Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 452: It was a dark and windy night, and the thief stole
After a tactical backward move, Chen Ying fell to the ground. Looking carefully, he saw a black snake body.

Although he didn't know much about snakes, he could tell at a glance that it was a white-headed viper.

However, the white-headed viper usually lives in rocky areas with caves in mountainous areas. If it is near a city, it will often go to roadsides, rice fields, grass and residential areas.

Look at the key point, it was a snake moving on the ground, was it preparing to fly up and give him a tail?

Chen Ying looked around vigilantly and finally saw the culprit.

A bird hiding among the branches!
After meeting his gaze, the bird let out a whoosh, lowered its head, picked up a long strip, spread its wings and flew away.

When Chen Ying looked down again, the black snake that had almost had a French intimate interaction with him just now had disappeared.

The White-headed Viper was not very aggressive to begin with, and after almost getting into the snake eagle's stomach, its cold blood must have almost boiled. It immediately found a place to hide after landing.

Chen Ying, who was startled, calmed down and was about to get up and continue walking when he heard some movement on the branches above his head.

He immediately put the hat on his head, then looked up slightly, and found a white golden monkey holding a little monkey and looking at him curiously.

It's not entirely true to say that this monkey is pure white. Chen Ying is more inclined to believe that this monkey has symptoms of albinism. However, a faint golden color can still be seen on the hair on its neck and chest. It's just that overall it is much whiter than other monkeys. From a distance, it looks like a white monkey.

Chen Ying was not sure whether what others saw was this "white monkey", but he still planned to lure it down and collect hair and other biological specimens for examination.

The white monkey is very alert. Other monkeys occasionally interact with humans, but it always keeps a sufficient distance from humans.

Today, I was able to be so close to Chen Ying, and I also smelled a pleasant scent from him.

He took two tentative steps down, stopped and looked for a while. Just as he was about to make contact with Chen Ying, a voice suddenly came from the other side.

The white monkey was frightened and turned over with the little monkey in his arms, climbing to a higher place. He ignored Chen Ying's attempts to keep her and disappeared in a flash.

He sighed and took out the walkie-talkie. It was Da Wang who called him and said that they had received news that traces of white monkeys had been found at the Lao Longtan Observatory. The team leader planned to arrange people to go in early. He asked Chen Ying and the others whether they wanted to follow the vanguard or wait and go in with the larger group behind.

Chen Ying glanced at the direction the white monkey left and said, "Then I'll go in with you."

"Okay, the teacher asked us to drive directly to Lao Longtan tomorrow morning. There is a parking lot outside there, we can park the car there, and then we have to walk in."

Chen Ying said that there was no problem on his side and asked him whether he wanted to stay here tonight or go back to the inn first.

"We plan to stay here for another night. It won't be a big deal if we go back. It's a little cold here at night, but everything else is pretty good."

The climate here is better than that in Jiamugou, not to mention Heyuan.

The lowest temperature at night is 12 or 13 degrees. With a thick sleeping bag, a hot pack, and a windproof and frost-resistant tent, you can stay warm overnight in the wild.

What's more, the conditions here are better than those in Heyuan. The gas stove can meet the needs of boiling water and cooking.

Putting the walkie-talkie back into the bag, Chen Ying climbed up the tree and carefully searched for the place where the white monkey sat, hoping to find its fallen hair.

It's a pity that this monkey probably doesn't have much pressure and doesn't shed its hair.

After climbing for more than an hour, we finally reached the place where the monkeys spent the night.

There are many biological samples left by monkeys here, but unfortunately he can't tell the difference between them. He can only take a photo and leave a location point.

I walked back to the place where I met the white monkey before. After waiting for a while, I didn’t see the white monkey coming back. With a little regret, I jumped over the stream and climbed up the opposite mountain.

"The king and his men are staying there overnight. Shall we leave tomorrow morning?"

"Well, I saw a white monkey over there just now, but I'm not sure if it's the white golden monkey that has been recorded, because its hair is not actually pure white, and you can still see a light golden color on its neck."

This is very possible. For example, if an individual shows symptoms of inability to fully synthesize melanin, or is sick or reaches a certain age, golden monkeys with this fur color may appear.

They were not professional researchers and could not conclude that the other party was a white animal. They could only wait until they got back to the inn and post it in the group so that the teachers could identify it.

At night, the monkeys return to their habitat, with old mothers and young monkeys living high up in the tree canopy, while subadults and adults spread out on the periphery, keeping the monkeys in need of protection firmly guarded in the central safe area.

When the sun was about to set, Chen Ying still did not find any trace of the white monkey. Could it be that it did not rest with the monkey group at night?
But the fact that it can enter the monkey group's territory means that the monkey group recognizes it as a member of the group. So why doesn't it return home at night?
With this question in mind, they went to bed early, ready to get up early the next day to take another look.

In the middle of the night, Chen Ying heard some noise, quietly unzipped the tent door and took a look, and found that everything around was normal.

He turned on the night vision goggles and looked around. There were no uninvited guests. Was the noise he heard just now something he heard in his dream when he was half asleep?
Chen Ying thought about it, turned off the night vision goggles, and lay back down. Two or three minutes after he turned off the screen of his phone, a big head popped out from behind a large rock next to him.

Under the dim moonlight, a tall animal slowly walked out from behind a rock. It approached the tent, crouched down, sniffed for a while, and came to the side of Chen Ying's tent.

After walking around the tent for a while, he found a gap in the tent door that was not closed and quietly reached a hand in.

Chen Ying was not asleep. He was waiting for the hiding guy to reveal his whereabouts.

But he never expected that the guy would actually reach his hand directly into his tent.

After groping for a while, the hand found nothing and withdrew.

Chen Ying saw the tall animal shadow outside the tent in the moonlight.

I don’t know if it’s because the projection magnified it, but I always feel that this guy is at least 1.8 meters tall.

The big guy didn't give up after not finding anything, and looked around again. He actually found the box where the food was stored.

In fact, there was not much food left, only two potatoes, three or four carrots, and a baby cabbage. There was also a can of fruit and a can of meat, and a little rice in a sealed bag.

When everyone was searching carefully, they didn't notice that there was a camera working in the gap of Chen Ying's tent door.

I took a bite of the potato, threw it away, picked up the carrot and took a bite. It was sweet, I loved it!

A few minutes later, the big guy ran away with the carrots and baby cabbage.

Chen Ying waited for a while before turning on the camping light.

Although the video is not particularly clear, you can still tell what the other party is.

In the picture, a tall monkey is rummaging through a food box with its back to them.

Golden snub-nosed monkeys are not big in size, with males usually only 70 centimeters long, but this monkey's height when squatting was over one meter.

Chen Ying looked at it for a long time, and felt a chill on the back of his head.

Could this guy be the legendary Shennongjia wild man? But the official authorities have already concluded that there is no wild man here.

I couldn't make out any features just from behind, and although the moonlight was bright, it wasn't bright enough to make out every detail.

Chen Ying sighed and came out to check the food storage box.

Fortunately, there weren't many ingredients left. After searching, not a single carrot was left, and a bit of a potato was still in the box. In addition, the sealed bag of rice was torn, and the rice was scattered at the bottom of the box.

The canned fruit and meat were moved, but the guy couldn't open them, so he just threw them into the box.

Fortunately, it was a foam box and the can did not break.

After thinking about it, Chen Ying put the bitten potato into a sample bag and planned to go out and find someone to identify it to see if he could find anything.

He had never heard of gibbons here. The Shennongjia golden monkey is a primate unique to the local area, and the blurry monkey is most likely an unusually tall golden monkey.

Humans can all be extremely tall, so monkeys should also have some special individuals.

Perhaps this tall golden monkey makes a friendly appearance in those so-called "wild man" legends.

Chen Ying's movement woke Dao Meihua up. The two analyzed the video for a long time, but apart from confirming that the other party was a primate, they could not find out anything else.

Around six o'clock the next morning, Chen Ying and Dao Meihua observed the monkey group opposite, but still found nothing.

The two of them did not delay, packed up their things, took away the garbage from the past few days, and hurried back to reunite with the king and the others.

"Hey, Mr. Chen, you guys also took a picture. Da Wang and I also took a picture. I said it was a unique individual of golden snub-nosed monkey, but Da Wang said I was seeing things."

The other party pulled up the photo and compared it with the video taken by Chen Ying. The figures were similar, but she took the photo at dusk. The light in the woods was dim, so she only captured a silhouette flashing by in the woods.

One of the continuous photos captured half of its side face, making it look particularly like a hairy "person".

(End of this chapter)