Chapter 388 Piranha
[Sorry, I said that wrongly. Don't worry, I've been hanging out with those guys on Tieba for too long lately.]
Ding, test complete. There's a school of piranhas in the water, commonly known as man-eating fish. The largest is thirty centimeters, the smallest five. It's surprising that such large piranhas can be found in this inconspicuous stream.
"Are you sure it's a piranha?"
[Of course it's confirmed. You think Tongzi is just sitting there doing nothing? Tongzi's test data has never been wrong.]
"Miss Lin, hold on to the vines and we'll pull you up." Seeing Lin Ting running closer, Yang Yu shouted to the people below.
Lin Ting regained his composure, stopped communicating with Tongzi, ran forward two steps, pulled the vine that Yang Yu had dropped, and quickly climbed up under the other party's pull.
Just when the disposable props given to her by Tongzi arrived, she was so tired that she sat down on the big rock next to her, panting, and looked at the place with deep eyes.
Yang Mei, Yang Yu and Bai Xi all noticed that something was wrong with Lin Ting's expression.
Bai Xi was the first to react and asked, "Tingjie, what did you just see?"
Lin Ting's movement of running back just now was very wrong, it looked more like he was running for his life.
Lin Ting took the mineral water handed to him by Bai Xi and took a sip. His panicked expression gradually calmed down. "A group of piranhas."
Hearing this, everyone else's expressions instantly turned cold. Only Zhang Qiang laughed out loud, "You called me a coward, but I think you're the coward. A few piranhas scared you like this."
Bai Xi had already argued with Zhang Qiang enough, so he didn't bother to save face. He turned to look at Gu Panpan and asked in a hoarse voice, "Are you sure he got his grades on his own and didn't cheat or buy them?"
Without waiting for Gu Panpan to answer, Zhang Qiang bared her fangs like a cat whose tail was stepped on. "You are the one who plagiarized. Your whole family plagiarized. I got my grades by studying hard."
Bai Xi scoffed instantly. "You took the test seriously, but you didn't know that piranhas are piranhas. Just a few piranhas can scare you like this. Let alone a group, even a few of them can bite you quickly if you accidentally fall into the water. In water like this, getting bit by a piranha could mean a bacterial infection. I don't know how you learned this professional knowledge. You don't even know such basic things."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Qiang's face instantly turned ugly. He didn't expect that the piranha was a piranha.
He had heard about the dangers of piranhas.
Zhang Qiang would never admit that she was inferior to others. She argued, "We haven't learned this part of professional knowledge yet. It's normal that I don't know."
"How come there are piranhas in the water here? Fortunately, Miss Lin didn't let us go into the water, otherwise it would be dangerous." Gu Panpan interrupted Zhang Qiang's sophistry and self-righteousness.
Yang Mei looked at the calm water and shook her head. "I don't know, but even if there are piranhas, it wouldn't be surprising. There are many animals in this protected area that we haven't even discovered yet."
"But this stream looks shallow, but it's actually very deep, with many hidden undercurrents. We don't know where else it might be connected to other water veins at the bottom of the stream, and piranhas might be swimming in from somewhere else. Everyone, be careful not to get close to the current, and don't go in the water alone, it's very dangerous."
The red panda was soaked to the skin and shivered in Lin Ting's arms. After warning everyone, Lin Ting didn't continue to dwell on the topic. "Does anyone have a towel or something?"
The red panda must be cleaned of water as soon as possible, otherwise it may get sick.
Everyone who came to Sichuan City did bring towels, face towels and other things, but they were left in the hotel. The backpacks were filled with personal belongings, such as power banks, mineral water, and some snacks.
Seeing everyone looking at each other and shaking their heads, Lin Ting turned his attention to Bai Xi and said, "Take off the short-sleeved shirt you're wearing and give it to me. I'll buy you a new one when we get back."
"No need, it's just a piece of clothing." Bai Xi said, took off his outer windbreaker, took off his inner short-sleeved shirt and threw it to Lin Ting, then put the windbreaker back on.
He didn't feel anything when he was wearing the jacket, but after taking it off, he felt a slight chill. In order not to get sick, Bai Xi quickly put the clothes back on.
Lin Ting shook the red panda, trying to get rid of the water on its body, then wrapped the red panda's entire body with Bai Xi's clothes, rubbed it briefly, and used the clothes to absorb the water off the red panda's body.
"Miss Lin, do you need any more clothes? Ours will do." The other two boys were eager to try.
Lin Ting quickly shook his head, "No, one is enough."
It is best not to have too much human scent on the red panda, otherwise the mother panda will not want it. Although she used Bai Xi's clothes to wipe the water, she still needed to let the red panda stay with her for a while to cover up the smell of Bai Xi as much as possible.
"Deputy Section Chief Yang, do you know where the panda's territory is?" Lin Ting raised his eyes and asked.
They didn't encounter any traces of pandas along the way, so the red pandas could only have drifted here from farther away.
Yang Mei shook her head amidst everyone's expectant gazes. "I don't know. We occasionally see giant pandas in this reserve, but we don't know where their territory is."
"Before, our institute also wanted to take a peek and study the living habits of wild giant pandas, but we couldn't find them after several attempts. One time, we were lucky enough to track a panda using a drone, but the panda quickly discovered it and moved to another place. The giant pandas are much more vigilant than we imagined, so we gave up the idea of studying the living habits of wild giant pandas."
"Ms. Lin wants to return the panda cub to the giant panda family?" Yang Mei immediately realized Lin Ting's intention.
Lin Ting nodded without hesitation, "Yes, the panda cub is still young and needs to live with its mother, otherwise it will not survive in this reserve."
Yang Mei didn't object to Lin Ting's suggestion, but she still warned, "There's more than one wild giant panda in the reserve, at least a dozen. It's going to be difficult to find the mother panda. Furthermore, the giant panda is Chi You's mount, and its palm power is incredible. Returning the cub won't be easy, and it might even be dangerous."
Hearing this, Zhang Qiang burst out laughing. "Some people who want to take credit for something are probably going to get screwed this time."
Zhang Qiang's voice fell, and no one paid any attention.
Gu Panpan on the side said in a tangled tone, "We have rescued the red panda, we can't just leave it there, what's the difference between that and letting it float in the water.
You also said that the reserve is very dangerous at night, and there are many large animals. If the red panda is left alone here, it is likely to become food for those large wild animals."
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