Abstinence Pei, don't be too sweet when chasing your wife

Heavy rain washed the glass of the criminal investigation team's office. The captain of the criminal investigation team stared at the newly added character relationship diagram on the whiteboard. The lines outlined in red pen crisscrossed like a spider web.

Over the past seven days, the criminal investigation team members and Lu Chenzhou have worked almost non-stop to piece together the fragments of the case into a chilling truth.

After the traitorous police captain was exposed, he was included in the list of witnesses to be silenced; the bank statements of the missing nurse showed that she had received an overseas remittance before she was killed; the keywords such as "clean-up plan perfect poisoning" frequently appeared in the encrypted communication records of the personal secretary; the chef wearing a spider tattoo necklace was the actual controller of the kitchen of Mingyuan Catering Company; and the "toxicologist" was proficient in toxicology and could handle all kinds of poisons.

"All clues point to Zhou Mingyuan."

The heavy rain is still raging and the city is shrouded in a tense atmosphere.

Pei Luonan and Lu Chenzhou stood on the top floor of the municipal building, looking at the busy crowd below. They knew that this race against time had just entered the most critical moment.

Deep beneath the city's underground, a mysterious figure stared at the surveillance screen, a sneer curling his lips. "The game's about to reach its climax," he murmured softly, pressing the remote control. A crisis was quietly approaching.

Lu Chenzhou pushed the tablet computer in front of Pei Luonan, and on the screen was a complex diagram of capital flows.

"His trading companies, private clinics, and offshore accounts all meshed like precision gears. But the most terrifying thing is..."

He pulled up a restored surveillance video. It showed Zhou Mingyuan in a laboratory at a suburban chemical plant, wearing rubber gloves and adjusting a syringe filled with black liquid. "This toxicologist is none other than himself."

Lu Chenzhou's voice was chilling, "Zhou Mingyuan will only implement the real plan after testing the feasibility of this chronic poisoning method and ensuring it is foolproof.

"In the corner of the warehouse, they discovered a hidden chamber filled with unused pre-made meal packages, each with a different name and date printed on the label.

At the same time, another group of police officers raided Zhou Mingyuan's private clinic.

In the safe in the basement, in addition to encrypted ledgers and criminal evidence, a mysterious diary was also found.

In his diary, Zhou Mingyuan recorded in detail his "final plan": revenge on society, through slow poisoning, to eliminate all those who might threaten his ambitions.

"Oh no! The municipal dinner is the first stage of the final plan." Lu Chenzhou exclaimed after deciphering all the contents of the encrypted ledger. "Zhou Mingyuan is going to pull off the most insane poisoning show under the eyes of hundreds of politicians. The second stage of the final plan is to poison the water supply and kill ordinary people."

If the first phase fails, he will activate a toxin-dumping device hidden in the city's water supply.

After the technical department cracked the chip data, they were surprised to find a holographic message from Zhou Mingyuan: "When the bell rings seven times, the whole city will become my laboratory..."

On a rainstorm night in the City Hall kitchen, the criminal investigation team leader shouted, "Immediately stop using all ingredients!" Special police quickly secured the banquet. Testing revealed traces of toxins in some of the ingredients.

The head chef suddenly created chaos by knocking over the spice jar.

In the chaos, Lu Chenzhou noticed that the name badge of a waiter was reflecting something unusually - there was a micro syringe hidden in the interlayer.

When the SWAT subdued the man, a spider tattoo appeared on his neck, exactly the same as the chef's.

In the interrogation room, the tattooed man sneered, "Do you think that just ending a dinner party will end the disaster? The entire city's water supply pipes are already riddled with the fangs of Nightingales."

With less than 24 hours left before the dinner, the criminal investigation team and special police had to race against time to notify politicians from all walks of life and cancel the dinner. At the same time, they had to make every effort to strengthen water source monitoring and control throughout the city, prohibit toxic water from entering thousands of households, and prevent this large-scale poisoning.

With only 20 hours left before the dinner, Lu Chenzhou discovered even more terrifying evidence in the secret compartment of an abandoned chemical plant: Zhou Mingyuan's new toxin "Nightingale", only 0.01 grams of which is enough to pollute a reservoir.

Surveillance footage showed that his men were modifying a water supply truck, and the water tank was glowing a strange fluorescent green.

Zhou Mingyuan, dressed in a black suit, was sneering at the secret room filled with surveillance cameras. Landmarks such as the City Hall, Water Plant, and Children's Hospital were glowing with a strange green light on the electronic map.

“When the valves, ventilation systems, and food supplies in these places are activated simultaneously, the entire city will become my testing ground.”

He turned the jade ring. On the laboratory table behind him, hundreds of syringes filled with purple liquid were arranged. Toxicological data and injection points kept jumping on the display screen of the console.

What's even more deadly is that the capsule that the chef swallowed before being arrested contained the code to activate the toxin delivery device.

"He's going to poison the whole city."

Lu Chenzhou pressed his fingertips heavily on the screen. "The water supply system is injected with a neurotoxin that can cause respiratory paralysis, the pre-prepared dishes at the municipal dinner are laced with aconitine that can cause cardiac arrest, and the air conditioning ducts in the children's hospital release anesthetics that can cause coma.

Even more deadly is…” He pulled up a satellite map and saw seven cargo ships flying different national flags converging toward the city’s sewage outlet. “These ships aren’t carrying cargo; they’re carrying enough chemical agents to contaminate the entire river. Once discharged into the water, the entire city’s water source will be polluted.”

The moment the alarm rang suddenly, an emergency call came from Group B: "The valve controller of the water supply plant has been tampered with, and the countdown is 32 minutes!" Chen Mo immediately assigned tasks: "Group One will guard the water plant and prevent toxins from flowing into the pipes; Group Two will send out speedboats to intercept the cargo ship heading for the sewage outlet; Group Three will block the Children's Hospital and control the air-conditioning system!" Before he finished speaking, Zhou Mingyuan's voice-changed laughter echoed throughout the police station: "It's too late! While you are busy running around, death has begun to spread. As the police officers raced against time to prevent the tragedy from happening, a shocking explosion was heard from the direction of the water plant - the spare valve was blown up by the explosives placed in advance, and the dark green poisonous mist was spreading wildly along the pipes.

At the critical moment, the police officers from the Technical Department typed on the keyboard against the clock and finally cracked the control system in the last ten seconds and turned off the main switch.

On the other side, the second group responsible for intercepting the freighter encountered fierce resistance.

The special police team members braved the hail of bullets and forcibly boarded the ship. After a fierce exchange of fire, they finally controlled the situation. At this time, the freighter was less than 500 meters away from the sewage outlet.

The three groups also took control of the air-conditioning system at lightning speed.

At the same time, the pursuit of Zhou Mingyuan also unfolded on the overpass in the heavy rain.

Zhou Mingyuan's black car was running around like a trapped beast, and the special police were chasing it closely. The other car lost control when making a sharp turn, broke through the guardrail and fell into the turbulent river.

Three days later, a body and a briefcase were recovered. Inside, besides the detailed poison formula and deployment plan, was a blood-stained list—the names of two thugs had been slashed out in red ink, with the words "Traitors Must Die" written next to them. Thus, the poisoning case that had rocked the city finally came to an end.

However, when Lu Chenzhou re-examined the case of Gu Fanxing's attack, he found that all the clues had no direct connection with Zhou Mingyuan.

On the whiteboard, new clues were interwoven into a web, and the true mastermind behind Gu Fanxing's harm was still hidden in the depths of darkness. Outside, the rain grew heavier, washing over the foggy city. The criminal investigation team looked at the messy clues on the wall and couldn't help but sigh - the case they had spent countless efforts to investigate was just a coincidence caused by two gangsters, and the truth was still hidden in the dark and foggy.