Chapter 104
Her boyfriend was a bit too embarrassing, so Huo Mian finally decided to pretend not to know him.
Mu Ling came over at this time, followed Huo Mian's gaze, and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Huo Mian smiled and turned back, pushing Mu Ling inside: "It's okay, it's okay, I saw it wrong."
The two returned to their seats, and Mu Ling continued to talk to Huo Mian about Dabao and Xiaobao. "Actually, Fulka Star contacted me before. They've transferred Dabao and Xiaobao's medical expenses and food expenses. They still want to take Dabao and Xiaobao back home. Although the previous incident hasn't come to a conclusion yet, because its nature was so serious, the relevant personnel there have been punished. The veterinarian has disappeared and is still being sought. The school's dean and vice-dean have both resigned, and there is now a new leadership team..."
Huo Mian had been on a mission a while ago and didn't know about the follow-up. Upon hearing this, he asked, "So they can guarantee that something like this won't happen again?"
Mu Ling nodded: "That's what they said."
Huo Mian paused for a moment, "But with Dabao and Xiaobao's injuries, can they still be used as war beasts?"
"Don't worry about that," Mu Ling said. "Our special professors have already conducted several assessments. As long as they are nursed back to health as they are now, there will be no sequelae. Look, they are very lively now."
Huo Mian turned his head and looked out the window again, and saw that it was indeed lively. Xiaobao had been bullying his brother, and Aurora finally couldn't stand it anymore. Aurora stepped forward and scolded Xiaobao, and then Xiaobao started to ride on his mother's head and act wild, and Aurora was so angry that she started to bite his neck!
Huo Mian nodded: "If their injuries are not a problem and they are sincere, then we can indeed let them go back..."
Huo Mian was still a little undecided, so he asked Mu Ling, "What do you think?"
Mu Ling smiled and said, "I also think we can let them go back. What happened before had such a bad impact. Even if the new leaders want to restore the school's reputation, they will definitely treat Dabao and Xiaobao well. They will definitely not suffer any injustice if they go back. Secondly, Dabao and Xiaobao's two little masters are still waiting for them..."
Jiang Yiwei and Xu Xinling, the two children, had been taken back by their families before. The elders of both families had actually chosen a path for the children: one would repeat a grade, and the other would transfer to another school. But now, the two children were unwilling to leave. The parents had no choice but to go along with them. However, the two children said that they wanted to stay in the Beak Zoo to take care of Dabao and Xiaobao. The parents disagreed. They were all students, so how could they keep skipping classes?
Finally, after much persuasion, they were sent back to school. However, because they had no war beasts, they could not attend training classes and could only attend academic classes, and their grades fell far behind.
Mu Ling said, "If Dabao and Xiaobao can fully recover this winter, they will be able to reunite with Xiao Jiang and Xiao Xu next semester."
Huo Mian was also a Beast Tamer, so she naturally understood the two students. She said, "Then let's arrange it this way. I have no objection."
The talks went smoothly. Mu Ling looked at the time and saw that it was already lunchtime, so she went to get two lunches and ate there with Huo Mian.
After lunch, Huo Mian said he was leaving. Mu Ling was surprised: "So soon? How long have you been here?"
Huo Mian said in embarrassment, "Actually, I'd like to stay for two more days, but it's not good for Aurora to stay in the park like this."
Huo Mian's starship didn't land until ten o'clock in the morning. When she arrived at the Beak Zoo, it was already 11 o'clock. She then contacted Director Mu, who arranged for staff to drive a hovercraft directly to the door to pick her up.
The flight from the first service area to the second service area only takes about ten minutes. When she came over, there were no tourists in the second service area. Aurora was very excited when she smelled the scent of Snowflake, Dabao and Xiaobao. Director Mu said that they should go in and reunite, so Huo Mian let Aurora in.
But it's almost 12 o'clock now, and there are more and more tourists. Aurora is a working war beast after all, so it's not appropriate for her to appear in public like this all the time.
After hearing this, Mu Ling waved her hand and said, "What's the big deal? Just let them go into the house."
When Mu Ling was designing the second service area, she envisioned building an induction ceiling above the park that would automatically close when it sensed rain. But then she thought, while it could provide shelter when it rained, what about when it was too cold or too hot?
Finally, Mu Ling decided to make some artificial holes for them.
This is also the reason why Mu Ling raised the entire cross-shaped glass house by six meters.
The second floor is the tourist viewing area, shopping area, and activity area, while the first floor is home to animal rooms of varying sizes.
The temperature in the room is kept uniform and constant, so the animals can go into the cave to study when they want to, and play outside when they want to, all up to them.
When Huo Mian first arrived, he hadn't paid much attention to the layout of the glass house. When Mu Ling said to enter the house, he didn't know which house she was entering.
Mu Ling simply took her downstairs and they went down the staff stairs, which were in the warehouse behind the supermarket.
It was not until Huo Mian was standing on the lawn on the first floor that she could clearly see the layout below.
Generally speaking, the first floor is like a bridge hole. The large and small bridge hole rooms are spacious and bright, and there are two solid-colored rooms in the corner, but you can't tell what they are.
"That's our second veterinary station and food storage room. Animal feed is usually stored in there. Sometimes when animals get sick, it's more convenient to have a nearby veterinary station. Basic medicines are also available there." Mu Ling explained.
Huo Mian nodded: "That's very thoughtful."
Mu Ling took another set of protective clothing for Huo Mian to wear and said, "I'll take care of Snowflake, Dabao, and Xiaobao, and you take care of Aurora. Let's go to that room. It's bigger there."
Huo Mian looked in the direction Mu Ling pointed and saw that she was pointing at the area directly below the middle of the "cross" in the cross corridor. This was indeed the largest room.
Huo Mian put on the protective suit in two or three moves, and the two of them went over together.
Two humans suddenly entered the War Beast Garden below, and the tourists on the second floor naturally saw them.
Someone immediately exclaimed: "Look over there."
Lu Shaojie and Xiao Wei were drinking water in the back. Upon hearing the words, they rushed to the side reflexively. They went over and pointed the camera at that place without caring what it was.
The tourists said, "Wow, it's the director!"
"They went to the Ear-Horned Tiger."
"Aren't there three white tigers in the park? Why is there one more today?"
"I don't know. My wife has started to become distant with me. She didn't tell me that the second service area was completed, and she didn't tell me that new animals had arrived in the park. She doesn't love me anymore..."
Xiao Wei was also looking over there at this time, and as he watched, he said, "This new white tiger is so close to Xuehua, Dabao and Xiaobao, they must know each other. Maybe he's a relative visiting. Brother Lu, what do you think...Brother Lu?"
Xiao Wei turned his head to look at Lu Shaojie next to him, but saw that Lu Shaojie had a stunned expression and was staring blankly over there.
Xiao Wei was puzzled: "What's wrong with you?"
Lawrence Lu blurted out: “Fuck, I forgot about my girlfriend!”
Xiao Wei: “…”
You're not afraid of death...
Why don't you forget yourself?
Lu Shaojie then turned around and walked towards the nearest gift shop.
Xiao Wei called out from behind: "Brother Lu, where are you going?"
Lu Shaojie said: "Go buy all the Snow Flower peripherals!"
I hope that quantitative change will lead to qualitative change, and Huo Mian will not be angry with him for the sake of her future mother-in-law!
Yes, Huo Mian and Aurora are best friends. Aurora is Lu Shaojie’s future mother-in-law, and the future mother-in-law’s mother is the future mother-in-law’s grandmother.
Nothing wrong with that!
While Lu Shaojie was frantically trying to make amends, Mu Ling and Huo Mian also came to Baihu's side.
When Aurora saw his master, he immediately spat on the back of his daughter's neck, stood up neatly, and walked to Huo Mian in a handsome manner.
When Xiaobao sensed his mother had left, he immediately jumped up and yelled at her: "Roar! Roar!!"
Seeing that Xiaobao dared to provoke him, Aurora immediately bared his teeth, opened his mouth slightly, and roared, his pair of white animal eyes sharp and dangerous.
Seeing this, Xiaobao became scared again and shrank cautiously behind Mu Ling.
Mu Ling laughed to death when she saw this. She turned around and rubbed its big head: "That's all the courage you have. Now you know you're scared."
Xiaobao simply stuck to Mu Ling, with his big forehead resting on Mu Ling's waist, and he acted like Dabao and acted coquettishly with Mu Ling.
Mu Ling hugged it and said to Huo Mian, "Then go over there."
Huo Mian led Aurora away first.
Mu Ling followed behind with Xuehua, Dabao and Xiaobao.
After they entered the room, Huo Mian gave Aurora an order not to leave the room.
Aurora naturally obeyed and found a soft cushion to sit down.
As soon as Aurora sat down, Snowflake also walked over and sat down, lying next to Aurora.
Aurora turned its head and licked its mother's hair, then rubbed its forehead against her ear.
Dabao now knew who the ceiling of combat power was! He stumbled towards his mother and loyally lay on her other side.
Xiaobao was still hiding behind Mu Ling at this time. He looked at the happy family over there, tilting his head again and again.
"You come over too." Mu Ling said to Xiao Bao with a smile.
When Xiaobao heard Mu Ling's voice, he retracted his gaze and looked at Mu Ling, then leaned over and licked Mu Ling's fingers.
Mu Ling took out a handful of freeze-dried food from her pocket and fed it to the cat. Then she said to Huo Mian, "Let's go and let them play on their own. If you're worried, you can see the surveillance here from up there."
Mu Ling pointed at the camera on the wall, and Huo Mian saw that there were surveillance cameras in these bridge rooms.
She had nothing to worry about, so she followed Mu Ling.
Xiaobao lingered around for a few more rounds until the two humans left.
It wanted to go out, but in the end it didn't. It sat not far from its grandma, mother, and brother, eagerly looking at them.
The family of three over there are still licking each other's fur.
Xiaobao felt a little lonely, so he suddenly fell to the side, then collapsed like a tiger cake, stretched out his limbs, and rolled on the ground.
After rolling twice, seeing that the three horned tigers over there ignored it, it sat up again, pretended to yawn, stretched, and sniffed forward with its nose raised.
After sniffing for a while and making sure there was no danger, it approached cautiously with its ears tucked behind its back.
After it sat completely in front of the three elders, it immediately spread out its belly, lay down obediently, and kept nodding its head to its mother.
Spreading out the belly means submission, and nodding the head means intimacy and showing goodwill.
Aurora licked Snowflake's head, then licked Xiaobao's head, and then licked Dabao's head. It was very busy being intimate with them, as if it knew that this hard-earned reunion might only happen once in a lifetime.
But Xiaobao felt his mother's love and wanted to give back to her, so he shook his head, stood up, opened his bloody mouth, and bit half of his mother's head.
aurora:"……"
Aurora used its front paws to dig at Xiaobao, trying to push Xiaobao away.
Dabao was unwilling to be outdone. He was afraid that his mother would only be nice to his sister and not to him, so he stood up and swallowed the other half of his mother's head in one bite.
aurora:"……"
Aurora CPU is burnt out!
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On the other side, Huo Mian, who had no idea what kind of culture shock Aurora was going through, had just come out of the supermarket with Mu Ling when he saw Lu Shaojie looking around in the corridor.
Huo Mian: “…”
Huo Mian wanted to continue pretending not to know this person, but Lu Shaojie had already spotted her: "Mian Mian!"
He came over quickly, smiling.
Huo Mian had no choice but to introduce Lu Shaojie to Mu Ling: "Director Mu, this is my boyfriend, Ajie."
Lu Shaojie greeted him politely: "Hello, Director Mu, I've heard a lot about you."
Mu Ling hurriedly said, "I dare not, I dare not." Then she looked at the other person again. The other person was very tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and had a very resolute temperament. But why was he carrying so many things in his hands?
Mu Ling looked at the things and realized that they were all packaging bags from their surrounding stores. My goodness, there were at least a dozen bags inside these big bags, right?
Huo Mian also noticed what Lu Shaojie was holding. She blushed a little and said to Mu Ling, "Hey, Director Mu, why don't you just go ahead and do your work while we go shopping."
Mu Ling thought that since the young couple came together, it would be a good opportunity to travel together. She didn't want to be a light bulb anymore and said with a smile: "Okay, then if you need anything, just call me. I'm right here."
After Huo Mian pulled Lu Shaojie away, Mu Ling continued to busy herself with her own things. Today was the first day of business for the second service area, and she was also the director, so naturally she had endless things to do.
Mu Ling was indeed very busy. When she took time out from her job to feed the animals medicine, she felt extremely anxious.
Normally, when feeding Yao Muling, she would coax her into giving it a try, but today she just pried open her mouth and stuffed the food in.
Qilin had just finished his meal and was licking his paws and picking his teeth with his nails when suddenly, the golden tiger's chin was lifted up. Before he could react, a hand was stuck in his mouth.
Qilin's pupils trembled as he looked at Mu Ling in front of him. Mu Ling had already stuffed three pills into Qilin's throat. Then she reached out her hand, pressed down Qilin's upper and lower mouths, lifted its head, and slid the pills down its throat.
"Gudong", Qilin finally swallowed the medicine.
Mu Ling opened its mouth again and checked whether it had hidden the pill under its tongue. After confirming that it had really eaten it, the girl disappeared like the wind and ran to the clearing next to it.
Qilin: “…”
Qilin: “?”
Mu Ling gave each war beast a surprise attack as if she was in a hurry to be reincarnated. After feeding them the medicine, she hurried upstairs. In just a short while, her intercom rang seven or eight times, and everyone was shouting "Director".
It was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that the last shuttle bus from the second service area finally left.
After some free time, Mu Ling sat on the bench exhausted, looking at the animals outside the window tiredly.
At this moment, a cup of water appeared in front of her.
Mu Ling was stunned, turned her head and saw that it was Xiang Bie.
Mu Ling took the glass of water and said with a smile, "Thank you, Brother Xiang."
Mu Ling originally thought that this was just an ordinary cup of nutritious water, but after taking a sip, she found that it was sweet and contained honey!
Mu Ling asked in surprise: "Where did the honey come from?"
Xiang Bie said: "I stole the moonlight."
Mu Ling: “…”
Yes, Moonlight is a bear, and bears love to eat honey. Some of Moonlight’s food contains some wild honey.
Looking at the sweet and tempting liquid in the cup, Mu Ling immediately gulped down a big mouthful, and indeed felt that her fatigue was relieved a little.
Xiang Bie also sat next to Mu Ling and rested with her.
Mu Ling rested here for ten minutes and then had to get busy again. She had to personally determine how the products sold on the first day, how to replenish the stock, what the reputation of the surrounding products was, and whether to increase subsequent orders.
By five o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Zhao, who came to help, had also calculated the total nutritional intake for the second service area today.
The total turnover of the catering industry reached about 67,000.
The total sales of peripheral products reached about 84,000.
Xiao Zhao said, "We've only been open for three hours, and the customer flow is fixed, so it will be roughly the same number going forward. The total daily turnover is estimated to be around 150,000 to 200,000 yuan."
Mu Ling asked: "What is the total profit?"
Xiao Zhao did some calculations and said, "The total profit is probably around 70,000. For the catering side, since we only use the best quality lunch boxes, we can sell them at a reasonable price, so the profit is about one-third of the selling price. For the dine-in side, the profit is about one-half. For the surrounding areas, we also sell at a low profit margin, so the profit is probably also about one-third. Actually, it's mainly because we're not too shady. Many industrial parks have ridiculous prices, so we can make a lot of money there."
Mu Ling nodded. "We don't go the high-priced route. Seventy thousand a day is not a small amount, which is two million a month. Of course, we can't calculate it purely based on profitability. Profits also have to deduct labor costs, transportation costs, water and electricity costs, purchasing and maintenance costs, etc. In fact, our main purpose as a shop is to give tourists a better travel experience. We don't want them to be unable to buy what they need. Our biggest income comes from ticket sales, which are our net profit."
A ticket costs two hundred yuan, and the net profit for one day is 400,000 yuan, which is more than 300,000 yuan after deducting taxes. If another thousand people are added, the profit will be even higher. Mu Ling has always been clear that the zoo relies on ticket sales. No matter what internal renovations, infrastructure projects, or peripheral creative ideas she does, everything is just to make tourists come to their zoo again in the future after the initial enthusiasm has passed.
Isn’t there a saying that goes, “In the first month after an internet celebrity store opens, it’s packed every day with people lining up one after another, but three months later, it goes bankrupt.”
People are always looking for something new. If you want to develop this sudden burst of freshness into a long-term follow-up economy, you must constantly upgrade and improve your own quality, otherwise you will be eliminated by society.
Although Mu Ling owed a lot of money to set up this second service area, it was all worth it. He had to recruit employees and constantly add new peripheral products. It would be best if a brand was formed so that it would not be easily forgotten. Of course, the most important thing was the animals. The animals had to be filled in large numbers. Now they still had too few animals. Even though animals were expensive, even if one cost millions, they still had to buy them. Changshan Zoo had a lot of animals, tens of thousands of them, which was the scale of a proper wildlife park.
Mu Ling pondered these things in her heart, then stood up and said, "Okay, then you guys continue to be busy over here, Brother Wei and I will go down the mountain to take a look."
Mu Ling said that she would go down the mountain with Brother Wei, but in the end Brother Wei disappeared and became Brother Xiang.
Mu Ling looked at the man driving the car beside her and said suspiciously: "Brother Xiang, I want Brother Wei to help me place an order."
Xiang Bie said: "I am the assistant to the general manager. If he can do it, I can do it too."
Mu Ling: “…”
Okay.
Mu Ling looked at Brother Xiang. For some reason, she always felt that Brother Xiang seemed to have something to say to her. She had already shown this sign when he gave her the honey water just now.
Mu Ling didn't urge him and just waited for Brother Xiang to speak himself.
Twenty minutes later, they returned to the first service area.
As soon as she got off the bus, Mu Ling saw that there were already many tourists at the War Beast Nursery below.
At the same time, there were some animals in the animal dormitory. It would be a waste to leave the animal dormitory empty, so Mu Ling put the animals on duty every day in there. There were only a few of them, not many, and they were replaced with new ones every day.
Mu Ling took a look over there and planned to go to the office. However, just as she was about to enter the office building, the intercom on her waist rang.
Mu Ling took it out and opened it, then heard Nina's anxious voice coming from the other side: "Director, Meihua is about to give birth!"
Mu Ling's expression changed, and she immediately asked, "Where are you now?"
Nina told her a location, and Mu Ling didn't care about anything else and quickly ran to the veterinary station.
Dr. Bray was checking information about the Snowflake prosthetic eye in his office when Mu Ling suddenly rushed in, startling him.
"What's wrong?"
Mu Ling said, "Meihua is about to give birth."
Dr. Bray stood up, picked up the medicine box that had been prepared long ago, and walked out in a hurry.
"She gave birth so early, it's premature!"
The gestation period of a Wind Chaser Wolf is 60 days, or about two months.
The Wind Chasing Wolf was in heat in early October, and now it is early December. It will take at least another week before the due date.
Mu Ling was also counting the days. As soon as she and Dr. Bree walked outside, Brother Xiang drove the ambulance over. Mu Ling and Dr. Bree immediately got into the back seat.
The car drove forward at a fast pace. During this time, Mu Ling and Dr. Bree kept communicating with Nina on the other end of the walkie-talkie.
Nina said, "Meika must have been frightened. She slipped down the slope and couldn't move. She didn't seem to be bleeding, but her water broke two minutes ago."
Nina is also an experienced zookeeper. She has seen wolves give birth in other zoos. She said, "I want to go over, but Meihua won't let me get close. I don't dare to anesthetize it in its condition."
Dr. Bree comforted Nina and told her not to panic.
Mu Ling asked Xiang Bie again: "Brother Xiang, can you go faster?"
Xiang Bie said nothing, just stepped on the accelerator, then drove the car to an open space based on his memory and changed the car into suspension mode.
The car soared into the sky from the dense treetops and sped off in a certain direction.
Dr. Bray glanced at the scenery outside the car window, then looked at Xiang Bie in front of him, frowned and asked, "Will this prevent accurate landing?"
The reason why hover cars are not used in mountainous environments is that when you look down, there are trees everywhere. You can find a place to rise, but you may not be able to find a place to land. Sometimes you land in the wrong place and get lost.
Mu Ling also looked at Brother Xiang in front of her at this time. From where she was sitting, she could see the rearview mirror diagonally in front of her, so she saw Brother Xiang in the mirror through the rearview mirror.
The man's face was cold and serious. He pursed his lips tightly, and his ice-blue eyes stared straight ahead. Then, he said calmly, "Don't worry."
As he spoke, the car sped up even faster.
Mu Ling: “…”
I got up really fast. When I saw Brother Xiang, his eyes suddenly changed color. That blue color looked strangely familiar...
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