Chapter 157: Being Tricked into a Pirate Ship
Lennon picked it up and turned to the last page, almost falling down.
Positive? How come?
"That's the fact. The test results for bird flu are positive. Lennon, look at those geese. They shouldn't have been released at all!"
Johnny pointed at the wild geese in the sky and instructed the people behind him to unload the boat and prepare to go to the center of the lake to catch the geese.
Elwan was anxious: "Positive? How is that possible? Didn't we do the test before? All passed, no problem, and we got the vaccine afterwards!"
"Did you get the vaccination too late?" Bifang asked.
Elwan scratched his hair frantically and paced back and forth: "The vaccine has been administered for more than half a month. Even if it is a normal reaction of the vaccine after exposure, it should not be positive. There must be something wrong."
Johnny understood English and shouted, "Really? Then I asked you to put the geese in cages until the results came out, but what did you do? They shouldn't have been born, Lennon!"
Lennon was poked and stepped back repeatedly, almost losing his balance. Bifang stepped forward to support him and looked at Johnny with a frown.
Seeing Bifang's gaze, Johnny subconsciously withdrew his fingers. He coughed twice, felt a little embarrassed, and walked towards the lake without looking back.
"What does he want to do?" Elwan was puzzled.
Lennon lowered his head in frustration: "We need to catch them."
Grasp?
Elwan panicked and quickly stepped forward to block the other person's way.
Bifang stared at Johnny from the side with flickering eyes.
He always felt something was wrong. As Elwan said, they had done a self-examination the day before sending the birds for inspection and found no problems. Afterwards, they were the only ones who had come into contact with the geese, and they had not even come into contact with any other animals during that time.
If you get sick, where does the disease come from?
Him?
How is that possible?
Am I the pathogen?
But the other party was coming with such force that Bifang didn't have time to think and stepped forward to stop him.
He was skeptical as to whether the wild goose was sick or not , but he could not just capture it and kill it.
Seeing someone coming out to stop them again, Johnny wanted to scold him, but when he saw it was Bifang, he swallowed the words back.
"Whoever you are, get out of the way!"
"Come on, I can explain it. The vaccine! It must be the vaccine."
Elwan got in front of Johnny, but Johnny refused to give in.
The dispute became more and more tense.
The audience in the live broadcast room thought that the biggest difficulty in animal protection this time would be the environment. Unexpectedly, before the plan was implemented, the biggest obstacle turned out to be humans themselves!
[If it's positive, then we shouldn't let the bird out, right? 】
[Didn’t you hear what Professor Elwan just said? I tested myself and everything was fine. I’ve also been vaccinated. I think there must be some misunderstanding. There must be something wrong.]
[Yes, it is possible. As a medical student, I can clearly tell you that false positives do exist, and even if they are positive, they do not necessarily indicate a disease.]
[And the positive or negative result also depends on the test method. It may be positive after vaccination.]
[Are these birds going to be killed too? Didn’t Big Beard say last night that since interbreeding is not allowed, the white-fronted geese should be killed directly?]
[Lao Fang, stop them now. Why can't we talk things out peacefully? Why do they kill animals at every turn? Is this what foreigners are talking about when they talk about animal protection? ]
The two sides pushed each other and were about to have a physical fight. Lennon used the intercom to urgently contact Etienne who was next to the glider: "Etienne, can you hear me? Etienne, if you can hear me, make a gesture."
Etienne waved to Lennon to indicate that he could hear him.
Lennon lowered his voice and said, "Very good. Take the geese to the center of the lake. I repeat, take the geese to the center of the lake and I will explain it to them."
After saying that, he quickly came between the two groups, pushed away the quarreling Elwan and Johnny, and tried to calm both sides down.
Johnny straightened his collar and revealed a shocking piece of information with a stern look: "I have contacted Paris, and they have no idea of your plan."
The colleague who followed him nodded. Before coming, he felt a little guilty, fearing that the report would be exposed, and was ready to catch the bird and leave. It was not until Johnny contacted the French on the road that his guilty feeling completely disappeared.
The two organizations are unrelated, but the reasonable facts gave him considerable confidence.
Since the plan doesn't work, what does it matter what the report says?
You are not even qualified to raise them, so who cares what the geese look like?
"We can do another test...uh, what?" Lennon was explaining and his mind went blank when he heard this.
Even the Bifang next to him was confused.
Wait, no plan?
Didn’t Elwan tell him on the plane that he had obtained permission?
Not sure what the plan is?
"He said he contacted Paris, but they didn't know your plan at all." Lennon turned to look at Erwan and gave his own excuse after relaying, "Maybe there was a miscommunication. Call again and explain."
Erwan touched his neck, turned and walked to the lake.
Lennon took out his phone and handed it to Erwan: "Erwan, come on, come on, ask over there."
Seeing that Elwan remained silent, Bifang had a premonition: "Elwan, did you not get planning permission?"
Lennon immediately denied it: "No, I saw the stamped document, it's real."
"I stamped that stamp myself." Erwan lowered his head and paused. Realizing something, he quickly explained, "But there will be no problem with your entry!"
There was no problem with Bifang's entry, and he did have permission to assist in the experiment, but the specific experiment was entirely endorsed by Elwan's identity, and there was no question from above.
Elwan thought about the consequences and decided to take all the responsibility if anything happened, instead of dragging Bifang down.
"What?" Lennon was confused. "Are you kidding me? Have you ever thought about the consequences of doing this?"
Erwan remained silent.
"What's going on? Tell me everything, tell me everything!"
Bifang was so confused that he wanted to grab Elwan by the collar and question him. His tone was unusually impatient.
He thought he had some understanding of the so-called rhythm of motion in Europe, but now it seemed more complicated than he thought.
This plan, that test, is from different countries, different institutions, and the standards are also different. What does this have to do with anything?
Elwan had to explain.
France does not allow private individuals to keep geese. White-fronted geese are an endangered species. If you want to keep them, you must clip their feathers or capture them and keep them in cages for life. Either way, the geese will lose their freedom for life.
Therefore, if you want to raise geese without clipping their feathers, you must obtain a permit.
If you want to get a permit, you have to apply for it with a suitable reason.
Elwan's reason was scientific experiment and artificial migration.
However, in the eyes of the reviewers, this reason is undoubtedly ridiculous and absurd. Can domestic geese learn to migrate by flying a glider once?
A red stamp of rejection was stamped on the application.
It is obvious that it is humans who have destroyed the environment, causing the geese to be abandoned. Why should they pay the price of losing their freedom to fly?
But no matter how he persuaded, Le Goff still disagreed with the plan and forbade him to raise the geese without clipping their feathers. There was nothing he could do...
Now Elwan has raised the geese secretly, and if he had not wanted the geese to grow up in the wetlands, he would not have needed to apply for the planning permission document.
Bifang's arrival was due to an application submitted by Elwan through his connections at the University of Paris to conduct a private animal experiment.
Although his identity was not quite suitable, the higher-ups knew something about this rising-famous adventurer, and there was a live broadcast to record it, the itinerary was far away from the city, and with the guarantee from a senior professor at the University of Paris, they approved him without hesitation.
This process is reasonable and legal.
But it’s no use saying this now, because a new problem has arisen.
Positive.
If you fail the blood test, you’ll die.
"What should we do now?" Etienne asked on the intercom.
Lennon hesitated: "Uh, we don't have permission, you explain it to him yourself !"
He threw the hot potato to Bifang and ran over to explain to Johnny.
Bifang took the intercom: "Can you hear me, Etienne? The situation is a bit complicated now. Your father did not obtain permission and the documents are forged."
"What?" Étienne thought he had misheard.
"I know it's hard for you, but this is the situation right now."
Etienne had spent his entire summer vacation with the geese, so it must have been hard for him to find out now.
Erwan apologized: "I'm sorry Etienne, I'm an idiot, a big idiot, and now they're going to take the geese away..."
Bifang pinched his eyebrows, his temples throbbing. A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. He wanted to save these geese, but he had no say in other people's place.
After wasting so much time and training with the geese, I ended up back to square one.
Foreigners shout slogans for protecting animals and the environment louder than anyone else, but for some people who really want to do something, it is more difficult than anything else.
The staff on the lakeside were pushing the boat, and Etienne watched the geese calling non-stop, as if foreshadowing their impending fate.
The baby bird hatches from its shell.
Learning to run for the first time.
Flying in the sky for the first time.
Even if you can't sleep well, you should play the engine sound in the house all night so that the geese can get familiar with the engine sound.
In order to protect the wetlands and give the young birds a chance to grow up, they discovered an endangered species of hamster.
They will be killed just because of hybrid breeding...
The images in his memory flashed through Etienne's mind like a kaleidoscope, and an indescribable feeling of anger surged from his heart to his limbs.
"Aga, Amu, let's go."
Etienne pulled the rope, the engine started, ripples appeared on the lake, and the geese behind the glider heard the sound and swam towards the glider.
"What is he doing, what is he doing?" someone shouted.
The spinning propeller instantly made Elwan understand what Etienne was going to do.
He wants to lead the geese in migration alone!
He shouted hurriedly: "Stop, Etienne, stop! Come back immediately!"
It's too dangerous, this is too dangerous! This is complete nonsense!
Along the migration route there are wilderness, ice fields, various dangerous creatures, and even poachers. In such a dangerous environment, they are also "geese" and face the same threat of death. Neither he nor Bifang can guarantee their safety, let alone a fifteen-year-old boy!
Johnny saw the geese's unusual movements and remembered his agreement with Regev. He angrily ordered the boats: "Chase them, chase them!"
"Come back soon, Etienne; the weather will soon change."
Etienne pretended not to hear it. The propeller turned faster and faster, and the glider gradually slid, leaving two long water trails that spread along both sides.
Another engine sounded.
The small boat on the shore started the engine, and two staff members drove the boat towards the glider.
They wanted to stop the gliders from taking off and bring back all the white-fronted geese.
"Come back soon, Etienne!"
Elwan shouted anxiously, his eyes red as he saw the plane was about to take off.
“Plop!”
The sound of someone entering the water was heard.
Lennon looked back in surprise and found that Bifang had disappeared, leaving only the backpack.
"Bifang, what are you doing!"
