Chapter 5 The Hidden Microphone

  I laughed and scolded loudly while teasing it. After a while, I tied the rope head in my palm to the only remaining blade of the small electric fan, placed the handle on the table, and pressed some magazines firmly. The fan started moving, and the black cloth ball began to shake violently. Momo saw that this "little mouse" had gone crazy, and with a spirit of not giving up, it followed suit, and suddenly the whole room was filled with ringing sounds.

  At this time, I plugged the newly bought earphones into my phone and played a song. I quietly took off my shoes, wearing only socks, and slowly moved from one corner of the room to another.

  As I walked over to the closet, a faint "zzt zzt" sound came from the headphones.

  The closer I got to the back of the closet, the more intense the rustling sound became. Upon closer inspection, at the bottom of the partition board on the back panel of the closet, there was a black box about half the size of my palm, stuck to the closet with plastic tape, and two drawing pins were pressed against it on either side. If you didn't pay attention, you wouldn't notice it at all.

  It's indeed a bug.

  There are several types of eavesdropping devices, and this is one of the more common ones. The principle is actually quite simple - it's essentially a mobile phone with excellent microphone capabilities that has a SIM card inside. When you need to eavesdrop, you just dial the number of the SIM card from your own phone, and the device will activate, transmitting every sound in the room to the listener's phone without missing a single detail.

  Now this kind of thing is only 300 yuan, with a slightly stronger function, such as an eavesdropper that automatically turns on when the sound in the room exceeds 60 decibels, it's around 500-800 yuan, and the volume is smaller than this, only the size of a matchbox. However, in 2007, before the mobile phone market was subverted by Apple, the cost of making this thing was not cheap either. If you add the mobile card and phone bill inside, it's even more expensive.

  But such a high-end gadget was found so easily by my 18-dollar broken earphone, if the person who installed this bug knew about it, they would probably be furious. By the way, the worse the earphone is, the more sensitive it is to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the mobile phone.

  I know many friends can guess the intention behind my actions, but I'll still elaborate on why I opened all the kitchen cabinets at home and then went to tease Momo - it's simple: if a listening device is installed in the cabinet, whether the cabinet door is open or closed will directly affect the volume of the sound transmitted. If someone is eavesdropping, Momo's bell suddenly gets louder, and at that time, I should be playing with Momo, how could I have time to open the cabinet? So this person will immediately understand that I actually used the bell sound to distract their attention.

  I don't want to miss a single detail. As the saying goes, if you tell one lie, you have to tell twenty more lies to cover it up. If you're going to tell a lie, you have to make sure all the details support that lie.

  I went back to Momo's side, turned off the electric fan, and picked up the black cloth ball again. Of course, I had been teasing Momo earlier just to keep the bell on its neck ringing continuously. If someone was eavesdropping, they would think I was playing with the kitten all along and would never suspect that their carefully laid plan had already been exposed here.

  One hand shaking the rope, while recalling Wang Haichuan's words. From his account, it seems that Xiao Lüqi was likely poisoned. And this white walnut-shaped cat's ovarian cyst is an important tool for temporarily suppressing toxicity and controlling the mind of the person being poisoned.

  Poisoning? What kind of poison? Was it taken orally or injected? How to detoxify? These are the problems I need to solve next. I secretly decided that before I start investigating this matter, I must move Xiao Lü Qi to a safe place. The reason is simple, it's because of that guy Chen Zi Qi. If Wang Yong Shun wrote in his diary on May 28th, 2007 "If he hadn't spoken up, I would have killed that bastard" the "he" refers to Chen Zi Qi and the "bastard" refers to me. Combining the whole narrative of the diary, it can be seen that this guy is Wang Yong Shun's boss. I also remembered another sentence from the diary...

  "November 2006 Chen Ziqi is a good guy, should have good stuff"

  "November 2006 - Who knew it could be played like this! It's so exciting!"

  "December 2006 is still conditional after all. Must respond? Dilemma."

  "In December 2006 I still wanted to go again, but"

  "On January 13th, 2007, Chen Ziqi was indeed all-powerful and omnipresent, and it was so easy for him to get into such a good hospital"

  If we connect these events, Chen Ziqi gave Wang Yongshun a little sweetness after getting to know him, and then asked him to take advantage of his work convenience to secretly give people things. Wang Yongshun couldn't resist the temptation of the sweetness and finally agreed. Chen Ziqi arranged for him to enter the Chest Hospital. As for the position of the mortuary administrator, there were not many people who wanted to do it in the first place. As long as a little trickery was used, the success rate of replacing people would be very high!

  Chen Ziqi, who is likely to be the mastermind behind the murder of Xiao Luqi and ordered Wang Yongshun to carry it out, what kind of person is he? I infer that he should be a middle-aged man over 40 years old, with a lot of money, complex social relationships, and some connections in many hospitals. Of course, even if someone has connections, they should only be superficial - because, from Wang Yongshun's diary entries "This woman is very serious, I have to pretend to be honest" / "The people here are so serious, it's really troublesome", I estimate that there are no other insiders in the hospital. Neither Wang Yongshun's previous administrator nor others in the hospital should be accomplices. Wang Yongshun was fighting alone.

  However, there is a problem right away:

  If Wang Yongshun was acting alone, how could someone who works in the morgue every day give poison to Xiao Luqi? If Chen Ziqi had connections at the hospital, why didn't he arrange for Xiao Luqi to be placed in a single room, wouldn't that have been easier? In many hospitals, male and female wards are separate, I'm not sure if it's the same with chest hospitals. At least, with more people around, it would definitely not be convenient to take action.

  I suddenly remembered something, picked up a thing on the table, and sniffed it hard under my nose. A pungent smell, obviously this is 502 strong glue. Luckily that day I applied it to my clothes, if I squeezed it onto my gloves, the fingers of the gloves would definitely stick together quickly and become unusable.

  Then, I picked up the two hairs that were pressed by the lighter and roasted them with the lighter. They broke off immediately. I hurriedly smelled the smell.

  If this were Xiao Luqi's hair, it should be curly when heated and have a unique smell. People who have had their hair permed or seen others get their hair permed should know this smell. However, this hair breaks off immediately when burned, without curling, and has a strong burning plastic smell. It should be synthetic fake hair. In that case, it's likely that the stand-in corpse had short hair, which is why they needed fake hair to make up for it.

  I picked up the gauze again and took a look inside. It was those things that looked like candles, which I had scraped from the bucket in the autopsy room, grayish white in color, but with a completely different smell - paraffin is usually odorless, while this thing had a strong stench of decay, similar to what I smelled when I entered the morgue last night. I pinched it between my fingers and rubbed it, and it had already hardened and dried up, which was also completely different from candles.

  My heart skipped a beat, could it be...

  Rushed to the bed and pulled out a box, took out a bottle of soda water.

  I love drinking this kind of soda water the most, the carbonated ingredients help to dispel summer heat and replenish physical strength. The salt contains sodium, and the soda water has carbonate, which means there is enough sodium carbonate in it. I clutched a pinch of greyish-white powder in my hand, threw it into the bottle, and it disappeared in an instant.

  I'm going to die, this TM is not actually "stone wax", but rather two words that are basically homophones: "corpse wax"!

  Adipocere, also known as corpse wax, is a substance formed from the fatty parts of the body that have undergone decomposition. It is often seen in bodies that have been submerged in water or buried in moist, poorly ventilated areas for an extended period of time. Due to the slow process of decay, after approximately 3-6 months, the subcutaneous fat decomposes into fatty acids and glycerol. The fatty acids combine with ammonia from protein decomposition products to form adipocere, which then combines with calcium and magnesium in water to produce a grayish-white waxy substance with an extremely unpleasant odor.

  It's precisely because of its chemical composition that I can quickly determine what it is with soda water.

  Because the formation cycle is relatively long and the conditions are quite special, this phenomenon is not common. Generally speaking, a fully waxed corpse can only collect large pieces of corpse wax in areas with concentrated fat (such as the abdomen, buttocks, and breasts for female corpses). However, if I saw that small half-bucket of stearin-like substance was indeed corpse wax, it's estimated to be collected from at least 5 or 6 fully waxed corpses. If a full bucket is needed, it would likely require even more than 20 corpses. Collecting so much corpse wax is a massive undertaking! Corpses in hospitals are properly preserved in mortuaries and quickly cremated, so they won't produce corpse wax. This task is definitely not something that Wang Yongshun could accomplish alone.

  Oh! No wonder there was a sudden stench in the mortuary, it's actually the smell of corpse wax!

  I recall almost fainting beside the bucket of embalming fluid, thinking it was because the alcohol swabs in my nostrils had stopped working. It turned out that I was so close to a bucket of extremely nauseating and putrid substance, which was the source of the stench!

  Wait! Several things flashed through my mind and suddenly connected the dots. The scene that night in the morgue replayed before my eyes like a movie...