After hearing these words, Cheng Lin's brain suddenly shut down.
Then I remembered a arrogant duck and a gentle golden retriever.
Animal awakening... is rare, but I didn't expect it to happen here.
"Can you tell me the specific situation?" Cheng Lin asked.
The person in charge shrugged, "There's nothing to say. The keeper found it this morning, and then turned off the surveillance camera. Through some of its abnormal behaviors in the video, we guessed that it was most likely awakened. The people at the zoo immediately reported the case and notified the police.
The people from the Seventh Division just found it difficult to trace, so they came over and offered a reward for clues."
"Why didn't I hear the news? It stands to reason that it would be dangerous for animals to wake up and escape into the city. This news should not be concealed, but should be directly reported to the public by major TV stations, right?"
Cheng Lin was a little puzzled.
"The reason is very simple, because the Seventh Division judged that the animal was not very lethal, so it did not cause trouble in the city."
"What kind of animal is it?" Cheng Lin asked curiously.
The person in charge glanced at him and said, "A bird, a bird, to use a more elegant word, is...a black magpie."
"It's still elegant... Why don't you just say it's a magpie?" Cheng Lin complained in his heart, but he also understood that if it was just a black magpie... it does seem to have limited lethality.
"How are you? Are you interested? Do you want to take on this mission? Detective Cheng?" the person in charge joked.
Cheng Lin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Forget it, I'll get in the car and leave later. What missions are there for me to take on? Besides...do you think I'm really Sherlock Holmes? Or a primary school student from the Grim Reaper? It's just luck that I happened to come across the Terracotta Warriors."
That’s all.”
Chatted for a few words.
The staff over there also came back and said that the goods had been loaded onto the truck.
Cheng Lin stopped delaying and walked out of the "Practitioner's Alley".
Outside, a small box truck was parked.
Cheng Lin paid for it.
The last staff member was helping to close the carriage door.
Cheng Lin stopped him and peered in through the gap. There were piles of cardboard boxes painted with red and green apple patterns.
If ordinary people saw it, they would never expect that it contained spiritual plants worth millions.
After roughly counting the numbers with his eyes and confirming that they were correct, Cheng Lin locked the car and got into the passenger seat at the front of the car.
The driver, who runs long distances, was smoking there.
Watching him come up and put out his cigarette, he puffed his lips into the yard next to him and asked, "Do you sell apples here?"
Cheng Lin was startled for a moment, then smiled and said, "No."
The driver probably saw that he didn't want to talk, so he didn't ask any more questions. He just turned the key, started the truck and drove away.
What Cheng Lin told him was to take the truck to a nearby county.
It was quite peaceful along the way.
While the driver drove, Cheng Lin was playing with his mobile phone, watching videos, etc. This was considered a rare leisure time on the arduous journey of cultivation.
It was already afternoon when we came out.
When we finally left Chang'an City and were driving alone on the long national highway, outside the car window, we could see endless farmland on both sides of the road, and it was approaching evening again.
Today there are burning clouds, and the western sky is red, and the earth is shining golden.
"Master driver, let's stop here."
Suddenly, Cheng Lin, who was busy playing with his mobile phone, turned off the screen and spoke.
"What? Stop here?" The driver was stunned, thinking he heard wrongly.
"That's right, it's right here. There have been some temporary changes. My friend's car is nearby. He'll come over later and I'll give him the goods directly." Cheng Lin made up the lie without changing his expression, "Where's the money?
Don’t worry, it’s still as we agreed before, but you don’t have to travel so many miles, so just stop here.”
"Is this... okay? Then I can park the car and wait with you?"
"No, just help me unload the goods and put them on the roadside." Cheng Lin smiled.
Seeing his firm tone, the driver felt relaxed and happy.
You can save some distance and save gas money.
Although this request seemed a bit strange, he was too lazy to think about it too much.
Turning off the engine, the two of them opened the door and got out of the car, opened the warehouse, and began to move the boxes out.
There is only one spiritual plant in each box. To be on the safe side, a jade flowerpot is included, which is not light considering the soil inside.
It's heavier than that small green apple.
The driver was kind-hearted, probably thinking he was taking advantage, so he took care of himself and helped unload the goods.
Cheng Lin didn't refuse. Looking at the empty national road lined with dozens of cardboard boxes, the driver closed the door, got in the car, and drove away in the afterglow of the setting sun.
Only Cheng Lin and a pile of cardboard boxes at his feet were left alone, bathed in the soft light of the western sky.
"Phew, now I can finally move these to the spirit world. Is it easy for me to avoid the limelight..."
Muttering to himself, Cheng Lin laughed to himself.
After much thought, he always felt that it was not safe to open the light door in a populated place.
As for finding a room, these things are a bit eye-catching. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, I might as well just go through the trouble and get rid of them here.
Look left and right to make sure there is no one on either side of the road.
Cheng Lin smiled and looked at these boxes with relief.
In his eyes, this is not a cardboard box, but a rising "spiritual place".
However, the next second, Cheng Lin suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"This box..."
Cheng Lin frowned, walked to the one on the far side, pulled him over to take a look, and his expression suddenly changed!
"Why is there a hole here?"
I saw a hole as big as a fist on the side of the cardboard box.
The holes seemed to have been squeezed out, so there were only some wrinkles on the outside. He had not looked carefully at all before because of his trust in the authorities.
Now, this hole suddenly gave him a bad premonition.
He suddenly tore open the carton, and what he saw next made Cheng Lin's brain freeze.
In the carton, the jade flowerpot is still there.
The soil in the pot is still there.
It's just... that the spiritual plant in the soil has only a short stem left!
All the flowers, branches and leaves on it are gone!
A beautiful and brilliant flower seemed to have been chewed by a dog. Only a section of the stem was left, standing alone in the pot, looking helpless and pitiful under the sunset.
Cheng Lin felt as if his heart was being grasped by a big hand... It felt so distressing...
"This...what the hell is going on?"
He murmured, and pulled the second box over with trembling hands. He took a closer look... there was a hole in it too!
When you tear open the box, the scene inside is exactly the same!
"This one is gone too!"
Cheng Lin took a deep breath and opened the third...the fourth...the fifth...
Exactly the same!
The spiritual plants in every box are gone!
Seeing that the treasures he had finally bought were gone, Cheng Lin's face became darker and darker, and the murderous aura on his body became stronger and stronger. He was almost on the verge of going berserk.
Finally, when he opened the fifteenth box, he noticed something was wrong. There seemed to be a sound in this box!
Without waiting for further thought, Cheng Lin opened his hands and the fragile carton immediately fell into pieces.
Then, he only saw a fat bird squatting on the flower pot!
The gray beak and black feathers covered the little head, then spread to the chest, and stopped abruptly at the abdomen, turning into a sheet of snow-white. With the wings together, you could vaguely see a mixture of black and white, and a slender one.
The tail stands straight and pokes into the air abruptly, making people have the urge to take a handful.
At this moment, it is squatting in the flowerpot and pecking at the spiritual plants.
That beautiful flower had been eaten to pieces, its leaves were incomplete, and it looked as if it might not survive.
Seeing the cardboard box cracking and the sunlight splashing on its face, the black magpie obviously didn't react and stayed there stupidly.
After a full two or three seconds, it turned its head as if aware of it.
In its pair of blue, bean-like eyes, a terrifying human face filled with murderous intent was reflected.
"hehe."
Cheng Lin squatted aside, staring at the culprit, opening the corners of his mouth, revealing his white teeth.
Only then did the black magpie react. Its plump body trembled, and it tried to spread its wings and was about to fly away. At the same time, it let out a frightened cry: "Chacha!"
"You called me scumbag?!"
Cheng Lin felt that he had been provoked. The fourth-grade aura on his body burst out. His right hand reached out like lightning and grabbed the hateful bird. Feeling the opponent's struggle and the faint aura escaping from the feathers, Cheng Lin instantly
aware of its identity.
"So, the bird that escaped from the zoo is you, right?"
At this moment, Cheng Lin only felt that life seemed to be an absurd script.
Such a coincidence?
Not long ago, I was inquiring about this matter, but now I met it in the blink of an eye? This is really incredible.
No, no no.
This is no coincidence.
Cheng Lin tried hard to calm down.
After looking at the boxes, he suddenly realized that the awakened animals were probably very sensitive to spiritual plants. After the bird escaped, it probably instinctively looked for spiritual energy gathering places in the city.
The spiritual place in Qin Province is not in Chang'an.
In addition, the spiritual energy in the urban area is already thin, so it probably sensed the aura of its own spiritual plants through the spirituality of some kind of animal, and sneaked into the carriage while the workers were loading the truck.
He didn't take a closer look, which led to the situation in front of him.
Some things may seem coincidental, but if you think about them carefully, you can analyze the underlying logic.
"Scum...scum..."
Wu Que was caught by Cheng Lin. He struggled desperately for a while, but after finding that it was of no use, he became pitiful, stared at his blue eyes, and let out a pitiful cry.
Cheng Lin couldn't help but laugh angrily after hearing this.
My heart says that you have ruined so many of my things, do I expect that I can let you go just by begging for mercy twice?
However, amidst the cry of the black magpie, Cheng Lin finally let go of his hand, and instead used his spiritual energy to condense two vines, tied them up tightly, and hung them in the air.
After that, Cheng Lin simply tore off a piece of cardboard.
Put it under your butt.
Sit cross-legged on the warm road.
One person and one bird, looking at each other quietly in the afterglow of the setting sun.
There was silence for about half a minute.
Cheng Lin finally spoke. He crossed his arms across his chest and said in a bad tone: "Come on, let's talk. Tell me, how will this matter be settled? Is it public or private?"