"Found it, at 1:18 p.m., a girl sprayed something on the salad table." Hannah leaned out of the van.

"Then I should go back too, and let me know when you confirm your identity." Danny Reagan unethically flicked his cigarette butt into the sewer on the side of the road, stood up and slapped his butt.

After saying that, he directly found an NYPD police car on the side of the road and sat on it, and asked the patrol officer to take him to the police station along the way.

Jack and Hannah went straight back to the operations center, and Jubal had already received the video file, and when the two returned to the big office, he was giving a briefing.

"It doesn't always seem like salads are always a healthy dietary choice, and CSI Labs has confirmed that synthetic tetrodotoxin, or TTX, found on the salad table, is the culprit this time.

The good news is that this thing is not contagious, but that's about it, this thing is odorless, tasteless, and extremely deadly, is there anything else to add from the CDC? ”

A female CDC doctor with a visitor's card and a temperament very similar to the Dr. Morgan Jack had seen before introduced to everyone,

"There's no antidote to TTX at the moment, and the timing of the attack varies depending on the individual's constitution, so in the next few hours, people will continue to die, and we've taken everyone who has eaten at this fast food restaurant to the hospital, but in fact there is not much that doctors can do."

"As far as I know, TTX currently does not have a mature synthesis technology, and the price of high-purity TTX will not be less than $100,000 per gram, who would use such an expensive poison for poisoning?"

Jack thought that someone had obtained some highly toxic species of puffer fish and extracted them directly, but CSI confirmed that it was a synthetic high-purity reagent grade TTX, which is very interesting.

Isn't it fragrant to have this technology to make money directly? You must know that poison is also medicine, and since TTX can de-energize the nervous system without any sequelae afterwards, it means that it is a more powerful anesthetic than tablets, and at the same time there is no addiction.

Therefore, TTX can also be used to quit physiological drug addiction, and the effect is very good, and it is precisely because of the problem of production and research progress that there is no mature TTX drug on the market at present.

The CDC doctor looked at Jack with some surprise and nodded, "It's true that TTX has a complex structure of oxygen-rich interlocks, and it has always been difficult for organic chemists to synthesize it.

Although the first successful experiment with the synthesis of TTX was carried out as early as 1972, the process was extremely cumbersome and the yield was extremely low, and it remained at the laboratory stage, but not long ago, a research team at New York University successfully invented a new process.

They reduced the number of synthesis steps to 22 and increased the yield to 11%, and the materials required were mainly common materials available on the market. ”

"OK, that means we're dealing with an organic chemist who cares about cutting-edge science, and of course it's not ruled out that he's a guy who is good at using the dark web."

"Through facial recognition, we found a suspected suspect, her name is Caroline Sabatak, white, sixteen years old, just admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital, with the same symptoms as those who were poisoned by TTX," Jubal said, projecting a photo on the screen.

And guess what, she's not on our list, and the hospital has just given her information and ERT (FBI Evidence Panel) is rummaging through the trash cans down the street where she passed, hoping to find her poisoning tool. ”

"The graphics on her T-shirt are from an Annachiist dark heavy metal band whose propagandists are radical and highly inflammatory, and are very marketable among teenagers."

Dana Moge walked into the office and pointed to the picture on the screen.

Seeing that everyone was looking at her in surprise, she shook her shoulders indifferently, "If you have a daughter who is in the rebellious period of youth, you will know these things as well as I do."

This small group is very amateurish and aggressive, and you can understand it if you imagine a tattooed man wearing various metal rings on his skin, playing an electric guitar on stage and screaming at the end of his life to destroy authority and capital. ”

"It sounds convincing, it's close to Wall Street, it's part of the financial district, and most of the victims are in the service of the capitalists, and maybe they see it as some kind of manifesto." Anna guessed.

"We went to Mount Sinai Hospital and hoped she could still talk." The car keys circled Jack's fingers deftly twice.

"Hurry up, the whole of New York is panicking right now, and I don't know if I should eat tonight."

Dana Moge is exaggerating, but it illustrates the gravity of the situation, and today's movement is no less than the previous explosion in an apartment building, and the CDC in chemical protective suits has frightened the citizens of New York more than the bomb.

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"When she came home, she couldn't even speak, she could barely stand, so I drove her here, and now the doctors are not sure if she will wake up."

Caroline Sabatak's mother is a middle-class woman who seems to be well-off, her eyes are red, and although she is anxious about her daughter's condition, she still speaks in an orderly manner.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Sabatak." Hannah and Jack looked at each other and offered to comfort her.

"I don't even know why she ate there, and we've never even been to that place in Manhattan." Ms. Sabatak complained quietly, apparently unaware that her daughter was not simply a victim, but more likely a perpetrator.

Hannah helped her sit down on a bench next to the hospital hallway, "Do you know why she went to that place?" ”

"Maybe it's meeting with her netizens, she has almost no friends around her, most of them are online, I've never met them, is there a problem? I don't understand why you're asking. ”

Being watched by two dignified-looking FBI, Ms. Sabatak became a little wary.

"It's like this, we need to find all the victims so that there are no omissions, you know, uh. Some people may not know it now. ”

Jack lied casually, but he didn't expect it to cause more associations with Ms. Sabatak.

"Do you think Caroline was being targeted?"

Ah, Jack was speechless for a moment, but Hannah was keenly aware of the problem.

"We haven't received similar information, has your daughter had any conflicts or conflicts with people?"

The sadness on Ms. Sabatak's face was even worse, as if she had been opened up by Hannah's question,

"Caroline has had a hard time at school in the last few years, you know, kids at this age can be cruel, and she had to change schools twice in those two years because she was bullied by some very excessive school bullying."

Jack's eyelids jumped and appeared, American adolescence finally appeared, I don't know why, after coming to this world, the teenagers he met were all mature and sensible.

Whether it is Kara, who escaped from the hands of the pervert, or the invincible, well-behaved and sensible daughter of the Cassel family, it is simply not a world compared to the things he saw in American dramas, and this time he finally met a "normal" one.

"How long has this been going on?" Hannah asked.

"After her father said goodbye to her, about five years ago, when he packed a bag and disappeared from our lives, Caroline's behavior has spiraled a little out of control.

From the very beginning, there were all sorts of emotional outbursts for no apparent reason, after which I would often find her burning things, some old photos and old clothes in the room.

I know that this incident has hurt her a lot, and it has also made her more sensitive and impulsive in school, and this behavior has caused her to be ostracized and bullied by her classmates, and it has intensified. ”

Jack subconsciously turned his head to look at Caroline Sabatak on the hospital bed, well, it doesn't seem to be black and white, well, he's narrow-minded.

(End of chapter)