"......."
Opening the principal's office door, there was a brown panda taking a dump, and it was doing so while standing on the desk and holding on to the computer screen for support. To Ansheng, who walked in carrying a bag of chips, it was an extremely shocking sight.
Ansheng stared blankly at the office. He only snapped out of it when the panda on the desk started speaking and introducing itself.
"Fat Cat..."
"So you're that Spirit Beast overlord who lives in the back mountain that Wang Qiqi mentioned, right?"
Ansheng opened the office door to let some air in, looking at the defecating panda with a face full of black lines.
About the brown panda, Ansheng had heard from Wang Qiqi, who said if he had any matters or needed woodcutter support, he could go to the back mountain to find the Spirit Beast overlord for help.
"Yes, yes, yes, Master Fox, no need to be polite, just call me Little Cat."
The panda, having just finished its business, humanely pulled a roll of paper from the desk, placed it on the table, moved its butt to sit on it, and started wiping, cleaning its rear end.
The giant panda, full of satisfaction, jumped from the desk to the floor and said to Master Fox: "The principal's office isn't a place for talking, let's go quickly."
Saying this, the giant panda was about to leave with Ansheng, leaving behind three large lumps on the ground.
"Aren't you afraid the principal will notify the honorary principal to come and have you neutered for doing this here?"
As Ansheng spoke, he didn't forget to open the chip bag, grab a handful, crush them, and throw them onto the principal's office sofa.
The principal of the Xiqi Campus of Xinxing Agricultural Research Institute, in the entire institute, was only at the vice-principal level, but held a high administrative rank, allowing for a thirty-square-meter standard office with a rest area and a bathroom.
Besides the office and the bookshelf, there was also a set of genuine leather sofas in the office, along with a matching tea table.
Ansheng didn't forget his purpose for coming, scattering chip crumbs on the principal's office sofa before leaving.
......
The round panda ran ahead, its wide back carrying a white fox, quickly fleeing the office building.
Reaching the canteen area opposite the dormitory building, the Fat Cat let out a sigh of relief and said, beaming with happiness:
"Seems like our principal isn't liked, even Master Fox who came from afar doesn't like him."
"I remember Wang Qiqi mentioned that many Spirit Beasts aren't fond of the Xiqi Campus principal, right? Why don't you tell me about it?"
Sitting down in the canteen, Ansheng looked at the Fat Cat, who was very adept at dishing out food, and said, puzzled.
Previously.
Wang Qiqi indeed said that the Xiqi Campus principal wasn't favored by the Spirit Beasts, but at the time, Ansheng thought the principal was just not liked by the Spirit Beasts.
However, witnessing the giant panda taking a dump in the principal's office firsthand, Ansheng immediately felt that his previous thinking had been too naive. The Xiqi Campus principal wasn't just disliked by the Spirit Beasts; he was utterly detested.
"Hey! Our principal is amazing! He's one of the initiators of the 'Green Mountain and Clear Water Project' and also one of the main advocates for ecological reserve areas all over Chang'an."
"Master Fox, you tell me, who does things so heartlessly, spending a lot of manpower and resources to establish more than a dozen ecological protection bases? We all originally thought good days were coming."
"But guess what happened?"
"Hey! Damn it, protecting the wild without interference!" Fat Cat complained bitterly.
What Fat Cat was talking about, Ansheng did know a bit about.
Simply put, the wildlife protection here is to delineate ecological zones for the animals, allowing them to live and breed in a threat-free environment.
This was feasible for ordinary animals, but for Spirit Beasts like Fat Cat, it was not. They had to hustle all day just to find a couple of mouthfuls of food.
On unlucky days, they couldn't find a single bite.
Fat Cat's gripe was here; after all the effort to establish the protection bases, what's the harm in spending a bit to provide some food in the reserve?
Our panda is loaned out for a year, over seven million, and each loan must include two, making a tidy profit of over fourteen million.
"Didn't expect, you're quite keen on the internet too." Seeing Fat Cat eating and complaining simultaneously, Ansheng couldn't help but laugh: "I get now why you took a dump in the principal's office, what about the other Spirit Beasts?"
"Isn't it simple? Some Spirit Beasts and their groups had already adapted to humans, setting up camps in cities, but due to the Green Mountain and Clear Water Project, all wildlife caught by the Forestry Bureau was released back into the wild..."
"You were living well, happily flipping through food refresh points every day, finding mice to eat or high-fat, high-sugar treats, yet you were fished out by the Forestry Bureau and tossed into the deep mountains and forests, who wouldn't be mad?"
The intention of the Green Mountain and Clear Water Project was good; it was beneficial for both humans and animals and facilitated the Spiritualization process in the era of spiritual power resurgence.
And in the Green Mountain and Clear Water Project, some projects involved reforestation, humans shouldn't continue to occupy animals' ecological spots and disrupt the environment.
As people withdrew, some wild animals that had already adapted to human society along the forest border areas were utterly confounded.
The food refresh point vanished.
The two-legged creatures who used to drop food vanished entirely.
The worst off were those living in the city, having lived there for generations, only to be released into the mountains by the Forestry Bureau. Here, the Red Kestrel flock was filled with resentment, almost wanting to attack the Forestry Bureau directly.
Asphalt roads were gone, the rodents and other small birds on the roads also disappeared.
Leaving them to fight with peregrine falcons, golden eagles, owls, and other raptors for food.
The Green Mountain and Clear Water Project had been in effect for a long time.
Some Spiritualized Spirit Beasts had even returned seeking revenge.
As one of the two project initiators and advocates, the Xiqi Campus principal had indeed fallen on bad luck.
Of course.
Because of the Security Bureau and woodcutters, those returning Spirit Beasts didn't dare to go too far.
But ever since those Spirit Beasts returned, the principal's black executive sedan hadn't remained clean.
The Red Kestrel even ordered the birds of Chang'an City that anyone who saw that car and didn't take a dump on it would be dumped on.
Fat Cat rambled on, explaining why the principal had become a target for the Spirit Beasts.
After listening, Ansheng chuckled, unsure of how to assess the principal.
But one thing was clear: the Xiqi Campus principal must be a person with a good character and who was quite stubborn, not someone who would easily compromise.
Even when faced with widespread criticism, he certainly wouldn't back down, and would insist on doing what was scientifically justified and appropriate for the current environment.
Ansheng tried to put himself in the principal's shoes, imagining Fat Cat and its kind daring to defecate in his office.
If it were him, not collecting all the hot water bottle stoppers around the school and plugging them into the Spirit Beasts' butts would mean he's not taking a holiday himself.
"By the way! Old Wang called this morning, saying you didn't answer the phone, asked me to find you at the school to discuss the electromagnetic emitter issue...."
The Fat Cat, polishing off its meal, suddenly seemed to remember something, addressing Master Fox:
"Old Wang said after using the electromagnetic emitter, don't throw it away, the battery inside is a small nuclear battery, it's polluting. Cat Cat came to the school today just for this matter."
"In the end, I got so hungry from taking a dump, that I nearly forgot the important stuff."
As Fat Cat spoke, it cautiously scanned the surroundings, then quietly said to Master Fox: "Master Fox, before Leopard Head told me you're a stickler for justice."
"There's a factory to smash tonight, you in? The Forest Ranger's offering eight dishes and a soup, plus a two-thousand yuan shopping card."
"Smash a place?" Ansheng was taken aback, inquiring with a face full of surprise: "Do you guys here..... also have gangs?"
"What gangs, we're smashing a chemical factory, we don't mess with bars."
"Chemical factory!?" Ansheng was utterly shocked.
"Yes!" Fat Cat nodded as a matter of course.
"......."