Chapter 224: Qiong Lake (4)
What Hwa-eun was suggesting was that the victims may have been exposed to a paralyzing or anesthetizing toxin powerful enough to stop autonomous breathing.
So then... does that mean it was a neurotoxin?
For someone’s breathing to completely stop, it couldn’t have been a hemotoxin—it had to be a neurotoxin.
Only a potent neurotoxin, capable of paralyzing the central nervous system, could cause someone to stop breathing in such a short time.
And when someone’s hit by a neurotoxin, their breathing and heart both shut down.
“A powerful neurotoxin... Among venomous creatures, the famous ones with that kind of toxin would be cobras, scorpions, sea snakes, and pufferfish.
But this is a lake. So maybe a freshwater snake with similar venom? A spirit beast related to pufferfish?
No... that still doesn’t add up.”
Thinking of neurotoxic creatures, there’s the cobra, the sea snake, scorpions, and pufferfish.
Scorpions can’t live in water, so that’s out.
And if we eliminate cobras too, then only sea snakes and pufferfish remain.
But both of those creatures produce tetrodotoxin.