Reborn as a Sabertooth Tiger: Gene Evolution System Chapter 20 20 : Fish Trap

Under Mom's suspicious gaze, Jas began looking around for materials to build his fish trap.

The materials were easy to find.

All he needed were stones and a few dead branches.

Before long, Jas started pushing stones toward the river. One by one, he rolled them into the water.

"Rrrr?"

Zack and Zoe quickly noticed what their older brother was doing. They stared at him in confusion, clearly unable to understand what he was trying to accomplish.

Jas turned toward them and let out a short growl.

"Rrr."

It sounded like an order.

The two cubs imdiately rembered the painful days of being bossed around by their big brother and hurried over without protest.

Under Jas's command, the two unfortunate cubs were soon forced to help push stones into the river.

Splash.

Splash.

The three cubs worked together, pushing stone after stone into the water. Once there were enough, Jas climbed into the river again and chose a suitable location.

He began arranging the scattered stones carefully.

Little by little, he built them into a curved barrier in the river.

Mom watched the entire process from the shore with a deeply confused expression.

At this point she was seriously questioning what her cubs were doing.

Instead of continuing her own fishing attempts, she walked over and let out a questioning sound.

Zack and Zoe imdiately acted innocent.

Clearly this had nothing to do with them.

Mom then looked directly at Jas.

Jas had no idea how to explain sothing like fish traps to a tiger, so he simply gestured for her to keep watching.

Half an hour later, the simple fish trap was finally finished.

Zack and Zoe stared at the strange structure their brother had built, their curiosity obvious.

Mom looked equally puzzled.

Jas sat down beside the river and waited patiently.

"Heh… ti to witness a miracle."

Before long, fish swimming downstream reached the stone barrier.

Seeing stones blocking their path, the fish naturally swam toward the opening Jas had left in the trap.

Once inside, they soon discovered another layer of stones blocking their escape.

When they tried to turn around, more fish had already entered behind them.

Within minutes dozens of fish were trapped inside the enclosure.

Water splashed everywhere as the fish crowded together.

The trap had basically turned into a small fish pond.

"Rrr!"

Zack and Zoe stared at the scene in shock.

So many fish…

Even Mom looked stunned.

Jas lifted his head proudly.

"This," he thought, "is the power of human intelligence."

He was just about to show off a little—

When Mom suddenly rushed forward like a missile.

Jas froze.

"Wait—!"

Too late.

Mom charged straight into the fish trap.

With one powerful movent she shoved aside several of the stones Jas had carefully arranged.

In an instant most of the trapped fish escaped back into the river.

Jas stood there speechless.

But Mom didn't care about the destroyed trap at all.

Fish were still jumping in the shallow water.

That was all that mattered.

She imdiately began grabbing them with her claws.

Despite the chaos, Mom's fishing ability was actually quite impressive.

Her thick claws worked like daggers.

Any fish that got caught was almost impossible to escape.

Water splashed everywhere as she moved back and forth through the river.

It seed she had never seen so many fish in one place before.

At one point she even lowered her head and used her saber teeth to stab at the fish.

By the ti she finished, the trap Jas had spent so much effort building was completely destroyed.

But Mom returned to the shore proudly.

One fish hung from each paw.

Another was stuck on one of her saber teeth.

And she held one more in her mouth.

She dropped them on the ground with a casual flick.

Zoe imdiately ran over and pressed one paw onto a large grass carp.

The fish flopped violently.

The sudden movent startled her and she quickly jumped backward.

Zack, who was a bit braver, pounced on another fish and pinned it down before biting into it enthusiastically.

Both cubs looked at Mom with sparkling admiration.

"Mom is amazing…"

Jas stared at the destroyed remains of his trap and sighed.

"That was my trap…"

Mom, however, looked extrely proud.

She picked up another fish and devoured it in just a few bites, bones and all.

While eating, she noticed Jas sitting quietly nearby.

She growled at him.

"Rrr."

What are you standing there for? Co eat.

Jas gave up arguing.

There was no point fighting over food.

Since becoming a saber-toothed tiger, this was actually his first ti eating it.

Before eating, however, Jas suddenly had an idea.

"Shouldn't I remove the scales first?"

He wasn't sure if it was necessary.

But he tried anyway.

He held the fish tail down with one paw and scraped along the body with the other.

The scales ca off in neat rows and scattered across the ground like tiny pieces of ice.

Once most of the scales were gone, Jas tore off a piece of fresh at from the belly of the fish and swallowed it.

He paused for a mont.

"…Yep."

Very familiar taste reminded him of raw sashimi

Too bad there was no soy sauce.

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Mom had an enormous appetite.

When she caught large prey, she could easily eat thirty or even forty kilograms of at in a single al.

After that she might not need to eat again for several days.

Of course, als like that didn't happen every day.

The small fish they caught now weighed only a few kilograms each.

For Mom, they were barely snacks.

After finishing her fish, she jumped back into the water to try catching more.

Unfortunately, this ti things didn't go so well.

After several attempts she ca back soaked and empty-clawed.

Mom looked genuinely confused.

Why had there been so many fish earlier…

…but now she couldn't catch any?

As the sky grew darker, Mom finally decided it was ti to leave.

She gathered the cubs and led them back to their cave.

The next morning she woke up unusually early.

Even Dad looked confused when she woke him.

Zack and Zoe were still half asleep.

"What's going on?"

Mom simply growled and walked out of the cave.

The family followed her.

Jas had a bad feeling.

No way…

Sure enough, Mom led them straight back to the river.

She walked up to the remains of the stone trap Jas had built the day before.

Then she sat down beside it.

And stared at the water.

Waiting patiently for fish to gather in the trap again.

Jas watched the scene and couldn't help laughing.

Mom had completely misunderstood the situation.

She was basically waiting for fish to walk into the trap by themselves.

Like waiting for rabbits beside a tree stump.

And she seed very confident it would work again.