Chapter 336 Water Source Issues
Jiang Ning nodded and waited for the results of the police officer's questioning.
Seeing Jiang Ning asking the brigade leader a question, Brigade Commander Liang walked over and carefully asked, "Dr. Jiang, are you suspecting there's a problem with the village's water source?"
Hearing what Brigade Commander Liang said, Jiang Ning looked up at him.
Brigade Commander Liang appears mild-mannered, but he is actually decisive and very intelligent.
Leaders cultivated by the state are all extraordinary.
Jiang Ning looked at Brigade Commander Liang, thought for a moment and said, "Well, but whether there's really a problem, I need to go to the village's water source to check."
After she finished speaking, she walked towards the captain.
Jiang Ning asked, "Captain, where does your village get its drinking water from?"
Upon hearing Jiang Ning's question, the captain said, "There's a well behind that hillside not far away. But we don't just go to the well to fetch water; we also go to the stream behind the mountain to fetch water."
Since you have doubts, you should investigate thoroughly.
After listening to the battalion commander's words, Jiang Ning thought for a moment, then looked up at Brigade Commander Liang and said, "Brigade Commander Liang, go fetch some water from the well, and I'll go check on the stream."
The brigade leader was quick-witted. He whispered to Jiang Ning, "Dr. Jiang, you don't suspect there's something wrong with the water in our village, do you?"
No wonder he spoke softly; most of the villagers were here right now. If there really was a problem with the village's water, and the villagers heard him say it, wouldn't that cause chaos?
Jiang Ning glanced at the brigade leader and thought to herself, "No wonder he was able to become the brigade leader of Baijia Village."
But it was just a guess; whether there was a problem with the water source would need to be checked to confirm.
"Captain, could you have someone take Brigade Commander Liang to the well to fetch some water, and then have someone take me to the stream?"
“Alright, I’ll find someone to take this soldier to the well.” As he spoke, he glanced around and realized that no one was available to take Jiang Ning to the stream. So he said, “The back mountain is a little distance from here. I’ll take you to the stream myself.”
Jiang Ning nodded.
The captain arranged for a villager who had already been questioned by the police to lead the way for Brigade Commander Liang, while he led Jiang Ning towards the stream behind the mountain.
Taking action separately is much faster than waiting for results.
There were quite a few villagers present, and it was unclear how long it would take for the police to finish their investigation.
The captain led Jiang Ning through the village to a stream in the back mountain. When they arrived at the stream, the water was clear with undercurrents, and on the surface, there seemed to be no problem.
Jiang Ning observed for a while and wondered why there were no fish in the water.
The water quality in this era is unpolluted, so there should be fish.
She picked up a leaf, folded it into a shape that could hold water, then scooped up some stream water and smelled it.
It has no taste.
Some poisons can be colorless and odorless.
However, she can taste anything in the water.
Just as she was considering whether to test the poison on herself, the captain suddenly exclaimed, "Dr. Jiang, there are dead fish over there!"
Jiang Ning paused, then looked up at the spot the captain had pointed to.
Immediately, a dead fish with its white belly turned up slid down the stream from upstream.
Jiang Ning looked at the dead fish that had slid down and threw away the leaf in her hand without hesitation.
Before she could speak, the captain pulled out a tree branch from somewhere and swiftly speared the dead fish onto the branch.
Jiang Ning gave the team leader a thumbs up.
That decisiveness is truly befitting of a captain.
She squatted down, reached out and pried open the gills of the dead fish; the gills were blackened on both sides.
This is a sign of poisoning.
It turned out there was a problem with the water source!
Jiang Ning turned to the team leader and said, "Go back and inform them as soon as possible that they should not let the villagers touch the stream behind the mountain again!"
Upon hearing this, the captain nodded repeatedly.
He also saw the dark thing inside the fish's gills.
Just as they were about to leave, they turned around and saw four people appear behind them.
Upon seeing them, the brigade leader asked with a puzzled look, "Who are you? What are you doing in our village?"
He's the village head; there's no one in the village he doesn't know.
Seeing that the captain didn't recognize the four people, alarm bells immediately went off in Jiang Ning's mind.
The four appeared silently. Jiang Ning looked around, hoping to find the people Brigade Commander Liang had arranged to protect her secretly.
Seeing Jiang Ning looking around, the four men suddenly laughed and said, "Are you looking for those two people hiding in the shadows? They've already been lured away by our other brothers. It wasn't easy to lure them away; it took us about ten brothers to get them to leave."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Ning broke out in a cold sweat.
This group is operating as a team, and she and the captain are in danger.
The four men looked at Jiang Ning and her companion. One of the men said to the tall man in the lead, "What should we do after killing them? Do we do what we did with the person from three days ago? But it's been raining a lot these past few days, and the body has been washed out by the rain. What should we do?"
The captain was startled by these words and asked, his lips trembling, "Black...Black Egg, you killed him?"
The other party had no intention of wasting words with them. The tall man said to the three people beside him, "I didn't expect our plan to be exposed so quickly. We can't let those two go back to report. We should kill them first, especially this woman. She saw that we poisoned her. As long as they don't go back to report, we can buy more time for the people at the research institute to evacuate!"
They had to prepare to evacuate after killing the person who had spied on the research institute three days ago.
But the people they killed were, after all, people from this village. Someone would eventually notice that someone had gone missing, but that person had seen their secret and had no choice but to kill them.
They were exploiting a time difference.
Even if the villagers reported the case, by then they had all evacuated, leaving the place empty with the documents.
After three days of preparations for the evacuation, they were about to leave, but the poisoning mission was not yet complete. So they decided to poison the stream two days before their departure, since the stream was the water source for the area, and the capital's troops were stationed there.
They could have easily made their escape after poisoning the body, but they never expected the heavy rains of the past two days to wash it away and uncover it. The villagers even discovered it and reported it to the police.
What they didn't expect was that their poisoning was discovered!
Jiang Ning had no idea what these people were thinking; she was currently trying to figure out how to escape from their clutches.
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, drawing everyone's attention.
Jiang Ning's face lit up with joy, guessing that it must have been fired by someone arranged by Brigade Commander Liang to secretly protect her.
At that moment, the tall man cursed under his breath, "Damn it, the people protecting this woman have guns!"
Could it be that they've offended people in this military region?
They quickly became certain of their guess: anyone who could openly carry a gun was either a police officer or a member of the military.
He suddenly turned his head to look at Jiang Ning. Since that was the case, then he couldn't let her go even more.
The tall man said to the three men behind him, "Make your move, take care of those two as quickly as possible, then retreat!"
As the people approached, even though Jiang Ning had learned a few moves from Shen Mo, she had no chance of winning against four people in a face-to-face fight.
The village chief, who had never seen a murderer before, was so frightened that his legs almost went weak.
Jiang Ning turned her head and glanced at the stream beside her. The stream flowed downstream, and the gunshots should have alerted Brigade Commander Liang and the police officers. As long as they managed to escape, these four people would definitely not catch up.
Having made up her mind, Jiang Ning whispered to the captain, "Listen to me, jump downstream."
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