Chapter XVIII. Lewis
Capital City, somewhere in the laboratory.
Zhou Cheng was wearing a white protective suit and goggles, staring intently at the white bones in front of him. Although he is old, his hands are still very stable at the moment. Under his manipulation, a bit of bone chips was scraped off and collected on a piece of glass. A drop of reagent is then dropped and sent under a microscope for closer inspection.
Those bone chips ended up taking on a pink color. Zhou Cheng sighed and shook his head.
Clearly, another attempt failed.
Dong An Po has been dead for too long. Although there is a high probability that there are some clues on the bones, there are too few clues to obtain.
So far, at least, Zhou Cheng has not found any useful clues.
He sat down in his chair and began to think again. After a long time, another attempt began.
After an unknown number of attempts, he finally discovered an anomaly.
This time, he saw that the color of the reagent was wrong.
Outside of pink, there seems to be a little bit of the rest of the color.
An idea immediately came to his mind. He cautiously experimented, carefully separating something out. Eventually, something was confirmed.
In the bones of Dong An Po, there are traces of arsenic remaining.
"Arsenic?"
The oxide of arsenic is the well-known arsenic. Arsenic is highly toxic. Arsenic was detected from Dong Anpo's bones, which may mean that the real cause of her death was actually arsenic or arsenic compound poisoning?
However, Zhou Cheng knew that the owner of the bones in front of him had been decomposed all over his body when he died. And arsenic obviously can't make people rot all over their bodies.
"Moreover, the content of arsenic is too small, and such a dose of arsenic may not be lethal. Perhaps because of other reasons. ”
Zhou Cheng shook his head, wrote down this clue for the time being, and planned to continue to investigate the rest of the possible factors. But suddenly, Zhou Cheng suddenly remembered something.
A compound of organoarsenic.
2-chlorovinyl dichloroarsenic, commonly referred to as Lewis.
It is a colorless and odorless, oily liquid. It is highly toxic and was even used as a biological weapon during the war years. This agent has a strong skin and respiratory erosion toxicity.
After poisoning, it will cause the human skin to decay, and eventually die due to the decay of the respiratory tract and skin.
This coincides with the pre-death symptoms of the owner of the skeleton in front of him. Moreover, because Lewis is an organic compound of arsenic, traces of arsenic remain in the bones, which can also be explained.
"Is it ......?"
Having a clear target for suspicion means that the next direction is indicated. With the direction, targeted follow-up arrangements and verification can be made.
Zhou Cheng immediately began further work and began to consciously verify this idea.
So after a few hours, he got a clear result.
The owner of the skeleton in front of him...... It was true that he died because of Lewis's poisoning.
"It's a lot of fun now......"
Zhou Cheng sighed slightly.
The person in front of him died of Lewis poisoning, a highly toxic substance that is strictly controlled by the government. This means that the killers have the ability to synthesize and manufacture their own molecules, or steal Lewis' from government agencies.
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With the toxicity of this agent, not much dosage is needed. As long as it can be scattered in densely populated places such as subway stations, stations, and pedestrian streets, you can imagine what the consequences will be.
It was a big event that was bound to shock the world.
He immediately dialed Lu Qingliang's phone and sent the relevant results.
Moments later, the video conference room. The four of them converged again.
"Old man Zhou Cheng has a result. At present, it can be confirmed that Dong An Po did not die in a confrontation between gods. She was poisoned with Lewis. ”
"Lewis?"
Several people looked at each other.
The name is somewhat unfamiliar. In fact, Lu Qingliang also just learned about this poison.
He sent the Lewis materials to the video conference room.
After Lu Ming finished reading it, his expression was uncertain.
At this moment, knowing the true cause of Dong Anpo's death, then some of the three possibilities that he had speculated before could be ruled out.
The first thing that can be ruled out is the possibility that there was indeed some kind of supernatural power, and there was indeed a fight between Dong'an God and another evil god, which indirectly led to the tragic death of Dong'an Po.
Dong Anpo was obviously poisoned to death. Although the death is a little miserable and weird, it is also within a reasonable range, and there is nothing to do with gods at all.
Another thing that can be ruled out is that "making a small probability event such as a small storm actually occur is a miraculous thing in itself."
This possibility seems to have nothing to do with Dong Anpo's tragic death, but if Dong Anpo's death had nothing to do with some supernatural force, and there is a clear and reasonable explanation for the appearance of that small storm, then why should it be regarded as a supernatural thing?
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So...... There is only one remaining possibility.
There are no supernatural powers at all. There is no such thing as a supernatural thing. This small storm is a real coincidence. Dong An Po only died of poisoning, and there was no supernatural power involved.
Since this is the case, then the words that Dong'an Po told Lin Shiquan and his wife at the beginning have lost their foundation. The logic doesn't hold up from the very beginning.
Moreover, it is highly likely that Dong Anpo herself is very likely to know the truth. That is to say, Dong'an Po knows that there is no "fight between Dong'an God and evil gods" at all, and the so-called "using the lives of Lin Shiquan and his wife as bait" is just nonsense.
She's just a goddess. Like the rest of the goddesses, she only knows how to deceive, relying on a little psychological skills and observation to deceive the trust of customers.
He Wei's expression was cloudy.
"Looking at it now, Dong Anpo's real purpose was just to defraud Lin Shiquan and his wife of the one million donation promised. She knew that she had no power to change Lin Shen's doom at all. In order to prevent Lin Shiquan and his wife from coming to trouble themselves after discovering that it was ineffective, they deliberately made a foreshadowing in advance, claiming that if everything was correct in the ceremony, there would be 'miraculous things'.
In fact, she didn't know that Lin Shiquan and his wife would really have that storm because of a coincidence after the ceremony. She didn't think that Lin Shiquan and his wife would really die. ”
Lu Ming muttered: "Among them, there may also be a little suicidal psychology skills involved. ”
"Oh?"
"Even if you have already made up your mind to commit suicide, when you do commit suicide, you will still hesitate, you will hesitate, you will think about the rest, you don't have to die to solve the problem. Lin Shiquan and his wife must have been in this state at that time. In this ambivalence, they perform the ritual according to the instructions of Dong An Po, and then wait for the appearance of the supernatural.
Well, if it weren't for those coincidences, the so-called supernatural things really didn't happen...... What will happen? ”
Lu Qingliang immediately said: "The two of them will never commit suicide!" The two of them will survive and then wonder what went wrong in their ritual. ”
Lu Ming nodded lightly: "That's true." But there is another point, the two of them don't want to die at all, it's just that their love for Lin Shen requires them to die intellectually. As a result, now, the so-called supernatural things have not happened at all, and the ritual has failed, does this objectively give the two of them a reason not to die, but to continue to live?
With this reason, the two can find a way to coexist in the two irreconcilable contradictions of not wanting to die and 'their love for Lin Shen requires them to die'.
With this reason, the two of them can comfort themselves that we have done our best, and we can not even take our lives. However, everything is providential, we tried our best, but we really can't change the ending, and we can't do anything about it.
And, after this kind of 'escape from death', for an ordinary person, where can he still have the heart to investigate whether he was deceived before? ”
Lu Qingliang nodded slowly: "In this way, Dong Anpo arranges for the two to experience life and death, which can effectively reduce the risk of being troubled by the two afterwards." ”
Zhang Dingshan said in a low voice: "The only thing Dong'an Po didn't expect was that because of a coincidence, Lin Shiquan and his wife really committed suicide. But it doesn't really matter. Anyway, the two of them are dead, so it's even more unlikely that they will come to trouble themselves. ”
Lu Ming felt that by now, most of the mysteries about Dong'an Po and Dong'an God had been solved.
At this moment, there are only two questions left that have not been solved.
One, who poisoned Dong An Po with Lewi's agent? What is the reason?
Second, why was Dong Anpo able to tell the truth that "Lin Shiquan and his wife had already dedicated their child to the gods before Lin Shen was born" when Lin Shiquan and his wife came to find her for the first time? ”
- and regardless of whether this matter is the truth or not, at least, Lin Shiquan and his wife think this is the truth. Because of this, the two of them tirelessly sought the help of masters from all walks of life, and finally found Dong Anpo here.
First of all, it can be determined that Dong An Po had no relationship with each other before Lin Shiquan and his wife came to visit him.
One is a goddess in a remote mountain village, and the other is a young entrepreneur couple with a successful career. Whether it is from blood relations or social relationships, it is impossible for both parties to be involved.
From this, a conclusion can be drawn: Dong Anpo's judgment on the two must have been reached through some kind of "logic". This is neither a coincidence nor a deceptive technique.
So, what is this logic?
Combined with reality, it is clear that this seems to be the logic of some supernatural force.
In other words, some supernatural force caused this kind of thing to happen to Lin Shiquan and his wife. And Dong Anpo also has a certain understanding of this supernatural logic. Based on the same system, she can come to this conclusion and reveal the "truth" in one sentence.
But is there really such a logic based on a system of supernatural forces?
Lu Ming was skeptical.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Ming's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration.
He thought of a possibility.
"Could it be like this......
He pondered the language and said slowly, "Perhaps, it's just the same school of theology. ”
"Huh?"
Lu Qingliang expressed doubts about this.
"I mean, that's probably the case. The sect that made Lin Shiquan and his wife make the decision to sacrifice their unborn child in the first place belonged to the same religious system as Dong'an Po.
In this religious system, there are records and descriptions, for example, of a sacrifice of an unborn child to a god, which brings certain benefits but disadvantages that lead to bad luck after the birth of the child.
Because it is based on the same set of religious logic, Dong An Po was able to make that judgment immediately after Lin Shiquan and his wife described that Lin Shen had been plagued by bad luck since he was born.
This does not mean that supernatural forces really exist, at most it just means that their religious logic is the same. ”
Just like a certain religion, its theoretical system holds that all the suffering that people suffer in this life is because of the sins they have done in their previous lives. The suffering of this life is the payment for the sins of the previous life.
Based on this theoretical system, a believer of the religion in a remote mountain village and a believer of the religion in a prosperous city who has no connection with each other are very likely to make the same judgment about the same believer with a miserable background, that is, you have done sins in your previous life, so you have a miserable life in this life.
In this way, why Dong'an Po will tell the truth in one sentence can be reasonably explained.
Zhang Dingshan nodded slowly. For a moment, Zhang Dingshan's expression suddenly turned cold.
"In this way, the person who killed Dong An Po with Lewis agent is the one who made Lin Shiquan and his wife make the decision to sacrifice the child in their womb in the first place?"
Lu Ming frowned for a moment, and his whole body was shocked.
"Indeed, most likely!"
He Wei couldn't help but say, "Why? ”
Lu Ming looked at her and explained: "At least on the surface, Dong Anpo's behavior is to relieve Lin Shen's bad luck. And this kind of behavior will cause the benefit of the sect that belongs to the same religious system as Dong An Po. In order to stop Tung An Po, they have the motive to disrupt the ritual of Tung An Po. ”
You have sacrificed the fate of your child to our gods, and now you have to find help from others, and then take back the fate of your children from our gods.
There's no way, we can only stop you.
Other so-called masters are not the same way as us. Nothing will be useful, we don't bother to bother. But you've found Dong An Po - Dong An Po is from one of our sects, she knows what is going on, and her ritual is likely to be successful. We're just going to have to kill her.
Lu Qingliang asked, "Why did you kill Dong Anpo instead of Lin Shiquan and his wife?" ”
"Maybe Lin Shiquan and his wife have some special meaning in the eyes of that sect and can't be killed?"
Lu Qingliang thought for a moment and nodded.
Some sects that are inclined to cults may have a lot of particularities. These exertions may be illogical and ridiculous to outsiders, but for their followers, they must be taken as a norm and cannot be violated.
Zhang Dingshan said slowly: "If this speculation is true, then ...... That sect must be monitoring Lin Shiquan and his wife, or Dong'an Po. ”