April Fool's Day Surprise

April 1st, April Fool's Day.

Ryukyu, Jiayi County.

A few dark clouds drifted in the sky, and the ground was somewhat damp from the recent light rain.

Wang Da Fu, who had just returned home after paying respects to his ancestors, was startled by the ringing phone before his backside had even warmed the seat. He checked the number and saw it was his son.

"Hello? Yongli, what's up?"

"Dad! Something bad happened! Something's wrong with the eels!"

"What!?" Wang Da Fu instantly sprang up from the sofa as if his backside had been pricked by a needle. He asked anxiously, "What happened?"

"The eels are dead! When I went to feed them just now, I found that the eels in several ponds had floated up."

"What! I'll be right there!"

Wang Da Fu couldn't care less about the meal his wife had just prepared. He grabbed his car keys and quickly drove to the farm.

Along the way, his heart involuntarily sank, and he also thought of various possibilities.

Twenty minutes later, the car braked sharply at the entrance of the breeding base, leaving a slightly burnt-smelling black mark.

As soon as he got out of the car, he wasn't the only one who had arrived.

The cars of the other two shareholders also appeared almost simultaneously.

The bald, burly man's face, full of rough flesh, was now as black as the bottom of a pot.

And the bald, bespectacled old man was trembling slightly all over, barely able to stand steadily, with a hint of unease in his eyes.

The three of them didn't bother with pleasantries and rushed directly into the farm.

Wang Da Fu's eldest son, Wang Yongli, was standing by the fish pond with six or seven employees. His face was extremely anxious, mixed with a hint of helplessness and powerlessness.

"What's going on!" Wang Da Fu pushed aside a few employees and came to the side of the fish pond.

Indeed, on the surface of the pond, a large number of eels with white bellies were floating. These eels were already dead, and the remaining living eels looked half-dead, slowly breathing near the water surface.

"Wang Yongli! How did you watch the place?" The bald, burly man grabbed Wang Yongli's collar and roared.

Wang Yongli also looked innocent and frustrated, and quickly explained, "Uncle Zhang, I don't know either! When I came this morning, everything was fine."

The old man with glasses stared at the large patch of dead fish on the water surface, his face grim. "Could it have been poisoned? Change the water immediately! And quickly find someone to send them for testing to find out what kind of poison it is!"

"Right, right, hurry!" Wang Da Fu seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw. "Yongli, quickly arrange for the eels to be sent for inspection. The rest of you, change the water with me."

Although the bald, burly man was furious, he hadn't completely lost his mind. He could only let go of Wang Yongli, but he warned Wang Da Fu, "Although we don't know the reason now, Wang Yongli was responsible for watching the place. No matter what, he has to take responsibility."

"You're talking nonsense!" Wang Yongli's temper also flared up. "Would I mess up my own family's business? Zhang Biao, don't make baseless accusations!"

"Hmph! Anyway, you were negligent in your supervision, that's a fact."

Seeing that Zhang Biao and his son were about to fight, Wang Da Fu immediately roared, "What are you arguing about here? We're all in the same boat now, hurry up and change the water!"

"Uh..." Wang Yongli glanced at his father's eyes again and could only quickly start scooping up the fish and filling several bottles with pond water. At the same time, he also sealed up the feed from the past few days and took a portion of the feed as a sample.

He then hurried away with two employees, making phone calls to contacts as he walked, trying to find someone to conduct the tests as soon as possible.

"Hmph!" Although Zhang Biao's face was filled with anger, he knew that now was not the time for internal conflict.

Wang Da Fu had already called the other employees over. With over four hundred mu of fish ponds needing water changes, fifty-odd people simply couldn't work fast enough.

However, the eels kept surfacing one after another, their bellies turned white.

More than a dozen pumps worked non-stop.

Puff puff puff...

The noise of the diesel engines made everyone present feel involuntarily irritable.

In less than an hour, the first three-mu fish pond had its water changed, and several aerators were also working non-stop.

Several technicians from the company bit the bullet and mixed some antibiotics and nutrients to enhance resistance.

In large plastic buckets, there were more than a dozen eels that had just been scooped out, in a half-dead state. Several technicians began to attempt treatment, and small aerators kept the water in the buckets bubbling.

Wang Da Fu's face turned incredibly pale as he watched the speed.

Under the scorching sun.

Because he didn't have time to eat lunch, coupled with his earlier emotional agitation and helping others move things, his body suddenly became weak, and his mind was somewhat hazy.

"Boss, have some juice to recover!" The assistant quickly handed Wang Da Fu a bottle of orange juice.

"Hoo hoo..." Wang Da Fu's eyes were somewhat vacant, and his hand trembled as he took the orange juice. The assistant didn't know how to comfort him and was afraid of saying the wrong thing, so he could only stand by as a small, unnoticed presence.

The other two shareholders weren't in much better shape.

Zhang Biao checked the condition of the other fish ponds while occasionally cursing.

The old man with glasses was already hypoglycemic, coupled with excessive emotional agitation, and was currently lying in the rest room of the breeding base.

Looking at the dead fish that were constantly being scooped out, already tens of thousands of catties, everyone was in a bad mood. After all, many employees had worked at Xihai Company for more than ten years, and seeing such tragic losses, their mood naturally couldn't be good.

At this time, Wang Da Fu and the employees subconsciously believed that someone had poisoned the water, causing the mass death of the eels.

It wasn't until the sun set.

The dead fish that were scooped out piled up like mountains, emitting a foul odor and a strong fishy smell under the setting sun.

But after five or six hours, the water change work was progressing very slowly, with only the water in more than twenty mu of fish ponds being changed.

Wang Da Fu, Zhang Biao, and the old man with glasses stood on the embankment of the first fish pond that had its water changed, their eyes fixed on the layer of dead fish that had floated to the surface again.

Clearly, changing the water was completely ineffective.

"What to do? What to do?" Zhang Biao clenched his fists, his voice trembling slightly, then looked at the technicians on the side, gritting his teeth and shouting loudly: "You technical department, hurry up and find a solution!"

The technicians inwardly cried out in misfortune and could only shake their heads helplessly: "Deputy General Manager Zhang, it's not that we're not trying to save them, but we don't know the cause. From noon to evening, I've tried more than a dozen methods, but the eels are still dying. We need time to find the cause."

Zhang Biao roared through clenched teeth: "Time? How long will it take you to find the cause? In another day or two, all the fish will be dead, and what the hell will you find the cause for!"

The eels that had been scooped out had already reached about a quarter, and the remaining fish were also constantly gasping for air on the surface, half-dead.

The time left for them was already running out.

It was just a pity they didn't know that the formula Jiang Miao deliberately leaked to them was a formula with added ingredients.

Perhaps some people would be very confused. As a fry breeding company, Xihai Company had tried breeding eel fry before. Logically speaking, they should know what not to feed eels.

The reason this happened was because they encountered Jiang Miao, an exception.

Jiang Miao's appraisal panel could not only see all the conditions for eel reproduction but also discover the genetic defects of eels.

It was like how dogs shouldn't eat chocolate, or how some people are lactose intolerant.

Eels also have their own genetic defects. In a natural wild environment, eels would not eat food that could cause their death.

But artificial feeding is different.

Jiang Miao simply added two seemingly useful nutrients and minerals to the formula. As long as the eels ate this feed, these two components would undergo a series of biochemical reactions in their bodies, forming chronic toxins. Once the accumulated concentration reached a critical point, the eels would die from acute poisoning.

This was a "poison bait" specifically designed for the genetic defects of eels.

In other words, Wang Da Fu personally poisoned the eels himself.

This is the terrifying aspect of being able to read biological genes.

As long as Jiang Miao was willing, he could even specifically design customized "allergic foods" and "genetic toxins" for every single creature.

This customization could be for a species or even an individual.

Jiang Miao's things were not so easy to steal.