New Gods of North America.

Chapter 303 Identification
After all, a detective agency is not a hospital or a society.
The preliminary research lasted until late at night, and finally Inissa and Lina used the method of elimination to roughly rule out some possibilities of the potion.

For example, it is not directly and quickly toxic, does not cause hallucinations, is not corrosive, and does not seem to be addictive. There should also be no strange "superior existence" influencing it.
But I still don't understand what this thing does.

It's probably like randomly showing someone a small, featureless white pill. Even a real doctor might not be able to easily confirm what the medicine is.

Wayne was a little surprised by Mackenzie Reeve himself.

He is actually an extraordinary person in the sacred realm.

However, in the hunters' minds, "sacred" is just the name of one of several major areas.

If analyzed from the perspective of mysticism, it contains positive images such as "light" and "purity", neutral images such as "assimilation" and "rejection", and even negative images such as "indifference" and "blind obedience".

When it comes to specific extraordinary abilities, what can be reflected may only be a certain characteristic or aspect of a certain field.

It may or may not be consistent with the Beyonder’s own ideas and behaviors.

Just like looking at a person holding a gun,

It is difficult for people to directly define whether the other person is a good person or a bad person, or whether they tend to "protect" or "destroy".

Especially Macon Reeve, except for his "multiple personalities" which he was unwilling to disclose publicly at this time, he was almost the same as an ordinary person. To him, holy water was just plain water that "seemed to have a slightly strange taste".

If we don’t use the process of elimination, we can’t even determine the field.

In the end, it was Wayne, who was "a long-term patient who made a good doctor", who temporarily prescribed a prescription that was not really a prescription for McCann Reeve:
"Since we can't find the problem for now, and you don't have any rejection reaction to the holy water, then you can take the holy water home and drink it once in the morning, noon, and evening. It should be fine to take it before or after meals. It might be helpful."

Inesa might have thought that there was something wrong with this statement.
But she thought about it for a while and decided that based on Macon Reeve's current situation, this approach didn't seem to be a big problem, so she didn't dissuade him.

Macon Reeve's expression changed several times, but he could only accept it for the time being.

It was already past three in the morning.

Wayne left with McCann Reeve and some of the potion, and then went to the apartment where David Mills lived.

David Mills is now the head of George Berg's exorcism department, and he has old connections with the cathedral.
If you can't handle this kind of drug identification yourself, it's better to let a professional do it.

Although this is not a good time to visit,

But since the people in the Holy Spirit Church don’t sleep at night anyway, it probably won’t be too much of a disturbance.

……

"You think there's something wrong with these potions, and you want me to confirm their effects or ingredients through someone inside the church?"

In the living room of the apartment,
David Mills, yawning in his pajamas, observed the medicine in the bottle in the light of the kerosene lamp. He pulled out the cork and sniffed it slightly, then wrinkled his nose and turned his head away.

"Where did these potions come from?" David Mills asked. Wayne thought for a moment and said, "The last time you went to the academy, you already knew that our detective agency had captured a suspected wild 'fallen'. After preliminary confirmation, he was not a member of the School of Life, but he did work for Cohen Pharmaceuticals.

"We obtained these medicines from an informant through that guy. To be specific, the informant drank them and then vomited them out.

"According to the information provided by the informant, the other party has been making him take this drug many times over a long period of time. We suspect that this is a method used by the other party's organization to control wild 'fallen'."

David Mills shook the bottle of potion:
“I can help you find someone to identify it. But if it is really related to a hidden organization, then I require that the local exorcism department be involved in the investigation this time.

"I can't ask the relevant personnel to help with the identification for personal reasons. Last time, Pastor Bazzini didn't say anything explicitly, but he still showed his displeasure when he failed to bring the person back."

"make a deal."

Wayne made an "OK" gesture, "But you need to promise that you won't let Reverend Bazzini kick the detective agency out of the investigation completely, otherwise we will use our own methods to solve cases in the future."

When I returned to the dormitory building again, the sky was gradually brightening.

The more diligent students have already gotten up early, while the relatively leisurely students can still stay in bed for a while.

Seth probably didn't get much sleep last night, and he was already waiting downstairs with his homework.
After Wayne said goodbye to the "building manager" Macon Reeve, who was holding a few bottles of wine, he went back to the dormitory to get books and notebooks for class while talking to Seth:
"The potions that Mikan drank last night have not yet been identified. When you lead people to continue to talk to the students who are required to go to the college church regularly, pay attention to who has drunk the potion and compile statistics on the various symptoms and feelings that have appeared in them. Maybe it can be used for analysis."

Seth nodded in agreement.

Wayne thought about it again and said, "As far as I can remember, you didn't seem to mention to me that you needed to drink potion when you arrived at the academy church?"

Seth habitually thinks before answering:

"If it was the potion that Reverend Pycelle claimed could 'help stabilize the condition', I actually drank it a few times, and I also drank some other potions. But those things happened during my first year, which has been a few years, and I haven't drunk it since then.

"I didn't pay much attention to the daily lives of other fallen people in the academy before, and I didn't know the difference, so I didn't emphasize it specifically."

"What's your impression of it after you drank it?" Wayne asked.

Seth thought for a moment:
"In my impression, those things are just 'potions' with a weird taste. They are not tasty, and some of them make me feel dizzy and nauseous. Reverend Pycelle paid attention to me for a while because of this matter. At that time, I thought he might really want to help me stabilize my condition and avoid being 'contaminated' by the power of evil spirits."

"If you stop drinking it after a while, you won't become dependent on it?"

"I don't think so." Seth shook his head clearly, "I think it would be a relief to stop drinking those things.

"I remember that the last potion I took was different from the previous ones. After I drank it, I felt a burning sensation all the way from my mouth to my throat. It took me almost a week to recover. After Reverend Pycelle heard how I felt, he seemed to feel a little regretful."

Are there different types of potions?
Wayne thought for a moment and said, "If there is a chance, try to get other 'fallen' in the academy to help us collect some of the potions that Pastor Pycelle asked them to take. It would be best if we could compare them to see the difference."

(End of this chapter)