“You’re Black Dragonfly?” Luo Shuangyue looked at the girl in front of her, her expression unreadable.
“Yes, Lord Dark Moth probably hasn’t met me.” Black Dragonfly nodded, turning her gaze to Jiu Ye beside Luo Shuangyue.
“But Jiu Ye and I often meet.”
Jiu Ye immediately nodded, confirming Black Dragonfly’s identity.
Luo Shuangyue sighed inwardly.
In some ways, it was no wonder the Eternal Night organization was considered evil.
Catgirls were a popular sight, and Jiu Ye seemed relatively normal, but Black Dragonfly was different.
Just by her codename, you could probably guess what kind of ‘girl’ she was, right?
Compared to Jiu Ye, whose human-to-beast ratio was roughly seven to three, Black Dragonfly’s beast-like features were more pronounced, to the point where she barely looked human at first glance.
Although she still had a humanoid form, she had two pairs of transparent wings on her back, and her eyes were pure black. If you looked closely, you could even see tiny compound eyes within those black pupils.
It was obvious at a glance that she wasn’t human.
“My power is weak; I’m not good at combat like Jiu Ye, so Lord Monice usually assigns me reconnaissance missions,” Black Dragonfly said, a little embarrassed.
“I can tell,” Luo Shuangyue muttered to herself.
“With those eyes, you’d definitely make a great detective.”
“By the way, don’t you scare the ordinary people in the zoo looking like that?” Luo Shuangyue asked curiously.
After all, with those strange eyes and wings, she couldn’t possibly be considered normal, right? Even if visitors weren’t scared, the zoo security would surely be on alert.
Regarding Luo Shuangyue’s doubts, Black Dragonfly explained that she had done some disguising.
As a “bad guy,” she always snuck into the zoo by climbing over the wall at blind spots in the surveillance, and once inside, she’d wear sunglasses and large clothes to conceal her unusual features.
As long as she avoided the security guards a little, she wouldn’t be found out.
“Besides, people go to the zoo to see animals; who looks at the people around them?” Black Dragonfly shrugged.
People were everywhere, but the creatures in the zoo were all rare species.
As they spoke, the three had arrived at the surveillance blind spot Black Dragonfly mentioned.
Black Dragonfly first looked around, then skillfully put on her sunglasses and coat, and with an agile leap, she cleared the several-meter-high wall.
“Looks like she’s climbed over many times,” Jiu Ye rubbed her nose and, mimicking Black Dragonfly, also climbed over the wall.
As for Luo Shuangyue, she didn’t need to climb like her two subordinates.
She simply stepped into the air and walked in.
This move made both Jiu Ye and Black Dragonfly show expressions of adoration. “Look at that elegant demeanor! Truly worthy of our Lord Dark Moth!”
“Let’s go to the reptile area first. I have a good relationship with the zookeeper there; we can ask her about the situation,” Black Dragonfly said to Luo Shuangyue.
During her time investigating at the zoo, she successfully built a good relationship with the zookeeper in the reptile area.
That young woman was very skilled with snakes, so anything snake-related, she was the go-to person.
The Serpent King’s sealed card, of course, had to be related to snakes. Black Dragonfly arrived at this conclusion through the most straightforward reasoning.
Though it sounded a bit unreliable, no one found fault with Black Dragonfly’s idea.
Even Luo Shuangyue thought Black Dragonfly had done a good job.
When the three arrived at the spot Black Dragonfly had mentioned, the zookeeper was feeding some cut raw meat to several brightly colored large snakes.
Around her neck, a small, strangely colored snake was coiled.
This small snake was like a rainbow, shimmering with light, clearly not normal at first glance.
“You can tell she’s got more guts than sense…” Luo Shuangyue’s mouth twitched slightly.
Her courage was unparalleled.
The colors of these snakes immediately indicated they weren’t to be trifled with, yet this zookeeper dared to interact with them at close quarters without any protective measures.
She didn’t know whether to praise her bravery or scold her for being reckless.
“Little Dragonfly, is that you?” Seemingly hearing footsteps from behind, the zookeeper turned and looked towards Luo Shuangyue.
Her eyes were golden, but a hint of darkness seemed to swirl within them.
Golden eyes, huh… Luo Shuangyue immediately grew curious about this zookeeper.
She’d only met two people with golden eyes before: her mother and her sister.
This zookeeper was the first non-blood relative with golden eyes she’d ever seen!
“Miss Yelina, these are the two friends I told you about earlier,” Black Dragonfly raised her hand to greet the zookeeper, then introduced Luo Shuangyue and Jiu Ye to her.
Jiu Ye’s name sounded like a normal person’s, so Black Dragonfly introduced her truthfully, but Luo Shuangyue was once again referred to as Miss Moth.
Since Yelina was still working, Luo Shuangyue and her companions waited outside until Yelina finished feeding before telling her their purpose.
After listening to Luo Shuangyue’s account, Yelina showed a thoughtful expression.
She stroked her chin, her eyes flashing with what seemed to be confusion.
“Abnormalities? The little snakes have indeed been a bit restless lately, but I don’t know the reason behind it.” After a long period of contemplation, Yelina shook her head, indicating that her knowledge was very limited.
After all, she was just a small zookeeper in the zoo and wasn’t very familiar with the entire park.
“I usually don’t go to other areas, so I actually know very little.”
“That’s alright. Then, have there been any strange phenomena here recently, like black smoke rising from the ground or anything?” Luo Shuangyue pressed on.
This time, Yelina shook her head directly.
If there truly were abnormal situations like black smoke rising from the ground, there would be no need for Luo Shuangyue and her group to come and ask; the zoo would have reported the anomaly long ago.
“I see…” Luo Shuangyue sighed with a hint of regret. It seemed she wouldn’t get any valuable clues from Yelina.
“Hmm, actually, if I had to say, the lion and tiger enclosure has been quite lively lately. Miss Moth could go check there,” Yelina added with a smile.
The lion and tiger enclosure, huh? Luo Shuangyue nodded.
A clue was better than no clue at all.
“Thank you for your help, Miss Yelina.”
“You’re welcome, you’re Little Dragonfly’s friends, after all,” Yelina smiled shyly.
“She’s a really nice girl,” Luo Shuangyue muttered to herself.
But she didn’t notice that after she left with Jiu Ye and Black Dragonfly, the smile on Yelina’s face gradually turned into worry.
As if she was afraid of something.
“She… she seems to have that person’s scent?”