The fox has no bad intentions

Chapter 356 Strange Changes in the Forest [Third Update, Please Subscribe]

"crash"

Knowing that Master Fuli was going to interrogate the takin, the staff at the ecological base were all helping, pouring water into the takin's mouth to help it recover from the anesthesia as quickly as possible.

Although the takin was severely injured, its thick skin and tough flesh made up for it well. It was too badly injured to withstand torture and soon woke up from the anesthesia.

"fox!"

Upon waking up and seeing An Sheng, the takin let out a cry filled with despair and fear. Its head lolled to the side, its eyes rolled back, and it fainted, leaving An Sheng and the staff at the ecological base completely bewildered.

A moment later, the takin slowly woke up, shrank its neck, and looked around at its surroundings. After confirming that it did not see the white fox, its tense nerves relaxed.

"Is this what leadership authority is?"

"terrible."

"It's etched firmly in my heart," the takin leader thought silently, his whole body filled with frustration.

just.

Before it could dwell on spring's passing for long, it suddenly felt an itch on its tail.

It tried to wag its tail, but couldn't. Just as it was about to raise its hand to look at its rear end, it heard the fox leader's voice from behind it:
"Fat Cat, give this takin a kick here to perk up the old ox that's losing its vitality, lest it faint again." Master Fuli lifted the takin's short, round tail with his left hand and pointed to its large basket with his right, signaling Fat Cat to come over and give the takin a soccer ball kick.

For a split second, the takin's brain short-circuited. With a "baa," it quickly tucked its tail between its legs and scurried to the side, afraid that the fat cat would actually kick its basket.

The takin dodged, and when it turned around, it saw the fat cat pull out a steel bar from somewhere, as if to strike.

"Bah!"

The takin tucked its tail tightly between its legs and stared wide-eyed.

"Hey, as expected, my brain is cunning. I just scared the old ox and it perked up."

Fat Cat threw down the steel bar in his hand and sighed to Master Fuli with a simple and honest expression.

"You're awake? If you're awake, then let's get down to business. Also, you just promised me that after you recover, you'd come back to the Agricultural Research Institute with me to farm the fields."

"If you go back on your word, I'll use you as a hot pot ingredient." An Sheng glanced at the takin and continued:

"Now."

"Please answer one more question for me: how did you manage to undergo genetic transformation before the fat cat? Don't tell me it was just luck or anything like that, or I'll break your legs!"

There is no dispute regarding the handling of the takin; sending it to pull plows in the fields is its best fate.

But before sending it to the farmland, An Sheng still needs it to answer its own questions: how was it able to complete its transformation and advance to the garrison level before the fat cat?

There is no room for luck.

Although Fat Cat is always being cute, as a staff member of a security bureau-related testing unit, it receives 1-2 bottles of Spirit Granules as rations every month.

Despite such resource support, the fat cat's transformation speed is still much slower than that of the takin.

There must be something fishy going on here, and it must be related to the "abnormal growth of Qinling spiritual plant particles".

"Precious herb."

"There are many precious herbs in the Qinling Mountains." Driven by the instinct of a loser, the takin spoke with trepidation, explaining why it had been able to grow stronger so quickly.

“Deep in the Qinling Mountains, there is a flock of white birds that like to defecate in the sky. Their droppings contain many seeds of precious herbs. After it rains, the seeds in the droppings will take root and sprout into young precious herbs.”

The takin spoke nervously, explaining the reasons behind its rapid increase in strength.

Its growth was not due to its own efforts, but rather because about two hundred nights ago, roughly half a year ago, the takin discovered a strange, large bird with a white body and a red head.

They howled in the sky, and their droppings rained down, soaking the takin's back. Enraged, the takin went berserk. During the chase, a spring rain began to fall in the forest, followed by thunder and lightning. From the droppings on its body, some shimmering, exceptionally beautiful plant seedlings gradually emerged.

The takin ate the spirit grain plant.

Later, deep in the mountains, he learned from other spirits that the spirit beasts called those plants "precious herbs."

They will randomly appear in the Qinling Mountains, and the precious grass will grow explosively after thunderstorms.

The takin learned of the existence of the precious herb, and through a series of coincidences, learned the entire process of its birth.

Using information from bird droppings, it often finds precious herbs ahead of other spirit beasts.

In six months.

The takin has transformed from a dominant mythical beast into a guardian mythical beast.

"A white bird with a red head"

The fat cat looked surprised and uncertain, and asked the takin, "Do they have black mouths, grayish-white wings with a pinkish tinge on the outside, and tails that turn orange-pink in the sunlight?"

"You know them?" The takin looked at the fat cat with a surprised expression and asked, hearing the fat cat describe the appearance of the "treasure grass bird" in unusual detail.

"Isn't that obvious?" Fat Cat rolled his eyes and said, "I'm a government employee, after all."

“In the Qinling Mountains, there are basically only a few species of birds with white bodies and red heads. Based on your identification, I am very certain that the bird you are talking about is the crested ibis, a first-class protected animal among the ‘Four Treasures of Qinling’!”

The Qinling Mountains are rich in wildlife, and the most famous of these are the "Four Treasures of Qinling," consisting of the Qinling subspecies of panda, takin, golden snub-nosed monkey, and crested ibis.

They are all national first-class.

As one of the four treasures of Qinling and a staff member of the Qinling Panda Ecological Protection Base, Fat Cat naturally knows about the group of Qinling Big Silly Birds that are on the verge of extinction.

If it weren't for the staff at conservation bases across the Qinling Mountains who go into the mountains every day to protect the crested ibis's eggs, they might have gone extinct by the turn of the millennium.

Even after so many years of protection, the population of crested ibises is only around five thousand.

"That's the crested ibis. Their droppings contain seeds of precious herbs. I, Old Niu, became what I am today because of their droppings."

The takin, lying on its side on the ground, looked at the fox leader, who seemed like a god of war, and reported its work.

"Crested ibis."

An Sheng nodded slightly. The root cause of the Qinling anomaly was previously known to be the Spirit Particle Plants, but no one could clearly explain the origin of the different Spirit Particle Plants.

Although it's still unclear, it's known that some of the spiritual plants in the forest originated from crested ibis droppings.

That instantly narrows down the search scope.

The Qinling Mountains are a colossal mountain range spanning several provinces and covering an area of ​​40 square kilometers.

Now, by searching for the habitat of the crested ibis, it may be possible to find the source of the changes in the Qinling Mountains.

There's no need for aimless searches anymore.

"Hello? Is this Wang Qiqi?"

"Go away, go away. I'm in the city, and I have a legitimate reason. I don't believe you're completely unaware of what's happening at the school. What? You're saying you were sleeping and knew nothing?"

"Whether you know it or not doesn't matter. Just bring two sacks of spirit pills to me tonight. I've already found the source of the Qinling anomaly."

Wang Qiqi was working the night shift, and while she was sleeping, she really didn't know anything about what was happening at the ecological base.

The reason she knew about Master Fuli's reckless driving was because he had mentioned her name while he was speeding. The logistics team called Wang Qiqi and informed her that Master Fuli was using her name to swindle people.

(End of this chapter)