Chapter 79

Dogs are the earliest domesticated animals.

Since the ancient Blue Star period, dogs have often fought side by side with humans.

Police dogs, hunting dogs, drug-trapping dogs, rescue dogs, guide dogs, therapy dogs, sled dogs, shepherd dogs, and the most common pet dogs.

It takes much longer for dogs to establish friendship with humans than it does for other animals to establish friendship with humans. Therefore, dogs are the animals that love humans the most.

The actor was still licking the loyal hair, and the mastiff responded to it happily, but because of its weak body, it could not make more reactions and could only wag its tail to express its mood.

However, as it wagged, its pair of wet eyes began to search among the crowd again, as if it was looking for something.

Mu Ling knew what it was looking for...

Seeing the look in the mastiff's eyes, she couldn't help but stepped forward and gently patted its shoulder bones which were a little painful, and said: "It doesn't matter. Although the master is not here, my sister is here, and the grandparents are here too. Everyone is with Xiaozhong."

Xiaozhong responded to his name. He blinked his eyes and stared at Mu Ling blankly.

Mu Ling continued to pat it, and then asked the old professors: "What's wrong?"

Dean Wu took off his mask and said: "It's okay, as long as it wakes up. Now keep it for now. Feed it some nutrient water later, and then feed it some softened animal food after half an hour. Don't feed it too much, just two or three points full. It hasn't eaten for too long, so it needs to eat small meals frequently. The stomach needs a process of adaptation."

Mu Ling nodded and said. "Then I'll take care of it. I'll calculate the time to feed it."

Mu Ling was much more attentive to the war beast than the nurses, so the old professors naturally trusted her more. So they went to the next door to discuss the surgery. The tumor was benign now, so the sooner the surgery was done, the better. If it was delayed until it worsened, it would be troublesome. Not to mention the difficulty in treatment, even if it was cured, the body would not be able to return to its original state.

After the professors left, Mu Ling looked at the officer and said, "I want some nutritious water and a bottle. It's not convenient for Xiaozhong to drink water by himself now, so it's more convenient to feed with a bottle. This war beast hospital should have bottles for young animals, right?" The officer

glanced at Mu Ling, said "yes", walked to the door, and asked the soldiers to get it.

After a while, the soldier came back with nutrient water in one hand and a bottle and animal food in the other.

Mu Ling took the water and the bottle, but did not take the food: "This food is not good. The animal food is too greasy. Xiaozhong needs to eat lighter food now. Bring some baby animal food. The baby animal food has small particles and is easier to chew. In addition, the baby animal food contains milk powder, which is good for the body."

The soldier had to go get the baby animal food again.

During this period, Mu Ling squeezed the bottle to clean it, then disinfected it, poured the nutrient water into it, and walked to the bedside.

Pulling open the oxygen mask on Xiaozhong's mouthpiece, Mu Ling first observed Xiaozhong's condition. Seeing that it was not difficult to breathe, he stuffed the nipple into its mouth.

The mastiff hadn't drunk from a bottle for years, and it was a little uncomfortable, so it wanted to move

its head away. But it couldn't move its head away at all, because its head was held by the white fox, which was still licking its hair, almost licking it bald.

"Be good, Xiaozhong, drink some water."

In the end, the mastiff was forced to hold the bottle in its mouth, and Mu Ling raised the bottle again, and the sweet nutrient water flowed into the mastiff's mouth, which had been dry for a long time.

Then the next second, Xiaozhong, who hadn't drunk water for who knows how long, suddenly began to suck in big gulps, tung tung tung. In less than ten seconds, the water in the bottle was almost gone.

Mu Ling quickly controlled Xiaozhong's drinking speed and fed him slowly and evenly.

After finishing a bottle of water, the mastiff licked its nose. Now, its nose, which had always been dry, was a little moist. After

drinking the water, the mastiff seemed to finally feel a little more comfortable. It stretched its neck and sniffed Mu Ling vigorously.

Mu Ling simply put her hand on the tip of the mastiff's nose and let it smell.

Xiaozhong sniffed for a long time, then stretched out his tongue and licked Mu Ling gently.

Mu Ling smiled and touched his nose.

The officer at the door looked over at this time.

When the officer saw Xiaozhong licking Mu Ling, he seemed to have something to ask, but considering the unpleasant quarrel with Director Mu before, he couldn't ask the questions.

"It licks me because I have the scent of an actor. If you don't believe me, touch an actor twice and then put your hand to its nose. It will lick you, too." Mu Ling spoke suddenly without raising her head, but the officer knew she was talking to him.

The officer was a little embarrassed and explained: "I'm not suspecting you..."

Mu Ling said calmly: "Suspicion is not a bad thing. Of course we should be suspicious if there are suspicious places. If we don't suspect, it means you are not doing your job properly. It's just that some suspicions can be asked directly. You asked and I answered, which saves trouble for both of us. It's better than guessing. Don't blame me for speaking rudely and being rude to you. You should be able to see that I'm not in a good mood."

The officer: "..."

What could the officer say? He could only shut up. He could see that Director Mu still felt that they were keeping her under house arrest in the name of protection...

On the other side, after Xiaozhong licked Mu Ling twice, his head suddenly nodded upwards. He looked up at the white fox above and rubbed his forehead against the white fox's fur.

The actor stood up at this time, lowered his head, licked the mastiff's eyes, nose, ears, and then washed its face.

The mastiff squinted comfortably, and Mu Ling noticed that its tail began to wag again, and then it stretched out its tongue to lick the white fox.

While it was licking, the white fox did not move, and it made a humming sound from its mouth, allowing the mastiff to lick its neck fur.

After licking for a while, the white fox came around again.

Mu Ling quickly moved the mastiff's tube away to prevent the actor from stepping on it or tripping over it.

The actor moved to the mastiff's chest, where it sat with its legs up, and then stretched out its chin and rested it on the mastiff's neck.

The mastiff seemed to be very familiar with this action. It let the white fox cling to it, then it tilted its head to lick the white fox's ear hair and hair more conveniently, and gently rubbed the white fox's neck with its neck.

Whether it was their posture or their interaction, it was so natural and familiar, as if they had always been getting along like this a long time ago.

After a while, the baby animal food was delivered.

Mu Ling tore open the bag, grabbed two pieces of animal food in her hand, and fed them directly into the mastiff's mouth.

The mastiff didn't react at first, until it smelled the food, it immediately showed excitement, and ate the two beast food with a roll of its tongue!

But even in such a hurry, its teeth didn't bite Mu Ling's fingers. It seemed that it knew that hands should not be bitten. Even if it was so hungry that it was going crazy, it couldn't bite.

Mu Ling felt distressed when she saw it. She guessed that the master of Xiaozhong should have fed it with his hands in the past.

Their relationship should have been very good in the past.

After touching the mastiff's big head again, Mu Ling continued to feed Xiaozhong with beast food two by two, until he was about three-quarters full, she put the beast food aside, and then went to wash her hands. When she came back, she began to coax the two war beasts to sleep.

The intravenous medicine for Xiaozhong contains drugs that relax nerves, which has the effect of helping sleep. The actor has not rested since he saw Xiaozhong in the early morning, and now he is finally tired.

Mu Ling took out the optical computer and began to read stories. She read so many stories to Moonlight that she has saved a lot of fairy tales.

Time passed by minute by minute. After half an hour, after making sure that the two war beasts were asleep, Mu Ling got up quietly, opened the ward, and walked out.

Outside the ward, the soldiers were still guarding it strictly.

Mu Ling looked around and did not see the officer whose rank she did not know, so she said to the person next to her: "I want to make a call."

The soldier immediately looked at her.

Mu Ling said, "Let your leader come over." After a while, the officer came over. He looked at Mu Ling and said, "You can make calls at will."

Mu Ling said, "Can I have a word with you?"

The officer was stunned, but still followed Mu Ling to a corner.

"I'm not making calls for myself, I want to make calls for you." Mu Ling suddenly said at this time.

The officer frowned.

Mu Ling got straight to the point: "I don't have much time, I can't stay here forever, we have a lot of sick war beasts to take care of at home, and most importantly..."

Mu Ling looked at the officer: "I also want to take Xiaozhong away."

The officer's expression changed, and he immediately said: "Impossible."

Mu Ling pursed her lips: "I know that Xiaozhong is very important. You want to use it to catch Luo En, but if Luo En is caught, you won't need Xiaozhong then. And Xiaozhong will be without a master and can't serve. At that time, can you retire it? After retirement, can you send it to our Piccolo Zoo?" The officer

said: "I don't know if Xiaozhong is a master, but if you want to take Xiaozhong away, can you send it to our Piccolo Zoo?" The officer stared at Mu Ling and said seriously: "Director Mu, we always need Xiaozhong. It is not just a tool to catch traitors. It is our partner and comrade-in-arms. It cannot be abandoned just because someone is caught. It depends on itself how it will choose at that time."

Mu Ling was puzzled: "What do you mean it depends on itself?"

The officer said: "Xiaozhong was not bitten by the alien beast, and it has no nerve damage. Therefore, after the tumor is cured and the body is healed, it can still become a healthy and normal mastiff. If the traitor is caught, Xiaozhong can regain his freedom. This freedom is chosen by itself."

"If it still wants to serve, we will find a new owner for it. If it doesn't want to serve, we will open it up for internal adoption. It can be adopted by an ordinary family with medium to upper economic conditions and live the life of a normal dog from then on. It will no longer be a war beast and will no longer have the responsibility of daily training. Its new owner can take it traveling around, eat all the delicious food in the world, and spend the rest of its life without worries. It doesn't necessarily have to go to the zoo after retirement."

Mu Ling frowned.

The officer continued, "In fact, normal war beasts can be adopted internally after normal retirement. The conditions for internal adoption are very strict. If you really want to be loyal, when the traitor is caught and it chooses to retire, you can queue up to apply. If you have made special contributions to the Federation, the chances of being adopted will be higher."

Mu Ling asked, "How does it choose whether to retire?"

The officer said, "Let it try, try to let the new owner train it, or let the new owner take it out to play, and after trials, see which kind of life it likes more."

Mu Ling: "..."

Mu Ling fell silent and stopped talking.

The officer just stared at her, and after a while asked, "What communication did you just say?"

Mu Ling was a little frustrated at this time. She said softly, "I originally wanted to help you catch that Loen, and then I can take Xiaozhong away..."

The officer's eyes lit up: "Do you have a plan?"

Mu Ling said listlessly, "Isn't the plan what you thought of, to lure people over and catch turtles in a jar."

The officer frowned and said "This method may not work."

They have checked all the people in Piccolo Zoo. The composition of those employees is very complicated. Some were sent by the War Beast Center to gather information, some were sent by other zoos to steal experience, some were retired Beast Army soldiers looking for a second chance, and there was even one who was a stalker of Kirin. Some of them became a keeper and took pictures of Kirin every day.

At first, they thought that stalker was a member of the rebels. They thought that Kirin was the next target of the rebels, as he was so sneaky.

It turned out that the worst thing the stalker had done was to secretly use Kirin's portrait rights to print illegal peripherals and sell them to other fans on the second-hand website. They could only help call the police and report the stalker for defamation. The police would then inform the management of the Piccolo Zoo of the incident, and it would be up to Piccolo Zoo to decide whether to sue or not.

After checking around, they found no one who looked like a rebel or a rebel spy. They all thought that this plan was going to fail, and wanted to wait for two more days at most. If there was still no result after two days, they would send him back to Director Mu, and the old professors would follow the loyalty and continue to return to the capital star for treatment.

"Your method didn't work because you were unwilling to invest money," Mu Ling said slowly.

The officer was stunned: "We are unwilling to invest? Do you know how much we have paid?"

The joint investigation team composed of military chiefs from four planets used tens of thousands of unfamiliar soldiers to ambush for hundreds of hours at various major traffic arteries on the God King Planet.

At the same time, the open search has never stopped. After the rebels' base on the God King Planet was dispersed, they kept a close eye on the God King Planet and investigated it at all costs. However, because they did not know whether the exposure of the base on the God King Planet was a plan of Loen's mantis catching cicadas and orioles behind, and they did not know whether Loen had left the God King Planet, so while strictly guarding the God King Planet, they added a capture plan.

As for the capture plan, on the surface, the defense level of Mercury is low, but in reality, in order to ensure that the rebels or Lorne cannot escape if they come, the entire planet has long been taken over by the Capital Army. There are tens of thousands of elite soldiers on the planet, and it is guaranteed that if a single hair of the rebels falls, it will be blown to ashes by bullets.

Otherwise, they would not dare to let the old professors, Dean Mu, and the loyalists stay here. Even the nurses, care workers, and sweepers in this war animal hospital are all their people.

They checked all the rats in the basement one by one. Do you think they are unwilling to invest?

I don't know how much money they have spent!

However, he couldn't tell Mu Ling about these plans. He could only take a deep breath.

Mu Ling seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, and said casually: "Of course, when I say it costs a lot, I don't mean the economic cost. I mean, you are too embarrassed to make this trap bigger and better."

The officer frowned: "What do you mean?"

Mu Ling said: "First of all, since you suspect that I am being used by Luo En, or that there are Luo En's spies around me, that is to say, you guess that there is a 50% chance that Luo En is on the God King Planet. But recently, the God King Planet has been strictly inspected. Our Qilin's owner Colonel Val has come, and a director has also come, causing such a big commotion. If he is really on the God King Planet, he must have retreated and dared not show up."

"Secondly, if he is not on the God King Planet, and he already knows that we are on Water and Jupiter, then I would like to say that finding a planet with low defense is like telling him, come quickly, we have an ambush here, and we are waiting for you! Can he come?"

The officer listened to Mu Ling's words, and his expression became worse and worse.

Mu Ling said: "Don't be angry, I know what you are thinking, you want to do it with both hands, and you want to be strong with both hands. It's nothing more than that you want to tighten the rules on the God King Planet to see if you can stop him, and you want to capture him on Water and Jupiter to see if he will fall into the trap. You think that this way you can be sure of success, and block all the roads ahead and behind."

"But this may be a sure thing, or it may result in total loss. Putting aside other things, if I were Xiaozhong's master, I would not be worried at all if I knew that Xiaozhong is in the hands of the military. Can the military still abuse Xiaozhong? If you assume that he really cares about Xiaozhong, then if you save Xiaozhong, not only will he not be worried, he will probably smile so hard that his face will break. He will just hide well and ensure his own safety. When you become lax in the future, you can then find a way to steal Xiaozhong. There is no rush at all. In that case, wouldn't everything you have done be in vain?"

The officer's brows became increasingly tense, and he looked at Mu Ling without saying a word.

Mu Ling knew that this person was really angry, but she just didn't believe it. They didn't find the obvious problems themselves, which meant they were just holding back. The people above were not determined enough: "I think we have to spend a lot of money, or impose strict discipline, check one by one, and turn the Shenwang Planet upside down. I don't believe we can't find him. Of course, you think there is only a 50% chance that he is on the Shenwang Planet, so maybe even if we turn it upside down, there will be nothing."

"Or we can take another path and carry out the capture to the end. Let me give you an example. It's an immature suggestion. You can refer to it..."

"Withdraw all the troops from the God King Planet, and then immediately release a federal news report, falsely reporting military intelligence, framing the rebels for attacking the Water Jupiter Planet, saying that the rebels attacked the Water Jupiter War Beast Hospital, and many beasts in the hospital were taken away, including a mastiff that was receiving emergency treatment there. Then, manipulate the news footage to make it seem real and fake. Once the news is broadcast and becomes a hot topic, no matter where Lorne is, he will know about this."

"Then it was revealed that the rebels took these war beasts away for experiments. If Loen really cared about loyalty, he would definitely contact the people above the rebels and ask who touched his war beasts. But he couldn't find out because without this person, the rebels would think that we did nothing. But that's what the news reported. At this time, if you were Loen, and the war beasts were missing, would you believe the federal news or the rebels?"

"How deep can the relationship between a couple who betrayed each other halfway be? But the news is authoritative, so he will definitely suspect the rebels first. At this time, reveal a name appropriately. You have been arresting rebels for so many years, you can't be unaware of the name of a small rebel leader, right? You can select the name of a small rebel leader, and then find out which planet he is stationed on."

“When the time comes, just reveal that it was this rebel leader who took the war beast away. Loen is one of their insiders, and he must know which planet this rebel leader is on. He will definitely contact the other party for loyalty. If the other party does not admit it, he will go to find him. Then you just need to wait at the various starship entrances and private ship entrances of that planet, and you will catch him, won’t you?”

Officer: “…”

Officer: “………………”

The officer was completely numb when he listened to Mu Ling telling the whole plan like a story. What

is she talking about?

Is it as easy as she thinks to catch the rebels?

Who is he taking for a fool?

Apart from anything else, reporting false news and creating panic are all crimes, and he will be brought to the military court!

After Mu Ling finished speaking, she looked at the officer's expression and said, "I told you, I was just giving an example. You must have your own ideas. Anyway, what I mean is that you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child. If you are determined, you will definitely catch him!"

To be honest, Mu Ling had only one purpose in saying these things today. She really wanted to catch Luo En as soon as possible. Only when Luo En was caught would she have the opportunity to take him away to pledge his loyalty.

But this officer said something about applying to queue up...

Mu Ling didn't know if she met the application conditions, but if they really caught the traitor according to her idea, she would have made a special contribution to the Federation, right? Then she should be eligible to apply for an adoptive parent, right?

Mu Ling was nervous. Seeing that the officer was still thinking with his head down, she said, "I just said I wanted to make a call because I wanted to report this idea to your leader. If you are embarrassed to say it, just give me his call and I will tell him."

The officer didn't say anything.

Mu Ling said, "Then you think about it again. I'm going to go back first. Call me if you have anything."

Then she turned around and went back to the ward.

In the ward, the two little guys were not awake yet and were sleeping soundly. Mu Ling walked to them, stroked them gently, and stayed with them by the bed.

-Outside

, after standing there for a long time, the officer gritted his teeth, found an empty ward, and called his superior.

Someone soon picked up the phone.

Ten minutes later, the officer repeated Mu Ling's words, and there was silence on the other end of the communication...

The officer gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and prepared to be scolded.

In fact, he regretted it after he said this. The so-called plan of the little girl was fantastic and had no possibility of being implemented at all, but for some reason, he actually reported it as a big deal.

The leader must think he is stupid.

The officer lowered his head in grief, and the whole person seemed to be wilted.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Two minutes later, the voice of the superior came from the other end: "Do you know why Director Mu raises such powerful war beasts?"

The officer was stunned. This question seemed to have nothing to do with what he just said.

The officer said carefully: "I don't know."

"Because she specializes in war beast psychology, all her methods of treating war beasts are to attack the mind, including what you said before, that Xiao Zhong has woken up, and she found that the method to stimulate Xiao Zhong to wake up is 'Loen', which is also a way to attack the mind."

The officer listened quietly and fell silent.

The superior added: "And the idea she is providing you now is also a psychological attack, framing, spreading rumors, sowing discord, and fanning the flames, and finally successfully creating internal opposition in the rebel army. Every step is to calculate people's hearts."

"That is..."

The officer immediately asked: "What is it?"

"She is too young and inexperienced, so this plan is still a bit naive, but she is really brave and her idea is also feasible."

The officer's eyes widened, and he was shocked.

The leader has identified with that little girl?

The superior said: "Protect her, she is a talented person, you can encourage her to take the civil service exam in the future."

The officer paused, thinking of what Director Mu had just said, and said hesitantly: "But it seems that her purpose in thinking about this is just to kill someone with a borrowed knife. She thinks that if she kills Luo En, she can take Xiaozhong for herself."

Superior: "..."

Officer: "When I said that Xiaozhong had to be adopted internally, she was quite disappointed. She looked as if she had to kill us after she killed Luo En."

Superior: "..."

Officer: "But I will protect her, I'm a little afraid of her..."

Superior: "..."