The owner explained: "It is normal for one or two dead birds to die on the beach, but it is still rare for a large number of seabirds to die at the same time as this year, and I remember that more than 20 years ago, when I was a teenager, I went fishing with my father, and I saw a similar situation. Over time, the carcasses of the seabirds were eaten by the fish in the sea, unlike now, where the birds died on the island. ”

Ye Zhenzhen observed the water surface of the nearby sea, and occasionally a few dead seabirds floated on the sea, compared to the seabird carcasses that the boat owner just said, the scale is much smaller, but if the dead birds on the island are also included, it may be larger than the number of deaths twenty years ago.

After taking a circle around the island and taking pictures, Minami no Qiao asked the boat owner to sail the boat to the "Seagull Paradise" in the southeast direction.

"Seagull Paradise" is the largest, flattest and most famous of the three bird conservation islands.

Stop the boat on the island and startle a flock of white seabirds.

There is scattered green vegetation on the island, no big trees, only small shrubs and weeds, and seabirds roost in flocks on the high and low rocks.

Standing on the island and looking around the island, there were no dead birds.

Ye Zhenzhen asked: "Why are there no seabirds dying here, is it not an infectious disease among birds, or is the death of seabirds on the other two islands due to regional reasons? Food poisoning?......

Nan Zhiqiao denied: "Impossible, the three small islands are not far apart, and the seabirds' feeding areas are all overlapping with each other, and if it is food poisoning, the seabirds on the three islands will react." ”

The shipowner followed the two and asked, "It's not an infectious disease, it's not food poisoning, what is the cause?"

Nan Zhiqiao walked around the rocks at his feet and continued along the shore of the island, saying as he went, "I can't draw conclusions yet, let's find out the situation on the island first." ”

From the flat north shore of the island, skirting the rocky west shore to the steep south shore, a shocking scene emerges.

On the steep south shore of the island, between two huge rock peaks, seabird carcasses accumulate in piles, and from a distance, they look like a white curtain between the rock peaks.

The seabirds at the bottom of the pile have begun to decompose, and the seabirds on the top layer look like they have just died, because the terrain is steep and few people come here, so the dead bird pile has not been found.

But how could these dead birds be neatly stacked together?

The shipowner also saw the suspicion, "It's strange, the birds are all dying in a pile, and they know to find a grave for themselves before they die." ”

Vera Ye: "This is obviously the result of someone moving. ”

"Whoever has nothing to do will pile dead birds here, it seems, it's not a matter of a day or two. "The boat owner was curious.

Nan Zhiqiao took a few pictures of the dead bird pile, and then asked the boat owner next to him, "Did you bring tourists here yesterday?"

"Yesterday morning and afternoon came to the island, tourists came to the island for sightseeing, I waited on the boat, there was nothing unusual in the morning, the two tourists in the afternoon said that there were dead birds on the island, I didn't care at the time, I didn't see the dead birds when I went to the island just now, I was still wondering, I didn't expect that the dead birds were thrown here. ”

Nan Zhiqiao asked, "Who else knows that there are dead birds on the island?"

"No one else, we should be the first to discover these dead bird piles, because this archipelago was bought by the Nanmu Group for the development rights, so usually fishermen don't come here to fish, and there are few tourists, I am the person who has come the most, I haven't found it, and there is no one else who can find it here." ”

Nan Zhi Qiao: "Will the people from the Nanmu Group come?"

The owner of the ship thought for a while and replied: "Half a year ago, when the news came out that the Nanmu Group was going to open this archipelago, I saw that some people were inspecting the islands, and there were ships that were busy going back and forth for about half a month, and then they stopped, and no one came. ”

"When did that group of people come to investigate?"

"About half a year ago, about a month after the Spring Festival, I can't remember the specific date. ”

Nan Zhiqiao frowned slightly, as if he thought of something.

When the boat boss saw Nan Zhiqiao's appearance, he thought that he was worried about who had handled the seabird carcass, and the boat boss actively speculated: "Did it be done by the people from the Oceanic Bureau, they sometimes come to inspect the island." ”

Ye Zhenzhen immediately raised the reason for her objection, "It can't be someone from the Oceanic Bureau, if it were them, the corpse would definitely be harmless according to the procedure, and it wouldn't be piled up here like this." ”

"That's weird, who would come to such a remote island and do such a boring thing? And, I just remembered that the first time you went to the island, the carcasses of the seabirds, now it seems, have also been moved. "The boat boss felt inexplicable.

Ye Zhenzhen couldn't think of who would do it, but she was more worried about Nan Zhiqiao.

Half a year ago, this island was going to be developed, and it was only carried out for half a month, and it was inexplicably stopped, and half a year ago, it was also the time when the Nanmu Group Stem Cell Research Center exploded and Nan Jianguo died.

Ye Zhenzhen looked at Nan Zhiqiao worriedly, Nan Zhiqiao was only silent for a moment, and then began to order: "Let's go, go back first, these three seabird sanctuary islands, don't bring people over recently." ”

This sentence was said by Nan Zhiqiao to the boat owner, and the boat owner asked puzzledly: "Why? If I don't bring tourists here, I will have no income." ”

"Don't come here again until the cause of the mass death of seabirds is investigated, life is more important than money. Nan Zhiqiao used the shipowner's own words to persuade the shipowner.

The owner of the boat thought about it, too, it is unlucky that such a seabird dies at the same time, and the "Seagull Paradise" becomes a "Seagull Hell", which is also very scary, anyway, there are many other scenic islands nearby, which can fool tourists to visit other islands.

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The three of them left "Seagull Paradise" in a small boat, and on the way back, the boat owner asked Nan Zhiqiao, "Let's go back like this, someone will deal with these dead birds, right?"

"Rest assured, someone will deal with it, in addition to harmlessly disposing of the seabird carcass, and more importantly, to find the cause of the seabird's death. ”

"This should be bird plague, right? In the past, when there was bird plague, a large number of seabirds would die, and after a while, they would be fine. ”

Nan Zhiqiao did not comment on the opinion of the boat owner, but sat on the seat on the side of the boat, looking at the sea in a pensive state.

Ye Zhenzhen's gaze was first on Nan Zhiqiao, and then drifted to the sea with Nan Zhiqiao's gaze, and a black dot appeared on the blue sea.