Chapter 40: Behind the Plague of Locusts
On the way to the laboratory, I received a call from Deputy Director Song of the Kyoto General Administration. He told me that the General Administration had received a complaint here, saying that our special service team caused the death of a newly-employed staff member of the provincial bureau, but the explanation given was very far-fetched. According to the evidence surveyed by local departments later, most of my stories were not verified in kind. They suspected that I had concealed some things here, and they also said that no matter what, the Central Working Group explained the death of the personnel too far-fetchedly and asked me what was going on?
I sighed. Although the General Administration, the major regions, and the provincial bureaus all have vertical management models, the central government has the position of the central government and the local governments have the demands of the local government. It is impossible to be harmonious. Although we are the leader of the central working group, if we cannot achieve results and are captured, it is actually not so easy.
At the beginning, we were in Southern Province. Even with the full cooperation of local departments, there was no progress in more than a month. The superiors had thought of drawing us back.
In short, the court was in a turbulent situation. If you were not careful, you would be caught by your opponent and fall into a doomed place. Although it is safer for a guy like us who is on the front line, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no mistakes. Because the fat girl involved, I never had the mentality of perfunctory before setting off. I must be able to keep track of it. So I quickly explained the matter to Deputy Director Song. After learning about the whole thing, Deputy Director Song was silent for a long time before saying to me: "Zhicheng, I understand. I will help you suppress this matter, but you must get a result, otherwise..."
When Deputy Director Song was speaking seriously, I couldn't help but frown and asked, "Tao Song, what's wrong? Why are you talking weird?"
Deputy Director Song is a pragmatic official who has been involved in the gang of veterans of Wang Hongqi, the General Administration. He has been dealing with me for many years. I am familiar with each other, knowing myself and the enemy, and being very intimate. After all, it is not a lifeless central agency, so we usually use the close name in the world. This can be seen from the fact that I always call him "Touer Song". However, after he hesitating for a while today, I felt some bad signs.
Sure enough, when I asked this, he did not hide it from me, but said to me earnestly: "Zhicheng, since the establishment of the special service team, you have always been the number one general under my jurisdiction. We are familiar with each other, and I will not hide it from you in all things. Recently, the Political Department of the General Administration presented a research report to the Standing Committee, which was about you. The Political Department felt that although you have made many great achievements, your style of doing things is too rough and nepotism, especially the case you handled in Jinling and Shiyan last time, and you did not leave any survivors, and it was too violent, so..."
Deputy Director Song suddenly stopped talking and said no more, while I fell into silence. Indeed, after I was kidnapped by Cheng Yang last time, I was so angry in my heart and also fell into Li Cang's calculations, which made no one of the more than 50 people present survive. No matter who was put on this matter, people would be suspected of whether it was too evil.
When I heard Deputy Director Song stop talking, I smiled bitterly, "Tao Song, please finish your words at once. Don't worry, I won't be passive and slacking off."
Deputy Director Song said "Hmm" and then said: "In addition to these, there are also others who point out that the martial arts you practice, in addition to the orthodox Maoshan Taoism, seem to have some hidden magic skills. You know, although our department is now in an inclusive and open attitude, the mainstream ideas are still influenced by the thoughts of those famous and upright schools. Therefore, some people suggest that the reason why you are so fierce is because of practicing magic skills. Some people have always wanted to get you out of the front line, so you need to be extra careful."
I couldn't help but smile bitterly, saying, "Can I withdraw me, and the verbal and scheming guys in the Political Department take the initiative and do some practical things?"
Deputy Director Song also smiled bitterly on the other end of the phone and said, "Athleticism, you know, the national conditions are like this, and there is no way to do it. After all, it is still impossible to do without supervision for such a special department. Not only me, but the bosses above actually see your achievements. The report from the Political Department was also suppressed by Boss Wang himself. But you know, Boss Wang is not able to make a decision on it at one time, there are other people..."
The "other people" mentioned by Deputy Director Song is actually referring to those guys in high positions in the Longhu Mountain lineage. My outstanding performance over the years has made Zhao Chengfeng, who has appeared in Longhu Mountain, is much mediocre. If I can pull me down from the front line, this will be the most beneficial to Zhao Chengfeng's career and can also suppress the expansion of Maoshan lineage's influence in the court.
The officialdom is dangerous, and I knew that Deputy Director Song had such kindness, so I thanked him quickly. After hanging up the phone, the car rushed to the building where the laboratory was. Lin Hao and I hurriedly got out of the car and left. Zhang Liyun was waiting at the door. Seeing me coming, he hurriedly came forward to say hello and guided the way. I followed him all the way to the elevator, and then asked what was found, making it so hurry? Zhang Liyun smiled bitterly and said, "If you want to know about technical matters, let Ayi Ziluo tell you about it. She is a teacher, and I feel dizzy when I hear it."
I stopped talking, and when the elevator stopped, I came to the laboratory all the way. I pushed the door open and saw the short woman with big braids wearing a white coat, looking at the microscope with concentration. When I heard Zhang Liyun say that I was here, I nodded at me and said, "Team Leader Chen, wait a moment, I will talk about this specimen after I processed."
I nodded, not disturbing her work, and looked at this biology laboratory.
This is not the place of the municipal bureau, but was seconded from a biological research institution through relationships. There are many precision equipment inside, and the area is as big as two classrooms, divided into rooms of large and small. In the hall where we are, the operating table is filled with various specimens, including glassware, crystals, solutions and various forms... It can be seen that Ayi Ziluo is indeed very skillful, and is very different from the Gu Master I imagined.
Compared with the traditional Gu raising people, Ayi Ziluo is more like an expert and scholar who conducts research through scientific means, turning the mysterious and weird Gu poison into something more intuitive.
After four or five minutes of busy work, Ayi Ziluo put down his work and took out a piece of information from the workbench to hand it to me. I lowered my head and looked through it quickly. It consisted of various pictures and table statistics. Then I heard her explain to me: "Locusts belong to the family Locust family among Orthoptera insects. There are many species, with more than 10,000 species in the world. However, they can be roughly divided into long-horned locusts and short-horned locusts. Common species in our country include East Asian locusts, Red Honeylocusts, Taiwan’s big locusts, and rice locusts. However, I have heard of the locusts that appeared in the Dongying locust plague these days and found that the locusts that broke out this time do not belong to any known locusts - simply put, it is a new type of locust that has never been discovered!"
I nodded without hesitation. If this news was heard by a biologist, it would inevitably be extremely excited about the discovery of a new species, but it was not within my interest. If this was the case, it would not arouse my interest.
Seeing that I was indifferent, Ayi Ziluo frowned, as if he was a little dissatisfied with my attitude, but he continued: "Look at the enlarged photo, an ordinary locust has six legs, a body separate, a chest and abdomen, two pairs of wings on the chest, the forewing is horny and the hind wings are membranous. However, the locust found this time has seven legs. We found that there is an extra arthropod on its head. This situation is very rare. I have been studying it these days, and it is not until today that I finally discovered something..."
After saying that, she took off the rubber gloves on her hand, formed a strange seal on her hands, and then muttered her words. At this time, a small centipede-like fiery red insect crawled out of her chest, and wandered along her white skin to her arms.
The sudden little bug shocked me and subconsciously squinted my eyes. Perhaps I felt my hostility. The bug's upper body suddenly stood up, and a pair of red eyes as big as sesame seeds glared at me, shining with an evil light. Ayi Ziluo quickly comforted the bug. His slender fingers stroked the bug for several times before the bug obediently wandered from her palm and came to a vessel in front of the operating table.
There were more than a dozen locust corpses in the vessel, and the little insect bite them one by one. Ai Ziluo explained to me from the side: "My red centipede can refine and purify most of the biological toxins. I found that there was a new type of toxin in the extra arthropods..."
Before she could finish her words, the fiery red insect spit out a drop of green liquid on the slide next to her. Then Ayi Ziluo told me about a lot of toxins, which made me dizzy. Finally, she finally came to a conclusion: "So I believe that the ultimate goal of this locust plague is to artificially create a large amount of poison sources to provide food to a certain type of insect. According to this scale, I am afraid that the insect will not be too simple..."
Chapter completed!