Chapter 34: The Shadow Without a Trace (Part II)
"The medicine tree is like kapok, its liquid is white, and when it sees the wind, it is black, and the natives shoot the tiger with arrows, and the tiger jumps to death!"
Li Fan carefully looked at the rhizome of the rose in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "The root grafted at the root of this flower is called 'Seeing Blood and Sealing the Throat'!" ”
Seeing blood and sealing the throat is not a poison that only appears in martial arts, in real life, it is the name of a tree. This tree grows in the tropical rainforest, in our country only distributed in Hainan Island, Yunnan Xishuangbanna, southern Guangxi and western Guangdong, its biggest feature, is that the sap contains highly toxic, once in contact with the human blood, it will make people's muscles relax and the heart beat slow, blood clotting, at most 20 minutes will die.
The few sentences of classical Chinese that Li Fan memorized just now are the image descriptions made by a scholar named Qu Dajun in the early Qing Dynasty, in the book "Cantonese New Language", when he talked about his "seeing blood and sealing the throat" tree, it means that some local aborigines smeared the sap of the "seeing blood and sealing the throat" tree on the arrow, even if the tiger was hit by such a poisonous arrow, it could only jump up three times at most, and it would immediately die of poison!
Looking at the roses that had been carefully stored in a plastic bag, and then looking at the artificially grafted potted plant in his hand, Qiu Yue's face showed a thoughtful look: "If I guessed correctly, this 'blood seal throat' stem has been specially cultivated to double the strength of the poisonous surname, otherwise, just with such a small wound made by the thorn, it is impossible to kill Zhang Xiaowei in a few minutes." ”
Li Fan nodded lightly.
Even the Dragon King couldn't help but let out an exclamation: "What a chic weapon, such a domineering flower!" ”
Whether it was Li Fan, the Dragon King or Qiu Yue, they had all experienced the most brutal wars and had long been accustomed to life and death, so in the face of such a special weapon, they could still maintain a normal state of mind and communicate there, but Yun Xiaolan, who was standing beside them, only felt a chill all over her body.
It was only at this time that Yun Xiaolan really understood why the Ministry of State Security would directly send Li Fan and their group.
As a criminal police captain, Yun Xiaolan has been exposed to many criminal cases. However, these cases that have attracted great attention from the provincial leaders, the most vicious surnames are just some underworld horse boys, in order to seize the territory, they use five consecutive rounds of guns with sawed short barrels to carry out fire.
Now the target she is facing, regardless of who he or she is, can create such a weapon and successfully assassinate the target, which is enough to show that the enemy she needs to face in this case has greatly exceeded the limit that a criminal police captain can handle.
Li Fan's words were not finished at this time.
"Seeing the blood seal the throat of this tree, the surface is harmless, only its sap is highly poisonous. In other words, even if this pot of flowers is connected to the stem of the tree that "seals the throat when it sees blood", when the flowers are not in full bloom, as long as no one deliberately uses a knife to scratch the skin on the flower stem, the juice will not flow out, and it is non-toxic. There is no danger if a transport worker or a cocktail manager accidentally stabs his finger during handling. Therefore, such a pot of flowers can even be detected by instruments from under the noses of professional agents. ”
Speaking of this, Li Fan walked quickly to a corner of the exhibition hall and picked up an air pressure spray from the windowsill, "But when the flowers bloom and bloom with dazzling brilliance, in order to make them more delicate during the meeting, the staff will pick up this spray and water each pot of flowers before the meeting starts." The poison in the pollen will be mixed in the water droplets, and slowly flow down the flower stem, until the whole seemingly harmless rose becomes the most terrible murderous weapon. Frankly, the design of this weapon is intricately enough to be breathtaking, but in my opinion, the best thing about it is the booby trap that the designer created with absolute knowledge of people's surnames. ”
Yun Xiaolan said suspiciously: "Booby trap? ”
"No matter how powerful a weapon is, it must hit the target in order to be effective." Li Fan looked at Yun Xiaolan and said indifferently: "You don't think that the other party carefully made such a pot of flowers, just to want the blind cat to meet the dead mouse, or simply poison whoever is who?" ”
Yun Xiaolan couldn't help but stop.
Li Fan stretched out his hand and pointed to the guests who had to stay behind to assist in the investigation because of the murder case, so none of them left the scene of the reception, and until now they were still a little frightened, and said to Qiu Yue: "What do you think of these people?" ”
Yun Xiaolan replied: "Gentlemen and beauties of high society! ”
Li Fan pointed to Zhang Xiaowei who was lying on the ground again, and said to Yun Xiaolan: "What about him?" ”
"A standard hooligan ruffian who is anxious to wash off the copper smell of himself, so he always likes to pretend to be an upstart ......"
Suddenly, Yun Xiaolan's voice stopped, she tilted her head sideways, stared blankly at the empty flower pot, and after thinking for a minute or two, her hands began to tremble slightly.
There were more than 100 people at the reception, and in the face of this rose that was too delicate and smelly, of course everyone would praise it, and the girls' eyes would linger on it for a while. But most of the people who are qualified to participate in this kind of high-end drinking party are business and political elites, and everyone is Sven, and no one wants to reach out and pick this flower in front of everyone.
After all, there are so many people in the audience, and probably only Zhang Xiaowei, who is reckless, unscrupulous, and likes to use "flowers" to be unconventional, will stretch out his hand and pull it hard, and at the same time give away his own life with a big grin!
This is a nirvana weapon that seems to be placed there randomly, but it has been infused with too much wisdom and too much logical reasoning! The person who can design such a lethal weapon is a genius, a super genius!
"By the way, one more point!"
Li Fan had already said too much, so much that it made Yun Xiaolan's heart chill for a while, but this weapon that could successfully assassinate Zhang Xiaowei was infused with the wisdom of the "king".
"This rose can be grafted onto the stem of the 'Seeing Blood and Sealing the Throat', it is definitely not easy to find, and the other roses in the venue are ordinary roses that boys can buy for five dollars on the street and give to their girlfriends next to them. However, this pot of roses is a mixture of Damascus red roses and Moroccan roses from Bulgaria, and when they are in full bloom, the beauty of their bloom is absolutely outstanding, and they will exude a fragrance several times more fragrant than similar ones. Therefore, Zhang Xiaowei wants to pick the most beautiful rose and give it to the most beautiful girl on the scene, of course, it is the first choice! ”
"That's right!"
Qiu Yue, who had been carefully observing the rose, said: "The thorns on this rose are hidden enough, even if you look at it carefully in person, as long as you don't open the leaves, it's easy to ignore the past." Zhang Xiaowei was probably in a hurry to pick the rose and give it to a girl he had a crush on the spot, at that time, he had even begun to fantasize about the scene of turning clouds and rain in bed with the girl, and he was so anxious that he couldn't pay attention to it at all, let alone avoid the dark thorns that had been hidden by the flowers! ”
In the joint deliberation of Li Fan and Qiu Yue, the essence of this weapon finally fully surfaced. If assassination can also be hierarchical, its maker is the king of this field!
"Sister Yun, please come over for a while."
At this time, the voice of a criminal policeman suddenly came from the hall, Yun Xiaolan nodded to the few commissioners in front of her, who were young, but had already given her a shocking education lesson, and then walked to the direction of the source of the sound as quickly as possible.
She didn't want the three big boys to see the shock and even fear on their faces that they could no longer hide.
Seriously, Yun Xiaolan is not afraid of death, as a daughter, when she joined the criminal police team of the Public Security Bureau, she already had the consciousness of dying in the line of duty, so she can fight more ruthlessly than men. Now Yun Xiaolan is scared because she found that in the face of this target that has not surfaced so far, she, the captain of the criminal police, has no chance to fight to the death! If the other party wants to kill someone again, she doesn't know what she should do in order to let the protected target avoid the other party's assassination attack that integrates too much and too much creation and wisdom, and is as pervasive as mercury.
Li Fan knew what he had just said, which made Yun Xiaolan, a female criminal police captain who looked very arrogant, but in fact had the same soft side as an ordinary girl in her heart, she was injured. However, he had to let Yun Xiaolan know what kind of enemy he was about to face. Knowing the difference in each other's strength, even if she can't bring the other party to justice, at least, she has a chance to survive.
Seeing Yun Xiaolan walking quickly into the crowd, the Dragon King finally spoke.
"Li Fan, Qiu Yue, have you noticed that this deadly trap with roses as a weapon is very familiar with the tactics and techniques incorporated into it?"
Li Fan and Qiu Yue nodded together. When Fengyinglou was only a fifteen-year-old child, he used the scarecrow and Chen to hike and design one deadly trap after another. Although the wisdom and means incorporated into this pot of roses are more mature, in essence, the two are the same.
"Li Fan, among the three of us, you are the only one who has studied with the psychological tutor of the Wind Shadow Building for a year." Qiu Yue also spoke, "Can you tell me what the 'ghost thorn' training that Fengying Building has received is?" ”
"I also asked my mentor this question, and she never answered me. But half a year ago, maybe by chance, maybe the teacher deliberately reminded me, in short, what she said seemingly unintentionally made me remember. ”
Qiu Yue and the Dragon King both straightened their ears, and as they listened intently, Li Fan said word by word: "The best assassin can have the bravery and good fighting of a soldier, but when he assassinates a target, his favorite weapon must not be a gun!" ”
(To be continued)