novelraw Chapter 226 Jigsaw Puzzle and Load-Bearing Walls
Chapter 226 Jigsaw Puzzle and Load-Bearing Walls
After hanging up the phone, Wang Minyu slammed his enamel mug onto the wooden table, splashing a few drops of tea.
"Prepare the car."
Guan Shan didn't ask any more questions, grabbed his car keys, and walked out.
A plume of black smoke billowed from the exhaust pipe of the Wuling Hongguang as its tires screeched against the ground, heading straight for the city center CBD.
At the foot of the twin towers in the Changxiang City Financial Center, the police cordon was stretched out three times.
Captain Zhou squatted by the flower bed, smoking, his hands shaking so much he couldn't hold the cigarette butt.
Most of the detectives, who are used to seeing serious cases, are now complaining in the nearby green belt.
The forensic doctor stood three meters away with his examination kit, not daring to take a single step forward.
Wang Minyu lifted the warning tape and crawled inside.
The scene on the ground truly exceeded the boundaries of conventional human cognition.
That was not a normal body that had fallen from a building.
To be precise, it was a "biological kit" scattered all over the place.
The severed arms, torso, and thighs did not show the usual gushing of internal organs and blood; instead, they were covered with a layer of pale purple bio-silicone and some kind of metal wire network.
What's even more disgusting is that those severed limbs are twitching and flexing on the asphalt road through a bizarre nerve reflex.
A calf was stomping on a piece of broken glass twice per second, making a teeth-grinding scraping sound.
It looks just like a disassembled mechanical watch that is still stubbornly working.
"Boss Wang, you've finally arrived." Captain Zhou stubbed out his cigarette on the sole of his shoe. "The preliminary conclusion from the on-site forensic doctor is that the species cannot be defined. What exactly is this thing?"
Wang Minyu took out rubber gloves from his white coat pocket, put them on, and squatted down in front of a still twitching arm.
He put two fingers together, precisely pinched a purple nerve cord at the severed end, and squeezed it hard.
The convulsions stopped abruptly.
"Nothing special." Wang Minyu stood up, took off his gloves and threw them into a trash bag. "Internal wind causing extreme spasms. This person was wearing a 'labor-type exoskeleton' discarded by Organization S, filled with a high concentration of biological neuroenzymes. The impact of the fall shattered the exoskeleton, causing multiple comminuted fractures in the flesh inside, but it was covered by biological mucus, so there was no bleeding. What you saw as these parts crawling was just the spinal reflex arc acting up after the brain control was removed. Did you forget all that frog leg experiment from junior high biology class?"
Captain Zhou wiped his sweat: "Is there... any hope for him?"
"As long as the brainstem isn't shattered and the heart is still beating, it's considered a minor injury at Renxin Pharmacy." Wang Minyu waved to Guan Shan, "Bring a large woven bag and scan it according to the diagram. This order will be charged by weight for treatment."
Guan Shan pulled two woven bags from the trunk of the car, put on thick canvas gloves, and stuffed the still-bouncing "parts" on the ground into the bags like picking cabbages at a vegetable market.
The forensic doctor watching from the sidelines was swallowing hard.
At the same time, the Renxin Primitive Life Experience Camp.
In the sweltering heat of 39 degrees Celsius, Fatty Zhang, shirtless, smashed a bucket of mixed yellow mud onto bricks.
"Mr. Shen, your blueprints are wrong." Fatty Zhang wiped the mud off his face and pointed to the half-built wall. "The load-bearing wall of the pigsty is made of single bricks and has a span of more than three meters. Once those sows go into heat and hit the wall, the lever principle can directly blow the roof off."
Shen Wanshan, wearing a burlap jacket with two holes in it, squatted by the mud pit, drawing a force analysis diagram on the ground with a twig in his hand.
"What do you know? This is called a lightweight asset operation model. We can dissipate the kinetic energy of a sow's estrus cycle by laying a buffer zone at the corner. Minimizing marginal costs is the core of risk resistance." Shen Wanshan slammed a branch heavily on the ground. "Adding one more layer of bricks lowers the return on investment by three percentage points. Capital efficiency means not wasting an inch of extra load-bearing capacity."
Several real estate tycoons nearby, who were drinking mung bean soup from broken bowls, nodded repeatedly, and some even took out notebooks to take notes.
Su Qing sat in front of the monitoring console under the shade of a tree, looking at the data reports on the screen.
These billionaires, whose net worth is in the billions, are seeing their cortisol levels steadily decline at a rate of five percent per day.
Applying business warfare thinking to building pigsties in a simplified way perfectly unleashed their restless desire for control.
This tangible sense of accomplishment built on mud and bricks is more soothing to cyberpsychosis than ringing the Nasdaq bell.
Pierre walked over carrying a large iron pot and called out in broken Chinese, "Dinner's ready! French truffle-flavored sweet potato vine stew with pork offal!"
The big shots threw down their trowels and grabbed stainless steel rice bowls to sprint 100 meters.
The Wuling Hongguang van was parked in the alley behind the pharmacy.
Guan Shan carried two woven bags full of "parts" into the basement.
This place has long been transformed into a sterile emergency room, but the items on the workbench are somewhat unique: in addition to scalpels and hemostats, there are carpenters' ink lines and planes, as well as a large bucket of dark brown ointment that smells like sewer sludge.
After emptying the contents of the woven bag onto the stainless steel operating table, Wang Minyu began to piece together the puzzle.
The identity has been verified.
This group of parts is named Chen Ye, an algorithm architect at a leading internet company.
This exoskeleton was a "performance-enhancing artifact" that he bought privately from the black market at a high price in order to cope with the high intensity of coding for 18 hours a day.
Capital exploitation can always be completed in a closed loop with the support of biotechnology.
The physical limits of human resources are forcibly stretched by this life-draining external neural attachment.
This morning, the major company released its third-quarter optimization list, and Chen Ye's name was prominently featured.
His mortgage, car loan, and stock options were void, and he was also experiencing withdrawal symptoms from the exoskeleton medication. He jumped from the 48th floor of the Twin Towers.
"Master, these bones are shattered into pieces, how do we put them back together?" Su Qing, wearing goggles, looked at the gruesome mixture.
"Traditional Chinese medicine bone setting emphasizes proper bone alignment and flexible tendons. It's the same principle as a carpenter making mortise and tenon joints." Wang Minyu picked up a piece of scapula covered with bio-silicone, "Go get elderwood, ground beetles, and natural copper, mix them with three ounces of aged vinegar and earthworm powder, and grind them in a stone mill."
No anesthesia was administered.
Chen Ye's brain is in a deep, self-protective dormant state, and conventional drugs cannot wake him up at all.
Wang Minyu aligned the scattered bones.
The hands moved like phantoms, each press and massage accompanied by a tooth-grinding sound of bones grinding together.
The bucket of dark brown ointment was smeared in large clumps onto the broken area.
The natural copper and earthworm powder in the ointment, stimulated by bioelectricity, produced an extremely strong adhesive effect. Combined with the mortise and tenon-like bone-setting technique, they forcefully reassembled this broken body.
After the skeleton is assembled, the next step is neural activation.
Instead of using silver needles, Wang Minyu took a portable Bluetooth speaker from Su Qing and placed it next to Chen Ye's ear.
Turn the volume up to maximum.
"Ding—DingTalk check-in successful. Work hours, 8:59 AM."
On the operating table, Chen Ye's finger suddenly twitched.