Chapter 103
Saturday morning.
Lu Shaojie arrived at the God King Planet ahead of time.
Lu Shaojie came to the God King Star this time with his girlfriend Huo Mian. Huo Mian's war beast is an S-level ear-horned white tiger named Aurora.
Some time ago, Huo Mian received news that Aurora's two children, "Champion" and "God of War", had both met with accidents on Furka. Later, for some reason, poachers were involved. In short, Aurora's mother Snowflake, and Aurora's son and daughter are currently in the Beak Zoo on God King Planet.
The people at Piccolo Zoo have always wanted to meet Huo Mian and discuss with her the follow-up issues regarding "Champion" and "God of War".
Huo Mian was supposed to come a month ago, but she missed her leave and went to the front line. Now that she is back, she took a leave and is going to Shenwang Star. Lu Shaojie was worried about her being alone, so he also took a leave and came with her.
Lu Shaojie is from the Army, Huo Mian is from the Beast Tamer Army. Since they are not from the same branch of the military and do not serve on the same planet, they came here on two separate flights.
It is now eight o'clock in the morning, and Huo Mian's starship will not arrive until ten o'clock.
Lu Shaojie checked the time and sent a message to Huo Mian.
The call was quickly connected, and Huo Mian's voice came from the other end: "You go ahead. I've already made arrangements with Director Mu a few days ago. Just show your military ID to the ticket inspector when you enter. You just wait for me inside."
Lu Shaojie agreed, hung up the phone, and took a taxi to the Beak Zoo.
When he arrived, there was a long queue outside the Beek Zoo, but the ticket checking was quick, so he didn't have to wait long.
When it was his turn, Lu Shaojie took out his military officer ID. He was about to explain the situation, but the ticket inspector seemed to have received the news a long time ago and let him pass directly.
Lu Shaojie thanked him and walked in, but as soon as he entered, he was swept away by the crowd.
There were a lot of people and cars in the park, and the loudspeakers in the square were still broadcasting words like "Second Service Area" and "War Beast Area".
Lu Shaojie didn't quite understand. He frowned and was about to ask a staff member for directions to the principal's office, but he didn't realize he was driving a team from an outsourced team. The team guide didn't hear what he asked and only said, "The third route, this is the third route, free bus, go up the mountain along the river road, go down the mountain along the middle road, and at noon, go to the second service area, where they sell lunch."
Lu Shaojie: “…”
Lu Shaojie repeated, "I want to ask how to get to the principal's office?"
The tour guide finally understood his question and said, "The director's office? The director is not in the office. The second service area is opening today, and the director needs to help out there."
The principal is in the second service area?
Lu Shaojie frowned. He glanced at the crowded square and thought that the car was also going to the second service area, so he simply got on it.
The 50-person car was quickly filled. The car started, and the tour guide who had been there also boarded. She stood in the front corridor and said on the microphone, "Dear tourists, hello everyone, welcome to the Beek Zoo..."
The tour guide's opening speech was very long, and he also mentioned several precautions, such as not littering, not approaching animals without permission, etc.
Some people in the car were listening attentively, while others were chatting together.
Sitting next to Lu Shaojie was a young man of about the same age. While taking photos with his laptop, the young man spoke to Lu Shaojie, "Are you alone?"
Lu Shaojie said casually: "No."
The young man said "Oh" and seemed to understand: "Going a different route from your friend?"
Lu Shaojie didn't want to explain too much to the stranger, so he just said "hmm".
He thought the topic was over, but the young man continued, "My name is Xiao Wei, what's your name?"
Lu Shaojie: “…”
Lu Shaojie exhaled: "My surname is Lu."
"You look older than me, so I'll call you Brother Lu. Brother Lu, let me tell you, I've been here three times. If you have any questions later, just ask me."
Lu Shaojie was a little surprised. He looked at him and said, "Isn't it said that tickets for the Piccolo Zoo are hard to get?"
Xiao Wei said: "Yes, that's why I only managed to grab it three times."
Lu Shaojie: “…”
What a good “only”.
Lu Shaojie noticed that as soon as Xiao Wei said this, several people around him turned their heads to look at him, their fists clenched.
Xiao Wei continued, "I just want to try all three routes and choose the best one. Next time I bring my girlfriend here, I'll propose to her."
Lu Shaojie raised his eyebrows: "Propose at the zoo?"
"Well, we all like animals." Xiao Wei then opened his light brain and showed Lu Shaojie the photos.
Lu Shaojie thought he was going to show him a photo of his girlfriend, but he clicked on a photo of a pig...
"Brother Lu, look, this is the photo I took on the first line. This little piglet is called Yunyun. Look at this photo. I took it while holding Yunyun."
Lu Shaojie: “…”
What could Lu Shaojie say but: "It's pretty cute."
Seeing him showing his support, Xiao Wei immediately became more excited: "Here are some more, and this one too. This one is a Dada sheep. I've touched its fur, it's super, super soft. And this one..."
The young man couldn't stop talking once he started. Lu Shaojie suddenly felt as if he had stirred up a hornet's nest. He should have known not to say "cute".
Lu Shaojie doesn't have much feeling for animals. He naturally respects war beasts and loves animals, but he is definitely not a fanatical animal lover like Xiao Wei.
"Don't you like animals?" Perhaps because Lu Shaojie's subsequent reaction was too cold, Xiao Wei finally stopped his chatter.
Lu Shaojie was a little embarrassed, but he still said matter-of-factly: "It's okay."
As soon as he said this, Xiao Wei stopped talking, but he looked at Lu Shaojie with strange eyes again.
Lu Shaojie thought that he had ruined his fun and made him unhappy. He didn't want to say anything, so he simply turned his head to the window and looked at the scenery outside.
After a while, the shuttle switched to hovering mode, they crossed the diversion of the two rivers, and then landed on a river beach on the opposite side of the river.
"We're here, we're here." The tourists who had looked at the map suddenly became excited.
The tour guide then said, "As you can see, we have arrived at our first attraction, the wetland forest. Our protective net is about to be activated, so please stay away from the windows."
As the tour guide spoke, he walked into the car. After making sure that no tourists were trying to pull at the windows, he made an OK gesture to the driver in front of him. The driver pressed a button, and suddenly a layer of wire mesh appeared outside the windows of the entire car.
As the car slowly moved forward, the tour guide continued to introduce the wetland forest: "There are two pythons living in our wetland forest. Both are rain pythons. One is a gray python named 'Tata' and the other is a green python named 'Ruyi'. The wetland forest is close to water sources, and rain pythons like moisture. They..."
The tour guide continued to introduce the characteristics of rain pythons, but the tourists in the car couldn't wait and asked, "Why don't we see them?"
The tour guide said, "Tata likes to swim by the water, and Ruyi likes to climb trees. Everyone should pay more attention to them."
Everyone was leaning against the window, looking around through binoculars.
Lu Shaojie looked at the time and saw that the car suddenly slowed down. How long would it take to reach the second service area?
Thinking of this, Lu Shaojie looked out the window. At this moment, his astonished gaze suddenly met the eyes of a pair of pythons in the treetops not far away.
Now the car was driving along the river bank. All the tourists gathered on the left side, close to the river, to see if there was a gray python in the water. Lu Shaojie was still sitting on the right side, so for a moment, he was the only one who discovered the green python.
Lu Shaojie stared at the green python, hesitating whether to call other people, but at this moment, he saw the winding green python coming down from the tree trunk, its slippery body rubbing against the lush lawn. Then, it climbed up another big tree closer to the car, and after circling on the branch, it swam to the front of the branch, raised its head, and looked in the direction of Lu Shaojie.
Lu Shaojie: “…”
Lu Shaojie suddenly covered his chest with his hand and felt his pounding heart.
In Lu Shaojie's impression, pythons are huge, dark in color, with brown and yellow markings, and look eerie and cold-blooded overall.
But the python in front of me was so beautifully green. There was not a single extra color on its body. Its back was dark green and its belly was light green. When it looked at people, it blinked its eyes and stuck out its pink tongue, looking very obedient.
"Hey, over here, Ruyi is over here!"
Someone shouted, and everyone gathered around immediately. They all laughed and called out to the python, "Ruyi! Ruyi, look here!"
The green python circled on the tree again, and then suddenly, its tail was seen hanging on the branch, its body hanging in the air, and it actually did a hanging upside down action.
"ah!!"
"careful!"
The tourists were startled and thought the green python was going to fall down. However, after doing this action, the green python jumped back onto the tree trunk, continued to hold the trunk and looked over here.
"Holy shit! Is it putting on a show for us?"
"Hahaha, oh my god, this is so cute!"
The tour guide in front of us said at the right moment, "Ruyi is still a baby python. Rain pythons reach adulthood at the age of three to five. She's only two and a half now, still a little kid. Ruyi likes to hang upside down because once the director of the zoo came to visit her, she accidentally fell from a tree and scared the director. Then she seemed to realize that this could scare people, so she likes to hang upside down when she sees people."
The tourists laughed their ass off: "The python's way of scaring people is to hang it upside down. What if you just open your bloody mouth?"
"Isn't that bloody mouth used for eating? Does it have anything to do with scaring people? A two-and-a-half-year-old baby wouldn't know that!"
"Hahaha, I'm really dying of laughter."
The tourists laughed, took photos and took videos.
Lu Shaojie listened to the tour guide's description and looked at the green python over there. Finally, he couldn't help but turned on his computer and started taking pictures!
When the car drove away and other tourists were still regretting not seeing the gray python Tata, Lu Shaojie had already taken out the previous photos and started screening them one by one.
As he was sifting, suddenly, he felt someone was looking at him.
Lu Shaojie turned his head and saw Xiao Wei from next door. Xiao Wei looked at him meaningfully, then smiled crookedly, inexplicably confident.
Lu Shaojie: “…”
Lu Shaojie thought about what he had just said about treating animals the same way, and it was indeed a bit embarrassing now. He coughed lightly and couldn't help but sit a little further inside.
Less than fifteen minutes later, they arrived at the next attraction, Otter Beach.
There were seven otters in Otter Beach. When they arrived, they saw five of them sleeping beside the dense bushes, while the other two were staring at the keeper, standing up, holding the keeper's legs with their short little hands, and asking the keeper to feed them dried fish.
The keeper was helpless and had to take out two small fish from the fish bucket around his waist and give them to them.
The two otters took the fish and quickly walked away, hiding behind a rock and chewing it.
Among the five sleeping otters, one seemed to notice that someone was eating alone, so it quickly ran over and circled around the keeper's feet.
The keeper had no choice but to give it a fish as well.
The otter grabbed the fish, turned around and returned to the other otters, happily lying down and chewing on the fish's tail.
"Oh, so cute." Someone in the car said excitedly.
Then there was the sound of taking photos one after another.
Lu Shaojie was naturally filming as well, and during that time he captured the otter scratching itself, the otter yawning, the otter hugging each other, the otter standing up to look at people, and the otter stacking up.
He was so engrossed in taking pictures that after leaving the python's area, the wire mesh was closed again. Now the windows could be opened. Lu Shaojie even flew the camera out to take pictures, but was reminded by the tour guide that he could not fly out. He could only regretfully retract the camera.
After leaving Otter Beach, Lu Shaojie was about to screen the photos again when he suddenly thought of something. He turned his head and looked to the side, and saw that, as expected, Xiao Wei was looking at him again.
Lu Shaojie: “…”
Don’t look at it, don’t look at it. Can’t it be okay if he just stops talking about it?
This route is along the river, so they visited animals along the river along the way.
Next stop is the hippopotamus.
Tourists can even get off the bus at this stop.
The tour guide smiled and said, "The hippopotamus Dudu has become accustomed to humans being close to him. If you want to take a photo with Dudu, please come over here and change into protective clothing. You can take a photo each under the arrangement of the keeper. However, you are not allowed to touch him, pet him, or make loud noises to scare him."
Of course, the tourists would not do such stupid things, they immediately went down to queue up with great enthusiasm!
"Please make way." Lu Shaojie said to Xiao Wei who was sitting outside.
Xiao Wei smiled and asked, "Brother Lu, do you want to take a picture?"
Lu Shaojie said: "...Yes."
Xiao Wei said: "Oh."
He stood up and walked ahead.
Lu Shaojie: “…”
No, I’m a little angry. Forget it, I won’t shoot anymore!
Hippo Dudu is really docile. He just lies there and won't hide away no matter who comes to take pictures. When he gets tired of lying there, he closes his eyes and goes straight to sleep.
But it looks even cuter when it’s sleeping!
In this way, almost everyone took a photo. Lu Shaojie was the second to last to take one. He even made a "yeah" gesture while taking the photo. After everyone finished taking the photos, the tour guide let everyone get on the bus.
After we got on the bus, the tour guide said, "Actually, Dudu isn't always here. He just had breakfast and didn't want to go in the water right now, so we were lucky to be able to take this photo. If we had gone another hour, the people behind us probably wouldn't have been able to take the photo."
After hearing this, the tourists felt that they had made a fortune.
Later, they saw toads, beavers, pangolins, turtles, and crocodiles.
In less than three hours, there were more than two hundred photos in Lu Shaojie's laptop!
He also changed from sitting in his seat with reservations at the beginning to jumping up and tiptoeing to look over when other tourists shouted "here, here"!
Around 11:30, the tour guide said, "The next stop is the second service area. If you didn't bring lunch, you can buy some at the restaurant in the second service area. If you did, there's a dedicated dining area there for you..."
The tourists below instantly became excited again. They had just heard a broadcast at the gate saying that the animal dormitory was temporarily vacant and all the war beasts had been sent to the second service area.
No one knows what the second service area looks like, and the director has not announced it before. According to their guess, it is probably just a larger glass house built on the mountain. After all, the glass house at the foot of the mountain seems a bit small as more and more animals are living there.
But even if the glass house is just moved to a bigger place, everyone is still looking forward to the second service area!
And Lu Shaojie...
Lu Shaojie: “…”
Yes, Lu Shaojie almost forgot that he was not here for tourism, he was going to the second service area to find Director Mu!
Thinking of his important business, Lu Shaojie's ears turned red, which was rare. He quickly turned off the computer and pretended nothing had happened.
"Don't collect it." The male voice beside him suddenly sounded.
Lu Shaojie looked at Xiao Wei next door.
Xiao Wei spoke with the tone of someone who had experienced it, saying with emotion, "I advise you to change the shooting mode to follow-up recording. I guarantee you won't miss a single frame of the war beast in the second service area."
Lu Shaojie said calmly, "I've seen a lot of war beasts, and I'm okay with them." He then took the opportunity to make up for it, "I took pictures of the animals in front because they're rare and uncommon, so I took more pictures."
Xiao Wei: “…”
Xiao Wei seemed stunned by Lu Shaojie's stubborn attitude at this time.
Lu Shaojie was also a little embarrassed. He didn't know what had happened to him. Ever since the green python Ruyi, he was inexplicably attracted to those small animals. He was obviously not an animal lover. He usually just swiped away when he saw animal videos on Starnet.
Xiao Wei saw through his confusion and said, "The animals at Piccolo Zoo are different. Whether they're war beasts or just ordinary animals, they're just more spiritual than those at other zoos. Of course, it could also be my filter... but don't disbelieve me, these ordinary animals also have a lot of fans. Take the photo of the little Gang pig I showed you earlier, for example. It already has over 30,000 fans."
Lu Shaojie: “…”
Lu Shaojie really didn't know this. His impression of Piccolo Zoo came from the war beasts.
Xiao Wei added, "Anyway, I hope you don't end up like me. I came once, then a second time, a third time, and am planning to come a fourth time. I really can't bear not to visit the entire park!"
Lu Shaojie smiled.
Lu Shaojie felt that Xiao Wei was exaggerating. He was not a person who particularly cared about having fun.
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Fifteen minutes later.
The shuttle bus arrived at the parking lot outside the second service area.
At this time, there were more than a dozen shuttle buses of various sizes parked in the parking lot.
This means that at least two or three hundred people have arrived.
"Everyone, come this way." After getting off the bus, the tour guide led the way.
The tourists followed behind, and soon they saw a tree-lined path. At the entrance of the gravel path was a sign that read "Second Service Area →".
The path was quite long and it took them about a minute to walk through it.
After exiting the path, there is a glass door in front of you that is so clear that it reflects light.
From their angle, they could only see the door. If they wanted to look left, right, up, or down, it was blocked by the branches and shadows of the trees.
The glass door is sensor-activated and opens when someone approaches.
As soon as they walked through the glass door, they heard a noisy voice coming from upstairs.
Behind the glass door is a foyer. On the left and right sides of the foyer are two photo walls. On the six-meter-high walls, photos of animals are hung. In the middle is the logo of "Bic Zoo".
Everyone was just about to look at the photos when they heard louder noises upstairs. Curious, they all went upstairs.
Once you go up, you will see that the second-floor platform opposite the stairs is actually an observation deck.
There is a three-meter-long white bench placed in a row here.
Now many tourists sit on this bench, facing the window, looking at the scenery outside.
What kind of scenery is there outside? There are forests and grasses, rolling hills, herds of animals, and gurgling rivers.
The tourists who had just come up the stairs rushed up as soon as they saw this scene. They stuck to the windows and pointed outside, saying, "Look, that's King Kong! King Kong is eating grass!"
"That's Pimi! Pimi is sunbathing on a rock!"
"Where are the other war beasts? The other war beasts are not here!"
The tour guide then said, "These places with benches are our self-service viewing areas. Let's continue walking inside."
After the tour guide called out, everyone hurried to follow him. Only then did they see that the glass building was actually a very long glass corridor.
There are many shops on both sides of the corridor, and in the areas that are not separated by shops, there are benches or dining tables for six people to sit opposite each other.
At this time, these outdoor dining tables are basically full of people. It is noon and everyone is eating.
The tour guide led the tourists further inside, and soon they arrived at the first shop.
The first one is a beverage store. The small shop is filled with self-service drinks. You can take whatever you want to drink and pay by scanning your face when you leave.
Keep walking forward, the shop in front of the beverage store is a bento shop.
The bento boxes in the store are all prepared in advance, freshly sealed, and customers can take whatever flavor they want and pay by themselves.
After the bento shop, there is a cultural and creative store.
There are many paper, pens, notebooks, postcards and the like in the cultural and creative store, and these cultural and creative items are all printed with the logo of Piccolo Zoo, as well as different war beasts or animal photos.
Today is Saturday, and there are already many adults bringing their children here to play. Now these children are clamoring to buy stationery. Even though children nowadays don’t use paper and pens in class, they just want them.
After the cultural and creative store, there is the accessories store.
There are bracelets with unicorn heads and rings in the shape of lightning.
Continue walking forward, and you will see a figurine shop, a puzzle shop, a model shop, a doll shop, and a tableware shop.
These are all Piccolo Zoo's peripheral stores.
Walking further ahead, they soon reached the intersection of the corridor. The intersection was the center of the entire glass building. It was the place with the highest traffic, so super large restaurants and supermarkets were opened here.
After passing the supermarket and restaurant, the corridor ahead is also lined with small shops, some of which are self-service and some are staffed.
Of course, some stores are still vacant for the time being, and I don’t know what stores will open in the future.
This second service area is actually a purely indoor environment, which is like the tourists are in the cage and the animals are outside the cage.
As Lu Shaojie watched, he became fascinated.
The tour guide took everyone for a walk and after the introduction, he let everyone move freely and told everyone to gather in front of the exit in two hours.
As soon as they said to disband, the fifty people instantly separated into groups of three or four.
Lu Wenjie went straight back to the first cultural and creative store and bought Ruyi's picture book. Then he saw the action figure of Dudu in the action figure store. Finally, when he saw the Q-version puzzle of seven otters in the puzzle store, he was completely tired of it and just bought it.
In between shopping, he would run out of the glass window from time to time, especially when some tourists shouted something loudly, he would be the first to rush over and put his camera, which had been turned on long ago, to record the scene, making sure not to miss any frame!
Lu Shaojie was shopping, and Xiao Wei was also shopping. The two men were each carrying large and small gift bags. When they passed by each other, they looked at each other tacitly, and then continued to gallop in the corridor with cameras on their shoulders.
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"Haven't you contacted her yet?" In the restaurant in the center of the corridor, Mu Ling placed a drink in front of Huo Mian and asked, seeing that she was still using her laptop.
Huo Mian was also a little embarrassed. She took the drink, said thank you, and then said, "He probably muted his computer. We're used to it in the army; we always mute it."
Mu Ling said, "Our ticket seller said he came in a long time ago and must still be in the park. I'll have someone keep an eye on him."
Huo Mian naturally thanked him, and then she looked out the window again.
I saw four white tigers playing and fighting together on the lawn downstairs.
Aurora, who is in the prime of his life and has always been tough and ferocious, is now like a young tiger that has not been weaned. He snuggles up to his mother Snowflake, who licks Aurora's fur meekly. On the hillside not far from them, Xiaobao makes a sprint, jumps up and falls on Dabao with a "bang". Dabao doesn't dare to move, so he lies on the ground pretending to be dead, trying to impress his neurotic sister with his deafening silence.
As Huo Mian watched, tenderness filled her eyes. Then she turned around and was about to talk to Director Mu when suddenly, the tourists outside started shouting.
Huo Mian and Mu Ling looked out the window at the same time and saw Ta Yun circling in the sky. Then, after circling for a while, it flew towards the window.
Tayun's sudden approach aroused the tourists' reactions, and everyone rushed to take pictures.
Huo Mian was just about to tell Mu Ling that Step Cloud was really popular when he saw a tall figure among the tourists crowding to take photos of Step Cloud, and he looked particularly familiar.
"Can it hear us? Can it hear us calling it?"
"I can't hear it, the glass is soundproof!"
"Did you take the picture? I took the picture, look!"
"Fuck, Brother Lu, you're really good at finding angles."
"It's okay. Stand over there and I'll take the picture for you. Hurry, hurry, it's about to fly away. Okay, I got the picture!"
"Send it to me quickly, send it to me quickly, Brother Lu, add me on the communication line. Yes, this is me, Xiao Wei."
"I added it and sent it. It's not working. I'll go to the jewelry store again. I remember there was a hairpin in the shape of a cloud. I wonder if it's still there."
"Ah, Brother Lu also bought hairpins?"
"I can't send my girlfriend off."
"Come on, let me buy one for my girlfriend too!"
The two of them walked away as they talked.
Huo Mian, who was standing next to him, said: "..."
The good news is that the handsome boyfriend is not lost. The bad news is that he has become worthless.
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