According to Tang Yuan and Hyde's research, the internal structure of these two kitchen knives has undergone earth-shaking changes for unknown reasons, and they have grown an organ structure similar to that of insects, deer, horses, and flies.

Hyde adds, "However, it's important to note that it's a microstructure – it takes a special instrument to distinguish it. If you cut those two kitchen knives directly, you won't see anything unusual with the naked eye. ”

Shen Tang Zhizhi: "The two of them also gave this metal machine that has undergone mutation a name, what is it called?" ”

"How about calling it 'Activation Machine'? I came up with a name. Tang Yuan looked quite proud.

"It's good if you're happy."

I took out Kirishima's mutant sunglasses and placed them on the workbench, "So, what about this?" ”

"This ...... What is it? Tang Yuan brushed away his bangs with both hands and took a closer look, "Consultant Ji, when did you become obsessed with figurines?" Heck, is this the Ex Crucifera merchandise? I didn't remember that there was a character in it. It looks quite delicate, but it's damaged, but it's a pity ......"

"What figurine? It's the same thing as those two kitchen knives - what you call an 'activating machine'. ”

"What?!"

At this time, several people were taken aback, and looked at the "sunglasses" on the workbench again, and their eyes were different.

Tang Yuan gently lifted the abnormal sunglasses under the lamp on the table, and turned on the lamp with a "click": "The original shape is indeed sunglasses, right?" ”

I replied, "Genuine." ”

Shen Tangzhi asked, "You saw this pair of sunglasses happen like this...... Variational? Like Transformers? ”

"See it with your own eyes."

Hyde frowned: "You made it like this?" ”

"Wronged a good man. I saved it, to be exact, though not alive. ”

Shen Tangzhi frowned and said, "You said 'alive'? Does it really move? ”

"It used to be - not only would it move, but it also caused a lot of riots, almost causing a **."

I will tell a few of them about what happened in the second printing house in Jinguan City.

Before I could finish speaking, Hyde and Tang Yuan already had excited expressions on their faces, and as soon as I finished speaking, they scrambled to ask me for details.

"What is its mode of action? How to move? Can you still jump? …… It's amazing. This is the limb and the pincer...... Could it be that its bionic prototype is a crab? ”

Tang Yuan and Hyde agree in that they have constructed the initial species model of the so-called "activated metal", believing that this "activated metal" is a biomimetic mutation based on an existing organism in nature.

For example, the two kitchen knives, they thought that when the mutation occurred, there must have been at least one deer, horse and fly flying nearby......

The pair of sunglasses I am bringing with me is undoubtedly a more complete specimen of activation, and after getting the permission of Shen Tangzhi and me, the two of them can't wait to take the sunglasses away and go to another laboratory for further testing and research.

Shen Tangzhi took me to the small water bar inside the laboratory: "What to drink?" ”

"Iced coffee bar."

Shen Tang smiled: "It's the same as me." ”

Soon, a cup of iced coffee was delivered to me.

I gave it a taste and praised: "It's very fragrant, Section Chief Shen's skills are good." ”

"Your compliment is too distracting." , Shen Tangzhi said with a smile, "This is obviously made of a freshly ground coffee machine, and it doesn't need to be operated at all, so how can you say that the craftsmanship is good?" ”

I laughed awkwardly, "At least I just need to press a button." ”

"After going out with the little beauty for a day, I learned to flamboy."

"Uh-"

I almost squirted out a mouthful of coffee.

"Let's talk about it, in addition to falling in love, what else did you find out on this day?" Shen Tangzhi looked at me with a smile, and his eyes made me a little hairy.

"Ahem!" I coughed twice and said solemnly: "Speaking of which, we went around Jinguan City in a big circle today, and we did find a lot of useful clues......

I started with the children suffering from various phobias in the Hongxing Farm Social Welfare Institute on the edge of Jinji Lake in the south of the city, and the strange dreams that happened there, all the way to the discovery of He A's family, and finally the investigation in the second printing house in Jinguan City, and recounted the discovery of the day in one breath.

This kind of review of the investigation process is actually very useful, usually I find a quiet place by myself and go through it silently in my mind - it is very helpful to organize the information, and maybe even find some details that have been overlooked in the course of the investigation.

Of course, if there is one person to discuss together, it will get twice the result with half the effort.

After listening to this, Shen Tangzhi pondered a little, and summed up several clues with me.

One clue: Strange dreams about machines seem to be happening all over the city, not just in orphanages.

Clue 2: All cases that caused injuries were related to the activation of machinery.

Clue 3: Everything is inextricably linked to the "Phantom of the Machine" exhibition that will open at the Jinguancheng Science Museum.

At the same time, there are several questions, such as the standard by which those strange dreams related to machinery are transmitted, how the activation machinery is generated, and the ultimate reason behind all this.

"People who can dream of seeing giant machines are people with all kinds of phobias, but when you come into contact with dreams, this rule seems to change - not only do you enter the dream with them, but you are the only one who sees the face of the mysterious person who saved you...... This was originally the biggest problem of all, but because it was you, it wasn't a problem. ”

"Why?"

"What do you say?" Shen Tangzhi looked at me and smiled, "Detective Jida, you have the mark of the Lilong clan on your back, and you wear the blood ring parasitic on your finger that is parasitic on a big water monster, and your body has changed because of this—do you still think you are an ordinary human now?" ”

"Isn't it because I have a special physique that I have encountered so many strange experiences?"

"Perhaps." Shen Tangzhi put down the coffee cup, "I have to attend a dinner party later, and the city government will take the lead in entertaining those British surgical experts, and I must be there." So, let's meet tomorrow at the Science Museum. ”

After I left the Chengnan Police Bureau and returned to my grocery store, I received calls from Cheng Cheng and Li Lifeng.

The two cases that I solved "by the way" have come to an end.

The first is the "Wang Huilun schizophrenia case".

It turned out that a month before the incident, Wang Huilun won a 5 million six and a lottery, she and her husband He A and two people together, decided to hide the jackpot, the two of them planned to keep a low profile to the end, except for their husband and wife, no one knew about their winning.

Both of them took a two-month long vacation, traveled to other places (for the sake of low profile, they didn't shop much), and then indulged themselves (that is, they didn't cook), these two extremely picky guys, after winning the jackpot, life didn't even change much.

But He Ayi slowly had other ideas: they have been married for fifteen years, they have no children, and the fair girl of the year has become a yellow-faced woman, so He Ayi had the idea of divorce.

At this time, Wang Huilun suddenly began to have nightmares, and his mental state became unstable - He Ayi suddenly thought of the evil idea of sending his wife to a psychiatric hospital and then monopolizing the family property himself.

So, He Ayi bought off the doctor and finally succeeded in getting his wife into the Castle Peak Psychiatric Sanatorium......

As the saying goes, sake is red, white wealth is moving, and the ancients are honest and do not deceive me.

The second case is not the "Death of a Worker in the Second Printing Plant," but another case related to it -- the "Hu Tianheng Corruption Case."

My speculation was correct, Hu Tianheng did hide a very important piece of information from me, and he had a stake in it - the prepress consolidator was not at all "imported from Germany" as he claimed, but second-hand Xibei goods.

In order to hide from the world, Hu Tianheng spent a lot of money to get a real customs certificate, but this batch of equipment was actually a second-hand machine after the closure of a large state-owned printing factory in the north.

Of course, Hu Tianheng also spent a lot of money to buy off the inspector and help him deceive his superiors together.

deceived and deceived like this, and no one found out for more than a year.

Naturally, the public funds for the purchase of "imported from Germany" machines were embezzled by Hu Tianheng's clique, and the amount reached 20 million.

This is not big or small, but at this delicate moment, it can temporarily divert people's attention from the "worker death case" and buy time for the police to solve the case.

Li Lifeng sincerely thanked me on the phone, and I began to get to know him a little bit - he is the kind of traditional official who attaches great importance to official authority, and he seems rigid and harsh in front of people, but in private, it is not impossible to get along.

The next day, I arrived at the Jinguan City Science Museum an hour earlier than the agreed time.

The reason for arriving early was that I found out before going to bed last night that Dr. Wang Nuo of the Jinguancheng Academy of Sciences, the organizer of the "Phantom of the Machines" exhibition, would be present at the Science Museum and give a lecture in the small hall just before the exhibition began.

I would like to meet Dr. Wang Nuo, and if not, I would like to hear from him.

To my surprise, I met Shen Tangzhi and Kirishima in the square at the main entrance of the Science Museum.

Shen Tangzhi wore a milky white chiffon shirt, the left chest of the shirt was densely embroidered with a peony flower with silver thread, and the lower body was a hip skirt with a black bottom and white vertical stripes, the skirt was split at the knee by an inch, and the round snow-white thighs loomed between the movements, the black Roman sandals tied on the feet, and the long hair was pulled into the shape of a ball head on the head.

The overall shape has mature beauty, but also a touch of heroism and slight playfulness, like a princess who is in casual clothes but has a temperament that is difficult to hide.

Kirishima was wearing a white puff-sleeved shirt, a layered rococo-style gauze dress, long bright red hair coiled on top of her head, and a decorative bowler hat, looking cute and gorgeous like a noble lady in a Western European country.

"Why are you so early?" I was amazed.

"Mr. Yoshimitsu!" Kirishima first jumped up and waved at me to say hello, then glanced at Shen Tangzhi, flattened his mouth and said, "Lost again!" Why do you lose to Shen Jiang every time? ”

I wondered, "What's going on?" ”

Shen Tangzhi chuckled: "Xiao Xun made a bet with me just now, she said that you will definitely arrive on time, but I think you will definitely arrive at the same time as us, and you will almost meet you in the square." ”

Kirishima continued: "Yes, yes, so, as soon as we got out of the car, we started looking for you in the square, but I didn't expect to find it all at once...... Alas, every time I bet with Shen Jiang, I lose, and I haven't won once, so angry! ”

"I don't know anything else, but today's bet is because you don't have as much information as Section Chief Shen, so you will lose the bet." I said, "Presumably Section Chief Shen already knows about the speech, right?" ”

Shen Tangzhi smiled and nodded.

"What speech? Why do you talk like a dumb riddle, I don't understand it at all......" Kirishima was even more confused.

Shen Tangzhi and I looked at each other and smiled, and I said, "Let's go in first, it's almost time-Miss Kirishima, don't worry, you'll know it all in a while." ”

The Geumguan City Science Museum is a neoclassical Chinese-style building that resembles a giant seal and is located in the center of the city, not far from the city hall building and the huge civic park.

The front square of the Science Museum is a semi-circular structure, and the edge of the arc is actually a road, and at this time, taxis stop and walk here from time to time, and they are cluttered with well-dressed citizens, who seem to have come to visit the exhibition.

"So many people?" I was amazed at the number of participants.

Shen Tang said: "People like you who don't watch TV and only read newspapers, don't you realize that you are behind the times? The exhibition of the "Phantom of the Machine", because of the previous several strange cases - especially the death of a worker in the second printing plant, caused a lot of news media coverage, and the good people associated it with this exhibition, and there are indeed quite a lot of citizens in the city who have had strange dreams about machinery during this time, resulting in the most heated topic in the streets and alleys of the city, which is the "Phantom of the Machine" exhibition. ”

In the middle of the square, we saw street performers, vendors selling small gifts, exhibiting goods, and even setting up a makeshift children's playground decorated with bouncy castles, so that there was even a festive atmosphere here.

Behind this ever-changing crowd are stone steps leading to the entrance to the museum, but I noticed that there was a group of people here who were not very coordinated.

A man in a suit and leather shoes with his feet spread apart and standing on two chairs is holding a microphone and shouting at the people around him.

In front of this man, several people with serious faces pulled red banners with the words "Research intelligent AI, the future of mankind will be destroyed", a line of dazzling red slogans.