Chapter 662 — An Incomparable Poison of the Ages

"Professor Guan, you've come!" Dr. Sun, who was handling this emergency, had also been one of Guan Xuewen's students back in the day. Upon seeing Guan Xuewen, he hurried over at once. "Are you going to examine the patients yourself?"

"Yes, let me take a look." Guan Xuewen nodded. "Take me there."

"This..." Dr. Sun hesitated for a moment. If this turned out to be an acute infectious disease, it would be extremely dangerous for Guan Xuewen to go in right now. But he knew Guan Xuewen's character well enough - the man did not care a whit for life or death. So after only a brief hesitation, he led Guan Xuewen toward the isolation ward.

Among the parents of the affected students, someone recognized Guan Xuewen and let out a shout: "Dr. Guan is here! My child is saved!"

"What? Dr. Guan? Which Dr. Guan?"

"Dr. Guan Xuewen, of course!"

"Doctor Guan Pharmaceuticals has been all over the news lately! I heard they have two miracle drugs about to hit the market!"

The moment the parents heard it was Guan Xuewen, they burst into joyous excitement. His reputation preceded him - he was spoken of as a miracle-working physician. If he was here to examine the children, then surely there was hope for their offspring!

So the parents surged forward, all reaching out to grab hold of Guan Xuewen: "Dr. Guan, please see my child quickly..."

"Look at my child first, I beg you!"

"Please look at my child! My family has only one heir across three generations..."

"Please, see my child, I beg you, I'm kneeling before you! She's my only daughter. Her mother died in childbirth bringing her into this world - I cannot lose her too, not her..."

Chaos erupted among the parents once again, every one of them desperate to have Guan Xuewen treat their child first.

Gu Pengzhan watched all this clearly from inside the isolation ward, but he had no intention of joining the fray. Worried as he was about Gu Mengyao's safety, the other parents were no less worried about their own children. As the school's chairman, how could he be the one to push his way to the front?

Besides, once the cause of the condition was identified, treatment would follow easily enough!

Dr. Sun was getting a headache from all these parents, but he said firmly: "Everyone, please quiet down! Carrying on like this will only waste precious time. Let Professor Guan choose which isolation ward to examine first! Once we identify the cause of this condition, we can treat all of them!"

Dr. Sun's words struck a chord. In an instant, every parent fell silent, waiting for Guan Xuewen to make his choice.

Yet Guan Xuewen did not so much as glance at the parents' pleading eyes. He simply walked into the nearest isolation ward at random. Two of the parents immediately broke into wild elation - clearly the parents of the child in that very ward.

Guan Xuewen ignored them entirely. He went to the bedside of the unconscious student and within moments was fully absorbed in his examination...

Ten minutes later, Guan Xuewen gave a slight shake of his head. The patient's pulse was exceedingly weak - meaning that every physiological function in the body was failing. The signs of life had grown faint. If this continued, the patient would be dead by tomorrow at the latest.

Yet Guan Xuewen could do nothing. This kind of wasting was reminiscent of an old man whose oil had run dry and whose lamp had gone out - as if a lifetime had been spent in an instant, and the patient was hurtling toward death's doorstep! Theoretically, it was beyond cure.

But the patient was only a teenager, not some ancient on the brink of the grave. The fact that this was happening to someone so young was deeply bizarre! Moments ago the child had been perfectly fine, and then suddenly this - if it wasn't poisoning, what else could it be?

This conviction took even deeper root in Guan Xuewen's mind. As for bacterial infection, he did not put much stock in it - it remained merely a theoretical possibility.

Poison... an incomparable poison of the ages... Did such a poison truly exist? If it did, how had these children been poisoned? Who was the hand behind it? Was it deliberate, or accidental? Guan Xuewen could not fathom it. At this moment he was racking his memory, trying to summon up that ancient text he had once read, searching for some method of detoxification...

Yet to no avail. Despite racking his very brain cells, Guan Xuewen could not recall any comparable remedy... Must he truly give up? These were twenty-eight children. Guan Xuewen could not bear to watch them die like this.

Suddenly, a figure surfaced in Guan Xuewen's mind! Guan Xuewen took out his phone and dialed a number. At this moment, this was the only person he could turn to for help; there was no other way!

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Wei Zhao gathered his clothes and phone, then left An Liwen's kidney harvesting syndicate headquarters.

An Liwen's headquarters was located out in the suburbs, where vehicles rarely passed. If Wei Zhao wanted to get back to school, his only option was to walk to the junction near the outskirts and catch a bus or a taxi from there.

While waiting for a taxi, Wei Zhao took out his phone to check the time, only to discover several missed calls on the screen!

Wei Zhao suddenly recalled that before pretending to be unconscious, he had been afraid his phone might ring and give him away, and that An Liwen might pick it up and answer, so he had switched it to vibrate mode. After leaving the kidney harvesting syndicate headquarters, he had forgotten to switch it back.

Checking the call log, he saw that every single call had come from Shen Yushu. He had no idea what she could want, and she had actually called more than a dozen times! Could it be that the young miss was looking for him? Thinking of the sharp confrontation between Gu Mengyao and Tang Zhi at noon, Wei Zhao's heart lurched. Had the young miss and Tang Zhi fallen out again?

At this thought, Wei Zhao hurriedly called her back.

The sudden ringtone startled Shen Yushu, and it startled Gu Pengzhan and Uncle Qing as well, who had been sitting in silence all this while.

Gu Mengyao took out her phone, glanced at the caller ID, saw that it was Wei Zhao calling, and hastily answered. "Brother Arrow, where did you run off to? Why won't you answer your phone? Sister Yaoyao is about to die... Wu wu wu wu, you wouldn't even answer when we called. I've decided I don't want to be your friend anymore!"

Gu Mengyao was dying? Wei Zhao's heart nearly stopped. She had been perfectly fine when he left, and he had only been gone a few hours. How could she be dying? What on earth had happened in the meantime?

"Xiaoshu, don't panic. What happened to Yaoyao? Where are you?" Wei Zhao asked.

"We're in the emergency room at the Second People's Hospital. Come quickly, Brother Arrow! If Sister Yaoyao dies, I won't want to live either!" Shen Yushu was frantic beyond measure, but now that she had reached Wei Zhao, a glimmer of hope rose within her. In Shen Yushu's mind, Brother Arrow seemed capable of anything.

"All right, I'll be there right away!" Wei Zhao hurriedly flagged down a taxi, gave the driver the address, then said to Shen Yushu: "Xiaoshu, I'm on my way to the hospital now. Can you tell me what happened to Yaoyao?"