Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 326 Mother Bear’s Help

Chen Ying couldn't answer this question, and the atmosphere in the car remained heavy.

Although the rescue team leader felt that the patrol team members would not stray too far from the established route, in the absence of any clues, he still agreed to follow Chen Ying and the others to the nearest large lake to take a look.

Anyone who has been to the grassland knows that there is a saying that goes "a horse will die if it runs too fast to reach the mountain", and this is the situation they are facing now.

Next to the big lake is a snow-capped mountain. The glacier on the top of the mountain can be seen from afar, but after running for a whole day, it still seems out of reach.

At night, we found a suitable place to stop and rest.

The plateau is physically demanding, and even though we were driving or taking a bus, we had to carefully explore the surroundings along the way, which was quite mentally exhausting. Plus the mental pressure, everyone looked exhausted.

The two young guys volunteered to keep watch so that the teachers could have more rest.

After setting up the tent, Chen Ying also released the drone and flew it around, but found nothing.

"Why does the grassland here feel even more desolate than ours? There aren't even many animals." Chen Ying muttered to Yin Li.

The captain of the rescue team came over to look at the screen, then touched his head in confusion.

"It shouldn't be that serious. I remember there are two relatively large groups of Tibetan antelopes and Tibetan wild donkeys here. There are also a herd of seven or eight yaks wandering between the two lakes all year round."

Other animals may be able to dig holes to hide, but animals like yaks and Tibetan antelopes cannot.

In winter, these animals gather in large herds, gathering together at night to protect themselves from the cold winds and freezing temperatures.

Some groups spend the night in the leeward part of the valley and come out to forage for food during the day.

In this season, food is scarce and they spend most of the day searching for food, so they can be seen wandering around during the day.

But now we can’t see it, which is a bit unusual.

At around three o'clock in the morning, Chen Ying seemed to hear the howling of a wolf.

I woke up instantly, sat up and looked around, and saw that my companions who were huddled together had all opened their eyes.

"No way, there are wolves?"

"They're a bit far away, so they're probably not nearby. But from the sounds of it, there seem to be quite a few of them."

Chen Ying quickly put on her clothes and came out of the tent. She saw the two guys in charge of night watch standing on the roof of the car, looking around with binoculars.

"Doctor Chen, the wolves are in the direction of our destination."

When they saw him coming out, the two young men jumped out of the car, stamped their feet, and stayed outside for more than twenty minutes, their bodies almost frozen.

"Okay, I'll take a look. You two can go in and take a rest. Don't freeze to death."

Chen Ying turned on the equipment in the car, hoping to try his luck and see if he could see where Jin Ya and Erniu were.

Before he could take out the equipment, he looked up inadvertently and was almost scared to death.

On the opposite window glass, a furry face was pressed against it.

Looking closely, it turned out to be Erniu.

Chen Ying hurriedly got out of the car, walked around the front of the car, hugged Erniu, and looked at its little furry face.

In such cold weather, you're still trying to press your face against the glass.

Erniu licked Chen Ying with her tongue and said, "I asked the leopards around, and they said they saw the bipeds and went to where there was more water."

"By the way, the leopard also said that those people were driven away by a group of delicious meat. They also startled a few bears on the way."

Chen Ying's face changed, and he subconsciously pinched Erniu's hand.

Erniu bared her teeth, lowered her head and lightly bumped into Chen Ying, but said nothing.

"I see. Where's Jin Ya? She's not with you?"

"It met a fellow of its kind, who asked it to take it to find those two-legged beasts. Jinya asked me to come back to find you. It said it could smell you."

Chen Ying was silent for a moment. He did take a shower, really!
After Erniu finished speaking, she wanted to leave again, but Chen Ying grabbed her by the back of the neck.

"Don't run away. Come with us tomorrow morning."

"No, I agreed with Leopard to go find Jinya together. His wife and cubs are also there, and I want to go over to see if they are hungry."

He only knew that Jin Ya was a lynx, but he didn't expect that he would also raise Erniu here.

Chen Erniu, determined to become a social gangster among leopards, with friends all over the world, and knows everything about the grassland!

Chen Ying picked up the telescope and took a look. Although it was not very clear, he could vaguely see a black guy wandering around a hundred meters away.

Okay, it’s good to know that Erniu is here. He can track and find Erniu’s location based on the receiver.

After a simple breakfast, they set off before daybreak.

Chen Ying resolutely asked Yin Li to walk towards the larger lake, and through the intercom, asked the drone operator in the car behind to pay attention to whether there were any wolves gathering around, or whether there were any large herds of yaks.

When we walked onto the patrol route, we saw the makeshift camp stationed there.

The first search and rescue team left manpower and supplies here to continue the search and rescue.

When one of the team members heard that they were going to the big lake, he slapped his forehead.

"There is a wooden house left by the lake. It was left by the geological, hydrological and environmental monitoring scientific expedition team last year. Captain, you haven't been on this route for the past two years, so you may not be very familiar with it. How could I have forgotten it?"

As he spoke, he slapped himself twice.

"They don't usually go there, and they don't even think about the existence of this house. If they really encounter a situation, they will probably go there to look for opportunities."

Hearing this, the search and rescue team members didn't waste any more time and just stepped on the accelerator and rushed over there.

After walking more than ten kilometers, Chen Ying discovered something unusual.

"Look, there are more vultures and bearded vultures here."

“Are there a lot of dead bodies over there?”

In winter, bearded vultures and buzzards gather in such large numbers. There must be a lot of food being found, otherwise they would have gone to spend the winter in a slightly warmer place with more food.

A marked point suddenly appeared on Chen Ying's device, indicating that Erniu was moving at high speed.

After a while, several big cats appeared in sight.

However, three of them stopped when they were more than 500 meters away, and gathered together to watch Erniu running towards the convoy.

"Oh, we found two-legged beasts, they are dying. There are also many wolves, and the big bear is dying too."

"Give the meat to my friends, they are hungry."

Without saying a word, Chen Ying took half a sheep and two rabbits from the car and put them on the grass next to the convoy.

"You stay with your friend and eat something, we have to rush over to rescue people."

Erniu jumped into the car and said, "Just let them eat here by themselves. I'll go with you."

Erniu howled at the three snow leopards twice, jumped into the car and urged Chen Ying to hurry up.

Not far away, we saw a lot of carnivorous beasts roaming around.

Wolves were in the majority, and they were in small packs, about six or seven in a pack.

There were also quite a few leopards and lynxes. They were very wary of each other but refused to leave, as if they were waiting for the signal to eat.

Farther away, a group of more than twenty brown and yellow wild yaks were running wildly to vent their anger.

"I saw the wheel tracks, heading toward the lake."

Two drones flew out one after the other, and the images were transmitted back soon.

An old wooden house appeared in front of everyone by the lake, with two cars parked next to it, blocking the door and windows, one in front and one behind.

Not far from the wooden house, there were the corpses of no less than ten wolves, and a half-grown brown bear lying on the ground.

Further away, five or six wolves were attacking a brown bear, and two lynxes were helping the brown bear to kill the wolves.

Chen Ying recognized that one of them was Jin Ya, and the other one was more powerful than Jin Ya. She fought against two wolves alone.

As soon as the car stopped, Erniu screamed and rushed over to help Jinya fight.

A large group of bearded vultures and buzzards surrounded the wolf carcass. Two vultures were watching the half-grown brown bear and trying to eat it.

When we got closer, we found that in addition to the visible wolf carcass, there were also a lot of bones scattered among the dry grass on the ground.

The bear cub was lying face down, and it didn't look alive. Chen Ying didn't bother to check it carefully, and just took a cotton coat and covered the bear to prevent it from being pecked by vultures.

The appearance of the convoy scared away the group of large birds. But they did not completely leave, but retreated a few meters and watched the new two-legged beasts vigilantly.

The rescue team split into two groups. Yin Li, Chen Ying, and the forest police went to drive away the wolves, while the others pushed open the car blocking the door to check on the missing team members. After entering, they found that in addition to the already weak team members, there was also a bear cub about the same size as the dead bear cub outside, huddled with the team members.

When the team members lying on the ground saw their rescue companions found them, they couldn't help crying.

Chen Ying, Yin Li, and several other forest police drove the wolves away with vehicles and made noise with car horns, long sticks, and machetes, and finally scared away the wolves.

The wolves also did not leave completely. Instead, they ran forty or fifty meters and wandered around the periphery, staring at them fiercely with their bright green eyes, as if they would counterattack at any time.

After the wolves left, the big bear sat down exhausted and rested for a long time before struggling to get closer to the cabin.

Chen Ying discovered that this bear was actually a familiar bear.

It was the mother bear I met at the Zhuonai Lake in the summer.

Thinking of this, he looked back at the little brown bear lying motionless, and felt indescribably uncomfortable.

The mother bear did not go into the house. She walked around the wooden house, went to the child, pulled open the clothes covering the child, made a whining sound, and licked the child's head desperately.

Chen Ying followed, turned the little bear over, and touched its chest, but could not find any heartbeat.

The big bear pushed him away and wanted to take the child away, but after taking two steps, he suddenly remembered that there was still a child, so he let go and made a hoarse cry.

The bear cub in the cabin was also in a bad condition. It was injured, hungry, cold, and frightened, making it unable to stand.

Hearing his mother's call, the bear cub opened his mouth but couldn't make a sound.

"Stop yelling. Your child is in a very bad condition. You can't leave with him. Stay here. I will heal him."

Mother Bear groaned twice and sat down on the ground dejectedly.

Chen Ying picked up the little bear cub from the ground, walked into the cabin, wrapped it in her coat, and placed it on the ground near the door.

He took the plastic box down from the car and took out the mutton, wanting Mother Bear to eat something and take a rest first.

He examined the other bear cub and fed it some paste made of milk powder and nutrient powder.

The rescued rangers themselves were feeling very cold and uncomfortable, but they still protected the bear cub very well.

"If it weren't for the mother bear, we would have been eaten by the wolves long ago."

The members of the forest patrol team looked at the mother brown bear with complicated eyes.

They came out with two missions this time, one was routine mountain patrol, and the other was to inspect the wild yak herds between the two lakes.

At the end of the expedition, when they were about to embark on their return journey, they discovered a group of wild golden yaks.

They are experts and know not to get too close to wild yaks.

Yaks are hot-tempered creatures. Especially when they see humans and cars, they will feel threatened and will actively attack.

They took some photos from a distance, marked it on the map and prepared to leave.

Unfortunately, not long after they walked forward, they encountered a pack of wolves.

This is a large group of wolves, about twenty or so.

The wolves followed them for three days. During that time, they tried every means to drive them away but failed. They did not dare to sleep too deeply at night for fear that the wolves would swarm over them.

Because of the presence of the wolves and some problems with the car, they planned to stay by a small lake for a night to repair the car and replenish fresh water.

Unexpectedly, the wolves attacked that night.

"We didn't have many self-defense weapons at the time, and the blowtorch was used to hit the wolves. We also lost two sets of sleeping bags."

In a panic, they rushed to leave, but the navigation didn't work when driving at night, so they lost their way and even ran into the group of resting wild yaks on the road.

The wild yaks felt threatened and charged directly towards the convoy.

They didn't dare to slow down, and had no time to determine the direction, and were pushed away from the correct path by the yak herd.

When it was dawn and the yaks gave up chasing them, they realized they had taken the wrong path, but they didn't have enough gas in the car and didn't dare to stop to refuel.

The pack of wolves and other carnivores followed them without giving up.

"Luckily the captain remembered there was a cabin here, so we drove right over. We had planned to outlast the wolves here, refuel, and then go back. But not only did the wolves not leave, another group of wolves came to join the siege."

"What about those three bears? Why are they confronting the wolves?"

"Those three bears are helping us."

Speaking of these three bears, the team members' expressions were also very confused.

They encountered these three bears on their way to the board house.

At that time, I thought we were all doomed. On the grassland, with bears in front and wolves behind, wasn't this a doomed end?

Unexpectedly, when their situation was most critical, the three bears actually attacked the wolves, giving them a chance to catch their breath and hide in the cabin.

The ranger was about to continue speaking when the young man in charge of the drone in the rescue team suddenly shouted.

"Doctor Chen, come and take a look. This little bear seems to have moved."

Chen Ying quickly stuffed the well-fed little bear in her arms into the mother bear's arms, and he rushed over and picked up the bear cub along with his clothes.

After careful inspection, it was found that the cub's heartbeat could indeed be felt.

This little guy must have been in a state of suspended animation. Unexpectedly, even its mother was fooled.

As if it wasn't dead, Chen Ying quickly gave the little bear an injection to stabilize its condition, then added a bottle of milk powder and tried to let it suck and swallow on its own.

At first, the little bear cub made almost no swallowing movement, but the milk overflowing from the pacifier slowly seeped into its mouth. As if it sensed the familiar taste, the little bear cub smacked its lips hard.

The patrol members watched Chen Ying nervously as she treated the bear cub, and only when it started sucking on the bottle did they all heave a sigh of relief.

"This little bear cub is very strong. Together with its mother, it helps us resist those vicious wolves."

The other bear was weaker and was the first to be injured. When the team members were hiding, they brought it in as well.

Only now did Chen Ying feel like explaining.

"In the summer, these three bears lived with us for a while at Zhuonai Lake. We rescued the bear cubs at that time, and the mother bear came to stay with us until the Tibetan antelopes returned and then separated."

The forest rangers showed expressions of sudden enlightenment on their faces.

"No wonder. How could a brown bear get close to humans and help fight against wolves?"

They had never even heard of the brown bear who was grateful and repaid the favor, but now they were actually being helped.

The rescue team members did not ask about the specific situation. The leaders would definitely ask more details after returning. The most urgent task was to let the rescued team members eat and drink well and rest, and then leave here.

Chen Ying left the little bear, who had regained some consciousness, to the care of its mother, and went out to greet Jin Ya and Erniu.

Hearing Chen Ying's voice, Jin Ya and Erniu ran over directly.

The ferocious lynx did not move. After looking at Chen Ying, it continued to eat - tearing the wolf corpse with a ferocious look on its face.

The two bear cubs must be taken back for examination as they are occupying the animal cages in the car.

Jin Ya and Er Niu can sit in the back seat of the car, but how Xiong Mama will take them away is a big problem.

The truck they drove in this time had no truck bed, and if they wanted to transport the mother bear, they had to at least prepare a transfer cage.

"We can follow you." Jin Ya was more intelligent and rubbed her head against Erniu. "Erniu and I will take turns accompanying Daxiong. You walk slower so we can catch up."

This is a solution.

The brown bear is not slow and has great endurance. Most importantly, it can communicate, which makes it very powerful.

Chen Ying checked the two bear cubs and found that they were basically uninjured. They were just a little exhausted from being frightened and hungry.

Moreover, the older cub followed his mother to fight the wolves and was not bitten to death or injured by the wolves. He was really lucky.

In cases like this, no special rescue is needed. Just let them eat well and rest well, and they will recover on their own after a while.

Chen Ying and his companions could not stay on the grassland for too long. Besides, many wolves had died here. Once the humans left, the wolves would probably come back for revenge. It was hard to say whether the mother bear could resist alone at that time.

So they had no choice but to let Mother Bear follow them and leave here.

After making sure that the patrol members did not have any serious problems, Chen Ying suggested that they leave as soon as possible.

At some point, the scattered wolves outside showed signs of gathering again, and there were quite a few of them.

The team members who had been besieged for several days were eager to go back and reunite with their families as soon as possible.

They quickly packed up their things, changed people to drive the two patrol vehicles, and the convoy set off. On the grassland nearby, Jin Ya and Er Niu accompanied Bear Ma and followed the convoy.

(End of this chapter)