The call to James was first made to the police station. Weiss said that James had taken leave, but did not say why. Zach called James's house again, but no one answered.
I asked Sam to go for a run, but the man came back and said he didn't see James. Sam also made a special trip around the Barton Daily News where Kate worked, but didn't see Kate either.
Zach thought for a while and called Derek at the hospital. Sure enough, Derek went to the obstetrics and gynecology department and found James and Kate. He brought Zach's words to James. When he responded to Zach's call, Derek said the following.
"I don't think James and Kate were having a routine prenatal check-up. The atmosphere was not right."
Zach asked, "What do you mean?"
"Well, the atmosphere is just not right!" Derek said in a tone that he didn't want to come to any bad conclusion.
Zach could tell, and he didn't want to make any bad judgment now, "So do you know the doctor James and Kate see? Can you go and ask?"
"I know you! But I will never ask! It goes against my principles!"
"Okay." Zach hung up the phone without forcing it.
In the afternoon, Smith's people came first, bringing a bunch of chemical instruments that Zach didn't recognize. After being taken to the basement by Zach, they began to work around the corpse that Zach had dissected.
Zach communicated with these people without disturbing their work, "Your work clothes." Lab coat, "It has the logo of the shelter on it. Are you employees of the shelter?"
"Yes." Probably the leader answered Zach, "We are researchers of the 0711 drug experiment."
Zach nodded, "Before you started doing 0711 experiments in the asylum, you were?"
The group of people looked at each other in confusion, but the leader was still the leader, "We are the drug producers of Smith's private industry."
Zach nodded again.
Yes, this shows that Smith listened to what he said. The people now sent to Grandry to check the body are all Smith's own men and have nothing to do with Lydia.
"What are you doing?"
Zach watched the other party's operations quietly for a while. These people took the blood from the corpse, and after performing a series of operations that Zach didn't understand, they compared the things extracted from the corpse's blood with what they brought.
"We are comparing whether the blood of these people contains 'Valmina'." The leader replied.
"What is that?" Zach noticed that these people were holding things extracted from the blood of corpses, and the comparison was not just 'Valmina'.
"That's 0711." The leader answered.
The 'Valmina' (pills) and 0711 (smoke) that Zach sees here are not familiar to Zach. Both are liquids in test tubes. Rather than saying it is a semi-finished product, it is better to say it is a core substance.
While observing the two core substances of Remmel Pharmaceuticals from a distance, Zach asked, "Isn't it enough for Mr. Smith to just confirm that the 'Valmina' in these corpses is not there?" What does it have to do with 0711
Most of the people working had ignored Zach, and only the leader was still talking to Zach. Now there was hesitation on the man's face, as if he was weighing whether he could say something.
Zach pushed, "You are now doing your Smith's work in my Glendale." This means that Mr. Smith trusts me so much, what do you subordinates have to hesitate about.
The leader's hesitation disappeared, "Varmina and 0711 were both manufactured by Ms. Smith (Lydia), and she did not share the manufacturing formula of the core ingredients with Mr. Smith." Maybe he really let go, with some helplessness on his face "If she hadn't held the core formula, Mr. Smith wouldn't have put her name on the promotion of 0711."
Is this a complaint? Zach is very keen. "As people who have been working under Smith, shouldn't you be happy? The Smith brothers and sisters launched 0711 together and moved the Smith family business to a bright place." Zach pointed at these People, "poison makers." After a pause, "Researcher."
The meaning is obvious. While the private property of the Smith family is being cleaned up, these people who once could only do evil deeds in the dark have also been...'redeemed'.
And this 'salvation' is naturally due to the fact that Lydia brought 0711. the real 'medicine', a good medicine that solved the phantom limb pain that plagued countless veterans.
"Well, we can live well without 0711. The transformation (whitewashing) of the Smith industry before 0711 was the legalization of specific drugs. Even if Ms. Smith (Lydia) does not come up with 0711, we can still get legal job." He waved his hand, probably realizing that his own thoughts were not what Zach needed to know, "Of course this job is not bad now."
Zach got it. Rimmer's 0711 is the icing on the cake for the Smith family, not a necessity.
The leader adjusted his mood and continued to answer Zach's question, "Both 'Valmina' and 0711 have a very, uh, 'aggressive' core component."
Zach raised an eyebrow.
"We don't know what it is. We also tried to analyze it under the instruction of Mr. Smith, but we didn't come to any conclusion and finally gave up." While taking the comparison result report handed to him by others, he continued to answer Zach , "Because of this 'aggressive' core component, these two drugs are very easy to confuse in certain reaction details. To distinguish, we can only use real-time experimental control methods to distinguish. So we directly distinguish the two All the drugs were brought for comparative experiments to see..." As he spoke, he frowned and glanced at the person who handed over the report. His eyes seemed to say, 'Are you sure this report is correct? '
The person being watched did not answer, but took a step back. The other person also handed the comparison report to the leader.
The leader glanced quickly, his brows furrowed deeper, and he forgot to answer Zach for a moment, and walked towards the third person who was still doing the comparison experiment to see the report that he had not recorded completely.
Zach didn't need the other person to finish speaking, and it was obvious that Smith was very meticulous.
Smith knew that both drugs manufactured by Lydia contained the same core substance, which was the first premise.
The second premise is that Zach did not tell Smith that his intelligence source was the secret alliance of the Republic (Louise). This is likely to lead Smith to regard Zach's intelligence source as James Lance, who intercepted the body. Therefore, the statement about the killer vaccine is most likely understood by Smith as a means to hold back the Barton Police. The Barton Police Department does not have the power to expose problems in another country.
Under these two premises, even though Zach told Smith the truth and let Smith know that the murderous drug had nothing to do with the 'Varmina' that Lydia claimed was flowing to the Republic, Smith still gave it to Lydia. Sub-enough... preferential treatment by blood.
You can imagine Smith’s mentality:
Lydia is lying, but Zach’s information may not be correct either. Republic's vaccine cannot be verified in the short term, but the characteristics of the medicine produced by Lydia are very obvious.
Smith, who was skeptical on both sides, chose to test the third option. This drug could not be the third drug created by Lydia, but if it failed, people would die, so he shirks responsibility and makes Smith think that it should be destroyed. 'Valmina' made Zach think it was some kind of murderous vaccine...
Don't think it's ridiculous. From the perspective of an ordinary human being, it is too ridiculous to believe that Zach said the vaccine will kill people. From the perspective of Lydia’s brother, it is too uncomfortable to fully accept his sister’s deception. This is Smith's best 'option'.