Chapter 392

Chapter 392 The Winner Is!

Paige sounded so convincing, which puzzled everyone. How did she know?

The police asked Paige, “Since it’s colorless and odorless, how do you know it’s HN2C?”

Paige answered fluently, “Because of her symptoms.”

Mariela’s symptoms would only be seen in those who were poisoned with HN2C.

Generally, those poisoned with HN2C often experienced stomachaches until they passed out.

When they woke up, the pain would spread to their extremities, and then they would pass out in pain again. And the next time they woke up, the pain would spread throughout their bodies.

The symptoms would go on and on for up to three days, and normal doctors in hospitals couldn’t trace back to the cause. Also, ***wouldn’t work. HN2C was developed by a small country for interrogation.

Somehow, it spread to the market.

“It cannot be taken orally. It can only penetrate the skin through contact and penetrate one’s system.”

After people in that country developed HN2C, they used it to interrogate criminals. They would apply it onto criminals’ skin, and after a while, the criminals would be in great pain and roll on the ground. Every time they woke up after passing out, the pain would intensify. Finally, it would be too much for them, and they would choose to confess.

The police understood. Mariela must have touched something to be infected.

Hearing what Paige said, someone in the crowd was shocked with a pale face.

The one thought, such a drug is nowhere to be seen in America at all. As a designer from America, how can Paine know so much?

Paige sensed that someone was looking at her. Yet when she turned back, the gaze was already gone.

The police soon went to investigate, and the atmosphere was extremely oppressive. As Paige sat at the judges’ table, several judges around her tried to ask her about what was going on. However, they were intimidated by her cold aura, and they didn’t dare to open their mouths at all.

They figured that her aura was so overwhelming, which terrified them somehow.

Paige thought of something. She took out her phone and sent a Line message to Hernan, telling him that Mariela was poisoned with HN2C, which required more than ten kinds of medicine for treatment at the same time. Paige made a list, letting them save Mariela according to the list.

In fact, the most preferred treatment was to deal with Mariela’s vital body parts, which would be the fastest and best way.

Yet they were in France, and the doctors here may not be that good at using special medical tools.

So, this was the only method Paige could use.

Little did she know that such a method was later memorized by the people in the hospital and saved several patients with the same symptoms.

But that was all for another day.

After a while, another policeman came to ask Paige in a low voice, wanting to know how to find out which items had HN2C on them.

Paige asked them to prepare several things, mix them, and spray them on the items’ surface, and if the items’ color changed, then it meant they had HN2C on them.

Many people were shocked. They did not expect that a designer would know this much…

The police quickly followed out.

Not long after, a policeman exclaimed. The rhinestones had HN2C on them. Mariela used rhinestones when making the wedding dress, and her hands came into direct contact with HN2C, which was the reason why she was poisoned.

“I remember now…”

Isabella, who was standing on stage, suddenly said, “Before the competition began, I saw Jamiya provoking Mariela backstage…”

“That’s nonsense!” Jamiya obviously panicked. “I don’t know her. It’s just that we are competitors, and we had some trash talk. We wanted to compete with each other. That’s all…”

The police didn’t care how Jamiya argued. They went straight to check the surveillance footage. and found that before the second match began, everyone was preparing to go on stage. Only Jamiya went through the matching box filled with rhinestones.

Jamiya, who was on stage, was quickly captured by the police.

“You have no evidence to prove that I did this… Let go of me…” Jamiya struggled on the stage and shouted. “I might sue you…”

HN2C cannot be in direct contact with one’s skin, or one will be poisoned. To poison someone, one has to put HN2C in a container.” Paige’s voice was heard through a microphone on her collar.

“HN2C is usually in liquid form.”

Everyone looked at her in unison and found that she was so calm and powerful.

Suddenly, for some unknown reason, the big screen on the stage was switched to the image of the surveillance footage. Before everyone could react, they saw that Jamiya had indeed passed the accessory box filled with rhinestones.

The accessory box had a label that said “Number One” on it. Apparently, it was for Mariela.

Someone zoomed in. The policemen looked at each other, wondering who was controlling the surveillance footage.

After Paige controlled the surveillance footage, she found that when Jamiya passed by the accessory box, she used her right hand hidden in her long sleeve to pour some liquid on the accessory box.

Paige then zoomed in again and vaguely saw that Jamiya was holding a ****bottle in her hand.

Soon, the police went to look for Jamiya’s personal belongings. They didn’t find anything useful. Then they looked at the trash can and found a bottle of vitamin C that Jamiya had tossed away not long ago.

They opened it and saw that there was indeed a little bit of liquid left over, which was HN2C. If they didn’t look closely, they would think that it was water.

The proof was nothing but solid. Jamiya, who was on the stage, was scared out of her wits and slumped to the ground.

Jamiya thought, why? How come? I’m exposed so quickly.

Who exactly is Paine? Why does she know so much?

“Oh, so it’s you…” Isabella pointed at Jamiya. “Just now, you misled others by saying that I quarreled with Mariela… You’re so *********.”

Paige looked at the girl on the stage, who was shaking her head desperately.

“No! It’s not like that… Listen to me.”

The police directly handcuffed her, obviously not giving her a chance to explain.

“No! I haven’t finished the match and haven’t gotten a ranking yet…’

Along the way, Jamiya kept talking nonsense.

“I just didn’t want to lose… I didn’t mean to do anything bad.

“She will be fine after three days of pain. It won’t ***her… Let me go! The judges have not scored yet.

“I was put up to it. It wasn’t my intention…”

As Jamiya was taken away by the police, the whole scene quieted down. Many people looked at Paige again. They thought, she looks so young, yet she managed to see the poison that Mariela had, and then she helped the police to catch the culprit.

The point is, she was so calm throughout the whole process. She wasn’t panicked at all.

She is really something.

“If I remember correctly, there was only one minute until the end of the competition,” Paige said calmly.

At that time, all the contestants on the stage finished their dresses, and only Mariela, because of pain, moved too slowly and only went through the hemline part.

She sewed a lot of fluttering butterflies on the hemline, and the last one was sewn, but she did not have time to tie a bow.