Chapter 326 Hateful Neighbor
For a moment, the air seemed to freeze. Liang Zhizhou and his three companions' faces turned pale. The man in the plaid shirt even took a half step back unconsciously.
"No, it's not mine!" Liang Zhizhou's voice suddenly rose, with a noticeable tremor. "There are so many drones of this model!"
Chen Su sneered and flipped the drone over, revealing a code engraved on its bottom. "I've checked the registration information with the Civil Aviation Administration." He pulled out his phone, revealing the drone management system's query page. "Do you want to log in to your account now to verify it?"
Xu Ying stepped forward at the right moment, speaking in a clear yet resounding voice: "The white crane is a first-class nationally protected species. According to the Wildlife Protection Law, those who intentionally kill one in serious circumstances may be sentenced to more than ten years in prison."
She stared at Liang Zhizhou with a sharp gaze. "You violated the regulations by operating a drone and seriously injured Bai He. You will be sentenced to at least five years. The most despicable thing is—"
Her voice suddenly turned cold. "Not only did they not report the incident, they also dismantled and destroyed the evidence, leaving Bai He to bleed to death! This is extremely evil!"
Liang Zhizhou's legs began to tremble uncontrollably.
When he heard Xu Ying's explanation of the consequences, he was completely devastated. "I disassembled the drone into its parts and threw them into three different trash cans! How could you possibly find it?!"
Xu Ying raised a mysterious smile at the corner of his lips: "If you do something wrong, God will punish you."
A furry gerbil boss suddenly jumped out from her shoulder, the little guy held his paws and made an exaggerated face at Liang Zhizhou.
[Squeak!] The gerbil wagged its tail proudly. [The garbage dump is the home of the rats. How could the rats not know what you threw into our house?]
Amidst everyone's shocked gazes, Chen Su handcuffed Liang Zhizhou.
When the metallic "click" sound was heard, the rich second generation who had been so arrogant just now finally collapsed to the ground.
The red and blue lights of the police car cut through the twilight, stretching his shadow very long, just like the long sentence he was about to face.
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In the blink of an eye, most of the spring has passed. As spring deepens, the jacaranda trees in front of the Furry Animal Hospital have sprouted tender green buds.
This white building located on the edge of the desert has now become the warmest shelter for wild animals.
In the hospital, sunlight shines through the floor-to-ceiling windows onto the clean corridor.
Nurses hurried past pushing a medical cart. On the bench at the door of the clinic, several recovering animals were lazily basking in the sun - a steppe eagle with a broken wing was quietly preening its feathers, and a corsac fox with a bandaged front paw was curled up next to it.
Xu Ying, wearing a white lab coat and a stethoscope around her neck, had just emerged from the operating room. Beads of sweat still covered her forehead, but her eyes were bright and satisfied.
This is the third operation today - in the morning, he received a desert cat that was injured by an animal trap, and at noon he gave emergency treatment to a hooded crane that accidentally ingested plastic.
The wall of honor in the corridor is already covered with photos of rehabilitated animals.
There are golden eagles soaring in the blue sky again, desert wolves returning to the pack, and the white crane whose legs were once seriously injured - in the photo, it stands on one leg in the wetland, its posture still elegant.
When passing by the pharmacy, the eldest gerbil was directing several little gerbils to carry disinfectant cotton balls.
Seeing Xu Ying, it puffed out its chest proudly and said, "We've finished counting all the supplies for today!"
Xu Ying gave it a thumbs up.
Outside the window, the spring breeze brought the fragrance of flowers. Xu Ying took a deep breath. This busy and fulfilling life was exactly what she had dreamed of.
Although we often have to face the separation of life and death, every time we see the recovered animals return to nature, all our fatigue turns into joy.
It's another morning.
Xu Ying was still cuddling a coffee cup, sleepily, as the villa's smart curtains slowly opened. Normally, at this time of day, the view from the floor-to-ceiling windows would be of a rose garden covered in morning dew, a shimmering pond, and a fennec fox rolling around on the lawn.
“Pah—”
Her coffee cup fell directly onto the carpet.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the originally transparent glass now looked like it was splashed with a layer of khaki paint, and fine grains of sand were crackling on the window surface.
The yard was a mess—the succulent garden she had carefully cultivated had turned into a sand dune, the swing seat was covered with a layer of sand two fingers thick, and even the fat little caracal that always liked to occupy the fountain platform was nowhere to be seen.
The strong wind blew sand and gravel into the air, and the whole world seemed to be covered in yellow frosted glass.
"This sandstorm?" Xu Ying pressed against the window in disbelief.
In the more than one year that she has been working at the desert rescue station, as the protective forest around the rescue station has gradually taken shape, she has not seen such a scene for a long time.
During breakfast, the news anchor's serious voice came from his phone: "Due to desertification in the northern part of the country, my country's sandstorm weather this spring is extremely severe."
"Weather satellites show that sand and dust from Mobei has crossed the Yangtze River Basin and arrived at the southeast coast this morning."
"Crack!" Xu Ying dropped the yogurt spoon onto the table. She stared at the yellow cyclone covering half of Asia on the screen. The news was showing footage of grassland degradation caused by overgrazing in a neighboring country—goats nibbling at the last few blades of grass on the bare earth.
"Wow!" She grabbed her phone and snapped a picture of the dim sky outside the window. "This isn't a sandstorm, it's a 'sand bomb' dropped by Mobei Country on all of East Asia!"
In the comment section of the hot search on Weibo, netizens from all over the country are complaining.
[Mobei Kingdom, plant some trees. If you don't, return the land to our Dragon Kingdom!]
My car wash fee is 35 yuan. Can Mobeiguo reimburse me?
This year's sandstorms reached Guangdong and Guangxi, a northern specialty. This made up for the lack of sandstorms in Guangdong.
【The sand that missed you finally blew to Haikou. 】
Our country planned to donate a batch of saplings to Mobei, but they refused to accept them.
Xu Ying had a very bad impression of the Mobei Kingdom. Not only was this neighboring country unfriendly to the Dragon Kingdom, but its treatment of wild animals was even more appalling.
What infuriated Xu Ying most was the fate of the snow leopard. In Dragon Country, snow leopards are a protected species, and anyone who dared to harm them would be imprisoned in minutes.
But just last month, a foreign influencer livestreamed a photo of a Mobei noble's mansion, and the ceiling was covered in snow leopard skins! A rough count revealed 20 or 30 of them—absolutely outrageous!
What is even more outrageous now is that the Mobei Kingdom has turned its own grasslands into deserts due to uncontrolled grazing and mining.
Now the sandstorm has crossed the border and hit Longguo directly, affecting everyone from north to south.
Xu Ying looked out the window at the dark dust outside and was furious: "He's asking for his own death and bringing trouble to his neighbors. How wicked!"
(End of this chapter)
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