Chapter 94
◎Catching Small Animals (Part 2)◎
Matters on both sides were urgent. Lian Jiu sent the address from the human world to Ke Yuansi and the others, asking them to meet up at the scene. He then turned back, taking the two red sand pythons with him and set off again.
Because every demon world has a live broadcast room dedicated to rescuing animals, this action was also seen by netizens who were paying attention to this matter.
"Is it really our child?" The two snakes were very nervous all the way. The northwest was too far away from here. Firstly, they were worried that it was not their child, and secondly, they were worried that the child was injured again. After all, he was still very young when he was kidnapped.
"We're still not sure," Lian Jiu reassured them, "but they told me both snakes are fine."
It's okay. It's okay.
Whether it's your own child or not, this is good news.
[Did they really find it? These people are so brazen, just throwing it on the ground.]
Those people probably didn't expect the two red sand pythons to bring their complaint to Jiujiu. Given Jiujiu's current influence, they were probably afraid.
I heard that the inspections at every highway intersection have been quite strict recently. Perhaps leaving the car on the side of the road is a last resort for those who can't get on.
I hope this is indeed their child.
Soon, Lian Jiu brought the two snakes to the Forestry Bureau.
The director of the local forestry bureau was extremely happy to see her: "Finally, I'm able to meet you in person."
In addition to rescuing wild animals, the local forestry bureau also received news from Si Lan a few days ago, saying that they could cooperate with them to plant trees in the desert, and they would guarantee the planting and survival of the trees, and could also effectively prevent wind and sand.
This is a great joyous event, so the director has always wanted to meet Lian Jiu.
However, Lian Jiu seems to have been busy with recruitment and kindergarten opening recently, and ordinary people cannot enter their mountainous area at any time, so there has never been this opportunity.
The director praised him, "He is really young and promising."
"You're welcome." Lian Jiu was concerned about the two little snakes. "Where are the cubs?"
"They're in a conference room, and the vet is still inside making sure they're doing well."
"Thank you." Lian Jiu asked Yuan Qing and Mu Chun behind him to carry out the other two red sand pythons.
These two snakes are too heavy and cannot be left outside. The demon world knows that they are harmless, but if ordinary people see them, they will be half dead.
"This..." The director and the forestry bureau officials were stunned. "Your strength..."
How could this young guy, who doesn't look very strong, carry such a big box by himself?
You have to know that bringing these two snakes to the mountains took up half of the bureau’s manpower!
Lian Jiu said modestly: "People from the mountains are very strong."
“…”
Reasonable, quite reasonable.
[Family, did you hear that? "Finally, I get to see you."]
[Jiujiu's status is self-evident.]
I was so naive to think she was just a kindergarten teacher.
Under the director's leadership, everyone successfully saw the two little snakes in the office. Compared with their parents, their size was much more approachable.
As soon as the big snake was carried in, the two little snakes excitedly shouted: "Mom and Dad!"
They were practically stuck to the glass box, desperately trying to get out.
"It's our child!" The female red sand python trembled with excitement after seeing the cub inside, "It's my child!"
Hearing this, Lian Jiu breathed a sigh of relief.
"How is it?" asked the others who did not understand. "Do they know each other?"
"They are indeed their children." Lian Jiu gently patted the snake's box. "Don't worry, let's check on the children first."
Although the veterinarians are here, we still feel more at ease because the demon god is watching here.
There happened to be a lot of people around at the moment, and Jiang An was about to hand the phone that was broadcasting live to Ke Yuansi, but he was hiding behind his two brothers with only his eyes showing.
"Let me do it." Ji Luo usually takes videos and photos of wild animals, so he is not so afraid of these things.
After handing over the phone, Jiang An approached the two snakes and reached out to feel them. "They're not seriously injured, but they're pretty scared."
As he said that, he took out his own safety pill and gave it to the little snake to eat.
Everyone saw her open the glass box directly and hand the medicine to the mouths of the two little snakes with her bare hands.
Everyone in the bureau was ready to escape from the door at any time when they saw the mountain people treating patients for the first time, but an unexpected scene happened the next moment.
The two little snakes, which had been very excited, calmed down and obediently opened their mouths to eat the two pills.
After eating, he was no longer as restless as before, wanting to overturn the glass box, but just lay there obediently.
Lian Jiu also walked over and put his hand into the glass box.
The mother snake quickly said, "My dear, let the headmaster bring you here."
After hearing their mother's words, the two little snakes slowly climbed up Lian Jiu's arms.
Lian Jiu's hands trembled, but he quickly calmed down. As everyone took several steps back, he put the little snake into the big snake's box.
The four snakes immediately began to rub their heads against each other.
Seeing that the snake had gone back, those people dared to approach. The director asked fearfully, "Aren't you afraid?"
"I'm afraid," Lian Jiu admitted. "But now that I know what they're thinking, there's nothing to be afraid of. The unknown is the scariest thing."
That’s true. The director can even understand what snakes say.
"Did those who dropped the snake catch it?"
"Si Lan has gone," the director said immediately. "Although they didn't take the highway, there are surveillance cameras on the surrounding roads, so they can be found quickly. I notified you and Si Lan as soon as I got the news, and he set off immediately."
At this point, the director was still confused and a little worried: "He just saw the video. The city bureau offered to assign someone to him, but he didn't want them. Wouldn't it be dangerous for him to go it alone?"
Those people who do this kind of thing must naturally know that they are breaking the law.
It is the most dangerous to fight wits and courage with such a suspect who breaks the law knowingly.
Si Lan didn't take anything with him and disappeared as soon as he went out. No one could catch up with him.
"No." Lian Jiu was a little surprised.
Although the two red sand pythons were recuperating in the mountains, the matter of catching criminals was actually the responsibility of the human world.
Why is Si Lan so active this time?
"How long has he been gone?"
"Almost two hours."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone outside pushed open the door and walked in hurriedly: "He's back! Si Lan is back! He's holding one in each hand!"
“!!!”
Everyone ran out quickly.
Lian Jiu closed the glass box and said to the other people and the monster around him, "Please pay attention to this family."
With that, he walked out quickly.
Outside, whether it was the staff from the Municipal Bureau who were assisting with the office or the staff from the Forestry Bureau itself, they all swarmed around the gate, as if they were watching some rare animal.
When Lian Jiu walked over, someone automatically made way, and she could see Si Lan walking out of the gate.
He was still wearing the same coat, which was a bit thin compared to everyone around him, but he didn't seem to feel cold at all.
His hands were hanging down, and he seemed to have picked up two wild grasses from somewhere and tied the hands of the two men with them. A ball of grass was also stuffed into their mouths.
The two men couldn't break free and stumbled behind him. Their faces were pale, perhaps from fear or cold.
Suddenly, Si Lan stopped and looked up.
He accurately met Lian Jiu's gaze in the crowd. At that moment, a soft light seemed to spread in his dark eyes.
Lian Jiu smiled and walked forward: "Why are you so anxious? Are you okay?"
"fine."
The rest of the city bureau staff rushed over and said, "Thank you for your hard work. We'll just..."
"This grass..." The men hesitantly and cautiously pointed at the hands and mouths of the two suspects. "Is it made of steel wire?"
Si Lan moved his fingertips lightly, and the grass fell to the ground as if it had broken by itself.
The two suspects ran away in terror, but fell to the ground one after another.
"Why are you playing Jenga?" Several policemen laughed at their coordination. "You're in a hurry to put on your silver bracelet."
As he said that, he took out handcuffs and handcuffed them, and pulled out a bunch of weeds from their mouths: "Be honest and get in."
Now that the person has been caught, everyone naturally hurried back and did what they had to do. There were still many documents and procedures to be completed.
Lian Jiu and Si Lan were left behind.
Si Lan lowered his eyes and asked, "Come out to find me?"
"Yeah." Lian Jiu nodded simply, "I heard from them that you went after these two people on your own."
Si Lan didn't take it seriously: "Ordinary people."
Lian Jiu stopped and turned to ask, "If he's just an ordinary person, why are you chasing him yourself?"
Si Lan followed her and stopped, sighing softly: "Aren't you scared?"
"What?"
"I'm afraid of those two snakes." Si Lan said, "It's better to send them away as soon as possible."
“…”
I'm just a little bit scared, that's all!
"So you captured these two people yourself?"
Si Lan was a bit sarcastic about this: "With the speed those people are running, from reporting to setting off to tracking, it might take them across two provinces to find the person by tomorrow."
It's a bit rude, but it's true.
Sometimes many rules really cannot be circumvented. For example, if the Forestry Bureau wants to find someone, it must first file a report and cooperate with the Transportation Department. If it wants to arrest someone, it must file a report and cooperate with the Municipal Bureau. This set of procedures is indeed time-consuming.
"I'm glad you're okay." Lian Jiu was relieved. "I thought you noticed something was wrong."
Si Lan's ears drooped, and he said with a smile, "I thought you came because you were worried."
"I'm worried." Lian Jiu said frankly, "Capturing people is secondary. If you encounter any danger, you must tell us immediately. Although I can't help you with my strength, I can help you with my brainpower."
She took a step forward: "Si Lan."
"Um?"
Lian Jiu patted his arm and said, "If anything happens, don't bear it yourself."
Si Lan was slightly stunned.
Lian Jiu's eyes curved: "I really am worried about you."
He was so good at holding things in that Lian Jiu had to remind him all the time.
Si Lan looked into her eyes and chuckled, "Don't worry."
When they returned to the conference room, the emotions of the big and small snakes had calmed down.
The police from the Municipal Bureau were asking for confessions, and Lian Jiu also planned to start from the snake and give them some reasonable help to see if the two men were lying.
[I never thought that there was such an alternative way of handling cases.]
"I think I understand. Isn't Jiujiu the director of some special department? Is it because she can solve cases through animals?"
【You guys are really geniuses. 】
Why did the case involving animals end up in a kindergarten?
[I think she went there because the animals had become spirits. Isn't that special?]
【I agree with the older brother behind! 】
【I want to hear what the little snake said. 】
In the conference room, everyone and the demon god fell silent and listened to the little snake say, "We have been moving all the time."
Move? Then it should be in the car.
Lian Jiu took two boxes of milk from Si Lan and asked gently while feeding him, "And then?"
The little snake sucked the milk with a gurgling sound. As it had taken the pills before, its mood was much relieved. It began to recall the incident of being kidnapped.
Little Snake: "Say, wait, and send them off together."
The cub's speech was similar to that of the children in the kindergarten class, and it was a little confusing, but that didn't stop Lian Jiu from understanding it.
"Together?" Lian Jiu frowned. "So, are there any other small animals?"
"Yeah!" The little snake nodded, "There was a cat, but the cat is gone."
When the traffic police found the little snake, there were only snakes and no other animals. How could there be a cat?
And if the animal traffickers really wanted to catch rare animals, why would they catch ordinary cats?
Lian Jiu asked, "What does a cat look like?"
"I can't see. It's dark."
Snakes can see at night. If they can't see, it means their vision is blocked.
Another little snake said, "Cat, the desert, it said, is also a baby."
Lian Jiu tried to understand: "The other cat is also a baby, and lives in the desert?"
"Uh-huh!"
People around: “…”
As expected of the headmaster, he never cares about grammar when speaking.
"It could be a desert cat." Lian Jiu understood. "If these people only want rare animals, then the desert cat would be the only one. But why would they specifically target young cats?"
"The cub has little attack power." Yuan Qing said immediately, "And if it is trained from a young age, it may be tamed."
"What the hell?" Ke Yuansi was no longer afraid and poked his head out from behind Qin Wenxuan. "So why are these animals becoming less and less common and becoming protected species? Is it because these people specifically catch children?!"
That seems to be true.
The two little snakes knew nothing else. They stayed in the car the whole time and were finally left on the road when they left.
Now we can only wait and see what those two people say.
"Oh!" The little snake thought of something after finishing his milk. "They say, if you don't have money, you'll be in trouble."
Ke Yuansi: "You mean you're broke and frustrated, and you can only catch animals to make money?"
The little snakes shook their heads and pointed at each other: "No money, annoying."
Lian Jiu frowned: "You said you are worthless?"
“Yes, yes, yes!”
How could it not be worth the money?!
This is a nationally protected animal! They can make a fortune selling tickets to the zoo, and yet you still say it's worthless?
There is no way to verify these things, so we can only wait until another review is completed before we can say anything.
It was almost evening when the police from the municipal bureau came back.
"We've finished our questioning," they said. "There are a few repeat offenders who specialize in catching animals in various wildlife reserves and secretly selling them. Some are even smuggled out of the country, while others are purchased from small workshops in China."
Lian Jiu: "They said the animals were sold?"
"right."
"Did they mention they caught cats?" Lian Jiu said. "It's very likely a desert cat."
The police were confused: "Desert Cat???"
Come on, it’s obvious that those two people are not telling the truth.
Yuan Qing rolled up his sleeves and said, "It seems that your department's interrogation method is a bit too kind. Why don't we let our special department come in? After all, we don't have those rules that you have."
Several human police officers: "..."
The two big snakes in the glass box suddenly volunteered: "Let us go!"
Although we can't really hurt those two people, we must scare them half to death!
Don’t say that, don’t say that!
Several human police officers coughed lightly and looked at each other, as if discussing: "The interrogation is over. It's like our tire suddenly broke and we need to fix it before we can leave. So, should we temporarily detain those two people here?"
The next second, consensus was reached.
When the two suspects were brought to the conference room, they didn't know what was going to happen. They only saw the policeman who had arrested them sitting there, with another particularly beautiful girl sitting next to him. The expressions on the faces of the other people standing around were also very strange.
Others didn't say anything, but when they saw the long-haired policeman, the two men started to get scared.
This guy is a freak! He suddenly appeared on the side of the road, raised his hand, and the car stopped by itself for no apparent reason.
The two of them were dragged directly out of the driver's seat!
The two were so scared that they almost wet their pants, and then they heard the man ask coldly: "Who asked you to come?"
"We came here on our own!"
The man didn't say anything, but put his hands on their foreheads. Suddenly, they felt cold all over and couldn't move.
When he reacted again, he was already tied up with dry grass.
That's dry grass! But the more he struggled, the tighter it got. This man is weirder than a ghost!
So sitting here at this moment, even though the people in the conference room looked quite familiar, the two of them couldn't help but break out in cold sweats.
With a bang, the door of the conference room was closed.
The two were so frightened that they turned around and saw a boy and a girl, who looked to be in their teens, guarding the door.
At this moment, the girl sitting in the middle spoke up and took out her ID. "Hello, I'm Lian Jiu from the Special Events Security Bureau. I have a few questions for you."
“First: What exactly are you capturing these animals for?
Second: Is there anyone who can give instructions?
Third: What other animals are there, and where have they gone?
The two men were about to bring out their rhetoric about how they dealt with the police officers from the Municipal Bureau: "We..."
"Wait a moment." Lian Jiu didn't let them continue. Instead, he raised his hand and said with a smile, "Our animals are also here. Besides the two little red sand pythons you captured, there are also their parents. Before you answer these questions, their parents would also like to greet you."
Two suspects: “???”
[Haha ...
Although this is a serious occasion, I really can't help it.
[This is the first time I see Jiujiu working in this capacity. So cool! ]
Before the suspect knew what was going to happen, he saw the two young men behind the door walk over to something covered with a huge black cloth.
Then he lifted the cloth.
“!!!”
Aren’t these those two huge pythons!
When they stole the little snakes, they secretly injected the giant pythons with anesthetics, but now these two giant pythons look energetic! !
Two snakes had crawled out of the box and were crawling straight towards them.
The others didn't move at all, as if they were still watching the show.
The two suspects were immediately scared out of their wits: "Help! Help!!"
"Stop yelling." Yuan Qing sneered, "No one will come to save you even if you scream your throat out. We are the police. Who else do you want to save you?"
"Don't come over here! Don't come over here!"
Their hands were handcuffed to the chairs and they couldn't move.
The chair legs were about to be broken by their shaking.
[A live-action version of "Anaconda", exciting.]
[This is so cool, hahahahaha! I suggest handling cases this way from now on.]
[Look at Xiao Ke, he was so scared at first, but now he has the camera set up!]
Of course I have to record it. It’s not like there are such exciting plots every day!
From now on, this will be one of those clips, the kind without any trace of acting!
The two snakes had crawled to the suspects' feet and began to climb up their trouser legs.
They seemed to be able to really feel the cold touch through the thick winter clothes, and they almost fainted.
But something was stuffed into the next mouth.
That little girl did it!
"What did you feed them?" Yuan Qing asked, "Don't make it too easy for them."
"I used to do that to tease you guys." Jiang An said proudly, "Not only will it not feel good, they won't be able to faint even if they want to. All their emotions and senses will be amplified."
Lien Jiu: "..."
It was the first time she knew Jiang An had this skill.
This child must be a hybrid of a lucky beast and a vicious beast!
As expected, the two men couldn't even faint from fright. They could only watch in horror as the two snakes crawled over them and slowly wrapped their tails around them.
"Can you speak now?" Lian Jiu asked with a smile, "Can you answer those questions again?"
"Speak! Let's speak!"
The two men squeezed their eyes shut, trembling like sieves. "Someone hired us to catch them! They gave us a list of the animals they needed and the specific areas to catch them, and we were responsible for catching them."
"Specific areas?" Lian Jiu frowned. "These animals live in the wild. How do you know their specific areas?"
"I don't know!" the two men cried out in frustration, "They gave us the address, how would we know it?"
"Then why did you lie and say you were catching animals to sell?"
The two men gritted their teeth, seemingly caught in a dilemma.
At this moment, Jiang An suddenly came closer and stared at their faces: "What do you usually eat?"
The two of them suddenly opened their eyes, looked at it in horror, and their bodies shook even more violently.
Jiang An frowned: "It conflicts with my medicine."
If it conflicts with spiritual medicine, then isn’t it poisonous?
Lian Jiu stood up and asked the two snakes to stay away for a while. She approached the two people and found that they looked a little unhappy. Her face changed slightly. When the live broadcast camera didn't scan the changes in the two people so carefully, she immediately said, "Turn off the live broadcast."
Although the camera was always on himself and these two people, it would be bad if it scanned other people.
The live broadcast was hastily shut down.
Netizens in the live broadcast room were all confused.
What's going on?
【What did Jiujiu discover? 】
【Ahhh, when I saw the most exciting part, I was so anxious that I died. 】
In the conference room, the two suspects' emotions fluctuated greatly. As Lian Jiu had expected, they began to twitch violently, even rolling their eyes and trying to scratch themselves.
Lian Jiu had seen this symptom in many legal programs.
The police who were watching the live broadcast were also quite experienced. Just as they were about to contact a doctor, Lian Jiu suddenly called out, "An An."
"Let me look for it." Jiang An rummaged through the pockets of his jingling down jacket for a long time and pulled out a small box. "Here!"
He roughly stuffed it into the two men's mouths, saying, "You're lucky. I'll get it back after you finish talking."
"..." Lian Jiu silently covered her mouth, "You can't say this."
After taking the medicine, the two people's emotions gradually stabilized and the original terrible symptoms disappeared.
Lian Jiu understood the whole thing without them having to explain: "Drug use, huh?"
She looked down at the two people here and said: "Let me guess, animals are not valuable in your eyes. What is valuable is what the people who hired you give you. And you not only suck them, you also sell them, right?"
Both of them looked pale.
If the punishment for catching animals and smoking and selling such things were added together, it would be a severe sentence.
"Where are those people? What are they smoking? How much do you have left?"
With no room for maneuver left, the two men spoke in despair: "I don't know where they are. We usually just trade online."
"How do I give you the poison?"
"express delivery."
"express delivery???"
"That's right," they said. "We've never seen anything like this before. It can't be detected by any detection machine or drug-sniffing dog, and it can be delivered by courier. Once you take it, you're hooked. It's more addictive than any other drug."
"It's because it's so good that we can't control ourselves, but if we want the medicine, we have to do what they want."
Lian Jiu asked, "They only need you to catch animals?"
"That's right."
"So how many have you caught?"
"We only caught a few! They were discovered before they could even be transported! There were strict inspections everywhere, so those people told us to get rid of them."
Lian Jiu's frown deepened: "Where was it originally going to be shipped to?"
The two shook their heads. "No, they just let us go around the country. They said they would stop when it was time to stop, but the incident broke out before they could stop."
After asking this question, it was clear that the two of them had no idea who the other was from beginning to end.
Lian Jiu asked again: "Where did those express deliveries come from?"
“All over the country, it’s a different place every time.”
The inquiry reached a dead end, and the police from the Municipal Bureau who discovered something was wrong also rushed over.
After learning the whole story, he immediately asked, "Can those people still be contacted?"
After hearing so much, they guessed that this must be a large gang with operations all over the country.
The two suspects secretly looked at Si Lan. They had no chance to contact the outside world since they were first arrested. "Let's try."
Everyone was watching them make a phone call, but this time when they called, the number was no longer in service.
The people from the municipal bureau checked the number to see who had opened this card before and the call records of the two numbers.
These two people can only be taken back to the bureau first.
The demon gods don’t quite understand the various laws today, they just know that they can’t do bad things.
Lian Jiu, who knew a little more, followed those people out and recorded all the details for them again.
I can only help up to this point, the rest depends on other departments.
Only then did she realize that in fact, there were so many institutions and units in the human world, each with its own responsibilities, and they were always closely related. In the future, as more and more monsters appeared, they would also face these problems at the same time. By then, this Special Event Security Bureau alone would definitely not be able to handle it.
It seems that we can't wait that long. We have to slowly separate these departments one by one and let everyone learn to deal with problems in their own way.
After the New Year, we will need to hold a collective meeting with all the demons and gods from all walks of life.
When they returned to the conference room, the demon gods gathered with Ke Yuansi and the others to be educated on the dangers of drugs.
Jiang An immediately clutched his small purse and said angrily, "Medicine is used to save lives, how can it be used for these things? It simply goes against the true meaning of the existence of medicinal materials!"
"Okay." Lian Jiu said, "We should go back."
She turned to the snakes in the box and asked, "What about you? Do you want to go back with us or let the forestry bureau take you back home?"
"Can we stay with you for a few more days?" the snake said shyly, "Our children haven't played with other monsters yet, and we want them to have some contact with them."
Lian Jiu nodded: "Okay."
Jiang An picked up the little snake and said affectionately, "Your child is more spiritual than you are. No wonder Si Lan said that endangered animals are getting better and better genetically as they change."
Praising the child is like praising yourself, and both the big and small snakes are happy: "Thank you, God."
They automatically crawled back into the box and were carried out again.
Everyone left one after another. Lian Jiu was the last one to leave. Just as he was about to step out of the door, he suddenly heard Si Lan call out, "Lian Jiu."
Hearing him call his name like this again, Lian Jiu was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Huh?"
Si Lan asked: "Do you want me to examine you?"
"Will you also do a physical examination?"
"Yeah, a little."
Lian Jiu nodded happily: "How do I check?"
"Reach out your hand."
Lian Jiu stretched out her hand, and he gently held it in his palm. She smiled but said nothing.
On the back of her hand was the cold temperature of Si Lan's palm, just like when he took her blood to heal her wound before, and it was like a cool breeze wrapping around her.
Lian Jiu's smile faded slightly, and he looked at his palm and asked, "Why do you suddenly want to have a physical examination?"
"Don't you want to live to eighty?" Si Lan smiled. "Of course I need regular checkups. It seems humans also have this idea."
"A physical examination." Lian Jiu nodded and raised an eyebrow. "What's the result? Can I live to be eighty?"
"Yes." Si Lan raised his eyes with a smile and called out again, "Lian Jiu."
"You called my name twice today. What's the matter?"
Si Lan held her hand, the cool breeze never stopped, and he said slowly: "You said before that you wanted to live in the same community with us."
"Yes, but I've changed my mind now," Lian Jiu said. "I want to build a house in the mountains."
Si Lan chuckled and asked gently, "Then can I build my house next to yours?"
The cool breeze on his hand continued, and after a few seconds of silence, Lian Jiu withdrew his hand.
Si Lan kept his palms facing upwards and looked at her with a little confusion.
Lian Jiu turned and walked out the door, his voice reaching Si Lan's ears behind him: "No."
Si Lan followed and walked beside her: "Can I know why?"
Lian Jiu lowered his eyes to look at his hands and sighed softly: "Because I'm angry."
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