"Lao Lin, the case of smuggling poisonous mushrooms has been closed, and he has been detained for ten days, and if he can't find anything, he can release the suspect. ”

"Yes, it doesn't look like much on the surface, but this thing is really a bit evil, you think, if you get mushrooms from Yunnan to Beijing, you must be selling, and why should that mushroom dealer lie? Selling poisonous mushrooms is not much of a crime, why make up a lie that is so easy to see? But if you dig deeper, you won't be able to open your mouth, what is he covering?"

"Lao Lin, what do you want to do so much, forget it, don't look for trouble. I guess it has something to do with the entertainment industry. The current entertainment industry is very chaotic, I heard that people specialize in eating mushroom powder, it seems that people who eat it will become very excited, and they can hallucinate, which is similar to the feeling of smoking marijuana. If the mushroom dealer confesses the insiders, the reputation will be stinky, and no matter how big the star is, he can become a street rat. ”

"So, the one who bought the poisonous mushroom must have paid a lot of money, and the mushroom dealer wanted to make this money, and he had to carry it to death, which is probably the rules of this industry, forget it, Lao Lin, anyway, no one died, and the only way to scare and scare is to let it go." ”

I looked up and followed the prestige, and on the other side of the office, a middle-aged police officer in his forties was leaning back in a chair with a teacup. A young police officer in his twenties, sitting in the corner of his desk, holding a stack of papers, was talking bitterly.

And what I heard vaguely and intermittently caught my full attention in an instant.

I saw Xiao Lei coming with a teacup, and hurriedly pointed over there and asked, "What case are you talking about?"

Xiao Lei told me that the middle-aged police officer's surname was Lin, and he was an old criminal policeman, who was transferred from the position of deputy captain of the Pinggu detachment, and his professional ability was very strong, and he was also very respected by the Cao team. The young surname Luo has just been transferred to the bureau not long ago. They should be talking about a case in the Haidian branch a few days ago: a waiter at a small hotel reported that there was a large suitcase in a room rented by a traveler, and a special smell faintly came out. And that traveler also has strange whereabouts, leaving late and returning early, not like a serious person.

The waiter usually likes to watch detectives, and thinks that the smell is very similar to the smell of a corpse decomposing, so he didn't dare to secretly open the suitcase, so he called the police station.

After taking the case, the police of the sub-bureau searched the passenger's room, and there was nothing special, but in his suitcase, they found several catties of dried mushrooms, but these dried mushrooms had a unique shape, and although they were dried, they were still bright in color. In a glass jar, there were two more that had not been sun-dried, but they were a little rotten, and the strange smell that the waiter smelled came from here due to the poor sealing.

When things are tested, they are all poisonous mushrooms, but the toxicity is not too great.

The traveler was taken back to the precinct and cooperated with the interrogation. He claimed to be surnamed Tang, was forty-one years old, and made a living collecting medicine on the border of Yunnan. These mushrooms are endemic to the local area, and they are all poisonous and no one picks them. But he heard from his fellow villagers that some botanical research institute in Beijing bought these mushrooms for research, and the purchase price was very high, so he picked some of them and dried them and brought them to Beijing to try his luck. Unexpectedly, when I first arrived in Beijing, I was arrested by the police before I could find out where the plants were.

The police officer of the substation always felt that this person was deliberately hiding something, but no matter how he asked, he said this and did not answer a word. Because this mushroom is relatively rare, the sub-bureau took some to the inspection center of the city bureau for testing, and after going back and forth, the case was transferred to the special case department of the city bureau.

I listened to Xiao Lei's introduction, and suddenly remembered that Dr. Zhang recorded in the family tree, after that bizarre incident, he collected poisonous mushrooms everywhere, as if he was preparing some kind of medicine, and this person surnamed Tang sold poisonous mushrooms, is there any connection?

Xiao Lei took me to find Officer Lin, who was still deep in thought, and inquired in detail about the ins and outs.

It is generally the same as Xiao Lei's account, but Officer Lin's description adds some details. The Yunnan man surnamed Tang, whose identity has been confirmed by the police station where his household registration is located, is a native of Liping Village, Honghe Prefecture, a farmer, and his social relations are not complicated, and he has no criminal record.

In his early years, he ran transportation, did agricultural products business, and rented a stall in the farmers' market. But this person has hardly been out of Yunnan, and if he travels all the way to Beijing, it must be a big deal. And he only brought a few catties of dried poisonous mushrooms with him, and the rest were all clothes he carried with him, and he almost certainly came to Beijing to deal with poisonous mushrooms.

The mushroom testing center did the tests, and they belonged to shallots, red beef liver, and a relatively rare green hand. These mushrooms mainly contain a special hallucinogen, which is not very toxic in itself, and if the amount of consumption is controlled, there will be no harm to the body.

However, the hallucinogens in it can paralyze the cranial nerves in a short time, not only produce special hallucinations, but also cause unresponsiveness to the outside world, inability to effectively control body movements, and even amplification of certain senses.

It is this characteristic that people who take hallucinogens are more sensitive and nervous, a bowl of water is also turbulent in his eyes, and a grain of sand is a boulder of 10,000 tons, not to mention those creatures in the real world.

But what the heart thinks, what the eyes see, the world of illusion in the eyes of some people is heaven on earth, and in the eyes of others, it is the hell of the end times. Perhaps this unique ability to amplify the senses is the root cause of many artists' addiction to hallucinogens.

Although those poisonous mushrooms are hallucinogens, they seem to produce different hallucinogenic effects, because no one in the police force really takes and tries them, and they all listen to the mushroom dealer surnamed Tang tell us that what kind of hallucination mushroom produces and what kind of effect it will have on people, everyone is not clear. But only one thing is certain, the hallucinogenic effect of poisonous mushrooms will not last too long, three to four hours, even for people who are more sensitive to hallucinogens, it will not exceed five hours.

Because of this fortuitous case, Lao Lin spent several days making unannounced visits to people in Beijing who often take hallucinogens. He found that this group of people is not large, mainly concentrated in artists, singers, owners of private companies and some writers, the fundamental reason is that the amount of hallucinogenic mushrooms entering the market is very small, this thing can produce similar feelings as drug use, although it will also be addictive, but at least there is no direct damage to the body, the most important thing is to take hallucinogens mushrooms, there are no clear punishment regulations in the law at present, it is not illegal, at most two days of criticism and education, it belongs to the safest drug.

These benefits, combined with the lack of supply, make hallucinogenic mushrooms in the Beijing market sky-high, and only a few people can afford to consume them, and it is even more difficult to find a way to buy hallucinogenic mushrooms.

The mushroom dealer surnamed Tang also grasped this point, not to mention his next family, as long as he didn't confess, he would be fine for two days, and he could still do it if he was offline.

Lao Lin's introduction aroused my great interest, the time when the mushroom dealer was arrested was just after the accident of Lu Panzi and Xiao Rao, the high consistency of the taking group, the concealment of this group and the genealogy of Dr. Zhang's record of studying poisonous mushrooms, it seems that these are all strung together, and it seems that I can see the clues to unravel the whole mystery.

I hurriedly asked Lao Lin for help, let me meet the mushroom seller, and ask a few questions. Lao Lin was very cheerful, and told me that he was now in the detention center, and he was going to go through the formalities in the afternoon to criticize and educate the mushroom dealers, and then let him go. I would like to see him, and I would like to go to the detention center with him in the afternoon. Just remind me that this mushroom dealer doesn't speak much Mandarin, and his Yunnan dialect is difficult to understand, so I have to be mentally prepared for it to be difficult to listen.

As we spoke, Team Cao hurriedly pushed the door open and walked in.

After a few days of not seeing, Team Cao has returned to his previous high-spirited appearance, his beard is clean-shaven, and his hair is combed extraordinarily neatly, I don't know if there has been progress in the portrait of the man in black, or if he has finally done Zeng Qian's work, as if he is a different person.

After saying hello to Lao Lin, I didn't ask what we were talking about just now, and Team Cao took me to the small building of the technical department in the backyard of the bureau. Tell me that today is to draw a portrait of the man in black in Huang Yanqiu's memory, although after more than 20 years, Team Cao does not expect Huang Yanqiu to remember many details about the man in black, but for him, it is just a test of his intuition. Team Cao and I feel the same way, there are far more kidnappings of the Men in Black than we think, and there must be some connection between these events.

With this effort, I briefly said a few words about the mushroom dealer, hoping that Team Cao would help arrange another interrogation, and I always felt that I could dig out some useful clues from the mushroom dealer's mouth. Team Cao suddenly stopped, looked up at the small building of the technical office close at hand, and seemed to be thinking about something.

"Lao Cao, what do you want? If you violate the discipline of the bureau, I won't participate, you can help me ask a few questions. "I handed him a cigarette and lit it for him.

"Lao Chang, there is nothing wrong with interrogating that mushroom dealer again, I just thought of a possibility, Zhou Cheng said before that there is a method in hypnosis that can control normal people through drugs and some hypnotic means, but there are very few people who have mastered it, and he has only heard of it, and he has never seen it with his own eyes. Could the drugs used in hypnosis be hallucinogens? Forget it, let's not think about it yet, let you see what those men in black look like. ”

(The teacher said: "Self-nature is nothing but nothing, no ignorance, no chaos, if you contemplate the mind, you are always detached from the Dharma, you are free, you can do everything you want, what can you do? When the Dharma is extinguished, what is the order?"--"The Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs")