Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl Chapter 78 – Chapter 78: Chapter 78: I'll Find You a Nanny

Chapter 78: Chapter 78: I'll Find You a Nanny
 

Xiao Song, Little Sen, and Duanmu stood at the entrance to the warehouse, clutching wooden sticks as they faced off with the street rat.

The street rat, cradling several ears of fresh corn, bared its teeth at them.

“When did you guys get here?”

Brother Ying's voice rescued the trio.

Xiao Song was the first to react, running straight behind Brother Ying and gasping for breath.

“Brother Ying, Duanmu and I came into the mountains to check if the infrared camera on the southwest trail was still there. Xiao Song just got some newly issued medical equipment from the foothills and brought some to you. Additionally, right after you left, a few uncles from Xiaozhai sent over some newly harvested corn and potatoes. Since we were coming in anyway, we brought them to you.”

No wonder, I had just come from the Rescue Station when Xiao Song and the others caught up. I thought something had happened.

Brother Ying sent Xiao Song and the others upstairs first, then chased the street rat to the edge of the woods and dumped about a dozen ears of fresh corn for it before leaving it alone.

The three of them stood on the second-floor balcony, peering out. Watching Brother Ying interact with the street rat, Xiao Song was filled with envy.

“How does Brother Ying communicate with animals without any barriers? Can I learn to do that?”

“Probably not. It might be a matter of bloodline inheritance. I heard Brother Li say that Brother Ying's father was a local, and their ancestral totem was a ferocious beast.”

Duanmu spoke with earnest seriousness, leaving Xiao Song dumbfounded.

“Huh, really, there's actually ancestor worship of totems?”

Little Sen struggled to hold back his laughter, his cheeks almost hurting from it.

Not watching anymore, wanting to change the subject, his eyes then met with the Clouded Leopard nonchalantly eating Mouse Bars not far away.

“Look, that's a Clouded Leopard, isn't it?”

The young man was seeing the “Little Saber-toothed Tiger” for the first time with his own eyes, his gaze nearly shining.

Lucky that there was a railing, otherwise he would have thrown himself at the Clouded Leopard.

After finishing its Mouse Bars, the Clouded Leopard stretched lazily, disappearing after several leaps.

“Eh, what if I ask Brother Ying if I can stay here permanently? I could be responsible for cleanliness and be an assistant.”

“Ha, whatever you can do, I can do too. Why wouldn't it be me staying here?”

“Because of gender,” Little Sen shrugged. “Even if you don't mind, you should consider Brother Ying's situation more. Is he lacking with people criticizing him behind his back for a man and woman living together?”

Xiao Song glared at him with a tiger-faced scowl and, huffing with annoyance, went to sit far away, refusing to speak to him.

Of course, Duanmu didn't want Xiao Song to work at the Rescue Station—different genders aside, he also planned to pick an auspicious day to confess his feelings to Xiao Song.

If it worked out and she stayed in the forest while he was outside, wouldn't that be a definite long-distance relationship?

After chatting for a while and handing over the supplies to Brother Ying, the three of them headed to the animal trail together.

New potatoes plus dried cowpeas and some smoked pork, stewed rice—that was unparalleled.

There wasn't much to do, so Brother Ying decided to start cooking early.

There was no wood stove in the forest, and it was difficult to bring in gas cylinders, so they used electricity.

Thanks to the country's infrastructure, once the Rescue Station was built, electricity and internet lines were connected.

Moreover, solar panels and a water heater were also installed on the roof, in case of power outages to have a backup energy source.

He'd only taken a few bites from his bowl when Jinya rushed over like the wind, something dangling from her mouth and swinging back and forth.

In two or three leaps, she was upstairs, dropping the thing at his feet, then backing up two steps to squat down.

Following her, Golden Cat also brought something in its jaws, placing it next to his feet too, then lying down to look up at him.

Crouching down, Brother Ying poked at the animal Jinya had brought back—a Banded Palm Civet in its breeding period, with its neck broken and no obvious signs of mauling on its body.

(This gorgeous big tail, would Big Spirit Cat Mother be jealous?)

Although Jinya brought it back, the wound on its neck was clearly not left by her.

Looking to the side, the weak cries of the barely-opened eyes of the banded palm civet cub sounded faintly.

By estimation, it couldn't have been more than ten or so days old, still a baby that hadn't been weaned.

Chen Ying didn't bother to check the cause of death of the civet mother; first, she found a rearing box to place the cub inside. After mixing some milk powder for young animals and feeding the cub, she finally had time to ask Jinya where they had found the mother and child.

“Ow-er, in a tree hollow.” Jinya shook her head.

“We found the mother's body there, and a cub's head.”

Chen Ying frowned; it looked like they had all been killed by another animal.

“I smelled a very stinky scent, kind of like that thing you brought back before, but not quite the same.”

What she brought back? Could it have been the work of a yellow-throated marten?

It was normal for Jinya not to differentiate what the creature was. The fact that she managed to bring back both the mother and cub was already very competent.

She found a spot to bury the mother, and placed a heavy stone on top of the grave.

It wasn't that Chen Ying was being sentimental. The child was still alive; they couldn't just let Jinya and the others eat the mother, right?

Throwing it away would easily attract unnecessary trouble, better to bury it under the tree.

Placing the stone on top was also to prevent scavengers from sniffing the scent and digging up the soil to find the body.

She took a photo and sent it to the work group chat, asking if they needed to send the little one to the centre's nursery for rearing.

Nanny Mei didn't speak in the group but called him directly.

“The centre is ready to take over at any time, but personally, I suggest you could learn to rear the orphaned young. If it can grow up in a wild environment from a young age, it might not need separate wilderness training to return to the forests. Would you consider it?”

“I would love to, but I don't have any adult banded palm civets here, how am I supposed to train it to hunt and survive?”

“Don't you have a family of large binturongs there? Think of a way to see if the Big Spirit Cat Mother can help.”

The scope had completely opened up.

But thinking about it, it seemed doable.

The banded palm civet looked a bit similar to the large and small binturongs, just without their scent glands.

If a giant panda could find a surrogate mother, it seemed not impossible to find a nanny for the banded palm civet.

As soon as he asked, Chen Ying negotiated with the Big Spirit Cat Mother using a piece of dried meat. The final result was not bad.

The Big Spirit Cat Mother accepted the banded palm civet cub.

Speaking of which, the Big Spirit Cat Mother still had a cub being raised at the center down in the foothills. Maybe it was time to ask Nanny Mei to bring that one up?

Teaching one was the same as teaching a litter.

The cub's period of danger had passed, and there was a human to help with food supply; there was no issue with not being able to feed it.

Chen Ying recorded a video clip of the Big Spirit Cat Mother nursing the cubs, and made sure to capture the banded palm civet cub nursing. Then, she privately chatted with Nanny Mei about the previous binturong cub's rewilding issues.

“Don't even think about it, that big binturong has already found a place to go.”

Nanny Mei said a certain zoo in the country had a big binturong mother who became depressed because neither of her two cubs survived.

Just right, they had an orphaned binturong cub abandoned by its mother.

Upon learning this, the other party directly filed a report, requesting for the cub to be sent over for the big binturong mother to nurture.

“You really shouldn't say. That Big Spirit Cat Mother has a very strong maternal instinct. She was a bit anxious at first, but after two or three days of contact, she accepted the cub, and now she's keeping a close watch, not even allowing the keepers to come near easily.”

Nanny Mei sent him a few photos of the cub with its adoptive mother, obviously taken from surveillance videos.

The little cub initially seemed frail and there were doubts about it being raised, but now it looked sturdier than any of its siblings.

Indeed, the nutrition it got from eating alone compared to sharing with three siblings was incomparable.

To better observe the interaction between the Big Spirit Cat Mother and the banded palm civet cub, Chen Ying installed a camera under the floorboards,

After the installation was complete, he returned to the platform and opened his phone. He just called up the surveillance when Jinya came over, sniffed, and opened her mouth towards the camera.

“Don't, Jinya, you can't eat that…”

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