Hu Donghai is dead.

The veteran scientific director of Cassini Station was found dead on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, with a hideous face and a twisted posture, holding the black ball tightly in his arms.

The person who found the deceased was Liang Jing, he came to the laboratory early in the morning to do a routine check, and when he entered the door, he found Director Hu curled up in the corner of the wall - the head as bright as a light bulb could be seen from a long distance, Hu Donghai had his back to him, his head resting on the wall and did not move, Liang Jing was a little surprised, was he too drunk and fell here? After calling twice and not responding, he stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder.

With a "bell", Liang Jing saw that the black ball fell out from under Hu Donghai's body, and rolled away.

The next sight he saw frightened him, the director's body slowly tilted over, his limbs curled up, cold and stiff, his eyes widened, his eyes were dilated, he tried his best to open his mouth wide, there were still remnants of saliva at the corners of his mouth, Hu Donghai's expression was extremely distorted—Liang Jing didn't know whether it was horror or surprise, he didn't know whether he was screaming or laughing, he seemed to be drowning and suffocating in pain in water, and he seemed to have ascended to bliss with joy.

Liang Jing was frightened and stumbled to find someone else, his hoarse voice breaking the silence of Cassini Station on a New Year's morning.

"Confirmed dead?"

"Confirmed death." Wan Kai withdrew his finger from Hu Donghai's carotid artery and sighed, "It's been a while, it should be that the person disappeared last night." ”

Jiang Zi, Lou Qi and Liang Jing squatted around the perimeter, and Mo Yu stood outside the door of the laboratory, covering Ya Xiang's eyes.

Everyone was silent, and Dabai didn't squeak, not only because of Hu Donghai's terrifying death, they were all ordinary scientific research workers, not police or forensic doctors, and they were inevitably at a loss when they encountered this kind of thing.

After Liang Jing discovered the abnormality, the first person to arrive at the scene was Jiang Zi, followed by Lou Qi, the two were eating breakfast in the hall, while planning how to repair the communication system, they rushed down when they heard the movement, and Wan Kai was preparing today's recipe in the kitchen, so a little slower, Mo Yu hadn't gotten up at the time, she was woken up by Dabai, she woke up the cliff incense in her arms, and went downstairs with a cloak.

Wan Kai is a part-time physician in Cassini Station, and his job is to assist Dabai in diagnosing the health status of the stationed personnel, in fact, it is Dabai who really works, he only needs to look at Dabai's diagnosis results and nod his head, in this era, the medical diagnosis results of artificial intelligence are more accurate than humans.

Speaking of which, he is just a fish doctor, not a forensic doctor, and has never done an autopsy, Wan Kai has not had time to explain to everyone that his profession is to see the living and not the dead, Jiang Zi pushed him forward, no way, even if he is a veterinarian, he can only bite the bullet when he encounters this situation.

"No scars, no blood, no signs of external force." "It wasn't him, but it's unlikely to be a suicide." ”

This is nonsense, there are only seven people in Cassini station, if he kills him, is the murderer from outside the station?

Suicide can actually be ruled out, there are no tools that can be used to commit suicide in the P3 laboratory, Hu Donghai's death is strange but there are no scars, Wan Kai has checked that there is no trace of taking chemical agents, the toxic chemical reagents in Cassini Station are limited, and most of them are more than one or two catties, you have to blow on the bottle to poison yourself, unless Hu Donghai can hold his breath and commit suicide, but then he is not a human being.

"Jiangzi?" Liang Jing turned his head to look at Jiang Zi.

Jiang Zi waved his hand, squatting on the side and looking at Hu Donghai's corpse, he was also stunned, a good person, how could he say that it was gone? Didn't we drink together last night?

"Does Lao Hu have heart disease? Or do you have any history of allergies? Jiang Zi's first reaction was a heart attack.

"No, the director's body has always been very healthy, no abnormalities were found during the physical examination, and he rarely even has a cold." Lou Qi shook his head, "Dabai, right?" ”

"Yes." Dabai replied, "The director's health has always been good, and he has no history of heart disease or allergies. ”

Jiang Zi grabbed his hair anxiously, he was the stationmaster, and he was the first person to rely on when it came to emergencies, but he himself was all six gods.

Cassini station emergency plan is not such a one, find that their own scientific research director died in the laboratory for some reason, the first thing to do in this situation should be to dial 120 and 110, but the nearest police station from them is 1.3 billion kilometers away, this distance is not within the reach of the gods, and they can't call the Chaoyang District Police Station.

Jiang Zi looked around, the people around him were still waiting for his instructions, and Mo Yu hid in the corridor outside the laboratory with Yaxiang and didn't dare to enter the door.

"When I came in, the director was holding the ball, and I didn't know what I wanted to do." Liang Jing put on his gloves and gently pinched up the black ball on the floor, and after careful examination, the surface of the black ball was as smooth as ever, without the slightest scratch, "The director came here in the middle of the night just for this ball?" ”

At this time, everyone found out that the black ball had been taken out, the glove box was opened, and the director's death attracted everyone's attention, so that no one noticed the black ball, Liang Jingyi reminded them that they immediately realized the relationship between the black ball and this matter, Hu Donghai's hands still maintained the posture of holding the ball - this behavior is undoubtedly extremely strange, Hu Donghai himself violated all the rules of the laboratory, and secretly entered the P3 laboratory in the middle of the night to take out the black ball.

This kind of behavior itself is unreasonable, and everyone can't understand it, Hu Donghai is the director of scientific research, when will he come to see this ball? Why do you have to wait until the dead of night?

And he knew very well that touching the experimental sample with his bare hands was to pollute and destroy the sample, and the black ball was such a precious object of observation, how could Hu Donghai destroy it?

No one knows what Hu Donghai is thinking.

"Is there anything unusual about that ball?" Jiang Zi asked.

"Nope." Liang Jing put the black ball back into the glove box, closed the valve, and isolated it, he subconsciously stayed away from this weird black ball, Hu Donghai hugged it tightly when he died, there is no doubt that it has a direct connection with the death of the director.

Jiang Zi closed Hu Donghai's eyes, then pulled up the plastic sheet to cover him, there was also a girl present, this horrific death may frighten people.

"Don't touch it again, stay away from that."

Jiang Zi was still in shock, Cassini Station had not had a death for a long time, and they always moved out the eighteen martyrs who died in the line of duty when they were scaring the newcomers, but it was an accident caused by the harsh natural environment, no different from an earthquake and a mudslide, and no one had ever lost their lives in Cassini Station.

The director is his old friend, Hu Donghai is steady and unsmiling, but looking at his distorted expression before he died, Jiang Zi was secretly frightened.

What did Lao Hu see?

Jiang Zi slowly stretched out his hand and held Hu Donghai's thin and cold hands, which were still strong and warm just yesterday.