You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Lin Chen's casual remark, "a clumsy sleight of hand," seemed to possess a strange magic, instantly silencing the entire chaotic scene.

The tourists, blinded by fear, instinctively stopped in their tracks and looked at the young man, who had remained remarkably calm throughout, with suspicion and uncertainty.

The local tour guide, who was kneeling on the ground and praying like a madman, jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on when he heard this!

"You're talking nonsense! What do you know!"

He pointed at Lin Chen, his face contorted with fear and agitation.

"This is the sea god! It's divine punishment from the sea god! You, an outsider, dare to disrespect the gods! You will be punished! We will all be punished..."

His voice grew increasingly shrill and frantic, like a stirring stick, and the panic that Su Qingge had finally managed to suppress was about to be reignited by him!

Lin Chen frowned slightly.

What he hates most are these kinds of idiots who fan the flames at crucial moments.

"Noisy."

Lin Chen uttered two words calmly.

The next second, his figure left a faint afterimage in place.

Before anyone could react, he had already appeared behind the director like a ghost.

"Snapped!"

A soft sound.

Lin Chen pointed his fingers like a knife and gently sliced ​​the back of the guide's neck.

The guide's roar abruptly stopped, his eyes rolled back, and he collapsed like a limp rag doll, completely unconscious.

The world became quiet in an instant.

"hiss--"

The surrounding tourists and security guards all gasped in shock!

Wow...so fast!

They didn't even see how Lin Chen moved before the director, who was still jumping around, had already fallen down!

This swift, decisive, and even somewhat ruthless approach instantly stunned the entire audience!

"Qingge, seal off this wooden house. No one is allowed to approach it until the police and forensic doctors from Binhai City arrive."

Lin Chen didn't even glance at the person on the ground, and calmly issued instructions, his tone as if he were the commander-in-chief here.

"good!"

Su Qingge immediately responded. She quickly picked out two relatively calm security guards from the crowd, showed them her police ID, and instructed them in an unquestionable tone to set up a cordon and disperse the onlookers.

"Tingxue, did you bring your survey kit? If so, come here for a moment."

Lin Chen then shouted to Jiang Tingxue at the back of the crowd.

"I brought it!"

Jiang Tingxue carried a silver metal briefcase and walked quickly out of the crowd.

Her cool demeanor and professional posture made the surrounding tourists unconsciously make way for her.

Soon, the crowd watching outside the wooden house was dispersed, leaving only Lin Chen, Su Qingge, Jiang Tingxue, and a few female tourists who had been comforted by Ye Qingcheng and Su Ke'er.

"Lin Chen, what exactly is going on?"

Su Qingge walked to Lin Chen's side, her brows furrowed as she looked at the strange corpse in the room.

"Was it really drowning? But here..."

"Of course, this is not ordinary drowning."

Lin Chen wore gloves, but instead of immediately examining the body, he strolled slowly through the dry room as if he were taking a walk in his own backyard.

[God-level Trace Evidence Identification Techniques]!

[Amazing Chemistry Knowledge!]

[God-level mastery of biology]!

Three god-level skills are activated simultaneously!

In an instant, the whole world looked completely different in Lin Chen's eyes!

Dust particles floating in the air, completely invisible to the naked eye; the subtle vibrations of spider webs in the corners of the walls; dried traces of liquid remaining in the cracks of the floor... countless pieces of information flooded into his brain!

His gaze finally settled on the small, tightly closed vent in the room.

"The room was sealed off, and the doors and windows were locked from the inside, indicating that the murderer did not break in."

As Lin Chen observed, he analyzed the situation as if talking to himself.

"The deceased exhibited typical symptoms of drowning and asphyxiation, with his lungs filled with fluid, but not a single drop of water could be found at the scene."

"This indicates that the murderer used a very special medium."

As he spoke, he walked to the vent, stood on a chair, and used a cotton swab to gently scrape off a tiny, almost completely transparent, viscous substance from the metal filter of the vent.

He placed the cotton swab on the tip of his nose and took a gentle sniff.

[A god-like sense of smell]!

He precisely detected an extremely faint, peculiar odor that was masked by the stench of corpses and the musty smell of the room!

"Honey, what did you find?"

Jiang Tingxue stepped forward and asked curiously.

Lin Chen jumped off the chair, a knowing sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"An interesting chemical."

He held up the cotton swab in his hand and explained to Su Qingge and Jiang Tingxue, who were looking on with curiosity:

"Perfluorocarbons, a high-tech liquid, are also known as 'liquid oxygen'."

"Perfluorocarbons?"

As a forensic doctor, Jiang Tingxue was no stranger to chemical terms, but she was still taken aback when she heard this.

"That's right."

Lin Chen nodded. His brain was like a supercomputer at that moment, and all the information about this substance was clearly displayed.

"This liquid is twice as dense as water, but most amazingly, it dissolves oxygen more than twenty times more effectively than water."

"In theory, a person can breathe while completely submerged in this liquid, just like a fish in water."

"Decades ago, scientists conducted the famous liquid respiration experiment on mice."

Listening to Lin Chen's explanation, Su Qingge and Jiang Tingxue were both stunned.

Breathing in liquid? That's like something out of a science fiction movie!

"but,"

Lin Chen changed the subject abruptly, his eyes turning cold.

"This liquid has a fatal flaw."

"It will rapidly draw away body heat and exert tremendous physical pressure and irritation on the lungs."

"If an ordinary person inhales it directly, their lungs will spasm violently due to the unbearable pressure, and their body temperature will plummet, ultimately leading to convulsive asphyxiation and hypothermia, resulting in death! The manner of death is exactly the same as that of ordinary drowning!"

"The culprit atomized this perfluorocarbon compound using a high-pressure device and then injected it into this sealed room through the ventilation ducts!"

"The deceased inhaled this atomized 'liquid oxygen' while he was asleep. He felt as if he had been thrown into the deep sea, struggling desperately to breathe, but only inhaling more and more cold liquid! In the end, he was literally 'drowned' in an absolutely dry room!"

Lin Chen's scientific reasoning is clear, rigorous, and full of convincing power!

The so-called "curse of the sea god" is shattered in the face of these hardcore scientific principles, appearing so ridiculous and absurd!

"Oh my god..."

Su Qingge gasped, feeling a chill run from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head.

This method of murder is simply unheard of, and its ingenuity is beyond compare!

If it weren't for Lin Chen, police from all over the world would probably be fooled by this bizarre scene and end up treating it as an unsolved case!

"Then...what about the seaweed on his body?"

Jiang Tingxue pointed to the nauseating green plants on the corpse's skin and asked the last question.

"It's just a smokescreen."

Lin Chen curled his lip in disdain.

"They are just some specially cultured fungal spores that are extremely hygrophilous."

"The murderer applied these spores to the victim's body beforehand, and they remained dormant in a dry environment."

"But once it encounters a high-humidity liquid like perfluorocarbons, it will be accelerated to mature in a very short time, grow rapidly, and disguise itself as seaweed to create the illusion of a 'curse of the sea god,' thereby misleading us and creating panic."

After saying that, Lin Chen clapped his hands, as if he had just solved a simple math problem.

He looked at Su Qingge and Jiang Tingxue, who were dumbfounded and whose eyes were filled with admiration, and smiled slightly.

"There is no sea god."

"There's only one culprit, someone who likes to play tricks and is actually pretty good at chemistry..."