Chapter 23

When Wei Li stuffed the two hyenas into the cage and hid them, he came out of the garage and saw people in the open space outside staring at the direction of the forest.

He looked at the time and found that the director had been up there for more than fifteen minutes. He didn't know what the situation was now.

"Brother Xiang." Wei Li was a little worried. He walked to Xiang Bie and asked in a low voice: "How about I go up and take a look? After all, the director is a girl..."

Xiang Bie frowned, and after a long while, he said hesitantly: "Well."

After getting the consent, Wei Li was about to go to the warehouse to get the protective clothing. As a result, as soon as he turned around, the crowd started to make a noise: "Hey, she came down, she came down! Look!"

Wei Li turned around and saw that it was really the director who came down. The director was still wearing the protective clothing, but the protection was not good. She probably felt too hot, so she opened her coat directly, didn't wear a hat, and rolled up her sleeves to her elbows.

This... How is this different from not wearing protective clothing?

At this time, the director probably got too hot, so she took off the protective clothing and put it on her arm.

Wei Li: "..."

"Hey, the director took off the protective suit, did the animals on the mountain leave?"

"Of course they left, otherwise how could they dare to take it off, but what kind of animal is that? Judging from the size of its eyes, it should be a beast, right?"

"Could it be Qing Jiao? Damn, if I could see Qing Jiao again today, I can't imagine how happy I would be!"

"Brother Wang, aren't you thirty-six?"

"I'm always young."

"..."

While the tourists were still talking, they saw that the director was almost halfway up the mountain.

But halfway, she suddenly stopped and looked back at the mountain.

"Is she looking at the beast?"

"Can she still see it? Didn't they all leave?"

"I don't know... Wait, what the hell, what is that!"

The tourists were suddenly shocked. What did they see? They actually saw a black thing with a pair of green eyes in the forest behind Mu Ling, slowly walking out of the dark jungle.

Take another closer look.

"Leopard! It's a black panther!"

"Look at its size. It's bigger than the average black panther. Wait, it's not a black panther, it's a fire panther! The fire panther Lightning!"

"Is it Lightning? Really Lightning? Why did Lightning come down the mountain?"

The tourists were all shocked. Xiang Bie squinted his eyes and watched the scene. He didn't know why, but he was not very surprised. He even had a feeling that it was as expected...

He had almost confirmed that Mu Ling was indeed abnormal.

"Brother Xiang, Lightning! Lightning followed the director down! How, how could this happen!" Wei Li was extremely surprised. There were so many people at the foot of the mountain. With Lightning's sense of smell, it was impossible for him not to smell it. He knew that he would face many humans that he hated very much when he went down the mountain, but he still came down. Wei Li didn't understand!

Xiang Bie said at this time: "Take the person into the supermarket, don't scare the lightning."

Wei Li came back to his senses, responded quickly, and turned back to drive the tourists away.

The tourists also knew the danger of retired war beasts. Although they were reluctant, they still cooperated and entered the supermarket, and then stuck to the supermarket glass to continue looking outside.

Mu Ling led the black panther all the way down the mountain. During the period, perhaps because it smelled too many strange smells, the black panther was a little uneasy and stuck to Mu Ling's back.

Mu Ling hugged its neck and rubbed its ears as they walked.

The black panther was probably comforted, and rubbed Mu Ling's palm with its forehead, and continued to follow her down.

When the man and the panther were getting closer and closer, and had reached the edge of the service area, Mu Ling suddenly stopped, and she gestured to Xiang Bie below from a distance.

Meaning, she would take Black Panther to the veterinary station first. After all, in the entire service area, only the veterinary station had a cage that could hold such a big leopard.

Xiang Bie nodded, and Mu Ling left with Lightning.

The tourists would soon lose sight of the director and Black Panther, and they were immediately very sorry. After feeling sorry, they discussed with each other. No one expected to see Lightning today. This was truly an unexpected surprise!

On the other side, Mu Ling led Lightning all the way into the veterinary station. Black Panther was very well behaved the whole time, but when they came to the door of Qilin's ward, Lightning suddenly paused and tilted his head to look at Qilin.

Qilin was originally sleeping, but when it smelled the scent of other beasts, it opened its brown-green eyes and looked outside coolly.

At this glance, the brown-green eyes met the emerald eyes. Qilin turned over and stood up. It slowly walked to the door, staring at the leopard outside through the railing with a gloomy look.

The black panther also looked at Qilin. There was no fear in its eyes, but only scrutiny, as if it was judging whether it could beat this big guy.

When the tiger and the leopard were fighting, Mu Ling had already opened the iron cage not far away and said to Lightning, "Lightning, you live in this room." When

the black panther heard Mu Ling's voice, it finally withdrew its gaze from the tiger and walked towards Mu Ling.

When it left, Qilin was still standing at the door. It was not until the black panther entered the cage diagonally opposite that Qilin sat down and looked at it indifferently.

"You want to eat canned food, don't you? I'll get it for you. You stay here for a while. I'll be right back."

Mu Ling gently touched the black panther's head, and the black panther obediently let her touch it, being very docile the whole time.

"So good." Mu Ling said, and then walked out. She opened two cans of food, grabbed a few pieces of meat from them, and then walked back with a rice bowl in one hand and a water bowl in the other.

When passing by Qilin's cage, Mu Ling saw Qilin sitting at the door and greeted him, "Hi, Qilin."

Qilin stared at her and saw that Mu Ling did not enter its cage, but the cage opposite, and put the water bowl and rice bowl on the ground for the leopard to eat. The tiger suddenly stood up and turned around on the spot, as if he couldn't sit still anymore.

The black panther was probably really hungry. It gulped down water first, and after drinking half a bowl of water, it went to eat.

Mu Ling watched it eat and praised it with satisfaction: "It's eating so deliciously. Eat more. There's more after you finish."

"Bang!" At this moment, Mu Ling suddenly heard a sound.

She turned around and saw water flowing out of the iron bars of Qilin's cage.

Mu Ling hurried over to check, and saw Qilin standing in front of the basin, staring blankly at the water that had been spilled for some reason. When he saw Mu Ling coming, Qilin stretched his head out again to lick the water on the floor.

"Hey, don't drink it, it's dirty." Mu Ling said as she walked in, picked up the empty basin, rubbed Qilin's head, and said, "Why are you so careless? You spilled the water, didn't you? It's okay, sister will pour it for you again."

Mu Ling went outside to pour water, and brought in a dry rag.

While Qilin was drinking the water obediently, Mu Ling wiped the floor, spread out the mattress that was partially wet, and let the mattress dry by itself.

After drinking the water, Qilin walked to Mu Ling and sat down, pressing his big body against Mu Ling's body.

Mu Ling turned around to touch its head, and then bent down to kiss it.

"Woo..." At this moment, there was another sound from behind.

Mu Ling turned her head and saw Lightning in the cage opposite. He suddenly lifted up his right front paw. When he walked, he kept lifting his right front paw.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Mu Ling let go of Qilin and walked to Lightning.

Lightning seemed to have a footache. He limped to the corner and curled up into a ball.

Mu Ling approached carefully, afraid of disturbing it, and softened her voice: "Lightning, what's wrong? Are you injured? Sister, take a look, dear, sister, take a look."

Mu Ling forcibly took Lightning's paw and checked whether it was bleeding. Seeing that there was no bleeding, she carefully touched its bones.

Hey, there is nothing wrong with the bones.

"What happened?" Mu Ling couldn't see clearly, so she touched the black panther's head and asked, "Does it hurt? Does it hurt a lot?"

Lightning stood up at this time. It tried to put its paw down, but as soon as it put it on the ground, it immediately raised its paw. It raised its paw and circled twice in the same place in a bit of confusion, then shrank back to the corner and curled up again.

"Is it a cramp?" If you can't see the wound and can't feel the bone problem, then it might be a cramp.

Mu Ling sat down and rubbed Shan Dian's paw: "Just rub it, it won't hurt. Are you feeling better now? You are calcium deficient. We'll take some calcium supplements later and you'll be fine."

Mu Ling had been in the veterinary station for more than ten minutes and hadn't come out yet. The tourists didn't know what was going on, so they stayed in the supermarket and didn't dare to go out.

Xiang Bie saw this and turned to go to the veterinary station.

The door of the veterinary station was open. As soon as Xiang Bie walked to the door of the ward area, he saw Qilin suddenly stand up from the ground in the iron cage facing the door. It walked slowly to the water basin, and "clang", it slapped the water basin with its claws and directly overturned the water basin.

Xiang Bie: “?”

Xiang Bie was just wondering what the young lady was angry about when he heard Mu Ling’s voice from another cage: “Qilin, what’s wrong?”

Then, Mu Ling came hurriedly from the opposite side. She saw Qilin drinking water on the ground, and quickly moved Qilin’s mouth away, and asked worriedly: “What’s wrong? Why do you always drink water on the ground? Are you feeling too hot? Then sister will pour you some room temperature water. You are injured now and can’t drink cold water.”

Xiang Bie: “…”

Xiang Bie frowned and walked forward. He was about to tell Mu Ling that Qilin was making trouble. Before Mu Ling came over, it didn’t drink the water on the ground at all. It started drinking water when it saw Mu Ling coming.

As a result, Xiang Bie saw lightning in the cage opposite as soon as he walked in.

The black leopard walked from the corner to the door. It stared at Qilin and Mu Ling for a while, then suddenly lifted its left foot, made a "whoosh..." sound, and began to circle around in the cage.

Xiang Bie: "?"

Xiang Bie didn't know what happened to Shan Dian.

But Mu Ling, who had just coaxed Qilin, stood up again, hurried to the black leopard's cage, squatted down and rubbed the black leopard's front paw: "Does it still hurt? Does it still hurt when you rub it like this? Oh, no, Shan Dian, is this the paw that cramped just now? Why do I remember it was the right paw?"

Xiang Bie: "..."

Xiang Bie just watched Mu Ling jumping back and forth between the tiger and the leopard...

It is normal for animals to compete for favor in nature. If you get the favor of the elders, you can get more food. This is the law of survival that wild animals have understood since childhood.

But Xiang Bie rarely sees people who play tricks.

Pretend to be rebellious, pretend to be sick.

Who did he learn this from?

Xiang Bie felt that he needed to have a chat with the former owner of Qilin and Lightning.

"Director." Xiang Bie said at this time: "The tourists are still waiting for you." Mu Ling, who was still rubbing the black panther's paws, heard this and hurriedly said "Oh oh" twice, stood up and said: "Then I'll go out first, Brother Xiang, please help me keep an eye on Qilin and Lightning, and call me if they have any problems."

Mu Ling wiped his hands and went out in a hurry.

Xiang Bie stood outside the ward alone. He looked at the two beasts, but the two beasts didn't look at him. When they saw that Mu Ling had left, Qilin circled around and went back to sleep on the quilt, while Lightning lay down and closed his eyes to take a nap.

Xiang Bie: "..."

-

"Visit the lightning?"

As soon as Mu Ling went out, she heard Professor Zhou say embarrassedly: "Well, didn't we see the lightning clearly just now? Can we take another look? It would be best if Qilin could see it again."

Mu Ling looked at the time. To be honest, according to her previous plan, they should be feeding the birds in the bird forest at this time. Thinking that it was because of them that the tourists went down the mountain early and had such a bad time, Mu Ling hesitated and said, "Qilin is OK, because I am sure I can hold it, but Lightning is really not OK. I am not as good as Lightning in temper as I used to be. I really don't dare to let it out like this."

Professor Zhou was surprised: "You haven't figured it out? But don't you two look very close?"

Mu Ling couldn't say that it was just Lightning who was very familiar with him. She explained: "Lightning just likes to get into my arms, rub my hands, and I rub his fur. There's nothing else. We've just known each other for less than two hours."

Professor Zhou: "?"

Professor Zhou: "???"

Professor Zhou was suddenly confused. He had just known each other for two hours, and a mentally ill retired war beast was getting into his arms and rubbing his hands?

Do you want to hear what you are talking about?

The other researchers who followed Professor Zhou were also dumbfounded. They looked at each other and couldn't respond for a long time.

Mu Ling suggested to them: "Why don't you just visit Qilin today? Next time you come, I will let you visit Lightning and give you a 50% discount on the ticket!"

When Mu Ling said this, there was a hint of expectation in her eyes, and she looked at Professor Zhou and the others timidly... Please come again next time, please don't avoid our zoo because of the unpleasantness today, please don't give us bad reviews on travel websites, please! I really beg you!

In the end, Professor Zhou and the others agreed, so let's go see Qilin again.

Mu Ling was very happy and said quickly: "It's time for Qilin to have some snacks. Let it perform "Princess's Afternoon Tea" for everyone!"

Professor Zhou: "..."

Soon, Mu Ling returned to the veterinary station. Xiang Bie was sitting on the sofa looking at the computer. When he saw her come back, he asked: "What's the matter?"

Mu Ling said: "Qilin still has to go out to save the day. It didn't drink the water on the ground."

Xiang Bie: "...No."

Mu Ling was relieved. She hurried into the ward area. Halfway through, she turned back and pointed casually: "Brother Xiang, help me pull out this tablecloth and prepare a pair of scissors."

Xiang Bie: "?"

Soon, Mu Ling went in and brought Qilin out. When he saw Mu Ling appear, Lightning immediately stood up in the cage. As a result, Mu Ling didn't look at it and just left.

Lightning's eyes followed the direction where Mu Ling and Qilin left. After a moment, the black panther's green eyes stared at the iron cage door in front of him, and his eyes stayed on the bolt.

Outside, Xiang Bie had already pulled out the tablecloth. Mu Ling took the scissors and cut a piece of the tablecloth nimbly, and then pinched it for a long time. Finally, she successfully pinched out a bow.

Using a strip of cloth as a bag and tying the bow, Mu Ling put the bow on Qilin's neck, looked at him from a distance, and asked Xiang Bie: "Does it look like a princess?"

Xiang Bie: "..."

It's hard for him to judge...

Xiang Bie was silent for a long time, and then nodded awkwardly: "...Yeah."

Mu Ling was relieved and took Qilin out confidently.

It was still the same small pond, and the same group of old audiences, but the bathtub in the middle of the pond had been replaced by a pile of snacks by Wei Li.

When Mu Ling brought Qilin Shanshan to the show, the audience was boiling with excitement!

"Fuck!"

"This... Qilin is wearing a bow?"

"Good, good, so cute!!!"

"No, I just want to know, how did the director convince Qilin to cooperate with her performance? Qilin is actually willing to wear something like this? It used to wear armor on the battlefield!" "

But Qilin is the eldest princess of Piccolo Zoo, what's wrong with it wearing a bow? Doesn't it deserve it!"

Colleague: "..."

What else can the colleague say but shut up.

Mu Ling heard everyone praising Qilin for her good looks, and she was a little proud. After leading Qilin to the pile of snacks, Mu Ling asked Qilin to sit down.

The Ripping Tiger with a bow sat down obediently.

Mu Ling opened another pack of dried meat biscuits and fed it to Qilin's mouth.

Qilin immediately licked the biscuits with his tongue and ate them. After eating, he licked Mu Ling's palm and ate the biscuit crumbs.

The audience below was jealous again: "Qilin is really obedient, they seem to be playing house! I want to play too!"

"Write it down, Tear Tiger likes to play house."

Colleague: "..."

Remembering everything will only hurt you.

After Mu Ling fed Qilin half a pack of dried meat biscuits, she opened a box of yogurt for Qilin.

Qilin likes to drink yogurt, and he licked it with his big tongue, and two-thirds of it was gone. However, he ate a little dirty, and there were milk stains on his nose, looking like a little cat.

Mu Ling wiped it off, letting the princess restore her elegance.

While the pond was bustling with activity, the brown deer, who had taken painkillers and was sleeping in the empty veterinary station, suddenly heard some noises. The

brown deer opened his eyes and saw a black leopard in an iron cage not far from him, stretching out its sharp front paws, passing through the railings, and digging something outside.

After digging for a while, there was a clang, and the iron gate opened. The black panther quickly ran out and disappeared in a flash.

The brown deer looked at the direction where the black panther left, smacked his lips, closed his eyes and continued to sleep.

"Next is apples. Of course, afternoon tea cannot be without fruits."

Mu Ling picked up an apple and fed it to Qilin.

The big tiger opened its mouth and grabbed it, smacked its lips twice, and finished it.

Mu Ling fed another tooth to the Qilin, and the Qilin ate it again.

But when Mu Ling fed the third tooth, the Qilin suddenly stopped eating. The majestic tiger suddenly stood up from the ground, turned around, and stared deeply at a certain direction behind it with its brown-green eyes.

Mu Ling was stunned for a moment, and the other spectators were also stunned. Everyone looked in the direction of the Qilin's sight, but saw a black fire leopard next to the building far away from the pond, clinging to the wall, with a pair of green eyes, looking here.

Xiang Bie, who was standing outside the pond, frowned: "Why did it get out?"

Wei Li was instantly shocked: "Fuck, Brother Xiang, what does Lightning want to do?"

At this time, Mu Ling, who was standing in the middle of the pond, also shouted: "Lightning!"

Hearing Mu Ling's voice, the black leopard immediately shot out like a sharp arrow. It kicked its strong hind legs hard, jumped down from the bank of the pond, and in less than three seconds, it had already rushed in front of Mu Ling.

"Roar!" Qilin immediately blocked in front of Mu Ling and took an offensive posture towards the black leopard.

The black leopard stopped in front of the tiger, bared its fangs, lowered its upper body, and also took an offensive posture, staring at Qilin fiercely.

The distance between them was getting shorter and shorter. Seeing that a battle between the beasts was inevitable, the audience above was getting anxious!

Mu Ling suddenly stepped forward and stood directly between the two beasts, shouting: "What are you doing? Do you really want to fight?"

Animals are very sensitive to tone. The two beasts froze for a moment. Qilin glanced at Mu Ling with his peripheral vision, and the sound of Lightning's roar became a little smaller.

Seeing that they had calmed down a little, Mu Ling squatted down and touched the chins of the two beasts with one hand each.

Seeing that they still didn't relax, Mu Ling grabbed a few more apples and coaxed them to feed.

When Mu Ling finally coaxed the tiger and the leopard after a long time of effort, she was tired. She sat on the ground, hugged her left and right, and sighed: "Children's conflicts are mostly due to the lack of morality of the elderly. Their quarrels are my problem. I will reflect on it."

"Puff." I don't know which audience laughed out loud, and then the tense atmosphere finally relaxed again.

-At

5:30 in the afternoon, a black military truck turned the steering wheel and drove into the main street of Bic Avenue.

In the car, six officers were talking, and they were talking about the two hyenas reported by Bic Zoo today.

"The boss and his team have already planned to go into the mountains tomorrow, going directly into the mountains from the other side of the zoo. It seems that there are already quite a few exotic beasts in the mountains over there. It is said that this is not the first exotic beast found in Piccolo Zoo recently. A python was also found a few days ago." "

What happened to the python last time?"

"It died. It had no specimen value. The zoo buried it deep according to regulations."

"The staff of this zoo are quite capable. They are very good at killing exotic beasts."

"According to the information reported, it seems that it was not killed by the staff, but by retired war beasts in the park. The staff probably don't know anything. The main thing is that they have a lot of war beasts here. There are nine retired S-level war beasts alone, not to mention A-level and B-level ones..."

While several people were chatting, the car had already entered the road up the mountain. Coincidentally, several buses came down the mountain at this time. The military truck passed by the four buses. Several officers took a look at the bus and didn't take it seriously.

The truck quickly stopped at the gate of the Beak Zoo. Officer Lin, dressed in military uniform, opened the door of the co-pilot seat and walked down first.

In the open space in front of the zoo, temporary workers were still tidying up the tables and chairs. Wei Li heard the sound of a car, walked over and saw that they were in military uniforms. He immediately knew their identities and went up to them: "How many of you are from the military district?"

Officer Lin shook hands with Wei Li and nodded: "We received a report saying that you have..."

"Yes." Wei Li did not let Officer Lin say the word "alien beast". He said: "Follow me."

Six officers quickly followed Wei Li into the garage. The two hyenas were thrown into the cage. Because they were given another shot of anesthetic later, both were lying down. However, the lower one was obviously dead, while the upper one was still alive.

Officer Lin nodded: "Let's take both of them away. We've also dealt with the dead one for you, so you don't have to worry."

Wei Li nodded: "Okay, thank you for your hard work."

As he was about to send the others away, he suddenly thought of something and said: "By the way, you can get a bonus, right?"

The officers were stunned for a moment, they looked at each other, and Officer Lin said readily: "Yes, I'll report it to you."

Wei Li thought of Brother Xiang's instructions, and also of the time when the director had just sent the tourists away. , and indeed returned all the money, so he asked with a stiff face: "Can you report the kind that costs 600 interstellar coins?"

Officer Lin paused, he looked at the two hyenas, and said with embarrassment: "Medium-sized alien beasts are usually 500..."

Wei Li was a little confused, and thought for a while and said: "Why don't you talk to our director, she is just opposite..."

Officer Lin saw that Wei Li was just an employee, and thought it would be better to explain it to the director of the other side, so several officers followed Wei Li out of the garage. A little

further opposite the garage was the veterinary station, Wei Li asked the officers to wait, and he went in to call someone.

After Wei Li walked in, several officers at the back whispered, "Isn't this director difficult to deal with?"

"It's hard to say. Look at that employee. He's quite scared."

"There are only 500 people. We're all following the rules."

As they were talking, the door opened and Wei Li led Mu Ling out.

Mu Ling started with a smile: "Hello, officers. Thank you for your hard work and for taking the trouble to come here."

The officers did not expect that the director was a woman, and so young. However, no matter who she was, the rules were the rules. Officer Lin said: "Hello, Director. Thank you for cooperating with our military to fight against alien beasts. In view of your contribution, we will report bonuses for you. As for the level of bonuses..."

Officer Lin had not finished speaking when he suddenly saw a golden, majestic tiger slowly walking out from behind the female director!

Officer Lin saw it, and his colleagues around him naturally saw it too. In an instant, everyone's faces changed drastically, and they all took a step back!

"Qilin, how did you come out?" Mu Ling turned around when she heard the voice. She touched Qilin's head and said to the officers embarrassedly, "Don't be afraid, it won't bite."

The officers looked embarrassed and were about to say something else, but they saw another black panther with a dark body and cold green eyes coming out from behind!

"Lightning, how did you come out too?" Mu Ling held Lightning with her other hand.

Now, on her left was the Ripping Tiger and on her right was the Fiery Leopard. Mu Ling smiled and looked gently at the officers who had retreated five steps, and asked, "What did you say just now?"

"Gudong."

Officer Lin swallowed his saliva, and cold sweat dripped down his temples. He said, "I, I mean, I will apply for a bonus of 600 yuan for you, and I will also apply for a pennant for you. Remember to check it!"

Mu Ling was very happy: "Really? You are so nice! Thank you so much!"

Officer Lin: "Should, it should be..."

Wei Li: "......?"