Chapter 9: Saving the Snow Leopard
"Found it, there!" The wild horses were the first to discover the hole, and their voices were raised for us to hurry up.
Zhou Xuanye took the telescope and observed for a moment, then said, "It went into the hole, so we can't use the anesthetic gun, we have to lure it out first." ”
The antelope said: "How to lead?" "Do you want to find someone to run into the cave to tease the snow leopard? It is estimated that no one ran out, and he was already bitten to death by a snow leopard.
Grizzly laughed and said, "You forgot, we have a drone!" As he spoke, he pulled out a quadrangular one with a fan blade underneath from his equipment bag. This thing, I know, is a tool for aerial photography, with a camera mounted on it, which can fly up under the operation of the remote control and shoot in the air in various positions.
He was supposed to be the smallest of the kind, and a group of people were carrying this thing, intending to stay in the air when they climbed up Karuma.
"Let's fly this thing into the hole. The animal doesn't understand, and when it sees such a thing flying in the hole, it won't be immediately lured out? Grizzly said, pulling out the remote control, which was a two-sided remote control with a touchscreen in the middle. You can see the scene shown in the aircraft camera through the screen.
We praised the Grizzly Bear for its quick response, when he found the closest hiding place to the entrance of the cave and hid behind a large raised rock, and then the Grizzly Bear took control of the drone. The blades at the four corners of the thing suddenly turned, and the drone swayed into the air more than two meters high. In front of us, the screen also shows the scene of the aerial camera, a blue-gray bare rock, mixed with a few stubborn grasses growing.
The grizzly bear adjusted the angle of the drone and began to steer it towards the hole, while the flash lights came on, so that we could see inside even if the drone entered the dark hole**.
These people carry drones with them every time they move, and they are already very proficient in operation, and the drones fly straight towards the entrance of the cave. Everyone gathered around, staring directly at the screen on the remote control, it kept pushing forward, and soon, it entered the fusiform hole**.
The entrance to the cave looks quite narrow, just enough for something like a leopard to enter, but a bigger one won't work. For this reason, the grizzly bears are handled with extreme care. The light is white, so that the stones in the cave seem to be white and miserable.
This pixel is very clear, so we can clearly see the undried blood stains on the stones in the cave. There is a bend in the inside about five meters. "Round and turn." The short man in the team, codenamed 'Thin Eagle', was anxiously commanding, and Grizzly Bear scolded: "Don't be crooked and blind in command, I will turn a corner." As he spoke, as he operated, the angle of view on the screen slowly changed, and it was obvious that the drone was turning.
None of us expected that when the drone turned a corner, I would see such a scene.
Although the aircraft was equipped with a camera, it could not receive sound, so the fierce environment in the cave did not attract our attention in advance, but after turning the corner, we discovered this scene that should have been discovered a long time ago.
Around the corner, the snow leopard we photographed appeared in front of us, rolling on the ground, and although I couldn't hear the sound, I could see that it was constantly roaring and biting, as if it was grasping something. Under the bright searchlight, you can see that the cave is crawling with a long, like a wingworm-like thing, constantly crawling towards the snow leopard, among which the wound is the most insects, the snow leopard, this big man, obviously powerless to teach these small insects, keeps biting, and tries to exit the cave, but its steps look a little staggering.
The proximity of the aircraft and the light it brought in caused the snow leopard to react to things like the wingworms. The snow leopard's movements stopped for a moment, and the insect was obviously afraid of light, and instantly retreated like a tide, burrowed under the rocks in the cave, and disappeared without a trace.
The snow leopard stared vigilantly at the drone, and on the video, a pair of leopard eyes appeared.
It pouted slightly, and there was more blood on its shoulder blades than we had seen yesterday, and large areas of fur were stained red.
At this moment, I felt like I could read its thoughts.
It felt strange about the aircraft, and the unknown danger made it want to hide. Animals like snow leopards are different from wolves, they are better at sneak attacks, while animals like wolves are good at hunting and attacking.
But it didn't hide, because it knew that it was the glowing thing that drove away the bugs it couldn't handle.
I immediately said to the grizzly bear, "Let the craft slowly get out." ”
Grizzly Bear said: "You still need to say, look at you." "Although he is strong and looks like a bear, he is actually quite good at this kind of delicate operation. The flying machine immediately began to slowly retreat, and the snow leopard probably didn't dare to stay in this cave, and as soon as the aircraft didn't retreat, it also followed and walked out, very vigilant.
Blue Eagle whispered, "Tranquilizer gun ready." "The two brothers in the team who played with imitation guns, and the brothers who were good marksmanship immediately began to aim at the location of the hole. When the aircraft completely exited the hole, the snow leopard also emerged half of its body. We were about ten meters away from it, and everyone held their breath and didn't dare to make a single movement.
The snow leopard walked out vigilantly, limping, and staring at the flying machine that was flying higher and higher. The two with tranquilizer guns immediately picked the best angle and fired a shot.
The shot hit the snow leopard directly, and it was startled and immediately went to get the tube on its body, but the amount of anesthetic used by the poachers was very large, and even after the animal woke up, it would have sequelae for a while. But we have no other way now.
It didn't take long for the snow leopard to fall. We waited another five minutes or so, and when we saw that it didn't move, we swarmed up. Blue Eagle has a new professional doctor in his thirties, who is said to be a specialist. But these people are out on an expedition, so they don't say much about their respective professions.
The man immediately began to operate on the snow leopard, pulled out the anesthetic needle, and began to retrieve the snow leopard's bullets. The whole process was still very fast, after applying some trauma medicine for people, the doctor bandaged the wound and said, "At least three days of medication, we have to contact the police station, it seems that our 5312 is going to be in the soup." "In this place, it takes at least a day to get to the police station.
Lan Ying said: "It's no problem, Snow Leopard, you take the wild horses and them back, we will guard here, as soon as possible." ”
These people are quite righteous, and when they have done so, they go their separate ways. After finishing this, Blue Eagle asked us what we planned to do and if we would like to stay and wait for rescue. Zhou Xuanye rejected her and said, "We can't help if we stay, we will leave it to you here, and we can rest assured." Let's go first. ”
Blue Eagle shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, this is my business card, three of you make a friend." I looked at her business card, and sure enough, there was also a private custom for clothing and jewelry design, which was designed for the wealthy.
I felt like I might not be able to afford to wear the clothes she made for the rest of my life.
After touching the snow leopard's huge head, Zhou Xuanye and I continued on the road with our equipment on our backs. When I got down the bare rock, the poacher's tent was still in place, and the corpse, at some point, had been pecked beyond recognition by some scavenging birds. I took a look, and the corpses were full of pits, flesh and blood, and the corpses were rotten and mosquitoes and flies were flying, making people numb.
I said, "It's better to be cremated, so as not to be buried in the soil and gnawed by a lot of insects." ”
Tan Jian said: "What, you want to burn yourself?" ”
I said, "I'm alive and well now, why did I burn myself?" ”
Tan Jian said: "Don't you have to incinerate garbage?" ”
Boss, you must have a disease called death if you don't hurt your employees.
When you stay in the bustling city for too long, and suddenly put you in a very vast and uninhabited place, you may be greatly shocked at first, feel free and excited, but after a long time, you will begin to miss the crowd.
At this moment, we are accompanied only by the snow-capped mountains in the distance, the glaciers in the near distance, the grass and shrubs that have just budded, and the animals that occasionally run in the distance, but other than that, there is no one. At about six o'clock in the evening, we finally arrived at Guo Zaco.