Chapter 21
The steaming potion was poured onto the big tiger's body.
Mu Ling held the watering can in one hand and rubbed the tiger's body quickly with the other, making sure to wet all its dry and dull fur first.
Qilin seemed to understand Mu Ling's meaning only at this moment. It looked at the basin of water, raised its front legs, and finally stepped in.
"My ancestor, you finally cooperated!" Mu Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Qilin's fur was too thick. If she poured the potion slowly like this, the fur would not even get wet and the potion would probably be all gone.
After the tiger entered the bathtub, the water level in the tub rose a lot. Mu Ling asked Qilin to sit down, then took the ladle and continued to water it.
When the body was completely wet, Mu Ling took out a pink bath ball, squeezed some medicinal shower gel on it, rubbed it, and rubbed it to make dense bubbles, and then applied the bubbles to the tiger's body.
Bubbles can bring out a lot of dirt. Mu Ling washed it very carefully. Soon, Qilin was covered with a large mountain of bubbles. Even on the top of its head, Mu Ling deliberately placed a large ball of bubbles.
But even though it was submerged in endless bubbles, Qilin did not move. It still sat there obediently. When Mu Ling asked it to raise its hands, it would raise its hands and let Mu Ling rub its paws.
"Oh my god, it's so cute! It's so sensible!"
"So, Rip Tiger likes taking bubble baths. Hurry and record it!"
"Does it like bubble baths? I feel like it just likes Director Mu."
"Then remember one more thing: the Tearing Tiger likes Director Mu..."
“…”
But no matter what, the sight of the usually fierce and ferocious beast suddenly becoming so docile and soft really melted the hearts of the tourists!
While Qilin was enjoying his bubble bath and almost falling asleep from scrubbing himself, deep in the jungle, an elegant and agile black panther was standing on a sharp rock, looking around with a pair of dark green eyes.
Its cold gaze shuttled back and forth among the shadows of the trees. Suddenly, it looked in one direction. The next second, it leaped up, stepped on the ground with its thick paws, and ran in that direction.
The dead branches on the ground crackled underfoot, and only after the black panther had completely vanished into the jungle did more playful animals dare to quietly emerge from behind the trees in the quiet mountains...
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Because they had to go into the mountains in the afternoon, Mu Ling didn't take a long bath. It took about fifteen minutes, and then she dried herself.
Mu Ling wrapped Qilin with an extra-large towel. Just as she was about to wipe it, the big tiger moved its body and suddenly started shaking its fur wildly!
Mu Ling was caught off guard, and the water droplets and floating hairs splashed all over her face!
"Ouch, ah... Qilin, it's okay Qilin..." Mu Ling swallowed a lot of Qilin's fur and quickly reached out to hold it down. However, Qilin felt very comfortable after taking a bath and showed a rare happy look. It grinned, stuck out a small section of scarlet tongue, and rubbed its wet face on Mu Ling's clothes.
"You should find a place to wipe it." Mu Ling said unhappily, and wrapped its face with a towel, rubbing it frantically!
When it was almost done, she took out the large hair dryer she had prepared long ago and started blowing Qilin's fur.
Hair dryers for animals are all silent to avoid stress in animals. Qilin enjoyed the comfortable warm air, curled up his body, sat down on the ground, put his head forward, and put his head directly into Mu Ling's arms.
Mu Ling held the hair dryer in one hand and fiddled with its fur with the other. After a while, the short fur showed signs of drying out.
After blowing the hair dry and reapplying the medicine, everything was done. Mu Ling looked at the time and it was half past one.
It just happened to be around the same time she had expected it to end.
"Okay, stand up." Mu Ling put down the towel, patted Qilin's head, and forced the lazy pig to stand up. Then she pointed in the direction of the crowd and said, "Look over there."
When the tourists who were originally sitting on the stone platform saw Qilin looking at them, they quickly stood up, waved at Qilin frantically, and shouted Qilin's name.
Qilin glanced at the crowd, then turned back to look at Mu Ling, seemingly puzzled.
Mu Ling chuckled and said, "Just so you can feel the audience's cheers before you leave. Okay, let's go back."
Mu Ling bowed to the tourists, then left with Qilin along the same path they came.
It was not until the Qilin completely disappeared that the tourists asked each other with regret: "Is there no more Qilin behind?"
"I came here just for Qilin..."
"We're about to go up the mountain. There might be other animals in the mountain."
"But I heard that animal sightings are very rare. Some people said they took the shuttle bus all day and didn't even see a rabbit."
Wei Li heard the tourists starting to get upset and quickly explained, "Don't worry, there's no chance we won't see any rabbits. Our director has been taking photos up the mountain every day these days, and many animals recognize her. If she calls, they'll come out."
The tourists were amazed: "She comes out just by screaming? Is it really that magical? Is it true?"
Wei Li thought for a moment and said, "Anyway, that's what she said..."
Tourists: “…”
In fact, Wei Li also felt that the director might be bragging a bit. When the director went up the mountain on the first day, the animals obviously did not come out. He witnessed it with his own eyes. As a result, the director went into the mountain to take pictures by herself in the past few days. She came back and said that she had established good relations with some small animals outside. She said that many small animals like her now because she brings food to them every time she goes into the mountains. Now even the long-tailed raccoons have started to send her mice!
Wei Li didn't believe it at first. How could wild animals accept strangers so easily? He fed them every day but the animals never got close to him. However, when he thought about how the director could even capture the Qilin, out of blind admiration for the director, Wei Li brainwashed himself.
Seeing that the tourists still looked uninterested, Wei Li hurriedly said, "The shuttle is just ahead. Let's go this way."
Six shuttle buses were arranged to go up the mountain today. Xiang drove one, Wei drove one, and the other four were driven by four bus drivers.
Aren't the four bus drivers delivered together with the bus? The bus is rented for a whole day, which means the drivers have to stay at the zoo on standby all day. They are idle anyway. Mu Ling saw that the drivers were all experienced drivers with multi-purpose vehicle licenses, so she simply hired them to drive the shuttle bus for them.
An all-round driver is a driver who can drive any kind of vehicle on any road. Mu Ling pays him according to the normal price for hired drivers, 300 interstellar coins per person. The drivers are quite happy about it and regard it as extra money earned at public expense. Driving a shuttle bus is not difficult anyway. Director Mu said that the car behind should just follow the car in front.
When Mu Ling changed her clothes and came over, she saw that the tourists had already boarded the bus. There were twenty-five seats in one bus, and six buses had one hundred and fifty seats, which was more than enough for one hundred people, and everyone was not crowded.
When Professor Zhou saw her come out, he said, "Director Mu, we are all here."
Mu Ling smiled and said, "Okay, let's go."
Mu Ling got into Xiang Bie's car and signaled Xiang Bie that he could leave.
The order of the six cars going up the mountain was that Xiang Bie drove the first car and Wei Li drove the last car. The two of them just sandwiched the bus driver's four cars in the middle, so they could take care of the front and back.
When the six cars completely entered the main mountain road, Mu Ling took out a professional loudspeaker microphone, which was also connected to the five shuttle buses behind. This meant that what Mu Ling said in the front could also be heard by the tourists in the cars behind.
"Hi, everyone." Mu Ling began with a smile. "I'm the coordinator of this tour and the director of Beek Zoo. My name is Mu Ling. If you have any questions during the tour, you can ask me. Friends in the cars behind you can also ask questions. I can hear you all."
As soon as she finished speaking, someone immediately asked, "Director Mu, will we be able to see other retired war beasts later?"
Mu Ling said: "The retired war beasts all live in the inner circle, but our inner circle is not open yet, so it's not very good. If a war beast wanders out, we will be able to see it..."
Mu Ling's words were particularly vague. In fact, she felt that it was 100% certain that they would not be seen. After all, those war beasts would turn around and run away when they smelled the human scent from 800 meters away. It would be strange if they could be seen. However, it was a rare visit by tourists, so she couldn't be so stingy as to say that they could not be seen. She was vague, and the main point was that what she said was as good as nothing she had said.
The tourists were about to ask more questions, but Mu Ling quickly changed the subject and introduced something else: "You may not know that our Beak Zoo is actually the largest jungle wildlife park in the entire galaxy. We have nearly a thousand species of animals here..."
At its peak, there were nearly a thousand species, but now they are long gone. Now, all the animal species combined probably number less than a hundred...
"Our first stop is the area where our golden rabbits are found. Golden rabbits belong to the family Leporidae, class Mammalia. There are nineteen species of golden rabbits, including long-eared golden rabbits, cold-season golden rabbits, 98 golden rabbits, and black and white golden rabbits. The golden rabbits in our zoo are long-eared golden rabbits, and their characteristics are..."
Mu Ling gave a complete introduction to the long-eared golden rabbit according to the information she had memorized. Then, pointing to the right, she said, "Actually, right here, we can see traces of long-eared golden rabbits... Wait, everyone, look to the front left. There are two long-eared golden rabbits there!"
After Mu Ling said this, the tourists immediately looked to the left and front out of curiosity. Sure enough, they saw two or three light yellow long-eared rabbits among a few clumps of grass, moving their three-lobed mouths to eat grass.
“It’s pretty cute.”
Someone turned on the light computer to take a photo.
Some people also asked: "Are these the only ones?"
Mu Ling said, "Of course there are more than that. Our park initially had twelve golden rabbits, but rabbits breed very quickly. They usually give birth to a litter of 4-10 rabbits in about thirty days. So now the number of golden rabbits is quite impressive. A rough estimate puts it at over sixty. There's a relatively flat hillside a little further up the road. That's where the golden rabbits are most active."
Wei Li had told Mu Ling before that the total number of animals in the zoo was 102, but this data was outdated. The number of large animals should not have changed much, but some small animals were really fertile. The little monkeys, rabbits, pigs, civet cats, etc. that Mu Ling saw in the mountains these days alone added up to more than 102, not to mention other animals.
The car continued to drive up the mountain. After another twenty minutes, Mu Ling whispered to Xiang Bie, "Slow down here. I'll get off."
Xiang Bie tilted his head to look at her.
Mu Ling said, "I'll take the golden rabbits to that lawn, otherwise the tourists won't be able to see anything."
Xiang Bie frowned slightly.
Mu Ling knew what he was thinking and said helplessly, "I'm really familiar with all the animals out here. I'm not bragging, they'll definitely come out if I call them! I even brought a bag full of carrot cubes!"
She patted her waist bag, which was full of sugar-coated bullets! She came prepared!
Xiang Bie was silent for a moment, then slowed down the car: "Be careful."
Mu Ling responded and jumped down easily.
At the same time, deep in the lush forest, a giant black crocodile living near a stream suddenly opened its cold and damp eyes. Its cool gaze slowly looked in a certain direction upstream of the stream. After a while, it moved its limbs and began to swim upwards.
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After the six shuttle buses had been driving for nearly ten minutes, they finally arrived at the flat hillside that Mu Ling had mentioned.
As soon as the car stopped, everyone was shocked. Even Xiang Bie, who was driving, raised his eyebrows slightly when he looked at the scene on the hillside.
Wei Li, who was driving the last car, blurted out, "Fuck! The director really didn't lie to me!"
On the other side of the forest, in the middle of a lush lawn, Mu Ling was sitting on a big rock, sprinkling carrot cubes. Dozens of rabbits with long ears and light golden fur were surrounding her. From a distance, the scene looked like a fairy tale.
For a moment, many tourists were amazed and then turned on their laptops to take pictures!
Mu Ling waved at everyone when she saw them coming, then turned on the microphone and said, "Anyone who wants to take pictures can get off the bus, but don't get too close, or the bunnies will be scared away. There's a red bucket under the first row of seats on the shuttle bus. Inside is a bag of diced carrots. You can feed them if you want, but again, don't get too close."
The tourists immediately swarmed out of the car, some fed the animals, some took photos, and the whole forest suddenly became lively with laughter and chatter.
After staying in the Golden Rabbit area for about twenty minutes, Mu Ling asked everyone to get on the bus.
"The monkey forest is just ahead. The little monkeys love eating bananas. There are some bananas in the red bucket. Don't try to eat any of them. They're for the little monkeys."
"Hahahahaha." The tourists burst into laughter.
The car continued to move forward. After a while, Mu Ling asked Xiang Bie to slow down again. Then she put a banana in her pocket and got out of the car again.
By crossing a slope from here, you can take a shortcut to the monkey forest. Mu Ling also needs to clear the blockage in the monkey forest first, otherwise tourists will definitely not be able to see the monkeys.
Director Mu leads the team, without any skills, relying entirely on relationships!
And just as Mu Ling was walking towards the monkey forest with a chuckle...
On the other side, next to a waterfall deep in the jungle, two hyenas with yellow and purple fur were lowering their heads and drinking the stream water happily.
The splashing water droplets hit them. After they drank enough water, they shook their fur and turned around. Only then did they see a big hole on one of their faces, with a small tumor-like eye growing out of the hole. The other one had a big and round nose covered with honeycomb-like pits, like the nest of some insect.
After drinking the water, the two hyenas walked downstream along the stream. Soon, they found two young brown deer eating grass. Pure greed flashed in their eyes. The hyenas immediately lowered their bodies and were about to rush up to kill the brown deer and then have a good meal... But at this moment, a black crocodile with cold serrations and skin as hard as iron suddenly jumped out from the bottom of the clear stream and bit the leg of one of the hyenas.
Hyenas react very quickly and canines are very good at hearing. The sound of the crocodile swimming has reached their ears, and they have been on guard for a long time.
The crocodile missed its bite, but the two hyenas had already retreated several steps away, baring their teeth at the crocodile from a distance.
The crocodile stared at them coldly with its sinister eyes. It wanted to crawl over, but it had already missed the best hunting opportunity. Climbing over would be of no avail. Besides, its speed was too slow for the hyenas. Sure enough, before it could get over, the two hyenas had retreated two steps and then circled the crocodile provocatively.
At this time, the two little brown deer in the distance also noticed the movement here. They turned around and ran. The two hyenas immediately gave up mocking the crocodile and quickly moved one in front and one behind to block one of the brown deer.
The little brown deer was blocked and ran towards the water in a panic. It wanted to cross the stream, but in a blink of an eye, a hyena was already behind it and bit its hind legs tightly. The little brown deer let out a shrill scream and threw itself into the stream, which was immediately dyed red with blood.
The call of the brown deer was so loud that the black panther galloping in the jungle stopped immediately. Its huge body panted slightly, and its green eyes looked around dangerously. Soon, it determined the direction of the sound, turned around, and ran away quickly!
"What's that sound?" Mu Ling, who had just arrived at the monkey forest, looked in a daze at the direction deep in the forest and frowned.
The little monkey curled up in her arms was still peeling a banana. Mu Ling picked up the little monkey, put it on a stone beside her, and then walked straight into the woods.
Is that an animal? An animal screaming? Are there animals fighting? No way! We paid for animals!
Mu Ling was worried and walked faster and faster.
The little monkey looked at the banana in his hand, then looked at Mu Ling who had already walked away, as if he was a little confused...
At this time, the monkey mother jumped down from the tree, and the little monkey chirped twice and jumped into his mother's arms.
The mother monkey held her baby in one hand and reached up with the other hand to grab a branch. With a nimble leap, she nimbly jumped to another big tree. In this way, she jumped from one tree to another and soon caught up with Mu Ling.
Mu Ling didn't stop, and the mother monkey followed her. Soon, other monkeys nearby also started to follow her, as if they thought this was some fun game.
Finally, Mu Ling passed through the monkey forest. Behind the monkey forest was a stream. Mu Ling looked around and chose to go downstream.
But at this time, the mother monkey began to call to Mu Ling, chirping and jumping upstream.
Mu Ling frowned: "You want me to go upstream?"
Mu Ling thought about it and nodded heavily: "Good sister, I'll listen to you!"
Having said that, Mu Ling really walked upstream.
After Mu Ling left the monkey forest, the monkeys stopped following her. The little monkey finally peeled the banana and sat on a tree trunk, eating it innocently. The mother monkey looked at Mu Ling's back, sniffing the bloody smell carried by the wind...
The smell of blood was coming from upstream.
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On the other side, upstream of the stream.
The little brown deer was bitten and fell into the stream, where it tumbled wildly. The black crocodile immediately rushed towards the hyena. The hyena was afraid of the crocodile and chose to retreat temporarily, wandering on the shore.
But the brown deer had a leg injury and couldn't stand up in the water for a long time. When it saw the crocodile approaching, it became even more frightened. The more it struggled, the faster it lost its strength.
The crocodile did not take the opportunity to snatch the injured prey. It just stopped there, its eyes still looking at the two hyenas.
The situation was temporarily deadlocked.
until……
Behind a bush in the distant jungle, a belated black leopard was crouching quietly...
The two hyenas, who were extremely sensitive to danger, seemed to sense the presence of another enemy. They suddenly became anxious and roared at the crocodile, but the crocodile remained indifferent...
Finally, one of the hyenas couldn't hold it in any longer. It took two steps forward, ignored the crocodile's warning look, bit the brown deer's hind leg, and quickly dragged it to the shore!
The brown deer cried out again, the hyena's sharp teeth made it suffer excruciating pain!
The crocodile lunged forward, but the brown deer's body blocked its attack direction, so it pounced in vain.
The brown deer had been dragged ashore, blood covering the rocks by the stream. The crocodile thrashed its limbs anxiously, but to no avail. But at this moment...
From the depths of the dark shadows of the trees, a swift and sharp black panther suddenly rushed out. There was not a single stray hair on its body, and its black color was so pure and oppressive. It was like the most experienced and patient hunter. If it did not attack, it would be fine, but once it did, it would hit the vital point!
The hyena sensed danger and was about to dodge, but it was too late. The black panther's ferocious fangs had already bitten the back of the neck of the hyena that was dragging the brown deer. Its two front paws held the hyena's body tightly. The hyena roared in fear. The black panther swung it violently, grabbed the hyena's neck, and swung it heavily to the ground again!
Seeing this, another hyena rushed to help. It planned to attack the black panther from behind, but...
"Bang!"
A faint sound of gunfire came from the other side of the stream.
The second hyena was hit in the body, and in less than half a second, its body lost strength extremely quickly. Finally, it collapsed to the ground, motionless.
The black panther was still gnashing its teeth on the hyena. Its eyes, green and tinged with red, stared coldly across the stream, the direction from which the gunshot had come...
The black crocodile had already dived to the bottom of the stream. It tried its best to disguise itself as a stone, revealing half of its eyes, and stared at the other side of the stream.
Just when the leopard and the crocodile were getting extremely alert, Mu Ling put down the tranquilizer pistol in his hand, frowned, and walked over quickly.
By the time she reached the stream, the black panther had already released the hyena's neck from its mouth. Its mouth was full of blood. It licked its teeth, took a few steps back grimly, and stared at Mu Ling.
Mu Ling looked at the black panther, then at the two hyenas and a brown deer on the ground, and finally glanced at the poorly hidden crocodile at the bottom of the stream.
Pursing her lips, Mu Ling said, "You, Swift Fire Leopard, Lightning."
She pointed at the black panther, then turned her finger and pointed at the crocodile: "You, Iron Crocodile, guard."
"One S-rank retired land war beast, and one B-rank retired aquatic war beast."
After memorizing animal information for several days, Mu Ling still remembered this basic information.
Looking at the two hyenas again and seeing the changes on their faces, Mu Ling gritted her teeth, suddenly stepped forward, and kicked the hyena that was bitten to death.
Her action was so sudden and violent that the Black Panther was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously took a few steps back vigilantly and stood behind a big tree. The Iron Crocodile also sank to the bottom of the stream again.
Mu Ling kicked the hyena and went to look at the brown deer on the ground. It was still alive, but it had been bitten by a strange beast. She didn't know if the wound would get infected. After all, they hadn't been vaccinated for a long time.
Mu Ling felt overwhelmed. She finally got a tour group, and then they did this to her!
Furious, Mu Ling kicked the hyena again, then took out her intercom and said, "Brother Xiang, can you hear me?"
On the other end, Xiang Bie, who was driving, picked up the car intercom and said, "Hmm?"
Mu Ling suppressed her anger and said, "Stop the car immediately and have the tourists in your car get in the car behind. Then have Brother Wei turn around and take everyone down the mountain immediately. Today's tour is temporarily over. If the tourists have any complaints, I will apologize to them when I get back. And you, bring the first aid kit and come find me now. I'm by the mountain stream behind the monkey forest, here..."
Mu Ling looked at the two hyenas again, her face dark as ink could drip out: "A strange beast has appeared!"
There was a pause on the intercom, and then Xiang Bie's voice came immediately: "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Mu Ling rubbed her brows. "It's just that the trial run must have failed! Oh, Lightning and the guards are here too. They must have smelled the alien beast and tracked it down. When I got here, Lightning had just bitten a beast to death, and I couldn't tell if the guards had used their mouths. Should I take them both down and take them back for a physical examination? What if they're also infected?"
Xiang Bie frowned: "You're not wearing protective clothing and staying with Lightning and the guards?"
Mu Ling said, "I have a tranquilizer gun. They are not as fast as me."
As she spoke, Mu Ling glanced at the hyena she had knocked down, her anger rising again: "Let me be frank with you, I want to shoot everyone I see now. I'm going crazy!"
Category: "..."
Xiang Bie could tell that Mu Ling's defenses had been broken. The failure of the trial operation seemed to have dealt a heavy blow to her. As a result, her first reaction to the alien beasts and war beasts was not fear, but anger...
Xiang Bie had no choice but to comfort him: "Calm down, they won't hurt you, just let them go for now, I'll be there soon, be careful."
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