As the name Li Hei was officially confirmed, Yang Lin returned the newborn cub to its parents.
The bear enclosure's popularity instantly skyrocketed to become the most visited spot in the zoo, with crowds of visitors eagerly rushing to catch a glimpse of this internet-famous little cutie.
Just as Yang Lin was preparing to take a well-deserved break during this interval, Chen Kexin approached him with a young woman.
"Cousin, I think there's something I need to tell you," she said.
Seeing Chen Kexin's serious expression, Yang Lin's eyes immediately showed confusion.
"What's the matter? Is there a problem with the accounts?"
As soon as Yang Lin finished speaking, Chen Kexin shook her head.
"No, our park's finances have never been better."
"I want to talk about something else. I have a classmate..."
Before she could finish, Yang Lin noticed the above-average looking young woman beside her.
"Is she looking for a job?"
"No."
"Don't tell me this is a blind date setup? That's not appropriate - if she's your classmate, I must be several years older than her."
"Though I suppose it's not really a big issue. You can step out and let me get to know your classmate better."
Seeing that Yang Lin had misunderstood, the girl Chen Kexin had brought quickly pulled out a cage from behind her.
"Director Yang, I'm here to ask for your help."
"Inside is a British Shorthair cat I found in my residential complex a few days ago. I've been taking care of it for several days."
"But I've noticed it only drinks milk and won't eat cat food, and its condition has been getting worse these past few days."
"I saw online that you're an animal expert, and since you're Kexin's cousin, I wanted to ask you to take a look."
After hearing the girl's explanation, Yang Lin felt somewhat disappointed.
"Won't eat cat food? That could be a complicated issue."
"Let me take a look at this British Shorthair's condition."
As he spoke, Yang Lin took the cage from the girl's hands.
However, when he opened the cage the next moment and saw what was inside, he was completely stunned.
Following his gaze, they saw a black and white creature weighing about six or seven pounds staring back at them with large eyes.
At first glance, it didn't look much like a British Shorthair, but rather more like an American Shorthair tabby, except for its somewhat unusual face.
"Could you tell me again where you found it?"
Looking at the little creature with disbelief, Yang Lin asked the girl beside him.
"In the residential complex, about a week ago. At the time, it was being bullied by a group of stray cats, so I rescued it."
The girl answered earnestly.
"Kexin, she's in the same major as you, studying veterinary medicine, right?"
After the girl's response, Yang Lin suddenly asked Chen Kexin.
"Of course."
"Then I'm guessing she didn't do well in school," Yang Lin said with a hint of playfulness in his voice.
"Cousin, how did you know? She was always at the bottom of the class, even worse than me."
Chen Kexin was clearly surprised that Yang Lin had guessed this, her face full of amazement.
The girl beside her had already turned red with embarrassment.
"Kexin, why are you bringing that up? What does my academic performance have to do with this little cat?"
Just as she finished speaking, Yang Lin immediately added:
"Of course it's relevant. If you had paid more attention in class and studied more, you wouldn't have mistaken a Little White Tiger for a British Shorthair."
"What?"
As soon as Yang Lin finished speaking, both Chen Kexin and the girl showed expressions of shock.
"Cousin, did you say it's a little white tiger? Did I hear that right?"
Saying this, Chen Kexin quickly picked up the Little White Tiger and began examining it carefully.
Seeing her reaction, Yang Lin's face showed a hint of exasperation.
So after all this time, Chen Kexin hadn't noticed either - presumably her academic performance hadn't been much better.
"Look carefully - its legs are so thick, and its face is large and square. How could you think it's a cat?"
"But it really looks just like a little cat! Look, when I pet its belly, it even purrs!"
Seemingly unwilling to accept that her little cat was actually a tiger, the girl quickly reached out to stroke the Little White Tiger's chin.
The next second, the little creature contentedly lay on the ground, showing its white belly, with engine-like rumbling sounds coming from its throat.
Seeing this scene, Yang Lin's expression froze.
"This is definitely a tiger. If you keep it for a couple more days, someone in your complex will probably call the police."
"At that point, it won't be about you finding it cute anymore - it'll be about it finding you tasty."
"Let's do this - tell me exactly when and where you found it?"
Perhaps due to Yang Lin's serious expression, the girl now began to doubt the creature's identity herself.
After some thought, she immediately told Yang Lin the time and location where she had found the little one.
After hearing her answer, Yang Lin's previously confused expression suddenly cleared up.
When he examined the Little White Tiger again, he immediately had the answer.
The Little White Tiger before him had unmistakable Bengal tiger characteristics.
"Could this be the cub of those two Bengal tigers from before? The ninth escaped animal?"
Ever since the eight escaped animals had been captured, Yang Lin had been searching for clues about the ninth escapee.
But no matter how much he searched, there wasn't a single lead.
There were no news reports of wild animal sightings, nor had any zoo reported missing animals.
He had even begun to doubt whether the ninth animal existed at all, thinking the system might have made a mistake.
Now, seeing this Little White Tiger, everything became clear.
The female Bengal tiger must have given birth during transport, which was why no one knew about it.
Later, when the truck overturned, this little one must have escaped into the nearby residential complex, where it was mistaken for a British Shorthair and taken in.
As for why the park hadn't noticed anything unusual, they probably assumed the female Bengal tiger had miscarried during transit and eaten the dead fetus, never imagining that a newly born tiger cub had also escaped.
"Truly, what you seek often appears when you least expect it."
"After searching for so many days without a clue, it just walks right up to us."
As Yang Lin was marveling at the wonder of fate, the system prompt arrived right on schedule.
"Congratulations to the host for successfully capturing the 9th escaped animal. Reward: 1 Talent Point, 1 Talent Chest Fragment."
With the system prompt's announcement, the escaped animals series of tasks was finally complete, and all 9 fragments were collected.
However, at this moment, Yang Lin wasn't focusing on the treasure chest, but rather on the Little White Tiger before him.
Without a doubt, it seemed the West Rainbow Zoo was about to gain another adorable new member.
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
