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Once they saw the article about Linhai Zoo, they suddenly got excited and started leaving enthusiastic comments!

"Wow, Linhai Zoo is having activities for the Mid-Autumn Festival, that's awesome!"

"It's a shared article from Linhai Zoo's public account, when did they start that, I go there often and didn't even know?"

Mi Jin replied, "That's right, it has just been launched recently. If you like Linhai Zoo, remember to follow us to receive the latest notifications! There will definitely be many more activities in the future!"

"Making mooncakes for animals is something I've never heard of before, and it sounds so interesting. I've decided, I'm taking my kids to the zoo for Mid-Autumn Festival, hoping we'll be lucky enough to get a chance to make mooncakes!"

"I had planned to take my family to the zoo for Mid-Autumn anyway, and now this is just amazing, we can see animals and join in the activities. But it's a bit disappointing that only children under 15 with their parents can participate in making mooncakes for animals. I want to make mooncakes for them too."

"It's true, I'm so envious of kids these days. When I was in elementary and junior high, we didn't have such cool zoos to go to."

"It can't be helped, if everyone made mooncakes then the animals would definitely have too many to finish, and that would be a waste of food. But you don't have to be disappointed, if you can't make mooncakes you can still watch the animals eat them, which is just as fun. And didn't the announcement say there's also the Happy Quiz and the Mid-Autumn Painting Roll activities with no age restrictions?

Both adults and kids can play."

"Wuuu, I feel like I can't participate in anything. The Happy Quiz tests how fast you can raise your hand and your knowledge. My drawing is so bad, what if I embarrass myself after showing my painting?"

"What are you afraid of? There will definitely be lots of kids' drawings, so yours will just blend in and won't stand out."

"The names of the painting competition prizes are pretty interesting. Could they be judging who draws the most beautiful, cutest, and most handsome animal?"

"I'm more interested in what you can win with the raffle ticket. They didn't specify."

"The zoo is so considerate, they've specially extended their hours. To be honest, I've never seen what a zoo looks like at night, I'm a bit curious. Will the wolves be howling non-stop at the full moon?"

"I've heard the zoo director explain this before, because the bright moonlight makes it easier for wolf packs to hunt, and they howl to boost morale before they set out to hunt. So howling at the full moon is just a coincidence, they could howl at any time!"

"Looking at the moon while enjoying the animals, we're definitely going to have a very interesting Mid-Autumn Festival this year!"

"I am already considering whether to buy a better camera! I want to get one that takes clearer pictures at night, otherwise my phone might take really blurry photos. Can anyone recommend one?"

The netizens were as happy as if they were celebrating the festival, which they indeed were about to.

Later, Mayor Bai also called Fang Ye to praise the idea of the event and encouraged him to make the activity even better, offering any necessary support from the city.

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Taking advantage of the week before the Mid-Autumn Festival arrived, the zoo started to prepare overtime!

Old Zhang and the canteen staff tried to make the crust using materials like sorghum, soybean meal, and wheat bran, but the mixture wasn't sticky enough and it would crumble with a touch after baking.

After some thought, they came up with a very simple solution, which was to mix rice into the dough. Adding a small amount of rice greatly increased the stickiness, and after using molds to press it firmly, it held its shape well without the need for baking.

Then there was the lighting in the exhibition areas!

Fang Ye found a type of low-brightness night lighting in the system's construction interface. After setting it up, he could have the system's construction crew install it quickly. However, figuring out where to place the lights was a bit of a headache.

At this time, I remembered there was a function to perfect the design, so I spent 1000 green leaf coins to clearly arrange the position of each light fixture in the exhibition area.

In the wolf exhibit, about two or three meters outside the glass curtain wall of the viewing point, lights were camouflaged with rocks, grass piles, and trees. During the day you couldn't tell there were lights hidden inside, but at night, when needed, they would emit a soft glow.

The remaining light fixtures were installed beside beautiful environments such as ponds and waterfalls, avoiding excessive installation throughout the area, which would otherwise destroy the sense of tranquility at night.

If you could see it, it was luck; if not, then you just couldn't see it!

The tiger exhibit was the same, with only a small number of light fixtures installed at a few spots like the slopes, ponds, and lawns.

The efficiency of the system's construction team didn't disappoint me, they started working after the zoo closed for the day and had everything installed by the time it opened in the morning.

In the Happy Q&A section, the questions posed to visitors were also carefully designed. For instance, for children who looked like they were in kindergarten, animal pattern cards would be presented, and they would be asked what the animals were called.

For older children who looked to be in elementary or middle school, more advanced questions could be asked, such as what the animal typically eats, what its call sounds like, or how to differentiate between a red panda and a raccoon.

As for adults, even more challenging questions were prepared, such as what function a tiger's whiskers serve, what conservation status it has, why red pandas stick out their tongues, or what it means when they raise their hands?

In fact, these weren't too difficult; as long as you paid attention to the educational display boards, you would definitely be able to answer them!

However, you can't have too high of expectations for adults; maybe an elementary student could answer a question that an adult wouldn't know, so when setting the questions, Fang Ye specifically requested to lower the difficulty a bit.

As for the raffle prizes, naturally they were plushies and such specially produced by the system.

The last raffle was before I went out for a ride with Lan Li, which wasn't too long ago. In between, there were three days of continuous rain which forced us to close, so the popularity value didn't increase much.

However, I did a live broadcast in between and, along with the recent lively discussions about the zoo's Mid-Autumn Festival activities, I just managed to accumulate 100 thousand popularity value, which was enough for the festival raffle prizes!

Fang Ye opened the raffle panel and rubbed his hands together expectantly, saying, "Come on!"

With a thought, the raffle began!

"Congratulations to the host, you have won a Lion plushie!"

"Huh!"

Fang Ye was pleasantly surprised. With the arrival of new animals, the plushies available in the raffle had also been updated. Such a majestic lion plushie was surely going to be popular!

Previously, the most popular had been the tiger and red panda plushies, which were in high demand.

Continue the raffle.

"Congratulations to the host, you have won a Ring-tailed Lemur plushie!"

"Congratulations to the host, you have won a Sunbeam Snake plushie (Medium)!"

Damn!

Fang Ye was stunned. Could snakes really be made into plushies, and how could the glittering look of a sunbeam snake be achieved? Surely they didn't make it into a black stick, right? Plus, wouldn't a snake plushie be scary to have at home?

After taking it out and looking at it, the sunbeam snake plushie was quite well made; its ventral side was white, the black on its back was outlined with fine white lines in the shape of hexagons, really giving a scaly texture.

The scales in the curved parts of the body were blue-purple and red, creating a colorful effect, while the head was cartoonized a bit, so it didn't look scary but rather had a touch of cuteness to it.