Chapter 605 Corpse Ginseng, Kidnapper's 'Death'
When Li Quan picked up the seventeenth cigarette butt and put it to his nose to sniff, his eyes lit up slightly.
Found it, it should be this cigarette butt.
The smells from other cigarette butts are similar, mainly the smell of the sponge filter and tobacco leaves. Some of them also have the smell of bad breath from the dried saliva left on them.
Most people who smoke have bad breath.
This is caused by the reaction of the gas from burning cigarettes with the saliva in the mouth, which then adheres to the gaps between teeth, tongue, oral wall, etc. This is difficult to clean.
This smell of smoke is generally acceptable.
There is another kind of bad smell, which has nothing to do with smoking, but is purely oral rot. Most people with this kind of smell don't like to brush their teeth or have tooth decay.
After eating, food residues, especially meat, get stuck in the gaps between rotten teeth. Because there are so many bacteria in the mouth and the humid environment, the temperature is as high as the human body's body temperature.
This warm, humid and bacterial environment can easily accelerate the corruption of food residues.
Eventually, the mouth of such people will emit a foul odor like rotten eggs or dead fish, including their saliva, which will also stink.
When the saliva remains in the cigarette butt, the bad smell will remain for a long time.
Every time Li Quan smelled that kind of cigarette butt, he felt as disgusted as if he had eaten a dead fly.
Therefore, we must take care of our teeth and develop a good habit of brushing our teeth every morning and evening.
Many people think that it is not necessary to brush teeth at night, but in fact, brushing teeth at night is more important than brushing teeth in the morning.
"Young man, did you find the problem with this cigarette butt?" asked the old detective.
"Smell it and see how it is different from ordinary cigarette butts." Li Quan held the cigarette butt in front of the old detective's nose.
The old detective's nose twitched as he carefully discerned the smell emanating from the cigarette butt.
"It has a very light tobacco smell, and even seems to have a hint of Chinese medicine. Also, the mouthpiece doesn't look like it's been smoked before. If a mouthpiece has been smoked before, saliva will soak into the paper wrapping and the sponge of the filter."
As expected of a professional criminal policeman, his identification ability far exceeds that of ordinary people.
Observe in detail.
Li Quan put the cigarette butt back into a separate plastic bag.
It's basically burned all the way down to the sponge filter, and if it hadn't burned all the way down, you could tell what drug was in there.
Now it can only be distinguished by the smell of traditional Chinese medicine remaining on it.
Li Quan planned to take it back and carefully identify the smell of the cigarette butt using the medicine identification technique in an undisturbed, closed environment.
Although he was basically sure that this was the cigarette butt he was looking for, Li Quan still maintained a cautious attitude and identified all the remaining seven cigarette butts.
The last one was so smelly that it made him gag.
The saliva on this cigarette butt has not dried yet and it smells particularly bad.
It was the same dead fish smell.
"It looks like that's the cigarette butt. The others are not what I need."
Li Quan took out the cigarette butt that smelled of Chinese medicine.
"I would like to take this cigarette butt back to the hospital to identify the medicinal ingredients it contains. Is that okay?" Li Quan asked.
"I'm afraid not!" The old detective refused. "If this cigarette butt really belongs to the suspect, then it is very likely to have the suspect's fingerprints or even DNA information. We, the police, cannot give you such important evidence."
Officer Han next to him didn't say anything.
The key evidence cannot be taken away by Li Quan.
Friendship is friendship, but the law must be fair and strict and must be observed.
"How about this, if Dean Li really needs it, you can come back with me to the police station to study this cigarette butt." Officer Han is the person with the highest status here. Once he has spoken, no one dares to refute him.
In front of outsiders, he and Li Quan still maintained their official titles.
Everyone understands this.
Some relationships are better off not being made public.
Once it is made public, it will easily cause misunderstanding among the public and bring about many unnecessary troubles.
"Well, that's fine."
Li Quan just needs to find a closed and odor-free environment and carefully identify what drugs have been filled in this cigarette butt before?
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In a room in the police station, Li Quan held the cigarette butt and sniffed it carefully.
It has the smell of astragalus, which is quite strong.
There is also the smell of realgar.
These two substances do not have hallucinogenic effects. There must be some important drug ingredient that has not been discovered yet.
Li Quan continued to tackle the problem.
It has a very light herbal smell, a bit like mushroom, which is quite light.
There are some poisonous mushrooms among mushrooms, which do have hallucinogenic effects.
But I have never heard of any kind of mushroom that can cause poisoning through the smoke produced by burning.
Generally, you need to eat it to get poisoned.
What kind of medicinal material is it?
If you listen carefully, you can find that its smell is somewhat different from that of mushrooms.
Li Quan closed his eyes and thought carefully, and in his mind emerged many experiences in drug identification accumulated by the great doctor Li Shizhen.
Nothing much was gained.
It seems that even Li Shizhen might not have seen this herb.
After Li Quan learned more divine medical skills, he learned a new way of using them, which was to use two or even more divine medical skills together.
It's a bit like the combination punches in fighting.
By combining two or more different boxing techniques, its lethality is often increased several times.
There is no medicine with this smell in Li Shizhen's medical experience, so what about other great doctors such as Shen Kuo and Bian Que?
At this moment, Li Quan's brain was like a scanner, and the medical skills and treatment experience of all the miracle doctors were ready.
First, scan Shen Kuo's medical experience.
Because Shen Kuo was very good at pharmacology and medicinal properties.
In terms of identifying and distinguishing medicines, he must have accumulated knowledge far beyond that of other miracle doctors.
It’s a pity that I didn’t find what I wanted in Shen Kuo’s medical experience.
Li Quan was not discouraged, but continued his investigation like a miracle doctor.
Believe in so many miracle doctors, there will always be a time to reap rewards.
When he checked Wu Zixu's medical experience in treating tomb diseases, he was surprised to find that the smell of one of the medicines was highly similar to the smell he smelled from cigarette butts.
Yes, this is the medicine.
The name of this medicine is Corpse Ginseng, and it only appears in tombs.
The seed of each corpse ginseng is a corpse.
Moreover, in order to make ginseng grow on a corpse, extremely harsh conditions are required.
This is how it is recorded in Wu Zixu's medical experience.
Corpse ginseng grows on or inside graves, in dark and rotten places. It uses dead bodies as seeds and can survive for more than a hundred years if left untouched. Corpse ginseng is poisonous and has a hypnotic and anesthetic effect. Legend has it that this medicine can bring the dead back to life.
Unfortunately, Li Quan has not yet learned Bian Que's technique of bringing the dead back to life.
Otherwise, there might be a mention of corpse ginseng.
"It is now certain that the poison in Sophie's body was undoubtedly the corpse ginseng."
As for why the criminals mixed the two herbs, Astragalus and Realgar, into the cigarettes, this did not pose a problem for Li Quan.
The pharmacopoeia describes the functions and indications of Astragalus as follows: replenishing qi and strengthening the exterior, expelling toxins and pus, promoting urination, and promoting tissue regeneration. It is used for qi deficiency and fatigue, chronic diarrhea and prolapse of the anus, spontaneous sweating, edema, uterine prolapse, proteinuria in chronic nephritis, diabetes, and wounds that do not heal for a long time.
It can cure many kinds of diseases.
Special mention is made of tonifying Qi, strengthening the exterior, expelling toxins and draining pus.
The purpose of adding this thing is probably to reduce the harm of the corpse ginseng to the human body so as not to cause death, serious injury or disability.
Another drug, realgar, is composed mainly of sulfide minerals, mainly arsenic disulfide.
Realgar is warm and dry, can attack poison and treat sores, and is a medicine for treating sores and killing poisons. It is suitable for carbuncles, boils, snake and insect bites, scabies, etc. It has the effect of insecticide.
In fact, many people don’t know that realgar has a catalytic effect after burning.
It can catalyze any drug, including alcohol, poison, medical treatment, etc.
The criminal is definitely an expert at making medicine.
At least be proficient in pharmacology.
Astragalus can protect the patient's body from fatal damage, while realgar can accelerate the onset of the phantom poison in Sophie's body.
No wonder Sophie listened to the other person and followed him in just a dozen minutes.
Now, the mystery has finally been solved and we have found out what drug the criminals gave Sophie.
Li Quan only needs to find a way to prescribe a medicine to neutralize the poison and restore Sophie to normal.
Coming out of the evidence room, Li Quan found Officer Han sitting in the office resting.
Police officers are also human beings, and they work very hard to handle cases.
Working overtime is the norm.
It's already late at night, and Officer Han must be sleepy.
After all, he is not young.
"Director Li, have you completed the identification of the composition of the cigarette butt?" When Officer Han saw Li Quan coming out, he quickly perked up and greeted Li Quan.
"I guess I've gained something!" Li Quan nodded with a smile. "Thank you and all the police officers today, otherwise my girlfriend wouldn't have been rescued so quickly."
Li Quan expressed his sincere gratitude to these police officers.
"It is our duty to protect the lives and property of the people. You are welcome, President Li. If you don't mind, come to my office for a cup of tea."
Officer Han extended the invitation.
There are people coming and going here, so this is not a place for conversation.
"Excuse me!"
Li Quan followed him into Officer Han's office.
With the door closed, the two could talk without worry.
"Brother Han, did you get anything out of the two captured kidnappers?" Li Quan asked.
"We've found out some things. Let me show you the interrogation records." Officer Han stood up and handed two interrogation records to Li Quan.
After taking it, Li Quan looked at it carefully.
"The medicine given to Sophie is called love poison?" Li Quan frowned slightly.
I don’t know whether this love poison is made up of the three medicines, realgar, astragalus and ginseng, or there are other medicines?
When he goes back and studies Sophie's blood carefully, he should be able to draw a conclusion.
For a person to be poisoned, whether through ingestion, inhalation, or direct injection, it ultimately must be through a medium, which is human blood.
Because blood is the medium for transporting nutrients to the human body.
Only it can provide nutrition to various organs and tissues of the human body.
Therefore, after Li Quan returns and studies Sophie's blood sample, he will definitely be able to further confirm it.
What he wanted to know now was the information about the escaped kidnapper and why these people attacked Sophie?
If it was just an ordinary kidnapper, he might have thought Sophie was very beautiful and had evil intentions and wanted to kidnap her.
However, judging from the overall strength displayed by the escaped kidnapper, it is impossible that he attacked Sophie just because she was beautiful.
Because of the criminal's strength, he has no shortage of beautiful women.
It’s okay to be a groom every night.
After all, girls these days are many times more open-minded than in ancient times, and may be influenced by Western culture.
For example, in the past, if a girl lost her virginity before getting married, the man would break off the engagement. The girl’s family would also feel that it was a great shame and they would not be able to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives.
Now look at the present, intact virgins are only found in kindergartens and primary schools.
Even some junior high school girls couldn't resist the temptations and ended up giving away their virginity.
The kidnapper who escaped was so powerful, he must be well-funded.
If you want a beautiful woman, just create some chance encounters, or go to a bar or other nightclub, show off your abilities, and there will immediately be women who are willing to throw themselves into your arms .
But at their level, women have become something very cheap.
It's simply impossible to put so much thought into it, using poison and kidnapping.
"It turns out that these two captured kidnappers don't know the personal situation of the escaped kidnapper?" Li Quan was a little disappointed after reading the interrogation records.
"I believe the two kidnappers are telling the truth. The kidnapper who escaped has a very high status and is very mysterious. The two of them only know that even their boss has to listen to the kidnapper who escaped."
When Officer Han said this, his brows were furrowed into a shape of a "川" (river).
With his experience in solving cases, he had long realized that there must be a huge criminal gang behind the two kidnappers.
Modern criminal gangs are not like the ancient gangs that fought and killed each other all day long.
They are better at faking makeup and hiding their true identity.
For example, if they open a company and pretend to be the boss or employee of a legitimate company, but usually do some illegal and criminal things, it is extremely secretive and difficult for people to catch them.
"Is there a frontal photo of the kidnapper who escaped?" Li Quan asked.
All we know is that the kidnapper who escaped was nicknamed 'Death', he was very powerful and killed people without blinking an eye.
I know nothing else.
No one even knows the man's real age.
Including the two kidnappers who were captured.
"Yes, yes! I'll send it to your phone right away." Officer Han quickly sent two photos and a surveillance video to Li Quan's phone.
"Ah...it turned out to be him!" Li Quan was shocked after watching the surveillance video.
It turns out that the escaping 'Grim Reaper' was actually the man who had been chatting with Sophie and harassing her with a cigarette.
"Brother Han, if you find any other information about this group of people, please let me know at any time. I will think of a way to help your police capture this escaped kidnapper as soon as possible."
With this person's front-facing photo, Li Quan no longer has to worry about not finding him.
Sui Fei's family fled China.
"Okay, we have new progress here and will inform you immediately." Officer Han also stood up with Li Quan.
"It's already late today, you should go home and rest early." Li Quan waved goodbye to Officer Han. "No need to see me off, I'll contact you via WeChat or phone."
Li Quan came out of the police station and hurried back to the hospital.
He wanted to study Sophie's blood sample immediately.
