Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 342 - 340 Let’s go, stroke the gold gradient of the Northeast

The surgery was carried out at the rescue center.

The equipment was sponsored by the Agricultural University.

Senior Brother Gu led the surgery, Chen Ying assisted, and Ding Wen also came to join the excitement.

For humans, it was an easy surgery, but it took Elder Tiger three times as long.

Fortunately, the anesthetist’s skills were consistently stable, and the other assistants cooperated well with Senior Brother Gu. Three hours later, Elder Tiger was moved to the intensive care unit.

Nurse Ruan Mengmeng took charge with two assistants for 24-hour monitoring.

The surgery was simultaneously broadcast to the medical team at the South China Tiger Breeding Center, who also provided feedback and support for the entire surgical procedure.

It can be said that, as long as there are no postoperative complications, Elder Tiger’s vision will recover significantly, and he certainly won’t be completely blind.

According to the breeding center, surgery on just one eye would suffice.

Having vision in just one eye was enough for Elder Tiger, as he wouldn’t need to fend for himself in the wild.

Chen Ying thought it best to observe and then decide, he personally felt it would be good to operate on both eyes if conditions were right.

After all, despite appearing to suffer from many geriatric diseases, Elder Tiger’s physical condition was truly quite good. With proper care, he might live another seven or eight years.

It was quite normal for theoretical age and actual age to differ.

If there are humans blessed with longevity, why can’t there be animals blessed similarly?

At 22 years old, Elder Tiger was just entering old age but still had vigor.

Ten minutes later, Elder Tiger had fully awakened and recognized the nurse caring for him.

He growled a few times in his throat, sounding slightly irritated.

Nurse Mengmeng gave him a massage, which turned his growls into purrs.

The two assistants were extremely impressed by this scene.

Although they were long-term caregivers for postoperative animals at the center, this was their first time caring for a tiger, and they were somewhat nervous.

But Sister Ruan was different; she truly treated Elder Tiger as if he were a Big Cat, her technique clearly honed by handling hundreds of cats.

Chen Ying and Senior Brother Gu, along with the surgical team members, held a brief video meeting with the medical team at the breeding center to summarize the surgical proceedings.

In fact, a considerable number of eye surgeries had been performed on tigers domestically, but not many on South China Tigers, given their overall small population, not every tiger suffered from eye issues.

This surgery would serve as a valuable reference for similar future procedures on other tigers.

The South China Tiger Breeding Center also affirmed Senior Brother Gu’s surgical skills and expressed interest in further collaborations.

After the meeting, Senior Brother Gu insisted on treating Chen Ying to a meal, saying that his lifetime wish had finally been fulfilled.

Elder Tiger would stay in the center for a week, and if all was well, he would return to the mountain to continue his recovery.

Chen Ying went back earlier as there were many animals to take care of at home.

The number of giant pandas nearby had increased again. Although part of them had been directed to the mountain bamboo forests, for some reason, giant pandas from several mountains over had come here to find mates.

The people in charge of managing these giant pandas were going crazy, their daily routine consisting of lamenting in group chats, "Where have the pandas gone?" and then chasing after radio signals.

And those were just the ones with collars; the collarless wild ones truly epitomized the phrase "Through the expanses of clouds and moons, a black and white bear storms into Shu Mountain."

With this news getting out, the neighboring Shan Province was close to setting up checkpoints between two provinces, deeply worried that their beloved pandas might fall under the spell of "blissful neglect of Shan."

This situation had its pros and cons.

The advantage was that it enhanced gene flow and reduced the chances of inbreeding within small groups.

However, the downside was also evident; limited space could not sustain so many big eaters, and the bamboo forests were at risk of root damage. This could cause irreversible harm to the local ecological environment.

Thus, Chen·Human-shaped Cat Attractor·Great Druid·Shadow, following higher directives, urgently left Jiamu Gully to participate in a semi-educational, semi-entertainment program in the Northeast Great Forest.

The hosts of this program were familiar faces: Sister Xiao Wang and the slightly older male host, Brother Wei.

This was a program strongly advocated by Daddy Yang, focused on ecology and fauna and flora.

Apart from Chen Ying, the program featured well-known domestic botanists, zoologists, and related science popularizers.

Including the hosts, a team of seven people was formed. Over a year of filming throughout nearly twenty provinces, they released one theme each month.

Of course, the five guest team was not fixed; guests would appear for filming only when the content was relevant to them. Although scheduled monthly, actual filming only required ten days, with the rest devoted to pre-production and post-production editing.

Due to the giant panda matter, Chen Ying was scheduled for the first episode’s shooting, and the theme was also about cats: the Northeast Golden Cat!

This program was different from previous ones, as the hosts merely served as connectors, with the major focus placed on the guests.

The first act featured the five guests meeting in Beijing City to discuss the shooting sequence of the entire program and to determine their respective participation.

Although termed a discussion, the script had already been prepared.

After dining and spending the night, they took a military transport the next day and parachuted directly to the destination.

In March, the old forests of the Northeast still blew northerly winds and fluttered with snowflakes; it was easy for someone to inadvertently sink into the snow.

However, the Northeast Golden Cat preferred the lightly snow-covered Korean pine forests, so their landing spot was a frequent haunt of this cat species.

Upon disembarking, Chen Ying wrapped his clothes tightly around him.

Though both featured freezing cold weather, the cold here was somewhat different from that of the uninhabited areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

In addition to their own clothes, the program crew also provided them with the large leather coats that locals loved to wear.

Chen Ying wasn’t here to meet a significant other; chilled to the bone, he was the first to wrap himself in a big fur coat.

Phew, much warmer now.

The main guests this time were the three big men from zoology.

He specialized in veterinary medicine, Brother Hai, with a Mediterranean haircut, was a zoologist focused on feline animals and also a member of the domestic M alliance. Li Yu, tall and skinny, studied biology and shared knowledge about biology online, boasting seven million fans as a major influencer.

"Brother Hai, Brother Ying, do you guys want to rest before entering the Old Forest or shall we go straight in?"

"I’m fine with either, let’s follow Brother Hai."

Brother Hai pushed down his hat and glanced at his watch.

"Let’s first look around this area. There was a report the day before yesterday about a Northeast Tiger sighted here. If we find something, we won’t need to go too deep, but if not, we’ll rest overnight, prepare everything necessary, and head into the mountains tomorrow."

As an Old Cat Person, Brother Hai had been here quite a few times and was very familiar with what to prepare and what to do.

The two hosts listened to their arrangements throughout and played the role of qualified Tool Men.

Of course, sometimes they also had the responsibility of livening up the atmosphere.

Chen Ying exhaled, rubbed his hands together, and hopped in place.

"Let’s go; I have a feeling we might find something."

"Following Brother Ying is never wrong, let’s go."

Li Yu took the lead, heading east, while everyone else silently watched him.

"Hey, what’s up, why aren’t you guys moving?"

"Brother, do you even know which way is north and south?" Brother Hai remarked sarcastically, weighed his backpack, and walked in the opposite direction, "This way!"

Li Yu gave an awkward smile and hurried to catch up.

This interaction between them instantly maximized the show’s impact.

Compared to them, Chen Ying seemed much more reserved.

After walking for nearly a kilometer, Chen Ying suddenly spoke up, stopping them.

The forest instantly fell silent, filled with a tense atmosphere.

"There’s some animal approaching, it’s not a tiger."

The cameraman quickly aimed his lens in the direction Chen was pointing.

Five seconds later, a Sika Deer dashed out.

After running out, it skidded to a halt about ten meters diagonally in front of them.

Its head slightly tilted, it gazed at them with clear eyes, seemingly curious as to how two-legged beasts could sprout out of the snow.

It stayed for roughly half a minute before continuing to run, disappearing into the forest.

"What a beautiful Sika Deer. It’s a young female, curious and naive."

Brother Hai casually uttered a few words, intending to move on, but was stopped by Chen Ying.

"Wait, Brother Hai, there are more coming."

This time, it wasn’t just a single Sika Deer.

A male deer leading the group, with antlers branching like tree limbs, looked composed and elegant.

Upon spotting the group, it didn’t stop but urged its family to keep up.

A total of twenty-seven Sika Deers, led by the male deer, slowly crossed their path and entered another part of the forest.

"My goodness, it’s my first time seeing such a large group of Sika Deers."

Li Yu exclaimed, then curiously asked Chen Ying how he knew there was such a large group.

"My hearing is quite strong; I heard them stamping the snow and the fawns’ cries."

Li Yu didn’t know how to respond, so he just gave Chen Ying two thumbs up.

Brother Hai looked at Chen Ying and walked over to ask if it was possible that a Northeast Tiger was in the direction the Deers came from, otherwise why would a large group change locations.

But Chen Ying didn’t think there were any Northeast Tigers in the area, at least he hadn’t sensed any such presence.

Moreover, the male deer looked calm, and what it said was too worldly. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

Urging the herd to move was because the other side had discovered a patch of tasty food.

In the dead of winter, food was hard to come by, and something delicious was even harder to find; if they were late, they might end up digging the ground to eat roots.

If there were Northeast Tigers around, the herd wouldn’t be so calm.

Brother Hai sighed, looked at the sky, and decided to trust Chen Ying this time. After all, Dr. Chen’s peculiar abilities were already well known in the cat community.

Back in the village, while eating and chatting with the village chief, the topic naturally turned to the local wildlife.

"Our area is fine; no tiger troubles. Last month, a neighboring village had a tiger break in and kill a hundred chickens."

A young male tiger, out of nowhere, had come out of the old forest and stormed into someone’s chicken farm, wreaking havoc on over a hundred chickens.

Though there was government compensation, it couldn’t completely cover the losses.

And it was already the third such incident since the onset of winter; it couldn’t always be that family’s misfortune, could it? Was their place plagued by tiger pestilence?