On the TikTok short video platform, a video capturing Yang Lin's entire dog rescue process was uploaded and quickly went viral.
However, the video's explosive popularity wasn't due to Yang Lin's act of jumping into the water to save the dog, but rather the water monster that appeared in the video.
Shortly after the video was published, the comments section exploded.
"Holy cow, this water monster looks real!"
"After careful analysis, confirmed not staged."
"Damn, talking about water monsters and water monkeys makes me angry. I watched a blogger who made hundreds of episodes, but it turned out to be fake."
"This can't be staged - just look at the zoo director's terrified expression. If he could act that well, he'd be in Hollywood by now."
"Looking at that expression, he probably got scared sh*tless."
"I calculated roughly - the director's swimming speed almost matches an Olympic champion. Maybe we should put a shark behind each swimmer in future Olympic competitions."
"Can any experts explain what that thing in the water actually is?"
"It's a water monkey, definitely a water monkey."
"Has our Dragon Country finally got its own water monster? I'm going to check it out right now."
"Wonder when we'll see a follow-up. I won't be able to sleep until I figure out what's actually in that lake."
"@Teacher Xiao Liang, is this really a water monkey or some other water monster?"
"I think it's a plesiosaur - look at its overall shape."
"Plesiosaur my foot! If it really were a plesiosaur, this zoo might as well rename itself Jurassic Park."
"This is exciting! Lucky I'm a Ningnan local, I'm buying tickets now."
"The guy above is such a dog, bragging about being a local."
"I'm buying tickets too. Watch my livestream - I'm definitely getting to the bottom of this today."
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As the video's popularity continued to surge, more and more people learned about the water monster incident.
Yang Lin had clearly underestimated people's enthusiasm for water monsters.
Within two hours, the number of visitors to the zoo exploded from around a thousand to over five thousand.
Among these five thousand people, there were at least several hundred streamers.
Undoubtedly, these streamers were all there to capitalize on the water monster trend.
Just when Yang Lin thought things couldn't get any more ridiculous, Lin Feng, whom he had only recently met, arrived with a group of police officers.
Only with the police maintaining order did the zoo finally avoid descending into chaos.
At this point, Lin Feng found Yang Lin.
"Director Yang, didn't expect we'd meet again so soon. Your zoo has really become famous now."
"More visitors will probably flood in soon. What's your plan?"
Hearing Lin Feng's slightly teasing tone, Yang Lin was momentarily stunned before responding seriously:
"Well, I'll be looking at cars and houses!"
"I'm serious. Given your current situation, if you can't quickly clarify what's going on with the water monster in the lake, they'll probably keep coming every day."
"Why don't you drain the lake?"
As soon as Lin Feng made this suggestion, Yang Lin's eyes widened.
"You must be joking. Do you know how much water is in this artificial lake?"
"This used to be a large mine pit. The deepest part is over sixty meters deep, and the total water volume is probably about one-fifth of West Lake."
"Draining it isn't just about how many pumps we'd need - where would we even put all that water?"
"Ah... I guess that plan won't work." After hearing Yang Lin's explanation, Lin Feng couldn't help but smile wryly.
"Come on, let's go check out the situation by the lake."
After some contemplation, Yang Lin returned to the lakeside. Looking at the dark green water before him, his face showed a hint of confusion.
At this moment, a nearby visitor suddenly suggested:
"Director, why don't we get a remote-controlled underwater robot with a camera to go down and take a look?"
Hearing this visitor's suggestion, a light bulb went off in Yang Lin's head.
"Right, we could send down an animal that can dive, and I just need to share its vision to figure out what's actually in the water."
Once this occurred to him, several candidates quickly came to mind.
First were the koi fish in the lake. As long-time residents of this artificial lake, they had been there long enough and were definitely good at diving.
But after some thought, Yang Lin ruled out this option.
There were two main reasons: first, koi fish have very short lifespans, and second, their combat ability is poor - if they encountered the monster head-on, they'd probably be gone in one bite.
After ruling out the koi fish, another option quickly came to mind.
"This should work."
Having made his decision, Yang Lin immediately snuck past the crowd of visitors and headed to the crocodile pool, not far from the artificial lake.
This was currently the least visited area in the entire zoo.
After all, no one wanted to watch a bunch of lazy creatures that did nothing but sleep and sunbathe all day.
Looking at the crocodiles lazily sunbathing by the pool, Yang Lin's eyes lit up.
The West Rainbow Zoo housed three species of crocodiles: the Chinese alligator, native to Dragon Country and a small species; the imported Siamese crocodile; and the saltwater crocodile, which was once widely used for making leather bags.
The Chinese alligator was the smallest, less than two meters long, the Siamese crocodile was medium-sized at over three meters.
The most impressive was the earth-yellow saltwater crocodile, measuring over four meters from head to tail.
After just a glance, Yang Lin focused his attention on the saltwater crocodile.
If he was going to choose something with strong combat ability, he needed to choose the strongest - the Chinese alligator, which couldn't even beat a goose, wasn't even in consideration.
Having identified his target, Yang Lin immediately used his Eye of Insight on the massive saltwater crocodile.
Immediately, all the crocodile's information appeared before him.
[Camouflage (Green Talent) Activation requires 1 talent point]
[Agility (Green Talent) Activation requires 1 talent point]
[Savage Growth (Blue Talent) Activation requires 2 talent points]
[Super Bite (Gold Talent) Activation requires 5 talent points]
[Prehistoric Overlord (Legendary Talent) Activation requires 10 talent points]
Although the saltwater crocodile only had 5 talents, just the single legendary talent made Yang Lin look at it with new respect.
Of course, he knew that talents of this level were currently beyond his reach - he could only look, not activate them.
As for Super Bite and Camouflage, they weren't in his consideration either - one was too expensive, the other too weak.
So he finally locked his targets on Agility and Savage Growth.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
