Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 102: Do Not Bully the Young Bear, Wait for Me 3 Years in Hexi

The old house hadn't been inhabited for a long time and looked very dilapidated; even the surrounding wall had collapsed halfway.

It was likely that the giant panda had entered the house through the broken gap.

The villagers were standing outside the courtyard. When they saw Chen Ying arriving, they quickly surrounded him to describe the current situation.

While they were talking, the giant panda seemed to be startled by something and suddenly stood up, rushing toward the back yard.

Chen Ying hurried to follow, maintaining a safe distance, afraid of startling the panda.

But getting closer, he heard the panda muttering with a whine in its voice,

"Wuwu, I want to go back. What if I can't find the way? Where on earth have the two-legged beasts gone?"

Well, indeed it was a panda that had been returned to the wild.

As the sky gradually brightened, he saw the collar around the giant panda's neck, and the scab on its face.

Next time he went back, he had to tell Jiaojiao and Great Bai to bear this in mind: when you fight a panda, don't hit its face, street rats excluded!

"Hanghang, Hanghang, stop. I'm going to clean your wound."

The panicked giant panda, hearing the familiar name, slowly came to a halt and turned its head to look back.

It hadn't seen him before, but he seemed very gentle.

Moving closer to sniff, something felt off; this guy was in with those two crazy old folk.

Hanghang was both angry and anxious, turning around and bounding towards Chen Ying, baring its teeth in a threatening manner.

Chen Ying stopped chasing and retreated a bit further.

"Hanghang, can I take a look at the wound on your face, all right?"

"o(￣ヘ￣o＃), which group are you from? Are you trying to hit me?"

This young man, his nose was quite sharp.

"Of course not. I'm a doctor from the center, specifically here to treat precious ones like you."

As Chen Ying was speaking, a small head poked out from the pouch hanging in front of him.

"Squeak, Big Guy, does your face hurt?"

Hanghang was taken aback, sorrowful and angry, "Woof woof woof, you little thing, you're mocking me too, I'm gonna hit you!"

"Squeak, I'm not mocking you. I was hurt and in a lot of pain, and it was he who healed my injuries and made the pain go away. Do you want to give it a try?"

Huh, did I actually misunderstand?

Hanghang, after turning around in place, sat down with a plop.

"Baa, come on then, I'm hungry. Hurry up, I want to go eat."

At that moment, the village secretary-uncle arrived with a few villagers, carrying freshly dug bamboo shoots.

It was that time of the year again; the bamboo shoots didn't taste very good.

Chen Ying took the long shoot from the secretary's hand and slowly approached Hanghang before passing the shoot to it.

Hanghang received the bamboo shoot and started eating it voraciously; it was clear it was indeed starving.

Something seemed quite off here.

A panda ready for release into the wild wouldn't behave like Hanghang was.

Chen Ying made a call to the number Nanny Mei had given him to contact the leader of the team in charge of Hanghang's reintroduction and ongoing observation,

The person was already on the way and breathed a sigh of relief upon receiving Chen Ying's call.

"Hanghang was born in the semi-wild area and has always shown strong territorial behavior. She's also good at fighting and grabbing food. Probably the combined strength of Jiaojiao and Great Bai was too much for her; Hanghang was intimidated for the first time and seemed a bit shocked."

The person in charge was inwardly distressed. Who could have known that Chen Ying's place would turn up two pandas not in heat but peacefully coexisting and raising cubs together?

Poor Hanghang's luck was just bad. Fresh out of the 'newbie village' and straight into the Demon King's territory; there was a chance she'd been left with psychological scars.

Hanghang was a bit like those so-called prodigies who'd been labeled geniuses all their lives, then went out into the world only to be promptly knocked down a peg and start questioning their life's worth.

By the time Hanghang was almost done eating, Chen Ying was able to sit beside it.

The injury on its face was no big deal, just some skin scraped off by a claw, which had already healed by the time it was discovered.

Additionally, one of Hanghang's ears had a small piece missing, making it look like a little heart.

Chen Ying didn't touch Hanghang's ear wound, only shining a flashlight from his phone to examine it. The wound wasn't serious, looking more like a scraped piece of skin, but it was very noticeable because a patch of fur was missing.

Chen Ying took several photos of Hanghang, including close-ups of the ears and the wound on its face.

The team responsible for Hanghang's release into the wild relaxed a lot after seeing the photos.

When giant pandas live in the wild, it's not uncommon for them to get injured. This was nothing; fractures, chunks of flesh bitten off, long gashes—none of these were rare.

If every little thing was blown out of proportion like this, they might as well not bother with releasing them at all.

A feast of shoots along with bowls of milk calmed the greatly distressed Hanghang.

Honey-sweetened Little Apple and steamed cornbread filled its stomach, which had been empty all day due to despondency.

With one hand holding an apple and the other clutching fresh bamboo, Hanghang's gaze was directed toward the rescue station.

"I must grow stronger, and then I'll pin them down and beat them up!"

Chen Ying's hand, which was applying medicine, paused for a moment, revealing an awkward yet encouraging smile.

"Alright, Hanghang, I look forward to your success."

Thinking of Jiaojiao's domineering fighting prowess, and Great Bai, who had gradually ditched his gentle demeanor to firmly advance on the path of becoming the forest overlord, Chen Ying applied a little more medicine to Hanghang.

Good luck, kid!

Members of Hanghang's team came over to collect the sound data from the collar to analyze what Hanghang had experienced during its time in the wild.

Chen Ying didn't meddle with these tasks; his main focus was discussing the follow-up plan for Hanghang's release into the wild with the person in charge.

Xiaozhai Village was too close to the rescue station.

Great Bai had claimed this part of the forest, and Jiaojiao's territory currently overlapped with his, so Hanghang needed to venture farther to secure its own territory.

"During the previous release, we predicted Hanghang would head in this direction. This area had seen a panda before, but there have been no sightings recorded in a year and a half. I really don't know why Hanghang ended up at the rescue station."

The person in charge intended for Hanghang to return the way it came and then head north across the northwest animal trail to establish its territory.

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But if Hanghang could understand the person in charge, it wouldn't have ended up in Xiaozhai Village.

The person in charge looked at Chen Ying, words on the tip of his tongue, yet he felt too embarrassed to say them out loud.

Just as Chen Ying was considering whether to offer to give it a try, Hanghang moved.

"Two-legged beast, I'm leaving."

It took two steps forward, stopped, and looked back at Chen Ying.

"The bamboo here doesn't taste good. I want to follow the gully to the other side. Goodbye, and I hope we can meet again."

After saying that, Hanghang didn't linger any longer, shaking its plump body as it quickly dashed into the woods.

Hanghang's team decided to stay in the area for a day or two to monitor Hanghang's movements.

Chen Ying didn't stay either; he merely glanced at the outside of his family's old house before turning to leave.

He hadn't gone far when he saw Yin Li's mom and sister waiting for him at the crossroads.

"Take these to eat, and share them with Yin Li. That boy has been arguing with his dad and hasn't come home in a long time. Help Ah-Li keep an eye on him, so he doesn't get into trouble."

Yin Li's mom handed him a big backpack full of homemade food she'd made—dried meat, chili sauce, and a big jar of Chinese toon sauce that Chen Ying loved the most.

Yin Li's sister, holding a child, smiled at him and told the child to call him Uncle.

Chen Ying played with the child for a bit, then suddenly remembered the wolf fang given to him by the Tibetan elder on the mountain, which he took off and placed around the child's neck.

Before Yin Li's sister and mom could refuse, Chen Ying put on the backpack full of food and ran off.

On his way back to the rescue station, Chen Ying received a phone call from his teacher.

"I got a call for help, but I can't get away at the moment, so I hope you can go check it out for me."