Moving Cargo

Just as dawn was breaking, a truck drove towards the zoo.

Jilan Jiyu and Aoi Hana were both wearing blue uniforms and stood at the gate waiting for the truck to arrive.

Seeing the car stop, Aoi Hana went up to a middle-aged man and bowed, saying, "Thank you for your hard work."

"Xiao Hua, this is my responsibility. It must be tiring for you to get up so early." The middle-aged man in the driver's seat got out, smiling at Jilan. "Young man, are you a new employee at the zoo? You look quite energetic."

Jilan nodded to him and smiled, "I'm a temporary employee here. I'll be staying here to help out for the next few days."

"It's good that someone is helping. You don't know, before Xiao Hua came here, I always had to unload the things and put them at the entrance by myself. The head of the kindergarten absolutely refused to come out and help me; she just stood at the ticket booth shouting."

The uncle opened the carriage door, and a blast of cold air rushed out, making Aoi Hana shiver. Seeing this, Jilan stepped forward, and the two of them began to move the items from the carriage. As lightning-like Hamon appeared on Jilan's hands, the uncle's right hand suddenly grew larger, and the two of them each carried groceries loaded with woven bags.

Seeing that she didn't need to lift a finger, Aoi Hana pulled a notebook from her back pocket, picked up a pen, and began to take inventory of the goods.

"Hey bro, does your Quirk give you superhuman strength? It's the same as Quirk!" The uncle asked in surprise as he watched Jilan easily lift a hundred-pound object by himself.

"More or less." Jilan did not deny it.

This middle-aged man was a bit of a chatterbox. Seeing that Jilan had taken on half the workload, he began to sigh, "You're really something, young man. When I was your age, I aspired to be Pro Hero, but my Quirk 'Qilin Arm' had too limited range of uses, and I failed in the second stage of the Tottori High School Hero Course exam..."

As Jilan listened to him talk while carrying the load, she occasionally nodded in agreement, making her the best listener. But in her mind, she was thinking about how to make the zoo famous.

As he was catching his breath, Jilan suddenly interrupted, "Uncle, is this zoo famous in Oumagadoki City? Why haven't I seen a single visitor all day?"

"You mean this zoo..." The uncle's attention was diverted, and he said with some emotion, "Actually, the locals in Oumagadoki City all know there's a zoo here, but many people don't want to come. After all, the location is a bit remote, and there are only a few buses that pass by here every day. Apart from me, an uncle who comes to deliver goods once a week, there aren't many other tourists."

Is there a reason?

"Speaking of the reasons, it's actually due to the current social trends..." Seeing Jilan's confusion, the uncle explained, "We live in a society that Quirk. Most people have different Quirk. Some people's genes have mutated, resulting in things like wings or tails that aren't human. Others have animal-like appearances, with abundant fur or animal faces... This is becoming increasingly common. Why spend money to see animals at the zoo when you can see them all around you?"

In Jilan's class, there's Asui with his frog- Quirk and Ojiro with a tail. The class next door has Ox Horn and Wild Beast. If going to the zoo used to be about seeing novel animals, nowadays, human appearances are becoming increasingly strange, much more novel than those animals whose names you can easily picture.

"That's true..."

Like the Snake Woman, Miss Uwabami, who raised funds for the zoo, her Medusa -like snake hair garnered her a large following. Most people assumed her Quirk stemmed from her ability to transform her hair into snakes; if no one told them, who would know she was actually a real Uwabami from the zoo?

However, on another note, is there now a pattern to transformation—female animals become more feminine, while male animals enhance their characteristics?

Like the lizardman siblings in Slime, after receiving names from Rimuru, the female became a greenish-skinned lizard girl, while the male grew much larger... Could this be a manifestation of the world's will?

No, I must be overthinking it. It's probably just a coincidence. Jilan shook her head and stopped thinking about it.

"Thank you so much, buddy! You saved me half the time!" All the ingredients were unloaded by the two men. The uncle dusted off his hands and looked at Aoi Hana, "Xiao Hua, are you done counting?"

"No problem." Aoi Hana secretly took a piece of paper from her notebook and handed it to the man. "This is the receipt."

"Are you two sure you can move all this stuff inside?" the older man asked, still a little uneasy after getting into the car. "Do you need any help?"

Aoi Hana shook her head and smiled, saying, "Usually, one person is enough for me, but today I have Jilan too."

"Shh!"

Watching the truck's taillights gradually disappear from sight, Aoi Hana blew the whistle hanging around her neck and shouted, "The person's gone! Come out and help!"

A few seconds later, a wolf's head peeked out from the rooftop, cautiously surveying the surroundings. Finding no other humans besides Jilan and Aoi, it turned and waved vigorously, "Guys, it's time for us to get to work!"

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Heavy footsteps sounded, and an elephant appeared on the horizon, swinging its trunk; the Werewolf flipped down from the roof and opened the zoo gate... Several animals ran and rushed towards the gate!

"I'm number one!"

A cheetah wearing shorts and a vest, its large belly protruding, overtook the group at incredible speed, rushing through the gate with a gust of wind and arriving at the delivery point!

"How was it, zookeeper? I'm still number one this time!" The cheetah struck a bodybuilding pose on the spot, saying with a hint of pride.

"Like I said, Cheetah, you need to lose weight," Aoi Hana said, narrowing her eyes. "Besides, what's the point of speeding up now? You still can't lift anything, can you?"

"What, are you kidding me? I'm a cheetah!" Cheetah walked towards the largest woven bag, reached out and picked him up forcefully, but because he used too much force, he ended up sitting directly on the ground!

Aoi Hana covered her eyes, speechless, and said, "It's filled with hay. It looks big, but it doesn't actually weigh much..."

At this moment, the other animals arrived as well. The birdman descended from the sky with a huge vegetable basket in his hand, landing right on the elephant's back. The gorilla and Werewolf grabbed the straps on both sides and tied the cage around its back.

The birdman grabbed a package and flew onto the elephant, dropping it like a bomber. Then, the Werewolf acted as a relay, constantly helping the birdman to load the packages onto the elephant's back, while the gorilla leaped high like a slam dunk, throwing the packages into the basket.

The rhinoceros tied a rope to its body and, like a dog pulling a sled, ran over...

In less than two minutes, with the help of the animals, everything was loaded and left just as spectacularly as they had arrived.

"Is this some kind of acrobatic performance...?" Jilan gave a wry smile. "We don't even need to lift a finger."

Aoi Hana wasn't moved by the animals' wonderful teamwork; instead, she sighed, "It's all because of the zoo director. He just lets them do whatever they want all day long, even moving things becomes a game."

"Does the zoo director like to torment the animals...?" Jilan suddenly asked. "Since he likes it, let him do as much as he wants."

"Ha?"

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