Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 252 - : You’re not mistaken, the Lynx won?

Chen Ying quickly measured Lynx Sister’s entire body, originally wanting to do an ultrasound scan, but then he decided against it.

Having enjoyed being petted, Lynx Sister tilted her head and rubbed against Chen Ying’s leg before standing up.

“Remember, let me know if you find a suitable candidate.”

“No, but you’re not in captivity, how am I supposed to notify you?”

“Don’t worry, I’ll be around for a few more days, I’ll let you know.”

Lynx Sister walked away a few steps, then turned back to look at him.

“You won’t fail to recognize me next time, right? Should I make a mark for you?”

Chen Ying’s expression changed, he immediately refused.

“I still have to rescue other animals, if you make a mark, I wouldn’t be able to work.”

Lynx Sister chuckled lightly and said no more, leaping away into the distance.

Speaking of which, her arrival and departure were equally mysterious.

Does she seem like a lynx lacking a mate?

This question was answered by the female bear.

Chen Ying went back to feed the baby bears, who were repelled by the smell on him, just as the mother bear returned and asked how he had come into contact with that individual.

“That female lynx is fierce, so much so that male lynxes around her fled at the sight of her. Later, she wanted to have babies but despised the local males for not being able to fight.”

The mother bear spoke with a tone of schadenfreude.

Lifting her left hind leg to scratch her chin, the gossip in her heated up.

“The most famous fight that lynx had was with a Snow Leopard. Both females, and oh, the fight was fierce; she actually managed to drive the leopard out of this lake.”

Chen Ying wore an incredulous expression.

Lynxes are formidable, and snow leopards, needless to say, but judging by the size difference, a snow leopard should easily defeat a lynx.

So, did that lynx actually win against the snow leopard?

Was Lynx Sister just too strong, or was that snow leopard just too weak?

Chen Ying recorded the data of the lynx, comparing it, Jinya was one-fifth smaller than Lynx Sister!

Relative exposure to these wild beasts was still quite limited.

Three days after their arrival, the mother bear’s wounds had healed very nicely.

With no concern for her cubs’ safety, the mother bear did not go hunting adult Tibetan antelope.

Just like the data showed, with stillborn Tibetan antelopes lying around every day, there was no need to chase after food.

Yin Li and his companion came back from their patrol, sighing.

“Over on the river beach to the east, another twenty Tibetan antelopes died due to difficult labors, and a few baby antelope remains were there too, likely devoured by wolves soon after birth.”

They were trying their best to drive away predators, hoping to provide a relatively safe birthing ground for the Tibetan antelope.

But Zhuonai Lake is vast, and they couldn’t possibly guard these antelope at all times.

Sometimes, they had barely walked away when they would hear the cries of an antelope, turn back, and see a Golden Eagle already making its move.

The mother antelope cried out in anguish, running a few meters before stopping to look up at the sky.

Her expression was unseen, but it was clear, she was heartbroken.

The mother bear glanced at Yin Li, called out once, and the two baby bears scampered over.

“We’re leaving now, see you next time.”

“Your injury…”

“It’s alright, we aren’t leaving right away. I need to familiarize them with this place.”

Chen Ying couldn’t stop them, nor did he try to.

Cai Rang glanced at some surveillance and drone photos, gauging that it was almost time to head back.

“Tibetan antelopes come and go quickly. Once, I was in the first group to oversee, when I got there, only a few hundred antelopes were wandering. Went to sleep, woke up, and overnight, the meadow swelled with tens of thousands of baby Tibetan antelopes. Wait half a month, and maybe overnight again, you wake up and see that they’ve all gone.”

Roughly estimating, the main group had been there for about a week.

Shortly after arriving, they would give birth, and after about half a month living here, the baby Tibetan antelopes would follow the herd back to their habitat.

When they grow up, the female antelopes, following the guidance in their genes, return here to raise the next generation.

As the Tibetan antelopes withdrew, the patrol officers of the Protection Station would start to get busy.

Zhuonai Lake was just one of the birthing grounds and the habitats of the Tibetan antelopes stretched over a thousand kilometers from east to west.

At such times, several teams had to be deployed, “escorting” and always ready to “pick up” any stragglers.

Every returning journey saw many young calves picked up.

Some could be timely reunited with their groups; if the group was unseen, the stray had to be taken back and reared until it was large enough to be returned to the grasslands.

“Before we head back, we need to visit the ‘Tibetan Antelope Kindergarten,’ a center specially set up for saving and sheltering them, mostly young calves.”

Ji Xin was quite interested in it.

He had originally wanted to take close-up photos of the Tibetan antelope, but the highland elves were extremely skittish, spooked by the slightest noise.

Once frightened, the likelihood of difficult births multiplied.

After learning this, Ji Xing chose to shoot from a distance.

He could lie in wait all day just to capture the most stunning photos.

Chen Ying, however, focused on other animals.

The environment here differed vastly from Jiamu Gully, fueling his curiosity; he eagerly wanted to capture a lynx or snow leopard to gather comparative biological data.

He now had one sample from a lynx, but an opportunity to approach a snow leopard had not been presented.

The snow leopards sighted before likely stayed away from the campsite to avoid brown bears.

Today, with the mother bear and her cub leaving, there may be a chance to encounter these highland snow spirits.

“Brother Li, look, there’s a convoy coming this way.”

Ji Xin stopped taking photos as he saw several vehicles approaching from his lens.

“It seems like the people we met on our first night here.”

Chen Ying and Yin Li exchanged looks. What were they doing here?

It couldn’t be poaching; surveillance was too tight nowadays, and these people had used official channels. They wouldn’t dare breach the law so openly in this unpopulated area.

The man who came to greet them was the same one who had exchanged documents with Yin Li before.

However, this group looked visibly worn out, as if they had not slept well, each displaying pale faces and dark circles under their eyes.

“Have you encountered some trouble?”

Yin Li shook hands with their leader and whispered a question.

“Ah, don’t mention it. Director Yin, could you arrange a place for them to rest properly first?”

“Sure, no problem.” Yin Li promptly turned around and asked Cai Rang and another teammate to help them find a spot to set up camp.

Chen Ying stepped forward, intending to speak, but suddenly stopped and sniffed.

“Did you encounter a wolf pack?”

The opposing leader looked at Chen Ying, a bit startled.

“Yes, how did you know? Did the wolves follow us? We thought we shook them off.”

The leader’s face changed dramatically. If the wolves had followed them, this act would be seen as dragging others down, earning them scorn from everyone in their circles.

“Don’t worry, I just smelled something.”

Someone in the group didn’t believe it and muttered under his breath, “Really? A dog’s nose?”

Yin Li’s smile slowly stiffened. “Can’t help it, we were born and raised in the mountains, spending our childhoods following our forebears into the hills. Our senses are sharper than average, please excuse us.”

That remark instantly made the murmuring young man’s face turn beet red, as though he wished he could crawl into a crack in the ground.

The leader helplessly glared at his member and apologized to Chen Ying.

“It’s fine, you guys rest first.”

Chen Ying did not say more.

He had intended to ask more about their situation to see if he could help, but since they kept their distance, he let it be.

Setting up the tent took almost an hour, after which, apart from the leader and the deputy, the rest went to sleep.

“Sorry, but we might have to ask you to stay alert tonight, not sure if those wolves will come looking for us.”

Desperate to shake off the wolf pack, they had driven in circles on the wilderness for over thirty hours before finding Zhuonai Lake.

“It’s all right, we have experience dealing with wolf packs. You two should get some rest.”

Yin Li persisted until the two leaders agreed to sleep.

“They seem to be part of a research team from the Green Association, here to check the status of the water systems in unoccupied areas. It’s unrelated to us, just bear with it, we’ll be leaving in a couple of days.”

Chen Ying chuckled, “What do you take me for? I’m not that petty. Alright, I’ll take a stroll outside; if I can gather some data on the snow leopard, our mission this time would be completely successful.”

“Should I ask Ji Xin and Brother Cai Rang to accompany you?”

“No need, just let Ji Xin come with me. In case a wolf pack really does show up, Brother Cai Rang can help you.”

“Tsk, you and your crow’s mouth, speak less.”

With the area crowded with vehicles, Chen Ying decided to drive out the Protection Station’s vehicle for a spin.

He proceeded with extreme caution, fearing to get stuck.

Driving slowly, it took him over twenty minutes to cover less than eight kilometers.

“Brother Ying, is that a snow leopard over there?”

Ji Xin, having brushed up his knowledge, could now identify animals at a glance.

Chen Ying picked up his binoculars and after a while, confirmed it was a snow leopard. However, this snow leopard was the smallest he had seen.

The adolescent snow leopard he had rescued in Guer Gully looked even plumper than this one.

Could this be the snow leopard that lost the fight with the female lynx?