Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 336 - 334: Draw my blood, feed it to them, humans do the work?
Chapter 336 -334: Draw my blood, feed it to them, humans do the work?
“It’s not that bad, not that bad.”
The two male hosts beside her knew clearly that she was harboring resentment.
To them, this matter also seemed a bit absurd. Establishing an online persona wasn’t unusual in the age of the internet.
But using the understanding of a layperson to ridicule professionals, wasn’t that just bullying others for not being as famous online?
“Dr. Chen, Sister Xiao Wang sincerely invited you. She truly loves small animals, and all of her cats and dogs at home were adopted from shelters.”
The male host with a crew cut opened the WeChat profile of the female host to show Chen Ying, and indeed, there were very ordinary domestic cats and dogs.
From the photos, one could tell that the little guys were well cared for.
Especially the older dog that Sister Xiao Wang was holding, one of its eye sockets was empty.
Seeing that Chen Ying paid particular attention to this dog, the female host hurriedly explained.
“This dog’s name is Commander. I rescued it from the side of the road in a green belt when I was in college. It underwent surgery, but its eye couldn’t be saved. The vet said it’s probably around seventeen or eighteen years old, and it’s been with me for almost fifteen years now. All the cats and dogs at home listen to it.”
Looking at the photos of the blissful cats and dogs, Chen Ying’s expression softened a lot.
“I’m sorry, I was rude just now. But I really don’t intend to keep my personal account. You know the situation.”
A scientific outreach account filled with insults; nobody would be in a good mood seeing that.
Little Sen had deactivated his account at 3:30 in the morning, and when those people couldn’t find him, they went to harass Chen Ying and Yin Li’s accounts.
Every account associated with the Jiamu Gully First Aid Station had been bombarded.
“Dr. Chen, as an older brother with a bit more age, I’d like to say something. Precisely because this has happened, you should participate in this show even more.”
“Those trolls are indeed despicable, but many other people don’t understand the real situation and aren’t aware of what your job entails. They receive misinformation and won’t actively seek to correct it with the right information. Going on like this, the wrong becomes right.”
He patted Chen Ying’s shoulder, “There’s no rush for this matter, and the program isn’t one that you just go on immediately. We’ll let Sister Xiao Wang have a good chat with you later. Take a look at the talk shows she hosted before, and if you’re interested, then we can go on.”
“And such a show won’t only invite you; there’ll also be your leaders and relevant authority experts.”
After listening to their explanation, Chen Ying felt somewhat calmer.
“Dr. Chen, don’t rush to delete your account, but you can set permissions for posting comments. I think it’s necessary for accounts like yours that spread scientific knowledge to exist, and you should post more educational content. Personally, I have a bit of experience in this area, and if you don’t mind, we could discuss it privately.”
Saying so, he took out his phone, wanting to add Chen Ying’s account.
Looking at the three phones in front of him, Chen Ying’s face went stiff.
But he also realized that these three were not in cahoots with that short essay-writing host.
After adding as friends, everyone tactfully didn’t mention this matter again but instead began talking about interesting stories from the mountains.
Just as the host skilled at writing micro-essays was about to provoke Chen Ying, he saw Chen Ying’s expression change, and he sprinted across the riverbed of Old Bear Gully and climbed up the opposite hillside on all fours. Then, from beneath the three giant pandas in the bamboo forest below, he scooped up a… giant panda cub?
It was a giant panda cub, right? It didn’t look like an adult panda, but it was much bigger than the three cubs they had seen previously.
The three adult giant pandas on the slope and in the trees also spotted them, and one of them made an aggressive gesture.
At that moment, two panda handlers emerged from the nearby woods, quickly rushing over to assist.
“What’s happened, why has Fu Fu’s cub run over here?”
Chen Ying carried Fu Fu’s cub down the slope, away from the wild adult giant pandas.
Seeing the panda handlers, Fu Fu’s cub bared its teeth and tried to scratch them with its paws.
The two handlers quickly retreated, maintaining a safe distance.
Seeing them back off, Fu Fu’s cub calmed down and turned to climb up Chen Ying’s pants onto his body.
“Mommy’s gone,” it whined.
“Hungry, want something yummy,” whimpered the cub with its squishy belly.
“Where’s Fu Fu? How long has it been since it fed its cub?”
“Fu Fu hasn’t returned to the den for three days; another team tracked it and found that it went up the mountain to look for food, probably forgetting it still had a cub to feed.”
This wasn’t the first time Fu Fu had done something like this.
Chen Ying took an apple out of his backpack and handed it to Fu Fu’s cub.
“I’ll take it back to the First Aid Station first. With Little Sen away, have someone keep an eye on it.”
“Mr. Chen, let me do it.”
One of them tried to approach, but Fu Fu’s cub stopped eating the apple, stood on all fours, ready to attack.
“Don’t, its father probably has been teaching it how to attack and defend itself recently, stay away.”
Then another handler arrived, bringing a specially made large carrying basket.
Chen Ying placed Fu Fu’s cub inside it, put it on his back, and prepared to head to the First Aid Station.
“Help me keep watch here; I’ll be back soon.”
Without getting close to the group, Chen Ying, with Fu Fu’s cub on his back, prepared to climb up the slope of Old Bear Gully from another side.
As they were talking, two adult pandas, one large and one small, ran towards them.
Chen Ying stopped in his tracks, hands on his hips, watching the two giant pandas.
It was Fufu leading the way with Cub’s father bleating nonstop behind her.
As they approached, Fufu tumbled over, finally stopping in front of Chen Ying.
Without getting up, she reached out and hugged Chen Ying’s leg, making a “gugu” sound from her throat.
“How can you make such a fuss, huh? You and your spouse went off to enjoy yourselves, leaving the cub at home for three days without care. Is that how a mother behaves?”
Chen Ying pretended to pat Fufu’s head.
Cub’s father got upset, squeezing past to nudge Chen Ying’s hand away, then sat down and grunted at Fufu’s cub in the basket.
Chen Ying set the basket down intending to pick up Fufu’s cub, but the little one didn’t want to come out, grunting like a pig nonstop. When it saw Chen Ying still insisted, it got so angry it even barked at him.
Fufu bit her son’s ear and dragged him out by brute force.
Fufu’s cub let out a sharp cry for help.
The three panda people wanted to come over, but as soon as they moved, Cub’s father stood up aggressively as if to pounce.
The crowd on the slope gasped, and Chen Ying simply pushed Cub’s father away with an outstretched hand.
“And you, always indulging Fufu and neglecting your duties, this is your son, your own flesh and blood!”
Cub’s father turned his head away from Fufu and her cub, smirked, and ran to the water to drink.
But while it was drinking, it sneakily glanced at Chen Ying, wearing a guilty expression that again provoked a murmur of surprise from the program crew on the slope.
The pulled-out Fufu before long was pushed by the loving palm of its mother against her stomach.
Chen Ying stepped back and stood beside the panda people.
“Fufu must be lactating; otherwise, I guess she might still forget she has a cub to feed.”
“This time it’s been a day longer than last time. The previous time Fufu’s cub nearly went two days and three hours without nursing. This time it’s been a full three days and five hours.”
“Has Fufu’s cub started eating anything yet?”
“It has. It mainly eats bamboo shoots and tender leaves. Last month it even followed Third Cub to dig for bamboo rats.”
While they spoke, one of the three giant pandas on the opposite slope suddenly ran down, unsure if it was coming to drink or if it felt threatened by Cub’s father and wanted to pick a fight.
Cub’s father, although quite a bit smaller than Fufu, appeared sturdier this year, with more muscle.
A one-sided beatdown began between the two bears at the water’s edge.
Fufu didn’t seem worried at all, leaning on the slope, nursing her cub while stuffing the half-eaten apple from her son into her mouth.
Chen Ying and the panda people had retreated up the slope, motioning for the program staff to be quiet.
The panda people kept their cameras rolling, capturing everything continuously, while a few disgruntled staff members who were about to make noise were silenced by the director’s stern gaze.
The program’s cameraman wouldn’t waste this chance. From the moment Fufu appeared, his camera had been recording nonstop.
Chen Ying seized the opportunity of the brawl to get tubes and sample bags from the panda people.
The fight by the water was about to end, with Cub’s father landing a final punch that knocked the instigator male into the water.
“Cub’s father, hold it down, don’t let it get away.”
As he spoke, Chen Ying rushed down with the tubes and sample bags.
Then, you could see Cub’s father using both mouth and paws to suppress the male, while Chen Ying also pressed down with his leg, unceremoniously drawing blood from the bite wound and collecting a hair sample.
The bear was utterly dumbfounded.
Is life as a bear really this hard? Does the sincerity between bears not outweigh half an apple?
No, Two-legged beast, you take my blood, but you give the sweet fruit to that other bear?
The blood-sampled bear didn’t take it well and chased after Chen Ying for an apple.
One apple placated both bears, making for an incredibly cheap deal.
The collected samples were rushed off for testing.
The two remaining panda people even encouraged Chen Ying to go up the slope to collect samples from the other two bears.
The director watched silently and, when heading back down to the guesthouse, somehow spoke with the center to quietly invite the three panda people on site to the program for an interview featurette.
During the interview, the host mentioned the issue of excessive contact between people and animals.
The three panda people gave answers similar to a short essay, but they emphasized the importance of specific analysis for specific issues, using the first aid station as an example.
“Brother Ying and Brother Sen, their interaction with animals isn’t in the traditional sense—I think it could be viewed through the lens of mysticism. Whether with adult or juvenile wild animals, in their presence, the animals show totally different attitudes and faces compared to when they’re with others.”
At this point in the interview, the director played a VCR clip.
Seeing Chen Ying on video drawing blood from wild giant pandas and soothing them, those who had followed the internet trend to question, fell into a doubting silence.
Is this something normal humans can do?
Meanwhile, another voice gradually gained the upper hand.
“Druid Chen, is he finally not hiding his abilities anymore?”
