Chapter 16: "The Casino"

Malov's speech didn't last long, and the master described in very simple language how to prepare a few demonstrative poisons, and at the end suggested some ways to crack them, hoping that some of them would soon devote themselves to the research on the cracking of this new method. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the speech, Northen took the stage to see off Malouf and announced to the audience that the next 10 minutes would be a break. Some of the audience immediately flocked to Master Marloff, asking some doubts about the speech just now.

Colin looked at the scholars he was asking, and as he expected, there were also toxicologists who Northon considered "not like scholars" in terms of dress.

Just then, Northen also walked over to Colin.

"You see," Colin said, gesturing to the crowd, "the way of being dressed doesn't hinder curiosity much. ”

Northon looked in the direction Colin was pointing, smiled wryly, and sighed, "I hope so." ”

Northon paused, then added, "Oh, yes. Master Colin get ready, it's time for you to take the stage next. ”

"Then I'll reproduce the experimental process and ideas of poison cracking. It is not known if Master Northon kept samples from the day. ”

"You don't have to worry about that, I've got you covered. ”

"That's great, I'll get dressed and I'll go up. ”

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At the end of the ten-minute break, Northen appeared on the podium again, "Colleagues, among the guests here today is a young and talented traveling scholar. Today he will reproduce and summarize for you a classicism hack that he just completed today. ”

"Oh!" said Norsen, "Classicism cracked," and the audience in the audience let out a surprised voice.

Colin straightened out his traveling scholar's outfit and stepped onto the podium, and the two handymen moved the lab bench to the center of the podium.

Colin stood behind the podium and began to speak: "Dear toxicologists, I am Colin the traveling scholar. Today I was lucky enough to crack a poison that I hadn't seen before, and I'm going to recreate the process and give you some thoughts in a short time, thank you for listening. With that, Colin bowed.

Walking to the bench, Colin put on his gloves and picked up the black lump taken from the intestines of the previous corpse and held it high to show the audience.

"This is the new poison that I discovered with Master Northam today. As he spoke, Colin slammed the black lump into the table.

The lumps collided with the tabletop, making a heavy, muffled sound.

"Actually, this is not the original state of the poison, we speculate that the poison is a water-soluble substance, its solution is colorless and odorless, and the shape is similar to that of ordinary water. This clumping is a poison coagulated by the reaction between this poison and the intestinal chyme after encountering intestinal fluid-chyme polymer. ”

It then took Colin ten minutes to reproduce the previous cracking process and elaborate on some other possibilities.

Finally, after Colin placed the cracked frozen object in a porcelain plate, he bowed deeply and ended his speech.

"Masters can come forward to take a look at this sample, and I hope that the masters can study the specific ingredients of this poison as soon as possible, so that they can take precautions. Colin invited the attendees to the stage.

Northon then stepped up to the podium and announced that the audience would have to rest for the next ten minutes.

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The third lecture was given by a middle-aged scholar on the topic of explaining the uniform behaviour of some of the more specific agents in different environments. Colin wasn't interested in the subject, or even understood it very well. Sitting in his chair, Colin began to think about the virtual image he had seen by the well. "It's the beast tamer!" Colin began to guess that this woman was responsible for all the anomalies in Eton City during these days.

Before he knew it, the third speech was over, and Colin simply said goodbye to Northon and followed Wald's guidance to his room.

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Colin's guest rooms are arranged on the east side, in the last few rooms at the end of the corridor. The room is divided into two parts, the outside is the living room for guests, and the inner room is the study and bedroom. The study in the room where Colin was located also had a large collection of books, but Colin had no intention of reading them when he entered the room. He couldn't understand why a female Assassin who had come to assassinate Bartomir would take so long to do something unrelated. Especially poisoning, which will obviously increase the security force in the city, and make it difficult for the next assassination, why should this female assassin do it.

Colin paced around the room, contemplating the possibilities. Suddenly, he saw a framed map of the city of Eton in a bookcase. He thought of something, and quickly took the map down and put it on the table, and while remembering the place where the strange thing that old Jimmy had told him about happened before, he placed the chess pieces on the chessboard on the side in their corresponding places.

Gradually, the arrangement of the chess pieces showed a certain pattern, and Colin's breathing became rapid: on the long and narrow map of Eton City, the chess pieces were almost all concentrated in the eastern half, and seemed to be denser and denser the further east, while in the west, there was only one chess piece. Colin remembers that it was a wealthy merchant who accidentally drowned himself in a basin while washing his face in the morning.

"There are two possibilities, one is that this assassin is living in Xicheng at this time, and he wants to use the chaos to cover people's eyes and make the patrol focus elsewhere so that he can prepare something conveniently, and the other possibility is that this assassin is luring a target, which should be a high-ranking military officer or even Bartomir himself, and this assassin wants to lure this target to come to the East City to deal with the chaos in person so that he can complete a beheading. ”

These two speculations did not satisfy Colin, and until now, he had not been able to figure out what the Assassin's plan was, which was a slap in the face to the calculating traveloguerr.

"There must be something I haven't discovered, it must be like this. Colin thinks he's overlooked some key points and looks like he's going to have to hurry up tomorrow.

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That evening, One-Eyed Parker and a few of his fox friends walked into a casino he used to visit. The guests in the casino consciously made way for Parker, Parker is a well-known gangster in this area, although he is thin and blind in one eye, but he is insidious and ruthless, and those who oppose him are often killed by him secretly, although these people look down on this villain but dare not show anything, I heard that he recently joined a group of thieves who still have some strength, and played a small role in it.

The one-eyed Parker walked proudly on the way out of the gambler's way, which was quite a bit of a villain's ambition. At this moment, a fat man in the crowd came out under the protection of five or six strong menβ€”this was the dealer of the casino, Pierdy.

Seeing Pierdy appear, Parker was somewhat distraught and stopped.

"You're garbage again! You owe Lao Tzu enough to buy you another dog's eye! You dare to come!"

"Master came with money this time! Your debt, I will pay it off for you today!"

"Hey, look at the money you can afford and where to borrow the money. Pierdine laughed, the flesh on her belly tumbling.

Parker straightened his back, took out a small pocket, and opened it to see that it was full of gold coins.

This time, Pidi was really frightened, and his eyes were so wide that he actually showed the white of his eyes.

"I didn't look at it, I didn't look at it. We've met a big customer, and she's still a pretty hot girl!" Parker was smug.

Pierdy's face showed a sense of surprise: "What is a woman giving you money for, and what kind of work can you do with your appearance? You are half blind, she is completely blind?"

There was a burst of laughter from the crowd, and someone chimed in: "Yes, a pair of blind men!"

"Fart you, you dead pig has the face to talk about me!" Parker was annoyed, "Master, I'm taking the knife, hurry up and get out of the money, don't delay me in winning!"

Paddy and Parker continue to exchange insults in the crowd. At a table next to him, there was a familiar face of Colin frowning.

Old Jimmy happened to be spending time in this casino, and he suddenly felt a little strange when he heard the "beautiful customer" just now. It's the lockdown period, and the thieves can't get out of the city, and this kid is now saying that he wants to use a knife, and it seems that the target is in the city. Referring to the series of turmoil that occurred in the city before, old Jimmy also faintly felt. The female assassin that Colin had told him earlier had something to do with this little ruffian.

Packing up the chips, old Jimmy was ready to go back, and it was better to discuss the news with Colin as soon as possible.