"What is this thing, a groundhog?"
The first to ask was Chen Kexin, who was squatting in front of the cage.
"Ah, can you say ah ah, don't all the groundhogs online make ah ah ah noises?"
As she spoke, she picked up a leaf from the side and poked the unknown creature in front of her, which had two big buck teeth and stood there with a dumbfounded expression.
It was at this moment that Yang Lin, after a moment of contemplation, finally spoke.
"This shouldn't be a groundhog, it just looks very similar. Its true identity should be an otter."
"Otter?" Hearing this unfamiliar name, Chen Kexin was clearly slow to react.
"You haven't heard of otters, but you must know about water monkeys, right? Let me tell you, ninety percent of those water monkeys on the internet are these things."
"Teacher Xiao Liang should be quite familiar with this thing."
"In the past, many people swimming in the water would get strange wounds, which were basically caused by it scratching them."
After listening to Yang Lin's explanation, not only Chen Kexin understood, but Director Wang beside her also looked enlightened.
"I thought a farmed bamboo rat had escaped, so it's an otter."
"But I did catch this guy in the water. It was lying on its back in the water at the time, and I thought it was drowning."
At this point, the three of them burst into laughter.
Thus, the situation of the few small animals here was basically clarified.
In a short while, with the help of Director Wang, Yang Lin loaded these small animals into his pickup truck.
After saying goodbye, he directly took these small animals back to the Xihong Zoo.
When the pickup truck appeared at the zoo entrance, it once again attracted bursts of teasing from the tourists.
"Yo! Director Yang personally went shopping."
"What animal did you trick into coming in this time?"
"Can you tell us where you found it? We'll go find it next time."
....
Yang Lin paid no attention to the tourists' teasing.
Now the whole country knows that he picks up animals everywhere, and he is proud of it.
In a short while, these injured small animals were taken into the infirmary.
While pretending to apply medicine to these animals, he secretly used the basic healing skill.
As he had guessed before, the effect of basic healing was indeed not very strong.
But fortunately, the injuries of these animals were not very serious, and they were all treated in a short time.
After applying a layer of burn ointment, the pangolin was wrapped with a thick layer of bandages.
For the bear monkey, preliminary disinfection and bandaging were done for the festering wound.
As for the yellow immortal, whose front legs were broken, Yang Lin carefully applied a plaster cast.
He also hung its front legs around its neck.
When it came to the otter, Yang Lin only checked it and confirmed one thing: this otter was purely a mistake in capture.
Not even a trace of a wound could be found.
"No, I think you have heatstroke, so I'll prescribe some vitamins for you."
Saying that, Yang Lin threw a vitamin tablet into the otter's mouth.
Perhaps because of the inherent sweetness of the vitamin tablet, the little otter chewed it twice before swallowing it.
And as Yang Lin successively treated these four small animals, the four talent points rewarded by the system arrived as scheduled.
Seeing that only 5 more points were needed to accumulate enough for an upgrade, Yang Lin had already decided where to go next.
However, looking at the sky outside, he finally decided to continue tomorrow.
But just as he was about to close the park and get off work, a strange phone call suddenly came in.
With a hint of doubt, Yang Lin quickly answered the call.
As soon as the call was connected, a familiar voice came from the other side.
"Director Yang, it's Director Wang from the Forestry Station in Qinghe Town. We met this afternoon."
"It's like this, just now a resident called us and said that another sheep of theirs was lost."
"This is the third sheep lost from their family this week. I didn't pay attention to it before and thought it had wandered off, but I went to investigate just now and found traces of a large carnivorous animal at the scene."
"But I'm not sure, so I called to report it, but the technical staff at the bureau have gone off duty, and I know you are an expert in this field..."
Before Director Wang could finish speaking, Yang Lin immediately responded.
"Okay! You wait for me, I'll be right there."
His mind was full of the last 5 talent points. He saw this situation as a prelude to triggering a mission.
Director Wang was the NPC who gave him the mission.
He made only a few preparations, and Yang Lin set off with a pickup truck, pulling Gou Dan and Gou Sheng, and two golden eagles.
When he arrived at Qinghe Town, which was located on the edge of Ningnan City, again, it was completely dark.
Longhu Mountain not far away lay there like a fierce tiger. If it weren't for the scattered lights at the foot of the mountain, it would have been a bit scary.
Perhaps because he heard the sound of the car, Director Wang, who was waiting at the forestry station, immediately walked out of the yard.
Upon seeing Yang Lin, he immediately rushed forward as if he had seen a relative.
"Thank you so much, Director Yang, for coming all this way so late."
"Director Wang, you're too kind. It's just a trip. By the way, has the police been notified about this?"
"No, the township police station doesn't dispatch at midnight for this kind of thing."
"I was worried that the wild beast would run into the town in the middle of the night, so I was in such a hurry."
Hearing Director Wang's explanation, Yang Lin nodded thoughtfully, then surveyed the town's terrain.
As a small town by the mountain, all three sides of Qinghe Town, except for the direction he came from, were tightly wrapped by Longhu Mountain.
Unlike the Taoist sacred land of Longhu Mountain, the Longhu Mountain in Western Guangxi is famous for its animal and plant protection.
The number of wild animals living there is only slightly less than that of Daming Mountain they had been to before.
After surveying the surrounding environment, Yang Lin immediately said.
"Director Wang, please take me to the scene of the incident first."
"Okay, Director Yang, this way."
As he spoke, Director Wang soon took Yang Lin to a farmhouse courtyard.
At this moment, the doors of the house in the courtyard were tightly closed, and only the courtyard gate was open.
As soon as Yang Lin entered the courtyard, he saw rows of footprints and scattered sheep wool on the ground. A large amount of blood was scattered on this wool.
Just as he was about to carefully examine it, Gou Dan beside him suddenly let out a low growl.
"Boss, there's a very familiar smell."
"It smells very bad, stinky."
"I smell it too, a very annoying smell."
After Gou Dan spoke, Gou Sheng added.
Hearing the words of the two dogs, Yang Lin, who was about to squat down and examine, suddenly showed a look of understanding.
"It seems unnecessary."