City’s Best Divine Doctor
Chapter 466 - 467: The Murderer in the Dark [Seeking Recommendation Votes]

Chapter 466: Chapter 467: The Murderer in the Dark [Seeking Recommendation Votes]

In the dark room, there wasn’t a single light. The windows were all covered with black cloth. A figure sitting on a recliner was rocking faster and faster.

His lips were black, his face was deathly pale. His eyes had no light in them, but they revealed a vicious, malicious gleam.

"I’ve already found out for you, his family is hosting a banquet for relatives and friends at the hotel tomorrow."

"I want him dead, I want his whole family to accompany him in death!"

The hatred in the man’s eyes seemed to surge in an instant.

"As long as you can help me kill that man, I’ll do whatever you ask from now on."

The cold, eerie voice continued.

"Don’t worry!"

The old man said.

After the old man left the dark room, the figure in the recliner couldn’t stop thinking about his imminent revenge. Not only would he die, but his parents, his sister, and the woman he loved would all die there too, making him feel a disturbingly perverse joy.

...

The next morning, he was still lying on the recliner. Though it was now daylight, he couldn’t tolerate even a sliver of sunlight, so he used more black cloth to block out the sun.

However, the aura of death around him remained heavy. Even though the old man had performed multiple rituals to dispel the death aura, they had all proved ineffective.

He himself was already a dead man, and such a person would naturally carry an aura of death.

Therefore, the source lay within him, and it was impossible to completely dispel the death aura. They could only try to gradually reduce it, allowing him to go out at night to commit crimes instead of staying in the dark room for long periods.

However, their previous test subject had already failed. This time, they had found a dead person born in a Yin Year, a Yin Month, a Yin Hour, and a Yin Minute. This new corpse, filled with immense hatred at the moment of death, was an excellent specimen for their experiments. Unlike borrowing another’s body to return to life, this corpse retained its own residual consciousness and could even communicate, making it an extremely deadly tool.

The old man went to the hotel, tampered with the food, the drinking water, everything in the kitchen, just waiting for Ye Qiu to bring his family, relatives, and friends for the meal, preparing to send them all to meet King Yanluo.

The old man’s hatred for Ye Qiu was not just because of that person’s relationship but also because their first test subject had been burned alive by Ye Qiu’s people.

What happened next went just as the old man had planned.

But to his surprise, while the guests were indeed poisoned, the symptoms disappeared shortly after they ingested the food.

Given that he had poisoned the guests with a strong dose of Aconite Gu, crafted with his secret method, the fact that the symptoms vanished so quickly was baffling.

Since he was the one who had cast the Aconite Gu, he knew exactly how the ill effects would unfold. So when the symptoms suddenly disappeared, he knew the poisoning had failed!

Aconite Gu poisoning had failed!

This was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Seeing Ye Qiu and his relatives and friends leave the hotel as police arrived, the old man quietly left and returned to the dark room.

The figure was still lying on the recliner.

Now, the recliner wasn’t moving, and neither was he, as if he were already dead.

He hated the daytime most because even with black cloth covering the windows, the sunlight was still too strong for him.

As the old man returned, he asked, "How did it go?"

"I don’t know why it failed."

"Failed?"

The recliner began to rock.

"I had already cast the Gu last night. As long as those people ate even the smallest amount, they would undoubtedly be poisoned. In the most severe cases, they would have died instantly if not taken to the hospital!"

"Then how did it fail?"

"Those people showed signs of poisoning, but then suddenly recovered!"

The old man said.

It was him!

It must have been his medical skills that cured them!

Thinking this, the figure on the recliner rocked even more violently. He couldn’t understand how Ye Qiu had acquired such formidable medical skills or how he managed to heal people.

He knew Ye Qiu had healed him several times, but on the last occasion, Ye Qiu had refused to treat him, leading to his death and his transformation into a living corpse, worse than death itself.

His only motivation to go on was to see Ye Qiu dead, so he could finally leave this world in peace.

But to his dismay, this perfect opportunity had failed!

Ye Qiu, his family, Ye Qiu’s loved ones, and his friends were all there. Even now, he wanted them all dead, to drag them down to hell with him.

This failure meant he would have to seek revenge one by one!

"I can’t figure it out either."

The old man said.

The figure on the recliner fell silent, the failure seemingly a heavy blow to him. He cared for nothing else now, only when he and Ye Qiu’s family would die.

As the old man left the dark room, his hollow eyes bizarrely glanced back at the recliner before exiting the room.

He couldn’t understand how, out of so many guests, not a single one had met their end.

At that moment, Ye Qiu was still in the new house with Liu Lingxiu’s parents when he received a phone call from Zhou Peng. Earlier at the hotel, Zhou Peng too had experienced stomach discomfort, which disappeared after Ye Qiu’s treatment.

However, Zhou Peng had accompanied Lu Xiuyu and others to Jinling Hospital for a check-up and found nothing wrong.

But the four-star hotel’s other chefs and staff were showing various symptoms. Jinling Hospital’s doctors felt it was a tough situation and wanted Ye Qiu to come and take a look.

Moreover, they might uncover something from these people.

Ye Qiu only heard that the hotel staff had all been detained by the police. However, shortly after he left the hotel, these staff members started showing poison symptoms similar to the guests, but theirs worsened over time, prompting the police to rush them to the hospital.