Chapter 42
After comforting Lightning and Tayun, Mu Ling had to rush to the supermarket to help stock the goods.
After just a short while, the ticket seller Xiao Zhao came over.
"Director, someone is looking for you outside."
Mu Ling looked in the direction of the zoo gate, clapped her hands, and walked over.
When she reached the door, Mu Ling saw that it was Director Wang.
Director Wang was accompanied by two unfamiliar people.
Mu Ling hurried forward to shake hands with Director Wang, then looked at the two strangers.
Director Wang introduced them with a smile, "Director Mu, this is Director Liu from the Land Planning Bureau, and this is Director Fang from the Tourism Bureau. We knew your zoo would be busy this morning, so we specially invited them to come this afternoon to congratulate you on the opening of your zoo."
Mu Ling was flattered and quickly shook hands with Director Liu and Director Fang. She said politely, "Thank you all three for taking the time to visit us. Come on in, don't stand at the door."
The three leaders walked in, looking around as they walked. Then, Director Liu spoke first: "Xiao Mu, I heard that you are opening for the first time today, but you are only accepting a thousand guests?"
Mu Ling said a little embarrassedly, "Yes, we're not yet fully equipped to handle this. We can't accommodate too many guests. This is a wildlife park, unlike ordinary caged zoos. We can't just let guests wander around freely. We're responsible for their safety and have to personally escort them into the mountains. With insufficient manpower, the number of guests we can accommodate is naturally reduced."
Director Fang said, "Not only are you running a zoo, but you're also working part-time as a tour guide? That's really too much work."
Director Wang also said, "Besides, it's hard to see animals here, which is also a big problem."
Mu Ling paused, then quickly said, "Director Wang, Director Wang, we've solved the problem of not being able to see animals! We can now easily see animals here! Feel free to see them!"
Director Wang was shocked: "Great! How did you do that?"
You know, the reason why Beek Zoo went bankrupt in the past was because it was too difficult to see the animals!
Mu Ling didn't hide anything and told him about her daily trips into the mountains to interact with the animals. Finally, she said, "In short, the herbivores in the mountains have gradually become accustomed to the presence of humans. Some of the docile animals are even willing to interact with tourists. Of course, the carnivores in the inner area are still quite wary. However, we will make up for the regret of not seeing carnivores in other places. For example, everyone, look over here now."
Mu Ling and a few others continued to walk inside. After walking for a while, a huge glass house that was half blocked by the supermarket was revealed.
Mu Ling introduced: "This is our animal dormitory. The animal dormitory is open for a few hours every day. Visitors who want to see carnivores or war beasts can come here."
The glass room was wide and bright, surrounded by at least two or three hundred people.
Director Fang was surprised: "Just now I saw that your gate was deserted. I thought it was because the popularity had decreased in the afternoon, or most of the tourists had entered the mountain and had not yet come out. I didn't expect that everyone was here."
Mu Ling smiled and said, "It's true that some tourists haven't left the mountain yet, but those who have already left haven't left yet. In fact, our zoo has received a total of 1,032 visitors today, but so far, not a single one has left early."
"No one left early?" Director Wang's face was filled with disbelief. "How is that possible?"
Attractions like zoos are not usually visited for a whole day. Most people come in the morning and leave at noon, or come in the afternoon and leave in the evening. It is already very difficult to spend half a day there, but Director Mu actually said that out of the one thousand guests who came in the morning, none of them have left yet?
this……
Even though Beek Zoo has been very popular recently, among the more than a thousand people, there must be one or two who came to see it and felt disappointed, right?
Seeing that the leaders didn't believe her, Mu Ling said, "Why don't you three go over and take a look? You can also interview our tourists and ask them if they had a great time today."
Mu Ling led the three of them over.
As a result, just as it passed, there was a sudden cry of surprise from the crowd, and then people kept shouting, "Ahhh, I will always be moved by Qilin", "This family cannot be without Qilin", "Our Qilin is really so warm".
Mu Ling was aroused by their talk, so she tiptoed to look into the glass house, but she only saw Qilin spit out the little yellow duck from his mouth and throw it in front of the little wolf. Then he returned to the cushion in a cool manner and lay down to sleep.
Didn't see any real content.
Director Wang asked the tourist in front of him, "Excuse me, what just happened?"
Without even turning his head, the tourist spoke quickly, "The wolf cub was playing with the rubber duck when it was attracted by the ball in the corner and went back to playing with the ball. Suddenly, Tayun flew down and snatched the duck away. The wolf cub was terrified. Tayun flew for a long time and then casually threw the duck onto the cat climbing frame. The wolf cub couldn't climb up and fell several times. Finally, Qilin couldn't stand it anymore and jumped onto the platform in two steps to take the duck down and return it to the wolf cub!"
The tourist grew increasingly excited as he spoke. "Wow, our Qilin is truly perfect. Qingjiao and Lightning were still playing in the water, but only Qilin noticed that Little Wolf's little yellow duck was gone, so he went to get it for him. Qilin is truly kind, thoughtful, and warm-hearted. As a follower of the Princess, I will always love Princess Qilin!"
Mu Ling: “…”
Why did they suddenly start shouting slogans? As soon as the tourist shouted, others around heard it and started shouting as well: "I am a believer of the eldest princess, I will always love the eldest princess!"
"I am a believer of the eldest princess, I will always..."
No, no, no, wake up!
Mu Ling was stunned. She didn't have the nerve to tell them that it was actually Qilin who usually snatched the rubber duck from Little Wolf the most. Qilin probably had a strange sense of possessiveness, thinking that only he could use the rubber duck to bully Little Wolf, and no one else could, so he helped Little Wolf take the rubber duck...
But this is not worthy of such praise!
It's walking on the clouds.
Mu Ling looked at Ta Yun flying in the air again. After flying for a while, Ta Yun swooped down, grabbed a doll in an instant, and continued to circle in the sky.
Is Tayun... practicing catching prey?
Mu Ling was very moved by what she saw. Should she say that he is worthy of being a muscular man who eats snake bile every day? He never forgets to exercise and improve himself. He is really self-disciplined like an eagle!
Director Wang was stunned at this moment, frowning and asking, "Director Mu, is that eagle stepping on the clouds? How can it still fly?"
Mu Ling: “…”
Mu Ling almost forgot that she had previously contacted Director Wang and asked him if he wanted to give Tayun the wing softening injection. Director Wang had insisted on giving it, but Mu Ling didn't do it and hadn't told Director Wang yet...
Mu Ling scratched her face and said with a guilty conscience, "Leader, that's not Tayun, it's Tayun's younger brother, Fengyun."
Director Wang: “…”
Does he look like a fool?
Director Fang then said, "It seems this eagle has entered its mating season, right?"
Mu Ling was stunned and immediately looked at Director Fang.
Director Liu smiled and said, "Director Fang used to work in forestry, but later switched to tourism. He is very familiar with birds and animals."
Mu Ling didn't expect this person to be an expert, so she quickly asked, "Leader, you just said that Tayun is in estrus?"
Director Wang interrupted: "Isn't it Fengyun?"
Mu Ling: “…”
Director Fang smiled, ignoring the bickering between his superior and subordinate. He simply said, "It looks like it failed in its courtship and is practicing hunting to strengthen its strength and prepare for another battle. Do you have any other falcons in your park? It might have found someone it loves."
Mu Ling: “…”
Mu Ling looked at the eagle working out hard in the glass room, and suddenly she didn't want to say a word...
Director Liu looked at the animals inside again and asked, "Are these, except for the little wolf, all retired S-rank war beasts?"
Mu Ling smiled and nodded: "Yes."
Director Liu stared at Mu Ling deeply for a moment, then said, "Very good."
Director Liu and Director Fang seemed to be very interested in the Qilin and the others, and they actually just stood there watching and refused to leave.
Director Wang pulled Mu Ling away and spoke, "I was planning to come here by myself today, but as soon as I left the house, these two stopped me and insisted on coming with me. I guess they have other ideas."
Mu Ling didn't quite understand this and asked in confusion: "What's the idea?"
Director Wang pondered, "The Tourism Bureau's goal is simple. They want your Beak Zoo to become as famous as possible, so it can boost tourism across the entire God King Planet. You don't know, but when we came up just now, we saw the botanical garden at the foot of the mountain. It was bustling with activity. Your zoo only accepted a thousand visitors today, but the botanical garden, thanks to your opening, has attracted at least ten thousand visitors today!"
Mu Ling had heard from tourists that the botanical garden at the foot of the mountain was very busy in the morning, causing a brief traffic jam, but she had never expected there to be as many as 10,000 tourists...
So envious!!!
Director Wang continued, "Director Fang probably received the news this morning, so he came to see me this afternoon. He doesn't really care. At most, he just came to inspect you and have an idea. But Director Liu, I'm a little confused about his purpose. The land of the Beike Zoo is yours. What does the Land Planning Bureau have to do with it? Why is he joining in the fun?"
Mu Ling blinked. "Maybe Director Liu is also a fan of Qilin and the others? But he can't get in without a ticket?"
As Mu Ling spoke, she looked ahead and saw Director Fang with his hands behind his back, smiling as he visited the room. However, Director Liu next to him had already put the optical computer camera on his head and was frantically snapping pictures of the glass room.
The enthusiasm was so intense that it seemed as if they had become one with the surrounding believers and tourists...
Director Wang: “…”
Director Wang actually thought that what Mu Ling said made sense!
Could it be that Lao Liu is really trying to evade the ticket?
But after a moment of hesitation, Director Wang said, "I'll go back and find out what he has to say."
Mu Ling smiled at Director Wang, feeling warm in her heart. She said gratefully, "Leader, you're so kind to our Beak Zoo! We are blessed to have such a dedicated and responsible Director of the Forestry Bureau on Shenwang Star!"
Director Wang glanced at Mu Ling and said, "Stop flattering me. Solving your problems is my job."
Director Wang then looked around the entire zoo and said sincerely, "It's only been two weeks since we took over, and you've managed to manage Beak Zoo to this level. I have to say, Xiao Mu, you're quite capable."
Mu Ling felt a bit embarrassed by Director Wang's praise and blushed as she said, "Actually, the zoo is just getting started. Apart from anything else, we have too few animals. Even if tourists go into the mountains and see the animals, they often have to take a car for more than ten minutes to see the next one after seeing one. The time between seeing one animal is really too long, and the animals are still too scattered."
"The second issue is transportation. The mountain roads are difficult to navigate, and it takes several hours to go up and down the mountain. Although there are convenient toilets along the way, visitors are bound to encounter inconveniences. In fact, I have seen the original design of the Beek Zoo. The design clearly divides the Beek Jungle into ten sections, each with a separate small service area. So I plan to start preparing to build a second transit service area in our park after I make my first pot of gold."
"Finally, there's the issue of war beasts. Director Wang, we still have quite a few war beasts in the Beak Zoo, but it's really not okay to just let them roam freely in the mountains. For example, Moonlight the Silver Snow Bear and Stepping Eagle are both retired S-rank war beasts from our zoo, but they almost died quietly in the mountains just by a hair's breadth. That's because we discovered them in time. What if we hadn't? How would we have explained their deaths to the government? So, when we have more manpower, we will also have to implement unified management of the war beasts, regular physical examinations, one-on-one care by dedicated personnel, and so on."
As Mu Ling spoke, she became more and more worried. In fact, if she really had no money and could not afford to feed all the animals in the park, she would not be in a hurry to reopen the park within half a month. As far as Mu Ling was concerned, the current state of the Beak Zoo was basically a semi-finished product and would require at least several major changes before all the equipment and facilities could be upgraded.
Director Wang smiled as he saw Mu Ling's clear plan. However, when she mentioned the war beasts, he thought of something else: "So, how did you calm down these war beasts?"
Mu Ling was stunned and looked at Director Wang: "Of course, give them medicine."
Director Wang shook his head. "I've seen all your videos. They were clearly very obedient to you before you even gave them the medicine."
Mu Ling blinked. "Director Wang, I think this is a misconception. You think the animals became docile when they saw me, but they are actually docile by nature. They are war beasts, raised by humans, and they are naturally close to humans. They are just occasionally mentally unstable, not mentally abnormal all the time. As long as humans patiently comfort them, they will naturally recover."
Director Wang stared at Mu Ling deeply. After a while, he extended his index finger and pointed at the air: "You have a secret."
Mu Ling was surprised: "Huh?"
Director Wang said, "You must have a secret. You have special animal training skills, but you won't tell us."
Mu Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Leader, I really didn't."
Director Wang waved his hand and said, "Forget it. If you don't tell me today, someone else will ask you sooner or later. It's okay for you to give me a perfunctory answer, but think about how to give them a perfunctory answer."
As he was speaking, Director Fang suddenly called Director Wang: "Old Wang."
Director Wang smiled and raised his hand, then said to Mu Ling, "Go and do your work. You don't need to greet us."
Director Wang left after saying this. Mu Ling looked at his back and pursed her lips slightly.
Looks like I'll have to think of another excuse next time...
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At about 5:30 in the evening, all the shuttle buses from the mountain had returned.
Then the last group of tourists gathered at the animal dormitory.
Mu Ling looked at the time and thought it was about time, so she asked Xiao Zhao and the others to bring out the prizes.
The noise from their side quickly attracted the attention of tourists. Some tourists who had been watching the Qilin for a long time came over and asked the staff, "What are they doing?"
The person being asked was Fass, who smiled and said, "A lottery."
At this moment, the rotating medal was also pushed out, and the audience saw that in addition to the lottery box, there was also a turntable.
There were twelve prizes written on the turntable, including "9999 cash," "a year of free admission to the Piccolo Zoo," "a carton of brand-name milk," "a hug for a wolf cub," "a chance to feed any retired S-rank war beast," "a Pokemon card," and "a self-driving tour into the park and the mountains."
There are twelve prizes, some affordable and some unique. Three lucky tourists will be drawn tonight. They will get what they spin on the wheel.
As soon as the specific prizes were announced, there were obviously more tourists here, and it was obvious that everyone was interested in the prizes.
Soon, it was six o'clock, and Mu Ling shouted through the loudspeaker: "The lucky draw has begun! The lucky draw has begun! For all friends who support our Beek Zoo and love our animals, today's lucky draw ceremony is now beginning!"
Mu Ling shouted so, and the tourists who had not come over came over. When they saw the prizes, they started to shout again.
I'm wondering if I can feed the unicorns? Is the "Poke Poke" game still available? Can I come anytime with the free year-round ticket? Do I have to come alone?
Mu Ling answered everyone's questions one by one. At the same time, exciting music was playing on the radio. Along with the music, a countdown was in progress on an enlarged light computer display screen above.
"We'll draw lots in the last ten seconds. Ten, nine, eight..."
Ten seconds passed in a flash. Mu Ling pointed at a tourist and said, "You, sir, come up and draw the first lucky winner!"
The tourist who was called was Xiao Wei, who was squeezed to the front. Xiao Wei was immediately flattered and hurriedly went up to draw a slip from the lottery box at random.
Mu Ling read out the number on the slip, and immediately, someone below exclaimed, "I, I, I won the prize!"
The tourist came up, and Mu Ling confirmed his ticket number. Then she asked him to spin the plate and asked with a smile, "What do you want to draw?"
The tourist immediately said, "I want a year's ticket. Tickets to your zoo are so hard to get!"
"Hahaha." There was a burst of laughter from below.
But unfortunately, this tourist did not win a year's free ticket, but he won a self-driving tour into the mountains.
Self-driving tour in the mountains seemed to be a fresh experience, and the tourist went down very satisfied.
Then came the second winner, who won a carton of milk.
He was extremely disappointed, and there was wailing from the audience, feeling sorry for him.
The third winner went to the Qingqian Stampede Lottery.
The winner was very happy. Mu Ling said that the Stampede would be mailed to his home within seven working days and asked him to leave his address.
There was no other way. Mu Ling didn't have any ready-made poker here, and she had to take advantage of these two days to collect more money from the confiscated items.
Fortunately, with the change of seasons from summer to autumn, the trees have indeed lost some hair recently.
After the lottery, the zoo will close at 6:30.
Many tourists were reluctant to leave and wanted to go to the glass house to take more photos of the war beasts, but the war beasts were open from 3 to 6 o'clock. Now it was half past 6 and the glass house was closed, so they couldn't see inside.
Those tourists could only leave disappointed, but when they passed by the gate, Mu Ling personally brought people to give them small gifts.
All visitors will receive a small free gift today.
Someone opened it and saw that it was the promised Qilin-shaped pendant and a postcard with animals from the Piccolo Zoo on them. Some people immediately started exchanging postcards, hoping to get a postcard of their favorite animal.
It was almost seven o'clock when the door was completely closed, and the business for the day finally came to an end.
After that, there is the long process of cleaning up.
After dinner, Mu Ling changed the medicine for the war beasts and fed them, then she did some calculations outside the veterinary station.
Today's supermarket turnover is 34,539 interstellar coins.
The restaurant's turnover today is 21,345 interstellar coins.
Total ticket revenue today is 249,034 Interstellar Coins.
Profits and taxes have to be calculated separately, but overall, the profit from one thousand tourists exceeded her previous expectations!
Looking at the strings of numbers on the draft paper, Mu Ling suddenly felt that all the hard work today was worth it!
Finally I can make money from the zoo!
"Knock knock." At this moment, there was a knock on the door behind me.
Mu Ling looked back and saw that it was Xiang Bie. She smiled and said, "Brother Xiang, come quickly and see how much we earned today!"
Xiang Bie walked in with the milk, glanced at the data on the notebook, and nodded: "Not bad."
As he said that, he placed the milk in front of Mu Ling.
Mu Ling looked at the glass of milk.
Xiang Bie said: "Drink it and go to bed early, it will help you sleep. You have been too busy these two days."
Mu Ling took a sip from the cup and said with a smile, "I'm not busy. How busy can a thousand people be? There will be even busier times in the future. When the number of visitors increases, the revenue will double, triple, and even triple. I've seen data from other zoos. Cage zoos can have a daily visitor flow of over 30,000, and wildlife parks can have a daily visitor flow of over 20,000. If we want to achieve the highest standard of receiving 20,000 visitors, then a lot of equipment can be planned now!"
As she was talking, she started to paint a picture for herself!
Xiang Bie saw a stack of blueprints lying next to Mu Ling. He took them, flipped through them, and raised an eyebrow. "A second transit service area? That's not easy to build. It'll cost millions of dollars."
Mu Ling: “…”
The ambition of the previous second turned into cardiac arrest after hearing the million: "Is this, this, so much?"
Xiang Bie put down the blueprint and said, "There's no rush. Let's buy animals first when we have money."
Mu Ling thought about the fact that animals were indeed the most scarce thing in the zoo right now, and she felt a bit of a headache: "Animals are expensive... What do you think we should buy first? What's the cheapest?"
Xiang Bie thought for a moment and said, "Level 3 protected animals are cheaper than Level 1 and 2."
Mu Ling immediately used her light brain to search for third-level protected animals. Just when she was halfway through the search, her phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number.
Mu Ling answered the call: "Hello, who is this?"
A smiling middle-aged male voice came from the other end of the communication: "Director Mu, it's me, Director Liu from the Land Planning Bureau."
Mu Ling was startled. Even though the other party couldn't see her, she immediately stood up and stood respectfully: "Hey, hello, Director Liu."
Director Liu on the other side said, "It's like this. I asked Director Wang for your contact number. I hope I'm not being too presumptuous..."
Mu Ling hurriedly said, "No, no, if you have something to say, please tell me."
Director Liu said, "Actually, I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but I'm going to your Beak Zoo today because a friend of mine asked me to. He's a commander of the Beast Taming Army. He has a war beast that's about to retire, and he's looking for a suitable place to take it."
Mu Ling immediately understood: "What do you mean?"
Director Liu smiled and said, "His war beast is called Magic, and it's a..."
"elephant."
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