Chapter 30
When we went up the mountain, we rode a mountain bike.
Mu Ling was driving and Qing Jiao was sitting in the passenger seat.
During the entire clearance process, the wolf's head was stuck out of the window. It was judging the direction by the smell of the wind, just like Lightning judging the position of the strange beast while sitting in the car.
Only when they reached the place where they needed to change route would Qingjiao retract his head and use his wet nose to nudge Mu Ling's arm, indicating that Mu Ling had taken the wrong path.
And when Mu Ling made the right move, Qing Jiao would lick Mu Ling's ears as a reward.
Mu Ling, whose ears were wet, said: "..."
You don’t have to lick it every time!
They walked up the mountain like this, and in less than two hours, they reached the inner area.
After the car drove for a while, Qingjiao suddenly came over, pressed Mu Ling's arm with its claws, and then came over to lick Mu Ling again, this time licking her face and neck. Anyway, it licked Mu Ling so hard that she couldn't drive.
Mu Ling knew that they had arrived at their destination, so she quickly stopped the car and wiped her face with her sleeve.
Sure enough, as soon as the car stopped, Qingjian immediately used his claws to dig at the car door.
Mu Ling helped it open the car door again. The giant wolf jumped down. After a few steps, it stopped and looked back at Mu Ling.
Mu Ling had been to the inner area, but had never been to this part. She looked at the lush jungle outside, swallowed, put the tranquilizer gun on her waist, put on a protective suit, and then got out of the car.
When Qingjian saw Mu Ling get off the car, it continued to move forward. It walked very nimbly and could easily jump over stones and branches. Mu Ling had a hard time and stumbled along the way. It took her a long time to catch up with it.
After walking for about ten minutes, Mu Ling suddenly heard a faint whimpering sound.
Then, I saw Qingchao move very quickly. He jumped onto a big rock in a few steps, then went around behind the rock and stopped.
Mu Ling walked over quickly and saw that there was actually a cave behind the stone. A large stone was half covering the cave, blocking the entrance. Looking inside through the gap in the cave, she could see a little wolf with black bandages on its body standing in the cave, calling out anxiously to the outside.
Mu Ling thought that this was the reason why Qing Jiao came down the mountain to find her. The little wolf accidentally fell into a cave, and Qing Jiao asked her to rescue the little wolf. She was still wondering how the little wolf fell into such a small gap?
The Qingjiao used its sharp and strong claws to dig away the stone blocking the entrance of the cave, revealing a wide and complete cave.
Mu Ling: “…”
It turns out that this stone was used to block the traffic, probably to prevent the little wolf from running around.
The entrance to the cave was finally opened, and the little wolf immediately jumped up. Qingqiang felt sorry for the child, so he grabbed the little wolf's head, pulled it up by the roots, and dragged it up.
Mu Ling: “…”
The little wolf finally stood on flat ground. It shook its head and stood shakily. It first looked at its mother and then looked at Mu Ling opposite it.
Qingjiao lowered his head to lick the little wolf's fur, but the little wolf stared at Mu Ling and observed her. While observing, it also sniffed. After smelling a familiar scent, it jumped up and staggered towards Mu Ling.
The little wolf pounced, raised its two front paws, and grabbed Mu Ling's trouser legs.
Mu Ling looked at the wolf cub, its fur blown out and its body covered in mud and dust. Reluctantly, she picked it up, tapped its forehead and said, "No one would believe you if you said you weren't your mother's biological child. This look is like a beggar's inheritance."
"Oh, oh, oh..." The little wolf called softly, opened its mouth, bit Mu Ling's finger, and licked her hard.
Mu Ling let it lick her. She simply sat on a big rock, let the little wolf lie on her knees, and then went to look at the bandages on the little wolf's body.
After removing the dirty and wet bandage, Mu Ling discovered that the wolf cub's wound had rotted, and some flesh was even stuck to the bandage. When she tore off the bandage, the wolf cub felt pain and made a "woohoo" sound in his throat.
Qingjiao came over, smelled the wolf cub's wound, and then licked it.
Mu Ling quickly blocked its mouth and said, "Be good, don't lick it."
The little wolf's wound obviously needed to be treated again. The lack of frequent dressing changes and the poor healing environment caused the wound to worsen. If the little wolf had taken the medicine provided by Brother Xiang and Brother Wei every day, the wound would at least not have become so inflamed and festered. However, looking at the direction they were in now, Mu Ling knew that the little wolf probably hadn't eaten the food provided by Brother Xiang and the others for many days.
The animals on the mountain are fed at fixed points. For example, when feeding rabbits, there are so many rabbits that it is impossible to feed them one by one. The breeder will put two to three days' worth of food in places where the rabbits often appear, and the rabbits can come and eat when they want.
But the animals on the outside are easy to feed, while the animals on the inside are difficult to feed.
The animals on the periphery are mostly herbivores. They often live in a fixed area and the feeding sites are also fixed. However, the animals on the inner side, such as wolves, wild boars, and some retired war beasts, like to change their habitats frequently. Therefore, when feeding them, they are generally fed in fixed places and live animals are added.
There is a fixed distribution point every few dozen kilometers. Animal feed is placed at the fixed distribution point, and anyone passing by can have a bite. Outside the fixed distribution points, some purchased live chickens and ducks will be placed for wild beasts that do not like to eat animal feed, or for war beasts that are mentally ill and have forgotten where the distribution point is to hunt and eat by themselves.
Before the clearance, it was roaming in the eastern part of the inner circle, so after the little wolf returned to the mountain, Brother Xiang and his team mixed anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers into the animal feed at more than a dozen distribution points in the east.
As a result, no one knew that Qingzheng had quietly migrated to the west with the little wolf. Judging from the little wolf's injuries, it was likely that it had not taken any medicine since it went up the mountain. If it was not taken care of, its flesh would be rotten and the bones would be visible.
Qingjiang probably smelled the rotten meat on the wolf cub, so he came down the mountain to find her.
Mu Ling rubbed Qingjiao's head and explained, "I have to take the little wolf down the mountain for treatment. All the rotten flesh on it needs to be shaved off, and it needs to be well taken care of in the ward. It can't follow you up the mountains and down the sea anymore."
Qing Jiao didn't understand what Mu Ling said. She stepped back and forth anxiously with her front paws, then stretched out her hands and licked Mu Ling's head again.
Mu Ling hugged its neck and said, "I know, I know. I will cure it. Let's go back."
Mu Ling walked back with the little wolf in her arms, and Qing Jiao followed closely.
After getting in the car, Mu Ling reclined the passenger seat, which expanded the passenger seat so that Qingjian and Xiaolang could sit together.
On the way down the mountain, the little wolf was restless and wanted to climb towards Mu Ling from time to time, but every time it just climbed over, its mother would hold its head in her mouth and drag it back, then hold it in her arms and lick its fur.
Qingjiao was obviously really worried about the wolf cub's injury. He tried to lick the wolf cub's wound several times, but was always spotted by the sharp-eyed Mu Ling. Mu Ling grabbed his mouth and sternly stopped him: "You can't lick like that, the wound will only get bigger!"
Qingjiao's mouth was pinched and he could only look at Mu Ling innocently, his pair of dark and gloomy animal eyes were bloody and confused.
Mu Ling chuckled, released its mouthpiece, ruffled its fur, and said softly, "Be obedient."
Qingqiang finally obeyed and just licked the little wolf's forehead.
After a while, the little wolf began to feel sleepy. It curled up in its mother's arms and slowly closed its eyes. Seeing this, Qing Jiao pressed the little wolf into his arms again, then it also lay down, facing Mu Ling's head, and closed its eyes.
When Mu Ling turned around, she felt her heart melt. Qing Jiao would sleep next to her. What did this mean? It meant that she had begun to trust her!
Mu Ling suddenly felt extremely proud. She reached out and gently touched Qingjiao's fur. The sensitive black snow wolf immediately opened its eyes, but after seeing that it was Mu Ling, it licked its mouth, had no reaction, and closed its eyes again.
The car continued to go down the mountain. Ten minutes later, when Mu Ling was about to leave the mountain area and drive the car back to the main lane, a "click" sound suddenly came from a patch of grass in the distance. Mu Ling looked over there curiously, and saw that a very thick tree was swaying and leaning, and was about to fall towards her!
!!!
What’s going on!
Mu Ling was terrified. Seeing that the tree was about to hit her mountain bike, Mu Ling quickly stepped on the brakes!
Accompanied by a "squeak" friction sound...
"Bang!" The big tree fell on the open space in front of the mountain bike. The distance between the trunk and the front of the mountain bike was less than half a meter!
In other words, if Mu Ling had not stepped on the brakes in time, she and the little wolf would have been crushed by the tree!
Someone wants to kill her secretly!
Mu Ling was shocked and frightened. She turned her gaze in confusion and helplessness in the direction where the big tree had fallen, and then she saw a white mass flash by in the dense shadows of the trees.
It's him!
Who is that!
murderer!
Mu Ling didn't dare to get out of the car and chase after him. She had just escaped death and her legs were still weak!
With shaking hands, she quickly turned on her optical computer. There was no signal in the mountains, so the optical computer could not connect to the Internet, but it could take videos!
Mu Ling let the camera lens out and let it chase the running white figure!
Who on earth was it? She was attacked in her own zoo, how could this happen!
The other party must have been waiting here for a long time, knowing that she would come down the mountain from this side, and then he sawed the tree trunk in advance, intending to smash her to death when she passed by!
Mu Ling broke out in a cold sweat as she thought about it. She had never encountered such a situation before, and she believed that she had never offended anyone. Who on earth hated her so much and wanted to kill her?
Could it be related to her helping the military?
Major Chang also said that it was very strange that there were suddenly medium-polluted alien beasts in the back mountain. He heard that there were some anti-government groups on some remote planets that specialized in raising alien beasts and using them to undermine the federal regime.
She won’t encounter such a group of psychopaths!
Then she helped the military, and these people hated her and wanted to get rid of her!
The more Mu Ling thought about it, the more frightened she became. At this moment, the camera had already caught up with the fleeing white figure.
That figure was running now, but he wasn't running while standing. He was running on all fours, bent over...
Running on four legs...
Mu Ling: “…”
Mu Ling: “………………”
Mu Ling quietly looked at the big white bear covered in white fur in the camera...
The bear was at least two meters long, fat and strong. After it was pushed against the tree, it probably heard the sound of the car and fled to the other side.
But as it was running away, it suddenly turned around and looked at the "little flying insect" following it. It opened its mouth and waved its sharp bear paws at the flying insect!
Small flying insects...that is, the camera senses the collision and automatically avoids it.
The polar bear was very unhappy that it didn't take a picture of the little flying insect. It bared its teeth and roared directly at the flying insect: "Ha!!!"
The camera stopped moving because it had reached its limit.
Seeing that the camera was no longer approaching it, the polar bear stared at the camera for a while, then scratched its nose with its paw, turned around, stuck out its butt, and ran away twisting its body.
Mu Ling: “…”
How can I describe her current mood?
In an instant, I felt that her series of conspiracy theories just now were simply a joke...
Who does she think she is? Who has the time to assassinate her? She is just a naughty bear!
Mu Ling turned to look at Qingjiao beside her.
Qingjiao and Little Wolf had both woken up by this time. Little Wolf was walking back and forth on the seat, and was curiously leaning on the window to look outside.
Qingjiao stretched his neck and moved closer to Mu Ling.
Mu Ling took the camera back and watched the video again. Then she pointed at the video and asked Qing Jiao, "Do you recognize it? Why does it look familiar to me?"
Qingjiao looked at the screen in front of him, tilted his head, and looked at Mu Ling again, then he leaned over and licked Mu Ling's fur.
Mu Ling let it lick her. After thinking about it, she simply took out the memo in her laptop. After searching around, she saw the white bear's photo and information on the list of retired war beasts.
"S-class retired war beast, Silver Snow Bear, Moonlight!"
Mu Ling looked at Qing Jiao in shock: "It was Yue Guang who almost killed me just now!"
Qingjiao licked Mu Ling's hair and then licked Mu Ling's ears. Mu Ling's face was wet again because of it. She could only hold it down and said, "Okay, okay, don't rush me. I'll start now."
Mu Ling glanced at the direction that Bai Xiong had just left, restarted the engine, and backed the car up. After backing up for a distance, she went around the fallen tree in front and drove forward from the other side.
Two hours later, Mu Ling returned safely to the foot of the mountain.
Lin Xuan was stocking the shelves of the supermarket. When she heard the sound, she came out of the supermarket and saw Mu Ling parked her mountain bike outside the veterinary station. Then she got off the bike and bent down to take something out of it.
Lin Xuan took a closer look and saw that it was a little wolf.
It's the little wolf that appeared in the video.
At the same time, another figure came out of the car. He was covered in gray hair, tall and agile. It was Qingqiang.
"Hey, the director is back." Wei Li also came out of the supermarket at this time. Seeing the director holding the little wolf, he was stunned for a moment: "What happened to the little wolf?"
He was about to go over when Lin Xuan suddenly stopped him and asked, "Brother Wei, besides being familiar with Qilin, Lightning, Pimi, and Qingjiao, is there any other animals on the mountain that the director is familiar with?"
Wei Li didn't know what Lin Xuan was asking about. After a moment's thought, he said, "There are quite a few. Golden rabbits, startled monkeys, long-tailed civets, Bactrian deer, red-black foxes, firebirds... When we go to feed these animals, they don't come out. They only come out to eat when we're gone. But when the director goes to feed them, they come out and even interact with him."
Lin Xuan's eyes deepened: "Where is the S-level war beast?"
"Um?"
"Can the director get close to other S-rank war beasts? Have you tried?"
"..." Wei Li stared at Lin Xuan blankly. He suddenly looked at Lin Xuan sensitively and asked, "Why are you asking this?"
Lin Xuan paused and said nothing.
"Brother Wei!" At this moment, Mu Ling in the distance just called Wei Li.
Wei Li quickly replied "coming", then looked at Lin Xuan again and left.
Until Wei Li left, Zhao Fang suddenly came from behind, walked to Lin Xuan, and picked up a box of goods at the door.
Lin Xuan met Zhao Fang's gaze, pursed her lips, turned around and went back to continue loading the goods.
Zhao Fang didn't say anything to Lin Xuan. He moved the goods to Li Yan's side. Li Yan still had that smiling face, but he said softly, "Xiao Lin still can't let it go..."
Zhao Fang's expression remained serious: "Who can let it go? I saw Hei Yu die with my own eyes."
"Black Feather" was Zhao Fang's former S-level war beast. It stopped breathing right in front of Zhao Fang's eyes.
Zhao Fang is usually such a cold person, but that time he cried for a week and almost couldn't recover...
Li Yan raised his hand and patted Zhao Fang's shoulder, then turned back to look at Lin Xuan who was stocking the shelves in silence.
Li Yan actually understood Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan was born into a military family. Her parents, brothers and sisters were all soldiers, but she was the only one who chose the Beast Taming Army. Her family once told her that the Beast Taming Army was cruel because war beasts were more fragile than soldiers, and a soldier who lost a war beast would lose half his life.
But Lin Xuan didn't care. She was determined to become a Beast Tamer, and the final result was just like this...
Not only did she lose half her life, she also lost three fingers...
Lin Xuan's family is well-off, so she doesn't actually need to work, but she still comes to the Beak Zoo to apply for a job. Li Yan can guess what she is thinking. She was attracted by Director Mu's video, and she wants to know if there is really any way to heal a war beast with damaged nerves.
Even if there really was a way, her war beast would not be able to be resurrected, but she was still determined to know the answer, because this knot in her heart had tied her down.
Li Yan sighed softly, shook his head, and continued to work.
While the three new employees continued to be busy, in the veterinary station, Mu Ling was treating the wolf cub's wound again, and at the same time, she told Wei Li about what happened on the mountain.
Wei Li was surprised after hearing this: "You said moonlight? You saw moonlight? You went this far in there?"
In Wei Li's impression, Moonlight lives in a very remote and steep mountain, and usually never comes out. Wei Li has been in the Piccolo Zoo for two years and has only seen it twice.
One was when it just entered the park, and the other was when it just entered the mountains and was still looking for a habitat. However, after it found a habitat, it never appeared again.
Mu Ling didn't think she was walking very far: "There are mountain paths where I'm walking, so it should be okay. The moonlight created it by itself."
Wei Li frowned. "Why did it run out? It really doesn't like humans. A silver snow bear's sense of smell is two thousand times stronger than a human's. Once it smells a human, it'll run away from you miles away. It won't even eat the food we throw at it. Brother Xiang said Moonlight catches fish from the stream below the mountain, or eats wild fruits and weeds. In short, it won't go near places or paths that people have touched."
Mu Ling was also a little confused. She said suspiciously, "Anyway, I saw it outside. It was pushing a tree. I'll show you the video!"
Mu Ling directly placed the evidence of Yue Guang's attempted murder of the headmaster in front of Wei Li, and then pointed and accused him: "Look at that tree, it's so big, I almost couldn't come back!"
Wei Li was also a little confused when he saw that the one in the camera was indeed Moonlight. "It shouldn't be like that, but I know why it took the camera. It probably thought the camera was a bee, and it doesn't like bees."
Mu Ling's mouth twitched. "A bear wouldn't dislike bees for no reason, unless it's stealing their honey."
Wei Li: “…”
Wei Li stared at the tree trunk in the camera again, then gasped in amazement: "This tree is really big. Director, are you really okay?"
Mu Ling shook her head: "Luckily it didn't hit me, it just scared me."
As Mu Ling was speaking, she saw Qing Jiao walking out of the ward area. Mu Ling had just given him some water and canned food, so Qing Jiao should be full now.
Mu Ling continued to lower her head to clean the wolf's wound. Because the wolf was always moving around, she was cleaning more slowly...
"Wait!" Suddenly at this moment, Mu Ling suddenly thought of something. She turned her head and stared at Qingjiao who was slowly walking towards her, then lowered her head and smelled Qingjiao.
Qingjiao looked at Mu Ling in confusion.
Wei Li also looked at the headmaster in confusion.
Mu Ling sniffed and asked for help: "Brother Wei, come and smell Qingjian. Does he have any odor? I sleep with Qilin and Lightning every day, and I can no longer smell any animal odors."
Wei Li said in embarrassment: "But I don't dare to get close to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway."
He was now at least two meters away from the clearance.
Mu Ling asked, "Can you smell it just like this?"
Wei Li sniffed hard and said vaguely, "Hmm, it does have a smell. Qingjiao is too dirty, it smells weird..."
Mu Ling suddenly understood: "Didn't you say that the Silver Snow Bear's sense of smell is two thousand times stronger than a human's? I was with Qingjiao at the time, and I guess Qingjiao's smell overwhelmed mine, so Moonlight didn't escape. But why did it break the tree? I looked at the crown of the tree, and there was no honey on it. I ruled out the possibility that it wanted to climb up the tree to steal the honey and ended up breaking the tree!"
As they were talking, Xiang Bie just came in.
Wei Li remembered that Brother Xiang was more familiar with Yue Guang, so he quickly told him about the director's encounter with Yue Guang and showed him the video.
After reading it, Xiang Bie frowned and said with a serious face: "It seems that his condition has worsened."
Wei Li and Mu Ling were both stunned.
Xiang Bie froze the video at a certain shot, which happened to capture the silver snow bear's back. He zoomed in and pointed at the dirty spot on the bear's back, saying, "These black scraps should be bark. It was probably scratching itself with the trunk, but it used too much force and broke it."
Xiang Bie looked at Mu Ling. "Yue Guang came here six months ago. When he arrived, he was not only mentally ill, but also had a skin disease. We wanted to cure his skin disease before sending him up the mountain, but he rebelled as soon as he was caged, breaking the cage and almost hurting someone. Finally, we reluctantly treated him for two days, but he really refused to cooperate, so we had to let him go. His skin disease was cured a little at that time, but now it seems that it has relapsed and is even more serious."
It was able to break the tree trunk, which shows how hard it scratched. It must have scratched the flesh to pieces...
"Swish, swish..." At this moment, a fierce tickling sound was heard beside me.
Mu Ling, Xiang Bie, and Wei Li, three pairs of eyes simultaneously looked at Qing Jiao, who was sitting next to Mu Ling and scratching the hair on his neck with his hind legs.
Qingjiao was scratching the itch vigorously, and the area around it was covered with hair dandruff. Because Mu Ling was close to it, her pants were also covered with hair dandruff.
Qingjiao was scratching his itch when he noticed Mu Ling was looking at him. He put down his hind legs, stood up, and looked up at Mu Ling, as if asking, what's the matter?
"Brother Xiang, Brother Wei..." Mu Ling said in a deep voice, "Help me boil some water. In twenty minutes, give Qingjian a bath first!"
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