Chapter 570 — Eaten by the Dog
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Everyone exchanged glances. A pill that small — where could they even begin looking? The villa was vast; if it had rolled off somewhere, there was no hope of finding it. But only Kang Jingming's face changed color. "Grandfather... could it be... the dog ate it?"
"What do you mean, Grandfather was eaten by the dog? What kind of talk is that?" Kang Cuipu, hearing his son speak so nonsensically, flared up in anger.
"Not that Grandfather was eaten by the dog — I mean the Life-Prolonging Detox Pill was eaten by the dog!" Kang Jingming hurried to explain. "This dog's in the same state I was after I took it last time — the runs, then lying there limp and weak..."
At Kang Jingming's words, Divine Doctor Kang looked again at the dog's condition, and sure enough it matched exactly. His head buzzed with a "wham," his vision went black, and he toppled to the ground in a dead faint! Who wouldn't faint at this? A Life-Prolonging Detox Pill bought for over four hundred million, eaten by a dog — was there any reason left to live?
Divine Doctor Kang's fainting was mild enough. Anyone with a weaker constitution would have had a heart attack on the spot.
The others were scarcely better off than Divine Doctor Kang. That pill had been the Kang family's only hope of rising in the world, and now it had been eaten by a dog! Heaven itself had abandoned the Kang family! But whatever Heaven thought, the Kang family now hurried Divine Doctor Kang to the hospital. With the Life-Prolonging Detox Pill gone, if anything happened to Divine Doctor Kang as well, the Kang family would truly be finished!
Divine Doctor Kang was in no real danger — he had simply fainted from a rush of anxious fire, and woke as soon as he reached the hospital. He was worried about the Life-Prolonging Detox Pill at home. Even if a dog had eaten it, they had to slaughter the dog and cut the pill out of its belly!
"You pack of idiots, what did you take me to the hospital for? Wasting time! Why didn't you cut open the dog's belly and see whether the pill was inside?" Divine Doctor Kang was beside himself with fury. These spendthrift whelps would be the death of him — couldn't they tell what mattered most?
Kang Guifeng and the others exchanged glances again. True enough — why hadn't they thought of it? But going back now would probably be too late. The dog would long since have digested the Life-Prolonging Detox Pill!
Be that as it may, Divine Doctor Kang still rushed out of the hospital in a panic and hurried the whole family back to the villa — only to be greeted by a German shepherd bursting with life! The dog was in finer spirits than words could tell, bounding and leaping about as though its strength would never run out!
At the sight of it, Divine Doctor Kang was overcome with remorse! Nine times out of ten the dog had already digested the pill — otherwise, how could it be so full of vigor? Yet Divine Doctor Kang still clung to a sliver of hope and had the dog killed, only to find nothing at all left inside its belly! It seemed the pill had been digested.
Divine Doctor Kang dropped straight down onto the ground and nearly wept himself to death! He came within a hair's breadth of rolling about on the floor — four hundred million! That was more than four hundred million, gone just like that! Nothing remained of it, and how could his family possibly be so unlucky?
Divine Doctor Kang pounded his chest and stamped his feet, and the others were no better off. Kang Guifeng and Kang Cuipu wore grim faces, while Kang Jinglong and Kang Jingming were filled with endless regret! Another fine opportunity had slipped through the Kang family's fingers.
"Grandfather, why don't we stew this dog meat and eat it? Maybe it would still do some good..." Kang Jingming could not help but suggest.