Snowfield Shadow

There are surveillance cameras installed in every corner of the room. Considering the white wolf's overly vigilant mentality and the precedent of it destroying more than a dozen machines, these surveillance cameras are camouflaged and made harmless based on the smell of the white wolf, just to prevent this vigilant big guy from causing trouble again.

Everyone gathered behind the surveillance camera, carefully observing the white wolf's reaction after waking up.

The white wolf in the camera staggered a few steps, and finally looked around, but he froze in place, with vigilance and uneasiness written all over his body.

After a few breaths, it slowly lay down and hid its injured paw under its abdomen. Its amber eyes looked around calmly, ignoring the food bowl filled with fresh flesh and blood not far away. It was thinking about the dangers hidden in the environment.

“It’s really smart.”

I don’t know how many times someone has expressed this sentiment.

He overcame his instinct to resist the temptation of fresh flesh and blood, calmly observed the surrounding environment, and remained alert at all times. Even though he was injured, he did not fall behind... If the white wolf was still in the wolf pack, he would definitely be the wolf king.

During yesterday's treatment, researchers were able to obtain the white wolf's blood and hair, and the results showed that it was a young adult wolf, probably only about two years old.

A wolf cub is as big as an adult wolf after one year old, and officially becomes an adult at two years old, so it is difficult for humans to judge the age of a white wolf based on its size alone.

But just looking at the white wolf's skilled hunting skills in the wild, they thought it was at least a mature young wolf, but they didn't expect it to be so young.

Maybe it has been living alone in the wild for a long time.

"But you can't not eat."

After sighing, someone got anxious: "Is it not to its liking? It's been ten minutes, why doesn't it eat?"

"Is it too far away? Can it not get through?"

"It lay down and didn't move. If it wanted to eat, it would at least stand up and try, right?"

After a long discussion, Vanessa came to the conclusion: "It is alert to objects with human scent."

Everyone: ...

"Hasn't the smell of blood been so strong?"

"To be so alert...what on earth has it been through?"

"So what do we do now?"

Vanessa thought for a moment.

She did not want the white wolf to let down its guard against humans because of this rescue, nor did she want it to commit suicide due to excessive vigilance. How to lend a helping hand to this big guy as a human being was something that required careful consideration.

For the time being, let's use some roundabout solutions.

In the room, the white wolf lay there, motionless, with only the occasional twitching of its ears indicating that it was still alive.

Perhaps the smell of blood not far away was too attractive to the wolf, so it simply pulled out a paw and pressed it on its nose, then pressed its face to the ground, so that out of sight, out of mind.

The audience was heartbroken.

[Wolf, eat a bite. Don't starve yourself. Woohoo.]

[Still suspecting it's poisonous? Although the whole room is well disguised, there is obviously still a little human smell. ]

[The white wolf is too vigilant. Alas, although it is a good thing for wild animals to remain vigilant against humans, when human footprints and scent are all over the world, where can it hide? ]

[Yes, I think it is better to maintain proper vigilance... But this cannot force a wounded wolf to figure it out. I still hope that the people in this world can be more helpful.]

While the White Wolf was still secretly competing with the humans behind the scenes, the narrator suddenly appeared:

"A stranger saved him from a difficult situation, but he was not grateful."

"On the contrary, he thought in a dark and twisted way that maybe this was a concerted effort by that group of people just to make him let down his guard."

[OMG, is this what Langlang thinks? ]

[That makes sense. To a wolf, is there any difference in the smell of good people and bad people? No. ]

Narration continues:

"Although people were speculating like this, they were not discouraged. Instead, they felt more sympathy for him, thinking that he must have suffered a great injustice to become so disgusted with the world, and they were determined to do everything they could to warm him up."

[You better be the best, please. 】

[Let Langlang eat something first. I feel really bad for him.]

The originally motionless white wolf suddenly raised its eyes, all the muscles in its body tensed instantly, and its hind paws pressed tightly against the stone behind it, ready to leap up at any time.

Boom boom——

The wall it was looking at suddenly rose up, revealing another room separated by iron bars.

The white wolf tightened its neck, becoming more alert. Just as it was about to retreat to the farthest corner, it heard a delicate cry:

“Oh~!”

A slender red fox was in the room on the other side, looking around curiously, and was bold enough to run to the railing and peek around.

The gap between the railings was just wide enough for it to pass through. Just as it was about to go over to take a look, it felt a gaze that made its tail explode.

The red fox followed the gaze and saw a giant white wolf that was several times its size lying not far away, staring at it with a serious look.

It froze.

The narrator spoke softly at this time:

"For the first time, everyone chose a harmless girl in order to lower his guard."

【Ah! It’s a little fox! 】

[Cute... Wait, the little fox won't be killed by the white wolf, right? ]

[It should be fine as it's across the fence, but why did you send a fox over here? (scratching my head)]

【Feed, feed? 】

[Uh uh uh, that shouldn't be the case. Think about it, there definitely wouldn't be such a plot in the original work! ]

"ah!"

As if frightened, the red fox immediately ran back and away from the fence.

White Wolf: ...

It moved its nose and immediately smelled the strong human scent on the fox, so it stepped back unhappily and had no intention of getting closer.

Wolves and foxes are more of a competitive relationship. Wolves will kill foxes but will not eat them. If the mother wolf does not teach her cubs to hunt and kill foxes, the grown-up wolves will subconsciously not regard foxes as prey.

That's what White Wolf looked like.

Then why suddenly let a fox in?

The audience breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time they were filled with questions.

The following developments answered their questions.

"Hmm~Hmm?"

Although it was frightened at first, the red fox was raised by humans after all, so it was still very brave. After it recovered, it tentatively barked a few times at the white wolf opposite. When it got no response, it stopped talking in disappointment and ran and jumped in its room for entertainment.

In each room that houses wild animals, there are many entertainment facilities to prevent them from getting bored.

There are shelves for climbing up and down, oversized wheels for running exercises, swaying vines that attract attention, and squeaky toys that can be used to grind teeth...

The white wolf was not touched at all, and the red fox was not left alone.

"Hmm~"

"Boo!"

"Hmm~"

The red fox was having fun on the opposite side, and the white wolf's brows gradually furrowed.

Although it looked down upon the other party's fawning appearance, the red fox unreservedly tested various unfamiliar facilities on itself, allowing it to observe and think, and gradually gained some confidence.

The white wolf's pointed ears, which were originally flat, gradually stood up and leaned forward, sniffing the facilities closest to it inconspicuously.

This is a sign of curiosity and interest on the part of the wolf.

Although it is still not a relaxing emotion, at least I am willing to explore an environment that contains the scent of human beings.

The people behind the scenes celebrated a little and then continued to stare at the screen.

"Hmm~"

Tired of playing, the red fox followed the smell of flesh and blood to the fence. Looking at the full food bowls in the white wolf's room, he was quite tempted.

It poked its head out tentatively.

The white wolf raised its eyes, glanced at it indifferently, and did not move.

It moved closer to the food bowl.

The white wolf stared at it, with a hint of inquiry in its eyes.

It picked up the meat and ran away.

The white wolf narrowed his eyes, suppressed his instinct to kill, and waited.

The room was filled with the sound of the red fox munching on meat. Its first success gave it courage, and it went to steal meat from the white wolf's food bowl three times in a row.

“Ouch—”

Finally, after making sure that the red fox was still alive and kicking long after eating the meat, the white wolf finally moved.

It barked softly as a deterrent, then stood up and slowly walked towards the food bowl not far away.

Although the white wolf had an injured leg and was staggering, its two-meter-long body was there after all. The red fox immediately dropped the meat cowardly and hid in its room, not daring to move.

The white wolf glanced at it indifferently, ignored it, walked to the food bowl and buried its head.

Two days later, it finally started eating again.

Narrator:

"Under the girl's patient guidance, the suspicious and sensitive TA finally reluctantly accepted the kindness of the person behind the scenes."

"But this is not a compromise. He still holds on to his freedom and is eager to accumulate strength to leave as soon as possible."

[Finally eating, my mother is relieved.]

[Really smart, he even knew to wait for the fox to test the poison before eating it. ]

[Oh, so this is why the fox appeared! It seems that those people also know the temperament of the white wolf. ]

[In fact, Langlang is still a little naive. In addition to immediate-acting poisons, human society also has delayed-acting poisons ()]

[How can I think so much? I am a wolf and I think it is safe as long as the fox has tried it and survived. ]

[Langlang mainly wants to eat quickly and then escape, right? ]

After finishing his meal and recovering a little his strength, the White Wolf began to pace slowly around the room.

This is already the largest containment room in the institute, but it is still a little small for the giant wolf.

After a while, the white wolf patrolled the entire room and smashed a few things that felt particularly unusual. Then it turned back to the place where it first woke up and curled up to sleep.

According to White Wolf's previous temper, anything that was tainted with human scent could not be kept.

But now the whole room is stained and it can’t destroy everything, so it can only pick out a few.

Very annoying.

Everyone in the monitoring room: ...

The white wolf finally regained some energy, which should be a good thing.

But when they saw the seven or eight split screens go black in an instant, they all felt heartbroken for a moment.

"Forget it. We're not the ones paying for this anyway." Vanessa came back to her senses with strength and asked people to pick up the fox. "Let's pick up Annie first. She's doing a great job."

"Send in a different animal tomorrow. One that's brave enough to run away through the gaps in the fence."

Someone was very hesitant: "Teacher, why do you do this? Are you giving food to the white wolf?"

"No." Vanessa shook her head. "It's just to let it get a little familiar with creatures that have human scent."

White wolves are destined to be released into the wild.

It has good survival ability and is very vigilant, so it should not be in any danger.

However, because of its excessive vigilance and fear of humans, it was forced out of its territory and fell into the trap of hunters. They meant well but ended up with bad results.

Even the weak rodents in the dense forest would not have such a strong reaction to objects with human scent, let alone be afraid of eating and almost starve themselves to death.

It shouldn't be like this.

The white wolf can be wary of humans and even have murderous intent towards humans who invade its territory, but it cannot be afraid of humans and dare not resist.

Vanessa asked the man who fired the gun and learned that White Wolf would give up trying to survive once he was faced with a gun.

This strangeness, combined with the age of the white wolf, made Vanessa guess that the young white wolf may have witnessed the death of its relatives at the hands of human hunting rifles and has lived on its own since then. That is why it has such sophisticated survival experience at the age of two... and a fear of humans that is deep-rooted in its bones.

"So, during this period of treatment, we have to give this big guy some courage."

Vanessa sighed.

"I don't want to hear news that white wolves stopped hunting because tourists invaded their territory and eventually starved to death in their dens."

Thanks to its unique rarity in the world, even though the white wolf is still under protection, there is no guarantee that there will be bold tourists coming to see it.

This is tantamount to a death warrant for White Wolf.

Now, they must work to avoid that future.

Two weeks passed in a flash.

“Woo——”

Even in the shelter, the white wolf habitually looked up and called out at night.

The days in the shelter are actually not much different from its daily life in the wild, because it has always lived in a relatively mechanical way with almost no entertainment.

The injury on its foot also made it unable to move often. Except for eating and howling at night, the white wolf basically lay lazily in the tree hole, occasionally taking the time to look at the various small animals jumping up and down in the other room.

At first it would be alert to the human scent on them, but now it is completely numb and doesn't even bother to care.

Tonight should have been his lone wolf's call.

but--

Who is responding:

"Woo? Woo..."

The white wolf suddenly stopped howling, its triangular ears turned wildly, and its pupils dilated instantly, trying its best to catch the faint response that seemed to be there and not there.

But the voice stopped.

“Woo——”

“Ouch—”

The white wolf immediately raised its voice and called out, pacing anxiously from side to side and looking up repeatedly, but there was no response.

It was silent in the moonlight.

The tail, which was originally slightly raised, slowly drooped.

Today, the white wolf refused to eat again.

The white wolf will definitely return to the wild eventually.