Super Zoo-Chapter 384 - 380: Growth Against Common Sense

Panda Yingying is really quite hefty, with a heft on the arms that suggests it has exceeded a hundred pounds. It’s only because Suming has gotten much stronger now. In the past, he wouldn’t have been able to lift this tubby one at all.

Moreover, the little rascal is not being cooperative, wriggling ceaselessly in Suming’s arms, its short legs stepping on his arms to climb up, and its bear paws turned Suming’s hairstyle into a complete mess.

Suming, carrying Yingying, stepped out of the panda house and whistled. The Lion-ridge Dragon, which was close by destroying public property by eating grass, came trotting over with elegant horse steps.

Seeing Yingying, the Lion-ridge Dragon’s big eyes were full of curiosity as it stretched its large head to touch this fluffy ball of fur.

Yingying was also very curious about this big fellow, stepping on Suming’s arm, half of its body leaning forward, using its thick bear paw to rub the Lion-ridge Dragon’s head.

Suming was startled; the Lion-ridge Dragon was notoriously temperamental. Ordinary people, except for Suming, dared not touch it—let alone pat its head. Even Nangong Yan was no exception. Slightly annoy it, and it would spit a mouthful of saliva—which it surely learned from those alpacas. Now, with Suming holding Yingying, if it spat at them, wouldn’t he also be out of luck?

To his surprise, the Lion-ridge Dragon just snorted comfortably and shook its head, seemingly enjoying it, and lowered its head to nuzzle Yingying willingly.

It seems that pandas indeed have a significant charm; even the temperamental Lion-ridge Dragon was won over.

Mounting the creature, with Panda Yingying sitting in front, Suming held the reins with both arms like a large safety barrier, protecting Yingying in between. With a slight squeeze of his legs, the Lion-ridge Dragon began walking back towards the office building with small, precise steps, its hooves creating a delicate ticking sound on the zoo’s gravel paths.

Not far off, a little girl saw this scene and exclaimed in a youthful voice of surprise, "Mommy, look, the giant panda is riding a horse!"

Along the way, the visitors nearly thought their eyes were playing tricks on them. A person and a panda, riding regally on a splendid horse through the zoo, was even more exaggerated than a circus act. Many even forgot to pull out their phones to take pictures, mouths agape at the spectacle.

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Yingying and the Lion-ridge Dragon both loved the bustle. As the old saying goes, they went wild with the attention, incredibly pleased with being the center of attention.

The Lion-ridge Dragon held its head high and chest out, its small steps as though performing a formal dressage, occasionally shaking its long mane, fluttering in the wind, eliciting a few infatuated gasps of admiration.

Yingying appeared quite composed, waving its little paws at the surrounding visitors like a leader inspecting work. But its two short legs, braced against the saddle and trying hard to stand, betrayed its inner excitement.

"Comrades, make way, please make way, don’t disrupt the normal order!" Suming, on horseback, waved his work ID, his voice hoarse from shouting. He finally managed to carve a ’bloody path’ through the crowd. The journey of less than a kilometer between the office building and the panda house took almost forty minutes because of the continuous stream of tourists wanting to take photos, stopping them in their tracks.

Once they reached the office building, a large crowd of followers had been left trailing behind, almost ready to encircle the zoo’s administrative department. Dong arrived with four security guards from the security department, barely managing to keep the situation under control.

"Oh my! Director, why have you brought this fellow out?" Dong’s eyelids twitched twice when he saw Yingying.

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"Who knew its lethality could be so strong." Suming hadn’t expected it to attract so many people, Panda Yingying and Lele did draw in a lot of visitors during their time at the panda enclosure, but there was never such a sea of humanity before, and the tourists’ enthusiasm was nothing like this.

This served as a wake-up call for Suming. Although pandas are an exception, this also demonstrated that wildlife parks are more popular, and compared to animals locked in cages that can only be watched from a distance, visitors much prefer being able to interact with animals up close.

In Suming’s plans, one direction for the development of the zoo in the future was to establish a wildlife park, located behind the mountain.

At present, conditions are not quite ripe. The only truly wild creatures are Huiya’s pack of dogs. The fox fairies don’t even qualify, as they spend most of their time engaged in feudal superstitious activities; this gang of sly foxes seems to rather enjoy fortune-telling and blessing for people, delighted with their work every day. The snake garden is only semi-wild as well.

Given the opportunity, they could release some non-aggressive animals into the wild in the back mountain little by little and gradually build the wildlife park.

However, the pressing matter at hand is not the wildlife park.

Upon entering his office, Suming set Yingying down and slapped its backside, "Go play by yourself, don’t run off." Taking it out of the panda enclosure was already a huge privilege, and Suming wouldn’t dare let it roam freely. It had to be within his sight, so he promptly closed the door.

The office wasn’t large, and everything in it was incredibly novel to Yingying. It looked around curiously, took a couple of bites on the fake bamboo in the corner, found out it didn’t taste right, then wiggled its butt and climbed onto the sofa.

Suming ignored it and sat down behind his desk, turning on the computer.

Before receiving Li’s call, Suming was dealing with a document from Xiangjiang Ocean Park about the condition of two pandas; now he continued his work.

He completed the document in the shortest time possible and sent it to the contact person’s email, then logged into QQ and contacted the Ocean Park’s personnel responsible for pandas.

Suming had previously thought that Xiangjiang would use messaging software like MSN, but it turned out they also used QQ and WeChat, and in recent years, QQ and WeChat had become increasingly popular in Xiangjiang, even overtaking Facebook in usage frequency. This showed the growing influence of the mainland on Xiangjiang, subtly infiltrating every aspect of the lives of people in Xiangjiang.

Suming had a brief chat with them about the pandas’ recent life in the zoo and was about to suggest extending the pandas’ loan period by a few months.

Unexpectedly, they took the initiative to propose that they hoped the pandas could stay at the Yangchuan City Zoo for a while longer.

Being eagerly sought after is no trade, Suming was taken aback, what was going on?

"Mr. Su, it’s like this. According to our statistics, since the two pandas arrived at Yangchuan City Zoo, our Ocean Park’s webpage views have increased by 0.42%, and our ticket revenue has also seen a slight rise compared to the same period. Thus, the board of directors has decided we hope the pandas can continue to stay at Yangchuan City Zoo, of course, not for too long, just six months."

Suming was even more perplexed, how could this be? Is it possible that he was mistaken, that the people of Xiangjiang and the world actually detested pandas, and that these lovable animals were so detestable that Ocean Park’s popularity had gone up a little bit when they were gone?