A Guide to Raising your Natural Enemy

chapter 3

3. Someone Sends a Prey

As the weather turned cold, Shu Shu weaved the grass skirt a bit longer this time. In the end, he weaved a piece of grass blanket that was more than a meter in length and width.

The grass blanket was wrapped around his body and secured with a grass rope. This time, Shu Shu got the idea to wrap the grass skirt around his chest so it covered his whole body and could protect him better from the wind. Of course, this grass blanket also had some flaws. The sun-dried grass was very soft to touch when he piled it up inside his nest, but once he weaved it together, it somewhat became prickly.

Previously, Shu Shu had had fur on his body and had not been afraid of getting pricked. But nowadays, this grass skirt has made a lot of small holes on his body. Fortunately, he was not that delicate, so he could endure it.

Having done with the grass blanket and wondering if it was already afternoon, Shu Shu once again pushed open the blockade at the cave mouth, intending to go out. However, he unexpectedly discovered that it was drizzling outside. The drizzle quickly became heavy rain.

It's raining.

In the past two months, Shu Shu had encountered rain several times. He had stopped going out then and just kept on digging into a small crack at the cave mouth while constantly paying attention to the situation outside.

The rain was trickling down, drip drip drip, sometimes big, sometimes small, but it didn't stop. Feeling the heavy wetness in the air, Shu Shu was a bit fretful.

The rain apparently wouldn't stop in a while. If it kept on raining, then he could not go out to find food!

Although it would take some time for winter to come, he always liked to stockpile food. In case the food was not enough, then he would feel uneasy....

Shu Shu's dug out cave was not big at all. He could stand straight inside the cave, but he couldn't run to ease the anxiety in his heart here. Ultimately, he could only go around in circle fretfully, then go to the cave mouth from time to time to take a look outside.

If only there was a running wheel!

As time went by, the sky slowly became dark, and the rain was still falling. Shu Shu bit his lip, and then he blocked up the cave mouth again and got into his grass-lined nest.

As a new day arrived, Shu Shu ran to the doorway and hurriedly opened a small hole to look outside. He's hoping he could see a clear and boundless sky, but it was still raining outside.

Shu Shu's ears drooped a little; even the whole person was spiritless. But soon, he looked outside the hole again with precaution.

There's a smell that was not his own.

What animal had come to his cave mouth? Shu Shu stuck his head out to check. He didn't expect to see that not far from the underbrush, there was a prone, soaking wet... fowl? That should be a pheasant, right? It's multi-colored, but it's actually bigger than the fowls that humans raised....

Shu Shu looked at the fowl and immediately drooled. His former owner had fed him boiled chicken breast before; it was so fragrant! Of course, the most fragrant was the fried chicken that his owner had eaten, but unfortunately, his owner had not let him eat it.

How could a fowl suddenly appear here? Shu Shu stared at the fowl for a while and finally decided that he didn't care where the fowl had come from. He's going to grab it to eat first!

Shu Shu scuttled out and pounced on the fowl only to find that its wings and legs were broken, making it unable to move a single step. And the wings and legs seemed to have been broken deliberately?