Super Zoo

"The monster is out!"

At this moment, Suming was even more nervous and curious than the poaching divers, staring unblinkingly at the surface of the water from a distance.

With a splash, water flew in all directions, but the result was very disappointing to Suming; it wasn't a water monster at all, but a poacher diver.

The poacher popped his head out and made a gesture to the shore, indicating he had caught nothing.

Soon after, two more divers emerged from the pool and made the same gesture to their leader, He.

"You guys come up first!"

The three wet divers clambered onto the shore, and after He said a few words, they took off their diving suits and switched places with three men on the shore. The new trio took up guns to stand guard, while He, removing his glasses, donned a diving suit with two other poachers and plunged into the pool.

A few minutes later, the second group of divers also surfaced, and it seemed they too had come up empty-handed.

"Could the intelligence be wrong?"

Suming was practically concerned for the poachers; they seemed as if even they didn't know if the target they were after actually existed—it was merely a 'possible existence' and not a certainty. If there was truly nothing in the pool, wouldn't the poachers have made a wasted trip?

Please, no, if you guys come up empty, I'd feel bad even launching an attack!

After He came ashore, he didn't send anyone back into the water but instead gathered a few men to discuss something.

Before long, two of the poachers left the camp, guns in hand, and entered the forest. After a while, two gunshots rang out from the woods, and the poachers returned, spreading their hands towards He in a helpless gesture, indicating they found nothing.

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Suming didn't know what they were planning but kept watching from a distance, motionless. He watched as He paced back and forth, appearing to ponder something, then he gestured toward a cage not far away that contained a Diamond Parrot and said a few words.

The burly Da Xiong immediately opened the cage, grabbed the Diamond Parrot by its neck with one hand, and pulled it out.

The Diamond Parrot was still very much alive, struggling as Da Xiong held it, but he was very strong and experienced. He grasped it from behind by its neck, rendering the Diamond Parrot's biting and scratching futile.

He took out a long climbing rope, tied one end to the Diamond Parrot's waist, and held the other end in his hand, then nodded at Da Xiong.

Da Xiong grinned, swung his arm in a complete circle, mimicking the motion of a throw, and with that, the Diamond Parrot was flung through the air.

The Diamond Parrot screamed as it arced through the air and plopped into the pool, causing a splash.

He, clutching the rope, quickly led the other thieves into the nearby woods and dropped to the ground, staying motionless as they concealed themselves.

After landing in the water, the Diamond Parrot flailed a bit before floating to the surface.

Mammals are generally born swimmers, varying only in their proficiency. There's a joke that in 'Journey to the West', when Monkey could not defeat Friar Sand in the Flowing Sands River, he called for Zhu Bajie's help, suggesting that pigs swim better than monkeys.

Humans are born with the instinct to swim; infants, soon after their birth, first learn to flail their arms and legs, which is actually the motion of swimming. However, many people grow up without coming into contact with water and gradually lose this swimming instinct, compounded by fear, they end up unable to learn how to swim.

While golden monkeys can swim, this was not a leisurely dip in the zoo during the hot summer months; it had been terrified by poachers. After falling into the water, it emitted a pitiful cry and flailed about trying to swim to the other side of the pond to escape.

The pond wasn't large, and as the monkey called out, it used its arms and legs to paddle, reaching the bank in a few strokes.

Just when the monkey was about to scramble ashore, the climbing rope tied around its waist suddenly yanked back. He, hidden in the forest, gave a forceful pull on the rope, and 'whoosh,' the monkey fell back into the pond, dragged to the center by the rope.

The monkey was quite clever and tried to untie the climbing rope from its waist, but the knot the poachers had tied was quite professional, and despite the monkey's pulling and scratching, it couldn't get it undone and eventually gave up, trying to swim in another direction instead.

But its efforts were bound to be in vain. Just as it nearly reached the bank, the climbing rope jerked again, and the monkey was once more yanked back into the pond by He.

After being tormented like this, the monkey's cries became even more intense. It was practically thrashing about in the water, wildly flailing its limbs, and Suming could hear it all too clearly from a distance.

It was then that Suming realized He and his men's intention – since they couldn't find their target in the water, they simply used the monkey as bait, aiming to lure the target out, just like fishing.

The commotion made by the monkey was significant and its size not negligible, so to most carnivores, it would appear to be a sizeable meal. If their target was in the pond or nearby, it would surely be disturbed by the monkey and unable to resist jumping out.

However, the monkey was about the size of a street dog and probably weighed at least ten pounds. To use it as bait meant that the poachers' target must be quite large in size! Could it actually be something like a Yangtze alligator?

After splashing and crying in the water for quite a while, with no response from the pond, the monkey seemed to realize that it couldn't escape its fate and stopped swimming randomly. Instead, it climbed onto a rock under the waterfall, curled up in fear and despair, and watched the surroundings. It occasionally let out a sharp 'squeak…' possibly as a distress signal.

The two Diamond Parrots on the shore had held back for a long time but finally couldn't resist any longer. They started yelling at the monkey, "So noisy, so noisy!" "So annoying, so annoying!"

Before they finished speaking, there were two 'biubiu' sounds, and two darts flew out from the forest, hitting the parrots right in their plump buttocks.

"Ah… so dizzy…"

The two parrots moaned weakly, rocking and tumbling down inside their cage.

Suming, startled, hastily checked with his spiritual power and discovered that the parrots were still full of life, they had just fainted, which reassured him. It seemed the poachers, wary that the parrots' calls might scare away their target, had administered a tranquilizer.

Suming felt both annoyed and amused, thinking to himself that he had told those two chatterboxes not to make noise, yet they still did, and now they got what they deserved!

At that moment, the monkey perched on the rock seemed to sense something, suddenly turned around, facing the direction of the waterfall, baring its teeth and screeching fiercely at the waterfall.

"Has it gone mad, screaming at the waterfall for what?... No, wait, I understand now!"

Behind the waterfall, a dark creature suddenly burst forth, grabbed the golden monkey in an instant, and swiftly pulled it behind the fall!

"Damn, what is that!"

Suming broke into a cold sweat. During that fleeting glimpse before the creature's head emerged from the waterfall, he had clearly seen its gaping mouth filled with rows of interlocking sharp teeth!