Chapter 445 Script Killing 3 Sweetheart Laboratory
A few people walked to the door of Sweetheart Laboratory at the end of the street. The doorplate read "No. 54, Sourheart Street, South City".
Tao Huayu pointed at the house number and said, "This means that there are two areas in this space. We walked from the north to the south of the city."
Li Yu added: "Only this laboratory is located in the south of the city."
Looking in through the window of the guard room, I saw a head with dreadlocks.
Everyone laughed together: "We know each other."
Wenxi walked up and knocked on the glass. The girl with dreadlocks looked up, smiled, stood up and opened the window. Everyone saw that she had changed into a guard uniform.
Wenxi teased, "Hey, who is this? Isn't this the employee from my store who asked for leave to go home? Why are you here to look after the gate?"
The girl with dreadlocks said, "Well, the family problem has been solved. I am a part-time worker, boss, please be considerate."
After she finished speaking, she looked at Du Yunkai standing behind her and gave him an awkward salute: "Boss Du, why are you here on this weekend? There really is no other boss in the world as dedicated as you!"
Du Yunkai put on airs and said, "Ah, I'm here to inspect. Open the door."
The girl with dreadlocks tapped the button on the table, and the door slowly moved sideways: "Boss, please come in."
The overall layout of the laboratory is larger than that of a nail salon. There is a corridor as soon as you enter the door. There are two doors on the left side of the corridor, marked with the archive room and the workshop respectively. There are also two doors on the right side, which are the employee office and the boss's office respectively.
Among the four doors, only the boss's office door had an electronic screen with a numeric keypad. Li Yu reached out and randomly tapped it. The screen lit up and displayed a programming-related question. He felt dizzy at first glance and automatically stepped back. Du Yunkai happened to be standing next to him: "Boss, come on."
Xu Qingsong said to Du Yunkai: "Then you take charge of this place, and the rest of us will go to the other three rooms."
Du Yunkai looked at the question on the screen, nodded and said, "Okay."
The other three doors were pushed open as soon as the doorknobs were turned. Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong went to the archives room, Wenxi and Li Yu went to the workshop, and Tao Huayu went to the staff office.
There are two bookshelves with cabinets on the bottom half of the archive room. One of them holds research and development materials. There are four big characters on the shelf: "Research and Development Materials". There is also a piece of paper next to it, indicating the years from which the materials are collected. Other than that, the shelf is empty.
Another bookshelf holds employee files. The blue boxes containing documents are filled to the brim. They are even labeled with dates and arranged in order.
"This prop here is obviously made with much more care." Liu Wangxue scanned the bookshelf from top to bottom, "All the employee files for the past ten years are here."
Xu Qingsong glanced at the empty bookshelf on the other side: "The research and development materials are also from the past ten years. It seems that this laboratory has been established for at least ten years."
The two of them worked together, Xu Qingsong started from the farthest date on the top layer, while Liu Wangxue started from the most recent date at the bottom, to try to see if they could find any useful information.
Liu Wangxue pulled out a box, took out the file bag inside and opened it: "There are so many file boxes and file bags. How long will it take to flip through them one by one... Hey, it's empty?"
"My folder is empty too." Xu Qingsong was just like her. He found nothing when he opened the file bag. He thought for a moment and guessed, "Maybe only the folders with key dates will have content."
"Key dates? The dates on the photos in the nail salon?" Liu Wangxue thought for a moment, "35, 39, and 42, right?"
"Yes, Liang Bojun and his colleagues graduated from graduate school in 1935." Xu Qingsong answered, and then asked, "There is a perpetual calendar electronic clock hanging on the wall of the nail salon. Did you notice it?"
"I saw it, but didn't pay attention to it." Liu Wangxue said. She just took a quick glance and knew there was such a thing hanging on the wall, but didn't pay attention to the date at all.
She put the blank folder back to its original place on the bookshelf and asked Xu Qingsong: "What year is it now in the plot?"
"43 years." Xu Qingsong said, "So if we extrapolate back, Liang Bojun and his classmates graduated from graduate school eight years ago."
Liu Wangxue continued, "When we were at Liang Bojun's house, he said that he worked at the current plastic surgery hospital thanks to Du Yunkai's connections. Are you trying to say that Liang Bojun may have worked here?"
Xu Qingsong put the file box in his hand back to its original place, looked down at her, and smiled: "Verify it."
"Okay, let's verify it." Liu Wangxue found the file storage boxes labeled 35 years. There were three in total, with the months being May, July and October.
She and Xu Qingsong each opened one to check. The one in her hand was from May. She opened the box and took out a file bag. She untied the rope and saw that there was something inside.
After taking it out and glancing at it, Liu Wangxue looked up at Xu Qingsong, her face showing the joy of having her guess confirmed: "Really! Liang Bojun's information."
As she spoke, she did not forget to praise Xu Qingsong: "How come you are so amazing? You can guess right at once!"
Xu Qingsong raised his hand and scratched the tip of her nose: "You guessed it too."
At this time, Wenxi came in and asked, "What did you find?"
After Liu Wangxue answered her, she asked, "What about you guys?"
Wenxi said, "The workshop is empty. There's nothing there. Xiaoyu went to Tao Huayu's place, so I came to take a look at you."
So the three of them got together to look at Liang Bojun's information. The top sheet was his personal resume, and below it were the changes in positions within the laboratory and the research results achieved.
From his resume, we know that Liang Bojun is a graduate student majoring in pharmacy at the top 1 medical university in China, and he joined the Sweetheart Laboratory in May 2006. In the family member column on the employment form, he only filled in his younger brother, named Liang Boying, and there was no other information except his name and phone number.
After joining the company, Liang Bojun joined the laboratory's anti-aging drug research and development team and became a team member in July 1938. In May 1939, the drug passed clinical trials and was officially launched on the market. In October of the same year, Liang Bojun became the team leader. In July of the following year, he resigned.
After reading it, the three of them checked the other two file boxes together, and found them empty again, so they packed up the things and put them back where they came from.
"I guess this is the only key information here." Xu Qingsong said, "Let's go out and meet up with Du Yunkai and the others."
When the three of them went out, Tao Huayu and Li Yu also came out from the opposite door, and went to the boss's office where Du Yunkai was.
"How is it? What did you gain?" Xu Qingsong asked Du Yunkai.
Du Yunkai was sitting at his desk checking his computer: "I've gained a lot. I'm still short of the password to the safe, which is also a six-digit password."
Tao Huayu looked over and said, "It's not another date, is it? I just found several over there. How about trying them one by one?"
"No, don't do that!" Du Yunkai immediately raised his head to stop her. "If you enter the wrong number three times, the safe will be completely locked and can't be opened. I've tried twice, both times were wrong."
"Ah? One more time left?" Wenxi went over and pulled Du Yunkai's ear, "Why don't you wait for everyone to come over and discuss it together? The evidence that Jiang Feifei mentioned is right inside!"
Du Yunkai took her hand away: "I was wrong, I was too arrogant, there is still one chance left."
"Hey, what is this?" The desk had been searched by Du Yunkai. The top drawer of the desk was open and the key was in the lock. Wen Xi saw what was inside at a glance. She asked while reaching out to take it.
"Cell phone." Du Yunkai replied.
Wenxi picked up the so-called "mobile phone" and saw that it was a metal ring with a stack of palm-sized cardboard strung together. The first piece of cardboard was printed with the phone's lock screen interface. After turning over the first piece, the second piece was the phone's content interface.
Wenxi's expression cracked a little as she showed everyone, "What a thoughtful prop!"
Everyone laughed together while watching.
Du Yunkai was checking the folders on the computer desktop and said with a smile: "Look further, they are all evidence of our love."
Everyone gathered around when they heard it, and Li Yu was still shouting, "I want to see it, too. I want to see it, too—"
Wenxi then flipped the pages and the next one was a chat box with "Sweetheart Nail Art". The content of the greeting seemed to indicate that they had just met. The date was May 20, 1951, and "Laboratory" praised "Sweetheart Nail Art" for looking good in the bridesmaid dress.
"May 20th. Today is also May 20th in the script. It's Jiang Feifei's birthday and her and Liang Bojun's wedding anniversary." Xu Qingsong judged, "So you two met at their wedding."
"That's right." Du Yunkai replied.
The chat history was turned to the back, and this page read "Two months of chat history are omitted here. During this period, the laboratory showed great concern and care for the manicurist."
Liu Wangxue commented: "Well, it's really thoughtful. Is the prop master afraid that if he skips this step, we won't be able to make the connection and start to doubt the relationship between these two people?"
The next page jumps to two months later, when "Laboratory" confesses to "Sweetheart Nail Art" and the two of them naturally get together. Then flipping back, "Laboratory" sends "Sweetheart Nail Art" a job offer but is rejected. Then there are some transfer records to "Sweetheart Nail Art" and content asking her about the effects of using products. "Sweetheart Nail Art" and her mother both use skin care products, but only her mother takes anti-aging drugs. Later, there is content about her mother going to the laboratory for regular physical examinations.
Wenxi turned to Du Yunkai and pretended to be furious: "Great! So you are with me for a purpose! It is to find real people to test your product! And you transfer tens of thousands to me at any time, and you even transfer a large amount at the end of the year. What, is this to make yourself feel guilty?"
Liu Wangxue reminded her: "Xixi, you are being hypocritical. You wrote in your diary that you wanted to use his money and power to get rid of your mother's control. How come you can use him but he can't use you?"
Du Yunkai turned his head to look at Wenxi and said with a smile: "Don't be so hasty to draw conclusions, turn to the next page."
Li Yu said: "I suddenly have a bad feeling."
Liu Wangxue, Xu Qingsong, Tao Huayu: "Me too."
Wenxi then flipped through the chat history and found that the date was March 1, 42.
"Laboratory": [Bad news, the second-generation anti-aging drug you improved still has a certain probability of causing cancer, and two more mice died]
"Sweetheart Nail Art": [What's the good news? ]
The "laboratory" posted a picture: [The results of your mother's physical examination yesterday showed that she has basically reached the late stage of liver cancer]
"Sweetheart Manicure": [Beauty comes at a price]
Li Yu covered her face with her hands and cried out in shock: "Oh my God, Sister Wenxi, you and President Du are in collusion!!"
The last chat record was on September 10, 1943.
"Sweetheart Manicure": [It's over. She has loved beauty all her life, so I bought her a very delicate little box]
"Laboratory": [Don't be sad, the end of all our lives is a small box]
"Sweetheart Nail Art" sent a link with the title "The second trial of the case of Mr. Li, the matricide case of Top1 University, opened today on the eve of the 41st Spring Festival."
"Sweetheart Manicure": [I am happy, this child is right, only when she dies can I gain true freedom and a new life]
"Sweetheart Nail Art": [But he is also stupid. Only a normal death can escape the punishment of the law]
"Laboratory": [You are free now, go do something meaningful to celebrate. In addition, the second generation of anti-aging drugs has basically eliminated the carcinogenic components, you have made an indelible contribution, come and join me]
"Sweetheart Manicure": [No, I like to be the woman behind you]
The "lab" sent a large transfer.
That night, "Sweetheart Nail Art" sent a photo to the "Laboratory", which was the one marked with 42/09/10 that Liu Wangxue and his friends found in the nail salon.
"How scary!" Li Yu rubbed his arms, "I have goose bumps."
At this time, Du Yunkai asked everyone: "Have you finished reading? I found the R&D files and financial statements."
Everyone gathered around to take a look. The laboratory started developing a first-generation anti-aging drug in 1935, which was launched on the market in May 1939. Within a year, it brought the laboratory a net profit of 50 million.
Tao Huayu "tsk tsk" twice and pointed at the computer screen: "This is too much profit! Look at the ingredient list, even a poor student like me can recognize it." The ingredient list is indeed full of common health products on the market.
"This is different from what's written in the brochure." Li Yu took out the brochure he had just brought from the employee office and found the one about the first generation of anti-aging drugs. "Look, the ingredients mentioned in the brochure are not found in this file at all."
Xu Qingsong took a look and pointed at the computer screen: "These are the ones. It's like the difference between a person's full name and nickname. The full name sounds more expensive, but it's essentially the same thing."
Wenxi took several other brochures from Li Yu and found that they were all skin care products.
Li Yu said: "I've seen it all. Skin care products have been around since 1934, and new products have been launched almost every year. I think the promotion is outrageous. There are things like removing spots, whitening, removing scars, removing acne, lifting and firming. All of them say that you'll see results in one week, and in two weeks you'll be refreshed, and in three weeks you'll have baby-like skin."
Li Yu's last sentence imitated the inflammatory and seductive tone of the narration in the advertisement, which made everyone laugh.
Liu Wangxue and Wenxi leaned against each other and said, "This kind of exaggerated propaganda is still very tempting to the majority of female consumers."
"That's right," Wenxi agreed. "Think about it. If a product is labeled as a laboratory product, even if it doesn't work in a week, as long as it works, people will flock to it. Previously, an employee in my studio bought a wrinkle-lightening essence produced by a laboratory. It was advertised to be effective in 15 days. She used up the whole bottle three months later before she saw any effect. And I don't think it was necessarily the essence that worked, because she gained some weight during that time. Just like that, all the other girls in the studio followed suit and bought it. They didn't think about what kind of high-tech could be added to the essence that costs hundreds of yuan a bottle to smooth out wrinkles caused by aging?"
"Why else would they say women's money is the easiest to make?" Tao Huayu said, "I just found the laboratory's online store on the computer over there. I don't know if it's fake, but all the products, including this first-generation anti-aging drug, have received rave reviews."
Du Yunkai pulled up the "research and development" files of skin care products: "You see, skin care products are not actually developed in a laboratory. We purchased foreign patents and packaged them here."
Wenxi is a fan of the ingredients of skin care products. She is very careful about her face. She knows these things well and can tell the cost at a glance. Then she compares them with the financial statements next to them and pats Du Yunkai on the shoulder: "Boss Du, you have made a lot of dirty money. You might as well change the name of this place to 'Black Heart Laboratory'."
"I gave you a lot of dirty money." Du Yunkai flicked her hand and opened another document, which was the research and development file of the second-generation anti-aging drug. "Look here. The second generation started to be developed in May 1930, but it stopped for a while after July. It is recorded here as 'technical bottleneck'. In June of the following year, the project started again."
"This way the timing matches." said Xu Qingsong.
"Yes," Liu Wangxue recounted what she had just discovered about Liang Bojun in the archives room, and speculated, "It should be that Liang Bojun resigned for some reason, and the research and development of the second-generation anti-aging drug could not continue. It was not until President Du met Xixi at the wedding that he learned that Xixi and Liang Bojun were classmates, and then the two people who both had ulterior motives for each other approached each other and reached a cooperation."
Wenxi sighed, and then sorted out her part of the story: "So at first I just wanted to get close to Mr. Du, the rich man, and use his money and power to completely get rid of my mother. But after seeing the case of that college student murdering his mother, my mentality changed. I wanted her to die, but I didn't want to sacrifice the rest of my life. It happened that the second-generation anti-aging drug contained carcinogens, so I gave it to her. After taking it for more than a year, she had advanced liver cancer. During the cancer period, her body must have reacted, but her physical examination was done in the laboratory, so it was easy to hide it. When the pain was severe, give her some painkillers?"
After Wenxi finished speaking, the electronic watch on her wrist flashed. She raised it and pressed a button, and the progress bar updated the data again: "The character plot is 80% complete."
Everyone applauded, and Liu Wangxue said, "All your guesses are correct. The only thing left should be the relationship between you and the male and female protagonists."
Tao Huayu touched his chin and said, "In this case, wouldn't it be equivalent to finding the cause of mother's death? And your chat records also confirmed that the second-generation drugs cause cancer. Then the evidence in the safe that Jiang Feifei mentioned is useless, right?"
"It may not be useless," Xu Qingsong said, "Let's open it and have a look first."
Li Yu scratched his face: "What is the password? We have found a lot of digital information, which one is the correct one?"
Tao Huayu walked to the safe and reached out to press the number keys: "Who cares? Anyway, this evidence is dispensable now. Just try one. If it's locked, it's locked."
He moved very quickly. Before anyone could stop him, he had entered six digits and pressed OK. Then there was a click, the lock opened, and the door of the safe popped open automatically.
Everyone was surprised, especially Tao Huayu himself. He had prepared to lock the door completely, but he didn't expect it to be opened. He took out everything inside with both hands, including a stack of papers and a mini flannel bag: "Hey! Look at my luck!"
Everyone asked him together: "What did you just lose?"
Tao Huayu put the things on the desk: "420910."
As soon as this string of numbers was spoken, everyone understood and all eyes were focused on Du Yunkai.
Du Yunkai pretended to straighten his clothes and looked up at Wenxi: "I told you, I really love you."
Wenxi immediately hugged Liu Wangxue: "He's a little bit perverted. I'm so scared."
Liu Wangxue returned her comfort.
Xu Qingsong and Li Yu looked at Du Yunkai with disdain: "He is indeed a bit perverted."
"What's perverted about it? 420910 is the day her mother died, and it's also the day she got a new life. Is there anything wrong with me using this as my password? No problem, it just shows that I care about her a lot." Du Yunkai retorted, "Don't criticize me yet, maybe the information I dig out from you later will be even more perverted."
"Let's look at this first." Liu Wangxue spread out the things that Tao Huayu had just taken out.
There were several sheets of paper. The top one was a report on the first generation of anti-aging drugs sent to an authoritative institution for testing. The test results were normal. The test results of the second generation below showed that one of the ingredients would react with the enzymes in the human body, which could not be metabolized by the liver. When accumulated to a certain amount, it would cause cell cancer.
At the bottom is an employment contract. Party A is Sweetheart Laboratory and Party B is "Sweetheart Nail Art". Party A employs Party B as the leader of the laboratory's second-generation anti-aging drug research and development group. The last page of the contract has the signature of "Sweetheart Nail Art" and the laboratory's seal, and the date is 42/09/10.
"What?!" This time it was Wenxi's turn to be shocked. "Didn't I reject your offer? Why is there this contract?"
Du Yunkai tapped on the date and guessed, "We have another date today?"
Li Yu opened the mini flannel bag: "It's a USB flash drive."
Du Yunkai took it and plugged it into the computer host. He opened it and found two folders inside. The first folder contained a laboratory entry and exit registration form and several surveillance videos. After checking them one by one, he found that the registration form contained the entry and exit records of "Sweetheart Nail Art", and the video showed her operating in the workshop.
The second folder contains screenshots of chats between the "lab" and "Sweetheart Nail Art", as well as the medical examination reports of "Sweetheart Nail Art"'s mother. It records in detail the planning and mental journey of "Sweetheart Nail Art", as well as how her mother's organ cancer gradually turned into cancer.
What's not to understand? Wen Xi blasted Du Yunkai: "Well, you still have the nerve to say that you love me truly. If you really love me, why do you keep these evidences? Are you keeping them to reduce the punishment of the law when something happens, or do you want to keep them to threaten me to work for you for the rest of my life?"
Liu Wangxue and the others looked at Du Yunkai with contempt.
Du Yunkai held Wenxi's hand and said, "From the perspective of the characters, they should all be like this. This mentality is probably that love is love, but when it comes to personal interests, you can't give in at all."
Wenxi shook off his hand: "I've seen through you. Our relationship ends here!"
Liu Wangxue laughed at her: "Xixi, it can't be ended. The contract is for life, hahahaha..."
Wenxi grabbed the contract and was about to tear it up, but Xu Qingsong snatched it away: "Don't tear it up, don't tear it up. This is a prop, you can't destroy it."
Li Yu and Tao Huayu expressed their sympathy to Wenxi.
Du Yunkai stood up and hugged Wenxi, then said, "I can now sort out part of the storyline for you."
He concluded as he spoke, the digital watch on his wrist showing "Character plot completeness 50%": "So what's the remaining 50%?"
"By the way," Tao Huayu said, "I haven't told you the information I just found."
What Tao Huayu found in the staff office were cooperation orders between the laboratory and some institutions or businesses. These orders were in the only real computer - the others were models. It took him some time to unlock the lock screen password.
Tao Huayu said: "There are two key pieces of information. One is the cooperation with the Tianxin Plastic Surgery Hospital, which should be the one Liang Bojun is working at now. The cooperation between the laboratory and the plastic surgery hospital began in 1934. At that time, the orders were all for skin care products, such as masks and creams. Starting in 1938, first-generation anti-aging drugs appeared in the orders, and they have continued to this day. In addition, there are pre-orders for second-generation anti-aging drugs."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Liu Wangxue and said, "The other one is the cooperation with your Sweetheart Beauty Salon, which also started in 1934. The order content is basically the same as that of the Plastic Surgery Hospital."
Liu Wangxue asked: "Are there any anti-aging drugs as well?"
Tao Huayu nodded: "Orders for the first generation and pre-orders for the second generation."
Xu Qingsong clapped his hands: "Then the next place we are going to is the plastic surgery hospital and the beauty salon."
Du Yunkai asked: "Action in groups?"
Everyone nodded in agreement, and then according to the current standing positions, Du Yunkai, Wen Xi, and Li Yu were in one group, and Liu Wangxue, Xu Qingsong, and Tao Huayu were in another group.
Tao Huayu snorted, "I knew it would be like this. Originally, two single dogs could huddle together for warmth, but now, we are forced to follow you and eat dog food all the way."
Everyone laughed together. Xu Qingsong advised him to listen to Tao's mother and go on the blind date when he returned. They laughed all the way out of the laboratory.
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