Dr. Gao said he had called the teacher and they had to wait for the teacher to arrive before they could decide what to do next.
Chen Ying did not press further, silently cooked a al, and let the four of them eat before going to sleep.
After the four were asleep, Duanmu and Little Sen quietly found Chen Ying and said sothing didn't seem right.
"I also feel there's sothing off. Dr. Gao said Professor Song is already on her way here, and we'll talk when she arrives."
As soon as Chen Ying finished speaking, the long-silent system suddenly made a sound.
[The system has detected that Mama Panda has a psychological issue stemming from harboring a grudge against humans due to the loss of her cub. Please help Mama Panda get over the grief of losing her child. Successful completion of the mission will be rewarded with the 'Comprehensive Animal Encyclopedia', which includes information on extinct animals.]
Harboring a grudge against humans because of the grief of losing a child?
Why do I have a very bad feeling about this?
And considering what Dr. Gao just talked to about, Chen Ying had a very ominous guess.
Normally, if they had inadvertently offended Mama Panda, shouldn't they have hurriedly reminded everyone as soon as they ca down the mountain?
But Dr. Gao had waited until after taking a shower before finding him to talk about it, giving him the feeling that he was trying to conceal sothing.
Was he hiding sothing, or was he himself not quite clear about the true nature of the situation?
Professor Song, along with her secretary, drove up the mountain before lunch was even finished, presumably having driven straight here after receiving their call.
Without any pleasantries, she borrowed an office from Chen Ying and led the four into a closed-door eting.
"Xiao Xia, you guys keep an eye on things; I'll go check out the forest first."
Black Bear Sister, upon finding that a stranger was at the rescue station, chose to sleep in the forest, and Chen Ying was a bit worried, intending to go and explain things to Black Bear Sister.
Normally, Black Bears are not afraid of lone wolves, but the other party was a mother wolf on the verge of madness, and Black Bear Sister was also pregnant; it would be best to avoid confrontation.
Jinya, who had been hidden in a tree, saw Chen Ying about to leave and sprang down to follow him.
Lynx were also adept at digging out wolf cubs; with Jinya around, Chen Ying felt emboldened.
Heading into the forest, they found the hollow tree where Panda Mother used to reside, and Black Bear Sister was curled up inside, sleeping soundly.
Sensing soone approaching, Black Bear Sister twitched its nose. Familiar slls ant no danger, so she continued to sleep (¯﹃¯).
Without disturbing her, Chen Ying led Jinya to track in the opposite direction of the path that Dr. Gao and the others had taken down the mountain.
Sure enough, at a spot more than three hundred ters away from the rescue station, they discovered the traces left by the wolf.
Jinya leaned in and sniffed, beca stimulated, and started to actively track.
After hiking further up the mountain, Chen Ying saw Mama Wolf standing on a rock on the hillside.
Jinya wanted to rush over but was restrained by him.
Mama Wolf had multiple injuries on her body and a sunken belly, indicating signs of nursing.
Chen Ying grew even more skeptical about what Dr. Gao had said.
When she saw the Lynx did not charge to fight her, Mama Wolf turned her head and hid in the woods.
Jinya huffed at Chen Ying twice, questioning why he had stopped her.
"Don't be impulsive, Jinya; there seems to be sothing wrong with this wolf."
"Aow, what could be wrong—I say just fight!"
Chen Ying let Jinya go reluctantly; the thinking of wild animals is different from humans', and in a face-to-face encounter, the braver beast wins—he shouldn't force Jinya to change her habits.
But once Chen Ying released her, Jinya beca less impulsive and lay down to lick her paw, finding herself the perfect excuse.
"Forget it, considering it's a wounded, pregnant mother, I won't trouble her. The only condition is that she doesn't provoke , otherwise the Lynx will make her understand the majesty of the stronger."
Mr. Lepus said this, and it sounded a bit more real.
When he returned to the Rescue Station with Jinya, Chen Ying picked up his phone and made a call.
He rembered that near the Bird Watching Station there was a newly installed infrared cara, which normally wouldn't be collected for footage until the following spring.
But the questions in his heart couldn't wait until next year.
An ailnt of the heart must be treated with the heart's dicine; at the very least, he needed to know why the mother wolf abandoned the other cubs and followed the four people down the mountain.
Or rather, were there really any other cubs?
After several phone calls, Chen Ying stood clenching his fist for a long while before he managed to collect himself and return to the office building.
As soon as he reached the bottom of the building, a trendous "bang" ca from the second-floor office, startling both Jinya and Little Golden Cat, causing their fur to stand on end.
Xiao Song quickly soothed Little Jin, and Chen Ying also hugged Jinya's head to comfort her.
The door was pushed open, and Luo Ben stord out with his eyes bloodshot.
"This damn graduate student life, I'm done with it!"
Little Sen and Duanmu were in another office at the end of the corridor; they exchanged glances: Are the young people these days really so tough? To just quit without a second thought?
Duanmu sneaked a peek outside and whispered, "That guy doesn't really seem to like this line of work, probably just wanted to bluff his way to a degree, and then found out he couldn't just slog through it."
Luo Ben ran up to the temporary dormitory on the third floor, and another door slamd shut.
Inside the second-floor office, Professor Song was so furious she was nearly fainting.
She had been a ntor for many years and had supervised many students, so of whom were troublemakers, but none like Luo Ben who made mistakes yet didn't think he was in the wrong and even dared to yell at her. He was the first.
Dr. Gao took his junior to pack up the belongings, while Professor Song sat in the office, angrily propping her head in her hands.
Chen Ying knocked and entered; without a word, he handed her the ssage on his phone.
"The footage should be recovered in a few days. But it's pretty much confird that the mother wolf is the wife of the old Wolf King from the neighboring sanctuary, who lost the fight for leadership. Her cubs were mostly killed by the new Wolf King, leaving only this one, which the mother wolf took and left."
"Luo Ben took the cub out to play while the mother wolf was hunting, probably causing the cub to get a human scent on it, which led to it being killed by the mother wolf."
Professor Song tensed up, her lips thinning into a white line as she read the ssage on Chen Ying's phone.
"Professor Song, I'm not showing you this to upset you, but to say that not every student is cut out for this path."
"This matter is bound to co out; you need to think ahead about how to handle it to minimize the impact. Leave the mother wolf to ; I'll find a way to deal with it."
A mother wolf that harbors hatred for humans roaming the mountains is like a ticking ti bomb.
He didn't concern himself further with how Professor Song would handle the situation; it wasn't his place to step in.
The pressing issue was resolving the mother wolf's problem.
Either she had to be driven away from here, or she would have to be forcibly contained.
Wolves are a Second Nation species, and forcibly containing one without a need for rescue is the worst option.
The best solution would be to resolve the hatred between the wolves and humans.
Easier said than done, and figuring out how to start is a big challenge.
It's not like you can anesthetize a wolf and then brainwash it, right?
Maybe find her a new mate and birth a new litter of wolf cubs?
Wolves are monogamous, but after the death of a mate, the other will seek a new partner. This idea is theoretically sound.
So, the question becos: Where does he find a suitable male wolf to introduce to the mother wolf?
After matchmaking for wild giant pandas, was he going to develop a new service for matchmaking wild wolves?
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