I raise furry animals and fly them to my motherland.

Chapter 275 Accidentally Falling into the Ice Lake
At this point, the Ili pika's expression still held a hint of grievance: "I chased after him to offer him medicine, but he wouldn't take it. So I crawled into his backpack so I could easily give him medicine whenever he felt unwell."
With tears welling up in its eyes, Xu Ying felt a pang of tenderness and quickly comforted it, "You're not wrong, you're not wrong. He misunderstood your good intentions. I'll go talk to him."

Meanwhile, Lu Jinyu, looking like he was demanding an explanation from Xu Ying, pointed to the poop next to his feet, which the production team had blurred out with carrots: "Station Chief Xu!"

"It bullied me again in public!!!"

"Isn't it just because you're backing it up?"

Upon seeing this, Xu Ying quickly waved his hand and explained, "The Ili pika really meant no harm!"

She crouched down and gently stroked the fluffy little head of the Ili pika. "You're suffering from acclimatization issues, convulsions, and pain. This locally grown medicinal herb is the perfect remedy."

She pointed to the few still-steaming "herbs" on the ground and solemnly explained, "The rabbit is saving you! Seeing that your Chinese medicine is working, it specially saved the freshest 'herbs' for you."

She forced back a laugh and added with a straight face, "This is VIP treatment; you should thank it."

The Ili pika on the ground raised its head at the right moment, its black pearl-like eyes looking at Lu Jinyu with watery eyes, its little nose twitching, and its two front paws obediently placed on its chest, just like a child waiting for praise.

Lu Jinyu: "."

His expression was priceless—his brows were furrowed, his lips twitched, and his whole face seemed to say, "I, a champion of esports, have to thank a rabbit for its poop."

But under the watchful eyes of the crowd and the cameras, he finally took a deep breath, squatted down, and forced a stiff smile at the pika: "Thank you for your 'kindness'." He emphasized the last two words, "But I'm all better now, I really don't need it."

Netizens laughed so hard they crowed:
Bunnies are so cute, how can you blame them!

I could laugh at Lu Jinyu's expression for a year.

[The production team shows absolutely no respect for our Brother Lu! Xu Ying too! And that pika too! It's outrageous!]

[Fans, stop messing around. If it weren't for Bunny's "medicine," your idol would still be lying in bed, probably having to quit the show. Where would you go to cry then?]

This is a cross-species doctor-patient dispute; being a doctor these days is just too difficult! You get criticized whether you cure the patient or not!

The Ili pika seemed to understand Lu Jinyu's gratitude, happily spun around in place, and then—in front of everyone, left a few more "thank you" beads on Lu Jinyu's shoes.

Don't be shy, I'll give you lots and lots, my stomach is very strong~

"."

Lu Jinyu's forehead veins throbbed, and he forced himself not to throw his shoes off.

Xu Ying quickly beckoned the Ili pika into the carrier: "Let's go, let's go~"

"Having completed two tasks in a row, our next segment is a travel exploration. We will go to the glacial lake to learn about the current crisis of the melting glacier in Xishan!"

After saying that, she picked up the flight case and ran.

slip away~
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On the way to the ice lake.

The hiking boots made a crisp sound as they stepped on the exposed rock, and Xu Ying bent down and scooped up a handful of soil mixed with ice fragments.

As the drone's camera zoomed in, the ice crystals in her palm melted into water at a visible speed under the sunlight, dripping through her fingers. "Twenty years ago, this road we are walking on now was covered by glaciers."

Her voice carried on the mountain wind as she pointed to the blue-glowing ice tongue in the distance. "The Xishan No. 1 Glacier has been retreating by 4 to 8 meters every year, and a quarter of it has disappeared in the past forty years."

Ye Jie, who was filming, suddenly exclaimed, "Why are there red lines drawn on those rocks over there?"

“Those are glacier monitoring markers.” Xu Ying stroked the faded red markings on the rock face. “Eighteen years ago, the glacier edge was still here, but now…” She took fifteen steps forward and stepped on a newly nailed metal sign, “It has retreated to this point.”

The program crew zoomed in with a close-up shot of a sign displaying alarming data: "This year, the annual ice line monitoring line has retreated by 182 meters."

Netizens exclaimed: "This backward speed is faster than my mortgage payment!"

So, is the Xishan Glacier, which we learned about in our childhood geography textbooks, going to be a thing of the past...?

Suddenly, the Tibetan fox brought over an ancient ice core that was translucent blue. Xu Ying took it with a solemn expression: "Look at these bubbles. They preserve the atmosphere from before the Industrial Revolution."

"But now it breaks so easily, it's so fragile."

With a gentle squeeze, the ice core crumbled into pieces.

“The most terrifying thing is the vicious cycle—” she pointed to large patches of black dust on the glacier’s surface, “The melting ice exposes the rock layer, and the weathered rock debris falls on the ice surface, absorbing more heat, which accelerates the melting even more…”

Su Zhining's snow boots suddenly got stuck in a crevice in the rocks, and she complained, "Why is this rock so loose?"

"Because the permafrost that should have covered them is disappearing." Xu Ying pulled out the shale and gently squeezed it; it instantly crumbled into dust.

A muffled crash of ice came from afar, and everyone fell silent in unison.

The Ili pika nestled quietly in Xu Ying's arms, its black eyes reflecting the melting icefall.

That is its disappearing home.

However, when the group arrived near Xishan Ice Lake, a large number of technicians in orange work clothes had already gathered by the lake. They were anxiously discussing something around several monitoring devices, and the atmosphere at the scene was extremely tense.

Director Shao's heart tightened, and he quickly walked towards the production assistant who had arrived earlier: "What's going on? Is filming going to be canceled?"

The second season has been plagued with misfortunes. Before filming even began, a murder occurred in the snowy mountains, and now there's trouble again during the recording process.

The production assistant wiped the sweat from his brow, his voice tinged with anxiety: "Filming can still continue, but now there's a huge problem. This morning, a sudden gust of wind overturned the avalanche monitoring station installed on the cliff edge. That multi-parameter early warning device, worth over 800,000 yuan, fell directly into the icy lake."

He pointed to the vast lake and relayed what the technicians had just said: "The most critical issue is that the lake covers an area of ​​over two square kilometers. The impact when the equipment fell into the water was so great that it smashed a large hole in the ice. The instrument is now at the bottom of the lake, and its exact location is impossible to determine."

A technician who works with the production team came over and said to Director Shao and the others, "We tried to use sonar to probe, but the lakebed terrain is complex, and the ice layer interferes with the signal, so it's intermittent. We can't even pinpoint the exact location of the equipment, let alone salvage it."

Another technician added worriedly, "What's even more troublesome is that the temperature has been rising continuously these past few days, making the ice extremely fragile. We just tried to use a drone to lift and salvage it, but as soon as it reached the center of the lake, the ice started cracking in large areas. Now helicopters are afraid to come, and divers going down is risking their lives—who knows which section of the ice will suddenly collapse?"

(End of this chapter)