Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 518 - 471: Big Beauty Seeking Help in the Middle of the Night

Chapter 518: Chapter 471: Big Beauty Seeking Help in the Middle of the Night

Gao Ligon Mountain, with a vertical altitude of four thousand meters.

One mountain harbors four seasons, and a single region experiences different weather. The base is scorching, while the peak is icy cold.

This kind of environment nurtures various rare plants and animals, along with the mushrooms that people in Dian Province love the most.

From June to October is the best time to eat mushrooms. Although it’s nearing the end of October, within the complex mountainous environment of Gao Ligon Mountain, you can still find many edible mushrooms.

After Chen Ying performed surgery on the gibbon father and son, he ventured into the mountain with Dao Meihua’s two cousins.

The inn and lodge owners had already returned to Shennongjia and specially called Chen Ying to express their gratitude for connecting them with a prestigious family like the Dao family.

The lodge owner even sighed, saying that if Chen Ying were willing to open a pet hospital, with the backing of the Dao family and Professor Bai, he could easily become one of the top three in the country.

In contrast, the inn owner didn’t mention a word about this. He spent a bit more time with Chen Ying and Dao Meihua and could see that these two had their pursuits, different from businessmen like them.

Dao Meihua’s two cousins have contrasting personalities. One doesn’t like to talk and only enjoys collecting various minerals; it is said that his childhood dream was to become a meteorite hunter.

The other cousin, who interacted with Chen Ying at the Dao family’s beast hospital, is very talkative, capable of completing a group’s conversation KPI all by himself.

Moreover, this brother is obsessed with mushrooms. When he talks about them, words pour out like a river. He confessed that his favorite place as a child was the mushroom cultivation room.

That place is not suitable for humans, but he always managed to sneak in. If it weren’t for the robust surveillance system, his body would have been covered in mushrooms long ago.

The other team members held their laughter as he said this, while he was genuinely somewhat regretful, saying that dying in the mushroom room would be great as it would fulfill his dream of becoming mushrooms.

As soon as he said this, he was kicked in the butt by his other cousin, staggering a few steps, with no one stopping him, and eventually landed onto a pile of dung.

Luckily, it was Gaoligon antelope dung, plant-based!

Chen Ying awkwardly helped him up. The other person wasn’t angry at all; after cleaning himself up, he shrank his neck and didn’t dare to speak recklessly again.

"He’s always running his mouth, just asking for trouble."

The silent cousin gave his brother a glare and seriously explained to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying gave an awkward smile; he knew this talkative cousin was just being casual with his words.

"Brother Ang, we’re almost at the place where the gibbons were found. Should we set up camp or start searching first?"

"Let’s set up camp. Search won’t be completed in a day."

About a dozen people quickly divided the work and collaborated. Soon, two large tents and two single tents were set up.

What surprised Chen Ying was that the silent cousin from the Dao family chose to sleep in one of the big tents with the teammates.

While the talkative cousin’s tent was entirely printed with various mushroom designs, making it quite indescribable.

Chen Ying’s single tent was placed next to the talkative cousin’s tent, nestled between the two large tents.

After setting up camp, everyone began to split into teams to search.

The silent cousin stayed at the camp to command, while Chen Ying went with the talkative cousin to the place where the gibbons were found for another check.

"They were found here. The mother gibbon carrying her young died here, while the father was severely injured and hung upside down on a branch."

The team member who discovered the gibbon family described the situation at that time.

Chen Ying looked at the photos and then compared them with the actual environment, forming a hypothesis.

Upon careful search, he indeed found the clues he was looking for on the tree.

"It’s the clouded leopard, and it’s more than one. It’s likely that this gibbon family angered the clouded leopards, causing these originally solitary creatures to attack them in a group."

"Look here, the claw marks overlap, and the directions and depths are varied. Before coming, I checked the gibbons’ wounds, and the caliber size and bite marks differ slightly."

Chen Ying glanced at the talkative cousin. "I remember the guide in the team is a member of the forest protection team, right? Can you help ask if there’s any infrared camera installed nearby?"

The reply came quickly, saying that about three kilometers from here, a camera was installed, but it mainly monitored birds, focusing on the ground, so the chance of capturing arboreal felines is quite low.

"Shall we go take a look?"

Chen Ying frowned and thought for a moment, "Let’s contact the protection station first. If they can help, that’d be best. If not, we need their authorization to retrieve or replace the camera."

This is national property; it can’t be dismantled at will. Chen Ying is usually meticulous, not leaving any ground for criticism.

Before coming, he reported to the local wildlife rescue center and obtained permission, so he could directly check the camera upon retrieval, needing only to preserve the equipment.

The Dao family operates methodically, coordinating with the protection station to sponsor a new camera to replace the old one, and the protection station agreed, provided that the data was recovered. freeweɓnøvel~com

After completing the process, they hurried to replace the old camera before the nightfall. Chen Ying and the guide from the forest patrol officer extracted all the data from the camera to his computer.

Two hours later, Chen Ying noticed a fleeting shadow of a feline in one of the videos.

Upon careful examination, it indeed turned out to be a clouded leopard.

Further observation confirmed that at least three clouded leopards with different patterns were active in this area.

The clouded leopard, a subspecies of the stone pattern cat, is more numerous in neighboring countries than within our national territory.

Gaoligon Mountain Reserve is one of the regions where clouded leopards are relatively active.

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