About ten minutes later, Sister Sa returned with a silver-white laptop, her forehead glistening with fine sweat.
She pointed to the laptop and said, "I've cropped the video. The truth will be clear to everyone once they watch it."
Huang Jing hurried to say, "Play it quickly!"
"Okay!"
Sister Sa opened the laptop, clicked on the video, and played the scene that An Qiuyan did not wish to face.
In the video, An Qiuyan arranged for two workers to carry the volcanic stone bed into the warehouse, then pretended to be careless and dropped her earring on the ground, asking the administrator to help her find it.
After the earring was found and the workers had finished unloading, An Qiuyan left the warehouse with the two workers.
Upon seeing this, everyone looked bewildered.
Jiang Yushuang asked with confusion, "There's nothing wrong with it. Where is the truth you mentioned? I don't see it."
This was the question on everyone else's mind.
An Qiuyan had merely accidentally dropped her earring and asked the administrator to find it; she hadn't done anything else.
Jiang Ling smiled and said, "The real show is yet to come. Everyone watch carefully!"
As she spoke, she gestured to Sister Sa.
Sister Sa manipulated the mouse and clicked on another video.
The next second, an unbelievable scene unfolded.
In the empty warehouse, the volcanic stone bed rapidly expanded and enlarged like an inflated balloon, pushing outwards in all directions.
The closest object to it was the box containing the Luban Fang.
The other end of the box was against the wall. As the volcanic stone bed suddenly squeezed over, the box could not withstand the pressure and burst open, causing the Luban Fang within to be squeezed and deformed along with it.
After a while, the volcanic stone bed, which had expanded seven or eight times its original size, returned to its normal state, lying there quietly as if nothing had happened.
Seeing this, everyone gasped in unison.
Huang Jing's face turned grim. He strode to the volcanic stone bed and ripped it open.
In the drama, the little fairy suffered greatly from being invaded by cold qi and required a supremely yang and extremely hot volcanic stone bed to dispel the cold.
In reality, the mass formed by volcanic magma is incredibly heavy, and it was naturally impossible for the crew to obtain a real volcanic stone bed.
This so-called volcanic stone bed was actually made of foam, covered with a polyester fabric printed with volcanic patterns, making it look exactly like the real thing.
Huang Jing peeled back the polyester fabric, revealing the yellowish-gray mass underneath.
A staff member from the crew, who had a degree in chemistry, exclaimed upon seeing it, "Soymilk foam! It's soymilk foam! No wonder, no wonder!"
Jiang Ling asked, "What is soymilk foam?"
The person replied, "Soymilk foam is a polymer material researched by a chemistry doctor years ago. In the molding process, this material can expand to several or even dozens of times its original volume through a chemical reaction, much like boiling soymilk. That's why it's called 'soymilk foam.' However, because this substance is not heat-resistant and burns when exposed to open flames, releasing highly toxic gases, and its chemical structure is stable and difficult to degrade, it would inevitably cause severe pollution if widely used in production and daily life. Therefore, it was abandoned shortly after its research. I only came across related records of it in an obscure chemistry book."
"So that's how it is. They even thought of this trick. They're really formidable!"
Jiang Ling sneered.
She knew An Qiuyan was behind the scheme but hadn't expected this woman to devise such a method.