On the third day in the field, they reached the location agreed upon with the forest patrol officers from the protection station in Hot Spring Gully.
The cell phones had lost their signals, and the officers hadn't arrived yet, so they could only set up the tent and wait.
They had made significant discoveries along the way.
The vegetation on the northern slope was lush, and the bamboo forest covered a considerable area.
Chen Ying operated a drone to fly around and roughly estimated the area—within a ten-square-kilometer range, the bamboo forest was sufficient for one or two giant pandas to feed.
The protection zone was large with a high altitude variance, so there were many species of bamboo.
The most well-known among locals was Arrow Bamboo.
A song that once mentioned "bamboo blooming" referred to the most common species, Lengjian Bamboo.
