Chapter 666 — Cured in an Instant

"Oh! Sister Yaoyao, you're finally awake! Thank goodness, I was worried sick!" Shen Yushu did not answer Gu Mengyao's question at all; she seized Gu Mengyao's hand and cheered joyfully. "Oh! Oh! Brother Arrow is amazing! I've decided — I'm going to keep being friends with you!"

And with that, Shen Yushu suddenly threw her arms around Wei Zhao and planted a quick kiss on his cheek.

Wei Zhao was taken aback for a moment, but one look at Shen Yushu, beside herself with excitement, and he thought no more of it. That was simply her nature — wild and flighty — and neither Gu Pengzhan nor Qing Bo paid it any mind. Their attention was fixed entirely on Gu Mengyao.

"Yaoyao, you're finally awake — wonderful! How do you feel?" Gu Pengzhan had never expected Wei Zhao to actually wake her. It was utterly beyond anything he had imagined. And what puzzled him was that Wei Zhao seemed to have done nothing at all — he had only taken Gu Mengyao's hand, and after a moment she had opened her eyes.

Guan Xuewen was just as astonished. What on earth had Wei Zhao done? To make a person on the brink of death suddenly brim with vitality? This was nothing short of a miracle in the history of medicine!

Only Qing Bo wore a thoughtful expression. He had a fair guess as to what Wei Zhao had just done, yet he scarcely dared believe it. But apart from that, there was no other explanation.

In the martial world there is a practice called transmitting power: one person passes his internal strength — his true qi — to another through some special method. It usually arises when one of them is gravely injured, and the other, in order to save him, has no choice but to channel his own true qi into him.

Of course, transmitting power has its limits. The transmitter and the receiver must practice the same cultivation method; if their methods differ, the true qi within them differs as well. To transmit power rashly would not only fail to save the patient — the transmitter himself might suffer a backlash.

But how had Wei Zhao managed it? And besides — if Gu Mengyao had been a martial artist, that would be one thing; internal arts, though not identical, are at least sometimes similar. The crux was that Gu Mengyao was an ordinary person. How, then, had Wei Zhao transmitted power?

Qing Bo was deeply shaken. Of course, he also understood that such matters might touch upon the secrets of another's sect. Martial artists are most wary of outsiders prying into their school's affairs, so Qing Bo naturally would not ask. Curious as he was, he could only keep it to himself.

"I feel fine — in fact, I feel full of strength all over! Why am I here?" Gu Mengyao wondered how she had come to be lying in what looked like a hospital. Her father and Qing Bo had both come to see her? Hadn't she been at school?

"Sister Yaoyao, we were talking at noon, and then you fainted! I was scared to death. I got you to the school infirmary, and then so many other students collapsed too..." Shen Yushu said. "Don't you remember?"

"I think I have some memory of it — I felt so sleepy, and then I just seemed to drop off..." Gu Mengyao thought back to the scene, and it did seem that way.

"That's right, that's right! Those doctors even issued you a critical condition notice — the nerve of them!" Shen Yushu said indignantly. "I thought I'd never see you again, but the moment Brother Arrow arrived, he had you cured just like that! Those quacks — I'm going to go give them a piece of my mind in a minute!"

"Heh heh..." Seeing how worried Xiaoshu had been for her, Gu Mengyao felt a warmth in her heart, though she found it strange that the doctors had issued a critical condition notice. Naturally she would not agree with Shen Yushu that they were quacks — they must have had their reasons for doing so. And it was likely that Wei Zhao's curing her was not as simple as Xiaoshu made it sound. At that thought, she cast Wei Zhao a grateful look and said, "Wei Zhao, thank you!"

"It's nothing..." Wei Zhao could only smile bitterly. Gu Mengyao's waking was only temporary; even now he could almost feel the energy draining from her body, and the speed of it was simply terrifying. It would not be long before she lapsed back into unconsciousness.

"Xiaoyi, why don't you go and look at the other students?" Guan Xuewen said, thinking of the other patients.

"Yes, Xiaoyi, could you help the other students too?" Gu Pengzhan knew that whatever Wei Zhao had done to wake his daughter could not possibly be as easy as it had looked to him. Asking him to save others as well — he did not know whether Wei Zhao would be willing, so Gu Pengzhan phrased it as a request, in a tone of consultation...

The sounds of joy from Gu Mengyao's room drew the attention of the other parents in the ward. When they came out and saw that Gu Mengyao was awake, they rushed into the room in an instant.

"Divine doctor, please save our children, I beg you!"

"Yes, divine doctor, I'll kneel to you — please save our children!"

They had not seen who it was that had woken Gu Mengyao, but it had to be one of the people in that room, so they addressed him directly as divine doctor. After all, the hospital had already issued critical condition notices; when someone could still be saved under such circumstances, what else could he be but a divine doctor?

Wei Zhao glanced at the parents, then at Gu Pengzhan, and in an instant he understood why Gu Pengzhan had asked him to treat the students. If anything were to happen to them, both Gu Pengzhan's school and his company would be dragged into it.

What neither Wei Zhao nor Gu Pengzhan knew was that after the reporter Can Lang returned, he had filed a report with his paper, requesting an extra printing of an edition that covered the poisoning incident at the school, and had immediately updated the news on the paper's online edition — a bombshell of a story.

This third-rate tabloid was privately run and hardly famous. The editor-in-chief had been worrying over how to make the paper's name known when suddenly such explosive news landed in his lap. Of course he would not let slip this chance to whip up a sensation!

And so the decision was made on the spot: Canlang would follow the matter, reporting the progress of the investigation simultaneously across online media and the newspapers! Canlang was overjoyed, and a report titled "Unknown Virus Floods First High School — Terrifying Campus or Biochemical Crisis?" instantly went viral online!

It must be said that Canlang was thoroughly devious — his title alone was enough to snare the eye! And the content was written even more fantastically, turning what should have been a news report into a horror story, dissecting the possible causes behind the sudden collapse of twenty-eight students at the school!

Some unknown bacterium had appeared, setting off a new wave of epidemic frenzy...

Others said the school might have been cursed — after the students collapsed, no illness could be found in the hospital, and critical condition notices were issued outright!