The Civil Servant's Job is to Raise The Furries!-Chapter 34: Seize the Opportunity, Time Won’t Come Again

Chapter 34: Chapter 34: Seize the Opportunity, Time Won’t Come Again

Discovered a living person?

Xu Ying’s heart skipped a beat, her eyes were fixed unblinkingly on the movement of the adult vulture, just hoping that the person they had taken as a reserve food supply could hold on a little longer.

Vultures prefer eating carrion not only because it is in their nature, they have a taste for strong flavors, but also because the skin and muscle tissues of fresh corpses are more resilient, requiring more time.

Soon, the adult vulture flapped its wings and was already preparing to take off with two juvenile vultures.

"I’ve spotted the vultures, hurry over here, the coordinates are north latitude..."

Xu Ying relayed her location via voice message to the temporary joint action group while starting her motorcycle.

When vultures feed on larger animals, they also like to gather in groups. Facing possibly more than three vultures alone, she wasn’t fully confident and decided to call on the joint action team members; having one more weapon and one less person is safer.

Watching that adult vulture already taking off with the two juveniles towards the horizon, Xu Ying quickly pressed the gas pedal to follow.

In the joint rescue group, those three not so familiar rescuers had just gotten into Ning Zexi’s car, preparing to head to the area they speculated the vultures might appear.

The three of them originally didn’t get along with Xu Ying, and after yesterday’s incident, they trusted her even less. When they received her message, they didn’t head over immediately but questioned it.

At Station 013, Chen Danyan glanced at her phone and scoffed, "Wants us to go on a wild goose chase again, wasting our time."

She replied in the group, "Since you’ve found them, take a picture and prove it."

014’s Liu Kai, still uneasy about Xu Ying’s gun handling from yesterday, responded, "Yeah, yesterday you confidently said those places were places where vultures appeared before, and what happened? Not even a feather was found."

Liu Wenxuan didn’t speak in the group but instead asked Vice Director Kuang Ming who was in the front seat, "Director Kuang, do you think we should go? The location Xu Ying sent us is almost two hundred kilometers away."

Kuang Ming shook his head, "Let’s stick to the original search route."

His tone was full of helplessness and disagreement, "Xiao Xu is after all a newcomer, lacks experience, and is unrefined, not to mention her stubborn character. I’ll find time to have a serious talk with her and urge her to give me a review."

The three of them felt a sense of smugness upon hearing this.

Ning Zexi, who was driving, heard the conversation and was puzzled, "What are you guys talking about?"

Kuang Ming gave him a sidelong look, "Nothing, just focus on driving."

*

On the vast Gobi Desert, Xu Ying’s motorcycle kicked up a long trail of dust, her eyes tightly locked on the vultures flying low in the sky ahead.

She had been following this vulture for almost thirty minutes now.

Suddenly, the vulture in the air changed direction, slightly tilted its body, adjusted its angle, and slowly descended, evidently nearing its destination.

Xu Ying hurriedly slowed down her motorcycle, looking for cover around and hid behind a low sand dune.

She took out binoculars from her backpack, crawled on the sand dune to observe, and found three adult vultures surrounding a person lying on the ground.

That person was wearing a white expedition jacket, judging by the height and attire, it appeared to be a girl.

Xu Ying’s heart raced at the sight of that patch of white; when Qiao Yuxi disappeared last, she was wearing a white expedition jacket, which netizens had also unearthed the price of, having five digits.

Xu Ying noticed that the vulture’s claws only clawed at the jacket without tearing it, grateful that the jacket lived up to its five-digit price tag, showing superb quality.

The three vultures were evidently discussing how to handle the barely-alive "food" in front of them.

[Should we just pierce her throat and let her suffocate quickly? Then we can divide her up.]

[You fool, that would spill a lot of fresh blood, drawing other birds of prey, do you want less food to yourself?]

[In less than two hours, when the temperature peaks in the afternoon, she’ll die. The high temperature will cause her body to decompose faster.]

[Eat her raw? It’s tough! The rotten ones have that fermented taste, really fragrant~ Eating such good ingredients raw would just be a waste.]

[Once sun-dried, it’ll be easy to share, and the blood won’t spill all over, let’s just be patient and wait a bit more.]

Goosebumps rose all over Xu Ying as she listened, regretting for the first time her ability to understand animal language!

Xu Ying sent an SOS message to the string of six-digit numbers she had left with Qiao Yuxi’s family.

Looking back at the group messages, those three blockheads didn’t even believe her!

Ning Zexi most likely didn’t reply because he was driving and couldn’t check the phone.

Forget it, forget it, with time pressing, waiting for others to come to the rescue would mean sitting idly by.

These three vultures were too fierce, with only herself and a snake, there wasn’t much chance of winning.

But time was pressing urgently, and the girl on the ground could pass away at any moment, she had to quickly rush to save her.

Xu Ying’s hand rested on the tranquilizer gun at her waist.

Although she had a shooting talent, she was far from professionally trained sharpshooters, hitting the target every time was impossible.

To ensure accuracy, she could only shoot at close range.

To approach this group of vultures, she could only start by tentatively communicating with them to close the distance.

Xu Ying patted the King Cobra nestled in the sand, "Old Wang."

Xu Ying guided it into her canvas bag, "Now I need to negotiate with this vulture gang, you go approach those two juvenile vultures."

"Make sure you protect me, otherwise, without anyone to introduce partners for you, you might also end up as these vultures’ jerky snacks."

"But if we can make peace with these vultures, they eat a lot of snakes too, they might know where other King Cobras exist."

For the sake of finding a partner, she’s all in!

The King Cobra darted into the canvas bag upon hearing this.

Xu Ying held her breath, circled around to the vultures’ blind spot, subtly closing in on the flock of vultures.

She was pondering over how to start a conversation, when suddenly, she heard the juvenile vultures chattering: [Uncle, isn’t Auntie pregnant, she has the most meat on her thighs, we should let Auntie eat.]

The adult vulture called "uncle" by the juvenile vultures sighed as it saw the little ones being so sensible.

[Our group of captive-reared vultures have such a miserable fate, we barely ever have a full meal.]

[When the training tasks weren’t completed, we went hungry, and now in the wilderness, we’re still hungry.]

[It’s fine for me to starve, but my wife and kids shouldn’t go hungry, especially with my wife being malnourished during pregnancy, she can hardly fly now.]

"Hey, Vulture Brother, go easy!"

Xu Ying popped up from behind the sand dune, waving her hand and shouting, "I’ve brought a much more sumptuous feast for you!"

The three vultures’ eyes lit up at the sight of her, seeing more food appeared!

They immediately flapped their wings and flew over, their wingspan over two meters, Xu Ying felt as if the sky was darkening in front of her.

[Quickly knock her down, use the claws to knock her out! Then we can sun dry and it’ll become like dried fish!]