Chapter 57

The iron cage prevents the leopard from attacking the strange beast inside.

The strange rabbit was screaming wildly inside, so the leopard had to stretch its claws in to dig, but its claws were too big, and just when it got halfway in, its paw pads got stuck.

The leopard was a little angry. It sniffed inside and roared again: "Roar! Roar!!"

Mu Ling took the opportunity to say to the soldier who was pulling the rope, "Please pull the cage with you."

Although the soldier didn't understand why, he still dragged the cage to the side.

As soon as the cage moved, the leopard pressed it down again, preventing the cage from moving.

Mu Ling said, "Use force, drag the cage and let Jixiang walk a few more steps."

The soldier did as he was told, pulled the beast out of the cage with force, and dragged it to a place five steps away from the leopard.

The leopard quickly followed.

But just as I caught up, the cage moved away again.

It had no choice but to keep chasing.

After repeating this for two or three times, the leopard's miserable appearance made everyone present feel uncomfortable, especially Lieutenant General Mark. Lieutenant General Mark's face had turned black. He asked Mu Ling in a cold voice, "Why are you doing this?"

Mu Ling's eyes remained fixed on the leopard as she spoke in a serious tone, "It's relying on brute force and explosive power to stand up right now. If it manages to catch a strange beast, it'll immediately relax. A short period of extreme joy and sorrow would severely damage its nerves, just like how people can easily die suddenly after experiencing extreme joy or sorrow. So, I'm prolonging its concentration, using the fact that it can't catch a strange beast to cultivate a positive mindset in it, cultivating a mentality of 'I absolutely cannot die. If I die, this kid will run away.'"

Under the impetus of this positive mentality, its will to survive will be strengthened. When it is not concerned with negative depression, its damage value will not increase so quickly, thus achieving the effect of temporarily stabilizing its damage value."

Mu Ling's words made sense, but Lieutenant General Mark didn't know whether what she said was true. He frowned and looked at the other men in white coats over there.

Doctor John thought for a moment and nodded solemnly: "Theoretically...it's possible..."

But it's just a theory. If it's not handled properly, if Jixiang is stimulated too much, it may die on the spot!

Only now did Dr. John understand what Mu Ling meant when she said, "I have a way you can try, but maybe it will die faster after trying it."

This is a risky move.

But at the critical moment of life and death, hope always coexists with risk...

With Mu Ling's explanation, the others no longer had any objections. Even the soldier holding the cage suddenly felt that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and he slipped away even faster.

After all, the leopard's physical fitness could not keep up. After chasing the beast for five minutes, it still couldn't catch up, and it finally couldn't keep up.

Its two hind legs slowly stopped and it sat on the ground tiredly. After a while, its upper body could not support it anymore, so it lay down and began to breathe heavily.

Mu Ling quickly said, "Oxygen machine!"

In an instant, everyone started moving. Some went to the intensive care unit to push the oxygen machine out, some found a socket to plug the oxygen machine back in, and some reset the data of the oxygen machine.

Mu Ling picked up the oxygen mask on the ground, tightened her protective suit, walked over, and squatted next to the leopard.

The leopard was so tired that it gradually found it difficult to breathe, but its eyes were still fixed on the iron cage a few steps away from it.

At this moment, Dr. John shouted, "All right!"

Mu Ling quickly held the back of the leopard's head with one hand and put the oxygen mask on its mouth with the other.

The leopard subconsciously wanted to struggle, but a steady stream of fresh oxygen suddenly came over, and it immediately absorbed the oxygen greedily!

Mu Ling felt that the leopard had given up its resistance, so she released her hand that was pressing down on the back of its head. She sat cross-legged on the ground, letting the leopard lean against her. She held the oxygen mask for it and gently stroked its fur, coaxing it in a low voice: "Jixiang, it's okay, it can't run away. Let's rest for a while and then go catch it."

It was indeed tiring to support the body, and the leopard gradually leaned its weight on the human beside it. The touch of its head made it subconsciously feel very comfortable, and its eyes half-closed.

Animals like to have their fur touched because their mothers licked their fur when they were young. So, touching their fur makes them feel like they are still being cared for by their mothers.

A similar example is the hair on the back of the neck. Many animals will behave themselves when their hair on the back of the neck is pulled, because when they were young, their mothers would bite their hair on the back of their necks. So when this place is pulled, they will think that it is their mother who is biting them.

Of course, this situation does not include clearing out the mother and child.

Mu Ling asked Manager Ge again: "Manager Ge, do you have a tranquilizer gun? A pistol will do."

Manager Ge said hurriedly: "Yes, yes, I'll have someone get it."

Manager Ge's subordinates immediately ran out.

The subordinate came back ten minutes later with a tranquilizer pistol.

Mu Ling nodded, and she looked at the leopard in her arms again. After breathing oxygen for ten minutes, the leopard felt that it was back to normal. It staggered to its feet and wanted to rush towards the strange beast again.

Mu Ling then said, "Please kick the cage over here."

The soldier holding the cage immediately kicked it over.

Seeing this, the leopard pounced suddenly, and this time it finally jumped into the cage!

But the same situation happened again. It couldn't bite the strange beast inside because of the cage.

Lieutenant General Mark frowned and was thinking, why not release the strange beast and let the critically ill war beast bite it to death!

But at this moment...

"Bang!" A sudden gunshot rang out.

The whole audience fell silent.

Everyone looked again and saw that it was Mu Ling who fired the shot. She stuck the muzzle of the gun into the cage and tranquilized the strange rabbit with one shot!

The ferocious strange rabbit stopped howling, and the leopard clinging to the cage also froze for a moment.

The other people in the veterinary station didn't dare to say anything for a moment.

Everyone was silent.

Mu Ling returned the gun to Manager Ge's subordinate and said "thank you". Then she touched Jixiang's head and praised him, "Jixiang is awesome! If Jixiang hadn't held the beast down, I wouldn't have been able to hit it."

The stunned war beast seemed to have just realized what had happened.

This kind of thing also happens during normal duty. The war beast discovers the alien beast, but before it can attack the alien beast, the owner shoots from behind. This can avoid a fight between animals, and mainly avoid the possibility of the war beast being bitten by the alien beast.

The leopard seemed to realize something... It finally stopped pressing the cage stubbornly, put down its big paws, and lowered its head to sniff the strange rabbit in the cage.

After making sure that the strange rabbit would not move, it turned its head again and looked at Mu Ling in confusion.

Mu Ling rubbed the leopard's head again and continued to praise: "Jixiang is really amazing, Jixiang is awesome. I'll give Jixiang a snack when I get home. How about chicken legs?"

The leopard tilted its head in confusion, and its round ears twitched.

In addition to understanding commands, war beasts can also understand the words their owners often use to praise them, such as "awesome" and "terrific". Of course, the owner's tone is also very important. A gentle tone can make animals feel kind.

The leopard seemed to finally understand that it was being praised because it caught a strange beast... It immediately took a step closer to Mu Ling, breathing out hot air.

Mu Ling asked again: "Is there any water? Nutrient water is best."

"Yes, yes, yes!" The scene suddenly became chaotic and everyone helped to find water.

When the bowl of water was placed in front of the leopard, it immediately gulped down most of it. After finishing the water, it licked its nose and then sat down next to Mu Ling.

Mu Ling continued to stroke the leopard's head and said nice things for free. When she felt that the leopard's emotional value had been maximized, she said to Dr. John: "Look..."

Dr. John had a complicated expression. Jixiang's appearance was no different from before on the hospital bed, but its inside had undergone tremendous changes in just half an hour.

You can tell from its eyes that it was dead before, but now it is full of vitality. As long as it is willing to keep this vitality and cooperate with medication and diet, its condition will improve in less than a month!

Auspiciousness is not an external injury, nor is it an organ failure. It is not a serious illness caused by physical factors, but a psychological problem.

And now, its psychology is in a brief period of improvement.

Dr. John looked again at the young head nursery teacher, who was now looking up at him. After a moment's silence, he said, "Could you please take him back to the ward? He seems more willing to be around you now."

Mu Ling stood up and called out, "Jixiang, let's go in."

The leopard lay on the ground without moving at first, until it saw Mu Ling take a step, it slowly stood up and followed her.

It walked very slowly and was a little shaky, so Mu Ling gently supported it and took it back to the intensive care unit. Then Mu Ling was about to leave, but as soon as she went out, the leopard followed her out.

Nurse Wang, who was about to reconnect the Leopard to the computer for testing, responded: "?"

Nurse Wang watched Huabao leave again. Just as she was about to speak, Director Mu came in again, and then Huabao also came in.

"Jixiang, just sit here." Mu Ling said and left again.

The leopard didn't even sit down and followed him out.

After going back and forth like this three or four times, Mu Ling looked at Nurse Wang in the room, then looked at the other people outside the room, and fell silent.

Manager Ge wiped his face and said anxiously, "Jixiang seems to like Director Mu very much. Director Mu, if the animals in your park usually talk to people like this, how do you stop them?"

Mu Ling: “…”

Mu Ling pointed bitterly at the white fox sleeping soundly in its backpack on the corner seat and said, "If I could stop it, I wouldn't carry a fox on my back on a business trip."

Manager Ge: “…”

Others: “…”

Mu Ling was particularly embarrassed: "And usually, if they are particularly attached to me, I might sleep with them at night. We have a bed for me in the animal dormitory and veterinary station..."

Everyone: “…………”

I suddenly seem to understand why Director Mu has such a good relationship with the war beasts...

Direct assimilation, right?

They were still figuring out how to get Jixiang to sit down and receive treatment. Outside the veterinary station, Lieutenant General Mark had already asked his subordinates to take the strange beast back.

Lieutenant General Mark was actually feeling very complicated at the moment. He looked at the situation in the intensive care unit from a distance, thought for a moment, and then turned to ask Director Zhou: "Do you think that Director Mu's method just now is suitable for other war beasts?"

Countless war beasts are on the line between life and death every day. Every zoo, every sanatorium, and even every owner who adopts their own war beast is worried about the retired war beasts' deteriorating health and increasingly strange temperaments.

If the method of using exotic beasts to stimulate the war beasts' desire to survive really works, does it mean that most retired war beasts can be saved?

Director Zhou couldn't say for sure. He said, "But the Federation has tried this before. They allowed retired war beasts to continue their training at the same level as when they were in service, treated them the same way, and even sent them on simple missions. However, their condition didn't improve significantly."

Lieutenant General Mark thought for a moment. "Perhaps it's only useful in life-or-death situations? By the way, wasn't that leopard unconscious just now? I saw it couldn't focus its eyes. Perhaps when it's confused, it's easy to be deceived. When it's rational, it's hard to fool."

Director Zhou shook his head: "Let's report it first. Let the people at the War Beast Center study it in detail. If they need to ask, let them ask Director Mu. We are not professionals, so don't make blind guesses."

The Forestry Bureau is in charge of ordinary animals, and Lieutenant General Mark is not from the Beast Taming Army. They are both half-baked.

Lieutenant General Mark had no choice but to nod, and then he looked inside again, planning to wait until Mu Ling had dealt with Jixiang before finding her to verify the matter of the rebels.

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At 12:30 noon, a large group of people finally managed to let Jixiang lie back on the hospital bed.

At this time, Dr. Julie, who was not on duty today, finally arrived.

Dr. Julie rushed over after hearing that Jixiang was dying, but when she came back, Jixiang was fine again?

Dr. Julie didn't know what had happened, so the nurse whispered everything in her ear.

Dr. Julie was very surprised after hearing this. She looked towards the small pavilion outside the veterinary station. In the pavilion, an officer in military uniform and a young girl holding a backpack were talking.

"Julie, you're here." Doctor John came out at this time. He took off his gloves and said apologetically, "Thank you for coming all this way."

Doctor Julie hurriedly said, "It's okay. Is Jixiang in there? I'll go in and take a look."

Dr. Julie went into the intensive care unit, and Dr. John went to the equipment room to get the rejection reports of Roumei and Xiaoduo.

But after reading the report, Dr. John was stunned for a moment, and then he quickly walked into another small ward.

Everyone from the Fuai Zoo was staying in that small ward. When they saw Dr. John come in, Manager Harry hurriedly looked outside to see if the strange beast had left.

Dr. John didn't care about all this. He went straight to the two lions and observed their condition carefully.

"Doctor John?" Manager Harry was frightened by Doctor John's expression and his face turned pale. "Are Roumei and Xiaoduo okay?"

Doctor John frowned and said seriously, "What they ate wasn't just something ordinary. The rejection report shows that some foreign substance is reacting with the viral antibodies in their bodies."

"Viral antibodies?" Manager Harry didn't quite understand.

Dr. John explained, "To put it simply, after the vaccine is injected, the animal's body will produce viral antibodies. Antibodies mean that if a virus enters the body, the antibodies will kill the virus and thus protect the animal. But now, there is a foreign substance that is challenging their viral antibodies. The antibodies cannot kill this substance, and this substance is destroying the animal's immune system!"

"What should we do then?" Manager Harry asked anxiously, "What is this substance?"

Doctor John shook his head. "The test results didn't find a matching substance. We need to analyze it in detail. Anyway, this is either some wild substance that hasn't been discovered yet, or a chemically synthesized substance specifically used to develop a virus vaccine."

Manager Harry was a little confused, but Dr. John said, "No, this matter must be reported to the Veterinary Medical Association immediately."

As he said this, he hurried to go out, but when he turned around, he saw Lieutenant General Mark, Director Zhou, and Director Mu standing at the door of the ward.

Lieutenant General Mark and Director Zhou looked very unhappy. Lieutenant General Mark asked Dr. John, "Please repeat what you just said."

Dr. John pursed his lips, repeated his findings, and showed them the report.

Lieutenant General Mark and Director Zhou were also confused. Mu Ling took it and after studying it for a while, she said to Lieutenant General Mark seriously, "You can see it too. It's definitely not a coincidence. As I said just now, I have reasonable suspicions that there were rebels participating in the exchange meeting. I also have reasonable suspicions that there are rebels on the starship. Now this report has already demonstrated the seriousness of the problem. The rebels are developing a method to conquer the virus vaccine. If they succeed, I can't imagine how many normal animals will be transformed into beasts without the protection of the vaccine."

Mu Ling exhaled: "By then, they won't have to raise exotic beasts themselves, because there will be exotic beasts everywhere."

Lieutenant General Mark said to Dr. John with a dark face, "Could you please come out with me for a moment?"

Several people went outside, but Mu Ling did not go out. She walked in front of the two lions, pursed her lips, and observed them.

The other people in the ward were already frightened. What had they just heard? Manager Harry looked at Mu Ling: "Director Mu, did you just say the rebels?"

Mu Ling didn't answer.

Fass didn't understand: "But why? Why would the rebels want to break through the virus vaccine? If the virus vaccine fails, the animals will turn into monsters, and the world will be in chaos. They will also be attacked."

Manager Harry shook his head. "Their goal isn't to transform all animals into monsters. They want to master this weapon and use it to negotiate with the government. If the government doesn't agree, they'll just find a random planet and create chaos, forcing the government to compromise."

Manager Harry said this, looking at his two lions with heartache: "But why did it have to be us? Who did we offend? Meat girl Xiaoduo is so pitiful!"

The two lions in the cage lay listlessly. Mu Ling reached her hand through the gap in the bars and gently touched the fur on their backs. The two lions felt it but were too lazy to resist.

Yes, why them?

Why did the rebels choose the starship from Shenwang Star to Siwan Star?

At this exchange meeting on Siwan Star, zoos from countless planets came, and the three zoos on Shenwang Star were just three of them. Why did the rebels not come from Siwan Star, which is another planet, but from Shenwang Star?

Do they have a base on the God King Planet?

Mu Ling suddenly thought of the strange beasts in the Piccolo Jungle.

Major Chang also said at the time that moderately infected beasts were uncommon...

Mu Ling thought of many things in an instant. Manager Harry wondered why such bad luck happened to his meat sister and Xiaoduo. Mu Ling was also wondering why such bad luck happened to the God King Star and her Piccolo Jungle!

Mu Ling stood up suddenly and walked outside, but at this moment, the light brain on her wrist suddenly rang.

Mu Ling glanced at the caller ID and saw Manager Chen's name.

She pressed answer.

Manager Chen's voice came from the other side: "Why haven't you come back yet? The exchange meeting has already started."

Mu Ling was stunned for a moment and looked at the clock on the wall. Sure enough, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.

She said to Manager Harry, "Manager Harry, Manager Chen asked when we will be leaving?"

Manager Harry had no time to think about the exchange meeting. He waved his hand and said, "I can't go back now. I won't attend today."

Mu Ling conveyed this to Manager Chen.

Manager Chen was puzzled: "What's wrong with you?"

Mu Ling sighed: "Let's talk about it when we get back. It's hard to explain in the communication."

After hanging up the phone, Mu Ling went outside.

Outside, Lieutenant General Mark was asking Dr. John to help him write a material analysis report, which was to analyze what ingredients were in the substance that could defeat the virus antibody, so that he could submit these data together when he reported.

Doctor John didn't know what the ingredients were, so he had to analyze it now. While he was analyzing, Mu Ling was watching from the side. After a while, she suddenly felt movement in her arms.

Looking down, I saw that the actor had woken up.

The snow-white fox was still a little confused at this time. It had a pair of beautiful purple animal eyes and its nose was twitching. As soon as it woke up, it sniffed around frantically.

A strange beast had just come here. Although the beast had been taken back by the military after the incident, the residual smell was still there.

Mu Ling rubbed Lingren's forehead and coaxed him, "It's okay, it's okay now."

Lingren was still sniffing until a few minutes later, probably because it was really sure that there were no strange beasts nearby. The white fox finally calmed down, raised its head again, and nudged Mu Ling's chin with its wet black nose.

Mu Ling chuckled, kissed its forehead skillfully, and said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have given you a sleep aid. I won't do it next time."

In the interval of his analysis, Dr. John glanced at the interaction between Mu Ling and the white fox. He choked at first, and then thought of how Jixiang followed her closely and couldn't be driven away. Dr. John immediately began to observe carefully!

No matter how outrageous it is, learn it as soon as you can!

After the rough analysis results came out and the report was completed, Lieutenant General Mark took the report and left. But before leaving, Mu Ling called him again: "Lieutenant General Mark."

Lieutenant General Mark stopped and looked at Mu Ling.

Mu Ling stepped forward and spoke to him.

Lieutenant General Mark was stunned at first, then nodded seriously. "I understand. Thank you for your assistance." After getting into the military vehicle, Lieutenant General Mark called the Federal Military District headquarters without even waiting for the car to start. Coincidentally, a meeting was in progress there. The other party said, "Second Lieutenant Luo, who is in charge of the Starship Rat Incident, is giving a report. Please come directly into the meeting room."

Lieutenant General Mark entered a holographic conference room. As soon as he entered, he heard Lieutenant Luo say, "All seven groups have been dispersed, and no suspicious individuals have been found so far."

The leader listening to the meeting frowned. "Not a single suspicious person? Passengers, starship crew, are you sure you've checked everything?"

Lieutenant Luo was a little embarrassed. "That starship passed through seven stations from Shenwang Star to Siwan Star. Passengers boarding and disembarking at each station, as well as ground crew at each station, were rechecked. So far, there really isn't..."

"Sorry, I want to interrupt." Lieutenant General Mark suddenly spoke.

No one in the conference room knew what Lieutenant General Mark was going to report. Suddenly, everyone looked at Lieutenant General Mark's video window.

The leader sitting at the head nodded: "You go ahead."

Lieutenant General Mark pursed his lips and looked at Lieutenant Luo: "Actually, it's not what I wanted to say. Someone asked me to bring a message to Lieutenant Luo."

Second Lieutenant Luo was stunned.

Lieutenant General Mark said, "It was Director Mu of the Beek Zoo. She said there's someone on that starship. You must not forget to check."

Lieutenant Luo frowned: "Who?"

"The one who was bitten by a strange rat in the toilet."

Lieutenant General Mark said, "People subconsciously tend to be more tolerant of the victim. Director Mu's point is that everyone on the starship is a suspect, so the victim is no exception... Sometimes, the self-torture tactic can be quite effective."