Chapter 479: Chapter 352: Eerie!
"If injected continuously for more than two weeks, 90% of people will develop a physical dependency!"
"Furthermore, even if you only inject once or twice due to battlefield injuries, some people will experience psychological cravings due to the pleasure."
Xu Liang slowly said.
Lv Xiong didn’t inject morphine.
But rather the anesthetic ’dexmedetomidine.’
However....
"Morphine itself is a kind of anesthetic! In other words... most anesthetics have addictive properties!"
"To the extent that the management of some anesthetics is so strict that it’s entirely based on drug regulations!"
How strict is it?
Let’s put it this way, if a bottle of such medicine is finished but you carelessly throw away the empty bottle....
In a situation where both the hospital director and the bottle have disappeared, the hospital will definitely prioritize finding the bottle!
Yes, even an empty bottle receives the same level of importance in management!
Because this stuff is an anesthetic, a medication in the hospital.
But once it flows into society.
It’s a drug!!!
In other words...
"Lv Xiong didn’t take drugs, his addiction isn’t caused by cocaine or heroin, but.... "
Yang Ruoxi showed an expression of surprise.
"But the so-called sedatives!?"
"After the withdrawal symptoms appeared, his body craved sedatives, and when taken to the hospital, the doctor first injected him with anesthetics... which resulted in a case of relapse!?"
Very absurd.
An absurd process.
Although anesthetic addiction isn’t particularly niche knowledge, since a company from the Western Country once produced a highly addictive painkiller that was widely spread.
However... it’s truly absurd for a doctor or nurse to cause relapse by injecting anesthetics!
"Especially ’dexmedetomidine’
Xu Liang shook his head, feeling the urge to smoke but recalling that he’s in a hospital, he stopped his smoking hand.
"In cases of typical anesthetic addiction, even if you inject other anesthetics, it won’t alleviate the body’s condition, and the withdrawal symptoms will still present."
"But particularly in Lv Xiong’s case... if I’m not wrong, the person should be addicted to the anesthetic ’thiabendazole.’
The core function of thiabendazole is to activate the human α₂ receptor.
And the mechanism of dexmedetomidine perfectly matches with thiabendazole!!!
Therefore.
"Lv Xiong has developed a dependency and addiction to thiabendazole which results in withdrawal symptoms."
"And dexmedetomidine, when injected, will appear as though you’ve injected thiabendazole."
Xu Liang opened his mouth and out came a bunch of professional knowledge.
Yang Ruoxi and Su Yu were listening, feeling dizzy.
Upon recovering, they both gave Xu Liang curious looks.
"Where did you learn all this stuff!?"
Knowing and understanding as well as applying these are entirely different realms.
Xu Liang’s brain can spin so quickly....
"Brother... are you really a law student?" Su Yu felt a bit puzzled.
"Ignore that."
Xu Liang didn’t feel like explaining this; should he say that back then he veered into studying psychology and spent four years reading medical books in the library...
Anyway...
"Sanma Village doesn’t have a medical room, just a veterinary station."
"Thiabendazole is a veterinary drug, but can be injected into humans too, however... Sanma Village doesn’t have a large livestock factory, yet the veterinary station’s stock of thiabendazole is exceedingly high!"
Images previously seen in the veterinary station surfaced in Xu Liang’s mind.
The wall was densely covered, full of thiabendazole medicine.
Generally speaking, the reserve and consumption of medicine need to be equal, if Sanma Village doesn’t have enough livestock, then it only means that these medications... need to be consumed elsewhere!
And aside from livestock, this ghostly place only has... people!
Xu Liang’s gaze sharpened and his expression became solemn.
Suppose Sanma Village is excessively poor and backward, unable to afford regular medications, thus having to inject thiabendazole to relieve pain, which might make sense.
But Lv Xiong’s body is fine!
He doesn’t have any diseases, not even the old injuries or problems that hunters say he has, so why is he injecting this stuff?
Meanwhile....
"Remember what the village chief said about the road construction?"
Xu Liang suddenly spoke again, steering the conversation away.
In Yang Ruoxi’s dazed head, the words spoken by Village Chief Zhang before floated up.
Namely, Yang City once wanted to build a road for Sanma Village so they could leave the mountain, but it was wrecked by the villagers’ greed, preferring to take a detour instead.
But...
"The villagers at the veterinary station clearly didn’t know about this matter."
Xu Liang reminded again.
Village Chief Zhang said the road construction was influenced by the villagers of Sanma Village...
But the villagers at the veterinary station don’t know about the road construction....
So the question arises.
Who is telling the truth!?
"I understand, you’re saying Lv Xiong, like the villagers, unknowingly developed a dependency on thiabendazole!"
Yang Ruoxi finally understood, her face showing a look of enlightenment.
Villagers unaware of the road construction were prevented from leaving the deep mountains by Village Chief Zhang’s arbitrariness.
Lv Xiong isn’t sick, yet unknowingly developed a dependency on thiabendazole...
Upon hearing this, Su Yu beside her began to hesitate again.
"So... all of this was done deliberately?"
"Then why are they doing this?"
Su Yu honestly questioned.
A backward and isolated village.
Making Lv Xiong... oh no, not just Lv Xiong, if Xu Liang isn’t mistaken, the villagers at the veterinary station also show the same rash as Lv Xiong, making them victims of addiction!
If there’s one, there’s two; might this indirectly prove... the entire Sanma Village has already developed a dependency on drugs?
This is one whole ’drug village’!
But it’s not a village that produces drugs, but rather a village that consumes drugs....
It’s quite terrifying, who knows what the veterinary station and the village chief have in mind.
"No road construction, fostering dependency, isolated, closed-off village... "
Xu Liang rubbed his brows.
After adding a string of factors together, he felt that Sanma Village had turned into a chaotic mess.
But no matter what....
"These matters are irrelevant to Lv Xiong’s case, our main priority right now is to prove Lv Xiong didn’t commit murder, or he didn’t intend to murder!"
Xu Liang restrained his thoughts and rejuvenated his spirits.
Even if Sanma Village is just as he imagined.
That’s only another case, unrelated to Huang Ren or even Xu Liang.
They are only responsible for Lv Xiong’s murder case in the final judgment on the court!
Besides...
Even if Xu Liang told the prosecutor’s office, and they indeed found evidence the vet injected Lv Xiong with thiabendazole, what good would it do?
No good.
The vet has a veterinary license, unable to figure out their motives, even if it alarms them... at most it would only convict them of practicing medicine illegally.
Then the whole case would be finished.
"Xiaoyu, go find an institution capable of chromatographic testing, and conduct a specialized thiabendazole test for Lv Xiong."
Xu Liang pondered and then spoke to Su Yu.
Thiabendazole can’t be detected through typical drug tests.
This is why the urine test results were completely negative, only utilizing gas chromatography or liquid chromatography can effectively detect it.
"Alright."
Su Yu nodded without hesitation and promptly left the hospital to handle it.
After a while...
Xu Liang indeed had nothing he wanted to do, so he turned to look toward the ward.
The prosecutor has been inside for a long time, wondering what exactly they want to discuss that requires so much time...
Thinking this.
Xu Liang then stepped up to the door, and knocked.
"Knock knock knock~"
The ward’s door was knocked on, and without waiting for a voice from inside, Xu Liang directly pushed the door open.
"Creak~"
The door opened.
A few prosecutors wearing uniforms appeared in front of Xu Liang.
Huang Ren glanced at the entering Xu Liang, uninterested in interacting, then shifted his gaze back to Lv Xiong, continuing to ask:
"Mr. Lv, how long did you chase the victim at the murder scene?"
"Don’t remember, probably just a few hundred meters..."
Lv Xiong looked at Xu Liang, seeing no indication from him, shook his head and spoke.
"A few hundred meters?"
Huang Ren frowned.
The victim was merely a thirteen-year-old child who strayed from the summer camp group.
The person... can engage in a tug-of-war lasting a few hundred meters under the hands of an experienced hunter?
"Are you sure?" Huang Ren asked again.
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