Chapter 103: A new face in the lab
Mingshen stared at the same She tattoo on Wang Lei’s neck. With his surgical mask and gloves donned on, he carefully made a slit at the horizontal line of the letter H at its center. Wang Lei lay dead on the operating table but Mingshen’s eyes were lit up with vitality. He operated through the tattoo as if a child was enthralled by a puzzle.
His assistant, Bojing, kept his gaze tracking the fluoroscopy machine. It used X-rays to display real-time interior of nerves and blood vessels of Wang Lei’s neck as it guided Mingshen to navigate through them.
"A l-little deeper..." Bojing said.
He squinted his eyes and tried to find the trace of the chip which they had located before. The same chip through which the voice had echoed, warning Mingshen of not stepping out of his line.
But strangely enough, Bojing couldn’t see that chip anywhere. Mingshen worked his own way through the blood and blood vessels but his scalpel didn’t feel the tap of a foreign object. He looked up at the machine, narrowing his eyes.
The chip wasn’t there anymore. It was as if it had dissipated into thin air without any trace.
A look of worry flashed across Bojing’s eyes. "H-How come I don’t see the chip anymore?"
He took out the previous X-Ray and saw the chip located at the exact position he was staring at now. But the difference was that now, the chip was nowhere to be seen.
"It got dissolved into the system. That’s the only explanation," Mingshen said, tilting his head. "It’s literally become part of blood now."
Bojing scratched his chin. "How can a chip dissolve? Y-you mean somebody planted a chip in t-these people, monitored them, tracked them, talked and w-warned us and then automatically d-disintegrated into the blood?"
He laughed. "Obviously a person to warn Yang Mingshen cannot be a simple person. I am so very impressed. At least I am not wasting time with amateurs. It must be the same with the other goons we caught too. We won’t find any chips inside them either. It’s gone."