Chapter 50
At half past twelve in the morning, Mu Ling was still woken up by the sound of the computer.
After answering the call, she went downstairs in a daze and came to the veterinary station.
As soon as she entered the veterinary station, she heard the "woooo" growl of a fox, and occasionally, a few "ga ga" roars of a fox.
Xiang Bie was getting some medicine from the medicine cabinet. Seeing Mu Ling come in, he pursed his lips and said, "I'll wake her up and scream, but I don't dare to give her anesthesia directly."
As he spoke, he took out two sleeping pills. These two were the medicines that Yue Guang usually took. They were not harmful to the body, could relax the mind, and mainly helped with sleep.
Mu Ling shook her head. "The medicine Yueguang takes is inedible to Lingren. Lingren metabolizes common anesthetics too quickly, so ordinary sleeping aids are naturally ineffective against him. I'll go in and take a look at it first."
When Mu Ling entered, she saw the snow-white fox turning around in the cage, and three bandages fell on the ground.
All four paws of the white fox were injured. Mu Ling bandaged the wounds, but probably because it was uncomfortable, most of the wounds have now fallen off.
Mu Ling frowned and stood a little distance away from the cage, observing the white fox.
“Gah!”
The white fox spotted Mu Ling and immediately retreated to a corner, facing her and baring its ferocious teeth. "Gah!"
"How could this happen..." Mu Ling frowned slightly.
Xiang Bie walked in at this time. He thought Mu Ling had discovered something and was about to ask.
Then Mu Ling sighed: "How can she be so beautiful even when she is angry..."
Category: "..."
Xiang Bie looked at Mu Ling expressionlessly and reminded her coldly: "Just let it call like that?"
"It's in a state of stress. Let's see if we can coax it out first." Mu Ling said, rolling up her sleeves, squatting down parallel to the white fox, and calling softly, "Lingren, Lingren?"
The white fox retreated further and further, until its buttocks hit the wall directly. Its whole body was trembling slightly, and it stared at Mu Ling fiercely.
"Huh?" Mu Ling looked at the white fox's ears tucked behind its head and its trembling limbs, with a strange expression on her face. "It seems like it's afraid of me?"
Mu Ling looked up at Xiang Bie: "Why is it afraid of me?"
Xiang Bie glanced at the white fox, then at Mu Ling, and said, "Animals are always afraid of creatures larger than themselves."
"No," Mu Ling said firmly, "Other animals can, but war beasts can't. Qilin, Lightning, Qingjiao, Invincible, Moonlight, Stepping Cloud, Magic, every retired S-rank war beast, when they first saw me, they would hate me and be wary of me, but they would never be afraid of me. Because they are war beasts, they are born strong. They have been trained from childhood to face challenges head-on. They are not afraid of death, nor are they afraid of the enemy. But now, Lingren is afraid of me... This goes against its instinct."
Xiang Bie thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it has something to do with you shooting?"
Mu Ling shook her head again: "When I first saw Lightning, I shot at the hyena right in front of Lightning, and Lightning wasn't scared at all. When you saw Tayun, you also pointed your gun at Tayun, and Tayun wasn't afraid of you. They are war beasts, so they should be used to seeing guns."
Xiang Bie guessed again: "If you don't hit the target, you won't be afraid. But if you hit the target, you will be afraid?"
Mu Ling still shook her head: "When Qingjiao first came down the mountain, Brother Wei shot at it. Although it didn't anesthetize it, it was definitely hit. But Qingjiao is not afraid of Brother Wei."
Mu Ling couldn't help but feel that something was wrong. There were too many things about Ling Ren that didn't seem normal. She said, "He's been calling for so long, let him drink some nutritious water and eat something first. Brother Xiang, please prepare a meal. I need to check Ling Ren's information again."
Xiang Bie nodded and went to prepare food and water, while Mu Ling used the veterinary station's office computer to open Lingren's information.
There wasn't much information about the actor. It contained information about his time of admission, his damage level at the time of admission, the planet and unit he had served on, his owner's name and identity, and finally his medical records...
Mu Ling had just returned to the dormitory and read through the information, but she mainly looked at the case. But now, she suddenly paused, and her gaze finally stopped at the column of the Lingren's owner. It said that the adopter was - "Federal War Beast Center".
"Brother Xiang..." Mu Ling suddenly had a bad feeling: "Do you know who Lingren's master is?"
Xiang Bie had prepared the food and water. He walked over with the things, looked at the display screen in front of him, and then fell silent.
Mu Ling looked at him.
Xiang Bie's eyes darkened as he said, "If the War Beast Center completed the adoption procedures, then it means that its owner was no longer able to retire it in person at the time."
Mu Ling's heart suddenly sank.
What do you mean there is no way to personally retire it?
Why is there no way?
Mu Ling's throat suddenly choked: "Could it be... sacrificed?"
Xiang Bie said, "I wasn't responsible for the actor entering the garden, so I don't know much about his situation... I'll check it out tomorrow."
Mu Ling nodded in a daze, then she took the food and water, brought it in, opened the cage, and put the food and water by the door.
After Mu Ling put down the water, she and Brother Xiang immediately retreated outside and turned on the surveillance.
Mu Ling originally wanted to observe Lingren to see if it ate, but because of the angle of the camera, the first thing she saw was the moonlight.
Moonlight was still huddled in the corner of the cage as usual. Its teddy bear was abandoned in front of the cage, and the whole bear was lying on the ground like a bear biscuit, with its two front paws tightly holding its head.
"Fuck, why is Moonlight sleeping like this now? Sleeping like this will hurt her neck... Hey, no, it's not sleeping, it's still moving?"
While Mu Ling was mumbling, Xiang Bie looked at the white bear on the surveillance camera, was silent for a moment, and said, "Just now, it wasn't quite right."
Mu Ling immediately looked at Xiang Bie: "What's wrong with it?"
Xiang Bie said, "It seems that the actor has made it look ugly."
Mu Ling: “?”
Mu Ling was stunned: "Huh?"
Xiang Bie said: "Turn to the front."
Mu Ling turned on a single display screen, and while observing the actors, she turned the surveillance camera forward.
At twelve o'clock, Mu Ling saw the large-scale disaster scene in the ward area... and then Mu Ling fell silent.
She said a little guilty: "Moonlight, maybe you don't like ducks..."
Xiang Bie glanced at her coldly.
Mu Ling: “…”
"quack!"
At this moment, after making sure that the two humans had really left, the white fox in the cage began to bark and circle anxiously, and it never approached the water bowl or food bowl.
At the same time, in A4's ward, Moonlight began to hug his head more tightly, but because of his large body and clumsy hands and feet, he couldn't hold the fox properly. Finally, he got angry, climbed up, stood like a human, walked to the railing, grinned at the white fox, and slammed the cage.
The clang of the iron cage was deafening. It slapped it and yelled, "Roar! Roar!"
The white fox didn't expect the white bear to suddenly attack it. It was frightened and tucked its tail between its legs. Not wanting to be outdone, it barked at the white bear: "Ga-ga-ga!"
The voice became more hoarse and cracked!
"Oh my God!" Mu Ling was shocked and quickly ran in to stop the fight!
Seeing Mu Ling coming in, the white fox shrank back into the corner in panic again, while the polar bear on the other side suddenly stopped. The polar bear looked at Mu Ling, then silently put down its two front paws, stretched its head to the side, picked up the food bowl on the ground, and looked at Mu Ling again.
Mu Ling: “…”
Mu Ling was suddenly at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
She avoided the white fox's cage, walked to the moonlight, squatted down, and asked helplessly: "Do you hold the basin in your mouth to show that you are good?"
The white bear poked the ground a little to allow more of the edge of the basin to fit into its mouth, so that it could hold the basin more steadily.
Mu Ling reached in, grabbed the other side of the basin, and gently pushed it outwards.
The white bear opened its mouth and let Mu Ling take the basin away. It licked its nose.
Mu Ling took advantage of the white bear not running away, put down the basin, and quickly touched its bear paw.
The white bear shuddered, retracted its paws, and took a small step back.
But with only half a step, Mu Ling could still touch it. Mu Ling continued to stroke its paws patiently and coaxed it gently: "Moonlight is not angry anymore. The actor is crying because he feels uncomfortable, just like when Moonlight first came, he felt uncomfortable too, right..."
"If the moonlight doesn't sound good to you, let's go to sleep. You won't be able to hear it when you're asleep. Or, can I stay here with you tonight?"
The soft voice healed White Bear's restless brain.
It sat down on the spot, and because its center of gravity shifted backward when it sat, the bear's paws were out of Mu Ling's reach.
The white bear looked at Mu Ling's empty hand, hesitated for a moment, then moved forward a little and stretched out his paw again.
Mu Ling chuckled, continued stroking the paw, then turned back and looked at the white fox diagonally opposite.
The white fox was still howling and shaking all over, and more blood was seeping out of the bandaged wound.
Seeing that Yue Guang was no longer excited, Mu Ling stood up, walked past the white fox, and went out again.
Mu Ling went straight to get a high dose of sleeping pills.
Xiang Bie stood by and watched her match.
Mu Ling said, "Its external injuries aren't too serious, but it seems like it has some major mental issues. I originally wanted to stabilize it today and do a mental assessment tomorrow, but it seems that won't work. If it can't stabilize, we have to test it now, even if it faints!"
The prepared sleeping pills were put into the syringe. Mu Ling handed the anesthetic needle gun to Xiang Bie and said, "I'll attract its attention from the other side. Brother Xiang, you shoot quietly from behind. Don't let it see, otherwise it will get even more scared."
Xiang Bie took the gun, lowered his head to check whether the syringe was installed, and said "hmm".
Mu Ling walked in. Halfway through, she grabbed a puppy doll on the desk. Since there were more children in the family, Mu Ling bought a lot of these animal dolls, and now they are everywhere in the park.
The puppy doll is not small. After all, the war beasts are large in size, and the toys they play with must be heavy.
This puppy doll was about half the size of a white fox. After Mu Ling brought the doll in, she squatted in front of the right side of the cage and used the doll to attract the white fox's attention: "Lingren, Lingren, look here, look here, sister?"
The white fox looked at Mu Ling tremblingly, and then its gaze fell on the doll in Mu Ling's hand.
Xiang Bie hid at the door, ready to shoot at any time.
Mu Ling judged Xiang Bie's direction and coaxed him softly again: "Lingren, it's a puppy. Do you like puppies?"
The white fox's beautiful body suddenly stretched forward. It stopped barking for a while, but its nose moved as if it was sniffing something in the air.
Seeing that it didn't seem to react, Mu Ling simply stuffed the doll through the gap in the railing, then grabbed the doll's butt and shook it: "Come, Lingren, come..."
The beautiful and delicate fox had a pair of ice-purple eyes, and its gaze was fixed on the puppy doll. After a while, it took a small step forward.
Huh?
Mu Ling was stunned. It seemed that the white fox was really interested in this doll?
Mu Ling immediately shook her head at Brother Xiang, signaling him not to take action yet. Stunning the fox was not the goal. She actually wanted to know more about the white fox's behavior.
Xiang Bie was about to shoot, but when he saw this, he frowned and stopped.
The white fox took another small step forward slowly, cautiously and suspiciously, while Mu Ling continued to shake the puppy doll in her hand.
"Actor, come, actor..."
"Hmm..." A soft and coquettish sound suddenly came from the white fox's throat.
Mu Ling's pupils trembled on the spot! She looked at Brother Xiang again!
Xiang Bie was also a little surprised and watched in silence.
"Oh oh..." The white fox called out twice more. When it was roaring fiercely and resisting stubbornly, its voice was obviously so unpleasant, but now when it softened its tone and expressed admiration, its voice became so delicate.
Mu Ling was a little confused now. The white fox's two completely opposite attitudes made her start to get confused.
Why is it suddenly like this?
"Hmm..." The white fox called again, then it crawled forward for several steps and finally stopped three steps away from the puppy doll.
At this time, the white fox suddenly lay down, turned over on the ground, and then made an aggrieved and pitiful look, looking at the puppy doll with tearful purple eyes, then it rubbed over and bumped the doll with its head.
The distance was too close. Mu Ling had been attacked by Ling Ren before, so she subconsciously wanted to pull her hand back.
But once Mu Ling retreated, the white fox felt even more aggrieved. It rubbed itself against the puppy doll vigorously, burying its head in the doll's neck...
The smell is different...
The white fox suddenly noticed that the smell was different!
It immediately raised its pupils and staggered back, retreating directly into the corner, making an unpleasant and sad "Ga" sound from its mouth.
The white bear who lived in the same room immediately bared his teeth and wanted to get angry, but when he saw Mu Ling was there, he held it back!
Mu Ling put the puppy doll in the cage, stood up and pushed Brother Xiang out, then continued to observe inside through the surveillance camera.
The puppy doll seemed to have a fatal attraction to the white fox. After the two humans left, the white fox finally couldn't help it. It carefully moved out and sniffed the doll again.
After smelling it for a while, it turned around and left in disappointment, but halfway through, it stopped again.
It finally picked up the doll, carried it to the corner, lowered its head and licked it.
While licking, it made a "嘤嘤" sound from time to time. It still wanted to act coquettishly with the puppy doll, even though it knew that this was not the one it was familiar with.
"Brother Xiang, can we call the Federal War Beast Center now? What if they have someone on duty? I want to know what happened to Lingren. There is too little information. Only the War Beast Center knows about Lingren's affairs!" Mu Ling was really anxious. Lingren was acting too abnormally.
Xiang Bie glanced at Mu Ling, finally pursed his lips and said, "Okay."
As he spoke, he dialed the light computer and walked out of the veterinary station.
Ten minutes later, Xiang Bie returned, his face somewhat grim. "Both the Ling and its master once served on Xuangu Star. A year ago, Xuangu Star was attacked by rebels, suffering heavy losses. The reason was that a traitor appeared among the local garrison. That traitor held a high position. He stole the defense map, causing devastating attacks on three key defense areas of Xuangu Star. After the attack, the rebels released a large number of exotic beasts on Xuangu Star, causing countless casualties among the civilians."
Mu Ling's face instantly turned very ugly. She remembered this news. She had seen it a year ago!
Xiang Bie continued, "That traitor shared a dormitory with Master Lingren. They were brothers who had known each other since military school. Even their war beasts were friends who grew up together. The traitor's war beast was an S-rank mastiff named 'Loyalty'."
Mu Ling watched the surveillance video, where the white fox was licking the puppy doll alone and frequently acting coquettishly towards it, with her fingers clenched tightly.
Xiang Bie continued, "On the night of the rebel attack, the actor's master discovered something was amiss with the traitor. During the argument, the rebels arrived and released over a dozen alien beasts to wreak havoc on the military headquarters. The actor's master was the first to be bitten by one of the beasts. The actor rushed out to save his master, but another beast nearly bit his neck off. The traitor took the opportunity to escape with his war beast, but his war beast didn't understand his master's betrayal and loyally rescued the actor. Together, they bit two of the beasts to death."
"But it was eventually dragged away by its owner. The actor was injured, and so was its owner. By the time reinforcements arrived, its owner had been sent to the hospital and hasn't woken up yet. The actor, due to nerve damage, is facing retirement..."
When Xiang Bie said this, he found that Mu Ling's expression had turned ashen. He was silent for a moment, but continued:
"When Lingren first arrived at the park, his damage value was 54%. After ten months, it's probably around 70 or 80. As his damage value increases, his mind becomes increasingly fragile. Just now, he couldn't even tell the difference between the puppy doll and a real dog, and even acted coquettishly towards the doll. This suggests he may be experiencing confusion, or even a loss of common sense..."
Mu Ling suddenly closed her eyes heavily, her throat extremely dry. "Then I understand... The severe wear and tear on its feet is a new injury, which only appeared in the last half month. In other words, it should have left the inner circle and come to the outer circle in the past half month. It has lost consciousness and common sense, but suddenly left its habitat and ran all over the mountain. It is looking for someone... It can't distinguish between the past and the present. It just suddenly realized that it is alone. It wants to find its owner and its friends, so it keeps searching and searching. Its feet are broken and its body is covered with wounds from stumbling and falling. But it is still searching..."
Mu Ling's throat choked. "It's afraid of humans because it was humans who betrayed it, betrayed its master, took away its friends, and made it become like this..."
Xiang Bie noticed that Mu Ling's eyes were red. He frowned immediately, looked around, and went to get a tissue.
Mu Ling sniffed, wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, took a deep breath, and said, "Now that the doll is with her, she should be more stable for the time being. I won't leave tonight. I'll sleep inside, next to Moonlight. I'll stay with them tonight. When Lingren's mood stabilizes tomorrow, I'll slowly feed her medicine and rebuild her trust."
Mu Ling said this and walked straight into the ward area, leaving Xiang Bie with only a slender and resolute back.
Xiang Bie, holding the tissue box with his hand hanging in the air: "..."
"Buzz. Buzz."
The computer in his hand made a sound again.
Xiang Bie glanced at his computer and saw two missed calls and more than a dozen messages from the other side.
[Brother Xiang? I sent you the surveillance footage. It's the footage of the Lingren Master and that traitor arguing in the corridor.]
Please accept it.
Why isn't it receiving? Brother Xiang, are you still there? By the way, where are you now? Can I contact you by calling this number later?
"Why are you suddenly asking about Xuan Gu Xing? It's so late at night, I thought it was a phone scam."
[Brother Xiang? Hello?]
"You didn't disappear again, did you? You and Old Wei, how come you've been like vanished from the face of the earth for the past three years?"
What happened back then? What's inside the Abyssal Star?
[Xiang! If you don't reply to me, I'll tell the president tomorrow that you called me in the middle of the night!]
[Wuwuwu, I was just saying this casually. I won't tell anyone else. Brother Xiang, please tell me what's going on. Let's talk it over properly...]
The information has reached here, and new information is constantly coming in.
How could anyone at the Federation War Beast Center answer the call at midnight? But Mu Ling also wanted to know...
He didn't want to contact his old friends, but among all the people he knew, this one was the most gossipy and knew a little bit about everything. Asking him would definitely yield some results, and Mu Ling also wanted to know...
never mind……
Putting the tissue box aside, Xiang Bie replied with a message: [I can't get in touch with him. This is a borrowed laptop.]
After saying that, he blocked the other party, then dismantled the chip of the optical computer and threw it into the trash can, planning to buy another one tomorrow.
At the same time, he looked at the surveillance screen in front of him and saw that Mu Ling was really sleeping in the cage next to Yueguang. She slept on this side and Yueguang slept on the other side. The man and the bear were tightly pressed together, with a railing in between.
Mu Ling's hand was reaching over the railing, gently stroking the white bear's paw, while her eyes were secretly peeking at the white fox opposite.
The white fox was seen holding the puppy doll tightly. As the small speaker read the story softly, the snow-white fox finally calmed down and slowly closed its eyes.
Xiang Bie looked at it, picked up his pillow and quilt on the sofa bed, brought it inside, and gave it to Mu Ling.
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