Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 271 - : Heading Straight for Her Face

Chapter 271 -271: Heading Straight for Her Face

Isolation room, external cleaning and pest control, after the whole process, both Chen Ying and Xiao Song were exhausted.

The glass door blocked the curiosity of two desert cats, Young Master Huang and Miss Huang.

The two just lay on the glass, occasionally scraping it, making a scraping sound that gave people goosebumps.

Yin Li eventually couldn’t stand the harsh noise and took one in each hand, forcefully taking them away.

“Brother Ying, can we just put this one in the nursing box?”

“Let’s just do that for now, the nursing box is a bit more suitable, but we still need to assist with feeding and excretion manually.”

Chen Ying took off his gloves and threw them into the medical waste bin, then moved his neck, making a crackling sound in his cervical vertebrae.

Checking the three kittens, deworming them, the tasks didn’t seem heavy but required meticulousness, and it would take almost a couple of hours if done consecutively, even with him and Xiao Song partnering up.

Of course, they did the job very carefully as well.

The three older ones could be kept in the cage until they were a month old; how long the smaller one would stay in the nursing box was uncertain.

If lucky, it would reunite with its siblings in about ten days; if not, it would be like an orphan born to another mother.

Eating lunch in the canteen, Xiao Song asked Chen Ying when he planned to go back.

“I might leave in a few days.” Chen Ying still missed his own nest, “I plan to go back and stay until around November, and then come over here again for a while.”

He didn’t need to worry about the several big cats at home, it was just that this year’s newborns hadn’t had a thorough check-up yet, and he needed to go back to complete the task.

“You’re worried about Er Niu, right? Don’t worry, I’ll go check on it whenever I can.”

Xiao Song also knew about Er Niu’s situation and promised to take care of that naive leopard together with Yin Li.

“By the way, Ali, how come I haven’t seen your dad this time I came over?”

Yin Li snorted with laughter, “He knew you were coming and specially ran off to go on rotation with someone else, saying he was going to study the skills to raise his own herd of cattle and sheep next year. Do you think I don’t know him? He’s just too embarrassed to meet you, that’s all.”

While they were chatting, Ji Xin ran over.

“Sister Xiao Song, people have come from above for an inspection, saying someone complained that you were illegally keeping wild animals.”

Ji Xin glanced at a few people and lowered his voice, “The woman leading the team is that one!”

“Who?” Chen Ying asked dumbfounded. After asking, he covered his mouth.

This is bad, he had forgotten about Duanmu’s uncle’s daughter.

Wasn’t it said that there wasn’t much between that woman and Duanmu? Why did she suddenly come to make trouble?

Xiao Song continued to eat with a calm face.

“It’s nothing, I know about this complaint, it’s done by a herder’s family outside of our area.”

“Why?”

“No reason, just trouble caused by the two kitten cubs.”

The herder’s young daughter was the first to find the kitten cubs; she took them home and kept them for a few days. Later, other herders found out they were wild animals and called the rescue station.

“The herder was worried about his daughter being held responsible, so he threw the two kitten cubs out. I might have spoken a bit harshly at the time, demanding that he lead us to find them. We didn’t find them where the kittens were thrown, so I spoke quite harshly. Later, a child from another herder’s family brought the kittens over saying that they followed them – right after they threw them, he picked them up and looked after them.”

It was initially a trivial matter, but Xiao Song was criticized station-wide for her harsh words, and nobody expected that the herder family would then sue Xiao Song, claiming she was illegally keeping wild animals.

“They can’t quite understand the situation at the rescue station; they think that once picked up and confirmed to be okay, the animals should be released far away. But it’s different for kitten cubs if they cannot survive independently yet.”

Xiao Song admitted that she did want to take the opportunity to teach the other herders a lesson and knew that she had made a mistake. She didn’t take the performance salary for the first half of the year and didn’t feel wronged.

Being complained about was actually within her expectations.

Chen Ying and Yin Li understood as well.

When Jiamu Gully was designated a protected area, forbidding villagers to go up the mountains to chop trees, gather herbs, and hunt caused many conflicts. Village officials were replaced one batch after another, taking nearly ten years to change the villagers’ minds.

“Here, rodent infestations are rampant; to the herders, desert cats are nothing more than cats with a stronger survival ability; they don’t have much concept that these creatures are also protected animals.”

Poisoning is not an option, as accidentally poisoning the livestock would mean their family would be torn apart.

But not addressing the rodent problem is also distressing.

Who could stand to watch as the grasslands are devastated by rabbits and rodents?

“It’s still a problem of the biological chain, plus the gathering of people generating excessive domestic waste, nourishing the rodents. And wild animals will avoid human activities, naturally leading to such conflicts.”

These issues could only be resolved by experts. They were just simple patrol officers and rescue veterinarians, willing but unable.

The people from above arrived quickly, and as Chen Ying and Xiao Song were checking other rescued animals, they were already there, not seeking Xiao Song but wandering around the rescue medical area.

As the director, Yin Li also oversaw the rescue work and accompanied the inspection officers on the tour.

“These kitten cubs in the isolation room were rescued from the wild at Budong River Protection Station, and Dr. Chen Ying and Dr. Xiao Song have already written and submitted a report on the entire rescue process.”

The secretary nodded and quietly confirmed the matter with the team leader.

“This side has animals that have already undergone the second reassessment. Those with green tags can be released, and those with yellow tags need further observation. Animals with red tags aren’t placed here; they’re housed in another building at the back, with specialized care.”

Having said that, Yin Li asked the leader with a smile, “Leader, when can we get that set of equipment you promised us last time? Others are using intelligent management systems already, where a simple click allows them to access all animal data from rescue to release. We’re still manually filling in paperwork.”

“Director Yin, there is a process for that. Rest assured, the center will definitely not forget.”

Yin Li rolled his eyes subtly at the official-sounding response.

After inspecting the first and second floors, the leader finally addressed the main issue.

“Didn’t you rescue two Desert Cats before? I haven’t seen where they are.”

“Over there,” Yin Li answered without a second thought, pointing.

Looking down from the second floor, on a wooden rack outside the observation room on the first floor, two cats with highly camouflaged colors crouched, eyeing the observation room intently.

“Have they been released into the wild?”

“No, they’re in the stage of release training. These two Desert Cats are different from other animals; they weren’t rescued because of injury or illness. They were simply too young and motherless, not strong enough to survive in the wild on their own.”

Yin Li glanced at a certain quietly observant lady in the team.

“Actually, those of us who have raised cats in the countryside know that cats need an older cat to teach them how to hunt after they are a month old, and they can live independently after three to four months.”

Currently, these two kittens can’t find food independently and need to follow an adult cat to learn skills.

The protection station’s canteen had an older cat, but unfortunately, that cat was neutered.

“Now, the two kittens are learning how to hunt with that older cat. In another month, they’ll be able to leave.”

“However, I suspect they won’t go far for two reasons. First, our protection station area is seriously plagued by rodents, a food paradise for Desert Cats. Second, while learning survival skills from the domestic cat, the rescued cats have also become somewhat affectionate towards humans.”

“Anyway, the purpose of rescue is to let them live freely and reproduce. Even if they don’t leave, we haven’t restricted their activities, so it shouldn’t be considered a violation.”

Yin Li said between the lines, and the leader gave him a smile that was not quite a smile, without commenting.

“Leader, I see that the rescue work here is very comprehensive, with various measures, rules, and systems all posted on the wall. Their rescue reports and records are also complete. Any entry can be checked in detail, with all test records and reports matching.”

Another inspection official spoke appropriately, and the leader seemed to appreciate the comments.

Duanmu’s “scandalous” girlfriend also finished her inspection work, randomly checking ten cases, and each medical record and outcome complied with the requirements.

“Good, this is very good. The case file system is well designed. Did you hire someone special to design it?”

“No, it was originally designed by Dr. Xiao Song and Supervisor Duanmu back in Jiamu Gully, after discussing it with Dr. Chen Ying. It’s not an official procedure, only used internally.”

“I think it’s quite good, and after some improvements, it could be rolled out. Please get in touch with Dr. Chen on the other side to see if we can collaborate on this.”

Even though the leader hadn’t seen Dr. Xiao Song, he did not seem upset but praised Xiao Song instead.

Yin Li couldn’t figure out what angle the leader was playing.

Just as they were about to go elsewhere for a cursory check and return, there seemed to be some unusual commotion at the rescue garden.

“What’s the matter?”

The leader frowned, and Yin Li quickly took out his phone to call Dr. Xiao Song for an inquiry.

“Director, a Sand fox suddenly snuck in, and we’re trying to capture it.”

The call ended before he could say more, leaving Yin Li holding his phone somewhat baffled.

“Dr. Xiao Song said she’s with Dr. Chen examining the Lynx when a Sand fox suddenly bolted into the Lynx garden, and now they’re trying to capture it.”

The leader got interested, “Let’s go take a look, and if we can lend a hand, we will.”

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Though he thought so, he didn’t dare to say it aloud.

The group rushed to the Lynx cage, only to see people gathered around the two enclosures, trying to intercept the Sand fox with capture nets.

Chen Ying was holding a startled Lynx, which was experiencing a rapid heartbeat, at the edge of the Beast Garden.

“Is that Dr. Chen Ying holding the Lynx? What’s he doing with it?”

“That’s a rescued Lynx with a heart condition; it must have been quite frightened.”

“Lynx can have heart conditions?”

The way you say that… Any creature with a heart can have heart conditions. It hadn’t been discovered before; it would have probably died in the wild without us knowing.”

The speaker who made the comment closed his mouth, embarrassed. Now thinking back to what he had just said, he felt like slapping himself.

Just as the inspection team found a good spot to watch the excitement, another animal suddenly jumped down from a nearby tree, heading straight for Duanmu Scandal’s girlfriend’s face.