Chapter 44
Mu Ling didn't expect magic to be like this.
The giant elephant was in a very bad condition. Not only was its skin covered with scars, but its mental state was also obviously terrible. This was the first time Mu Ling saw an elephant cry.
Her whole face was tense, and she looked at the injuries with a frown.
Commander Duan then said, "When it was first bitten by the strange beast, it was willing to cooperate with treatment. But when its mental state began to deteriorate, it became resistant to treatment. To avoid treatment, it even attacked others. As a result, these wounds, which should have healed in three months, haven't healed yet. For the past six months, these wounds have been getting better and worse. Until the magic damage value reached 50%, the injuries never recovered and continued to worsen..."
Commander Duan said this and reached into the cage to touch the giant elephant. However, as soon as he touched the elephant's body, the elephant began to struggle in the cage. It kept stomping its feet, with its trunk raised fiercely and its head shaking, as if it wanted to turn around and attack the enemy behind it.
Commander Duan quickly retracted his hand and said to Mu Ling, "It's been so suddenly moved to a new place, and it's not used to it. Director Mu, why don't we let it rest here tonight and send it back up the mountain tomorrow morning?"
Commander Duan said, pointing to the thirty or so workers behind him who were moving the cages. "They'll help with the move tomorrow, but I'm afraid they'll have to stay with you tonight."
It's okay to stay here, but: "Commander Duan, are we going into the mountains tomorrow? But the magic wounds haven't healed yet. If we leave them on the mountain like this, it will be very inconvenient for treatment later."
Commander Duan sighed and said sadly, "That's okay. If he can relax in a comfortable place and add some anti-inflammatory and healing medicine to his drinking water, these injuries will slowly heal. These injuries are minor problems. Magic is large, so injuries that don't damage the bones or internal organs won't hurt him much. The most uncomfortable part of him right now must be his nerves. You see, he's crying, so the most urgent thing is to calm him down."
Mu Ling frowned as she looked at the giant elephant in the cage. After all, Mu Ling had just started working as a veterinarian not long ago, and Mo Fa was raised by Commander Duan since he was a child. Obviously, Commander Duan knew more about Mo Fa's physical condition.
Seeing Commander Duan's insistence, Mu Ling finally nodded: "Okay then."
Because the magic had to be sent up the mountain before the park opened tomorrow, Mu Ling asked all the staff to go back to bed early, including the more than 30 people brought by Commander Duan. Mu Ling also asked Brother Wei to take them to the dormitory first.
It was almost ten o'clock in the evening when Mu Ling came out of the veterinary station and saw the huge iron cage still placed in the open space in front of the starship. Inside the iron cage, the red-skinned giant elephant was standing heavily, motionless and silent with its head lowered.
At this moment, everyone else was resting, including Commander Duan. In the entire open space, only the elephant was there...
Mu Ling was originally going to the animal dormitory, but halfway through, she turned back and stood in front of the iron cage.
The starship behind the iron cage turned on the bright emergency lights, which illuminated the entire service area square as bright as day.
Mu Ling stared at the red-skinned elephant in the cage.
"Why are you called Magic?" Mu Ling asked the giant elephant softly as if she was curious.
The giant elephant still had its head down, as if it had fallen asleep, but Mu Ling clearly saw that its eyes were open, with traces of tears still lingering in the corners of its eyes.
Mu Ling simply squatted down so that the giant elephant could see her directly: "Are you really not in pain? But I think you must be in pain because you are crying, so why don't you want treatment?"
Perhaps Mu Ling's chattering was too annoying, the giant elephant's trunk suddenly stood up, and the trunk stretched out directly through the bars of the iron cage, attacking Mu Ling!
Mu Ling immediately stepped back, leaving the nose empty.
The long, fleshy red nose retracted, and the giant elephant continued to stand there with its head lowered, not even looking at Mu Ling.
"Oh." Mu Ling sighed softly, and finally left the cage and went to the animal dormitory.
The surroundings became quiet again, and after an unknown amount of time, the giant elephant suddenly flapped its ears.
There was a corner missing from its left ear, which had been bitten off before. Every time the broken ear moved, the wound hurt, but it had to keep flapping its ears, because if it didn't move, the wound would become itchy and painful.
It really wants to suck up the sand, then lift it up to cover its body, so that it won't be so itchy...
The giant elephant flapped its ears in annoyance, and suddenly it started kicking the iron cage in front of it.
A "clang clang" sound suddenly rang out, and Mu Ling, who was far away, hurried over.
“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?”
At the same time, Mu Ling also came with Qilin Lightning and the others who were released for a walk at night.
The golden Ripping Tiger ran to the front of the cage first, the Swift Fire Leopard leaped up and jumped directly onto the cage of the giant elephant, the Black Snow Wolf ran over here with the stumbling little wolf, and the Flying Eagle flew a circle in the sky and landed on Mu Ling's shoulder. It tilted its head and looked at the red-skinned elephant in the cage.
"Ouch!" Mu Ling was almost assassinated by Ta Yun. She quickly raised her hand and asked Ta Yun to put on her arm and stop picking at her shoulder bone, as it would be crushed!
Ta Yun slowly moved to Mu Ling's arm, his sharp eagle eyes still looking at the giant elephant in the cage.
"Bang, bang, bang!" The giant elephant was still kicking the cage, but because the cage was originally built to control S-level war beasts, no matter how it kicked, the cage remained intact and not deformed.
"Roar!" At this time, Qilin seemed unhappy. It raised its head and roared fiercely at the giant elephant.
Mu Ling quickly hugged Qilin's neck and comforted him, "Sister Magic didn't mean it. Qilin is not a mean person..."
Then he lowered his voice and whispered, "Besides, it's so tall. If you jump up, you can only hit its knees. Then it will step on you..."
Qilin was held by Mu Ling, but he did not relax his vigilance. His long beard was shaking, and the fangs hidden in his tiger's mouth were ready to move.
At this time, the little wolf with short arms and legs finally ran over, still holding its little yellow duck crookedly in its mouth. When it ran to the front of the iron cage, the little wolf was suddenly frightened by the huge monster and opened its mouth wide, and the little yellow duck fell out of its mouth.
The little yellow duck fell to the ground and bounced a little, then rolled into the iron cage.
"Bang!" The giant elephant kicked the cage again. As soon as it put down its leg, it stepped on something.
With a "pop", the little yellow duck was flattened.
Little Wolf: “…”
Mu Ling: “…”
The little wolf looked at his disappeared good friend, sniffed the scent on the ground, and was about to get into the cage.
Qingjian bit its head and dragged it away.
The giant elephant also realized that it had stepped on something. It lowered its head and rolled up the dirty little yellow duck with its trunk, then threw it out with force, throwing the Qilin!
Seeing that the little yellow duck was about to hit Qilin, Mu Ling grabbed the little yellow duck, caught it, squeezed it to restore it to its original shape, and then threw it to the little wolf.
Qingzheng then let go of the little wolf's head. The little wolf turned around and saw Ya Ya. He quickly went over, grabbed Ya Ya, and ran away.
Mu Ling released Tayun and let it play on its own. Then she walked over to Magic and observed its ears flapping back and forth. Her brows furrowed. "It still hurts, right?"
The wound on the ear was bleeding wildly because of the movement, and the tip of the ear was turned red.
"No, this wound still needs to be treated."
Mu Ling said this and turned to go to the veterinary station.
Stepping Cloud in the sky immediately followed her, and Lightning also jumped down from the cage to chase Mu Ling. Qing Qing looked at Mu Ling, then at his son, and decided to protect his silly son first. Qilin, on the other hand, was still sitting in front of the cage, staring at the giant elephant in front of him.
The giant elephant's kicking action just now has been judged as a threat and provocation by the Ripping Tiger, so the tiger defending its territory will not let the enemy out of its sight.
A few minutes later, Mu Ling came over with a medicine box, a folding ladder, and a new broom on her back. She had to go around to the warehouse to get the folding ladder and the new broom.
After setting up the ladder, Mu Ling climbed directly onto the cage.
When the giant elephant saw Mu Ling right above its head, it immediately stretched out its trunk to attack her.
Mu Ling simply went around and got behind the giant elephant's butt, making it impossible for the elephant to reach her.
The giant elephant really couldn't reach Mu Ling, so it turned around.
It turned around, and Mu Ling also turned around, and she came behind the giant elephant's butt again.
The giant elephant is angry this time!
"Bang!" It started kicking the cage again!
While the giant elephant was angry, Mu Ling quickly opened the medicine box and wrapped the broom head with a bandage. When there was no trace of the broom left on the broom head and it was all bandage, Mu Ling applied hemostatic ointment on the broom, then put the broom into the cage to brush the giant elephant's wound.
The giant elephant felt the touch and immediately struggled. Mu Ling quickly comforted it, calling out, "Magic, magic..."
The giant elephant still remembered its name. It paced back and forth in the cage anxiously, trying to avoid Mu Ling's broom.
Mu Ling used a broom to apply the ointment, and soon the wounds on the elephant's ears and back were covered with thick ointment.
Although the application was a bit messy because my hands were not steady enough, at least the wound was completely covered.
Afterwards, Mu Ling came down again to apply medicine on the sides and thighs of the giant elephant.
After applying all the ointment, Mu Ling looked at the medicine box and found that all three packs of bandages and two boxes of ointment had been used up.
Two boxes are needed for one application. This amount of usage is worthy of being a nine-ton big sister!
"This is a special medicine with analgesic effect. The pain will go away soon." Mu Ling said. Seeing that the elephant was still walking around in the cage, she simply sat on the ladder and watched over it.
Ta Yun was flying in the sky, Lightning was sitting next to Mu Ling's ladder, Qilin was still staring at the giant elephant vigilantly, and the little wolf was holding its little yellow duck, sitting far away from the cage, with its body pressed against its mother.
After nearly ten minutes, the ointment began to take effect and the elephant seemed to feel the pain eased.
Seeing it gradually calm down, Mu Ling smiled and asked, "Are you feeling better? I didn't lie to you, did I?"
The giant elephant did not react. It stood forward, pressed its forehead against the railing, and then it stayed there motionless.
"Huh?" Mu Ling was a little confused. She walked around to the front and carefully touched its forehead with her finger.
The giant elephant did not resist and remained motionless.
Seeing this, Mu Ling began to caress the giant elephant with confidence, saying softly, "Look at you, you're clearly in pain, so why don't you allow others to heal you? The pain will go away after you've been healed."
The giant elephant raised its wrinkled eyes, its black pupils, and looked at Mu Ling tiredly.
Mu Ling met its haggard gaze and felt distressed. "Is it because you can't control it? Because your nerves are damaged, so when someone gets close to you, you can't help but want to drive them away. But after driving them away, you can't heal your wounds, and your body will hurt again. In the end, the pain aggravates your neurasthenia, and the damage continues to increase. It becomes a vicious cycle..."
Mu Ling said, touching the elephant's forehead with pity again: "It's okay, I know you didn't mean it. You resisted and struggled because you were uncomfortable. How about this, we won't go up the mountain tomorrow. We will treat the disease at the foot of the mountain and return to the mountain after the disease is cured."
Mu Ling said, looking at the cage: "Just live in the animal dormitory. The dormitory is big and tall, as wide as a basketball court. Your cage is more than enough!"
As Mu Ling spoke, she decided to take this opportunity to talk to Commander Duan.
Commander Duan also stayed with them, in the dormitory building.
Mu Ling turned around and was about to leave, but she heard the "clang clang" sound of kicking behind her again. It was the giant elephant kicking the cage again.
Mu Ling hurried back and asked, "What happened again?"
When the giant elephant saw Mu Ling coming back, it calmed down. Then, it stretched its trunk out of the cage to hook Mu Ling.
Mu Ling didn't dare to get close at first, but after hesitating for a moment, she carefully stretched out a finger to see what the giant elephant wanted to do.
The soft and fleshy nose sucked Mu Ling's fingers, and then the nose flexibly wrapped around Mu Ling's entire hand.
Wrap it up and then gently let go.
Mu Ling: “?”
Mu Ling looked at her hand, which still had a soft touch, and was stunned for a moment before asking uncertainly: "Are you shaking hands with me? Are you thanking me for applying the medicine to you?"
Elephants are very intelligent animals, but they are also very gentle and romantic.
Although they are huge, they are herbivores that only eat leaves, vegetables and fruits. They are simple, kind and peace-loving.
Just like in the wild, when a group of elephants meets another group of elephants, they will not fight for territory or food. Instead, they will caress each other affectionately with their trunks as if they were meeting their relatives. This is because elephants have very long memories. They may still remember the same group they met more than ten years ago. Therefore, any elephant they have met is a friend to them, and they will get close to each other as soon as they meet.
When it comes to their cubs, adult elephants are even more considerate and protective. In a herd, there will usually be a group of mother elephants taking care of one baby elephant. No matter who gave birth to the baby elephant, the herd will protect it, take care of it, and patiently teach it how to use its trunk. When a baby elephant rolls into a stream, they will flatten the mud on the shore to allow the baby elephant to climb out smoothly.
Even when elephants see other animals' cubs in distress, they will occasionally help.
Elephants are so kind and friendly by nature...
Mu Ling looked at her fingers, and for a moment, she couldn't bear to reach the top. Now she looked at the narrow cage again, and actually felt sorry for the giant elephant.
Why live in a cage?
Even though the nerve damage value has exceeded 50%, Qilin, Lightning, and Qingkan, who are over 60 or 70, are they still running around outside? Even Stepping Cloud's damage value is almost 90, isn't he still flying in the sky?
Compared to that, what is 50%?
"Have you figured it out?" Mu Ling asked softly.
Very good, the elephant just shook Mu Ling's hand, and Mu Ling was immediately confused and wanted to help the elephant escape from prison on the spot!
The giant elephant raised its wrinkled face and looked at Mu Ling with its cloudy eyes.
Although Mu Ling was confused, she hadn't lost her mind yet. She hesitated and said, "To be honest, I don't dare to let you out. If you were another animal, I could let you out because if you lost control, I could anesthetize you. But you're an elephant, so I can't anesthetize you. You're too heavy, and falling down would be very dangerous for you. When you lie down, your weight might press on your fragile internal organs, which could cause you to suffocate to death..."
Adult elephants cannot lie down, they sleep standing up. Only baby elephants can roll over and lie down on the ground. Adult elephants can only lie down for a dozen minutes at most, and they have to get up immediately, otherwise their lives may be in danger.
Magic weighs more than an average adult elephant. If it falls, it will most likely die.
Mu Ling said this and reached out to touch the giant elephant's forehead.
The giant elephant did not resist because the painkillers made its body feel comfortable and its mood was slightly better.
"How about this, I'll push your cage straight into the animal quarters and I'll keep you there for a while."
Mu Ling thought about this and started to study the cage. It was a very large cage with wheels underneath, but the wheels were very solid. Mu Ling thought that it took more than 30 people to push the cage down.
"Do you need help?" Mu Ling was thinking about whether to call for help when a familiar cold male voice suddenly sounded behind her.
Mu Ling turned around immediately and saw that it was indeed Brother Xiang!
Mu Ling's face was filled with joy: "Brother Xiang, why did you come down!"
Xiang Bie had just taken a shower, and the ends of his hair were still a little damp. He glanced at the giant elephant in front of him and said calmly, "The sound of it kicking the cage was very loud."
Mu Ling was stunned and immediately looked towards the dormitory building: "Did anyone else hear it too?"
Xiang Bie said: "Others may not know, but Commander Duan probably didn't hear it. I saw him remove his cochlear implant before taking a shower."
Mu Ling paused: "Commander Duan..."
Xiang Bie said calmly, "It's probably because of an ear injury, hearing impairment. To be able to sit in the position of commander, he must have participated in at least hundreds of battles in his life. It's not easy for him to just have hearing loss, at least he has all his limbs intact."
Mu Ling couldn't help but look at the giant elephant in the cage again: "Then maybe it would be a good idea to let Commander Duan retire with Mo Fa. At least, he can spend his later years well."
Xiang Bie looked at Mu Ling: "Then you have to ask him first, does he want to spend his old age in peace, or does he want to devote the rest of his life to the country? Everyone has different ideals."
Mu Ling pursed her lips and said nothing more. "I want to push Magic to the animal dormitory and let it live there tonight. It's too depressed now, and I don't think it's that aggressive. What do you think, Brother Xiang?"
Mu Ling was still a little unsure, after all, she didn't know much about war beasts.
Xiang Bie looked at the giant elephant and then asked, "What about the Qilin?"
Mu Ling hesitated: "Let's see if they are willing to live together. If not, Qilin and the others will go back to the veterinary station tonight. Anyway, the animal dormitory will be open for visits in the afternoon tomorrow. Then we can work out the magic before three o'clock and let Qilin and the others go in to work."
Seeing that Mu Ling had made up her mind, Xiang Bie said, "Okay."
Mu Ling asked hurriedly, "You also think that magic isn't very offensive, right?"
No, a damage value of 50% already means it's out of control and extremely aggressive. It's only because you're here that its aggressiveness doesn't seem that strong.
"Hmm." Xiang Bie said, "50%, not too high."
Mu Ling breathed a sigh of relief. With Brother Xiang's words, the heavy stone in her heart fell: "Then I will go and call some more people?"
"No need." Xiang Bie said, and walked around to the back of the elephant, holding the cage and said, "Two people can push it."
Mu Ling remembered that it was the two of them who carried the moonlight onto the shuttle bus last time, so she went around and pushed it with Brother Xiang.
Sure enough, the wheels started moving quickly. Mu Ling pushed with great effort, saying, "Brother Xiang, if I weren't here today, could you push this cage by yourself?"
Xiang Bie said: "No."
Mu Ling laughed heartily: "I told you I was crucial! I'm incredibly strong!"
Having said this, Mu Ling looked at Xiang Bie again.
After all, everyone has a few secrets. If others don’t tell her, she won’t ask. Just like if she doesn’t tell him, others won’t ask. This kind of friend is the best. They know each other’s secrets, but they respect each other.
The cage was quickly pushed into the glass house. Mu Ling first switched the glass house to normal glass mode, then opened the elephant's cage and ran out quickly with Brother Xiang.
When the door of the glass house was closed, the giant elephant was seen standing hesitantly in the cage. It twitched its trunk twice and finally walked out slowly.
The animal dormitory is very clean. Mu Ling cleans it every day. The ground here is very flat. After the giant elephant walked a few steps, its trunk rolled up something. It was a small doll. After the giant elephant rolled up the doll, it wrapped its long trunk around it for a while, and found that it was inedible, so it threw the doll away and continued to walk inside.
Its red skin looked full of holes, yet it was also shiny and smooth. There was no way around it, Mu Ling had applied too much medicine.
At this time, the giant elephant walked to the other side of the swimming pool, put its nose into the water and inhaled a lot of water. Then it put its nostrils to its mouth and drank the water with a gulp.
Mu Ling was a little upset: "Baby, Lightning and Little Wolf played in it today. That's their bath water..."
After drinking a sip of water, the giant elephant began to wander around again. Its trunk was very flexible and could do anything like human hands. Finally, it stood on the soft mat and stepped on the cotton-like texture underneath. Perhaps out of curiosity, it stepped on it a few more times and continued to use its trunk to roll up various toys on it.
It also rolled up a half-gnawed toothbrush from a wolf cub, stuffed it into its mouth, and the elephant ate it in two bites.
"No! I have to feed it!" Mu Ling couldn't hold it in any longer and went straight to the back of the office building. Wasn't the pond covered with grass before? Although the grass in the pond was cleared later, there was still a circle on the shore that had not been cleared.
Mu Ling couldn't bear to see the giant elephant looking for food, so she pulled Xiang Bie and loaded a cart full of fodder, then put on protective clothing and went back to the glass house.
When Mu Ling entered the animal dormitory, Lightning took the opportunity to sneak in. Because Mu Ling was wearing a hat, there was a blind spot in her vision and she didn't see him.
Xiang Bie saw it, but didn't say anything.
When the giant elephant, which was eating leaves from a big tree, saw humans coming in, it slowly walked towards this side.
Mu Ling was still a little afraid of magic. She wrapped her protective suit a little tighter, ready to escape at any time. Then she shook all the grass onto the ground, pointed at it and said, "Eat it, sister, eat as much as you want."
The giant elephant approached the grass, sniffed it, and then used its flexible trunk to roll up some lush grass and stuff it directly into its mouth.
It slowly chewed the grass with its molars, and at the same time rolled up a handful of fat grass and put it into its mouth again.
The giant elephant ate with relish, and in a short while, it had finished a whole cart of fodder.
It continued to sniff some broken grass with its nose. Seeing its voracious appetite, Mu Ling sighed sincerely, "I really want to give half of your appetite to Pimi."
The fasting lion really needs to be coaxed into eating every meal. Sometimes, if you don’t watch it for a while, it will lick its paws and won’t eat properly again!
"How about eating some more? Don't pull the leaves off that tree. That tree is the nest of the cloud-walking people." Mu Ling said, pushing the empty cart, pulling Xiang Ge, and going to the back to push the fodder.
But after the two humans left, Lightning, who was still in the glass house, was stunned.
It's locked in...
The giant elephant over there also noticed the black panther at this time, and it took heavy steps and walked towards the black panther.
Lightning immediately bared his teeth and made an attacking gesture.
The giant elephant approached the black panther and gently poked the black panther's forehead with its trunk. The black panther shook its head, still making an attacking gesture.
The giant elephant walked around the black panther again, and then poked the black panther's butt with its trunk.
The black panther seemed to have only just realized that the giant elephant had no ill intentions. It stood up straight, walked cautiously to the door, straightened its upper body, and opened the glass door.
Open the door, Lightning is professional.
As soon as the door opened, the police officer outside came in with the little wolf's head in his mouth and the child. Tayun also flew in, and finally Qilin came in with his head held high and his eyes cold.
All the animals were gathered in the animal quarters.
They looked at each other in the tense atmosphere. The little wolf, who had just been released from his mother's mouth, twisted his ankle and fell down.
When the giant elephant saw the little wolf fall, it stretched out its long trunk and gently helped the little wolf up. It then used the tip of its trunk to push the little wolf's butt so that it could stand firmly.
The little wolf stood firm, looked back at the giant elephant, and took two hesitant steps forward.
The giant elephant stretched out its trunk and pushed the little wolf away a little.
The little wolf thought that the long nose was playing with it, so it immediately jumped on it and hugged its nose.
Suddenly, a little wolf was hanging on the giant elephant's trunk. The giant elephant shook its trunk and started swinging with the little wolf weighing only a few pounds.
When Qilin saw this scene, his vigilance finally relaxed. He slowly walked in, walked back to his cushion, lay down, and began to lick his fur.
Lightning saw the little wolf playing with his nose, and he wanted to play too, so he walked over and lined up.
Qingjiao sat beside the little wolf and helped the little wolf guard the little yellow duck.
Ta Yun flew to the top of a tree, tilting his head and watching the scene below.
While all the animals were in the same room, socializing, two human laborers were digging grass in the other room...
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