After the rainstorm, the night market was filled with the aroma of caramel. Tang Ren squatted in front of the sugar painting stall, watching the amber syrup winding into a green dragon on the board. The old lady at the stall suddenly coughed and pointed diagonally across: "The guy in the gray jacket comes every Thursday to buy a pound of maltose, but his eyes always glance at the drug poster board."
When Qin Feng used his cell phone to secretly take a photo, the reflection of the camera startled the target. The man knocked over the candy jar and fled, and the broken candy residue formed an incomplete shoe print on the green board. Su Chen squatted down to take a sample, and under the microscope, the sugar crystals were wrapped in cobalt blue particles: "It is consistent with the coating of the nanorobots in the new drugs."
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Tracing to the dormitory of the old sugar factory, Tang Ren stroked the rusty factory sign and suddenly choked up: "My mother used to make sugar here, and she always gave me the burnt sugar cubes..." He kicked open the dusty wooden box, and on the yellowed attendance sheet, there was a name that was repeatedly circled - Lin Zhenye.
"A list of technical exchanges between sugar factories and porcelain factories in 1958," Qin Feng flipped through the sticky pages, "Lin...Lin Zhenye learned sweetener purification here!"
Su Chen pried open the loose floor tiles, and found a moldy wedding photo in an iron box. The bride's bouquet contained a micro-needle, and the groom's boutonniere was a double-sword emblem made of azure blue glaze.
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The centrifuge in the laboratory was humming. Tang Ren stared at the spinning candy and suddenly said, "When I was a kid, I stole food from the candy pot and my mother chased me with a broom... There was a double-knife pattern engraved on the handle of the broom." He measured the length, "It's exactly the same as the Japanese sword in the ancestral hall!"
Qin Feng superimposed the sugar sample chromatogram with the drug composition: "The criminal group is using the sugar-making process to purify liquid methamphetamine!" He was suddenly stunned, "Lin...Lin Zhenye's sweetener formula was changed to an additive that neutralizes bitterness..."
Su Chen scanned the wedding photos into the system, and the groom's face was identified as a missing boiler worker from the sugar factory: "His death certificate from a work-related accident in 1988 was forged, and the urn contained the title deed of the sugar factory."
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When raiding the underground sugar-making workshop, the steam pipe suddenly burst. Tang Ren picked up an iron grid to block the splashing syrup, and blisters appeared on the back of his neck: "This is lava chocolate!" Qin Feng broke open the secret door of the sugar barrel, and the conveyor belt was lined with maltose-packed drugs, and each candy wrapper was printed with children's literacy patterns.
Su Chen used liquid nitrogen to freeze the control console, and the monitoring picture on the screen suffocated everyone - Lin Lu was demonstrating how to pull a dough to the children in the exhibition hall, and a parent's handbag was flashing with a jet blue reflection.
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When Qin Feng rushed into the exhibition hall, Lin Lu's pottery wheel suddenly broke. The flying porcelain cut her wrist, and blood dripped onto the blank, spreading a weird blue. Tang Ren grabbed the bag with a flying pounce, and inside was drugs made into zodiac candies: "These beasts! They use children as transportation tools!"
Su Chen was treating his injuries in the ambulance when Lin Lu suddenly grabbed his sleeve and said, "The clay in the exhibition hall... was mixed with kaolin from Grandpa's recipe..." She trembled and took out the bloody USB drive, "Someone sent it this morning..."
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The video in the USB flash drive trembles and shows Lin Zhenye's face, with a sugar pot in 1958 behind him: "They used deer to threaten me to improve the formula... I left a..." at the bottom of the seventh sugar jar. The picture suddenly interrupted, and Su Chen found the blackened sugar jar in the evidence room. There were handwritten coordinates hidden under the glaze on the bottom of the jar - pointing to the back of his mother's nursing home.
Qin Feng dug out the iron box under the pine tree, and wrapped the yellowed diary in a faded red scarf. The last page was stained with tears and wrote: "Today, the deer will call me grandpa. How can I, a sinner, be worthy of it..."
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### **Chapter 69: Sweet and Bitter Life**
In the garden of the nursing home, Qin Feng pushed his mother to bask in the sun. The old man suddenly grabbed his hand and said, "Xiao Feng, your father said he would bring you some maltose..." Her cloudy eyes reflected the swaying azure pendant on the swing frame, which was a candy man with double knife patterns.
Tang Ren was not far away, teaching the children how to make clay dogs, and quietly inserting GPS locators into each of the candy figures. Su Chen stood under the ginkgo tree, his cell phone screen showing the latest drug test report - the painkiller injected into his mother during childbirth was actually containing the first generation of cobalt compounds.
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### **Chapter 7: Under the Swing**
The setting sun cast long shadows on the swing frame. Lin Lu put the cobalt blue sugar man into the porcelain crusher, and the cobalt blue powder scattered into stars in the evening breeze. "I will pay for Grandpa's sins," she distributed the newly fired white porcelain peace buckles to everyone, "but the sweetness should not be bitter."
Tang Ren put the peace button on the fortune-telling banner, Qin Feng tied the one to his mother's wheelchair, and Su Chen embedded it into the handle of the scalpel. The night market sugar painting stall wafted a burnt aroma, and the old lady was pouring syrup into the shape of a shield, and the children's laughter startled the white egret.
(Where the blue fades away, the most human colors appear)
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- Genetic link between first-generation cobalt compounds and current drugs
- Are there any zodiac candies in the children's hands that have slipped through the net?
(Sugar frosting covers the bitterness, and the porcelain heart reflects the world)