Super Zoo

The ones who found it difficult to adapt to city life were mainly among the male Lure People, sixteen Lure boys, along with three formidable Lure girls, a total of nineteen individuals, had registered to collect firearms and ammunition from the People's Armed Police Force and boarded a helicopter to establish a small outpost near Orgrimmar ahead of everyone else, serving as the advance force.

Suming had absolute trust in the wilderness survival abilities of the Lure People; nearly every one of them was a watered-down version of Su Meng. They had grown up in the mountains since childhood, possessing animal-like keen intuition and agility. After a period of professional training by Ludmila and being equipped with modern scientific knowledge, they were formidable.

In the mountains, as long as pandas didn't attack them, they were almost invulnerable.

"The construction crew is short-staffed, shall we look for some cooperative units?" Su Desheng asked Suming.

The three major projects at hand, the three Taoyuan phases, were nearing completion, and the retirement community project was just starting. However, the most significant task in the true sense was the relatively smaller-scale forest park development.

Having been in the industry for a long time, Su Desheng was relatively familiar with the state of the business. The real estate boom had given rise to numerous construction companies, but not all of them had ongoing work all the time. It was quite common for them to help each other out and share workers, as long as they were paid well.

"Certainly," Suming nodded, and then suddenly remembered something. "However, be cautious. Baoye Group and I have had conflicts before, so keep an eye out when working with them."

Baoye Group was the largest real estate company in Yangchuan City and was among the top in the entire province. With their deep pockets, almost every construction team in the city had business dealings with Baoye Group, and many depended on them for work, looking to their whims for sustenance.

During the last car smashing incident, those who clashed with Nangong Yan were the head of Baoye Group's own sister and a contractor who made his wealth through Baoye Group's support.

It was rumored that the relationship between these two was illicit; both married, the man rode on the coattails of his powerful connection to the woman to receive assignments from Baoye Group, while the woman, relying on her brother's influence, didn't take her husband seriously and brazenly engaged in affairs.

Of course, this had nothing to do with Suming; a lot of time had passed since the incident, and there had been no further moves from the other party.

Now, dealing with real estate and construction development, being extra cautious wasn't a bad thing.

Su Desheng understood the crux and nodded, "I know what's at stake, you can rest assured."

Su Desheng, not one to waste words and preferring to bury himself in work, had sharpened his wits through years of hustling in society. Unlike some, who were all talk but worthless in action, he meant what he said. Since he had put it that way, Suming was reassured and said no more.

"Director, director, are you there?" A hurried knock on the door came from outside the office; it was Mrs. Tong.

Suming nodded at Su Desheng, who got the hint and said, "Then I'll be off." He opened the office door and smiled at Mrs. Tong, "The director is inside; you two talk, I'll take my leave."

"Ah, yes, sure," Mrs. Tong replied.

"What's the matter, Mrs. Tong?" Suming was taken aback by Mrs. Tong's frantic appearance. He had a telephone in his office that connected to Mrs. Tong's. If there was an issue, a call would suffice; why had she come over in such a hurry?

"I came from your residence at Whisperwind Pavilion..." Mrs. Tong said breathlessly: "You should go take a look; the Crested Ibis Xiaohong you brought back seems to be acting up, it's fighting with the other animals at the Pavilion!"

Since Crested Ibis Xiaohong had a relatively high aggression towards humans, after being brought to the zoo, Suming didn't dare to let it roam free or confine it in a cage and simply let it live with the other animals at the Pavilion.

Everything had been fine until two days ago, so why had a fight started now?

"Alright, I'll go take a look," Suming stood up and walked outside.

...

It wasn't just Crested Ibis Xiaohong and the other animals that were fighting.

In Korea, Park Jeong-ui and Park Young-myeong, the brothers, were also embroiled in an inextricable conflict.

Park Young-myeong knew his brother all too well.

Brother loved this family, loved his younger brother, loved his nephew Park Cheol-bin, and would even lay down his life for the clan without hesitation.

But this love was by no means an unprincipled indulgence.

Park Jeong-ui was a man fiery as a blaze; he had his own set of principles for conducting himself. He valued kinship, but kinship could not bind him unconditionally.

In other words, if he thought someone deserved to die, no matter who it was, he would eliminate them.

Not even his own brothers were exceptions.

So, when Park Young-myeong reported Park Jeong-ui, he also dispatched Sakata, making it imperative to take out Park Jeong-ui.

Park Young-myeong was very clear about Sakata's background and capabilities. In the initial days, he wasn't worried at all that Sakata would fail; it was, more importantly, a continuous feeling of guilt towards his brother that he carried inside.

The two brothers, born of the same mother, appeared to have very different personalities, but at their core, they were strikingly similar: When determined to do something, they would pursue it no matter what.

Park Young-myeong didn't hate Park Jeong-ui, but he believed that for the sake of the Park family, for his son's future, Park Jeong-ui had to die.

Unfortunately, the current Park Jeong-ui felt the same way, except the one who had to die was Park Young-myeong.

Blood ties were blood ties, but a steel blade was a steel blade.

But a few days later, Park Young-myeong discovered that his steel blade may very well have broken: he had completely lost contact with Sakata.

Based on the timeline, Sakata should have completed the task and returned to Korea by now. He would have contacted him at the earliest opportunity no matter what.

With every day of no contact, Park Young-myeong's agitation grew.

It seemed as if at any moment, his brother Park Jeong-ui would appear before him with a grim face, walking into his office, or showing up in his bedroom in the dead of night, gazing at him with resolute eyes…

He even began to regret his initial decision somewhat.

…

What exactly happened in Korea after that, Huaxia was not too clear on the details.

If one were to read the newspaper, in some obscure corner of the international news section, one would find a rather inconspicuous news item.

In Korea, a pair of brothers, over a family property dispute, turned against each other, resulting in violent conflict, and both died. The younger brother's widow and son were left to inherit the wealth of both parties.

Such an incident would be considered major news locally, but on the international stage, it was hardly worth mentioning. The only reason it made the international newspapers was that the heirs to the estate, the younger brother's widow and son, disclosed to the public that according to their father and uncle's last wishes, they planned to conduct an inspection in Huaxia and invest the money chiefly in environmental and animal protection.

Brothers turned enemies, a murder case, and a venture into charitable causes—these were enough sensational elements to make it news.

Soon enough, some details were dug up. The family's ancestors had betrayed their country by helping invaders capture exotic birds and beasts, and the descendants hoped to cleanse this shame. It was rumored that the conflict between the brothers was also related to this.

There were also two gossip-related tidbits that weren't exactly newsworthy, pertaining to the heirs of the fortune themselves.

The extremely young and beautiful widow, and the boy who had suddenly contracted a bizarre illness and became bedridden, but was known locally as a 'prodigy.'

Suming was temporarily unaware of these matters; by the time he rushed to Whisperwind Pavilion, Chaos had already taken over Whisperwind Pavilion!