Chapter 64
With Brother Xiang's encouragement, Mu Ling told other employees about her plan that evening.
Wei Li was the first to disagree: "But our medical resources are limited. Can we really guarantee their continued health if we bring them here?"
Mu Ling opened her mouth and was about to speak when Xiang Bie beside her said, "The zoo originally provided its own medical resources, including the accompanying keepers and rations. You need to bring your own."
Wei Li glanced at Brother Xiang with some surprise, then asked, "How much do you charge for the tuition? How much is the tuition for one war beast?"
Mu Ling opened her mouth again...
"Calculated based on the damage value and kilograms, if the damage value is below 80%, one kilogram costs one thousand interstellar coins; if the damage value is below 90%, one kilogram costs two thousand interstellar coins; if the damage value exceeds 90%, one kilogram costs five thousand interstellar coins." Xiang Bie said.
Wei Li calculated, "For example, a leopard like Jixiang has a damage rating of around 98%, and an average weight of around 75 kilograms. So, based on the highest tier, we'd pay 5,000 interstellar coins per kilogram. That would mean a tuition fee of 375,000 yuan."
Wei Li frowned again: "Isn't this too cheap? We have to take care of their daily life and diet, and we have to be responsible for stabilizing their condition. It takes too much energy. We can't cure one person..."
Xiang Bie said: "Before acceptance, we cannot guarantee a 100% cure rate for all war beasts. We only promise a 30% cure rate." Wei Li nodded.
This makes sense. If it doesn't guarantee 100% cure, but only 30%, the risk that Piccolo Zoo has to bear will be much smaller, and other zoos are just paying for an opportunity. If it's just an opportunity, the price is just right.
Wei Li asked again, "Will they also live in the glass capsules when they arrive? We can't even house all our own animals in the animal dormitories right now, so how can we guarantee that their war beasts can live together?"
Xiang Bie said: "First, buy a single capsule room, and isolate each beast individually when they arrive. When there are war beasts that are willing to be caged together, we will customize a collective classroom."
Wei Li: "What about the breeders? If too many of them come, our dormitories might not be enough."
Xiang Bie: "If it's not enough, we can rent them a house at the foot of the mountain. It's not far to go up and down the mountain. They don't necessarily have to live here."
Wei Li: "Is there a limit on the number of places? If too many war beasts come at once, the director won't be able to handle them all."
Xiang Bie: "Different project teams will be set up at that time, and the headmaster will personally train a group of people to provide full-time childcare to help her share the burden."
"How long will the training take? When can I start my job?"
"The first session lasts for a week. You'll start by practicing with Jixiang, Feifan, and Lieyan. There are also different classes: S class, A class, and B class."
Brother Xiang's explanation was very coherent. Wei Li couldn't think of any new questions after a long pause, so he could only say, "Well, if you all have a plan, then let's give it a try..."
Wei Li compromised, and the entire conference table fell silent in an instant.
After a while, Dr. Bray quietly approached Xiao Zhao and asked in a low voice, "Has our principal been sidelined by Teacher Xiang? Why do I feel like he's not a founding hero, but a regent?"
Xiao Zhao responded quietly: "I also think the director is like a puppet emperor."
The two of them were whispering, furtively, but because the table was quiet, everyone else heard them.
Mu Ling: “…………”
She also felt that Brother Xiang was more courageous than her!
And Brother Xiang really supports the War Beast Nursery, he is such a nice guy!
After the meeting, Mu Ling went to the animal dormitory to see Qilin and the others, and then returned to the veterinary station.
As soon as Mu Ling entered the ward area, she checked the food and water of the sick animals. Yue Guang and Ling Ren had been eating well, Feifan and Lieyan also ate half a bowl, but Jixiang's bowl was the only one that was almost full of water and food.
Mu Ling frowned. She opened Jixiang's cage, went in, and fed some animal food to Jixiang's mouth: "Jixiang, why don't you eat again?"
Jixiang refused to eat this morning and at noon. It was only after Mu Ling fed it one pill at a time that it reluctantly ate a small amount.
But now, when Mu Ling fed him again, Jixiang refused to eat. He hung his head and faced a piece of animal food that Mu Ling had stuffed between his teeth. He opened his mouth and spit it out again.
Seeing this, Mu Ling was silent for a moment and asked, "Are you uncomfortable being locked in a cage? How about we go out for a walk?"
Mu Ling said as she opened the cage: "Come, Jixiang."
Jixiang looked at the open cage, finally stood up, and slowly followed Mu Ling.
Mu Ling took Jixiang outside. She first measured its damage value, and then while waiting for the results, she took Jixiang out for a walk.
It was already dark at this time, and most of the employees had returned to the dormitory. However, some people saw the director taking the war beast out so early, and they avoided him, fearing that they would scare the beast.
Mu Ling took Jixiang into the mountains, but not too deep, just near the mountain pass, to let it experience the wild environment.
But this seemed to have no effect. When she left, Jixiang left. When she didn't leave, Jixiang didn't leave either. He didn't show any sign of missing the wild environment too much.
Mu Ling finally had no choice but to sit on a rock and sigh.
The leopard came over again at this time. It sat next to Mu Ling and put its big head on Mu Ling's knees.
Mu Ling rubbed it: "You were always willing to eat before..."
Mu Ling thought about it, and recalled the first time she coaxed Jixiang to eat on Siwan Star.
At that time, Jixiang completely imitated the actor's behavior.
But these past two days, when the actors ate, it didn't eat with them.
Mu Ling was silent for a moment, then guessed, "Is it because Lingren doesn't pay much attention to you? Although you want to play with Lingren, Lingren doesn't want to play with you, so are you sad?"
After thinking for a while, Mu Ling stood up again and said, "Let's go back."
Mu Ling brought Jixiang down the mountain. From a distance, she saw Brother Xiang waiting for her at the mountain pass.
Mu Ling smiled and waved to Brother Xiang.
Xiang Bie was waiting here because he heard that Mu Ling had gone into the mountains. When he saw Mu Ling coming down, he asked, "How is it?"
Mu Ling shook her head: "It's not in the right state. I plan to try another method. Since it likes to imitate, I will give it a perfect and friendly imitation object."
Ten minutes later, they arrived at the door of the animal dormitory.
Mu Ling asked Brother Xiang to look after Jixiang, and then she walked in by herself.
Mu Ling went in and within two minutes, she brought the little wolf out.
Xiang Bie took a look inside, but saw that Qingjiao had no reaction to Mu Ling taking the little wolf away. The wolf was lying on its belly, and Lightning was licking its fur.
The little wolf obviously liked Mu Ling very much. It kept wagging its tail, grinning like a puppy, and sniffing Mu Ling.
Mu Ling squatted down holding the little wolf and carefully let the little wolf smell auspiciousness.
The unfamiliar smell made the little wolf a little nervous, and also made Jixiang very nervous.
But the little wolf was just a cub after all. Although Jixiang was scared, he was not too scared. He circled around Mu Ling and the little wolf, then walked behind Mu Ling and quietly went to look at the little wolf again.
The harmless and fresh animals aroused Jixiang's curiosity.
Mu Ling was afraid that Jixiang would hurt the little wolf, so she separated them invisibly. Then she took out a freeze-dried pill from her pocket and fed it to the little wolf.
The little wolf ate it in two bites immediately, then came over to Mu Ling again, wanting more.
The keeper always has snacks in his pocket. Mu Ling fed the little wolf another one, and the little wolf ate it again.
Mu Ling looked at Jixiang at this time, and then she also fed the freeze-dried food to Jixiang.
Jixiang didn't eat it and took a step back.
Mu Ling fed it to the little wolf.
After this happened several times, finally, when Mu Ling fed Jixiang again, Jixiang imitated the little wolf and ate it.
Mu Ling's eyes lit up, and after that, she coaxed Jixiang into eating most of the bag of freeze-dried food, almost at the same frequency as feeding the little wolf half a pill and feeding Jixiang five pills.
When it was almost time, Mu Ling picked up the little wolf again and took it back to the animal dormitory.
Xiang Bie was waiting for Mu Ling outside. When he saw Mu Ling come out, he asked, "What's the principle?"
Mu Ling rubbed Jixiang's head and said, "I suspect Jixiang has a bit of Alzheimer's disease."
Xiang Bie was stunned.
Mu Ling said, "Learning the behavior of other animals is itself a lack of self-awareness. In nature, only cubs learn the behavior of adults. If adults in turn learn from their cubs, isn't this a sign of senility?"
Xiang Bie frowned: "Jixiang is only nine years old."
The average lifespan of a leopard is around 15 years, so nine years old is considered to be in the prime of life.
Mu Ling nodded: "Let's take a look at its damage value. The higher the damage value, the greater the damage to the brain. It is understandable that Alzheimer's disease will appear early."
They took Jixiang back to the veterinary station. At this time, the mental foundation report came out. Mu Ling read two lines and handed the report to Xiang Bie.
Xiang Bie took a glance and saw 95%.
"In fact, it has decreased. In the past two days at Siwanxing, the number of auspiciousness has been close to 100%."
Xiang Bie put the report down and asked, "What next?"
Mu Ling said, "From now on, Jixiang should eat with the little wolf. As long as the little wolf is safe, let them interact more often. Jixiang lacks psychological dependence right now, and he's more accepting of me and Lingren. But I don't have much time to spend with him, and Lingren doesn't like to pay attention to him, so he needs a friend who's warm and non-threatening. Let's try to build a friendship between him and the little wolf first, and let our little wolf be a healing beast."
Tonight, Mu Ling still slept in the veterinary station.
The next morning, Mu Ling received a call from Manager Chen.
Manager Chen had told Mu Ling before that he wanted her to visit their Silin Zoo.
Mu Ling just happened to have the idea of a nursery, so she mentioned it to Manager Chen.
Manager Chen showed great interest and said that he would discuss it with their director. An hour later, Manager Chen called again to inquire in detail about the War Beast Nursery and asked Mu Ling when the nursery would be opened.
Mu Ling said: "It will take at least a week."
The main thing is that a separate place needs to be opened up and facilities must be prepared now. Mu Ling told Manager Chen about the price and positioning. Manager Chen said that these are no problem as long as the war beasts can be raised well.
Mu Ling gave Manager Chen another form and asked him to fill it out, such as the war beast's name, age, where it had served before, its personality traits, current damage value, etc.
After hanging up the call, Mu Ling received another call from another person in charge whom she met at the exchange meeting. This person in charge had obviously heard about the nursery from Manager Chen and also came to consult.
Mu Ling answered the other party and after hanging up the phone, she thought that she would have to arrange for someone to come to the admissions office, otherwise she would have no time to reply to calls every day.
And just when Mu Ling was revealing the idea of a war beast nursery in various groups.
Federal War Beast Center Headquarters.
After listening to the entire recording sent to him by his friend, Hong Jiang pondered for a moment and then took the recording to the professor's office.
As soon as he arrived at the office, he saw the professor playing a recording. The voice coming from the recording was that of Dean Mu.
The professor pressed his hand towards Hong Jiang, signaling him to remain silent. After the recording finished, he continued, "It's from the director of the West Corner Zoo. He wanted to ask us if the insights shared by Director Mu were truly practical."
Hong Jiang clicked on his laptop and said, "What a coincidence! Mi Meng Zoo also sent it to me."
The professor asked, “What do you think?”
Hong Jiang said, "I think it makes sense. Some of the ideas are similar to the research findings of our War Beast Center. However, animals are not uniform after all. Every war beast encounters different situations, so specific situations still need to be analyzed."
The professor said, "I heard that Piccolo Zoo is planning to build a war beast nursery."
Hong Jiang was stunned. He didn't know this news yet. He asked, "Are you sure?"
The professor said, "Among their keepers, there are people I arranged. I found out after they had a meeting last night."
Hong Jiang choked: "Professor, you actually..."
The professor said hurriedly, "It's not just our War Beast Center that has sent undercover agents. Ever since Director Mu first demonstrated her ability to interact with war beasts, several agencies have been sending people to investigate. I think she knows the truth herself, otherwise, some keepers with such good conditions wouldn't be willing to work in a small zoo like ours for such a low salary."
Hong Jiang asked again: "Then what are you going to do?"
The professor looked at Hong Jiang and asked, "Do you want to go on a business trip to the God King Planet recently?"
Hong Jiang immediately said, "Okay!"
At the same time, at the Veterinary Association, Dean Wu was holding a meeting with his subordinates: "Once this war beast nursery is established, all the war beasts with problems in the major zoos will definitely be sent to Beak Zoo. This is a great opportunity to learn."
The person below hesitated: "But their cure rate is only 30%, which is actually about the same as our Veterinary Association."
Dean Wu shook his head. "That sounds about right, but so far, no war beast has died at the hands of Director Mu, right? That means her cure rate is 100% so far."
Everyone below fell silent.
Dean Wu said, "If there are too many problematic war beasts, Dr. Bray won't be able to handle enough veterinary work alone. From now on, all major recruitment websites should keep a close eye on this. If you find a job posting at the Beak Zoo, submit your resume immediately!"
While everyone outside was shocked by the news that Mu Ling was going to gather all the problematic war beasts together, Mu Ling herself notified several groups and then began to prepare for the construction of a nursery.
There is not much open space in the service area. If we want to build new capsule rooms, we need to hire a construction team to open up the space.
The construction team arrived in the afternoon. Mu Ling watched for a while, and then Brother Xiang went down the mountain. Mu Ling asked Brother Xiang to continue watching.
However, the tourists who followed Xiang Bie down the mountain saw Mu Ling and greeted her with laughter: "Director, what are you building? Are you going to expand the animal dormitories?"
"Director, we heard that you brought Feifan back. When can we meet Feifan?"
"Director, can Feifan also go to the animal dormitory?"
"Director, are you still communicating with Feifan by imitating monkey calls?"
Mu Ling: “…”
No, if you learn it once, you will be whipped for life, right?
Mu Ling said with a smile, "Fanfan can't move into the animal dormitory for the time being. In fact, considering that Feifan prefers the forest environment, we plan to send him to the mountain after he gets used to it for a few days."
"Ah, if we send it up the mountain, will we never see it again?"
"Director, can you shoot more extraordinary videos in the next two days? You haven't updated any videos since you went to Siwan Star!"
"That's right, Principal, if you don't post more videos, we're going to unfollow you!"
Mu Ling: “…”
Mu Ling hadn't expected that someone would come to her offline to urge her to update. She could only promise, "Okay, okay, I'll post the video tonight."
At nine o'clock that evening, Mu Ling posted a video about Feifan on time. In the video, Feifan was playing outdoors, and an adult red-bellied macaque, which was a circle smaller than him, was following behind him all the time.
In the camera, in addition to Feifan and the red-scented monkey named Lieyan, there is also a slow-moving leopard. The leopard is eating animal food. It takes a bite and then looks at the wolf cub next door. It takes a bite and then looks at the wolf cub again, as if it wants to eat as much as the wolf cub eats.
The video is not long, only three minutes, and netizens have condemned it.
My wife is so short.
【You haven't updated for so many days, aren't you going to make up for the time lost? 】
I don't quite understand why they can still post the video of the purple electric baboon so brazenly. The truck driver who died earlier must be so angry!
Many people responded to this comment.
If you had read the news more often, you would have seen Siwanxing's clarification that the truck driver was a poacher who stole Feifan from the zoo.
[No one still sympathizes with poachers, right? No way, no way, no way. Federal criminal law stipulates that those who poach and hunt first-class protected animals have a minimum sentence of thirteen years in prison. Those who steal and sell war animals will be shot.]
[I suggest you investigate who these poachers are. Have you forgotten that news story about war beasts being bought and sold eight years ago? Rich businessmen were paying for war beast parts—elephant tusks, bear paws, wolf skins—and they thought collecting these things was cool. Have you forgotten what a shock it caused when the entire industry chain was revealed? It was after that incident that the criminal law was changed. Anyone who steals or buys war beasts, regardless of the severity of the offense, will be executed! This is disrespectful to the heroes of the Federation!]
[Do you understand? Even if Feifan didn't kill the truck driver, he should have been shot. You're speaking up for him so much, so you're not his accomplice, are you?]
On the God King Star, in the rebel stronghold, the irritable man in the white coat immediately deleted his comment, and a thin layer of sweat seeped out of his forehead.
“Knock, knock.”
At this moment, someone knocked on his door. The grumpy man in the white coat was startled. After making sure that he had even logged out of his account, he walked over to open the door and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Meeting." The person outside the door said briefly.
The grumpy man in the white coat finally followed the visitor to the conference room outside. There were already quite a few people sitting in the conference room, but the Ron, whom he hated, was not there. As the person in charge of the operation to steal the S-level purple electric baboon, he was currently in solitary confinement for losing the purple electric baboon.
The person chairing the meeting today is a mid-level leader named "Pu Ya".
"Have you watched the video?" A floating screen in the air next to them was playing the video of the purple electric baboon that Piccolo Zoo had released not long ago.
No one below spoke.
Puya snorted coldly, "After all the hard work, I didn't expect it to reach the God King Planet on its own. The baboon is an excellent experimental subject, and our cells have been injected into its body. We must capture this purple electric baboon. Since it's right under our noses, you guys prepare and find a chance to steal it out again."
There was a moment of silence below.
Puya frowned: "Why, can't you do it?"
Still no one spoke.
After a while, a burly man stood up and said coldly, "Then the sooner the better. I'll go steal tonight. There are a lot of videos online about that Beek Zoo. Their defenses are simple, the staff is sparse, and there's not even a security guard. It's easy to steal anything if you want. In fact, we should have stolen the war beasts from the zoos on God King Planet before. That Luo En insisted on going to a distant planet, which was a waste of effort!"
The grumpy man in the white coat said nothing, but in fact, this issue had been discussed long ago. A rabbit does not eat grass near its burrow. Their base is on the God King Planet. If they move the war beasts on the God King Planet, they will easily be exposed. There is nothing wrong with going to a farther planet.
However, the burly man was Puya's man, and the grumpy man in the white coat didn't dare to say anything.
Puya echoed the subordinate's sentiments: "Then you take responsibility. Tomorrow morning, I want to see the purple electric baboon."
The strong man saluted respectfully: "Yes!"
At one o'clock in the morning that night, the strong man led eight good men and arrived directly at the front gate of the Beak Zoo.
Looking inside from a distance, except for a night light on the square, the entire zoo was quiet and there was no sound at all.
Several people easily climbed over the wall next to them.
Just as they entered the animal dormitory, Qilin suddenly opened his eyes.
Today the ventilation window in the animal dormitory was opened, and a strange, unpleasant smell of chemicals had already reached its nose.
The golden tiger slowly walked to the glass window, its brown-green eyes quietly staring at the group of people outside.
"Boss." Someone patted the strong man: "Look."
The strong man looked over and saw that the tearing tiger named Qilin in the animal dormitory had woken up and was looking at them.
The strong man sneered and squeezed the gun in his hand: "What are you afraid of? It can't get out."
His companions thought so too, and continued walking silently towards the veterinary station.
Just after they left the animal dormitory, Qilin suddenly turned around and nudged the sleeping Lightning with his big head.
At the same time, inside the veterinary station, the purple electric baboon, who was half asleep, suddenly opened his eyes.
Its huge horse face looked around, then it raised its nose and sniffed.
It smelled a familiar smell that made it hate. Although it was not very strong, it was indeed tainted with the smell it hated.
After a moment of silence, the purple electric baboon walked to the door, reached out of the cage, and simply opened the door.
As the door opened, Jixiang across the street also woke up.
Feifan walked to the door of the ward area, looked outside, then came back and opened Jixiang's cage.
Mu Ling, who lived next door to Jixiang, was still sleeping soundly.
Feifan opened Mu Ling's cage as well, then walked in and pawed at the sleeping polar bear with his claws.
Feifan actually recognized Moonlight on the first day he arrived. This bear with skin disease was very introverted. He had met it several times in the Bick Jungle before, and it had run away very fast every time.
But now the white bear doesn't seem so shy anymore.
Moonlight was awakened by Feifan. The big white bear shook his head in confusion and got up.
At the same time, Ling Ren, who heard the noise, also poked his head out from Mu Ling's arms.
One minute later.
Led by the purple electric baboon, the polar bear, white fox, and leopard slowly walked out of the ward area.
Outside the veterinary station hall, Xiang Bie heard the sound of a door being pried open. He turned around and saw four war beasts rushing out.
Xiang Bie pursed his lips, made a gesture to keep quiet, and whispered to the purple electric baboon who was leading the charge: "You are not needed."
After saying that, he glanced into the ward area again and asked, "Did you wake her up?"
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