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Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 251 - : No Way, Has My Reputation Spread Here Too? (Asking for Monthly Votes)
Chapter 251 -251: No Way, Has My Reputation Spread Here Too? (Asking for Monthly Votes)
“Little Marbles, sweet and delightful, one by one they’re truly tasty.”
Honey-laced medicine pills were stuffed into the mother bear’s mouth, and she chewed and swallowed them, even wanting to search Chen Ying’s hands to see if there were any more.
Chen Ying laughed, raising his hand to give the bear’s head a firm rub.
“You can’t have any more today, but there will be some tomorrow.”
The mother bear lifted her head and gave a “heh heh” before lying down quietly to continue licking and nursing her cubs.
It was late at night, and outside it was unbearably cold.
Chen Ying checked the surroundings, instructed the on-duty team members to keep a closer watch, then returned to his tent. Only after shivering did he start to feel his body gradually warming up.
He didn’t dare to sleep too long.
At seven-thirty, Chen Ying got up to stretch. After freshening up quickly, he didn’t bother with breakfast and went first to check on the family of three brown bears.
The mother bear looked okay, perhaps the medicine had begun to work, and its anti-inflammatory and calming effects had allowed her to sleep soundly.
For animals in the wild to recover their strength quickly, ensuring plenty of food and sleep is the fastest method.
The two little cubs sucked a few times in their mother’s embrace, and on seeing Chen Ying emerge, one of them instantly squirmed its way out.
“Umm umm!” The little bear cub charged haphazardly and bumped into Chen Ying’s leg, immediately clinging on, seeking the delicious milk.
“Wait, let me check on your mother first.”
Holding the little bear cub’s right forelimb, he led it back to the mother bear’s side.
The other little cub’s eyes were wide open, seemingly puzzled at how its brother had suddenly run towards this unfamiliar large creature.
After measuring the brown bear’s heartbeat and blood pressure and inspecting its stitches, thankfully, it seemed the mother bear knew not to move around carelessly, the stitches hadn’t come loose, and the oozing had stopped.
There was just a slight redness and swelling at the site of the stitches, a sprinkle of hemostatic and anti-inflammatory powder would do.
Chen Ying let the mother bear continue to sleep while he picked up a cub and took it back.
The milk bottles were ready.
Every year they brought quite a few milk bottles here since the rescued young Tibetan antelopes needed to be hand-fed; one couldn’t possibly use a single bottle for all the lambs.
Not allowing the little bear cubs to enter the camp and cause trouble, he fitted a bottle to each and placed them in the meadow outside the camp to play on their own. Chen Ying then started fussing with his medicine powder.
“Every time I see you working on this, it’s like watching a wizard making magic potions in a Western legend. Have you ever thought about improving the process?”
“How to improve? With such a little amount of medicine, do you want me to set up a production line for specialized purification?”
His medicine was harvested from wild plants, and the precious ingredients were bought through connections with teachers; they were small in quantity but high in quality and had to be manually ground.
“Ji Xin, keep an eye on the two cubs for me, don’t let them wander too far off.”
Generally speaking, with many people around, and with tents and vehicles present, predatory birds from the sky wouldn’t dare to hunt here.
But just in case, it would be awful if the mother bear woke up and found her sons missing and blamed him for it.
The mother bear slept until noon and woke up hungry.
She stood up, stumbled a bit, shook her head, and it took at least five seconds for her to become alert.
Lifting her head, she saw her two cubs playing in the nearby meadow, her gaze instantly softening.
Chen Ying came over with a basin of fruit with added ingredients to feed her.
This time, the traditional medicine pills were without sugar; she probably wouldn’t like them as is, but stuffed in the fruit, they were easier for her to swallow.
After eating the fruit and regaining some energy, the mother bear swayed a bit as she moved her body, then turned to look for food.
Just some fruit, was she supposed to have the stomach of a small bird?
Fine, the Two-legged beast was unreliable with no hunting abilities; it was better to rely on herself.
The people who had been very vigilant ever since the mother bear awoke breathed a sigh of relief as they saw it slowly move away.
“Brother Ying, you’re really the man.”
Cai Rang gave Chen Ying a thumbs-up.
We run away from brown bears whenever we see them, yet you can feed and heal them; no wonder Xiao Song always says you’re the toughest rescue veterinarian she’s ever met.
Some veterinarians are skilled, but not necessarily capable of rescuing animals in the wild.
And those at the grassroots level might lack finesse in their medical skills.
In summary, Brother Ying is the best.
Chen Ying smiled and changed the subject.
“How’s the observation going today, are there many Tibetan antelopes giving birth?”
“More than expected. This morning, we saw plenty of additional lambs, but…”
The young man responsible for the observation sighed.
“Two of the newborn lambs were snatched away by wolves just this morning.”
With more lambs around, there were also more predatory animals lurking nearby, waiting for the opportunity to enjoy this feast.
“We’ve detected three wolf packs nearby, with an estimated total of forty to fifty individuals.”
Drone photography showed the wolves, spread out over a vast area in three different places, all eyeing the laboring mother Tibetan antelopes.
Apart from the wolf packs, a few snow leopards had also come to join in the revelry.
Yin Li and Cai Rang were already set to go.
Their task for the day was to drive away predators and raptors to give the Tibetan antelopes a peaceful space for calving.
Although this effort was rather like trying to put out a fire with a cup of water, any antelope they could help was one antelope saved.
Once the Tibetan antelopes finished giving birth and moved on, they too would return to camp.
The dead mothers and lambs from difficult births would be enough to satisfy the predators that had come upon catching the scent.
The mother bear found a dead lamb.
She didn’t drag it back but dealt with it on the spot.
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Chen Ying put down his binoculars, and though he felt helpless, he knew he must respect the laws of nature.
After a long walk around, Yin Li and Cai Rang brought back two more lambs.
“These two little fellows got separated from the flock, and there were wolves lurking nearby, so we just brought them back.”
The two lambs looked to be about three or four days old and were quickly huddled together with the other lambs inside the enclosure.
They were all motherless waifs, their only warmth from huddling together.
Little bear saw that small animals were being brought into that large enclosure and, with a glint in its eye, ran to the door, scratching at it, wanting to go in and play.
Though the beast was small, its nature had already taken shape.
Fortunately, Chen Ying saw this and quickly found something to latch the gate shut, leaving the little bear upset and grunting for a while.
The other little bear was comparatively quieter, it glanced at its brother with wide eyes, then tentatively joined in with a few grunts, but quickly lost interest and scampered off to paw at Ji Xin’s trouser leg instead.
There was a shiny metal zipper on Ji Xin’s trousers that sparkled in the sunlight, captivating the little bear, which refused to let go and even tried to take a few nibbles.
Ji Xin struggled to pry it off several times to no avail, and finally, with resolve, broke off the zipper head and stashed it away.
Beside him, Yin Li was laughing uncontrollably.
“You come here once, and your pants worth thousands go to waste. You’ll have to ask your brother for a subsidy when you get back.”
“I don’t need his subsidy; these are still wearable.”
Ji Xin fell silent for a while before looking up and asking Yin Li,
“Brother Li, what do you have to do to apply to be a volunteer?”
Yin Li’s smile faltered, his expression serious as he looked at him.
“I told you before, you need to go back and consult with your family about this.”
Seeing that Ji Xin still wanted to speak, Yin Li patted his shoulder.
“Don’t think I’m rejecting you. Actually, we’re in great need of talented people like you. Publicity work is a very important part of our conservation efforts, and personally, I’d be very happy to have you volunteer here.”
Yin Li pulled him to his feet and pointed to the seemingly beautiful scenery outside.
“What you see now is one of the few calm weather periods of the year. In a couple of days, there will be strong winds, and then you’ll understand what ‘The Wind Stirs up Zhuonai Lake’ means.”
Yin Li looked out over peaceful and beautiful Zhuonai Lake with a heavy expression.
His teammates behind him all wore the same somber look.
Chen Ying had just finished his work and came over to find the atmosphere quite heavy.
After a quiet explanation from Cai Rang, Chen Ying nodded and started walking outside with Ji Xin.
“Let’s go, I’ll show you, and then you’ll understand why.”
They didn’t go far before Chen Ying stopped.
“Here, look at this spot and the surrounding scenery, do you notice anything?”
Ji Xin glanced at Chen Ying and studied carefully.
“The erosion from the wind seems quite severe here?”
“Yes, a dam burst over a decade ago caused a flood that followed the resulting gully and Kusai River, overflowing into Kusai Lake, which in turn led to a reduction in Zhuonai Lake’s area, and wind erosion of the dry lakebed formed a new source of sand and dust in this area.”
Ji Xin might not be aware of the dangers of uninhabited areas, but he certainly had heard of and witnessed the severity of sandstorms.
“In the city, if there’s a sandstorm, you have a house to hide in, and if you close your doors and windows you’re safe. But here, if something goes wrong while you’re out patrolling, you might have to face a sandstorm head-on.”
As a kid who had gone to school in the capital, he had experienced sandstorms more than once.
Even not being directly exposed to them was enough to alter his complexion significantly.
“Don’t think Brother Li and I are exaggerating. How about this, after you go back, talk to some of the team members, or you can even chat with the patrol officers at other protection stations to see if their stories of patrolling the mountains are as poetic and picturesque as you imagine.”
Chen Ying patted Ji Xin’s shoulder, sat down cross-legged, and started to whistle.
Before long, a colorful head popped out from behind some low bushes on a mound in front of them.
Chen Ying’s somewhat pretentious whistle suddenly changed tune.
“No way, there’s a lynx here?”
Chen Ying was so shocked he almost took a tumble.
He wanted to run over but then stopped himself.
This wasn’t Jinya; acting presumptuously might result in receiving a chokehold of love, and that would be the end of him.
After observing carefully, he felt that the lynx was female.
Firstly, her build was slender, her face delicate, and her eyes didn’t have the watery gleam of Jinya’s glasses, instead, there was a cool, aloof kind of sharpness, like that of a royal sister.
Furthermore, the color of her fur was different from Jinya’s, a warm yellow that harmonized extremely well with the surroundings.
The lynx poked her head out and observed Chen Ying for a while, then gradually made her way out, trying to get closer to him bit by bit.
Chen Ying instinctively pulled Ji Xin behind him.
“Hey, two-legged beast, are you the guy they say can find mates?”
What the heck? Across miles of mountains, with nearly three thousand meters of altitude difference, had his “fame” actually spread here?
“I heard it from two big birds. They love gossip, but the news they carry is usually accurate.”
The beautiful Lynx Sister lay not far away, her short, fluffy tail barely outlined.
“Are you planning to have me introduce you to a boyfriend?”
Chen Ying figured this Lynx Sister shouldn’t have trouble finding a suitor.
Next to him, Ji Xin was baffled.
Watching Chen Ying communicate with the beautiful big cat, he couldn’t help but pinch his own thigh hard.
The pinch was so fierce that tears instantly filled his eyes.