Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 481 Cats and dogs join hands to search and rescue in the mountains

"Uncle, let's go to the mountain to play with the lambs!"

"Uncle, the little squirrel is so cute, let's help it build a nest."

"uncle……"

Chen Ying held his forehead with his hand. It turned out that he was absolutely out of his mind to think that having a child was a good thing.

It’s not that the child is bad, it’s that he can’t enjoy this blessing.

The word "uncle" was like the golden hoop around the neck of Sun Wukong, almost making him collapse.

Fortunately, the girl's parents came back to pick her up before the holiday, otherwise Chen Ying would have wanted to change her plan, confess her feelings in advance and then run away.

On December 30th, Chen Ying and Lao Gao went out and did not return until around seven or eight in the evening.

He looked so sneaky when parking the car that the property management of the villa complex found it funny and reported the situation to Dao Meihua.

Dao Meihua took a look at the surveillance video and told them not to worry about it. With just these two, even if they were brave enough, they couldn't do anything outrageous.

As New Year's Day approaches, many tourists come here to play.

The narrow strip at the bottom of the villa area is the hotel area.

From ordinary hotels at the bottom to various special villas on the mountain, there is everything.

However, the hotel's villa area is separated from the private villa area by a green belt and a shrub landscape belt.

Although the hotel villas were fully occupied, the two sides did not interfere with each other and it did not feel too noisy.

In order to implement his confession plan the next day, Chen Ying went to the villa property and asked the housekeeper to help clear a small space to prevent outsiders from disturbing him. He also specifically asked him to keep it a secret and not let Dao Meihua know what he was going to do.

The butler was pulled around by him for a walk, and after roughly understanding his idea, he held back his laughter and agreed to help him complete his plan.

Chen Ying and Lao Gao ticked the plan sheet. Most of it was completed, except for a few details that required the use of animals. They would have to deal with it tomorrow.

"Okay, everything is ready. Just wait till tomorrow when you go pick up the furries and it will be done."

After they finished, they looked at the time and it was already one o'clock in the morning. They were a little hungry, so they simply went to the food street outside the ancient town to eat barbecue.

There are many tourists and many people eating midnight snacks.

The weather here is warm, and there are people sitting outside every night snack stall.

They found a place to sit down, ordered some food, and chatted in low voices about their plans for next year.

I had just said a few words when I heard the voice of a mother scolding her child from the front.

"I told you not to touch, can you please listen? You touched something dirty and then tried to eat the food. Do you want to get sick and go to the hospital? Can you please listen when you come out to play?"

As she shouted loudly, the two children started crying.

The child's crying made her emotions even more unstable, and even those around her seemed to think she was going crazy.

The children's father must have gone out to buy drinks. When he heard the noise, he hurried over, hugged his wife's shoulders to comfort her, and told the two children to stop crying.

The two couples sitting next to them also helped to comfort the child. The boss came to apologize to them, saying that he was not paying attention and let the stray cat run over. He also said he would give them a discount and gave them a few skewers of barbecue.

After all this commotion, the family did not stay to eat. The father asked the boss to pack up the barbecue and take it home to eat.

Everyone thought it was a minor incident, and after discussing it for a while, no one mentioned it again.

After the skewers that Chen Ying ordered were served, she had just eaten one when a small cat meow was heard nearby.

When I looked down, I saw a small, skinny calico cat with dirty fur.

Chen Ying put on gloves, tore off a little bit of the meat without chili, rinsed it with tea, and placed it in front of the kitten.

Normally, you can’t feed these to kittens, but stray cats are not picky about food, and what Chen Ying feeds them is already a delicacy that is hard to find.

Seeing the little guy eating loudly, Lao Gao simply ran to the boss and asked for an unmarinated fish, washed it with water, put it on a disposable plate, and placed it in front of the kitten.

The kitten had never eaten a whole, fresh fish before, so he felt a little overwhelmed as to where to start.

It took two bites, then suddenly stopped, its ears erected and its head turned to the side and back.

I don't know what it heard, but the next second, it picked up a fish that was half the size of its body and ran away quickly.

Unfortunately, it was too dim to see the details from five meters away. Plus, the kitten must have gone into the bushes. After waiting for a while and not seeing it come back, the two of them left immediately after eating.

I went to bed at three o'clock, and at around eight o'clock in the morning, Dao Meihua came and knocked on the door.

"Rescue?"

"Yes, I just received a call from the Ancient Town Police Station, saying that a tourist called the police and reported that two children from their family were missing."

"Did it happen in the villa area?" Chen Ying asked as she quickly put on her clothes and shoes. "Did anyone see how they left? Where did they go?"

"They were staying at a guesthouse outside the ancient town. When the two children left, it was around six o'clock. The front desk was checking out the guests and didn't notice them leaving. Looking at the surveillance cameras in the ancient town, the last place they appeared was at the covered bridge."

Chen Ying raised his head and looked at her. "Covered bridge? Is it the covered bridge on that river?"

"Yes. The town has arranged people to search along the river, but no one has been found so far. During the search, a tourist who was jogging in the morning said that he saw two children on the west side of the bridge. When he asked them, the children said they were staying in the inn next to it, and then he left."

To the west of the covered bridge is a three-way fork in the road. One road goes downstream along the river and is a tourist trail. There is an ancient suspension bridge downstream, which is now closed.

The road in the middle leads to the village outside the ancient town, where there are also many homestays. Tourists who like morning jogging usually choose this road to run around the ancient town.

There is another road leading up the mountain. A stone road was built along the mountain ridge at the beginning of this year. Near the top of the mountain is an antique wooden plank road. There is a platform on the top of the mountain where you can watch the sunrise. In the summer, many hikers set up tents on it to spend the night.

"There is a surveillance camera on the top of the mountain. We checked it and the child did not go up there."

"Aren't there surveillance cameras on the way to the village?"

"The surveillance camera over there happened to be broken, and the maintenance technician said that the previous parts were not suitable and could not be replaced. The new parts will not arrive until the day after tomorrow."

That road is under the jurisdiction of the village, and the management rights of the surveillance belong to the village committee. No one expected that it was such a coincidence that a child went missing during the time when the road broke down.

Lao Gao also packed up and went out with them.

"I asked my dog ​​to come over. Although it's not as powerful as a police dog, it should be able to help a little."

Dao Meihua brought two dogs over to Chen Ying: a golden retriever and a Labrador.

Chen Ying squatted on one leg and touched the dog's head.

"We'll need your help in finding two children later. We'll go to the children's parents first. You can sniff the children's things before leaving, okay?"

The two dogs barked and were happy to help.

After arriving at the police station, Chen Ying and Lao Gao looked at each other and realized they were "acquaintances."

At this moment, the child's mother looked so haggard that she was about to faint. Her face was pale and her lips were bloodless.

The child's father's eyes were red, and he was talking on the phone. Judging from the conversation, he should be contacting the rescue team. "Ada, our company's rescue team is ready. Brother Yun is leading the team. You can contact him. Two friends and I came to see if we can help."

Chen Ying brought the two dogs into the room and motioned for them to sniff the child's backpack held in the mother's hands.

The child’s mother must be afraid of dogs. She shrank back and was shaking all over.

Dao Meihua hurried over and hugged her.

"Don't be afraid, these two dogs don't bite people, they just come over to sniff the children and help find them."

Hearing this, the child's mother grabbed Dao Meihua's arm and said, "Please, please help me find my child."

"Don't worry, we will definitely help you find it. You have to hold on and wait for the child to come back."

The female police officer and the female employee of the B&B supported her on both sides. She could no longer cry and was wailing. She felt like she was dying.

"Let's go out first." Chen Ying led the two dogs out, and then he and Lao Gao each led one and came to the east side of the covered bridge.

The street from the ancient town gate to the East Square of the Corridor Bridge is the food street that is only open at night, and it is also where they had barbecue last night.

The two dogs lowered their heads and sniffed along the way, then walked towards the west.

When passing by the bushes from last night, Chen Ying suddenly stopped.

"Meihua, come here for a moment."

Dao Meihua ran over and was given a dog leash, looking confused.

"You and Lao Gao take the dog to look for them first, I'll go find reinforcements."

"Ah? What reinforcements..." Dao Meihua watched in confusion as he crossed the bushes and ran upstream to the river.

"He should have gone to look for the stray cat from last night." Lao Gao came over to explain and also told him what happened during the barbecue last night.

"So, the two children may have run away because their mother scolded them?"

Lao Gao shrugged, curled his lips and said nothing.

Who knows, but the situation last night did have a very bad impact on the two children.

However, seeing the condition of the child's mother today, Lao Gao is more inclined to believe that the child's mother may have some emotional problems herself.

Few modern people are completely mentally healthy.

Chen Ying walked along the river for a while and saw the cat from last night on a rock upstream.

The kitten was squatting on a stone licking its fur. When it saw Chen Ying coming, its ears stood up alertly and its eyes widened, watching him approach without blinking.

Chen Ying didn't get too close, and stopped about one meter away.

"Mimi, help me, do you remember the kid from last night? She's missing, can you help me find her?"

The kitten tilted its head and let out a childish "Meow?"

Chen Ying repeated it again. The kitten shook its ears, stood up and rubbed against Chen Ying's feet.

"Meow, I can help you."

After the kitten said this, it ran downstream, looking back at him as it ran.

"Come on, I know a lot of cats and can ask for you."

The kitten took him to the grass at the west end and called loudly a few times. Sure enough, a few more cats came over after hearing the sounds.

One of the cats was a cow cat with a big belly, and the other was an orange cat, so fat that it could collapse the kang.

The kittens kept asking, "meow meow meow" for a long time. One of the white cats with rough and yellow fur said nonchalantly that it had seen the two two-legged cubs today.

"On the mountain, they were climbing up from the woods. The older one was crying, and the younger one was holding her."

Chen Ying was stunned when he heard this.

They all thought that the older girl ran away from home with her younger brother, but it turned out that it was the younger brother who took his sister away?
It was the elder sister who was scolded last night, but the younger brother cried louder than his sister. Everyone thought that the younger brother was crying because he was scared. Could there be a reversal?

During the short moment he was stunned, the kitten had already figured out the situation. It turned around and rubbed his calf again, and put its two little paws on the back of his foot, indicating that it was time to walk.

I followed the kitten up the mountain, but after walking about ten meters, the kitten turned a corner and disappeared into the woods.

Chen Ying hesitated for two seconds and called out to Dao Meihua and Lao Gao who were still searching forward.

"Here, they may have gone into the woods from here."

Dao Meihua pulled the golden retriever to the edge of the bushes. The golden retriever lowered its head and sniffed for a while, barked, and then buried its head and went inside.

The kitten didn't like the two dogs very much. When he saw the dogs following in, he jumped onto the tree and started panting.

"Don't be like that. They're here to help find someone too. Can we all work together?"

Chen Ying hurriedly tried to comfort the kitten, and finally managed to calm the angry cat down.

Xiaomao led the way in front, followed closely by Chen Ying, and then Dao Meihua and Lao Gao followed behind, each leading a dog.

The road up the mountain from here is difficult to walk on, but the surrounding forests are deep and the grass is lush. If the two children really go up the mountain from here, they can't be seen at all from the outside.

"Meow, right here. The cat said it saw the two cubs right here."

The kitten jumped onto the tree, meowed a few times, then lay down and waited for Chen Ying to check the surroundings.

"There are traces here. They must have been rubbed off." Lao Gao discovered a scratch on the tree trunk. A line of the original moss was scraped off. It looked like it might have been scratched by the bags they were carrying.

The golden retriever sniffed here, turned around and walked west, ran two steps, then turned back and barked.

Its sense of smell is slightly better than that of the Labrador, and it found the scent of the two children among the complex smells in the woods.

"That's not right. Going this way is going down the mountain."

Dao Meihua, who was very familiar with the conditions on the mountain, walked for a while and then suspected that the dog had led her in the wrong direction.

The kitten was following them. When it saw Chen Ying stop, it stopped too and squatted on the tree trunk.

"This is the way down the mountain. There is an ancient road passing through here, but that road has long been abandoned because it is too old. Only experienced hiking enthusiasts will walk here."

"Is it possible that the two children got lost and walked here?"

Dao Meihua didn't say anything. The three of them had discussed before and thought that the two children's destination should be the platform on the top of the mountain. Although they didn't know why they didn't go up the mountain along the ridge, the direction was very clear.

But why did it suddenly change direction and go downwards?
"Could it be that they discovered something along the way, or something unexpected happened?"

Lao Gao had no idea about the child's psychology and could only make random guesses.

Chen Ying looked around carefully but still found nothing. However, he felt that the two children must have discovered something and were attracted to it, so they changed direction.

So the question is, what did they see?
(End of this chapter)