“Hahaha, I’m laughing so hard I could get rich!
Mommy Bear, this plot twist is hilarious!
She’s so damn cute.
I want to cuddle her.”
“Why does it seem like giant pandas prefer apples?
Aren’t they usually fed bamboo?
I don’t understand, but it’s pretty interesting.”
“Mommy Bear: You want me to do chores?
No way!
I want fruit!”
“Foodie Bear Mom!”
The mother panda’s behavior left everyone in the live stream both confused and amused.
Who would have thought that a giant panda, famous for eating bamboo, would be so easily tempted by Su Lin’s apples?
Su Lin had originally wanted the giant panda to continue eating bamboo.
The Spirit Fruits were rewards from the system, and his supply was limited.
They weren’t exactly something he could hand out like cabbages.
But after the panda’s persistent pleading, Su Lin had no choice but to give in.
“Here you go, you big glutton.”
The moment he pulled out a Spirit Fruit, the panda’s eyes lit up.
It practically drooled as she sat down in the hay and hugged the fruit between her paws before eagerly devouring it.
Su Lin wasn’t surprised.
After all, it was a Spirit Fruit, and its effects made it especially tempting to animals.
However, what happened after the giant panda finished eating left everyone in the live stream speechless.
The panda tossed aside the fruit’s stem, licked the remaining juice from her paws and around her mouth, and then stood beside Su Lin, swaying her round body as she curiously watched him.
Then, following Su Lin’s example, she reached down and began pulling weeds.
Although her movements were clumsy, her strength was anything but weak.
She grabbed a clump of weeds and yanked it out of the ground in one powerful motion.
“What did I just see?!
What did I just see?!
The giant panda is actually pulling weeds!”
“Damn, I got goosebumps!
It’s not that she doesn’t want to work.
She just wants to get paid first!
She demands an apple before starting the job!
Hahaha!”
“Yes, yes, yes!
That cunning little glutton.
I want to pet her!”
“If you can get a national treasure to work for you with just one apple, who else could do it?
Hahaha, that’s incredible!”
Surprisingly, the panda was even faster than Su Lin.
After clearing a patch of weeds, she looked up at him like a child waiting for praise.
Su Lin immediately understood what she wanted.
He reached out and stroked her fluffy head.
The giant panda narrowed her eyes contentedly and made a soft, affectionate sound.
Before long, however, the giant panda seemed to get tired—or perhaps she simply lost interest.
Apart from occasionally returning to her cubs to lick and check on them, she spent most of her time lying lazily in the weeds behind Su Lin, playing with the foxtail grass.
Occasionally, she would wander over to Su Lin’s side.
But instead of obediently pulling weeds like before, she would swing her forelegs and wiggle her chubby body while randomly pawing at the grass.
Sometimes she would crawl into the weeds and lie there.
Other times, she would suddenly pop her head out from the other side.
Her silly and adorable appearance made everyone in the live stream burst into laughter.
“Ahhh, she’s so cute!
I feel like I wouldn’t mind working if I had a national treasure like that beside me.”
And she’s already pulled up quite a lot of weeds.
She’s much more useful than my annoying dog.”
“With this bear around, that’s more than enough.”
“I’m tired of saying how jealous I am.”
“However, aren’t private individuals prohibited from keeping nationally protected animals?
I heard from Su Su and Brother Wang that the Forestry Bureau will eventually take the giant panda away.”
“Oh, that’s such a shame.
I only started following Zhu Bo because of the giant pandas.”
“It’s okay.
Even if the mother panda and her cubs are eventually taken away, Su Su can still take us around to appreciate nature.
Maybe we’ll encounter other wild animals.”
Su Lin happened to see the viewers discussing the future of the giant panda and her cubs, so he began explaining.
“It’s true that private individuals aren’t allowed to keep nationally protected wild animals.
If forest rangers discover an injured or vulnerable wild animal, the Forestry Bureau will arrange for professionals to provide assistance.
Once the animal has recovered and is ready, it will be returned to the wild.”
At that moment, the giant panda wandered over.
Her distinctive black eye patches stared curiously at the phone screen.
Su Lin turned the drone camera toward her, and suddenly, a huge furry face filled the screen.
“Getting this close to a giant panda…
Ah, I’m so satisfied!”
“I want to cuddle Mommy Bear!”
The panda leaned toward the camera and sniffed at the screen with her bewildered black eyes, instantly melting the hearts of countless viewers.
“Mommy Bear, when the Forestry Bureau staff come, just go with them, okay?
They’re not bad people.
They’ll be able to take care of you and your cubs properly.
They have professionals who can monitor your health.”
Although Su Lin possessed system rewards such as Spirit Liquid and Spirit Milk, he wasn’t a veterinarian.
Apart from providing food and basic care, there was still a lot about the health of a giant panda and her cubs that he couldn’t handle himself.
“Eek?”
The giant panda seemed to understand what Su Lin was saying.
However, for some reason, she suddenly looked disappointed.
She slowly moved away from the camera, crawled on all fours, and returned to the yard.
“Huh?
What’s wrong with Mommy Bear?
She looks so disappointed.
Does she not want to leave?”
“To be honest, isn’t this giant panda incredibly intelligent?
She actually understands everything!”
Su Lin wasn’t surprised by her reaction.
She really did understand him.
The Spirit Fruits could slightly increase an animal’s intelligence.
Combined with Su Lin’s Animal Affinity Physique, this made it much easier for the giant panda to understand his intentions.
What Su Lin had said was actually a warning in advance.
He possessed a special constitution that made animals unusually comfortable around him, something ordinary people didn’t have.
Furthermore, mother pandas could become especially sensitive and protective while raising their cubs.
There had even been cases where giant pandas injured their keepers after being startled or frightened while protecting their young.
“This is a nationally protected animal, so she deserves to be treated with care.
If we get the chance, I’ll take you all to see other wild animals in the future.”
Su Lin glanced at the live stream.
In just half a day, his audience had grown from a few hundred people to tens of thousands.
The gifts he had received during that time were already worth tens of thousands of yuan.
When he was a gaming streamer, his monthly income at his peak had been around ten thousand yuan.
Now, he had earned roughly the same amount in just half a day.
Helping a giant panda give birth, having the panda follow him home, and discovering precious wild treasures one after another—every scene was incredibly entertaining.
Something was hanging from her mouth.
It was the basket containing her two cubs.
Su Lin was confused.
Why had she brought the entire basket over?
“Eek…
Baby.
Raise.
You raise.”
Su Lin could sense that the panda was feeling uneasy.
She placed the basket in his hands and then circled around him, making low, anxious sounds.
The mother panda clearly didn’t want to leave her cubs behind.
“Oh my god!
Does Mommy Bear not want her cubs to be taken away?
Did she bring the basket over because she wants Su Su to protect them?”
“Wow, she’s so clever!”
“This giant panda has become attached to Su Su.
I can actually tell that she doesn’t want to leave.”
“Look at that pitiful expression.
Even though I’m a grown man, my eyes are getting watery!
Hahaha!”
Seeing the panda’s distress, many viewers felt a pang of sadness.
The panda was destined to leave eventually.
It wasn’t a decision she could make, and neither could Su Lin.
After finishing the weeds in the yard, Su Lin let the mother panda continue taking care of her cubs.
He positioned the camera toward the yard and then went to the open space and vegetable garden outside the house to clear the remaining weeds.
As dusk approached, the setting sun cast an orange glow over the forest, covering the mountains and trees in a soft golden veil.
The fans were thoroughly entertained by the giant panda playing with the grass and taking care of her cubs.
Every now and then, Su Lin’s figure would appear in the frame, making everyone curious about what he was doing.
He was busy tending to the vegetable garden, so he didn’t have time to check the live chat.
After several hours of work, the weeds in both the yard and vegetable garden were finally cleared.
Once the weeds were removed, several vegetables left behind by the previous forest ranger became visible, including Chinese cabbage and radishes.
Perhaps no one had cared for them for a long time.
The weeds had grown far more vigorously than the vegetables themselves.
Su Lin decided to test the effects of the Spirit Liquid on plants.
He found a hoe in the storage shed beside the house and dug up a patch of loose soil.
Before coming to the reserve, Su Lin had brought several kinds of vegetable seeds with him, including leafy greens, radishes, garlic, cucumbers, and peppers.
He sowed seeds for two kinds of leafy vegetables along with some radish seeds.
Around the edges of the plot, he planted garlic cloves so that the growing garlic wouldn’t take up too much space.
When he was a child in the countryside, he had seen adults plant garlic in exactly the same way.
The brown soil was soon covered with tiny vegetable seeds.
Su Lin then took out a bottle of Spirit Liquid.
To everyone else, it looked like nothing more than a bottle of ordinary bottled water.
He unscrewed the cap and sprinkled the liquid over the soil until it was thoroughly damp.
Su Lin waited patiently.
At first, nothing happened.
Then—
The previously motionless soil began to tremble slightly.
Tiny mounds slowly rose from the earth.
Tender yellow-green shoots pushed through the moist soil, competing to emerge into the open air.
One shoot became two.
Two became several.
The tiny seedlings rapidly unfolded their first leaves and continued growing at an astonishing speed.
Su Lin stared at the scene in disbelief.
“Holy crap!
The Spirit Liquid is actually this effective!”
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