Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl

Jinya was different, she loved digging rabbits, and she was always accurate with each attempt.

During the years with Little Jin in Jiamu Gully, the rabbits had not completely overrun the area, thanks to both of them.

Arriving at the wilderness here, they also fell in love with digging rabbits, which here were plumper, easier to catch, and more plentiful, so they could eat their fill without traveling too far.

Hajimi watched over his younger siblings at the edge of the meadow, eating and playing. Once Xinxin confirmed that Third Girl started eating and wouldn't run around everywhere, she went over to Dao Meihua, curious to see what she was doing.

Dao Meihua searched for several meters and finally found traces of Tanggu Rhodiola growing in a crevice.

But this Tanggu Rhodiola was not well developed, it hadn't even bloomed yet and was about to face the harsh winter.

She carefully moved along the rocks towards another meadow, and at the edge of the rocky area, she finally found seven or eight mature plants of Tanggu Rhodiola.

Collecting samples, taking photos, recording coordinates.

After a series of tasks were completed, she gestured a finished sign to Chen Ying, then carefully crossed Streamstone Beach again and returned to safety.

"Almost all the data has been collected. I will be leaving in a couple of days to go through the process of applying for a project. Besides, it's too cold here to work outside, and not until next May or June, I'll definitely need to spend more time here, observing a whole season of plant changes and the variations in their distribution," she said.

What those plant researchers wanted to study, Chen Ying had no clue, but he knew that when Dao Meihua said this, she was also hoping that he would stay next year to help, or rather, to accompany her.

However, Chen Ying couldn't promise her as he had already completed more than half of his five projects for the year, and to stay, he probably needed to apply for a new project.

He had two ideas for the next step, one was to engage in research on albinism in animals, and the other was to conduct research on the Golden Cat in the Grand Canyon.

His family's animals were almost all well studied, only Little Jin hadn't enjoyed any special treatment.

There was reproductive isolation between Little Jin and Jinya; they could not have offspring.

Jinya was keen on being a foster mother, a wish Chen Ying could fulfill. But what about Little Jin, could he endure a lifetime without leaving his own progeny?

One should not view animals through a human lens; human reproduction and love can be separated, let alone in animals.

The fact that Little Jin and Jinya could live together for so many years without parting ways, Chen Ying thought it deserved a separate project on its own!

After playing with the cubs for a while, Chen Ying and the others prepared to go down the mountain to head home.

The dogs wanted to follow them home, and Little Jin also disliked the prairie at night.

In the past, Jinya would definitely stay to help Er Niu with the kids, but now she had an adopted child at home and needed to cuddle with Little Jin at night for warmth; she was very busy.

Back at the rescue station, Dao Meihua was busy communicating with her supervisor about the project application, the Wangwang Team also started their routine patrols (causing trouble), suddenly feeling he had nothing to do, Chen Ying simply took out the injured lynx cub to begin its adaptive activities.

"Vision will definitely be affected, but it's not a big deal as long as its sense of smell and hearing are intact."

Placed in a small enclosure for activity, the lynx cub touched the grass and instinctively crouched low, slightly trembling and stayed that way for a long time.

Chen Ying did not go to comfort it.

As a wild animal, it should not fear its own habitat.

Sure enough, after about ten minutes, as if finally awakening the residual memory of the great plains inside it, the lynx cub mustered the courage to take its first step into exploring the world.

Soon, it became completely familiar with the land under its feet and began to run freely.

Hajimi stayed on the mountain to help Er Niu with the kids, while Xinxin followed Jinya back to the rescue station.

Xinxin always kept a safe distance from this younger sibling "snatched" by her aunt.

After exploring the world for a while, the lynx cub became greatly interested in the ever-present Xinxin.

It tiptoed closer to Xinxin, then pounced.

Of course, being newly weaned, it couldn't actually land the pounce, but Xinxin graciously yelped anyway.

Hearing Xinxin's yelp, the lynx cub yelped back in a fierce yet cute manner, then rushed over and bit onto the fur on Xinxin's chest.

Xinxin looked down at the lynx cub clinging onto her and let out a long breath.

Chen Ying, watching their interaction, couldn't help but laugh.

Just then, a large and a small grey-white shadow quickly approached.

"Awoo, awoo, I'm here," Little Grey White ran over, seeing the lynx cub playing with Xinxin, and hurriedly joined the fray.

Lady Lynx stopped and recognized Xinxin with a glance, greeted her, and then confidently left her child, leisurely going off to play with Jinya.

Xinxin felt even more helpless, but still patiently played with the two little ones.

Fortunately, it wasn't long before Red Lion came over and joined the fight, wrestling with the two lynx cubs.

This fight was also playful, as Red Lion wanted the lynx cubs to join its team under its command, but the two lynx cubs ignored it, so every encounter turned into a "duel."

Seeing both younger brothers run to battle with Red Lion, Xinxin came and laid down next to Chen Ying, exposing her belly, asking Chen Ying to rub it.

Her silly younger brother had bitten her painfully, and she needed some meat to heal.

Chen Ying held her and carefully checked; it seemed like two patches of fur had been bitten off, making Xinxin feel a bit wronged.