"Hey!"
He took a broom and swept the snow on the ground. Although the snow layer was not thick, the frozen ground would still make the entire garden dangerous!
As the only private zoo in a big city like Shanghai, the only people who came to the zoo to see the animals were the old neighbors. Everyone went to the safari park to get close to the animals, instead of looking at the tigers that were too lazy to move in the cages that were two to three meters away.
"It's almost the new year. What should we do? Do we really have to sell the zoo?”
As a private zoo, the land granted by the country was very precious and coveted in this city where every inch of land was worth money.
Li Yi was only 21 years old and had just graduated from university. Unfortunately, his parents had passed away. His grandfather had a zoo, but half a year ago, his grandfather had died of an unexpected illness, causing the entire zoo to fall into Li Yi's hands.
If it weren't for the help of his uncles, he might not even be able to keep the zoo. There were only a few animals in the entire zoo, but the daily food expenses were quite shocking.
"If only the panda was still here!"
This was also an extravagant hope.
Five years ago, the country took back the last panda that was rented to a private zoo, which was the one in Li Yi's family's zoo. Since then, the zoo had been unable to make a comeback and had to rely on renting out empty space to barely make ends meet.
Although the rent had increased in recent years, the animals had become lazy due to the lack of necessary exercise. As a result, the ticket income had decreased sharply, and the zoo was becoming more and more depressed.
The debt was like a rolling snowball, getting bigger and bigger. In the end, it crushed Li Yi's grandfather. The whole family left Li Yi alone to support the zoo.
Fortunately, his uncles did not jump out to fight for Li Yi's assets like other families did. Instead, they gathered a million yuan for Li Yi. On the surface, they said that they were lending it to Li Yi, but in reality, it was for Li Yi to lose!
Unfortunately, one million yuan would not last long!
"Little principal…"
Li Yi sighed and turned around. He saw a middle-aged woman standing beside him with an apologetic and guilty expression.
"Aunt Zhang…give it to me. I'll send you your salary in two days!”
" Sigh…Thank you, Little Director…I'm really sorry…"
"It's okay. Go!"
Li Yi waved his hand. After winter, the zoo became poorer and poorer. Coupled with the disturbance caused by some developers with ulterior motives, three of the zookeepers in the zoo had left, and seven of the logistics staff had left. Including Li Yi, there were only five people left in the entire zoo!
The five of them had to feed a group of monkeys, two elephants, a gibbon, two tigers, an Asian black bear, a group of alpacas, three crocodiles, and a hippopotamus. This was quite a huge workload. They also had to clean up the entire zoo. After a day, it would be exhausting!
Li Yi was helpless. In the past, when there were many people, he was already exhausted. Now that there were fewer people, he was even more exhausted!
At night, the employees got off work. Li Yi worked until late at night before he finally finished. He let out a deep breath and felt that he was too depressed.
He returned to his room, washed up, and prepared to rest. However, just as he was about to lie down, the monkeys began to make a crazy commotion!
The entire Monkey Mountain was the place with the largest number of animals in the zoo. There was a group of Chinese macaques raised there. There were as many as 35 of them, led by a monkey king. In the end, the monkey king often escaped from the Monkey Mountain. Beside the Monkey Mountain was the back mountain of the zoo, which was also the largest area of the zoo. It was a full 1.5 square kilometers. If it was not for the problem with the contract, it would have been reclaimed long ago.
In a place like Shanghai, every inch of land was worth gold. It was simply unbelievable that there was a mountain in the city!
If it were any other city, it would have been flattened long ago!
Carrying a bucket of self-made monkey food, Li Yi cursed as he walked towards the Monkey Mountain. Suddenly, he saw a beam of light shining from the back of the mountain. The monkeys kept screaming because they were afraid!
He directly poured a bucket of monkey food into the feeding tank. When the monkeys saw the food, they immediately swarmed over. The monkey king jumped out and beat it up before eating first. Li Yi did not care about this. He took the flashlight and ran towards the back of the mountain.
What was that thing that could emit a beam of light, and it was facing the Monkey Mountain?
After eating, the monkeys were no longer afraid. As for Li Yi, he carefully ran towards the back of the mountain. When he passed by the elephant cage, he picked up a fork used to fork straw.
After going to the back of the mountain, Li Yi was most afraid of meeting the developers. In the past two years, the developers had been working tirelessly. The death of Li Yi's grandfather was also due to the pressure brought by the developers. Therefore, Li Yi hated the developers very much.
The zoo's land was buildable, which meant that it could be used to build houses. In an environment like Shanghai, a piece of buildable land of three square kilometers was worth a lot!
Three square kilometers!
4500 mu of land!
The area of a prefecture-level city in the south was only 10 square kilometers!
According to the density of buildings in Shanghai, there would be at least dozens of high-rise buildings here. Therefore, there were countless people who coveted this place. If not for the people above, Li Yi would have died countless times!
Li Yi's grandfather used to be a guard for a certain big shot. He had once blocked bullets for three big shots. Due to his injuries, he retired from the army. In the suburbs of Shanghai, which was not particularly developed, he bought a piece of land and extended it for 99 years. Now, less than 40 years had passed. There were still 50 years left!
Now, the suburbs had become an urban area. The old buildings on the side had been demolished, leaving only the zoo.
Two of the three big shots had left, leaving one behind. This was the one who had been helping Li Yi suppress the situation. The Shanghai government had reported this matter countless times, but they were still suppressed.
When they reached the top of the mountain, Li Yi was surprised to find that the source of the light was a cave. Li Yi walked in with a strong flashlight and saw a glowing stone in the cave.
Li Yi was so scared that he quickly retreated. After all, glowing stones were not necessarily treasures. As a university student who graduated from the History Department, Li Yi knew that most of the glowing stones were radioactive. Moreover, they could emit strong light.
Suddenly, the glowing stone seemed to be waiting for Li Yi to come over. With a flash of light, the entire stone actually flew up. When it was the size of a fist, it turned into a beam of light and instantly drilled into Li Yi's brain.
Li Yi was scared silly by the sudden accident. He slipped and fell down, rolling into the cave with a slope.
All of a sudden, a light flashed in the cave, and Li Yi disappeared!
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