Chapter 117
The door opened, and the beasts outside began to sniff.
Mu Ling glanced at Brother Xiang, then stepped forward to drive the animals away, saying, "Okay, okay, being curious about everything will only harm you, go back to sleep."
The beasts sniffed for a long time, and after making sure that the strange smell in the room had disappeared, they came over one by one to rub against Mu Ling again, until Mu Ling touched them, and then they slowly left. After
Brother Xiang left, Mu Ling closed the door and opened the shopping website.
On the platform, she bought a full set of small pharmaceutical equipment that she had set her eyes on a long time ago. Seeing that she had spent 60,000 interstellar coins, Mu Ling sighed heavily.
In fact, Mu Ling had to buy this equipment sooner or later. In the past, Mu Ling made medicine in the teacher's laboratory, secretly using the teacher's equipment, but now there is definitely no such condition. Not to mention making medicine for Brother Xiang this time, even if Mu Ling finishes her own medicine in the future, she will have to make medicine again.
Thinking of this, Mu Ling opened the drawer again and looked at the "calcium tablets" in the drawer.
She twisted the bottle and shook it. This bottle was almost finished. It seemed that she only had two bottles left.
She took out a calcium tablet and mixed it with water to eat. Mu Ling screwed the bottle cap again and went to get thirty blood bottles.
She drew a large tube of Xiang Ge's blood, but in fact, this kind of ordinary blood test does not need so much blood. Mu Ling will distribute the remaining blood and send it to fifteen different testing points on fifteen planets. Xiang Ge's blood will have to undergo fifteen more in-depth tests.
But why do we need to prepare thirty sub-bottles for fifteen tests?
Because she will randomly send out fifteen more test items, mainly to confuse people. Even if they are discovered in the future, the other party will not be able to figure out which items she wants to check are real and which items are fake.
After Mu Ling sealed all the blood in syringes, she put different express labels on them and planned to send them out at dawn.
The next day, Mu Ling woke up in the morning, drove out of the park, went to the mailing point at the foot of the mountain, and sent all these biological express deliveries.
When sending the packages, the shipping address and the sender's name were different for each courier. Besides being expedited, they didn't look like they were sent by the same person, or even from the same planet.
This is also Mu Ling's experience. It's always a good idea to hide your information as much as possible.
Mu Ling is very skilled at doing this. After all, she also sends it for inspection once a year. It's just practice makes perfect.
After sending the packages, Mu Ling drove to a nearby real estate agency and rented a two-bedroom, one-living room house in a suitable location.
After viewing the house, signing the rental contract, and paying the money, Mu Ling got the house card on the spot.
After changing the delivery address of the pharmaceutical equipment purchased on the shopping website to the newly rented house, Mu Ling has been cleaning and disinfecting the new house.
The goods were delivered around noon, and after the deliveryman left, Mu Ling began to install the equipment herself.
The installation lasted until seven or eight o'clock in the evening. After the installation, Mu Ling did not leave. She had to wait for all the instruments to run a self-check to see if everything was running normally.
It was already past 11 o'clock in the evening when she was sure that everything was running normally. Mu Ling was ready to leave, and before leaving, she turned on the newly purchased whole-house sterilization equipment. This house must be sterilized efficiently for at least eight hours before medicine can be made in it, otherwise the made medicine will not meet the specifications. After
turning on the equipment, Mu Ling left, waiting for the acceptance to be successful tomorrow. At the same time, some raw materials for the medicine had to be purchased, so that they could start working directly when they arrived tomorrow.
That night, when Mu Ling returned to the campus, it was almost one o'clock. She did not go back to the second service area, but went straight to sleep in the dormitory of the first service area.
She went out again before dawn the next morning.
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people in the campus knew that the director had been going out early and coming back late for two consecutive days.
On the second night, everyone saw the director finally showed up and asked, "Director, what have you been doing these two days?"
Mu Ling smiled and said, "I went to the factory to inspect. An acquaintance introduced the factory, saying that it is very good at making plush dolls. Aren't the samples of our next batch of peripherals coming out soon? I thought that it might not be necessary to make them in the original plush factory. I looked at a few more and compared prices."
Her words were reasonable, and everyone had no doubts and talked about the sales of peripherals in the past two days.
After dinner, Mu Ling saw Brother Xiang feeding the flat-footed ape with melon in the glass house.
Mu Ling looked around furtively like a street vendor selling fake medicine. After making sure that no one else was around, she went over and stuffed a bottle of vitamins into Brother Xiang's pocket.
"Take two pills three times a day after meals. If you suddenly feel pain somewhere, you can take it, but don't take more. You can only take two pills at most. This is the amount for one week. Take it first, and then come back for a follow-up visit in a week to see how effective it is. Then change the prescription according to the situation."
Xiang Bie touched the vitamins in his pocket and asked, "Is this what you've been busy with these two days?"
Mu Ling nodded, "Don't worry, the medicine I made will definitely not harm you, you must take it."
Xiang Bie held the medicine bottle tightly, his heart was slightly warm, and he responded, "Okay."
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Director Lu felt a little desperate.
For three consecutive days, they couldn't find any guards at all.
During these three days, more than 20 of them rode in floating cars along the river every day, walking from the east to the west, and even went to some nooks and crannies of the ridges and hills, but they could not see any trace of iron-skinned crocodiles.
Director Lu began to doubt: "There are iron-skinned crocodiles in our park, right?"
The staff member who was responsible for accompanying them was also embarrassed and could only report the matter to the director of the park.
Mu Ling did not expect that the guard would suddenly disappear.
She was not a person who often went to the mountains, and she was not very familiar with the situation of the animals in the mountains, so she could only ask other keepers.
But after asking around, other keepers did not know either.
The keeper who was in charge of taking care of the hippos said in confusion, "I seem to have seen the guards occasionally these past two days."
Mu Ling was stunned, and so were Director Lu and the others.
They had been looking for the guards in the inner area these days, but who would have thought that the guards would go so far out?
Mu Ling asked the keeper, "Did the guards go to the hippopotamus area?"
The keeper shook his head: "No, I was passing by the crocodile area when I was off work, and I saw a crocodile that looked like a guard."
Mu Ling immediately asked the keeper in charge of the crocodile area.
The keeper was a little surprised and asked the hippo keeper in confusion: "Which crocodile area did you see the guard?"
There are a total of eight native crocodiles in the Beak Zoo, two females and six males, divided into three habitats, and they do not live together.
This keeper usually runs to three places, and the distance between the three places is not close, but he has never seen a guard.
The hippopotamus keeper said, "Area B."
The crocodile keeper was stunned: "No wonder."
Mu Ling asked, "What's wrong?"
The crocodile keeper said, "I have only been to Area B once in the morning recently. I don't usually go there because the little crocodiles there are in the period of hatching. The female crocodiles are very fierce and don't let people get close. Even the male crocodiles in the same area have to move to a farther place, so there are no visits there recently."
When the little crocodiles in Area B were hatching, Mu Ling also heard Brother Wei's report.
The estrus period of crocodiles is from May to June. The female crocodiles in Area B of their park were in estrus in mid-June and mated with the three male crocodiles in the same area.
Although some crocodiles are monogamous, most crocodiles are polyandrous, meaning a female crocodile will mate with multiple male crocodiles. Multiple paternity lines can ensure that the baby crocodiles are born healthier. The
female crocodiles in their park went into estrus in mid-June, and after more than three months of gestation, they laid 26 eggs at the end of September, when the zoo reopened, the busiest time.
This rate of production is actually quite low. Other people's crocodiles lay an average of 30-40 eggs. But their farm was still closed in June, so they couldn't take their female crocodiles out for blind dates. Frankly speaking, their male crocodiles were not very good at mating with their male crocodiles, and their fertility rate was not very good. Anyway
, in the end, they had 26 eggs. After laying the eggs, the female crocodile will incubate them, and the incubation process also takes three months.
So now, in December, it is almost time for the little crocodiles to break out of their shells.
Mu Ling didn't expect that the guard actually went to the territory of another female crocodile. What was it doing there?
After knowing the whereabouts of the guard, Director Lu and others were a little restless.
Mu Ling thought about it, and then, according to the time the hippo keeper said to see the guard, she planned to take people to the crocodile area B at five o'clock tonight to see if they could really see the guard.
At five o'clock in the evening, Mu Ling and the people from the Animal Rescue Academy sat in a large shuttle, floating in the air, and used telescopes to observe the situation below.
The river below was a little turbid, there were a bunch of eggs in the grass, and there was a little crocodile that was about to break out of its shell.
Suddenly, Director Lu's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "Look at the reed bush on the right, is that a guard?"
Mu Ling immediately looked to the right and saw the sneaky crocodile pretending to be a stone and lying motionless behind the reed bush. It was indeed a guard.
At this time, a huge female crocodile swam over slowly. After the female crocodile found that another small crocodile had broken its shell, it suddenly opened its mouth and swallowed the small crocodile in one gulp, then held the small crocodile in its mouth and took it into the river. The
small crocodile has no sense of direction. If the female crocodile thinks it is not safe here, it will swallow the small crocodile after it breaks its shell and take it to safe water to avoid danger.
Crocodiles are born to swim. This little crocodile soon joined several other little crocodiles in the water. They swam around their mother, and the guard was still peeking over.
As he watched, the guard suddenly turned his head, gently bit a stone next to him, and then held the stone in his mouth and quietly retreated. After retreating to a farther place, he spit out the stone.
He seemed to think this was very fun.
The lifespan of a crocodile can be up to 100 years old. Although the four-year-old guard looks big, it is actually very young.
It is also a little crocodile that has just left its mother not long ago, so it is normal for it to be interested in the relationship between other female crocodiles and little crocodiles.
The people in the suspension car watched the guard's every move until a while later, when the female alligator seemed to be very uneasy because of the strange smell, and the guard left dejectedly, far away from the area.
The guard left, and the driver naturally followed. In the car, Mu Ling put down the binoculars and understood everything.
"I finally understand why the guard would save a stranger."
The people from the Rescue Beast Academy immediately looked at her.
Mu Ling said: "The guard is a good imitator. He likes to imitate the crocodile mother in carrying his babies, but he doesn't have his own babies, so he carries stones in his mouth, but the stones are dead. Finally, he met a living person in the water. The living person was not safe, so he carried the living person away and moved to a place he thought was safe, just like the crocodile mother moved the crocodile baby to a safe place."
Mu Ling looked at the crowd: "So, let's disperse. Our guard didn't mean to save people. He is just young and is playing house with himself. He plays the crocodile mother, and the stone and the living person play his baby."
Everyone: "..."