Chapter 472 This Is the Real Victim

After Su Ming said this, the attention of several people immediately shifted to the rhinoceros. Since the group of people appeared, the two of them have never moved in the mud. Even their tails are hanging behind them. They don't shake them from time to time to drive away flies as usual.

"My dear, are you crazy?" Lyudmila hummed and said, "The weather is hot, of course the rhinoceros will not move. This can maintain physical strength and avoid unnecessary consumption. Our most elite soldiers in Moran can even lurk in the mud for 24 hours without moving..."

As they were talking, two staff members had already started to drive the rhinoceros away. They made a huge noise by the pool. The rhinoceros are actually very timid. After being frightened, they will run back to the 'cave', that is, the animal pen in the corner of the pool, where there is already a large iron cage waiting for them.

Unexpectedly, the noise made the humans upset, but the two rhinoceroses below still turned a deaf ear and lay motionless.

"Huh? What's going on?" Zhao Yun said curiously.

Su Ming took the koala that was pulling Nangong Huang's hair into his arms, rubbed the little koala's neck like a godfather, squinted his eyes and smiled, and said: "It's dead. Adnan, tell those soldiers that I want dead rhinos too, but the price should be based on the price of pork, calculated by kilogram."

Adnan bravely went over to the group of soldiers to convey Su Ming's words, but the other party did not take it seriously at all. The leading officer glared at this side fiercely.

"Hehe, if you don't agree now, you won't even be able to sell at the price of pork later..." Su Ming was not in a hurry at all. He pulled the little koala's two ears and made the little guy into a "big letter".

Koala: "..."

Seeing that the method of driving rhinos away with noise did not work, under the urging of a group of big-headed soldiers, the staff of Baghdad Zoo adopted several other methods, but the two rhinos still lay motionless in the mud, and had no reaction to various external stimuli.

Just as Su Ming learned the ‘knowledge’ from Zhao Yun, religions in the Middle East, including Islam and other sects, believe that ‘dead things’ are unclean. Some radical sects even believe that after a person dies, the body is unclean and must be purified by fire or nature. If the two rhinos are really dead, they cannot be used for sacrifice. Unless these soldiers believe in some kind of evil... cult, they will use the corpse for sacrifice.

After more than an hour of struggling, the rhinoceros still did not move. The leading officer was completely uneasy. He raised his rifle, aimed slightly, and pulled the trigger.

With a crisp sound, a bullet stuck to the body of a rhinoceros and drilled into the mud.

If it was a living thing, it would definitely be scared.

But the rhinoceros still lay there, letting the rain blow and hit it without moving.

Lyudmila was already 70% to 80% sure of Su Ming’s words at this time, and asked in confusion: "How do you know they are dead?"

"Nonsense, use your eyes to see, they are dead if they don't move." Su Ming said as a matter of course.

Lyudmila rolled her eyes in anger. This is nonsense. If the rhino has not moved for three or five days, anyone would know that it is dead. But the problem is that they just arrived at the cement pool, and in less than five minutes, Su Ming has confirmed that the two rhinos are dead.

This is too strange!

At this time, the zoo technicians took out two tranquilizer guns and injected several shots at the rhinos outside the cement pool.

"They will anesthetize the rhinos, and then send technicians down to check the rhinos' vital signs with equipment to determine whether they are dead or alive." Zhao Yun said.

"Well, I know." Su Ming nodded.

I was slightly nervous in my heart, hoping that I did not make a wrong judgment!

After waiting for a while and confirming that the anesthetic had taken effect and the rhinos were unable to hurt people even if they were not dead, the two technicians took the equipment and, accompanied by a squad of soldiers, or escorted, entered the cement pool from the breeder channel and came to the rhinos.

It was not known whether the rhino was really dead or because of the anesthetic. Until they came to the rhino and connected the equipment to the rhino's body, the rhino still did not move.

"Beep, beep..." The detection equipment made a very faint sound, and some graphics that only professionals could understand were shaking up and down.

The two technicians in charge of the detection were slightly stunned and exchanged glances with each other.

Rhinos have a skill of "playing dead". In the wild with harsh environment, rhinos often face the situation of lack of food and dry water sources. In this case, rhinos can enter the state of "playing dead", lying in the mud for a long time without moving, slowing down their heartbeats, and reducing their body consumption to the minimum.

In nature, many animals have similar abilities, such as hibernation, which is an extreme manifestation. Of course, rhinos are not hibernating. If there is danger approaching, rhinos will still be aware of it.

From the instrument display, it seems that these two rhinos are not dead and are currently in this state!

Due to anesthesia, their vital signs were much weaker than when they were "playing dead". If not for professional instruments, normal people would see them as dead.

The two technicians were full of questions. Why did the two rhinos suddenly enter this state? Although the food in the zoo was tight, it was not enough to starve them to death; even in this state, the rhinos were very sensitive to external stimuli. Why did the rhinos not react to noise, gunshots, or even when they came to the rhinos?

It was as if they knew someone was going to take them away and pretended to be dead!

Despite this, the two technicians still made a decision at the first time.

They turned back at the same time, shook their heads at the leading officer, and said in Arabic: "Confirmed dead."

Seeing this scene outside the cement pool, Su Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief. He made the right bet!

The two rhinos pretended to be dead, Su Ming had communicated with them in advance with his mental power. Even if the rhinos did not have the ability to "play dead", Su Ming would make them motionless. He did not believe that these soldiers had the knowledge in this area and could see through the tricks.

The only one who might be exposed was the staff of the zoo. As long as they used professional equipment to check, they would find that the rhinos were still alive.

This is what Su Ming bet on: he was 80% sure that even if they found out, the other party would never tell this group of soldiers.

It was a very simple truth. If they were in the same situation, if they were a staff member of the Baghdad Zoo, they would never want these soldiers to take the rhinos away. If not, they would rather give them to other zoos to raise than let them become victims of religion.

Only those who are truly engaged in animal protection understand how precious these two rhinos are!

Hearing what the technicians said, the leading officer's face instantly looked as ugly as if he had eaten feces. He stepped on the mud and walked to a rhino. He lay down and touched and listened to the rhino, but the rhino's skin was so thick, and it pretended to be dead and was shot with an anesthetic gun. He couldn't tell whether it was dead or alive.

"Let's go!" The officer waved his hand with a gloomy face and was about to leave with his soldiers.

Su Ming just breathed a sigh of relief, and saw that the officer walked to the door of the keeper's passage, suddenly stopped, turned around, and strode back to the rhino!

Su Ming's heart was lifted again. What is this guy going to do? !

The officer hesitated for two or three seconds, and suddenly took out a pistol, pointed it at the thigh of a rhino, and shot it.

The bullet made a small hole in the rhino's thigh, and blood gushed out, but the rhino still lay there motionless.

This time the leading officer finally gave up and left the cement pool with his men.

The military discipline of this group of soldiers was better than Su Ming had imagined. Seeing that the rhino was really dead, they did not hold the body for a price, nor did they saw off the rhino's horn to sell for money. Under the leadership of the officer, a platoon of soldiers did not even look at Su Ming and his men, turned around and trotted out of the zoo.

"Bastard, bastard, you still do this! Fortunately, I have enough mental power!" Su Ming cursed in his heart, and quickly divided his mental power to heal the rhino that was shot.

The zoo staff below were busy stopping the bleeding of the rhino. The shot rhino suddenly stood up on the spot, screaming like crazy, and running around in the cement pool.

The rhino was extremely depressed. This was really called being shot.

Another rhino also staggered to get up, shook off the mud on its body, and took two steps. It felt dizzy and its legs became weak. It fell into the mud again.