The Civil Servant's Job is to Raise The Furries!-Chapter 275 - 274: An Accidental Fall into the Ice Lake

Chapter 275: Chapter 274: An Accidental Fall into the Ice Lake

Speaking of which, the Ili Pika looked a bit aggrieved: [I chased after him to give him medicine, but he didn’t want it, so I sneaked into his backpack to be able to give him the medicine whenever he felt unwell.]

The Ili Pika’s eyes were brimming with tears, and Xu Ying’s heart softened. She hurried to comfort, "You’re not wrong, you’re not wrong. It’s he who misunderstood your goodwill. I’ll talk to him."

Meanwhile, Lu Jinyu looked at Xu Ying with a face that demanded an explanation. He pointed to the droppings by his feet that the show had put carrot mosaics on: "Little Xu Station Chief!"

"It bullied me again in front of everyone!!!"

"Isn’t it just because you support it?"

Seeing this, Xu Ying quickly waved her hands to explain: "The Ili Pika really means no harm!"

She squatted down and gently petted the Ili Pika’s fluffy little head, "You’re suffering from acclimatization and severe cramps, and this native herbal medicine is the most effective remedy."

She pointed to the few steaming "medicinal herbs" on the ground and earnestly explained, "The little pika is actually saving you! Seeing that the Chinese medicine worked for you, it specifically reserved the freshest ’herb’ for you."

She forced herself to hold back her laughter, straightening her face to add, "This is VIP treatment; you should be thanking it instead."

The Ili Pika on the ground timely lifted its head, its eyes like black pearls, watering as it looked at Lu Jinyu. Its little nose twitched, and its two front paws were neatly folded on its chest, just like a child waiting for praise.

Lu Jinyu: "..."

His expression was exceptionally interesting—furrowed brows, twitching corners of the mouth, his entire face writing "I, a dignified e-sports champion, actually have to thank a rabbit for its poop."

But under the gaze of the crowd and cameras, he eventually took a deep breath, squatted down, and squeezed out a stiff smile at the pika: "Tha...thank you for your ’kindness’." He emphasized the last two words, "But I’m already better, really don’t need it anymore."

Netizens laughed out loud:

[The pika is so cute, how can you blame it!]

[I could laugh for a year over Lu Jinyu’s expression]

[The show’s crew doesn’t respect our Brother Lu at all! Neither does Xu Ying! Nor does this pika! It’s too much!]

[Fans, stop causing trouble. If it weren’t for the pika’s "herbal medicine", your brother might still be in bed, possibly having to quit filming. Where would you cry then?]

[This is an interspecies medical dispute, being a doctor these days is so difficult! If you cure someone, you get scolded; if you don’t, you also get scolded!]

The Ili Pika seemed to understand Lu Jinyu’s thanks, happily spinning in place, and then—in front of everyone, left a few more ’thank you gifts’ on Lu Jinyu’s shoes.

[No need to be polite with me, I’ll give you more, I have a healthy stomach~]

"..."

The veins on Lu Jinyu’s forehead twitched as he restrained himself from flinging his shoes away.

Xu Ying hurriedly called the Ili Pika into the crate: "Come on, come on~"

"After completing two tasks in a row, next is our travel exploration segment, where we’ll go to the Ice Lake to understand the current crisis of the West Mountain Glacier melting!"

With that, she picked up the crate and ran.

Slip away, slip away~

*

On the way to the Ice Lake.

Mountaineering boots made a crisp sound on the exposed rock layer, and Xu Ying bent down to scoop up a handful of soil mixed with ice fragments.

The drone camera zoomed in, and the ice crystals in her palm melted into water at a visibly fast pace in the sunlight, dripping through her fingers.

"Twenty years ago, the path we are walking now was still covered by glaciers."

Her voice carried with the mountain wind, pointing to the distant blue-glowing ice tongue, "West Mountain Glacier No. 1 retreats 4 to 8 meters annually and has lost a quarter over the past forty years."

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

"Those are glacier monitoring marks." Xu Ying brushed over the faded red scale on the rock wall, "The glacier edge was here eighteen years ago, now..." She walked forward fifteen steps, landing beside a newly nailed metal plaque, "It’s retreated to here."

The show’s crew zoomed in for a close-up shot, the plaque engraved with striking data: "This year’s glacier monitoring line has retreated by 182 meters"

Netizens gasped in awe: [This retreat is faster than my loan repayment]

[Does this mean the West Mountain Glacier from our geography textbooks as a kid is going to become a relic...]

A Tibetan Fox suddenly came carrying a piece of ancient ice core that glowed blue. Xu Ying took it with a solemn expression: "Look at these bubbles; they contain the atmosphere from before the Industrial Revolution."

"And now it’s easily shattered, extremely fragile."

She gently squeezed it, turning the ice core into fragments.

"The most frightening thing is the vicious cycle—" she pointed to the large black dust specks on the glacier surface, "melting ice exposes bedrock, weathered debris falls onto the ice surface, absorbs more heat, accelerating melting..."

Su Zhining’s snow boot heel suddenly got caught in a rock crevice, and she complained: "Why is this rock so loose?"

"Because the permafrost that should be covering them is disappearing." Xu Ying pulled out a piece of shale and lightly pinched it, instantly crumbling into dust.

A distant sound of an icefall echoed, and everyone fell silent simultaneously.

The Ili Pika quietly nestled in Xu Ying’s arms at this moment, its black eyes reflecting the melting ice waterfall.

That was its vanishing home. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

However, when they arrived near the West Mountain Ice Lake, they found a large group of technicians in orange uniforms gathered by the lake, huddled around several monitoring devices, anxiously discussing something. The atmosphere on site was extremely tense.

Director Shao’s heart tightened, and he quickly walked over to the location manager who arrived earlier, "What’s the matter? Is the shoot going to be canceled?"

The second episode was indeed fraught with troubles, encountering a murder in the Snow Mountain before shooting began, and now encountering issues during the recording!

The location manager wiped the sweat off his forehead, his voice tinged with anxiety, "The shoot can still continue, but now there’s a big problem. Early this morning, a sudden gust of wind blew the avalanche monitoring station installed at the cliff edge completely over. That multiparameter early-warning device worth over 800,000 yuan fell directly into the Ice Lake."

He pointed to the vast lake surface, relaying what the technicians just said, "The crucial part is that the lake surface covers more than two square kilometers, and the impact force when the equipment fell broke a large hole through the ice. Now the instrument is at the lake bottom, and its exact location cannot be determined."

A technician who was collaborating with the production team walked over, speaking to Director Shao and others, "We tried using sonar detection, but the complex lakebed terrain and interference from the ice layer cause the signal to be intermittent. Now we can’t even pinpoint the exact location of the equipment, let alone retrieve it."

Another technician, full of concern, added, "Even more troublesome, the continuous warming these past few days has made the ice layer exceedingly fragile. Earlier, when we tried using a drone to lift and salvage equipment, the moment it reached the lake center, the ice surface began to crack on a large scale. Now helicopters dare not come, and sending divers is risking life—who knows which ice surface will suddenly collapse?"