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The two-week spring break ended quickly, and the school started a new school year as the last wave of cherry blossoms bloomed.
Compared to fourth grade, fifth grade is already a higher grade. In order to connect to junior high school, the difficulty of fifth and sixth grade courses will be significantly increased.
But it doesn't matter to Lingye. It's just the difference between doing it casually and requiring a little thinking.
It's still at the level of elementary school students.
But Sakura obviously doesn't think so.
"It's obviously a math problem, why are there letters?"
She couldn't understand X and Y at all, and it wasn't an English class. Math was her worst subject, and addition, subtraction, multiplication and division were already enough to give her a headache, so why was there such an anti-human "equation"?
Although Ling wanted to say, "Wouldn't it be possible to do this kind of question if you had hands?" However, if she really said that, Sakura would probably break up with her. Well, the kind that would last for one minute.
So let me explain the formula in detail.
"Lingye is so amazing!" Sakura clapped her hands in admiration as she watched Lingye solve a 'hieroglyphic' level problem in no time.
"Understood?"
(silence)
Well, it seems that things you are not good at cannot be solved by simply working hard.
"Compared to this..." Tomoyo looked up from taking notes on her study, "Let's go to the zoo on Sunday."
"Zoo? Want to see the penguins?" Sakura loves penguins the most.
"No, we're going to Ueno Zoo to see the pandas."
"Eh? Pandas? There are pandas in Tokyo?"
If penguins are rare and cute animals, then pandas are legendary.
But aren’t pandas only found in China? Sakura didn’t quite understand, as she had only seen pictures of them before.
"Last year, China gifted us two pandas, Kang Kang and Lan Lan. They are now in Ueno Zoo. There are only two of them in Japan."
It is called a donation, but it is actually a conservation research cooperation. Of course, it is not important to ordinary citizens, what is important is that they can see the legendary giant panda with their own eyes!
Chapter 253 Panda Stolen
For Tokyo residents, pandas are an irresistible temptation.
Last October, when Kang Kang and Lan Lan came to Tokyo on a special plane and stayed at Ueno Zoo, on the first opening day, the zoo was packed with 10 visitors.
This zoo, which was built during the Meiji Restoration in the 1980s and has a history of more than 90 years, is welcoming such a large number of tourists for the first time.
6 people, the entire zoo designed for 5 people was packed. It was literally packed. People were so crowded that it made people wonder if anyone could see the pandas, or if they were just watching each other.
To this day, it has been open for half a year. The initial excitement should have worn off long ago, but the zoo is still packed every day, regardless of whether it is a weekday or a holiday. From opening to closing, the zoo is always packed.
Ling didn't quite understand such enthusiasm.
Of course she had seen pandas, but not here, but in her previous life fifty years later.
Perhaps it is because in the 21st century, after artificial breeding and rescue protection, the number of pandas has improved. In her impression, there are pandas in every zoo, and they don't feel rare, so there is a certain "complex" missing.
They are indeed cute, especially the newborn panda babies, which are pink like hamsters. But it is not necessary to make people so crazy.
Ling couldn't understand it either, but Sakura could, and her eyes were already sparkling with stars.
"Yes! Yes!"
"But, isn't Ueno Zoo very crowded? Can you get in by queuing up?"
Ling was still a little hesitant, she didn't like crowds. If she had to squeeze in a crowd of tens of thousands of people just to see a panda, then forget it.
"No need to queue, we'll go after the park closes." Zhishi said with some pride, "Mom donated some money to the zoo, and we're going to donate tomorrow. She said she can take us to see the giant pandas."
This is the power of money.
It is not cheap to raise a panda. The daily food expenses are several tens of thousands of yen. Pandas do not eat bamboo. Before the suitable bamboo is successfully transplanted and cultivated, they only eat fresh bamboo cut on the same day by airlift from Sichuan. This is only a small part of the expenses.
If the costs of building a venue and daily care are included, the annual cost of the two pandas would be millions of dollars.
The zoo cannot afford so much money, but fortunately there are spontaneous donations from the public.
The public's enthusiasm for pandas can be seen from this excessive donation.
However, most people only donate a few thousand or tens of thousands of yen, but Tomoyo's mother donated more than that, so she was able to see the pandas after the park closed.
Since there is no need to squeeze in with the crowds, the panda is still worth a look.
Ling also considered whether the Oshima family should donate a little, after all, it is a national treasure. Going to Japan, where you are unfamiliar with the place, it is reasonable to offer good food and drink.
Time soon came to Sunday evening.
When I saw the giant panda again, it still looked the same as I remembered. Black and white, cute and naive, it didn't look like the iron-eating beast that our ancestor Chi You used to sit on.
The Daidoji family donated 3 million yen in exchange for an hour of private viewing time.
"What?" Ling was somewhat dissatisfied as she left the zoo.
She had pledged 5 million in the name of the Oshima family, but they still wouldn't let her touch it, or feed it some bamboo. But the breeder was very polite but refused to allow it, so they could only watch through the glass.
"That's right!" Sakura agreed very much. It would be great if she could touch it - although she had already taken many photos with the giant panda through the glass, which was enough to satisfy her.
Now she solemnly announced that she had an animal she loved more than penguins.
"You can't get close to the panda," Daidoji Enmei said with a smile, "It's for safety."
Of course, they are not afraid that the girl will hurt the panda, but they are afraid that the panda will hurt people.
Although they don't look like it, pandas are truly fierce beasts, in the same category as lions and tigers. They can bite through bamboo as thick as their arms, let alone human arms.
Moreover, the panda's diet is not purely vegan. It eats vegetarian food because it is lazy and not agile enough. It will not refuse delicious meat if it is placed in front of it - such as a tender little girl with delicate skin.
Of course, people cannot enter a lion's cage, and similarly, they cannot enter a panda's room.
"Didn't the zoo give you panda toys?"
This is true. The three girls received panda dolls donated by the zoo. They were almost the same size as them. The realistic panda dolls were souvenirs from the zoo to express gratitude to the donors. It slightly made up for their regret that they could not touch the pandas in person.
Since pandas came to Tokyo last year, panda dolls have become the hottest selling items in stores, but most of them are cartoon-shaped. It is rare to find such a life-size and well-made simulated panda.
Although she couldn't touch the pandas, Ling would not break her promise to donate 5 million yuan. But unexpectedly, before she could process the donation, something big happened in the zoo.
The panda is missing!
"Shouldn't this matter be handed over to the police?"
In the TAC team, there is some unhappiness in the mountains. Taking over the missing panda case is definitely an unprovoked disaster for the TAC team.
Pandas are the national treasure of the country across the sea. Although it was presented to Japan as a symbol of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two sides, it is actually more important for joint research on panda breeding technology so that the panda population can develop and not become extinct.
Pandas are on loan to every country except Japan.
That is based on the trust in their biological breeding technology. The island nation seems to be born with unique technology on the issue of reproduction.
The disappearance of pandas is definitely an international event with major impact.
It is clear without any analysis that if the pandas cannot be found, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among neighboring countries and even affect the panda cooperative breeding program.
No matter what, they are the party in the wrong.
Even without considering international factors, within the country, when people learned that the TAC team had taken over the missing panda case, joint petitions almost flooded the TAC base.
【Tokyo can’t be without pandas! 】
This sentence appears most often in the letter.
The unhappiness in the mountains was also due to these pressures. Their TAC team had enough troubles.
"It's not enough to deal with aliens and super beasts, now we have to deal with thieves too?"
"That's not an ordinary thief." Dr. Kiji continued.
"The zoo has very complete security measures for pandas. The glass in the panda house is tempered bulletproof glass, and the gates for entering and exiting are anti-theft doors with electronic locks. But no one noticed anything unusual. The glass and doors were intact, but the pandas disappeared. And at the same time, the panda toys in the warehouse also disappeared."
"A panda toy?"
"Yes, they are all life-size panda toys specially customized by the zoo. There are dozens of them in the warehouse, but all of them disappeared at the same time."
Two pandas and dozens of life-sized toys, even without considering internal security issues, at least a truck would be needed to transport them away. But there was no such vehicle coming in or out. Not to mention vehicles, the guards at the gate and the patrolling security guards didn't even see any suspicious figures.
"So, this is probably not an ordinary thief." Mu Kaji asserted.
If it's not magic, then it's high technology beyond human capabilities.
"You said it was aliens? But why would aliens steal pandas?"
"Who knows? Maybe they think pandas are cute," Konno interjected.
Yamanaka glared at him. He was too lazy to refute such a brainless remark. The aliens were all trying to invade the earth, so they didn't have the time to think about it.
But apart from aliens, there seems to be no better explanation.
"Beidou, what do you think?" Captain Long asked.
Beidou has been silent since the beginning.
"I was thinking, whoever stole the pandas and why, where did he hide them after stealing them? Tokyo is big, but where can two pandas be hidden?"
Pandas are very big, and there are dozens of panda toys, so at least a warehouse is needed to store them all.
"Beidou is right, this is a direction for investigation."
We could start by checking warehouses around Tokyo, but even so, the area is still too large. There are countless places in Tokyo that are suitable for warehouses.
"We can ask the surrounding police stations to assist. Theft cases in Tokyo are the responsibility of the Metropolitan Police Department."
When large-scale searches are required, TAC is no match for police stations that are rooted in the grassroots.
At this time, the TAC team's phone rang. Noriko picked up the phone, said a few words and hung up.
"Captain, the Metropolitan Police Department called and reported that we have received reports in Tokyo that panda toys have been stolen from many stores."
"how many?"
"A lot, almost all the shops on the streets of Tokyo, all the panda toys in the cupboards were stolen. There were even some outdoor vendors who saw the toys disappear with their own eyes."
"With your own eyes? Didn't you see anyone?"
"Yes, they said they only saw a black shadow, moving very fast, faster than a car! It should be a person wearing a black cloak, and it was hard to tell whether he was a man, a woman, or a child under the cloak. They didn't see him holding anything, but he waved his cloak and all the toys disappeared."
If this isn't a street magician in collusion with the vendors, then it can only be an alien.