Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 471 Da Piaoliang Seeking Help Late at Night
Gaoligong Mountain has a vertical elevation of 4,000 meters.

There are four seasons in one mountain, and the weather is different every ten miles. It is hot at the foot of the mountain and cold at the top.

Such an environment breeds a variety of rare animals and plants, as well as the fungi that are the favorite of the people of Yunnan Province.

June to October is a good time to eat mushrooms. Although it is close to the end of October, you can still find many edible mushrooms in the complex mountain environment of Gaoligong Mountain.

After Chen Ying finished the surgery on the gibbon father and son, she followed Dao Meihua’s two cousins ​​into the mountains.

The two owners of the inn and the villa have returned to Shennongjia. Before leaving, they called Chen Ying to thank her for connecting them with a big family like the Dao family.

The man from the villa even lamented that if Chen Ying was willing to open a pet hospital, with the support of the Dao family and Professor Bai, he would definitely be able to rank among the top three in the country.

On the contrary, the innkeeper did not mention this at all. He spent more time with Chen Ying and Dao Meihua, and could see that these two people had their own pursuits, unlike these businessmen.

Dao Meihua's two cousins ​​have very different personalities. One is very quiet and only likes to collect various minerals. I heard that his childhood wish was to be a meteorite hunter.

The other cousin is the one who deals with Chen Ying at Dao’s veterinary hospital. He talks a lot and can complete the topic KPI of an entire team by himself.

Moreover, this guy is obsessed with mushrooms. He can talk endlessly about mushrooms and revealed that his favorite place to stay when he was a child was the mushroom cultivation room.

That place is not suitable for humans at all, but he can sneak in every time. If it weren't for the powerful surveillance system, his body would have been covered with fungi.

When the other team members heard him say this, they all couldn't help laughing. Only he himself felt very regretful. He said that it would be great if he really died in the culture room, so that he could realize his dream of becoming a mushroom.

As soon as he finished speaking, he was kicked in the butt by another cousin. He staggered a few times, and no one around him could hold him back, and he ended up lying on a pile of shit.

Fortunately, it was the feces of Gaoligong antelope, a plant species!
Chen Ying went over to pull him up awkwardly, but the other party was not angry at all. After cleaning himself up, he shrank his neck and dared not say anything else.

"He always talks nonsense and deserves a beating."

The taciturn cousin glared at his younger brother and explained to Chen Ying seriously.

Chen Ying smiled awkwardly. He knew that his talkative cousin was just talking casually.

"Brother Ang, we are almost at the place where the gibbon was found. Should we set up camp first or search first?"

"Let's set up camp. The search cannot be completed in one day."

A dozen people quickly divided the work and cooperated with each other, and soon two large tents and two single tents were set up.

What Chen Ying didn't expect was that the taciturn cousin of the Dao family actually chose to sleep in a big tent with his teammates.

The patterns of various mushrooms printed on the talkative cousin's tent are really hard to describe.

Chen Ying's single tent was next to her talkative cousin's tent, sandwiched between the two large tents.

After setting up camp, everyone began to search in teams.

The silent cousin was in charge of the camp, while Chen Ying followed the talkative cousin to the place where the gibbon was found to check again.

"It was found here. The mother ape with her cub died here, and the male ape was seriously injured and hanging upside down on a branch."

The team member who discovered the gibbon family described the situation.

After looking at the photos and comparing them with the actual environment, Chen Ying had a guess.

After careful search, he found the clue he wanted on the tree.

"It's a clouded cat, and there's more than one. It's very likely that this family of gibbons angered the clouded cats. The clouded cats, which originally lived alone, attacked them in groups."

"Look here, the claw marks are repeated, but the directions and depths are different. I checked the gibbon's wounds before coming here, and there were also very slight differences in the caliber and tooth marks."

Chen Ying glanced at her chatterbox cousin and said, "I remember the guide in the team is also a member of the forest ranger team. Can you help me ask if there are any infrared cameras installed nearby?"

A reply came quickly, saying that there was a camera installed about three kilometers away from here, but that camera was mainly used to monitor poultry and was aimed at the ground, so the probability of photographing arboreal cats was estimated to be very low.

"Why don't you go take a look?"

Chen Ying frowned and thought for a moment, "Let's contact the management station first. It would be great if they can come to help. If not, let them authorize us to recycle the camera or replace it."

This is a national asset, and it cannot be demolished at will. Chen Ying has always been careful in doing things and will not leave any handle for herself to be criticized.

He had reported to the local wildlife rescue center before coming and obtained permission, so he could directly check the recovered cameras and just needed to keep the equipment safe.

The Dao family also had an order in their approach. They negotiated with the management station to sponsor a new camera to replace the previous one. The management station agreed, but required the data to be recycled.

After completing the process, they quickly replaced the old camera before it got dark. Chen Ying and the ranger guide exported all the data in the camera to his computer.

Two hours later, Chen Ying spotted a flash of a feline in a video.

After careful identification, it turned out to be a clouded leopard.

After continuing to watch, Chen Ying finally determined that there were at least three clouded leopards of different colors moving around in this area.

The clouded leopard is a subspecies of the stone cat, and its number in neighboring countries is greater than that found within our own borders.

The Gaoligong Mountain Nature Reserve is one of the areas where clouded leopards are more active.

After Chen Ying saved the relevant images of the three clouded leopards and analyzed them after enlarging them, he was almost certain that at least two of them participated in the siege of the gibbon family.

In the animal world, fights don’t care whether you are the best in the world or not. No matter how rare the species is, the surrounding party will show no mercy.

Early the next morning, the silent cousin took the team to look for minerals nearby, leaving the guide and the talkative cousin to accompany Chen Ying to look for the clouded leopard.

"Clouded leopards love to eat squirrels. The scarcity of squirrels in this area may be related to them."

On the way here, they were able to see quite a few squirrels and giant flying squirrels, but after searching for a long time here, they didn't see a single squirrel.

Although giant flying squirrels are not squirrels, they are also on the clouded leopard's menu.

It is very difficult to find a cat hiding in the vast forest.

This time, Chen Ying did not bring the small animals from the first aid station, so he had no idea how to find any animals to help him.

The main thing is that he stood here for such a long time and didn't see a single animal. It's simply unscientific.

"Brother Lei, why don't you and Brother Bian go back to the camp first, I'll wait for another half an hour, or I'll go back too."

He wasn't sure if it was because of his talkative cousin or his guide Brother Bian's inherent insulators, so he would get them out of the way first.

After the two left, Chen Ying waited for a while and decided to change places.

A few meters down the hillside is a woodland with a gentle slope.

I have seen several pheasants foraging nearby before.

He found a relatively secluded place and lay down. His clothes and hat were camouflaged to conceal his presence as much as possible.

After a long while, when Chen Ying was almost asleep, he was awakened by the sound of two pheasants fighting.

Looking closely, they turned out to be two gray peacock pheasants.

Two gray peacock pheasants were fighting under Chen Ying's nose. Their cries were clear and loud, and they were very cruel to their own kind. Soon, pieces of down feathers were flying everywhere.

When Chen Ying was filming the fight between peacock pheasants, he suddenly looked up and met the sight of a beautiful cat on the opposite tree. From the pattern and size of the cat, he could tell at a glance that it was an adult clouded cat.

But the pattern and color on its body are different from the three in the camera, so it should be the fourth clouded leopard.

The entire Gaoligong Mountain range is more than 600 kilometers long. Let alone four, even four hundred clouded leopards are not a lot.

But if there are four clouded leopards in such a small area at the same time, the ecological balance will definitely be unbalanced.

The beautiful clouded cat stared at Chen Ying for a while, then turned its gaze away, crouched down, and locked its sights on the gray peacock pheasants that were still fighting on the ground.

The two peacock pheasants were so engrossed in the fight that they had no idea that the killer star was approaching overhead.

At the moment when the winner was decided between the two, a fierce creature descended from the sky. The victorious peacock pheasant had just spread its wings to celebrate its victory when its neck was bitten off.

The other peacock pheasant was so scared that it hid in the bushes nearby, then chirped and flapped its wings to glide for several meters, crawling away from the scene.

The camera in Chen Ying's hand faithfully recorded this scene of extreme joy and tragedy.

Biting the peacock pheasant's body, the clouded leopard nimbly climbed up the tree and disappeared after a few jumps.

Chen Ying stood up, looked around for a while, patted the leaves off his body, and happily returned to the campsite.

"You got it?" Seeing his expression, the chatterbox cousin who was cooking mushroom soup asked, "Do you want to continue taking pictures?"

"I saw one. It has a different color than the previous three. I'm not sure if it participated in the siege."

Chen Ying imported the video from the camera into the computer. "This cat must be very young. It killed the peacock pheasant but didn't eat it. I suspect it was taking the prey back to feed it. As for whether it was feeding an adult cat or a kitten, I don't know."

He hoped to have some contact with the beautiful cat, or at least try to find out the cause of death of the gibbon family from it.

For the next two days, he had bad luck and never saw the beautiful cat.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, the nearby survey work was completed, and the silent cousin was going to lead the team to another survey point. Chen Ying's decision to stay alone was rejected by both brothers.

"It's not that we don't support you, it's just that the terrain in this area is very complicated. You're not familiar with it and it's easy for something to go wrong. And you've almost confirmed that it was Cloud Cat who did it, that's enough, do you still want to help Gibbon get revenge?"

Revenge and the like were just jokes. Chen Ying just felt that it was a rare opportunity to come here, so he wanted to stay for a while longer. It would be best if he could walk to the top of the mountain to see if there were other rare animals that had not been discovered.

The probability of this happening is low. Places with signals have been patrolled countless times, and going to remote areas without a guide, enough teammates and supplies would be tantamount to suicide.

"You guys don't leave until tomorrow, let me think about it."

Chen Ying looked around somewhat unwillingly.

If he cannot stay, he will have to continue moving forward with the team tomorrow. There is a village about one thousand meters above sea level at the foot of the mountain, and he can take a bus from there back to the Dao family base camp.

The teams of the two cousins ​​also have to go to the village to replenish supplies and rest for a night.

That night, Chen Ying did not sleep well. In a daze, he seemed to hear something scratching the tent.

Although his single tent was right next to the big tent, there was still no shelter on one side.

Could it be that some rat was digging a hole and trying to dig up his tent?

Chen Ying didn't turn on the light and listened for a while in the dark. The sound came from the left side of his head.

He quietly turned on the screen of his mobile phone, and in the dim light, he shone it towards the place where the sound came from. A head was propped up against the tent cloth, forming a semicircular shape.

Although his tent is a single-person tent, it has a door and a window.

The window was right above his head and the zipper was on the inside, so there was no way to open it from the outside.

Fortunately, he is brave, otherwise he would be so scared if he encountered such a situation in the wild.

He stretched out his finger and gently poked the semicircular object, and the other party seemed to freeze.

But after a few seconds, the scratching sound became louder and faster.

Chen Ying decided to go all out and simply opened the window, holding the baton in his hand.

The guy didn't expect that after spending a long time trying to scratch out a crack, a cut suddenly appeared on his head.

It didn't hesitate and just took a half step back and jumped in through the opening.

As it jumped in, Chen Ying turned on the camp light.

The sudden light made the little animal that broke in at night meow, close its eyes and turn its head away, its body stiffening for a moment.

"Is it you?" It was the beautiful cat that I saw before catching peacock pheasants.

"Come to me so late, what's wrong?"

"Meow, can you heal illnesses?"

The beautiful cat adapted to the light. Under Chen Ying's gaze, it raised its head and looked at him, and meowed quickly.

"Mom is getting sick, and my brother and sister are also sick. Can you save them?"

Chen Ying didn't have time to ask what was going on, and simply nodded, "I can go and take a look, but I can't guarantee that I can save him."

It was obvious that Maomao was very anxious, so he didn't waste any time. He put on a set of clothes, put on a first aid kit, and decisively opened the tent door.

"Come on, you lead the way, don't go on the trees, I'm not as strong as you."

The team members on night watch saw Chen Ying coming out and were about to ask him who he was talking to when they saw a cat running out of the tent.

The people in the other tents also woke up and stuck their heads out.

Chen Ying didn't have time to explain in detail. After saying "go check out the situation" to the silent Brother Ang, he chased the beautiful cat into the darkness.

"Oh my god, it's late at night...how about I follow them?"

The team member who was speaking was about to reach out for his coat but was stopped by Ang.

"No need, he's very fast, you won't be able to catch up and you'll easily get lost."

Although Angge is taciturn, he is very observant. He looked inside the open tent door, went over to help close the window, and after fastening the zipper, he turned off the camp light and closed and locked the tent door from the outside.

"You guys take a rest first, Lao Chai and I will just wait for him to come back."

Seeing this, the others continued to lie down and sleep, while Ang Ge and Lao Chai, the team member who was on guard, sat back by the fire.

"Brother Ang, this Doctor Chen is extraordinary. Can he understand what animals say?"

Lao Chai asked in a low voice. He was a local who believed in some legends, and he showed a bit of enthusiasm for Chen Ying's abnormal behavior tonight.

"A-mei said that he is just good at observing the behavior of animals and understanding their psychology. He has studied something called 'Animal Psychology'. Lao Chai, don't be too superstitious. Believe in science."

Hearing what Ang said, Lao Chai laughed dryly, stared at the orange-red fire and said nothing more.

(End of this chapter)