I have a wildlife zoo

After the children had all left on the bus, the system prompt appeared.

"Ding! The school cooperation task is now complete! As the children had fun at the park, their awareness of environmental protection was enhanced!"

"Reward received, 3000 green leaf coins!"

Fang Ye was somewhat surprised, "Is it settled just like that?"

And there are still two grades that haven't even visited!

Getting the highest reward was only to be expected, since the minimum task requirement was just 50 people, and there were 400 in one grade.

He happily accepted the green leaf coins. The main difficulty of this task was finding a willing cooperative school.

Just as he was about to close the panel, he remembered the lottery.

The popularity value had increased rapidly due to the release of Sparkling Girls' new music video.

Although Sparkling Girls were the stars of the music video, Linhai Zoo's environment surely left a deep impression on the viewers, who became curious and looked it up afterward. Some netizens also voluntarily promoted Linhai Zoo in the comment section.

The new music video wasn't as hot as the Milk Tea Wild Boar Incident; it wasn't something that everyone in the nation knew and talked about, but it had longevity, attracting a steady daily influx of popularity value. So, he hadn't rushed to use the lottery.

A week had now gone by, and things had more or less stabilized.

When he checked the panel, he saw that he had accumulated over six hundred thousand more popularity value.

The system's prompt sounded: "Ding, popularity value has exceeded ten million, adding a new feature: lottery recall!"

"Unwanted prizes can be recycled back to the system. Recycle five prizes to get one lottery opportunity back!"

Fang Ye's eyes lit up, "Hey, that's a pretty good feature!"

He would keep the valuable plushies and could collaborate with factories to produce the cheap, classic, fashionable trinkets, like stickers and badges.

He could save the return chances to continue entering the lottery; maybe, after recycling five stickers, he might get a prop in exchange, which would be a huge gain.

Of course, it was possible that he could end up recycling five stickers just to get another sticker in return, and then recycle five more stickers for yet another sticker.

In that case, he could only consider himself unlucky.

After dinner, back in his room and rubbing his hands together, he began the lottery with high expectations.

In his heart, he prayed, "Give me more props this time!"

"Congratulations, Host. You've won a Lion plushie!"

"Better luck next time; please keep up the effort, Host!"

"Eh?" Fang Ye suddenly became curious, "System, can I actually recycle 'better luck next time'?"

System: "No."

Fang Ye felt dejected, "Can't you just say yes to make me happy?"

System: "No."

It seems that getting 1 in exchange for 125 wasn't the unluckiest scenario. The worst-case is recycling the return chances and getting a "better luck next time." Experience more on My Virtual Library Empire

"Congratulations, Host. You've won 3 alpaca badges!"

"Congratulations, Host. You've won [spiritual soil]!"

"Spiritual soil is great; the more, the better!" Fang Ye was overjoyed.

The Northeast produces outstanding agricultural products and is an important grain storage area for the country, mainly due to its fertile black earth, rich in humus that forms the black soil. It takes hundreds of years for just one centimeter of black earth to accumulate.

Organic farming also nourishes the land; compacted and dry yellow soil can gradually soften and increase in humus content after a few years.

And the effects of spiritual soil are even better than those of black earth.

Last time, Fang Ye spread the spiritual soil that he had obtained in the small courtyard vegetable patch, and every time he added water to the water tank, he would also add three bottles of spiritual water.

The vegetables and fruits planted with such a luxurious lineup were growing very well. The potatoes sprouted several centimeters of fresh green shoots within a week, and after a month, they had grown to about 40 cm tall, with sturdy stems and verdant leaves.

The strawberries planted in the clover-shaped pots were layered upon each other like a pagoda, and now they fully stretched out their green leaves. Several pots had sprouted white flowers, with five petals each arranged harmoniously, looking like exquisite and beautiful artworks, and the cluster of yellow stamens in the middle emitted a faint fragrance.

If the leaves were not extending and the flower buds were shrunken and wrinkled, it meant that the plants were not sufficiently mature; it was necessary to pinch off the flowers to let them grow for a while longer, or else the fruits produced would be shriveled and dead.

However, the strawberries he had planted, although they bloomed early, had big green leaves and beautifully shaped flowers, indicating that they had accumulated enough. Truly befitting plants cultivated with spiritual soil and watered with spiritual water.

In the south, strawberries bloom early and ripen early, but normally they wouldn't be ready until April or May.

Looking at this situation, the strawberries he planted might be ready to harvest by March or April.

The strawberries grown this way were sure to taste incredibly wonderful.

The thought alone made Fang Ye's mouth water uncontrollably; he swallowed and continued with the prize drawing.

"Congratulations, host, you've received Tiger sticker *3!"

"Congratulations, host, you've received a 'Divine Bird-catching Net'!"

Divine Bird-catching Net: As long as within distance, a catch every time.

Note: Made of nylon rope mesh, light and convenient, suitable for catching fast-flying passerine birds.

This was another great item!

Catching birds is undoubtedly a challenging task. The aviary was equipped with several specially-made bird lure devices. When it was necessary to catch a bird, food would be placed inside, and when a bird came to eat, the gates would be remotely controlled and then fall shut.

However, birds did not always take the bait, and sometimes it was necessary to catch them with a net by hand.

He tried his luck dozens more times.

"Congratulations, host, you've received Mental Recovery Pills!"

Fang Ye remembered, "That's right, I need to get more Mental Recovery Pills!"

Mental Recovery Pills could improve animals' stereotypical behavior and alleviate psychological trauma. As he was preparing to introduce elephants to the zoo, almost all captive elephants exhibited stereotypical behaviors, not to mention those from the elephant camps, which would have been traumatized from an early age by bullhooks.

One pill was for animals weighing 100 kg, and elephants were measured by the ton.

An adult Asiatic elephant weighed between 3 to 5 tons, and a bottle of Mental Recovery Pills only contained 20 pills, which was not enough for even one elephant.

"Congratulations, host, you've received a Macaw plushie!"

"Congratulations, host, you've received a 'Paper Mache Sheep'!"

Paper Mache Sheep: Made of sturdy paper, it resembles a real sheep to a degree of 60%, with a hollow inside where food can be placed.

Note: Paper mache toy series.

When Fang Ye saw the name of this item, he had an idea of how to use it.

Placed in the enclosures of predators like wolves and tigers, attracted by the smell of meat, they could tear into the paper sheep to get to the meat.

Typically, enrichment involved hiding meat in boxes or sacks, but tearing apart a paper sheep would certainly be much more satisfying than tearing a sack, enhancing the hunting thrill, up and up.

However, this would turn it into a one-time use item. It could also be placed in other animal enclosures, such as in the red panda exhibit, where the red pandas, upon seeing a new animal, would definitely go through a process of fear, curiosity, and exploration before climbing and playing on it.

Once the red pandas were familiar with it, they could hand it over to the raccoons to play with, this way it could last a long time.

After a good while, Fang Ye finally ran out of popularity value.

More than half of the rewards were stickers and badges; he kept a small portion and let the system recycle the rest, continuing with the drawing.

In the end, he obtained a good amount of spiritual water and spiritual soil, and piled up all sorts of bizarre and unique items.