Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 268: Caught in the act (Additional update, please give me a monthly ticket)

"This is the spot. Do you want to continue walking around or something else?"

Uncle Zhaxi parked the car at the place where the scientific expedition team had asked for help before.

The tops of the scientific expedition team’s tents can be seen not far away.

They are collecting water samples here, as well as investigating the surrounding environment and plants. It will probably take another two or three days to finish the work.

Without disturbing the scientific expedition team, Chen Ying rubbed Sister Lynx a few times and quietly asked her if she could smell any other lynxes.

"Yes, two." Sister Lynx was very capable. She analyzed the one she was interested in from the faint scent in the air.

"Aww, it's still around here, very close to those Twolegs."

Chen Ying followed Sister Lynx's gaze and found that there were no animals he wanted to see at the campsite on the edge of the swamp.

"Well, I'll go take a look and be back."

Sister Lynx’s target is a small tent.

In the field of view of Chen Ying's telescope, Sister Lynx nimbly went around the back of the tent, lowered her head to sniff, skillfully dug the soil twice, and then crawled under the tent.

Chen Ying exclaimed and handed the telescope to Uncle Zhaxi. Yin Li also saw the scene with a small telescope of his own.

"This lynx is amazing. Is there a hole there?"

Uncle Zhaxi's first reaction was to look at the sky and say, "It might rain tonight. If there is a hole, the tent will get wet."

Chen Ying rubbed his face and could only pat the back of the chair to let the uncle get closer to the scientific expedition team.

They have to explain this issue to their comrades in the scientific expedition team.

If there are valuables in the tent, they will be ruined if water gets in.

When the team leader saw Chen Ying coming, he came forward curiously.

"Why is Dr. Chen here today?"

"Excuse me, um, can I ask what's in that tent?"

Chen Ying pointed at the small tent and the team leader paused in confusion.

"They are just some commonly used supplies. It's inconvenient to find and use them in the car, so I put them all in here. What? Someone..."

"No, don't get me wrong, it's just, how about you go in and take a look?"

Chen Ying looked a little embarrassed, and while he was talking, he walked over there first.

When the other team members saw his actions, they stopped what they were doing curiously and followed his movements with their eyes.

Arriving at the door of the small tent, the team leader wanted to open the door but was stopped by Chen Ying.

"Wait, I'll do it."

He was worried that if the leader went too far forward and the door opened, the lynx would rush out and the team would be scared to death.

The door curtain was carefully lifted, and the light shone in, revealing two lynxes entangled together in the middle.

"What, what's going on?"

The team leader's expression froze, and he didn't know how to express the ten thousand words in his mind.

Sister Lynx jumped out of the tent first, ran to the side, squatted down and licked her paws.

The other lynx paused for a while before slowly walking out under the gazes of the crowd and standing not far from Sister Lynx.

"How did they get in?"

The team member in charge of logistics scratched his head and asked in doubt.

"I check it every day, and I don't see any cracks."

"Well, how about you take a closer look?"

Since Chen Ying said so, there must be something wrong.

Several young men gathered around and looked around the tent carefully. "Come here quickly, these two... are too cunning."

Suddenly, several people gathered over and saw a place where the mud was loose, and a gap had opened up along the bottom line.

But because there is grass blocking it, you can't see it unless you look carefully.

The team leader's face turned dark and he rushed into the tent. Behind a pile of debris, he saw the soil and grass leaves that the cricket pupae had entered.

These two lynxes are really smart. They know how to find an inconspicuous place to attack.

But it is probably a new cut. If it is used two more times, not only will the seam of the fabric be stretched, but the entire back part will not be as smooth as it is now, and it will be visible at a glance.

Everyone hurriedly checked the supplies in the tent.

Fortunately, there were canned food, flour, noodles and other things piled up in there. Except for an opened bag of dried meat that was damaged, everything else was intact.

"It's all my fault for being careless. If I had checked more..."

The team member who came in to get something this morning patted his head and looked dejected.

"It's okay. I'll make up for these things for you."

Uncle Zhaxi patted his chest and said, "I'll ask my family to send you a bag of dried meat when I get home."

"No, no, no, that's not necessary. We have enough supplies."

The team leader quickly refused, saying that it would be inappropriate if he really accepted it.

Besides, when going out for field scientific research, it is necessary to reserve extra supplies.

One is the fear of being trapped in the wild, and the other is that if they encounter danger, the supplies can also lure away wild animals and buy time for the trapped people to call for help.

The tent is still barely usable, but Uncle Tashi said it might rain tonight, so the tent must be repaired before evening.

"No need to mend it. We have a spare tent in the car, so we can just exchange it. We can take this one back and mend it and use it later."

The expedition team had sponsorship this time, so they were not so financially constrained. But they were all used to working in the wild, so they had to save when they could. No one knew what would happen next, so even if the tent was broken, it might save lives at a critical moment.

Chen Ying apologized to the scientific expedition team again and again, which made the deputy team leader even more polite. He said that the child was not raised by him, and if this continued, would they have to find the leaders of the relevant units to apologize to them?

This sentence made Chen Ying dare not speak again.

"You didn't come here just for our tent this time, did you?"

The team leader tried to smooth things over and changed the topic.

"We came here for it." Chen Ying tactfully took over the topic and raised his chin towards the lynx that had caused the accident.

"There were two lynxes among the group of animals surrounding you that day. We happened to have a female lynx over there, so we wanted to come over and see if we could let the two of them interact with each other."

The leader's expression froze for a moment, and he spoke unconfidently, "If I remember correctly, the mating season for lynx is in spring?"

"Of course you remember correctly, but that doesn't mean that lynxes don't show courtship behavior before spring. It's just that we don't know much about it, and each lynx has a different personality, so... it won't hurt to take a look, right?"

There is no way to refute this.

It seems that there is something going on between these two lynxes, otherwise the male would have run away long ago.

Chen Ying went over and rubbed Sister Lynx's ears.

"Well, do you want to continue looking?"

He said in a low voice. Sister Lynx glanced at the male lynx lying next to her sheepishly and said, "Not for now. Let's talk about it later."

"Okay, you two can just get along. I have to go back. I have a litter of kittens at home."

Patting Sister Lynx’s thick back, Chen Ying stood up and prepared to say goodbye.

Just as he turned around, he suddenly found that an animal seemed to appear on the opposite side of the lake.

He picked up the telescope and took a look, and was slightly surprised ((‖)).

Don't guess, it's just that the company's performance is not good, and the salary is still suppressed, which is a bit uncomfortable. This morning I heard that another department has not been paid for half a year, so two months doesn't seem so uncomfortable in comparison. (No, it's still uncomfortable o(╥﹏╥)o)

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