Chapter 24 No Mental Illness

If a flamingo loses its baby and attacks tourists for its baby, or attacks humans indiscriminately, that would be understandable.

Animals have no less kinship than humans, especially female animals, who can fight back violently for their children.

It's strange that someone is so bold as to steal animals from the zoo.

Through the crack in the doorway, the administrator watched the man and the bird chatting so animatedly and couldn't help but ask, "Ms. Lin, how is Doudou? Is he suffering from a mental illness, or is the child really lost?"

After asking this question, the administrator's voice became weaker.

He checks the park every day, so if a flamingo chick is missing, there is no way he wouldn't know about it.

Ever since he joined the zoo, he has been in charge of this group of flamingos. He has developed feelings for them and treats them as his own children. Even though he has become an administrator, he is still responsible for feeding these birds every day.

"Doudou doesn't have a mental illness, his cub is missing. If you don't believe me, you can ask someone to check the flamingo cubs. I believe you know how many cubs there are in the Flamingo Park. You can find out by counting them." Lin Ting didn't explain too much to the administrator.

Although what Lin heard was outrageous, she spoke so confidently that people had to believe her. Zhao Ke picked up her phone and called the colleague who was responsible for taking care of the cubs, asking him to go to the cub greenhouse to see if any cubs were missing.

A voice soon came from the other end of the phone, "Brother Zhao, something terrible has happened. A flamingo chick is really missing."

"There are surveillance cameras everywhere in the park. Who would be so bold as to steal the cubs?" Zhao Ke clenched his hand holding the phone.

"Didn't I ask you to check it carefully before leaving get off work yesterday? How could it be lost?"

Without waiting for a response, Zhao Ke continued muttering to herself, "Even if a tourist sneaked in and stole the flamingo chick, our zoo has strict inspections and they can't take it out."

"Let's check the surveillance first." Lin Ting interrupted Zhao Ke's mumbling.

Hearing the cub was missing, Zhao Ke felt a headache and was so anxious that he didn't think at all. After Lin Ting reminded him, Zhao Ke reacted instantly, "First, check our park's surveillance to see who stole the cub. Also, send someone to search the park thoroughly."

"Maybe the thief stole the cub and then realized he couldn't take it away, so he sent it back."

Lin Ting is not as optimistic as Zhao Ke.

Even if the other party stole the cub and finally found that it could not be taken out of the zoo, it would definitely not be sent back, otherwise the flamingo would definitely be able to sense it and would not suddenly attack and hurt people.

Animals' sense of smell is dozens of times more sensitive than that of humans, and they can smell some subtle odors.

Lin Ting reminded him, "Doudou said that the person who stole the cubs took them away in the cart that was used to feed them. You should pay special attention to that."

Zhao Ke used to think that being able to understand animals’ speech was ridiculous, but now he inexplicably believed Lin Ting.

"Then do you still remember what the person who stole the child looked like, or what characteristics he had." Lin Ting stroked the flamingo's feathers.

The flamingo rubbed Lin Ting's cheek with its beak.

"Birds don't know what the stinky human beings who steal children look like. Humans all look the same to birds."

"But that stinky human was wearing the same clothes as those people, and the smell was a little different."

The flamingo pointed to the administrator's location with its beak.

All zoo staff wear uniforms, but the vests worn by staff in different positions are different in color.

Lin Ting frowned and cast a suspicious look at Zhao Ke.

"What's wrong with Miss Lin? What did Doudou say?" Zhao Ke asked nervously, fearing that he would hear some bad news again.

"Doudou said that the person who stole the cubs was wearing staff clothes." Lin Ting conveyed Flamingo's words to everyone in full.

"That's impossible. Maybe Doudou saw it wrong? The staff in the flamingo area are all veterans here. If they wanted to steal the cubs, they would have done so long ago. They wouldn't have waited until now." Zhao Ke was not defending his employees. Most of the people who came to work here liked small animals.

What Zhao Ke said was not without reason.

"Bird is not mistaken. The clothes are exactly the same."

When the flamingo heard that he was suspected, he instantly got furious.

Lin Ting quickly comforted him, "Doudou didn't see it wrong, and he didn't lie."

"Manager Zhao, could it be that this is a thieving tourist who sneaked in wearing your staff's clothes?"

"That shouldn't happen. Our staff are all given clothes in a unified way. If they get dirty, we have to take them to the laundry room and change into new clothes." Zhao Ke shook his head.

"Do you have any new employees in your park?"

Zhao Ke thought about it carefully after Lin Ting's reminder, then clapped his hands, "Yes, a new employee came in last month. He's a relative of the manager of the park's environmental department. For the sake of our leader, they assigned him to our relatively relaxed Flamingo area."

"I arranged for him to help feed the flamingos first. This kind of task is relatively simple. All we need to do is feed them on time."

"He even sent me a message this morning saying he wasn't feeling well and wouldn't be coming to work today."

"He couldn't have really stolen the cub, could he? If he had, it would be terrible. The cub might have been taken out of the zoo."

"Didn't you say that the zoo has strict inspections and that even if someone is sneaked out, they can't be taken out?" Lin Ting asked back.

Zhao Ke explained, "If it's a tourist, they definitely can't take it out, but if it's a staff member, that might not be the case."

Zhao Ke sighed and didn't say anything else, but he had already asked someone to contact the staff member.

"Then when was your child lost?" Lin Ting continued to ask for useful clues.

'At night, when no one comes to visit the park.'

'Two days and nights.'

Animals have their own ways of telling time.

"Humans would check on the cubs every once in a while. When the bad human took the cub away at night, the bird thought they were checking on the cub."

"I've been waiting for a long time but the cub hasn't been brought back."

When the flamingo didn't see its cub, it realized that its cub had been stolen, and it started hurting people in order to find it.

Lin Ting's brows furrowed even more tightly. "Focus on checking the surveillance footage from the night before yesterday to last night."

There are six or seven female flamingos in the park. The birds' lactation period is relatively concentrated, and they can lay three to five eggs, so they can breed more than a dozen cubs in about the same period.

As a cub breeder, it is not difficult to lose a cub without telling the truth.

Lin Ting was not idle and urgently summoned the small system.

It has been very quiet since the small system was upgraded, and no tasks have been issued to her.

"Can you help me scan to see if the cub is still in the zoo?" She remembered that the system had this function.