Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 250 - : Mama Bear is Looking for Us

Ji Xin felt a bit better and started to pick scenes to shoot with his camera while he rested.

Chen Ying sat cross-legged next to him, leaning back on her hands and gazing leisurely into the distance.

A few minutes later, she felt something touching her fingers. When she looked back, she almost lost her soul.

“Damn, where did this little thing come from?”

A brown bear cub, about five months old by the looks of it, was still chewing on the bugs it had foraged.

At five months old, a bear cub can eat other foods, but a mother bear’s nursing period can last up to thirty months.

Seeing the little bear, Chen Ying’s hair stood on end. Brown bears were not like black bears; they were much larger and also omnivorous.

She stood up and looked around, but saw no sign of the mother bear.

She quickly called Yin Li on the radio, but they had seen no sign of the mother bear either.

“This is bad, what do we do?”

Taking the cub would likely incite the mother bear’s fury.

But leaving it alone, in this wilderness, the young bear cub would also be a target for predators.

Chen Ying dared not pick it up directly, so she took off her jacket again, wrapped up the cub, and held it in her arms.

If this happened a couple more times, she would have no jacket left to wear.

“Little guy, where’s your mom?”

Holding and cushioning the little bear, Chen Ying teased it.

“Eh eh~ don’t know~”

The little cub was fascinated by Chen Ying’s Adam’s apple and reached out a paw to touch it.

“No, look at your little paws, they’re filthy.”

Disgusted, Chen Ying took out a wet wipe from her bag and cleaned the bear’s paw.

Tsk, the white paper turned instantly black.

“Brother Ying, should we take it back with us?”

“No, if the mother bear can’t find it, she’ll go mad. If this little guy managed to appear here, its den must be somewhere close by. Let’s look carefully.”

In this kind of terrain, a brown bear would usually only be able to take shelter in a burrow.

Endless hills and vast lakes as far as the eye could see – she felt in the dark, how to find it, urgently waiting online, super urgent!

Carrying it and looking wasn’t very convenient, nor was it good to leave Ji Xin alone.

Luckily, after hearing about the incident, one of the stay-behind crew members came out, ready to take Ji Xin back first.

“Brother Ying, we’ve found traces of a brown bear in the northeast corner, should we go check it out?”

“I’ll first take a look with the drone; if we find a den, we’ll head there.”

“Alright, I’ll take Little Ji back first. If you need anything, just radio me.”

Although it was a bit far from the camp, the observation point from the camp could clearly see his location.

Chen Ying was confident in her own safety; even if the mother bear came, she could handle it for a bit.

But with Ji Xin there, it was a different story, which is why she needed to send him back first.

Following the direction given by the team member, she deployed the drone and searched nearly five kilometers without finding a single bear hair.

Chen Ying was surprised, could this little cub really have fallen from the sky?

Thinking this, her heart skipped a beat.

And to tell the truth, it was quite possible!

Golden eagles and vultures could both lift a bear cub, and they might not necessarily eat it, but sometimes could try to kill the cub by dropping it, and then decide whether to eat it or not.

Although this possibility was very low, what if it was true?

Chen Ying unbuttoned her clothing and carefully felt the cub’s body, not finding any claw marks, but there was a wound on the back of its neck, possibly from a bite by some other predator.

“You little mischief-maker, how exactly did you end up here?”

Holding the bear, her heart was filled with uncertainty.

With no other options, Chen Ying had to bring the cub back to camp for the time being.

The bear cub, ravenous, guzzled down eight hundred milliliters of milk for young animals, but still seemed unsatisfied.

Chen Ying wouldn’t allow it to eat more, patting its little belly, which had become sufficiently round.

The little bear cub wasn’t too dangerous, so it was allowed to roam free outside.

Of course, it couldn’t be let into the nursery pen. This little mischief-maker would probably scare the young animals half to death.

After causing a fuss all morning without getting any delicious milk to drink, the little bear cub sighed, climbed down from Chen Ying’s body, and started chasing after the other team members, causing trouble again.

Its mother had raised it well, plump and chubby, and as it ran around on the ground, it looked like a little gas cylinder bouncing around.

Monitoring was pretty dull, but having this little gas cylinder of a creature added some fun, and the three team members plus Ji Xin treated it like a new toy, constantly teasing it.

Chen Ying sat at the observation point and continued to deploy the drone to search the surrounding area.

This time he shifted the direction slightly, searching towards five o’clock, and then, about five kilometers away, he found a pack of wolves.

The wolf pack was about seven or eight strong, tearing at the corpse of a Tibetan antelope. Chen Ying remained silent for a moment before maneuvering the drone away.

The lead wolf, already full, stood to the side, its sharp, cold gaze following the drone’s movement.

Twenty minutes later, Chen Ying retracted the drone and shook his head at Ji Xin and the others.

It was too strange; there were no signs of the mother bear or other cubs nearby. How had this cub ended up here?

Perhaps they could only ask the previous batch of staff after leaving if they had seen a mother bear with cubs.

The nights in the wilderness were cold, and to conserve energy, they didn’t use a blowtorch for heating.

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“The equipment’s much better now; we used to bring quilts with us when patrolling the mountains. Once dampened by the moist air, the quilt felt like a brick on us, not warm at all.”

Now they had a variety of heating tools, including thermal blankets, thermal clothing, and thick down sleeping bags. Compared to a few years ago, it was like trading a birdshot gun for a cannon.

Chen Ying and his team split into two tents.

Yin Li didn’t schedule them for night duty; the other five people took turns, each on duty for two hours.

Any longer was no good—too cold to withstand the freezing temperature.

In the middle of the night, Chen Ying was awoken by the sound of the change of shift. He was planning to turn over and continue sleeping when a strange noise reached his ears.

He stiffened for a moment, slowly sat up, and signaled to the team member who was taking over to be quiet.

“Are there any infrared cameras around? I feel like something is approaching us.”

Two cameras were installed around the campsite, covering most of the area.

After a careful look, indeed, a blurred shadow was spotted in the northeast corner.

“Stop, let me see. Is that the head of the mother bear coming?”

Chen Ying glanced at the cub lying beside him, tucked into his jacket and sleeping soundly, hesitating whether to throw it outside or not.

If it was the mother bear it would be fine, but if not, he would be delivering a meal right to the predator’s doorstep.

“I’ll check it out. Keep an eye on things for me.”

After thinking it over, he still felt he needed to check in person to be sure.

He walked about two hundred meters in the direction where the bear’s shadow was spotted and, through the night vision goggles, he saw a brown bear lying on the ground, its mouth gaping open—the situation seemed a bit off.

Under the large bear was another little bear cub, desperately trying to nurse.

Chen Ying felt a shiver and bravely rushed over.

Under the lights, the whole body of the bear was revealed—it was an injured mother bear.

As Chen Ying approached, the mother bear struggled to rise as if to threaten him.

“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, I’m here to help you.”

Through the walkie-talkie, he told the team members not to come over yet and to get the first aid supplies ready for him.

The wounds on the bear were caused by bites, most likely from a fight with the wolf pack.

Enduring severe injuries and bringing another child here, in a certain sense, this was also a display of a mother’s strength.

Chen Ying’s presence soothed the brown bear.

Approaching, he took out a piece of fruit and gave it to the brown bear, letting it eat a bit and rest.

The other little cub appeared much more ragged, its fur was wet with its mother’s blood, clumped and matted.

The mother bear had wounds on her back and abdomen.

The abdomen was somewhat better; the back wound was more serious.

Besides, there were several bite holes in her hind legs.

Battling a pack of wolves and still managing to protect her child without losing her life, this Mama Bear was no ordinary bear.

The others dared not approach, delivering Chen Ying’s medical kit and the little bear cub to him before quickly retreating to fifty meters away.

Chen Ying brought the little cub in front of the mother bear.

The mother bear visibly relaxed a lot, her eyes moist.

She endured the pain and lowered her head to lick her child thoroughly before finally collapsing on the ground, a little out of strength.

“I’m going to treat your wounds; don’t be afraid.”

A shot of anesthesia calmed the large animal gradually.

Yin Li had already put on his clothes and run over, diving right in to hold down the two little cubs, meanwhile helping to restrain the mother bear’s head.

He was as brave as a tiger, fearlessly getting involved, taking the mother bear completely by surprise.

Not giving me any respect, huh?

Chen Ying cleaned the wounds, removed the rotted flesh, then stitched them up and applied medicine.

Thankfully, the location was on the back, where the Mama Bear couldn’t reach to lick, so there wasn’t any need for bandages or the like.

In such a situation, it would be best to use antibiotics to prevent infection. But since she was nursing, she probably wouldn’t be willing to hand her cubs over to them to raise. So Chen Ying considered it and decided to mix some medicinal powders, then blend it with flour and honey to make anti-inflammatory medicine balls for her to ingest.

The mother bear had chosen a sheltered spot, and its thick fur could help keep itself and its children warm.

Chen Ying also unfolded the thermal blanket brought by Yin Li and covered the mother and her cubs, then quickly ran back to prepare the hand-rolled medicine balls.