Mengle Wild Elephant Valley.
This was the only national-level nature reserve for Asian elephants in the country.
When Shen Xin and Ding Yuwei arrived, He Jinglin and his team were busy trying to fit Nan Ji with a GPS tracking collar for monitoring.
It was no easy task.
"Careful," He Jinglin kept calling out from the side.
Shen Xin couldn't help but say, "Director He, if it's not working, let's just forget it. We're still far from the border anyway."
The original plan was to try and find Nan Ji's original herd.
He Jinglin had explained that elephants are social creatures that live in matriarchal societies, with a healthy adult female at the core.
They had also discussed why Nan Ji had been separated from her herd.
Because even if a calf got lost, the entire herd would search for it together.
It was unlikely that Nan Ji would have gone searching all by herself.
After thinking it over and over, there was only one explanation.
