Chapter 22: Undercurrents (Part I)

The night passed.

This night, Zhongheng not only did not lose sleep, but slept soundly and deeply. In the dream, he dreamed that he had become a chivalrous man in white clothes fluttering, holding a sword to the end of the world, chivalrous and righteous in the happiness and enmity of the rivers and lakes, again and again, "brushing" the ground flashed, leaving only a stiff and collapsed corpse.

What a "kill one person in ten steps, don't stay for a thousand miles"!

As the saying goes, a wave of unsettled waves rose again and again, and the next day, Zhongheng got up early, and he was busy again after finally being free.

A new three-step plan has been released.

First of all, in order to prevent the gangsters from attacking again, Ultimate's strength needs to be improved to deal with the threats that may be encountered. He understands that this time the control of a large swarm of poisonous bees to sting five or six people to death is completely based on the luck of the other party's unpreparedness, in case the other party is prepared, wearing bee-proof clothing, and coming to the door with insecticides, not to mention hundreds of golden-ringed wasps, even tens of thousands are in vain.

Since no matter how much the insect control module is upgraded, it is impossible to bring about qualitative changes in a short period of time, so the final balance needs to unlock a new module, and he has a 100,000-point attribute enhancement module that can improve his combat effectiveness.

The final balance marked several of the evolutionary fragments on the map that were in the wild, especially huge, each with more than 10,000 points of evolutionary fragments, and prepared to find them in a few days. At the same time, the remaining post-500 paving ant colonies were also sown by him, and continued to accumulate a lot of search operations.

Of course, secondly, during this period, the work of making money cannot be stopped, and when Zhong Heng goes to find evolutionary fragments every day, he carries insect trapping tools, and occasionally catches some yellow ants or other insects that can be sold for money as a source of income.

Finally, there is the problem of the back road. In this unfamiliar Y county, it is not easy to find a backup shelter, the reason that the strong dragon can't suppress the head snake is still understood, and he knows that with the other party's connections, as long as he doesn't leave here, he will be found sooner or later.

If it had been left a few days ago, there would really be no way for the final balance, but now, after meeting Zhao Cheng, a stupid boy, all the problems are solved:

Through contact, Zhong Heng tactfully lied and told Zhao Cheng that he had lost a lot of money in his business this month, and he might not be able to pay next month's rent, or he might need to go to Zhao Cheng to live there for a while in the future.

Zhao Cheng, a fool, naturally readily agreed, and excitedly said that he would be able to eat and live with other evolutionaries and learn a lot of things.

The week passed quickly. During this period, everything is as usual, and every day is still dull to go in and out and greet the neighbors, talk and laugh. The gangsters did not come to the door again, although there was a big news on the Internet - the headlines of major news websites appeared the next day that "the demolition personnel in Y County accidentally stabbed the hornet's nest during the forced demolition process, and were stung to 6 deaths and 1 injury", but it came and went quickly, in addition to causing countless people to scold in the comment area "Sting well, retribution", there was no repercussion after three or five days, and no one led things in a direction other than common sense.

After all, no matter how much a journalist writes nonsense, he must consider the IQ of the masses, and if anyone dares to write such a surreal thing as "the hornet is controlled by others" without evidence, it is estimated that there is no need for work.

However, in the dark places that Zhongheng can't see, it is not as calm as it seems.

……

Headquarters of the Public Security Bureau of Y County.

"The autopsy results have come out, and they are all bee venom overdose that caused cerebral nervous system failure and death." At the long conference table, a forensic doctor stood up and passed a stack of materials to everyone in the meeting.

Everyone got the materials, and after flipping through them again, the leader who sat at the end of the long table, whose badge was obviously different from the other police officers present, cleared his throat and said, "Let's take turns to say what you think about this matter." Xiao Wang, you are the forensic doctor who presided over the autopsy, you say it first. ”

"Yes, Ning Ju." Xiao Wang, the forensic doctor who had just delivered the materials, said, "I think that in terms of the cause of death, this matter is too strange. ”

"I've had a case of being stung to death by a wasp before, and it was an accident caused by a beekeeper accidentally breaking a hive. On that occasion, I also consulted the files of similar incidents in the past, all of which were accidents, and although the cause of death was also an overdose of bee venom, it was liver failure, kidney failure or cardiac arrest caused by neurotoxin stimulation. But this time it's ......"

A slide was played, on which were 6 bodies that had long been swollen and blackened, with no facial features covered by swollen muscles around them to become "faceless people", and there were nearly 100 festering black spots with pinholes condensed with pus all over the body, almost becoming the corpses of thousand-year-old rice dumplings in the tomb robbery notes.

The medical examiner stepped forward, switched the picture to a close-up of the face, and pointed his whip around the disgusting eyes that were already swollen like bulging goldfish eye bubbles and said, "Look, something is wrong here." Nearly half of the stings on each corpse were distributed around the eyes, and each corpse had three to ten stings per eyeball. We all know that the eye is the exposed part of the brain, and behind the eyeball is the fragile cranial nerves. It was the eyeballs, as well as the temples, and other vital parts that were stung so much, that caused the deceased to be stimulated by severe pain within a few minutes and fall unconscious, and within hours died as the venom invaded the brain. ”

"That's the weirdness. In the past, wasps hurt people, usually on the back or hands, although there are also heads, but rarely, even if there are, most of them are the forehead, the back of the head or the face, and they will not sting so often on the vital parts around the eyes. And, let's not talk about what makes these simple-minded insects identify the vital parts of people and launch lethal attacks so frequently, but what is even more strange is still to come. ”

The camera angle zoomed down, and there were still more than a dozen pieces of pinching people directly pinching the skin and tearing it off, leaving traces of scarlet flesh underneath, surrounded by some black crumbs like breadcrumbs.

"The mouths and noses of these deceased people have been damaged to varying degrees, and it has been determined that they were caused by wasp bites, and these black debris are wasp droppings." Speaking of this, the forensic doctor known as Xiao Wang couldn't help but shudder, "Ning Ju, with all due respect, don't say that I have watched too many science fiction movies." I think that these hornets are intelligent, and they will not only attack people's vital points to death in groups, but also gnaw on people's corpses, which is a naked provocation to declare war on us as a human race. Although scientific research shows that the feeding habits of wasps have a certain scavenging ability, it is probably the first time in the world that they still have a symbolic face to gnaw on the corpses of dead people. ”

This remark caused everyone to laugh.

Director Ning, who was sitting at the end of the long table, took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Very good, Xiao Wang, your opinion is very valuable for reference, and I will reflect it to the above." Who else has a different opinion? ”

"I have." Another officer volunteered to stand up, this was a thin middle-aged officer, short stature, dark skin draped over the narrow skeleton made him look a little obscene, but a pair of small squinting eyes permeated with a deep hidden sharpness.

"Liu Suo, you say."

"It's technically impossible, but I think these hornets are manipulated by people to attack, otherwise how would they know to attack people's temples and other vital points, and they will also gnaw on corpses, which is obviously destroying evidence."

The calm and cold words made the entire conference room explode instantly, but it was instantly suppressed under the cough of Director Ning.

"Okay, let's think like what you said, do you have any evidence?" Ning Ju asked.

"Nope." The skinny officer said helplessly.

"So, is it technically possible to do so?" The director then asked.

"We specially consulted Professor Wu from Huanong, as well as several entomology experts and forensic experts in the province, and the answer we got was yes, but it was almost impossible." A well-looking female police officer in her 30s stood up and said.

"Oh, tell me."

"Professor Wu told us that when a hornet stings, it releases a pheromone that, if smelled by other wasps, will desperately sting at where it is. It is possible to achieve this result if the pheromones are left around the corners of the human eye and then a large hornet is released. The female police officer said, "However, not to mention that this kind of pheromone is impossible to be artificially created at present, even if it can, who can quietly smear it on the corners of the eyes of several people?" ”

Director Ning: "Is it feasible to directly control wasp stings?" ”

Female police officer: "It's basically not feasible, and the current research on insects in countries around the world shows that most insects rely on unique pheromones to communicate. Current experiments in this area have shown that humans can only disrupt their senses by mixing in other pheromones in their communication to make them go crazy or sluggish, or by using specific pheromones, such as food or hormones emitted during mating, to guide them to a certain place, and there is no way to achieve such a complex command as killing. ”

"Yes." Another male police officer in his 30s followed: "Experts in the province told us that the U.S. military has studied these things, but they have all failed. He told us that the Americans once tried to create a mechanical bee and let it go into the hive and the like to spread the aggressive pheromones that drove the bees into a frenzy, to see if they could indirectly control the colony to carry out the killing command, and the result was that because the artificial inability to imitate the unique identity of each hive, the pheromones that were similar to the identification of each bee caused the other bees to not recognize the visitor at all, and simply tore it apart as an alien. ”

"And even when the bees go into a frenzy, they will only attack indiscriminately, including their own companions, rather than attacking specific targets in such an orderly manner." The male police officer switched to the slide again, and a photo of Chen Zhixun appeared on it: "These technical issues are not within our scope of competence at all, and I think we should start with the surrounding relationships of the people in this case." ”

"Officer Luo, tell me about the results of your visit."