Taipei Police Station, video conference room.

The staff is debugging the video call equipment, led by the deputy director in charge of crime, and the relevant people of the police station are sitting opposite.

In this era when mobile phones have just begun to come out, this video conference room is relatively ahead.

Half a year ago, Taipei's government reform required all units to streamline the number of meetings, simplify the approval process, and vigorously promote paperless office. The Taipei Police Department bore the brunt of the problem and spent a lot of money to buy a set of video equipment, but to this day, except for a few trials during installation, it has never been turned on since.

Just kidding, how to applaud the leader in the video conference, how to make the superior feel his full of enthusiasm and fighting spirit.

Therefore, if you take too big a step in reform, it is easy to talk nonsense.

Today, when I heard that it was rare to connect with the United States, everyone who had a little bit of a connection with this case wanted to come over and join in the fun and feel the new experience brought by technology.

Fortunately, everyone still remembered the purpose of the connection, and let Kevin Wright, Li Bowen and Huang Huotu and other main undertakers sit in the first row.

I saw a flash of picture on the big TV screen, and three Americans in shirts appeared on the opposite side.

Sitting in the middle is an FBI agent who is also the head of its American association with Taiwan. He was obviously taken aback by the black oppression of people in Taipei, and after briefly introducing himself and the other two Miami CSI researchers, he paused and waited for what Taipei meant.

But although there are many people here, including the deputy director, their English is not good, and no one speaks for a while.

Li Bowen was shrewd, and after seeing the cold scene, he quickly glanced in the direction of the deputy director, and then leaned over to Huang Huotu and said, "Let the Yankees start quickly, they are all waiting to hear the case." ”

Only then did Huang Huotu react and prompted the other party to introduce the test results of microbacteria first.

"The samples you sent, we have tested and there are many uncertain points, now let's start with the certain part." The person in charge on the other side looked at the information in his hand and said slowly, "First of all, this black component in the victim's brain is not just a microscopic bacterium, but a mixture of some fungus and an insect, let's call it an insectival fungus. ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand to signal to the staff behind him, switching the frame to a close-up photograph under a microscope.

On the screen, some enlarged yellow worms appeared, with no eyes, a fat belly and four pairs of limbs, covered in fluff, looking like some alien monster from a science fiction movie.

"We have never seen this variety, so we can only judge it as a type of dust mites, and the fungus is attached to the dust mites."

Kevin Wright frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Are you saying that these mites entered the victim's brain with the fungus?" ”

The person in charge of the other party replied affirmatively: "Yes, after testing, this dust mite will consciously seek out a warm animal body as a host, especially in a confined space with cold air. This is also why the murderer would shoot a steel shot into the air conditioner, which is simply genius. Dust mites are dispersed by the cold wind, then enter the body through the nose, and finally implant in the warm brain, and the victim does not feel anything. ”

"Can the exact cause of death be determined?" Huang Huotu interjected.

A researcher on the other side took the microphone and explained: "It's hard to say the cause of death, but we found that animals that have been invaded by this paraphytic fungus can detect high concentrations of serotonin and dopamine in their blood in a short period of time." ”

"Dopamine?"

"Dopamine is an animal brain secretion, which is mainly responsible for the brain's lust, feelings, and transmission of excitement and happiness, which is also related to addiction. To put it simply, it has the same effect as morphine. ”

"How high? Is it toxic? Kevin Wright then asked.

"Generally speaking, it is not toxic, on the contrary, dopamine is usually beneficial to the human body." The researcher was also a little skeptical about the test data, and said hesitantly, "However, according to our tests, this paraphytic fungus can make the dopamine concentration in animals reach 5,000 times the normal value." Such a high concentration is equivalent to smoking a ton of cocaine or orgasmic for forty years in a row. ”

When the people in the back row heard the translation of this passage, there was an uproar, all kinds of ridicule and discussion.

"It's really fun to die like this." Li Bowen also sighed in a low voice.

Kevin Wright was stunned for a moment before he continued, "You mean dopamine makes the victim feel like they've drowned in ice water or burned by fire?" ”

"All I can say is that it's like the effect of drugs on the brain, it's possible to hallucinate." The person in charge took over the conversation again, shook his head and said.

"Then why are their hallucinations different and so directive?" Huang Huotu remembered the five hells mentioned by Academician Sheng Zuchang, "Could it be that the murderer can control their hallucinations?" ”

The three people on the American side looked at each other and smiled bitterly and said: "We have no conclusion on this issue, which is beyond the scope of our research." ”

……

Just when everyone was connecting to the United States, Qi Zihuan was burying his head in front of the table and flipping through the documents. In his hand is a thick stack of leasing materials for all commercial office buildings in Taipei that have just been retrieved.

He was informed of the meeting.

But after counting the seats and the number of people in the bureau office, he was told that he was only a trainee police officer and was not qualified to participate in such a high-level transnational conference.

He had no objection, and began to look for the specific address of the True Immortal Temple with his vague impression of the movie when he was alone.

It took a long time to find it, the Central Building, the thirty-third floor, the tenants were Lin Daosheng and Huang Yifeng.

According to the information of the police department, they are all doctors of mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and after returning to Taipei, they founded a high-precision instrument company, and after making a lot of money, they sold the company for two billion yuan, rented an entire floor in the Central Building, and there was no movement after that.

Qi Zihuan put down the archives, stood up, shook his neck and twisted his waist, thought about it and walked to Huang Huotu's office.

He had to take a day off from work with his new partners.

Qi Zihuan slowly walked over, only to find a little girl writing homework on the window of the corridor near the yellow fire clay office.

"Ha, Meimei, which homework are you writing?" Qi Zihuan seemed to forget the last time he hit the wall in the hospital, and greeted the girl warmly.

The girl with the double ponytail looked up at the strange uncle and ignored him.

Qi Zihuan stood on the side of the corridor of the window, leaned over and said with a smile: "Uncle will give you a magic trick?" ”

Meimei still bowed her head and wrote her homework.

Qi Zihuan was not discouraged, he reached out to the back of Meimei's head, and was about to shout "change"!

Suddenly, he felt a murderous aura approaching him, and quickly turned around.

A woman in a black dress was standing behind him, her eyes flashing with wariness.

Qi Zihuan panicked and hurriedly explained.

"Ah, sister-in-law, I'm not a pervert."