Chapter 23 New Doubts

The four Halls were dead, and Xiao Ming tore them into pieces, turning them into a pile of rotten meat.

Nephthys turned into a big ball of light, trapped in a Faraday cage, without a mouth and unable to speak.

Li Sumei is unconscious and is being treated at the hospital. The exact situation is not clear at the moment.

The only one who could speak was Fang Musheng.

There were only three cells in the branch, which were converted from containers. Fang Musheng was in the middle cell. There was a stool but he didn't sit on it. Instead, he squatted in the corner, not saying a word, not eating or drinking, looking lifeless with empty eyes.

After the cell was opened, Chu Yu and Bai Yue walked in.

Seeing someone coming, Fang Musheng stood up and shouted, "My love, how is my love?"

"Ms. Li has been sent to the hospital for treatment." Bai Yue expressionlessly pressed the elderly woman, who was over 70 years old, onto the stool.

Chu Yu pulled the rude Bai Yue behind him, walked forward to pour a glass of water for Fang Musheng, and said straight to the point, "Mr. Fang, can you tell us about Nephthys?"

Deep down, Chu Yu didn't think Fang Musheng was a bad person.

Bai Yue glanced at Chu Yu in surprise.

She had already told him on the way here not to speak casually after entering. Regardless of whether Fang Musheng was willing to cooperate with the work or not, they must first break down his psychological defenses. In other words, there would be no black cop or white cop, and a direct high-pressure psychological offensive would be launched.

"I'll tell you guys something." Fang Musheng raised his head and smiled sadly. "If I tell you guys something, can you save Sumei?"

Bai Yue said coldly, "Li Sumei is already in the hospital. You don't have to worry about this. You just need to tell us everything you know , and the hospital will do its best to treat her."

"What I asked is whether it is possible, not whether it will. Knowing how to treat is not the same as being able to treat." A complex expression flashed across Fang Musheng's face. He lowered his head and remained silent.

Chu Yu frowned, as if he had thought of something. He sat opposite Fang Musheng and said softly, "Your wife didn't faint from exhaustion, but...is she sick?"

"Yes." Fang Musheng raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, "Mitochondrial disease, diagnosed half a year ago."

Chu Yu's expression changed slightly, "Mitochondrial disease, orphan disease?!"

"Orphan, this word is well used. It is indeed a rare incurable disease." A hint of surprise flashed in Fang Musheng's eyes. The surprise flashed by for a moment, and then he nodded weakly and buried his head in pain.

Chu Yu keenly caught the flash of surprise on Fang Musheng's face, but he didn't think much about it, thinking that the other party was just surprised that he knew this rare disease.

Bai Yue couldn't help but ask, "What kind of disease is this? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"It is caused by defects in mitochondrial DNA or nuclear DNA. Gene defects lead to changes in the functional proteins or structural proteins in the mitochondrial respiratory chain, which lose their original functions, hinder energy synthesis, and thus..."

Before Chu Yu finished speaking, Bai Yue slapped Chu Yu on the shoulder and said impatiently, "Speak human language."

"It is accompanied by epilepsy, migraine, dementia, hemianopsia, limb pain and obvious fatigue after activity, decreased vision, ptosis, sensorineural hearing loss, diabetes, cardiomyopathy, cataracts, etc. This disease is very rare, so it is called an orphan disease, and it cannot be cured."

"Yes, Su Mei suddenly developed these symptoms half a year ago. After examination at the hospital, it was said to be mitochondrial disease, which is completely incurable." Fang Musheng choked up, then slowly began to explain.

Half a year ago, Li Sumei suddenly developed symptoms such as migraine, dementia and decreased vision. Within a week, she was bedridden and her condition worsened. After examination, it was discovered that she suffered from mitochondrial disease. Fang Musheng then traveled all over the world looking for a treatment, but unfortunately, this disease is very rare and cannot be cured at all.

Seeing that Li Sumei's situation was becoming more and more dangerous, Nephthys appeared.

Using his mental control ability, he forced the bedridden Li Sumei to stand up.

Of course, Nephthys is not a good person, and forcing Li Sumei to stand up is not without cost.

First, he moved into Fang Musheng's villa, and then built a basement for Fang Musheng to extract and synthesize dopamine. As for the Dong'ou people's corpses found in the underground corpse pit, they were the first foreign businessmen who wanted to invest in Lekeke Company.

This group of foreign merchants was not thirty-two people, but thirty-six. In addition to the thirty-two corpses, the remaining four people made Nephthys become the "Four Sons of Hall."

As for the Nine Pillars Cultural Center, it was built to spread the teachings of the ancient Egyptian gods and was also invested and built by Fang Musheng.

The reason why he assisted the evil was because of Fang Musheng's lover Li Sumei.

As for the person who created Nephthys, including other suspicious people, Fang Musheng didn't know and had never seen them. The two semi-finished instruments in the basement were also brought back by Nephthys from outside.

After explaining the whole story with sobs, Fang Musheng laid on the table and cried bitterly.

Looking at this heartbroken elderly man in his seventies, Chu Yu was filled with emotion.

Fang Musheng really loves his wife Li Sumei. Even he, an outsider, knows this, and it has been like this for decades.

Fang Musheng has always been committed to charity work. It seems that it was only because of Li Sumei that he became an accomplice against his will.

Bai Yue, who was in the corner, had been silent with her arms folded. After Fang Musheng finished speaking, she nodded slightly to Chu Yu.

From observation, Bai Yue believed that everything Fang Musheng said was true and there shouldn't be a single lie.

Unfortunately, although the situation was understood, nothing was found about who created Nephthys.

The two walked out of the cell, and Bai Yue said emotionally, "Although Fang Musheng is an accomplice, this old man was helpless."

Chu Yu didn't say anything, just lit a cigarette, as if thinking about something.

"Didn't you hear me talking to you?" Bai Yue rolled her eyes. "Why are you pretending to be so profound?"

Chu Yu flicked the ash off his cigarette and frowned as he said, "There are two suspicious points."

"Suspicious points? What are the doubts?"

"First of all, mitochondrial disease is either congenital or inherited. According to the data, Li Sumei is 71 this year. She was 70 six months ago. If it was really mitochondrial disease, it would be impossible for her to live to the age of 70 before the disease broke out."

"You mean, this old guy is lying?"

"No, I mean that Li Sumei might not have mitochondrial disease." Chu Yu looked at Fang Musheng, who was sobbing, through the cell glass and murmured, "I suspect someone gave Li Sumei this incurable disease, or something similar to this incurable disease, to control Fang Musheng."

"That's possible." Bai Yue nodded slightly to show her agreement. "In that case, we have a direction for investigation. If we check for signs of Li Sumei's activities and who she had contact with half a year ago, we should be able to make some breakthroughs. What about the second suspicious point?"

"As for the corpse pit, it was not man-made, because no traces of explosions were found. But it was not formed naturally either, because it was too round, as if it was drawn with a compass, as if it was deliberately trying to attract other people's attention."

"I've been thinking about this too, but I still have no clues after investigating it for so long. Let's start with Li Sumei."

Just as Bai Yue finished speaking, Fang Musheng in the cell suddenly slammed his head against the metal table. With a bang, the elderly man in his seventies suddenly had a bloody head.

"I want to leave, and go with Su Mei. Kill me, just kill me."

While crying and shouting, Fang Musheng banged his head against the table.

When Chu Yu and Bai Yue ran in, Fang Musheng, with a bloody forehead, had already fainted.

Bai Yue quickly called in the medical staff.

After a long time, Bai Yue called two armed men to accompany him and sent Fang Musheng to the hospital.

The two returned to the office area. Bai Yue seemed quite touched and asked Chu Yu to go home and rest first. Before finding new clues, this matter would have to come to an end. As for how to deal with energy life forms such as the Outsider, whether to find a way to destroy it or keep it in a Faraday cage, they could only wait for the decision from the headquarters.

...

When Chu Yu returned home, it was already past three in the morning. He took a shower, lay down on the bed feeling extremely tired, and fell asleep immediately.

When Chu Yu woke up the next day, he did have a dream, but it was not a nightmare, and it had nothing to do with the future end of the world.

The scenes in the dream were chaotic. Sometimes Bai Yue was chasing him and beating him, sometimes he was chasing Wang Fan and beating him, and finally, the old woman Li Sumei was standing in front of him, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't open her mouth.

After a quick wash, Chu Yu rode his broken electric bike to the branch.

The normal working time was 8:30, but Chu Yu came early because he always felt that something was wrong with the matter of the Outsider Demon.

After entering the branch, Chu Yu was directly called to Bai Yue's office.

In addition to Bai Yue, Xiao Ming was also there. Both of them, one big and one small, looked not in good spirits, obviously having been busy all night and not slept.

Seeing Bai Yue's cold face that looked displeased with everyone, Chu Yu pretended to be worried and asked, "You were busy all night and didn't sleep?"

Bai Yue nodded without caring about it.

Chu Yu took out a cigarette and said, "Have a cigarette to cheer yourself up?"

Xiao Ming was overjoyed, "You really care about people."

Chu Yu laughed awkwardly, "Has there been any progress?"

"Yes, but not much, and there are still many doubts." Bai Yue said while holding a cup of coffee, "Xiao Ming has communicated with the experts at the headquarters. Dopamine is secreted by the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus can be taken out of the skull, but dopamine cannot be directly extracted."

Chu Yu nodded.

Although he nodded, he didn't agree in his heart.

It is certainly impossible to extract dopamine from a living body with the current level of technology, but it may be possible in the next few decades.

"What about the doubt? What is it?"

"We just investigated Li Sumei's whereabouts in the past year and found many suspicious points. Fang Musheng went overseas twice, ten months and six months ago."

"I know this. Didn't Mr. Fang say yesterday that he would find a famous doctor to treat his lover?"

"That's the suspicious point I'm talking about." Bai Yue said with a puzzled expression, "According to our investigation, Fang Musheng went to the overseas hospital not to check up Li Sumei, but to perform two craniotomies on her!"

"Craniotomy?" Chu Yu looked puzzled. "What is the relationship between mitochondrial disease and craniotomy?"

Bai Yue spread her hands, "I don't know either. Xiao Ming knows about mitochondrial disease, and he has the same question as you."