The two began walking along the lakeside towards the rock wall. The vast lake was now fully visible, and the rock wall beside it was uneven, so perhaps they would make a different discovery there.
"This place is huge. I didn't realize it when I was standing on it, but it takes a long time to walk around."
"Xiao Qi, bring me the machetes you put away earlier." Si Cheng was also helpless about his wife's occasional absent-mindedness. This time, she was usually so meticulous, but she had put all the weapons away as well.
"I really forgot," Yunqi slapped his head, realizing he shouldn't have been so careless.
"Don't slap yourself so hard you'll go silly, or I won't be able to explain it to your parents when I get back." Si Cheng rubbed her forehead, his hand really heavy, making her head turn red.
"This place is really suitable for living. Look at this natural barrier. Once we install a gate to block the entrance, even the fiercest wild beasts in the deep mountains won't be able to get in," Yunqi exclaimed, looking at the surrounding cliffs.
"That's not absolute. Places like the ones we came up from need to be raised and reinforced even more, because in addition to protecting against beasts, we also need to protect against people."
"That's still better than other places. At least we don't have to start building the wall from scratch. You know, the wall at the entrance of our village has been raised several times."
The two walked and looked around, even digging up the soil from a distance to see if the land was suitable for planting.
However, they were quite lucky. The land near the mountainside was mostly rocky and only suitable for building houses, but the land near the water source was relatively fertile, so if they planted crops, the harvest should be quite good.
"Looking at this place, I even want our village to move here." Yunqi liked this place more and more as he looked at it.
“This place is not suitable for our village.” Si Cheng had to pour cold water on her. “The elderly in the village will definitely not move away. Besides, there is nothing here now, and everything has to be started from scratch. In addition, this place is located deep in the mountains, so it is really difficult to contact the outside world.”
"Sigh, it seems this place really doesn't belong to me. I really can't bear to tell other people about it. Once the main group moves in, the secluded feeling here will be gone."
Then this place will become an ordinary village, with houses everywhere and crops planted all over it.
It's not that I think it's bad, but a sense of regret will remain, since they experienced its beauty.
"There seems to be a cave ahead?" Si Cheng noticed a dark opening at the bottom of the rock wall ahead.
"Could that be the tiger's den from before?" Yun Qi's relaxed heart jumped again. "I think I heard Chen Rongtian mention before that there used to be three tigers in the zoo."
“Even if there are three tigers, they can’t stay in one place.” Si Cheng patted her hand to comfort her. “It’s said that two tigers cannot share one mountain, unless one is male and the other female. And when they are escaping, it’s impossible for a male and a female to happen to be together.”
"What if they elope together?" Yun Qi insisted on going down a dead-end road.
“Then maybe they’ll even have children and grandchildren here,” Si Cheng replied casually.
Yunqi became somewhat uneasy. "Didn't we break up that family before? We mustn't let you be right."
Seeing that she was getting serious, Si Cheng explained to her, "There shouldn't be a second tiger here, otherwise we would have been discovered long ago after being in here for so long."
"There are no absolutes. What if they're resting inside and don't want to deal with us nobodies?"
Yunqi still remembers when they went to the zoo to see the tigers. No matter how much they called out to them, the tigers would only lift their eyelids and then ignore them.
"Why don't you wait here while I go check on him?" Knowing that Yunqi still had a phobia of tigers, as evidenced by his frequent jumping up in the middle of the night these past two nights, it was clear he was still frightened.
"It's okay, I'll still go with you." Yun Qi mustered her courage, even though she felt a slight pain in the wounds from the tiger's scratches. She knew it was a psychological issue, but the more she felt this way, the more she wanted to overcome it.
Standing in front of the cave entrance, Yun Qi took out two powerful flashlights, took a deep breath, and followed Si Cheng into the cave to explore.
But the cave was nothing like they had imagined; it was too small and too low.
Si Cheng, who was over 1.8 meters tall, almost touched the rock, and the cave that looked dark and deep from the outside was actually only a little over 3 meters wide.
"This shouldn't be an animal's den; it's far too clean. And this stone floor is so uneven; it's simply not suitable."
"I didn't expect such a small cave to make me so nervous," Yun Qi said, feeling a little embarrassed that he had overreacted.
"Let's go, let's walk a little further. If there's no other suitable place, we can rest here tonight."
To others, this floor might be uneven, but don't forget the built-in advantages of Yunqi: two people can easily set up a bed here and spend a comfortable night.
The two of them almost circled around before they found the tiger's den. It was more of a flat patch of mud under the rocks than a den.
At first, neither of them noticed it. It was Sicheng who discovered some golden hairs while examining the soil on the ground and followed the traces of the hairs around him.
"Why would it place the cave here? How did it survive those freezing weather days?" Yunqi couldn't understand how it kept warm on the flat ground under the rock wall.
“This tiger might also be a migrant,” Si Cheng said, half-jokingly and half-reasoning. “There are many animals around here that moved here because of a lack of water. It’s just that this tiger was lucky enough to find this place and establish itself as the king here.”
"It's not impossible. We used to see wild boars and the like frequently in the mountains behind our village. Maybe their arrival caused other animals to move away from here."
"Now you can rest assured, there are obvious signs that only that tiger lives here."
"Don't worry, I can get a good night's sleep. But I need to take a good shower later, my wounds are a bit itchy." Yun Qi wasn't being dramatic; the wounds where he had applied medicine were itchy, and he wanted to scratch them but didn't dare.
"Then let's hurry over to the cave entrance over there. You can use a shipping container to block the entrance later." Si Cheng didn't want to be so conspicuous, but there weren't any large rocks in this area. Otherwise, he could have just pushed a rock and solved the problem.
"Why don't we stop living in the cave? I'll move a shipping container in a bit, and we can put up a bed inside. It'll be very comfortable." Now that it's just the two of them here, Yun Qi can't help but take out everything he had stored in his space and enjoy it to the fullest.
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