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Chapter 64.2
「Federation War Beast Center Headquarters」
Hong Jiang finished listening to the recording his friend sent and, after a moment of contemplation, took it to the professor’s office.
Upon arrival, he found the professor was also playing a recording featuring Director Mu’s voice. The professor gestured for Hong Jiang to remain silent until the recording concluded.
After it ended, the professor said, “The director of Xi Jiao Zoo is consulting us about whether Director Mu’s insights have practical application.”
Hong Jiang opened his light-brain and replied, “Coincidentally, Mi Meng Zoo sent me the same recording.”
The professor asked, “What do you think?”
Hong Jiang responded, “I believe there’s some merit to it. Certain points align with our research findings. However, animals lack uniformity – each war beast encounters different situations that require specific analysis.”
The professor mentioned, “I heard Bi Ke Animal Zoo plans to build a war beast daycare.”
Hong Jiang was surprised, as this was news to him. “Is this confirmed?” he asked.
“One of their zookeepers is my planted personnel,” the professor explained. “I learned about their meeting last night.”
Hong Jiang was taken aback: “Professor, you actually…”
The professor quickly clarified, “We’re not the only agency with undercover agents. After Director Mu first demonstrated her war beast interaction methods, several organizations wanted to investigate. I think she’s aware of this – otherwise, these highly qualified zookeepers wouldn’t accept such low wages at a small zoo.”
“What’s your plan?” Hong Jiang inquired.
The professor studied him: “Would you like to take a business trip to Shenwang Star?”
Hong Jiang immediately responded, “Yes!”
At the same time, at the Veterinary Association, Director Wu was holding a meeting: “Once this war beast daycare is established, troubled war beasts from major zoos will certainly be sent to Bi Ke Animal Zoo. This is an excellent learning opportunity.”
Someone hesitated, “But their recovery rate is only 30%, which is similar to ours.”
Director Wu shook his head, “Listen carefully – so far, her recovery rate is 100%.”
The room fell silent.
Director Wu continued, “Once troubled war beasts increase, Dr. Burey won’t be enough as the sole veterinarian. Starting now, as soon as Bi Ke Animal Zoo posts a recruitment notice, everyone must immediately submit their resumes!”
While the outside world was still processing the news about Mu Ling gathering troubled war beasts, she had already begun preparing the daycare after notifying several groups.
The service area had little spare space, so construction crews were needed to develop new capsule house areas. The team arrived in the afternoon. Mu Ling supervised briefly before handing over to Xiang Bie who had just come down from the mountain.
Tourists who came down with Xiang Bie saw Mu Ling and cheerfully greeted her:
“Director, what are you building? Expanding the animal dormitory?”
“Director, we heard you brought back Feifan. When can we see it?”
“Director, can Feifan stay in the animal dormitory?”
“Director, are you still communicating with Feifan by imitating monkey calls?”
Mu Ling: “…”
Not this again – one-time monkey imitation and they’d tease her forever!
She explained with a wry smile: “Feifan can’t enter the animal dormitory yet. Considering its preference for mountain environments, we plan to release it into the mountains after a few more days of adaptation.”
“Ah, if it goes to the mountains, will we never see it again?”
“Director, can you post more videos of Feifan? You haven’t updated since going to Four Bay Star!”
“If you don’t post videos soon, we’ll unfollow you!”
Mu Ling: “…”
She hadn’t expected update demands to reach this level. “Fine, I’ll post a video tonight,” she promised.
That evening at 9 PM, Mu Ling posted a Feifan video. It showed Feifan playing outdoors, with a slightly smaller adult Scarlet Flame Monkey called Lieyan constantly following. In the background, a slow-moving leopard ate beast feed, periodically glancing at a small wolf nearby, seeming to match its eating pace.
The three-minute video drew immediate netizen criticism:
「Such a short video!」
「After being silent for so long, this is all we get?」
「How can you casually post videos of the purple lightning baboon – the truck driver who died must be rolling in his grave!」
Many responded to this provocative comment:
「If you’d bothered to read the news, you’d know the truck driver was a poacher who stole Feifan from the zoo.」
「Are you seriously sympathizing with poachers? Federation law states that stealing first-class protected animals means thirteen years imprisonment, while trafficking war beasts is punishable by death.」
「Anyone sympathizing with poachers should be investigated. Remember the war beast organ trafficking scandal eight years ago? trafficking news from eight years ago? Rich people were buying war beast organs, elephant tusks, bear paws, wolf pelts, thinking it was cool to collect these things. Remember the shock when the whole supply chain was exposed? That’s when the law changed – anyone involved in stealing or selling war beasts gets executed! This disrespects Federation heroes!」
「Get it now? That truck driver would have faced execution even if Feifan hadn’t scratched him to death. You’re speaking up for him so much – are you his accomplice?」
At the rebel base on Shenwang Star, the irritable white coat quickly deleted his comment, breaking into a cold sweat.
“Knock knock.”
Someone knocked on his door. The irritable white coat startled, confirmed he’d deleted his account, then went to open the door: “What is it?”
“Meeting.”
The person outside said briefly.
The irritable white coat eventually followed to the conference room, which was already filled with people. Luo’en, whom he despised, wasn’t there – as the leader of the failed S-class purple lightning baboon theft operation, he was still in solitary confinement.
Today’s meeting was chaired by a mid-level leader called Puya.
“Everyone’s seen the video?” On the floating screen beside him played Bi Ke Zoo’s recent Purple lightning baboon video.
No one below spoke.
Puya snorted coldly: “After all our effort, it ended up on Shenwang Star itself. Baboons are excellent test subjects, and we’ve already injected our cells into this one. We must have this purple lightning baboon. Since it’s right under our noses, prepare yourselves – find an opportunity to steal it again.”
The room instantly fell silent.
Puya frowned: “What, you can’t do it?”
Still no one spoke.
Finally, after a while, a burly man stood up and said coldly: “Then sooner is better than later. I’ll go steal it tonight. That Bi Ke Zoo has many videos online – their defenses are crude, they’re short-staffed, don’t even have security guards. Stealing will be easy. We should have been stealing war beasts from Shenwang Star zoos all along. That Loren insisted on going to distant planets, what a waste of effort!”
The irritable white coat stayed quiet, but this issue had been discussed before. You don’t steal from your own backyard – their base was on Shenwang Star, so targeting local war beasts could easily expose them. Going to distant planets made sense.
However, the burly man was Puya’s subordinate, so the irritable white coat didn’t dare speak up.
Puya played along with his subordinate: “Then you’re in charge. Tomorrow morning, I want to see the purple lightning baboon.”
The burly man respectfully saluted: “Yes sir!”
At 1 AM that night, the burly man led eight skilled operatives directly to Bi Ke Zoo’s front gate.
Looking in from afar, except for one night light in the square, the whole zoo was quiet and still.
The group easily climbed over the side wall.
As soon as they entered, in the animal dormitory, Qilin suddenly opened its eyes.
The ventilation window was open today, and strange smells carrying uncomfortable chemical traces had reached its nose.
The golden tiger slowly walked to the glass window, its brown-green beast eyes quietly watching the group outside.
“Boss.” Someone tapped the burly man: “Look.”
The burly man looked over and saw that Qilin, the Ripper Tiger, was awake and watching them.
The burly man sneered, gripping his gun: “What are you afraid of? It can’t get out.”
His companions agreed and silently continued toward the veterinary station.
Just after they left the animal dormitory area, Qilin suddenly turned back and nudged the sleeping Lightning with its big head.
Meanwhile, in the veterinary station, the drowsy Purple Lightning Baboon suddenly opened its eyes.
Its huge horse-like face looked around, then sniffed the air.
It caught a familiar, hateful smell. Though not very strong, it definitely carried traces of what it despised.
After a moment of silence, the Purple Lightning Baboon walked to the door, reached outside its cage, and simply opened the door.
As the door opened, Ji Xiang across from it also woke up.
Feifan walked to the ward area door, looked outside, then came back and opened Ji Xiang’s cage.
Mu Ling was still sleeping sweetly in the next cage.
Feifan opened her cage too, went inside, and pawed at the sleeping Silver Snow Bear.
Feifan had actually recognized Moonlight on its first day here. This bear with skin disease was very introverted – back in Bi Ke Forest, it had encountered the bear several times, and each time the bear ran away quickly.
But now the Silver Snow Bear didn’t seem so shy.
Moonlight woke up from Feifan’s disturbance, the big white bear groggily shook its head and got up.
At the same time, Lingren, hearing the movement, poked its head out from Mu Ling’s arms.
One minute later.
The white bear, white fox, and leopard, led by the Purple Lightning Baboon, slowly walked out of the ward area.
Outside in the veterinary station lobby, Xiang Bie heard the sound of picking locks, looked back, and saw the four war beasts emerging.
Xiang Bie pressed his lips together, made a silencing gesture, and quietly said to the Purple Lightning Baboon in the lead: “No need for you all.”
Then he looked back into the ward area and asked, “Didn’t wake her up, right?”
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that’s so cute of them 🤣🤣