Chapter 50 We’ve been waiting for you outsiders for a long time.

Lin Yun couldn’t believe that the plaster monkey had actually retreated.

She quickly followed the vine bridge that the Ghost Vine had created between the trees and pursued the plaster monkey and the mutated tiger behind them.

The other mutated animals didn’t leave. Only the plaster monkey and the mutated tiger beneath it retreated.

Lin Yun wasn’t too concerned about how the battle would end. Once the leader was gone, it was only a matter of time before the remaining animals were suppressed by the humans’ overwhelming firepower.

When the tabby cat saw Lin Yun following them again, it was about to follow.

But Lin Yun gestured toward it from a distance, signaling for it to keep an eye on the humans.

She would be back soon.

The tabby cat pouted.

This two-legged creature!

If she doesn’t want the cat to come, then fine!

Why does she want the cat to watch those humans?

What kind of silly little cat does she think I am? Doesn’t she know how powerful those human weapons are?

The tabby cat snorted coldly.

Why hadn’t those humans brought such powerful weapons earlier?

If they had, so many people wouldn’t have died.

Cats didn’t understand.

And cats didn’t want to understand.

It was better to just listen to Lin Yun.

...

The mutated tiger wasn’t moving very quickly, seemingly because it was concerned about the plaster monkey sitting on its head.

As a result, Lin Yun had no trouble keeping up.

The only strange thing was that the plaster monkey still carried the stench of those rotten sunflower seeds.

Well...

After a while, Lin Yun had gotten used to it.

The mutated tiger carried the plaster monkey straight into the zoo, heading deeper inside.

Lin Yun cautiously followed.

The moment she entered the zoo, she noticed how eerily quiet it was.

There was no sound except for the footsteps of the mutated tiger.

The animals that had surrounded the zoo earlier had all gone out with the plaster monkey.

But when it returned, it hadn’t brought any other mutated animals with it.

When the mutated tiger reached an intersection, it turned left.

Lin Yun glanced at the abandoned road sign.

It pointed toward the zoo’s staff quarters.

Could it be...

Was someone manipulating the entire "plaster monkey" incident from behind the scenes?

Lin Yun quickly followed while carefully concealing her presence.

The mutated tiger eventually stopped in front of a small house and obediently lay down.

The plaster monkey climbed off its head and stood to the side.

Seeing this, Lin Yun understood that they had reached their destination.

She immediately hid herself and replaced the cactus thorns and sunflower seeds in her Crimson Feather Hand Crossbow with the Sky Arrow Feathers.

[You’re already here, aren’t you coming out?]

A hoarse voice suddenly came from inside the house.

Lin Yun froze.

But she still didn’t move.

[The one behind the tree. Besides you, there are no other uninvited guests here.]

Immediately afterward, a figure walked out of the house.

[Don’t make me send my tiger to drag you out.]

Lin Yun slowly emerged from behind the tree.

"Who are you—"

She hadn’t even finished speaking when she saw the figure clearly.

Lin Yun’s expression changed.

Was this person...

Still human?

Only his head still vaguely resembled that of a human.

The rest of his body appeared to have been fused with something else.

His limbs resembled those of some kind of enormous feline, although Lin Yun couldn’t identify exactly what creature they belonged to.

As for the tail...

She recognized it.

It was a snake’s tail.

[Hiss—this person...]

The system suddenly spoke, then abruptly fell silent.

Lin Yun frowned.

There were more important things to deal with right now, so she didn’t immediately ask what the system had been about to say.

"Aren’t you curious about why I’ve become like this?"

The man spoke again.

"You’ll tell me if you want to."

Lin Yun remained cautious.

"And what exactly are you trying to do?"

She knew that her own skills were full of weaknesses, and she wasn’t particularly suited for sneaking around.

The man smiled.

Then he suddenly said something that shocked her.

"I’ve been waiting for you outsiders for a long time."

[We’ve been waiting for you!]

"!"

Lin Yun’s eyes widened slightly.

What did he mean?

How did he know that she was an outsider?

"To be honest, I’m pretty unlucky."

The man sighed.

"I used to be a normal human being. I was a zookeeper here at this zoo."

"It’s just that I’m incredibly unlucky. During the evacuation, I inexplicably fainted. The others abandoned me because they thought I would only slow them down."

"When I woke up again, I had already become this inhuman, ghost-like creature."

He gave a bitter smile.

"At first, I didn’t understand what had happened either."

"I thought I’d simply mutated like those animals."

"But later, I discovered that something else had grown inside my body."

"Slowly, I understood."

"I understood why I had become like this."

"And I’ve been waiting."

"Waiting for you to come."

"Only you can make my pain disappear."

"I tried to attract your attention by gathering those animals, but none of you came."

"I couldn’t wait any longer, so I could only attract the attention of the authorities."

"What exactly are you trying to say?"

Lin Yun interrupted him, completely confused.

"Just let me finish."

The man sighed.

"I’m just an unlucky person."

"The system told me that it wasn’t intentional."

"When it was dropping something, I happened to be standing there, and that thing accidentally hit me."

"That’s what caused this accident."

"So the system told me about you outsiders."

"It said that if I could lure you here and get you to kill me, you would obtain what you wanted."

"What I want?"

Lin Yun frowned.

"But I don’t want anything."

"You don’t need to worry about that."

"Just kill me."

"I shouldn’t have been able to continue living in this world in this state."

"You have to kill me."

"My human consciousness is slowly disappearing."

He lowered his head and looked at his distorted body.

"You saw it yourself, didn’t you?"

"If I don’t die, I’ll eventually be completely assimilated into a mutated beast."

"I don’t want that."

"I’m human."

"I was born and raised on this land. I can’t do things that I shouldn’t do."

Lin Yun snorted coldly.

"You make it sound nice."

"But what about that plaster monkey?"

"It led so many mutated animals out to attack humans. It even tried to take over the official base in S City."

"How am I supposed to believe that you had nothing to do with it?"

She had personally witnessed everything the plaster monkey had done.

If this man hadn’t ordered it...

Then how was she supposed to explain what happened?

Could the plaster monkey really have acted entirely on its own?

The man sighed.

"As I just said, my human consciousness is gradually fading."

"So it’s normal that the monkey sometimes doesn’t listen to me."

"It’s just a little monkey I found here at the zoo after I underwent this change."

"I took care of it, but it has its own thoughts."

"I’m only doing my best to keep it under control."

"The last time I saw the plaster monkey, it had already left while riding on that mutated tiger."

"They ran incredibly fast whenever I called them."

"I couldn’t stop them."

Fan Xin looked helpless.

Why didn’t this girl believe him?

Everything he had said was true.

Even if it did sound rather unbelievable.