DSMC Chapter 99.2

And just like that, Yan Jiyun led hundreds — no, thousands — of animals straight toward the management district.

Who would have thought that the zookeeper who had just been fleeing for his life in a car would switch strategies and change his entire method of clearing the instance moments later?

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“So exciting! So handsome!! Damn, all I can do is shout that Kitty Baby is the absolute GOAT!!! Can I have such a cute cub too? Pleaseee?”

“You guys only see how handsome Kitty Baby is, but don’t you realize he’s using the best management method a manager could have? Haven’t you noticed he’s delegating authority? He doesn’t even need to act personally. The black panther, South China tiger, and lion automatically share the tasks for him. He actually has leadership potential.”

“Whatever, I can only scream HANDSOME!!!!. I’ve always wanted to see this scene in this instance, and it actually happened in my lifetime.”

“Is it time for the big showdown with the BOSS?”

“Quick quick quick! Charge charge charge! So hot-blooded! So exciting! I love it! (Psst, go use the 1st person POV)”

“Am I the only one who thinks that loudspeaker is interesting? My focus might be a bit off.”

Yan Jiyun felt like the leader of a “rebellion.” By the time he had this thought, the vehicles and the animal army had already crowded densely into the management zone.

The management zone was brightly lit.

Blocking the very front were the zoo’s security guards. Behind them stood a row of keepers, and further back were Dr. Peng, Professor Fang, and others. Standing on the management building was Vice Director He.

Holding a loudspeaker, she shouted, “Jiang You, what are you doing!”

The guards held electric batons, the keepers held tranquilizer guns. Their numbers weren’t small either, roughly a hundred people.

Without another word, Yan Jiyun drove straight forward. Everyone standing in front immediately moved aside, and the formation they had arranged was completely disrupted.

Seeing the large vehicle clearing the path, the animals lunged toward the humans one after another.

In this instance, neither the Vice Director He nor the director were good people. Their goal was to use animals to make money, and they might continue using experiments to harm even more people, like Dr. Qiao’s son, who had merely been hospitalized but was directly sent here.

Dr. Zhou was only a veterinarian. The one who contacted the patients definitely wasn’t him. Only the director could accomplish something like that.

So the only person Yan Jiyun needed to find was the director, and could only be the director. The vice director was merely a misleading option thrown out by the instance.

In this instance, all information was layered with cover-ups. Every truth had a misleading option placed over it. Choose wrong, and he would miss the truth entirely.

Yan Jiyun drove into the management zone. While the other NPCs were busy dealing with animals attacking them, he jumped out of the vehicle.

The black panther, Orange, and Caesar reacted quickly and immediately rushed to Yan Jiyun’s side to protect him.

The management zone was in chaos. Even the birds had strong combat ability. They scratched at people’s eyes with their claws. Yan Jiyun wasn’t worried at all about whether they could hold these people back.

He led a group of large animals toward the second building in the management zone.

Quite a few players, seeing this, followed Yan Jiyun.

On the first night, the animals rioted passively. On the second night, they rioted actively. No matter how you looked at it, it was abnormal.

This building was the only one Yan Jiyun hadn’t explored yet. He had no idea what traps might be inside.

Dr. Zhou wasn’t visible among the crowd. No one knew where he was.

Just then, a white shadow fell from the sky. A heavy object slammed into the ground with a loud crash that nearly startled their souls out of their bodies.

Yan Jiyun was startled and rushed over to check, thinking he would see a freshly dead corpse.

After running over, he found it was a mannequin. A false alarm.

However, the white coat covering the mannequin bore Dr. Zhou’s name tag.

This was a warning from the other side.

This building wasn’t located between the first and second buildings but deeper inside. The surrounding trees were nearly twenty meters tall. At night, outside light couldn’t penetrate; when the wind blew, it felt chilly and eerie. Like the other buildings, it had three floors and was surrounded by layers of trees, extremely inconspicuous. If Yan Jiyun hadn’t taken an extra glance during the day, he might not have discovered it at all.

In the center of the first floor was a main entrance, locked.

Some players were more impatient than he was. Likely having exchanged for lockpicking items, they opened the door immediately and rushed inside.

Yan Jiyun: “…”

He guessed they had also received a mission. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be so eager to rush in first.

Hey players, haste makes waste. Didn’t they even look at the mannequin that fell from above? That was both a warning and a reminder.

Yan Jiyun had no way to tell them this might be the final BOSS stage, so he could only hint indirectly, deliberately saying to the black panther beside him, “Don’t rush in so fast. What if there’s a trap meant to catch you?”

The players had no intention of listening to an “NPC’s” warning. Focused on completing missions, they climbed upward immediately.

Did they even know what they were going up there for? Truly experienced players, none afraid of death.

Seeing others charge ahead, the players behind followed as well. Once they were all gone, Yan Jiyun realized only he and the black panther and his own group remained.

Yan Jiyun glanced at the animals still beside him. Not a single player remained; even the white tiger had followed them upstairs.

Very good.

Having other players in this instance actually made him uncomfortable, almost like developing social anxiety.

Yan Jiyun said to the black panther and the others, “Let’s go. We’ll go up too.”

His goal was to find the director.

As soon as Yan Jiyun stepped inside, he felt the building was extremely dark—not dim darkness with faint light, but pitch-black darkness that blocked all light.

But he finally understood why the other players disappeared the moment they entered, because he also received a system mission.

[Ultimate Mission: Resolve the zoo’s final crisis.]

What was the final crisis?

Yan Jiyun’s initial thought had only been to find the director. Wasn’t the “crisis” the original main mission of the instance?

Why had it come back again now?

Just as he was about to take his first step, a scream stopped him from continuing upward.

It was unclear what animal made the sound.

Then a familiar myna bird voice rang out: “Damn it, why are they fighting again? There’s something wrong with this building. Everyone hold your breath!”

‘Thud thud thud’ sounds followed one after another. Yan Jiyun even saw a gorilla collapse stiffly, crushing the players behind it and blocking the staircase upward.

Yan Jiyun covered his nose and stepped back. At that moment, the door behind him shut automatically, impossible to force open. Protective nets sealed the corridors; not even a bird could fly out.

That mannequin earlier had probably been pushed down from the rooftop. With protective railings everywhere, it would have been impossible to throw such a large object otherwise.

Yan Jiyun brushed his hair back from his forehead and took a deep breath.

No one had ever said the director must be on the third floor.

The air was filled with various animal scents and the sounds of bodies falling.

After learning their lesson, the players behind didn’t dare rush upward again, deciding to wait for the mist to disperse before proceeding.

Yan Jiyun lowered the foot he had been about to raise.

“We’re not going up.”

Xixi, standing on his shoulder, tilted his head. “Why?”

The black panther, Caesar, and the others all looked at him.

“No one ever said the person we’re looking for is upstairs.”

And now the mission was to resolve the crisis. But what kind of crisis? The crisis of the zoo being destroyed?

Yan Jiyun closed his eyes, searching among heavy and light footsteps and animal noises for human footsteps.

The black panther imitated him, focusing and raising its ears to distinguish sounds.

Only when the mind became quiet could the truth be found.

He heard it. Several sounds different from the rest.

“Click.”

“Snap.”

“Tap.”

The sound of buttons or switches being operated.

“Rustle.”

The sound of objects being moved.

“Squeak.”

The sound of flat shoes contacting the floor.

Making proper use of animals’ natural advantages was the best tool in this instance.

Yan Jiyun and the black panther opened their eyes at the same time and ran toward the right side of the first floor.

The sounds were very close, extremely close, only separated by a wall.

The black panther was faster and stopped in front of the rightmost door.

This door was different from the others. It was sturdy; body impact alone couldn’t break it open, and the user had clearly prepared it specifically to prevent animals from crashing through.

Yan Jiyun once again took out his universal lock item, which only had five uses left. With a click, it opened.

He hadn’t wasted his points.

This item was incredibly useful. It could open every lock in the instance, including vehicles.

The black panther gently pushed Yan Jiyun back and opened the door with its thick paw. Only after confirming no dangerous scent did it turn back and give him a “safe” look.

At that moment, Yan Jiyun saw the qualities and ability of a special forces soldier. Zhou Yiqun giving his brother this black panther body definitely wasn’t his brother’s childhood dream — it was Zhou Yiqun’s own dream. Dr. Zhou was skinny and probably couldn’t even run fast; he must have wanted to be the black panther himself and forced the reason onto his brother.

The door opened completely. Yan Jiyun found the light switch on the wall and turned it on.

God damn it!. There was another identical door ahead.

Yan Jiyun used his universal key again and opened it.

Then another door.

Yan Jiyun opened one door after another. After opening the fourth, the universal lock item had only one use left. “Hopefully this won’t be another door after this.”

Without hesitation, he used the universal key again.

[Advanced prop “Universal Key” remaining uses: 0]

Click. The fifth door opened.

The next second, rows of hospital beds came into view, each with a patient lying on it.

These were the more than one hundred ninety patients labeled as “failures.”

They weren’t dead!