Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 226 - Tiger, oh Tiger, why are you so unlucky

Chapter 226 -226 Tiger, oh Tiger, why are you so unlucky

When they arrived, the female tiger was on its last breath, but still insisted on keeping humans at bay.

Chen Ying didn’t even wait for the car to stop completely before pulling open the door and rushing towards the crowd.

“Excuse me, excuse me.”

Chen Ying couldn’t bother with politeness and directly pushed through the crowd to jump over the railing.

The people beside hardly had time to stop him when he had already rushed to the female tiger’s side.

“Hang in there, hang in there, I’m here.”

He opened the first aid kit, poured out the pills from a small porcelain bottle, and stuffed them into the female tiger’s mouth.

Feeling the familiar scent that calmed the tiger, the female tiger finally relaxed.

“Quick, prepare for surgery.”

On the way there, the young man had already explained the situation, and Chen Ying mentally prepared two or three response plans. Now, after a preliminary examination, he took charge and directed the rescue operation.

The rescuers and veterinarians didn’t object; everyone followed his command.

The operating room was ready, just waiting to anesthetize the female tiger before beginning.

“Damn it, these bastards used muskets.”

Seeing the horrific wound on the female tiger’s abdomen, an older rescuer’s eyes instantly turned bloodshot.

Chen Ying didn’t speak; he changed his clothes and began the operation.

Several people stood outside the glass room, watching Chen Ying perform the surgery without blinking.

“His skills are indisputable; his cuts are very steady, and his fingers are nimble.”

Not only was he steady, but he was also fast, having cleaned up all the iron pellets within twenty minutes.

No one could keep up with his pace.

Those who had initially come to test his skills had long since shut their mouths.

After a long time, someone sighed, “Indeed worthy of being Professor Bai’s top student; he could teach with these skills.”

“Well, let’s not, his skills should be used on the front lines.”

The few people chatted softly for a bit and then left.

There was no concern about Chen Ying’s skills, so their presence wasn’t needed; they might as well do whatever they had to.

Two hours later, Chen Ying accompanied the female tiger into the observation room, planning to set up a bed there to conveniently observe and accompany her.

As the anesthetic effects gradually wore off, the female tiger struggled to stand up. Chen Ying sat next to it, scratching its chin and behind its ears.

“There, there, I’m here; it’s safe, you rest well.”

Though not fully alert, the female tiger had already recognized the person beside it.

It obediently lay quiet, with IV fluids gradually dripping into its body.

Pain made it uncomfortable no matter how it lay, and Chen Ying kept it company, talking to it and massaging its body.

Gradually, the medication took effect, and the female tiger finally closed its eyes and fell asleep.

Accompanying the big cat in its sleep, Chen Ying had become quite skilled.

He didn’t need to set an alarm; he would automatically wake up every two hours.

He’d check the wound, massage the female tiger’s limbs and spine, making sure it didn’t move around too much to avoid agitating the injury.

Once the big cat seemed comfortable, he could catch some rest.

Due to the large wound and the increasingly hot weather, the female tiger’s condition fluctuated repeatedly.

For a whole week, Chen Ying never left the female tiger’s side.

“Brother Ying, her blood work is almost normal now!”

Finally, there was improvement, and everyone was ecstatic.

The keeper responsible for making the tiger’s patient meal couldn’t help but turn towards the wall and sob.

She was so worried that the female tiger wouldn’t pull through, always muttering encouragement whenever she came to feed, urging it to stay strong through this ordeal.

With the inflammation subsiding and the post-operative infection period over, the female tiger’s mental state improved significantly; it was no longer interested in mushy meat but preferred whole pieces to tear into, enjoying the texture.

This place was just a temporary rescue shelter, and once the female tiger was mobile again, Chen Ying planned to take it to a better-equipped state shelter and attend to its teeth as well.

Before leaving, Chen Ying specifically went back to the area where the female tiger was rescued, hoping to find either a baby tiger or Grandpa Hu.

According to the anti-poaching news so far, no tiger or tiger parts had been found.

The most confiscated items were leopard skins and pangolin shell fragments.

Not surprisingly, as the latter were not cheap and easier to transport and trade.

Before leaving, Chen Ying told the stationed rescuer to call him immediately if they found any tigers.

The rescuer agreed without hesitation, exchanged contact information with Chen Ying, and accompanied them all the way to the edge of the village.

The state rescue station wasn’t far from the city, and nearby, a real estate company had built a small animal park.

It was called an animal park, but it only housed a few blue peacocks and some tame small animals.

The blue peacocks were free-range, and Central Court Lake housed wild ducks and a few little grebes.

They might have initially thought about having swans since the lake was even named Swan Lake.

There were also over a dozen cartoon statues of various small animals and birds by the lake.

Nowadays, only a few common kinds were still alive.

Chen Ying’s accommodation directly faced Swan Lake, enjoying the lake view without paying.

The space for the female tiger was not small.

The state had a small population and a large area; anyway, the park was basically in its natural state, so the rescue station only needed to provide food.

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Chen Ying sent the female tiger to the beast garden and then went back to the dorm to sleep soundly.

The next day, when he went to see the female tiger, he found that she was very lively and even started talking to the one-eyed elderly tiger next door.

That old tiger wasn’t one-eyed due to injury, it simply had cataracts due to its age.

The female tiger lay on this side of the iron bars, while the elderly tiger lay on the steps on the other side; the two tigers started chatting intermittently.

Just like human aunties, the two tigers mainly talked about their kids and their kids’ dads.

The elderly tiger was a Bengal tiger. When found, it was seriously ill and was lying in a villager’s firewood shed; the locals had reported it.

It said it had many children, only losing two.

The female tiger said it was only her fourth time giving birth, previously she had two cubs at a time, but this time there was only one, and she had encountered a bad “two-legged beast.”

The tigers then started cursing those villains together.

When Chen Ying arrived, the two tigers were cursing with gusto, using such filthy language that Chen Ying was too embarrassed to listen.

He prepared medicinal food for the female tiger, which was just medicated meat and easily digestible milk powder nutrient paste.

Chen Ying carried the food bowl into the garden, first checking everything as usual, and then he let the female tiger eat.

The elderly tiger next door looked dumbfounded, sniffing something delicious, stretching its neck desperately to look next door.

Chen Ying couldn’t stand seeing this scene.

After asking the keeper about the condition of the elderly tiger next door, he also prepared a bowl of milk paste for it.

The elderly tiger’s teeth were already gone; the meat it ate had to be ground into strips in advance.

The taste of the milk paste seemed to open a new world for the tiger.

“This stuff is delicious, get more!”

Chen Ying vigorously scratched its head and took out an iron comb to sit down and comb its fur.

This thing was alright to eat occasionally, but eating it often could actually lead to malnutrition.

After all, even if a tiger was old, it was still a carnivore.

It was okay to feed it once or twice a week to supplement its nutrition.

Chen Ying handed over the formula ratio to the keeper, instructing to feed a maximum of twice a week, and not just because it wanted it.

The female tiger watched Chen Ying feeding the neighboring tiger lady, not jealous at all but rather looked very proud.

Hey, isn’t my “two-legged beast” impressive? Look at you, bumpkin, you’re losing face for tigers.

Chen Ying hadn’t expected the female tiger to have such a competitive spirit. After the other had recovered sufficiently, he also began to participate in the work of releasing the clouded leopard.

The larger female clouded leopard finally chose the more distant River Valley Nature Reserve, where poaching was well-controlled.

The pregnant little female clouded leopard was released near the Wild Elephant Valley, closer to the state rescue station.

Because of the existence of the Wild Elephant Valley reserve, the surveillance there was more comprehensive; if there were any issues with the clouded leopard, help could arrive within minutes.

In the past, Director Bai and Yin Li had taken the lead on these matters, and Chen Ying never felt that a release could be so troublesome.

The release plan for the pregnant clouded leopard was revised three or four times.

Now that it was finally settled, experts had to be contacted for guidance.

Chen Ying felt overwhelmed, so he simply used taking care of the female tiger as an excuse to avoid participating in the clouded leopard’s release.

Two days later, for reasons unknown—perhaps something said by a higher-up—the ceremony for the clouded leopard’s release cut out the showy part and was abruptly completed.

Before leaving, the young man from the M Alliance came to find Chen Ying, not saying much, only mentioning that he succeeded in getting into a PhD program, probably going to the highlands to specialize in studying smaller cats, like the desert cat and similar.

He looked constipated and agonized for a long time, and still hadn’t spoken his true intentions by the time he left.

Chen Ying could guess a bit, but since he hadn’t clarified it himself, he definitely wouldn’t bring it up willingly.

After being dragged to the release ceremony to make up numbers, Chen Ying returned to the tiger garden, tending to the female tiger’s tangled fur while complaining about the sister-complex clouded leopard being a lousy leopard.

It wasn’t that kind of lousy – it was still willing to live in the same territory as the female clouded leopard, but it firmly refused to look after the cubs.

Such a lack of the robust spirit of the males of Jiamu Gully.

Now, it remained to be seen if the sister-complex clouded leopard would feed her after the female clouded leopard had her cubs.

If it really neglected them, Chen Ying planned to have a good talk with it.

Time flew by amidst business, and within a month, the female tiger had healed considerably.

During this period, she even underwent a root canal treatment, giving the two dentists quite the ordeal.

But after it was completed, the sense of achievement was something humans couldn’t provide.

As April ended, and the Labor Day holiday approached, some facilities at the rescue center were opened to visitors.

But the tiger park was not included.

To prepare for the visitors, some park facilities required maintenance in advance. The center’s staff was already sparse, and with this allocation, even the keepers’ meal times were almost gone.

Chen Ying, not involved in the center’s work arrangements, simply took the initiative to manage the feeding of the two tigers in the tiger park.

When others fed tigers or cleaned the garden, they had to first move the tigers. In Chen Ying’s case, both tigers voluntarily moved to a higher spot, chatting and watching him work, giving quite a supervisory feeling.

After finishing the morning’s work, Chen Ying, carrying his lunchbox to the dining hall, received a call from Yin Li on the road.

“You lad should be able to come back now. Director Song and his son-in-law have turned themselves in, and not a single domestic ringleader of this case has escaped. Plus, those involved in the sales network have also been arrested.”

Yin Li paused for a moment, his tone cautious.

“Well, the case was resolved so quickly due to Ms. Dao’s significant efforts. I think, us big guys, maybe, should forgive her?”

Chen Ying scoffed and abruptly hung up the phone.