Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 439 The Goddess of Childbirth must have counted wrongly

Follow the path into the forest and you will be amazed by the view.

Everyone knows that the vegetation in Saishang Jiangnan is dense, but he didn't expect to see tropical rainforests here on the plateau.

The place where Xiaojin's signal stayed was four kilometers northeast of the institute. It was a sparsely populated place, and except for researchers, locals would not easily enter.

"Teacher Chen, please slow down. The road here is very difficult to walk on. There is a lot of moss and the stones are slippery. When I first came here, I would fall every time I walked on this road. I never walked out clean."

The three researchers took Chen Ying inside and introduced the surrounding situation to him as they walked.

"When I came here two years ago, I rescued a jungle cat. I thought it was a stray cat and planned to take it home to raise. But the more I looked at it, the more I felt something was wrong. Finally, I took a photo and sent it to my classmate who studies animals. He then told me that if I raised it, I could probably eat free meals for a few years."

The young man who was talking was a plant researcher. When he first came, the other young people were not familiar with each other. It was also the first time he came alone to collect plant samples. If he had had a companion, he would not have been so happy to get the silver bracelet.

"You went into the jungle alone?"

"No, usually there are two or three people in a team. That time I wanted to collect some soil samples, so I went out alone. Anyway, I didn't walk far, probably only about a kilometer."

"The jungle cat was lying near a small water hole. It had no strength at all, and its fur was wet. It looked very pitiful. Later I took it back to the vet for treatment, and after I let it go, I never saw it again. Alas, it was a cruel and heartless little cat."

There is no shortage of cats here. There are tigers, leopards, snow leopards and clouded leopards. There are also many golden cats, clouded leopards, jungle cats and leopard cats. It can be said that the Grand Canyon is a paradise for animals and plants and a natural treasure trove of biological genes.

If you chat and laugh, the road won’t seem difficult.

After a difficult journey, they soon arrived at where the signal was.

"It's right in front, and the signal hasn't moved yet."

The student in charge of finding the signal gestured with the instrument and confirmed that they had reached the destination, but after looking around, they couldn't find the collar.

Chen Ying suddenly felt something and looked up. She saw a collar hanging on a branch, as if mocking them.

After struggling to poke the collar off, I carefully checked it and found that it was intact. Xiao Jin must have taken the whole collar off. But why did he hang it on the tree? Did he intend to never come back?
Chen Ying was a little worried, so he discussed it with a few of his friends. They planned to search the area to see if there were any other discoveries.

"The terrain here is not complicated, it's just a typical jungle area. Going east, you can enter the river valley area, where there is a big difference in altitude, the climate and geology are very complex, and there is also a river valley swamp. We dare not enter easily without a local guide."

They spread out to look for Xiao Jin's whereabouts, but they couldn't go too far, and could only move within a range of 500 meters at most. They all carried walkie-talkies with them, and retreated immediately if they encountered danger, and were not allowed to show off their bravery.

Four people went in four directions. Chen Ying went to the southwest, which looked like he was walking back, but the angle was different, and the search range was very close to where he came from.

After walking for a while and passing through a large tree that had fallen across the forest, Chen Ying discovered that there were many living creatures here, especially birds and insects.

Birds are okay, they can communicate a little bit, but as for insects, can you still expect them to know what a golden cat is?

He walked under a big tree and looked up to see a little squirrel holding its face and looking at him affectionately.

Chen Ying thought for a moment, then took out the dried fruits he had prepared in advance from his bag, placed them in his palm, and motioned for the little squirrel to get them himself.

As expected, the little squirrel came down very happily, grabbed the dried fruit from Chen Ying's hand and stuffed it into his mouth, and soon his cheeks were visibly bulging.

"Squeak, there are bad things ahead that want to eat us, don't go over there."

Seeing Chen Ying was about to move forward, the little squirrel anxiously hugged his fingers and squeaked non-stop.

"It's okay. I'm very strong." Chen Ying raised his sandbag-sized fist and shook it in front of the little squirrel, and the little guy suddenly jumped up the tree.

"Squeak, be careful, I'm leaving first."

Hey, this is a little creature that knows how to seek benefits and avoid harm.

After seeing it crawl into the tree hole, Chen Ying took a photo and continued forward.

The animals that are bad guys for squirrels are definitely those species that feed on them, and golden cats are one of them.

After walking another fifty meters, I heard the sound of water.

When we got there, we found that it was a small spring gushing water. The water was flowing down the hillside, and had already formed the outline of a small stream.

There are many traces of animal activities here, and Chen Ying has no way of telling whether there are Xiao Jin's footprints among these traces.

He had thought that he might be able to encounter some animals and ask about their situation, but he didn't know if he was too lucky, but the journey was smooth and quiet, and the little squirrel was the only small animal he met with which he could communicate.

A voice came over the walkie-talkie that one of the friends had found traces of a bear in a tree stump hole and asked everyone to be careful.

Judging from the fur, the creature staying in the tree hole should be a black bear.

He is now retrieving a nearby infrared camera in the hope of getting a photo of the black bear.

Chen Ying paused and continued to move forward. After walking more than 20 meters along the stream, he heard a slight noise. He took a step back, looked up vigilantly, but found nothing unusual.

But his intuition told him that there must be animals here that he wanted to see.

He called out Xiao Jin's name a few times, but there was no sound around except the chirping of insects and birds. He breathed a sigh of relief and took out his phone with the forest patrol app installed. He saw that the search radius was almost reached.

He was a little unwilling to give up, but for safety reasons, he decided to go back first.

Just as I was about to turn around, I vaguely heard a few familiar voices.

I stopped and listened carefully, it was Xiao Jin's voice.

"Xiao Jin, where are you?"

As he shouted, he glanced around vigilantly.

Three minutes later, Xiao Jin jumped down from the tree. Judging from his belly rising and falling, he must have run quite a distance.

"Where have you been? Why didn't you come home? And your collar fell off, and you didn't even come back to tell me."

He patted Xiao Jin's head gently, and the next moment Xiao Jin bit his hand.

"Meow, come on, follow me."

Xiao Jin was panting and feeling a little irritable.

"I have to look after the kittens. Lots of kittens!"

Chen Ying's face changed, he picked up the intercom to notify others, and transmitted his location to the background through the APP.

"Xiao Jin seems to be in trouble. I'll go over to take a look. When you're done, either go back and wait for me, or come and meet me."

He came out to look for Xiao Jin, and the others still had to complete their own work.

After running about a hundred meters with Xiao Jin, Chen Ying saw a litter of seven golden cat cubs under a hollow tree.

"This, did the Goddess of Childbirth count wrong?"

Under normal circumstances, a golden cat will have at most three kittens in one litter. Is this double the number and a free one?
Xiao Jin pulled at Chen Ying's trouser leg and said, "These are the cubs born by two golden cats at the same time."

What's going on? If he remembered correctly, golden cats are solitary animals, right?
Xiao Jin said that when he came here, he happened to see two golden cats giving birth to kittens at the same time.

Seeing it coming, one of the golden cats wanted to drive it away, but it was in great pain. Finally, seeing that it had no intention of hurting itself or its kittens, it just barked a few times threateningly.

Xiao Jin left in a hurry, planning to continue exploring in another direction.

As a result, he encountered an ocelot on the road. In order to snatch the prey, the two had a fierce fight, and the collar fell off at that time. As for how it fell off and there was no damage, Xiao Jin said he didn't know.

Xiao Jin was very strong in fighting, and the leopard cat seemed absent-minded. After struggling for a while, it ran away, and it ran in this direction.

Xiao Jin hesitated for a moment and then chased after it. As he expected, the leopard cat was coming for the two golden cats that were giving birth.

This won’t do! Xiao Jin got angry and rushed towards the leopard cat. At the same time, another golden cat with dark brown fur also rushed to the scene and teamed up with Xiao Jin to bite the leopard cat that wanted to kill the golden cat and drove it away.

"The guy I was fighting with got injured and left. I was worried that the bad guy would come back, so I stayed and kept watch."

It is also for this reason that Xiao Jin couldn't notify him even if he wanted to, for fear that as soon as it left, the leopard cat would come over and do something bad.

After listening to Xiao Jin's explanation, Chen Ying expressed her understanding and guessed why the leopard cat wanted to kill the golden cat and their cubs.

The food in this forest is probably not enough to support such a high density of cats. In order to survive and for the survival of its own offspring, it will try every means to kill other competitors.

But I didn’t expect Xiao Jin to be so powerful that he would fight for two strange golden cats and kittens that had nothing to do with him.

"What about the two female cats now?"

"They went hunting. They have so many cubs to feed, so they have to eat more. I wanted to catch prey for them, but they didn't want to. They had to catch it themselves."

Xiao Jin lay on the tree trunk, looking at the pile of fur in the tree hole, and his paws felt a little itchy.

It’s so sweet to see so many little cuties huddled together. No wonder Jin Ya wants to raise cubs.

The little golden cats it and Jinya had rescued before were bigger than these cubs, and these cubs haven't even opened their eyes yet. The way they stepped on their brothers and sisters and twisted their bodies, they looked no different from cats and bugs.

A man and a cat squatted a few meters away and spied on the kittens. After a while, two golden cats of similar size and fur color came back with prey.

When they discovered Chen Ying, the two female cats seemed frightened and their fur stood on end for a moment, and then they slowly calmed down.

One of the female cats approached him cautiously, stared at him for a long time from a meter away, then happily went back to feed her cubs, wagging her tail.

The other cat squatted outside the tree hole, tilted its head slightly, glanced at Chen Ying curiously, looked around, glanced again, and turned its head again...

"Isn't it tired?" Xiao Jin smacked his lips, asking a soul-searching question.

(End of this chapter)