DSMC Chapter 101.1

Yan Jiyun’s finger paused. He knew Uncle Man was messing with his mentality, and he asked Uncle Man, “Why can’t I press it?”

Uncle Man patted Orange’s big furry paw, his throat making a sound as if he were about to suffocate. “Loo-loosen it.”

Yan Jiyun signaled for Orange to loosen his paw a bit. Orange only relaxed a little and did not completely let go, still maintaining a posture where he could crush Uncle Man’s windpipe at any moment.

Uncle Man coughed and said, “The green key is the activation key. If you press it, all of us will die. These big guys you cherish will also die. Everyone will die!”

Madness showed in Uncle Man’s eyes. Although Yan Jiyun could usually see through other people’s psychology, at this moment, when he had to make a major decision, he still hesitated.

Should he press the red key or the green key?

However, he didn’t struggle for long. He said to all the big guys, “Everyone, gather quickly for a meeting.”

Caesar and the alpha wolf rushed over, and Xixi also flew in from outside.

Seeing this scene, Uncle Man was filled with jealousy. Why did these animals listen to this young man so much! It was too hateful. If he had this ability, wouldn’t he have managed the zoo much better long ago?

Two minutes was enough for them to hold an extremely simple meeting.

Yan Jiyun immediately said, “Take a look at the director’s current state. Is what he’s saying true? How much of it is real and how much is fake?”

Uncle Man had just wanted to continue acting crazy, but suddenly couldn’t. Why was he asking a few animals with incomplete consciousness for advice? Was there something seriously wrong with him?

The one who became anxious instead was Uncle Man. He started shouting, “I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you!”

Yan Jiyun had no intention of paying attention to Uncle Man. “Everyone, based on your past work experience, would you choose the green key or the red key?”

The black panther chose to scratch out a capital G on the ground, representing green.

Yan Jiyun knew that many of these animals were colorblind and said, “Don’t look at the buttons. Look at Uncle Man’s expression. Is he telling the truth or lying?”

Caesar squeezed to the front and lowered his head to look at Uncle Man. He snorted through his nose. The director looked really ugly and didn’t match his aesthetic at all. He disdainfully turned his head away.

He signaled to Yan Jiyun with his eyes: This old man has cloudy eyes. He can tell at a glance he’s no good.

Caesar scratched twice on the ground and wrote a capital English word: GREEN!

Yan Jiyun: ‘As expected of a rich second generation. So willful.’

Next were the wolf couple, but this time it was the wolf lady who stepped forward and circled around in front of Uncle Man.

Then she stood in front of Yan Jiyun and wrote a G.

The wolf lady’s choice was also the green key.

She had once been a well-known psychologist, and Yan Jiyun was willing to trust her choice.

Everyone chose the option that Uncle Man was lying. Yan Jiyun glanced at the time.

[00:40]

Only forty seconds remained.

Yan Jiyun placed the remote control in front of him. His fist clenched and then loosened again as he took a deep breath.

“You all chose the green button, so I’ll listen to you. Actually, my choice is the same as yours.”

“I hope our choice is correct.”

At this time Uncle Man still insisted, “No, no, no! It’s not the green key, it’s the red key!”

[00:35]

Yan Jiyun still raised his hand and pressed the green button.

He suddenly said to Orange, “Hold him down. Don’t let him run!”

Then he rushed out the door to find Dr. Zhou.

He needed to test whether he had pressed the correct one. He was afraid the remote might not be connected to the signal, which would be awkward.

Dr. Zhou was still sitting in place. The countdown timer on the bomb strapped to his chest had already stopped.

“Great, you’re fine.”

Dr. Zhou removed the bomb tied to his chest and threw it out the window. No explosion occurred.

He stood by the window and turned back to look at Yan Jiyun, letting out a sigh of relief. “Thank you for saving us.”

[Congratulations to the player for completing the “Final Mission,” finding the mastermind behind the scenes, and rescuing all the “unusual animals,” successfully resolving the greatest crisis of Xianghe Zoo.]

[Congratulations to the player for breaking the fastest completion record for this instance.]

[Congratulations to the player for obtaining 100% favorability from 8 unusual animals.]

[Congratulations to the player for successfully unlocking the promotion to become the new director of Xianghe Zoo.]

[Congratulations to the player for clearing the “Crazy Zoo” instance.]

[There are still 3 days and 9 hours remaining before the instance ends. The player may choose to exit the instance immediately, or automatically exit when the instance time ends.]

Only a little over a day had passed, and he had practically run himself to death.

Yan Jiyun of course directly chose to exit the instance immediately!

“Exit!”

The first time he shouted, there was no response, so he confirmed again.

“I choose to exit the game immediately. I’m extremely certain and absolutely sure.”

[We regret to inform you that the 8 unusual animals with full favorability unanimously wish to watch your inauguration ceremony as the new director. You will remain in the instance until the instance time ends.]

Yan Jiyun: ???

‘The fuck did you just say???’

‘Fucking say it again???’

‘What inauguration ceremony???’

‘What do you mean stay until the instance ends???’

Yan Jiyun collapsed onto the ground like a deflated rubber ball. Why could all the other players leave the instance while only he had to stay behind!

‘Trash game, trash system! LET! ME! OUT!!!’ ヽ(｀Д´#)ﾉ!!

If he had known earlier, he wouldn’t have rushed to complete the mission so quickly. Wouldn’t it have been fine to rest for a day or two?

Was there something seriously wrong with this game?

[Want to be Human] livestream chat:

“HahahahaHAHAHAHHAA!”

“Hahahahaha! Help! Oh my god! Why is there such a plot twist! I’m going to die laughing at this twist!!” 

“When did he even grind NPC favorability? Summoning 8 big guys with 100% favorability can keep Kitty Baby stuck in the instance?”

“I was just feeling sad for those who were experimented on, and then this twist came, hahaha, I’m dying of laughter. Not bad, not bad, we can keep watching Mimi’s livestream for another three days.”

“This is an ending I didn’t expect!”

“He looks so desperate lmao. Kitty Baby, Congrats!! You are now staying in the instance for three more days. Just treat it as tourism. Other players can’t even get that~”

Yan Jiyun didn’t want to be the zoo director. He just wanted to slack off and retire immediately, leave the instance right away.

But in reality, he had no choice at all. When he stood up from the ground, all the big guys’ eyes were fixed firmly on him.

Sigh—

And so Yan Jiyun stayed in the instance. No matter how he protested to the system, he received no response.

That night, Uncle Man, who had endangered the zoo, was taken away by the police. The entire zoo was investigated, including Dr. Zhou.

When Dr. Zhou was taken away, the black panther stood in the shadows watching for a long time.

Yan Jiyun patted the black panther, then asked Dr. Zhou’s departing back, “Dr. Zhou, what’s the black panther’s name?”

Dr. Zhou turned back and said, “His name is Yu Shinan.”

Yan Jiyun looked down at the black panther. “Aren’t you brothers? Why do you have different surnames?”

Of course the black panther didn’t give Yan Jiyun the answer he wanted. But Yan Jiyun didn’t mind. Maybe they’re actually stepbrothers. Or maybe their parents divorced, one followed the father, one followed the mother, and one of them changed their surname?

That night, Yan Jiyun got a good rest in the new director’s lounge.

The next morning, he completed the director’s inauguration ceremony. The process was long and boring, but he obtained an electric cart that wouldn’t suddenly run out of battery, an exclusive office, a director-exclusive house, and a pile of problems that needed solving.

He drove the director’s exclusive large electric cart around the zoo. Actually, there was still a huge problem that hadn’t been solved.

Could the black panther and the others turn back into humans again?

The police had taken away the patients the former director kept in the second building, but the animals still remained safely in the zoo.

The first thing Yan Jiyun prepared to do after becoming director was something big. He took Yu Shinan the black panther along to find every animal that had ever been experimented on and recorded them all.

The black panther jumped onto the passenger seat. Yan Jiyun held a stack of sorted documents and asked him, “Do you want to turn back into a human?”

The black panther pressed the horn with its paw: Yes.

Yan Jiyun thought to himself he didn’t really have a good solution either. He wasn’t a doctor.

On the afternoon of the third day, Dr. Zhou was released and returned.

When Yan Jiyun saw him, his eyes lit up. The final problem still needed him to solve.

He threw the organized documents at him and, in the identity of the director, ordered him to send all the “normal people’s” consciousness back to their original bodies.

The black panther sat beside Yan Jiyun, staring gloomily at Dr. Zhou. Then Dr. Zhou agreed.

Although the experimental subjects had been taken away, they weren’t far from here, so it didn’t affect the animals’ consciousness.

Yan Jiyun spent another day placing nearly two hundred experimental animals into cages.

Dr. Zhou researched overnight and figured out a method to send them back.

On the first day he was forced to stay in the instance, he took office.

On the second day he was forced to stay in the instance, aside from the eight major patients, nearly two hundred experimental subjects’ consciousness separated from their animal bodies.

On the third day he was forced to stay in the instance, he spent the entire day talking with the eight patients, walked around the zoo with them, played with the eight big guys all day, and finally, before leaving the instance, sat with them on the grass under the starry sky for a meeting.

The eight of them were more seriously injured and couldn’t return yet. Dr. Zhou had now changed his research direction. He was studying how to send them back to their original bodies and how to wake them from a vegetative state back into humans.

[3 minutes remaining before the instance ends.]

Yan Jiyun took out the teaser wand one last time and said, “Let’s play a game!”

Xixi flew around beside him shouting, “Play a game, play a game!”

He jumped onto the artificial rock, extended the teaser wand to its longest length, and switched to the biggest and brightest feather bell.

He shook it once to the left, once to the right.

Ring ring ring~

Ring ring ring~

Ring ring ring~

The big guys’ gazes followed the bell.

[2 minutes remaining before the instance ends.]

The most lively little wolf jumped up to grab the teaser wand. Suddenly, he couldn’t jump anymore and collapsed onto the ground.

Yan Jiyun froze. Why did the little wolf suddenly faint?

He continued shaking the teaser wand in his hand.

The next second, the wolf king and his wife also collapsed.

[1 minute remaining before the instance ends.]

Immediately after that, Xixi suddenly dropped into his arms.

Yan Jiyun looked toward Orange and Caesar. Their bodies were also swaying unsteadily.

With two loud thuds, Orange and Caesar fell down. Then the brown bear, who wasn’t very familiar with them, also collapsed onto the grass.

Yan Jiyun looked at the teaser wand in his hand, then looked toward the black panther who was still standing.

[30 seconds remaining before the instance ends.]

He seemed to understand.

The teaser wand was actually the most important item in this instance. It was the bell used to awaken consciousness, the guiding bell leading the way back.

He continued shaking the item in his hand.

Ring ring ring~

Ring ring ring~

Ring ring ring~

“Everyone, give one last call for me to hear.”

“I’m about to leave. You probably won’t remember me in the future anyway.”

Yu Shinan’s body was swaying. His vision had already blurred until only a human silhouette remained. The person before him was becoming more and more indistinct. He felt he should say goodbye.

He wanted to call the other person’s name. What was the caretaker’s name again?

At the final moment, the black panther called out, “Mrow-ao~”

Along with the panther’s cry, Yan Jiyun turned back into a black cat. He watched as the black panther’s body, like Orange and the others, slowly collapsed onto the grass and finally closed its eyes.

At the same time, the walkie-talkie in Yan Jiyun’s arms received Dr. Zhou’s excited voice: “Jiang You! Dage woke up! Come quickly and see!”

‘Thank you, but my instance time has ended. I wouldn’t be able to see it.’ 

[3 seconds remaining before the instance ends.]

2 seconds—

1 second—

[The “Crazy Zoo” instance has ended. Player exiting the instance. Teleporting—]

T/N (Some snippets ft. my RL friend who also read along this series):

Her: “Okay, so can you tell me if this arc will have a side ship? The last two arcs have those, and even in the last arc there’s two¹she shipped Qiu Xi/Gu Wenzhu lol. So this arc should have one right?”

Me: “Nah, there’s none.”

Her: “Oh, Dr. Peng and Dr. Zhou isn’t enemy-to-lovers? Thank god, I hate that Peng guy.”

Me: “Nope, they’re not.”

~later~

Her: “….huh, incest? Damn, the author has guts.”

Me: “WHAT”

Her: “Dr. Zhou’s obsession is sussy as fuck, don’t you think?”

~this chapter~

Her: “Hoh… different surnames… the possibilities are endless!”

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  she shipped Qiu Xi/Gu Wenzhu lol