Night was misty, and the moon was half-hidden in the clouds, revealing only a blurred outline.

The Monkey Garden was dark and quiet, with a few mosquito-repellent lamps hanging like streetlights, illuminating an area of no more than two meters. Instead of bringing light, they added to the eerie and sinister atmosphere.

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

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

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

"It can't be recognized as the owner if it can't be put into the item bar. This is a rule-based item you made, which was a natal magic weapon in ancient times. Unless the original owner dies, the natal magic weapon will not recognize another owner. Zhang Tianshi, you're making things difficult for me."

The big 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 this 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. If it is handed over to unreliable people, I won't be at ease, and you won't be at ease either."

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

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 broken into that ruin in the first place. After breaking into the ruin, you released those terrible things. You can't send them into The Way of the Extraordinary, and it's difficult to completely annihilate them. Now you've created this item to contain them, making it so awkward."

"The secret of The Way of the Extraordinary is hidden there, so 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 Garden.

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

There was too much information, and he needed to think about it carefully.

"What's wrong?" The Palace Master of Zhisha's voice interrupted him, "What are you daydreaming about?"

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

This time, the Palace Master of Zhisha's face changed.

Princess Yinyao also wanted to change her face, but she was an undead corpse and couldn't make expressions.

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

"Are you okay?"

Only I can hear the monkey speaking? Zhang Yuanqing looked surprised. When he heard the monkey speak human language, he had a bad feeling in his heart, but the monkey had already spoken, making it an unchangeable fact.

So, he continued listening with the mentality of taking one step at a time.

But it was different if only he could hear the monkey speaking.

Why could he hear it?

After examining Zhang Yuanqing, the Palace Master of Zhisha did not notice anything unusual about Yuan Shi Tian Zun, so she asked:

"What did you hear?"

Perhaps there would be a hint in what the monkey said.

Zhang Yuanqing told the two of them the conversation that the monkey had "played" verbatim.

Princess Yinyao was an outsider who did not know Zhang Tianshi and was not familiar with Elder Gou, so she listened to it as a strange story.

The Palace Master of Zhisha's tone was filled with shock:

"This zoo was...built by your father? It's not from The Way of the Extraordinary? No wonder Elder Gou hasn't completely controlled this item in the past twenty years. It has been thinking about its first owner."

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

It has 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.

"The Night Wanderer doesn'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 strangeness suppressed in the garden and the ruins explored by the four-person team."

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

However, based on the current situation analysis, the spirit of the zoo doesn't seem to take the initiative to attack. This spirit should also follow its own rules. Judging from the last time the spirit mistook him for Zhang Zizhen, complaining resentfully while watching him leave, the spirit itself doesn't seem to have offensive means.

All of its abilities are hidden in the rules.

The Palace Master of Zhisha pondered:

"In the process of pursuing the secrets of The Way of the Extraordinary, they found a ruin that existed in reality, and as a result, they accidentally released the evil creatures sealed inside. In order to prevent the monsters from wreaking havoc on reality, they built this garden to contain the strangeness.

"The purpose of the employees' patrol is to prevent the strangeness from escaping the garden? But they will also be affected by the strangeness, changing from blue uniforms to black uniforms."

Zhang Yuanqing nodded. His previous doubts were explained. The "love-hate relationship" between the staff was not the spirit's bad taste, but the result of the rule-based item and the evil creatures in the garden fighting against each other.

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

At this moment, Princess Yinyao raised her small speaker and said:

"Each garden is imprisoning evil creatures. The evil creature in the Cuscuta Garden is related to the heart demon (the Null), the thick fog is related to the ancient war god, then..."

She looked at the Monkey Garden: "What evil creature 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 dark brown fluff.

A bad premonition suddenly arose in his heart, and then he heard the Palace Master of Zhisha exclaim:

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

Princess Yinyao was also dumbfounded, staring at him blankly.

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 transforming into an ape.

Dark brown monkey hair was growing rapidly in the hair follicles of his face, his brow bones were protruding, his irises were turning into fragmented gold, his hands were also growing black hair, his fingers were lengthening, his palms were narrowing, and his spine was starting to curve...

He understood.

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

The root force was a curse!

He had encountered a similar incident in the Yin-Yang Town dungeon, where everyone in the team turned into cats.

The Palace Master of Zhisha and Princess Yinyao were at a loss. Neither cursing nor purifying curses were their specialties.

"Yuan Shi, purify the curse!" The Palace Master said urgently.

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

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

This was different from the Cuscuta Garden. This time, he had not violated the rules, so the power of the Sun God suppressed the temptation of the heart demon.

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

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

Once he completed the transformation, he would completely turn into a monkey and lose his personality as a human being.

Zhang Yuanqing tried his best to think of a way, but his intelligence had already slipped into the abyss, and his mind was a mess.

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

"Yuan, Yuan Shi Tian Zun, your eyes have become stupid..."

Princess Yinyao敏锐的discovered this phenomenon and was panicking. But what could she do when the power of the Sun God couldn't solve the problem?

The Palace Master of 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 the Palace Master's eyes were reflected in his pupils. Then, his eyes were also dyed with a faint, illusory light.

"You are Yuan Shi Tian Zun, not a monkey. You are Yuan Shi Tian Zun, not a monkey..."

The soft, ethereal voice repeated over and over again.

Zhang Yuanqing's eyes were empty, and his expression was dull, but his intelligence, which had slipped into the abyss, stopped at this moment, and his human self-awareness awakened.

The next second, his pupils burst out with spiritual light, briefly restoring his state.

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

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

"Ah, I just came out and lost san. You're already level six, body, how come you're always in danger?"

This half-human, half-monkey muttered while grabbing the Perfect Human Skin and plastering 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 transformed parts such as his irises and hands gradually recovered.

The clone created by the Yata Mirror bore the karma of the original body.

The clone, without the power of the Sun God and hypnosis, quickly turned completely into a monkey, scratching its ears and cheeks, "squeaking" and screaming.

Zhang Yuanqing grabbed the monkey and gave it a preliminary check. He found that it was a real monkey, with the bone strength, muscle toughness, and so on, of a monkey.

If I turned into a monkey, I'm afraid I would never be able to recover. This curse is definitely at the Dominator level, or even higher. Zhang Yuanqing felt a burst of lingering fear in his heart. He exerted force with his fingers and "cracked" twisted the monkey's neck.

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

Zhang Yuanqing only had a piece of human skin as thin as a cicada's wing in his hand.

The benefit of having many items was manifested at this time.

There were many The Way of the Extraordinary professions, and each profession had special abilities. In the complex rules of the zoo, having many means was more important than having a high level.

Don't look at the Palace Master of Zhisha being a Dominator, but when she encountered the situation just now, she had no way to deal with it. Professions had limitations.

"This item is very useful, where did you get it?" The Palace Master of Zhisha breathed a sigh of relief, stared at the Perfect Human Skin, and said with a grin, "Lend it to me to play with."

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

"Let's go, business is important."

The Palace Master wrinkled her nose: "Stingy!"

The two people and two corpses continued to move forward, wading through the quiet park. After the episode just now, they became more cautious.

Along the way, Zhang Yuanqing looked around, hoping to see the camphor tree sealing the magic eye in a certain green area. Only he in the team had seen that tree.

Not long, but particularly thick.

They passed another fork in the road. This time, the sign pointed to the "Panda Garden" and the "Giraffe Garden."

At this time, the fragments of mud on the ground were so sparse that they were hard to detect. They pointed to the Panda Garden.

"The Goddess of Luck is indeed favoring me." Zhang Yuanqing said happily.

The rules of the Panda Garden had appeared in the employee manual, while the Giraffe was unknown.

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

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

Hearing the roar, Zhang Yuanqing's face lit up: "The roar of the white lion, we are not far from that tree."

The Palace Master of Zhisha and Princess Yinyao's spirits lifted.

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

Although they had never complained about anything, Yuan Shi had experienced two life-and-death crises in just a few minutes, from the Cuscuta Garden to the Monkey Garden. If the road ahead was long, who knew how many difficulties there would be?

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

Soon, they arrived at the Panda Garden.

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

Very stupid and cute. Zhang Yuanqing felt slightly relaxed. Seeing the stupid and cute panda meant calm and tranquil.

He thought to himself, how could it be so thrilling, with something going wrong no matter what they encountered? That would be too unlucky. The lucky necklace on my neck wasn't a fake.

He immediately walked forward quickly and easily.

But at this moment, Princess Yinyao trembled and raised her small speaker:

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

Princess Yinyao's mental fluctuations were very violent, as if she had seen something extremely 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. Even when it was asleep, it didn't look very smart.

He immediately looked at the Palace Master of 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 having problems wasn't her little gigolo.

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 speaker:

"A three-meter-tall panda, very burly, with sharp claws. Its eyes are red, similar to the eyes of the Bewitching Fairy, very ferocious 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 comes out to chase you, I will let Blood Rose replace you."

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

The team immediately took action, running along the sightseeing path. In a few seconds, they rushed out of the Panda Garden and arrived 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, it's actually okay?

Zhang Yuanqing suspiciously looked at 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)