Forest Ranger: Starting with a Giant Panda Mom Clinging to Me
Chapter 23 - Squirrel Me, I Just Wanted to Live Well

Chapter 23: Squirrel Me, I Just Wanted to Live Well

The mother panda vigorously shook the large tree. It was an ancient pine tree. The trunk was so thick that two people couldn’t wrap their arms around it. However, perhaps due to insect damage, the core of the tree had rotted, forming a large hollow.

At that moment, the gray squirrel clung to the rotted hollow, its tiny paws gripping tightly. The hollow seemed to be its nest.

The mother panda was relentless. Lin Tian saw this and stood up to approach.

At that moment, the tree suddenly let out a cracking sound. The wood at the hollow, already decayed, couldn’t withstand the mother panda’s constant shaking and suddenly split with a loud crack!

This split was no small matter.

The acorns the squirrel had carefully stored couldn’t stay hidden and spilled out from the hollow.

—Plop, plop!

The acorns from the tree above fell like a torrential rain!! The audience was stunned.

> “Holy crap, so many acorns!”

> “Were those all stashed by the squirrel?”

> “The squirrel must be crying now. All its stored food is gone!”

> “Back to square one. The squirrel is probably ready to jump off a rooftop in despair.”

> “Squirrel: No love left, just destroy it all!”

> “Though I feel bad for the squirrel, for some reason, I just want to laugh! Hahaha!”

…

After the acorn rain fell, Lin Tian was also stunned.

Good grief, how much food had this squirrel hoarded? It could fill a whole truck bed!!

However, with the mother panda’s shaking, these acorns fell, and the squirrel was probably bankrupt.

Sure enough, the squirrel up in the tree saw its acorns fall and frantically tried to protect them. It used its tiny body to block the cracked hollow. But it was no use. Soon, the flood of acorns overwhelmed its small frame, spilLin out from the sides.

They came crashing down, smacking the mother panda right on the head. At first, the mother panda was dazed by the barrage and seemed about to get angry, but she quickly realized these falLin acorns were edible food!

So, she stopped shaking the tree, squatted in front of it, grabbed the acorns with her paws, and munched away happily.

The squirrel up in the tree sat on a branch, watching its food get taken, its face filled with despair. With the mother panda below, it didn’t even dare go down to retrieve its food. It could only cLin helplessly with its tiny paws.

It perfectly embodied pitiful, weak, and helpless.

> “Hahaha!!”

> “Oh man, the squirrel’s pitiful look is kilLin me!”

> “Half a lifetime’s worth of food, snatched away by the mother panda in one go. Tragic!”

> “Squirrel: Squirrel me, my life is like walking on thin ice, and I probably wouldn’t make it to the other side.”

> “Squirrel: I hated zero-yuan shopping!”

…

The audience roared with laughter as the squirrel’s food was taken. Lin Tian felt helpless but didn’t scold the mother panda. He just tapped her head, then stood up to continue forward.

The mother panda quickly ate until she was half full, ignoring the remaining acorns scattered in corners.

Seeing Lin Tian had already moved on, she grabbed a pawful of acorns, stuffed them in her mouth, and hurriedly waddled after Lin Tian.

After the mother panda and Lin Tian left, the squirrel cautiously poked its head out from the branch, scurried down the tree, and pitifully went to salvage its food.

…

“Chirp, chirp…”

The forest was lush with trees, home to many unknown small birds perched above. After passing through the Wangtian Tree Protection Area, Lin Tian continued patrolLin the forest.

The mountain scenery was beautiful. From time to time, small animals passed by. However, they were very timid. Especially seeing a chubby panda following Lin Tian, they didn’t dare approach. They only glanced from a distance before scampering off.

Two hours later, Lin Tian had covered all the areas he needed to patrol that day.

Finding no abnormalities, he prepared to head back.

At that moment, the mother panda suddenly charged toward a small hill ahead.

Seeing this, Lin Tian quickly followed.

“Panda Mom, don’t run off. It is time to go back…” Lin Tian chased up the hill, about to call the mother panda back. But then he saw the scene behind the hill.

He froze. In the low hollow behind the hill, there was a clear mountain stream. The water was crystal clear, with pebbles by the stream and fish hidden among the water plants clearly visible.

The water lapped against the shore’s rocks, creating small white ripples and a pleasant babbLin sound.

It was soothing to hear.

> “Whoa, there is a stream here!”

> “Such a clean stream. Now I understand what ‘crystal clear’ really means.”

> “This is pure, natural mountain stream water.”

> “I bet this water tastes better than mineral water.”

> “There’s fish! There’s fish in the stream!”

…

Lin Tian’s eyes lit up when he saw the stream. He hadn’t come this way with Wang Jian last time. He hadn’t expected to find a stream here! The water was clear, and Lin Tian was delighted. He took off his shoes, stepped barefoot into the stream, and waded in.

In the hot summer, stepping into the cool stream water, the smooth pebbles caressed his soles, and the gentle flow brushed over his feet like a young woman’s tender hands.

Lin Tian felt completely refreshed.

“Splash!”

Lin Tian sat by the stream, dangLin his feet in the water, enjoying himself. Suddenly, a deep-water explosion went off nearby. The mother panda had leaped into the stream, chasing the fish in the water.

Unfortunately, the fish were too slippery. The mother panda couldn’t catch them. In her frustration, her movements grew wilder. Instantly, the entire stream was stirred into a splashing mess.

Lin Tian got splashed with quite a bit of water.

“Panda Mom, stop messing around,” Lin Tian said. With no choice, Lin Tian waded into the stream to pull the mother panda out.

Catching fish like this not only meant she wouldn’t catch any, but she’d scare them all away.

“Ying ying…”

(Wanted to eat fishy fish.)

The mother panda stared at the fish swimming in the stream, her small eyes full of longing and grievance.

Lin Tian looked at this foodie and was speechless.

All this way, it was eat, eat, eat. Back home, it was sleep, sleep, sleep. No wonder she became a national treasure.

However, Lin Tian glanced at the fish in the stream, feeLin a bit tempted himself. To be honest, after patrolLin the mountain all this time, he was hungry too. He had only eaten a bowl of noodles in the morning, and after hours, his stomach was protesting.

“Alright, wait here. I’ll catch some fish!”

After deciding, Lin Tian pulled out a bag containing a fishhook and fishing line from his pack.

Knowing there might be rivers in the protected mountain area, he had bought them before coming up the mountain, and now they came in handy.

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