The woman waited for Student Xiao to answer.
Xiao Xiao smiled faintly.
"Grandma Ji wasn't wrong."
"Fei is Fei."
"Fei is special."
"If I had to say what it is..."
Xiao Xiao paused, then said uncertainly, "A leopard?"
"...A leopard!?"
After a few seconds of stunned silence, the woman let out a shriek.
Several passersby turned to look at her.
The woman didn't care.
She was too shocked.
A le-leopard!?
"Where did you find it?"
The woman took a deep breath.
She made herself calm down.
"At the zoo?"
Had they gone somewhere that far away that morning?
Even the nearest zoo was a forty- or fifty-minute drive from here.
The round trip would take nearly two hours.
Had they just gone around the zoo and come right back?
"No."
Xiao Xiao shook his head.
"It was at a park not far from here."
Xiao Xiao had picked a more suitable location.
Otherwise, if he said they'd run into Zhujian on the street, the woman would have even more questions.
And a remote, long-neglected park...
Wasn't that just the sort of place where you'd encounter a magical creature?
"A park?"
The woman was surprised again.
What were the odds?
She'd taken the two children to a park just now, too.
Of course.
She knew it wasn't the same park.
If it had been, the coincidence would have made her uneasy.
Wait.
That wasn't the point.
The woman couldn't help reaching up to tap her head.
Shouldn't the question be...
"You saw... a leopard at the park?"
The woman's expression turned a little strange.
What park had leopards in it?
How had she never heard of that?
It wasn't a zoo...
And was it safe to let a leopard loose in a park?
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