Chapter 42

After calming Shandian and Tayun, Mu Ling had to rush to the supermarket to help stock the shelves.

After a while, Xiao Zhao, the ticket seller, came over.

"Director, someone is looking for you outside."

Mu Ling looked in the direction of the zoo gate, clapped his hands, and walked over.

When he reached the gate, Mu Ling saw that it was Director Wang.

There were two strangers beside Director Wang.

Mu Ling hurriedly stepped forward to shake hands with Director Wang, and then looked at the two strangers.

Director Wang introduced them with a smile: "Director Mu, this is Director Liu from the Land Planning Bureau, and this is Director Fang from the Tourism Bureau. We know that your zoo must be busy in the morning, so we specially invited them to come this afternoon to congratulate you on the opening of the zoo."

Mu Ling was flattered and quickly shook hands with Director Liu and Director Fang, saying politely: "Thank you three leaders for taking the time to come. Come on, come in first, don't stand at the door."

The three leaders walked in, looking around as they walked. Then, Director Liu spoke first: "Xiao Mu, I heard that you are only open for the first day today, but you can only receive a thousand guests?"

Mu Ling said a little embarrassedly: "Yes, our current capacity is not enough, and we can't receive too many guests. The main reason is that this is a wild zoo, which is different from ordinary caged zoos. We can't let guests come in and wander around. We have to be responsible for their safety and take them into the mountains in person. There is a shortage of manpower, so the number of guests we can receive is naturally reduced. "

Director Fang said: "Not only do you have to open a zoo, but you also have to work as a tour guide? It's really too hard." Director

Wang also said: "And your animals are not easy to see, which is also a big problem."

Mu Ling paused and said quickly: "Director Wang, Director Wang, we have solved the problem of not being able to see animals! Our animals are easy to see now! You can see them at will!"

Director Wang was surprised: "Easy to see, how did you do it?"

You know, the reason why the Bick Zoo went bankrupt before was because it was too difficult to see the animals!

Mu Ling did not hide it and told them about her previous daily trips into the mountains to interact with the animals. Finally, she said, "In short, the herbivores in the mountains have gradually become accustomed to the presence of humans, and some docile animals can even interact with tourists. Of course, the carnivores inside are still more vigilant. However, we will make up for the pity of not seeing carnivores in other places for tourists. For example, now, look this way."

Mu Ling led a few people to continue walking inside. After walking for a while, a huge glass house that was mostly blocked by the supermarket came into view.

Mu Ling introduced: "This is our animal dormitory. It is open for a few hours every day. Tourists who want to visit carnivorous animals or war beasts can come here to see them."

The glass house was wide and bright, and there were at least two or three hundred people surrounding it.

Director Fang was surprised: "Just now I saw that your gate was deserted, and I thought it was because there were fewer people in the afternoon, or most of the tourists had entered the mountain and had not come out yet. I didn't expect everyone to be here."

Mu Ling smiled and said, "It's true that some tourists haven't gone down the mountain yet, but those who have gone down the mountain haven't left yet. In fact, our zoo has received a total of 1,032 tourists today, but so far, no one has left early."

"No one left early?" Director Wang's face was full of disbelief: "How is this possible?"

At a tourist attraction like a zoo, usually no one will stay there for a whole day. Most people either come in the morning and leave at noon, or come in the afternoon and leave in the evening. It's not easy to play for half a day, but Director Mu actually said that of the one thousand guests who came in the morning, none of them have left yet?

This...

Even if the Bic Zoo is very popular recently, there must be one or two people who come to see it and feel disappointed among more than a thousand people, right? Seeing that

the leaders did not believe it, Mu Ling said, "Why don't the three leaders go over and take a look, and interview our tourists by the way, and ask them whether they had a good time today."

Mu Ling led the three of them over.

As a result, as soon as they passed by, they heard a burst of exclamations from the crowd, and then people kept shouting, "Ah, I will always be moved by Qilin," "This family cannot be without Qilin," "Our Qilin is really too warm."

Mu Ling was also curious about what they said, so she tiptoed to look into the glass house, but she only saw Qilin spit out the little yellow duck from his mouth and threw it in front of the little wolf, and then he returned to the soft mat in a cool manner and went to sleep.

He didn't see any real content.

Director Wang asked the tourist in front of him: "Excuse me, what happened just now?"

The tourist didn't even turn his head and said quickly: "The little wolf was playing with the little yellow duck there, but it was attracted by the ball in the corner. It went to play with the ball again, but this time Tayun suddenly flew down and grabbed the little yellow duck. The little wolf was anxious, and then Tayun flew for a long time and threw the little yellow duck onto the cat climbing frame. The little wolf couldn't climb up and fell several times. Finally, Qilin Unable to bear it any longer, he jumped onto the platform in two steps, took the little yellow duck down and returned it to the little wolf!"

The tourist became more and more excited as he spoke: "Wow, our Qilin is so perfect. Qingjiu and Shandian were still playing in the water, but only Qilin saw that the little wolf's little yellow duck was gone, so he went to get it for him. Qilin is really good, thoughtful, and warm. As a follower of the princess! I will always like the princess Qilin!"

Mu Ling: "..."

Why did he suddenly shout slogans? As a result, when the tourist shouted, other people around heard it, and they also started shouting: "I am a follower of the princess, I will always like the princess!"

"I am a follower of the princess, I will always..."

No, no, no, wake up!

Mu Ling was dumbfounded. She was too embarrassed to tell them that the one who usually snatched the yellow ducks the most from the little wolf was Qilin. Qilin probably had a strange possessiveness, thinking that only I can use the yellow ducks to bully the little wolf, and no one else can, so it helped the little wolf get the yellow ducks...

But this is not worthy of such praise!

It was Tayun.

Mu Ling looked at Tayun flying in the sky again, and saw that after flying for a while, Tayun swooped down, and then instantly grabbed a doll and continued to circle in the sky.

Is Tayun... practicing catching prey?

Mu Ling was very moved. Should I say that he is worthy of being a muscular man who eats snake bile every day, and never forgets to exercise and improve himself. He is really self-disciplined like an eagle!

Director Wang was stunned at this time, frowned and asked: "Director Mu, is the eagle walking on the clouds? How can it still fly?"

Mu Ling: "..."

Mu Ling almost forgot that she had called Director Wang before and asked Director Wang whether to give Ta Yun a wing softening injection. Director Wang insisted on giving it, but Mu Ling didn't do it and didn't tell Director Wang yet...

Mu Ling scratched her face and said a little guilty: "Leader, actually that's not Ta Yun, it's Ta Yun's brother, Feng Yun."

Director Wang: "..."

Does he look like a fool?

Director Fang said at this time: "This eagle seems to have entered the estrus period, right?"

Mu Ling was stunned and immediately looked at Director Fang.

Director Liu smiled and said, "Director Fang used to work in forestry, and later switched to tourism. He is very familiar with birds and animals."

Mu Ling did not expect that this person was also an expert, and quickly asked, "Leader, you just said that Tayun is in mating season?"

Director Wang interrupted, "Isn't it Fengyun?"

Mu Ling: "..."

Director Fang smiled and ignored the argument between the superior and the subordinate. He just said, "It looks like it failed in its courtship, so it is practicing hunting, strengthening its strength, and preparing to fight again. You guys are all good at it." Are there any other eagles in the park? It may have a crush on an eagle."

Mu Ling: "..."

Mu Ling looked at the eagle working hard in the glass house, and suddenly she didn't want to say a word...

Director Liu looked at the animals inside again and asked: "Are these, except for the little wolf, all retired S-level war beasts?"

Mu Ling smiled and nodded: "Yes."

Director Liu stared at Mu Ling deeply for a while, and then said: "Very good."

Director Liu and Director Fang seemed to be very interested in Qilin and the others, and they just watched them and didn't leave.

Director Wang pulled Mu Ling away and talked to her: "I was planning to come here by myself today, but as soon as I stepped out of the door, I was blocked by these two. They insisted on coming with me. I guess they have other ideas."

Mu Ling didn't quite understand this and asked puzzledly: "What ideas?"

Director Wang pondered and said: "The purpose of the Tourism Bureau is very simple. They definitely hope that your Bick Zoo will be as famous as possible, so that it can drive the development of the tourism industry of the entire God King Star. You don't know, when we came up just now, we saw the botanical garden at the foot of the mountain. It was so lively. Your zoo only accepted one thousand tourists today, but the botanical garden, thanks to your opening, has at least ten thousand tourists today!"

Mu Ling heard from the tourists that the botanical garden at the foot of the mountain was very lively in the morning, and it even caused a short traffic jam, but she didn't expect that there would be so many as ten thousand tourists...

I'm so jealous!!!

Director Wang continued, "Director Fang probably received the news this morning, so he came to see me this afternoon. He didn't care. At most, he just came to inspect you. He knew what was going on. But as for Director Liu, I'm a little confused about his purpose. The land of your Bic Zoo is yours. What does it have to do with the Land Planning Bureau? Why is he here to join in the fun?"

Mu Ling blinked, "Maybe Director Liu is also a fan of Qilin? But he can't get in without a ticket?"

Mu Ling said, looking to the front, and saw Director Fang with his hands behind his back, visiting with a smile, but Director Liu next to him had already put the computer camera on his head and was taking pictures of the glass house frantically.

The enthusiasm was so intense that it seemed as if they had merged with the surrounding believers and tourists...

Director Wang: "..."

Director Wang actually felt that what Mu Ling said made sense!

Old Liu wouldn't really be trying to evade the entrance fee, right?

But after a pause, Director Wang said, "I'll go back and feel him out."

Mu Ling smiled at Director Wang, feeling warm in her heart, and said gratefully, "Leader, you are so kind to our BIKE Zoo! It is a blessing for all the zoos on Shenwang Star to have a responsible director of the Forestry Bureau like you!"

Director Wang glanced at Mu Ling and said, "Don't flatter me. Solving your problems is my job."

Then, Director Wang looked around the entire park again, and finally said sincerely, "But... It's only been half a month since you took over the zoo, and you've managed it to such an extent. I have to say, Xiao Mu, you are capable."

Mu Ling felt embarrassed by Director Wang's praise, and blushed as she said, "In fact, the zoo is just getting started. Apart from other things, the number of our animals is too small. Even if tourists go into the mountains and see animals, they often have to take a car for more than ten minutes to see the next animal after seeing one. The interval between the two is too long, and the animals are still too scattered."

"The second problem is transportation. The mountain road is difficult to walk on. It takes several hours to go up and down the mountain. Although there are toilets for the convenience of the public, it is inevitable that tourists will still have inconveniences. In fact, I have seen the original design of the Beak Zoo. The design clearly divides the Beak Jungle into ten blocks, and each block has a separate small service area. So I plan to start preparing to build a second transfer service area in our park after I make my first pot of gold."

"Finally, there is the issue of war beasts. Director Wang, we still have a lot of war beasts in Piccolo Zoo, but it is really not okay to let the war beasts roam freely in the mountains. For example, Moonlight the Silver Snow Bear and Stepping Eagle are both retired S-class war beasts in our zoo. But they were almost killed, just a little bit, and they died quietly in the mountains. This is because we found them in time. What if they were not found? How can we explain to the government if they died? So When we have more manpower, we will also have to carry out unified management of the war beasts, regular physical examinations, one-on-one care, etc."

Mu Ling became more and more worried as she spoke. In fact, if she really had no money and could not afford to support all the animals in the park, she would not be in a hurry to reopen within half a month. As for the current state of the Bic Zoo, in Mu Ling's opinion, it is basically still a semi-finished product, and it will need at least several major changes to upgrade all the equipment and facilities.

Director Wang saw that Mu Ling had planned everything clearly, and a smile appeared on his face. However, when she mentioned the war beasts, he thought of something else: "So, how did you calm down these war beasts?"

Mu Ling was stunned and looked at Director Wang: "Of course I gave them medicine."

Director Wang shook his head: "I have seen your videos. Before you gave them the medicine, they were obviously very obedient to you."

Mu Ling blinked: "Director Wang, I think this is actually "You have a misconception. You think the animals become docile when they see me. In fact, they are docile by nature. They are war beasts, raised by humans. They are close to humans. They are just mentally unstable occasionally, not mentally abnormal all the time. As long as humans patiently comfort them, they will naturally recover."

Director Wang looked deeply at Mu Ling. After a while, he stretched out his index finger and pointed at the air: "You have a secret."

Mu Ling was surprised: "Ah?"

Director Wang said, "You must have a secret. You have special animal taming skills, but you won't tell me."

Mu Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Leader, I really don't have any."

Director Wang waved his hand, "Forget it, forget it. If you don't tell me today, someone else will ask you sooner or later. It doesn't matter if you just give me a perfunctory answer, but think about how to give them a perfunctory answer."

As he was speaking, Director Fang suddenly called Director Wang, "Old Wang."

Director Wang smiled and raised his hand, and said to Mu Ling, "You go and do your work, don't call us."

Director Wang left, and Mu Ling looked at his back and pursed her lips gently.

It seems that I have to think of another excuse in the future...

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At about 5:30 in the evening, all the shuttle buses on the mountain had returned.

Then the last group of tourists gathered at the animal dormitory.

Mu Ling looked at the time and thought it was about time, so she asked Xiao Zhao and the others to push out the prizes for the lottery.

Their movements quickly attracted the attention of the tourists. Some tourists who had been watching Qilin for a long time came over and asked the staff, "What is this for?" The one

who was asked was Fass, who smiled and said, "It's a lottery."

At this time, the spinning medal was also pushed out, so the audience saw that in addition to the lottery box, there was also a turntable.

There are twelve prizes written on the wheel, including "9999 cash", "free tickets to Bic Zoo for one year", "a box of famous brand milk", "a hug to a wolf cub", "feeding any retired S-class war beast once", "a payment for a poker", "a self-driving tour into the mountains of the park"...

Twelve prizes, some practical and some special, will be drawn tonight, and they will get what they spin the wheel.

Once the specific prizes are released, there are obviously more tourists here, and it is obvious that everyone is still interested in the prizes.

Soon, it was six o'clock, and Mu Ling shouted through the loudspeaker: "The lucky draw is about to begin. The lucky draw is about to begin. For all friends who support our Bic Zoo and like the animals in our Bic Zoo, today's lucky draw ceremony begins now!"

Mu Ling shouted, and the tourists who had not come over came over. When they saw the prizes, they started to make noises again. Some

asked if they could feed the unicorns? Some asked if the poking fun was really still available? Some asked if they could come anytime for the one-year free ticket? Could they only come alone?

Mu Ling answered everyone's questions one by one. At the same time, exciting music was played on the radio. Along with the music, a countdown was going on on the enlarged optical computer display above.

"We will draw lots in the last ten seconds. Ten, nine, eight..."

Ten seconds passed in a flash. Mu Ling pointed at a tourist and said, "You, sir, come up and draw the first lucky winner!"

The tourist who was called was Xiao Wei, who was squeezed to the front. Xiao Wei was flattered and hurriedly went up to the lottery box to draw a random piece of paper.

Mu Ling read out the number on the paper, and immediately, someone below exclaimed, "I, I, I won the prize!"

The tourist came up, Mu Ling confirmed his ticket number, and then let him spin the wheel, and asked with a smile, "What do you want to draw?"

The tourist immediately said, "I want a year's ticket. Your zoo tickets are too hard to grab!"

"Hahaha." There was a burst of laughter below.

But unfortunately, this tourist did not draw a year's free ticket, he drew a self-driving tour into the mountains.

Going on a self-driving tour in the mountains seemed to be a novel experience, and the tourist went down very satisfied.

Then came the second winner, who got a box of milk.

He was extremely disappointed, and there was a lot of wailing below, feeling sorry for him.

The third winner got a Qingjiao Pokpokole.

This winner was very happy. Mu Ling said that she would mail the Pokpokole to his home within seven working days and asked him to leave his address.

There was no other way, Mu Ling didn't have any ready-made Pokpokole here, and she had to take advantage of these two days to get more of Qingjiao's fur. Fortunately, it

was the change of seasons from summer to autumn, and Qingjiao had indeed lost some fur recently.

After the lottery was over, at half past six, the zoo was about to close.

Many tourists were reluctant to leave and wanted to go to the glass house to take some more pictures of the War Beasts, but the War Beasts were open from three to six o'clock. Now it was half past six and the glass house was closed, so they couldn't see inside.

Those tourists could only leave disappointed, but when they passed the gate, Mu Ling personally led people to distribute small gifts to them.

Today all tourists will receive a free small gift.

Someone opened it and saw that it was the small pendant in the shape of a unicorn that had been promised before, and a postcard. The postcards were all animals from the Piccolo Zoo. Immediately, some people exchanged postcards, hoping to get postcards of their favorite animals.

It was almost seven o'clock when the gate was completely closed, and today's business day was finally over.

After that, it was a long process of packing up.

After dinner, after changing the medicine for the war beasts and feeding them, Mu Ling did some calculations outside the veterinary station.

Today's supermarket turnover is 34,539 interstellar coins.

Today's restaurant turnover is 21,345 interstellar coins.

Today's total ticket revenue is 249,034 interstellar coins.

Profits and taxes still need to be calculated separately, but overall, the profit from a thousand tourists exceeded her previous expectations!

Looking at the strings of numbers on the draft paper, Mu Ling suddenly felt that all the hard work today was worth it!

Finally, she made money from the zoo!

"Knock knock." At this moment, there was a knock on the door behind her.

Mu Ling looked back and saw Xiang Bie. She smiled and said, "Brother Xiang, come quickly and see how much we earned today!"

Xiang Bie walked in with the milk, glanced at the data on the notebook, and nodded, "Not bad."

Then he put the milk in front of Mu Ling.

Mu Ling looked at the glass of milk.

Xiang Bie said, "Drink it and go to bed early. It will help you sleep. You have been too busy these two days."

Mu Ling took a sip from the cup and said with a smile, "I'm not busy. How busy can a thousand people be? There will be even busier times in the future. When the number of tourists received increases, the income will double, triple, or even triple. I've seen data from other zoos. The daily visitor flow of cage zoos can reach more than 30,000, and the daily visitor flow of wild animals can reach more than 20,000. If we want to receive 20,000 tourists at the highest standard, we can plan a lot of equipment now!"

As she spoke, she began to draw a picture for herself!

Xiang Bie saw that Mu Ling had a stack of plan drawings in her hand. He took them and flipped through them, then raised his eyebrows: "The second transit service area? This is not easy to build. It will cost millions of dollars."

Mu Ling: "..."

She was so ambitious a second ago, but when she heard millions, she was instantly scared: "Is it, this, so much?"

Xiang Bie put the drawings down and said, "There's no rush for this. Let's buy animals first if we have money."

Mu Ling thought that the most scarce thing in the zoo now is animals, and she also had a headache: "Animals are expensive... What do you say we should buy first? What's the cheapest?"

Xiang Bie thought for a while: "Level 3 protected animals are cheaper than level 1 and 2."

Mu Ling immediately used her optical computer to search for level 3 protected animals. She had just searched halfway when her phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number.

Mu Ling answered the call: "Hello, who is this?"

A smiling middle-aged male voice came from the other end of the line: "Director Mu, it's me, Director Liu from the Land Planning Bureau."

Mu Ling was startled, and even though the other party couldn't see her, she immediately stood up and stood very respectfully: "Oh, Director Liu, hello."

Director Liu said: "It's like this, I asked Director Wang for your number, I hope it's not too presumptuous..."

Mu Ling hurriedly said: "No, no, please tell me if you have anything to say."

Director Liu said: "Actually, I'm a little embarrassed to say it. I'm going to your Beak Zoo today. Actually, I'm asked by a friend. He is a commander of the Beast Army. He has a war beast that is about to retire, and he is choosing a suitable place for it to be fostered."

Mu Ling understood immediately: "What do you mean?"

Director Liu smiled and said: "His war beast is called Magic, it's a..."

"Elephant."