When the magic flower blooms

Now that the identity of the yellow and black Bee Truck has been revealed, the "gas station" in front of me naturally cannot be a real gas station.

According to Sun Jin, this area is the sewage treatment plant in the south working area of ​​the airport.The building in front of us is mainly used to degrade and treat solid waste.

When the flight of the plane is over, the little bee truck will be responsible for taking away the dirt in the sealed container at the bottom of the plane and transporting it here.Then in the three large sedimentation tanks below the ground, the preliminary separation and bacterial decomposition are completed.After that, the separated solid matter and waste water are discharged to the next level of sewage and sewage treatment area respectively.

"Are you sure the smell is coming from here?" Sun Jin emphasized to He Tiansi again, "Isn't it wrong?"

"It can't be wrong." He Tiansi was very confident about his nose.

"All in all, let's start with a simple one and conduct a ground search." Ming Ruoxing suggested.

The three immediately split up.It took less than 10 minutes to search the front and back of the nearby houses, and even the nearby grass, and found nothing suspicious.

"The breath seems to come from the ground." Even Ming Ruoxing could feel it now, "So, what's under the ground?"

"It's just three sewage sedimentation tanks." Sun Jin's face turned pale, "I said... don't you think you want to go down?"

"Should there be an inspection channel?"

"There should be, but I have to ask." Sun Jin was obviously a little reluctant, but he turned around and went into the room to find the person in charge.

"So you who love cleanliness, are you really going to go down?" He Tiansi took the opportunity to ask Ming Ruoxing, "I didn't say that, just standing here, I feel the smell rushing straight into my nose."

Ming Ruoxing seemed very calm: "Otherwise, what should we do? We came here with money to investigate the case, not on vacation. We use other people's money to help people eliminate disasters. If you don't have this awareness, why don't you go home and grow vegetables. "

"Professionalism!" He Tiansi hastily gave a thumbs up.

Sun Jin came back soon, saying that the person in charge agreed to let them enter the underground operating platform.But you need to wear professional protective clothing, gas masks, and always pay attention to the concentration of toxic gases in the air.

After conveying this meaning, Sun Jin just found an excuse and hid in the office.Accompanied by an old worker, Ming Ruoxing and He Tiansi came to the entrance of the operation shaft in a special warehouse in full armor.

Open the iron door similar to the manhole cover, and what appears underground is a series of vertical iron ladders.Going down the iron ladder to the bottom, there is a bright but cramped all-metal space.

Here, the most eye-catching thing is a huge steel container shaped like a wine barrel, which occupies almost one-third of the underground space.One end communicates with the pipe extending from the ground, and the other end communicates with another slightly smaller container through a thick steel pipe.

Obviously, these are the "sedimentation ponds" that Sun Jin just mentioned.

"What do you feel?" He Tiansi leaned over and asked Ming Ruoxing quietly, "I think the pheromone here is stronger!"

"That's right." Ming Ruoxing nodded.

In fact, the concentration of pheromones here is not only enough to make birds react, it is even possible to affect ordinary humans-fortunately, the sewage treatment plant has a very strict operating system, and absolutely no one wants to be in an unprotected place. Under the premise, come here to suffer.

There is no doubt that the pheromone is transmitted from the inside of the sedimentation tank.Although the idea of ​​directly opening the pool to search is straightforward, it is simply not feasible.Fortunately, the old workers provided them with another way of thinking.

The aviation waste transported by the bees will first be discharged into the No. [-] and largest sedimentation tank.After standing for a period of time, the upper liquid will flow to the No. [-] sedimentation tank through the pipeline.Inside the connected pipe, an object similar to a sluice is installed, and the internal mesh screen can filter out a certain volume of objects.

"We have found diamond rings, mobile phones, even lighters and control knives in this sluice. But the most are all kinds of coins."

While talking, the old worker skillfully opened the water valve and took out the metal mesh screen that looked a bit like a supermarket shopping basket.Ming Ruoxing only had time to see a large group of gray-black objects inside, and the mesh screen suddenly disappeared from sight—because the old worker who was holding it suddenly collapsed.

"careful!"

With sharp eyes and quick hands, He Tiansi strode forward to support the old worker, took him to the wall and sat down.

"Let's go..." The old worker hurriedly urged them, "It must be that the gas concentration in the underground has exceeded the standard!"

Ming Ruoxing and He Tiansi looked at each other and nodded tacitly.He Tiansi immediately helped the old worker up and led him back to the ground safely from the wellhead.Ming Ruoxing took off his gloves, and quickly released his pheromones, suppressing the subhuman aura surging out of the wire mesh basket.

After about a minute, the pheromone level in the basement basically returned to normal, and Ming Ruoxing immediately began to carefully watch the objects in the mesh screen.

It should be a bird, or rather, the remains of some birds.Although highly decayed, feathers, wings, claws and even a beak can still be seen.

Judging from the color of the feathers, this bird should belong to the same species as those outside that actively attacked the bird-proof net.

Without further delay, Ming Ruoxing found a pair of tongs and put the bird's carcass into the plastic evidence box he carried with him.Then quickly left the scene.

-

The important discovery of the sewage treatment station successfully explained the weird events that happened around the airport in the past two days.But the dismemberment of the bird has led to more and more confusing mysteries.

On the way back to the terminal by car, the three of them had a natural discussion.

Sun Jin first expressed his opinion: "The dirt pool on the plane is only connected to the toilet in the cabin, but animals are not allowed to be transported in the cabin of the plane. Therefore, ordinary birds cannot enter the dirt pool at all."

"No one said it was an ordinary bird." He Tiansi corrected his loophole, "It is obvious that this is a demihuman, who was thrown into the sewage pool after being transformed into a bird form for some reason. So it should be a murder on a plane!"

"Don't jump to conclusions until the matter is investigated clearly."

The experienced Ming Ruoxing is obviously more cautious, "First of all, this corpse may be hidden in the suitcase in a dismembered state and brought on the plane. On domestic flights, many passengers will carry cooked chicken and duck products with them. .The bird is similar in size to poultry, and the possibility of getting away with it cannot be ruled out."

"I think this assumption is a bit far-fetched." He Tiansi raised a different opinion, "The murderer took so much pains to disguise the corpse in order to dismember it on the plane and throw it into the sewer? It doesn't make sense!"

"..."

Ming Ruoxing also admitted that this is indeed a problem, "Then there is another possibility: this matter has nothing to do with the plane at all, this demihuman was killed on the ground. It was discarded in the sedimentation tank of the sewage treatment station."

"It's very possible." Sun Jin nodded in agreement, "But if this is the case, does it mean that the murderer is very likely to be a staff member of our airport? And he is also a sub-human?"

"In theory, it is true." Ming Ruoxing nodded, but gave himself a leeway, "In short, it is too early to discuss these. Tomorrow morning, I will send the body samples for testing. Normal Asians Everyone has a DNA pedigree registered, and what is going on should be revealed soon.

The first investigation of this case has temporarily come to an end.After bidding farewell to Sun Jin at the terminal, Ming Ruoxing and He Tiansi took the evidence box containing the corpse to the parking lot. The first thing they did was to find three sealed bags from the trunk and put the three The outer and outer layers are completely sealed and locked in the trunk.Then I couldn't wait to go back to the hotel to wash and sleep.

-

The next morning, Ming Ruoxing rejected He Tiansi's offer to act as a driver. Ming Ruoxing drove alone and sent the samples to the Forensic Medicine Testing Center of the Asian Security Bureau.

Thanks to highly automated scientific testing equipment, the identity of the corpse was confirmed in just two hours.Holding a stack of information obtained through the internal information platform, Ming Ruoxing got in touch with Sun Jin and returned to the airport as quickly as possible.

"The name of the deceased is Lou Minqiu, male, 48 years old, one of the heads of the scientific research center of Jujingtang Pharmaceutical Factory. Jianqun subhuman."

In a small meeting room in the office area of ​​the airport, Ming Ruoxing put the information in front of He Tiansi and Sun Jin, "Lou Minqiu disappeared mysteriously three days ago. His family members called the police, but his whereabouts are still unknown."

He Tiansi took a copy of the transcripts made by the family members of the Lou family at the police station, looked at the ten lines at a glance, and quickly discovered the key points.

"It says that Lou Minqiu returned from a business trip three days ago, that is to say, he just took a plane or came to the airport?"

"Yes."

Ming Ruoxing nodded, "But keep reading. Lou Minqiu's secretary and family members all said that Lou Minqiu left the airport by car that day and returned to the Jujingtang Pharmaceutical R&D Center located half a city away. The research and development center is missing."

"Missing in the research and development center, but the body went back to the airport?"

He Tiansi was a little puzzled, "Why is it so troublesome? Since the corpses are already in the form of birds, wouldn't it be more convenient to just find a place to bury them, or light a fire and then throw them into the water? "

"That's really a problem."

Ming Ruoxing agreed with He Tiansi's doubts, and gave his own answer directly: "So I think, in fact, Lou Minqiu never returned to Jujingtang at all. He was killed when he was at the airport. "

"Isn't this a contradiction?"

Sun Jin, who had been unable to intervene, was confused at the moment, "You mean, this person's family members and subordinates have joined forces to perjure the person, and in fact they colluded to kill him?"

"of course not."

Ming Ruoxing took out a transcript and showed them, "This is the account flow of the bank. Before Lou Minqiu disappeared, he withdrew the largest amount of cash for the day from the ATM inside the factory. The same amount of money has also been operated on the ATM."

"This can only mean that someone has taken his card and password, and is constantly cashing out?" He Tiansi interjected, "By the way, don't all ATMs in banks now have surveillance cameras installed? Call them up and take a look at the screen. Don't you know what the murderer looks like?"

"Do you think the police don't even think of such a thing?"

Ming Ruoxing pulled out another document, on which were photocopied three screenshots of the surveillance video.The cashiers in the picture are obviously the same middle-aged man, with a beer belly, slightly bald, and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

"This is the murderer?" To be honest, He Tiansi himself couldn't believe it.

Ming Ruoxing didn't speak.He just silently took out his mobile phone and opened a webpage of Jujingtang Pharmaceutical Factory.There is a news about the meeting of the scientific research institute published on it.

The upper part of the news is a picture, and the middle-aged man in the picture is sitting on the rostrum in the middle of the picture.His name was written on the pink sign in front of him.

"Lou Minqiu"