HCB Chapter 1821 This is a master
Chapter 1821 This is a master
Upon hearing Li Xiangnan say that the other party was an expert, Jiang Qitao and Qiao Henwan quickly gathered around, holding their breath as they looked intently at the two instruments on the truck.
These two instruments were defective products that Li Xiangnan had Wang Defa specially buy from the Donghai Precision Instrument Factory; they were meant to be used as cannon fodder.
There were two trucks, one in front and one behind. The actual equipment was in the truck behind, and they were unloading it at the factory at that moment!
At this moment, Li Xiangnan, wearing gloves, carefully pulled out a control circuit board from inside the constant temperature insulation box. It looked no different from other components, and the attention of the others was quickly drawn to it.
"The expert you're talking about, you mean this thing?" Wang Defa clicked his tongue, somewhat shaken. "To be able to build something like this, you really have some skill!"
Li Xiangnan shook his head, "This thing was taken off a machine that looks like a radio!"
Li Xiangnan gently pulled the thing off and held it on his fingertips for the others to see.
This thing is about half the size of a palm. The color and material of its surface are very similar to the original circuit board inside the machine. There are two tiny wires extending out from one end and the other end, which serve as the positive and negative terminals of the original machine's circuit.
"See that?" Li Xiangnan's voice turned icy. "This is a miniature pulse jammer. The installation method is quite professional. It's not the kind of brute-force grafting we know. Instead, it utilizes the original electrical wiring and solder joints, making it almost seamless!"
Jiang Qitao said with lingering fear, "No wonder you called him an expert!"
Wang Defa leaned closer to take a look, then took it and held it in his palm to examine it, gasping in surprise, "This thing... it's so exquisite, what's its purpose?"
“Its function…” Li Xiangnan’s eyes sharpened as he closed the incubator lid. “It’s to emit weak, abnormal electrical pulses intermittently during equipment operation. This causes irregular, minute fluctuations in our temperature control system. For example, if the temperature is 37 degrees Celsius at five o’clock, a pulse the next second could cause the temperature to jump to 38 degrees Celsius instantly, and then quickly drop back down…”
“In that case…” Qiao Henwan’s face paled slightly.
“In that case,” Li Xiangnan looked up at the three of them, his tone heavy, “such a tiny but sudden temperature fluctuation could be fatal for Taozi when she was preparing to culture those serum cells that are extremely sensitive to the environment!”
"Yes!" Jiang Qitao's voice trembled slightly. "Then, the cells in the petri dish will die in batches! And the scene of death will look very much like my improper handling, or that I accidentally contaminated the petri dish..."
“It could also be…” Wang Defa started brainstorming, “…a quality defect in the equipment itself, or as Taozi said, it could be due to contamination of the petri dish!”
“That’s right!” Li Xiangnan said with a sigh, “Think about it, if we had discovered such a problem after the experiment during the initial debugging phase, wouldn’t we have had to endlessly investigate? That would have consumed a lot of our time, energy, and the experimental materials that we had worked so hard to obtain!”
As Qiao Henwan learned more from the three's supplementary information, she gradually understood the consequences and exclaimed in surprise, "At that time, we wouldn't have suspected that someone had tampered with our equipment; we would have just thought that our technology was too limited to meet the requirements, and we would have questioned our existence!"
Jiang Qitao's face also paled. As a researcher of snake venom serum, she naturally understood that such covert sabotage was more terrifying than direct confrontation.
"That's really insidious. Doing this shows they know exactly what we want to do. Only someone in the know could come up with such an idea!"
Li Xiangnan narrowed his eyes. "Peach, you're right. So, we have to suspect that the person who sabotaged it must be very knowledgeable about incubators. Perhaps they even have one themselves!"
The meaning is self-evident; it directly targets companies like Qisheng Pharmaceutical that possess incubator equipment!
Qiao Henwan turned to look at the side, "What about this device? Xiang Nan, take a look!"
Li Xiangnan nodded, then turned to look at the chromatography purification column next to him.
"There's something wrong here!"
He pointed to several intact sealing rings and stretched out his hand: "Defa, let me use your key!"
Wang Defa quickly took his bicycle keys out of his pocket and handed them over.
After Li Xiangnan took it, he used the key to poke a specific spot on the sealing ring, and the group immediately noticed a scratch that was about the size of a hair but ran through the entire sealing ring!
“This was definitely caused by a dagger or blade, maybe even a razor!” Li Xiangnan said, then immediately explained, “Once our factory starts operating, or during the initial pressure testing phase, it may still work normally and won’t leak. But over time, after repeated high-pressure sterilization and long-term operation, this point of failure will increase in pressure during frequent use, eventually causing the seal to fail!”
"What will be the consequences?" Qiao Henwan frowned slightly.
"Peach, what do you think?" Li Xiangnan looked at Jiang Qitao.
The latter took a deep breath, steadied himself, gripped the truck bed tightly, and said palely, "My research medium might be lost! And if it's not sealed, the samples will definitely be contaminated to varying degrees!"
She turned to look at Qiao Henwan and said with heartache, "The effective components of the snake venom that I painstakingly extracted will undergo a purification process. If contamination is discovered at that time, all my previous efforts will be wasted!"
“That’s right!” Li Xiangnan said solemnly, “At that time, the preliminary data was all distorted, and we had no way of determining whether the actual snake venom parameters were normal…”
"Holy crap!" Wang Defa's hair stood on end. "Isn't this even more terrifying than before! If the parameters are wrong, won't the designed snake venom serum be completely messed up? We might not even know if the toxin will be accurate, and we might not even know if the serum is serum at all. The entire research direction might be skewed. If the serum we develop goes into production... wouldn't that be absolutely terrible!"
Upon hearing this, Qiao Henwan felt a chill run down her spine.
"Bastards! They're utterly despicable! They're not just delaying us, they're destroying us! And they're going to prey on ordinary people! It's outrageous!"
Wang Defa was so angry that he cursed, "That son of a bitch Sun Qisheng is such a bastard and despicable! He's not even human!"
Li Xiangnan returned the key to him and took off his gloves.
"We were always on the defensive before, with the mother liquor being stolen and the lab being poisoned. Although we launched an investigation, strengthened security, and were forced to activate the underground lab, it was ultimately just reinforcing our shield!"
He turned to the three men and said, “But things are different now. This time, their attack on the equipment, though insidious, left concrete traces, exposing their modus operandi and channels! This is no longer just a wild guess; we’ve caught them red-handed!”
"You mean..." Jiang Qitao seemed to understand something.
“Passively taking hits will only embolden the enemy,” Li Xiangnan said with a cold smile. “Now, it’s time for us to take the initiative!”
At this point, he looked at the three of them.
"Hate it, Peach, continue with the previous plan of feinting and concealing at the research institute and factory. Be relaxed on the outside but tight on the inside. We'll give Sun Qisheng the wrong impression, making him think that we haven't discovered his conspiracy! The more smug he becomes, the more flaws he'll reveal!"
"That's how we should do it, Xiao Li! Tell me, what else do we need to do?" Wang Defa rubbed his hands together, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
Li Xiangnan took a deep breath, as if he wanted to inhale the cold autumn twilight into his lungs and transform it into the power to fight back.
"Let's start with that bribed epidemic prevention station staff and toll collector. Let's have a good talk with him! It's time to let Sun Qisheng taste what it's like to be targeted!"