There was a large monitoring room in the beast area, adjacent to the lounge.
In the afternoon, everyone would tacitly take turns to lie down in the lounge.
Tang Tang took the initiative to ask Ning Wei to go, and also to discuss matters with everyone.
Ning Wei glanced at the hyenas in the cage: "Aren't you afraid?"
"After I knew this wasn't real, I was quite scared, but not terrified. Anyway, the zoo director said to call him when I woke up. I'll call you over then. I really can't handle the zoo director." Kuai Shu Ge
Ning Wei nodded, "Then be careful."
The beast area was different, and the lounge was much more luxurious, with several folding beds, and some people were already lying on them.
Seeing Ning Wei enter, everyone sat up.
"Does everyone know about the hyenas?" Ning Wei asked.
Everyone nodded, "I didn't expect it to become like this overnight. This zoo director is truly amazing."
"Then what about Fu Chengwei, is he also...?"
No one answered this question. Losing three people in succession, everyone was in a bad mood.
More than half of the people who had walked together from the bus had been lost. Finally, someone couldn't help but cry.
Ning Wei was annoyed by the crying and knew that it would be difficult to discuss anything properly. So she went to accompany Tang Tang outside the hyena cage.
"Why did you come out so soon?"
"They were crying their eyes out inside, like their parents had died. It was pointless!"
Tang Tang didn't dare to speak. She could tell that Ning Wei was in a bad mood.
In fact, it was normal for everyone to be in a bad mood and have breakdowns at such times, but crying wouldn't solve the problem.
Just as the two were bored and spacing out, the eyelids of one of the hyenas moved, followed by its limbs, and finally its tail.
Tang Tang pulled Ning Wei's sleeve, not daring to speak loudly: "Look, look."
Both of them stared intently at the two hyenas inside, waiting for them to open their eyes and wake up.
Finally, just as Tang Tang was about to suffocate herself, one of the hyenas opened its eyes.
"It's truly magical," Tang Tang exclaimed.
Ning Wei nudged her, "Go call the zoo director."
The zoo director quickly arrived, followed by the deputy director.
They didn't even have time to greet Ning Wei and the other woman. They surrounded the cage, looking intently, as if they wanted to get into the cage for a closer look.
They talked as they watched. Ning Wei strained her ears to listen and found that they weren't talking about skinning or anything like that.
Ten minutes later, the zoo director said to Ning Wei, "Don't give them anything yet. Put the food in the shed behind the area before you leave work. You don't need to watch them tonight. Report the situation tomorrow morning."
"Yes, Director. Thank you for your hard work, Director!"
The zoo director no longer wanted to talk to Ning Wei. After giving instructions, he left.
Although these two hyenas had woken up, they didn't get up. They just moved their eyeballs.
Ning Wei stood closest to them, patting the cage and saying, "Can you understand what I'm saying?"
Unfortunately, the two hyenas didn't even lift their eyelids, as if they couldn't understand.
Tourists started to walk over. "Are these two hyenas sick?"
Tang Tang explained, "They were just brought in, so they were given anesthetic. They might not have fully recovered from it yet."
Before the end of work in the afternoon, as per the zoo director's instructions, the two women put food in the shed. The two hyenas had already started to walk around in the cage and were herded into the shed.
After it got dark, Ning Wei didn't tell anyone. She went to the cold storage area again.
This was where Deng Bing said he had seen the skinning ghost. Ning Wei suspected that these animals were not sent away at all, but were secretly kept somewhere and subjected to a skinning ritual.
After dark, the warehouse area was pitch black, with no emergency lights.
Ning Wei climbed in through the window and first went to the warehouse, which was filled with all sorts of fruits, vegetables, and grains.
Further ahead was the cold storage, the great dining hall for carnivorous animals.
Unfortunately, the door to the cold storage was tightly shut. Just as Ning Wei was about to pry it open with a wire, she faintly heard footsteps.
Fortunately, there were no lights here. Ning Wei hid behind a pile of carrots.
A beam of light shone, accompanied by human voices.
"Is everything cleaned up?" It was the zoo director's voice.
"Yes, it's all cleaned up. The meat pieces have been fed to the tigers and lions, and the bones are buried under the forest. No one will find out." This voice was also very familiar, but Ning Wei couldn't figure out who it was!
"The hand feeling hasn't been good these past two days. It actually failed. Select two more people to practice with. It can also add two animals to the zoo."
"Actually, there are already many animals in the zoo, I think..."
The zoo director's footsteps suddenly stopped, and his voice became unusually cold: "Chen Qi, are you sympathizing with these people?"
"No, no, no, I was just..."
"Enough, don't make excuses. Your kindness is misplaced! Don't forget how the previous employees treated us. If I hadn't persisted! The zoo would have closed down long ago!"
"Yes, Director, I was wrong."
"Alright, let's go. We should go back to the dorm to rest."
Chen Qi admitted his mistake, and the zoo director was satisfied. The two of them started walking out again.
After the two of them left the warehouse, Ning Wei quietly walked out.
Following the direction they came from, she slowly approached the secret base.
She followed the path they had taken out, only to find that it was a dead end.
Impossible, there must be some mechanism!
Ning Wei felt around the surroundings and touched a small raised area. She pressed it gently, and a door opened in front of her.
There was no need to worry about the sound of the door opening being too loud, because the zoo director and the others didn't want their secret to be discovered by anyone else, so the door opened and closed without any sound.
As soon as the door opened, Ning Wei smelled a very strong smell of blood.
Walking inside, she saw bloodstains all over the floor that had been washed. Some had been there for too long, so they had turned deep red and stuck to the ground.
Beside them were surgical instruments and two beds.
Various animal skins were hung on the wall, ranging from tigers to baby animals.
In the corner were some unprocessed meat pieces. Ning Wei saw a small section of a finger exposed inside, and one of them had a silver ring on it.
Even Ning Wei, who had seen a lot, couldn't help but feel like vomiting.
She forced herself to hold back and wanted to find survivors.
However, this room had no other small rooms, which meant that anyone who entered this room could not possibly come out alive.
This was simply a living hell. She hadn't expected this not to be a solo act, but a team effort.
Ning Wei didn't touch anything inside. She was only looking for traces of Fu Chengwei, but neither the meat pieces nor the discarded clothes were his.