Chapter 35 The Abused White Tiger Teaches a Lesson

Once downstairs, Gu Yiliu handed the money to Peng Jie.

"...Where did it come from?"

Gu Yiliu: "There are only 90,000 in the wall, that's all."

When the four men, including Lao Wang, who had been detained in the car saw Peng Jie come in with 90,000 yuan, they immediately understood what was going on.

Old Wang's blanket collapsed completely, his face turned ashen, his lips trembled, everything was gone.

Gu Yiliu got into the car and, seeing their appearance, felt no sympathy. They were greedy for money and deserved their fate. "Your boss didn't pay you, so you kidnapped someone else's child and took them to your boss's house. You think that's how you get revenge? I don't know what you're thinking, you're utterly stupid!"

Old Wang and his men paled even more. They had already regretted their decision, and now they were filled with resentment and hatred for agreeing to Sun Ming's kidnapping promise half a month ago. Yes, how could they have been so stupid? They would have been willing to cause trouble for their boss, so why did they cooperate with Sun Ming?

The more Old Wang thought about it, the paler his face became.

Old Wang and his group were arrested, and Sun Ming was quickly brought back as well. The interrogation was none of Gu Yiliu's business; she went to the hospital to see Lu Zhuoguang.

The only person by his bedside was his mother, Qian Zhen. The mother and son were stunned and wept, respectively.

Gu Yiliu looked at the hospital bed; the person was already awake. He stared at her with wide eyes, somewhat dazed, clearly quite surprised and speechless with fright. He would need some time to recover. Fortunately, his brain hadn't been damaged by the fever.

“Officer Gu, I heard that you risked your life to save my Zhuo Guang,” Qian Zhen said, her eyes brimming with tears as she grasped Gu Yiliu’s hand.

For the past two weeks, she has called the police, but she dared not take any risks, fearing that something might happen if she did. She was so afraid that she suffered from insomnia and cried all night long.

"Thank you, and my family is very grateful to you too." Qian Zhen held the woman's hand tightly; the warm, dry hand seemed to give her great comfort and courage.

"First-rate. This time, we actually received 5% positive feedback from Qian Zhen. Apart from the pigeon's distress call, we didn't receive any other requests for help." Gu Yiliu heard Dian Dian's voice.

After his initial surprise came joy. "5% comes from 5 people?"

“…Yes.” Dian Dian hadn’t expected that there were so few people like that.

“They weren’t even there, they’d never even met you, yet they have such a good impression of you and are so grateful for your help.”

Gu Yiliu sensed a hint of lingering surprise in her words.

"Let's wait a month and see if the positive reviews drop. If not... we can make more."

After listening to Dian Dian's words, Gu Yiliu pondered for a moment.

“DianDian, you don’t trust humans.” She said it with certainty.

"Yes," Dian Dian said frankly, "but I'm willing to trust you; trust is essential for cooperation."

Gu Yiliu then asked it what its rating was.

30%.

"I remember it was 29% before, and with the 1% from pigeons, it would be 30%. How could it still be this number?"

Dian Dian's voice was very calm, "Didn't you ask me to save the pigeon? I'll keep it alive, but I'll need to use some of my health points too."

"..."

Gu Yiliu was frustrated, but there was nothing he could do. "The positive reviews are rising a bit too slowly. I need to find something to do."

"Okay." The host strives, and it reaps the rewards. So DianDian welcomes her hard work.

Gu Yiliu went to see the pigeons again.

"Officer Gu, are you going back?" After the pigeon was injured, it received a courteous welcome from all the officers of the Jiashui City Public Security Bureau, who fed it well for the past two days.

"No rush, I'll stay a few more days," Gu Yiliu said.

"Officer Gu, why can you understand me?"

Gu Yiliu pondered, "Perhaps... God is chasing after me to feed me?"

"Coo coo~ coo!" Hahaha, so funny! What's wrong!

The pigeon opened its mouth wide and laughed, but it laughed too loudly and tore at its wound, causing it to cry out in agony.

How could that be?

The pigeon painfully added what it hadn't finished saying.

Gu Yiliu glanced at its wound and didn't speak to it anymore, afraid that it would worsen its injury.

"Coo coo!" Officer Gu, wait a minute.

Gu Yiliu turned around.

"Coo coo..." I have a friend, and I'd like you to take a look at it for me.

Gu Yiliu: "Is it also a pigeon?"

The pigeon shook its little head. "No, it's a parrot. It's in the zoo."

"I was bored at my father's house, so I flew out to play and went to a zoo. There I met a parrot named Mao Mao, who was a purple blue macaw with very beautiful feathers. He told me that he was unhappy at the zoo."

The pigeon looked up at the girl in front of it and asked expectantly, "Officer Gu, could you go to the zoo to see it? You could even talk to it."

Gu Yiliu nodded, "Okay, you lead the way."

Her wounds hadn't healed yet, so she didn't let it fly and carried it to the zoo.

"The zoo owner is bad, and the zookeepers are bad too. They skimp on the animals' food, so many of the animals in this zoo are unhappy," the pigeon said worriedly after arriving at the zoo.

"The food was terrible, and the place they lived in was also bad, dilapidated. Mao Mao's house was very small, with a glass wall. They would open a small window every day to let Mao Mao breathe."

Listening to the pigeons' complaints, Gu Yiliu slowly walked into the zoo. This zoo, called Happy Fun Zoo, looked far inferior to the Dongshan County Zoo.

The animals' territories were all small, but there were many of them. As a result, there was a lot of foot traffic. As Gu Yiliu walked in, he kept bumping shoulders with people.

Gu Yiliu guessed that the zoo was probably a privately owned zoo.

She discovered quite a few rare animals here.

Tigers, lions, and even black bears.

Without exception, these animals are all very thin. Furthermore, they have to cooperate with tourists. If they don't cooperate, they will be beaten by the zookeepers.

No, it should be trainer.

Gu Yiliu stopped and frowned as she looked at the man holding the whip. She watched as the man raised the whip and lashed the tiger in the cage.

This tiger is still a white tiger. It's a bit thin, and you can vaguely see its head under its white fur.

The white tiger lying in the iron cage seemed to have been beaten a lot. It only moved its eyelids and exhaled a breath through its nose. It seemed very angry, but dared not resist.

The trainer picked out a piece of meat, brought it to the white tiger's mouth, and commanded it, "The tourists bought this for you, open your mouth and eat!"

"Roar!" the tiger roared and turned its head away.

The man raised his head and fed the white tiger some more, saying, "Eat it!"

The flesh on either side of the white tiger's nose trembled, and Gu Yiliu could hear its heavy breathing; she could sense that the tiger was angry.

"If it doesn't want to eat, then don't feed it," Gu Yiliu couldn't help but say. "This meat isn't fresh; get it some fresh meat instead."

The tiger's roar just now was a sign that the meat stank. This meat must have been sitting out for a long time; it's sour and rancid.

Liu Shimin was losing his temper because the tiger was still not giving him any face. It had been three days and the tiger was still on a hunger strike, causing the tiger park to lose a lot of money.

With less money, his commission decreased. As a result, Liu Shimin gradually lost patience with the white tiger, and he started hitting it more often.

He put down the meat in his hand, took out the whip, walked closer to the tiger cage, and struck it with its paw, shouting, "It's going on a hunger strike again!"

"Roar!" The white tiger stood up, opened its mouth wide, and let out a loud roar at the trainer in front of it.

"ah!"

The surrounding crowd gasped softly and slowly backed away.

"Stop hitting it, this tiger looks pretty fierce," a tourist said.

"If it doesn't want to eat, then don't hit it. There are children watching here."

Gu Yiliu spoke up again, "If you keep hitting it, you'll only enrage it; it's a ferocious beast..."

Liu Shimin then lashed out with the whip again.

Gu Yiliu's face immediately hardened. He picked up a small stone from the ground and struck Liu Shimin's knee, whose face was contorted with rage.

The small stone was thrown without anyone noticing. All that was heard was Liu Shimin's cry of pain, followed by a staggering backward where he stepped on another stone and fell to the ground.

"Ah!" Liu Shimin screamed in agony.

Before he fell to the ground, a cracking sound could be heard, which sounded like a bone breaking.

It happened so fast that everyone was too shocked and confused to help Liu Shimin immediately.

The white tiger in the iron cage was startled by his roar and immediately straightened its head. It was clearly terrified. But when the white tiger saw his miserable state, it opened its mouth and yawned, resting its chin on a paw and closing its eyes.

Gu Yiliu had been watching it closely, and she felt that the white tiger's yawning earlier was actually a sign of laughter.

Liu Shimin's face turned red, his right leg twisted and bent. He collapsed to the ground in pain, unable to hold the tiger-fighting whip any longer, and it fell beside the iron cage.

The pain made him curl up, and he reached out to touch his injured leg, but pulled back sharply as soon as he touched it. He felt a sharp pain in his leg bone, which hurt even more when he touched it, and his knee also hurt a lot.

He cried out to the crowd for help, his face turning from red to white, even his lips were white, "Help, my leg is broken, someone please help me."

Everyone looked at each other before they realized what was happening.

Several tall, strong men came out, lifted him up, and quickly took him to the hospital.

"How did you suddenly fall?"

"I stepped on something, that's why I fell."

"Why did you scream before you fell?"

"They've gotten themselves into trouble while fighting tigers."

"Who says otherwise..."

Gu Yiliu curled her lips and looked at the white tiger in the iron cage. Liu Shimin had an accident, and soon another trainer would come out to greet the tourists.

But this time, no matter how the new trainer called to the white tiger, it wouldn't cooperate. The new trainer whipped it once, and the white tiger got angry, stood up and roared at the trainer, then used its head and body to ram the iron cage.

The iron cage rattled loudly as it was struck.

"Ugh!" I'm so angry!

Not only the trainers, but even the onlookers knew that the white tiger was angry.

This time, the trainer was at least aware of the consequences. Seeing the white tiger's strong reaction, he immediately stopped whipping it, left it alone, and started feeding it instead.

He plans to cut the meat and feed the tourists piece by piece, allowing them to feed the tourists themselves. He believes that feeding the tourists once can generate income.

But when he got his hands on the meat that Liu Shimin had just fed to the white tiger, he immediately smelled a foul odor.

He paused for a moment, then took the meat and left. A short while later, he came out with another piece of meat.

This time, the white tiger ate the meat, whether it was fed by its trainer or by tourists.

The man and the tiger were having a great time.

But soon it stopped eating and paced restlessly in the cage.

Gu Yiliu noticed that as it turned around, it would sometimes look in one direction.

Gu Yiliu looked over and only saw a wall.

Gu Yiliu didn't know who was locked up next door. She squeezed through the crowd, carrying the pigeon, and arrived next door.

A tiger cub has been found. A white tiger cub.

It was obvious. She glanced at the large white tiger.

However, the tiger cub is currently whimpering.

Gu Yiliu understood.

"Hungry, hungry, hungry"

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