Son of the Stars

Chapter 9 I'm afraid it's not
The middle-aged man thoughtfully moved the surveillance video back a few frames, and it just stopped at the scene where Rangna was covered in cracks all over her body.

Lu Chen looked at the image, and asked after a while, "Since you have seen the whole process, do you still think that I have something to do with the explosion?"

"We are just an investigation agency, we don't make judgments." The middle-aged man regained his "can handle it" expression, and no longer had the aggressive feeling before, "Dr. Lu, after Tang Qinglong signaled you to enter the control room Did someone give you a visitor card when it was time?"

Lu Chen blinked, and it took a while before he replied, "No..."

"Destroying the security system will objectively lead to risk exposure..." The middle-aged man muttered while writing, and just said a few words, he suddenly raised his head and said to Lu Chen who had a surprised expression, "Don't be nervous, the content of this evaluation is not aimed at Yours. The investigation on you is basically over, and you can go back in about half an hour."
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When Lu Chen saw the blue sky again, he couldn't even feel a sense of gratitude for "surviving the catastrophe".

Too tired, not sleeping for more than ten hours, focusing on answering questions repeatedly... This idea has nothing to do with "humanity" at all.And the changes that followed were even more frustrating.

Now, as long as Lu Chen closes his eyes, the last scene of Rangna will emerge from the black smoke in front of him.As a doctor, Lu Chen has seen patients who died after treatment failed.But such a tragic and even desperate scene, let alone seen it, Lu Chen had never even heard of it.

The liquid gushing out of Jeanna's body hole may be a large amount of deformed protein, mixed with dead red blood cells or other cell fluids.

That scene was so hopeless that Lu Chen's first reaction was to deny its reality.That was a model hospital, and in this kind of high-level hospital, Jeanna, who was undergoing hypothermia treatment to relieve her high fever, still cooked herself alive.

This feeling of despair even made Lu Chen silent.He was quite sure that he was incapable of accurately conveying this sense of hopelessness to others.He couldn't even explain to Mu Zhiran why he almost blurted out in despair when he saw this scene, "It's better to give up earlier, at least you don't have to suffer like this if you die earlier."

Speaking of the "give up early" part.

Lu Chen took out the phone, checked the time, and put the phone back in his pocket.

How about going back to the dormitory to sleep first?Hmm...that's sure to be a good idea.I'm so sleepy now that I seem to have seen Dr. Mu—at this time, she should still be doing experiments, right?

Lu Chen started walking in one direction.But the choice of this direction is completely random - this is the "working place" of the Comprehensive Investigation Bureau, and a special agency such as the Comprehensive Investigation Bureau will naturally not have any public labels.Lu Chen, who just came out of the investigation bureau, couldn't even find the north, let alone "find the direction back to the dormitory".

He hadn't taken a few steps when he heard the sound of quick footsteps behind him.Although he heard footsteps and judged that the sound was getting closer to him, the exhausted Lu Chen still couldn't react.After finally waiting for him to turn around to look at it, a limp body had already smashed over.

Lu Chen was bumped and sat on the ground, holding Mu Zhiran who was supposed to be still in the laboratory in his arms, at a loss.
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After waking up, looking at the gloomy sky, Lu Chen couldn't figure out how long he had slept.

The headache was splitting, and the sky was dark.Lu Chen reluctantly got up from the bed, sat on the edge of the bed in a daze for a while, and then roughly recalled a few important episodes.For example, the questions that lasted for sixteen hours, such as asking about the unfamiliar blue sky outside... and Mu Zhiran who bumped himself and cried in his arms for a long time.

And... Rang Na, whose skin was all chapped, with many dark red wounds.

Lu Chen took a few deep breaths, and fell asleep without taking off his clothes before, but now it is convenient - he can go out with his coat on.

After walking quickly, and sending Mu Zhiran a message to inform him that he was awake, Lu Chen rushed directly to the office of the Institute of Physics.

After searching around, Lu Chen failed to meet Academician Tang Qinglong.According to the assistant teacher, academician Tang went to the regular meeting of the academic committee this morning, and he probably won't be back until tomorrow.

The Institute of Physics was in vain, which made Lu Chen even more anxious.After finding Yang Weimin in the biology building, the anxiety in Lu Chen's heart eased a little.

Seeing Lu Chen rushing to push the door and enter, Yang Weimin was startled at first, and then quickly comforted his student, "They are also performing their duties, and they are not personal. Don't take this kind of thing too seriously..."

"Brother Yang, something serious happened." Lu Chen's mind was in a mess, and he didn't have time to play charades with his mentor. "I saw the video... bed 42, that's Rangna..."

Lu Chen trembled, and Rory began to talk about what he had seen.Yang Weimin frowned at the beginning, but then the more he listened, the more chilled he became, and the more he listened, the more worried he became.

This kind of long-winded and lack of focus description itself is not a big problem, it may just be that my students have not had a good rest and are too nervous.But the content of this description, it does not sound abnormal in general.

There is a limit to human body temperature. If only relying on self-heating, the limit will not exceed 43 degrees Celsius.But there are exceptions to this situation-the high fever caused by heat stroke may cause the body temperature to break through this "checkpoint".

But Jeanne couldn't be at any risk of heatstroke, her only risk would be hypothermia.There is a limit to how much heat the human body can generate, and there is also a limit to heat dissipation.Generally speaking, the short-term heat production limit of the human body is about 1000 watts, while the heat dissipation limit at room temperature is 400 watts.

The demonstration hospital gave Rangna a rough estimate of the cooling method, which probably has an additional 800 watts of cooling capacity.At this level, Jeanna's body temperature should at least "remain stable", not to mention dropping.

In any case, the physiological structure of human beings determines that it is absolutely impossible for Jeanna to cook herself alive under the suppression of this method.

Even if it is cooked, it will take a long time - slow cooking at low temperature will take more than ten hours to start.

But the scene in the video is not the case at all.In the video that Lu Chen saw, Jeanna's vital signs were quite stable—until the completely unexpected and fatal crack occurred.

Lu Chen seriously recalled it a few times, and he was very sure that it took only a few seconds from "everything was normal" to "the whole body was cracked".Dr. Saval, who used the medical recorder, even failed to give any treatment to Jeanne, and the cracked Jeanne turned into a white light.

"I remember you said that Thomas also had a persistent high fever before, right?" As a medical expert, Yang Weimin was extremely sensitive to clinical symptoms, "Sustained high fever, this may be a symptom..."

"Brother Yang, what are you talking about..." Lu Chen was speechless, "What type of disease can turn a person into light? Ultraman virus?"

Speaking of the consequences of chapping, Lu Chen and Yang Weimin fell silent at the same time.In the end, Lu Chen was the first to ask, "Is there an accident report?"

"The death toll is still being counted, but it is estimated that the number of people in the demonstration hospital at that time will not be less than 1." Yang Weimin lowered his eyes and wanted to say something, but finally ended the emotion with silence.

After the big crash, people showed amazingly severe "schizophrenia" in mass death events.Every life is worth doubly cherishing, but tens of thousands of people suddenly died at the same time... This is not a particularly unimaginable thing.

There really isn't much to do but sigh.

"Brother Yang, you may have to postpone your evaluation of academicians this time." Lu Chen broke the silence and said, "Regardless of the cause of the explosion and who is behind the scenes, anyway, I think...someone is going to take advantage of this opportunity to make things difficult. Let's talk about Academician Tang."

Lu Chen's judgment came from the middle-aged man who was muddling along.The attitude of the other party has almost reached the point where he does not intend to hide it at all-even entering the control room without a visitor card, he can be labeled as "breaking the security system".

I don't know who it is, why they plan to embarrass Academician Tang... But he is always an opponent who dares to wrestle with Academician.Taking the liberty of mixing it in, Yang Weimin and Lu Chen might not even be considered cannon fodder, they were crushed into flying ash in the blink of an eye.

Yang Weimin also thought of this possibility, he frowned and asked, "We can't get involved in this matter..."

"I'm going to remind Academician Tang, the rest is up to him." Lu Chen spread his hands, "Anyway, Zhiran's thesis has also been produced, and graduation is no problem."
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When seeing Mu Zhiran again, Lu Chen clearly felt his girlfriend's depression.He comforted Mu Zhiran for a long time, but the results were not very obvious.

"I don't understand...Thomas is quite nice. Although he doesn't like to talk, he is still very helpful..." Mu Zhiran was depressed, and she leaned into Lu Chen's arms and said in a muffled voice, "Why is he Has something to do with extreme religion?"

"Actually being related...doesn't mean that he agrees with or participates in such an organization." Sitting by the playground, Lu Chen explained to Mu Zhiran in his arms, "Thomas may have a friend who joined an extremist organization, but he I don't know."

After picking up Lu Chen, Mu Zhiran returned to the Institute of Physics and found that Thomas' locker had been pried.And before she had time to report to the security department, she saw a huge "notice" in the lounge.

The notice stated that Thomas was related to an extremist religious organization.And the notice stated that the explosion of the collider was an attack carefully planned by Thomas.Relevant departments have started further investigations on this and may discuss it with you in detail in the near future.

What other people think Mu Zhiran doesn't know, but she thinks...Thomas doesn't have this kind of motive for committing the crime, let alone the ability to commit the crime.A high-energy physicist who controls collider experiments, where can he get such a large amount of explosives?
And even if it was a deliberate act of sabotage, why didn't he detonate it when Academician Tang was present, but instead escaped from the hospital and then set off the explosion?If the purpose is to destroy, blowing up the collider and killing a physicist at the same time... Isn't that bad?
Mu Zhiran couldn't figure it out, she stubbornly believed that Thomas did not plan the bombing.After listening to all of Mu Zhiran's inferences, Lu Chen chose to shut up.

The red aurora in the sky gradually dimmed. Lu Chen, who stared at the aurora for a long time, suddenly said, "If...Thomas was really wronged."

"Then, Thomas' situation may be the same as that of Jeanna." Lu Chen said in a low voice, "The explosion happened to them... I'm afraid this is not a terrorist attack."

"Isn't it a terrorist attack? What was that?" Mu Zhiran turned his head and asked, "An accident?"

"I hope it's an accident." Lu Chen shook his head, "I'm afraid it's not."

(End of this chapter)