Chapter 11
How depressed I was just now, how excited I am now!
Mu Ling was dazzled by money and traffic, and for the first time she realized that "black and red" can really be monetized!
Her eyes rolled around, and an immature idea came to her mind...
Unfortunately, just as this idea germinated, Director Wang immediately stopped it in horror: "Director Mu, word of mouth is the foundation of business. Are you planning to switch to being an internet celebrity and never run a zoo again?!"
Mu Ling: “…”
Well... a bucket of cold water poured down on her, and Mu Ling returned to reality. She said listlessly, "I'll clarify when I get back..."
Director Wang breathed a sigh of relief. "Then think about how to clarify. I'll have someone make a copy of Qilin's information and keep it on file. Then you can take the original with you."
Mu Ling nodded and followed the clerk who was going to make copies out of the director's office.
After Mu Ling left, Director Wang also started to get busy with other things. Today was the weekend, and they only worked until two o'clock in the afternoon, so they had to finish all the work before leaving get off work.
When Director Wang was busy, he suddenly heard laughter coming from outside. He walked to the door suspiciously and saw that Director Mu had not left yet. She was coaxing their staff to go to her zoo on September 17th. She even set up a communication group on the spot, added everyone to the group, and said they should keep in touch in the future!
Director Wang: “…”
Director Wang suddenly felt that this person had taken everyone in the office hostage without him even paying attention!
Is she a bandit?
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Mu Ling returned to the zoo around four o'clock. She went to the supermarket to buy some things.
When she came back, she saw Wei Li had already emerged from the woods. Mu Ling asked with a smile, "Brother Wei, is everything going well in there?"
Wei Li was relieved to see the director return safely. Earlier, Brother Xiang had mentioned hearing sirens from the director's side, which had startled him. "It's going smoothly. The technicians working on the protective net have already started. Brother Xiang is watching from inside. Director, are you okay?"
"What could possibly happen to me?" Mu Ling put the things in her hand on the table, thought for a moment, and clapped her hands: "No, I really do have something to do. I need to make a clarification video."
Wei Li: "What video?"
Mu Ling turned on the computer and showed it to him.
Wei Li looked at the video and then read the comments below. He was choked up. "Director, you... filmed Qilin?"
"Yeah, didn't I say yesterday that I wanted to take a video?"
Didn’t Mu Ling go into the jungle yesterday just to take pictures of animals?
Wei Li: “…”
But he thought the director just wanted to take some pictures of the small animals. Qilin is a retired war beast, and its identity is sensitive. It is not the first time that official keepers have posted the retired life of retired war beasts on the Internet, but each time it would cause large-scale quarrels. The main reason is that many retired war beasts behave lonely and irritably, and even self-harm, which makes netizens think that the keepers are not taking good care of them, which leads to the war beasts becoming more and more miserable. They have demanded to change keepers and breeding grounds. The federal government has also been criticized for this. Anyway, the war beasts are not living well, so they criticize the government for inaction, and the government always takes the blame.
Wei Li scratched his face and suggested carefully, "I think we should just take some pictures of other animals..."
Mu Ling waved her hand. "Qilin has a lot of traffic now, so we must be filming for Qilin. Not only can we get publicity, but we can also earn viewership. I just checked and I've been able to withdraw a thousand interstellar coins. This is all earned by our Qilin. I just came back and bought a lot of canned food for Qilin, look."
Mu Ling opened the eco-friendly bag, which was filled with twenty cans of snacks, all of which were the largest ones!
Wei Li: “…”
Okay, you are the head teacher, if you are not afraid of being scolded, just send it out. At worst, you can stop it if the situation becomes too serious.
Wei Li finally realized that it was impossible for him to stop their director from making money. Although their director was very rich, she acted like a poor madman every day and did not have any elegance of a rich woman!
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After Zhou Qin sent the video of the Bick Zoo to the class group in the morning, the video became popular.
After that, Zhou Qin lost interest in studying and spent the entire afternoon in the group chat and on trending searches. By the time he came to his senses, it was already eight o'clock in the evening and his roommates who had gone out on dates had all returned.
After a quick dinner, Zhou Qin thought it over and decided not to play with his computer anymore, as he had a make-up exam coming up soon. He had to memorize all the modern history today, otherwise he wouldn't go to bed!
Just after he finished swearing, his roommate on the opposite bed suddenly exclaimed, "Holy crap! Someone posted a video of a tiger being torn apart?"
Zhou Qin: “!”
"Where is it? Where is it? Let me see!" Zhou Qin immediately rushed over to look at his roommate's laptop!
But Zhou Qin was stunned when he saw it. That familiar tiger cover, that familiar blogger name—that Bick Zoo again! But this was a new video, posted fifteen minutes ago, titled "Click to Watch | Pure Torn Tiger | Online Medication Change."
Zhou Qin: “…?”
Why does the title seem so unrefined? But this time, it's even called "Tearing Tiger." Is this a sign of dissent? Is this just a free-for-all? Is this zoo dying?
My roommate wanted to watch Zhou Qin too, so he simply made the video full screen and clicked play.
In the picture, there is first a white medicine box, and then a slender woman's hand picks up the medicine box.
"Good evening, friends..." A soft female voice sounded. It was the same female voice Zhou Qin heard in the previous video.
"I've read all the comments on the previous video. I'm very grateful for your concern for our tiger cub 'Qilin'. However, there seem to be two misunderstandings about that video: first, Qilin's name, and second, Qilin's injuries."
"First of all, everyone thinks our park's little tiger deliberately took the name Qilin to capitalize on the popularity of the retired S-rank war beast, the Ripping Tiger Qilin. This is incorrect. Our Qilin doesn't need to capitalize on anyone's popularity. Its species is the Ripping Tiger, and its name is Qilin. This name was personally given to it by its previous owner, Colonel James Wahl. Yes, the retired war beast Qilin you're talking about and our park's little tiger Qilin are the same animal, so there's no such thing as capitalizing on the popularity!"
"If you don't believe me, I'll pin a screenshot of Qilin's adoption documents at the top of the comments section. It also has Colonel James Val's signature on it. You can verify it yourself."
"Let's talk about the injuries. First of all, let me make it clear that our Beak Zoo is the largest wildlife park in the entire galaxy, and our employees are all dedicated, professional, and hardworking. We would absolutely not abuse or harm any animal. However, I know that words alone are not enough to prove anything, so I'm about to change Qilin's dressing. This video will record the entire process so that everyone can see for themselves how Qilin's wounds were caused..."
"Qilin, it's time to change the medicine..." When the woman said this, she happened to walk outside a huge iron cage.
In the camera, through the iron bars, a golden tiger was lying in the cage and sleeping lazily.
The female voice explained to the audience, "Qilin are extremely difficult to capture. Once they enter the inner jungle, they usually won't let humans get close to them. This is the second time in eight months we've caught a Qilin and are keeping it in a cage to recover. Qilin has been suffering from long-term malnutrition, anemia, mental weakness, and calcium deficiency, so he's been rather sleepy lately. It's not that he's lazy, he just needs more rest..."
As the woman spoke, she entered the cage and walked over to the big tiger.
Zhou Qin suddenly noticed that the female breeder was not wearing protective clothing.
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"Qilin." Mu Ling touched the tiger's big head.
The tiger woke up, still with those cold, inorganic eyes. It glanced at Mu Ling, licked its lips, turned over, and stood up.
"Huahuahuahua!" It suddenly started shaking its fur, as fast as a screw machine, leaving Mu Ling with a face full of dust!
"Pah!" Mu Ling spat out the hair in her mouth, quickly pressed the tiger's butt and said, "Sit down."
The tiger sat down, and Mu Ling pulled the tiger's hind legs: "Let's change Qilin's bandage first."
She deftly removed the gauze and then controlled the camera to take a close-up of the wound. Suddenly, the entire screen was filled with the holes left by the two snakes' mouths. Mu Ling made sure everything was clear before saying, "This was a snake bite. Qilin was fighting with a python, and someone bit its hind leg and broke it. But the poison has been cleared after the injection, but the wound is still swollen and needs medicine."
It was very uncomfortable to keep the hind legs in the same position. Qilin's tail lashed against the back of Mu Ling's hand, as if urging her to hurry up.
"Qilin is getting a little impatient. Normally, I wouldn't take this long to change the dressing." Mu Ling grabbed Qilin's disruptive tail with one hand, and with the other, she held the gauze tighter. "Now let's change the back."
When the wound on the back opened, the scene became bloody and hideous.
Zhou Qin and his roommate suddenly felt very uncomfortable, but the woman in the video was carefully filming the wound and explaining how the wound was caused. She explained in great detail, from the impact area, the range of the scratches, to the length of the scar down to millimeters, comprehensively simulating the situation that occurred when Qilin was injured.
In fact, she didn't need to explain it in such detail, because even if they were not veterinarians, ordinary people could see that it was indeed a collision injury, and the only thing that could throw such a big tiger out and cause injury to it could only be other ferocious beasts.
After changing the dressing on the wound on its back, Qilin became impatient. As soon as the bandage was tied on its front paw, it stood up on its hind legs, walked to an empty basin, and used its claws to dig at the stainless steel basin, which was bigger than a washbasin.
Mu Ling smiled and said, "Brother Wei Li is preparing your meal. It will be ready soon."
Seeing that there was no food in the bowl, the tiger drank some water and started licking its paws.
Mu Ling suddenly noticed something and the camera zoomed in: "Qilin, what's wrong with your nails? Oh, they're hooked. Your nails are too long. If you don't trim them, they'll dig into your feet."
Mu Ling said as she lowered her head to search in the medicine box. She quickly found the shaver and nail clippers at the bottom. She beckoned, "Qilin, come here. Let's trim your nails before we eat."
Mu Ling also said to the audience, "Qilin is a little hungry now, but it doesn't matter if he waits a little longer. His nails are too curled, and it will feel uncomfortable when he walks."
The tiger turned its head to look at Mu Ling, licked its lips, walked lazily to her side, and lay down casually.
Mu Ling went over, grabbed its right front paw, and felt the length of its nails...
The tiger felt uncomfortable and bit her hand with its mouth, trying to tear her hand away.
Mu Ling pushed away its sharp white fangs and said seriously, "Stop messing around, or I'll cut your beard."
"Click!" As he said this, he cut off a piece of nail.
Qilin: “…”
"Roar!" The tiger suddenly realized that something was wrong. It struggled, hunched its claws, and shouted at Mu Ling's face! As if asking, what are you doing!
Mu Ling didn't take it seriously, and said in a perfunctory tone: "Okay, okay, I get it. Sister is bad, sister is not good..."
"Click!" The second section of the nail was cut off.
"Roar!!!" The tiger roared again! It was really angry!
Mu Ling didn't even blink and continued perfunctorily: "Yes, yes, sister is annoying. Sister forced Qilin to cut his nails. Sister is a bad sister. Our Qilin will never be friends with sister again..."
"Click!" The third section of the nail was also cut off.
Qilin: “…”
Qilin was numb, one of its paws was already gone, so it quickly hid the other surviving paw in its chest hair, then fell over and put half of its body on Mu Ling, trying to use its weight to suppress Mu Ling's hand so that she couldn't cut!
But in the camera, its clingy behavior looks like a tiger actively looking for a woman to act coquettishly.
"Click! Click!" Mu Ling was like a ruthless nail-cutting machine. She cut off the fourth and fifth nails. Then she dug out the other claw from Qilin's chest hair and continued to cut it.
Qilin: “…”
Qilin lay on the mattress, as depressed as a tiger pancake.
Mu Ling couldn't help herself and leaned over to give the tiger a big kiss on its furry forehead. Then she stroked its hair to coax it: "Sister didn't cut too much, just a little bit of the hooked part. Your claws are your weapons, sister won't cut them short. Be good, Qilin. Our Qilin is really great. The little tiger who dares to cut his nails is the bravest. Sister will reward you with canned snacks, okay? Eat two cans! Don't give any to sister!"
The tiger was still unhappy, but someone kept talking in its ears, and it felt itchy in its ears, so it shook its ears and rubbed its forehead against Mu Ling's chin.
Mu Ling kissed it again: "The Qilin didn't say anything, which means it agreed. Then let's trim the nails on its hind legs."
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