Chapter 154 The Lives of the Whole Village Xia Zhining raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, took a deep breath, and turned to look for the male red-crowned crane waiting in the resettlement area.
"I need to ask the female crane's mate what it has eaten recently."
"Nine times out of ten, it happened early this morning or late this evening."
Xia Zhining quickly realized one thing.
The male crane was unharmed, but the female crane was poisoned, which most likely means that the female crane came into contact with something the male crane had eaten or visited a place where her partner had set foot.
She immediately approached the male red-crowned crane and asked him in a slow, serious voice, "Brother Crane, please think carefully about what your partner has eaten alone recently."
"Or been somewhere you don't have anyone with you?"
The male crane tilted his head, blinked his bright black eyes, and recalled hesitantly:
We mostly forage together, and I'm usually the one who catches fish and feeds it...
Xiong He suddenly paused, as if remembering something, and his voice suddenly became hurried:
[Oh right! This morning, it was thirsty, so we passed by a village and it drank some water from a stone groove next to a well.]
[I wasn’t thirsty at the time, so I didn’t drink…]
The male crane grew increasingly uneasy as he spoke, his wings trembling slightly: [Could it be…could it be that there’s something wrong with the water?]
Xia Zhining felt a chill running up her spine to the top of her head, and her whole body suddenly felt numb.
The water in the well is poisonous!
If this is true, and this well is not an abandoned well, but a well that the villagers often use...
Wouldn't everyone in that village be in danger of poisoning?!
The red-crowned crane is an extremely intelligent creature. The male crane suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and its voice suddenly became rapid and frightened:
[If...if the well water is really poisonous, wouldn't everyone who draws water from the well be poisoned?!]
It flapped its wings nervously, as if frightened by its own inference: "As we flew away, we saw two or three villagers drawing water from that well!"
What you fear will come true!
Xia Zhining suppressed her fear and asked quickly:
"Do you still remember the location of that village? Can you find it?"
The male crane nodded without hesitation, his voice firm: [Remember! I can take you there!]
The situation was urgent, so Xia Zhining immediately called her brother Ji Shuyun again, her voice trembling with nervousness:
"Brother, something terrible has happened! The well in one village might have been poisoned, and some villagers are already using it to draw water!"
Ji Shuyun on the other end of the phone was immediately alarmed when he heard this: "I'll lead the police team to collect samples immediately! Which village exactly?"
Xia Zhining looked at the male crane beside her and made a quick decision: "I'll put a GPS collar on it and let it lead the way. You guys come here based on the signal location!"
She immediately asked the staff at the Wild Animal Rescue Station for a lightweight GPS tracking ring.
This type of equipment was originally designed to track the movements of wild animals after they were released into the wild.
She carefully fixed the positioning ring on the male crane's leg and gently patted its wings:
"Please, take us there."
The male crane spread its snow-white wings, soared into the sky like a stream of cold light, and quickly disappeared into the distance.
Xia Zhining immediately took out her cell phone and called her "ace foreign aid", Boss Crow.
Today, Boss Crow's enthusiasm for participating in solving cases is unprecedentedly high.
After all, there is a generous "labor fee" for every case solved. If you work hard, you may be able to get a regular job and have a stable job!
As soon as the call was connected, before Xia Zhining could finish her words, Boss Ya's impatient voice came from the other end:
[What's going on? Urgent order? I need some money! ...What? Poisoning?!]
[Hey, I'll take this order. I'll pay for the work, and I won't miss out on the bonus!]
An hour later, Xia Zhining got into her brother Ji Shuyun's police car and followed the GPS signal to her destination.
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