Chapter 662 — A Poison Unheard of Through the Ages

"Professor Guan, you've come!" Doctor Sun, the physician in charge of this emergency, had also been Guan Xuemin's student back in the day. Catching sight of Guan Xuemin, he hurried over at once. "Are you going to see the patients yourself?"

"Yes, let me have a look." Guan Xuemin nodded. "Take me there."

"This..." Doctor Sun hesitated for a moment. If this was an acute infectious disease, then Guan Xuemin going in now would be extremely dangerous. But he knew Guan Xuemin's character well enough to know the man cared nothing for life or death, so after only a brief pause, he led Guan Xuemin toward the isolation rooms.

Among the parents, someone recognized Guan Xuemin and cried out, "Doctor Guan is here! My child is saved!"

"What? Doctor Guan? Which Doctor Guan?"

"Guan Xuemin, of course!"

"Doctor Guan Pharmaceuticals has been making quite a name lately. I hear they've got two wonder drugs about to hit the market!"

When the parents heard that Guan Xuemin had come, they were instantly overjoyed, for Guan Xuemin's fame preceded him, and he bore the title of miracle doctor. If he took on the case, their children would surely have hope!

So the parents all surged forward, each one reaching out to grab Guan Xuemin. "Doctor Guan, please take a look at my child first..."

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

"Look at my child! Our family has only one son in three generations..."

"Please look at my child, I'm begging you, I'll kneel to you! She's my only daughter. Her mother died in childbirth having her. I can't lose her too..."

The parents descended into chaos once more, each wanting Guan Xuemin to treat their own child first.

Gu Pengzhan could see it all clearly from inside the isolation room, but he had no intention of joining the fray. Though he feared for Gu Mengyao's safety, the other parents feared for their children just the same. As the school's chairman, how could he possibly compete?

Besides, once the cause of the illness was found, treatment would become easy!

Doctor Sun felt a headache coming on at the sight of these parents, but he spoke up nonetheless. "Everyone, quiet down. Carrying on like this will only waste precious time. Let Professor Guan choose which isolation room to go to himself! Once we find the cause of even one case, we can treat them all in batches!"

Doctor Sun's words seemed to wake the parents up. In an instant they all fell silent, waiting for Guan Xuemin to make his choice.

And Guan Xuemin did not look at the hope-filled eyes of the parents. Instead, he casually walked into the isolation room nearest to him. Two of the parents were instantly wild with joy, clearly the mother and father of the child in that room.

Guan Xuemin paid these people no mind. He came to the side of the comatose student and quickly fell into his work...

Ten minutes later, Guan Xuemin shook his head slightly. The patient's pulse was very weak, meaning the entire body's physiological functions were declining, and the patient's vital signs had grown faint as well. If this continued, by tomorrow at the latest, the patient would die.

But Guan Xuemin was utterly helpless. This kind of weakness resembled that of an old man whose oil was spent and whose lamp had gone dry, as though every last bit of life had been consumed, heading toward the very end of death! In theory, there was no saving him!

Yet the patient was only a child of ten-some years, not some doddering old man at all. For such a condition to appear was bizarre indeed! There had been nothing wrong before, and then suddenly it became like this. If not poisoning, then what?

Guan Xuemin's heart grew all the more certain of this notion. As for bacterial infection, he did not quite believe it, though the possibility existed.

Poisoning... a poison unheard of through the ages... could such a poison truly exist? If it did, how had these children been poisoned? Who had done this? Was it unintentional, or deliberate? Guan Xuemin could not figure it out. At this moment he was desperately recalling the ancient text he had read, trying to remember from it the method of countering the poison...

But to his frustration, Guan Xuemin racked his brains and still could not think of any similar interpretation... Was he truly to give up? These were twenty-eight children. Guan Xuemin truly did not want to watch them go just like that.

Suddenly, a person surfaced in Guan Xuemin's mind! He took out his phone and dialed a number. At this moment, there was no one else to turn to. Apart from him, there was no other way!

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Wei Zhao took his clothes and his phone, then left the headquarters of An Jianwen's kidney-harvesting ring.

An Jianwen's headquarters was in the suburbs, and few vehicles normally passed through here. If Wei Zhao wanted to get back to school, he had no choice but to walk to the intersection near the suburbs and take a bus or a taxi.

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

Only then did Wei Zhao suddenly remember that before pretending to faint, he had set his phone to vibrate for fear it would ring and An Jianwen would take it out and answer it. After leaving the kidney-harvesting ring's headquarters, he had forgotten to switch it back.

Checking the call log, he found they were all from Shen Yushu. Wei Zhao did not know what Shen Yushu wanted with him, to have called more than a dozen times! Could the young miss be looking for him? Thinking of the confrontation between Gu Mengyao and Tang Yun at noon, Wei Zhao's heart skipped a beat. Had the young miss and Tang Yun gotten into another fight?

At the thought, Wei Zhao hurriedly called back.

The abrupt ringing of the phone startled Shen Yushu, and it startled Gu Pengzhan and Qing Bo as well, who had been silent all along.

Gu Mengyao took out her phone and glanced at the caller ID. Seeing it was Wei Zhao, she hurriedly picked up. "Brother Chewing Gum, where did you run off to? Why didn't you answer your phone? Sister Yaoyao is about to die... boo hoo hoo, I called you and you didn't even pick up. I've decided I'm not friends with you anymore!"

Gu Mengyao was about to die? Wei Zhao was alarmed. When he had left, Gu Mengyao had been perfectly fine. It had only been a few hours since he left, and now Gu Mengyao was about to die? What on earth had happened in between?

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

"We're in the emergency room of the Second People's Hospital. Hurry over, Brother Chewing Gum. If Sister Yaoyao dies, I don't want to live either!" Shen Yushu was frantic, but being able to reach Wei Zhao gave her some measure of hope. In Shen Yushu's impression, Brother Chewing Gum seemed capable of anything.

"All right, I'll be right there!" Wei Zhao hurriedly flagged down a taxi, gave the driver the address, then said to Shen Yushu, "Xiaoshu, I'm already on my way to the hospital. Tell me about Yaoyao's condition?"