Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Zhi Lixuan didn’t hear their conversation and didn’t believe a word Master Xia’s disciples said. He still asked the security guard to hold Master Xia down and said, “What’s with the clairvoyance? Stop talking nonsense and return the money before you leave!”
Master Xia’s disciples were furious when they saw how their master was being treated. So they shouted, “Master! Let’s do some magic and teach them a lesson!”
Master Xia felt forced into such a position of trust. How could he truly teach anyone a lesson? At best, he just possessed a pair of yin-yang eyes, which were rather troublesome. Aside from assisting with funerals, they were useless beyond the ordinary. He was unafraid of ghosts, so after making his fortune, he had long sought talismans from renowned Taoist temples across China to block them, never removing them unless absolutely necessary. This trip to the zoo wasn’t a funeral, and he wasn’t a true practitioner of magic, but he had put on the talisman long beforehand, fearing the possibility of encountering something unclean.
So, encouraged by his disciples, he could only continue to struggle, shouting uselessly at the security guards: “Let me go! Let me go!”
Perhaps because he was struggling too hard, the security guard felt that it was difficult to hold him down. After trying to get rid of him a few times, he got angry and simply reached out and grabbed his shoulders without any hesitation.
Master Xia screamed in pain when he was grabbed, but before he could resist, he suddenly felt his neck tighten, and at the same time he heard a muffled sound of something breaking in his ears.
Wei Xi keenly noticed their movements and raised an eyebrow at his apprentice, saying, “That thing seems to be falling.”
He wasn’t worried at all, but Uncle Shen, who had listened to his discussion with his apprentice, shouted, “It’s broken!”
Wei Xi: “What?”
Uncle Shen stamped his feet and reminded him: “Master, we are the ones who evaded the tickets!”
At first, Fatty was just laughing at the joke, but when he heard Uncle Shen’s words, he slapped his head and panicked: “Boss! If we steal his business, he won’t report us, right?”
Shuo Zong: “…”
Wei Xi: “!!!”
Wei Xi’s expression changed immediately, and his eyes became fierce: “Don’t let his talisman fall to the ground!”
The sect staff panicked and rushed forward together, yelling, “It’s too late! Aa …
When Master Xia heard the sound, he realized almost instantly that the talisman hanging around his neck that blocked his Yin-Yang eyes had broken, and he exclaimed, “My talisman!”
However, his shoulders were still held down by the security guard, and he could not move. He watched helplessly as the talisman slid down his chest, and his sense of security disappeared along with it.
He was extremely upset, but when he saw the crowd around him, a brief feeling of relief flashed through his mind – fortunately this was in the zoo, where there were no unclean things. If it were in a desolate cemetery, where lonely ghosts gathered, if the talisman was removed, it would really be…
The next second, the talisman fell to the ground. His mind was halfway through relaxing when he suddenly heard Wei Xi’s low shout, mixed with some other sounds. He thus instinctively raised his eyes and looked forward.
Master Xia: “…………………………”
“Ah!” The two security guards holding Master Xia’s shoulders suddenly shouted in panic: “Hey! What’s wrong with you?”
There was no response from the person under their hold, so the security guards subconsciously loosened their hands. Master Xia’s slightly plump body trembled slightly, then he rolled his eyes and fell softly to the side, leaning weakly into the arms of the square-faced man who was pressed aside, twitching from time to time.
Square-faced man: “???”
Master Xia’s disciples also cried out. Zhi Lixuan, who was about to start a communication session with the pheasant spirit, was frightened. He then rushed forward and leaned over to take a look: “Why did he faint?”
After taking a closer look, he panicked even more: “Why is he peeing again?”
Master Xia’s disciples were startled, their eyes fixed on the spot where their master was still dripping water. “……”
Zhi Lixuan was afraid that someone might die, so he yelled to Wei Xi, “Master Wei! Master Wei! What happened to him? Is he possessed?!!!”
Wei Xi: “…”
Fatty, Uncle Shen, and many of the sect employees were so angry that they started jumping around: “I was almost there! I was really almost there!”
After a long while, Wei Xi’s second disciple finally closed his eyes, forcing himself not to look at the idiots in the room. He coldly said to the bewildered Zhi Lixuan, “Maybe he’s having an epileptic seizure.”
….
Zhi Lixuan thought to himself, why would this person suddenly have an epileptic seizure when he was fine before? Moreover, the symptoms were as if he was frightened, with convulsions and incontinence.
However, the person had already fainted, and there was nothing he could do. He could only ask the security guard to lay Master Xia flat on the ground and then call an ambulance.
The square-faced man was also shocked by the sudden illness of the master he had invited. He felt that he had experienced more in this day than in his entire life. The wounds on his body caused by the black swans were painful, but Zhi Lixuan seemed to have no intention of letting him go. It was obvious that he wanted to get to the bottom of the zoo feed issue.
He was both scared and angry, but he still held on to a chance and tried his best to suppress the trembling of the unknown in his heart, convincing himself that this group of people might be the shills that Zhi Lixuan hired to bring him down, in order to trick him into admitting his wrongs.
Unexpectedly, he didn’t need to say anything at all. The young man from Taicang Sect who claimed to be able to speak bird language actually opened his mouth and accurately told the address of the warehouse where he stored the privately purchased feed!
The square-faced man’s expression finally changed completely. He was truly in a panic about his secret being exposed and in fear of Taicang Sect – he had rented that warehouse in his own name, and the location was very hidden. Out of caution, he had not even revealed it to many of his trusted employees, so Zhi Lixuan should never have known about it!
Moreover, a large amount of inventory that he had recently replenished, as well as the transaction documents of his long-term cooperation with suppliers, had just been stored there. Once Zhi Lixuan got his hands on it, not only would he lose his place in the zoo, but it would be enough to sue him in court for embezzlement!
I’ve been so careful this whole time, how could I be exposed so easily…
The square-faced man watched in despair as Zhi Lixuan took the address and asked someone to verify it. He was speechless. Looking ahead at the Taicang Sect and its group, whom he had previously disregarded, he felt hatred and fear in his heart and wanted to find someone to help him. However, when he turned around, he saw Master Xia, whom he had invited, still lying on a makeshift emergency bed, twitching with fear.
The square-faced man was startled and suddenly remembered that before Master Xia fainted, the disciples around him were encouraging him to teach those who disrespected him a lesson, and then the master surnamed Wei opposite him whispered to him, “Don’t let him…”
Don’t let him what? The distance was a bit far, and the square-faced man was busy arguing with the security guard at the time, so he didn’t hear clearly.
But there was no doubt that Master Xia became what he was now after the other party shouted this sentence.
Such a horrific act was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back. The square-faced man trembled all over, his anger instantly overwhelmed by his surging fear. He felt like jumping off the building. If he had known that Master Wei was so powerful, how could he have…
Zhi Lixuan was quite surprised when he got the address: “This address is not inside the zoo, it’s quite far away. How do they know this?”
Wei Xi glanced at the pheasant spirit, who chuckled, “Chairman, the animals in the zoo aren’t all organized. There are still quite a few stray cats and mice that sneak in, as well as magpies and sparrows that eat and drink for free. These temporary workers run around everywhere, and they know a lot more than humans do. They’re full of gossip. The bird area and the red panda house are free-range, and the work is boring. When they have nothing to do, don’t they just chat with these temporary workers, slack off, and curse the boss?”
Zhi Lixuan: “…”
Zhi Lixuan wiped his face and said, “Please apologize to them for me. I asked Guang Hao to handle the feed procurement. I didn’t expect him to secretly replace it. After today, I will have someone replace the feed as soon as possible.”
The black swans present flapped their wings, and the flamingos and red pandas remained silent, indicating their agreement.
But they were not the only animals making noises in the zoo. They just escaped more easily because they were free-range. When Zhi Lixuan contacted the keeper to inquire about the situation, he heard that the lions and tigers in the Lion and Tiger Mountain in the beast area and some herbivores in the herbivorous area were still in a state of anxiety.
Square Face not only changed the feed in the bird and red panda areas but also replaced the fresh meat of the animals in the carnivore area with frozen meat. And so on, other animals probably couldn’t escape it either.
There was no other way, Zhi Lixuan had to ask Wei Xi to bring people with him to check it out. However, the problem was not so easy to solve, as the animals in the zoo had already had it.
Wei Xi saw his demon employees were busy as hell, returning every now and then to report, “The monkeys on Monkey Mountain are complaining about too many tourists and too long working hours, from morning till night with no shift changes. Their every move is watched, and they don’t even have time to enjoy their married life.”
Wei Xi: “Married life?”
Second disciple: “…”
His second disciple quickly drove away the weasel demon without waiting for him to ask. Zhi Lixuan stammered, “…then I’ll split them into two shifts, one to work and one to rest?”
The squirrel spirit stepped forward again and said, “The brown bear said that the tourists are too uncivilized. They like to knock on the glass wall of the exhibition hall when he is sleeping, making it difficult for him to sleep. If these tourists are not driven away, he will leave sooner or later.”
Zhi Lixuan was already confused: “You can’t chase away tourists. I’ll ask someone to add a guardrail outside the glass wall. What will it eat without tourists?”
The most difficult one was the Lion and Tiger Mountain. The Siberian tiger not only refused to cooperate with the squirrel spirit’s questioning but also pretended to scare it. When Wei Xi saw his employee being bullied, he rushed forward to fight but was stopped by Zhi Lixuan. What would happen if the Siberian tiger was beaten?
The squirrel spirit squatted outside the gate and advised the tiger, “Life out there isn’t easy either. Not only do you not cherish your positions, but you insist on running away. The director of the Forest Zoo has also promised not to feed you frozen meat anymore. You have food, drinks, and rice noodles at work. What’s so good about being out there?”
Perhaps realizing that Wei Xi and Shuo Zong were not easy to mess with, the Siberian tiger stopped trying to scare it but continued to lazily lick its paws and wipe its face like a big cat, ignoring them.
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