Chapter 591: Chapter 505: Help! How Are We Supposed to Do This Guy’s Physical Exam?
“Ahhh, help, help.” The tiger stood in the forest, howling towards Chen Ying.
Chen Ying scolded it, but it wasn’t angry, it just continued howling for help.
After scolding for a while, Chen Ying came down, grabbed the skin on the back of its neck, and looked at it for a long time, not seeing any injury, and then gave it a hard smack on the butt.
“You can’t touch a tiger’s butt, so I’ll hit it! If you have something to say, speak up, why are you howling. Help, help, where exactly are you uncomfortable?”
“Ahhh, it’s not me, it’s, it’s that strange creature.”
Under Chen Ying’s guidance, the tiger finally explained the situation clearly.
Its territory is large, it takes several months to patrol it, with mating season, courtship fights, healing injuries, and other unexpected incidents thrown in, making it take about a year to a year and a half to complete a patrol.
Important areas in the territory are patrolled more frequently, like Jiamu Gully here, which is at the edge of its territory, visiting once or twice a year is quite normal.
Anyway, with the tiger population thin, there’s no worry of overcrowding.
This time, it didn’t even plan to come over, but when it got nearby, it felt a bit bored and decided to check out the situation here.
Amongst them, the tigers have internal messages that say that here the two-legged beasts would raise their cubs, providing food and shelter, and there were quite a few tigresses around.
The tiger never worried about finding a mate but wouldn’t mind courting a few more tigresses if possible.
Thinking of this, it decided to take a shortcut to come and see, and if there were no tigresses, it could just leave.
“When crossing that river, I saw a strange looking big creature that seemed sick, with a similarly strange little one beside it, also very weak. They seemed to be unable to find food.”
The tiger had never seen animals that looked like that and spent two days trying to decide whether to catch them for a taste when the big one spotted it, and surprisingly, the big creature wasn’t afraid and charged at it.
“That creature’s skin was too thick, my claw didn’t penetrate it, and the other went more berserk, so I just left.”
Chen Ying glanced at it, “So why did you think of coming to me for help?”
“Well, I thought if the big one could get healthy, catching one would provide several meals!”
Chen Ying’s hand itched, [smack] he slapped the tiger on the head.
“Let’s go, take me over to see.”
“It’s a bit far, I walked a long time to get here, and I don’t even know if they’re still there.” The tiger smacked its lips, “How about you bring the small one back to raise, and when my cub grows up, let it have a taste?”
This tiger had only met tangentially a few times before, and never had deep interactions. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be quite cheeky.
Came running to help other animals but claimed it was to store some extra food for itself…
Chen Ying briefly instructed Jinya to pay attention to other cats, and then called Professor Bai, asking him to help oversee the emergency station.
Xiao Shen had temporarily returned to school to apply for a PhD program and would return in about four or five days.
With Brother Leopard and Leopard Sister around, Chen Ying wasn’t too worried about any issues with the golden cats.
The current arrangements would need time to verify if they could continue.
Coincidentally, the rescue center asked if they needed interns this year, and there were two good candidates, one in animal clinical medicine, and one in animal inspection, who could come to assist Jinya.
Three zookeepers were also present, so in terms of manpower, it was sufficient.
With food, water, and emergency supplies on his back, plus the satellite phone gifted by his dear girlfriend, and a drone provided by the system, Chen Ying followed the tiger on their way.
Halfway there, they encountered Little Jin and Jinya, who insisted on joining.
Chen Ying initially didn’t want to bring them, but as soon as he tried to speak, Leopard Sister slapped him on the butt with her tail.
“Ahhh, take them along, in case something happens, they can send a message.”
If it weren’t for having to help guard home, with Leopard Sister’s love of joining the excitement, she wouldn’t have cared about Chen Ying’s approval and would have just followed the tiger.
Huihui was obedient and was left behind to help, even biting and holding onto Pang Jin’s tail who tried to sneak along.
Pang Jin was angry and nearly turned hostile, but in the middle of a curse, he was subdued by a slap from Little Jin’s father.
“Hmph, you just like the little ones, I’m just a weed!”
Little Jin raised his right front paw, the claws shining coldly and sharply, and seeing this, Pang Jin immediately changed his tone, obsequiously sitting and squeaking that he wished his parents a good journey and would take care of the home and little brother.
Chen Ying listened, his eye and mouth corners twitching, taking out his phone, asking Jinya to inform Mengmeng to watch fewer dumb shows, they’re bad for prenatal education.
The only downside to having so many fluffy ones at home was the constant rotation of various dramas.
Luckily, Leopard Sister, who was stable and could hold the fort, ensured that no matter how much mischief this group made, they wouldn’t cause too much trouble.
Their sanctuary had plenty of waterways, but they were not big, and with high mountains and dense forests, the path was quite challenging.
Fortunately, with three cats leading the way, they were able to make good progress, although Chen Ying felt they might not be heading in the right direction.
“Is this area also your territory? Didn’t you used to go northeast of Old Bear Gully?”
“That area is too cold, and there’s little food, so I roamed other places.”
The tiger said it lightly, but Chen Ying didn’t believe it for a second, knowing that the journey south was likely full of bloodshed, leaving many predators without territory or even life.
Nature’s survival of the fittest is not that simple, and the cruelty is not something a few words can convey.