"Madam, there is no need to talk to me here. Also, I know you are in a hurry, but don't be impatient. The more impatient you are, the less useful information I will get. So don't be impatient. Stop and slow down.
Speak slowly." Qiao Shuya comforted the lady, took out a tea set,
"Madam, I only have black tea here, okay?"
Qiao Shuya made some black tea and asked his wife, who was sitting in the guest seat like an anxious king.
"I...can..." 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 visit Ueno Zoo today. We have been there many times before, and we are very 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 that 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 strange monsters that like to live on animals.
On the other hand, Qiao Shuya began to doubt his wife's mental state.
At this moment, the doorbell continued to ring.
"We went to the zoo, what happened?" Old Chen scratched his head in confusion.
Originally, today, when Asakura Yui said she wanted to go to the zoo with him, Minamoto Chiai immediately became alert.
What the hell?
"Because I'm just a female high school student who admires my ancestors~" the little miko seemed to be coquettish, then she gently approached Qiao Shuya and said, "This is the information provided by the Lord Palace Secretary."
"Ding ding ding~" Qiao Shuya's cell phone rang.
After Qiao Shuya finished speaking, he hung up the phone and continued to comfort the lady's unstable mental state.
"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 quickly dialed Yuan Zhi'ai's number, but still no one answered.
All he could see were the various reports provided by the Metropolitan Police Department.
"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 more crazy, talking incoherently and dancing around.
The problem is so big that Qiao Shuya feels like he has no way to start.
She had PTSD from the zoo, but today she felt an indescribable throbbing, as if she was coming into contact with the nightmare in her heart.
"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 and said,
Pointed it out to Lao Chen.
"Come on, come on!" The panda rolled down the stairs and asked, "What's so urgent?"
"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.
It is precisely because of the irresponsible attitude of the Metropolitan Police that Qiao Shuya's clues were cut off at this point.
"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. I
When I called the police, the people from the Metropolitan Police Department just asked me if I had a mental problem..."
"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.
.
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.
He immediately hung up and called again, but no one answered.
Qiao Shuya understood instantly. He had forgotten that he seemed to have planted a secret society with a mole carrying Fang Tian's painted halberd.
He said "Excuse me" and went to open the door.
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.
Although he knew that the witch was acting, it still made him feel uncomfortable.
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.
Seeing the spy providing information, Qiao Shuya suddenly frowned.
Only Yuan Ziaai, the more he walked in, the more he felt the bone-chilling chill.
Qiao Shuya opened the fruit basket, and there was really a basket of fruit inside.
And in the police files...
"I have infiltrated into the 'Drunkard Club' association, 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.
Subsequently, I decided to find an 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."
"Yes."
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.
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.
In the design of Wei Ning Office, the lobby is specially made as 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.
Therefore, Lao Chen upstairs did not know what happened in the living room.
Even if the scope is narrowed to Tokyo, there have been more than a hundred people missing in recent years.
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."
At least as far as Ueno Zoo is concerned, there will be no aquarium.
In fact, just now when it discovered that Qiao Shuya was receiving guests, he went upstairs on his own.
Only the 11th District Metropolitan Police Department never disappoints anyone when it comes to waste.
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 all the way.
Then the case was hastily concluded.
"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.
The little witch left, but Qiao Shuya instantly felt like there were ants crawling on her body.
"Okay, you can leave first, I'm very busy now." Qiao Shuya said.
Qiao Shuya: "???"
The wife’s entire face became frightened: “They are human-shaped animals!”
The monitor and Minamoto Chiai both covered their heads at this guy.
Especially the zoo, it doesn't seem to be fixed, but like the other world, it needs to be triggered to enter.
"Madam, are you awake?" Qiao Shuya started to stop his wife, who was getting more and more crazy, from continuing.
"Okay, thank you, senior, I love you!"
"Where did you say Xiao Ai and the others went to play?" Qiao Shuya asked.
"Then let me tell you, there are only two zoos in Tokyo?" Qiao Shuya said.
After sending his wife away, Qiao Shuya's hand tapped on the table rhythmically.
Qiao Shuya frowned and thought. There seemed to be a problem here. He temporarily believed that his wife's mind was normal. The zoo that she entered was different the two times she entered. The zoo she entered for the first time felt like she had entered another world.
Forget it, let's see how well the man holding Fang Tian's painted halberd recognizes his adoptive father.
She still wanted to see the slightly more silly giant panda.
"Forget it, let's have fun." Asakura Yui didn't care, she decided to have a good time at the zoo today.
"It's okay, just pretend you've never been there..." Yuan Zhi'ai returned.
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.
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.
A zoo, a zoo again.
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 bound their missing reports together.
Together, we wrote "Shen Yin".
Each of his fingers tapped on the table rhythmically, and he began to feel uncomfortable. Should he take this job?
At the bottom of the fruit was a guard. Qiao Shuya tore the guard to pieces and revealed a note inside.
"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 being the scavenger of the Tokyo Association. He can also handle some chores. I'm very happy.
Busy, please don’t call... beep beep beep..." The phone was hung up.
"Did Mrs. Asakusa just come to you for a commission?" the secretary asked.
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?”
Could it be that the first time that lady entered was not the zoo, but the subspace?
Qiao Shuya muttered to himself in confusion.
The other world... and the real world...
"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."
"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.
"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?"
Qiao Shuya put on the gloves silently, and then...
But Lao Chen's body shape, as well as his strong bear body and flexible skills, make him look a bit like a polar bear.
"Pa!" After the slap, the wife suddenly woke up. She looked at Qiao Shuya blankly, her eyes red.
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 so weird that it doesn’t look like it was done by strange demons.
"Then continue describing, madam." Qiao Shuya said calmly and began to calm his wife's excited emotions.
The monitor also looked at other tourists and some animals around him while walking.
What makes Qiao Shuya even more troubled is that if what his wife said is okay, this matter will be a bit tricky.
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.
…
"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.
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 the human body, and then continuing to live in the human world wearing this layer of human skin.
.
Because of this method of entering the other world, the only thing he could think of was the subspace. Otherwise, even the Demon King would be in trouble.
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.
Except Qiao Shuya, because his room is right behind the reception room.
Lao Chen's expression became dull for a moment.
…
Qiao Shuya: "..."
"Hello, Vice President?" The secretary's voice came over the phone.
"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."
Old Chen also began to feel the level of waste in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
"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!"
"Old Chen! Old Chen!" Qiao Shuya called the panda.
He felt a headache, and his wife's current state was a bit like the SAN value returning to zero when she saw the ancient god.
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.
He seemed to have forgotten something, Qiao Shuya began to feel a little anxious, he seemed to have forgotten something, etc...
Tokyo, Ueno Zoo.
Not to mention in Area 2, even in a place with simple folk customs like Area 1, if such a situation happened, they would already have raided the zoo with the FBI area. If they didn't encounter the gorilla, they would reflexively empty the magazine, and then
Kill your way through the zoo to see what's going on.
"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!”
…
"Yes, what's wrong?" Qiao Shuya returned.
"But I am 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.
"
"What's wrong?" Lao Chen also felt something was wrong.
"Wait, aquarium?" Qiao Shuya continued to lean back, "Is there an aquarium in the zoo?"
Asakura Yui held the ice cream in her hand and said: "By the way, who is 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.
"
Thinking of this, Qiao Shuya dialed Uncle Li's phone: "Uncle Li, I want to check some information about..."
The second time you enter, it feels like you have truly entered a real-life zoo.
"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..."
And soon, the secretary had sent over the information Qiao Shuya needed, and Qiao Shuya's brows instantly knitted together after seeing it.
Qiao Shuya: "..."
She was scared, trembling, and excited at the same time.
When the class monitor 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 Chia seemed to also feel...a sense of security?