Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Wei Xi glanced at the list of animal exhibits in Zhi Lixuan’s hand and asked, “Are these all the animals in the park?”
Zhi Lixuan said, “No, only some animals have had problems recently, such as those in the Lion and Tiger Park, the Monkey Park, the Brown Bear Area, and some of the free-range animals. Others, such as the kangaroos, koalas, and steppe peccaries, are fine. Oh, and by the way, the panda is also calm and behaves normally.”
It would have been fine if he had not opened his mouth, but as soon as the words came out of his mouth, the Siberian tiger that was originally lying on the ground with its eyes squinting in the sun suddenly roared and stood up with its eyes wide open, its teeth bared, revealing its sharp fangs, with even its tail hair standing up. It looked extremely angry, as if it wanted to pounce on him and bite him.
Zhi Lixuan was frightened: “???”
The squirrel spirit squatted there, his back a little stiff. After a long while, he turned around and asked, stammering, “Director Zhi, your forest zoo, didn’t…did it not have pandas before?”
Zhi Lixuan answered blankly, “Yes, we only got the pandas after the zoo expanded in recent years.”
The Siberian tiger’s eyes were so cold that they were almost bloodthirsty, and it kept growling in a low voice.
The squirrel spirit was silent for a long time. “Then the name of the forest zoo… has it been changed?”
That was truly a distant memory. Zhi Lixuan recalled the zoo in its early days, his eyes becoming distant. “Yes, it was very small back then, with no special animals. It wasn’t competitive at all in the industry. The biggest draw was the lions and tigers. So in the beginning, we all called this the Lion and Tiger Mountain Zoo.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly realized something, came back to his senses, looked at the roaring Siberian tiger and fell silent: “…”
The squirrel spirit nodded with difficulty under his incredulous gaze. “…It said, ‘Pandas are just running around! Pandas are the fu**ing crown princes! The zoo changed the rations in all the exhibition areas but they didn’t dare tamper with the pandas’ feed. Their exhibition hall is in the very center of the park, with the largest area and the most beautiful buildings. I’m nothing! It doesn’t matter whether I exist or not. Let them carry the pandas over!”
Zhi Lixuan: “…”
Wei Xi: “…”
Shuo Zong: “…”
Wei Xi was a bit confused, but after recalling the business management books he had read, he soon understood: “The difference in treatment between your new and old employees is too great. The old employees have been with you since the beginning of the business, so it’s normal for them to have some complaints.”
Zhi Lixuan wanted to kneel down to him.
After hearing his various promises to apologize to the Siberian tiger, Wei Xi returned to the panda exhibition hall and saw that the panda had returned to normal without the threat of Master Xia. It was now lying down in a puddle holding bamboo, eating non-stop just like when they first met, with its ears twitching.
When the squirrel spirit learned about the treatment of the Siberian tiger and saw how comfortable it was, she was so jealous that tears came to her eyes. “No wonder it didn’t run away. All the zoo resources were given to it, and even the older employees who came before it can only complain bitterly. Isn’t it just relying on being a national treasure? I don’t see any remarkable skills.”
Zhi Lixuan wanted to explain but didn’t know how. His worldview was so shaken that it was about to collapse. He could only laugh dryly and said in a daze, “…It, what skills can it know? We can’t ask for anything.”
The squirrel spirit couldn’t stand it and spoke up for his own species: “It’s just being a big shot. If I were it, with so many tourists supporting me, I would bow to express my gratitude no matter how tired I am.”
The panda seemed to recognize it. When it saw it appear, its bamboo-eating movements slowed down again, and it looked like it wanted to leave.
Zhi Lixuan: “…”
Wei Xi had no concept of a national treasure or a first-class protected animal. To him, pandas and Siberian tigers were about the same. Since the Siberian tiger had clearly expressed its dissatisfaction with the panda, even considering leaving the zoo, it was impossible not to address the underlying issue. Thinking of Zhi Lixuan’s compensation, he kindly offered him a suggestion: “Excessive disparity in employee compensation is detrimental to the internal unity of your company. This panda’s work ability is average, and it doesn’t seem to convince the public. For the sake of employee stability, I think you should relocate it to a more distant location or adjust its living conditions to a less pronounced level compared to its colleagues.”
Zhi Lixuan was stunned. If someone else had said this seemingly logical but completely illogical thing to him, he would have definitely thought that person was crazy. However, it happened to be Wei Xi who said this, and he actually ignored the logic and started thinking subconsciously: “Move…move farther away? Decrease living conditions?”
Zhi Lixuan repeated with a blank mind and subconsciously looked up at the panda in the venue that had stopped eating bamboo.
Panda:”……”
The next second, the panda suddenly dropped the bamboo, then struggled to get up, put its butt on the ground, folded its front legs, sat on the ground and pawed at him twice.
The giant panda actually bowed…
Zhi Lixuan: “……………………”
Wei Xi looked at the panda with a depressed look on its face: “Huh? Can it bow?”
Squirrel Spirit: “I told you it’s just being a big shot.”
Shuo Zong: “…”
….
When Zhi Lixuan was about to faint, he finally heard the sound of an ambulance. Medical staff rushed into the panda house with a stretcher under their guidance: “Where is the patient?!”
Master Xia was still lying on the emergency bed twitching. His disciples surrounded him, worried about him while looking at Taicang Sect and Zhi Lixuan with anger in their eyes.
“Just wait!” The disciples all felt that their master was angry because of Zhi Lixuan’s rough treatment. “Wait until our master wakes up, then we’ll settle the score with you!”
Wei Xi actually felt a little guilty after hearing this. What if Master Xia reported his employees for evading fares? That would be over 700…
He hoped that the other person would be carried away quickly, but unfortunately, just before the medical staff were about to put him on the stretcher, he woke up faintly.
The disciples rushed over to look at him nervously, shouting in unison: “Master!”
Wei Xi’s face turned serious, and he was afraid that he would say something he shouldn’t, so he quickly walked over.
When Master Xia’s disciples saw him, they were furious and called out to him, “Master! You’ve finally woken up! Show them some color!”
Master Xia was still in a daze. So he opened his eyes in a daze, thinking that he had had a nightmare. But when he turned around, he saw Wei Xi approaching with a cold face. An indescribable gloom had appeared on his handsome face, as if he wanted to kill him on the spot.
Master Xia shuddered violently and instantly remembered everything! The scene he had seen before fainting involuntarily emerged in his mind—in the gloomy room, Wei Xi stared at him and let out a low roar, and then countless miserable and terrifying ghosts and monsters screamed and pounced on him with ferocious faces!
This…this person actually wants to control ghosts to kill him!!!
Master Xia trembled like a sieve, tears welling in his eyes. He thought to himself, “What have I done? I just thought you were a fellow practitioner and offended you with a few words without knowing the truth. I was wrong, isn’t that enough? You actually want to kill me!”
At this moment, seeing Wei Xi approaching again, he did not feel encouraged by the encouragement of his disciples at all. Instead, he was frightened out of his wits and his mind went blank.
Wei Xi walked up to him, looked down at him, and pondered for a moment, trying to test whether he had guessed that his company’s employees had evaded the entrance fee and whether he had any intention of reporting it.
However, just as he opened his mouth, before he could utter a single word, Master Xia, who was lying on the bed, suddenly let out a mournful wail and trembled as he said to him, “Master! Spare my life, Master!”
The disciples around him: “???”
Wei Xi: “???”
Master Xia seemed to have burst out with infinite courage. Without anyone carrying him, he rolled off the bed and ran away with his disciples, leaving the medical staff in the exhibition hall with confused faces.
Uncle Shen was afraid of being caught in the act, so he immediately hid with all the employees when he heard the sound of him waking up. Now that he saw him running away, he was a little stunned. He then came out and asked Wei Xi: “Master, does he mean he won’t report us?”
Wei Xi nodded: “Probably.”
Although this fake master is not very capable, he is surprisingly friendly in his dealings with others.
….
The animals were calmed down, and the keepers also arrived with their supplies. They took the escaped black swans, red pandas and other animals back to their own exhibition areas. Zhi Lixuan spent the day like a dream and did not dare to look at the giant panda in the exhibition hall who seemed very uneasy and wanting to bow from time to time.
Wei Xi saw him in a daze and ignored him, asking his apprentice: “The animal summoning technique you mentioned, does it mean that all animals can hear the summoning?”
Shuo Zong nodded: “Usually correct.”
Wei Xi couldn’t understand why. “But Zhi Lixuan said that a large number of animals in this zoo haven’t moved. Could it be that they are very satisfied with their lives and don’t want to leave?”
Shuo Zong was actually a bit skeptical. Logically, since Square Face was enriching himself, he should have replaced the food in all other exhibits, except for the bamboo in the panda enclosure. Yet, some animals seemed unmoved by the call.
He opened the list he got from Zhi Lixuan and read through it one by one. There were jaguars, Australian kangaroos, Australian koalas, South American peccaries… carnivores and herbivores, all kinds of them, and the species were very diverse. The only thing they had in common seemed to be… language.
Shuo Zong suddenly realized something and fell into a long silence.
Wei Xi wanted to ask more questions, but the phone that Zhi Lixuan had taken from the office suddenly rang loudly. He picked it up and heard a panicked roar from the other side.
“Director!!! We have released all the escaped animals!!!”
Zhi Lixuan’s voice was dull: “Put them back, then put them back. Have you checked it? Is anything lost?”
“Nothing is lost,” the employee on the other end of the phone said. Before he could even get a chance to rejoice, he roared again: “But there are even more! There are more! Can you imagine? There’s a new wild boar in the peccary exhibition area!!”
Zhi Lixuan: “????”
The employee looked like he was about to faint: “Is it haunted!?!? Didn’t they all run away?! Why are there more?! Where on earth did this wild boar come from? Oh my god!!!”
Zhi Lixuan felt that he had completed all of his life experiences today: “…”
The people of Taicang Sect who vaguely heard the content of the phone call and also roughly guessed the reason: “…”
The wild boar was really brave, daring to pick up girls in broad daylight. Fortunately, he was not caught by the zoo in the end. He escaped successfully and even sent a WeChat message to Wei Xi.
When Wei Xi brought people out, he stood at the entrance of the zoo and was looking at the sky. His back looked lonely and complicated, as if he had grown up overnight.
Wei Xi thought, what does this mean? Was it a success or a failure?
The wild boar demon heard the footsteps and slowly turned around: “Chairman.”
He was unusually calm, with a distant look in his eyes and a calm tone. He spoke sincerely as he made the first request he had made since coming down the mountain.
“Please sign me up for an English class.”
T/N: This entire zoo arc was just my fave…. OMG Taicong Sect is really a mood!!!!
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