What Wang Ping was most satisfied with was the layout of the lion cage.
Passing through a cement house used as a warehouse in the front yard, the spacious courtyard of nearly a thousand square meters at the back is Timo's territory.
Mr. "Truck" had obviously put a lot of effort into the layout. Unlike the rhino pens that looked like pig sties and the all-natural chimpanzee sanctuary, this place appeared very clean and had many more play facilities and decorations.
The structure of the entire backyard lion cage reminded Wang Ping of a cat climbing frame.
There are rockery made of rocks, trapezoidal wooden platforms and suspended wooden bridges for climbing, stacked platforms, a "private lion" swimming pool surrounded by green trees, and an emmm... why is there a basketball hoop here
There was a big question mark on Wang Ping's face. Could this lion play basketball
As if he had noticed the doubts of a certain badger or Gu Laosan, Mr. "Truck" took out a basketball and demonstrated it to everyone as if he was presenting a treasure.
"Teemo is a very smart lion. We often play basketball together. Although he can't shoot, he is very good at blocking shots and stealing the ball. He is very flexible. Basketball experts like me often get into trouble~"
A breeder dribbled the ball towards the basket, shouting, "Come on, Timo! I'm going to shoot~"
“Roar~!”
The lioness roared, accelerated to the basket, and then jumped high.
“Bang!”
The basketball fell to the ground, bouncing and rolling to the side. Gu Lang, Sanger, including a badger and the onlookers in the live broadcast room, all looked at the black figure that was blown away with twitching eyes, and at the same time, they felt a big black beep.
You call this a shot block? Bro, do you have any misunderstanding about shot blocks
But there is one thing Mr. Truck said that was not wrong, he really didn't get anything good.
“High energy ahead”
"Referee, there is a flagrant foul"
"Penalty, penalty!"
"It turns out that not everyone can be a breeder."
“This is no longer a question of slapping someone in the face.”
"Uh... hehe..." A keeper got up from the ground with a dusty face, brushed off the dust and returned to a lion, rubbed its head, and explained with an awkward smile: "Timo must have seen that you were too excited, so he didn't control his strength well. He is usually very light, like an agile athlete..."
Wang Ping glanced at the fat under the belly of a lion and was skeptical about the lion's claim of being "light". It seemed that he was right to reject him before. This guy had thrown away his moral integrity in order to help the lion find a playmate.
But...
A badger stroked his chin, glanced at a salted fish with a vigilant look on his face, and his little furry mouth curled up slightly.
Half an hour later, a temporary parasol was set up in front of the concrete house in the backyard.
Mr. Truck, Gu Lang and Sang Ge sat around a round plastic table under an umbrella. In addition to drinks, there was a tablet computer on the table facing the two children playing in the backyard. Gu Lao San looked at the comments constantly refreshing on the screen and chatted with the two children.
A breeder would occasionally look at Timo with a smirk of great satisfaction, secretly thinking that it was a good decision to invite a certain badger. Timo was particularly excited today, and the amount of exercise he did at this time was more than usual.
Of course he didn't know that it was Gu Lang's words that inspired Wang Ping. Everyone in the park treated Timo as a lion, including Mr. Truck. They always tried to restore its wildness, but forgot that Timo grew up in a circus. Compared to a lion, this guy is probably more used to being an obedient "dog".
Sure enough, when Wang Ping teased it in the same way he played with Dahei and Wolf Xiaosi at home, he saw a look in the lion's eyes that was similar to that of the dog.
Wang Ping was in no mood to play with the lion. He was more focused on the position of someone under the parasol. Seeing that the three people were talking happily, their attention was no longer focused on him. The badger rolled his eyes, stretched out his claws to grab a tennis ball that Timo had just picked up, and quietly threw it at Gu Laosan's feet.
“Roar~”
Timo excitedly ran towards the direction where the tennis ball flew, opened his big mouth in mid-air, his sharp teeth and saliva sparkling in the light.
“Clang~!”
A khaki figure rushed under the parasol, and the plastic table tilted and the cups on it flew out. Mr. Truck and Sanger, who had grabbed the tablet, stood up and dodged, watching a lion pick up the ball and run back, laughing and cursing.
“Oh my gosh!”
"It gave me a scare"
"Is Third Brother okay?"
"Boss definitely did it on purpose"
“I was so scared that I threw away my phone.”
Under the camera of the live broadcast room, netizens were speechless when they saw the lion just trying to pick up the ball, and they all lamented the bad character of the badger. However, as the lion ran away, the two people under the parasol suddenly realized that there seemed to be one less person there.
"Where is Mr. Gu?" A breeder and Sang looked at each other blankly.
"Hurry up and bring the ladder over here..."
The sound came from the roof behind the two of them. Turning their heads, they saw a salted fish squatting on the edge of the 3-meter-high eaves, holding the iron sheet of the roof with both hands, shouting in confusion. Looking down from his figure, there was only bare cement under the eaves except for the closed security door, and not even a window.
"Newbie~!" Brother Sang gave a thumbs up and shouted out the newly learned Chinese.
Mr. Truck ran to fetch the ladder thrown at the gate and took down the salted fish. Gu Laosan thought it was better to stay away. Although it was great that the lion didn't hurt people, the way it pounced with its bloody mouth was too scary.
So the three of them dragged the table and chairs away and moved the parasol to the left side of the house, so that they could see the badger and the lion playing in the backyard while being far enough away.
Mr. Truck spoke very good English and was having a great time chatting with Gu Laosan. The two chatterboxes got together, and Sangge looked confused. He couldn't understand a word of what they were saying, let alone interrupting. He had to help someone hold the tablet and adjust the angle, and watch the two playing to kill time.
At this time, a certain guy unexpectedly discovered that the tennis ball was flying over again. And judging from the flight trajectory, it was obviously carefully calculated. Even though it was so far away, it still fell straight to the feet of a certain salted fish.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Sanger seemed to see some ill intention on the face of a badger dozens of meters away.
"Gu..."
The young man patted Gu Laosan and pulled him to dodge. At this time, a lion had already trotted over.
Sangge felt a huge force breaking free from him. He turned his head and saw Gu Laosan sprinting to the base of a nearby wall. He jumped up and kicked the wall, leaning back and firmly grasping the part of the eaves, and then he climbed up with inertia. His posture was no less impressive than that of a professional parkour athlete.
Because he discovered it in advance, Sanger had watched the entire process of Gu Laosan climbing the wall. At this moment, he gave a thumbs up again and used another Chinese word he learned from someone to describe it.
“Bad luck!”
After the lion ran away again, Gu Laosan sat alone on the roof, feeling sad and confused.
"Why! Why is this happening?"
"Mr. Gu, maybe Timo likes you, or your pet is inviting you to play. Please come down first!" A breeder standing below persuaded.
"I'm not going down! Damn it, if I go down I'll come back up after a while! Just ignore me, I need to calm down!"
A certain salted fish waved his hands, his face full of grief and indignation.
In the distance, Wang Ping looked at the ladder still on the other side of the house, with a sneer on his face: "Humph, naive! Do you think you'll be fine if you stay on the roof?"
That afternoon, Gu Laosan climbed the gate post, the roof, the iron fence, the basketball stand, and almost everything in the lion cage that could be climbed left his footprints. The netizens in the live broadcast room joked that a certain salted fish had actually stolen the lion's limelight, which was really a great show.
Later, Mr. Truck and Sanger also realized that the badger was targeting Gu Laosan. So they stopped trying to persuade him and just quietly moved the ladder and waited for someone to call for help.
There’s just one thing that neither of them understands: someone is clearly a “highly skilled martial artist” and can climb all kinds of obstacles like a piece of cake, so why is it that he always can’t come down once he’s climbed up
Gu Laosan was confused and puzzled at first, then became furious and begged after discovering the trick, and finally became submissive. Wang Ping didn't see the so-called "stress response turned into conditioned reflex" that he found on the Internet, but only saw what it meant to throw the pot into the ground. When Timo pounced on him again, Gu Laosan didn't even raise his eyelids, and looked like he was ready to be killed or cut into pieces.
"Tsk, how about trying a different animal tomorrow?" Wang Ping looked thoughtful as he touched Timo's furry head.