"Sir, the twenty-fifth hundredth of the city guard reports to you, I am Nikolai, the captain of the hundred. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info"A middle-aged officer, who appeared to be energetic, saluted the Count of Vantaa. Behind him, a hundred well-armed and well-trained soldiers stood solemnly and silently.

The soldiers were all armed with thick, sturdy lizard skin armor, and the weapons they wielded were not the ironwood swords of the Great Road, but the alchemy-treated spears and daggers with additional fire damage. Each soldier has a full set of equipment, from helmets to boots, all alchemical equipment.

Such a soldier, even with the wealth of the Coronian royal family, could only provide for thirty thousand. Each soldier has been selected through layers of selection, and the lowest rank is also five or six, and the 100-person commander-level officers are all good at about ten levels, and the middle and senior officers are even more proficient.

"This is my troops. Looking at the silent hundred-man team in front of him, the Count of Vantaa felt a burst of pride. He shouted to the soldiers: "Glorious city guard soldiers, you have been brought here so late because those hateful cultists are carrying out another shameful conspiracy. I want you to take them out, and crush them if they resist. Now, go meet the hunter lizards who are working with you. Speed up and catch those bugs. ”

Gack looks like an unremarkable, skinny old man, but in fact he's one of the best animal trainers in all of Coronia. Gack was always the best hunter when he was younger. His domesticated hunter lizards are smarter and more obedient than others, and are always able to catch more prey. If it weren't for a leg wounded by a prey during a hunt, he might have been a happy old hunter until now. In order to treat his injured leg, Gack had to come to the Ong Lap General Hospital in Colombo. Here, the high cost of medical care left the hunter bankrupt and unable to afford to return home. Gack, who had to stay in Colombo, was discovered by chance to be very good at domesticating animals. Since then, lured by the high salary, there has been one less hunter and one more animal trainer.

Now, Gack is searching the vicinity of the zoo's central dining hall with his beloved hunter lizard, followed by a hundred heavily armed soldiers. He holds a hat in his hand, which is the personal belongings of Jeremy, the unlucky guy who has been taken captive. After making the Hunter Lizard smell it, the Hunter Lizard reacted in both directions. However, the reaction is strong in one direction and mild in the other. Gack was surprised to find that the Hunter Lizard reacted more strongly to Jeremy's way from the Zoo to the restaurant than to the direction he had been captured. This shows that in the direction of Jeremy's departure, his smell is very little left, and it dissipates quickly.

"Chase, in this direction. Gack knew he couldn't delay, and immediately ordered the Hunter Lizard to chase in the direction Jeremy had left.

"That's not right. Sonya's tone was dissatisfied. "This isn't the monkey I'm looking at. ”

Looking at the animals in the cage that were very dissatisfied with being woken up by the light source, they were grinning and dragging their long tails and fluffy animals, Esther could be sure that this was a monkey! He looked at Sonya, who grabbed Jeremy's expression and was very angry, and then looked at Jeremy, who was scared half to death, and his pants gradually showed water traces, knowing that if he didn't speak, Sonya, who had drunk too much, would probably scare this fool to death. He coughed. "This is the monkey, Xiao Shou didn't deceive us. ”

"No, it's not. Sonia pulled out her garden guide again. Point to the introduction above and show it to Istan.

"Oh, I'll see. Easter was also curious about what Sonia was going to see. He leaned over and carefully looked at the introduction on the guide.

"Arboreal thin apes, distributed in many planes of the multiverse, are taller and thinner. It belongs to the slender species of ape, and there are several subspecies. ”

"Cave-dwelling dwarf apes, found in many planes of the multiverse, are short and stout. It belongs to the stout species of apes. There are multiple subspecies. ”

What the hell is this? East couldn't figure out what was on the poster. However, the word ape still gave him a hint. He comforted the dissatisfied Sonia and said to Xiao Shou, "What we are looking for is a monkey without a tail." Do you know where these monkeys are?"

Jeremy sniffed. He kept himself from crying. But I can't control the urge to urinate. He shook his head. "My lord, I don't know. I haven't seen a monkey without a tail either. ”

"You really don't know?" said Easter, skeptically.

"Really. I've been at the zoo for two years and have never heard of a monkey without a tail. ”

"So what's going on?" Sonia waved the poster in her hand indignantly. "This is issued by your zoo, right? You guys are cheating. ”

Even if he was frightened, Jeremy was a good servant after all, and he was very skilled at figuring out the tone of others. He gradually felt that things were not as bad as he thought, and that he might be fine. "I—Can I take a look?" he said, pointing to the poster in Sonya's hand, trembling.

"Yes. Sonia shoved the poster into Jeremy's hand. "You'd better be able to see something. ”

Thanks to Tocorunia's universal literacy education, Jeremy recognized almost all the words on the poster. He looked at it for a while, and suddenly realized that something was wrong. "This is a poster from 10 years ago!" he said, surprised. "I've never seen either of those animals at the zoo. Maybe he didn't adapt to the climate of Coronia and died early. ”

"How can this be!" Sonya's tone was very unwilling. "I've been waiting for ten years!"

"Alright. My dear 'sister', don't worry about these things. Let's hurry up. The owner of the food seems to be angry. Esther heard a large number of footsteps in the distance, and judging by the fact that there were probably hundreds of people coming.

"Are we just leaving?" said Sonya, who didn't see the monkey, angry. "This is false propaganda and is punishable. ”

"Of course we're not going to go that way. We must punish this zoo. Esther echoed Sonya. His mind was already thinking about how to give the zookeeper a memory that will last forever.

The hunter lizard stopped abruptly, purring and gasping into a bush on the side of the road. Grabbing the hunter lizard, he didn't let his head rush into the bushes, and he shouted to the soldiers behind him: "There is a situation, there is something in the bushes." ”

"You guys, go up and have a look. Captain Centurion Nikolai pointed to the bushes and told a few soldiers to be careful.

Several soldiers lowered their spears and leaned towards the bushes. One of the soldiers gently brushed the bushes away with his spear, and the others stood near him, covering each other with their weapons.

"Woo!" a terrible howl sounded as a dark figure burst out of the bushes and ran in the direction of a soldier. The soldier's hands were quick, and his spear swept away, sweeping the black shadow to the ground. Before the shadow could struggle, the rest of the spears were already staggered and pressed it firmly to the ground.

"What is this?" With the light source in his hand, Captain Nikolai looked at the creatures on the ground. It was a round animal about fifty centimeters tall, covered in black hair. Where it should be a face, there are three eyes that are constantly changing colors. He looked back at Gack, the animal trainer, and saw that the other man's face was rather bad.

"It's a three-eyed black bear. Gack recognized the animals on the ground. He looked up into the distance with a solemn expression.

On the rest of the way, the hunter lizard kept stopping, and the soldiers kept discovering many animals they knew and didn't know. Some of them were knocked down by the soldiers, while others ran away as fast as they could. Later, some animals even attacked the soldiers after they were discovered, and they were poked with spears all over their bodies.

Captain Nikolai's head was already big. He found the darkness full of all kinds of creatures. The zoo has a lot of vegetation cover, as well as mountains and water. These animals run everywhere. His soldiers were already very nervous. In particular, when a monster the size of a house rushed up the corridor from the darkness and rushed straight at a group of people, many soldiers activated their alchemical weapons and burned the monster directly to charcoal. Then, they discovered that it was a poor heterotopic boar who had been stabbed in the butt.

The hunter lizards are already going crazy with excitement. From time to time, a variety of prey emerge from the darkness, so that their blood hunting instinct trumps the acquired training. They rushed into the bushes to catch all sorts of animals, leaving the soldiers staring blankly around.

"We can't chase anymore. "Captain Nikolai gave up first. "Who knows what will emerge from the darkness. What's going on!"

"These bastards let the animals out. Gack clenched his fists and trembled. He thought of the zoo riot five years ago, and his heart was beating a drum.

"Let's go back and tell the director about the situation. We need assistance. Lockdown zoos. These animals must not be allowed to get into Colombo. ”

"I'm going to report the situation here to the Count as well. Nikolai didn't want to chase it early in the morning. He didn't want to chase into the jaws of some horrible creature in the dark. What kind of terrible animals are kept at Colombo Zoo is something that everyone who has visited has a deep memory.

When Captain Nikolai and Gak the Beast Tamer returned to the central dining room, they found that there was no need for any reports at all. Both the Count of Vantaa and the Director of Cruby already understood what was happening. Just five minutes ago, a woolly rhinoceros that had been released left the heated building, went crazy with the heat, ran wildly, and crashed to death on a wall of the central restaurant, knocking a big hole in the wall and scaring all the staff in the restaurant out of their bodies. The cooks and waiters scrambled to escape the restaurant, despite the Count of Vantaa's statement that this was the safest place, but were knocked to the ground one by one by the Count of Vantaa's command guards, thrown into a room and locked up.

The Count of Vantaa looked at the pale head of the gardener, Crubby, and a sense of powerlessness welled up in his heart. "Don't tremble here!" cried the Count to the Headmaster. "What's your most dangerous creature here?"

"Hydra, Shadow Leopard, Megajawed Bladetooth Tiger, Alienated Tyrant Dragon, Titan Crocodile Lizard, Beni Vampire Bat, ......" The director was going crazy, and he shed tears of grief and pain as he said the names of the beasts in the garden.

"Ahh "So what are you doing here, go to those guys' cages. Don't let them get out. These are monsters that can destroy a street!"

Listening to the roars of all kinds of strange beasts that kept coming from the night outside, Director Crubby collapsed to the ground, he was already frightened.

The Count of Vantaa kicked the tearful coward and shouted to the captain of his guard: "Surqi, send ten men, immediately go to the headquarters to transfer troops, and bring a thousand men." Also, inform Master Thrall and Valentina that we need Legendary Power. ”

"Damn!" he angrily kicked the hairy rhinoceros that was dead on the ground, kicking the huge cow corpse straight into the air, crushing a large field of flowers and plants when it landed.

"Hopefully it won't get that bad. The Count of Vantaa looked at the zoo in the dark of night, silent.