Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl

The voice sounded quite crisp, maybe it's a cute girl.

Chen Ying waited for her to introduce herself, but instead, she asked when he was coming over.

Coming over? Going where? Girl, I'm an honest person!

"Ah! Sorry, sorry, didn't Teacher Gao tell you?"

Old Gao? That guy hasn't been in touch for a few months now. Lately, he's been stationed over at Gao Ligon Mountain, working on some collaborative research with a university research institute from a neighboring country. Busy like Yu the Great, not coming home for years.

"I guess Old Gao's too busy and didn't have time to tell you. Is something wrong?"

"It's like this, Mr. Chen. Previously, you asked about the Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys, right? Well, it so happens that one of our observation subjects, the Falco peregrinus, seems to have gotten into a fight with the monkey troop recently. This phenomenon is very rare, and both sides seem to have a 'fight to the death' kind of mentality. We want to seek your help to see if there's a way to resolve this matter."

The peregrine falcon is a medium-sized bird of prey, about 35-80 centimeters in length, with a wingspan of around 74-120 centimeters. Its main food source is medium-sized birds, which has no overlap with the Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys' diet.

Moreover, one flies in the sky, and the other runs in the forest; their living ranges don't overlap.

For these two to clash, it must have been a very rare accident.

Birdwatchers are worried about the peregrines, but Chen Ying is more concerned about the good baby Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys.

The plan was to first send the monkey baby back to the emergency station for a few days for observation before finding its relatives. But now, the other side's urge and Chen Ying's worry about more monkeys getting injured or even dying made him agree without hesitation.

He came here by riding in Yin Li's car, but this time, he needs to go up the mountain. So the Bird Research Institute helped coordinate with a local ride-hailing driver, who agreed to take him up the mountain.

"Mr. Chen, I'm really sorry for troubling you to make this trip. We really have no other option, watching them fight so fiercely really breaks our hearts."

"Mr. Chen, look, they're still fighting over there, and now other birds have joined in."

Initially, it was one versus a group. Now it's become a brawl involving many, and the affected range keeps widening, leaving these humans who don't understand and can't make sense of it all worried sick and helpless.

Chen Ying doesn't study birds much, but he can more or less recognize their basic types.

It's the Falco peregrinus and falcons navigating through the opposite cliff and sparse forest.

"How could there be falcons here?" Putting down the binoculars, Chen Ying looked in surprise at the two female observers.

"Originally, there were only peregrines, with their nest right on the cliff next to the wood. That falcon only joined this afternoon. It was watching from the rocks at first. By the time I called you, it had already joined the battle."

If it weren't for that, they wouldn't have been so anxious to ask Chen Ying to come over for help.

Girls have a relatively lower tolerance for such situations, which is normal since girls generally have stronger empathy.

Chen Ying watched for a while and found no way to stop the fight between the monkeys and the birds on the opposite cliff. After thinking it over, he decided it might be best to go directly over and see for himself.

There's a passage between the two mountains, but it's dangerous.

Either go down the ravine and come back up, in which case, they'd only be able to move tomorrow; otherwise, they'd reach the bottom by nightfall and wouldn't be able to climb back up.

Or take the dangerous path and zip-line across the narrowest part.

Chen Ying used to often zip-line across the ravine with friends when he was a child. As he grew up, he had fewer opportunities, but his skill remained.

The zip-line here has been left for decades. It was used when there wasn't centralized relocation, but now maybe only the rangers use it occasionally.

Upon confirming with the Protection Station that the zip-line was safe, Chen Ying took out the harness from a cavity in the rock where the zip-line was fixed and inspected it.

Seeing Chen Ying deftly take out his gear and prepare to glide to the opposite side, the two girls turned pale.

"Mr. Chen, maybe we could go tomorrow instead. This seems too unsafe."

"It's fine, nothing unsafe about it." Chen Ying smiled at the two female observers, "No worries, I just asked. This zip-line is checked every six months, with even more frequency than back home."

After speaking, Chen Ying kicked off hard, shooting like an arrow toward the opposite side.

The two banks aren't far apart, roughly only over twenty meters, and in the blink of an eye, he was across.

Chen Ying stored away the zip-line properly. He would need it again to return later.

The zip-line's fixed point wasn't far from the monkey troop's location. This spot is also quite convenient for bird watching and observing monkey wildlife. Probably for this reason, the zip-line has been preserved and undergoes regular annual maintenance.

The slightly older female observer had been watching Chen Ying's actions the entire time, including how he used the makeshift zip-line to glide to the opposite side.

Now, she seemed to have made up her mind, gently patting the young girl's shoulder, "Tongtong, you stay on this side, I'm going over to have a look."

She took out another safety harness from the cave, awkwardly fitted it on herself, and after several tries, finally managed to attach herself successfully.

Chen Ying was about to leave when he saw the older female observer attempting to come over, so he promptly stood at the endpoint to receive her and explained some key points about the zip-line.

The zip-line looks simple, and indeed it is, but inexperienced people might find themselves stuck in the middle, with no way forward or back.

Fortunately, this lady heeded instructions and came over smoothly.

Imitating Chen Ying, she tied the safety harness around her waist, and the two rushed quickly toward the monkey group's location.

At this point, both sides were in a truce, but on the ground, many broken branches and scattered feathers and fur could be seen.

"Mr. Chen, wait for me for a moment, I think I've found something."