Super Zoo-Chapter 608 - 603: The Deepest Cavern

"Remember, call the police. You are innocent, so don’t panic, keep calm, and tell the truth!" These were the last words Nangong Cheng said on the phone.

After hanging up, Suming pondered for a long time.

Different positions determine different ways of looking at problems.

After the conversation with Nangong Cheng, Suming suddenly realized that although he had risen rapidly, his mindset had not adjusted very well. He was still thinking from the perspective of an ordinary person, a common businessman.

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That kind of peasant-style craftiness might work once or twice, but it greatly limited his vision and mindset. If it weren’t for the conversation with Nangong Cheng, his little clever trick might have been enough to get by, but it would have been like planting a time bomb by his side. Once it went off, it would shake his very foundation.

He was innocent, had done nothing wrong, yet he left a hidden danger and felt smug, thinking he was clever. Wasn’t that foolish?

Looking further ahead, once he became dependent on conspiratorial tactics in dealing with people or running a business, and got used to taking shortcuts, it would certainly not be a good thing. There simply aren’t any shortcuts in the world; the road you save today would have to be paid back double at some point in the future.

Having come so far, he should get used to considering issues straightforwardly, to planning openly, using overt strategies to solve problems, and exerting a positive influence on himself and his enterprise.

So, he directly dialed the emergency number, also informed Professor Chu from the agricultural research institute, and then, with Su Meng, returned to the scene of the incident. They communicated sincerely with the large group of bloodsucking fox-bats using spiritual power.

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A few days later, Maoxi County reported a homicide to its superior, Hua City.

An Italian businessman interested in investing in Sun Town discovered a kind of mutant bloodsucking bat. Coupled with the fact that Suming from Yangchuan City Zoo had had contact with the foreigner before returning to Sun Town to visit relatives, both parties went into the mountains in search of the bats. They encountered a swarm of bats in the mountains, and the foreign businessman, his two bodyguards, and the interpreter were fatally attacked.

A fatal knife wound was found on the interpreter’s body, and after investigation and testimony from the two survivors, it was determined that there was an uneven distribution of benefits among the opposing party. Additionally, due to the tense situation at the time, a firefight broke out.

The leading foreign businessman was a senior advisor of a European pharmaceutical company. They had already contacted his company, and the body was cremated to be sent back home. The company acknowledged the results of Maoxi County police’s investigation.

Even if they didn’t acknowledge it, it wouldn’t matter! A pharmaceutical company running around claiming to develop tourism while sneaking into the mountains for mutant bats obviously had no good intentions. The fact that no trouble came their way already meant they were lucky, so why fuss?

In addition, the local police cooperated with the provincial agricultural research institute and Yangchuan City Zoo to conduct a dragnet search of several nearby mountains, capturing nearly a thousand bloodsucking bats, which were handed over to the experts at the research institute and the zoo for handling.

To avoid causing panic, this news was not widely reported.

However, another piece of news was published in the newspapers, which instead caused a modest sensation.

Maoxi County, which is twenty kilometers away from Sun Town deep in the mountains, has discovered a natural limestone cave. The cavern extends more than four thousand meters below the surface and is currently the deepest natural cavern found in Huaxia, holding an extremely high value for mineralogical and archaeological research. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has already dispatched experts and work groups to conduct protective exploration and excavation.

The first to discover the cave were, of course, Suming and Professor Chu, or to be precise, it was Suming. That day after finishing the phone call, he used his spiritual power to communicate with a group of bats and discovered their unknown old haunt. Following the large swarm of bats, he found this cavern.

No wonder there were so many blood-sucking bats present without causing disturbance to the humans below the mountain. They always moved around near their old haunt, and this cavern was so deep that a thousand-plus bats hiding inside were just a drop in the ocean.

Suming followed the cave downward for a whole day, and finally, at the bottom of the cavern, he discovered strong spiritual power fluctuations.

The spiritual power was emitting from a cluster of stalactites at the bottom of the cave. Suming was astonished to find that he seemed to be able to absorb these spiritual powers. He then spent another day absorbing all the spiritual power until it was completely drained.

His "Animal’s Friend" ability once again upgraded, but unlike the previous few upgrades, this time it didn’t bring any obvious new functions, it just made his own spiritual power more refined.

To put it metaphorically, if his spiritual power was previously 58% proof liquor, now it was pure alcohol.

The purer spiritual power meant more effective use, whether it was controlling or communicating with animals, or empowering soul attachment or energy storage beads, everything was a notch above what it used to be. Most notably, he used to be able to charge one energy storage bead when at full spiritual power, totaling only three; now, this number had doubled.

After absorbing the spiritual power from the stalactites, the cave didn’t hold much value for Suming anymore, so he might as well hand it over to the country, earning himself a small merit.

The number of blood-sucking bats found totaled 1024... a rather speechless figure. The Agricultural Academy and relevant higher-level departments took some for research but have yet to discover any particular value. The remaining six hundred plus bats were taken back by Suming to the zoo where they were temporarily caged.

Strictly speaking, the biggest gain for Suming this trip was bringing his mother to Yangchuan City. After the incident with Antonio, Suming thought it over and, out of concern, was determined to bring her over.

Mrs. Su was a sensible and clear-headed person. With Su Lijun gone, several foreigners dead, and Suming’s business growing larger and larger, many clues indicated that her continued stay in Sun Town would not only be of no help to Suming but would also distract him.

Suming prepared to buy a small villa for his mother in Yangchuan City, right next to Zhao Yun’s home, but Mrs. Su said there was no hurry. Since she had arrived, she wanted to see what she could do to help.

Suming was speechless, thinking to himself that all his hard work was just for the sake of making his family’s life more comfortable and relaxed. Instead, his elderly mother, now having both money and time, was seemingly unable to enjoy a leisurely retirement and was becoming restless instead.

That’s how a family is—sons worrying about their mothers and mothers always thinking about how to help their sons and lighten their load.

If she insisted on working, Suming couldn’t stop her. But what could his senior-aged mother, a female comrade, possibly do? Help with accounting? She didn’t understand the accounting industry either.

In the end, Mrs. Su reviewed all of Suming’s work and, with a chuckle, pointed to the ’Luer Residential Committee Director’ position and said that since she was idle anyway and couldn’t be of much help in other areas, she’d take on the role of deputy director in the community to lighten his burden.

Auntie running the residents’ committee—what a perfect match.