For Tokyo residents, pandas are an irresistible temptation.

In October last year, when Kangkang and Lanlan took a special plane to Tokyo to stay at Ueno Zoo, the zoo was packed with 60,000 visitors on the first day it opened.

This zoo, which was founded during the Meiji Restoration in the 1980s and has a history of more than 90 years, has welcomed such a peak number of tourists for the first time.

60,000 people blocked the entire zoo, which was designed for 5,000 people. It is no exaggeration to say that it was literally blocked. People were crowded together, and it was so dark that people wondered whether anyone could see the pandas, or whether they were just watching.

Human beings among themselves.

To this day, half a year after its opening, the initial freshness should have passed long ago, but the zoo is still full every day, even on working days and holidays. From opening to closing every day, it is always overcrowded.

Ling doesn’t quite understand such enthusiasm either.

Of course she has seen pandas, but not here, but in her previous life fifty years later.

Perhaps it is because in the 21st century, through artificial breeding and rescue protection, the number of pandas has improved. In her impression, every zoo has pandas, and there is really no feeling of rarity, so there is something missing.

Complex'.

It's true that it's cute, especially the newborn panda babies, which are as pink as a hamster. It doesn't make people so crazy.

Ling couldn't understand it either, but Sakura could, her eyes were already twinkling with stars.

"Go! Go!"

"But, isn't there a lot of people at Ueno Zoo? Can you wait in line to get in?"

Ling was still a little hesitant. She didn't like crowding in and joining in the fun. If she was squeezing in a crowd of tens of thousands of people just to catch a glimpse of a panda, then forget it.

"There's no need to line up, we're going after the park closes." Tomoyo said with some pride, "Mom has funded the zoo, and I'm going to make a donation tomorrow. She said she can take us to see the giant pandas."

This is the power of money.

Raising pandas is not cheap. The cost of food for one day is tens of thousands of yen when converted into yen. People generally do not eat bamboo. Until suitable bamboo can be transplanted and cultivated successfully, they will only eat fresh bamboo cut on the same day flown from Sichuan. This is just flowers.

A small part of the sales.

If you include the cost of building venues and daily care, the annual cost of two pandas is one million US dollars.

The zoo cannot afford so much money, but fortunately there are voluntary donations from the private sector.

The public's enthusiasm for pandas is evident in 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 wanted to see how the pandas are treated after the park is closed.

Since there is no need to crowd around, this panda is still worth a look.

Moreover, Ling is also thinking about whether the Oshima family should also donate a little. After all, it is a national treasure. Those who go to Japan and are not familiar with the place should pay tribute with delicious food.

The time soon arrived on Sunday evening.

When I saw the giant panda again, it was still the same as in my memory. Black, white, and white, and naive, not at all like the iron-eating beast of our ancestor Chi You.

The Daidaiji family’s donation of 3 million yen gave them an hour of private viewing time.

"What~~" Ling was also a little dissatisfied after leaving the zoo.

She had already pledged five million in the name of the Oshima family, and she was not allowed to touch it or feed the bamboo. However, although the breeder was very polite, she refused to allow it. They could only watch through the glass.

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"That's it!" Xiao Ying 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 declares that she has an animal she likes more than penguins.

"Pandas cannot be approached," Daodao Siyuan said with a smile, "This is for safety."

Of course, I am not afraid that the girl will hurt the panda, but I am afraid that the panda will hurt people.

Although it doesn't look like much, pandas are real beasts, in the same category as lions and tigers. They can crush bamboo with thick arms, not to mention human arms.

Moreover, the panda's diet is not vegan. It is vegetarian because its movements are lazy and not agile enough. If delicious meat is placed in front of it, it will not refuse it - such as a little girl with thin skin and tender meat.

Of course people cannot enter the lion's cage, and similarly they cannot enter the panda's room.

"Didn't the zoo also give you panda toys?"

It's true. The three girls all received panda dolls presented by the zoo. They were almost life-size. The simulated panda dolls were souvenirs from the zoo as a token of gratitude to the donors. It slightly made up for the regret that they could not touch the pandas with their own hands.

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Since pandas came to Tokyo last year, panda dolls have become the most popular items in stores, but most of them are cartoon-shaped. Such life-like and well-made simulated pandas are still rare.

Although she was not allowed to touch the pandas, Ling would not break her promise to donate five million yuan. But unexpectedly, before she could handle the donation, something big happened at the zoo.

The panda is missing!

"Shouldn't this kind of thing be handed over to the police?"

In the TAC team, Shanzhong is a little unhappy. Taking over the missing panda case will definitely be an unforeseen disaster for the TAC team.

The panda is a national treasure of the country across the sea. Although it is said to be a gift to Japan, on the one hand it is a symbol of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two sides. In fact, more importantly, it is for joint research on panda breeding technology so that the panda population can develop and not become extinct.

Except for Japan, pandas are only on loan to any country.

That is based on trust in their biological breeding technology. The island country seems to be born with unique technology on the issue of reproduction.

Now that the panda has disappeared, it is definitely an international event with a major impact.

No analysis is needed to know that if the pandas cannot be recovered, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction from neighboring countries and even affect the panda cooperative breeding plan.

No matter what, they are the ones who are at fault.

Even if international factors are not considered, within the country, when the public learned that the TAC team had taken over the missing panda case, the TAC base was almost flooded with joint petitions.

【Tokyo cannot live without pandas!】

This sentence appears the most times in the letter.

Yamanaka's unhappiness is also due to these pressures. Their TAC team has enough troubles already.

"It's not enough to deal with aliens and super beasts, now we have to deal with thieves?"

"That's not an ordinary thief." Dr. Kikaji answered.

"The zoo has very complete security measures for pandas. The glass in the panda house is tempered bulletproof glass, and the entrance and exit gates are electronically locked anti-theft doors. However, no one noticed anything unusual. The glass and doors were intact, but the panda disappeared.

. And what disappeared at the same time was the panda toys in the warehouse."

"Panda toy?"

"Yes, they are all life-size panda toys specially customized by the zoo. There are dozens of them in the warehouse, but these toys disappeared at the same time."

Two pandas and dozens of life-size toys. Even if internal security issues were not taken into consideration, it would take at least a truck to transport them away. But there were no such vehicles coming in and out. Not to mention vehicles, the guards at the gate and the patrolling security guards were even suspicious.

No one was seen.

"So, this is probably not an ordinary thief." Mu Kaji asserted.

If it's not magic, it's high technology that surpasses humans.

"You said it's aliens? But why do aliens steal pandas?"

"Who knows, maybe they think pandas are cute?" Konno interjected.

Yamanaka glared at him. He didn't even bother to refute such stupid words. Aliens are trying to invade the earth, so they don't have the time to spare.

But apart from aliens, there seems to be no other 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 for what reason, where would he hide them after stealing them? Although Tokyo is very big, where can two pandas be hidden?"

Pandas are huge, and there are dozens of panda toys that require at least a warehouse to store them.

"Beidou is right, this is a direction of investigation."

You can start the investigation from the warehouses around Tokyo, but even so, the scope is still too large. There are countless places in Tokyo that are suitable as warehouses.

"We can ask surrounding police stations to assist. Theft cases in Tokyo are the responsibility of the Metropolitan Police Department."

When it comes to searching through crowds of people, TAC is inferior to a police station that is rooted at the lowest level.

At this time, the TAC team's phone rang. Noriko picked up the phone and hung up after saying a few words.

"Captain, there is a call from the Metropolitan Police Department. Alarms are being received in Tokyo. Panda toys have been stolen from many stores."

"How many?"

"In many, almost all shops on the streets of Tokyo, all the panda toys stored in the cabinets have been stolen. There are even some open-air vendors who saw the toys disappear with their own eyes."

"With your own eyes? Didn't you see anyone?"

"Yes, it is said that I only saw a black shadow, and it was very fast, faster than a car! It should be a man wearing a black cloak. Under the cloak, men, women and children could not see clearly. I didn't see him carrying anything in his hand.

With a wave of the cloak, the toys disappeared."

If this wasn't a street magician colluding with a street vendor, it could only be an alien.

Obviously the latter.
To be continued...