Zoo in Winter

One day when I was alive, I was walking to publisher office in a usual way. That was first time I saw that girl and a boy in front of the publisher office. She was carrying a novel manuscript that I had written.
“ Max! There is him!” she said.
“ Yes he is it!” ,She said again.
“ This is yours! Looks like you drop it.” Said Alice.
“ Ow!!!! My manuscript!!!” I Shouted
“ Thanks! Where did you find it?” I ask her.
“ M… I…” She answered.
“ Wait,! Wait… As a Dective novel writer I have solve this problem by my self!” I interrupt her.
“ I was put this manuscript inside my bag. My bag hasn’t any hole. So it was impossible to drop away.” I check my bag.
“ Last time I opened my bag is when I was at train station. (when I take my wallet to buy newspaper…Yes that time.!!). Wait a minute, I don’t understand…” I thought again.
“ What’s wrong sir?” She ask me.
“ You two know this is mine so when I drop it you two saw it. Then, why you didn’t give it to me at station and wait in front of the publisher office?” I see them with curious. (He think too much) Alice thought.
´We found that manuscript in front of a newspaper shop at the station. We opened it and we knew that it was a manuscript of a novel. Then we looking for someone who looks like wrote it. Suddenly max found you. I ask him why he know it was you. Then he said that he was looking for someone which hasn’t wore a tie. Because he thought that the one who have the manuscript is editor or a novelist who didn’t use a tie. And he found you. You also bring a newspaper that uncommon at the station which sold at the newspaper shop. So we know you drop it when you buy the newspaper.” She explained to me.
“ Wow.!!!! That was great!!!! I’m impressed!!!” I shake the boy hand.
“ As my thanks I give you some discount card for beer.!!!” I gave him my card.
“ Sorry I still under the age.” He refuse my card.
“ So thank you very much. This manuscript is my important thing in my life except my own life.” I bow down to them.

I enter the publisher office and went to the receptionist. The receptionist ask me to wrote my name and my address. I felt so lucky. Maybe this luck is a good sign. Yes!! My book will be a best seller!!!!

Yes it was had to be like that.

But sometimes things didn’t go that way.

At Weiwoo zoo in the lion cage there lay a man. Not breathing. His heard is not beating. He was dead.

“ Ah Shit!!!! This is because of him!!!!” I shouted in side the silent morning. But nothing hear me. I found my self inside the lion cage. Above my hisown body which laid down at the ground. No long after that the police found the body.
“ hoooh.. It’s so cold…” some one said.
“ Ah, good morning Mr. Inspector! That because this zoo was at the hill. That was the corpse we found inside the lion cage.” Said the other police. The man which has a big body and had a thin beard was the inspector and the thin man using the coat is his assistant.
“ The lion didn’t ate it.” Inspector said.
“ The lion was put inside the cage at night. At the day the lion was put in the playing area that’s why the lion didn’t eat that corps” Answered the assistant.
“ We foretell that the victim was drunk and climb up than died because of the cold.” The assistant explained to the inspector.
“ what? Died because of the cold? But I felt warm in front of the cage.” The said inspector didn’t understand.
“ That because at 5 o’clock the zoo turn on the heater for some animals which couldn’t live in cold condition.” He elaborate it.
“ hm… I see….” Said the inspector.
“ Hei Mr. police when we can use this playing area again? The lion inside was already uncomfortable.”, said one of the zoo employee.
“ Please tell Margareth to wait.” Inspector said.
“ Can you hear that Margareth?”
“ GGGrrrrrroooOoaaaAAAHHH!!!!” Margareth answered.
“ This is the testimony from the zoo worker which found the victim first time. at 5 o’clock he drove to the animals cage which under his responsibility. When he passed the cage he didn’t saw anything wrong. Then 10 minutes later when he drove back, he saw the victim died in the lion cage.” the police tell the inspector.
“ So the victim went inside in 10 minutes?” ask the inspector.
“ Yes… it sounds like that.” Said the police.
“ It so strange! Just 10 minutes in the cage with the heater can’t make him die.!!” the inspector confused.
“ Sir! We found something at the victim neck.! Looks like something bite him.” Said one of the police.
“ Sorry can I have a look on it? Hmmm” ask the zoo worker.
“ Could you show me his teeth?” he ask again. When the police show him than he shock.
“ That because of the poison of the Ring Snake!” he shouted.
“What? Ring Snake? That was snake which lived here. Was it dangerous?” ask the inspector.
“ Yes it is. It poison same with the cobra.”

Oh no!!!! please check it again I can’t speak!!!! Oh yeah that boy!

After school Max and Alice was reading the newspaper. They look at the news about the novelist case in the zoo. I found them. Than I made all people who talking to Alice talk about zoo. And in her dream I made her dreaming about zoo. After a few days she ask max to accompany her to the zoo. When they passed the lion cage they remember about the case.
“ Maybe the lion ate the ring snake.” said Alice.
“ No! The ring snake will eat the lion.” Max answered.

Good boy.. come on. Solve the problem.

“ People said that ring snake is not dangerous because their funk was far away inside their mouth. So people which bitten by it didn’t die because of it.” Max Elaborate to Alice.
“ Do you still have yesterday’s newspaper Alice?” ask Max.
“ Oh yes” Alice give the newspaper.
They saw that the novelist they met was die.

Than they went to the publisher office. Alice act like she want to give her script to the editor but her hand writing was bad so the editor didn’t want to accept it. Then she ask him about the victim in the zoo. He was one of his coworker there. Than she ask him about the novelist. The novelist was died. He jump from his apartment. He was the one who speak to the victim the last time. he heard when the victim talk to the novelist that his trick was so bored and not good. At the toilet they talk about that and the victim think to copy the novelist idea and gave it to the other novelist. But, the novelist hear that and they don’t know.
“ Thanks sir!!” Alice said.
At the receptionist Alice ask to the receptionist about the novelist address. Than she gave Alice the novelist shawl. He forgot to bring it home. Than Alice and Max went to the novelist house. When they open the door. They hear some noise. They look on the table. There is a small cage. Inside it the cage. It was a strange animal. Sharp funk and sharp eye. It looks like hungry.
“ Ahh.!!!! What is that!!!” Alice shouted.
“ Calm down Alice.! It’s a mangos!”
“ I found something here!! It’s a snake funk!” said max with bring something in his hand.
“ Mangos was famous as poisoned snake eater. They were rare at other country but here their population is so many.” Max Explained.
“ But, Why it was here?” ask Alice.
“ Hm… Let me thingk.” Said Max.
Suddenly he jump and said, “ I found it!”

Max ask inspector which is Alice father for the famous reporter. Than in the thay after that in the very morning he invite the reporter, Alice and her father to came to the zoo.
“ So the murder who named Watson killed the victim because felt that his novel was stolen?” Ask the reporter.
“ Yes. Just imagine that Watson came here with all of his dream to be a big novelist. So he wrote the novelist all of the time. But his idea was stolen and he deside to kill the editor.” Said Max.
“ He did it to show his trick with his own hand. And to erase his guiltiness he committed suicide.”
“ First he made Mr. Stewart the editor and the victim drunk than he put Mr. Steward inside the cage. After that he bring the Ring Snake to bite Mr. Stewart. The poison of the ring snake make Mr. Steward died. Than he gave the ring snake to the mangos. It ate it easily. And he gave the mangos to the lion than the evidence was disappear. He want to be famous even show his trick with his own hand.” Max explained.
“ Than how he put the victim in just 10 minutes?” ask the reporter.
“ Ok. Let’s see. Alice please bring that doll” Max put the doll in front of the cage.
“ Lets go down ladies and gentleman.” He ask people to go down to the place where the witness saw the victim because the cage was higher than the street below.
“ Ok now is 5 o’clock.” Said max. Suddenly the doll was disappear.
10 minutes later the doll was appear again. They were shock!
“ This was the end of my verification. Good morning.” Max bowing down and all the people there gave him applause.


End