Chapter 8
On Sunday morning, Zhou Qin, a sophomore at the Beast Taming Military Academy who was preparing for a make-up exam, got up at five in the morning to study.
After reciting half of a modern history book, Zhou Qin touched his belly and looked at the clock.
It's already noon, no wonder I'm hungry.
After ordering lunch from the cafeteria and waiting for the robot to deliver the food, Zhou Qin fell back on the bed and decided to take a break and browse the Star Network for a while.
Because he was learning to tame animals, Zhou Qin's account often saw some animal videos. Today was no exception. After swiping twice, Zhou Qin saw a tiger video with less than 100 views.
Because the cover showed a tiger, Zhou Qin thought it was a science article about tigers, but when he looked at the title, he realized it was "The Princess of Piccolo Zoo."
zoo?
Tigers in zoos? Tamed tigers?
Zhou Qin frowned immediately. He studied animal taming, so he knew very well how those zoos outside usually tamed wild beasts.
To put it simply, it means beating or scolding, or starving the beast until it collapses, and then giving it some food. Through torture, the beast is made to obey humans.
Zhou Qin is very opposed to this behavior. Not only him, but most of the teachers and classmates in their school are opposed to this folk animal training behavior.
You can train animals, but you have to train them scientifically. The purpose of training an animal is not to make the animal afraid of you, but to make it trust you. Just like their Beast Taming Military Academy, every freshman’s first beast taming class when they arrive at the school is to go to the War Beast Academy and personally choose a war beast of their own.
They need to feed, accompany and take care of the war beasts personally when they are still cubs. When the war beasts are half a year old, they can come to the Beast Taming Academy and participate in training with the students. This training is about the cooperation, habits and tacit understanding between the master and the war beast. In this way, when they go to the battlefield in the future, they can fight side by side and trust each other with confidence.
This is the purpose of animal training, to make animals become partners of humans, instead of making animals become slaves of humans as those zoos do!
Although Zhou Qin knew that not every zoo would train animals unscrupulously, there were too many such zoos, which caused him to easily become stressed when he saw the word "zoo" associated with wild animals!
Looking at the tiger cover in front of him, Zhou Qin pressed the play button seriously, almost in a judgmental mood!
The video begins with a deliberately low female voice.
"Hello everyone, let me show you an immersive look at our zoo's tiger cubs..."
Little tiger?
Where is the little tiger?
Zhou Qin was puzzled for a moment, but he was completely speechless when he realized that the little tiger the woman was talking about was actually a fully grown tiger standing in front of him, nearly three meters long, with nails up to twenty centimeters long and a bite force estimated to be at least a ton.
???
What the hell, you call this a little tiger?
"This little tiger is called Qilin, and he's eight years old..."
Yes, it's eight years old! Who told you that an eight-year-old tiger is still a baby?
It turned out to be not a regular zoo. The keepers couldn't even calculate the age of the animals. The normal lifespan of a tiger is basically 15-20 years old. An eight-year-old tiger is equivalent to a human in his twenties!
The female voice continued, "It was injured yesterday. Look at how many bandages it has on it. But fortunately, it's out of danger now..."
Zhou Qin: “!!!”
Evidence of animal abuse has appeared! You guys are indeed that kind of unscrupulous zoo!
How dare you say it's injured? How could it get injured in a zoo? How could it get injured in a cage? If it gets injured, isn't it because of you guys beating it?
Out of danger? He actually fell back into danger!!!
Zhou Qin was so angry that his hands were shaking. He wanted to call the Wildlife Conservation Association right now and report this crazy Beek Zoo by real name!
However, Zhou Qin still forced himself to calm down. He had to finish watching the video first and get all the evidence!
"Qilin, say hello to everyone?"
The camera suddenly moved to the nose of the eight-year-old adult tiger. The tiger's cold eyes stared at the camera coldly. Its eyes were very indifferent, but there was a hidden danger in them.
Zhou Qin felt nervous for no reason. Even through the screen, he seemed to feel the tiger's solemn and sharp murderous intent.
No, this doesn't look like an ordinary tiger. Looking at the pattern, eh, it looks a bit like a tearing tiger?
There are over 300 species of tigers in the interstellar world today, but the Ripping Tiger is extremely rare and endangered. I must be mistaken. With so many bandages covering it, I'm not entirely sure. It can't be a Ripping Tiger, right?
If it really was a tearing tiger, the zoo director should be going to jail for abusing a federally protected animal!
The lying tiger just looked at the camera and then closed its eyes and went to sleep without any respect.
Is it because he was injured and lacked energy that he even forgot the instinct of vigilance of a beast and actually slept so lazily in front of humans?
"Our little Qilin is rather aloof, but it has a very gentle personality. By the way, it's a little sister..." After the breeder finished speaking, Zhou Qin was about to mock him. She was injured and wanted to take a rest, so why did she become aloof in front of you? It shows how you usually treat animals!
But the next second, the camera moved closer again, and with a "smack" sound, it turned out that the keeper kissed the tiger.
Zhou Qin: “…”
Zhou Qin: “????”
What the hell is she doing?
Can wild animals be kissed?
Or a full grown beast???
Its war beast "Sisi" is a little gray wolf, just one year old. It graduated from the War Beast Academy Kindergarten last semester and came to the Beast Taming Military Academy. Now it is living in the War Beast dormitory with other new war beasts, and is taken care of by professional teachers. Zhou Qin can only see Sisi during three beast taming classes a week. The last time he wanted to kiss Sisi, Sisi almost bit him to death!
Zhou Qin felt jealous. It turned out that only war beasts were difficult to get close to. The animals in ordinary zoos could actually accept being kissed by the keepers!
He also wants to kiss Sisi!
After the keeper kissed the tiger, the tiger still did not open its eyes. If it had not been for its tongue licking its nose, Zhou Qin would have thought it had been given an anesthetic injection and fainted.
"Qilin is asleep, so let's sleep too. Do you like the little tigers in our park? Feel free to tell me in the comments section."
As the female voice finished her last sentence, the video ended and the interface automatically entered the next video.
Wait a minute!
Zhou Qin quickly scrolled back to the video and played it again.
Finally, after watching the video three times in a row, Zhou Qin finally opened the comment section.
This video currently has only 4 likes and 1 comment.
The only comment seemed to be made by a robot. Its ID was a number, its avatar was a gray original avatar, and it replied with two words - "Like".
Zhou Qin: “…”
Zhou Qin was actually a little unsure now. Was this tiger really abused? But it let the keeper kiss it...
Zhou Qin scratched his head, and finally decided to download the video first to preserve the evidence. Then he clicked forward and sent the video to his class group, asking his classmates to help take a look.
Zhou Qin: [Everyone, do you think this tiger is in a normal state? Does anyone know how to assess animal injuries?]
It was the weekend and there were a lot of idle students. The group had 99+ members in a short while.
[I don't know how to identify it, but I don't see any wounds here, they're all bandaged. But it looks like a tearing tiger. Is this a tearing tiger?]
How could it be a Ripping Tiger? Did I use the beauty filter and it turned into a Ripping Tiger? I remember that after Colonel Val's Qilin, there are currently no adult Ripping Tigers in the Federation. The few artificially bred cubs are still nursing at the breeding center.
[I scanned it with the software and didn't turn on the beauty filter.]
[Huh? It's not open? I guess the pattern is a bit like the Ripping Tiger... Haha, this tiger is actually called Qilin. It's confirmed, this zoo is deliberately trying to take advantage of the popularity of our top tiger, the Tiger King Qilin!]
[Is this okay? Qilin is an S-class retired war beast with first-class merit. It's a bit disrespectful to be imitated like this.]
I left a message asking them to change their name.
What's the point of leaving a message? I'll tell you later this is a "tribute" to the heroic beasts. I hate this kind of marketing. This zoo will be black for life!
[I searched for this zoo, and it's on Planet God, but it's closed. When was this video taken?]
The group chatted for a long time, and the focus shifted directly from "the tiger was suspected of being abused" to "the S-level war beast Qilin was imitated". Zhou Qin clicked in again after lunch to see that the video had been transferred to the campus group and campus forum. In less than half an hour, the video had received thousands of comments. Although most of them were scolding and questioning, they were also real data. As the number of views and comments increased, the intelligent algorithm of Star Network would push more videos!
Zhou Qin: “…”
I'm not trying to divert traffic to this video...
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Mu Ling doesn’t know about what’s happening online yet.
After changing Qilin's medicine at eight o'clock in the morning, Mu Ling smelled the sour smell on her body and took a quick shower before the people from the protective net company arrived.
At nine o'clock, the employees of the protective net company arrived on time. Mu Ling received them personally, and then paid a deposit of 20,000 yuan with tears in her eyes.
Yes, if she wasn't the one responsible for paying, she wouldn't have wanted to come out at all. She didn't sleep well last night and was looking to catch up on some sleep.
Wei Li, seeing her frugal look, quietly asked Xiang Bie, "Brother Xiang, it's just 20,000 yuan, why does the director look like that? Isn't she very rich?"
Xiang Bie had heard Lawyer Xu mention once that the zoo was going to change owners, but it wasn't a sale, it was an inheritance...
He guessed: "She probably has no money."
Wei Li: “…”
Wei Licai didn't believe it: "How is that possible? How can you buy a zoo if you don't have money? And if you don't have money, would you spend 100,000 to build a protective net?"
Yes, even though we don’t have money, we are still willing to spend it to ensure the safety of the zoo.
"I guess the director is a bit stingy. They say the richer a person is, the stingier they are," Wei Li muttered, then chuckled, "But I still like our new director. He's much better than the previous one. And he can even suppress Qilin. He's the first person in the world to do that. I'm still blown away! Our director is truly awesome!"
Wei Li was full of praise, but Mu Ling didn't hear a word she said. She was still arguing with the people from the protective net company. She was asking if they would provide free maintenance and a three-year warranty in the future. They said they only provided a one-year warranty. She was trying to use the zoo travel package to negotiate with them to add an extra year.
The business manager of the protective net company had never seen her bargain so well. In the end, he used connections and reputation building to get the warranty period set at one and a half years.
Mu Ling was satisfied. After watching Wei Li and Xiang Bie take the protective net company's car into the jungle, she stretched her legs, returned to the dormitory and fell asleep.
Before going to bed, she set an alarm for herself for four hours. She had to get up at one o'clock in the afternoon to change Qilin's medicine again.
While Mu Ling was soundly sleeping, the communicator of the Forestry Bureau of Shenwang Star was almost blown up.
They are all complaints, saying that there is a zoo on their planet that abuses animals and uses the names of retired war beasts for malicious marketing, which has caused extremely adverse social impacts. Moreover, it has been confirmed on the company's website that the zoo is a closed zoo. Now netizens seriously suspect that this zoo is operating illegally and is in danger of illegally imprisoning wild animals. They demand that the government of the God King Planet must conduct a strict and thorough investigation!
The Director General of the Forestry Bureau: “…”
What the hell, are we in big trouble?
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