Wolong accompanied Chen Dong on his inspection tour for two whole days. Whether it was the market stalls, the vegetable market vendors, the supermarkets, or the farms, they all remained tight-lipped about why the price of live chickens had suddenly increased.
By this point, Wolong had truly lost his patience.
“Boss, I suspect that the chicken farms are hoarding chickens to drive up prices.” Wolong sat in the passenger seat and began to think, guessing, “They must be colluding with the merchants to raise the price of chicken, which is why they have set up so many obstacles for us to buy live chickens.”
Chen Dong snorted coldly, "Didn't you ever consider that it wasn't the chicken farm deliberately causing trouble, but rather that they genuinely couldn't produce that many chickens?"
“How could we not be able to produce it?” Wolong pointed to the high fence of the chicken farm and continued, “We just walked around half of it, and it took us an hour.”
"This chicken farm is definitely not small in Hong Kong, yet it can't even produce two hundred chickens?"
Wolong continued his analysis: "Any store selling live poultry on the market sells at least dozens or even hundreds of chickens a day."
If we consider ten regular customers, they need to provide at least 500 live poultry per day.
Seeing that Wolong had actually taken the time to calculate the chicken farm's customers and sales, Chen Dong said with a smile, "What I mean is, although this chicken farm is very large, it has encountered some problems in its operation, which has led to it not being able to produce live chickens now."
Upon hearing this, Wolong subconsciously asked, "What about the other chicken farms in Hong Kong? Don't they have any to offer either? Are they also having operational problems?"
"What if it's bird flu?" Chen Dong prompted him. "If it's bird flu, it won't just be this one chicken farm; other farms will also suffer devastating blows."
If that's the case, it would perfectly explain why there are so few live chickens in the market, and why most of the frozen chicken in supermarkets is imported.
Wolong turned to look at Chen Dong, who was sitting in the back seat with his eyes slightly closed, and said, "If it's bird flu, then things are really serious in Hong Kong."
"Go sneak into the chicken farm tonight and find out what's going on," Chen Dong ordered.
"clear."
Night fell quickly, and Wolong, dressed in black, followed the path he had taken during the day, scaling the high wall directly into the chicken farm.
There is an iron fence separating the courtyard from the chicken coop.
Wolong groped around and found a wire on his body. In no time, he removed the large lock on the iron fence.
Wolong went into the chicken coop, took out his flashlight and shone it around, only to find that more than half of the chickens in the coop had already died.
Generally, chickens sleep standing up, but some less alert chickens will adopt a semi-squatting posture.
But what Wolong saw was a chicken with its head drooping, desperately propping itself up with half a wing.
"It really is chicken plague," Wolong sighed.
Just then, the sound of a lock being opened came from outside.
"Why is this lock open? Did I forget to lock it when I left?"
Wolong quickly climbed up the chicken coop to the roof beam.
Then he saw two men enter the chicken coop, turn on the light, and take out the half-dead chickens one by one.
"Tch! They're all dead."
One of the men, while carrying a dead chicken, said, "When will this bird flu end? I think almost all the chickens in our chicken farm are dying."
The other man remained silent. About ten minutes later, they carried a truck full of dead chickens.
Where are they going to take these dead chickens?
Wolong quietly climbed down from the roof beam and followed behind the two men.
They left the chicken coop and came to a deserted corner of the chicken farm, where there was a deep pit that had been dug long ago.
"The speed at which they bury us can't keep up with the speed at which we die," the man complained as he shoveled soil.
They dumped the entire truckload of chickens into the pit, and then the two of them huffed and puffed as they used shovels to fill the hole with soil, burying the whole truckload of chickens.
"So this is how they deal with chicken plague."
Wolong quietly hid in another corner and climbed over the wall.
After returning to the company, Wolong truthfully told Chen Dong everything he had seen at the chicken farm.
"Just as I predicted," Chen Dong said, his voice trembling with excitement. "A massive outbreak of avian influenza that is sweeping the globe is about to occur."
Following clues from later generations, nearly 5,000 chickens at three chicken farms in Luk Fook Hill, Hong Kong, suddenly died, thus beginning the outbreak of avian influenza in Hong Kong.
Avian influenza will break out in Hong Kong and then spread to Southeast Asia and other places. This time, the avian influenza virus will sweep the world along the flow of world trade.
It's not just a simple case of food poisoning. The influenza virus is highly pathogenic, mutates rapidly, and spreads among humans, infecting many people and causing at least six deaths.
H5N1, Chen Dong still remembers the name of this virus.
Chen Dong bit his lip and quickly made a decision.
"Immediately notify Lin Zhiyuan to find a suitable piece of land in Hong Kong for a breeding farm."
"Yes." Although he didn't know what the boss wanted to do, based on Wolong's past experience, when the boss reacted like this, it usually meant that the company was about to launch a major operation.
Avian flu is about to break out. Chickens are dying and sick in farms all over Hong Kong. Patients are being hospitalized one after another for food poisoning. However, unscrupulous merchants have chosen to remain silent in order to evade market supervision and not affect the sales of their products.
It is important to know that once news of an avian flu outbreak reaches the market supervision bureau, countless farms will face extremely strict quarantine and inspection.
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