Chapter 782: Capitalists Would Cry Upon Hearing This
Jiangnan City Wildlife Park is located in the heart of Jiangnan City, covering an area of 8,000 acres and is the largest wildlife park in the entire Eastern Huaxia region.
But today, this sign has been completely removed, and a brand new sign is being hung up, with gilded lettering that reads—Jiangnan City High-Intelligence Civilized Life Zoo.
The zoo can accommodate a daily visitor flow of up to 50,000 people. On holidays, the visitor flow can reach this number, but on a typical day, having 10 to 20 thousand visitors is already quite good.
But now, the zoo is no longer a place you can visit whenever you wish to, you must make a reservation in advance on the official WeChat account. It will open in a week's time, and the reservations for visits have already been booked up to a month later.
The exhibits here are all aliens! Everyone in the world wants to see what this group of extraterrestrial beings is really like!
And today, a group of special people has arrived at the zoo. These people include the team leader from Longxia, the chief scientist, and many important figures from Huaxia.
If yesterday's chaotic battle is not counted, today is the first official meeting between humans and an alien civilization in the true sense of the term.
"Isn't this wildlife park a municipal unit?" Old Zhou curiously looked at the sign that had been taken down, "How can they just change it? Don't they need to file a report?"
"It is indeed a municipal unit," explained Zhang Menglong, "but when this zoo was originally built, the city had already run out of budget funds, so it was my father who fully funded the construction, with a total expenditure of over 500 million Huaxia currency."
Zhang Menglong's father didn't ask for any share of the income from investing in the zoo; his only requirement was that his family could visit for free and that they had the right to name and renovate the zoo.
Of course, if this incident hadn't happened, Zhang Menglong would not have thought that his family owned such an asset.
"Really, it's hard to know how many things in this entire country are not owned by your family," Old Zhou said with a resigned laughter.
"Hmm... strictly speaking, besides the national investments, more than 60% of the assets in society are related to our family in one way or another."
"My goodness, doesn't that mean half of the country's assets belong to your family?" Old Qin, the general, blurted out with surprise.
"You could say that!" Zhang Menglong said unabashedly, "Let's go inside!"
"Are all those aliens inside?"
"They are," said Zhang Menglong, "a total of 21,732 individuals, 577 of them are spacecraft operators and technicians, and the rest are their combatants."
"Are their combatants exceptionally skilled in combat?" Meng Tianhe inquired, "According to our measurements of the residual energy levels at the scene, almost all are around 19 to 20 units, which is equivalent to the peak of a god-level psychic."
"That's right," Zhang Menglong nodded, "Their civilization level is higher than ours, so it's very normal for their life forms to have evolved accordingly. As far as I know, life forms with an energy intensity below 40 units can be advanced through civilization level, of course, the higher the harder."
"Then aren't they still highly aggressive?" Several scientists were somewhat concerned, after all, they weren't like Zhang Menglong or Meng Tianhe, who had the ability to protect themselves.
"Rest assured," Zhang Menglong pacified, "they have now all lost their aggressiveness, and I have implemented very stringent security measures in the zoo. Hundreds of students from the Super God Academy take turns on duty, and I have also planted Life and Death Talismans in them."
"Life and Death Talisman? Like in 'Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils'? Isn't that just a novel?"
"We have to believe in science, many things can be explained through science!" said Zhang Menglong with a serious face.
"Oh, come on! You've flown up to the sky and you're still talking to me about science."
"Let's go, let's meet those extraterrestrials and see where exactly they come from," said Old Zhou, already impatient.
The zoo was very quiet, with no tourists yet, only staff. Upon entering the first area of the zoo, they came upon a fake mountain range; originally, this area housed many golden monkeys.
"Why aren't you moving?" The crowd suddenly noticed Zhang Menglong standing still.
"We've arrived, haven't we?" said Zhang Menglong.
"Arrived?" They pointed at the fake mountains.
Zhang Menglong told them that after bringing these aliens to the zoo, wasn't it to temporarily settle them there?
Hold on!
A daring idea suddenly emerged in their hearts — could it be that Zhang Menglong had simply treated them as animals and locked them up?
"What's that?" An old general suddenly noticed a worker replacing a metal plaque.
These plaques are very common in zoos and museums, containing information about the animals within, like this plaque, which originally held details about golden monkeys, such as their origin, temperament, habits, and biological classification, and so on.
And this new plaque...
Category: Super-Intelligent Hominoidea (Tentative)
Origin: Planet Durando
Nationality: Kingdom of Yato
Characteristics: Lively and agile, extremely high intelligence, omnivores
Precautions: Please take photos respectfully, this super-intelligent species can discern whether the food is edible on their own, hence various foods may be thrown to them.
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"You little bastard... you're truly a freak of nature!" The senior members couldn't help but exclaim upon seeing the plaque.
With brains like that, why didn't you do something decent with them? Lord knows, you would've been... pardon me, you would already be the world's richest man, let's pretend we didn't say that.
This is purely someone having too much money and not knowing what to do with it!
Even capitalists would shed tears at his actions.
"Is Planet Durando their home?" Old Zhou asked.
"Exactly, their planet has 24 entities similar to our countries, and this group here comes from one called the Kingdom of Yato."
"What are you hiding in there for? Come out!" Zhang Menglong shouted toward the artificial hill.
A few seconds later, a group of aliens, bruised and injured, came out from the artificial hill; of course, some crawled, while others helped each other out.
The moment they saw Zhang Menglong, they were filled with fear.
Even though he wasn't as ruthlessly violent as those ferocious students, his skill at soul-crushing was definitely unrivaled.
When they realized they had been treated as wild animals and confined in a zoo, they almost wished for death.
But the Life and Death Talismans Zhang Menglong used were enhanced; if they harbored even the slightest thought of resistance or suicide, they would be tormented by the talismans, both mentally and physically — true to the phrase "unable to live or die."
Now, they were like walking corpses, turned into hopeless salted fish that had lost their dreams.
"Lululu!" Zhang Menglong made a noise similar to petting cats or dogs while taking out a handful of sunflower seeds from his pocket and throwing them at them.
The cold seeds hit the heads of the aliens from Durando, and at that moment, they felt endless humiliation — it wasn't as simple as rubbing their dignity on the floor; it was like their heads were being scrubbed in a toilet.
"Why are you all looking so lifeless?" Zhang Menglong scolded loudly, "If visitors come and you behave like this, who would want to visit our zoo?"
"If people didn't know better, they'd think our zoo had been infected with some plague. Isn't that tarnishing my reputation?"
"In the future, if people feed you, you must scramble for it!"
"Remember, you are now my slaves, my captives. Whatever I want you to do, you should do it!"