Chapter 610: Chapter 513: The Three Flowers of the Chen Family Reunite in Jiamu Gully (Part 2)

Pang Jin even caught a ground squirrel as a snack, eating it while watching the drama in the corner of the cat climbing frame.

Huihui is an honest child; seeing the Great Snow Leopard howling so ‘miserably,’ he couldn’t help but want to plead on its behalf, even though he didn’t know what had happened, but it surely must have upset Aunt Er Niu.

Huihui hadn’t moved yet when Pang Jin swatted him with a paw, nearly knocking him off the cat climbing frame.

“What are you doing going there? No one else is going, and here you are being softhearted? Can’t you see that the Great Snow Leopard is just playing the fool? If you go, it’ll really have no way to back down.”

Is that so? Huihui looked bewildered for a while but finally managed to see something.

He took a step back, lay down on the other side of Pang Jin, rested his chin on his forelimbs, and sighed worriedly.

“Look at you being such a coward. Come on, let’s take a stroll with your Brother Pang Jin, and once you’re full, you won’t be overthinking.”

After Pang Jin came to the wilderness, he adapted well, feeling like a mouse falling into a granary.

It was said before that the rodent infestation was severe from River Source towards the pasture area, and large felines aren’t too interested in small rodents, preferring lambs and young wild donkeys, or working together to hunt large ungulates. They only dig out mouse holes when there’s nothing else to eat.

Even if they dig holes, their targets are usually larger ground squirrels or Highland rabbits.

But compared to the Snow Leopard and Lynx, the Golden Cat is slightly smaller in size, and rodents make up the main part of its diet.

After Pang Jin arrived here, his record was nearly thirty rodents in one day, eating so much that his belly almost touched the ground.

Moreover, this guy became good friends with the nearby Desert Cat Team by the emergency station, leading a group of big and small cats to venture out ten kilometers in all directions, nearly wiping out the local rodent population in ten days.

Rodents near the River Source Emergency Station moved overnight, cursing nonstop about the new, fat, vaguely-faced harbinger of doom!

To humans, Pang Jin’s appetite seemed a bit too much, but to the animals, it was something they could only envy.

After all, being able to eat oneself so fat means there’s no lack of food; Pang Jin’s plumpness is a symbol of strength.

For Pang Jin, although there was plenty to eat on the mountains over in Jiamu Gully, his weight is considerable, often breaking branches and scaring away prey; but here in the wilderness, there’s no such worry, no matter how fat he gets, he can’t possibly make the ground sink, right?

The Great Snow Leopard was finally driven away by Leopard Sister; it may have no shame, but the other leopards do.

If it kept causing trouble, the other two-legged beasts might think all leopards were like this. Such reputational damage can’t be tolerated.

The Little Snow Leopard embarrassingly buried its face between its forelimbs, while Yellow Fur giggled beside it, then the Great Snow Leopard started chasing to bite it. The two male leopards ran around all night, disappearing from sight.

Er Niu originally had depressive tendencies due to her cub’s health condition. Under the intervention of Leopard Sister and Jinya, the condition was successfully kept from developing, and now her spirits are up. Occasionally, she’d leave Little Cub to Xiao Liu and the others to take care of while she went out with Leopard Sister and Jinya, leisurely hunting.

The three daughters of the Chen family may not be of the same species, but their bond is closer than actual sisters.

Just yesterday, the three of them cooperated to hunt a yak that was charging at the cubs.

That yak fed the household’s cats and dogs, while the rest was given to their bald-headed neighbor next door.

During this entire operation, the only ones injured were the Great Snow Leopard and the cub bear.

Especially the cub bear, who felt extremely wronged, cursing that Super Snow Leopard even in its sleep while receiving treatment at River Source.

During this time, Pang Jin slyly asked if the cub bear wanted to challenge it, offering to lure the Super Snow Leopard over. The cub bear was so angry it chased Pang Jin to beat him, and both the Snow Leopard Cub and the lynx cub almost couldn’t stop it.

Eventually, Leopard Sister swatted Pang Jin, sending him flying two or three meters, allowing the cub bear to vent its anger.

Why was it Leopard Sister stepping in? Because among Jiamu Gully’s cubs, the only beast they feared was Leopard Sister. Even Jinya would be teased by them, but no cub dared to challenge Leopard Sister’s authority. If they did, the next one to step in would be Brother Leopard, who knows no moderation.

Brother Leopard really dares to hit, ensuring you’ll be carried to the two-legged beasts for emergency treatment, wailing all the way.

Leopard Sister uses finesse when hitting cubs.

Brother Leopard hits with the determination that three years later, it’ll become a good beast!

Pang Jin, being one of the representative beasts at Jiamu Gully, had been beaten by Brother Leopard before. Luckily, Elder Tiger was there, seeing things were going too far, he pretended to stop Brother Leopard by singing a different tune.

Pang Jin was so beaten that he didn’t dare to show his face for three days, hiding in a tree hollow provided by Huihui until Brother Leopard calmed down.

This time being hit by Leopard Sister, in truth, Pang Jin took advantage of the force to roll around as an excuse to go out on an adventure and to soothe the cub bear.

Ten days later, the report Chen Ying submitted received approval. The higher-ups agreed for Er Niu and her cub to undergo off-site treatment and settle in a reserve, and that once Little Cub recovered healthfully, they could relocate back to River Source for release.

Approval was granted, but it also pointed out many shortcomings in the preparatory work, especially on how Er Niu would be monitored on Snow Mountain, and how to arrange the process of transitioning a post-surgery, human-reared cub back into the wild, among other supplementary materials needed.

The leaders weren’t trying to make things difficult, but since each Snow Leopard is a precious wildlife resource, it’s crucial to aim for perfection when doing such work.

Qing Ye showed great interest in this treatment. Their veterinarians had never encountered this kind of illness and wanted to learn alongside Chen Ying.

However, Qing Ye was already short on veterinarians, and if one were to follow the entire process, work at the zoo would be disrupted.

Having interacted many times with that veterinarian, a genuinely dedicated person to animal conservation, Chen Ying proposed after several discussions that they could participate in the critical phase of surgery, whereas the other phases need not be handled solely by them, allowing other veterinarians to learn.

Once everything was arranged, it was nearly National Day.

The trip here was on a private plane provided by the Dao family, and the return was split into two batches.

Leopard Sister, Jinya, and Er Niu with Little Cub took the plane, while Brother Leopard, Little Jin, and Huihui followed Xiao Song by car back to Jiamu Gully.

Pang Jin insisted on staying at River Source, but its eventual release location wasn’t at the River Source Emergency Station, but near the Sanjiang Protection Station.

The environment there is a bit better for Golden Cats than River Source, and it’s not far, making it convenient for Pang Jin to visit its playmates at River Source, or for the lynx cub and Snow Leopard Cub to visit Pang Jin.

Most importantly, Pang Jin’s reputation for catching mice spread to the pasture, which is closer to Sanjiang and has a more severe rodent infestation.

Pang Jin, leading the Desert Cat Team, wreaked havoc, leaving a trail of rodent carcasses everywhere it went. It even knew how to exchange rodent carcasses for other flavored foods, bringing both love and irritation to the herders who found their livestock areas littered with rodent bodies.

But Pang Jin is very clever, understanding moderation. Taking only one at each turn, never from the same household twice, ensuring all equally benefit from its ‘generosity.’

This miraculous behavior even made it to the local television station’s evening news segment, making everyone aware of this exceptionally fat, ferocious rodent-catching Golden Cat. This exposure actually served as insurance for Pang Jin, discouraging anyone from getting any wicked ideas.

After the report aired, more people came to see Pang Jin, and with more attention on it, those with bad intentions toned down their actions.

While Pang Jin lived a carefree life, the cats of Jiamu Gully returned safely to their homeland.

Er Niu didn’t go up Snow Mountain immediately but lingered near the Jiamu Gully First Aid Station for a few days before moving up the mountain under Jinya’s guidance.

To humans, the journey might seem difficult, but there were no other beasts looking to claim this territory, as if it were specially reserved for Er Niu of the Chen family.

Initially, Er Niu was unacquainted with living in such an environment and had some difficulty adjusting, so Jinya stayed behind to accompany her and introduced her to the neighbors in the vicinity.