Xiang Xiaotong smiled. "You make it sound so easy. The Millennium Prize Problems aren't homework. How could I prove one just because I said I would?"
The phone on the bedside table suddenly began vibrating.
Song He picked it up and checked it. The news he had been anxiously awaiting had finally arrived.
Xie Kefu: Thank heavens, Katerina was saved. She just regained consciousness!
Song He: "I told you she'd be safe! How did she suddenly fall ill for no apparent reason? Was it because she was too exhausted and physically overworked?"
Xie Kefu: She wasn't simply tired. She was poisoned.
Song He: "???"
Xie Kefu: Our research team never finishes everything we eat or drink each day. We seal away a little of everything at the end. We've already found trace amounts of an unidentified substance in the coffee she drank. Someone poisoned her coffee. We still haven't figured out what kind of poison it is. We've never seen the substance we detected before.
This was followed by a photograph: a report on the detection of the abnormal substance.
Song He and Xiang Xiaotong leaned together to look at it.
"It looks somewhat familiar." Xiang Xiaotong frowned.
"It looks far too familiar." Song He said, "The substance itself is non-toxic. It's a carrier containing a special strain of chlamydia. I mentioned an Empire on which the Sun Never Sets biotech company to you before. Do you remember?"
"The company behind the Chenghuang Oasis Company agricultural pest disaster?" Xiang Xiaotong asked.
"Exactly. Their database contains this substance, and it's identical. Their database also contains an artificially cultivated, trigger-bomb-like strain of chlamydia. Once it enters the human body, nothing happens for quite some time. It can lie dormant for several months, then become fatal when the victim is extremely exhausted or