Chapter 390 The Scenery Is Unique

Eighty-two kilometers away from Greenwood, in a cornfield approaching harvest.

The investigation team led by Alexander is inspecting the corn in the cornfield. The reason why they inspected this cornfield is because the cornfield next door is a corn-producing area contaminated by ticks.

Staff members wearing protective clothing, facing the scorching sun above their heads, carefully searched for suspicious targets on the corn plants in the cornfield.

Next to Alexander, there was an FBI manager and two officers in camouflage uniforms. It was obvious that this matter attracted their great attention.

This kind of silent outburst is simply impossible to guard against, and anyone facing this kind of method will shudder.

A middle-aged white man with gloomy eyes turned around and asked softly: "Inspector Moria, how is your investigation going?"

Moriah, the head of the FBI Mississippi, shook his head with a very solemn expression:

"I have reviewed the number of foreigners who have entered Mississippi in the past three months. Among them, there are 86,347 people who have come from that place or are related to it. Among them, 9,842 people have passed through tick-infected areas. There are too many people, and we currently have no way to target specific targets."

The middle-aged man in camouflage uniforms looked very dissatisfied: "This is your answer? Do you know the seriousness of this kind of thing? The other party can drop ticks silently today, and then they can drop other things tomorrow. This is our local core , you are simply incompetent to the extreme."

Moria retorted unceremoniously: "Colonel Michel, of course I know the seriousness of the matter, but the investigation needs to be rigorous. We do not have sufficient evidence."

"Damn..." Colonel Michel gritted his teeth and wanted to pull out his gun and give the opponent a peanut. Another officer on the side hurriedly persuaded him.

The FBI personnel were also secretly on guard.

Fortunately, the two sides showed restraint and did not draw their guns to fight, otherwise tomorrow's North American headlines would be lively.

In fact, the strong smell of gunpowder at the scene was because both parties were under tremendous pressure. Internal senior officials and major consortiums were all frightened to sleepless nights by this unexpected incident and demanded that the FBI find out the specific situation.

Especially how the other party sent these things into the country and how they allowed these ticks to infest the corn.

Facing the tense scene, Alexander, who was standing aside, simply pretended not to see it and ran to check on the search situation.

Hundreds of staff carefully inspected every corn.

Soon they made some discoveries. There was a black shriveled tick on the neat golden corn kernels on the cob of a corn plant.

The staff broke off the corn cobs and put them into sealed bags.

In this corn field, they spent more than three hours and found a total of 96 shriveled ticks on corn cobs.

Alexander took these corn cobs back to the makeshift laboratory and began to conduct comprehensive tests on these corn cobs and shriveled ticks.

In the laboratory.

Alexander discussed the test results with several experts in biology, genes, and viruses.

"The tick genes are very normal. They are ordinary Ornithodoros terrestrial ticks, and their bodies contain high concentrations of swine fever virus." An expert said with a report.

Virus experts from the secret biochemical laboratory were also very puzzled: "The sequence of the swine fever virus is highly similar to the virus gene sequence in the Iberia region of Western Asia. It is basically certain that there is a genetic relationship."

"No other findings?" Alexander frowned.

"The only thing that is certain is that the tick died on its own because it ate corn." Another expert said helplessly.

Alexander was very troubled: "The problem is how do the other parties make ticks actively climb onto the corn? There can't be a nanochip that can control ticks, right?"

He does not mean that.

FBI director Moglia, who was standing by, took note of this incident and planned to find professionals to evaluate the possibility of controlling ticks.

At this point in the investigation, the joint investigation team reached an impasse.

The situation where ticks actively climbed onto corn cobs was the most critical aspect of this matter, and it was also the area where Alexander and Moria were helpless.

Even with a blanket search and whereabouts modeling of more than 9,000 suspects, no reasonable explanation was found.

Finally, based on the lifespan and death time of ticks, a rough time period for the crime was locked, and the number of suspects was reduced to 2,736.

However, a more in-depth investigation made no progress.

The joint investigation team here has reached an investigative deadlock.

On the other hand, ABCD's feed business has been severely hit, and the uncontrollable swine fever pandemic has broken out in their pig farms.

As of June 8, more than 46.8% of ABCD’s global pig population were infected with swine fever.

A conservative estimate is that ABCD will lose about 15 billion yuan in the pig breeding business alone. If the losses of feed and brand are included, it will definitely double.

What's more, they still have to face huge compensation. Many pig breeding companies around the world are customers of ABCD feed products. Now that they are almost bankrupt due to swine fever, these companies will definitely not give up.

The distressed ABCD, under such a terrible blow, even a wealthy family was a little unable to withstand it.

The Food Alliance is also taking action. In addition to stabilizing domestic meat prices, it has also increased its global presence and gradually penetrated its tentacles into various regions.

In the strategic layout of the Food Alliance, Mobei is now equivalent to China and is the core area; Central Asia and Lucia are key areas; Southeast Asia and Australia are developable areas; Africa and Latin America are backup areas.

Lucia's far eastern region.

There are many local pig-raising companies in Vladivostok. They also imported ABCD feed before, but since the second half of last year, they have successively imported some feed from Northeast China and Mobei.

They were relatively lucky in this swine fever incident and did not become infected.

The reason why they did not appear is mainly because they have not finished eating the feed they purchased in spring. The pig farms have been eating the feed stocked in February and March, otherwise they would also be affected.

As soon as they heard that there was a problem with ABCD's feed, these idiots were frightened and hurriedly sealed up the feed purchased from ABCD and switched to feed from the Grain Alliance and their local feed.

In addition, Lucia itself has frequent outbreaks of swine fever. She has become a good doctor after a long illness, and the preventive measures are quite timely.

Looking at the large amount of sealed feed, Maozi was so scared that he was reluctant to destroy it and could only use it on the chicken farm.

Of course, these guys have another plan, which is to cooperate with Shennong Group to purchase swine fever vaccines as soon as possible. As long as there are swine fever vaccines, these feeds do not need to be destroyed, and there is no need to worry about the raging epidemic.

Soon Maozi organized a group to come to Shanmei to discuss the introduction of vaccines with Shennong Group.

In addition to Maozi, some areas in Southeast Asia are also the hardest hit areas by swine fever this time, and they have to take the initiative to find a way out.

Now Shennong Group's swine fever vaccine has suddenly become the hope of global pig raising companies and has become very popular.

Even the Xizhou Pig Farming Company, which was very confident before, was so scared that it ran over like shit.

Suddenly, the urban area of ​​Shanmei became lively again, and every company hoped to get the vaccine as soon as possible.

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