Chapter 83

The news that Guts had moved into the animal dormitory spread in the zoo the next morning.

The employee who was responsible for preparing breakfast for the war beasts was the first to discover it, and then the work group immediately exploded.

Everyone came down to watch Guts!

Guts had never seen such a scene before, and even through the glass, he immediately showed signs of stress. He stood tall and blocked Qingji, his body pressed down, his posture alert, and a threatening growl came out of his throat.

"Wow, Gus is so handsome!"

"He still remembers to protect Qingjian, so responsible!"

"Go, go, go, quickly move away, don't scare it!"

Everyone dispersed a little. When Xiao Zhao turned around, she saw the director coming out of the veterinary station. She immediately ran over: "Director, director, why did Gus move into the animal dormitory? It actually agreed to be kept in a cage. Aren't they said that wind-chasing wolves are wild and don't like to be restrained? How did you do it?"

Xiao Zhao shouted like this, and the others immediately gathered around. Everyone tacitly agreed that Gus moved into the animal dormitory by the director's arrangement. If not for the director, who else would have such an ability!

Mu Ling: "..."

Mu Ling touched her nose guiltily and muttered: "Just, it just went in like this..."

"How did it go in like this? How did you coax it?"

Mu Ling: "..."

Mu Ling didn't want to talk anymore. She shouted: "Okay, okay, let's all get to work. Get ready to open the door. Stop chatting."

After using the power of the director to drive everyone away, Mu Ling breathed a sigh of relief and turned to go to the animal dormitory.

In the animal dormitory, as soon as the door was opened, Gus, who was guarding in front of Qingji, immediately took an attacking posture again.

As a result, before it finished posing, Qingji behind it had passed it and walked directly towards Mu Ling.

The other animals also walked over.

A minute later, all the animals except Gus surrounded Mu Ling. Mu Ling touched the little animals while looking at Gus over there.

Gus didn't take an attacking posture at this moment. He seemed a little embarrassed. He stretched his neck to sniff over here, then licked his nose, wandered around the cushion for two circles, and then sat on the ground.

Mu Ling waved to Gus: "Gus, come here."

Gus lay there without moving.

Mu Ling tried to take two steps over there.

Gus immediately stood up and ran back vigilantly.

Mu Ling was afraid of scaring it, so he had to stop, and then said resentfully: "I'm not used to it. You come to my territory and I have to see your expression."

Seeing that Mu Ling didn't get closer, Gus sat down again and looked at them from a distance.

Mu Ling asked again: "So you don't care about your wolf pack? The leader is missing, the wolf pack will be in chaos, you want beauty instead of the kingdom?"

Gus didn't understand what Mu Ling was saying, he tilted his body and started to scratch with his hind legs, making dust everywhere.

Mu Ling saw that Gus was not going to talk, and he had no intention of leaving, so she could only go to Brother Xiang to discuss it...

-

"Blind date?" Mu Ling was a little surprised when she heard what Brother Xiang said.

Xiang Bie said: "In a wolf pack, only the wolf king has the right to mate. When Gus was around, it was inconvenient for other wind-chasing wolves to mate. Now that he is gone, we can arrange blind dates for other wolves."

The hierarchy of the wolf pack is very strict. When ordinary wolves are in estrus, if they want to have the right to mate, they have only two choices. One is to challenge the wolf king. After the challenge is successful, they become the new wolf king, drive away the old wolf king and his wife, own the entire wolf pack, and naturally have the right to mate.

The second is to leave the wolf pack alone and look for other female wolves. When it has a mate, they can wander together, breed offspring, and form a new wolf pack.

The wolf king's oppression of the wolf pack is supreme, so if Gus is still in the wolf pack, it will be difficult for other wolves. They dare not challenge Gus, and they can't find other male and female wolves in the park, so they can only hold it in.

After listening to Brother Xiang, Mu Ling thought about it and said, "Okay, I'll ask them where they can go for a blind date."

After that, Mu Ling contacted Manager Chen of Silin Zoo and Manager Harry of Fuai Zoo, but unfortunately, Silin and Fuai did not have the Fengzhui wolf breed. Fengzhui wolf is a wolf breed of Shuangjupiter. Shuangjupiter attaches great importance to Fengzhui wolf and the review is extremely strict. Not all zoos are qualified to introduce it. They prefer to send Fengzhui wolf to wild zoos because it will be freer.

Mu Ling asked for a long time in the peer group, and finally found out that the closest zoo to Bick Zoo is Changshan Zoo on Siwan Star, which has Wind Chasing Wolves. Mu Ling contacted the assistant of Director Tian, ​​but the assistant said that they also take the Wind Chasing Wolves to the original place of origin of Shuangju Star to mate during the breeding season every year. There are more Wind Chasing Wolves there, and the possibility of developing love is also greater.

Mu Ling thought it made sense, so after getting the communication number, she also contacted Shuangju Star.

When the Shuangjupiter Forestry Bureau heard that they were from the Bick Zoo, they were very enthusiastic: "Are you Director Mu?"

Mu Ling was a little embarrassed, and touched his ear and said, "You can just call me Little Mu."

The other side said, "If you want to bring the Wind Chasing Wolves back for a blind date, we are of course very welcome. We don't have much of anything here, but there are a lot of Wind Chasing Wolves. You can come anytime."

With the other party's words, Mu Ling began to arrange to bring the Wind Chasing Wolves back to his hometown for a blind date.

It just so happened that Mu Ling also had something to announce through this matter.

-At

8:30 in the morning, after the park opened, tourists outside began to come in one after another. After Mu Ling fed Xiaozhong with porridge, he planned to go to Swallow to see how Swallow was doing today after the "no sleeping" policy was implemented last night.

As a result, before she left the house, her computer started ringing. When she saw the number, Mu Ling perked up instantly: "Hello, hello."

A soft female voice came from the other end of the communication: "Hello, hello, is this the Piccolo Zoo? I saw the message yesterday..."

Mu Ling smiled and said, "Yes, yes, you are the owner of Swallow, Lieutenant Xin, right?"

On the other end, Xin Qin said, "Yes, we had a meeting too late yesterday, so we didn't get back to you. What do you think happened to Swallow?"

Mu Ling told him about Swallow's current situation and her suspicion that Swallow had been having nightmares, and then asked Lieutenant Xin if he knew the reason.

Lieutenant Xin fell silent.

Mu Ling waited for a while, and then said: "The cause of nightmares is mostly due to emotional influences such as fright, tension, fear, etc., which we commonly call psychological shadows. I suspect that it has some psychological shadows, and because it is nervous, these shadows are now repeatedly popping up, increasing its psychological pressure day by day." "

Fortunately, the Nine Needle Pig itself is not an animal with a very sensitive personality, so we see that it is usually relatively gentle and not very aggressive. If its personality is more sensitive, it may develop into depression."

Mu Ling said the most serious possibility, but the other side remained silent.

Mu Ling had to call softly: "Second Lieutenant Xin?"

Second Lieutenant Xin exhaled, and then said: "If you talk about psychological shadows, there is indeed such a thing..."

Mu Ling listened attentively.

"Director Mu, can we have a video call?"

The sudden suggestion made Mu Ling stunned for a moment, but she immediately said, "Sure."

Mu Ling switched the voice call to the video call, but she was stunned as soon as the camera was connected.

In the camera, a young woman in casual clothes was sitting in a wheelchair, smiling at Mu Ling.

Mu Ling didn't expect that the owner of the swallowing was actually...

She was a little at a loss for a moment, and opened her mouth several times, but no sound came out of her throat.

Second Lieutenant Xin on the other side said gently: "Don't be nervous. Didn't you ask about Swallow's psychological trauma? The only thing I can think of is probably this incident. It is related to my legs, so I wanted to video chat with you..."

She touched her leg and said: "Three years ago, I went to other planets as a support force to support a battle, but in that battle, I was seriously injured, my legs were broken, and I got separated from Swallow... Swallow disappeared after that. It was not until half a year later, when the battle was over, that the search and rescue team found it. I also learned that Swallow had been missing for half a year. "Shi has been wandering in the war zone. I heard that when the search and rescue team found it, it was biting a mutant cat in its mouth..."

Mu Ling felt very sad when she heard this...

She never thought that the cute pig who could recognize people and eat greedily would have such an experience...

She also thought that Shi always seemed to be divided. It was obviously a very gentle and easy-to-raise pig, but sometimes you would find that it was particularly sensitive, so sensitive that it seemed like it had been living in a high-pressure environment...

Just imagine, a war beast without a master wandering in a war zone full of alien beasts for half a year. How did it survive these six months? There were dangers everywhere, and it would be besieged by alien beasts if it was not careful. What did it eat? What did it drink? Did it dare to sleep?

Oh, right, sleep...

That's why Swallow always has nightmares now. Is it also recalling these things in its dreams? It repeatedly falls into the nervous and panicked mood of the past, the anxiety of not being able to find its master, the cautious living environment, and its nerves are damaged. It simply can't forget these things, and vomits every day because of them.

Mu Ling's heart ached!

She looked at Lieutenant Xin, who also had a sad face in the video, and asked cautiously, "So what are you doing now..."

Lieutenant Xin smiled bitterly and said, "In my case, I should have retired normally, but because I studied engineering machinery for two years before, when I was discharged from the hospital and was scheduled to retire, I applied for a delay, and then spent half a year re-studying engineering machinery. In the same year, I passed the engineering machinery qualification certificate. With the technical certificate, the higher-ups arranged for me to be transferred to logistics. Now I am in the logistics engineering corps, responsible for digital work." Mu Ling couldn't help but admire: "You are so great!"

Lieutenant Xin smiled and said: "I have no choice. In my situation, it is not easy to change jobs after retirement. I can't just stop working and wait until I get a mechanical prosthesis. How can I afford the living expenses during this period? Besides, Swallow has also retired and relies on the government's 150,000 yuan for maintenance. I am really afraid that Swallow will suffer in the future, so I absolutely cannot retire. After all, the salary of a lieutenant is really not bad."

When he said the last sentence, Lieutenant Xin even winked at Mu Ling.

Seeing that she was still in the mood to make a joke, Mu Ling suddenly felt a little amused.

Lieutenant Xin added: "I am really fine. The Federation's disability benefits are very complete, and my mechanical prosthetic legs will soon be lined up. I am just worried about engulfment. You said that engulfment is caused by psychological shadows, but the shadows have already been created. Can it be healed in the future?"

"Of course it can! Of course it can! Absolutely!" Mu Ling suddenly patted her chest and guaranteed loudly!

Lieutenant Xin was startled by her suddenly raised voice.

Mu Ling added: "Don't look at me because I'm young, but our zoo is actually full of talented people! We not only have senior veterinarians, but also special veterinarians! Special veterinarians, there are not many in the entire federation! We have one in our zoo! And I know Director Wu of the Capital War Veterinary Hospital and many special professors of the Veterinary Association. If I really can't do it, I will ask them for help. They are very nice and will definitely help us!"

Mu Ling was bragging about herself and waving the banner of the Veterinary Association, making sure to put Lieutenant Xin at ease!

Lieutenant Xin naturally saw the kindness of Director Mu, and she smiled warmly, saying, "Don't underestimate yourself. I know you are a great war beast expert. I have watched your videos. Now you have discovered the source of the disease of Swallow. I really appreciate your dedication to Swallow. When the staff of Longping Island contacted me and said that Swallow would be sent to your Piccolo Zoo, I was particularly surprised. Really, whether it is Longping Island Zoo or Piccolo Zoo, Zoo, it is a blessing for Swallow to meet you."

Mu Ling felt a little embarrassed by what Lieutenant Xin said, so she scratched her head and said, "Don't worry, we will do our best! You should also take care of yourself. I hope you can recover soon and come to visit Swallow in person."

Lieutenant Xin smiled and said, "I also hope there will be such a day."

Mu Ling said, "Why don't I take you to see Swallow now!" As

Mu Ling said this, she turned on the video and took Lieutenant Xin to the nursery.

At the nursery, Swallow was having breakfast at this time, so Mu Ling introduced this medicinal diet to Lieutenant Xin. When Lieutenant Xin heard that she had specially arranged a medicinal diet for Swallow, he immediately thanked her again.

The call lasted another 20 minutes before it ended. Before hanging up, Mu Ling happened to see Brother Xiang passing by, so she called out, "Brother Xiang, wait for me."

Then she said to Lieutenant Xin, "That's it for now. Next time you want to see Swallow, call me again and I'll take you to see him!"

Lieutenant Xin was stunned for a moment, then said, "Oh, oh, OK."

After hanging up the call, Mu Ling went to talk to Brother Xiang.

On the other side, Lieutenant Xin frowned as she looked at the hung call.

She touched her legs and smiled bitterly.

Maybe it was because she just mentioned the battle three years ago today. She just heard a similar sound and lost herself.

"Brother Xiang"...

Three years ago when she was supporting Yuan Haixing, she was lying in the ward with broken legs, and she always heard the voice of "Brother Xiang, Brother Xiang" coming from the next ward.

"Hey, Brother Xiang, you came to see me! What delicious food did

you bring!" "Brother Xiang, I'm really fine, please let me return to the team!"

"Where is Brother Xiang? What do you mean missing? I'm asking you where is Marshal Xiang! Where did he go!"

Thinking of this, Lieutenant Xin raised her hands and covered her eyes again.

Everyone said that she was miserable and that Swallow was miserable, but in fact, how many comrades and war beasts were buried in Yuan Haixing, and even their bodies could not be found...

Compared with them, she and Swallow, at least got their lives back...

-

"Staff meeting?"

On the other side, Xiang Bie, who was caught up, heard Mu Ling suddenly talk about a staff meeting and was a little puzzled: "What's it for?"

Mu Ling said: "There are probably two things. One is to discuss collectively whether the number of our visitors can be increased. Now two thousand tickets a day are still not enough, and netizens have been urging for more places. Of course, if we really open them, we will need to recruit more people. The current number of people is definitely not enough."

Xiang Bie nodded: "What about the second one?"

Mu Ling said: "The second one is that we have been officially open for more than a month now, and some positions need to be changed. For example, Brother Wei has been training new employees before, and many new employees were brought up by him. There will be no problem letting him be the head of the animal husbandry department. There are also some senior employees..."

Although no matter how senior they are, they only came half a month earlier than other employees.

"As for senior employees with potential, those with special potential can also be specially trained, for example, the ten beast keepers in the nursery, they belong to special technical jobs, and their salary and benefits are definitely different from those of ordinary keepers. And Xiao Zhao, although she is a ticket seller, Xiao Zhao herself is very outstanding and her education is quite high. She studied management. I think she can be arranged to be a team leader in the business department, in charge of our usual overseas tourism business."

Xiang Bie asked: "If she is the team leader, then who are the team members?"

Mu Ling: "..."

Xiang Bie: "..."

Xiang Bie asked: "No team members?"

"Ahem." Mu Ling scratched his face: "Because we are still small in scale now, and we don't have much external business. We mainly sell tickets..."

Xiang Bie: "..."

Isn't she still a ticket seller?

The positions are bloated, but the duties remain unchanged.

Mu Ling said quickly: "When the scale is large, these departments will have to expand! Then the work will be divided into smaller parts! Brother Xiang, you have to have confidence in our zoo!"

Xiang Bie said casually: "Confidence."

Mu Ling: "..."

You are so perfunctory!

Xiang Bie asked again: "What about Xiao Zuo?"

Speaking of Xiao Zuo, Mu Ling frowned.

Xiao Zuo is a stalker of Qilin. He was reported to have secretly taken photos of Qilin and secretly made Qilin peripherals and sold them on second-hand websites.

Xiang Bie said, "Before you came back, he begged me once, asking us not to fire him, and he would compensate for the portrait fee."

Mu Ling shook his head, "Actually, the portrait fee is secondary. I mainly think that his purpose of being a breeder is not pure, and this kind of behavior of stealing peripherals is more like taking advantage of his position to make money, not entirely the behavior of a fan. I still don't want to keep him.

" Xiang Bie said, "Hmm," "I'll talk to him later."

Because of this incident, Xiang Bie has not arranged for Xiao Zuo to drive the shuttle bus recently. He is now helping in the warehouse.

After talking about the others, Mu Ling looked at Brother Xiang with a smile.

Xiang Bie looked at Mu Ling strangely and frowned: "What's the matter?"

Mu Ling moved closer and asked in a low voice: "Brother Xiang, do you want a promotion?"

"No." Xiang Bie said without even thinking.

Mu Ling was stunned, her expression dull: "No?" This was an answer she didn't expect.

Xiang Bie looked at her and repeated: "No."

Mu Ling scratched her head, a little confused, but didn't Brother Wei and Dr. Bree say that Brother Xiang wanted to be the deputy director?

Xiang Bie seemed to see Mu Ling's intention and said: "You don't have to promote me, I'm fine as it is now."

"How can that be!" Mu Ling immediately said: "Position affects salary, Brother Wei is a supervisor, you have to be at least a..." "

I just want to stay the same." Xiang Bie said again.

Mu Ling: "..."

Mu Ling choked.

Xiang Bie checked the time on his bracelet and said, "The supermarket has some goods coming in, I'll go get busy first."

Then he left.

Mu Ling looked at Xiang's back and was really confused. She had no choice but to go back to the veterinary station to ask Dr. Bray.

Dr. Bray was changing the IV bottles for Dabao and Xiaobao. After hearing what Mu Ling said, he said, "He must be playing it safe!"

Mu Ling was puzzled: "What's so good about playing it safe?"

Dr. Bray walked out with the old bottle, saying, "When someone asks you if you want to eat, you have to say it in a polite way. If the elders give you a red envelope, you have to refuse it. Oh, no, no, you are so blatantly asking people what position they want, how can they say it."

Mu Ling felt something was wrong: "His expression is serious, it seems that he really doesn't want it."

Dr. Bray stopped and turned to look at Mu Ling: "Do you believe it?"

"Who works without wanting a promotion, a pay raise, or a future? Then what is the purpose of taking this job? Just for the love of generating electricity? Let me ask you, if you didn't have a salary, would you take this job?"

Mu Ling was immediately shocked when she heard what Dr. Bray said: "I didn't have a salary in the first place!"

Dr. Bray: "..."

Mu Ling's eyes were filled with tears: "I have also spent all my savings. I use the money I earn to buy this and that, and I also have to save money to build a second service area. I don't have any personal property at all!"

Doctor Bree: “…”

Doctor Bree was silent for two seconds, then said: “So both of you are sick.”

Mu Ling: “…”

Mu Ling thought of Brother Xiang’s previous reaction again. She thought for a long time, and finally waved her hand: “Forget it, forget it, let’s put Brother Xiang’s matter aside for now, and talk about Swallowing first.”

Mu Ling told her what Lieutenant Xin had told her about Swallowing’s past.

After listening to this, Dr. Bree's expression became serious. He asked, "Are you sure that Swallow's vomiting is really due to nightmares?"

"About 70% probability."

Dr. Bree hesitated and said, "I haven't encountered such a case..."

Normally, who would think about animals dreaming...

Dr. Bree said, "Why don't we wait for Professor Sun to come and ask her? She has gone to the starship center to send other professors and will be back before noon."

Mu Ling scratched her face and muttered, "Actually, I have an idea, maybe I can try it."

Dr. Bree looked at her.

Mu Ling said, "What if dreams can be artificially created?"

-Twenty

minutes later, Dr. Bree, Li Yan, and Swallow's breeder were standing outside Swallow's glass house, watching what Mu Ling was doing inside.

Mu Ling was wearing a protective suit, because she had a little trouble with Nine Needle Pig yesterday, so she wore a helmet to ensure safety before going in today.

However, after Nine Needle Pig had eaten and drunk enough today, it was generous and did not bear a grudge against Mu Ling yesterday. It still lay in its den, looking at Mu Ling with alert eyes.

At this time, Mu Ling squatted in front of Nine Needle Pig. Nine Needle Pig felt unwell and was about to get up and leave.

"Wow."

Something suddenly fell from Mu Ling's hand.

Upon closer inspection, it was a pendant.

The pendant was hanging flat in front of Nine Needle Pig's eyes. Mu Ling gently shook the pendant, and the pendant swayed left and right. Nine Needle Pig's eyes swayed back and forth with the pendant.

Mu Ling tried to hypnotize her with a gentle voice: "You feel your eyelids getting heavier and heavier, you are very sleepy, you slowly close your eyes... you slowly close your eyes... you close your eyes... Sister Tun, please give me some face and close them for a while, I beg you..."

Jiuzhen Zhu looked at the helmet in front of him that had been talking all the time, its heavy head resting on two pig trotters, looking at the other party in confusion and humming twice.

Mu Ling had no choice but to continue swinging the pendant and continue hypnotizing.

Mu Ling had never learned hypnosis, but she had read two books on hypnosis when she was in school because of her interest. She remembered that if she often had nightmares, she could use hypnosis to treat them.

Hypnosis can guide the other party into a dream of their own creation. The Nine Needle Pig can't understand too many human words, but it can understand some instructions, so the dream constructed by Mu Ling is a dream composed of instructions.

For example, sleeping, eating, playing, rolling in the mud, these are the things that she used to like the most in the data, and she wants to bring it into that carefree and happy world...

"Don't force it, you are very tired, you are eager to rest, you close your eyes, slowly close your eyes..."

Ah ah, "close your eyes" and "rest" are obviously instructions, why don't you close your eyes!

The Nine Needle Pig seemed to feel that this human would not hurt it. It listened to the other party's deliberately lowered voice. It was very strange. This sound, this clamping sound, was very comfortable. It slowly lowered its eyes, as if it was really going to fall asleep...