Chapter 455: Beat You to Death

A spur-of-the-moment trip required some arrangements before departure.

Suming, whose well-being connected to hundreds of residents... okay, not millions, but certainly hundreds, caused a stir in the entire zoo upon learning that he really planned to go to the war-torn Middle East to "buy animals".

Everybody knew the Middle East was riddled with flying bullets. The world's bombers visited relentlessly, dropping bombs over there. Even the notoriously tough Americans were at their wit's end with the Middle East, and even the United Nations' peacekeeping forces couldn't guarantee their own safety.

Every other day, the television broadcast news of yet another international victim bombed by Middle Easterners. Middle Eastern terrorists, armed with machine guns and strapped with bombs, wreaked havoc somewhere again; someone else became a hostage decapitated by terrorists; some village slaughtered, the men shot, the women enslaved.