Chapter 33
Mu Ling was awakened by the vibration of the shuttle bus.
She opened her eyes hazily and took a moment to realize that the car had returned to the service area.
She rubbed her aching neck and turned her head to look back. At the rear door, she saw three men carrying the unconscious polar bear and moving them out of the car quietly.
Mu Ling quickly stood up to help.
The person closest to Mu Ling was Wei Li. When Wei Li suddenly saw Mu Ling appear, he was stunned for a moment, and his whole body froze instantly. Then he quickly looked at Brother Xiang outside the car.
Now Brother Xiang and Zhao Fang are both outside the car, and he is the only one still in the car, but it really wasn’t him who woke up the headmaster!!!
"What's wrong?" Mu Ling was confused. Seeing Wei Li didn't move, she looked at this person, then that person: "Why aren't you moving?"
Wei Li was completely speechless!
Xiang Bie pursed his lips and said, "Just go ahead."
Wei Li finally breathed a sigh of relief and started moving again, but he said to Mu Ling, "Director, I'll do it myself."
As he said that, he pushed Mu Ling away with his butt.
Mu Ling: “…”
Do you look down on her? Do you think she's too weak? She was the one who carried the things when we first got on the bus. Without her, could Brother Xiang have done it all by himself?
Mu Ling pouted, picked up the medicine box, and led Lightning, saying, "Lightning, let's go!"
Mu Ling got out of the car from the front door. As soon as she got out of the car, she saw Sister Lin, Uncle Li, and Colonel Song coming out from the office building. When the three of them saw Bai Xiong, they hurried over to help.
A group of people sent the polar bear to the veterinary station. Inside the veterinary station, Qing Jiao had been holding the little wolf and licking it for a long time. As soon as the car stopped, Qing Jiao got out. As a mother, she always thinks about her child wherever she goes.
Because Lightning didn't have a full dinner, Mu Ling went to make some midnight snacks for them. She also gave them two more chicken legs, and Lightning added three. The Leopard Team made a great contribution today and was able to find Moonlight. Lightning is definitely the MVP!
While Lightning and Qingjiao were having dinner, Mu Ling went inside to see Qilin, Pimi and Brown Deer.
Mu Ling first changed the medicine for Qilin and Brown Deer, then fed Pimi medicine and food, and changed Pimi's diaper.
When she came out after finishing her work, she saw Lin Xuan coming in with a bowl of noodles in her hand: "Headmaster, Brother Xiang said you didn't eat, hurry up and eat something."
Mu Ling was so moved that she almost cried: "Sister Lin, you are my real sister!"
Lin Xuan put the noodles down with a smile and said, "I didn't make it, it was Brother Xiang who did it. I'd better not show off my craftsmanship to avoid embarrassment."
Mu Ling was stunned for a moment and looked around. Everyone in the room was surrounding Bai Xiong and looking at him. Brother Xiang was indeed not there.
Mu Ling went over and sat down, took a bite of the noodles, and it was indeed Brother Xiang’s cooking. Brother Xiang’s cooking was really delicious. I feel that when the restaurant recruits a chef in the future, the cooking skills must at least not be worse than Brother Xiang’s!
Mu Ling began to wolf down her noodles. Seeing how quickly she ate, Lin Xuan poured her a glass of water and asked, "Are you that hungry?"
Mu Ling sighed, "I can't help it. I've used up so much energy. I could have had lunch, but it was too hot and it went bad after just one day."
The biscuits and water in the medicine box were prepared by Mu Ling herself, but Brother Xiang also prepared lunch before setting off. When she was going down the mountain just now, Mu Ling wanted to take out the lunch and eat it, but as soon as she opened it, she smelled something spoiled.
Lin Xuan took out another tissue and gave it to Mu Ling, asking her to eat it slowly. Then she looked at the white bear over there and frowned: "Can Yueguang's skin be cured?"
Mu Ling took a sip of the noodle soup and nodded: "Yes, it will be fine if you apply the medicine properly. This is not the worst."
Lin Xuan smiled bitterly. Apply medicine? That would require the cooperation of Moonlight. If that didn't work, I would have to anesthetize it before applying the medicine.
Mu Ling ate the noodles very quickly. After she finished eating, she changed her clothes, put on a medical mask and medical gloves, and came to work.
The people surrounding the white bear quickly dispersed, but they didn't go far. They stayed nearby, all observing Mu Ling's movements with curiosity.
Mu Ling: “…”
Mu Ling was so nervous because of them staring at her that she said, "Everyone is blocking the light."
The crowd then dispersed a little.
The white bear is too big to fit on the operating table, so it is now placed on the ground.
If you observe its fur in a well-lit place, you will find that it appears to have white hair, but the roots of the white hair are all black.
Its originally flesh-colored normal skin was now almost completely covered with fungi and had deteriorated to black.
Mu Ling first drew a tube of blood from the polar bear, put it away separately, and then began to clean its fur.
Clean it with disinfectant, wipe it little by little, and shave the hair in serious areas, but be careful when shaving to avoid damaging the skin again.
Mu Ling's cleaning process was very slow. Because squatting was too tiring, she finally just sat on the ground. By the time she had wiped all the skin on the front of the white bear, more than 20 minutes had passed. Mu Ling stood up again, but as soon as she turned around, she was instantly confronted by five ghost-like people behind her!
Mu Ling: “…”
Mu Ling quietly looked at Lieutenant Colonel Song, Sister Lin, and the other four people who had gathered behind her at some point, and sighed softly: "Why don't we all go sit on the sofa?"
Everyone was a little embarrassed, and Li Yan said with a smile: "Director, we can help you with anything you need."
"Not now." Mu Ling walked to the medicine cabinet and said, "I'm making the spray now."
Mu Ling opened an empty disinfectant spray bottle, then took out several ready-made medicines, mixed them according to the proportions, poured them all into the spray bottle, and shook them evenly.
After making sure that the powdered medicine inside had dissolved, Mu Ling took the spray bottle, returned to the white bear, and sprayed its skin deeply and uniformly.
The so-called deep spray means that you must ensure that the medicine mist is sprayed directly onto its skin and cannot stick to the hair. If it sticks to the hair, it will be useless.
Mu Ling sprayed for a while and the spray bottle was used up. She went to get another one. When one-third of the second bottle was left, the front of the white bear had been sprayed completely.
Then Mu Ling went to get some ointment, which was also a mixture of multiple ointments. She applied the ointment thinly all over the white bear's body with the same care.
Why should it be applied thinly? Because thick application will increase the burden on the skin, so in the early stage when the skin is particularly fragile, it is best to choose thin application.
After the ointment was applied, Mu Ling twisted her neck and said to the few people who had stood behind her again without her noticing, "You can help me now. Please help me turn Yue Guang over. Put on medical gloves, and I'll get a sterile cloth."
Mu Ling spread the sterile cloth on the ground. After the four people wearing gloves carefully turned the polar bear to its back, Mu Ling changed into a pair of gloves and began to clean its back.
The injury on the back was more serious than the one on the front, so when Mu Ling first shaved the white bear, she shaved almost all of its hair off its back.
There was no way. The damage was too severe and it would be difficult to heal without shaving. As for whether Moonlight would feel cold on her vest when she woke up, there was nothing she could do about it. At worst, she could just knit it a sweater.
Lieutenant Colonel Song came closer and asked curiously, "Is it just the itchy back? I don't think the itchy chest is that bad."
Mu Ling explained: "Its infection started from the back."
Lieutenant Colonel Song was puzzled: "Why start from the back?"
Mu Ling thought for a moment and said, "It had skin diseases before, and this time it's a recurring secondary infection. The cause is probably that it goes into the water all the time. Brother Xiang said that Moonlight is afraid of people and never eats anything they feed it. It only eats fish it catches in the water. But the Silver Snow Bear is a land bear. It's not like the White Water Bear of Neptune, a naturally adept diver who can live directly in the water. The Silver Snow Bear's fur is too thick. If it doesn't dry its fur after going into the water, won't it easily breed bacteria? The hair on the chest is okay. If it feels wet, it can wipe it off. But the back can't be wiped, so it stays wet all the time, just like a parasite. Of course, this area will be the first to die."
Lieutenant Colonel Song nodded: "So land bears still have to live on land."
Mu Ling said, "Fish alone isn't enough nutrition for a silver snow bear, and it will also reduce its immunity. It still needs meat."
While the two were chatting, Mu Ling had already shaved Yue Guang's back hair, and she went to prepare disinfectant spray and ointment.
The ointment on the back is not the same as that on the front, especially the part with the wound, the ingredients of the ointment need to be adjusted.
After another half an hour of hard work, Mu Ling finally applied medicine all over the white bear's body. She then gave it two injections. External application of medicine must of course be combined with internal medication, but the white bear was asleep now and could not take medicine, so Mu Ling used the injection method to inject the medicine directly into its body.
After the injection was completed, Mu Ling asked everyone to help move the white bear to the ward.
In the ward area, Wei Li and Xiang Bie had already cleaned the cages, laid out the mattresses, and were waiting for them to come in.
Because the white bear had injuries, they also put two more layers of sterile cloth on the mattress. Although it cannot play a sterilizing role, it can at least make it a little cleaner.
The polar bear hasn't woken up yet. When it was put down, its thick body was motionless, and it looked broken and tattered.
How could it not break? It's been shaved so much, with bald spots everywhere...
Mu Ling caressed Yue Guang's fur with pity, rubbed its two semicircular ears, and muttered, "You must get better."
After saying that, Mu Ling looked at the air conditioning vents in the ward area again, making sure that the air conditioning vents would not blow directly onto Bai Xiong, and then she stood up and prepared to go out.
As soon as she went out, she was stunned.
Ignoring the seven people standing in the corridor, why does this ward area look so crowded?
Mu Ling looked again, wow, the house was full of patients, and all eight wards were almost full!
The A1 ward in the front is where Qilin lives, A2 is temporarily vacant, A3 is Pimi, and A4 is now Moonlight. The four B rooms opposite, B1 is temporarily vacant, B2 is Lightning, B3 is Qingjiang mother and child, and B4 is Brown Deer.
Tired after a day of walking, Lightning and Qingjiao have returned to their cages to rest. However, because so many people suddenly came to the ward area, they woke up again and were watching them silently.
Mu Ling put her hands on her hips, looked around the entire ward area, then shook her head and walked outside the brown deer's cage.
There are seven animals in the ward area, six of them are carnivores, and the only herbivore is the brown deer. Looking at it now, it is hiding in the corner and dare not stand out. It is obvious that it is very scared.
Mu Ling thought for a moment, then said to everyone, "Since everyone is here, let's go out and have a short meeting."
Meeting? Now? It's almost one in the morning...
But since the director said it was open, it had to be opened. As everyone walked outside, Mu Ling got straight to the point, "Today is September 11th, and our zoo will officially open on the 17th. Before that, a lot of our infrastructure needs to be completed, so I'd like to hear about the progress of everything and see how it's going."
Xiang Bie sat on the sofa, thought for a moment, and then spoke first: "I have thoroughly checked the mountain and found no traces of strange beasts. As for the protective net, the masters said that it can be completed on time by the 16th at the latest."
Mu Ling looked at Xiang Bie and asked, "Can you be 100% sure about the completion date of the protective net? Because due to various accidents before, it was delayed for several days..."
Lieutenant Colonel Song, who wasn't an employee of the Beak Zoo but was attending the meeting, chimed in, "No problem. The technicians are all very hardworking. They usually start working before I even arrive in the morning. They say they want to make up for the lost time and won't delay your opening."
Mu Ling breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Lieutenant Colonel Song again, saying, "I've really troubled you these past few days, running up and down the mountain every day."
Lieutenant Colonel Song waved his hands quickly, "I'm fine. I'm very happy to be here and see Pimi getting better and better every day. Besides, it's my honor to be able to help you."
Mu Ling thanked Colonel Song again before turning her gaze to Wei Li.
Wei Li said consciously, "Most of the supermarket's goods have been put on the shelves. Some of the goods with a short shelf life will be delivered a few days later, but basically all of them will be on the shelves around the 14th. The ingredients for the restaurant have also been ordered and will be delivered on the afternoon of the 16th. Now we just need someone to help."
Mu Ling nodded. "As for the second round of recruitment, I've scheduled it for Monday. By then, I'll have filled all the positions. As for the training, Brother Wei will still lead it. As for Brother Xiang..."
Mu Ling turned to look at Xiang Bie on the other side: "I want you to help me plan the land. I plan to build another animal dormitory in the service area."
Xiang Bie was stunned, and everyone else looked at Mu Ling, obviously not knowing what an "animal dormitory" was.
Mu Ling explained, "As you've all seen, our ward area is already very crowded. But in fact, not all animals living in the ward area are sick or injured. Lightning and Qingjiao are both healthy, but Lightning refuses to go back to the mountain. He has nowhere else to live, so he has to live in the ward. Qingjiao has to stay with the little wolf and can't leave either. So I want to build a temporary animal dormitory and put the animals that don't need to be isolated in the dormitory first. The ward area will be used as a quarantine area for the seriously ill animals."
Wei Li didn't quite understand: "Severe illness means..."
Mu Ling said, "Moonlight and Pimi are serious cases, while Brown Deer, Qilin, and Little Wolf are all mild cases."
Wei Li frowned: "But building a house in just a few days is unrealistic."
Mu Ling nodded: "Actually, I can't afford to build a house, so I think we should plan the place first. I plan to make a custom capsule room first."
Speaking of capsule rooms, Wei Li understood. A capsule room is a kind of outdoor tent that can be carried with you. Because the outer skin is made of liquid metal, it can be bulletproof and protect against wild beasts after being inflated. The largest capsule rooms on the market now are generally only about ten square meters. If the director wants to have one customized, it will probably cost a lot of money.
Mu Ling knew that it would cost money. Apart from anything else, the capsule room was just a tent-like house. It did not have the brick structure of a normal house inside, so there was no such thing as warm in winter and cool in summer. So she would have to install air circulators, air conditioners, and other machines in it, which would cost another amount of money.
Mu Ling said: "In fact, building animal dormitories is not just to share the accommodation pressure of the ward area. What I want to build is a capsule room similar to a glass greenhouse. Then, through the glass, tourists outside can also visit the animals inside. Animals like our Qilin, Lightning, Qingjian, and Little Wolf, who can move freely, can be placed in capsule rooms for tourists to visit. Of course, considering that animals probably don't like being watched, they may be afraid and stressed, so I will make the glass into double-sided glass, that is, tourists outside can see the animals inside, but the animals inside cannot see the tourists outside. In this way, the animals will not be disturbed, and the purpose of the exhibition will be achieved. After all, most of the people who come to our zoo are fans of Qilin and others, and they will definitely want to see them with their own eyes."
Xiang Bie heard this, pondered for a moment, and nodded: "Okay."
Mu Ling straightened her back a little after receiving the encouragement. She continued, "Later, when the Qilins don't want to stay at the foot of the mountain anymore, we can periodically bring other animals down to live with us. We can have them take up duties in the animal quarters, with different animals on duty every day. This way, visitors can see our animals as soon as they enter the zoo, completely breaking the curse of having difficulty seeing animals at Beak Zoo!"
Seeing Mu Ling speaking eloquently, Xiang Bie nodded again and continued to affirm: "Okay."
Mu Ling was very happy and looked at the others: "What do you think?"
Wei Li nodded repeatedly. "I think it's great. The ward area is indeed too crowded right now. Our veterinarians used to only be able to treat ordinary animals and had no access to retired war beasts. But many retired war beasts are in poor health. If there are retired war beasts that need to be taken down the mountain for treatment in the future, we can't have no cages at all."
Lin Xuan also said: "I will listen to the principal."
Zhao Fang said "hmm" seriously.
Li Yan nodded with a smile.
Lieutenant Colonel Song suddenly smiled, looked at Mu Ling and asked, "Director Mu, you are the most senior here, what you say is the truth, why are you still asking for their opinions?"
Mu Ling was stunned for a moment, feeling a little embarrassed. She scratched her face and said sheepishly, "I'm not... afraid that everyone will think I'm wasting money..."
After all, we only have this much money, so of course we have to spend it frugally. But buying a capsule room is indeed a lot of money, at least 50,000 or 60,000 yuan. With other machines and equipment, it will cost around 70,000 or 80,000 yuan.
Lieutenant Colonel Song said, "It's your own money that you're wasting. If you say it's okay, then it's okay."
Mu Ling quickly waved her hands: "No, no, no, it's not my money, it's the zoo's money, it has to be spent wisely."
Seeing that Mu Ling was still so reserved, Lieutenant Colonel Song couldn't help but want to teach her how to establish her authority. Since he could reach the position of Lieutenant Colonel, he must have a lot of soldiers under him. If he couldn't use both kindness and force and be a qualified leader, he wouldn't be able to control those brats!
After the short meeting, Lieutenant Colonel Song went to find Mu Ling and said that he would give her a private lesson to teach her how to be an officer!
Mu Ling agreed on the spot, but before the class officially started, Colonel Song was called back to the army early the next morning.
"Didn't they say Pimi is willing to eat and take medicine? Then why haven't you come back yet? The higher-ups have issued a mission, hurry back and gather!"
Therefore, the next morning, Colonel Song took one last look at Pimi and could only leave in tears.
After Lieutenant Colonel Song left, the person who went up the mountain to accompany the protective net masters to start work that day became Zhao Fang. Although Zhao Fang lost an eye, it did not affect his shooting accuracy at all. He was more than qualified to be a bodyguard. However, Zhao Fang did not know the way, so Xiang Bie drove him up.
Wei Li continued to take Lin Xuan and Li Yan to tidy up the supermarket. Seeing that Brother Xiang had not returned, Mu Ling went to the open space around the service area to inspect where the capsule room would be built. Before she had looked for long, someone suddenly called her from a distance.
"Director! Director!"
Mu Ling looked back and saw that it was Brother Wei. Mu Ling asked loudly, "What's wrong?"
Wei Li pointed towards the veterinary station and said, "Moonlight is awake!"
!!!
Mu Ling was startled and ran back quickly.
When Mu Ling reached Wei Li, Wei Li's face was filled with anxiety. As they walked, he said to her, "I was just at the supermarket when I heard a sudden howling noise coming from the veterinary station. There were bear howls, wolf howls, leopard roars, tiger roars, everything. I went in and saw that the place was in chaos!"
The place where Mu Ling planned the capsule room was a bit far from the veterinary station, so she didn't hear anything. But now that she was closer, she heard it too!
My goodness, is this a hospital ward or a vegetable market? The screams are so intense!
Lin Xuan and Li Yan were waiting for them at the door of the veterinary station. Only after they saw Mu Ling go in did they follow her in.
They had raised war beasts before and knew that when war beasts were extremely excited, those iron cages might not be able to hold them, so they did not want to rush in and stimulate them.
Mu Ling walked quickly into the ward area, but as soon as she entered, she saw Qilin standing in the cage with great vigor, with fierce eyes and a ferocious expression, scolding the polar bear that was two cages away from it!
At the same time, Pimi, who was separated from Qilin by a cage, also stood up with trembling legs, and let out a weak roar at the white bear next to him. If you ignore the pink and blue diaper on Pimi's butt and only look at its black hair and majestic facial features, it still looks very majestic!
Looking at the other side, Lightning was also roaring at the polar bear. It lowered its upper body, and its smooth and agile body collapsed into an attacking posture, as if if it were not restrained by these layers of iron cages, it would rush over directly and bite the polar bear's neck.
Qingjiao, who was next to Lightning, was equally ferocious. He even used his claws to dig at the railings, making them clang. The little wolf in the same ward as Qingjiao had already shrunk under his mother's belly, but he was obviously helping his mother, so from time to time, he would stick his head out and let out a childish "howl" at the white bear to create atmosphere, and then quickly shrink back under his mother's belly.
In the entire ward area, the only one who didn't shout was the brown deer at the bottom of the food chain.
The brown deer huddled in the corner of ward B4. Opposite it was the white bear, and on its left was the patrol officer. It didn't dare to speak, but just quietly curled itself up in the corner, facing the wall, with a humble look that said, "You can't see me, you can't see me, no one can see me."
Mu Ling: “…”
Mu Ling pressed her forehead hard, and finally had to turn her gaze towards the white bear that had united the entire ward.
Bears are animals that can stand, and now this polar bear is standing, holding the thin railing with its two claws, shaking while indiscriminately attacking each of its neighbors.
Mu Ling: “…”
What the hell is this? Zaun White Bear, 1v5 challenge to the entire server?
Mu Ling felt both relieved and helpless. She was relieved that Moonlight was so energetic and it was obvious that the brief shock did not cause any serious damage to its body.
What’s frustrating is that which kid starts cursing as soon as he wakes up?
Mu Ling had no choice but to ask Wei Li: "So why are they quarreling?"
Wei Li turned on his light brain with a serious face and played a surveillance video of the ward area to Mu Ling. Then Mu Ling saw that in the video, after the white bear woke up, it started to make a lot of noise in the ward. At first, no one paid attention to it. Later, it overturned the food bowl, kicked over the water bowl, and started banging its head against the wall.
When Mu Ling saw the white bear banging its head against the wall, her expression changed immediately!
At the same time, the Qilin in the video also changed. The Qilin suddenly stood up and started roaring at the white bear!
Then all the animals started yelling at White Bear!
The white bear was stunned by the roars. It seemed to feel provoked and threatened, so it stopped self-abuse and started roaring back at them. The roars became louder and louder, and more and more crazy, as if it had gone crazy from the quarrel.
Mu Ling frowned, but couldn't help but feel relieved.
Fortunately, there is Qilin!
Fortunately, Qilin discovered it!
As expected, her Qilin is really a very gentle and kind little tiger.
The same goes for Lightning, Qingjiao, and Pimi. Even when Pimi himself was half dead, he still stood up to stop other animals from hurting themselves.
Mu Ling's eyes suddenly felt a little sore. She sniffed and said to Brother Wei, "Brother Wei, please get me a tranquilizer. I guess Yue Guang's nerve damage value should be over 90%. His condition is too serious..."
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