Chapter 536: Angry teenager?
"Found it. At 1:18 p.m., a girl sprayed something on the salad bar." Hannah leaned out of the van.
"Then it's time for me to go back. Let me know when you confirm your identity." Danny Regan flipped the cigarette butt into the sewer on the roadside unethically, stood up and patted his butt.
After saying that, he directly found an NYPD police car on the side of the road, got into it, and asked the patrolman to take him to the police station along the way.
Jack and Hannah went directly back to the operations center. Jubal had received the video file. When the two returned to the big office, he was giving a briefing.
"It seems salads aren't always a healthy eating choice, and CSI Labs has confirmed that the synthetic tetrodotoxin, or TTX, found on the salad bar is the culprit this time.
Good News It’s true that this thing is not contagious, but that’s all. It’s odorless and extremely lethal. Does the CDC have anything to add?”
A hanging visitor? The CDC female doctor, whose temperament was very similar to the Dr. Morgan whom Jack had met, introduced to the crowd,
“There is currently no antidote for TTX, and the onset time varies depending on each person’s constitution. Same, so people will continue to die in the next few hours, and we have sent everyone who has eaten in this fast food restaurant to the hospital, but in fact there is not much the doctors can do."< br>
“As far as I know, there is currently no mature synthesis technology for TTX. The price of high-purity TTX per gram will not be less than 100,000 US dollars. Who would use such an expensive poison for poisoning?”
Jack had thought that someone had obtained some highly toxic puffer fish guts and directly extracted it. However, CSI confirmed that it was artificially synthesized high-purity reagent-grade TTX, which was very interesting.
Wouldn’t it be nice to use this technology to make money directly? You must know that poisons are also medicines. Since TTX can cut off power to the nervous system without any sequelae afterwards, this means that it is a more powerful anesthetic than tablets and is not addictive.
Therefore, TTX can also be used to get rid of physiological drug addiction, and the effect is very good. It is precisely because of problems with production and research progress that there is currently no mature TTX drug on the market.
The female CDC doctor looked at Jack with surprise and nodded, "Indeed, TTX has a complex structure of oxygen-rich interconnected rings, and it has been quite difficult for organic chemists to synthesize it.
Although the first successful experiment on synthetic TTX was conducted as early as 1972, the process was extremely cumbersome and the yield was extremely low. It has remained in the laboratory stage. However, not long ago, a study at New York University The team successfully invented a new process
They reduced the synthesis steps to 22, increased the yield to 11%, and the materials required were mainly common materials available on the market. "
"OK, this means that we are dealing with an organic chemist who pays attention to cutting-edge science. Of course, it does not rule out that he is a guy who is good at using the dark web. "
Jubal said, projecting a photo on the screen, "We found a suspected suspect through facial recognition. Her name is Caroline Sabatak, a white person. I was sixteen years old and had just been admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital. My symptoms were consistent with those of TTX poisoning patients.
Guess what, she is not on the dining list we counted. The hospital found that something was wrong and just provided her information. ERT (FBI Evidence Response Team) is rummaging through the places where she passed. Trash cans along the street, hoping to find her poisoning tools. "
"The pattern on her T-shirt comes from an anarchist dark heavy metal band. Their propagandists are very radical and highly inflammatory, and they are very popular among teenagers. ”
Dana Moger walked into the office and pointed at the photo on the screen.
Seeing everyone giving her surprised looks, she shrugged her shoulders carelessly, "If you have a daughter who is in the rebellious period of youth, you will understand these things like me.< br>
This small group is very amateur and very radical. Imagine a tattooed man wearing various metal rings on his skin, playing an electric guitar on the stage and roaring at the top of his lungs to destroy authority and capital. You guys can Understood."
"It sounds very convincing. It is close to Wall Street and belongs to the financial district. Most of the victims serve capitalists. Maybe they regard it as some kind of declaration." Anna. guessed.
"Let's go to Mount Sinai Hospital, hoping she can still talk." The car key dexterously turned twice around Jack's finger. "Hurry up, the whole New York is panicking now, and I don't know if I should eat tonight."
Dana Moger said it was a bit exaggerated, but it illustrates the seriousness of the situation. Today's movement is no less than the previous apartment building explosion. The CDCs in chemical protective suits are more shocking to New York than the bombs. The citizens were horrified.
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“When she came home, she couldn’t even speak and could hardly stand, so I quickly drove her here. Now the doctor can’t even speak. Determine if she can still wake up."
Caroline Zapatak's mother is a middle-class woman who seems to have a good life. Her eyes are red. Although she is worried about her daughter's condition, she still speaks very well. Organized.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Sabatak." Hannah and Jack looked at each other and took the initiative to comfort her.
“I don’t even know why she eats there, we’ve never even been to that place in Manhattan.” Ms. Sabatak complained in a low voice, obviously she still didn’t know that her daughter was not simply a Victims, but more likely perpetrators.
Hannah helped her sit down on the bench next to the hospital corridor, "Do you know why she went to that place?"
"Maybe it was to meet her online friends, she I have almost no friends around me, most of them are online, and I have never met them. Is there a problem with this? I don’t understand why you ask this.”
Being watched by two FBIs with solemn faces. Then, Ms. Sabatak became a little wary.
"That's right, we need to find all the victims to avoid omissions. You have to know, uh. Some people may not know yet."
Jack lied casually, but he did not expect that it caused Sa Ms. Batak has more associations.
“Do you think Caroline is being targeted?”
Ah, Jack was speechless for a moment, but Hannah was keenly aware of the problem.
"We have not received similar information. Has your daughter had any conflicts or conflicts with others?"
The scowl on Ms. Zapatak's face became even worse, as if Hannah's question opened her conversation,
"Caroline has had a hard time at school in the past few years. As you know, at this age Children can be very cruel, and she had to change schools twice in the past two years because she suffered some very excessive bullying on campus."
Jack's eyelids twitched, and American-style adolescence finally appeared. Appeared. I don’t know why. After coming to this world, all the teenagers he met were mature and sensible.
Whether it is Kara who escaped from the pervert or the invincible, well-behaved and sensible daughter of the Cassel family, they are simply out of this world compared to those things he saw in American TV series. This time he finally let He met a "normal" one.
"How long has this been going on?" Hannah asked.
"After her father left without saying goodbye, about five years ago, he packed a bag and disappeared from our lives. After that, Caroline's behavior became a little out of control.
< br>From the beginning there were all kinds of unprovoked emotional outbursts, and then I would often find her burning things in the room, some old photos and old clothes.
I knew this incident had brought a lot to her. The injury also made her become more sensitive and impulsive in school, and this behavior caused her to be ostracized and bullied by her classmates, and the situation worsened. "
Jack subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Ka on the hospital bed. Lorraine Zapatak, well, doesn't seem to be mulatto, well, he's narrow-minded.
(End of this chapter)