Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 255 - : How is Fool 2 so well-informed?

Helping out casually was no problem, but to expect her to protect them throughout was out of the question.

She was a naturally free-spirited wild animal.

After making arrangements with Sister Lynx, the two continued walking and finally saw a mother bear poking her head out of a burrow.

Chen Ying walked over to the burrow, where two cubs were sleeping soundly.

“Do you have some time tonight to help out?”

The wounds of the mother bear had healed quite nicely.

Chen Ying glanced at them, took out the scissors he carried, removed the stitched threads, applied iodine on a swab, and placed it in a dirty bag on his waist pack.

The mother bear moved her body and sat down, taking a fruit that Yin Li had handed her and nibbling on it.

“Did wolves come looking for you?”

“You know?”

“I went out foraging today and heard it from those big birds. They saw a wolf pack heading this way, so I guessed it was coming for you.”

Who said animals are brainless? Look, is this brainless?

“Take my cubs with you; I’ll go get some food and find you tonight.”

The mother bear agreed straightforwardly and entrusted her kids to their care.

“Did you not leave just because you were worried about me?”

While Chen Ying was fetching the cubs from the burrow, he casually asked. The mother bear even blushed, hummed, and slowly walked toward the lake.

With the two cubs, they didn’t continue to wander outside but returned to the camp before it got completely dark.

“Bear, bear…”

“Their mother is gone?”

The team members thought about approaching but were a bit afraid to do so, considering the cubs were still bears.

Chen Ying and Yin Li could hold them, but others might not be able to.

“What nonsense. Their mother is fine, just went out for food. She asked me to bring them back first.”

Chen Ying picked up the cubs and placed them in his tent.

Yin Li explained outside.

“Previously, we rescued one of the bear cubs. Later, the mother bear, with another cub, came looking for it, injured, and we assisted her as well. There were talks about wolves coming tonight, so this was our call for external assistance.”

Such hardcore operations? They hardly dared believe it.

“It’s true, I even have photos and videos of Brother Ying treating the mother, and we need to archive these materials.”

Ji Xin initially didn’t intend to communicate with them, but seeing some skepticism, he became displeased.

He connected his camera to the display screen and played the video of Chen Ying suturing the mother bear.

“Wow, such a big wound, must have been caused by a fight with some animal.”

“It was wolves. The mother bear, with her cubs, faced an attack by a wolf pack.”

“But from what we’ve read in the literature, brown bears can fend off not-so-large wolf packs.”

The query wasn’t intentional but merely a researcher’s instinct.

“Normally, yes, especially male brown bears are very strong. In the wilderness, they are absolutely dominant predators.”

“But this mother bear had cubs, two of them at that, and one of the cubs was overly lively and bold, so she had to protect her children and fight, making it a bit overwhelming for her.”

The team members realized, and they had forgotten that point.

A mother bear with cubs had a vulnerability.

Adult brown bears could tear apart tigers and wolves, but bear cubs didn’t have the same fighting strength as their parents.

Chen Ying put the cubs in his tent, not wanting them to have too much human contact, which could negatively affect the cubs’ understanding.

The tent was large enough, and both Ji Xin and Yin Li tactfully stayed out, letting Chen Ying alone play with the cubs.

Half an hour later, after a satisfying meal and play, the tired cubs huddled together and fell deeply asleep, and only then did Chen Ying exit the tent.

The members of the scientific expedition also returned to their tents, and how they discussed or regarded Chen Ying privately was known only to them.

After a hasty dinner, some of the team members couldn’t stay awake and went back to sleep, telling the others to call them if there was anything.

The two team leaders distributed the tasks, with the lead taking charge of the first half of the night and the deputy taking the latter half.

Originally, Yin Li wanted them all to rest, but the two captains disagreed, saying there was no reason to do so.

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They couldn’t just throw all the danger to Yin Li and his team; what kind of people would they be then?

Chen Ying and Ji Xin kept quiet, helping to monitor the other surveillance footage.

Although watching the surveillance was routine, tonight they were especially cautious.

Ji Xin even deployed a drone to help patrol the area.

“Brother Li, there’s a pack of wolves approaching from the seven o’clock direction.”

Everyone rushed to that camera and watched for a while, indeed seeing two glowing spots flickering in the dark.

“The scouts are here, everyone be careful.”

Before he had even finished speaking, they saw a sleek-furred beast walk up, stationing itself on the inevitable path the wolves took to the camp, facing them and sitting down.

“Is that the lynx?”

“It doesn’t look like it. That guy has patterns, while the lynx is uniformly warm yellow.”

Chen Ying took a closer look, “It should be a snow leopard, and it doesn’t look like Er Sha; it’s much fatter than Er Sha.”

At this point, Chen Ying looked around.

“Has anyone seen Er Sha?”

Ji Xin thought for a moment, “At dinner time, I saw it run towards the base of the mountain; Brother Ying, you said not to bother with it, so I didn’t mention it.”

The wolves appeared on the southwest side, and the mountain was on the northwest. It probably wasn’t Er Sha.

“Could it be the snow leopard with the three cubs?”

It wasn’t impossible, but since they hadn’t seen any cubs, they couldn’t be sure it was that family of four.

“Brother Li, there are also wolves approaching from the four o’clock direction.”

Another patrol team member spotted traces of the wolves, and the numbers on this side were clearly much higher than those from the seven o’clock direction.

“Could it be that on their way here, they persuaded other wolf packs to join them in hunting humans?”

If that was the case, it would be a big problem.

Chen Ying’s expression grew much more serious as he switched between two surveillance videos, recalling the terrain they had checked out that afternoon.

The southeast direction was where the Tibetan antelopes had left; the wolves gave up an easier hunt for antelopes to pursue them, could it really be just because one wolf accidentally died?

After further inquiries, the team leader assured with his hand on his heart that they had really not done anything else.

“We’ve entered uninhabited zones for field studies before, and we certainly abide by the principles. It was also an accident this time; those young team members didn’t intend to hit the wolves.”

“Captain Kuang, don’t be upset. We just want to understand clearly. If you didn’t do anything else, logically speaking, the wolves wouldn’t persistently hunt you. Could there have been some other accident you’re unaware of?”

Captain Kuang was practically scratching his head raw trying to confirm that no other accidents had happened.

After that incident, they left the area, and since then had been very careful while collecting samples, not even harming a grassland mouse.

Chen Ying folded his arms and his mind raced.

He believed Captain Kuang wouldn’t lie to them.

It wasn’t necessary, if something really happened, there were specific agencies to investigate. He also couldn’t guarantee that so many people in the team would keep it to themselves.

If it wasn’t their fault, then what exactly could have prompted these two wolf packs to relentlessly advance, resolved not to back down?

From what Captain Kuang said, the group of wolves with fewer numbers was the first they encountered. The other group joined the hunt halfway.

Chen Ying decided to take the initiative and check out the situation with the wolf pack in the southwest.

Yin Li was worried about him going alone, but someone also needed to stay back to coordinate manpower and resources.

He was the supervisor, so he definitely couldn’t leave.

“Cai Rang, you go with Brother Ying, you drive, be careful.”

“No problem, don’t worry, director. Even if I don’t make it back, I’ll make sure to return Brother Ying safely.”

“Bullshit, stop talking nonsense.” Yin Li’s face darkened as he kicked out.

Cai Rang chuckled, quickly climbing into the driver’s seat, flashing his pearly white teeth.

Chen Ying impulsively grabbed the first aid kit as well.

The little pickup rattled into the night, and shortly after, its figure appeared in the video.

Chen Ying used his binoculars to take a closer look, and instructed Cai Rang to park a little further away.

They didn’t rush out of the vehicle, closed the windows, and spent about five more minutes looking through the binoculars. Chen Ying confirmed that this blocking leopard was neither Er Sha nor the mother from the family of four.

“This is an unfamiliar snow leopard, how come it suddenly appeared here?”

As he puzzled over this, some movement stirred in the nearby bushes, and in a short while, Sister Lynx raised her highly distinctive head about ten meters from the snow leopard.

The opposing pack of wolves also noticed the two fierce creatures, hesitating not to come too close.

Just as Chen Ying was about to get out of the car, the walkie-talkie rang.

“The wolf pack from the four o’clock direction has stopped; they seem to be moving towards you. Be careful, and retreat if necessary. Watch out for the possibility of the two wolf packs closing in on you from both sides.”

“It should be fine; we have an extra lynx here, and the mother bear should also show up in a bit.”

Right after his words fell, a lithe figure leapt out from the side, with two big furry paws landing on the window.

“Awu, two-legged beast, I have a question for you. Did you really kill that mother wolf with cubs?”

WTF? Mother wolf? With cubs?

“Cai Rang, is it possible that there was something wrong with the wolf that died?”

Chen Ying and Cai Rang exchanged glances, both faces sinking.