Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 287 Beast King
The on-site investigators from the Municipal Bureau were astonished by the various injuries on Li Fei's body.

Scratched by a cat, bitten by a dog, pinched by a woman, and hit by a child, plus the inexplicable leopard fur on his body, it's as if this guy isn't a criminal at all, but an unlucky guy being beaten up by a group of people.

In particular, the leopard claw mark on Li Fei's shoulder left Qian Weiyi completely baffled.

However, this was a zoo, and animal fur was everywhere, fluttering in the wind. Plus, it was possible they'd bumped into a leopard cage during the fight. Therefore, although curious, Qian Weiyi didn't insist on knowing all the details of the truth. After all, there were more important and troublesome things to do right now: the seven bullets and casings fired from that small firecracker were crucial evidence he needed to quickly identify and retrieve without missing a single one.

A search of the police system's records of lost firearms revealed that the gun was matched to a narcotics officer in Yunnan province who had died six years prior. In other words, Li Fei now faces an additional charge of murdering a police officer, making his crimes even more heinous.

Yet this armed assailant, this criminal who killed someone on the spot and even openly fired a gun in a busy downtown area, was ultimately defeated and subdued by a cat. This scene left everyone utterly astonished.

This is a fact that is hard to understand and hard to believe, and it feels very unscientific and unbelievable.

but!

Based on the surveillance footage from the monkey mountain and the cameras used by Li Fei and Lin Ge during their pursuit, it is an undeniable fact that the cat caused significant harm to the suspect.

No one dared to imagine what terrible things the murderer Li Fei might have done if the cat hadn't happened to be there. The Type 64 pistol with its entire magazine empty was the most terrifying proof of this guy's unbridled audacity.

"A leopard! There's a leopard!"

Li Fei, who had been handcuffed, regained consciousness and his first reaction was to scream in terror. Even the most heinous criminal would never have intended to become food for a wild beast; he never dreamed that he would have such close contact with one.

Li Fei dared to kill, but that doesn't mean he wasn't afraid of death.

"Tch! You bastard, you're dead!"

The special police officer who was restraining Li Fei glared at him fiercely. The fact that this guy had killed a narcotics police officer made all the police officers just want to kill him as soon as possible.

In addition, he has numerous charges against him, including rape, assault, murder, drug trafficking and manufacturing, and forming a criminal gang. It is absolutely certain that this guy will be sentenced to death, and he is not worthy of any sympathy.

"What's going on with this zoo?!"

The cold handcuffs brought Li Fei back to his senses; he simply couldn't believe what he was seeing. The iron cuffs on his wrists felt like an illusion. How had he been caught? How had things gotten to this point? He couldn't understand it at all!
"Ouch!"

Lin Ge glared at Zhu Jun, dodging his mischievous claws. What's wrong with this guy? Is he addicted to rubbing cats' heads?
“Mimi, I haven’t even encountered an armed assailant yet! Or rather, since I arrived at Zhanghe Police Station, I’ve only seen four guns in total! One was a homemade gun confiscated from the countryside, and another was an air rifle confiscated from someone hunting birds. Add to that the guy you and Zhang Ke caught who was illegally manufacturing and modifying firearms, and this terrorist in front of us, and that makes four. Tsk tsk! Half of them are related to you, aren’t you having some bad luck?”

Zhu Jun stared at Lin Ge with a wicked smile, making Lin Ge's face darken and wish he could beat the guy up.

Why did Jiang Yiyi accept this jerk? How did she come to accept his foul mouth? It seems I need to have a serious talk with her and suggest she find a better boyfriend.

"Ok?"

Zhu Jun suddenly felt a chill, and shivered as he felt a bit cold.

He continued to dawdle and slack off with Mimi, but Nie Guoqiang eventually discovered him. Nie Guoqiang's cold gaze made Zhu Jun only able to chuckle awkwardly, and he obediently joined the team searching for bullets throughout the zoo.

With three bomb disposal dogs from the special police detachment, Lin Ge didn't need to get involved in finding the bullets.

Lin Ge waited anxiously until the ambulance finally arrived. He watched as the unconscious Qin Suya was carried down from the monkey mountain on a stretcher by Jiang Yiyi and a female police officer from the special police detachment, and then they hurriedly left together in the ambulance.

Also taken away was a Teddy dog ​​with a severely injured front leg. This fellow was also resilient; it didn't utter a sound after returning to Qin Suya's side. When the medics treated it, it didn't struggle or resist at all.

‘Crack! ’

On Monkey Mountain, several police officers kept taking pictures of the bloodstains and bullet casings on the ground.

Two policemen were searching for the bullets in the monkey mountain with a miserable expression, but who knew which crevices they had fallen into, or which mischievous monkey had hidden them?

Although the monkeys were being driven indoors by the keepers, the smell on the monkey mountain remained unbearable. Even police dogs were unlikely to be effective in this situation. After searching for a while without success, Zhang Hao took the initiative to approach Lin Ge.

Looking for bullets?

Nie Guoqiang, Mimi's agent, was stunned for a moment, as was Shao Yongkang, who was discussing the case with him.

As the person in charge of the Zhangzhou municipal government's case regarding the smuggling of prohibited drugs, it was only natural for Shao Yongkang to come to the zoo. He simply hadn't expected things to escalate so dramatically, and was currently complaining to Nie Guoqiang about the criminals' brazenness.

"The zoo environment is too complicated. All kinds of smells, feces, and wild animal urine cause a lot of trouble for the police dogs. Their daily training does not include dealing with wild animals, which makes their work efficiency a real headache for me."

Zhang Hao was helpless. Bullets are only the size of a fingertip; who knows where they'll end up after being fired? And zoos are mostly cages and complex environments—how long would it take to find them by human means?
Moreover, although the shooting was resolved quickly—it could be said that the suspect was arrested by police cats just minutes after the police arrived.

However… expecting the public to remain calm when such a shooting occurs in a public place is absolutely impossible. Right now, the internet and the surrounding area are in an uproar, with all sorts of rumors and fabrications making the police investigation very difficult.

In other words, the suspect is now firmly under control; otherwise, if he were allowed to escape with a gun, several more innocent and unfortunate people would have to be sacrificed.

"Mimi, aren't you afraid of these wild beasts?"

Nie Guoqiang led Lin Ge to the Wild Animal Park to search for the trail of the last bullet.

"Why should I be afraid?"

Lin Ge glanced at Nie Guoqiang.

Or rather, ever since seeing that ridiculously intelligent leopard at the zoo, Lingo's perception of these animals has changed considerably. They may be ferocious beasts, or they may be confined in cages. But in some ways, the real them are absolutely different from the silly, lazy, and slovenly image that outsiders perceive. Animals are not merely objects for humans to observe; they all have their own thoughts and their own unique little pleasures in life.

Furthermore, there was something else about Lin Ge himself that he didn't understand: a strange, endearing charisma. Even leopards wouldn't attack him, so what could other animals do to him?

Back near the cage of the two lynx cubs, unsurprisingly, the two little guys were already terrified and were hiding inside, refusing to come out. Lin Ge sniffed the spot where the pistol had accidentally discharged, only to smell a strong, pungent odor of gunpowder.

Recalling the direction the bullet was fired, it turned out it landed right next to the lynx's cage.

"Inside? Oh, it's those two!"

Nie Guoqiang frowned slightly, then relaxed upon realizing it was a lynx cage. Although he had assigned Lin Ge this task, he had no intention of letting Lin Ge come into close contact with wild beasts that could kill a cat in one bite.

Soon the keeper of the two lynx cubs was called over. It was a tired-looking young woman who happened to be the same one who kept the leopard next to them.

When Nie Guoqiang asked to open the cage and let a cat in, the girl looked astonished. When Nie Guoqiang said that the cat was the godfather of the two lynxes inside, she looked even more surprised, as if to say, "Are you kidding me?"

To be honest, Tang Li wasn't in a good mood right now.

With this incident happening at the zoo, coupled with the carelessness of the monitoring room in failing to notice the anomaly on the monkey enclosure in time, there's a lot of trouble and questions waiting for them!

Tang Li was about to explode at being ordered around by these brainless police officers.

"Ow!"

Suddenly, Lin Ge looked up and shouted, the strange sound startling Tang Li.

"Whoa!"

Soon, the cries of lynxes came from the cage. The two little guys rushed out of their nest as if they had seen a relative, and shouted desperately at Lin Ge through the wire mesh, as if they were blaming him for scaring them, two innocent little creatures.

Lin Ge slowly walked to the barbed wire fence and stuck his claws through the gaps.

Little Danxiao wasn't surprised. Under Tang Li's astonished gaze, it simply put its head under the paw and gently rubbed against it, revealing a very content expression.

The little idiot was getting impatient and kept nudging the timid one to give way. Seeing that the timid one wouldn't budge, it tried to imitate Lin Ge by sticking its paw out of the mesh, but Lin Ge slapped it hard. "You fool! Doing this when there are tourists, what if something happens!"

Lin Ge glared at the little fool, making him obediently lie down and lower his head.

Seeing this, Tang Li was completely speechless.

She could only accept the fact that the lynx she was responsible for actually had a cat godfather, but she didn't know that the other ancestor she was responsible for even had a habit of going out for walks every day, avoiding the cameras.

Lin Ge glanced back at the leopard's den, and sure enough, a head with a smile on its lips was quietly staring at them.

Seeing Lin Ge looking over, the playful leopard lying on the ground opened its mouth wide and yawned, then lazily turned over and lay down to doze off.

"Should we only let one go in?"

Tang Li opened the cage door and found that Nie Guoqiang had no intention of going in. She became even more curious about the cat; just how intelligent did this cat have to be to do something like that?
"Whoa!"

When they saw Lingo enter the cage, Little Timid and Little Confused were incredibly excited.

The two little ones had grown a lot since they were separated, but they still bounced around Lin Ge, even trying to cuddle with him. Little Confused had no idea how heavy he was now, and he bumped into Lin Ge, almost making him stumble. After being glared at by Lin Ge, he obediently followed behind, watching with curiosity as Lin Ge seemed to wander aimlessly through the tall weeds in the yard, searching for the bullet that had flown off somewhere.

"Woo?"

Seeing that Lin Ge had stopped in confusion after searching around, the two little ones following behind him looked puzzled.

"Can you help me find where that thing that just flew in went?"

Lin Ge really had no way to deal with this complicated terrain, especially the dense grass that was half a person tall, so he had no choice but to ask the two little guys to help.

He didn't know how to describe bullets, and Lin Ge wasn't sure if the two little guys could understand him, so he could only try his best to gesture the thing that had just flown into the cage.

"Woo?"

Unfortunately, those two idiots couldn't understand a word.

The little timid boy squatted obediently, staring at Lin Ge with innocent, clear, silly eyes. The little confused boy wandered around for a bit, then returned empty-handed, squatting on the ground, digging in the dirt and nibbling on his paws, having a great time.

Seeing this, Nie Guoqiang outside could only sigh and say, "Forget it! Mimi, come out. Let's leave this to the zoo and the special police unit. We don't need to blame ourselves for not finding it, after all, it's something we've never seen before."

"Right!"

Lin Ge felt no psychological burden at all, and slowly walked to the cage door, waiting for Tang Li to open it.

‘Click! ’

A sharp crack was heard, followed by Little Hutu's cry of pain. It seemed to have bitten into something hard, causing its teeth to snap painfully.

Lin Ge turned around in astonishment and saw a brass-colored object being bitten into by Xiao Hutu, who was gnawing on it as if venting his anger and intending to perish together with the hard metal.

"Fuck!"

Lin Ge was stunned. Didn't you find this thing?

"Tsk!"

Outside, Nie Guoqiang's lips twitched slightly, gaining a deeper understanding of Xiao Hutu's stupidity.

Seeing Lin Ge snatch the bullet away with a slap, Tang Li stared blankly at the hapless little lynx, who dared not resist and just lowered his head obediently without moving. Was this still a lynx? Was this still the same two nasty bastards who scratched her legs until they were bruised and swollen when she first came in?

"Woo!"

Seeing Lin Ge walk out of the cage, the two little guys immediately became anxious and tried to squeeze out after him.

Tang Li closed the iron gate, and with a glare, she was about to attack her pet owner.

Lin Ge quickly tried to dissuade them.

But what else could Lin Ge do? After handing the bullet over to Nie Guoqiang, he could only helplessly promise the two that he would definitely come to visit them when he had time.

"Bye-bye, Leopard Bro!"

After calming his two godson sons down, Lin Ge turned around and greeted the leopard in the opposite cage. Without this guy's help, catching Li Fei easily and without injury wouldn't have been an easy task.

"Roar!"

The clever leopard didn't even raise its head, only letting out a roar as a response to Lin Ge.

Even so, it was enough to surprise Tang Li.

What did she see?
That lazy leopard, who's indifferent to everything except playing hide-and-seek, is actually responding to a cat's meow? Isn't it just good at teasing itself? When did it become so close to this cat?
"A leopard, leopard fur?"

Nie Guoqiang recalled Qian Weiyi's complaints, saying that the zoo's slovenly environment caused him a lot of trouble at work.

After leaving the predator enclosure, Nie Guoqiang kindly reminded Tang Li to check the leopard's cage or something, in case such a ferocious animal escapes and injures people. Even scaring someone is a very serious matter, right?

"How can it be!"

Tang Li waved her hand dismissively, fiddling with her phone as she said, "We have professional staff who inspect every week. That worker has been working at the zoo for over twenty years and knows every detail of every cage inside and out. Besides, how could a leopard possibly run out and then obediently run back? Do you think this is a cartoon? Even if there are occasional news reports of animals escaping their cages, it would never happen at the Zhangzhou Zoo!"

Lin Ge rolled his eyes discreetly from the side.

Stupid woman!
The leopard you're in charge of has turned escaping into a walk for him! That guy has even figured out the function of the surveillance cameras. The only reason he hasn't been discovered yet is because you guys are lazy and stupid!
Despite this thought, Ringo did not intend to tell the people at the zoo about this secret.

First of all, this leopard was undoubtedly Lingo's savior, and he certainly couldn't repay kindness with enmity. Moreover, given the leopard's intelligence—it hadn't harmed anyone despite escaping from prison so many times—it probably wouldn't do anything that Lingo would regret.

So, pretending not to know, Lin Ge put the game between the leopard and the zookeeper out of his mind and followed Nie Guoqiang back to the monkey mountain.

"What? Two bullets are still missing? So, you want Mimi to help you down Monkey Mountain?"

Nie Guoqiang handed the evidence, covered in lynx saliva, to Zhang Hao, only to receive even more speechless news. Zhang Hao had already decided to give up the search for the two bullets, but Lin Ge's find rekindled his hope.

To be honest, it's just one or two bullets, not a serious matter.

But if things can be done perfectly, who would want to leave some annoying hidden dangers outside?

"Mimi, are you okay?"

The scoundrel Zhang Hao grinned shamelessly, seemingly believing that Mimi was the king of the zoo and that no animal could harm her.

"But the problem is, most monkeys are mentally ill!"

Lin Ge frowned, looking down at the mischievous monkeys below who were being herded into the room by their keeper, but were instead running around on the artificial hill, noisily playing games with the humans. These disobedient creatures, wouldn't they come and pull the cat's tail?
Lin Ge looked down at his sharp claws, recalled Li Fei's miserable state, and decided that if these monkeys dared to be presumptuous, he would definitely scratch them until their faces were covered in bruises.

(End of this chapter)