sinovels Chapter 148 The Most Poisonous "Perfume"
Chapter 148 The Most Poisonous "Perfume"
It was 2 a.m. in the famous wealthy area of Changxiang City, "Yunding Villa".
Lin Xiang, who once dominated the Parisian fashion scene and is now the "Chief Scent Consultant" of Renxin Pharmacy, is lying in a "spread-eagle" position on his custom-made Italian calfskin soft bed worth 500,000 yuan.
He was drooling as he dreamt of Madagascar's finest bourbon vanilla pods.
In his dream, he was overwhelmed by a sea of vanilla, a sweet and intoxicating scent...
"Ring ring ring—!!!"
A sudden, agonizing phone call, like a sharp pair of scissors, mercilessly shattered his beautiful dream.
Lin Xiang woke up with a start, her heart pounding. She grabbed the phone, ready to explode, but Wang Minyu's voice, calm enough to send chills down her spine, came from the other end.
Ten minutes later.
Lin Xiang sat on the bed, completely stunned, as if struck by lightning. She gripped the phone, her lips trembling as if she were running naked in the freezing wind: "Dr. Wang... Dr. Wang, are you... are you playing a joke on me?"
His voice trembled with extreme fear, choked with sobs: "You want me to disguise that...that living 'black hole' that can devour electricity as a bottle of perfume? And then I have to personally smuggle it into a heavily guarded underground bio-lab? Dude! I'm a perfumer, all I know is how to smell, I'm not 007! You should hire Tom Cruise for this job!"
"No, you're more suitable than 007." On the other end of the phone, Wang Minyu's voice had a bewitching charm. "Because those security screening machines can detect bombs, guns, and even viruses, but they can't detect 'art'."
"Only your nose can distinguish the minute, one-in-a-billionth change in scent emitted by the 'energy-devouring spores' under different energy states. And only you can use the most natural plant essential oils to create a 'camouflage agent' that can perfectly mask its scent and even induce it into a deep 'dormant' state, just like soothing a baby to sleep."
"This is too difficult! This is simply an impossible task!" Lin Xiang frantically scratched her carefully maintained hair.
"It's not easy, but it's not impossible." Wang Minyu paused, then threw out a bait that made Lin Xiang's breath catch in her throat, "After it's done, I can give you half of the mutated 'Truthful Agave' in my backyard."
Dead silence.
A deathly silence fell over both ends of the phone call.
"Truthful Agave..." Lin Xiang murmured to herself, her Adam's apple bobbing violently.
That's a legendary divine substance. Its pollen is the perfect ingredient for making the world's most exquisite psychedelic perfumes, and it's even known as "the breath of God."
Just one drop can make people let down their guard and reveal their deepest secrets.
What does a perfume that makes people speak the truth mean in the fashion, business, and even political world?
It signifies supreme power, and it signifies the ladder to the altar.
At this moment, fear was overwhelmed by immense greed and the desire for the pinnacle of art.
"Let's do it!" Lin Xiang gritted her teeth, her eyes bloodshot. "People die for money, birds die for food! But this work is too delicate. I need the best equipment and the purest raw materials! Even the slightest impurity will turn us into dried corpses by that spore!"
"The equipment? Pierre has a full set of French molecular gastronomy machines. As for the ingredients, you can choose whatever you like from Old Cai's Jingxinyuan restaurant." Wang Minyu's answer was crisp and efficient.
……
For the next 24 hours, the kitchen of Renxin Pharmacy was transformed into the world's most technologically advanced and outrageous "perfume laboratory".
A strange mixture of smells filled the air: the chill of liquid nitrogen, the bitterness of herbs, the fragrance of flowers, and a chilling, oppressive feeling from the abyss.
Pierre, like a mad scientist, contributed his centrifuges, rotary evaporators, and ultra-low temperature freezers.
Old Cai, with a heavy heart, picked the freshest rosemary, ylang-ylang, and century-old sandalwood from his "Quiet Garden" overnight, still covered in morning dew.
Su Qing, dressed in a full set of biochemical protective clothing, looked like a bomb disposal expert dismantling a nuclear bomb. He was responsible for extracting the most core and most active micro-dust sample from the frozen "energy-devouring spores" under a microscope.
Lin Xiang, a man who is usually pretentious and obsessive about cleanliness, was like a mad artist at this moment.
His hair was disheveled, his eyes were bloodshot, but his hand holding the dropper was as steady as a rock.
He repeatedly harmonized, separated, and recombined these seemingly unrelated things.
Failure. Failure. Still failure.
The trash can was overflowing with discarded test strips.
Each failure caused a violent energy fluctuation in the tiny spore sample, nearly detonating the entire laboratory.
"It's incredibly alert!" Lin Xiang stared at the microscope, her voice hoarse. "It's like a ravenous beast; it'll pounce on the slightest hint of energy. Ordinary masking agents simply won't fool it!"
"It doesn't need to be covered up, it needs to be 'soothed'." Wang Minyu stood to the side, toying with a crystal-clear egg in his hand. "Try this."
That was Old Cai's special "Tranquil Jade".
Lin Xiang accepted it with some skepticism. After Pierre's molecular distillation, an egg white substance rich in high concentrations of sphingomyelin was extracted.
When this drop of clear extract was added to a test tube containing "energy-consuming spore" powder—a miracle occurred.
The black powder, which had been restless and trying to break through the glass tube, seemed to have encountered a natural enemy or returned to its mother's embrace, and instantly calmed down.
All energy fluctuations subsided, as if it were truly just a speck of ordinary dust.
"This is... a biological simulation signal of 'absolute zero'!" Su Qing exclaimed, looking at the reading. "This egg white tricked it, making it think there was no energy to eat nearby, and it could only enter hibernation!"
"We did it!" Lin Xiang shouted excitedly, tears welling up in her eyes.
He carefully mixed this dormant spore powder into a base solution he had prepared using dozens of rare plant essential oils.
Finally, a bottle of liquid, a deep, starry blue, swayed gently in the conical flask.
It looks alluring and mysterious, just like any top-tier men's fragrance on the market.
Its scent begins with a cool, cedar top note, carrying a hint of aloofness; the middle note is the deep ocean, both alluring and dangerous; and the base note is a subtle, comforting sandalwood scent, like the calm after a storm.
No one could have imagined that hidden within this exquisitely elegant perfume was an abyss capable of devouring everything...
"Let's call it... 'The Silent Sea'." Lin Xiang looked at her work with a dreamy gaze, as if she were looking at her child, or perhaps at a beautiful monster.
"Nice name." Wang Minyu walked over, holding a seemingly ordinary black USB drive. "Now that we have the 'perfume,' we need a 'guide.'"
He handed the USB drive to Lin Xiang, his tone serious: "Inside are simplified structural diagrams of the underground laboratory, and the security shift schedule, which Qin Xue risked her life to transmit. You only have one hour to memorize them and engrave them into your very bones."
"Me?" Lin Xiang pointed at herself, her newly built-up artistic confidence instantly crumbling. "Dr. Wang, you don't mean to make me..."
"That's right." Wang Minyu patted him heavily on the shoulder. "You are the 'messenger'."
"Why me? Couldn't we have sent Guan Shan? He could kill a bull with one punch!"
"He's too conspicuous, and that muscular physique will only make security nervous." Wang Minyu shook his head, his gaze sharp. "And you, Mr. Lin Xiang, an internationally renowned perfumer, were invited to create a custom perfume for the president of Peak Bio. This reason is perfectly reasonable, flawless, and full of... class."
"But... how can I get this 'bomb' to that 'monster'?"
"That's where your 'professional' persuasive skills come in," Wang Minyu said, a sly smile playing on his lips. "Just tell them that your latest 'Sea of Silence' is incredibly fussy, requiring an absolutely 'pure' environment, free from any energy interference, for its final 'awakening' process. And isn't the purest place in the entire Changxiang City their heavily guarded underground laboratory?"
Lin Xiang was stunned.
Use the other party's most prized "high-tech environment" to detonate the "bomb" you sent in.
This Dr. Wang is simply... a genius-level madman.
"But what if they don't agree? What if Lin Feng isn't as pretentious as the rumors say?" Lin Xiang was still worried.
"He will," Wang Minyu said confidently, pointing to the bottle of "Sea of Silence." "Because I added something else to this perfume—a trace amount of 'Truth Tequila' pollen. Its scent is perfectly masked by sandalwood. But as long as someone smells it, they will subconsciously develop an irresistible sense of trust and closeness to you. Even if you said you were his long-lost father, he might hesitate."
Looking at the perfume bottle in her hand, Lin Xiang felt as if she were holding not a bottle of perfume, but a master key that could open the gates of hell.
"Alright, let's go, Mr. 007." Wang Minyu handed him an exquisite black velvet gift box. "Remember, you're not going to fight, you're going... on an artistic pilgrimage. Your weapon isn't a gun, it's your taste."
Lin Xiang took a deep breath, straightened his suit and tie, and resumed the haughty demeanor of a top perfumer. He took the gift box, turned, and walked towards the door.
Just as he was about to step out the door, Wang Minyu's lazy voice came from behind him:
"Oh, and don't forget to get an invoice. Reimburse the travel expenses from Dingfeng Biotechnology later."