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After the Mid-Autumn festival event, many visitors left!
The toy raffle at the zoo entrance had new capsules in place, with visitors currently participating in the raffle. Since the raffle went quickly, the line wasn't long—it was roughly just a dozen people.
Rumble Rumble~
With a turn of the lever by a child, a purple capsule rolled out from a hole in the drum.
The staff mber enthusiastically handed over a Wolf plushie, "Congratulations, you've won a small plushie!"
The reward for a white capsule was a piece of candy or a chocolate, with a 35% chance of drawing, which was the lowest value encouragent prize.
The reward for a green capsule was a mooncake! The chance was the sa at 30%, which was just a bit better than candy.
An orange capsule yielded a brooch, considered a nice little keepsake; in the zoo it sells for 15 yuan each, with a 20% chance of being drawn.
The reward for a purple capsule was a palm-sized chibi-style small plushie, valued at 50, with a 12% drawing chance—getting one was already quite lucky!
The remaining 3% chance was to draw an orange capsule, which rewarded a 150 yuan dium-sized plushie.
Mainly since the zoo, apart from plushie brooches, didn't have many presentable cultural and creative products, the rewards were sowhat monotonous.
Once there are more cultural and creative products, we can have so more fun raffle chanisms, such as adding an iron grid below, where the capsule falls determines the corresponding prize, or have so sort of grand prize draw.
The child happily took the Wolf plushie and shouted, "Yay!"
Strutting along, they proudly said to their parents, "See, I'm great, right!"
The parents nodded and coaxed with praise, "Mm-hmm, too great, let's put it on the bookshelf when we get ho!"
"No, I want to sleep with the little wolf!"
Liu Xueqing lifted Yingying into her arms, handing over a red festive raffle ticket!
She smiled at Yingying, "Co on, try the raffle, let's see what you can get!"
Yingying had already tried the raffle once in the morning, so she was quite familiar with it now, and after turning the lever.
Rumble Rumble~
Out rolled a sparkling orange capsule!
The orange capsule now weighed much heavier than the one from the morning.
"Clang~"
ng Shi ca back after his al to strike the gong again, giving the bronze gong a heavy thump.
Yingying, with her baby voice, asked, "What's an orange capsule?"
The staff mber handed over a tiger plushie and smiled, "Congratulations, you've got the best prize!"
"Wow, Yingying, you're so lucky!" Liu Xueqing exclaid in surprise, then said to the staff mber, "I'm sorry, but could we exchange this for another? We have already bought a tiger one before, and we have peafowl, red pandas, and all of that already."
The staff mber nodded understandingly, thought for a mont, and took out a sunbeam snake plushie from a box, "This one is quite pretty too, it's a new addition to our zoo, not yet for sale, just put out so for the event as prizes, not sure if the little one would like it!"
"Eek, a snake!"
Liu Xueqing was a bit scared and was about to refuse when Yingying already started clamoring, "This is pretty, I want this one!"
"Alright then, if you like it, go ahead and take it."
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Dusk gradually fell!
The street lamps along the road lit up, casting a warm orange glow.
This was the zoo's first ti staying open at night, and as visitors wandered through, the cool night breeze caressed their faces, and the bright round moon showered its silvery light, with the distant howls of the gray wolf echoing—a scene starkly different from the dayti.
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Now, only the tiger exhibit, the wolf exhibit, and the little petting farm remained open, with most visitors gathered around these areas.
Of course, there were young couples who purposefully chose dimly lit spots to steal so intimate monts unnoticed.
The street lamps emitted an orange-yellow light, while the exhibit lighting—in color, brightness, and color temperature—was made to resemble natural moonlight. It was neither too bright, which would disturb the animals and prevent them from exhibiting their natural nocturnal behaviors, nor too dim, ensuring visitors could see the animals clearly.
"Awoo~~~"
"Awoo——"
The wolf howls, deep or hurried, clear or lodious, echoed one after another, blending together and spreading far into the quiet night, evoking an eerie sense of ghosts wailing and wolves howling.
Normally at this ti, the wolves in the wolf exhibit would have returned to their shelters, but tonight they didn't have to go back; they stayed outside, as thrilled as if they could stay overnight in an Internet cafe!
A bright, full moon hung in the sky—it was the perfect ti for hunting, and perhaps the wolf pack was influenced by it, becoming more active.
Zhuang Xiaobai was in the wolf exhibit at this mont!
After eating, he had rushed to continue watching the wolves.
By the pond that shimred with silver light, the leaves and reeds swayed gently, casting graceful shadows that danced on the water's surface and took on various shapes.
A wolf was lying on a rock, gazing up at the round moon in the sky, howling engrossedly.
In the darkness of the night, the wolf's eyes shone like two bright little bulbs, emitting a faint, haunting glow.
After howling for a while, it stood up from the pond's edge and walked away.
The wolf pack continued to howl, gradually gathering together.
The visitors at the viewing spot near the waterfall suddenly saw in the darkness, far away, a dozen points of light moving.
Intrigued, they wondered, "Hey, look over there! What is that?"
"Isn't that will-o'-the-wisps?"
"What will-o'-the-wisps, that must be the wolves' eyes! Wolves' eyes reflect light at night."
Erging from the shadows under the forest, the wolf pack ca into view. In the moonlight and the ambient lighting of the exhibit, the visitors could finally see the situation clearly.
They saw the glistening waterfall edge where the wolf pack ran about actively, howling with heads raised. Leading the pack was a burly black wolf, followed by a nimble and graceful gray wolf!
Under the gentle silver moonlight, they looked full of mystery and wildness.
The visitors couldn't help but whisper among themselves, "So beautiful!"
"Eh, it's my first ti seeing wolves at night. Their eyes really do glow, it's a bit scary."
"Indeed, they look pretty when viewed through glass in the zoo during the day. That leader looks a bit like a Siberian husky, quite cute, but if I t it in the wild, I'd be scared stiff."
"Their howling is really scary, entirely different from how it feels in the bright and sunny dayti. I don't know if it's a psychological effect or if they just howl differently at night."
"Speaking of which, why do they seem livelier at night? Is it really related to the full moon?"
Just then.
"Roar!!"
A very authoritative roar ca from the neighboring tiger exhibit, intimidating all around!
The wolf pack instantly beca alert, their heads uniformly turned in the direction of the tiger exhibit, and their howling temporarily ceased.
After a while, however, they started howling again.
The visitors found it quite amusing, "It's like being disturbed by the neighbors in the middle of the night. Do they do this every night?"
The wolf pack didn't linger long near the waterfall; they appeared for only a short mont before disappearing again.
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