Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 320 - Let’s go find the local ringleader

Chapter 320 -320 Let’s go find the local ringleader

“Brother Ying, this bear is about two years old and has an old injury on its left front paw. Compared to others of its age and species, its development is not too good.”

Xiao Song finished measuring the physical data of the little brown bear with his assistant. They would have to wait a while for the results of the blood tests.

“From the current situation, this little bear doesn’t seem particularly adept at fending for itself in the wild. At this time of year, its fat reserves are nowhere near enough to get it through the winter.”

No wonder it hadn’t gone into hibernation but had instead ventured into the pasture in search of food. It was probably so hungry it couldn’t sleep.

Whether the big brown bear had followed it here with unclear intentions, wanting to find a little mate, or considering this brown bear as emergency rations, probably only the big brown bear knew.

Half an hour later, the blood test results came back, and this bear was not just a failure at life but also a sickly failure.

“Looking at these figures, it probably has some gastrointestinal issues. Brother Ying, should we contact Qing Ye and see if they want to take it in?”

Releasing it would most likely mean it couldn’t survive the winter.

“Let’s make contact first. By the way, how is the big brown bear doing?”

“It couldn’t be better.”

Xiao Song shrugged. “The leaders want to send it far away, and the center has chosen three places. One is within the heart of uninhabited areas, another is near Alkine in the Kekexili Mountains, and the last option is deep within the Qiangtang Grassland.”

“Qiangtang area? That’s the Northern Tibet Grassland where there’s a lot of pastoral activity. This bear is likely to have injured people before; it might be best to send it to an uninhabited area.”

Xiao Song pursed his lips. “That’s what I said too.”

“Brother Ying, you don’t know, last April when we came here, we saw how formidable these guys are in the pastoral areas. An abandoned den was almost destroyed by them. Back then, they even set up an electric fence to ward off bears, you know what happened in the end? They dug holes underneath the fence to get through!”

That’s where Tibetan brown bears excel. They’re so impatient when hunting ground squirrels and rabbits that they won’t wait at the burrow’s entrance, preferring to dig three feet into the ground and unearth the hiding prey to eat.

There was a saying before, if you run into a bear in the wild, just play dead.

Definitely do not attempt this technique in front of a Tibetan brown bear; if you lie down, you’ll lie down forever. After all, Tibetan brown bears quite like to eat unspoiled corpses…

After completing the examination, the subdued little brown bear also awakened.

Having eaten its fill and rested well, it stretched lazily in its cage, stared blankly for a while, and then became agitated, trying to squeeze out.

Chen Ying approached with a bowl of nutritional milk powder, squatting down on the other side of the iron cage.

“How did you end up in such a sorry state?”

The brown bear hugged its injured paw, looking pitifully at him, a picture of misery.

Chen Ying shook his head and slid the bowl of milk through the bars below.

The brown bear sniffed it, drawn by the sweet scent of honey, and buried its head in the bowl, gulping it down voraciously.

The milk was fortified with nutritional powder and medicine to help with digestion.

This young brown bear would have to stay at Qing Ye for a while, at least until spring came around next year before it could return to the wild.

As for the other brown bear, the blood tests showed it was in robust health.

Now, the situation with it was causing a great deal of hassle within the department.

After identification, this bear was the one that had killed someone.

However, the problem was that the university student had trespassed into its territory before meeting his end. To put it bluntly, he was practically asking for it, so one couldn’t say that this bear had a tendency to endanger human life.

Killing it was out of the question. The opinion of others was that such a ferocious bear shouldn’t be released back into the wild; who knows if it might harm humans again. The best course of action was to keep it locked up, under human control.

Plainly speaking, this meant putting it directly into a zoo to prevent any subsequent incidents.

But there are thousands upon thousands of wild animals, can we really lock them all up?

However, the threat that Tibetan brown bears pose to herders does indeed exist; how to protect the safety of both parties is a question that still requires research.

After dealing with the bear situation, next up was human affairs.

Sure enough, the biological parents of that child came looking for compensation, demanding a settlement starting at three hundred thousand yuan.

Chen Ying watched the couple play good cop, bad cop without a word, then picked up his phone and dialed the police.

The village police arrived promptly, as did the notified village officials.

The village chief was a tough man; he kicked the couple without hesitation.

Of course, he was measured; he just made them stagger a few steps.

At this time, relatives of another child who had heard the news came in two cars, a group of ten burly men jumped out, their fierce demeanors impossible to hide.

The two in the lead took the child’s biological father aside for a serious talk.

As for the mother of the child, she sat on the ground wailing, utterly ignored.

“The child is still in the hospital; instead of visiting him, all you do is go around trying to extort money. Have you taken care of this child even for a day? During the free clinic two years ago, the doctors said they could install a cochlear implant, and they had even managed to reduce the cost to twenty thousand yuan. What did you do? You outright told them they were using your son as a guinea pig, refusing to pay, and even demanded a hundred thousand from them just to agree.”

The rescue center staff were taken aback; how could there be such shameless parents in the world?

“If the two of you don’t want this child, then transfer his guardianship to his aunt.”

“Why should we? My son is almost an adult now and can soon work to earn money. If we transfer him to her place, wouldn’t all the money he earns go to her?”

The sharpness in the child’s mother’s voice made people feel angry.

“You’re really worse than animals. Even animals know to protect their young. Are you parents treating your child as private property? When he can’t live independently, you shove him off to the aunt to take care of him, and when he can work and earn money, you want to take him back to slave away for you.”

Several young men were so incensed that they clenched their fists tightly.

If it weren’t for workplace regulations, they really wanted to go over and have a word with this couple.

Honestly, Brother Ying was almost at his limit too; he really wished he could let the Big Brown Bear out to scare the couple.

He just feared that if he truly scared them, it might cost the Big Brown Bear its life.

They weren’t allowed to make a scene here for too long.

The villagers forcibly took the couple away.

The village police’s face wasn’t looking too good either. No one would be pleased to have such people in their jurisdiction.

All one could say was that the diversity of species gives one the urge to ask the gods of Ancient Greece, who oversee the dregs, to take these two away.

These distressing matters are a part of life but not everything.

It is precisely these issues that allow one to better appreciate the simplicity of animals.

Brother Ying didn’t get involved in the release of Big Brown Bear, but he did take a look.

One could say that just as humans have a variety of personalities, so do animals.

Ever since this Big Brown Bear awoke, it had been furiously roaring and shaking the iron bars vigorously.

If preparations hadn’t been made in advance, confining it in the safest animal shed, by now they’d probably be out there trying to catch a bear—or running for their lives.

After all the commotion throughout the day, the outcome was that it would be released into the center of the uninhabited area.

The center had made a file note for this bear and uploaded the footage to the database. From now on, as long as the specialized bear-monitoring cameras spotted it, the system would automatically make a match and issue an alert.

On the third day at four thirty in the morning, the center had already started preparations to load the Big Brown Bear onto the truck.

In addition to the center’s staff, the Mountain Patrol Team members from two nearby Protection Stations and the armed Forest Police would join them for this release deep into the uninhabited area.

There was no choice; this bear was too uncontrollable and it was necessary to increase the safety factor.

Brother Ying also helped with loading the truck.

The Big Brown Bear was injected with a safe dose of tranquilizer to ensure that it wouldn’t go wild on the way.

Brother Ying hadn’t planned to follow for the release, but the center’s deputy director found him and asked for his help to oversee the operation.

“Even though there are fewer wild animals outside in winter, we might encounter wolves and wandering snow leopards on the way. Everyone says Dr. Chen has good luck. We hope to borrow Dr. Chen’s luck so we can safely arrive at the release site.”

Since the leader had said so, Brother Ying agreed to go along.

After all, he didn’t need to exert any effort, it was just tagging along for the trip.

There were five vehicles in total; one leading the way, two Mountain Patrol Team work vehicles, one carrying the bear, and finally, the Forest Police’s vehicle at the rear.

With such a large convoy, even if they encountered a pack of wolves on the road, the wolves wouldn’t have time to hide, let alone cause trouble.

Not long after they left, the deaf child’s birth mother came with two social media journalists looking for Brother Ying.

Upon learning that they had gone into the uninhabited area, she sat down on the spot, started wailing and claimed they were all in it together, bullying her and her man.

The two social media journalists also leaned in, provocatively steering the conversation, wanting to blow the situation out of proportion.

The center’s public relations officer hurried over, asked the security to encircle them without touching them, grabbed two cameras to record continuously, then directly called the police in front of them.

Seeing that the center’s personnel weren’t falling for their tricks, the two social media folks’ eyes darted around looking for an escape.

They had come for the views, but it was clear the center was already prepared for commotion, hindering their ability to stir trouble. How were they to fish in murky waters?

Seeing it was futile, leaving was the best strategy.

But the center wasn’t an open park; it was easy to get in, but not so easy to get out.

Using the excuse of needing the restroom, they tried to escape by climbing the wall, not knowing they climbed the wrong one. To the left was an old Snow Leopard, and to the right, two wolves. They perched on the wall, finding even a retreat difficult.

When they were rescued, they still had the audacity to claim they climbed the wall to capture the animals’ daily lives, only to be undone by the park’s surveillance cameras.

Upon police investigation, it turned out that these two had no journalist credentials and were merely online influencers, with less than twenty thousand followers, most of which, according to their page, were zombie followers bought with money.

Only that hysterical woman didn’t understand this, seeing the nearly twenty thousand followers and thinking they were some big-deal journalists, eagerly bringing them along to “help” her demand money.

The two were led away from the Snow Leopard Garden.

Meanwhile, Jinya was playing hide and seek with Little Jin in the Snow Leopard Garden, witnessed this entire farce, and later sneaked into the office area to eavesdrop on the two-legged beasts’ conversation.

Not fully understanding was okay; it recognized a few familiar words, like “Dr. Chen” and “bite to death,” among others.

The clever animal thought for a moment, then leaped out of the Snow Leopard Garden, found Little Jin, and decided to look for the local snake to inquire about the situation.