After seeing the true nature of the woman he had been pursuing, the CEO's wife cried and begged

Chapter 482 An Incident Occurred in the Special Care Ward

Everyone looked out the window and saw only a crooked tree with its branches swaying in the wind like a waving snake's tongue.

Back at the police station, the forensic team was examining Liu Ya's painting. The fluorescent agent extracted from the green pigment matched the one found in the detention center.

"This is the tracking pigment from the Snake Medicine Association. When applied to a person, it can be detected by a detector within a three-kilometer radius," Li Gang said, pointing to the spectrometer that was turned on on the screen.

Xu Zirui suddenly remembered the gauze on Young Master Liu's body—the bleeding area formed a snake shape. Could it have been drawn on purpose?

"Check the detention center's surveillance footage," Xu Zirui said. "Investigate the backgrounds of the prison guards who participated in yesterday's prison break, focusing on who had contact with Young Master Liu."

In the surveillance footage, a bespectacled prison guard was always hovering around Liu Dashao. Every time he walked up to him, he would put something on him, like feeding a snake.

"This is Zhang Lei. He resigned from the medical school of the University of Geneva three months ago to become a prison guard." The technician zoomed in on the image. "His name tag has a snake-shaped pendant on it, and there's also a key on the string that can open doors with the word 'snake' on them."

Jiang Xin suddenly stood up and shoved her phone into the screen: "Master Chen just sent this message. Zhang Lei went to a private estate today, driven by Dr. Hans's driver."

Xu Zirui banged on the table, creating a rapid drumbeat: "Zhou Ming used Liu Jinya to lure us to the manor; Zhang Lei is his pawn."

Just then, Li Gang's walkie-talkie rang. After listening for a couple of sentences, his expression suddenly changed: "Something happened in the intensive care unit! Liu Ya's painting has been cut up!"

Upon arriving at the hospital, the intensive care unit was a mess. Green paint had been splattered on the walls in snake-like patterns, the easel was overturned, and the canvas was gone. A nurse crouched in a corner, clutching her head: "A man in a white coat came in just now, saying he needed to examine Liu Ya. I turned around to get some equipment, and the painting was gone, and he was nowhere to be found!"

There was a scale on the windowsill—not paint, but a real snake scale, with blood streaks along the edges.

The lights in the forensic lab stayed on all night. Xu Zirui looked at the snake scales under the microscope; the serrated edges were the same as what he had found on his mentor's operating table.

“These are scales from a five-step snake, but they contain human DNA.” The forensic doctor adjusted his glasses. “The gene sequence is 90% similar to Liu Ya’s.”

"What did you say?" Xu Zirui suddenly looked up.

"It's like a human-snake hybrid." The forensic pathologist pulled up a genetic map. "It's biologically impossible, but it does exist."

Jiang Xin suddenly remembered something and picked up Liu Ya's painting: "Look at the glass jar in the oil painting, is it filled with this kind of snake?"

Inside the glass jar in the painting was indeed a snake-like creature, labeled "Mother No. 3".

“Liu Jinya’s wife.” Xu Zirui’s voice tightened. “They used her as a test subject.”

Li Gang rushed in, holding a report in his hand: "We found it! Liu Jinya's wife, Su Qing, was reported missing three years ago, but in fact she had been imprisoned in the manor's cellar for two years. Zhou Ming visits her every month."

The report included a photo of Su Qing holding Liu Ya as a child, with the same plum blossom birthmark on her wrist as Liu Ya.

“No wonder Liu Ya’s snake drawing is so lifelike.” Jiang Xin’s voice trembled slightly. “She probably saw what her mother looked like.”

At that moment, Xu Zirui's phone received an anonymous text message containing a video: Liu Ya was tied to a chair, and a masked man was standing in front of her, injecting her arm with a syringe.