Chapter 18: Nail Clues
Nan Zhiqiao found a medical tray from the table in the corner of the isolation ward, which contained medical bandages, disinfectant cotton swabs, iodophor, and a pair of elbow tweezers.
Pick up the elbow forceps, carefully cut through the black abscess in the man's palm, remove the half-crescent-shaped object from the center of the abscess, and place it in the medical tray.
There was dark black blood flowing out of the wound in the palm, and the blood was thick and quickly crusted around the wound.
After disinfecting the wound with an iodophor swab, the wound is finally bandaged with a medical white gauze bandage.
After completely treating the wound in his palm, Nan Zhiqiao used tweezers to pick up the half-crescent-shaped object in the medical tray again, and looked left and right, as if it was the nail of some animal.
Wipe the blood from your nails with a cotton swab, revealing your original color.
A black-brown half-moon shaped nail with a sharp end and a flattened end, from the root of the nail to the end of the nail, this is a complete nail and the full nail of the most common seagulls on the seashore.
How could a seagull's nails end up in the palms of an unconscious man? and complete nails?
If it is a seagull that scratches a man's palm, then at most it will leave only one wound in the palm of the hand, and will not leave the entire nail.
Unless in one case, the seagull is dead and its nails are starting to fall off, and the man is poking his palm with the fallen seagull nails while disposing of the seagull carcass, and the seagull nails remain in the palm of his hand like a thorn.
This suggests that the comatose man had been in contact with the Dead Seabird before, and could he have had something to do with the human movement of seabird carcasses in the Coastal Islands?
Thinking of this, Nan Zhiqiao faintly felt a trace of excitement, and felt that he was getting closer and closer to the Fire Snake Organization.
Nan no Qiao put the black-brown seabird nails back into the medical tray and went on to examine the rest of the mysterious man.
From the arms, armpits, forebody, back, to the thighs, calves, knees, toes, and finally a tiny white coral stone was found in the hair of the unconscious man.
Nan Zhiqiao remembers that when the boat owner took the two of them on a tour of the waters near the coastal islands, he said that there are white coral growing around the coastal islands in Y City, which is also one of the scenery of the coastal islands, and this kind of white coral grows on many submarine reefs.
Especially in the waters around scallop islands, there are more of these white corals.
The comatose man had white coral gravel in his hair, had he been near scallop island?
What secrets do you hide on the mysterious scallop island?
Nan Zhi Qiao is becoming more and more curious about Scallop Island, and originally planned to go to Scallop Island, after the coma man's incident, Nan Zhi Qiao is even more sure that there must be a secret on Scallop Island, and a trip to Scallop Island is imperative.
In the afternoon of the same day, the laboratory test results of the comatose man came out, and they were positive for avian influenza H5N1.
That night, he died after rescue efforts failed.
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The comatose man who was picked up from the beach has added another confirmed clinical death to the bird flu epidemic in Y City.
After the various reports were written, Nan no Qiao began to prepare to go to Scallop Island.
Fearing that there would be terrorists from the Fire Snake Organization on Scallop Island, Nan no Qiao notified the police of the unconscious man with the Fire Snake tattoo, and the police sent someone to assist Nan no Joe in the Scallop Island operation.
Nan Zhiqiao also found a boat owner who was familiar with the waters near Scallop Island to be his guide, and took Ye Zhenzhen and more than a dozen special police officers with loaded guns, divided into three speedboats, and boarded Scallop Island together on the morning of the second day after the unconscious man's death.
Scallop Island, shaped like a large scallop shell lying in the sea, the topography of the island is high in the middle and low in all sides, like bulging shells, the island is rich in vegetation, with a patch of forest in the middle, surrounded by grass and shrubs.
There is a golden sand beach on the southern slope of the island, the beach enters the sea, and then suddenly becomes a trench, the trench is three or four meters wide, dozens of meters deep, overlooking from the air, the color of the sea water near the trench changes obviously, as the beach enters the sea, the color of the sea water gradually changes from white to light blue, and when it reaches the trench, the sea water suddenly becomes dark blue and black.
In addition to the three speedboats, the police also sent a helicopter over.
The police attach great importance to this operation, and all the information before the operation is confidential, Nan Zhiqiao was supposed to transfer two helicopters from the Nanmu Group, but considering the confidentiality of the operation, this idea was temporarily canceled.
Scallop Island was inhabited by fishermen a long time ago, and then because of inconvenient transportation, fishermen gradually left Scallop Island, relocated to the coastal mainland to live, after the reform and opening up, the Y Municipal Government built a marine biology research base on Scallop Island, and later because of a typhoon, the base was destroyed, and three staff members died, since then, the research base was closed, and few people came to Scallop Island.
Half a year ago, Nanmu Group obtained the development rights of the coastal islands of Y City, and was busy on scallop island for a few days, and then after the explosion of the stem cell research center, there was no news.
Scallop Island is now deserted, except for a few dilapidated fishermen's houses, a two-story building left over from the Marine Biological Research Base, and a pile of building materials and two wind power towers left by the Nanmu Group, there are no other man-made structures on the island.
The police helicopter circled over the scallop island twice and used an infrared detector to probe the island, but no living animals were found except for a few animals in the central woods.
The helicopter focused on the abandoned small building of the marine life research base and the fishermen's hut, as well as the two piles of building materials left by the Nanmu Group, and found no suspicious circumstances.
Knowing the general situation on the island and ruling out possible dangers on the surface, the helicopter informed the speedboat to land.
Three speedboats, through a large trench deep in the sand, landed on the beach.
Nan Zhiqiao, Ye Zhenzhen, the boat owner, and a dozen heavily armed SWAT officers walked from the beach, along the deserted path, to the fishermen's hut on the edge of the beach.
According to the plan of Nan Zhiqiao and the police, this trip to Scallop Island is mainly to find clues related to the Fire Snake Organization, if the members of the Fire Snake Organization can be found, they will be arrested, and if not, they will find out if there are traces left by the activities of the Fire Snake Organization on the island.
Judging from the information found by the comatose man and Liang Chen from the Nanmu Group, the Fire Snake Organization is inextricably linked to the Y City Coastal Islands, and Scallop Island is the largest island in the Coastal Islands, and it is also the most likely hiding place for the Fire Snake Organization.
Judging from the situation reported by the helicopter, there is no human activity on the island, and the Fire Snake organization either got the news in advance and left, or has completed the mission and evacuated on its own initiative.
After the heavily armed SWAT opened the way and ruled out the danger, Nan Zhiqiao, Ye Zhenzhen and the boat owner entered the fishermen's hut to check.
The dilapidated fisherman's hut had apparently not been visited for a long time, the rudimentary wooden roof had collapsed in half, and the old fishing nets, which had aged in the wind and sun, turned into powder and crumbs at the slightest touch.