Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 517 - 470: Domestic Violence Scene, Mysterious Ferocious Beast_2

Chapter 517: Chapter 470: Domestic Violence Scene, Mysterious Ferocious Beast_2

Not only did Chen Ying see it clearly, but Sasa also saw it quite clearly.

In a flash of fury, she trotted over and slapped Mendun’er.

Chen Ying seized the opportunity to push Mendun’er away and pulled the young man out of the danger zone.

Sasa showed no mercy in punishing her daughter.

Beside her, Chen Ying was still adding fuel to the fire.

"You spoil Mendun’er too much. She used to bully Great Bai, then bullied Sesame, and lately teamed up with Leopard Sister and them to mess with the father of your two babies. Today she even frightened people. If you don’t give her a good beating, she’ll think she can conquer the world."

Sasa rolled her eyes at Chen Ying’s words, but didn’t ease up the beatings on her daughter one bit.

Mendun’er didn’t dare to fight back and could only bleat and plead for mercy.

On the small rooftop, Leopard Sister and Brother Leopard scrambled to hide among the trees, trying to cover themselves as much as possible.

As for Jinya, being so huge, even hiding behind Little Jin and the lynx cub couldn’t cover her, it was like a futile attempt at self-deception.

While Mendun’er was being beaten, the male panda came over, not too close, but happily bouncing up and down and making all sorts of strange noises.

The camera was pointed right there, and the audience in the live broadcast room saw this scene and laughed uncontrollably.

After tiring herself out from beating her daughter, Sasa leaned against the column of the timber frame and sat down, then absently picked up some bamboo nearby and gnawed on it.

Having been beaten, Mendun’er barked a few times at Chen Ying before running away with her pigeon-toed gait.

Probably feeling a bit embarrassed, she ran out to lay low.

The male panda looked towards the direction Mendun’er ran off to and made a few head-bobbing calls before sidling up and lying down next to Sasa.

Not far away was its cub, yet it didn’t spare even a glance.

With its chin resting on its left foreleg, it gazed at Sasa with a smile.

The live broadcast room fell silent, and after a long pause, someone sent a comment.

"After seeing this scene, I finally believe those short dramas have some basis, isn’t this just the live-action version of ’The CEO Loves the Menopausal Me with Kids’."

Once that comment appeared, there was a three-second pause, followed by a barrage of "hahaha" comments, so thick that they obscured the screen.

Chen Ying wasn’t sure why this male panda liked Sasa so much, even reclaiming this territory for her.

In the second week after Little Sen and Mengmeng returned from their honeymoon to the rescue station, Sasa moved with her two children to where Mendun’er previously had her cubs.

This place is located at the intersection of the territories of Mendun’er, Great Bai, and the male panda, making it extremely safe. The infrared camera set up opposite the cave was never removed, and after replacing the battery and memory card, it continued to capture Sasa’s daily life with her cubs.

The peaceful days went by quickly, and after the National Day holiday in October, the two trekking enthusiasts Chen Ying had met earlier in Shennongjia went to Gao Ligon Mountain, sharing many photos in their hiking group.

But Chen Ying didn’t expect to receive a call from the mountain lodge owner in the middle of the night.

"Dr. Chen, we really don’t know what to do. We’ve already called the local rescue department, but they won’t arrive for several hours. I fear this gibbon won’t hold out."

This juvenile gibbon was found under a tree, with signs of a broken arm and several bloody bite marks on its body. It seemed to have been attacked by a predator.

However, white-browed long-armed apes typically mate for life and live with their young, so the sudden appearance of a severely injured juvenile ape with no relatives around is quite troubling.

Chen Ying asked if they had contacted Dao Meihua, and they said no, guessing that Miss Dao, being a girl who studied botany, wouldn’t be of much help.

Chen Ying couldn’t reveal Dao Meihua’s background, so while on the phone with them, he contacted Dao Meihua with another phone.

Luck was on their side; although Dao Meihua wasn’t home, she had many brothers, and two cousins happened to be in the mountains with the family exploration team looking for minerals, so they could lend a hand.

Chen Ying didn’t know much about the capabilities of the powerful family, nor would he ask, but knowing that Miss Dao assured them, he felt reassured.

However, sleeping again seemed unlikely, so he got up and started researching information on white-browed long-armed apes using his tablet.

Two hours later, an unfamiliar number called, and it was a video call.

The caller was a man in his thirties who resembled Dao Meihua a bit and he got straight to the point.

"Dr. Chen, we’ve brought the injured white-browed long-armed ape to our house’s Beast Hospital. However, the veterinarian says they can handle the bite and fracture wounds, but the nerve injuries are beyond them."

While he spoke, Chen Ying saw through the lens the white-browed long-armed ape lying on the treatment bed.

The gibbon’s right forelimb was completely broken, with the bone piercing through the skin. Moreover, its right wrist was severely bitten, leaving a bloody mess of a wound.

Chen Ying asked him to focus the camera on the other wounds on the gibbon’s body and quickly determined it was injured by a feline, likely a small-sized one.

Based on the wound size and bite marks, Chen Ying surmised it encountered a cloud leopard, found only in the Dian Province area.

But cloud leopards are small cats that typically prey on small vertebrates like squirrels, rats, and lizards. Another part of their diet includes birds, occasionally larger wading birds like pheasants.

Primates really aren’t in their diet, given their size; they couldn’t take on a gibbon.

"Could it be a leopard cat? We often see leopard cats here."

"Not likely, an adult leopard cat’s bite would be larger than that."

Precisely distinguishing requires more data, but tracking down the predator isn’t meaningful now; the priority is rescuing the gibbon.

Fortunately, the Dao family has substantial resources and directly hired a surgeon specializing in nerve reconstruction to treat the gibbon. Meanwhile, Chen Ying sent them anatomical diagrams of the gibbon’s nervous system that he knew about.

With these diagrams, the surgeons had a slightly easier time with the operation.

After all, there are significant differences between human hand nerves and those of a gibbon.

Dao Meihua arranged a private plane for him, Professor Bai, and the teacher’s wife, departing from the nearest airport directly to the Bai family’s base camp in Gao Ligon Mountain.

When they arrived, the neurosurgeons had also prepared the surgery plan. Knowing that Professor Bai, an expert in clinical veterinary medicine, had arrived, the head surgeon particularly discussed the surgical plan with him, refining and detailing it further.

The surgery was scheduled for the evening, and during the preparation, Dao Meihua’s cousin found Chen Ying, saying they found another injured and deceased white-browed long-armed ape.

The injured ape had been sent to the hospital, in slightly better condition than the first one, mainly due to being bitten in multiple places.

However, the two dead gibbons were a mother with a cub and another gibbon less than a year old.

Chen Ying went to see them, wearing a heavy expression.

"Something’s off. Cloud leopards are solitary and small, barely larger than house cats, usually weighing under ten pounds. How could they successfully attack a family of gibbons?"

Ambushing a lone juvenile gibbon might be possible, but targeting a pair of adult gibbons along with a young ape— even Leopard Sister might not succeed.

"Then... do you think their injuries were caused by something else?"

Chen Ying compared the wounds, processing rapidly in his mind, yet no other match came up for the bite marks except cloud leopard or leopard cat.

And since leopard cats are terrestrial, despite their climbing abilities, confronting gibbons in trees would surely result in their defeat.

"After these two gibbons’ surgeries are done, I’ll head into the mountains to take a look. Maybe there’ll be surprising discoveries."

Not only was he curious, but Dao Meihua’s cousin was also highly intrigued, promptly volunteering to accompany Chen Ying into the mountains to investigate as soon as they were ready.

Chen Ying had a hunch that the creature responsible for attacking and killing the gibbon family could lead to unexpected findings.

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