Chapter 59
The red fox's sudden show of goodwill made Mu Ling sweat profusely.
Although there was laughter all around her, she could clearly hear some suppressed angry growls echoing in her ears.
Mu Ling cautiously looked at the white fox next to her, only to see that the white fox was silently looking at her with cold eyes. The fur above its mouth was wrinkled eerily, and its sharp white teeth were faintly visible in its mouth.
It was looking at the red fox, specifically the back of its neck.
A bite through there could kill an animal.
Mu Ling was startled and quickly stood up, took the red fox out of the backpack, and stuffed it back to the female person in charge.
The female manager passively embraced her daughter and glanced at Mu Ling again.
Mu Ling felt extremely guilty and whispered, "Sorry, please leave quickly. The actor might eat me!"
The female manager looked at the white fox on the ground, which was already in an attacking posture, in shock and fear. She didn't care about anything else and was about to run with the red fox on her shoulder. Before running, she grabbed Mu Ling again.
Mu Ling had actually just noticed that the female manager was a bit hostile towards her. Colleagues looked down on each other, and at such industry exchange meetings, one would inevitably encounter one or two people who did not get along.
Mu Ling thought the female manager was going to blame her for bringing such a powerful beast to the venue. She was ready to rip her off, but then she heard her ask, "Are you really going to share this move?"
Mu Ling: “…”
The female manager swallowed hard. "Are there any conditions for sharing? We're going to Rainbow Castle Zoo tomorrow instead of Changshan Zoo, and we're not in a group with you. Will you still listen?"
Mu Ling: “…”
Mu Ling suddenly felt a little amused and said, "I do have something to share, but it's not about this. I'm sharing my experience in raising war beasts. If you want to hear it, I'll let you know in the group."
The female person in charge finally felt relieved. Seeing that the white fox was about to break through the defense, she quickly turned around and ran. This time, no matter how the red fox struggled, she held it down tightly.
Yehua ran away, and Mu Ling immediately pretended to know nothing. She squatted down innocently and waved to Yehua: "Lingren, come here, let me hold you."
The white fox was still staring at the direction where the female manager left, and then it turned its gaze and looked at Mu Ling solemnly, without going over.
Mu Ling smiled apologetically and explained in a low voice: "Don't be like that, it jumped on me on its own..."
"I just couldn't control myself and held it for a while..."
"Of course you're the only one in my heart. I'm just playing with it..."
"I just made the same mistake that all breeders make. Please give me another chance..."
Others around: “…”
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment and couldn't help pointing and talking. How come Director Mu was so skilled in these scumbag's rhetoric?
She can't be a playboy!
Finally, under Mu Ling's persistent coaxing, Ling Ren hesitantly walked towards her again.
Mu Ling immediately picked up Lingren and stuffed him back into the backpack, but Lingren suddenly started struggling and bit the backpack fiercely, as if he wanted to tear it apart.
Mu Ling had no choice but to grab it out again, handed the backpack to Fas, hugged it with her bare hands, and sighed: "...You are quite a germaphobe."
At this time, dinner began and the waiters started serving the dishes.
Dinner was served buffet style. It was inconvenient for Mu Ling to hold the white fox, so she asked Fas to pack some for her. She took it and sat on the sofa next to her to eat.
Of course, people have to chat while eating. Mu Ling can chat with anyone. After the meal, she added many people's private contact numbers. Later, to save trouble, she simply created a group and became the group owner, and invited all the new friends in.
Manager Harry was pleased to see Mu Ling doing so well, but his good mood disappeared when he thought of Roumei and Xiaoduo. So after dinner, Manager Harry told Manager Chen and Mu Ling that he would not go to Changshan Zoo with them tomorrow, and he would go to Monty Zoo with another group.
Manager Chen and Mu Ling also understood, and after the three of them separated, they returned to their rooms.
After Mu Ling returned to the room, she put Lingren down and let it run on its own. Then she called Fas and asked him to help buy a new backpack near the hotel, as this one was completely unusable.
After hanging up the phone, Mu Ling looked at the white fox that jumped onto the bed and swaggered over the entire bed. She laughed and opened her suitcase.
She took out a box of medicine wrapped in a calcium tablet box from the compartment of the suitcase, picked out two pills, went to the bar to get some water, and mixed them with the medicine and ate them.
After taking the medicine, she stuffed the box back into the mezzanine, then took some clean clothes and went into the bathroom.
Mu Ling studied pharmaceutical research. In their rural star, children from poor families rarely studied medicine because the cost of studying medicine was high and it was difficult to support themselves. But no matter how difficult it was, even if she had to work part-time while studying, she would study medicine, and even specialize in pharmaceutical research.
Why study pharmaceutical research instead of clinical practice?
Because making your own medicine is the safest way to protect yourself...
Actually, taking over the zoo is quite risky, but perhaps scientific researchers are just curious. The more adventurous, the more they want to do it. She also wants to explore the secrets of her own body...
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At eight o'clock the next morning, as agreed, more than twenty persons in charge and their subordinates were waiting in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel.
After a while, the bus from Changshan Zoo arrived.
Mu Ling noticed that quite a few managers were traveling with animals today. She was just beginning to wonder when Manager Chen explained, "Most of them are returning home. Changshan Zoo is the wildlife park with the most animal species on Siwan Star. The animals from many zoos on surrounding planets, including those on Siwan Star itself, all come from Changshan Zoo. For example, the pair of graylings that Director Jim brought with him were born to 'Abao,' Changshan Zoo's most famous grayling. This time, we have the opportunity to bring them to meet their mother."
Manager Chen continued, "So is that sharp-tailed turtle over there, and those two little lynxes..."
Mu Ling looked all the way down, nodded repeatedly, and asked, "How many species of animals are there in Changshan Zoo?"
Mu Ling remembered that when Beak Zoo was at its peak, there were nearly a thousand species of animals!
Manager Chen said, "More than 2,300 varieties."
Mu Ling: “!!!”
They are really amazing! They are indeed a large and established zoo!
Thinking of this, Mu Ling became even more curious about Changshan Zoo.
"Speaking of this..." Manager Chen thought of something and said, "When your Beak Zoo closed down, many animals were taken in by Changshan Zoo, including the two war beasts. Would you like to stop by and take a look?"
Mu Ling was stunned, and she suddenly thought of the information she had read before.
The Beak Zoo covers a large area, and the war beasts like to live away from people. Therefore, when the zoo closed, most of the war beasts were left in the park because they were difficult to capture, and were continued to be cared for by the staff who guarded the park.
But three war beasts were captured and then transferred to other zoos.
An A-level blue thrush, an S-level purple electric baboon, and a B-level red-bellied monkey.
Mu Ling didn't notice where they were sent at the time. Now, after listening to Manager Chen, she realized that two of them were sent to Changshan Zoo.
Mu Ling asked, "Do you know which two they are?"
Manager Chen recalled: "I just remember it was two monkeys, and it was even on the news at the time."
Those are the purple electric baboon and the red-bellied monkey.
Mu Ling became interested: "Can I really see them today? They are going back to their parents' home, and I am a visitor from their parents' home, so can I also see them?"
Manager Chen smiled and said, "Of course you can see it. Director Tian is a very kind person. But I think it will be difficult to see it. After all, the war beasts will definitely not be on our tour route. I will ask Director Tian for you when the time comes."
As they were talking, a person in the front seat suddenly turned around and said, "You don't know yet, one of those two monkeys has already run away."
Mu Ling was stunned, and Manager Chen was also stunned: "Run away?"
"Yes, it was on the news a while ago. It said that poachers dug through the western protective netting of Changshan Zoo, and a purple electric baboon escaped. Although the poachers caught the war baboon, they couldn't find it. It was a big deal at the time. Director Tian personally apologized. The government of Siwan Star also appealed to the public not to secretly shelter the war baboon. The military was also alerted and is still searching for it."
Mu Ling's brows were completely furrowed, and she was busy searching on her computer.
Sure enough, I found this news, which happened at the beginning of last month.
Mu Ling read the news carefully and searched for many related entries... So, all along the way, she was thinking about the purple electric baboon and had no time to talk to others.
An hour and a half later, they arrived at Changshan Zoo. Director Tian was already waiting for them at the gate. He smiled and asked, "Do you want to rest for a while or go straight into the zoo?"
Since they were not outsiders, everyone said cheerfully, "Let's go in directly. Hey, those two gray-feathered sparrows, do they know this place? They are jumping around so happily."
When everyone looked, they saw the two birds in the cage jumping up and down, as if they had found their home.
Tian Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Let's go, the shuttle bus is over there."
Mu Ling did not follow the crowd to the shuttle bus. She went to find Director Tian and asked if she could see the remaining B-level red-scented monkey.
"You mean Lieyan?" Director Tian was a little embarrassed: "Lieyan may not be easy to see."
Mu Ling knew that war beasts liked to hide from people, so she quickly said, "Just watch from a distance."
Director Tian shook his head. "It's mainly because it's very sensitive right now. Let me ask the keeper who takes care of Lieyan to come over. You can ask him about Lieyan and whether you can see him. You can also ask him and he will make the arrangements."
Mu Ling smiled and said quickly, "Thank you."
Director Tian said helplessly, "Actually, you should have told me earlier. Yesterday we counted how many animals were going back to their mother's home today, and last night we had someone make arrangements in advance to ensure they could see the animals today. You told me this at the last minute, so I really couldn't guarantee it..."
Mu Ling said hurriedly, "I'm sorry, it's my fault. Don't make it difficult for me. If you can see me, then so be it. If you can't, there's no need to force it. The main thing is that I only found out about Feifan today, so I'm more concerned about Lieyan's current situation."
Feifan is the "Purple Electric Baboon".
Director Tian nodded. When he mentioned the purple electric baboon, his expression wasn't too good. "After all, it was transferred from your Beek Zoo. I'll have Feifan the zookeeper come over later. You can ask him if you have anything to ask."
Mu Ling expressed her gratitude again: "Thank you, thank you!"
There are three shuttle buses in total, which can accommodate more than fifty people including the person in charge and their subordinates, which is enough to accommodate them.
Mu Ling sat in the last car. Since the entire park was a large plain, after entering the natural area, Mu Ling could see many animals at a glance.
There were really a lot of them. Mu Ling felt like she had only been walking for less than twenty minutes and she had seen hundreds of animals, which was more than they saw in their Beek Zoo in a whole day.
Because there would be animals walking on the road to beg for food, the car drove very slowly. After a while, Mu Ling saw a group of giraffes licking the window next to her with their mouths licking.
The white fox in his arms immediately stood up and sniffed the window curiously.
"Director Mu, can you feed them?" Another person in charge handed over a basket filled with vegetable leaves and carrot pieces. They were bought at the door before they set out, and were specially used to feed herbivorous animals.
A basket costs one thousand interstellar coins.
The fruits and vegetables fed to the animals at the Beek Zoo are free, but they must be purchased at the Changshan Zoo.
Because someone else bought it, Mu Ling felt embarrassed to take more, so she took two leaves, then opened the window a little and handed the leaves out.
The giraffe rolled up its tongue and ate it. The little giraffe next to it saw that there was food here, and immediately squeezed its head over, and put its pointed and long face into the gap, licking Mu Ling's palm with its tongue.
Mu Ling thought it was cute and touched it twice. Suddenly, the white fox in her arms made a "ga" sound.
Mu Ling was so frightened that she retracted her hand and quickly touched Lingren, saying cunningly, "No, no, I didn't touch any other animals."
The people around him laughed when they heard this and joked, "Director Mu, your actors are watching you very closely right now."
Mu Ling was also embarrassed. She pinched Lingren's ear and complained, "Look at you, I'm so embarrassed right now."
Lingren didn't give Mu Ling face, she has a criminal record!
Seeing that there was no food here, the giraffe went to other windows to wait for feeding. After the car drove away, it stopped for a while and two keepers got on.
The two keepers saw Mu Ling as soon as they came up and said, "Director Mu, Director Tian asked us to come."
Mu Ling hurriedly expressed her gratitude, then took the two of them to sit in an empty seat at the back, and the three of them talked together.
Mu Ling first asked about Feifan. Feifan's keeper sighed, "Actually, Feifan's daily habitat isn't over there. We don't know why he suddenly went there. We all guessed he might have noticed poachers and went to attack them. When we found the poachers, they were all unconscious and had a lot of injuries on their bodies. One of them even rolled down the hillside and died."
When talking about the death of the poacher, the two keepers had no expression at all, instead their tone was very cold. People who work with animals would feel sorry for anyone who died, but they would only say that it was a good thing for a poacher to die!
Mu Ling had already seen the news and knew what happened to the poachers. She frowned and asked, "Don't you have any surveillance footage of that time?"
Mu Ling knew that Changshan Zoo was fully equipped with satellite surveillance, in addition to a small amount of holographic surveillance. Logically, they should be fully aware of the situation in the entire zoo.
The extraordinary keeper sighed: "The satellite signal in that area has been blocked. The poachers came prepared."
Mu Ling fell silent, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Could it be that Feifan went over there because he smelled the scent of a strange beast?"
The two keepers shook their heads. "No, because according to the surveillance footage, none of the other beasts in the park reacted. Only Feifan suddenly ran over. So the military thinks it's either a coincidence, or Feifan noticed the poachers and attacked them. Baboons are very intelligent, especially since Feifan is an S-rank purple electric baboon. The Veterinary Association also issued a report a few years ago saying that the IQ of purple electric baboons is generally equivalent to that of a seven-year-old human child."
Mu Ling asked again: "What did the poachers themselves say?"
The extraordinary zookeeper sneered, "They made up a story, saying they were beaten by our park staff. It took our staff three hours to find them!"
Feifan's disappearance had been a month-long search by the military, with no results. It wasn't something Mu Ling could find out with just a few questions. Mu Ling pondered for a moment, then asked Lieyan's caretaker, "So, how is Lieyan doing now?"
Lieyan's keeper smiled bitterly. He took out some photos and showed them to Mu Ling: "This is Lieyan. Look, do you think he's in good condition?"
Mu Ling looked through the photos. The first few were fine, but in each subsequent photo, Lieyan looked thinner, and his fur was dull. Even the flame-like red hair on the tip of his tail looked gray.
Mu Ling frowned.
Lieyan's keeper said, "It was actually fine before, but ever since Feifan disappeared, Lieyan's condition has been getting worse. I heard that when your Beak Zoo first found Feifan and Lieyan on the mountain, Lieyan was stuck in a branch, but Feifan didn't want to leave it, so your staff brought them both to our park."
Mu Ling didn't know this, and neither Brother Xiang nor Brother Wei had mentioned it. She only looked at the dejected red-bellied monkey in the photo and said sincerely, "It seems that Lieyan and Feifan have a very good relationship. I still want to meet Lieyan. Can I?"
Lieyan's keeper hesitated for a moment and said, "I can take you to see it, but it may not appear. It's becoming more and more sensitive, and I dare not get close to it for fear of causing it to become stressed."
Mu Ling said quickly, "Okay, okay, thank you very much."
Lieyan's keeper reported the situation to his superiors, who didn't respond at first. Then, probably after asking Director Tian, they agreed and sent a car to pick them up.
So an hour after entering the park, Mu Ling separated from the main group and followed two keepers to another forest.
It is called a forest, but it is completely different from the mountains in the Bic Jungle. This is a large plain area, and the mountain is just a small hillside. There is no difficulty in moving here, and the car just floats up.
Along the way, the two keepers told Mu Ling more about Feifan and Lieyan. When they reached the forest, the car slowed down. Lieyan's keepers pointed around and said, "There are no other animals within a radius of two or three kilometers. We can't go any further. If we go any further, Lieyan will notice and run away."
Mu Ling had no choice but to nod and look out the window.
Lieyan's keeper handed Mu Ling a telescope and said, "Lieyan usually likes to climb the tallest tree. You should be able to see it with the telescope."
Mu Ling took the telescope and saw a lush, towering tree in her field of vision.
Mu Ling looked around again, but did not see the red-lamp monkey.
They waited like this for about an hour, and it was almost noon, but the flames still didn't come out.
Feifan's keeper was about to leave at this time. After Feifan left, he was now responsible for taking care of another group of ordinary baboons and had to go back to feed the baboons. However, they only had one car, so if he wanted to leave, Mu Ling had to leave as well.
Mu Ling knew that the other person had been with her for so long and had done his best, so she could only nod and say, "Then let's go."
Before leaving, she looked at the big tree again, but suddenly saw something flash by.
"Hey, wait!" Mu Ling shouted hurriedly, and then she stared at that side carefully!
It was indeed a monkey, and there was a patch of grayish red hair on the tip of the monkey's tail!
It's flames!
The flame seemed not to have noticed any traces of human beings in the distance. It slowly climbed up from under the tree. When it reached the first branch, it stopped for a while, gasped for a long time, and then continued to climb to the second branch.
It seemed that its health was indeed not good. Monkeys should be very agile when climbing trees, but it had great difficulty climbing.
When it climbed to the third branch, it finally stopped moving. It slowly stood up, stood on its two feet, held the trunk, and headed west, making a sound that broke the air: "Oh - oh -"
The sound was accentuated by the vastness of the forest, making it seem extremely long. Mu Ling watched with a pang of sadness in her heart. She asked, "Is it summoning Feifan?"
Lieyan's keeper nodded. "When Feifan was around, although he didn't live in the same area as Lieyan, whenever Lieyan called, Feifan would call too. Occasionally, they would meet. Mainly because Feifan's nerves were more severely damaged, and sometimes he couldn't help but hurt Lieyan, so he usually didn't get close to Lieyan. But if Lieyan called him, he would definitely respond."
Feifan's breeder also said: "I heard that Lieyan was picked up by Feifan. At that time, Feifan was on a mission, and a strange beast killed a female monkey. After the mother monkey died, the baby monkey hid in a tree hole and escaped. Feifan found the baby monkey and coaxed it out with his calls. Feifan's owner saw that the baby monkey was a red-flashed monkey, so he asked a teacher from the War Beast Academy to identify it. The result of the identification was that the baby monkey had a B-level talent and could be a war beast. After that, it entered the War Beast Academy, and during this period, Feifan's owner often took Feifan to see it..."
Mu Ling pursed her lips: "So Feifan practically grew up watching Lieyan?"
Mu Ling said this, then lowered her head and glanced at the actor in her arms.
The actor seemed to be attracted by the roar of the flames and was looking out through the window.
Mu Ling stroked Lingren's hair. The relationship between war beasts could sometimes have a profound impact, just like the relationship between Lingren and Xiaozhong...
"Oh-oh-" At this time, Lieyan called out to the distance again, but no matter how it called, it never received any response from Feifan in the past month.
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"Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow, oh wow!"
At the same time, in the laboratory of an old factory in the southern area of Siwanxing.
The man in the white coat was so upset that his head was about to explode. He slammed the door of the cell and got angry as soon as he got out: "I just want to know why this baboon can't be poisoned to silence it. It barks like this every day. Do you know how annoying it is?"
The silencer door blocked out the shouting in the cell. Another man in a white coat said calmly, "Stop talking, or Luo En will scold you again."
"Just say it!" The man in the white coat was very angry. "What's so arrogant about him? He thinks he's still a lieutenant colonel of the Beast Taming Army. He's just a rat crossing the street now. Can he change his appearance with plastic surgery? I despise traitors like him!"
"Alright!" The female doctor standing in front of another lab instrument observing cells lost her temper. "After all, we're all in this together. What's the point of spouting all this nonsense? Just figure out how to move on."
The hot-tempered man in the white coat sneered, "What are I thinking? Didn't Lieutenant Colonel Loen come up with a good idea? He dared to use a drug that hasn't even worked yet? What did he say? There are six animals on the starship. Although the drug currently has only a 20% success rate, as long as one of the animals can mutate, then once this mutant animal arrives on Siwan Star, it will cause a large-scale riot. Then he can mix in with the people at the zoo exchange meeting and use public opinion to create pressure and make people panic. The heads of these zoos will be afraid that something will happen to the animals they brought with them, so they will definitely leave Siwan Star as soon as possible. If more animals leave, the traffic arteries will be disorderly, and we can take advantage of the chaos and take the baboons away with us..."
"But what about now? That was a good idea, but what about now? A hamster mutated, and then it was bitten to death on the spot! Didn't he know there were war beasts on the starship? Didn't he sneak into that exchange meeting? Didn't he do any research beforehand? Haha, not only did he not do any research, he even scared himself away. When he saw the war beast, he ran faster than anyone else!"
The others couldn't take it anymore. This guy was always spewing negativity, and it was annoying. "Why are you so resentful? Just think about it, this is an S-class war beast. It's not easy for us to get an S-class one. Loen's mastiff won't let anyone touch it. All our hopes are on this baboon. The real thing is to get him back to God King Planet as soon as possible. There's no need for internal conflicts."
The irritable man in the white coat roared again, "How can we take it back? That's easy for you to say. I said we shouldn't have knocked out those poachers and let them kill the animals, causing chaos on the Four Bays. We could have taken advantage of the chaos to escape. But he insisted on meddling in this matter. What does other people's poaching have to do with him? Strictly speaking, we benefited from those poachers. If we hadn't just known they were going to poach, how could we have gotten this baboon?"
This guy kept saying the same few words over and over again. No one else in the lab wanted to pay any attention to him. The grumpy man in the white coat got even angrier when he saw that others ignored him, and he started to attack others indiscriminately, saying that everyone had betrayed him and was willing to listen to the Beast Tamer Army and was spineless.
While they were making a lot of noise outside, the horse-faced baboon in the cell separated by a door stopped making noises after the man in the white coat left.
Its eyes were fixed on the key on the table outside the cage. After looking around, it climbed directly onto the ceiling along the railing. With its deft claws, it lifted the ventilation cover on the ceiling, put its head in, and looked around.
"Oh wow—" he cried softly.
Its cry instantly echoed in the ventilation duct.
The purple electric baboon waited for a while, and finally a little kitten came over with staggering steps.
The pipes in the old factory are overgrown with weeds, making it easy for stray cats to live there. When the big cats go out to look for food, they hide the kittens in the pipes to ensure their safety.
It was obvious that this was not the first time the kitten came here. As soon as the purple electric baboon saw the kitten appear, it jumped down, grabbed a piece of animal food from the bowl, climbed up again, and gave it to the kitten.
The little kitten struggled to finish a piece of animal food, but found that there was no more. It felt strange because it usually ate a lot of food when it came here.
"Meow..." The little kitten was very hungry and called out to the aunt who was not sure whether it was a horse or a monkey.
The purple electric baboon picked up the kitten, let the kitten smell the animal food, and then threw the animal food out, which happened to land on a table not far away.
Then he threw the kitten over and onto the table.
The little kitten was a little scared of this unfamiliar environment. It took two steps, smelled the animal food, and then quickly ate it.
Before the kitten finished eating one, another piece of animal food flew over and was thrown near the key. The kitten hurried to the key and ate another piece.
Slowly, the purple electric baboon patiently guided the kitten to step around the key. Especially when the kitten was full, the animal food that flew over was more like the red dot of a laser pen among cat toys, making the kitten want to pounce on it even more.
As it pounced back and forth like this, the key was finally knocked to the ground. The purple electric baboon quickly grabbed another handful of animal food and continued to throw it at the key. The kitten jumped off the table and continued to pounce on the animal food. In less than twenty minutes, the key was finally within the reach of the purple electric baboon.
It quickly rolled up the key with its long tail, grabbed the key with its nimble fingers, turned it in reverse, and finally opened the door.
After opening the door, the baboon picked up the kitten and put it back on the ceiling. He also put some more animal food on the ceiling for it and installed a ventilation window. Then he walked to the door on all fours, waiting for the door to open and welcome its new battlefield!
The veterinary center determined that the purple electric baboon's IQ is equivalent to that of a seven-year-old human child.
However, the veterinary center did not dare to announce that the IQ of the S-level purple electric baboon is higher than that of a nine-year-old human child.
Especially the purple electric baboon who had received relevant training since childhood...
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