Chapter 116: A Day Trip to the Zoo Part 2 (Extra 7)
“Advisor Lin… why are all your bears howling like wolves?”
Hearing Lin Zhou’s question, Lin Jiangye’s mouth twitched hard. If he said he didn’t know… would the other person believe him?
Facing the young man’s clear and curious gaze, Lin Jiangye covered his face and sighed deeply in his heart. In the end, he answered honestly.
“I really don’t know… Remember I was in a coma for a month? When I woke up, it wasn’t like this yet. Later, while I was recovering, Tianheng and Kaiyang somehow wandered over near the black bear. By the time I realized something was wrong…”
By the time he realized it, it was already too late.
What else could he do? He had tried correcting it, but the black bear simply wouldn’t change.
Lin Zhou looked at him, half amused and half helpless. The situation sounded ridiculous, but judging from Lin Jiangye’s troubled expression, it seemed even Advisor Lin couldn’t solve everything.
Several bears soon approached Lin Jiangye.
The visitors standing near the glass wall instinctively stepped back when they saw the bears approaching.
These bears were huge—when standing upright, even the smallest one was over two meters tall.
When a massive predator stands up, its shadow covering a human body, the invisible pressure alone is enough to make people feel suffocated.
Even Lin Zhou subconsciously took two steps back.
Lin Jiangye, however, didn’t move at all.
He tapped the glass wall with his finger and pointed at a brown bear.
“Where did you learn that wolf howl?”
[Hehe!] The brown bear grinned foolishly, looking completely harmless.
In fact, this one really was a bit silly. It had been raised by humans since childhood, later sold to a circus where it was constantly whipped. After the circus disbanded, the local forestry bureau rescued it.
Originally they hadn’t planned to send it to Lin Jiangye because Yue City was over a thousand kilometers away. But the local zoo couldn’t afford to keep a young brown bear, so after several transfers it eventually ended up in Yue City.
“Stop smiling. Tell me—who taught you to howl like a wolf?”
Although Lin Jiangye asked the brown bear, his eyes were clearly fixed on the black bear standing at the back.
At such close range, the black bear couldn’t pretend not to notice—but it still refused to look at him, staring at the sky and ground instead.
Case closed.
The real culprit was exactly who he thought it was.
“Xuanqing!”
At the sound of Lin Jiangye’s voice, the black bear didn’t come over. Instead, it turned its back as if saying, I didn’t hear anything.
Lin Jiangye laughed in anger.
“Fine. If you want to learn wolf howls yourself, that’s one thing. But why did you teach the other bears too? Answer me. If you keep pretending you didn’t hear me, you won’t get any fruit today.”
Hearing that threat, Lin Zhou perked up curiously.
Bears eat fruit too?
Just when Lin Zhou thought the black bear would stubbornly persist, it suddenly turned around with a mournful howl and sat down on the ground.
[Bear only wanted to attract more visitors.]
That answer completely surprised Lin Jiangye.
He froze for a moment.
This unexpected reaction immediately sparked curiosity among Lin Zhou and the surrounding visitors.
Some local tourists had already recognized Lin Jiangye and were wondering what exactly the bear had said.
“That’s not something you little bears need to worry about.”
Although Lin Jiangye’s words sounded like rejection, his expression was unusually gentle.
“How to attract visitors is something we humans should think about. You and your friends only need to live happily here.”
Thinking about the black bear’s past in the circus, Lin Jiangye instantly understood what it was worried about.
“You thought… if no visitors came to see you, there wouldn’t be food?”
The question made many people nearby frown.
They didn’t doubt Lin Jiangye’s sincerity, but they couldn’t understand why a bear would think this way.
Yet when the black bear nodded pitifully, many tourists were shocked.
This bear… actually knew how to attract attention through unusual behavior?
Just how intelligent was it?
Lin Jiangye sighed helplessly and glanced at the other bears. Since they had been influenced by the black bear, they probably had the same idea.
“This isn’t a circus anymore, sweetheart. You don’t need to perform or deliberately do anything. However you lived at home before—that’s how you live here.”
His voice softened as he spoke, but it was loud enough for the bears to hear clearly.
The black bear’s eyes flickered.
It slowly shifted its large body and flopped onto the ground with a thud.
[Then… bear can really do nothing?]
Lin Jiangye nodded.
Seeing the lingering confusion in the bear’s eyes, he asked gently, “What did you usually do at home?”
Home…
That small but warm place.
The black bear thought for a moment and said gloomily:
[Bear did nothing. Just sunbathed, ate fruit, rubbed against uncle, and slept with the wolves.]
“Exactly. Whatever you did at home, just keep doing it here. If you miss Tianheng and the others, I can bring them to visit you sometime.”
Wolves and bears normally shouldn’t live together. But animals rescued from circuses didn’t have such concepts.
[What are wolves?] the brown bear beside it asked curiously.
Lin Jiangye reached out and gently touched it through the glass.
“They’re the black bear’s good friends. I’ll introduce them to you next time.”
While Lin Jiangye was talking with the bears, someone nearby quietly recorded the scene on their phone.
Local residents already knew about Lin Jiangye’s abilities. They had seen him direct animals during criminal investigations before.
But for tourists from other cities who had never watched his livestreams, it was hard to imagine how he communicated with animals.
Yet seeing it now, they realized animals were actually a bit like children.
They might not understand many human concepts, but they could still communicate.
And they were even smarter than people expected.
“Here, you can play whatever you want and eat whatever you want. If the zoo doesn’t have it, just tell me and I’ll arrange it. As long as you live happily here, that’s already wonderful.”
Lin Jiangye spoke to the bears like someone comforting a child.
The black bear’s eyes instantly lit up.
So even if it did nothing, it wouldn’t go hungry anymore!
[But… if there are no visitors, won’t you run out of money…?]
Lin Jiangye tilted his head and pointed playfully at the bear’s nose through the glass.
“You’re just a little cub. Why worry about money? Even if the zoo makes no money, it’s fine. I have money. Uncle Shang has money too. Don’t worry.”
With two hundred billion in his account, he had no financial concerns anymore.
The bears were delighted by his answer.
Behind him, however, the visitors were filled with envy.
Especially Lin Zhou.
He had once dreamed of opening his own zoo and raising all the stray and rescued animals he found.
Unfortunately… he didn’t have the money.
Lin Jiangye gently touched the glass wall, planning to properly comfort the black bear after the zoo closed.
As they walked away from the bear enclosure, Lin Zhou sighed.
“That black bear reminds me of a stray cat I once rescued.”
Lin Jiangye looked at him curiously.
Lin Zhou showed him his social media account and began explaining.
“Three years ago I rescued an injured stray cat. It had been abused badly. I spent a lot of money treating it.”
When he brought the cat home, it didn’t explore or look happy.
Instead, it hid in a corner, staring at him timidly.
At the time, he didn’t understand and thought it was just wary of the unfamiliar environment.
But over the next few days, he noticed the cat refused to sleep in the warm bed he prepared. It barely ate and always looked frightened.
It curled up into a tiny ball in a cold corner.
Confused, Lin Zhou asked people in a rescue group.
Only then did he realize the truth.
The cat behaved that way because it feared being abandoned again.
It avoided the warm bed because it worried it wouldn’t survive sleeping outside later.
It barely ate because it feared starvation if it couldn’t find food in the wild.
And it hid in the corner because it feared annoying its new owner, hoping to stay longer.
“When I realized that… my heart nearly broke.”
Lin Zhou cried while hugging the cat, repeatedly promising he would never abandon it.
Even so, it took nearly half a year before the cat truly trusted him and became a family member.
As he spoke, tears appeared in Lin Zhou’s eyes.
He sniffed and showed Lin Jiangye a photo on his phone.
It was a black cat, completely black from head to tail, looking straight at the camera.
The little mouth looked irresistibly kissable.
“Oh! So cute! Its fur looks so well cared for!” Lin Jiangye praised enthusiastically.
Lin Zhou grinned foolishly.
Anyone would smile when their pet was praised.
The two continued walking.
As they toured the zoo, Lin Jiangye translated what the animals were saying.
Lin Zhou never expected his zoo trip to become so lively and entertaining.
After the snack-refusing monkeys and wolf-howling bears earlier, he later saw wolves that loved swinging on swings, foxes that enjoyed sleeping in hammocks, and even elephants that liked wearing flower crowns.
Every animal here seemed to have its own unique personality.
“Advisor Lin, why are all your bears howling like wolves?”
Hearing Lin Zhou’s question, Lin Jiangye’s mouth twitched violently. If he said he didn’t know… would the other person believe him?
Facing the young man’s clear, curious gaze, Lin Jiangye covered his face and sighed deeply.
“I really don’t know… Remember when I was in a coma for a month? When I woke up, it wasn’t like this yet. Later while I was recuperating, Tianheng and Kaiyang somehow wandered near the black bear. By the time I noticed something was wrong…”
By the time he realized, it was already too late.
What could he do? He had tried correcting it, but the black bear simply wouldn’t change.
Lin Zhou looked at him with a helpless smile. The situation sounded ridiculous, but judging from Lin Jiangye’s troubled expression, it seemed even Advisor Lin couldn’t solve everything.
Several bears soon approached Lin Jiangye.
Visitors standing near the glass wall instinctively stepped back when they saw them approaching.
These bears were huge—when standing upright, even the smallest was over two meters tall.
When such a massive predator rises up, its towering body casting a shadow over humans, the invisible pressure alone can make people feel suffocated.
Even Lin Zhou subconsciously retreated two steps.
Lin Jiangye didn’t move.
He tapped the glass wall and pointed at one brown bear.
“Where did you learn that wolf howl?”
[Hehe!] The brown bear grinned foolishly, looking completely harmless.
In truth, this one really was a bit simple-minded. It had been raised by humans since childhood, later sold to a circus where it was whipped daily. When the circus shut down, the forestry bureau rescued it.
Originally they hadn’t planned to send it to Lin Jiangye because Yue City was over a thousand kilometers away. But the local zoo couldn’t afford to keep a young brown bear, so after several transfers it eventually ended up here.
“Stop smiling. Tell me—who taught you to howl like that?”
Although Lin Jiangye asked the brown bear, his eyes were fixed on the black bear behind it.
At such close range, the black bear couldn’t pretend not to notice—but it still avoided his gaze, looking at the sky and ground.
Case solved.
The real mastermind really was him.
“Xuanqing!”
When Lin Jiangye called out, the black bear didn’t come over. Instead, it turned its back as if saying I didn’t hear anything.
That made Lin Jiangye laugh in exasperation.
“Fine, if you want to howl like a wolf yourself, that’s one thing. But why did you teach the others too? Answer me. If you keep pretending not to hear me, today’s fruit is canceled.”
Hearing that, Lin Zhou pricked up his ears curiously.
Bears eat fruit?
Just when Lin Zhou thought the bear would stubbornly persist, the black bear turned around with a mournful howl and sat down pitifully.
[Bear just wanted to attract more visitors.]
That answer surprised Lin Jiangye.
He froze for a moment.
The unexpected reply immediately attracted the curiosity of Lin Zhou and the surrounding visitors.
Many local tourists had already recognized Lin Jiangye and were wondering what the bear had said.
“That’s not something a little bear like you needs to worry about.”
Although Lin Jiangye’s words were a refusal, his expression was unusually gentle.
“How to attract visitors is something humans should think about. You and your friends only need to live well here.”
Thinking about the black bear’s past in the circus, Lin Jiangye immediately understood its concern.
“You thought that if no visitors came… there wouldn’t be food?”
The question made many people nearby frown.
They didn’t doubt Lin Jiangye, but they couldn’t understand why a bear would think this way.
Yet when the black bear nodded pitifully, many tourists were shocked.
This bear… actually knew to perform unusual behavior to attract attention?
How intelligent was it?
Lin Jiangye sighed helplessly and glanced at the other bears. Since they were influenced by the black bear, they probably had the same worry.
“This isn’t a circus anymore, sweetheart. You don’t need to perform or deliberately do anything. However you lived at home before—that’s how you live here.”
His voice softened, but the bears could clearly hear him.
The black bear’s eyes flickered.
It slowly shifted its large body and flopped onto the ground with a thud.
[Then… bear can really do nothing?]
Lin Jiangye nodded.
Seeing the confusion still in its eyes, he asked gently, “What did you usually do at home?”
Home…
That small, warm place.
The black bear thought for a moment and muttered:
[Bear did nothing. Just sunbathed, ate fruit, rubbed against uncle, and slept with wolves.]
“Exactly. Whatever you did at home, you can keep doing it here. If you miss Tianheng and the others, I’ll bring them here to visit you someday.”
Normally wolves and bears shouldn’t live together. But animals rescued from circuses didn’t really understand such rules.
[What are wolves?] the brown bear asked curiously.
Lin Jiangye reached out and touched it through the glass.
“They’re the black bear’s good friends. I’ll introduce you next time.”
While Lin Jiangye talked with the bears, someone nearby secretly recorded the scene.
Local residents already knew about Lin Jiangye’s abilities. When he worked with the police on cases, many bystanders had seen him direct animals.
But for tourists from other cities who had never watched his livestreams, it was hard to imagine how he communicated with animals.
Seeing it now, they realized animals were actually somewhat like children.
They might not understand many human concepts, but they could still communicate.
And they were even smarter than people imagined.
“Here you can play whatever you want and eat whatever you want. If the zoo doesn’t have it, tell me and I’ll arrange it. As long as you live well here, that’s already wonderful.”
Lin Jiangye spoke like someone coaxing a child.
The black bear’s eyes immediately brightened.
So even if it did nothing, it wouldn’t go hungry!
[But… if there are no visitors… won’t you have no money…]
Lin Jiangye tilted his head and pointed playfully at the bear’s nose through the glass.
“You’re just a little cub. Why worry about money? Even if the zoo doesn’t make money, it’s fine. I have money. Uncle Shang has money too. Don’t worry.”
With two hundred billion in hand, he had no financial worries anymore.
The bears were delighted.
Behind him, however, the visitors were filled with envy.
Especially Lin Zhou.
He had once dreamed of opening a zoo and raising all the stray or rescued animals he found.
Unfortunately… he didn’t have the money.
Lin Jiangye gently touched the glass wall, planning to comfort the black bear again after closing time.
After leaving the bear area, Lin Zhou sighed.
“That black bear reminds me of a stray cat I once rescued.”
Lin Jiangye looked at him curiously.
Lin Zhou showed his account and began explaining.
“Three years ago I rescued a badly injured stray cat. It had been abused. I spent a lot of money treating it.”
When he brought the cat home, it didn’t explore or look happy.
Instead it hid in a corner, staring at him timidly.
At first he thought it was just cautious about the unfamiliar environment.
But after a few days he noticed the cat refused to sleep in the warm bed he prepared and barely ate.
It curled up into a tiny ball in a cold corner.
Confused, he asked people in a rescue group.
Only then did he realize the truth.
The cat acted that way because it feared being abandoned again.
It avoided the warm bed because it worried it might not survive sleeping outside later.
It barely ate because it feared starvation if it couldn’t find food in the wild.
And it hid quietly because it feared its presence might annoy him.
“When I learned that… my heart almost shattered.”
Lin Zhou cried while hugging the cat and repeatedly promised he would never abandon it.
Even so, it took nearly half a year before the cat truly trusted him.
As he spoke, Lin Zhou’s eyes reddened. He showed Lin Jiangye a photo of the cat on his phone.
It was a completely black cat staring at the camera.
The little mouth looked irresistibly kissable.
“Oh! So cute! And the fur looks very well cared for!” Lin Jiangye praised warmly.
Lin Zhou grinned foolishly. Anyone would smile when their pet was praised.
They continued walking.
After seeing the snack-refusing monkeys and wolf-howling bears earlier, Lin Zhou encountered even more unique animals.
There were wolves that loved swinging on swings, foxes that slept in hammocks, elephants that liked wearing flower crowns…
Every animal seemed to have its own personality.
Eventually they reached the tiger park.
Because the area was huge, visitors often saw groups of tigers chasing and playing.
But as soon as people arrived, they were drawn to something else—a massive water playground.
There were slides, giant balls, seesaws, and even a diving platform.
Right as Lin Jiangye and Lin Zhou arrived, a white Bengal tiger leaped off the diving platform.
Splash!
Water sprayed everywhere, nearly soaking the surrounding visitors.
Lin Zhou was stunned.
He had never expected to see something like this in a zoo.
“It’s not a performance…” Lin Jiangye rubbed his forehead awkwardly.
The playground had originally been built according to the tigers’ requests.
At first only Feiyu liked it.
Then Tiger Mom joined.
Soon the South China tigers tried it… then the Indochinese tigers.
Eventually many tigers wanted to play in the water.
So Lin Jiangye divided the original open field into two halves—one remained natural, and the other became this playground.
To finish it before the opening, he even paid extra for workers to rush construction.
“They’re just playing… It looks like a show, but they’re really just playing.”
Lin Jiangye sounded helpless.
Lin Zhou almost laughed, but after observing carefully, he noticed the tigers looked extremely relaxed.
There were no trainers directing them.
Everything Lin Jiangye said was true.
Visitors watched in amazement as tigers slid down slides, played with giant balls, and splashed in the water.
Some even kicked the giant ball like soccer players.
The entire tiger playground echoed with excited roars.
Many visitors simply stopped walking, overwhelmed by the spectacle.
“No animal performances allowed… but the animals insist on performing,” one visitor sighed.
Just then, a powerful tiger roar suddenly echoed across the park.
All the playing tigers froze instantly.
“What happened?” Lin Zhou looked around.
Every tiger—both in the playground and the open field—began walking in the same direction.
“That roar… that’s not Feiyu. He’s only the Bengal tiger king. Even if he roared, the other species wouldn’t obey,” Lin Zhou analyzed.
Then he looked at Lin Jiangye.
“The Mountain God?”
Anyone familiar with Lin Jiangye knew the “Mountain God of Taibai Mountain” was now living here.
Lin Jiangye looked pleasantly surprised by Lin Zhou’s guess.
“Of course. Who else besides Tiger Mom could summon all the tigers at once?”
Tiger Mom might not be the tiger king, but every tiger in the park recognized her authority.
They might not understand human relationships, but they knew their good lives depended on Lin Jiangye—and Tiger Mom held the same status.
Visitors followed the tigers’ gaze.
Soon they saw several trucks approaching.
“Dinner time,” Lin Jiangye said.
Lin Zhou suddenly realized he had spent half the day at the zoo.
The food was tossed from the trucks—and it was all live prey.
The visitors witnessed an incredible scene: hundreds of tigers competing for food.
Lin Zhou watched with shining eyes.
“Magnificent!”
Tiger feeding battles… water playground… everything felt more vivid than any staged show.
After the animals finished eating, Lin Jiangye led Lin Zhou to a higher viewpoint.
“The zoo is about to close. Let me show you a small version of the African migration.”
Soon a loud signal sounded from the African zone.
Then groups of animals began running toward their shelters in orderly formation.
On the path was a stream.
As the animals crossed it, water splashed everywhere—just like scenes from wildlife documentaries.
Lin Zhou stood there stunned.
So did the surrounding visitors.
From the higher ground they could see the entire migration.
Those standing lower could feel the ground trembling beneath their feet.
At the same time, the tigers roared in response.
On one side—the African migration.
On the other—the roar of a hundred tigers.
The incredible scene left everyone flushed with excitement.
Even after the zoo closed and the visitors left, people were still discussing what they had witnessed.
“This zoo is really different from other zoos.”
Soon videos of the day’s scenes spread across the internet.
At first people ignored the title.
But once they watched the footage, they were stunned.
Zoo workers from other parks were shocked as well—especially after seeing the food prepared for the animals.
Those ingredients were expensive.
How rich was Advisor Lin? Wasn’t he afraid the animals would bankrupt him?
Some viewers noticed the same thing and tagged other zoos online, urging them to learn from Yue City Wildlife Zoo instead of cutting animal food budgets.
As Lin Zhou was leaving, he suddenly remembered something.
“Oh right, Advisor Lin! On the zoo gate, whose crow head is that?”
He had figured out the other three symbols but couldn’t identify the crow.
“Is it Bixi or Opal?”
Lin Jiangye shook his head.
“Neither. It’s Diamond.”
“WHAT?!”
The answer surprised Lin Zhou.
Bixi and Opal often appeared in livestreams, but Diamond was rarely seen.
Lin Jiangye had personally decided on that choice.
“Diamond is the elder of Opal and Bixi. Same generation as Tiger Mom and the German shepherd.”
Among crows, seniority mattered.
If he had chosen Opal or Bixi, the two little ones would probably fight.
But choosing Diamond caused no objections.
Diamond rarely appeared because he handled many tasks behind the scenes.
For example, in the early days he had helped Lin Jiangye communicate with the crow leaders.
Even now, he continued helping quietly.
“I can’t just forget the elder at home because I often take the two younger ones out,” Lin Jiangye said.
Lin Zhou nodded in admiration.
“This zoo trip really opened my eyes. Next time I have vacation, I’ll come again! I hope I can meet you again then!”
Lin Jiangye smiled and watched him leave.
After the area grew quiet, a gray-white bird suddenly dropped into his arms.
[Home!]
The saker falcon had come to urge him.
“Alright, alright. Let’s go home.”
