The 36th Chapter

Relying on mere imagination, Mo Qiong couldn't directly target human veins.

However, he knew the distribution of veins in the human body and which ones only required puncturing the skin by one or two centimeters.

He took out his phone to search, confirming the location of human veins once more.

On the face, the external nasal vein is easy to hit from the surface, and there's the submental vein under the chin.

But these are too small. If the insertion point is slightly off, or the angle is wrong, the fish bone might miss the vein.

Therefore, the best one to hit is the anterior jugular vein, which is relatively thick and located similarly in everyone.

Deeply memorizing the details of the fish bone's tip, Mo Qiong took a deep breath, placed the fish bone into the straw, and blew hard.

"Pfft."

Like a dart, the fish bone immediately flew out at an initial velocity of nearly thirty meters per second.

Their target was the surface of the neck of a human trafficking ringleader, where the anterior jugular vein was theoretically located.

Although the high-speed fish bone wasn't enough to penetrate deep into the body, at this speed, it was enough to pierce the neck and hit a vein.

If the target's vein happened to be engorged, this thorn might even puncture the vein.

For something as small as a fish bone, puncturing a vein would at most cause inflammation and wouldn't have serious consequences.

Therefore, as Mo Qiong spat out the fish bone, he exhaled a small puff of air again, or rather, his single exhalation was divided into two bursts of flight.

This second burst of gas wasn't aimed at a person, but at the tip of the fish bone.

It was like an arrow chasing an arrow, flying in a continuous stream.

Because the first arrow, after stopping, had its tip inside the vein, the pursuing air, when it hit it, would also enter the vein.

The time interval was less than 0.1 seconds, far too short for a person to remove the thorn from their neck.

With this, Mo Qiong could achieve remote intravenous injection.

The substance injected was... air.

In fact, with a similar method, if Mo Qiong could make someone swallow something, he could stuff anything he wanted into that person's stomach.

Any orifice leading to the stomach could become a pathway. If the object was sharp enough, it could even pierce through the abdomen.

He had considered using this method to force these human traffickers to inhale toxic gases, like carbon monoxide.

But that was too dangerous, as he didn't know who was around these traffickers, making accidental harm too easy.

After much thought, Mo Qiong decided that intravenous injection was the most convenient and discreet method.

There was no need to burn carbon monoxide; simply injecting some air would have serious consequences.

Once injected into a vein, more than fifty milliliters of air could be fatal, and over a hundred milliliters would guarantee death. Furthermore, the cause of death would usually only be discovered through an autopsy as air injected intravenously.

But death was not Mo Qiong's goal.

According to Mo Qiong's estimation, his single exhalation was about five hundred milliliters. The part that chased the fish bone might have been only a few tens of milliliters, perhaps not exceeding fifty.

If those people had good physical condition, these few tens of milliliters of air wouldn't be enough to kill them.

This air would travel through the veins to the heart or brain. If it reached the cardiovascular system, it would cause a myocardial infarction; if it reached the brain, it would cause an embolic stroke.

When injected into the anterior jugular vein, it was more likely to go to the brain.

With the blockage of cerebral vessels, it would lead to sudden syncope.

Without timely treatment, severe cases would result in death.

But for those who would soon be apprehended, the police would definitely provide them with timely treatment.

So, in the end, this stroke would likely cause them to have distorted mouths and tongues, and paralysis of one side of the body...

If treated well, they could still speak, undergo interrogation, and listen to their sentences...

Pfft, pfft, pfft.

Mo Qiong fired repeatedly, fourteen times in quick succession, then turned and headed back to the lounge without looking back to chat with Qin Ya.

Once the arrows were loosed, he had no regrets and didn't care about the outcome.

Perhaps for some criminals, the thorn didn't hit a vein, resulting in nothing more than a swollen neck.

Perhaps for some criminals, it was very serious, leading to their death.

But regardless of the outcome, he had done enough. He would leave the rest to fate and the police.

Among those fifteen heinous ringleaders, Dinosaur was one of them.

He was closest to Mo Qiong and was undoubtedly the first to be affected.

It was dinnertime, and Dinosaur was eating at a restaurant, chatting with the owner.

Suddenly, he felt a stinging pain in his neck, followed by a swelling at the wound, as if something had been pushed into it.

He casually reached up, pulled out the object stuck in his neck.

"A fish bone?"

Dinosaur had a terrible temper and exploded on the spot. He turned around, regardless of who was next to him, and roared, "Are you looking for death? How did you spit out a fish bone!"

He thought that the person at the next table had carelessly spit out a fish bone while eating fish and poked him.

The person at the next table was stunned, not understanding: "What? If I eat beef, can I spit out fish bones?"

Dinosaur saw that this person was indeed not eating fish.

There were only three people in the entire restaurant, besides this person, there was only the boss.

Dinosaur looked at the boss who was cutting vegetables at the door and decided to let it go, because the boss was one of their own, on their side.

"Maybe they threw it casually and accidentally poked me..."

Dinosaur couldn't be bothered to pursue it. After all, it was just a fish bone. He had even been stabbed by a knife before, so what was there to say about being poked by a fish bone? It would only make him seem fussy in front of his subordinates.

"Forget it, let's drink. Let's drink." Dinosaur threw away the fish bone and shouted, "Another bottle of Lao Baigan."

The boss heard this and quickly brought him another bottle. Dinosaur gulped down a large mouthful.

"Ha..." He exhaled, and suddenly felt his tongue sticking out and unable to retract.

"Huh? I..." Just as he was about to speak, his body stiffened abruptly, and he fell off the chair.

The boss hadn't left yet. Seeing this, he was startled and rushed to help him.

But Dinosaur's tongue was stiff, and he couldn't speak. His eyes were half-closed, saliva mixed with wine flowing out, and he seemed to have fainted.

The customer next to him was also startled. Seeing that Dinosaur was still clutching the wine bottle, he exclaimed, "Boss! This is fake liquor!"

The boss also panicked, because it really was fake liquor...

It was just that the first time Dinosaur drank Lao Baigan was at his place, and he had been drinking it ever since, so Dinosaur had always thought... Lao Baigan tasted like this.

The boss quickly pinched Dinosaur's philtrum, but Dinosaur only grunted twice.

"Quick! Help me, send him to the hospital!" the boss shouted.

But the customer didn't dare to touch him randomly and said, "This looks like a stroke, call an ambulance."

When the ambulance arrived, the police on the opposite floor saw it.

"Huh?" The police officer saw Dinosaur being carried into the ambulance, unconscious, and quickly notified the command center.

"Team Leader, Dinosaur seems to have fainted and is being sent to the hospital."

Team Leader Chen heard this and said urgently, "Send someone to the hospital to check the situation. It's good that he fainted. We can arrest him directly on his hospital bed then."

After a while, the police officer who went to the hospital reported, "We found out, he suddenly had a stroke and is being rescued..."

"Stroke? A sudden illness... Humph, that's even better. Leave someone at the hospital to keep an eye on him, he can't escape." Team Leader Chen said.

This sudden illness couldn't have come at a better time. For someone like Dinosaur, who was cunning and cruel.

Even if he couldn't escape during the arrest, a desperate text message could be dangerous to his child.

Now that he had a stroke and couldn't do anything, the arrest operation in this entire region would basically be stable, without any accidents.

Those at the command center heard this and all said he deserved it. With him incapacitated, how much risk was reduced.

However, only an hour later, police officers from another region reported: "Team Leader, 'Gecko' has a sudden illness, a stroke!"

"Oh? He had a stroke too?" Team Leader Chen was surprised. Was heaven on duty today?

Once or twice was understandable, but when a third important target had an accident, everyone started to feel something was wrong.

"What about 'Grasshopper'? Did he have a stroke too?" Team Leader Chen asked.

However, the police officer this time said, "Stroke? No, it's a myocardial infarction."

There was a buzz in the command center, and everyone marveled.

"Three consecutive sudden illnesses requiring hospitalization, isn't that too coincidental?"

"Could it be man-made?"

A while later, another target had an accident.

Team Leader Chen asked, "What happened to 'Bald Cat'? Stroke or myocardial infarction?"

"Huh? Neither. 'Bald Cat' has insufficient blood supply to the lungs and respiratory failure."

"This..." Team Leader Chen was extremely surprised.

When reports of the fifth and sixth sudden illnesses came in, Team Leader Chen immediately ordered, "Prepare ambulances, monitor the targets closely, and if anything happens, rescue them immediately!"

"Act in advance and carry out the arrests! For the targets who have already had accidents, control everyone around them as well."

"Yes!" The operation, originally planned to start at 8 o'clock, began at 6:30.

And during the arrest operation, as expected, the leaders of various regions suffered sudden illnesses, most of them strokes, a few myocardial infarctions, and only one case of respiratory failure.

Around 7 o'clock, all fifteen leaders had fallen ill and were admitted to the hospital.

The remaining underlings were all arrested one by one by the police who were prepared. This criminal group was immediately uprooted.

Around 7:30, Team Leader Chen walked into the lounge and told Qin Zheng and the others, "The operation is over."

Qin Zheng and the others were first surprised and said, "Didn't it start at 8 o'clock? It's over already?"

"Due to some special circumstances, the operation started ahead of schedule," Team Leader Chen said.

"Was the operation successful?" Qin Zheng asked.

Team Leader Chen replied, "Very smooth, extremely smooth, exceptionally smooth!"

"Your child has been rescued. I ran a DNA test during the investigation, so you can just complete the paperwork and take the child home."

Upon hearing this, the Qin family was overjoyed, and the heavy burden on their hearts finally lifted.

When they embraced Qin Liang, tears streamed down their faces uncontrollably, even though the six-year-old child felt like a stranger.

"Thank you! Team Leader Chen, thank you so much," Qin Zhi said, weeping with joy.

However, Team Leader Chen merely nodded. "We still have to conduct interrogations overnight, and we don't know how many days of overtime this will take. You can head home first... As for this case, just follow the news."

"Alright, we won't disturb you any further. We'll definitely visit to express our gratitude when we have time."

After Qin Ya's family and Mo Qiong left, Team Leader Chen had someone notify the other parents to come and pick up their children.

Finally, he said, "All fifteen suspects suddenly fell ill. It must have been deliberate. Everyone present when they fell ill needs to be thoroughly investigated."

"Understood."

p.s: Sorry.