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After Returning to the Village, I Gained the Ability to Communicate with Animals

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Liu Chenyu, a laid-off internet worker, returns to his hometown for his grandmother's funeral and unexpectedly gains the ability to communicate with animals—Old Huang, the village dog, mocks him for “being dumbed down by city life,” and a squirrel from the back mountain reveals “someone is dumping something into the fish pond.” Just as he thinks he's about to become the “village favorite,” he runs into Yu Ke, the cold-faced village doctor, chasing a stray cat with a syringe. She calls him a “fraud tricking the elderly.” It's not until a mass fish death in the pond that Liu uses the fish's “testimony” to find the poisoner, forcing Yu to cooperate. But as they dig deeper, they uncover a developer's conspiracy behind the village's “ecological issues”—and his ability is linked to the old locust tree his grandmother planted before her death...

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