Demon King – Chapter 566 – Some Lolis Are Actually Directionally Challenged

“I really don’t know what’s going on either. The surveillance should have picked it up and triggered an alert. And we clearly injected it with a tranquilizer, there’s no reason it should be this active.”

“Saying that now is useless. It’s already out. Hurry up and clear everyone out before anything happens. No one can guarantee it won’t hurt someone. Keep going. Don’t cause a panic.”

Inside one of the offices in the park, two people in staff uniforms were discussing countermeasures. A python sneaking out was absolutely not a small matter.

No one knew how the snake had managed to get out. Even the surveillance mysteriously failed at that exact moment. Fortunately, it had not been out for long yet, so there was still a chance to fix things.

It was also not far from closing time now, so all staff members joined in driving visitors away. As for the actual situation, they kept it under wraps and only said there was an issue requiring an early closure.

“I’m just going to find my little sister. Why are you grabbing me? If you’re closing, then fine, but I’m going to bring her back first.”

“Rest assured, sir, we’ll help you find your sister. Please wait by the entrance for now.”

The two staff members holding Lin Miao kept smiling, with no intention of letting him go.

“So did something actually happen? If there’s danger, then I need to find my sister even more!”

“No, no, nothing like that. It’s just an early closure. Instead of searching blindly inside, wouldn’t it be better for us to bring her out for you?”

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Surrounded by several staff members, Lin Miao was intercepted halfway through his attempt to catch a loli. Naturally, they could not let him continue inside now, so they could only placate him while half-dragging him toward the park exit.

On the other side, Yuki, who had bought the ice cream and was about to reunite with Eiru, was also forcibly ushered away by several staff members. Using almost the same explanation as on Lin Miao’s side, they told him to wait while they would escort the person out.

“No, she’s not far from here. I can just go get her myself. No need to go through all this trouble.”

Although Yuki was a bit unhappy inside, he still reasoned politely with them and showed understanding toward their work.

“It’s fine, it’s fine. We’ll go bring her out right away. There are some things that aren’t convenient for you to go back in right now. You can head toward the entrance first. We’ll bring your girlfriend along and she might catch up to you shortly.”

Arguing with staff was not a good idea. After thinking it over, Yuki decided to cooperate with their work. Anyway, Eiru’s combat power was right there. Even if a dinosaur jumped out, she could tear it apart with her bare hands. It’s not like she was being tricked. What could possibly happen?

The two young men, one being escorted and one cooperating, headed toward different exits. But on the silver-haired loli’s side, a new situation had arisen.

“I… I was clearly walking toward the entrance, right?”

Looking at the map in her hand, Eiya was a bit confused. Why did it feel like she was walking deeper inside?

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“There’s nothing wrong. This circular plaza, walk toward the lamp posts, then pass two enclosures… so why did the entrance turn into the lion and tiger area?”

Looking at the tigers and lions pressed up against the glass staring at her, Eiya felt like a little kitten that had been targeted.

Yes. That’s right. Eiya was actually directionally challenged. Under normal circumstances, it did not really show. As long as she had a map in hand to constantly check against, daily travel was not much of a problem.

But once the map had multiple similar spots or some discrepancies, this lost loli would end up mixing everything up just like now. And when she focused on finding the route, she could not pay attention to surrounding foot traffic and such at all.

That was why, even though the school was not far and Eiya was already a middle schooler, she still needed her family to pick her up and drop her off every day. Needing permission to go out and being confined were also because everyone knew she was directionally challenged.

So why was Lin Miao so confident letting her go to the entrance alone? Because under normal circumstances, she could simply follow staff guidance or follow the crowd. Who would have thought this girl would be so stubborn and insist on charging ahead with the map herself?

“No no, I need to sort this out. Starting point is the lion and tiger area, walk south to two forks, then on the right is the reptile house? Then further down…”

After summarizing the route, Eiya took a step forward and walked in the opposite direction. Using the lion and tiger exhibit as her coordinate, she did not notice that the positions of the tiger area and lion area marked on the map were reversed.

She ran into another unfamiliar small plaza. After looking around, she froze again. Circling the small sculpture in the middle, Eiya lowered her head and tried hard to match similar spots on the map. Then she looked up again and met a pair of chilling vertical pupils.

“Eh… eh?!”

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Looking at the big snake flicking its tongue in front of her, and the familiar loli wrapped up in its coils and completely crashed, Eiya froze on the spot.

Trying to think, under the gaze of those snake eyes, she immediately lost the ability to think as well. She stood there blankly, just like her sister, directly entering a crashed state.

One sitting on a bench wrapped in a snake, one standing there holding a map in a daze. The two sisters looked like two robots that had lost power.

The giant python curiously examined the two highly similar lolis. After a moment, it confirmed its target and tightened its coils around Eiru a bit more.

“No, you you you… let go of my sister!”

Snapping back to her senses, Eiya tried to use the rolled-up map in her hand to hit the snake. But her hands were trembling from fear, and she could not bring herself to strike.

On the other side, the little Demon Lord’s soul was practically leaving her mouth. She no longer knew what was happening around her. Feeling the cold, smooth scales coiled around her body and hearing the constant hissing by her ears, fear had completely stripped her of consciousness.

“Y-you… let her go… let go…”

Eiya was, after all, just a child. This scene immediately scared her into tears, yet she still held the map high, trying to threaten the python coiling around her sister.

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The scene was extremely awkward. This python, which had no real aggressive intent, simply looked at the strange behavior of the loli in front of it. Its limited brain capacity made it unable to understand the current situation.

Since it could not understand, it decided to stop trying. The giant python moved its head to Eiru’s shoulder, giving off a strong impression of guarding its own cub. Even though cold-blooded animals should not possess such feelings.

“What the hell, another one got loose? What about the visitor evacuation?”

After receiving a call, the zoo director’s blood pressure instantly shot up. The snake had not even been found yet, and another one escaped?

“And we’ve found the problem. It’s those new electronic enclosures you had renovated recently. We don’t know what kind of interference they were hit by, but they opened on their own, and the surveillance also failed.”

“I should have stuck with the old manual locks. None of this high-tech stuff is reliable! What else is wrong!”

The director roared, but even worse news came from the other end.

The nearby police station suddenly dispatched officers and was already on the way. They had not even called the police yet, but not only regular officers, it seemed firefighters and special police had been mobilized as well.