Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl

"Are you leaving too?" Big Beauty's big round eyes looked at Mountain King, "Will you come back?"

"Of course, I will come back. I'm just going to patrol my territory, not moving away."

This place is great, with abundant food, and the two-legged beasts here aren't bad, unlike the chaotic place it lived in when it was young.

Mountain King closed its eyes, suppressing the memory of gunshots deep in its mind.

Big Beauty stayed for a while before leaving; it still had to hunt. If its mother couldn't find enough food, it had to help out.

Today was another busy and fulfilling day.

Mountain King said it was leaving, yet ended up following Chen Ying and the others for two days. It only turned back when they were near a densely populated area.

Chen Ying knew it was always behind; it didn't want to show up, and Chen Ying didn't force it.

After leaving the mountains, Chen Ying directly called a classmate working at the Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau to inform them about the Mountain King's existence and, with the help of Dao Meihua, arranged for someone to deliver the collected Indochinese Tiger samples to a designated laboratory.

Although the Huanan Tiger is the domestic tiger researchers' treasure, the rare Indochinese Tigers are also precious, especially to the researchers in Dian Province, who have no chance to see a Huanan Tiger. The Indochinese Tigers are like a jewel in their heart.

You already have a treasure delivered to you, how could you not be excited?

After staying overnight in Monkey Town, they took the Dao family's car back to Tengchong City the next morning.

The highway was only over seventy kilometers, but it took them almost ten days through the mountain roads.

The trip was quite fruitful.

Apart from the Mountain King, they also identified the gathering points of seven monkey groups.

Among them, Bear monkeys, White-browed Long-Armed Apes, and Grey Leaf Monkeys were the most, followed by a small group of Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys from Dian Province.

Judging from their behavior, the discovery site should be at the edge of their territory. Moreover, the group was small, seemingly like a family group within a large tribe.

Besides that, they found more than a dozen animal species, several amphibians, and various insects.

Their plant discoveries were even greater.

Only Old Gao was a bit disappointed; he had hoped to see any rare bird species, but they found basically nothing along the way. However, on the last day, they took a stunning photo of a Blood Pheasant on the road.

With that punk hairstyle, sharp outfit, freely running small steps, topped with a pair of Sharingan eyes, doesn't it deserve the word "handsome"?

On the day they returned to Tengchong City, they sent Yin Li to the hospital for a full-body check-up.

As Chen Ying predicted, besides a bone fracture, there wasn't a trace of a bruise in his head. The injured area was even hard to detect now.

On the contrary, Old Gao's foot issue was more serious.

Although Chen Ying administered acupuncture and applied medication daily, due to Old Gao's constitution, his recovery was slow.

At Chen Ying's strong suggestion, he underwent a full-body check-up, and the final report left everyone speechless.

Such a big young man, yet so young, he had osteoporosis.

No wonder others are fragile college students, and he is a fragile bone PhD student.

"Impossible, it shouldn't be, the hospital's equipment must be wrong. I've never been told I lack calcium during health check-ups!"

The last time he fractured for the second time, the doctor checked him, and back then, there was no mention of calcium deficiency. But this time, Chen Ying did a bone density test instead of a blood calcium test.

Who would've thought, family and friends, a young man in his twenties, not even thirty, seemingly strong, would have osteoporosis!

"You didn't suspect anything wrong with your body after fracturing twice in a short period?"

Chen Ying was speechless.

He flicked the report, then turned to send a photo to Mrs. Gao.

When Mrs. Gao received Chen Ying's report, she was stunned.

No one in their family thought of checking Old Gao's bone density.

"Isn't osteoporosis an old person's disease?" Mrs. Gao asked with a resounding question.

"Yes, this condition is common in middle-aged and elderly people, but young people can have idiopathic osteoporosis and need specific treatment."

Mrs. Gao, being educated, quickly contacted known doctors to inquire about treatment methods, after overcoming her initial shock.

Even the family members of Old Gao were alarmed. Within a week, any kid in the family who previously had fractures or bone pain was rushed to the hospital for a bone density test.

After three days of treatment at the hospital, Old Gao was discharged and moved into a small villa in the hot spring health resort belonging to the Dao family.

Such a wealthy family couldn't possibly own just one villa, right?

The villa they stayed in was some two to three hundred meters away from the small courtyard where Professor Bai and his wife lived.

After Chen Ying explained, Professor Bai and his wife specially came to see Old Gao and even performed a set of martial arts moves in front of him. Finishing up, he gave a sidelong glance and a slight nasal hum.

The act wasn't aggressive, but it was quite insulting.

Lying on a rocking chair pretending to be asleep, Old Gao feigned ignorance.

The villa had a hot spring pool inside, whether it's a qualified hot spring is subjective.

These days were quite comfortable, but they couldn't last too long. Winter in Jiamu Gully was approaching, and he had to go back to patrol the mountains.

Last year, it was Little Sen and Uncle Zhao who went, but they couldn't reach the Snow Mountain snowline. In April this year, the equipment department of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau went up to inspect and replace cameras and said that the two Snow Leopards on the mountain seemed to have disappeared.

They didn't see the Snow Leopard that had always resided there on the cameras.

That's the male Snow Leopard known for its mischievous behavior.

This year, Chen Ying was busy outside all year, with no chance to go up and see what was going on.

The equipment and investigation department staff went again in July but still didn't see any Snow Leopards. Everyone was worried but powerless.

Nature has its selection, with its logic and rules that humans shouldn't easily intervene in.

The Forestry and Grassland Bureau had hinted to Chen Ying several times, but earlier, Sasa gave birth, and he just couldn't spare the time.

"Get ready to go up the mountain within five or six days and try to finish patrolling the surroundings by December."

The New Year falls in January this year, and if Yin Li can be transferred back, he might return in January.

"What are you thinking, are you planning to come back here or develop over there at the River Source?"

Yin Li's teacher hoped he would come back since studying plants is better at home. Besides, River Source's grass doesn't even grow knee-high; what can you study there?

It's either going to the Sanjiang Reserve or moving towards Qing Province.

But no place is as good as your hometown.

The issue now is that Chen Ying brought his parents to live at River Source. Although they are divorced, it seems Yin Li's mother is considering remarriage.

Currently, she resides at the emergency station, often inquiring about Yin Li's father's situation from Ci Ren.

"I say you should just come back and bring them over as well. Your father just isn't a good partner. Though they say a husband in youth is a companion in old age, he's just too unreliable."

Their relationship was at a level where he could say this; with someone else, he wouldn't utter a word of it.

Leaving Old Gao here to recover and keep Professor Bai company, Chen Ying, Dao Meihua, and Old Gao's junior returned to Jiamu Gully.

Old Gao's junior stayed in Little Sen's former room, while Little Sen and Mengmeng moved to the small building at the back since they were a couple and might cause a bit of noise at night.

The front small building didn't have good sound insulation, and if the noise was loud, meeting up would be somewhat awkward.

Back home, Chen Ying gathered the furry ones for a meeting, discussed Er Niu's situation, and focused on Little Baby, Beibei, and their children.

Leopard Sister's eyes lit up upon hearing Beibei's news.

Chen Ying simply turned on the big TV, showing them photos and videos of Little Baby, Beibei, and Beibei's cub.

"Aww, the cub is so beautiful." Jinya bounced on the spot, then hugged the lynx cub and licked it a few times, "My cub is also beautiful, and my cub's cub will be beautiful too."

Little Jin lay nearby, watching Jinya with a somewhat deep gaze.

Chen Ying didn't quite know how to describe it, always feeling that Little Jin, the big cat, had overly complex thoughts.

At night, after Chen Ying input all the data and was about to sleep, Little Jin tapped on the window glass.