he erected a camouflaged net before setting up a military observation telescope.

He was not here to go to war with the people inside, but to spy!

The people in the valley didn’t keep Mountain Eagle waiting for too long, and as the sun dispersed the thick fog in the valley, signs of human activity finally appeared.

Mountain Eagle didn’t see where they had come from, but this indirectly confirmed some of his guesses, namely that there was a huge cavity inside the mountain beneath his feet, and the laboratory was likely set inside the mountain.

Dozens of quad bikes appeared in a clearing within the valley, pulling many metal cages.

Following their movements, Mountain Eagle then saw a training ground in the southwest of the valley, which was diagonally below him.

Those quad bikes pulled dozens of wheeled cages to the side of the training ground, then a group of people in protective suits wielding long-handled electric prods appeared around the training ground.

Then a group of soldiers in combat uniforms jogged to the front of those cages...

These soldiers were clearly organized into squads, some of whom released a dozen or so young wolves from a few cages, while the others collected their assigned animals from other cages.

These were not just wolves, but also included Brown Bears, Leopards, Tigers, Cougars, Lynx...

These soldiers, or rather Beast Tamers, carried a device similar to a walkie-talkie, leading those seemingly obedient animals around the perimeter of the training ground to begin their daily training.

Mountain Eagle couldn’t tell with the juvenile wolves, but these clearly adult animals had one thing in common: the muscles on their chests and shoulders were exceptionally developed...

One Siberian Tiger’s exaggerated muscles and lines even made Mountain Eagle feel a sense of unreality.

Mountain Eagle had seen adult Northeast Tigers in zoos and even took pictures beside their cages, but the Northeast Tiger he saw now was two sizes larger than those he’d seen in zoos.

The exaggerated muscles rising on its shoulders, combined with the body structure of felines, made it look exceptionally powerful and monstrous as it moved.

That creature should only exist in myths, yet here it was, present in Alaska; and what was more outrageous was that such a monstrous beast was tamed.

In response to the Beast Tamer’s verbal commands and hand signals, this Siberian Tiger lay down or stood up like a Hound, and whenever it showed any impatience or resistance, several electric prods would quickly stab at it, while the accompanying punitive neurological pain would cause it to be in anguish...