The New York Medical Research Association Affiliated Hospital fire caused a total of 78 deaths, 21 missing, and 127 seriously injured. Most of the casualties were patients who were unable to escape from the fire alone.
There were different opinions about the cause of the fire. The most common guess was that the hospital's electrical circuit was aging and ignited the changed sheets in the utility room, causing the fire.
The most bizarre theory was that several people who had personally experienced the fire claimed to have seen two Hell's Messengers, who could turn cement into magma by stepping on the ground, running out of a ward on the second floor and igniting the raging fire in the hospital.
Other than that, there were also endless conspiracy theories about the Karlado people fighting back after the US officially declared war on them.
In such a situation, after spending nearly a week, they still could not investigate the cause of the fire. At once, the New York Fire Department's investigation center, which had given the official conclusion, became the target of public criticism and was under great pressure.
At noon, the sun was shining brightly. At the original site of the New York Medical Research Association Affiliated Hospital that had been turned into ruins, a tall, middle-aged black man with a haggard face, whose eyes still shone brightly, walked in the rubble for god knows how many times.
All of a sudden, he stopped in front of a collapsed floor with a crack. Using the shovel in his hand, he picked up a few pieces of soil and stone garbage and squatted on the ground to pick up a piece of hardened black cement. Carefully observing it, he muttered with his dry mouth, "This is really illogical. How can ordinary oxygen support combustion turn cement into magma?"
"Winnie, stop digging your stones. Come and look at this, it's another trace of an oxygen valve explosion.
I think that based on the current evidence, we should be able to draw a conclusion that the cause of the fire is a problem with the oxygen supply system in the hospital, causing a large amount of air leakage and the computer control system to unfortunately go out of control. In the end, the excess oxygen was ignited by the aging electrical circuit.
With a 'bang', the deflagration occurred and the entire hospital turned into a sea of fire in a very short time, causing heavy casualties. " On the other side of the ruins, an exhausted white man holding a valve that had been burned into iron looked at his colleague and shouted.
The black man held the black cement block in his hand and walked up and down on the ruins to his companion. Without warning, he threw the black cement block into his arms. "Still the same question, Joseph. How do you explain this cement that has become like magma?"
"Deflagration, Winnie, deflagration. Oxygen deflagration can instantly produce a temperature of several thousand degrees. It's completely possible to burn cement into magma."
"If that kind of explosion really happened, the hospital would have turned into ruins in less than a second, burying everyone."
"Perhaps it's because the internal structure of this hospital happened to coincide with the direction of the deflagration shock wave, so it wasn't destroyed immediately.
Perhaps the scale of the deflagration was controlled, and it happened to be carried out in individual sickrooms, so the overall structure of the building was not destroyed … "
"Joseph, the possibilities you mentioned do exist, but we all know that the chances of that happening are smaller than Mars crashing into Earth right now."
The white man choked for a moment, and the anger in his heart finally erupted again. He asked loudly in annoyance, "Then what else can it be other than what I said?
There is no trace of explosive combustion-supporting substances in the ruins of the hospital. Don't tell me that you really think that it's the Karlado people who did this, or that those Hell's Messengers who can turn the ground into magma when they walk on the concrete floor have really come here before? "
If that's the case, it's good too. We can immediately pass the investigation to the FBI or Homeland Security … "
"Of course, I don't think so, Joseph. I can't give a reasonable explanation, so that's why we have to continue the investigation," The black man stared at his colleague and said calmly.
It was apparent that this was not the first time the two of them had argued like this. The other investigators around them had already turned a blind eye to the quarrel between the two 'heads.' However, an uninvited guest who could not be seen by ordinary people's eyes was staring at the two senior investigation directors who were arguing, with waves of emotions churning in his heart.
After listening for a while, the uninvited guest felt that he had already come to a conclusion in his heart. Turning around, the uninvited guest's slender toes hopped lightly on the ground. Not long after, he came to a luxurious Mercedes-Benz SUV by the roadside and entered the car while turning invisible.
After that, Zhang Lisheng's figure appeared in the car. He hurriedly put on his clothes and breathed a sigh of relief before entering the driver's seat through the gap in the front row. Then, he started the SUV and drove directly to the new port on the outskirts of New York.
On the way, the car phone of the SUV suddenly rang. The young man glanced at the central control screen and picked up the phone.
Immediately, the meticulous voice of the LS Group's chief legal officer resonated in the car. "Boss, I've verified it through the insider relationship of the New York Fire Department. Professor Effiny Pigros of Cornell University has been added to the list of missing people in the New York Medical Research Association Affiliated Hospital fire.
In fact, Professor Effiny is the only missing person in the five wards near her. The others have been confirmed dead, so it was only natural that her name was initially written in the list of dead people. However, through DNA testing on the remains of the body, there is no evidence to prove that she is already dead.
Of course, this is only a technical problem. You know, in such a disaster, those so-called missing people can never be found.
As for your supervisor, Professor Steven, due to the fact that the surveillance video on the day of the fire was destroyed, he has not been to the hospital recently, so he is not on the list of casualties or missing people. "
Zhang Lisheng became silent for a while. "I understand, Edward. Thank you."
"My job is to serve you, boss." Edward said with a smile on the phone. "That's right, let me remind you that you're one of the most important protagonists in Senator Houg's manor banquet this Saturday. Don't forget about it."
"Isn't there three more days? Don't worry, I won't forget about it."
"Alright then. If there's nothing else, I won't disturb you anymore. Goodbye, boss."
"Goodbye, Edward." As Zhang Lisheng said the word 'goodbye,' the car phone automatically turned off three seconds later.
Looking at the bustling crowd on both sides of the road outside the front windshield, Zhang Lisheng had a strange expression on his face as he muttered to himself, "My dear supervisor, don't tell me that you've really succeeded?
You've really turned yourself into a 'monster' and saved Professor Effiny's life!
Stabilizer, stabilizer! As long as I test the effect of the stabilizer you left behind, I'll naturally have an answer … "
With distracting thoughts appearing in his mind one after another, the young man stepped on the accelerator and drove the car to the new New York port. Parking in the paid parking lot outside the port, he got out of the car and followed the flow of people that seemed to be congested all the time into the new port.
At the berth of the civil ship heading to Shrimp B1 Island, due to the fact that he already had a record of entry and exit, he successfully bought a ticket with his passport and braved the wind and waves. In just two to three hours, he had already set foot on the land of the foreign world's island.
After being separated from the Waxing Moon Island for a long time, other than becoming more prosperous, the human gathering place on Shrimp B1 Island did not change much. Zhang Lisheng anxiously strode to a cement house with a 'bald eagle' flag hanging on the door beam and entered the bunker through face scanning. After walking around in the corridor, he finally walked to the door of the Stanford laboratory.
The password of the door lock had been changed to the one used previously by his supervisor before he left. He opened the door and walked into the laboratory. When he saw the messy scene that resembled a garbage dump, he could not help but frown. After that, he walked to the automatic mouse breeding equipment and pressed a few buttons on the control computer, leading to countless formula arrangements.
This was a trick that Stephen and Zhang Lisheng had jointly decided to play after Effiny was attacked. They turned the white mouse breeding equipment that nobody would think would store experimental data into the so-called laboratory hard disk 'X' folder.
When the young man saw the formula data that kept flashing on the four-inch indicator screen, he took out a tablet from the special inner pocket of his clothes and directly cut all the data through Bluetooth.
When he connected these data with the inexplicable text message that he had received on his phone, a complete chemical agent derivation process appeared at once.
Looking at the seemingly messy but actually logical derivation process on the tablet screen and the pool of blood that had already turned dark brown on the ground beside the test bench, Zhang Lisheng no longer had any doubts in his heart.
An image of Stephen lying on the test bench and using a scalpel to grope and cut open the muscles next to his spine before operating the automatic injector to inject a sufficient amount of 'stabilizer' on himself before forcefully staggering his spine and stuffing the Gold Core fragment into the white spinal cord appeared clearly in his mind. At once, he could not help but mutter to himself, "Oh, Supervisor! You're a madman …"
As Zhang Lisheng was speaking, he quickly walked to the cabinet filled with experimental materials and took out the cylindrical silver metal container that contained the Gold Core fragment.
He carefully placed the container in the groove of the test bench and fixed it. Then, he tapped the fingerprint reader lightly and the metal container opened with a 'pop', emitting a milky white mist.
When the mist dissipated, the silver container had already opened like a petal, but unfortunately, it was already empty inside.
"Sh * t! The more I try not to let this kind of unfortunate thing happen, the more it will happen …" Zhang Lisheng calculated in annoyance. He still had to go back to New York to attend Senator Houg's manor banquet three days later, so it was unrealistic for him to hunt a spiritual monster in such a short time.
Feeling helpless, he could only give up the idea of experimenting right away and began to seriously study the derivation process of the stabilizer's formula left by Stephen. He tried to configure the stabilizer in different stages and labeled it before putting it in a metal container and stacking it in a suitcase.
After he finished making all the stabilizers, more than 20 hours had passed unknowingly. Zhang Lisheng stretched himself and found a rag to wipe off the bloodstains on the ground with detergent. After informing several familiar orderlies in the base to clean up the laboratory, he returned to New York by ship.
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