Chapter 132 Cursed Panda

The night was misty, the moon half-hidden in the clouds, revealing only a blurry outline.

The monkey enclosure was pitch black and silent, with a few mosquito-zapping streetlights hanging around, illuminating an area of no more than two meters. Far from bringing light, they only added to the eerie and sinister atmosphere.

Upon hearing the monkey speak, Zhang Yuanqing could no longer move his feet.

The Palace Master Zhisha and Princess Yinyao in front of him also stopped, looked at Zhang Yuanqing, and then at the monkey.

At this moment, the large monkey on the artificial hill spoke again:

"If you can't put it into the item bar, you can't make it recognize you as its master. This is a rule-based item that you created. In ancient times, it would have been a natal magic weapon. Unless the original owner dies, the natal magic weapon will not recognize another master. Zhang Tianshi, you're making things difficult for me."

The large monkey paused for a few seconds, and then said:

"I told it that I have important things to deal with and will be away for a while, maybe a few days, maybe a few months, or maybe a few years. During that time, you will be the administrator. It agreed.

"Elder Gou, if you don't want to accept this responsibility, I can think of another way, but you know what is suppressed in the zoo. I don't trust leaving it to unreliable people, and you wouldn't either."

This was a conversation that took place twenty years ago, or even longer ago, and was "recorded" by the monkeys in the zoo.

And the two sides of the conversation were Zhang Tianshi and Elder Gou.

The monkey paused for a few seconds as usual, and continued:

"The four of you shouldn't have trespassed into that ruin in the first place. After trespassing into the ruin, you released those terrifying things. You can't send them into the Lingjing, and it's difficult to completely annihilate them. Now you've created this prop to contain them, making it so awkward."

"There are secrets of the Lingjing hidden there, we had to go."

The conversation ended here, because the big monkey "squeaked" strangely, jumped off the artificial hill, raised its tail, and ran swiftly into the depths of the monkey enclosure.

Zhang Yuanqing was still immersed in the content of the conversation, standing beside the bushes by the fence, pondering with his eyes lowered:

There was too much information. He needed to think about it carefully.

"What's wrong?" Palace Master Zhisha's voice interrupted him, "What are you spacing out about?"

"Sister, what do you think of what the monkey just said..." Zhang Yuanqing suddenly raised his head, as if he had just reacted, staring at Palace Master Zhisha with a strange expression: "The monkey just spoke, didn't you hear it?"

This time, Palace Master Zhisha's face changed.

Princess Yinyao also wanted to change her expression, but she was a Yin corpse and couldn't make expressions.

"We only heard the monkey 'squeak'," Princess Yinyao raised her small loudspeaker, and her voice weakened as she spoke. She carefully looked at Zhang Yuanqing:

"Are you okay?"

Only I can hear the monkey speak? Zhang Yuanqing looked shocked. Although he had a bad feeling in his heart when he heard the monkey speak human words, the monkey had already spoken, making it an unchangeable fact.

So, he continued to listen with the mindset of taking it one step at a time.

But the fact that only he could hear the monkey speak was a different matter.

Why could he hear it?

After a round of scrutiny, Palace Master Zhisha didn't notice anything unusual about Yuanshi Tianzun, so she asked:

"What did you hear?"

Perhaps the content of what the monkey said would provide clues.

Zhang Yuanqing then told the two of them the conversation that the monkey "played" in its entirety.

Princess Yinyao was an outsider, she didn't know Zhang Tianshi, nor was she familiar with Elder Gou, so she listened to it as a strange story.

Palace Master Zhisha's tone revealed shock:

"This zoo... was built by your father? It didn't come from the Lingjing? No wonder Elder Gou hasn't completely controlled this item in the past twenty years, because it's been thinking about its first master."

In shock, she almost blurted out "zoo" and "Zhang Tianshi," which would have violated the zoo's taboo.

It's been thinking about my father, waiting for more than twenty years, but it doesn't know that he will never come back... Zhang Yuanqing finally understood why the zoo was so resentful.

"Night Watchers don't have the skill to create items. The leader shouldn't be my father, but he must have participated in the creation of the zoo. None of this is important. What really concerns me is the evil that the zoo is suppressing and the ruins that the four-person team explored."

He didn't dare to mention the Xiaoyao organization, for fear of attracting bad changes.

However, based on the current situation, the zoo's artifact spirit doesn't seem to take the initiative to attack. This artifact spirit should also follow its own rules. Combining the last time the artifact spirit mistakenly thought he was Zhang Zizhen, and watched him leave while resentfully accusing him, the artifact spirit itself doesn't seem to have any means of attack.

All of its abilities are hidden in a series of rules.

Palace Master Zhisha pondered:

"In the process of pursuing the secrets of the Lingjing, they found a ruin that exists in reality. As a result, they accidentally released the sealed evil inside. In order to prevent the monster from harming reality, they created this zoo to contain the strange."

"The purpose of the staff's patrol is to prevent the strange from escaping the zoo? But they will also be affected by the strange, turning from blue uniforms to black uniforms."

Zhang Yuanqing nodded. His previous doubts were explained. The staff's "mutual killing" was not the artifact spirit's bad taste, but the result of this rule-based item and the evil in the zoo fighting against each other.

The ancient war god in the thick fog should be one of the evil beings.

At this time, Princess Yinyao raised her small loudspeaker and said:

"Each zoo holds evil beings. The evil in the Dodder Garden is related to the Heart Demon (Null Being), the thick fog is related to the ancient war god, then..."

She looked at the monkey enclosure: "What kind of evil is this related to?"

Zhang Yuanqing was about to make a guess when he suddenly felt itchy all over. He raised his hand and scratched his neck, actually scratching off a tuft of black-brown fluff.

A bad feeling suddenly arose in his heart, and then he heard Palace Master Zhisha's exclamation:

"Yuan Yuanshi, you're turning into a monkey!!"

Princess Yinyao was also dumbfounded, staring blankly at him.

Zhang Yuanqing's heart sank. He immediately took out the ghost mirror. The bronze mirror reflected a half-human, half-monkey face, and it was rapidly becoming more ape-like.

Black-brown monkey hair was growing rapidly in the follicles of his face, his brow bone protruded, his irises turned into broken gold, black hair also grew on the back of his hands, his fingers became longer, his palms became narrower, and his spine began to curve...

He understood.

The consequence of hearing the monkey speak was turning into a monkey.

The root power was a curse!

He had encountered a similar event in the Yin-Yang Town dungeon. That time, everyone in the team turned into cats.

Palace Master Zhisha and Princess Yinyao were a little at a loss. Neither curses nor purifying curses were their strengths.

"Yuanshi, purify the curse!" the Palace Master said quickly.

Without her reminder, Zhang Yuanqing had already activated the Pure Yang Cleansing Body Record, mobilizing the power of the sun to suppress the curse.

However, the alienation only stagnated slightly, and did not stop.

This was different from the Dodder Garden. That time, he had not violated the rules, so the power of the sun suppressed the temptation of the Heart Demon.

The alienation of his body was still going on, and Zhang Yuanqing's thinking was also changing. His intelligence was rapidly declining, and climbing, eating, and sleeping became the things he most desired at this moment.

The change was not a simple change in appearance, but a change from the inside out.

Once his alienation was complete, he would completely turn into a monkey, losing his personality as a human being.

Zhang Yuanqing tried his best to think of a way, but his IQ had already slid into the abyss, his mind was a mess, empty.

Although monkeys are intelligent animals, they are far behind humans.

"Yuan, Yuanshi Tianzun, your eyes are becoming dull..."

Princess Yinyao keenly noticed this phenomenon, and spun around anxiously, but what could she do when the power of the sun could not solve the problem?

Palace Master Zhisha strode over, a faint illusory light appearing in her eyes, "Look at me!"

The half-human, half-monkey Zhang Yuanqing instinctively raised his eyes, and Palace Master's eyes were reflected in his pupils, so his eyes were also stained with a faint illusory light.

"You are Yuanshi Tianzun, not a monkey, you are Yuanshi Tianzun, not a monkey..."

A soft and ethereal voice repeated over and over again.

Zhang Yuanqing's eyes were empty and his expression was wooden, but his IQ, which was sliding into the abyss, stopped at this moment, and the human self-awareness awakened.

The next second, his pupils burst out with inspiration, and he briefly regained his state.

Without hesitation, Zhang Yuanqing immediately opened the item bar and took out the Perfect Human Skin and the Eight-Span Mirror.

Without a handle, the bronze mirror, like a full moon, reflected the figure of a half-human, half-monkey, and then a yellow light popped out of the mirror, turning into another half-human, half-monkey Zhang Yuanqing.

"Ah, just came out and lost sanity, you're already level six, how come you're always in danger"

While complaining, the half-human, half-monkey grabbed the Perfect Human Skin and smeared it on his face.

The human skin melted like wax, covering his body. It was still half-human, half-monkey, without any change, but the real Zhang Yuanqing began to shed hair, and the alienated parts such as irises and palms gradually recovered.

The clone created by the Eight-Span Mirror bore the karma of the original body.

Without the power of the sun and the blessing of hypnosis, the clone quickly turned completely into a monkey, scratching its ears and cheeks and "squeaking" wildly.

Zhang Yuanqing grabbed the monkey and checked it roughly, and found that it was a real monkey, with the bone strength, muscle toughness, and so on, of a monkey.

If I had turned into a monkey, I'm afraid I would never have been able to recover. This curse is definitely at the Dominator level, or even higher. Zhang Yuanqing felt a wave of fear in his heart, and with force in his fingers, he "snapped" the monkey's neck.

The brown-haired monkey stopped struggling, its limbs drooping weakly, and then it turned into yellow light and collapsed.

Only a cicada-wing-thin piece of human skin remained in Zhang Yuanqing's hand.

The benefit of having many props is reflected at this time.

There are many Lingjing Xingzhe professions, and each profession has special abilities. In the zoo with complex rules, having many means is more important than having a high level.

Don't look at Palace Master Zhisha as a Dominator, but she had no way to deal with the situation just now. Professions have limitations.

"This prop is very useful, where did it come from?" Palace Master Zhisha breathed a sigh of relief, staring at the Perfect Human Skin, and said with a grin, "Lend it to me to play with."

Zhang Yuanqing quickly retrieved it into the item bar and cleared his throat:

"Let's go, it's important to get down to business."

The Palace Master wrinkled her nose: "Stingy!"

The two people and two corpses continued to move forward, trudging through the quiet park. With the interlude just now, they became more cautious.

Along the way, Zhang Yuanqing looked around, hoping to see the camphor tree that sealed the demon eye in a certain green area. He was the only one in the team who had seen that tree.

Not tall, but particularly thick.

They passed another fork in the road. This time, the road sign showed "Panda Enclosure" and "Giraffe Enclosure."

At this time, the broken mud on the ground was so sparse that it was difficult to detect. They pointed to the panda enclosure.

"The goddess of luck is indeed favoring me." Zhang Yuanqing said with joy.

The rules of the panda enclosure had appeared in the employee handbook, while the giraffe enclosure was unknown.

At this moment, a deep roar came from the distance.

It was very far away, and it could barely be heard.

Hearing the roar, Zhang Yuanqing was overjoyed: "The roar of the white lion, we are not far from that tree."

Palace Master Zhisha and Princess Yinyao's spirits were lifted.

The sooner they completed the task, the sooner they could leave this damned zoo.

Although they had never complained, in just a dozen minutes, from the Dodder Garden to the Monkey Enclosure, Yuanshi had experienced two life-and-death crises. If the road ahead was long, who knew how many more difficulties there would be.

The target tree was right in front of them, which was undoubtedly the best shot in the arm.

Soon, they arrived at the panda enclosure.

The panda enclosure was planted with a large bamboo forest, with artificial hills and ponds. Zhang Yuanqing saw a panda with dirty fur sitting in the forest from afar, holding a bamboo in its arms, drooping its head and dozing off, snoring loudly.

Very stupid and cute Zhang Yuanqing felt a slight relief in his heart. Seeing the stupid and cute panda meant that everything was calm.

He thought to himself, that's right, how could things be so thrilling every step of the way, with something going wrong no matter what he encountered? That would be too unlucky. The lucky necklace on my neck is not a fake.

He immediately walked forward quickly with ease.

But at this moment, Princess Yinyao raised her small loudspeaker tremblingly:

"That, that panda is so scary..."

Princess Yinyao's mental fluctuations were very violent, as if she had seen something incredibly terrible.

Scary? Zhang Yuanqing was startled and looked at the panda in the bamboo forest in the distance again. There was no change, it was still dirty and stupid, and even when it was asleep, it didn't look too smart.

He immediately looked at Palace Master Zhisha, who said softly:

"What I see is the same as you."

The Palace Master's expression was relatively calm, without any worry. Anyway, the one with the problem wasn't her little pretty boy.

Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while and said in a low voice:

"What did you see?"

Princess Yinyao's trembling voice came from the small loudspeaker:

"A three-meter-tall panda, very burly, with sharp claws. Its eyes are red, a bit similar to the eyes of the Enchanting Demon, very fierce and terrible, it's staring at me, like it wants to tear me apart..."

Zhang Yuanqing's heart trembled, his adrenaline soared, and without thinking, he immediately took out the Perfect Human Skin and said:

"Leave immediately. If it chases after you, I will let Blood Rose replace you."

The function of the Eight-Span Mirror was still cooling down, so he could only use Blood Rose as a scapegoat.

The team immediately took action, heading for the viewing path and running wildly, rushing out of the panda enclosure in a dozen seconds and arriving at an open area.

"It didn't chase after us..." Zhang Yuanqing stopped by the streetlight and looked at Princess Yinyao: "How is it, is there any change in your body?"

Princess Yinyao shook her head: "No!"

Strange, she's actually okay?

Zhang Yuanqing suspiciously circled around Princess Yinyao, and when he walked behind her, his eyes suddenly sharpened.

A mottled patch of black appeared on Princess Yinyao's back.

ps: Fix typos after updating.

(End of this chapter)