Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl

The jackal pack was small, a total of seven, sneaking their way toward the rescue station.

Two of them kept sniffing through the bushes, probably identifying the scent of the fox.

Their approach had also alarmed the animals at the rescue station.

The old monkey quietly sat up, leaned on the second floor's railing, and silently gazed at the bushes behind the building.

It was positioned between Chen Ying's and Little Sen's room doors.

Great Bai strolled out slowly, sat on the floor by the warehouse door, opened his mouth wide, but made no sound.

Leopard Sister's family and Jinya were not around tonight, they must have gone out for food and drink.

Red Fox also adeptly jumped down from the platform, crawled low, and slowly moved forward.

"Old Chen, look out of the back window of your room. There are jackals approaching."

Upon receiving Dr. Gao's call, Chen Ying quickly rose and flung open the curtain of the window opposite his room door.

It was pitch dark outside, completely obscure.

"How many are there, did you see clearly?"

"Seven, all about the same size, probably all adults. What should we do now?"

Dr. Gao, a bird expert, was completely unfamiliar with mammals.

"What to do, just chill out. Stay upstairs and don't come down, I'll go check it out."

As he was heading out, Little Sen also came out and was pushed back in by Chen Ying.

"Don't come out yet, I'll go take a look. Wait for my signal."

Tonight, Leo was sleeping with his mom, Mama Panda, whose protection felt much safer than Little Sen's.

As he reached the staircase, the large lights had already been turned on.

There were large lights on all four sides of the building, intended to drive away wild animals.

The bright light shone on the pack of jackals, causing them to retreat a few steps in panic.

But upon realizing that there was only a single fox, instead of retreating, the jackals charged forward toward Red Fox.

There must have been deep hatred.

Just as the fox was ready to fight back, Great Bai appeared around the corner with a ┗|´O'|┛Oh~~ sound.

The jackals screeched to a halt mid-charge, one even slipping and rolling on the ground.

Great Bai lunged at the nearest jackal, lifted his bear paw high, and slammed it down hard.

The jackal yelped and died on the spot.

The remaining six jackals, enraged, surrounded Great Bai.

Great Bai's fighting ability had improved significantly compared to before, swinging, chopping, scratching, and biting in succession, leaving the jackals no chance to bite.

Red Fox, seizing the opportunity, ambushed one jackal, biting its hind leg, the wound location almost identical to its own.

At this moment, Dr. Gao anxiously leaned out from the third floor and shouted, "Old Chen, more jackals are coming."

It seemed to be a medium-sized family of jackals, consisting of at least ten members.

In this forest, a group of ten or more jackals was already considered large, as the area's resources were plentiful but not particularly suited for jackal packs.

Chen Ying grabbed a long stick to go help Great Bai.

Adjacent to them, DuangDuang, two black bears joined the fight.

Street rat, sneaky though it was, truly had a knack for fighting.

The young female bear, inexperienced in battle, was a bit clueless, but the inherent ferocity of black bears made her raise her paw fearlessly against the pack of jackals.

Excluding the one that had already died, the six remaining and the five that had just arrived totaled eleven, their combined strength nearly enough to sweep through the whole protection area.

Chen Ying instructed Little Sen to call the Protection Station and organize people for post-battle handling.

No matter whether it was uniting to expel the pack of jackals or treating and sheltering the injured animals, his small shelter definitely couldn't accommodate them.

Furthermore, if the jackals were subdued and needed to be released, they would likely have to choose a much farther location for their release.

Otherwise, this place would never be peaceful.

The Protection Station staff hadn't arrived yet, but Jinya and Leopard Sister's family had already rushed back upon hearing the news.

Upon seeing the pack of jackals wreak havoc near the small building, Leopard Sister and Brother Leopard, fueled by anger, charged straight at them.

Leopard Sister was smart and knew the jackal pack had a strict hierarchy; her target was the pack's female leader—a not-so-young jackal with extensive combat experience.

Seeing four large cats and a lynx returning, the pack leader probably had never been so speechless in its life.

Who could tell it why there were so many top predators on human territory?

Were they planning to domesticate humans as reserve food?

Leopard Sister didn't waste words with the jackal leader; after all, the leader wasn't short of mating partners and didn't need any two-legged beast to hook it up with young males.

The battle that ensued only injured the innocent woods.

It looked as if plowed by something, leaving almost no grass alive.

As a result of the battle, the jackal pack lost four lives and had five or six injured members before they were all crammed into a large cage.

Great Bai crushed two jackals, Street Rat crushed one and injured three, Brother Leopard and Red Fox together killed one, and the rest were Jinya's accomplishments.

Although Leopard Sister didn't grievously wound any jackals, her brave fight against the pack leader left it completely disfigured, causing more emotional than physical damage.

Quite a few people from the Protection Station arrived, including three from Jiamu Gully's Forest Police.

After examining the scene, everyone was shocked.

They looked at Chen Ying with trepidation.

My goodness, wasn't this just like a modern-day Druid fighting mythological jackal monsters?

During the scene inspection, the police found a camera installed in the tree and came over apologetically to ask if they could have a copy of the video.

Curiosity was one thing, but having video evidence was more credible than writing ten reports.

Chen Ying obviously wouldn't refuse; he had Dr. Gao help edit the clip and sent it to the police station's computer, and the officer's response was a big thumbs-up.

The damaged trees were certainly not Chen Ying's fault, but he would need to help with replanting later.

The funding would be provided by the Protection Station, and they would also give a bit of consolation money, enough for Street Rat and his partner to buy about fifty pounds of honey.

One of the Forest Police officers lived in Jiamu Gully and had a small farm; hearing that Great Bai liked the local carrots, he immediately offered to send a truckload up.

Brother, are you serious?

A truckload of carrots wasn't expensive, but could he add a bit of money and switch it for half a truck of carrots and half a truck of apples? Just eating one type, he was afraid the pandas might get sick.

"Brother Ying, I'm just curious to ask, with so many predators gathering in one place, won't it cause an imbalance in the local ecosystem?"

The question came from a new auxiliary police officer, a recent graduate.

He wasn't nitpicking; he was just genuinely curious about this issue. Without an answer, he felt as restless as if a cat were clawing at his heart.

"Leopard Sister and her family don't hunt here; tonight, in the first half, they were out with the kids hunting—also teaching them skills to live independently."

"As for Jinya, its diet doesn't overlap much with Leopard Sister's. It prefers rabbits, and for some reason, rabbits breed incredibly fast in this area. If we didn't have Jinya and the Large Spirit Cat family working hard to catch them, that would really cause an imbalance."

When Chen Ying was saying this, he didn't notice whether the police and Protection Station's recording devices were on; if this conversation could be made public, it actually might dispel many netizens' doubts.

After all, his emergency shelter had somewhat of a following online.

His critics online were numerous, some even filing complaints, claiming his establishment of a shelter in the forest would disturb the natural environment and ecological balance.

Explaining through the official police account would be much more effective than explaining it one by one on his own media channels.

"Brother Ying, one last question. Most of the animals here appear as family units, but why are you still single? Is it because you were born disliking relationships?"

—Here is a comparison photo of a jackal and a wolf.