Is it reasonable to have pandas in Chang'an?

Absolutely reasonable, there are eight Qinling Panda Ecological Reserves around Qinling.

The Agricultural College where Ah Qing and Mo Yiqing study has one such reserve at the back of the campus, and thanks to the Spirit Beast Fat Cat, the number of Qinling pandas there is nearly fifty.

Usually, when students are around, the school communicates with the Spirit Beast Fat Cat to keep the little ones in line.

But Ah Qing and the others returned to school too early, so the school hasn't started retrieving the Qinling pandas yet.

The experimental fields, landscape pools, and agricultural assignments of the seniors at the whole college are now all regarded as panda playgrounds or food sources.

Thus.

The unprepared Lingren, dragging a suitcase through the campus, got held up by the pandas.

"Xiao Ling, don't panic. I've got it figured out. The panda says it smells like panda milk on you. It's looking for its cub and wants to ask if you have seen it, and by the way, it would like some food."

With Mo Yiqing's money, the native Chang'an taxi uncle transformed instantly into a Ferrari-driving uncle speeding towards the Xinxing Agricultural Science College.

Meanwhile, Ah Qing in the backseat was using her special ability through the signal base station, remotely strengthening the pandas' brains.

From the panda mom's story, Ah Qing finally understood the whole situation and explained it to Lingren:

"Currently, it's not dangerous. That panda mom over there is just looking for its child. They all seem to have gotten used to humans, treating people like a granary, and will come into the school to beg for food when they are hungry."

Ah Qing and her peers weren't the first students; students at the Qinling Campus of the Agricultural College had already had encounters with pandas before them. Without the knowledge of the younger students, the seniors had already signed a non-aggression pact with the pandas.

The core clause of the agreement is that when the pandas face famine, the students must lend a hand.

The pandas also promised not to steal the students' assignments and to provide manure for the students.

The panda mom that "attacked" Lingren actually just wanted to hug Lingren's leg and beg for a bite to eat.

"Woo woo woo, so scary, you all come here..."

Although Ah Qing had already settled things with the panda, seeing that two-hundred-pound beast, Lingren, who had climbed up the tree, was still quite nervous and didn't dare interact casually with the panda.

She was born in Sichuan and Chongqing, and although she understood the pandas' cuteness and cheekiness, she knew more about the dangers of wild pandas and the difference in Physique between humans and bears.

In the past, in Sichuan and Chongqing, there would occasionally be incidents where tourists couldn't resist trying to pet pandas upon seeing them gnawing on crops in the wild. Although such incidents were not frequent, nine out of ten tourists who dared to try ended up as "cushions."

To be used by a bear as a cushion, locked in place by its strength, or to be squashed and rolled over by a two or three hundred-pound panda, experiencing the heft of a bear, was quite an ordeal.

Pandas are bears, not cats!

Lingren understood this very well, even though she had just finished playing with a small panda at the zoo with her family that morning.

But those were small ones, you could lift them with one hand and bowl with them, not like these adult ones, especially knowing that the panda in front had cubs.

Lingren almost peed her pants.

"Xiao Ling, we're here, where are you?"

"Follow the internal road to the left, it's the courier station where we pick up our parcels!"

Although the Xinxing Agricultural Science College had different campuses, the layout inside was almost the same. Lingren, upon hearing the voice from the phone, quickly revealed her position.

Ah Qing, carrying a little fox, hurried over, and saw two adult pandas lying bored under a big tree, patting their bellies and playing, while Lingren, like a sloth, was hanging from the tree seven or eight meters up.

What was truly amazing was that Lingren, having climbed the tree, was actually holding a small suitcase.

It was really hard to imagine how a 1.63-meter-tall girl managed to lug a suitcase up a seven or eight-meter-high tree.

"Ah Qing, Ah Qing, does your roommate's family drive an S-Class Mercedes? Otherwise, I really can't imagine how a little girl managed to carry a suitcase up a tree."

Seeing Ah Qing's roommate in the tree, Ansheng couldn't help but sarcastically comment with amazement.

Climbing up the tree was fine.

But how did the suitcase go up too?

Your family must own a Mercedes, or you are some monkey spirit from Emei Mountain.

"Xiao Ling, it's okay now! Come on down!"

Ah Qing placed the little fox on the table at the station, stepped forward, and grabbed the nape of two pandas' necks, dragging them from the grassy shade under the tree to the front entrance of the station.

"Woof?"

The two pandas looked at Ah Qing, then turned to the little fox sitting on the table, and gave a bark.

"Really scared me to death...."

Lingren, hugging the tree trunk tightly, finally breathed a sigh of relief after witnessing Ah Qing dragging away the two pandas with her bare hands.

Then, Lingren held the suitcase in her mouth, flung the belt in her hand, let it loop halfway around the tree, and grabbed the metal buckle of the belt with the other hand.

Lingren tightened her arms around the belt, stomped hard on the tree to propel herself, released her grip on the belt slightly, and quickly descended from the tree. When she was about three meters above the ground, she tightened the belt again.

The belt rubbed fiercely against the tree trunk, sharply decelerating Lingren's rapid descent.

Lingren loosened her grip on the belt, kicked off the trunk to detach from the rough tree roots, landing smoothly on the gentle grassland, absorbing the impact effortlessly.

"?"

The little fox gaped in astonishment, watching Lingren go from the tree to the ground in just a few seconds.

"Whew...."

Lingren adjusted her sagging pants and refastened the belt, looked at Ah Qing with a face full of relief, and quipped:

"Can't our school be normal? Every school day feels like playing Jungle-mode real-life CSGO. Gee, sophomore year, we were thrown into the wilds, junior year, we fought snakes and bugs, and now, senior year, even beasts have joined the fray."

"I wouldn't be surprised if we encountered some alien lifeform while interning in the Imperial Capital."

"It's not that bad, is it?"

Ah Qing patted the panda's brown belly, turned to Lingren, and said: "These little animals are quite adorable! If you say that, Little White and Little Black would be upset."

Little Black in Ah Qing's mouth was a silver ring snake senior they met in their junior year.

Little White was an elephant, and thanks to its help, they easily terraced in their junior year.

"Eek....."

Recalling that black-faced silver ring snake, Lingren instinctively shivered; she had no fondness for those slippery things or cylindrical objects.

"Speaking of.... "

Looking at Ah Qing, who was playing with the panda, Lingren slyly smiled, wrapped her arms around Ah Qing's neck, pressing against her back, and said:

"Qingqing, haven't seen you all summer, did you miss your little Ling?"

"Stop messing around; I'm not turning into a girl copper...." Ah Qing glanced at Lingren, who was hugging her, and said.

Hmm...

Among the three roommates, Lingren had never lived in a dorm before, and she suffered from severe homophobia.

She was constantly worried about being persecuted or "educated."

Though Lingren's concerns were a bit excessive, Ah Qing very patiently explained her own sexual orientation.