Chapter 97: Chapter 97: The One Who Will Kill You! Chapter 97: Chapter 97: The One Who Will Kill You! “Moreover, didn’t Ling’er go out to find a divine healer? She should be back soon. Once she returns, do we still need that Doctor Liu? She’s a natural troublemaker. If she’s dead, then so be it.”
Upon hearing this, Old Master Gong’s eyes sharpened, and he finally made up his mind.
“You may leave first, let me think carefully.”
“Yes, this concubine takes her leave.”
Seeing that her objective had been achieved, the woman obediently withdrew.
Under the dark moonlit night, a sprinting man halted outside Hongling Town, staring up at the not-so-high city wall before leaping onto it in one jump.
Meanwhile, Lin Caisang, who was in a makeshift hut, had just managed to deliver Constable Wei and a group of patients, allowing herself a moment of respite. She planned to rest a little before examining the blood in the bowl again.
All around her was peaceful, save for the chill brought by the cold wind brushing against her cheeks.
She took out a baked flatbread prepared by Lin Changfeng from the sachet, along with a bowl of water. As she started to eat, she couldn’t help mumbling about the strange disease and the inexplicably complex poison.
She was stumped, completely at a loss.
Truth be told, Lin Caisang had little understanding of poisons. As the descendant of a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, she could easily recognize who had been poisoned. But if asked what kind of poison they had ingested and how to formulate the antidote, she was clueless.
After all, in her modern day life, she had only encountered common things like snake or scorpion venom. How could she be expected to recognize these bizarre poisons that she had never even heard of? The whole thing just left her feeling overwhelmed.
It was only after accepting this task that she deeply regretted her lack of medical knowledge, especially on poisons. She felt helpless, really.
“No matter, if I don’t understand, I’ll learn. Later, I’ll ask Yu Jing if he has any good jade scripts for me to study.” She muttered a few words and took another bite of the flatbread in her hand.
“Hmm, the flatbread made by Brother Changfeng is…”
As she continued to eat, she couldn’t help but praise the delicious flatbread made specially for her by Lin Changfeng. But before she could finish her sentence, a bunch of grayish-white stuff were thrown at her.
She quickly raised her hand to cover her nose and mouth with the mask she brought.
Looking at the flatbread in her hand again, it had turned into a piece of poisoned bread. She trembled with rage as she looked at the group of menacing figures wielding knives and pointing at her.
“Who are you people?”
Were these people emboldened by eating bear’s heart or leopard’s gall? Didn’t they know that there were many county officials in Hongling Town at this moment? How dare they attack her, a doctor here to treat patients?
Did they want everyone in Hongling Town to die?
The leader, wearing a short grey shirt with a covered face, said to Lin Caisang before raising his reaping hook and charging towards her.
Lin Caisang was startled and quickly sidestepped. She reacted immediately, smashing the flatbread in their leader’s face, plastering his face with poison. The man screamed immediately but she didn’t know whether it was because of the poison or because he was just scared.
She turned and ran towards the other side of the makeshift hut.
“Constable Wei, Constable Wei, come save me!”
Despite being a tad plump, when faced with these demons, she knew she was at a disadvantage. She had no choice but to cry out for help.
If she didn’t call for help, what else could she do? She didn’t have a knife like them. Even if she did, there was no guarantee she could fend them off. Escape was her best option!