Although the two-legged beast is good, he is ultimately not of my kind. Unless... we let Little Cub, like Si Zai, live from now on in a very small area.
Si Zai made his own choice, while Little Cub still cannot choose.
Er Niu, with a sorrowful gaze, quietly lay between the animal shed and the monitoring room, silently guarding her child.
Chen Ying left the ward with the Super Snow Leopard, speaking only after sending it back to the enclosure behind the emergency station.
"I believe Little Cub will grow up smoothly and possess a strong physique and strength. In the future, it will be the most powerful being in this wilderness."
The Super Snow Leopard turned to look at him for a while, then nonchalantly flicked its tail and slowly walked into the wilderness.
"If there really comes such a day, that would be great, but I still plan to find other strong leopard mothers to have cubs. I believe only when both parents are strong can the child born have a chance to surpass my strength."
As it spoke, the Super Snow Leopard continued walking gracefully without looking back.
After walking a few hundred meters, it let out a roar and started accelerating, quickly disappearing from sight.
After confirming its departure, the other cats finally breathed a sigh of relief, and their fur, which had stood on end, gradually settled down.
With the alarm lifted, everyone appeared instantly, and a few fast movers directly rushed into the monitoring room to check the video of the Super Snow Leopard.
"Oh my, such a big snow leopard, these data, could it have reverted to ancestral traits?"
Chen Ying chatted idly while inputting data. A snow leopard of this size is definitely not an ordinary leopard. Another explanation for ancestral traits is genetic mutation; this snow leopard’s genetic mutation leans towards body size. If it can be stably inherited, its offspring will be larger than ordinary snow leopards. As this gene evolves over generations, perhaps in the distant future, snow leopards overall will be larger than they are now.
"But isn’t body size related to climate and other factors? If snow leopards are evolving to be larger, does that suggest changes in Earth’s climate or magnetic fields, like oxygen levels?"
"That’s beyond our scope of study. We’re veterinarians, focusing on technique. What you mentioned will certainly be researched by scholars. But if only one species undergoes such a change, it’s unlikely related to those factors, unless multiple species experience changes in body size, indicating possible overall environmental changes."
All this is professional research that requires data support. Data does not exist singly; a change in one factor can trigger a chain reaction. Therefore, research in these fields involves multi-team collaboration and long-term monitoring to draw conclusions.
In any case, the appearance of the Super Snow Leopard will undoubtedly pique the curiosity of many field experts. As for research teams, they have nothing to do with Chen Ying.
His current concern is how to soothe Er Niu and care for the frail Little Cub.
The only good news is that Little Cub’s organs aren’t in major trouble. As long as it successfully undergoes a vascular reconstruction surgery, improving blood supply and eliminating risks of vascular narrowing, it can definitely grow up smoothly.
Surgery cannot be performed here at the emergency station.
Chen Ying has already submitted a report, preparing to take Er Niu and Little Cub back to the Jiamu Gully shelter for a comprehensive checkup, while contacting relevant medical institutions to prepare consumables. Once everything is ready, the vascular reconstruction surgery will proceed.
The current critical issue is whether the higher-ups will approve Er Niu accompanying Little Cub as its mother during the transfer to Jiamu Gully, completing the surgery, and where to place the long-term post-operative nurturing stage to be most suitable.