Chapter 38

After a busy morning, everyone had to go into the mountains to vaccinate the animals in the afternoon.

Brother Xiang is not here today, and Wei Li has to train new people at the foot of the mountain, so only Mu Ling, Lin Xuan, and Li Yan are going up the mountain today.

Mu Ling led the Lightning team, while Lin Xuan and Li Yan led the other team.

Because the herbivores in the outer area were basically defeated yesterday, today they mainly headed towards the inner area. However, Lin Xuan and Li Yan did not have much experience in entering the inner area, so before setting off, Mu Ling repeatedly reminded them to wear protective clothing and helmets throughout the journey, and to get in the car immediately if they found anything wrong!

Lin Xuan and Li Yan couldn't help laughing as the director talked about them like a child. Li Yan said, "Director, we are retired soldiers."

Mu Ling was stunned.

Lin Xuan also laughed: "We have been into this kind of deep mountain countless times. We should be pretty proficient in how to protect ourselves."

Mu Ling: “…”

Okay, okay, they are all experts, but she is the worst!

After one o'clock in the afternoon, Mu Ling and Lightning started to go up the mountain. Since they were familiar with the road, they reached the inner area in less than two hours.

The inner area on the east side is no longer a mountain, but a river area.

The Bike Jungle is not entirely a jungle. A quarter of its area is covered by intricate rivers or streams, and the source of these waterways is the Bike River, the largest river in the jungle.

The vegetation of the entire Bick Jungle is essentially nourished by the Bick River.

After Mu Ling arrived at the river area in the east, she first put out the camera and took some pictures around. After making sure that there were no animals nearby, she got off the car and connected the four leakage tubes prepared in advance to the front, back, left and right sides of the mountain bike, and then inserted the other end of the leakage tube into a large bucket on the back seat.

Then she closed the windows and changed the car from land mode to hover mode.

The mountain bikes at the Bick Zoo are all amphibious vehicles, which means they can drive normally on the ground, fly in the air, and even dive into the water. This is mainly to facilitate the staff's daily feeding and patrol work.

After the suspension mode was activated, the mountain bike began to rise slowly. When it rose to a distance of more than one meter from the ground, the four muddy tires were slowly folded up and retracted into the chassis of the car.

Just like that, the car turned into a small airship in the shape of a car.

Mu Ling gripped the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator. The small airship took off and slowly headed towards the river.

The suspension mode of the amphibious vehicle is not very useful in the jungle, because there are too many trees in the forest. If you are not careful, the car will easily crash into a tree. Sometimes it will not only fail to accelerate, but will slow down the driving process.

However, the hovering mode is very useful near the river because there is open space above the river and the car will not be disturbed by trees when flying above the river.

Mu Ling now changed the car into suspension mode, not to cross the river, but because she wanted to spread vaccines in the river water.

The animals living in the Beak Zoo include not only land animals and flying animals, but also aquatic animals, and fish may also mutate into strange fish.

So when they vaccinate land animals and flying animals, they must not forget to mix the oral vaccine into fish food and sprinkle it on the fish in the river.

Now Mu Ling drove the car above the river. As long as she pressed the spray button, the four leakage pipes connected to the large bucket on the back seat would spray the fish food in the bucket into the river.

Mu Ling’s first task today was to sprinkle vaccine fish food on the six rivers in the east.

When Mu Ling was driving the hover car, Lightning Face in the passenger seat had already pressed against the glass window. It was looking outside with its paws curled up nervously and awkwardly.

Mu Ling found it funny and touched the black panther's fur on its back.

Leopard turned around and looked at Mu Ling.

"Are you scared?" Lightning is a land war beast after all. Although it can climb trees, climbing to the sky and climbing trees are two completely different things. Mu Ling could already imagine how uneasy it was now.

The black panther licked its lips, stretched its neck over, and rubbed its forehead against Mu Ling's arm.

Mu Ling hugged it with one hand and said, "If you are scared, just stick to me. I will protect you."

The black panther was indeed a little closer to Mu Ling, and it put its forehead against Mu Ling's thigh affectionately.

At the same time, while Mu Ling was calmly spreading the vaccine and fish food, Xiang Bie also arrived at the next habitat of the falcon on the other side of the jungle.

The towering tree with lush branches and leaves reached into the sky. The man stood under the tree and looked up. The dense treetops were caged together, and he could vaguely see a bird's nest made of branches on the branch.

Xiang Bie was silent for a moment, looked around, and saw several vines. He grabbed a vine, stepped on the tree trunk with one foot, and after a few steps, he had stepped onto the lowest branch of the tree.

Then, he continued to climb up using the vines. When he reached more than 30 meters above the ground, he could already see the inside of the bird's nest.

There were a few old broken feathers and some fallen leaves left inside the bird's nest. Xiang Bie observed it and found that this eagle's nest had not been occupied for a long time.

It seems that the falcon has abandoned this habitat.

Pursing his lips, the man grabbed the vine, stepped on the tree trunk, and quickly descended to the bottom.

After landing on the ground, he brushed the dust off his hands, picked up the spear on the ground, and walked towards the parking lot.

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Mu Ling started spreading the vaccine and fish food at 4:30, and by 5:30, she had already spread fish food all over the main river and four small tributaries in the east.

When I looked back at this time, I saw that the fish food bucket was almost empty.

"It will be over soon." Mu Ling said, and glanced at Lightning in the passenger seat.

Lightning was almost asleep. When he heard Mu Ling talking, he opened his eyes and looked at Mu Ling.

Mu Ling pinched its ears and said, "We just need to drain the last tributary, and then we can go look for the war beast."

According to Brother Xiang, the inner area on the east side is relatively humid, so two B-level war beasts like to live here.

Because there are war beasts here, other ordinary animals will not come here, so if the two B-level war beasts can be found and vaccinated today, then the work in the Eastern Region will be completed, and Mu Ling can go to other areas tomorrow.

"I feel like we're quite efficient, and everything has been going smoothly." Mu Ling said, then looked at Black Panther: "It must be because we, Lightning, are lucky. Thank you Lightning for the blessing you've brought to my sister."

When Lightning heard his name, he straightened his neck and looked at Mu Ling in confusion.

"Silly." Mu Ling tapped the black panther's black nose, then turned the steering wheel, intending to head towards another tributary.

At this moment, something suddenly flew across the sky.

Mu Ling didn't take it seriously at first, but the next second, she reacted suddenly and looked towards the flying object. She saw that the object was wobbling and flying high and low in the sky.

"Oh shit! What kind of bird is that!" Because the distance was too far, Mu Ling couldn't see clearly. She quickly took out a telescope from the tool box in the car and carefully observed the big bird!

It has a white head, a dark grey body, grey-gold wings and black claws!

Mu Ling had read the information of all the war beasts in the zoo, and she recognized the identity of this bird almost immediately!

The crossing eagle "steps on the clouds"!

"It can actually fly!" Mu Ling stared at the bird closely and thought of Brother Xiang again!

She quickly lowered her head and searched in the jungle on both sides of the river, trying to see if Brother Xiang was nearby, but the shadows of the trees were too dense and her angle was too high, so she could see nothing except large expanses of green treetops.

Mu Ling took out the intercom again and said, "Brother Xiang, can you hear me? I saw Tayun. It's in the inner area of Dongshan Territory, on the side of the 081st tributary of the Beek River! Something seems to be wrong with it. It's flying very unsteadily. It..."

Before Mu Ling finished speaking, she saw the majestic and shaky eagle suddenly plummeting downwards. Its two golden wings seemed to have suddenly failed, and it was about to fall into the river!

"Oh shit!" Mu Ling exclaimed!

Then the next second, when the eagle was about to fall into the river, the eagle suddenly flapped its wings again, stepped on the waves, and flew up again.

"Huh!" Mu Ling heaved a sigh of relief. She patted her chest and said, "Fortunately..."

Before the last syllable of the word "good" fell...

"Splash." The eagle, which had been standing still for three seconds, finally fell into the water and sank directly to the bottom...

Mu Ling: “…”

Mu Ling: “!!!!”

The weight of a falcon is generally between 15 and 20 kilograms, and its body length is 130 to 160 cm. With such a size and weight, it will definitely not float if it falls into the water!

Mu Ling saw that the falcon in the water was still struggling hard, so she stepped on the accelerator and drove straight towards the river!

At the same time, Xiang Bie on the other side also returned to the car.

The bottom cover of the intercom was broken and it was lying in pieces on the passenger seat.

Xiang Bie turned the steering wheel and drove the car towards the nearest water.

There are a total of six roosting spots for ferry eagles. Once the ferry eagle smells human scent in the places he has been to, it will definitely not roost again. So now, it may go to the last roosting spot, but that roosting spot is quite far away, in the Eastern Region. If he wants to get there as soon as possible, he can only take the water route.

Xiang Bie quickly drove the car to a nearby river, then switched to hovering mode and headed east along the waterway.

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"It's over, it's sunk!" Mu Ling hovered the car near where Du Ying fell into the water. At this time, there was no trace of Du Ying on the water. Mu Ling quickly changed the car to diving mode. After the car drifted steadily on the water, she first checked whether the windows were closed tightly, and then dived the car to the bottom of the river.

The riverbed was full of mud and sand and was not clear. Mu Ling turned on the searchlight and searched for a while before she found the big eagle that was about to fall to the bottom of the river.

Mu Ling hurriedly drove the car under the eagle. Because it was not a professional submarine, the car had no salvage tools, so Mu Ling could only use the car body to catch the eagle and then lift it up.

Mu Ling quickly caught the eagle, and then she carefully drove the car out of the water.

After the car stopped steadily on the river, Mu Ling parked it on the shore. As soon as she got out of the car, Black Panther came out.

Mu Ling stood on the mottled and steep rocks on the river bank, stretched out her hands, and tried hard to reach, and finally caught the giant eagle on the roof of the car.

Who knew that at this moment, the giant eagle suddenly woke up and flapped its wings slowly twice.

Mu Ling was startled. Her hand had already grabbed the giant eagle's wings. She was torn between letting go to avoid it or catching it in one go. She decisively chose the latter.

Mu Ling took advantage of the giant eagle's inability to react and directly pulled it ashore and put it on the side of the road.

Then she swiftly grabbed a helmet and protective clothing from the car and quickly put them on herself.

Only after all the protection was put on and Mu Ling felt that the eagle did not attack her did she look back. She saw that after flapping its wings twice, the eagle had fainted again.

Mu Ling was startled and hurried forward to check on Daying's condition.

Eyes closed, body stiff, wings drooping – this is the condition of a bird that is drowning and dying.

Mu Ling quickly turned the eagle's body over. She held its torso, let its head face down and its abdomen face up, and then gently pressed the crop on its chest.

A bird's crop is equivalent to a human's stomach. It is part of the bird's digestive system and is located at the upper end of the esophagus, near the neck. Mu Ling helps the eagle drain water by pressing the crop.

Water did flow out of the bird's beak, but the eagle remained motionless and its wings did not respond.

Mu Ling wasn't sure if it was in shock, but even if the bird was, there were still twenty to thirty minutes to rescue it. Since it didn't wake up after draining the water, she could only give it artificial respiration.

Mu Ling first checked whether there was any foreign object in the bird's beak. After confirming that there was no foreign object, she closed its pointed beak and gave it rhythmic artificial respiration.

The frequency of breathing should not be too high, and the crop should be pressed while breathing. This action is similar to cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

After several minutes of artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Mu Ling saw that Daying still hadn't woken up, and hot sweat had already appeared on her head.

Mu Ling took off her protective suit, which was waterproof and did not absorb water. Mu Ling also took off her own coat. She quickly wiped the water off the eagle's body with the coat, and then carried it to a sunny place to prevent it from getting hypothermia so quickly.

The summer sun usually sets around seven or eight o'clock. Although the sun is not very hot at this time, it is better to have sunshine than no sunshine.

While wiping the eagle, Mu Ling continued to perform artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

You must be patient when rescuing birds, because they have a chance of being saved within half an hour, so never give up on treatment just because they don't respond at first.

Mu Ling persisted for twenty-five minutes, and finally, the eagle's two golden wings suddenly flapped violently!

"Ah!" Mu Ling was startled. The two wings were so big, at least three or four meters long when spread out, enough to blow her away with just one slap!

But fortunately, the eagle did not slap Mu Ling, because it had just woken up and its current physical strength was not enough for it to deal with the enemy.

But Lightning didn't know that. He saw the big bird flap its wings, and Mu Ling fell back to the ground. His emerald green eyes were immediately filled with ferocity. He pounced on the eagle, holding down its body with his two claws. He let out a frantic leopard roar from his throat, and then opened his mouth to bite off the big bird's neck!

Mu Ling: “!!!!”

Mu Ling was so frightened that she quickly put her hand up to block the leopard's mouth: "It's not that serious, Lightning, calm down!"

Cats naturally like to eat fish and birds. Lightning has no good impression of the eagle. In its eyes, no matter how big the bird is, it is just food.

The eagle had just escaped death, and it was unexpectedly attacked by the black panther, but it reacted quickly and immediately spread its strong wings, which hit the black panther's face. Then it turned its body and aimed its sharp eagle beak directly at the black panther's eyes.

Attacking the enemy's vulnerable face is the falcon's usual hunting strategy, especially the eyes. Once it pecks the enemy, the enemy will be put on the defensive, and this is its chance to turn defeat into victory.

"Hey!" Seeing this, Mu Ling quickly stretched her head over. She used her hard helmet to directly knock open the falcon's beak, and then dragged the black panther away.

The falcon's beak was knocked open. It was stunned for a moment and had not yet reacted. When it realized that the weight on its body had disappeared, it quickly spread its wings and flew into the air.

Mu Ling looked at the falcon flying into the sky. She first picked up the protective suit on the ground and put it on. Then she took off the visor of her helmet. Only then did she dare to look up at it.

The eagle stood on a tree trunk. Perhaps because it was exhausted, it did not fly away immediately. It first looked at the man and the leopard below, and then pecked at its wings with its beak. It was obvious that there was water on its wings, which made it very uncomfortable.

Mu Ling frowned and called out, "Treading on the clouds."

The falcon continued to peck at its wings, as if it hadn't heard.

Don't respond to your name? Forgot your own name?

Mu Ling assessed Du Ying's current situation, then she quietly moved to the car and took the tranquilizer pistol from the car.

Mu Ling has already seen Ta Yun, so she definitely won't let it go. Not to mention anything else, if the situation of falling halfway through flying happens again, who can save it?

However, Mu Ling cannot use the tranquilizer gun now, mainly because it is too high and she is afraid that she can't hit the target!

What if I miss and alarm Tayun, won’t it just fly away?

Mu Ling calmed herself down first, and then tried to coax Tayun down a little.

At least coax it to a distance where she can hit it with 100% certainty.

Mu Ling licked her lips and continued, "Tayun! Do you still remember your name is Tayun? Come, come down, do you understand this command? If you understand, you are a war beast, think about it carefully..."

After pecking the feathers on the left, the eagle began to peck the feathers on the right, and by the way, it lowered its head to peck at its own neck feathers.

Mu Ling put her hands on her hips and said, "I'm not a bad person. Didn't I just save you? Can you go back with me? At least you need to dry your fur, otherwise you'll die of hypothermia. Also, you drank so much water, you need to get checked out when you get back, in case you have aspiration pneumonia. Tayun, do you hear me?"

"Tread on the clouds! Step on the clouds!" Mu Ling said every word nicely, but the eagle did not respond at all.

Mu Ling was a little dry-mouthed after talking for a while. When she turned around, she saw Lightning staring at the big bird on the tree with its murderous and cold eyes!

Mu Ling: “…”

Could it be that he was scared by the lightning and didn't dare to come down?

"Lightning, come here." Mu Ling called out.

There was still some hostility in Lightning's eyes, but after glancing at Mu Ling, it walked silently to Mu Ling's side.

Mu Ling rubbed its fur and praised it, "Sister knows you mean well, but we really can't bite this bird. Be good, sister will give you canned food when we get home."

Lightning let Mu Ling stroke it, and gradually, perhaps because its fur became smoother, its muscles became less tense and its attacking posture slowed down.

The black leopard licked his beard and sat down calmly on the ground, but still raised his head and looked at the birds in the tree.

Seeing that Lightning's offensive power was weakening, Mu Ling continued to shout to the sky, "Tayun, come down and I'll wipe your fur. Let's at least dry it, right?"

The eagle on the tree had finally finished pecking its feathers. It flapped its wings as if it was about to fly away.

This won’t do!

Mu Ling quickly raised her pistol, not caring whether she could hit the target or not. She raised her arm high and pointed the gun towards the eagle!

But at this moment, the eagle in the sky suddenly looked down, then spread its wings and flew straight towards Mu Ling.

"Shit!" Mu Ling was shocked. Was he going to attack her? She hadn't even loaded her gun yet!

Mu Ling quickly loaded her pistol, but her movements were no match for the falcon's. The giant eagle crawled down and was right in front of her in the blink of an eye.

The next second, a weight like a jack suddenly pressed down on Mu Ling's arm.

The huge golden wings slowly folded, and the giant eagle, weighing nearly 20 kilograms, clasped the girl's arm tightly with its claws. Then, it stood lightly on the girl's arm, turned its head, and looked around alertly.

Mu Ling: “…”

Mu Ling: “???”

Twenty kilograms is actually not particularly heavy. There is a saying that goes like this: before getting married, you can't even open a bottle cap, but after giving birth, you can walk briskly while holding a twenty-kilogram baby in one hand.

So Mu Ling used both hands to support the giant eagle, barely able to bear its weight, but...

What is going on?

Why did it fall on her?

Mu Ling was a little confused.

She thought about it and suddenly thought of something.

Mu Ling decided to give it a try!

Mu Ling shook her arms and made a flying gesture.

In an instant, the giant eagle spread its wings, flew out, and then circled in the air.

Mu Ling shouted again: "Tread on the clouds!"

At the same time, raise your arms high.

Immediately afterwards, the giant eagle swooped down again, and just like before, it landed precisely on Mu Ling's thin arm and steadily retracted its wings.

Mu Ling: “…”

It really works!

Mu Lingren was stunned. So, Tayun was indeed able to understand the instructions. It was just because it didn't see the arm and didn't know where to land, so it kept standing on the tree trunk.

Mu Ling was stunned. She had just been shouting at the tree like a fool for a long time!

Mu Ling was a little amused, but when she thought about it, since it could be used as a war bird, it must have been trained long ago. Training an eagle requires blowing the whistle and raising the hand to signal landing. These are all basic things. But Mu Ling didn't expect that she was not the owner of Stepping Cloud, but she could actually summon Stepping Cloud.

As expected, the wisdom of the eagle should not be underestimated. The eagle is recognized as one of the animals with the highest IQ in the animal world, and this one is an S-class war eagle.

Now that Tayun had come down, Mu Ling didn't waste any time and quickly hugged its body and walked towards the car.

The giant eagle flapped its wings, as if it didn't like being hugged.

But Mu Ling didn't care. She was wearing a helmet and wasn't afraid of Ta Yun pecking her. She stuffed Ta Yun into the car and called out loudly, "Lightning!"

Lightning rushed to the driver's seat and Mu Ling immediately closed the car door.

Only after the car door was closed and Mu Ling was sure that the giant eagle could not fly out did she breathe a sigh of relief and push the giant eagle to the back seat.

The giant eagle obviously didn't like this cramped environment. It wanted to spread its wings, but the carriage was so narrow, and there was a fish food bucket blocking the back seat, so it couldn't spread its wings fully.

Mu Ling didn't care about it. She climbed to the driver's seat and let Lightning sit in the passenger seat. Then, without taking off her helmet and protective suit, she started the engine and put the car into hover mode again.

Mu Ling did not forget her job. There was only a little fish food left, so she simply drove along the last tributary and scattered all the fish food. Then she found a place to land and returned to land. She did not look for the two B-level war beasts, but took the giant eagle down the mountain first.

After all, it choked on water and its feathers were wet. If she didn't go back for a thorough check-up, it would definitely get sick. Also, she had to consult Director Wang about whether to give it the soft wing injection or not. Director Wang had the final say in this matter.

Just as Mu Ling was driving her mountain bike down the mountain without stopping, Xiang Bie was also rushing towards this side from above another river area.

An hour later, Xiangbie's hovercraft landed beside the river bank in the East Region.

Xiang Bie opened the car door and drove along the grass. Finally, he stopped at the foot of a valley. Looking up, he looked at the edge of the cliff above the valley.

There was still no sign of the giant eagle.

"Hmm?" Xiang Bie frowned and his expression darkened.

We've searched all six habitats, how could we not find them?

So where did it go?

"Brother Xiang, Brother Xiang, the Cloud Stepping is in my hands now. I'm going to take it down the mountain first." Inside the mountain bike, Mu Ling glanced through the rearview mirror at the Giant Eagle, which was spinning around in the back seat because it was not used to it, and said to the other end of the intercom, "If you hear me, reply to me. If you hear me, reply to me. Are you okay, Brother Xiang? If you hear me, please reply!"

Mu Lingdi left Xiang Bie a message countless times. After leaving the message, she put the walkie-talkie on the platform, stepped on the accelerator, and sped down the mountain...