Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl
Chapter 402 - 399: These Two Snow Leopards, Truly Amazing

"Ah, Two-legged beast, go and save your kind."

Chen Ying was terrified when he heard this. What was happening? Were people trespassing in the uninhabited area?

The language skills of the Snow Leopard weren't as good as Er Niu's, and from its stuttering narrative, Chen Ying guessed that there might be a team that had trespassed into the uninhabited area and was in danger.

But that shouldn't be right. He couldn't say for other seasons, but during this season, even a dog entering the uninhabited area would be interrogated, let alone a team of humans.

A single individual might escape surveillance, but a whole team... Did they really think the staff at the Protection Station were blind?

Despite his inward grumbling, he couldn't truly ignore the situation.

He followed the Snow Leopard for several kilometers and reached the foot of the nearest snow mountain.

This area was on the edge of the Buffer zone, separated from the experimental area by a mere mountain.

In the valley between the two mountains, there were plenty of wild yaks and Tibetan gazelles wandering.

Before the buffer zone was established, this place used to be one of the most common grazing areas for the pastoralists.

When there were lots of livestock, the condition of the pasture wasn't particularly good, and there were hardly any wild animals in the vicinity.

After the area was designated and the pastoralists relocated, a few years of recuperation helped somewhat restore the pastures.

The climate in the valley was a bit warmer, and animals like wild yaks, Tibetan gazelles, and Tibetan wild donkeys would come here to avoid the cold winds in the winter.

After running with the Snow Leopard for a while, Chen Ying was completely exhausted.

While he was catching his breath, leaning on his knees, he suddenly saw among the wild yak herd one animal with a very odd fur color mingling with the group.

However, he hadn't found the people in danger yet, so he didn't have time to investigate.

He continued climbing until he reached a crevice in the rocks, where he found the humans the Snow Leopard had mentioned as being in peril.

These individuals were wearing thick thermal clothing with more noticeable vests on the outside marked with "XX University Field Practice Group."

Uniform clothing like this was uncommon, but some groups custom-made such garments so they could seek help more effectively if they encountered danger outdoors.

Such as now, Chen Ying recognized their identities at a glance, making it quicker to contact their school when notifying the rescue.

There were four people, only one of whom still had some energy; the other two were nearly collapsing.

The most critical one was wrapped in a thermal blanket, but his face was so pale that it was devoid of any color.

Chen Ying rushed over to check the student lying on the ground, confirmed he was still alive, and then had a brief talk with the boy next to him who was about to cry.

"How did you end up here? Are you here for field practice? Where's your teacher?"

A series of questions made the conscious boy sob while wiping his tears.

"Our teacher was leading us to observe wild yaks in the valley, but during the descent, there was an accident, and some of us got separated from the main group. While looking for the way, one of my classmates fell into a puddle and got her clothes wet. We dared not stay down there, so we went up the mountain to find a crevice to shelter from the wind. But this morning, she became unconscious and wouldn't wake up no matter how much we called."

"Got separated?" Chen Ying's face twitched, "Are you kidding me? Didn't your teacher count the number of students?"

The student broke down crying, "Really, we did get separated. There are four of us in our group, and we stayed behind to take a few more photos of a Baihua wild yak. We said we'd catch up once we were done, but soon after, we saw two Snow Leopards and several wild wolves. In the panic, we rolled down the slope and then couldn't find the rest of our team."

At that moment, Chen Ying was completely speechless.

Then the radio crackled to life with Sun Qihai's voice.

"Brother Ying, I've made contact. Their teacher has gone to Pastoral Village to seek help, and both the pastoralists and the rescue team are looking for them. The folks from Pastoral Village know you've found them; they're already en route here with a doctor. Do you need me to come over and help?"

"No need, have them bring the stretcher directly here when they arrive. One student is unconscious, and two are about to lose consciousness."

While Chen Ying was speaking, another student with mild hypothermia collapsed to the ground.

Chen Ying called over the Snow Leopard while talking.

It was time to rely on the Snow Leopard's warm body to keep the two children warm.

For mild to moderate hypothermia, the treatment involves isolating from the cold and using a heat source to transfer warmth, which could help alleviate it.

Chen Ying dismantled their tent, laid out the moisture-proof pad, wrapped it with a tarp, and asked the Snow Leopard to sleep between them to use its body heat to keep them warm.

But for the unconscious student, such methods weren't applicable.

Fortunately, his peers had enough sense to change his wet clothes and wrap him in a thermal blanket, using every piece of warm gear they had on him to keep him alive.

Chen Ying had rushed over without any rescue gear, at this moment his only option was to breathe warm air into the boy's mouth through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Feeling his pulse, it was still detectable; although the boy was unconscious, he had not entirely lost all reflexes.

"Keep an eye on him; I'll go check if the rescue team has arrived."

"Dr. Chen, this Snow Leopard..." the boy stammered, whether from cold or fear from the Snow Leopard.

"What are you afraid of? If it hadn't come to find me for help, you would have frozen to death here without anyone knowing."

Chen Ying cast an annoyed glance at him.

"You should sit over there and put its head on your legs, it might provide you with some warmth."

"I, I'm scared..."

"What are you scared of? If you're not afraid of death, why would you be afraid of it?"

Chen Ying pulled him over, had him sit on the backpack, then stretched his legs under the Snow Leopard's head.

The Snow Leopard rolled its eyes in annoyance and gently "growled."

"Good boy, I'll feed you something tasty when we get back, thank you for watching over them, I'll be right back."

Upon reaching the base of the mountain, the horse he had ridden was still grazing.

Chen Ying took a flare from the saddlebag and fired one.

This flare had been issued recently, specifically for emergency alerts.

Less than ten minutes after firing it, several horses galloped over.

"Dr. Chen, we are here. How are those students doing?"

"One is in a bit of danger, but the other three are okay."

The village doctor who had arrived on horseback didn't stop to chat. He grabbed the medical box and ran up the slope.

"The rescue vehicle will be here soon. The children's teacher is also coming, and he is on the vehicle."

On the way up the mountain, Chen Ying told the rescue team leader about how he had found them. Hearing that it was Er Niu's mate that had come for help, the team leader immediately bowed towards the direction of the Snow Mountain summit, muttering something.

Chen Ying couldn't understand but didn't ask, guessing it was probably similar to Er Niu, considered by locals as a divine will.

With professional doctors and equipment, the unconscious student was carefully brought down the mountain.

The other three were also helped and carried back to the base of the mountain.

The Snow Leopard didn't follow them down; after being "tortured" like this, it went up the mountain to take out its frustrations on a Rock Sheep.

When they reached the base of the mountain, the vehicle had also arrived.

The school's teachers and officials didn't have time to scold the students as they first went to thank Chen Ying.

It was about saving four lives!

"It's okay, but when you lead students on field trips, you still need to emphasize discipline."

The teacher sighed, "Each field trip involves specific training, emphasized over and over. But...sigh, we really owe Dr. Chen this time, otherwise, I don't know how I would have explained it to their parents."

On the way back, the teacher explained that they were specifically there to track and investigate Wild Yaks, with strict regulations for the survey area.

At the junction of the experimental zone and the buffer zone, they discovered a herd of about thirty wild yaks, and the teacher led a total of twenty students from five groups to investigate here.

"At that time, after counting everyone, I led the team forward. When passing a fork on the way down the mountain, upon recounting I noticed some were missing. I immediately went back to look, but saw no one."

The teacher thought they might follow the direction of the other students, but walking all the way back, he found no one and realized something had gone wrong.

"It was just ten minutes," the teacher couldn't stop his tears, "If only I had stayed at the back of the group."

Typically such teams would be led by two teachers, but the other teacher had caught a cold upon arrival here. A cold on the highlands is not the same as on the plains; a slight carelessness could cost a life.

The group couldn't possibly wait until the teacher recovered to start. Since all these students were seniors, after much consideration, they proceeded with the original plan and reached the designated observation point.

The observation point was on the sunny side of the mountain opposite, right at the edge of the experimental area.

Crossing the ridge into the shady side led into the Buffer Zone.

Chen Ying was speechless; such an outrageous thing had actually happened.

While this was certainly a very rare accident, it also, in a way, illustrated the dangers of uninhabited areas.

Like a few years ago in Dian Province's Ailao Mountain, four geological team members got lost two hundred meters from their campsite. When they were found, the bodies were elsewhere, and forensic identification showed death from hypothermia-induced cardiogenic shock.

These students likely met with an accident because they took the wrong path while trying to catch up with the group, encountered a fierce animal, and panicked, leading to a fall down the slope and subsequently getting lost.

If there hadn't been a fierce animal nearby, they might have been able to calm down and carefully discern their surroundings, possibly preventing this kind of accident.

Regardless, being rescued was a good thing.

The day after splitting from the rescue team, the Rest Station welcomed the school's leadership and the teacher from the previous day.

They had come specifically to thank Chen Ying and also planned to sponsor a personal medical room in Chen Ying's name on behalf of the school.

Chen Ying was surprised; he had considered building another emergency station, but it was just an idea, and now it seemed like his wish would be fulfilled?

Unconsciously, he looked towards the sticky Er Niu and the Snow Leopard.

Could this couple really be messengers of the Snow Mountain God on Earth, blessed with such luck?

The school officials also learned from the Pastoral Village's rescuers and the three saved students about Er Niu and the Snow Leopard's heroic rescue.

And now, the school had specifically sent a donation of thirty thousand cash, saying it was for Er Niu's maternity needs!

God, a Snow Leopard going through maternity, wasn't this just a pretext to reward Chen Ying?

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