"Madam, there is no need to talk to me here. Also, I know you are in a hurry, but don't be impatient first. The more impatient you are, the less useful information I will get. So don't be impatient yet, stop and slow down. Speak slowly." Qiao Shuya comforted the lady and took out a tea set.
"Madam, I only have black tea here, okay?"
Qiao Shuya made black tea and asked his wife, who was sitting in the guest seat like an anxious king.
"I... that's okay..." The lady took the black tea, took a sip, temporarily made herself less impatient, and began to tell her story.
"Sir, I took my children to Ueno Zoo today. We have been there many times before. We are also familiar with the location of the park and the map of the zoo." The wife was holding black tea in her hand, but she didn't know it was because she was afraid. Still afraid, her legs began to tremble,
"But this time, the distribution of the entire park has changed drastically. All areas and layouts have changed, and the sky has become gloomier. At first, we just thought it was because Ueno Zoo had been renovated and reorganized, but..."
At this point, the wife's tone began to become very anxious. Qiao Shuya saw that she kept poking her palms with her nails, and even used this self-mutilation method to calm herself down.
"But in that zoo, there were all weird things. Monkeys that could speak human language, rabbits that walked upside down, lions that attacked tourists, orangutans with human faces... and finally, the big one with rabbit down and ears. Like..." The wife said, feeling very uneasy.
Qiao Shuya leaned back slightly, and he began to wonder: "Are all the animals in the entire zoo abnormal?"
"Yes, all animals."
Qiao Shuya was a little confused. This didn't seem to be the handiwork of a strange demon, but it wasn't necessarily the work of a strange devil. Although he had killed a lot of strange devils, the number of strange devils in the entire subspace ranged from a few thousand to a few hundred. It was impossible to guarantee that. There are indeed those kinds of strange demons that like to live on animals.
On the other hand, Qiao Shuya began to doubt his wife's mental state.
"Then continue describing, madam." Qiao Shuya said calmly and began to calm his wife's excited emotions.
"Okay, okay, the most important thing is that we came to the aquarium, but we found that the aquarium was not filled with marine animals, but elephants. Even those elephants were still alive in the aquarium. Swimming..." the wife said.
"Wait, aquarium?" Qiao Shuya continued to lean back, "Is there an aquarium in the zoo?"
Generally speaking, a zoo only refers to a place that displays terrestrial animals, while an aquarium only refers to a place that displays marine animals. The two are not related, and there are rarely aquariums in zoos.
At least as far as Ueno Zoo is concerned, there will be no aquarium.
Qiao Shuya is somewhat familiar with this zoo, because there used to be a gimmick here that there was a giant panda named "Duo Duo". Qiao Shuya even took the time to go to Ueno Zoo to see the giant panda, but it was a pity. That day the giant panda kept sleeping, like a fake bear.
"Yes, there is an aquarium in the zoo...and my child was lost there..." The wife began to tremble in her words,
"However, I saw a large group of people wearing animal masks trying to catch me. I could only run as hard as I could, and when I came out, I was already on the street, but my child was lost. Call the police, the people from the Metropolitan Police Department just asked me if I had a mental problem..."
"But I'm mentally normal and I clearly remember everything inside. I can even draw the route map inside. You can also check my record today. I took my children to the zoo, and then I came out alone. "
"But when I mustered up the courage to walk into Ueno Zoo again, the place had completely changed. It became the Ueno Zoo with the same layout as before, not the weird zoo we entered today."
"I can't tell. I really can't tell which one is the real zoo. Sir, it must be a monster. Help me. This must be an attack by a monster." The wife was comforted and calmed down a little. Becoming manic again.
Qiao Shuya frowned and thought, there seemed to be a problem here, and he temporarily believed that his wife's mind was normal. The zoo that his wife entered twice was different. The first time he entered the zoo, it was like walking into another world.
But entering for the second time is like entering a real zoo in the real world.
The other world... and the real world...
"Sir, I really didn't lie, and I really didn't hallucinate. Everything I said is true. There are really elephants swimming in the aquarium, and there are staff wearing animal masks...etc. , No, those staff are not wearing animal masks, but they actually have animal faces!"
The wife’s entire face became horrified: “They are human-shaped animals!”
"Madam, are you awake?" Qiao Shuya started to stop his wife, who was getting more and more crazy, from continuing.
"I'm not crazy, believe me, I'm not crazy! I'm very conscious. I've seen all the monsters here..." The wife started to get even crazier, talking incoherently and dancing around.
Qiao Shuya put on the gloves silently, and then...
"Pa!" After the slap, the wife suddenly woke up. She looked at Qiao Shuya blankly, her eyes red.
"Calm down, you look like you have been contaminated by something unknown." Qiao Shuya took off his gloves. The force he used just now was very cautious for him, for fear of triggering the passive one. .
He felt like he had a headache. His wife's current state was a bit like that when she saw the ancient god and her SAN value returned to zero.
However, although strange demons also have corrosive effects, they are not in this state at all. The erosion of strange demons is similar to parasitizing humans, gradually eating their entire bodies, and then continuing to live in the human world wearing this layer of human skin. .
What makes Qiao Shuya even more troubled is that if what his wife said is okay, this matter will be a bit tricky.
Especially the zoo, it doesn't seem to be fixed, but like the other world, it needs to be triggered to enter.
Thinking of this, Qiao Shuya dialed Uncle Li's phone: "Uncle Li, I want to check some information about..."
"I'm very busy and don't have time. You can ask your secretary, or Kiryu Ryoma. By the way, Kiryu Ryoma is now the assistant to the president. He is mainly responsible for becoming the scavenger of the Tokyo Association. He can also handle some chores. I am very I'm busy, don't call... beep beep beep..." The phone was hung up.
Qiao Shuya: "..."
He made another phone call, which was from his secretary: "Help me check if there are any people who have disappeared in the zoo in recent years. It would be best to cover the entire Tokyo area. Well, maybe extend it to the entire 11th district."
After Qiao Shuya finished speaking, he hung up the phone and continued to comfort the lady's unstable mental state.
Soon, the secretary had sent over the information Qiao Shuya needed, and Qiao Shuya's brows instantly knitted together after seeing it.
Because in the entire District 11, there have been more than 300 reports of people missing in the zoo in the past two years, and more than half of them were children.
Even narrowing the scope to Tokyo, there have been more than a hundred cases of disappearances in recent years.
And in the police files...
Shenyin, Shenyin, the one who rides the horse is Shenyin!
Especially when Qiao Shuya saw the files of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, his whole body suddenly became hypertensive. So many people were missing, not even a body was seen, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department only consolidated their missing reports in Together, we wrote "Shenyin".
Then the case was hastily closed.
Damn it, no wonder the reasoning and detective culture is prevalent in District 11. The Metropolitan Police Department must bear at least ten points, or more than nine points of responsibility. This way of handling cases gave Qiao Shuya a myocardial infarction.
It is precisely because of the irresponsible attitude of the Metropolitan Police that Qiao Shuya's clues were cut off at this point.
Each of his fingers tapped on the table rhythmically, and he began to feel uncomfortable. Should he accept this job?
Because it is very weird, there is a high probability that it was done by strange demons, or that strange demons were involved. And because it is very weird, it is really weird, so it doesn't look like it was done by strange demons.
…
At this moment, the doorbell continued to ring.
Qiao Shuya felt a headache, probably because after the squad leader's reasoning at Brother Long's wedding was reported by unscrupulous reporters, the office where his adoptive mother left him became lively.
He said "Excuse me" and went to open the door.
The person who came was a shrine maiden, and Qiao Shuya looked a little familiar to her, like a certain little shrine maiden from Nagano's Meiji Shrine.
"Mr. Qiao, this is for you~" The little witch stretched out her hand and handed a very delicately decorated fruit basket to Qiao Shuya.
Qiao Shuya: "???"
What the hell?
"Because I'm just a female high school student who admires my ancestors~" The little miko seemed to be coquettish, and then she gently came to Qiao Shuya's side and said, "This is the information provided by Lord Gongji."
Qiao Shuya understood instantly. He had forgotten that he seemed to have planted a secret society with the mole carrying Fang Tian's painted halberd.
"Okay, you can leave first, I'm very busy now." Qiao Shuya said.
"Okay, thank you, senior, I love you!"
The little witch left, but Qiao Shuya instantly felt like there were ants crawling on her body.
Although he knew that the witch was acting, it still made him feel uncomfortable.
He walked back to the hall silently and saw the motionless wife. Qiao Shuya said calmly: "Madam, I have accepted your commission, but I need to investigate. I will give you certain information before tomorrow. You don’t want to go anywhere before this, madam, you don’t want your child to have problems, right?”
"Okay, you must help me. My child Xiongta is still lost in the zoo. You must help me. No matter how much money you have..."
…
After sending his wife away, Qiao Shuya's hand tapped on the table rhythmically.
The problem is so big that Qiao Shuya feels like he has no way to start.
Could it be that the first time that lady entered was not the zoo, but the subspace?
Qiao Shuya said to himself in confusion.
Because of this way of entering the other world, all he could think of was the subspace, otherwise, even the Demon King would be in trouble.
The information provided by the association this time was also limited, because although there were many people missing in the zoo, all of them were suppressed at the Metropolitan Police Department level, and not many came to the association at all.
All he could see were the various reports provided by the Metropolitan Police Department.
Forget it, let's see how well the man holding Fang Tian's painted halberd recognizes his adoptive father.
Qiao Shuya opened the fruit basket, and there was really a basket of fruits inside.
At the bottom of the fruit was a guard. Qiao Shuya tore the guard to pieces, revealing a note inside.
"I have infiltrated the 'Drunkard Club', and here I have adopted a woman named 'Yuan Ji' as my adoptive father. This woman is active in Tokyo, and there seems to be something very scary in her body. Later, I decided to find the opportunity to kill this woman and then recognize the president of the association as my adoptive father. By the way, a reminder, be careful of the zoo, this woman seems to be related to a certain zoo."
Seeing the spy providing information, Qiao Shuya suddenly frowned.
A zoo, a zoo again.
He seemed to have forgotten something, Qiao Shuya began to feel a little anxious, he seemed to have forgotten something, etc...
"Old Chen! Old Chen!" Qiao Shuya called the panda.
"Come on, come on!" The panda rolled down the stairs and asked, "What's so urgent?"
"Where did you say Xiao Ai and the others went to play?" Qiao Shuya asked.
"We went to the zoo, what happened?" Old Chen scratched his head in confusion.
Qiao Shuya: "..."
He immediately took out his cell phone and found that the call between himself and the monitor had not been hung up, but there was no sound at all.
He immediately hung up and called again, but no one answered.
Qiao Shuya quickly dialed Yuan Zhi'ai's number, but still no one answered.
"What's wrong?" Lao Chen also felt something was wrong.
In fact, just now when it discovered that Qiao Shuya was receiving guests, he went upstairs on his own.
In the design of Weining Office, the lobby is specially made into a reception room for entertaining guests. Relatively high-end sound insulation materials are used here. Firstly, it is not to expose the client’s information, and secondly, it is not to disturb other people living here. people rest.
Except Qiao Shuya, because his room is right behind the reception room.
Therefore, Lao Chen upstairs did not know what happened in the living room.
"There's a big problem. There's something wrong with the zoo." Qiao Shuya took out the money he had received from the association before and showed it to Old Chen: "Look, Old Chen, a total of two thousand people disappeared in Tokyo last year. There are nearly 200 people missing in the zoo, accounting for about 9%." Qiao Shuya showed these data to Lao Chen.
"What's wrong, isn't this normal? I just feel like it's not normal for thousands of people to disappear every year..." Lao Chen complained.
"Then let me tell you, there are only two zoos in Tokyo?" Qiao Shuya said.
Lao Chen's expression became dull for a moment.
"There are only two serious zoos in Tokyo, one is Ueno Zoo and the other is Edogawa Zoo. The rest are basically aquariums or marine life performance halls." Qiao Shuya took out a map. Pointed it out to Lao Chen.
"In other words, when there are only two zoos, more than a hundred people disappear in the zoo in one year. Do you still think it's normal?"
"This is not abnormal anymore, this is simply weird to the extreme. Is there a trafficker group in this zoo?" Lao Chen complained, "Also, even though so many people are missing, the Metropolitan Police Department has not closed a single case. Don’t go too far!”
Lao Chen also began to feel the level of waste in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
Not to mention in Area 2, even in a place with simple folk customs like Area 1, if this happens, they will already lead the FBI area to raid the zoo. If they encounter the gorilla, they will reflexively empty the magazine, and then Kill your way through the zoo to see what's going on.
Only the District 11 Police Department never disappoints anyone when it comes to waste.
"Ding ding ding ding~" Qiao Shuya's cell phone rang.
"Hello, vice president?" The secretary's voice came over the phone.
"Yes, what's wrong?" Qiao Shuya returned.
"Did Mrs. Asakusa just come to you for a commission?" the secretary asked.
"Yes."
"Mrs. Asakusain died in a car accident. There was a major car accident 5 kilometers away from the office, and a whole bus of people died."
…
Tokyo, Ueno Zoo.
Asakura Yui held the ice cream in her hand and said, "By the way, who was at the wedding that day? I forgot to read the news. By the time I saw it, it was already afternoon. I hurried over and the wedding seemed to have been completed in a hurry. "
The squad leader and Yuan Zhiai both covered their heads at this guy.
Qiao Shuya originally sent him a message before, asking her to go to the wedding to meet some of her future fellow Watchmen, but this guy completely missed this good opportunity.
"It's okay, just pretend you've never been there..." Yuan Zhi'ai returned.
"Forget it, let's have fun." Asakura Yui didn't care, she decided to have a good time at the zoo today.
I heard that there are giant pandas in Ueno Zoo. If you want to see giant pandas, you can go directly to Qiao Shuya's office. There is a super giant panda over two meters tall.
But Lao Chen's body shape, as well as his strong bear body and flexible skills, make him look a little like a polar bear.
She still wanted to see the slightly more silly giant panda.
The monitor also looked at other tourists and some animals around him while walking.
The only thing that was a little wrong was that her mobile phone signal was cut off just now. Originally, she wanted to show Qiao Shuya the animals here the whole time.
Only Yuan Zhiai, the more he walked in, the more he felt the bone-chilling chill.
Originally, today, when Asakura Yui said she wanted to go to the zoo with him, Minamoto Chiai immediately became alert.
She had PTSD from the zoo, but today she felt an indescribable throbbing, as if she was coming into contact with the feeling of a nightmare in her heart.
She was scared, trembling, and excited at the same time.
When the squad leader saw her in this state, he said he would take her out to play together.
But when she finally walked into Ueno Zoo, apart from her throbbing, Minamoto Ai seemed to also feel...a sense of security?
It was as if something was calling me.
(End of chapter)
