Chapter 33 part 2

After leaving Wang Tianba’s temporary residence, Kong Bi and Li Xiangdong came to the warehouse together, intending to put back all the mice that Wang Tianba had not finished eating, but they unexpectedly met Chuchu at the door of the warehouse.

After the little guy decided to settle down in the zoo, she quickly found out all the places with abundant food in the zoo, and she could always squat accurately to get benefits.

Li Xiangdong had no interest in Chuchu, who was acting cute. Although he was a cat slave, this cat slave was not the same cat slave^[1]he mean he is a Māotóuyīng(owl) slave, not ordinary Māo(cat) slave. Chuchu, who could not fly, did not have much attraction in his eyes. This made the coal boss show much more friendliness to him than other people.

Although he was not interested in Chuchu, Li Xiangdong still threw the little white mouse to her when he saw Chuchu coming to ask for food. Kong Bi looked around curiously with the cage in her hand, and finally saw a coal boss holding a mouse with his front paws in a dark corner.

His face full of resentment.

Unlike Chuchu who would run towards people and act cute when she sucked, the coal boss is quite self-reliant. He still ignores the free food and insists on going out hunting every day to support his family.

Kong Bi has already guessed what happened. It is likely that the coal boss is going to bring his own prey to Chuchu to eat, but Chuchu, who heard the noise of their arrival, immediately left the coal boss to beg for food.

After all, the coal boss’s share will definitely be left for it, and it will be twice as happy if it asks for another share!

Kong Bi didn’t care either. She took out the nearby registry book and recorded the brought-back mice. Kong Bi, who had a slight obsessive-compulsive tendency, preferred an orderly daily routine, so she insisted on clearly recording the storage and retrieval of supplies in the notebook. Clear and precise numbers made it easier for her to adjust which items needed to be purchased in larger quantities and which budget allocations could be reduced when purchasing supplies.

Unfortunately, Gao Liang hadn’t finished developing the program yet. Otherwise, it would be more convenient to upload all the data to the computer. After all, the zoo’s main employees were young people, so there was no need to worry about them not knowing how to use computers.

After signing her name in the upper right corner of the notebook, Kong Bi bent down and picked up Chuchu, to prevent waking up tomorrow and finding that some of the items in the warehouse were inexplicably missing. She said to Li Xiangdong, “Teacher Li, let’s go.”

Li Xiangdong nodded and hung the bark clothes on the wall. The smell in the warehouse could effectively eliminate the “human smell” on the clothes and would also make the animals feel more familiar with the smell. As long as he didn’t slide into the cage while wearing the clothes, feeding with this clothes would not alert the animals.

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The next day, everyone noticed that Wang Tianba, whose behavior had been unusual, finally chose to sleep during the daytime. Before this, it had almost only rested for two or three hours each day, and spent the rest of the time full of energy, showing no signs of fatigue or need to rest.

This naturally stirred up another round of discussion. Human understanding of many uncommon animals is extremely limited. Among owls, only a few species are relatively well-known to humans. However, the Strigidae family, to which Wang Tianba belongs, has 11 genera and 23 species in China. Even now, people don’t have a very clear understanding of the breeding situation of the Spot-bellied eagle-owl.

Therefore, even if Wang Tianba didn’t have an unusual size and was just an ordinary Spot-bellied eagle-owl, it would still attract many people to study it.

After all, although Spot-bellied eagle-owl are not a particularly rare species globally, they are rare in China. Even related news reports can only find two or three cases. This makes it undoubtedly difficult for researchers to understand their habits. Even the number of populations in China cannot be inferred based on the few appearances.

Therefore, Kong Bi could imagine that after these experts returned, if any of them published a paper, the zoo might not become popular among ordinary people, but it would become famous among experts instead.

Today’s breakfast is soup dumplings, with thin skin and thick meat, very delicious, making Kong Bi feel that Aunt Jiang’s previous job as a canteen aunt was a waste of talent. If she had worked in a certain restaurant, she might have become a famous brand.

“Director, you are famous!”

Kong Bi: “???”

After handing over the operation tasks to Li Da, Kong Bi stopped paying attention, so she didn’t know why Li Da was so excited. What did he mean by ‘you’re famous’? Wasn’t he mainly promoting Wang Tianba? What did it have to do with her?

Kong Bi soon learned what happened. It turned out that after research, Li Da decided to start with Wang Tianba bringing her food, and the platform chose a short video platform. In the fast-paced current situation, it is difficult for netizens to have the patience to watch videos longer than one minute, so it is not advisable to post long-paced videos at the beginning, so Li Da chose to use the “repaying a favor” point to attract netizens’ clicks.

Beauty is not a scarce resource on the Internet. Everyone looks good with the beauty filter turned on, and the well-informed netizens are used to it. But cute animals will always have a market, especially those that are both cute and fierce.

However, although Li Da analyzed the situation very well and edited the video very quickly, the first video did not become popular. The number of clicks and comments can only be said to be worthy of the promotion fee spent.

After all, there are still many things about animals repaying their gratitude. The special thing about Wang Tianba is nothing more than that its identity is not so common in human society, and the prey it brings is more than that of ordinary pets, but it still lacks certain explosive points.

The most important thing is that the video was shot by Quan Xiangsong. How could he think of giving a close-up? Almost all the shots were on the prey sent by Wang Tianba, trying to see the wounds on the prey to analyze how it caught the prey.

The turning point of the video appeared in the second video uploaded by Li Da, but it was not Chu Chu, who was given high hopes by him, who became popular, but the coal boss.

The second video is a continuation of the first video, telling the story of a coal boss who works hard to hunt outside, only to discover upon returning that his ‘poop shoveling officer’ had secretly raised a mistress without telling him, and that the mistress caught more prey than he did!

The shocked and unbelievable expression on its face was really eye-catching. In addition, there were already many cat fans in the cute pet area, so before Li Da bought a few promotions, a marketing account with a keen sense of smell naturally forwarded it.

So the second video received far more views than the first video, and even brought up the number of clicks on the first video.

Seeing this, Li Da immediately struck while the iron was hot and moved the video of Kong Bi dancing with the green peacock that was forwarded everywhere, and added words to it.

“Hello everyone, I am the director of Peacock Mountain Zoo. The animals featured in the videos are all members of our Peacock Mountain Zoo! Welcome everyone to follow our official ‘Peacock Mountain Zoo’ account. In the future, we will post more videos of our zoo members!”

The third video was to awaken the netizens’ memories. Li Da hadn’t paid much attention to online news lately due to being busy running back and forth to the hospital. However, the green peacock video was recent, and netizens definitely had a memory of it. Bringing it up again at this time could just solidify their memories. If possible, it could even create a ‘beast tamer’ persona for Kong Bi. This video also had the most controversy. The netizens who had previously asserted that Kong Bi would definitely join a certain platform immediately started mocking her in the comments after seeing this video.

However, the controversy was only a small part. After all, training more than one animal to film such videos for entertainment was extremely difficult. Most netizens were more willing to believe that the zoo was seizing the opportunity to capitalize on the video’s coincidental popularity.

After all, if you have popularity and don’t seize the moment, aren’t you just throwing money away?

Li Da maintained a frequency of one video per day. On the fourth day, he released a sequel to the previous video. The final scene froze on the moment when Wang Tianba landed on Kong Bi’s hand and stared at her. The video’s cover was also this image.

When Wang Tianba appeared alone, netizens had no idea of his size, but when it fell into Kong Bi’s hand, the difference was revealed.

Kong Bi wasn’t short. As a southerner, she had been well-nourished since childhood and stood at a height of 1.76 meters. However, her frame wasn’t large. If she didn’t stand next to someone else, she would give the impression of a gentle woman from the Jiangnan water towns, approachable and without any sense of distance. But Wang Tianba, standing on her arm, with its heart-shaped markings on its abdomen not visible, looked perfectly majestic and imposing. Because Kong Bi’s arm was raised, it even towered above her head.

A majestic and imposing large owl.

A ‘petite’ and beautiful human female.

Especially those long, curved, dark brown talons resting on her white, slender arm, which looked terrifying, as if a slight exertion could create several bloody holes in her arm.

Such a scene was visually shocking and captivating, far more so than simple cute pet videos.

Human interests are very broad. They like cute things, they like powerful things, and they also like beautiful people.

But the overlap between these three isn’t very high. This video, however, happened to attract all three.

So, unsurprisingly, Kong Bi became famous.

Kong Bi swallowed her soup dumpling and didn’t feel anything special about her sudden fame. She asked Li Da, “So, is this a good thing or a bad thing?”

“Of course, it’s a good thing,” Li Da said. “As long as we honestly post videos later and don’t cause any trouble, keeping even a third of this attention will be a huge win for us.”