Case Files 013 - Chapter 289: Mercury Chloride

The bodyguards must have been familiar with the roads and understood the nearby terrain structure beforehand; the car hardly took any detours and went straight to a small clinic. The clinic doctor’s desk was facing the window. When the doctor saw several big men lift the two unconscious people out of the car, his face turned blue.

When I saw his appearance, I wanted to quickly close the door of the clinic. But at this time, several bodyguards had already carried Yang Licheng and Wang Xin inside. The bodyguard put the two people on the ground, and at that time, the two people stopped vomiting. But their bodies were still covered with vomit. Among them, Wang Xin was still incontinent, and the mixed smell was unpleasant.

The doctor and the nurse in the clinic hurried over, and several patients who came here for fluid drips also squeezed in to see what happened. The doctor said with a displeased face, “What’s the matter? Why were they carried in casually? What are you doing?”

A bodyguard stood up. He was a head taller than the doctor, at a height of 1.8 meters. He heard the bodyguard say in confusion, “Aren’t you a clinic? This person is in danger. Where are you going here?”

The doctor frowned, his face full of displeasure: “Who knows what happened to you people? You simply bringing me these people. What would happen if they died here? I have seen people like you a lot. You send people when they are abou to die; no matter what I do, It’ll be fine if the patient lives, but he dies, I will be swindled out 0f a lot of money, right?”

Having said that, the doctor hid even further, and he said, “Everyone here is to be a witness. I didn’t touch these two people. If they die here, it would not be my fault. They’re already in this state, yet you still send them to me, thinking that I can resuscitate and bring them back to life? Hurry up and take them away. Whether you send them to the hospital or go bury them, it has nothing to do with me. Hurry up and take them away.”

The doctor’s remarks sent shivers down the patients’ backs. How could doctor who was supposed to save lives behave like this?

“Well, you are a doctor. Please take a look at them.” A patient said.

“Look! I look at what I want to look at!” the doctor said. “These two are obviously dying. Isn’t this causing me trouble? Besides, I don’t know anything. What would it mean if the person dies during the examination? Whose fault would it be then? Will it be yours? If you say you’ll take responsibility for someone’s death, then I’ll take a look!”

After the doctor said this, the surrounding went quiet, and no one spoke anymore.

Zhao Mingkun snorted coldly and said, “If someone dies, I’ll take responsibility. You, bodyguard, take the thing out and show it to this doctor, let him see what it is.”

The bodyguard who had wrapped the white crystal-like thing before, quickly took out this thing from his pocket, opened the toilet paper package, and showed it to everyone.

The doctor looked at it from a distance, and without seeing it carefully, he said: “There are so much stuff that has white granulations. How would I know what it is? What? I’m a doctor, not a chemist. So how would I know what this is? I tell you, don’t try to deceive me, I’ve seen a lot of ups and downs, hurry up.”

Taking a look at all this, the doctor had a feeling from the bottom of his heart that the group had come here to extort money from him. And that it was impossible for him to treat Yang Licheng and Wang Xin.

I looked at the two lying on the ground as if they were asleep at the moment, motionless. If it weren’t for their slightly moving throats, people would’ve considered them dead.

But these two might actually die in a few minutes.

If Guan Zengbin was here, we wouldn’t be so at a loss; not knowing what to do. And Guan Zengbin would be able to identify the thing in our hands.

“You guys go out and keep a lookout for the ambulance. Don’t let them go to a wrong address,” I said.

“Okay.” Two of the bodyguards nodded.

At this time, I still took out my expired police card and said, “Don’t think about it. Come and see what happened to these two people. I’m a policeman. If something happens, we will record it. Yes. Are you assured, now?”

The doctor took my police card and looked around and saw nothing wrong, so he said angrily: “You didn’t get your police card early, I’m afraid that you too are afraid of taking responsibility. Okay, enough talking, this is as you’ve said yourself, if someone dies, it won’t be my responsibility. Everyone can be the witness.”

After saying that, the doctor came forward and looked at the white crystal-like thing in the bodyguard’s hand.

After a while, he asked, “What symptoms did the two of them have before they were sent here?”

While thinking about the symptoms of the poisoning of the two people, I said to the doctor: “At the beginning, the two people had symptoms such as dizziness and general weakness. Then, the two people vomited.”

As I said that, I pointed to Wang Xin and said, “This person’s condition is more serious. He is incontinent.”

The doctor nodded, put on his mask and gloves, and walked slowly towards Wang Xin. He pushed Wang Xin’s eyelids open with his own hands, and I stood by and watched. I could see that Wang Xin’s eyes had become red and swollen, and his pupils were still responding to light, which meant that he wasn’t dead, yet.

The doctor frowned, and then opened Wang Xin’s mouth with his hands again. When the doctor opened Wang Xin’s mouth, we saw that Wang Xin’s mouth had festered a lot. His mouth was full of drool and mucus; his gums were swollen, and bloody, and few of his teeth had fallen off. The gums were giving out, and the teeth seemed to fall out at the slightest touch. It looked as if someone had hit him hard in the mouth.

Immediately afterwards, the doctor touched the sides of Wang Xin’s neck again and said, “Show me that thing again.”

The bodyguard quickly handed it over.

The doctor frowned and said, “I suspect acute renal failure caused by elevated levels of mercuric chloride. There is no way to treat it in a small clinic like ours. I can only try my best to maintain the lives of the two of them and help them to bed. I’ll go get ready.”

The two bodyguards each held the other and then put the two of them on the hospital bed.

The doctor looked at me helplessly and then said, “The things I said earlier, please don’t blame me for that. It is a doctor’s duty to treat and save people, but sometimes we can’t help ourselves. In fact, I’ll let you know, I won’t be able to save them.”

I frowned and looked at the bed. The two people on the bed were completely silent, and I was a little worried.

“What the hell is going on here?” I asked.

The doctor said, “According to my estimation, it should be mercury poisoning.”

I shrugged and said, “What is mercury chloride?”

The doctor said: “Shenggong is mercuric chloride, which is that white thing. Generally, in medicine, this would used as a disinfectant. After one gram of shenggong and one liter of water are dissolved, it can be used as a disinfectant. So, when I saw the thing, I understood right away. It’s just that you came too late. If you had come earlier, you could have had gastric lavage to induce vomiting, but now…

As the doctor spoke, he began to inject the two with an IV drip.

I shook my head and said, “The two people didn’t take it orally, but, how to say, they inhaled the gas.”

“Inhaled gas? What does that mean?” the doctor asked.

I said, “This was the cause of it. The two of them put this in a censer and burned it, and inhaled the smoke from it.”

The doctor scratched his head, then said, “Generally speaking, this thing can’t burn.”

“What?” I was very puzzled.

While the two were getting the IV drip, the doctor said, “Did they use it today.”

“Today.” I said.

The doctor shook his head and said, “I’m afraid that it wasn’t burnt, but had been decomposing under sunlight. If my guess is right, what was initially in the censer was not mercuric but calomel. Calomel is a kind of white, odorless solid that is poisonous. I think you should be able to tell the difference between toxic and the highly toxic substance.”

“You mean, calomel is not very toxic, but it is highly toxic when it is decomposed into Shenggong?” I asked.

“That’s right!” said the doctor, “Calomel is sub-mercury chloride. Under sunlight, it will gradually decompose into mercuric chloride and mercury. You should know what mercury is. ”

I nodded and said, “Mercury.”

The doctor nodded: “If my guess is correct, these two people should have taken this incense burner out of a dark space. In the absence of sunlight, calomel will be preserved for a long time until it encounters sunlight, which will then slowly decompose. This incense burner may contain substances that support combustion. This kind of thing has no melting point. Do you understand what this means?”

I nodded and said, “I also took a chemistry class.”

The doctor said: “That’s good. Between 400 and 500 degrees, this kind of thing will sublimate directly. That is to say, it will directly become gas. I am afraid that these two people were directly inhaling the shenggong gas, which lead to the poisoning. This thing has no smell. They must have inhaled a lot of gas in this environment before the quantitative change led to the qualitative change, and suddenly became highly poisonous.”

I frowned and said slowly, “Those who study medicine also need to study chemistry?”

“Those are all compulsory courses. As long as there are subjects related to biology, you have to study chemistry. Just like mathematics is the basic course of physics and mechanics, chemistry is also our basic course.” The doctor said

“Is this thing easy to get hold of?” I asked.

The doctor nodded and said, “Mercury chloride is actually quite easy to get, you can easily synthesize this in a school laboratory by yourself. Generally speaking, if shenggong is taken orally or comes in contact with the skin, it will be poison the person. And it will not be until the change occurs that you realize that something is wrong. If you can get medical treatment, it will be very easy to save your life, but these two …”

These two people once held the incense burner, watching and smelling it, and the sublimated shenggong directly entered the airways of the two people. It was hopeless for them.

There was the sound of an ambulance outside, and the doctor quickly said, “Get the two people into the ambulance quickly. We are not in good enough conditions here. We must go to a big hospital to save their lives. If you’re fast enough, you might be able to save them.”

Having said that, the medical staff and four big men who came outside the door hurriedly carried the two people onto the stretcher.

“You get in the car and follow. We’ll be there later,” I said.

(End of this chapter)