Chapter 138 Qinling Giant Panda (Twenty-four)
“Ahhh…”
Fu Rui cried miserably, then suddenly threw his head into Erza's broad arms, twisting his fat waist and crying like a pear blossom in the rain, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
There is no wifi installed on the top of Qinling Mountains, so there is no internet access. Even though enthusiastic netizens tried to explain it, and even edited it into a 30-second short video, @250 was crazy.
Zhima Tangyuan still didn't understand the situation, so he raised his paw to comfort his sobbing and crying daddy.
"Eeyee?" What's up? Are you being bullied by other bears again?
"Eeyeeeeee!" Don't be sad, I'll scold him for you!
Yu Yiyun is very good at providing emotional value and making harsh remarks, but who knows if Fu Rui understood what she said.
He slowly climbed up from his son's arms, chattering a lot of nonsense, sounding like he was complaining.
After yelling a lot, Fury lowered his head and sniffed, signaling his baby to follow him.
"……babble?"
Wait, do you really want me to avenge my father?
But I'm not good at the panda fighting style!
Yu Yiyun complained, "You have suffered such a great injustice," while following Fu Rui to a quiet woods.
In the grass along the way, there is the scent of fellow species marking their territory. It smells familiar and unfamiliar, as if several smells are mixed together.
The two bears climbed halfway up the mountain when Fury suddenly became excited and barked at the distance.
'Look, that's him!'
"Bad bear, you stole my wife, wuwuwu..."
Yu Yijun raised his head, opened his eyes wide and looked in the direction of Furui's roar. He vaguely saw a heroic, strong and tall young male bear gently caressing the beautiful female bear beside him.
It seemed that the male bear was completely immersed in the pink bubble of love and did not even bother to drive away the two bears that invaded his territory.
Zhima Tangyuan continued to walk closer and found a beautiful female bear nestled in the male bear's arms, like a gentle and affectionate kitten. The smell was particularly familiar.
He carefully distinguished and finally figured it out: Wait, isn't that my dear mommy? !
“Awooo…”
When Fury saw his ex-wife being so affectionate with another bear, he started to cry again and felt so sad that he almost broke.
"babble?"
Yu Yiyun looked at Fu Rui, then looked at her mother who was so sweet with the young bear, and finally got the truth of the incident.
"Eeyee?"
So you can't beat Bie Xiong, and your mommy dumped you, so you ask me to help you fight?
"Eeyeeeeee!"
I won't do that. Everyone has to rely on their own abilities to find a mate. What kind of male bear are you if you need help chasing your wife?!
"Yiyi~" Besides, I don't hate my stepfather~
Giant pandas do not have fixed mates, and when each breeding season comes, female pandas tend to have stronger and healthier genes.
Yu Yijun didn't recognize the male bear, but she could tell from the smell and sound that he must be more powerful than Fury!
"Yiyi." Think positively, you can go chase other female bears!
"Oh." That makes sense!
Fu Rui snuggled into his brother's arms, feeling that his elder brother was so good to him.
"Yiyiyi." Let me make it clear first, if you get divorced, I want to follow Mommy.
Fury: ...
You are really my good son!
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The following spring was particularly busy for both pandas and conservation organizations.
The giant pandas are busy enjoying spring and nurturing new life.
The protection team was inspired by the "Chang Gung Seven-Day Crossing of Qinling Mountains" and after much discussion, they finally came to the conclusion:
The Bear's path is feasible, but it is not the best solution.
If humans want to truly protect pandas, they must protect their habitat.
If we ignore the local soil conditions and vegetation distribution and forcibly connect the giant panda habitat with bamboo forests, it is very likely that those small animals that do not eat bamboo will be killed.
Just like humans call other plants "wild flowers and weeds" in order to grow crops, and completely eradicate them.
Over time, the flowers and plants no longer grew.
The most urgent task is to restore the mountains and forests to their original appearance before they are completely destroyed.
Pandas were able to walk on roads without bamboo hundreds of years ago, and they will still be able to walk on them in the future!
With a clear goal in mind, the conservation team worked with local forestry departments to develop an unprecedented forest restoration plan, aiming to completely restore the 1,600-kilometer mountain forest environment from east to west in the Qinling Mountains.
If the forests are restored to their original state, the beneficiaries will not only be the giant pandas, but also the golden monkeys, crested ibis, leopards, South China tigers... that live in the mountains and forests will have a home to reproduce freely.
Protecting the Qinling Mountains and its wildlife is also protecting China's north-south barrier. As the natural environment gradually improves, the biggest beneficiaries will definitely be humans at the top of the food chain.
Realizing that restoring the ecological environment of the Qinling Mountains is urgent, many domestic animal and nature experts rushed to the Qinling Mountains and worked day and night to conduct practical research.
Through careful analysis of the local soil and climate, they used the latest technology to restore the Qinling Mountains' heyday hundreds of years ago, down to the details of what kind of grass grew on which hillside and which birds and animals were mainly distributed.
As warm spring arrives, conservation organizations and volunteers climb the bare mountains, scatter grass seeds that were supposed to grow there, and introduce insects that disappeared along with the grasslands.
Countless people closely followed this feat, hoping that the spring rain would nourish the mountains and forests, turning them back into grasslands, growing shrubs, and eventually evolving into lush forests.
Yu Yiyun was not clear about the human’s plan for the time being, but she could clearly feel that the little people around her were becoming more and more active.
In the past, the poorly camouflaged upright deer would climb up the mountain to at most check whether the giant panda's vital signs were stable.
Starting this spring, Zhililu has not only been paying attention to giant pandas, but has also been carefully observing all animals living in the mountains and forests, including plants and insects, and has been recording and analyzing them carefully.
Although she didn't understand what the little guy wanted to do, Yu Yiyun had a hunch:
Humanity is planning something big!
"Yiyi." I really want to know!
Sesame Tangyuan was eager to know their plan, and the whole bear was almost buried by curiosity.
As the saying goes, curiosity kills the cat.
Pandas are also cats!
Finally, Sesame Tangyuan could no longer suppress his curiosity, and the dog secretly followed the upright deer to the giant panda protection base not far from the foot of the mountain.
Thinking back to the time when Yu Yijun was still alive, he often visited the neighboring colleague's territory and knew the structure of the protection base very well.
In order to provide timely assistance to giant pandas, the protection base was built in the wilderness, far away from human habitation.
The area seems quite large, but it is actually just a simple wall surrounded by a fence to prevent the rescued giant pandas from 'escaping'.
Yu Yiyun had long complained about this wall, saying that it mainly served a decorative purpose.
Look.
There is no way to prevent giant pandas.
Sesame dumplings climbed over the wall and easily sneaked into the conservation base. It was like returning to my own backyard, turning left and right and strolling around the familiar path.
It was getting close to evening, the time when animals in the mountains and forests were most active. Most of the staff were still surveying the mountains, and only veterinarians and on-duty personnel were left at the conservation base.
With the recent spring blooms, the protection base, which also serves as a temporary rescue station, has received more giant pandas than at any other time.
Because spring is the breeding season for giant pandas, it is common for several male bears to compete for one female bear.
Some male bears are not very good at fighting. Not only do they fail to catch their wives, but they also get beaten black and blue.
Yu Yiyun saw the listless bear in the patient's cage through the glass, and suddenly felt that Fu Rui's fighting ability was still pretty good.
Although I didn’t snatch my wife away, at least I wasn’t hurt!
The male bear that stayed in the temporary rescue station for treatment had relatively minor injuries and would recover in ten days to half a month at most, and then be released back into the forest.
Some bears who are as lazy and greedy as sesame dumplings and like to get things for free will remember the location of the rescue station from now on.
Whenever he couldn't find anything to eat, he would come back and ask for the steamed buns, which made the staff laugh and cry.
Yu Yiyun looked through the glass of the ward and saw two injured male bears who were still restless. They barked loudly through the patient cages and yelled at each other, "Don't run away after school."
The male bear sitting by the window had just been brought in. He seemed to have not yet recovered from the blow of failed courtship. He buried his head in his belly, sat there with his butt sticking out, mourning his lost youth.
The bear, who was staying at the innermost part, raised his legs comfortably.
The left paw held a steamed bun, and the right paw held a small apple.
The world is in turmoil, but he only wants to make a living.
After eating the apple, the male bear raised his head, met Sesame Dumpling's eyes, and called out happily, as if inviting him to enjoy the sick meal together.
"Cats, take your temperature."
The veterinarian pushed open the door of the ward, took out an infrared thermometer, and aimed it through the cage at the panda's eyes or ears where its fur was thinner to measure its approximate body temperature.
Due to the thick fur of animals, infrared measurement has errors and is only used for daily measurements.
In situations such as surgery where accurate temperature recording is required, rectal temperature is often measured.
Yu Yiyun knew the treatment process of the rescue station too well, and secretly made up his mind: Don’t get hurt!
If he were rescued by humans, he would no longer be a clean little bear.
Pandas have different personalities.
Although they are extremely disgusted by sesame dumplings, some bears particularly like the rescue station.
The veterinarian measured the male bear chewing the steamed bread, reached into the cage, and gently touched his bear ears.
"You're here again." The young lady teased, "You're always on the hospitalization list every spring. I wonder if you're deliberately getting hurt so you can take advantage of our nutritious meals?"
"Hmm?"
The male bear tilted his head to look cute, as if he didn't understand what people were saying.
Yu Yiyun hid under the window, quietly poking out his bear ears and eyes, and furiously complained about the bear in his heart!
Although Yu Yiyun was not clear about the situation of giant pandas, the South China tigers he was responsible for rewilding were usually fearless and dared to show their claws to anyone they met, but they were as obedient as kittens when they met veterinarians.
Looking at the other bears in the ward, they saw that the veterinarian sister was hiding in the corner of the cage, fearing that she would take out tweezers, pliers, and knives and do something to their injured parts.
Only the male bear was not afraid. Instead, he offered his ears to her to touch. It was obvious that he had become familiar with the veterinarian.
"Your injuries have basically recovered. Eat the steamed bread and then leave the hospital. Other pandas are still waiting for treatment."
"Ah!" The male bear was so scared that he dropped his steamed bread on the ground and howled loudly, indicating that he did not want to be left the hospital.
The veterinarian ignored him and turned to ask the nurse in charge of records if there were any new injured bears to be sent in today.
Nurse: "We haven't received any reports today, but District 22 found that Fury, who we rescued last time, was fighting with another bear and might be injured."
"Fury, he's fine." The veterinarian said lightly, "He often fights with bears, but he's rarely injured. The last time he was sent to the rescue station, it was because he jumped up and kicked the bamboo, and ended up getting caught on it and breaking it."
“…”
After hearing what the veterinarian said, Yu Yiyun fell silent.
Even though he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he seemed to have imagined the scene:
Fury chose a green and strong bamboo and gave a flying kick imitating Kung Fu Panda.
As a result, his poor eyesight led to an error in judgment, and he accidentally kicked the ball off the target, with the whole bear hanging on it.
Due to inertia and body weight, the bamboo broke with a snap and pierced Fury's shoulder.
"Yeah." Sesame Glutinous Rice Ball sighed.
Stupid daddy, it’s better to get hurt when courting, at least it’s decent to tell others about it.
"That's good." The nurse breathed a sigh of relief. "I love Fury's son so much. It would be great if I could touch him."
"Chang Geng? I like that bear, too." The veterinarian smiled and said calmly, "I hope I never have to see him again."
When the nurse heard this, she was stunned for a few seconds and immediately spat out what she had just said.
She is responsible for the temporary rescue work of giant pandas. The bears sent here have suffered injuries that cannot be healed by nature.
The nurse shook her head vigorously, "I don't want to touch him! Not at all! I hope Chang Geng will never come to the rescue center!"
"babble?"
Woman, you really don't want to touch me?
"Eh? Is there a little bear in the ward?" The veterinarian immediately recognized the little bear's voice, looked up, and saw round ears stuck to the glass. The most handsome little bear in Qinling made a shining appearance!
The nurse looked over and almost screamed with excitement.
"250? Why are you here? Are you hurt?"
Two professional medical staff immediately went around to the outside of the ward.
The animal world has its own message board. Once a panda was injured, it took the initiative to come to the rescue station to seek help.
They were afraid that the little bear would encounter the same dilemma, and even ignored the fact that pandas are dangerous and aggressive beasts.
In addition, 250 pandas have a history of attacking prey and roaring at protection station staff, making them high-risk pandas.
The two of them surrounded Sesame Dumpling, one in front and one behind, reached out to push aside the thick fur, and checked whether 250 was injured.
After carefully examining the patient twice, the two medical professionals came to the conclusion:
The subcutaneous fat is so thick that even if it bumps into something or falls, or fights with other bears, it won't easily injure its bones.
"Except for being too fat, he looks healthy and fine."
The veterinarian checked again carefully and confirmed that 250 was in good health.
A few months ago, the Beipo Nature Reserve collected a blood sample from Chang Geng and confirmed that all of his physical indicators were normal and his development speed was far faster than other cubs of the same age.
The veterinarian judged based on her experience that 250 did not have any symptoms of illness, so she did not intend to give the little bear another injection for no reason.
“Doctor!” The nurse suddenly screamed in an octave higher, the ending tone trembling with excitement, “I touched him!”
"……ah."
The veterinarian lowered his head and looked at his hand on the little bear's head. An absurd idea popped into his mind:
Could it be that Chang Geng simply wanted to help them realize their wishes and that was why he made the noise to attract their attention?
If that's true, the little bear is not only smart, but also extremely gentle.
"Eeyee?"
Have you touched enough? I'm leaving!
Sesame Tangyuan grunted twice, and in front of the two medical staff, he swaggered into the protection base.
"Wait, where are you going?" The nurse chased after him and quickly notified the staff on duty.
The sound was transmitted to all parts of the protection station through walkie-talkies and radios.
In just half a minute, everyone knew that the most watched panda in the entire reserve and even on the entire Internet had inexplicably arrived at the base.
The staff at the base have watched 250 grow up since he was a child and have an inexplicable affection for the little bear.
They couldn't figure out why the little bear, who was staying well in the mountains, suddenly ran down the mountain.
Everyone tried to maintain their normal appearance and did not disturb the little bear or drive him away.
"Eeyee."
The Qinling Mountain Tyrant Bear is unstoppable, swaggering around everywhere, leaving a few strings of inner eight-foot prints at the protection base.
Wandering around the backyard, he followed the scent into the kitchen.
The base kitchen is divided into two parts. The left side is responsible for preparing big pot meals for employees, and the stove has a particularly old feel.
On the right side of the kitchen there is an oven, a steamer, and a modern cooking table, which are mainly used to make steamed corn bread and nutritious meals for the pandas.
Recently, many injured bears have been sent to the base, and the chef was busy steaming a large pot of steamed corn bread.
Just as I took the food out of the pot, I saw a bear head poking into the kitchen, and my mouth watered with excitement.
He blinked his eyes twice and stretched out his furry paws towards the steamed bun.
Before I could touch it, the chef patted it.
"What do you want?" The tough chef said with a stern face and a ferocious look.
The little bear felt wronged instantly. He lay on the ground, babbling and rolling around.
"Don't lose your temper!"
The chef was not at all surprised by the sudden intrusion of the bear. Apparently, a similar thing had happened before.
"It's just out of the pot. What if it burns you?" After giving the lesson, the tough chef picked up the steamed bun with his ruthless iron hands and broke it into pieces to speed up the cooling.
He waited until the steamed corn bread had cooled down to a temperature that wouldn't burn the little bear before handing it over with a stern face.
"I'll only give you one. You can only eat the rest after they cool down."
"Yeah..." I thought...
"Do you want to eat it or not? If you keep throwing a tantrum, I won't give you the steamed wowotou!"
"Eh..." Sesame Dumpling took the steamed bread resignedly and left the kitchen obediently.
The rest of the employees were amazed.
The chef is indeed a man who masters the core technology and he can actually subdue the Qinling Mountain Overlord.
The sesame dumplings were served with steamed corn bread. He held them in his two paws and ate them very carefully.
After eating all the scattered crumbs, he got up again, used his memory to find the meeting room where they usually met to discuss plans, and opened the folder on the table.
"250, why are you looking at that? You can't read."
"He might have choked on the steamed bread. What are you doing standing there? Get the baby some water."
"There is only tea in the meeting room. Can I drink it?"
"Tea is also a plant, so why not give it a try?"
The staff on duty rummaged through the drawers and found a brand new ashtray, filled it with tea and placed it in front of the sesame dumplings.
Suddenly, the scene became weird.
250 was lying on the large conference table, flipping through the documents seemingly without any plan, occasionally lowering his head to take a sip of tea.
In a trance, the staff felt that Chang Geng was the leader in charge of this project.
[Xiongxiong leader personally visited the grassroots to guide the work (manual dog head)
[If 250 didn’t lick his tea, I really thought he could understand the minutes of the meeting]
[So he broke into the protection base just to get a steamed bun? ? ? ]
[Correction: seven. He went back only after he was full, and he took two more before he left.]
[Originally, each bear could only eat two steamed buns a day, but he ate them and took them away, causing all the pandas’ meal allowances to be reduced by half that day]
[I have a feeling that 250 has found a new Wowotou refresh point, it is impossible that it will only come once]
[The prophet, the knife! ]
Soon, netizens’ predictions came true.
Just two days later, the protection team was holding a stage summary meeting and was talking about "the mountain forest environment from the south slope to the north slope must be restored to the level of 200 years ago."
"Yeah." I agreed.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Leader Little Bear suddenly appear, walk around most of the conference room, and climb onto the only empty seat.
The senior leader who left his seat and came to the front to explain the "1825 Qinling Mountains Full Real Scene Modeling" found that his seat was occupied by the little bear leader. The corners of his lips, which were usually serious, rarely raised an arc.
"Chang Geng, you can sit there, but don't disturb our meeting."
The big leader bent down, treating Chang Geng as an equal soul, and explained to him seriously, "This project is very important to you and to us."
"Eeyee."
250 raised his bear head proudly.
If it wasn’t important, Leader Little Bear wouldn’t have come!
After confirming that 250 was just sitting there obediently, the people next to them were very attentive and brought them tea and steamed buns, and then continued the meeting.
The theme of this meeting is clear, and it mainly focuses on the restoration of the Qinling Mountains forest.
The top leaders compared the real-life model and assigned tasks in detail, telling everyone that there is no shortcut to protecting the environment.
The trees that were cut down by humans in one day had all taken decades or even hundreds of years to grow.
If they want to revitalize the bare hills, they must be prepared for a long battle.
The leader asked, “Is there anything else you would like to add?”
"No."
"We will try our best."
The staff who participated in the meeting expressed their opinions one after another.
The big boss nodded and looked at the sesame dumplings that he was eating on a steamed bun.
"As the forest representative, Leader Little Bear, do you have anything to add?"
“Puff——”
"Hahaha!"
The originally serious meeting room was now filled with laughter.
"Our leader usually looks very serious. I always thought he was old-fashioned, but I didn't expect he also has a sense of humor."
"Yes, yes. I ate 250 from beginning to end. I guess I didn't hear what he said. Asking Little Bear what he thinks at this time is like sleeping in class and being suddenly called by the teacher to answer a question."
"Help, I feel like I'm in this situation! Fortunately, 250 is a bear and doesn't understand this kind of horror."
"Eeyore?" Are you asking me?
Sesame glutinous rice ball raised its face, with some steamed bread residue at the corner of its mouth.
He jumped off the bench nimbly, came to the model of Qinling Mountains 200 years ago that was restored in proportion through 3D printing technology, and raised his bear paw to pat it.
"Ancestors! My ancestors! You can tickle me, but don't tickle it!"
"That thing is more valuable than my life!"
"If you destroy it, what reference will we have for restoring the forest?"
The little humans nearby were so frightened that their faces turned pale. They rushed over and risked their lives to rescue the expensive Qinling model from the 250 claws.
The senior leader who was closest to him remained silent for a long time, staring at the sesame dumplings quietly, lost in thought.
After a full two minutes, he nodded solemnly.
"You are right. It is not enough to just protect the Qinling Mountains."
If time really goes back 200 years, giant pandas would be found in most parts of China, proving that they have strong adaptability to the environment.
Qinling giant pandas do not only live in Shaanxi.
Humans cut off all their ways of survival and trapped them in Shaanxi.
"Restoring the ecological environment of the Qinling Mountains is certainly important, but we cannot trap you in the Qinling Mountains. Doing so would simply be changing from a small cage to a big one."
"Yiyi~" Man, you are very insightful.
The onlookers saw the man and the bear sympathizing with each other, and their faces were filled with confusion.
——Did 250 speak?
The leader is worthy of being a leader, with cross-species understanding!
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