Lu Heng glanced at his now disheveled pants, looking at the white tiger that was acting as if nothing had happened, rubbing its belly on the ground. His head ached.
This white tiger didn't seem very intelligent. Should he learn from the Director?
After all, the Director, through studying videos on his phone these past few days, had already reached the intelligence level of a primary school student.
The Director should be more than capable of teaching this.
Thinking this, Lu Heng summoned the Director again.
As soon as the Director appeared, it saw its owner, whom it hadn't seen all day, and rubbed its head against Lu Heng's pant leg.
However, after only a few rubs, it seemed to catch a strange scent. It jumped back a few steps, looking at Lu Heng with his upper body bare and his pant legs uneven.
"Master, is this your punk style?"
Lu Heng...
Child, you watch too much TV.
Ignoring the topic, Lu Heng pointed to the white tiger beside the Director and said, "I have a mission for you. Take care of this one, teach it how to communicate normally with people."
"Teach who? ... (＞^w^＜) Meow (＞^w^＜) Meow (＞^w^＜) Meow?"
The Director, startled and its fur bristling, had all its orange fur standing on end.
Damn, that scared me to death.
However, as a mental ability user, the Director quickly calmed down. It circled the white tiger seriously.
Then, it looked at Lu Heng and asked, "Meow, Master, this is a tiger, right?"
"Yes."
"This is the fire-elemental ability animal I sensed earlier?"
"Yes."
"But we are different species, how can I teach it?"
Lu Heng "......You should be able to communicate. I just want you to teach it how to communicate with humans. After all, you have always lived with humans, and I think you are very good at this."
Director "Oh. Then I'll reluctantly accept, but besides small dried fish every day, I want dried meat too."
"......Alright."
"What's its name then?"
Lu Heng looked at the white tiger and thought for a moment, "Boiled Chicken."
"Twice-cooked Pork."
"Rolled Pork Belly..."
"Master, look at its build, call it Fat Tiger." The Director couldn't agree with the names Lu Heng suggested and couldn't help but say.
"Okay, then Fat Tiger it is."
Fat Tiger didn't mind. Having just contracted with a human, and not being very intelligent, it didn't have a concept of names yet.
"Then you give it some lessons, I'll go out and wander around again." Lu Heng said, looking at the cat and the tiger.
"Meow."
......
After changing his clothes, Lu Heng left the space again.
He wandered around the Lion and Tiger Mountain area again. Apart from a few zombie animals, he didn't find any other animals that had evolved abilities.
Leaving the exhibition hall, the sky outside had already darkened. Lu Heng continued to drive his electric cart around the park.
At this time, some of the animals in the zoo that had turned into zombies became active, and various roars could be heard from different directions.
Lu Heng hadn't found any night-shift zookeepers yet. He guessed that even if there were, they wouldn't be wandering around the park but in the exhibition halls of animals that required night care.
After leaving the Lion and Tiger Mountain, Lu Heng passed by an American animal area. He turned a corner and parked his car in front of that exhibition hall.
The animals here were all from the Americas. This time, Lu Heng directly entered the exhibition hall through the staff entrance.
He went through them one by one. Apart from some animals that had mutated into zombies, Lu Heng didn't find any animals that had evolved abilities. Lu Heng also killed the larger zombie animals and took the crystals from their brains.
He was truly grateful that all the animals were kept in enclosures, which allowed Lu Heng to search each room smoothly.
It seemed that animals that evolved abilities were indeed very few. He had searched for several hours, and only the initial few mice and the white tiger he contracted had evolved into ability animals.
Having been busy all day, Lu Heng decided to return to the space to rest for now, as it was safe there. He would come out to sweep again after he had rested.
Back in the space, Lu Heng washed up simply. Sitting in his apartment room, he took out a portion of sweet and sour pork ribs from the space and a bowl of rice.
Looking at the steaming hot meal, Lu Heng couldn't help but marvel at the greatness of the space again.
He still hadn't figured out why he had gained a spatial city in this life.
After eating quickly, Lu Heng waved his hand and put away the bowls and plates.
Lying back on the bed, Lu Heng read some materials on animal husbandry for a while. He had already contracted two animals. Although they both belonged to the cat family, tigers were different from cats. He needed to carefully check the types of food tigers liked and their habits.
......
After waking up, Lu Heng came out of the space. The sky outside was still dark.
Perhaps because he had contracted a cat, Lu Heng also gained cat-like night vision. He drove his electric cart smoothly to the north district.
During the day, he had seen on the map that there was an Eagle Mountain in the north district. Influenced by the eagle he encountered on the mountain during the day, he wanted to try his luck there.
Driving his electric cart, Lu Heng took nearly half an hour to reach the vicinity of Eagle Mountain. Eagle Mountain was located at the junction of the north and west districts. He took a wrong turn on the road, which is why it took him longer.
The sounds here were even more chaotic. Besides the strange cries of zombie animals, various bird screeches also echoed around.
Lu Heng got out of the car and walked towards Eagle Mountain. The entire Eagle Mountain, though called a mountain, was actually just a man-made mound. Cement pillars of strange shapes were built on the mound.
A large metal mesh enclosure covered the entire mound. This way, birds were kept inside, allowing humans to clearly see how they lived and preventing them from flying away.
Lu Heng scanned the animals in the cage with his consciousness and quickly sensed another eagle perched at a high place that was also an ability animal, and it was of the wind element.
However, he always felt that the eagle's location was a bit strange.
He quietly circled to the direction where the eagle was, and only then did he see the eagle's position clearly.
The eagle was actually perched outside the cage...
Lu Heng took out a few pieces of fresh meat soaked in ancient well water from the space, then placed the meat cubes on the ground and waited.
He had no choice. He couldn't catch flying birds alive. Besides this method of waiting by the stump, he couldn't think of any other way.
Time passed second by second, and the eagle finally couldn't resist the temptation of fresh meat soaked in ancient well water.
It probably had evolved intelligence, otherwise, it wouldn't have been the last one attracted by the fresh meat near the cage.
As soon as Lu Heng took out those meat cubes from the space, the birds in the cage, driven by instinct, were the first to pounce towards the cage on Lu Heng's side.
At this moment, at least four birds were pouncing on this side of the cage. Lu Heng looked at those birds and they seemed normal, probably ordinary birds that hadn't evolved.
The ability eagle that flew over was exceptionally cautious. It landed more than two meters away from the meat and didn't advance further. Lu Heng stared at the eagle for about five minutes.