Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 524: When you take away a cute little girl, its whole family appears

Chen Ying moved quickly, locking onto the little guy at the first opportunity, and seized the opportunity to attack, successfully grabbing its neck.

When he was preparing to clear the bushes, he had already put on thick gloves, which served as a protective measure. The little guy's sharp teeth bit Chen Ying's hand hard, but fortunately the gloves blocked the sharp teeth from penetrating the gloves and into the flesh.

"Don't be afraid little one, I just want to ask you something."

The people who are most familiar with the mountains are the indigenous people.

The native in front of me is a fox, dark red with a slight brown tint, and its hair is very smoothly groomed. It can be seen that it is a very clean and hygienic fox.

After the little fox bit him, it seemed to feel the gentle breath coming from his body and quickly loosened its mouth, making a "嘤嘤嘤" sound.

"Did I scare you? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

The little guy's blown-up fur finally became smooth, and he turned his head to lick the place he had just bitten.

"Well, Twoleg, what are you doing here? Are you going to kill that big guy?"

"I can take you there!" The little fox's eyes lit up.

"I..." Chen Ying didn't know how to start. How could he get a fox threatened by a tiger to take him to save the tiger?

"That big guy is so abominable. He usually bullies us and even steals things from the two-legged beasts at the foot of the mountain. Those two-legged beasts are very angry and come up the mountain to catch us."

The little fox cried out, and stood up excitedly, waving its two front paws vigorously, just like a child who had been bullied and was looking for his parents to complain, asking the adults to help him beat up the bad guy who bullied him.

"Are you talking about the bear?" Chen Ying thought that no tiger would steal crops.

"Just stand up and roar, like this." The little fox imitated the brown bear with bared teeth and claws, but the bear's majestic roar was made so "weepy" by it that it felt like a big brother with tattoos biting a handkerchief.

"Did you see the other big guy fighting it?"

"Oh, I saw it. But that big guy must be dying soon." The little fox licked his paw.

"Right where the bad guy fell, another big guy fell below, and the bad guy fell on the rocks in the middle."

The little fox led Chen Ying to walk another 60 meters and came to the edge of a crevice.

"It's right down there. Many animals have fallen down and died. Some old and sick ones can't survive and will jump down here on their own."

Chen Ying's expression changed slightly.

There are similar places in their ancient legends. Animals in the mountains will choose a place as their own cemetery. When their lives enter the countdown, they will travel through mountains and rivers to find this place and die quietly.

However, most people treat this legend as a story. After all, there are many animals that die in the wild, and not all animals are hunted to death. Since there is a so-called cemetery, why don’t these animals that die in the wild go there?

It can't be like with humans. Animals have to be selective about their species when entering a cemetery. If it's not the ancestral grave of a certain animal, you're not allowed to go.

The crack in the rock was quite long, with a width of more than one meter but less than two meters. It was pitch black below and one could not see clearly. In the daylight, one could only vaguely see a protruding rock under their feet and a brown bear lying on the rock, howling.

Chen Ying took out a flashlight and took a look, then he was shocked.

The bear obviously didn't have long to live, as its body had many wounds. The most terrifying thing was that its stomach was torn open and its intestines were exposed.

Chen Ying's light shone down, stimulating the brown bear. It suddenly struggled violently, turned over, and rolled down.

After a while, there was a dull echo.

Chen Ying felt an indescribable complex in his heart. Although he was not the one who killed the brown bear, the brown bear's death was accelerated because of his arrival.

But from another perspective, given the bear's injuries and location, it was almost impossible to rescue it. Even if we tried to rescue it, its injuries would cause it to die within two or three days. Although my unintentional stimulation caused it to fall to death, it also alleviated its pain before death.

Chen Ying is not a physicist or a mathematician, so he cannot calculate the depth of the crack based on the time it takes for the sound to be transmitted. If he wants to know what is underneath, he must go down and find out.

He took the searchlight and looked carefully for a while, but the light could only reach a distance of more than 20 meters at most. It was dim and unclear if it was farther away.

But during the observation process, Chen Ying discovered that there were plants in this crevice. There seemed to be a few trees growing from the side of the rock wall, but their branches and leaves were not very lush.

Seeing these trees, Chen Ying had a feeling that the tigress he was looking for was here.

The little fox also followed Chen Ying's example, peeking out from the edge of the rock crevices and occasionally making a whimpering sound.

Chen Ying took out the drone from his backpack and prepared to tentatively search down to see if there were any living creatures.

I don’t know if the products produced by the system were automatically upgraded without his knowledge, but as far as I can see, the products from two or three years ago are still very durable.

Chen Ying hadn't moved for a long time, and Klaus was very worried about his safety. He didn't even check on him and went straight to find him.

When the man and the cat arrived, Chen Ying had just released a drone for investigation.

Just as Klaus was about to ask, he walked over quietly and stared at the screen of the controller in Chen Ying's hand.

The drone is equipped with an infrared thermal imaging device, but it has not found anything even after descending to about thirty meters.

We continued to descend, and when we were 40 meters down, a creature suddenly appeared on the screen. Based on the images sent back, we could tell that the creature was hanging on a tree on the rock wall.

Chen Ying's heartbeat quickened. He did not bother to search anymore and simply looked up and told Klaus that he was going to go down and take a look.

"Chen, don't do anything rash!" Klas sternly stopped his impulsive behavior. "We don't know how deep this crevice is, and we don't know what's going on down there. If you rush down, you'll put yourself in danger."

"I know, but it is very likely that this creature is the tigress we are looking for. Its condition and the environment it is in are not good. We must rescue it immediately. A step later may delay all the steps."

Of course, Klaus knew this truth, but he still felt that his life was the most important.

When the two were in a stalemate, the third person finally arrived.

They should be members of the team that came down the mountain to meet the rescuers. They said they had brought the little leopard and its cage to the cabin, waiting for the rescue helicopter to come and lift the cage containing the leopard out.

"Uncle Alahan and two other colleagues are waiting for the helicopter over at the cabin. We came to find you to see if there's anything we can help you with."

"You've come just in time. I'm going to go down and take a look. Do you have any information about this crack? How deep is it? What's the situation down there? Is there any poisonous gas?"

"Wait, let me ask." The young response officer hurriedly took out his cell phone and made a call. A few minutes later, he received new detailed information about the crack.

"Teacher Chen, the last time this crack was explored was two years ago. The crack is 180 meters deep, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, a bit like an inverted funnel. There are three trees growing within a range of about 50 meters below the cave entrance. There are only ferns and mosses on the cliffs below 50 meters."

"The bottom of the cave used to be an underground river. Geological changes hundreds of years ago changed the course of the underground river, and this section gradually dried up. The last time we went down to explore, we found a large number of animal bones underneath, which had lasted for hundreds of years."

As for poisonous gases, there are none. It's just that because of the accumulation of corpses and the special environment, the carbon dioxide concentration is very high. If you go down without preparation, something will definitely happen.

Along with the information, there was also a simple hand-drawn diagram, which was an illustration of the structure and shape of the cave.

Chen Ying looked at it for a while and decided to go and see it for himself.

The entire crack is 180 meters deep, and the drone just explored it at about 40 meters, so the threat from the air is not great.

After the news that Chen Ying was going to rappel was reported, the expert team judged that his plan could be implemented, but his own safety must be put first.

There were two professional rescue team members among the support personnel. With their assistance, Chen Ying and another team member explored downwards one after the other. Both of them carried cameras and headsets to ensure that they could maintain contact with the response personnel above during the descent.

"Brother Ying, this is about the right spot. Did you find anything over there?"

The other team member was a little faster and was currently located diagonally below Chen Ying. Next to him was a tree with not too lush branches but unusually strong.

Chen Ying was not a botanist and only knew common tree species. He had no idea what plants grew in the dim light on the cave walls.

The organism detected by the drone just now should be nearby, but when they looked through the goggles, they didn't find anything.

Chen Ying did not give up and continued to descend a few meters. During this process, he saw something unusual on the stone wall as his peripheral vision passed.

"Don't move. Let me take a look." Chen Ying stopped his companion from descending through the headset.

He stayed on the stone wall, trying to look for the strange color he had just glimpsed.

Hard work pays off. In the gap between the branches, Chen Ying discovered a tail with yellow and black colors.

The long tail was hanging on the stone wall. In the dim light, it was impossible to see it clearly without careful observation. Chen Ying clung to the protruding rocks on the stone wall and tried to move towards the place where he found the tiger's tail.

Fortunately, there were many places on the stone walls on both sides to leverage, and even so, it took more than ten minutes to move to the tiger's tail.

It was a concave crevice in the rock. In the triangular space, the weak tigress clung tightly to the rock wall.

Its dark golden fur was stained with blood, and its hind legs were twisted unnaturally. When it found a strange creature approaching it, its ears trembled slightly, and its amber eyes stared at Chen Ying vigilantly. It slightly raised its mouth, revealing its sharp teeth, and at the same time, a low whimper came from its throat.

Chen Ying quickly scanned the tigress's body under the overhead light. She looked very listless and had many scars on her body. It was unknown whether any of her injuries were fatal. Just from the exposed body, there were two wounds with dried blood, but no other problems could be seen.

"I have found the tigress. She is very weak but still conscious. I will tranquilize her as soon as possible. I need help to hoist her up."

"Received. The lifting device is ready. Please give instructions on when to lift."

Chen Ying did not have time to get familiar with the tigress. As the tigress was currently in a relatively safe position, he could only wait for an opportunity to anesthetize her when he got close to her, and then use a lifting device to lift her up.

Fortunately, technology is developing rapidly and various auxiliary equipment are available. If it had been five to ten years ago, rescuing the tigress from the cave would have been neither easier nor more difficult than climbing to the sky.

Fortunately, the other two rescue team members were experienced, one assisted and the other provided guidance. After great efforts, they finally rescued the tigress successfully.

Just at this time, the transfer helicopter also arrived near the wooden house, and they tried to put the injured tiger and leopard in the same cage and send them out at the same time.

In order to prevent them from waking up and fighting in the middle of the flight and affecting the flight of the plane, everyone tried their best to use wood, vines, and a tent cloth to separate the cages.

There is no other way. The cost of a flight is not small, and both of the big babies are seriously injured, so we have to send them as fast as possible.

After watching the plane leave, Chen Ying looked back at the crevice and informed the leader in charge of the matter about the situation of the brown bear.

Originally, if he didn't say it, no one would know, but Chen Ying couldn't get over it in his heart. He didn't think the brown bear could be alive, but if possible, it would be best to go down and confirm it.

"Okay, I'll make a note of this. Teacher Chen, don't blame yourself. This wasn't your fault. The bear's injuries and position meant it couldn't have survived until it was rescued. I'll ask the cave exploration team to see which team is interested. I'll send you a copy of the results when the time comes."

The leader of the rescue team often cooperates with the rescue center, so he patted his chest and agreed to this small matter.

After resting for a night on the mountain, Chen Ying didn't sleep much the whole night. His head was buzzing, as if countless animals were roaring at him, the voices blended together but he couldn't make out what they were saying.

When he talked about this with Dao Meihua in the morning, Dao Meihua comforted him, saying that he dreamed at night because of what he thought about during the day. She also said that she would help him find a master to perform a ritual for the animals in the mountains.

Chen Ying's face twisted, and he snorted twice in annoyance, "Come on, if you go find him, others will think you are deliberately making fun of him. Anyway, we will leave in a while. I have an audio of the monk in the snowy area chanting on my phone. I will go to the gap and play it for a while."

In a technological society, cyber rituals are not impossible.

In addition to placing scriptures for the dead animals in the crevices, he also wanted to thank the little fox who helped lead the way yesterday.

Although the little fox was frightened and ran away because of the arrival of other people, he had promised to bring it delicious food and he couldn't go back on his word.

Together with Klaus, I brought Medi to the edge of the gap, played the audio on the phone, and then placed it on the big rock next to it to let it play by itself.

After that, Chen Ying walked a few meters to the side alone, opened a package of dried meat he had brought with him, spread the whole thing on a flat stone, and looked around, hoping to see the little red guy.

As he was looking around inadvertently, he accidentally saw a tiger with black and yellow fur staring at him coldly on the tree on the other side of the crevice.

That look was as if she had some kind of life-and-death feud with him.

(End of this chapter)