Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 221 Lewisite
Capital City, a laboratory somewhere.

Wearing a white protective suit and goggles, Zhou Cheng stared intently at the bones in front of him.Although he is old, his hands are still very stable at this moment.Under his operation, a bit of bone debris was scraped off and collected on a piece of glass.A drop of reagent is then dropped and sent under a microscope for careful observation.

Those bone fragments eventually took on a pink color.Zhou Cheng sighed and shook his head.

Obviously, another attempt failed.

Po Dong An has been dead for too long.Although there is a high probability that there are some clues on its remains, there are too few clues and it is difficult to obtain them.

At least so far, Zhou Cheng has not found any useful clues.

He sat down in a chair and began to think again.After a long time, another attempt was started.

After an unknown number of attempts, he finally discovered a little abnormality.

This time he saw that the color of the reagent was wrong.

In addition to pink, there seems to be a little bit of other colors mixed in.

He immediately had an idea in his mind.He experimented carefully, and carefully separated some things.Finally, something was confirmed.

There are traces of arsenic in Dong'an Po's remains.

"arsenic?"

The oxide of arsenic is the famous arsenic.Arsenic is highly toxic.The detection of arsenic from Dong'an Po's remains may mean that the real cause of her death was poisoning by arsenic or arsenic compounds?

However, Zhou Cheng knew that the owners of the bones in front of him had rotted all over when they died.Arsenic, however, apparently does not rot the whole body.

"Also, the content of arsenic is too small. Such a dose of arsenic may not necessarily reach the lethal dose. It may be due to other reasons."

Zhou Cheng shook his head, temporarily wrote down this clue, and planned to continue to investigate other possible factors.But suddenly, Zhou Cheng suddenly remembered something.

A compound of organic arsenic.

2-Chlorovinyldichloroarsenic, commonly known as Lewisite.

It is a colorless, odorless, oily liquid.It is highly poisonous, and was even used as a biological weapon during the war years.This poison has strong skin and respiratory erosive toxicity.

After poisoning, the skin of the human body will rot, and eventually die due to respiratory and skin rot.

This is consistent with the symptoms before death of the owner of the remains in front of him.And, because Lewisite is an organic compound of arsenic, the trace amount of arsenic remaining in the bones can also be explained.

"Could it be..."

With a clear target of suspicion, it means that the direction of the next step is indicated.With the direction, targeted follow-up arrangements and verifications can be made.

Zhou Cheng immediately started further work and began to consciously verify this idea.

So after a few hours, he got a definite result.

The owner of the bone in front of him...had indeed died of Lewisite poisoning.

"It's a lot of fun now..."

Zhou Cheng sighed slightly.

The person in front of him died of poisoning by Lewisite, a highly toxic substance that is strictly controlled by the government.This means that the murderer has the ability to synthesize and manufacture it himself, or steal Lewisite from government agencies.

With the toxicity of this agent, not much dosage is needed.As long as it can be distributed in densely populated places such as subway stations, stations, pedestrian streets, etc., the consequences can be imagined.

That is a major event that will surely shock the world.

He immediately called Lu Qingliang and sent the relevant results.

A moment later, the video conference room.The four gathered again.

"Mr. Zhou Cheng has a result. It can be confirmed that Dong An Po didn't die in a confrontation between gods and spirits. She was poisoned to death by Lewisite."

"The Lewisite?"

Several people looked at each other.

The name is a little strange.In fact, Lu Qingliang had just learned about this poison.

He sent the information on Lewisite to the video conference room.

After Lu Ming read it, his expression was cloudy and uncertain.

At this moment, knowing the real cause of Dong'an's death, some of the three possibilities speculated by our side before can be ruled out.

The first thing that can be ruled out is the possibility that "there is indeed some kind of supernatural power, and the god of Dong'an did fight with another evil god, which indirectly led to the tragic death of Po Dong'an".

Poison Dong'an was obviously poisoned to death.Although the death was a bit miserable and weird, it was within reason, and there was no such thing as a god.

Another thing that can be ruled out is that "it is a miracle that a small-probability event such as a small storm actually occurs."

This possibility seems to have nothing to do with the tragic death of Mrs. Dong'an, but if Mrs. Dong'an's death has nothing to do with some supernatural power, and there is a clear and reasonable explanation for the appearance of that small storm, then why is it superfluous to identify it? For something miraculous?
Do not multiply entities unless necessary.

Then...there is only one possibility left.

There is no supernatural power at all.The so-called miraculous things do not exist at all.This small storm is a real coincidence.Dong'anpo died only because of poisoning, and no supernatural power was involved.

That being the case, the words Dong'an Po told Lin Shiquan and his wife at the beginning lost their foundation.The logic doesn't hold from the very beginning.

Moreover, there is a high probability that it is very likely that Mrs. Dong'an herself knows the truth.In other words, Po Dong'an knew that there was no such thing as "the fight between the god of Dong'an and the evil god", and the so-called "using the lives of Lin Shiquan and his wife as bait" was just nonsense.

She is just a witch.Like other witches, she only knows how to bluff and deceive, relying on a little psychological skills and observing words and demeanor to deceive clients' trust.

He Wei's expression was cloudy and uncertain.

"Looking at it now, the real purpose of Mrs. Dong'an was to defraud Lin Shiquan and his wife of the 100 million donation promised. She knew that she had no ability to change Lin Shen's bad luck. In order to prevent Lin Shiquan and his wife from coming to trouble themselves after they found out that it was invalid, she deliberately Foreshadowing is made in advance, claiming that if everything is done correctly in the ceremony, there will be "magic things".

In fact, she didn't know that after Lin Shiquan and his wife held the ceremony, the storm would really happen because of a coincidence.She never thought that Lin Shiquan and his wife would really die. "

Lu Ming murmured: "This may also involve some techniques of suicide psychology."

"Oh?"

"Even if you have already made up your mind to commit suicide, when you really commit suicide, people will still hesitate, hesitate, and think about other solutions to the problem that don't require death. Lin Shiquan and his wife must have been in this state at the time. They were in this state With an ambivalence, follow Dong'an Po's instructions to perform the ceremony, and then wait for the miracle to appear.

So, if there were no such coincidences, the so-called miraculous things really didn't happen... what would happen? "

Lu Qingliang immediately said: "The two will never commit suicide! They will survive and think about what went wrong in the ritual they performed."

Lu Ming nodded lightly: "That's true. But there is another point, the two of them don't want to die at all, but their love for Lin Shen requires them to die rationally. As a result, the so-called miraculous thing has not happened at all. The failure of the ceremony objectively gave the two a reason not to die, but to continue to live?

With this reason, the two can find a way to coexist between the two irreconcilable contradictions of their own unwillingness to die and "the love for Lin Shen requires that they must die".

With this reason, the two of them can comfort themselves that we have tried our best, and we don't even have to die.However, everything is God's will. We tried our best, but we can't change the ending, and there is nothing we can do.

And, after such a 'narrow escape', for an ordinary person, how can he find out whether he was deceived before? "

Lu Qingliang nodded slowly: "In this way, Mrs. Dong'an arranged for the two of them to experience life and death, which can effectively reduce the risk of being troubled by them afterwards."

Zhang Dingshan said in a low voice: "The only thing that Mrs. Dong'an didn't expect was that because of a coincidence, Lin Shiquan and his wife actually committed suicide. But it doesn't really matter. Anyway, they are already dead, so it is even more impossible to come to trouble yourself."

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.

First, who poisoned Dong Anpo with Lewisite?what is the reason?
Second, why was Po Dongan able to tell the truth when Lin Shiquan and his wife first came to see her, "Lin Shiquan and his wife had already dedicated their child to the gods before Lin Shen was born?"

—— Regardless of whether this matter is the truth or not, at least Lin Shiquan and his wife think it is the truth.Because of this, the two of them tirelessly sought help from various masters, and finally found Dong'anpo here.

First of all, what is certain is that before Lin Shiquan and his wife came to visit her, Dong'an had no relationship with her.

One is a witch in a remote mountain village, and the other is a successful young entrepreneur couple.No matter in terms of blood relationship or social relationship, it is impossible for the two parties to be involved.

From this, we can draw a conclusion: Po Dong'an's judgment on the two must have been reached through some kind of "logic".This is neither a coincidence nor a deceitful technique.

So, what is this logic?
Combined with reality, it can be clearly judged that this seems to be the logic for some kind of supernatural power.

In other words, some kind of supernatural power caused this kind of thing that happened to Lin Shiquan and his wife.And Po Dong'an also has a certain understanding of this supernatural logic.Based on the same system, she was able to come to this conclusion, and she was able to tell the "truth" in one sentence.

However, does this kind of logic based on supernatural power system really exist?
Lu Ming doubted this.

After thinking for a moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Lu Ming's mind.

He thought of a possibility.

"Could it be like this..."

He considered the language, and said slowly: "Perhaps, this is just the same school of theology."

"Ok?"

Lu Qingliang expressed doubts about this.

"I mean, the situation may be like this. The sect that made Lin Shiquan and his wife make the decision to sacrifice their unborn child belongs to the same religious system as Dong'an Po.

In this religious system, there are related records and descriptions. For example, it describes a sacrificial method of 'sacrificing unborn children to the gods', which will bring some benefits, but the disadvantage is that it will lead to bad luck after birth. .

Because of the same religious logic, Po Dong'an was able to make that judgment immediately after Lin Shiquan and his wife described that Lin Shen had been plagued by bad luck since his birth.

This does not mean that supernatural forces really exist, at most it only means that their religious logic is the same. "

Just like a certain religion, its theoretical system believes that all the sufferings that people suffer in this life are due to sins done in the previous life.The suffering in this life is to pay for the sins of the previous life.

Based on this set of theoretical systems, a believer of this religion in a remote mountain village and a believer of this religion in a bustling city without any connection between the two believers are very likely to be related to the same miserable believer. You will make the same judgment, that is, you did evil in your previous life, so your life experience in this life is miserable.

In this way, there can be a reasonable explanation for why Po Dong'an would tell the truth in one word.

Zhang Dingshan nodded slowly.For a moment, Zhang Dingshan's expression turned cold.

"So, the person who killed Dong'an Po with Lewisite was the one who made Lin Shiquan and his wife make the decision to sacrifice the child in their womb?"

Lu Ming frowned for a moment and was shocked.

"Indeed, very likely!"

He Wei couldn't help asking: "Why?"

Lu Ming looked at her and explained: "At least on the surface, Dong'an Po's behavior is to remove Lin Shen's bad luck. And this kind of behavior will cause the sect that belongs to the same religious system as Dong'an Po Benefits. In order to prevent Po Dong An, they have the motive to destroy Po Dong An's ceremony."

You have sacrificed your child's fate to our gods, but now you have to ask others for help, and then take your child's fate back from our gods, which is intolerable.

No way, we can only stop you.

Other so-called masters are not on the same path as us.It's useless to do anything, we don't bother to bother.But you actually found Mrs. Dong'an - Mrs. Dong'an belongs to one of our sects, she knows what's going on, and her ceremony is likely to be successful.We can only kill her.

Lu Qingliang asked, "Why did you kill Dong'an Po and not Lin Shiquan and his wife?"

"Maybe Lin Shiquan and his wife have some special meaning in the eyes of that sect, so they can't be killed?"

Lu Qingliang thought for a moment, then nodded.

Some sects that tend to be cults may have many specialties.These particulars may violate logic and may seem ridiculous to outsiders, but for their believers, they must be regarded as the standard and cannot be violated.

Zhang Dingshan said slowly: "If this conjecture is true, then... that sect must be monitoring Lin Shiquan and his wife, or Dong An Po."

(End of this chapter)