The Civil Servant's Job is to Raise The Furries!-Chapter 280 - 279: Animal Kingdom Traffic Cop

After these Jeleray fish gradually surfaced, they formed a school, their swimming movements becoming synchronized. They adjusted their body postures to maintain the group formation, resembling a wolf pack’s collaborative hunting.

Xu Ying developed a deep understanding of these "freshwater wolves."

But soon, she discovered something else was being nudged up from the lake bottom!

Staring closely, Xu Ying realized that what was being pushed up by the fish school was actually a plastic panel.

This piece of plastic panel was pushed by the Jeleray fish to directly beneath the ice where Xu Ying was standing.

The lead grandmother Jeleray fish spoke up: [The panel is already beneath the ice layer; my children and grandchildren are holding it up from below.]

[If the ice cracks, my descendants will still be holding the plastic panel, lifting you up, so rest assured.]

Beneath the ice, the densely packed Jeleray fish held up the plastic panel, creating a "temporary safety island" for Xu Ying.

Jeleray fish are large freshwater fish, with the largest weighing up to fifty kilograms, heavier than Xu Ying, and ranging from one to four meters in length. So many thick-skinned, strong fish were holding up the plastic panel.

Xu Ying could feel the fragile ice beneath her becoming more stable.

Her heart felt as if lightly bumped into, warm and filled.

For the first time, Xu Ying thought a group of fish was so cool!

She couldn’t help but exclaim, "Wow, you guys are so awesome, full of a sense of security!"

Hearing Xu Ying’s compliment, the grandmother Jeleray fish was so pleased her tail almost flipped up to the sky.

[Come, come, keep me company for a while, I’m so curious about your human world.]

Without worrying about falling into the water through cracked ice, Xu Ying immediately nodded, "Ask me anything!"

The Jeleray fish motioned upwards with its mouth: [Does the lake above us have any fish? What do they look like? Can they live to be 100 years old like us Jeleray fish?]

"The lake above?" Xu Ying looked up puzzled, seeing the blue sky and fluffy clouds, she quickly understood that the Jeleray fish considered the sky to be a lake as well.

Fish perspectives are quite interesting!

Xu Ying explained with a smile, "Above us is the sky, there are no fish but there are birds. Water vapor from the ground rises into the sky and forms rain."

[So that’s how it is, I thought the occasional rain from above was because the lake above was too full and overflowed, scattering around.]

With small eyes full of questions, the Jeleray fish asked: [Why do you two-legged creatures stand by the water making strange gestures? Are you performing some mysterious ritual?]

Xu Ying quickly understood, it was referring to tourists taking photos by the lake: "This human behavior is called photo-taking for check-in."

"Humans have a device that captures the current scene and freezes it. We print the pictures onto small paper, so we can remember the moment forever."

The Jeleray fish asked many questions, and Xu Ying patiently answered them all without annoyance.

[Why don’t humans eat plankton and prefer eating big fish like us?]

Xu Ying scratched her head, "Because we have many vegetables on land that taste better than plankton, which is barely enough to fill the gap between our teeth; big fish have more substantial and firm meat."

The Jeleray fish seemed to somewhat understand: [I see, then when I’m about to die, I’m willing to let you eat me.]

Xu Ying was taken aback by the grandmother Jeleray fish’s enthusiasm and selflessness, hurriedly declining, "No need, no need, I don’t particularly like eating fish."

At that moment, a huge ripple spread across the lake surface, and a Jeleray fish nearly two meters long, looking strong and robust, emerged:

[Great-great-grandmother! We found the device that the two-legged creature mentioned!]

Xu Ying was thrilled to hear the good news.

She first asked for the general location of the device, to guide the otter divers directly to the destination: "In which direction is the device approximately located?"

The great-grandson Jeleray fish pointed its head northwest, [Swim in this direction until you reach the cracked ice layer, and near that large ice layer with much broken ice, it should be around that spot.]

Having said that, the great-grandson Jeleray fish sounded troubled: [It’s quite far from our current position and is at the lake bottom, we can’t move it.]

"It’s okay, I’ll send my hired divers next!"

Xu Ying kindly implored, "I need to ask three otters to help, and I need one of your members to guide them to find the location of the device."

"Can you accommodate that?"

She quickly added, "The otters won’t compete for food with you, they’ve already been fed onshore."

The grandmother Jeleray fish, satisfied with Xu Ying’s company, generously said: [Of course, no problem, I can let my descendants catch some fish to entertain them!]

[But only today, as a special favor for Little Xu Station Chief.]

"Our granny is so generous!" Xu Ying was amused by the grandmother Jeleray fish’s words.

She used a walkie-talkie to signal Zhang Yongfeng onshore, "Captain Zhang, deploy the otter special ops team!"

—— "Okay, moving out now!"

Zhang Yongfeng received Xu Ying’s signal, feeling excited, the device location was found!

The otter family of three, well-fed and full of energy, received the signal to support Xiao Xu Station Chief.

With humorous steps, they climbed onto the ice sheet.

Unlike Xu Ying, who walked cautiously on the ice, the otter family moved like professional skaters, "zip," using their bellies to slide a great distance, incredibly fast.

Xu Ying pulled out a brightly colored little flag from her pocket, waving it to direct the otters to the location of the device.

—— "Over there, in that direction!"

—— "You’ve slid too far, hit the brakes!"

—— "Stop! Stop!"

Xu Ying frantically waved the little flag in her hand, excitedly beckoning.

The three over-sliding otters responded to Xu Ying’s calls, quickly using their front and back paws to brake, turning around on the ice panting, and crawled back.

[Little Xu Station Chief, we see a big Jeleray fish blowing bubbles.]

Xu Ying breathed a sigh of relief, "Yes, yes, this is the place!"

The scene of Xu Ying commanding the otter special ops team was very comical, easing viewers’ tension.

[Little Xu Station Chief looks like an animal traffic cop!]

[Laughing so hard, Xu Ying’s flag is spinning like a wind fire wheel.]

[After all this effort, she could hail two hundred taxis at a train station.]

The otter divers found the correct dive spot.

Xu Ying said through the walkie-talkie to the rescue team, "The program crew’s drone can now deliver the rope to the otters."

The show’s supply drone started, lowering a long rope with a hook at one end from the air.

The otter family of three looked up in unison at the descending rope, cluelessly gazing towards Xu Ying.

"When you dive, the Jeleray fish will guide you to the device’s location."

Xu Ying, like an anxious parent, instructed, "Don’t start fighting, okay?"