Noticing Su Zhou's gaze, Wu Chen explained, "This macaque was rescued by Master. It was just a little monkey at the time, and somehow it lost an arm. It couldn't survive in the wild, so it was brought back. It ate and lived with the monks in the temple and gradually grew up."

"Does this macaque have a name?" Su Zhou liked the little monkey very much. The monkey looked well-behaved and different from other monkeys. It was plump and well-fed, so it seemed that the monks in the temple treated it well.

Wuchen: "This monkey's name is Sun."

"The Sun?" Su Zhou thought to herself that the monks' naming skills were not as good as hers. At least she had a reason for naming it. "Is it because it likes to look at the sun?" Just like a sunflower.

"Master means he hopes it will rise like the sun."

Su Zhou nodded thoughtfully.

Upon arriving at the temple, Su Zhou also kowtowed several times, hoping that the Bodhisattva and Buddha would bless their zoo so that it could soon achieve the status of a god-level zoo.

When Chen Xuan returned, both of them were panting heavily, and they were carrying a thin, long object in their hands.

Because it was backlit, Su Zhou couldn't see very clearly, so she asked, "Why did you bring a rope back with you?"

Chen Xuan approached, and Su Zhou finally saw what they were holding: "Ah... this is a bamboo viper. Why did you bring a snake with you?"

It's only been a short time since spring began, and the snakes have already emerged from hibernation so quickly.

"It's still a Lanna bamboo leaf green... What's going on?" Su Zhou rubbed her temples and habitually reached out her hand: "Let me see it."

Chen Xuan kept his hand on the snake's seven-inch mark. The bamboo viper is poisonous, and even if it weren't, most people would still be wary of snakes, even though he himself was an employee of the zoo.

"The bamboo viper is poisonous; hold it by its neck," Chen Xuan kindly reminded him, carefully handing the snake over.

This bamboo viper is a small snake, only about the thickness of a thumb and a little over a meter long. Its body is a highly saturated green with red pupils. Among snakes, the bamboo viper is definitely one of the more attractive ones.

Su Zhou casually replied, "It's alright, it won't bite me."

As she spoke, the little snake obediently coiled itself around her forearm. Su Zhou's skin was already dazzlingly white, and the sudden appearance of a small, emerald-green snake clinging to her body created a striking contrast of danger and beauty.

Chen Xuan was already used to this. No matter what kind of animal it was, whether docile or fierce, in the hands of the zoo director, they were all like little lambs.

This bamboo viper was no exception. Su Zhou wanted to laugh a little. She was just thinking about the green and white snakes in the Legend of the White Snake, but she didn't expect to find a bamboo viper now. It was really a bit like the mystical things in her body.

Ah...it's so cold...

It turned out to be a small female snake, with a soft and weak voice.

It clung tightly to Su Zhou's arm, its slender tail drooping, looking like a beautiful ornament.

"We were going to the back of the mountain to take pictures when we suddenly saw a snake in a tree. The trees are still green, so the snake was quite conspicuous. We spotted it immediately, but we were afraid it would bite other tourists, so we caught it and brought it back." Chen Xuan wasn't usually this brave. After spending a lot of time in the zoo, he knew that these animals weren't actually that scary.

On the contrary, the monks who were in charge of operating Kaiyuan Temple looked visibly shaken.

"Brother Chen is too brave. He went straight for the snake's vital spot. I wouldn't even dare to pinch a pet snake like that." The junior operations manager's face turned pale.

The little snake slowly flicked its tongue, as if to say, "Cowardly humans, I'm not that scary."

Su Zhou felt the cool, damp touch on her arm. It was a strange feeling. She wondered if she could take the snake back to the zoo. If it was in the mountains, it might bite other worshippers. Besides, there weren't many snakes in the zoo these days.

She then noticed that the snake's mouth seemed a little inflamed. Snakes are indeed prone to stomatitis after hibernation due to a weakened immune system, and this snake appeared to be suffering from that.

[I'm starving, I'm starving, I'm so hungry, so hungry, so hungry, waaaaaah!]

Why can't I even find something to eat? Why can everyone else do it but I can't?

Am I some kind of despicable person?

The little snake started moving like a train, making a whirring sound. Because of its stomatitis, it couldn't catch food and couldn't eat, which is why Chen Xuan was able to capture it.

Normally, bamboo vipers wouldn't be caught so easily. It's fortunate that Chen Xuan encountered it; otherwise, it might have died from being unable to eat due to mouth ulcers.

"Open your mouth and let me see. You have stomatitis." Su Zhou looked down at the little snake and pinched the bamboo viper's head with her fingers. The texture of snakes is very strange; their scales are small and feel cool to the touch.

This made Zhu Yeqing feel a very comfortable sensation on Su Zhou's body, and it obediently opened its mouth.

Su Zhou carefully examined its mouth; its gums were oozing pus and ulcerated, indicating a serious condition.

“This snake has stomatitis and might die if we don’t take it with us. But it’s a wild snake, so I can’t make a decision rashly. I’ll call Minister Lin first.” Su Zhou said, and then started calling Minister Lin.

As for the others, they were already completely shocked by her outrageous actions.

I had seen some incredible rumors online before, and I thought they might be exaggerated, but now that I've seen them for myself, I realize they are far more exaggerated than the rumors suggest.

What kind of person can make a snake so obedient? With such a small brain, even those who specialize in keeping pet snakes might not be able to make their snakes remember their owners. At most, they might remember the scent because they are fed every day.

But Su Zhou was different. When Su Zhou asked Zhu Ye Qing to open its mouth, Zhu Ye Qing obediently opened its mouth for her to see, and never showed any aggression.

"Has your headmaster always been so incredibly powerful?" asked the monks from other temples.

Chen Xuan remained calm: "Yes... it's always been like this. Our director is just naturally very popular with animals."

"This snake is really fierce. It wasn't this docile when Brother Chen caught it. Even though Brother Chen held it by its neck, it almost broke free several times and was about to turn around and bite him. It wasn't this docile at all. It's completely different from the snake Brother Chen used to handle. Do snakes discriminate based on who they're dealing with?"