Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 75: With this demeanor and strength, where am I supposed to find you a match?
Still not at their destination, sudden movements startled Chen Ying.
Chen Ying looked up with a start.
"Holy smokes, it's you! You scared me to death."
The person approaching was Yin Li, who appeared to be patrolling the forest, judging by his gear.
"What are you hiding here and watching?"
Chen Ying gave him a glance at the screen, "Just now, Jinya and the others were hunting a Yellow-throated Marten here, then they suddenly ran off. I have no idea what happened, so I sent the drone to follow and check."
Yin Li sat down to rest and drink water, leaning over to watch with him.
The drone was a bit faster; a few minutes later, the footage showed large creatures wrestling each other.
"Holy smokes, is this…" Yin Li quickly capped his bottle and watched intently, "Are these two adult Giant Pandas? And why is one of them completely white?"
Chen Ying pursed his lips and furrowed his brows, observing the screen closely.
The panda's features were identical to a regular Giant Panda except for the color.
Previously, there was a brown Giant Panda found in Qinling, looking as though it had faded, and netizens joked that the Panda Mother was running out of ink while giving birth to it.
But this Giant Panda had no other colors on its body, clearly showing the distinctive features of an albino animal.
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The two exchanged looks, and Yin Li decisively shouldered his pack and ran towards the foothills, while Chen Ying sat down to control the drone for close-up shots and called Director Bai.
"Director Bai, there's big trouble. We found an all-white Giant Panda fighting with another one. Yin Li is already on his way; I'll also follow to see what's happening. I'll send you the video later; let me first send you a couple of photos."
After hanging up decisively and sending the photos to Director Bai, he grabbed his pack and ran after Yin Li.
An albino Giant Panda, never before seen in the country.
Generally, albino animals struggle to survive, but the White Panda looked to be at least two years old, chubby; clearly a child meticulously looked after by the Panda Mother.
Jinya and Little Jin reached the place where the Giant Pandas were fighting first.
The two Big Cats did not approach rashly, choosing a large tree as the best spot to watch.
Soon, Yin Li also arrived, maintaining a distance of about ten meters, and started filming with his phone.
The two Giant Pandas were fighting furiously; based on their current position, they were at least twenty meters away from where the drone had filmed.
They continued to wrestle and roll, moving at least ten meters during this brief exchange of words.
The White Giant Panda was somewhat larger than the other, but its fighting skills seemed slightly inferior, getting pinned down several times.
As of now, though the fight was loud, it wasn't particularly harmful.
At least no blood was found on the White Giant Panda.
Out of breath, Chen Ying hurried over to Yin Li's side, supporting his waist.
"How's it going? Are they, are they still fighting?"
"It's almost over, the regular Giant Panda won."
The White Giant Panda crawled a few steps backward on the ground, then turned around and ran off towards the forest to the left, while the victorious one turned around in circles and even did a somersault, seemingly celebrating its victory.
It then waddled its chubby body up the mountain and disappeared into the forest after about fifteen minutes.
"This season isn't the mating season for pandas; what could have started their fight?"
Previously, this forest was the territory of that Social Panda, who later followed the Panda Mother southward, leaving the territory likely eyed by these two pandas.
Now, it seems that being bigger in size doesn't necessarily mean stronger.
"It looks like this forest has a new panda overlord."
"This is great news," said Chen Ying, "Only a strong giant panda can attract a female, and maybe next year we'll have a few more fluffy dumplings."
The two went to the place where the pandas had fought, collected some hair that had been pulled out, and then Yin Li had to continue patrolling, so they parted ways.
Back at the small building, Chen Ying didn't have time to tidy up, and prioritized processing and sending out the footage he had captured before he could finally make himself something to eat.
He had just started eating when Teacher Luo's phone call came in.
"Send me the coordinates, are you sure it's a giant albino panda?"
"It looks like it should be from its appearance, not like the Baihua bear."
Baihua bears had been found in the past years, but there had never been a record of a giant albino panda.
"Alright then, get ready, I'll bring people up the mountain right away. If there's no issue, then it's all good; if there's a problem with the albino bear, make sure you have emergency supplies ready."
Teacher Luo hung up the phone in a hurry, seemingly unable to wait even a moment longer.
Chen Ying reexamined the footage, and indeed, there didn't seem to be any injuries on the giant albino panda, but one couldn't be too sure, it was always better to be prepared.
At four in the afternoon, Teacher Luo and his team of four rushed straight to the mountain ravine.
When they passed by Chen Ying's place and watched the original video, Teacher Luo's face was flushed with excitement.
Without much conversation and after sending them off, Chen Ying tidied up the central treatment room, checked the monitoring devices and equipment to make sure they were working properly, and then sat down to write the report.
That was the annoying part: reports every day. Whatever was found, a report had to be written.
An electronic version had to be followed by a paper record.
After he 'd been busy all day and it was almost dark, there was still no sign of Teacher Luo and his team returning.
He called them, and they excitedly reported they had found traces of several giant pandas gathering and wouldn't be coming back that night!
Alright, good luck to them.
Chen Ying checked the doors and windows as usual in the evening, fed some food to Big Spirit Cat Mother, and then closed the door and got ready to rest.
In the middle of the night, he vaguely heard some noises.
He got up, pushed open the window to look, but could see nothing in the dark outside; listening carefully, it seemed the sounds had stopped.
At five in the morning, he was awakened by Jinya causing a commotion outside. Chen Ying sat up, yawned, and rubbed his bleary eyes as he opened the door.
"Jinya, what are you making a fuss about ..."
He hadn't even finished speaking when he almost choked on his own saliva.
What did he see?
Rubbing his eyes and looking again, the creature was still there.
Chen Ying, not even bothering to put on his coat, hurried downstairs.
He didn't approach recklessly, but the first-floor platform wasn't far from the warehouse, close enough to clearly see what the big creature was cradling.
Circling around the big creature guarding the door, Chen Ying peeked through the wooden window of the warehouse...
Alright, he could report this to Teacher Luo now; he believed he would be happy to pay the bill.
The big creature looked curiously at Chen Ying running around nearby, its eyes squinted so tightly its pupil color was indiscernible.
"What are you looking for?" the White Panda asked curiously, swallowing Guoguo and accidentally letting the apple it was holding fall to the ground, "I'll help you look!"
This familiar behavior made Chen Ying have some not-so-good associations.
"Did you... come to find me for something?"
"Oh, my mom said you can help me find a mate. She wanted me to come with her next year, but I don't really have anything else going on, so I came early. I heard my sister is here too, where is she?"
That's right, this naïve temperament, compulsively sociable manner, and utterly unremarkable strength—it was just like Mendun'er.
If they weren't siblings, he, Chen Ying, would do three backflips and a Thomas spin right there!
