CHAPTER 613: CHAPTER 515: XIMEI AND LITTLE CUB, CHILDHOOD SWEETHEARTS (PART 2)

Are you an idiot? Huh? Are you a stupid bear? You’re a male bear, I’m a female tiger, how can I drink your milk?

Feeling humiliated, Ximei finally couldn’t help but unleash her ancient path and pounce towards the panda cub.

A lump of black and white tangled with a lump of gold and yellow, like a deep-fried dough ball coated with breadcrumbs, bitten to reveal the sticky rice and sesame filling.

Mama Panda also sensed the approach of the little male tiger, but simultaneously, there was a strange yet somewhat indescribably familiar scent also coming closer.

Following were the Little Cub and Little Brain Tiger.

Behind them were Leopard Sister and Er Niu.

When your own kids come to play, it’s customary to say hello to the other parents. Plus, since Jiaojiao and Great Bai are also coming back, as the head of the Beast Circle at the Jiamu Gully First Aid Station, Leopard Sister needed to inform the familiar beasts, otherwise, if they start fighting, it would be up to them to intervene, and in serious cases, they’d have to trouble the two-legged beast.

Usually, it’s no big deal, but at a crucial time before the Little Cub’s surgery, Leopard Sister didn’t want any inexplicably injured animals occupying the already scarce rest time of the two-legged beasts.

The three adult beasts didn’t get too close, after a greeting from a safe distance, Leopard Sister led Er Niu to find a place to lie down and rest.

Er Niu was more worried about her own child, it’s just regained a bit of health, and can’t afford any more accidental injuries.

Adult female beasts are actually quite chatty too, with nothing else to do, exchanging some gossip about the hills is a form of entertainment.

Mama Panda, while eating bamboo, chatted with them about the gossip from her old place, sparking Er Niu’s curiosity on one topic.

"Are you saying my baby’s scent is a bit like one you’ve smelled before?"

"Moumou, yes, that big guy’s fur looks a lot like yours, only darker, much bigger in build. It’s quite old now, used to be fierce, but not anymore. When I was young, it was the lord of that area, and after I had several litters of cubs, it was still the lord of that area."

"But this year, I don’t think it’ll make it, it’s too old now, and its teeth aren’t good. When I came here, it seemed to be following me over. No idea where it ended up, I haven’t seen it in months."

Er Niu hesitated for a moment, then stood up wanting to say something, but Leopard Sister beat her to it, "You stay here and watch the Little Cub, I’ll go find the two-legged beast."

Leopard Sister moved so quickly that Mama Panda didn’t even have time to react before her shadow disappeared.

"Moumou, is there a problem?"

"No, it’s just that the two-legged beast is very interested in such beasts, that’s why she hurried to inform them."

"Oh, okay then." Mama Panda felt a bit tired from talking so much, and a bit hungry, so she continued eating while nodding off, still keeping an eye on her own cub’s safety.

Although the cubs are safe in this area, they have no sense of boundaries themselves, especially cubs of different species, who can easily injure each other during rough play.

But the roughhousing among cubs also helps train their hunting abilities, fortunately, these are all more dominant species, whereas if it were a small cat cub, it might end up being found only in a stomach if not closely watched.

The little male tiger led the Little Cub into the cave, saw Ximei wrestling with the panda cub, roared, and rushed over, successfully landing on top of Ximei.

The Little Cub’s pupils dilated, this game, can’t play it, simply can’t play it.

The Little Cub crept to a more interior spot along the cave wall, looked at the panda cub equally bewildered by the male tiger’s surprise attack, and quietly asked if it wanted to crouch together.

The panda cub, already tired from playing, withdrew from the battlefield and came to the Little Cub’s side, immediately smelling a delicious milk scent.

This little thing was quite the foodie, upon smelling milk, the whole bear fluffed up, nudging the Little Cub trying to get at the milk it thought was there, though the Little Cub had nothing of the sort. After being nudged around a couple of times, it couldn’t take it anymore, running out of the cave back to its mother.

"Aw, their brains..."

The Little Cub hadn’t finished speaking when it saw the Mama Panda beside it, getting spooked and darting into its mother’s embrace, then protruding its cat head out again.

"Is this your child? Just born? So small. Needs to drink more milk to grow well, just like my cub, eating and sleeping well, growing fast, will surely be as big as its dad in the future."

Er Niu originally didn’t want to fall behind by saying the Little Cub’s dad was also a big one, but she thought better of it, hoping now only that the Little Cub can smoothly get through this ordeal and grow up steadily, whether it becomes a dominator of an area or not doesn’t really matter.

After the Little Cub came out, the panda cub also rolled out, finding its mother to eat.

And in the cave, the two tiger cubs were close to truly fighting.

Of course, it was one-sided anger. Ximei thought this brother’s brain might be full of muscles, clearly here to fight the black and white panda, but now the panda was off nursing with its mom, leaving just this silly brother messing around with her, intolerable.

Er Niu, although she hadn’t met Little Brain Tiger, was a good-natured mother, seeing Ximei struggling angrily and trying to crawl out from under her brother’s claws, quickly went over to drag the little male tiger away.

This cave belonged to the panda mother and son; it was best not to stay too long and leave their scent.

Ximei puffed up her face, her fur all bristled, angrily running home to complain, wanting her mom to just throw her brother out.

The Little Cub saw Ximei’s face front on, suddenly popped out, then followed her for a bit.

"Why are you following me?" Though Ximei was fighting the panda cub at the time, she had noticed this guy come in with her brother, hmph, males are not good beasts!

The Little Cub quietly explained that it had been tricked by the little male tiger, "I thought you guys were playing some new game, I’ve never played it before, didn’t dare join in."

Ximei glanced at the Little Cub, saw the earnest yet a bit cautious little face, snorted through her nose, turned her head and continued running, though a bit slower this time.

"Hey, where are you from, why haven’t I seen you before?"

"I, I just came here, wasn’t here before." The Little Cub’s physical condition was still too weak, walking and talking evidently left it a bit breathless.

Ximei stopped to look at it, after a while, jumped onto a fallen tree stump.

"I’m tired, want to rest for a while." It lay down, resting its small face on its two big paws, unblinkingly watching the Little Cub, "You"

"Was the place you lived before fun?"

"I, I don’t know, my health was poor, never went out to play. But my brothers and sisters are great, they surely know where’s fun."

Ximei murmured, feeling the Little Cub had rested enough, jumped off the stump, ready to lead it back to the first-aid station.

It was a clever little tiger cub, guessed that this strange little friend was surely from the magical place its mom mentioned. Brother often went there for a wander, but it hadn’t been even once, now it finally had an excuse to go see.

Following behind them, Er Niu glanced at the dejected little male tiger, then at the methodically acting Ximei, suddenly felt the strange realization that males were indeed unreliable.

Ximei brought the Little Cub back to the first-aid station quickly, it was about to have a random look and leave when it spotted the large natural cat climbing frame built especially for the tiger cubs at the station.

As a genuine feline, it couldn’t resist the allure of the cat climbing frame.

Ximei maneuvered her short legs to the slope, glanced to the left and right, saw no other adult beasts or two-legged beasts around, just the Little Cub she brought with her, and a bit further away, that adult beast with the same coat color as the Little Cub.

Ximei’s four paws seemed to have their own will, irresistibly charging up the slope, turning on the mid-platform, then leaping to the second-tier shelf a meter away.