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Every time the chain was pulled tight, he would look back, then lower his head and walk in another direction where the chain could be loosened.

A tiger under the eaves has to bow its head.

Before leaving, Henry did something that Barbara couldn't understand: he took off his shoes, tied the laces of his left and right shoes together, and hung them around his neck.

Noticing the girl's surprised expression, Henry smiled and said, "When I'm outdoors, I like the feeling of the dirt with my feet. That's why I don't wear shoes."

"That's the same as Katie," Barbara said with a sweet smile. As she spoke, she also mustered up the courage to approach the tiger and pet its head like Henry did.

However, Katie's awkward retreat made Barbara afraid to move forward. She just stood there, smiling awkwardly. Then she changed the subject and asked, "Which direction should we go? Where should we camp?"

"Just keep walking and find a place with water. This is my first time here, but according to the map, if you can walk due north, there's a small stream not far away. Let's go there and see if it's suitable for camping."

Places like the Angeles National Forest, though not urban areas, have road atlases. However, ordinary people can also buy contour maps similar to military maps, though less precise. These maps will show rivers, roads, and other terrain features.

The most difficult part of using this type of map is locating your location. It's not like on a city street, where street names and house numbers make it easy to locate your location.

Barbara Morse, the trainee agent, had certainly received training in wilderness survival techniques, but she couldn't bring herself to show off at this time.

But Henry's side wasn't so complicated. The map he mentioned was just an excuse. In fact, the nearest sound of flowing water he heard was to the north. It didn't need to be far, only a kilometer or two on foot.

But Henry's words made Barbara mistakenly believe that he was well prepared, so she believed it without a doubt.

It’s just that Henry didn’t prepare a map in advance, so he took it out at this time to pretend. After all, he didn’t expect Barbara to follow him.

But his confidence in having everything under control wasn't fake. With his advanced senses now giving him a good sense of direction, and the speed of flight he could utilize when necessary, getting lost was impossible.

There is no need to tell Barbara these things.

Anyway, the two men and the tiger were ready, so Henry locked the car door and headed towards the sound of running water that he heard in his ears.

It was not the first time that Katie left the small cement cage and came into the free world.

Although there are no restrictions, in the past I was only able to move within a certain range and was not able to fully explore the world.

If he ran too far away, Kryptonian Twoleg would whistle to call him back. If he didn't come back, he would come and drag him back himself.

The feeling of being on all fours, flying so high that you couldn't land safely, was terrifying. At first, Katie peed herself more than once.

But this time, they drove into the forest in a car, enjoying the wind. Then they moved on foot, unlike before when they were confined to an invisible area. Katie felt a huge difference, and the tiger became much more excited.

It would be even better if it weren't tied up with chains.

The forests of North America are nothing like the rainforests of South America, where layers of dense vegetation grow so densely that even large animals can't easily move through them. Even if a person wants to move, they have to hack and slash their way through with a machete.

Perhaps due to the higher latitude, the trees in North American forests do not grow as densely together.

For Katie, who was taken away from her tigress right after she was weaned, everything was so new and interesting.

Especially in Yangdong Valley, the terrain is desert, either soil or stone. But here is forest, the ecology is much richer, and there are many things I have never seen before.

So Katie was very busy running and jumping around excitedly, looking and sniffing everywhere.

Especially in North America, where tigers are not native, many animals saw a tiger for the first time and actually stopped in their tracks, staring at Katie from afar out of curiosity.

But the top predators still have enough cards. Even those wild animals that have never seen a tiger will take off running without stopping for a moment as soon as they smell the scent of a predator.

It was as if the order of the food chain was etched in their DNA. This made Katie, who tried to approach her new friends, lower her head in frustration.

For Katie, who has no worries about food and whose meat is always delivered to her, it seems her hunting instincts have been forgotten. When she sees other animals that run and jump, she just wants to play with them, not eat them.

But don't assume Katie's closeness is harmless to other animals. BB, the core robot in Henry's family, who has been through countless generations of development, has the final say.

Just ask yourself, how many creatures can withstand a slap from a claw or a bite from a fang?

Along the way, Katie always stayed at the edge of the chain, exploring this strange world. Compared to the tiger's curiosity, Barbara followed Henry closely, not daring to stray even a step away.

I don't know if this attitude is because she wants to get closer to Henry, so she tries to show her feminine charm, or if she is simply scared by Katie and dares not get too far away from Henry, lest her master can't stop her in time.

Finally, the sound of the gurgling stream reached Barbara's ears, and the woods seemed to have become a little cooler.

Chapter 288 Hunting

In the summer, the wild streams in the mountains will swell due to heavy rainfall in the mountains, so the streambeds and sandbars are not good places to camp, unless you can tolerate suddenly becoming a floating person in the middle of the night.

Henry found a higher spot, right at the edge of the woods, where there were no signs of flooding, and put down his equipment.

Seeing this, Barbara also put down her backpack and asked, "Do you want to camp here?"

"Yes, stay for a day," Henry replied, untying the chain on Katie's collar, patting the tiger's head twice, and letting it run wild.

The liberated Katie jumped into the stream without looking back, drank water, rolled around, and then ran into the woods, disappearing somewhere unknown.

"Well, won't Katie get lost?" Barbara asked worriedly.

Henry smiled and said, "Don't worry. It will come back on its own when it's time to eat."

"No, aren't you worried about Katie running into other campers and getting bitten?"

"When the time comes, we can only find a way to bury the body deeper so that no one will find it." Henry said jokingly.

Barbara had been traveling with Henry at the beginning of the year, and she was used to his occasional nonsense. She smiled awkwardly and ignored the incident.

Henry actually chose this location because he relied on his super senses to confirm that there were no other living people around, minimizing the possibility of exposure. Whether it was his various super powers or Katie, the tiger.

He had prepared a duplex yurt for two, with fiberglass poles, making it easy to set up even for one person. But Barbara, of course, wouldn't just sit there and watch. She swiftly helped out, but not in the annoying way that would cause trouble.

Working together, they soon set up the yurt. Henry packed up the things he didn't need and put them inside the tent. He took out his bow and arrows and said to Barbara, "You can rest here for a while, or go play in the stream."

"Hey, can't I follow you?" Barbara said coquettishly.

"Ma'am, I'm going hunting. How crazy would I be to disturb the game with an amateur? If you don't want to be fed to Katie today, stay here and let me prepare dinner."

Pouting, Barbara said dissatisfiedly: "I can help too."

"If you want to help, please go into the forest and help collect some firewood. I don't want to eat raw meat with Katie."

"Okay. Stay safe."

"I know." Henry took his bow and arrow, walked barefoot through the creek, which was only knee-deep, and followed Katie into the woods from where she had gone.

At this time, Barbara took out a mobile phone from her backpack, held it above her head, and walked around.

Finally, he had to give up and muttered, "Sure enough, there's not even a single bar of signal. Boss Fury, it's not that I don't want to give back."

Then she put the phone back into her bag. Barbara, dressed in a hot outfit, looked at the natural environment of green mountains, green waters, blue sky and white clouds, clasped her hands to her chest, and shuddered violently.

"Ahh. There's no reason to run away after bringing a girl like me to a place like this."

Henry, who was already three kilometers away in the forest, also shuddered. This wasn't some weird sixth sense, but rather he had heard the girl's words.

Just this slight shake caused the arrow he shot to deviate. It looked like it would only hit a nearby tree and miss the deer it was originally aimed at.

Henry immediately used his super speed to catch up with the arrow he shot, and adjusted the trajectory of the shot so that the arrow could hit the deer's eye socket.

When he regained his normal speed, the deer was unable to react in time and the arrow shot into its eye socket penetrated its brain, killing it instantly.

Looking at the fallen deer, Henry thought of a question. Since he was about to use his abilities, what was the point of holding a bow and arrow?

This is really... that girl has confused my mind. He couldn't help but mutter, "Boys have to protect themselves when they go out."

As he carried the deer onto his shoulders and headed back, Henry wondered if he had been too hasty in bringing Barbara out this time.

I thought Katie would be able to scare her away, but it seemed to become a reason for Barbara to stick to me.

Henry returned to the stream while thinking this. He whistled, and Katie immediately rushed out from a short distance away, looking like a mountain king coming down to cut down the trails, a dead rabbit in her mouth.

Katie came to Henry's feet, put down the rabbit in her mouth, and poked it with her front paws, just like chasing a baby at home, then letting it go, hoping it would run again.

Looking at this situation, Henry knew that he had miscalculated again.

I thought that by not allowing Katie to come into contact with other tigers and not letting her learn hunting techniques, I could effectively suppress her killing instinct.

However, in order to reduce the number of times BB needs to be repaired, he not only repairs the damaged core robot again and again and makes it with harder materials, but also constantly adds avoidance modes and props.

For example, the suction cup arrow combined with the grappling hook gun's retracted rope design allows BB to move in three dimensions, giving him more ways to dodge Katie.

It seems this actually honed Katie's chasing ability, indirectly strengthening her hunting skills. A rabbit, a small animal about the size of a baby, would be no match for a tiger's pounce and bite when it encounters a playful Katie.

This is really a headache.

Lifting the dead rabbit, Katie's expression and movements were like she'd broken a baby and wanted Henry to fix it quickly. It seemed the tiger thought it could bring the rabbit back to life.

As expected, no matter how you raise a dangerous beast, it will still be dangerous. It won't turn it into a house cat.

Henry, helpless, took the dead rabbit and planned to roast it for dinner. However, he wouldn't give Katie the rabbit; he'd let her eat the venison instead. He couldn't let her get into the habit of eating animals he'd killed.

Scratching the tiger's head, Henry imitated the tiger and roared a few times.

: Come with me and have dinner.

"Roar."

:it is good.

Since the tiger translator had been successful, Henry naturally didn't forget to learn some common tiger language. Otherwise, if he was out there without a translator, he'd be stuck communicating with the wrong people.

Henry walked out of the woods carrying a deer, holding a rabbit, and with a tiger following at his feet.

On the other side of the stream, Barbara had already collected a lot of firewood, some long and some short, but she didn't have the right tools to cut the longer logs.

The long logs were just the right size to make a rack for hanging the deer to bleed, and then making a simple grill.

Seeing the man and the tiger coming back, Barbara smiled happily and said, "You came back so quickly, couldn't it be all Katie's achievement? You just followed behind and took advantage of it."

Ah, you little bitch, you don't even know what others are thinking. If you really let Katie go on the hunt, I could have hung you up and bled you by now. You know what I mean.

Chapter 289 Camping Dinner

On a camping night, although it was a summer night, it was still chilly in the place with woods on one side and a stream on the other, forcing people to get closer to the fire to get a little warmth.

Barbara still maintained her hot look during the day and didn't think about taking out the warm clothes in her backpack to wear. She just wanted to see if the man would take the initiative and share the warmth.

But Henry just carefully poked the flames and stared at the deer legs, venison and a skinned rabbit that were roasted directly on the fire.

Barbara had no choice but to move closer to the fire, warming herself while waiting for the man to notice her.

Not far away, Katie was gnawing on two raw deer legs. Her mouth was full of blood and she looked very scary.

Fortunately, after Henry cut off the deer leg, he still bled the remaining part, otherwise the venison would have a strange smell.

Barbara asked in confusion, "Why don't you feed Katie raw meat instead of cooked meat? Aren't you afraid of parasites or some wild animal diseases?"

Henry replied with a hint of helplessness, "Because raw meat and blood also contain nutrients that tigers need. Until we find the right supplements, we can only temporarily ignore minor problems like parasites."

Seeing that Henry was not in the mood to talk today, unlike the flirtatious talk he had shown during their previous meeting, Barbara had no choice but to continue looking for topics to talk about.

She looked worriedly toward the woods and asked, "Isn't it bad if we just throw the deer's entrails away? Don't we need to dig a hole and bury it?"

Henry explained: "Typically, campers bury inedible offal or animal remains because they are afraid the smell will attract carnivores and pose a threat to them.

"But with it around, what carnivores do you think could pose a threat to us? Even if there were no tabby cats in North America, judging by its size, there wouldn't be many carnivores that would dare approach."

The tiger Henry pointed at just raised its face from the pile of meat. The tiger's imposing head, with a scarlet smear around its mouth, looked extremely ferocious.

After hearing Henry's explanation, Barbara snorted in dissatisfaction. "You still insist it's a tabby? There's no such thing as a cat that big."

Henry, who was still stubborn, said proudly, "Of course there's one right here. Hello, Katie, meow and listen."

"Roar!"

: Eat, busy.

Tiger language is actually quite rudimentary, lacking many words with distinct tones. So this roar could also be translated as: "Eating, get out!" It all depends on what you're comfortable with.

Henry wasn't particularly indignant about Katie's barking. They say a barking dog never bites. Katie couldn't beat him, so why shouldn't she be allowed to bark a bit?

In short, the interaction between the man and the tiger made Barbara convinced that the male tiger was indeed her love rival.

This combination is really terrible. So I shouldered the sacred mission of making a man understand the beauty of women, instead of looking at a male tiger with strange eyes.

"It's so cold." Barbara folded her arms and rubbed her upper arms, then moved to sit closer to Henry.

I wanted to go ahead and get close to him, but Henry filled a bowl of mushroom and vegetable soup, stood between us, and pushed me back.

If Barbara didn't want to be doused in hot soup, she had no choice but to retreat.

The man who thoughtfully brought a bowl of hot soup said with a smile, "If it gets cold, drink it while it's hot. It's just right. It can fill your stomach before eating barbecue."

After half-forcing the bowl of soup into Barbara's hands, Henry, still in that caring and gentle tone, said, "Didn't you bring any warm clothes? I have a thin jacket. I'll get it for you first."

"No, hot soup is enough." Barbara did not show any impatience, but drank the soup while thinking about her next attack.

But every time she launched an attack, Henry would block it with food.