Chapter 28

Mu Ling was flattered by Qingjiao's sudden closeness.

But after calming down, Mu Ling did not rush to act on her own will. She looked at the tightly sealed protective net and roughly guessed the purpose of the clearance.

It wanted her to dig with it!

Good boy, you know how to order people around!

Mu Ling said helplessly: "Qingjiang, this place is no longer open, you can't get in."

Seeing that Mu Ling still didn't move, Qingjiao thought she didn't understand, so he walked back to the front of the pit and scratched the protective net with his claws, making it make a banging sound, to demonstrate to Mu Ling.

Mu Ling nodded repeatedly: "I know what you mean, but I can't explain it. Come with me, I'll take you back by car."

Mu Ling said this, then turned back to look at Major Chang and asked sheepishly, "Major Chang, can I carry an extra S-class war beast in that car?"

Major Chang immediately said, "Of course no problem!"

Mu Ling thanked them quickly and waved to the three beasts, "Let's go, we're going back."

Qilin and Lightning followed obediently, but Qingjiao stood still, still guarding the protective net.

Mu Ling had no choice but to walk back and tentatively touch Qingjiao's fur. Seeing that Qingjiao didn't attack her, she felt relieved and touched Qingjiao's head. She said softly, "Qingjiao, be good. I won't sell you out. Come with me, okay?"

Mu Ling remembered what Lieutenant Colonel Song had said last night: Pimi could understand the command "go." As an S-rank war beast, Qingqiang would surely understand it, too. So Mu Ling repeated it several times: "Qingqiang, go, go..."

"Be good, follow me..."

Finally, after a stalemate of dozens of seconds, Qingjiao licked his lips, stood up, followed Mu Ling for two steps, looked back at the protective net again, and then continued walking.

Mu Ling breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed Qing Jiao's forehead: "So good, Qing Jiao is so good, so smart."

Lightning then moved to the other side of Mu Ling and nudged Mu Ling's other hand.

Mu Ling had no choice but to rub its head and praised it, "Lightning is also well-behaved." She also said, "Qilin is also well-behaved, Qilin is also well-behaved."

The main goal is to treat everyone equally!

They walked back for more than ten minutes before returning to the mountain bike. It was already past noon and someone had already brought up lunch boxes from the foot of the mountain. Major Chang asked for a medical kit and brought it to Mu Ling, asking her to re-bandage Qilin first.

Mu Ling said, "Major Chang, I want to go back."

Major Chang's face changed immediately, and he explained immediately: "Director Mu, I know Qilin's injury makes you very uncomfortable, but all our work progress this morning has only completed one-tenth of the patrol of the Beak Jungle. Our support will not arrive until the day after tomorrow. We really need you in these three days. You can see that in such a small mountain area, two intermediate-level polluted beasts have appeared. What if there are more polluted beasts in other areas? If we discover it one day later, the consequences may be..."

"Wait a minute." Mu Ling interrupted Major Chang's long speech in astonishment, a little confused: "Major Chang, what I mean is, I want to take advantage of your lunch break to go back to the zoo and come back this afternoon..."

Major Chang: “…”

Mu Ling: “…”

Major Chang was slightly surprised: "You're coming this afternoon?"

Mu Ling scratched her head. "Come on, I do have a lot to do, but Lieutenant Colonel Song is helping the master of the protective net, so I'm not so anxious anymore. But I still have to go back to the zoo. The lion in our zoo is sick, and I have to go back to feed it and give it medicine, and also to clear out the mess. It looks very anxious and must really want to go back to the park. Qilin is also injured, and I don't want it to participate in the subsequent mountain searches, so when I come back this afternoon, I can only bring Lightning with me."

It doesn’t matter if you only bring one person, as long as you can come!

Major Chang immediately said, "Then I'll take you back!"

Mu Ling looked at the soldiers who were distributing lunch boxes and asked, "Would you like to eat first? I'll wait for you."

"No need." Major Chang got on the mountain bike and said to Mu Ling, "Get on."

Mu Ling got on the car, Qilin and Lightning followed immediately, but Qingjiao stood below, watching them quietly.

Mu Ling patted the seat beside him and said, "Clear it, come on."

Qingjiao hesitated for a moment, but finally stepped forward and sat at the door.

Mu Ling was afraid that it would fall, so she put her hand on its neck. Qingjiao froze for a moment and looked back at her.

Mu Ling touched Qingjiao's fur and pushed the gray wolf's ears against the back of its head.

Qingjiao felt very comfortable and raised his head without resisting.

The road down the mountain was more familiar than the road up, and there was no need to check, so it took them less than half an hour to get down the mountain. Then Mu Ling took the three beasts and got on their exclusive war beast car again. The driver was also Major Chang. He sped up and sent Mu Ling to the Bick Zoo within an hour.

In the zoo, Wei Li came out after hearing the noise. Seeing that it was the director who had returned, he was about to greet him when he saw a gray wolf jump out of the car behind the director, then ran straight into the zoo gate and ran towards the mountain road.

"Shit!" Wei Li was nearly hit by the gray wolf. He quickly dodged it, his face filled with shock. "Clear?"

Mu Ling arrived with Qilin and Lightning. She watched the gray wolf disappear into the forest, then told Wei Li about the Qingjiao raid that had traversed the protective net. Wei Li was astonished. "Qingjiao actually went to the back mountain to hunt down strange beasts?!" The protective net technicians did return to work, though. That morning, the four Happy Canyon employees left, and Lieutenant Colonel Song probably felt embarrassed to leave him alone, so he asked to join Brother Xiang on patrol. Brother Xiang handed him a tranquilizer gun and told him to be their bodyguard.

Mu Ling chuckled: "That's what I guessed!"

Wei Li looked behind Mu Ling again, at the war vehicle parked at the entrance of the zoo. In the vehicle, a young man in military uniform was looking at them.

Wei Li asked quietly, "Is that Major Chang?"

Mu Ling nodded: "Yes, he is waiting for me, and I will go back with him later."

Wei Li frowned. "We have to go this afternoon, Director. The mental analyzer has arrived. Aren't we going to test the Qilins today?"

Mu Ling hesitated for a moment: "Let me come back tonight to test it. Where are the diapers? Have the Pimi diapers arrived?"

Wei Li said, "Here it is. I've put it in the veterinary station."

Mu Ling went to the veterinary station. She first re-bandaged Qilin's wound, and fed Qilin, Lightning and Pimi lunch. Then she shook out the diaper and started to put pants on Pimi.

Pimi had just finished lunch and was already unhappy, and now he was even more upset and had his butt covered.

It was very annoyed and yelled at Mu Ling's face: "Roar!"

Mu Ling helped it straighten its trouser legs, not letting it sit for a while and get its trousers twisted. She replied perfunctorily: "Oh, it's uncomfortable, right? No, it's not uncomfortable..."

"Roar!" Pimi shouted again.

Mu Ling looked up at it, and was suddenly surprised: "Hey, Pimi, your cry seems to be much louder than before!"

Pimi licked his beard, stared at the white cloth on his butt, stretched his head over, opened his mouth and wanted to bite the cloth off.

"No." Mu Ling covered its mouth and pushed its face away. She said seriously, "When you stop pooping on yourself, you can stop wearing diapers. Be obedient."

Mu Ling rubbed Pi Mi's ears forcefully, then leaned over and kissed its nose.

Pi Mi looked at Mu Ling closely, then looked at his own butt. Finally, it seemed to compromise, and fell back to the ground silently, not moving.

Only fifteen minutes had passed when Mu Ling took Lightning out again.

Before getting in the car, Mu Ling knocked on the driver's door.

Major Chang slid down the glass window.

Mu Ling raised her hand and handed over the thing in her hand.

It's a piece of bread and a carton of milk.

Major Chang was stunned.

Mu Ling raised the other piece of milk bread in her other hand and said with a smile, "Don't be disgusted."

Major Chang was silent for a moment, then took the bread and milk and said, "Thank you..."

Mu Ling said nothing and entered the car through the back door like lightning.

The work of searching the mountain was boring and busy. No accidents like those in the morning happened in the afternoon. It was not until seven o'clock in the evening, when it was almost dark, that the troops stopped work considering the danger of working in the dark in the mountains.

On the way back, it was Major Chang who took Mu Ling back. When the war animal vehicle stopped again at the zoo gate, Mu Ling was about to go in when she heard Major Chang call her, "Director Mu."

Mu Ling turned around and looked at him.

Major Chang smiled at her and said, "I'll pick you up tomorrow morning."

Mu Ling also smiled: "Okay."

When Mu Ling and Lightning entered the zoo gate, the sound of the car engine behind them began. The sound of the car gradually faded away. Mu Ling closed the gate again and was about to walk in. Suddenly, the door of the ticket office next to it opened.

Mu Ling was startled, and then she saw Xiang Bie walking out from inside.

"Brother Xiang?" Mu Ling asked suspiciously, "What are you doing here?"

Xiang Bie closed the door of the ticket office with his backhand and said nonchalantly, "Looking for something."

Mu Ling looked at his empty hands and asked, "Didn't you find it?"

"I remembered the wrong place." Xiang Bie said, looking at Mu Ling again, then looking outside the gate, and said in a light tone: "Are you going there tomorrow?"

Mu Ling sighed: "There's nothing I can do. I promised Major Chang that I would be gone for three days. Their support will arrive after three days."

Xiang Bie pursed his lips and said nothing.

Mu Ling asked again: "Brother Xiang, what are you looking for? How about I help you find it?"

"No thanks." The man said, turning and walking inside.

Mu Ling blinked and followed in.

-

At nine o'clock in the evening, Mu Ling had just taken a shower and changed clothes when she saw three men in the veterinary station holding instruction manuals, staring at a huge electronic instrument in front of them, and thinking deeply.

Mu Ling: “?”

Mu Ling leaned over and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Wei Li was startled and turned around and said in horror: "Director, why are you walking so quietly?"

Mu Ling frowned, took the manual from him, flipped through it, and muttered, "You're clearly too focused. What are you looking at? The instructions for installing the mental analyzer?"

Lieutenant Colonel Song put his hands on his hips and asked speechlessly, "Why does the buyer have to install this thing themselves? Shouldn't the merchant provide the installation?"

Wei Li said quietly, "Because we bought it second-hand."

Lieutenant Colonel Song: “…”

Xiang Bie took the installation instructions from Mu Ling's hand, turned to the third page, looked at it for a while, squatted down, and compared it with the socket on the back of the instrument.

Wei Li and Lieutenant Colonel Song immediately looked at him with hopeful eyes, expecting him to be able to figure this out!

There are more than sixty wires in the medical equipment, and there are thirty or forty accessories. It’s really overwhelming.

Mu Ling watched Brother Xiang plug the two transmission cables in reverse, clicked her tongue twice, and shook her head, saying, "Let me do it."

Wei Li and Lieutenant Colonel Song looked at her at the same time.

Mu Ling rolled up her sleeves and said with disdain, "I'm probably the only science student in this room. You three athletes, please make way."

Wei Li, Lieutenant Colonel Song, and Xiang Bie: "..."

Mu Ling is engaged in pharmaceutical research. Often when the equipment breaks down, they have to repair it themselves. She may not understand other things, but she knows a lot about pharmaceutical equipment.

The three men spent a long time trying to figure out the installation method, but Mu Ling just glanced at the installation instructions and installed it perfectly. It worked as soon as it was turned on.

“Pah, pah, pah!”

Wei Li immediately clapped his hands and began to flatter her: "Headmaster, you are so strong! What can't you do?"

Mu Ling was quite embarrassed and waved her hands, saying, "Don't say that. I just happened to have a major that matches my background. It's nothing, nothing at all."

Wei Li continued to praise, "You're a veterinarian, a business manager, and you can hunt exotic beasts. Now you even know how to install equipment. We at Piccolo Zoo are truly fortunate to have such an outstanding, high-quality human like you as our manager!"

Mu Ling was so flattered by what she heard that her tail was a little raised. Then, she felt something was wrong and lowered her tail again. She stared at Wei Li with suspicion: "Last time, you praised me for a long time and then asked me to pay. You are not going to ask me to pay again this time, are you?"

Wei Li was stunned. Seeing that he had been exposed, he said awkwardly, "The vaccine has been ordered. Payment is due within 24 hours..."

Mu Ling: “…”

It’s actually true!

Mu Ling paid for the order transferred by Wei Li with a wooden face, and then quickly moved away from Wei Li!

This broke man!

The mental analyzer was installed, so the inspection naturally began. Mu Ling walked to the ward area, took a look around, and opened Qilin's cage.

Qilin was already sleeping. When he heard Mu Ling coming in, he collapsed on the ground and looked at it.

Mu Ling went over and hugged it first, then looked at the wound on Qilin's back. Seeing that the wound had stopped bleeding, she kissed its eyes again and said, "Be good, get up."

Qilin yawned and nodded his head on the mattress.

Mu Ling patted its butt again, and Qilin stood up, stretched, and then followed Mu Ling out.

In the hall outside, the three men stood relatively far away. Although Qilin would not attack them where Mu Ling was, it would make Qilin uncomfortable if they got too close.

Mu Ling led Qilin to the instrument tray on the ground. She pointed at the tray and said, "Qilin, stand up."

The golden tiger lowered its head and sniffed the plate, then tentatively stretched out a paw and stepped on it.

"Come up." Mu Ling said again.

Qilin came up completely this time, and then looked at Mu Ling a little confusedly.

Mu Ling pressed its butt again to make it sit properly, then he took out two wires and attached one under Qilin's left ear and the other under Qilin's right ear.

After pasting it, Mu Ling nodded to Xiang Bie.

Xiang Bie pressed the start button, and instantly, red wavy lines began to rise and fall on the black identification screen.

The entire evaluation process took five minutes. Two minutes later, Lieutenant Colonel Song whispered to Wei Li, "During Pimi's last mental evaluation last month, its brain nerves were already severely damaged. Throughout the entire test, it struggled like crazy, and it took more than a dozen of us to hold it down."

Wei Li looked at Colonel Song in surprise.

Lieutenant Colonel Song just stared at Qilin. "A retired war beast should be even more restless, but it didn't resist at all..."

Lieutenant Colonel Song said this and looked at Mu Ling again. He knew that all this was because of Director Mu. She was really... weird.

"drop."

With a crisp reminder sound, the five minutes were up.

Mu Ling took a look at the instrument. It would take another hour for the background to calculate the results, but she could just let it calculate on its own while the next test could proceed.

"Okay, that's good." Mu Ling opened a packet of meat sauce and squeezed it into Qilin's mouth like a cat strip, rewarding it for completing the physical examination obediently.

The next one to be tested was Lightning. Lightning was more obedient than Qilin, but it was more clingy than Qilin. When it sat on the instrument panel, it had to lean on Mu Ling, so Mu Ling could only sit on the ground, hold Lightning's head in her arms, and gently stroke its neck.

After the lightning test is completed, the next step is to wait for the results.

An hour later, both results came out.

Xiang Bie had already retrieved the mental evaluation reports of Qilin and Lightning when they first entered the park. Now comparing the two reports together, the data was obvious.

-

On Saturday evening, Zhou Qin, as usual, had dinner and rushed to the classroom for evening self-study.

There are not many people in the classroom at this moment. Before the bell rings, many students are still chatting and working on their computers.

After Zhou Qin found a place to sit down, he also started to browse his laptop.

As he was scrolling, he suddenly came across a strange video. The video was thirty seconds long. The first ten seconds were a shot of a mental evaluation report from eight months ago, the next eighteen seconds were a shot of a mental foundation report from ten o'clock last night, and the last two minutes were a short shot. In the shot, a golden-yellow tearing tiger was sitting on the instrument panel with two wires on its head, staring at the camera in a daze.

It wasn't until the end of the video that Zhou Qin realized what it was.

When I saw the blogger's name, it was indeed the "Official Account of Piccolo Zoo". When I looked at the posting time, it was one minute ago!

Zhou Qin widened his eyes and immediately watched the video again!

The formats of the two appraisal reports are slightly different, but they are basically the same, both of which include fluctuation ratio, error ratio, spirit value, spirit fluctuation value, and stability value.

Zhou Qin read the two reports back and forth several times, and his brows furrowed more and more as he read.

At this moment, a classmate who had just seen the video exclaimed in shock: "Fuck, there's no improvement!"

Someone asked, “What’s not getting better?”

The classmate replied, "Qilin, Qilin's mental evaluation eight months ago showed that his nerve damage was 53.1%. Now it's 70.5%. Not only has it not improved, it's worsened!"

"The Qilin at Piccolo Zoo? Has the Qilin spirit been identified?"

The students immediately turned on their laptops to watch.

A small classroom could cause such a commotion, let alone the Star Network in the evening!

The comment section under the Qilin identification report video has exploded. No one expected this result.

Almost everyone agreed that the Qilin could be so close to humans because its nerve trauma was healing on its own. However, the data told them that this was not the case. The Qilin's mental state was even worse than before it arrived at the Beak Zoo. If that was the case, why did it show such unusual docility?

This doesn't make sense at all!

In less than ten minutes, the number of comments exceeded 6,000, and the real-time hot searches continued to rise. After another ten minutes, the term "Qilin Mental Assessment Report" became the number one hot search on Star Network.

At the same time, many war animal experts who had long been following Beak Zoo also spoke out: "Nerve damage is irreversible. This has long been established in the veterinary community. We had hoped for a miracle, but it seems there hasn't been one."

Other experts disagreed: "Who says it's not a miracle if it doesn't heal itself? Eight months ago, the damage value was 53.1%, and after eight months, it's only increased by less than 20%? 20% may seem like a lot, but only those who have done data research know that this increase is terribly low. Many war beasts retired due to nerve damage see their damage values soar from 30% to 90% in less than three months. And this is definitely not an isolated case; it's the majority! But Qilin has only increased by 20% in eight months at Beak Zoo. This proves that the wild environment is indeed beneficial for the mental health of war beasts, at least slowing their death rate!"

Faced with the various experts' opinions, netizens refused to listen. They had only one thought: "Even if the death rate slowed down, wouldn't people still die? A 20% increase in eight months means that in another eight months, Qilin's damage value will exceed 90%? By then, will Qilin still be alive?"

The news that "Qilin might die" was suddenly like a heavy hammer, making countless netizens who had already been fans of Qilin dizzy.

Netizens couldn't accept it, and the classroom where Zhou Qin was was eerily quiet at this moment.

After a while, a female classmate's voice rang out: "Another, another video was posted...Bick Zoo!"

The classroom was quiet at first, and then suddenly became noisy. Everyone, including Zhou Qin, quickly clicked on Piccolo Zoo's profile picture, and sure enough, they saw that he had just posted another video!

This video is the same as the previous one, also an appraisal report, but the time is different.

The appraisal time is 7 o'clock this evening.

The object of identification is still Qilin.

However, the data that can be identified is different... The Qilin's damage value was 70.5% yesterday, but today's damage value is 69.8%.

At the end of this video, there is a clip shot by Mu Ling.

In the clip, Mu Ling pointed the camera at the three appraisal reports on the table. She said slowly, "Last night, we conducted a mental evaluation on Qilin for the first time. The results showed that its nerve trauma was very serious. So starting from last night, we decided to let it take long-term medication to stabilize and relieve nerve damage. There are many such drugs on the market, and our zoo's veterinary station also has some in stock. I started feeding it one dose according to the dosage last night, and then took it three meals today. We just did another mental evaluation, and the evaluation showed that Qilin's comprehensive damage value had decreased slightly. We will give it a mental evaluation every day in the future to see how much it can improve after a course of treatment. In short, come on, curing an illness is not a matter of one day or one night. Our goal is to reduce the damage value of the retired war beast!"

The video ends here.

The Star Network was in an uproar for more than ten minutes: [……]

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[Excuse me, everyone. My wife likes to breathe heavily when she speaks. I'll tell her off. Um, I'm going to go change my pants first.]