Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi

Chapter 346 - 269: Concentrated Sulfuric Acid Bath, the Ultimate Body Refining!

After finishing speaking, Terry led Wang Ye out of the room and walked towards the hallway.

While passing through the hallway, they passed countless gang members who were either patrolling or chatting against the wall, all with handguns tucked in their waists, dressed in peculiar outfits, with tattoos and unique accessories on their faces and bodies to varying degrees.

But none of them dared to look directly at Wang Ye, who was walking behind Terry.

In fact, the other gang members didn’t know who Wang Ye was.

Nor did they know why he had mingled his way in.

But seeing Terry maintaining a respectful demeanor throughout towards him,

they didn’t dare say much.

They could only guess that Wang Ye was a big boss behind the scenes, wielding unimaginable resources.

Such a boss, to provoke even slightly would bring about deadly consequences.

So naturally, their choice was to avoid him if possible.

About half a minute later,

Wang Ye followed Terry to a concealed small room.

It was obviously a room they used specifically for processing things. Even before opening the door, Wang Ye could already smell an extremely pungent odor.

It should be noted that he hadn’t activated his Super Olfactory Ability yet, his sense of smell was basically the same as an ordinary person’s,

yet he still caught a whiff of this pungent odor, which indicated that the room indeed contained chemicals with a strong odor.

Terry took out a key and with a click, unlocked the door. At the moment, his subordinates inside were mixing the Corpse-Dissolving Water. This tub of Corpse-Dissolving Water was stored in a bathtub made of metal, it was unknown what chemicals were used to prepare it, it appeared just as a basin of transparent liquid, occasionally bubbling.

And a corpse lay beside the bathtub, with white foam still at the corners of its mouth,

evidently it was the gang member whom Wang Ye had just killed by destroying his consciousness.

"Boss... this is the Corpse-Dissolving Water." Terry cautiously said.

Wang Ye pinched his chin, staring at the tub of Corpse-Dissolving Water, lost in thought.

The concept of Corpse-Dissolving Water originated in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period. Whether it actually existed is hard to verify, but Wang Ye had seen the protagonist prepare Corpse-Dissolving Water in a TV series called "Breaking Bad." In the plot, the protagonist Old Bai, a chemistry teacher, accidentally killed two local drug dealers, unsure of how to dispose of the bodies, he eventually chose to use hydrofluoric acid to dissolve the bodies.

Hydrofluoric acid is a weak acid with extremely strong corrosive properties. Though hydrofluoric acid is a "weak acid," generally the strength of an acid refers to its ability to completely ionize in water, which is not significantly related to its harm on the human body. Hydrofluoric acid also contains hydrogen ions which have a dehydrating and corrosive effect on human tissues, among which fluoride ions possess toxic properties, so it’s extremely harmful to the human body, even a single drop can gradually penetrate the skin and dissolve bones until the entire affected area is completely corroded, corroding everything it touches, leading to the direct loss of a hand or arm, more terrifying than sulfuric acid’s damage.

Moreover, hydrofluoric acid can quickly corrode nerves, so fast that once a finger is dipped in it, the neurons on the finger are instantly killed, making a person unable to feel pain while the body is being corroded. Many case reports have shown that people whose gloves had holes remained unaware, and upon contact with hydrofluoric acid, found a piece of flesh missing when removing the gloves.

By comparison, concentrated sulfuric acid is slightly less corrosive because its ability to corrode calcium-based bone is weak, taking no less than ten hours to completely dissolve a tooth, merely melting flesh and skin, unable to completely dissolve a human, whereas hydrofluoric acid has a more evident dissolving effect on bones, being more lethal to living beings.

In the "Breaking Bad" TV series, the protagonist also accidentally melted through the bathtub and house due to operational errors. This is because hydrofluoric acid can not only react with metal, cement, porcelain, rubber, leather, but also with glass and enamel. Therefore, ordinary chemical glass bottles cannot hold hydrofluoric acid, only lead or plastic containers can store it.

However, anyone with some chemical knowledge knows that the portrayal in "Breaking Bad" exaggerated the corrosiveness of hydrofluoric acid, where the protagonist Old Bai stated it could dissolve a corpse into a slurry, when in fact, in real life, three assassins from France once tried Old Bai’s method with hydrofluoric acid to attempt dissolving a corpse, but the result was that the corpse remained intact, with only the surface layer dissolved, while also leaving the corpse with an extraordinarily pungent odor.

Therefore, Wang Ye was very curious about what the Sloos Gang used to dissolve bodies.

Terry seemed to have read Wang Ye’s mind, and started instructing his men to introduce the Corpse-Dissolving Water to Wang Ye.

After their explanation, Wang Ye finally learned.

The chemical substance used by the Sloos Gang to dissolve bodies was actually a chemical substance called Piranha Solution,

it was a mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide in a three-to-one ratio, capable of dissolving any carbon-based materials,

with concentrated sulfuric acid responsible for dehydrating and carbonizing, while the hydrogen peroxide turns carbon into carbon dioxide which evaporates.

If an ordinary person’s finger was put into it, it would instantly dissolve and disappear.

Tests had been done, where if a chicken leg was placed into it, the Piranha Solution would rapidly boil, and within five minutes, the chicken leg would completely vanish, with both flesh and bone entirely dissolved and evaporated, leaving the Piranha Solution to revert back to a transparent liquid, leaving no residue.