Chapter 12: The body of the eight-handed clerk is found

Early the next morning, Eva jumped on Simon's bed like an active kitten: "Uncle! Get up! We're going to Verne again today! ”

"Don't make a fuss, you haven't eaten enough ash...... Simon turned over lazily and lay on the bed to continue sleeping.

"Uncle, your communicator has sounded!" Eva handed him Simon's communicator at the head of the bed, "It's Sister Ada!" ”

"Hey......" Simon replied lazily as he took the communicator.

But in the next second, he got up from the bed and came to his senses: "What! I'll go over here! ”

"Uh-huh? Uncle, why are you going? ”

Eva looked puzzled, Simon who was dressing and washing as fast as she could.

"Something...... It's not about you, don't come with you! Simon warned Eva.

"Cut...... You're not going on a date with Sister Ada, are you? If yes, I'm definitely not going to be a light bulb! Eva grimaced.

"It's not dating...... Hey, don't come with me anyway! ”

Simon is afraid of Eva, this little girl is curious, if she doesn't tell her repeatedly, she will definitely follow.

Before heading out, Simon called Joey: "Keep an eye on Eva!" I'm going to Gaia on errands, don't let her come with me! ”

"Good!" Joey agreed, but none of them had a fuel-efficient lamp.

After Simon set off to find Ada, he quietly followed his spaceship and went to Gaia Star together.

Instead of asking Simon to come to the police station to find her, Ada sent him an address and told him to wait for him at a morgue in Area C.

Simon was also slightly relieved when he saw the address.

Although the left side of his body has been completely machined now, his appearance has not changed much from before, at most there are two more characteristic scars.

So if he walks into the police station so blatantly, I'm afraid that he will be recognized by others, so it's more reliable to go directly to the morgue......

Simon rode his motorcycle from the port to Zone C, and along the way, he felt that someone was following him all the time.

So when he waited for the signal light, he turned into a side road in advance.

As soon as I turned in, I saw Oliver's motorcycle, carrying Eva and Joey, flying past me.

"Hey...... Sure enough......" Simon sighed helplessly.

And Eva and they also found Simon's squatting, and smiled embarrassedly: "Hehe, uncle, what a coincidence!" ”

"Okay, I know you won't be waiting for me at the Viper Bar. Go and see it if you want......" he rubbed his temples.

"Yay! Look what I have to say! Come and be willing to gamble! ”

Unexpectedly, Eva took Simon as a bet on whether Simon would agree to them to go to the morgue with him, and he really accepted this little girl.

The group came to the morgue in Area C, where Ada was already waiting: "I thought you were alone......"

"I thought I was going to ...... alone," Simon smiled helplessly.

"Without further ado, let's go see it first......"

Ida looked at Eva with a wicked smile on her face and knew what was going on, and without saying much, she walked into the morgue with a few people.

In the center of the room was a huge dissecting table, flanked by transparent freezers, in which unclaimed bodies were stored.

Ida found the clear freezer where the eight-handed clerk was stored, pressed the button, and the freezer carried the clerk's body along the track to the dissecting table.

Then an arc scanner scanned the clerk from head to toe and came to the conclusion that he had drowned and suffocated.

"Well, that's the test result given by the machine...... Ida showed the results of the machine scan on the holographic projection screen.

"Machines think so? What do you think? Simon looked at Ada suspiciously.

"I'm afraid the cause of death wasn't drowning......" Joey looked closely at the clerk's body.

"Why do you say that?" Eva looked at him puzzled.

Simon, though he didn't quite understand what was going on, didn't speak, but looked at Joey with a puzzled look.

"Look......" Joey pointed to the corpse's thigh, "the Zerg's respiratory system is actually on the legs, not like us Terrans and Subhumans breathe with lungs!" Although they also have lungs, they are actually ornaments, they don't have any function, they just make them look more human......"

"I didn't expect it, you came along, it's really right!" Simon looked at Joey with some admiration.

Don't look at his age is much older than Joey, but his reserves of knowledge are less than one-ten-thousandth of Joey's.

"Hehe, I'm a miscellaneous scientist, so I like to study things that others don't......" Joey boasted proudly.

"Indeed, you see ......," Ida pointed to the image on the holographic projection, "this corpse has water all over its lungs, its mouth and nose, but not a drop of water left on its abdomen or thighs...... If you say so, then what is the cause of death of this zerg? ”

"It's still suffocation, but it's not drowning, maybe it's a lack of oxygen or something...... A further scan was needed for the residual gas of the exhaled bubbles in his abdominal cavity. Until a definite cause emerges, Joey doesn't dare to assert the specific cause of this zerg's death.

"The scan results are, the gas residue is oxygen, so there is nothing abnormal......" Ada called up the scan results.

"Hmm...... What about the oxygen concentration......" Joey asked.

“50%…… Oh my! Why didn't I notice this? That's when Ada realized the anomaly in the data.

Eva and Simon looked at Ada and Joey, who suddenly realized, and couldn't understand the conversation at all, but they were too embarrassed to interrupt them, so the two of them stayed quietly and waited for the result.

Oliver, on the other hand, found a charging port in the corner of the morgue to replenish his battery.

"Machines are sometimes very convenient, but they are not omnipotent, and many times, we still need to judge ourselves!" Joey said proudly.

"The cause of death has been found, but the murderer is really not easy to find......" Ida was still at a loss.

"So, how the hell did this guy die? Joey, tell me about it! Eva couldn't take it anymore and leaned over to Joey.

"Ah...... To put it simply, it was this clerk who was taken to a nitrox environment, which caused suffocation! Got it? Joey gave her a brief explanation in words that Eva could understand.

"I don't understand, how can you still suffocate in a high-oxygen environment?" Eva was still confused.

"Ah, well, the Zerg are not the same as us, due to the specialization of their respiratory system, they do not need particularly pure oxygen, once the oxygen concentration coat is 50%, the Zerg will suffocate. So you get the idea, right? Joey explained again.

"Got it! So the murderer is a person who knows the Zerg very well? But he knew that the machine would not be able to detect the cause of the Zerg's death, so he dared to disguise him as drowning and suffocating? Eva gave Joey her understanding.

"That's it!" Joey nodded approvingly.

"So, is there any surveillance to find out where the Zerg died?" Simon turned to look at Ada.

"Unfortunately, the ...... was removed"