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Chapter 107 Prayers and Sacrifice

The people from the scientific research team came over soon.

After the three of them came to the earth building, they couldn't wait to go to Grandma Zhuoma's room first.

Among these people, the one Li Tianque cares the most is Bai Ruixue.

Although Lu Zuzhi, Su Wei, and Bai Ruixue, who were in the hotel when the murderer committed another attack last night, did not leave the hotel, the suspicion of committing the crime can basically be ruled out.

But that doesn't mean they weren't suspect in the first homicide.

Especially Bai Ruixue, no matter from the motive of the murder or the loopholes in the transcript, Bai Ruixue was the most suspected.

Li Tianque focused on Bai Ruixue, but Bai Ruixue's attention was on the black beetle.

At this time, the black tiger armor in the glass jar was still curled up in the corner, struggling painfully.

Liang Zhichao and Su Wei nodded slightly to Li Tianque, and Liang Zhichao pointed to the altar on the wooden table and said:

"Here, this is the 'Emperor Tiger' I told you about. This time we are really lucky. I'm afraid this should be the first time that a living body has been discovered in the past 200 years."

"Emperor tiger armor? Does it have anything to do with the velvet tiger armor?" Li Tianque asked.

"It does matter. To be precise, it is a cousin. The Emperor Tiger Beetle is actually a subspecies of the Great King Tiger Beetle. It is extremely rare. So far, there are only twelve specimens in the world.

However, there are many legends about this kind of imperial tiger armor, and many Amazon natives also regard this kind of bug as a god. " Su Wei replied.

While the three of them were talking, Bai Ruixue had already walked quickly to the front of the glass tank.

She ignored the police present, but stared straight at the red glass.

Not long after, bursts of excitement burst out of Bai Ruixue's cold eyes.

She couldn't wait to put on the gloves, as if she was going to grab the black tiger armor inside.

Before she could make a move, Zhu Chunguang immediately stopped her and said:
"This is the scene of the crime, you can see it, but don't move around, it may destroy the evidence."

"Destroy the evidence? If you don't move, I'm afraid there won't be any evidence left." Bai Ruixue said sullenly.

Zhu Chunguang didn't understand why, and was about to refute.

Li Tianque quickly understood what Bai Ruixue meant.

In fact, Li Tianque also had a similar guess when he saw the state of the black beetle in the glass jar.

The scraps of paper next to the black beetle are probably not used to maintain the permeability of the soil, but the residue spit out by the black beetle.

"What do you mean?" Zhu Chunguang's eyes were burning.

"Officer, have you seen the scraps of paper around this emperor tiger armor? It should be the food scraps spit out by the emperor tiger armor.

After eating, this kind of imperial tiger armor usually spits out the remains of the food around the hole. "Su Wei immediately explained.

Zhu Chunguang's eyes lit up, and he said:

"In other words, this guy ate some kind of paper?"

"That's right, the content of this paper is probably the key clue." Su Wei replied.

"However, the strange thing is that I didn't find these shreds of paper here before, and it has been blocked later, so the murderer should have no chance to put the paper in." Liang Zhichao wondered.

"Just look at it and you'll find out."

As Bai Ruixue said, she ignored Zhu Chunguang's objection and took the Emperor Tiger Armor out of the glass jar.

Afterwards, she pinched the Emperor Tiger Armor in her hands, and turned the big man over so that its mouthparts were facing her.

Bai Ruixue skillfully took out the dissecting needle and curved tweezers from her toolbox, pressed the lower part of the mouthparts with the curved tweezers, and finally prepared to use the dissecting needle to probe into the mouthparts.

Zhu Chunguang wanted to stop it, but he seemed to be infected by what Bai Ruixue said just now, and finally chose to believe Bai Ruixue.

The cold steel needle penetrated into the mouthparts of the emperor's tiger armor, and after stirring inside, Bai Ruixue used curved tweezers to pick out some sticky paper scraps from inside.

The confetti, interspersed with inky flakes of carapace, look like Oreo crumbs sprinkled on top of ice cream.

Bai Ruixue took out four groups of the same viscous substance one after another, placed them neatly on the table, and then put the emperor tiger armor back.

Liang Zhichao also put on his gloves, picked up a lump of viscous substance, looked at it, and said:
"It turned out that these scraps of paper were stuffed into the corpses of cockroaches, so they were not found."

"The imperial tiger beetle ate the cockroaches mixed with paper scraps, so they couldn't distinguish the paper scraps from the carapaces. As a result, all the indigestible carapaces accumulated in the body during the digestion process." Bai Ruixue added.

After putting the emperor tiger armor back, Bai Ruixue reconnected the tubes of the nutrient solution.

This time, the state of the emperor tiger armor improved obviously. It began to move its body slightly, making sizzling sounds, and slowly spit out some remaining black armor pieces from its mouth.

"However, what's the use of doing this? These papers should have been shredded and stuffed into the cockroaches, and then fed to the emperor's tiger armor. Now it is impossible to see the contents on it clearly." Liang Zhichao said.

"Then what is written in this note? Is it really a clue about the murderer?" Su Wei was also very interested.

"It's unlikely, I think it might be some kind of ritual." Li Tianque speculated.

"ceremony?"

"Well, it may be some prayers or something. If these shredded papers were left by Dolma, she may have used this cockroach as a sacrifice, smashed the paper that carried her prayer content, and sacrificed it to the This so-called worm god." Li Tianque said.

Zhu Chunguang also agreed with this, and said to Xiao Liu next to him:
"It's not impossible, Xiao Liu, hurry up and collect these pieces of paper and sticky matter, and bring them back to the trace inspection together in the afternoon."

Li Tianque looked at the emperor's tiger armor that was gradually recovering, and suddenly thought of a question.

"Wait, what liquid are these tubes on the bug connected to?"

"Nutritional solution, this emperor tiger armor is at least three years old.

From our human perspective, three years is not a long time, but for insects, this is definitely a super old age.

Eating alone is not enough to supplement daily nutrition, so we need..."

Before Liang Zhichao finished explaining, he suddenly understood.

He swallowed his saliva and said in surprise:

"Strange! This is too strange!"

"Why is it so strange?" Su Wei looked at Liang Zhichao who suddenly yelled in confusion.

"It's strange that this kind of nutrient solution appears here. It's impossible for Grandma Zhuoma to have this technology to hang the culture solution on tiger beetles. Who did this?" Liang Zhichao immediately explained.

Li Tianque and Zhu Chunguang looked at the three entomologists in the room, hoping to get some clues from their expressions.

"This... This is too outrageous. Since we came here, Grandma Zhuoma has always been full of hostility towards us. We usually see her hiding before it's too late? How can we still have contact with her?" Su Wei also had a look on her face. surprise.

After realizing this problem, Bai Ruixue's expression also changed, and she said with some confusion:

"We didn't bring much of this nutrient solution, and it has been kept by Professor Lu."

"That is to say, one of you secretly had contact with Dolma, and this person is likely to be related to the murderer." Zhu Chunguang asked.

"Has Professor Lu visited Dolma alone?" Li Tianque asked.

"No, Grandma Dolma once threatened the professor. It should be impossible for him to help Dolma." Liang Zhichao said.

"Who did this? We are usually together, and it is almost impossible to secretly contact Grandma Zhuoma behind our backs!" Su Wei was full of confusion.

"Hey... I can't figure it out either. If there is a way to recover these shredded papers, maybe I can find some clues." Liang Zhichao sighed.

"Yes, it's a pity that these shredded papers are difficult to restore even if they are kept in the state of paper, let alone it has become a paste now." Su Wei said helplessly.

Zhu Chunguang also frowned in thought, but obviously there was no good way.

At this moment, Li Tianque suddenly had an idea and said with a smile:
"Hehe, although this paper cannot be recovered, it doesn't mean that we have no way to know what is written on the paper!"

(End of this chapter)