The heavy banging on the door outside felt like a death knell, and Tan Yu Yan could already see the bear paw prints dented into the iron door!
Tan Yu Yan was horrified, her legs went weak. Could the Gobi Bear they provoked in the no man's land have tracked them to the rescue station?
Almost three hundred kilometers away, how could that be possible?
"Sis, quickly get me some water, my eyes are burning and hurting!"
Hearing her brother's screams, she hugged her head, almost going insane.
The water barrels in the rescue station were already empty. To get water, they would need to fetch it from the well fifty meters away from the rescue station.
However, the hotpot base was so strong; what if her brother's eyes went blind!
While Tan Yu Yan was torn, suddenly with a "bang," the thin iron door fell directly to the ground.
The bear's shadow over two meters tall at the door loomed like a mountain.
Tan Yu Yan covered her mouth in horror, gripping the electric baton in her hand tightly and switched it on.
However.
One, two, three—the black shadows at the door were like three mountains.
Tan Yu Yan couldn't even hold the electric baton securely, she kept retreating, and the other hand clutched the phone in her pocket.
At this moment, she regretted it deeply!
To prevent the superiors from suddenly assigning rescue tasks to their station, sometimes the siblings would turn off the rescue station's signal booster, making the phones signal-less.
This way, the superiors would think they're routinely patrolling the no man's land and have no signal, thus seeking other rescue stations for dispatch.
"Roar—"
The three bears roared in unison, shaking heaven and earth, almost bursting one's eardrums.
Constantly retreating, Tan Yu Yan didn't notice she had stepped onto the spilled hotpot broth and vegetables, slipped, and fell, her coccyx in immense pain.
Even worse, the electric baton with the switch already turned on fell to the ground and, the moment it contacted the liquid, quickly conducted electricity!
The electric baton made a harsh "sizzling" sound, blue arcs of electricity jumped in the water, quickly reaching Tan Yu Yan's body.
She jolted, her muscles convulsively twitching, the fierceness on her face instantly replaced by pain.
The current not only penetrated her body but also conducted through the broth down to Tan Ming, who was clutching his eyes and howling!
"Ahh ahh ahh ahh—"
Tan Ming, adding insult to injury, was both spicy and numb and now electrocuted, as if tortured, his body convulsed, and his screams were wretched to the utmost.
Xu Ying, holding a small flashlight, poked her little head out from behind the Gobi Bear and saw this scene.
She hadn't even begun disciplining them; why were these two inside already lying so miserably on the ground?
Xu Ying gave Brother Bear a thumbs up: "Brother Bear, you're impressive! Just banging the door terrified them like this!"
The three Gobi Bears scratched their heads in embarrassment.
[It's those two who are too weak, we haven't even turned up the intensity, and they've eliminated themselves.]
When the electric baton exhausted its power, the sibling duo of Tan Yu Yan had long since fainted.
Seeing the tablet on the ground, Xu Ying carefully stepped over the hotpot broth to pick it up.
Fortunately, the tablet, which the original owner won in a knowledge contest, wasn't broken.
These two outrageous colleagues were simply robbers, forcibly "borrowing" the original owner's tablet and not returning it, and they didn't even take care of it.
"Little director, I have alcohol wipes, you can use them to clean it."
Ning Zexi swiftly retrieved alcohol wipes from his backpack.
Xu Ying took them, thanked him, and carefully cleaned the tablet.
Although Ning Zexi wasn't familiar with the two inside, he already hated them to the core: "These two have fainted, how should we deal with them now?"
Xu Ying touched her chin: "Throwing me into the no man's land and ignoring whether I lived or died, let them also taste the feeling of hunger and cold!"
With Brother Gobi Bear's help, Tan Yu Yan and her brother were dragged outside the rescue station to be left out in the open.
The ear fox cubs, after a day of hustle and exhaustion, needed sufficient sleep time as they were still developing.
Xu Ying found them small blankets to line their crate.
The ear foxes huddled together, resembling a big ball of white yarn with little elf ears.
They seemed to have come to an agreement, looking at Xu Ying with their watery, black grape-like eyes.
[Sister, do you have any milk or goat milk here? We want some milk~]
[The past few days since mama disappeared, we've been eating little bugs, which left us so full and hard to digest~]
Hearing this, Xu Ying slapped her forehead; oh no, the little ones' well-behaved demeanor during the day almost made her forget they were all still unweaned cubs.
Fennec fox cubs within the first five weeks of birth are nursed by their mother; only after the fifth week does the mother begin to introduce supplementary food.
It was really tough on these little ones looking for their mom, and Xu Ying felt tender-hearted, finding the cubs strong and sensible!
But in this resource-scarce desert, where would she quickly find milk powder or fresh milk?
The smallest milk fox glanced at the crude and dilapidated rescue station, speaking with caution.
[Sister, it's okay if you don't have any, we can eat bugs and fruits~]
Oh!
Such understanding and considerate little ones!
Xu Ying's heart softened even more, "Good darlings, I would give my all to get you milk powder and fresh milk!"
[Thank you, sister~]
The cubs' adorable and nursery-like voices of thanks made Xu Ying feel elated, and she sang a lullaby to coax the cubs to sleep.
After the cubs fell asleep, Xu Ying asked Ning Zexi, "Do you have any milk?"
Xu Ying explained the ear fox cubs' need for milk.
Ning Zexi shook his head helplessly: "I've been allergic to dairy products since I was young."
His eyes rolled as he suggested, "I'll ask for help on social media and see if any benevolent netizens have a solution."
With that, he immediately picked up his phone and began typing a post.
"By the way, my live stream audience is all eager for you to start a social media account; they followed me today mostly because of you."
Ning Zexi continued while typing, "The video of the ear fox cubs lining up to get into the crate went viral, and netizens want to watch you live as you care for fox cubs daily, they even want to see you do prenatal checks for the Gobi Bears."
"You should quickly register an account, I'll take this opportunity to promote you, your stream should start at 9 am tomorrow, ask the all-powerful viewers for help then."
As a veteran streamer, Ning Zexi knew that the time after 9 am was a golden period when office workers sneaked some browsing time, and parents had leisure after dropping their kids off at school...
Ning Zexi's enthusiastic suggestion reminded Xu Ying that creating a social media account to post daily desert animal rescue activities was very necessary.
It could bring more attention to desert conservation and animal rescue, and the power of netizens could be a huge help.