Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 381 It’s hard to say it in one word, so I’ll just keep silent
After separating, Chen Ying and Shu Nan continued along the planned route, while the others turned and headed towards the management station.

This time they didn't walk too far. Chen Ying found a crack under the rock wall and stopped. He set up two tents and still put up a small canopy in the middle.

The canopy is designed to prevent plant matter, dirt or small insects from the rock wall above from falling into their pots and bowls.

"We will stay here for three days. Are you scared to be here alone?"

This is one of the permanent locations for giant pandas given by Xiong Youming. There are two bamboo forests nearby and a small herd of water deer.

The only problem is that the water source is a bit far away. You need to go down to the foot of the mountain to find a stream.

If they wanted to go down from where they were, there was an animal trail about ten meters away, or they could go around a little further and slowly slide down the slope.

On the first day, Shu Nan was a little scared when he stayed in the camp alone. He became extremely nervous at the slightest disturbance. It was not until around four o'clock in the afternoon when Chen Ying came back with the collected samples that he breathed a sigh of relief.

"You can't do this, Brother Nan. You'll probably have to guard the camp alone later on. If you're this nervous, your body won't be able to handle it."

"It's okay, I'm just not used to it since it's my first time out. I will try my best to overcome it."

Since everyone said so, Chen Ying didn't say anything more.

After putting the samples away, I started giving Shu Nan field practice lessons.

Shu Nan studied biology in college, and the school also arranged for them to go out for field research and practice, twice in total, each time for ten days.

Moreover, they took their field practice classes with teachers and classmates, and stayed in the dormitory building of the practice base at night, and never actually spent the night in the wild.

The lesson Chen Ying taught him was not an advanced theoretical class. It just talked about the things a person needs to pay attention to when in the wild, as well as issues such as getting water and food.

Shu Nan has learned a lot by following everyone in the wild these days.

But the division of labor in a team is very detailed, and he only learned some camping skills. Many things require accumulation of experience.

Chen Ying chatted with him while cooking dinner.

While it was still early, he could take a nap after eating, and then get up at one or two in the morning to let Shu Nan go to bed.

If he were alone, he wouldn't be so worried and would just take safety measures and go to sleep.

But if there are two people, especially one of them is a novice, he is afraid that Shu Nan will not dare to close his eyes if he does not arrange night duty.

Sure enough, when he woke up at around one o'clock, Shu Nan was very sleepy, but he was still forcing himself to stay awake, standing in front of the fire with a wooden stick.

Chen Ying moved around for a while, and after waking up, she told Shu Nan to go to sleep quickly.

Shu Nan didn't bother to be polite with Chen Ying. He was also extremely sleepy, so he fell into the tent and started snoring within ten seconds.

Chen Ying turned on the camping light, kept the fire burning, and started reading.

At about three or four o'clock, there was a rustling sound nearby. Chen Ying grabbed the wooden stick and looked vigilantly towards the direction where the sound came from.

Half a minute later, two familiar heads popped up.

"How did you two find me here?"

Chen Ying laughed softly, walked over and led the two leopards to rest next to his tent.

Wild animals don't like fire, and leopards are no exception. They chose a place far away from the fire and lay down.

The leopard brothers whimpered quietly for a while, and the injured leopard even stretched out his painful leg to show Chen Ying.

The skin was a little broken where the hair had fallen off, and it was stained with dirt and rotten leaves, and it looked a little infected and red.

Chen Ying quickly took out the first aid kit, cleaned the wound, applied medicine powder on it, and wrapped it with gauze and bandages.

The leopard retracted its legs, put its nose close to the thing and sniffed it, then sneezed, then raised its head and looked at Chen Ying with an innocent face.

"It's a bit irritating to the nose, but the effect is very good. Don't worry, it will be healed in two days."

After saying that, he touched the place where it fell yesterday.

When touched, the leopard trembled slightly, but did not cry out in pain.

Chen Ying took out the blood-activating and collateral-unblocking medicine she had prepared and sprayed it on the affected area. After the medicine had dried completely, she let the animal move freely.

The two leopards must have come to him because they were full. Now they were sleepy, so they bit out his small blanket from the tent, and then they huddled together and lay on it, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Chen Ying laughed and shook his head, then continued reading his book.

Around five o'clock, he woke up the two leopards, left a note for Shu Nan, and prepared to try his luck in another bamboo forest.

There was some luck, but not much.

There are two giant pandas eating bamboo in the bamboo forest, one big and one small, and it is obviously a mother cat with her cubs.

After discovering Chen Ying and the two leopards, the mother cat made an attacking move, and the panda cub quickly climbed up the tree nearby.

In fact, leopards can also climb trees, but these two leopards were obviously timid. After feeling the threat from the mother panda, they retreated quickly, not forgetting to bite Chen Ying's clothes and pants as they walked away.

One of them bit the clothes and the other bit the pants, and Chen Ying almost fell down. Her pants were pulled to reveal her briefs.

Even though there were no girls around, Chen Ying was still extremely embarrassed and angry. He slapped the heads of the two leopards, pulled up his pants and clothes, and retreated while cursing.

The mother panda did not chase them, but stood where she was, obviously not understanding how the three in front of her got together.

After they were some distance away, the mother panda called out to the tree, and the cub quickly climbed down the tree and ran away, bouncing behind her.

I originally wanted to say hello to the mother panda, get close to her, and then get some information, but my plan was ruined by the two stupid guys around me.

Forget it, what else can I say since I saved the leopard myself.

There was no gain in the bamboo forest, so Chen Ying thought about it and decided to take a walk to the river and fetch some water.

The herd of sambar deer was not directly below their camp, but about fifty or sixty meters downstream, where the water flow was slower and there was a beach on both sides. Many aquatic plants grew in the shallows, attracting many herbivorous animals to forage for food, and many animals also went there to drink water.

My luck today is really bad. There are no animals near the shallows right now.

The two leopards ran over and punched for a while. The more agile leopard suddenly jumped into the water. Ten seconds later, it came ashore with a palm-sized fish in its mouth.

These two guys must have eaten a lot of fish in the past, and they could shave off a piece of meat just by rolling their tongues.

The cold-water fish in this stream don't have many bones, but they are not very big either. One fish is only enough to fill a gap between your teeth.

Another leopard leaped across the shallows and ran to the opposite woods in search of prey.

When Chen Ying filled the water tank, it ran over excitedly with the prey in its mouth.

It is still the most common rabbit in the mountains and is at the bottom of the food chain.

However, this rabbit looks a little malnourished, with a very slim body and probably less than 2 taels of meat.

Seeing its brother catching the rabbit, the other leopard also rushed to the other side. It took a little longer, and it ran over with a little wild boar in its mouth. Behind it, a female wild boar chased out of the woods aggressively.

Chen Ying shouted "Oh shit" and quickly ran up the slope with the water bottle in hand.

Fortunately, after the sow discovered that there were two leopards, she became frightened and stood at the edge of the woods and cursed for a long time before turning around and running into the woods.

As for the little piglets, there’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s not like they can’t give birth!
A piglet weighs at least 20 pounds, and even after skinning and removing bones it weighs more than 10 pounds. It cannot fully satisfy the appetite of the two leopards, but it is enough to sustain them until the next meal.

The uneaten piglets are thrown on the grass on the shore, and other animals will come to help clean up the mess. Just don't let them rot in the water.

The two leopards also understood this, and the place where they ate meat was about seven or eight meters away from the water source.

After they finished eating, Chen Ying took pictures and even found two pieces of green rice dumpling residue that were a bit old.

Apparently, this is also where giant pandas come to drink water.

He looked around and found the infrared camera properly placed among the rocks under the cliff.

After checking whether the camera was still usable, Chen Ying called the two leopards to follow him. They had to go back to have breakfast first and then look for the traces of the sambar deer herd.

Brother Xiong Youming said that in the photos taken several times of the carnivorous giant panda, it was eating water deer meat and occasionally antelope meat.

Although the photos did not capture pandas killing animals, modern research on panda teeth shows that their premolars have well-developed cusps, while their molars are thick and have many tubercles, which can grind and crush bamboo stems.

So although their main food is bamboo, they can also tear the skin of their prey.

When they returned to the camp, Shu Nan had already gotten up to boil water and make breakfast. He also picked up Chen Ying's quilt and dusted it off, curious about how the quilt ended up on the ground outside.

Hearing footsteps, he turned around and almost sprained his waist.

"Brother Ying, what are you doing..."

Seeing Chen Ying coming back with two leopards following him, one on the left and one on the right, Shu Nan's expression changed like a kaleidoscope.

"Don't be afraid, they won't hurt anyone."

Chen Ying put down the kettle and patted the two leopards on the heads.

One of the leopards walked over, grabbed the small blanket from Shu Nan's stiff hand and pulled it hard, then dragged the blanket to the angle between Chen Ying's tent and the mountain wall, and threw it casually. The two leopards lay down on it and fell asleep again with the small blanket as pillows.

Shu Nan felt like he didn't know what to say, so he just said nothing and quietly cooked to calm his mood.

Chen Ying didn't know how to explain it. Since the other party didn't ask, he didn't have to make an excuse.

"Brother Ying, should I go out with you? It should be okay for the camp to be here, right?"

Their place is far away from human habitation, so there is no need to worry about anyone stealing things unless wild animals come to cause damage.

Chen Ying thought about it and agreed to take him out.

Since he was in this line of work, it seemed that Shu Nan was not willing to stay in the office all the time. Although the administrative route was easy, it was also difficult to get promoted.

If he has connections and has achieved results, it will be relatively easy for him to get promoted.

After breakfast, the two locked the tent door, covered the equipment with waterproof bags, and pressed stones around it, so that it could not be opened unless it was a large wild animal.

The two leopards sleeping in the corner were still sleeping soundly. Chen Ying didn't greet them and took Shu Nan to the place where the water deer often appeared.

(End of this chapter)