"Be careful on the road, stay safe..."
Lin Ying placed Master Fox in a single-shoulder bag, sent it to the second business car, and handed all the previously purchased phones and some snacks to Ansheng.
Lin Ying patted the fox, got off the business car, and watched Master Fox leave.
"So this is what a Cullinan looks like," Chen Zhiyu was also at the entrance of the Pet Paradise, seeing the business car off.
Lin Ying glanced at Chen Zhiyu, her expression calm, without saying anything sarcastic.
The two didn’t actually know each other before this, but they were connected due to Master Fox and the Spirit Beast.
However, they also had some misunderstandings because of Master Fox.
At noon, Chen Zhiyu saw Yu Xueqing holding Xiaolan to play at the Pet Paradise with her own eyes, knowing that Xiaolan was the fox Yu Xueqing adopted a month ago.
Here comes the problem.
If Master Fox belonged to Yu Xueqing, then what was Lin Ying doing running around the streets at night with Yu Xueqing’s fox?
If you used human relationships to explain the whole thing.
What Lin Ying did was basically being a scumbag woman stealing Yu Xueqing’s girl, wasn’t it?
Faced with such a bad woman, was there anything wrong with Chen Zhiyu treating her with hostility?
The reason Lin Ying spoke back to Chen Zhiyu was actually very simple: she didn’t trust Chen Zhiyu, always feeling that this wild-spirited fellow was very likely to betray Master Fox in the future.
Not letting her have contact with Master Fox was to prevent any possibility of exposing Master Fox’s whereabouts.
The two, due to mutual mistrust, had never communicated, both deeply wary of each other.
However, the truth was, both knew where Ansheng lived, and they even knew Yu Xueqing.
Lin Ying took out her phone and called the security bureau, as well as the forestry, water, and emergency bureaus, to clearly explain what happened at Changping Pet Paradise.
In less than ten minutes, security personnel arrived on the scene.
As witnesses, Lin Ying and Chen Zhiyu were taken by the security personnel to the city bureau’s office.
The two unconscious crocodiles were transported to two low-temperature cold chain vehicles with the help of a forklift and were directly moved to an inland area.
Chen Zhiyu sat alone in a single room at the city bureau, with a very simple decoration style, just two tables and some chairs, nothing else.
In the supposedly hot summer night, sitting in the room, Chen Zhiyu only felt gusts of chill wind.
Unconsciously, she recalled the spy dramas and superhero movies she had watched, along with the interrogation scenes in those movies.
The deeper she thought, the more serious Chen Zhiyu’s expression became.
"No one has come yet, are they already psychologically pressuring me to make the following intense interrogation easier?"
Chen Zhiyu took a deep breath, took a sip of water from the cup on the table, and slightly calmed her turbulent thoughts.
Just as Chen Zhiyu was lost in thought, the door of the plain room was opened from outside, and a young man wearing short sleeves with long pants and carrying a single-shoulder bag, along with three others carrying briefcases, walked in.
The young man with the single-shoulder bag smiled and greeted Chen Zhiyu, saying:
"Sorry! We got stuck in traffic on the way, which delayed us for quite a while."
"I’ve heard from old colleagues at the bureau about Ms. Chen’s situation on the way over, and we express deep sympathy for your experience..."
"According to the National Wildlife Protection Law, Ms. Chen can apply to the Forestry Bureau and can receive some compensation after a review."
After sitting down, the young man apologized to Chen Zhiyu with a hearty smile, then pulled out a document from the briefcase of another middle-aged man and handed it to Chen Zhiyu.
Chen Zhiyu looked at the paper document, where ninety percent of the content was a template printout, only a few lines and the official seal were newly stamped, with the document titled: [Confidentiality Agreement].
The legal clauses below were simplified, written in plain and simple language.
Chen Zhiyu was stunned, looking at the people opposite her: "Do I just sign my name? You won’t subject me to any severe interrogation or anything like that?"
Chen Zhiyu’s words came out subconsciously, leaving the young and middle-aged men opposite her bewildered.
"Ms. Chen has a very rich imagination..." the young man said awkwardly with a couple of laughs, "Just sign your name first."
Chen Zhiyu signed her name on the agreement and handed it back to the young man.
The young man glanced at it and then passed the document to the middle-aged man from the confidential bureau carrying the briefcase.
"Alright, regarding the Changping Mountain Pet Paradise incident, we hope Ms. Chen can keep it confidential, and not leak anything before the Spirit Beast matter is officially unveiled to the public."
"Correspondingly, we will try to compensate for Ms. Chen’s losses and inform you of some matters."
Chen Zhiyu looked at the young man with a puzzled expression.
The young man smiled helplessly and said: "Regarding the Spirit Beasts... in some sense, it’s not top secret; if you really want to trace it back, it can even be traced to the last century."
"Moreover, we humans, in some ways, are quite perverse; the more forbidden, the more curious you might get to inquire. For your safety and our work, as well as the local security rate, we can explain some questions to dispel your curiosity."
"So... what are Spirit Beasts?" Chen Zhiyu asked the young man.
"Spirit Beast is just a code name, please don’t equate them with cultivation or fantasy novels; the ’spirit’ part refers to those extraordinary creatures who are highly intelligent."
"Spirit Beasts are actually quite smart, some Spirit Beasts have intelligence not inferior to humans," the young man said:
"But when talking about Spirit Beasts, the first thing we need to know is the danger of Spirit Beasts."
"Please don’t gamble your life on whether those extraordinary beasts have eaten enough today. Spirit Beasts are mutated creatures influenced by external factors."
"Last century’s Spirit Beasts were only different from ordinary beasts in fur color and intelligence, but by now, for example, some Overlord Level Spirit Beasts in certain areas, even some of our human firearms can’t harm them."
The young man smiled and said:
"Tonight’s incident at Changping Pet Paradise, as a witness, you should have a concept of it, right?"
At the battlefield of Changping Mountain Pet Paradise, besides the traces of Spirit Beasts’ combat, several powder metallurgy arrowheads were also collected by the riverbank.
Tracing such specially made things back to their source isn’t really a difficult matter.
Having confronted the mighty crocodile herself, Chen Zhiyu should have a more profound understanding of the danger of Spirit Beasts.