The Favored Heiress
Chapter 467: Smashing the Detector

Chapter 467: Chapter 467: Smashing the Detector

Time, 3 PM.

Li Qiao planned to visit Renhe Laboratory first, driving the Maybach.

But shortly after leaving, she received a call from Lian Zhen mid-way, "Xiao Li, there’s an important internal seminar this afternoon. The professor asked if you’ve finished your tasks and would like you to join."

"Now?"

Lian Zhen replied with a gentle tone, "Yes, I heard that the study on genetic mutations might be initiated this week. The discussion will be at 4 PM; it would be great if you could come."

"Okay, I’ll head over now."

It took less than half an hour for Li Qiao to arrive at the research institute.

Before getting out of the car, she picked up the watch box from the dashboard and paused for a few seconds before finally putting the watch back on her wrist.

In the research laboratory on the first basement level, she bumped into Li Ru as soon as she entered.

Li Ru’s hands were tucked in the pockets of the white lab coat, and he scanned Li Qiao from head to toe with a disrespectful look, snorting contemptuously.

Taking leave shortly after starting the job, truly a disgrace to the professional integrity of researchers.

Li Qiao ignored him and walked to her research station. As soon as she sat down, Lian Zhen, seeing the square dark blue velvet box in her hand, casually handed her a project assignment form, "Take a look at this."

"What is it?" Li Qiao put the brocade box within sight, glanced at the form, and curled her lips slightly, "As expected."

The future project research, the genetic dynamics module, was under her joint responsibility with Li Ru.

This was hardly a surprise, since Li Ru himself had let it slip during the first meeting.

Lian Zhen leaned on his forehead, his thick eyebrows slightly furrowed, "Do you think it’s appropriate? Should we ask the professor to readjust it?"

Li Qiao shook her head indifferently, "No need, I have it under control."

At most, she would occasionally face Li Ru’s sarcasm and nitpicking, no different from a fool’s antics; she couldn’t be bothered to care.

Lian Zhen didn’t say much, but somehow felt that coming to work at the research institute might have been a mistake.

At 4 PM sharp, all members of the genetic project team went to the conference room for the meeting.

After a lengthy meeting, it was already past 6:30 PM when it ended.

By then, Li Qiao was back at her research station, sitting at the desk staring at the brocade box.

It happened to be dinner time, and there were only two or three people left in the lab, while the others had gone to the cafeteria.

After pondering for a moment, she took the item out of the brocade box, put on a mask, donned the white lab coat, and went to the adjacent chemical drug testing room.

Soon, Li Ru returned to his workstation from the pantry, looked around and didn’t see Li Qiao, thinking she had left again.

He pursed his lips, but then noticed her phone still on the research station, tilted his head, and saw the silhouette in the testing room; Li Ru hesitated for a moment and walked over with his water cup.

Inside the testing room, because the drug testing equipment at the research institute was not particularly advanced, it took about five minutes for Li Qiao to receive the test report.

She looked at the lab report results with an extremely cold expression: Thiopental Sodium.

The general anesthesia dose for clinical use only needs 4-8 milligrams per kilogram of body weight; even if Shang Yu weighed one hundred kilograms, at most only 800 milligrams would suffice to anesthetize him fully.

However, the single dose in the anesthetic needle inside the watch was as high as about 1 gram.

Without dilution with glucose, if Thiopental Sodium were injected into his body, he would lose consciousness within ten seconds.

There were six anesthetic needles inside the watch, totaling over 6 grams, and the lethal dose of Thiopental Sodium is 2-5 grams.

Li Qiao clenched the lab report tightly; others might not know, but she was very aware of what it was.

The same drug used for lethal injections in the country, Thiopental Sodium.

Used properly, it’s an anesthetic; used improperly, it becomes a life-taking needle.

If someone got hold of this wristwatch and injected all the anesthetic needles into Shang Yu’s body, he would undoubtedly die.

Even if there is a mechanism in the wristband making it impossible to use all six needles at once, what if?

Why would Shang Yu add such a thing to the wristwatch if he wasn’t completely unconfident about not falling ill again?

He could have chosen the clinically common Etomidate, yet he chose the most potent and overbearing Thiopental Sodium.

Li Qiao absolutely didn’t believe he had only prepared this wristwatch given what he was capable of.

Shang Yu probably understood her well, giving her the wristwatch knowing she wouldn’t use it on him. So, it’s very likely this was just a Blinding Method to put her at ease.

What he really prepared... might be kept by his side.

This man...

Li Qiao instantly closed her eyes, and her increasingly tight grip caused the report she held to crinkle finely.

Never before had she felt such a profound sense of powerlessness and urgency.

She even somewhat regretted not having continued to delve more deeply into cases of paranoia and mania in the past.

After a while, she opened her eyes, looked at the report in her hand again, rolled her throat, and was ready to tear it up after folding it.

But then footsteps came from behind; Li Ru pushed the door and came in.

She caught Li Qiao right in the act of about to tear up the report, so she crossed her arms and said with a sneer, "What are you doing?"

Li Qiao lightly tore the report in her hand twice without raising her head or opening her eyes, "Is something the matter?"

Li Ru watched her movements, glanced at the analyzer, and asked shrilly, "You ran a drug test in private? Don’t you know that tests require a prior declaration?"

In front of her, Li Qiao threw the report into the shredder not far away, speaking in a languid tone, "I didn’t know."

Li Ru looked unsurprised by her actions, walked over in her high heels, and said, "Didn’t know? Well, you should know now; that’s the rule of our research institute."

She glanced at Li Qiao, and continued her cold mockery, "Do you think you can’t be found out just because you shred the report? Don’t you know that the analyzer has usage logs?

Our project hasn’t even started research yet. Even if drug testing is needed, it’s not your turn to do it."

"So, what?" Li Qiao watched as the shredder turned the report into countless pieces, then turned back with an indifferent frost spreading thinly across her dark eyes.

Li Ru pursed her lips, their gazes meeting, sending a slight shiver down her spine.

But the moment she thought about Li Qiao’s recent actions, she couldn’t help but take on the haughty posture of an Intermediate Researcher, turning to the analyzer, "So, I want to see what kind of tests you’re doing behind our backs.

If you’ve broken the rules, don’t blame me for reporting to the higher-ups, docking your salary and bonus.

Of course, if the matter is serious enough to be expelled from the research institute, that would be your own fault—"

"Ah—"

Li Ru suddenly let out a scream, her face going pale.

She had been standing in front of the analyzer, poking at the screen intending to look through the test records.

While speaking and operating, the schadenfreude on her face was especially obvious.

Unfortunately, Li Ru hadn’t finished speaking when she saw Li Qiao suddenly make a move, smashing the dual-palm-sized screen of the analyzer with a punch.

She didn’t even have time to react.

Not only that, but after breaking the screen, Li Qiao just stared at Li Ru emotionlessly.

Then, under Li Ru’s shocked and speechless expression, Li Qiao casually opened the latch on the side of the analyzer’s body and ripped out all the wires inside in the blink of an eye.

Throughout the process, Li Qiao kept her gaze fixed forward, never glancing at the analyzer, yet seeming profoundly familiar with its structure.

As for Li Ru, who had witnessed the whole process, she stared at Li Qiao’s bleeding hand in horror, then looked at the damaged chemical analyzer, stepping back uncertainly, afraid of any more aggressive behavior from her.