On your wedding night, stay with your godbrother; the Empress is practically throwing herself at you

The group walked quickly towards Monkey Mountain.

However, no one noticed that Hu Mei, who was walking at the back of the group, suddenly stopped.

She raised her delicate chin, and her small nose twitched a few times in mid-air.

Her once alluring face instantly lost its color.

This is……

The aura of the demon race.

Hu Mei immediately quickened her pace and pressed herself close to Lu Chuan's side, as if she wanted to say something.

But considering Zhao Lei was standing next to him, he could only hold back for the time being.

……

A few minutes later.

The group arrived at the outer edge of Monkey Mountain.

Inside the barbed wire fence.

really.

Then I saw monkey corpses lying haphazardly on the artificial hill, among the tree branches, and in the lawn.

Big and small.

There are so many different things.

There were at least a hundred of them.

A faint fishy smell permeated the air.

There was no blood.

There were no signs of struggle or fighting.

All the monkeys remained in the same position they were in during their last moments before death.

A baby monkey lay on its mother's back, and the two fell down by the pool.

A strong male monkey is holding half a banana in its hand, its stiff paw frozen in mid-air.

This scene.

This made everyone's faces turn extremely ugly.

Su Ling'er took a deep breath and stepped over the half-meter-high barrier.

He walked up to the nearest female monkey carcass, squatted down, and began to examine the situation.

She is a descendant of the Beast Taming lineage.

I have some knowledge about animals.

With fair fingers, he parted the hair on the mother monkey's neck, opened her eyelids to check, and then pressed on her abdomen again.

His expression grew increasingly grim.

Wukong, who was in Lu Chuan's arms, suddenly exerted his strength.

With a powerful kick, it transformed into a golden beam and shot into the barbed wire fence.

"Squeak!"

"Squeak!"

Wukong roared and leaped wildly among the stiff corpses.

"stand up."

"Get up quickly!"

"Dazhuang..."

"Waaaaah..."

Wukong kept shoving his companions on the ground with his claws.

Pull hard on their tails.

but……

Not a single monkey responded.

The monkeys, who used to greet him with great joy whenever he visited the zoo, were now completely unresponsive.

Wukong's movements became slower and slower.

It's getting increasingly stiff.

They stopped next to the carcass of an old, elderly monkey.

Then it raised its head and let out a shrill, ear-piercing howl.

"Waaah..."

That sound.

Pain, sorrow.

The sight caused everyone present to sigh with sorrow and grief.

Staring at the corpses scattered on the ground, Lu Chuan took a deep breath and then turned to look at Zhao Lei beside him.

Have you checked the surveillance footage?

"Was someone poisoning it?"

Zhao Lei took out his phone from his pocket, opened a video, and handed it directly to Lu Chuan.

"I already checked that."

"Nothing unusual was found."

Lu Chuan took the phone.

The screen was playing surveillance footage from about half an hour earlier at the monkey mountain.

In the footage, the monkeys are eating and playing normally.

Sudden.

All the monkeys stopped moving at the same time.

It fell straight to the ground.

No outsiders enter the monkey mountain.

No unusual food was served.

"They all died for no reason."

Zhao Lei grabbed his hair with both hands, his face full of anxiety.

"Suddenly, they all died inexplicably. We immediately sent people to check and rescue them."

"But there was nothing we could do."

Lu Chuan handed the phone back with a gloomy expression.

Just then, Hu Mei stretched out two fair fingers and pinched Lu Chuan's sleeve.

I tugged at it gently twice.

Lu Chuan turned his head to the side.

Hu Mei leaned close to his ear and deliberately lowered her voice.

"Owner."

"There's the aura of a demon here."

"I suspect it was the work of the demon race."

Lu Chuan was startled.

His eyes narrowed instantly.

Demon race.

This seems to be the only explanation.

He immediately turned around and gave instructions to Zhao Lei.

"Zhao Lei".

"Take some men to the warehouse and get the warning tape."

"Seal off the entire monkey mountain."

"No one is allowed to come near."

Then, he looked at Su Ling'er, who was still examining the corpses in the monkey mountain, and said...

"Ling'er, you and Zhao Lei stay here."

"Keep an eye on Wukong, don't let it run away."

Su Ling'er stood up and nodded.

"I see."

At this moment, she was unusually serious.

"Come with me."

Lu Chuan didn't linger and turned to walk towards the principal's office building with Hu Mei.

Back to the principal's office.

Lu Chuan locked the door behind him.

He then walked behind the large desk, sat down, and looked at the vixen opposite him, asking in a deep voice, "..."

"Demon race?"

Why would the demon race come to the South City Zoo to kill a group of ordinary monkeys?

"Contact Medusa immediately."

Hu Mei shook her head with a wry smile.

"Master, I can indeed contact the Empress."

"However, there are distance limitations for communication between demons."

"This place is too far from Xuefeng Mountain; it's beyond my perception."

"If we want to contact her, we can only go to the vicinity of Xuefeng Mountain."

Lu Chuan tapped his fingers twice on the table.

It makes a tapping sound.

"Then guess what they're trying to do?"

Hu Mei's expression was solemn, her usual alluring demeanor completely gone.

"I can roughly guess the reason."

"Master, do you remember the monkey legend I told you about that circulated among the demon race?"

Lu Chuan looked up.

Stop typing on the desktop.

The Legend of the Monkey.

According to Hu Mei, in ancient times, the demon race established a demon court, but a monkey became the root cause of the demon court's downfall.

Therefore, the demon race has always regarded that monkey as a major enemy.

They wished they could get rid of it as soon as possible.

And now...

Lu Chuan's eyes flashed.

The system seems to have recognized Wukong as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

The demon race's higher-ups must have also sensed something.

or.

What happened?

That's what led them to carry out an extermination campaign against these monkeys.

Lu Chuan leaned back in his chair.

Quickly sort through the existing clues in your mind.

There's only one possibility for the demon race to go to such lengths to slaughter beasts without cultivation.

Eliminate potential threats.

They are looking for Wukong.

Would rather kill by mistake, never let go.

If the source of this problem isn't nipped in the bud, Wukong will be exposed sooner or later.

"You mean, something has happened within the demon race?"

Lu Chuan finally figured out all the reasons.

"Did this make them so eager to exterminate all the monkeys to prevent future trouble?"

Hu Mei nodded emphatically.

"That must be it."

"Apart from a direct order from above, no demon would be so bored as to venture into a human city to kill ordinary wild beasts."

Lu Chuan suddenly stood up.

Pull out the chair.

"Walk."

"Let's go to Xuefeng Mountain."

"Go and ask Medusa directly."

He strode towards the door.

Hu Mei nodded and immediately turned around to follow.

The two pushed open the door and went down the stairs.

Just as they reached the lobby on the first floor, they bumped into Zhao Lei and Su Ling'er, who were rushing over.

Zhao Lei was still tightly holding Wukong, who was struggling, in his arms.

"Brother Chuan!"

Upon seeing Lu Chuan, Zhao Lei immediately pulled out his phone again and shoved it directly in front of Lu Chuan.

"Look at this!"

"It's not just in our southern part of the city!"

"The same situation exists in all the monkey enclosures at zoos in several surrounding cities!"

Lu Chuan stopped in his tracks instantly.

I took the tablet.

A news compilation is playing on the screen.

The scenes kept changing.

Jiangcheng Zoo.

Lincheng Wildlife Valley.

Shimencheng Macaque Reserve, and so on...

Without exception.

The ground was littered with the corpses of various monkeys, their deaths mirroring those at the South City Zoo.

They all died instantly.

There were no wounds.

……