Animal Whisperer: Take Back My Life and Love Chapter 456: The High IQ Boss

Nancy rubbed the roe deer's furry head.

The deer suddenly looked up, its eyes sparking. "Oh! I forgot where it ran, but I remember clearly that the red fox had a shiny tube in its mouth! It looked so pretty in the moonlight!"

It never forgot a single detail of the gossip it failed to fully understand.

The deer reflected deeply before its train of thought took a strange turn. "I am so curious. Was that tube filled with smart medicine? If I eat it, will I be like the red fox? Will I know how to wear shoes and find my way home?"

"A shiny tube..."

Nancy repeated the words as her heart skipped a beat. That had to be the storage tube for the stolen biological reagent.

She turned to Simon immediately, translating the intelligence at high speed. "Simon! How would a red fox have shoes? Someone must have put them on it! What it carried away was almost certainly the reagent!"

A chilling theory formed in her mind. Langstrom might not have done the job himself. He was manipulating animals to carry out the theft.

Simon's expression sharpened as he followed her logic. "If Langstrom could develop a repellent, he likely mastered the inverse technology too. He could be using an inducer to force animals to follow his commands."

The realization illuminated the entire mystery.

Nancy felt a cold shiver run down her spine. The lack of human traces at the crime scene made perfect sense if the perpetrator was a silent, untraceable red fox.

Langstrom’s depth and capabilities were far more profound than they had imagined.

While she was relieved to find a lead, worry began to cloud Nancy’s mind. What had happened to those animals forced to become thieves? Were they being harmed?

She gently touched the deer's warm forehead, speaking in a soothing tone. "Little guy, you are a hero. To reward you, we need to take you somewhere for a full checkup."

The deer tilted its head, looking confused as if wondering if a checkup was something good to eat.

Nancy explained in an enticing voice, "It is a very impressive place with magical glowing mirrors that can see right through you. Maybe we can even check how to make you smarter so you never fall on the ice again."

"Glowing mirrors? And I can get smarter?"

The deer's large eyes lit up instantly. It gave an excited hop in Simon’s arms. "I want to go! I want to go! Let’s go right now!"

Seeing its eager, silly joy, Nancy felt her heart soften.

She contacted the forestry department, and before long, a vehicle approached from the distance. Nancy looked up, assuming the forestry staff had arrived quite quickly.

However, as the convoy drew closer, she froze. The scale of this arrival was highly unusual.

Leading the pack was a black Hongqi sedan with a striking white license plate. As the vehicle stopped, several plainclothes personnel quickly stepped out of the escorting SUVs. They moved with a silent, sharp efficiency. Their ingrained alertness and discipline were identical to that of Nancy’s own military guards.

There was no way the forestry department would use an armed escort and police vehicles just to pick up a roe deer.

Was the tracking agent finished already? Could the big boss, Dr. Zeno, have come in person?

But it had only been three hours since she made the call, not six.

The deer in her arms seemed intimidated by the sudden tension, shrinking back and whispering, "Nancy, these people look scary. Are they here to fix me or finish me?"

At that moment, the lead guard stood by the rear door of the Hongqi sedan. He opened the door with practiced precision while snapping open a large black umbrella to shield the passenger from the falling snow.

As the umbrella lifted slightly, a figure stepped out gracefully.

It was a woman with a tall, elegant posture, wearing a perfectly tailored dark gray coat. Her raven hair was pulled back into a meticulous bun. She wore a pair of gold rimmed glasses that radiated intelligence, and behind the lenses were a pair of strikingly beautiful eyes.