City’s Best Divine Doctor
Chapter 467 - 468: Their Life and Death Have Nothing to Do with Me [Fifth Update]

Chapter 467: Chapter 468: Their Life and Death Have Nothing to Do with Me [Fifth Update]

The hotel staff and chefs had nothing to do with Ye Qiu initially; their lives and deaths were naturally unrelated to him. However, now that he had identified the perpetrator behind the scenes, he still drove to Jinling Hospital to take a look.

"Uncle, Aunt, Lingshow, you stay here first, I’ll go to the hospital."

Initially, Liu Lingxiu wanted to follow Ye Qiu, but he asked her to stay and accompany his parents.

Ye Qiu got into his Mercedes AMG and drove to Jinling Hospital. It took about twenty minutes to reach the lobby of Jinling Hospital.

He saw Zhou Peng already waiting for him in the lobby.

Earlier, Zhou Peng was still worried about his and Lu Xiuyu’s condition and specially drove to Jinling Hospital for a checkup, discovering that neither of them was showing any symptoms of poisoning.

Zhou Peng knew that this was because he and the mayor’s wife had been treated by Ye Qiu, hence not showing severe symptoms.

"Dr. Ye, now all fifteen security guards, twenty-four chefs, forty-eight waiters, and eight managers of that four-star hotel are poisoned and in the ward. Out of them, seven are in particularly severe condition."

Zhou Peng said.

"What symptoms do they have?"

"Numbness in limbs, dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations, chest tightness, bradycardia, arrhythmia, and in the most severe cases, shock."

"Any other symptoms?"

"Rapid breathing, coughing, bloody sputum, difficulty breathing, acute pulmonary edema, respiratory failure."

"Other symptoms?"

"Some also experience nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, resembling dysentery."

A physician walking alongside Zhou Peng informed Ye Qiu.

"Have you figured out what the illness is?"

"Not yet. The lab reports haven’t come back. We can only determine that the symptoms point to poisoning."

The attending physician looked troubled.

"What’s your name?"

"Dr. Ye, my last name is Liu."

Ye Qiu shook his head internally. If the doctors at Jinling Hospital were the best available, it showed just how mediocre the level of medical skills in this world truly was.

When Ye Qiu first discovered these patients were poisoned at the hotel, he could immediately deduce it was Witch Gu poisoning, specifically Aconite Gu.

Now, Dr. Liu led Ye Qiu to visit the most critical patients, who happened to be the chefs who tasted the food in the kitchen.

Some chefs tasted the food as they cooked, while other upscale hotels or restaurants had taste-test chefs who sampled the food before serving it.

These taste-test chefs ate the most, so their conditions were the worst.

Two were in severe shock, two in a deep coma, two with respiratory failure, and two with serious blood vomiting. Other patients, whether in grave or less severe conditions, were not far behind in severity.

The doctors at Jinling Hospital were most worried about one thing: they still didn’t know what kind of poison these people had ingested, fearing that the patients might not survive the night.

"Dr. Ye, do you know what’s wrong with these patients? How did you treat them?"

"Let’s check on the patients first."

Ye Qiu didn’t say much and entered a ward where the most critical taste-test chef was experiencing severe respiratory failure, needing the aid of an oxygen machine to survive.

Ye Qiu took his pulse and from the pulse pattern concluded that the chef’s body was already filled with Aconite Gu poison.

He then checked the other patients, finding their conditions to be similar.

"Where is the hotel’s person in charge?"

"The hotel’s manager is also hospitalized with poisoning. As for the owner, they have rushed back from abroad and may arrive tomorrow."

Ye Qiu said, "You don’t need to wait for the lab reports. These people have Aconite poisoning, specifically one of the most potent plant-based Witch Gu toxins from the Miaojiang region, Aconite Gu. Ordinary treatments are probably useless."

"Aconite?"

Upon hearing this, Dr. Liu urgently looked up information on Aconite and found it consistent with what Ye Qiu described: these people indeed exhibited symptoms similar to Aconite poisoning.

However, the current conditions of these patients were even more severe. Over half an hour ago, besides Ye Qiu, even Ye Weidong and his wife, along with other relatives and friends, were all poisoned. But Ye Qiu swiftly discovered it and treated them, preventing their conditions from becoming as grave as the current patients.

Even so, at that time, Ye Qiu had already noticed those relatives and friends experiencing abdominal pain, nausea, and discomfort.

"If it’s really Aconite poisoning, we doctors can still treat them."

Dr. Liu said.

"I’m afraid it’s too late."

Ye Qiu suddenly noticed the taste-test chef’s eyes glazing over and pupils dilating. Dr. Liu and Zhou Peng hadn’t realized how lethal the Aconite Gu was.

However, with Ye Qiu present, as long as there was a breath left, he could save them.

Zhou Peng was worried about the patients’ conditions, and Dr. Liu didn’t know what to do.

The two of them didn’t realize Ye Qiu had already started treating the patient.

Soon, Ye Qiu managed to pull the patient back from the brink of death; his condition gradually improved as the Aconite Gu poison in his body, which had reached his heart, was quietly absorbed by Ye Qiu.

Seeing this sudden improvement, Dr. Liu was both delighted and astonished.

"Dr. Ye, how did he get better?"

Ye Qiu remained silent.

However, Zhou Peng had already guessed that Ye Qiu must have just treated him. This was similar to what Ye Qiu did at the hotel when treating dozens of patients simultaneously.

Yet, at that time, why hadn’t Ye Qiu treated the hotel staff?

Because he had locked onto the Aconite Gu in his relatives and friends, quietly absorbing it from them.

Now Ye Qiu had simply treated the taste-test chef in front of him, which was why his condition quickly improved.

"Dr. Ye, how did you just treat him?"

All along, Dr. Liu noticed that he had been accompanying Ye Qiu but hadn’t seen him perform acupuncture or other treatments on the patient. Ye Qiu had only taken his pulse, so how did he treat him afterward?

Ye Qiu didn’t speak, but Zhou Peng and Dr. Liu admired his medical skills even more.

Ye Qiu checked the other patients. He quickly saved the most critical eight, and the rest were not yet at the brink of death.

"Dr. Ye, how do we treat the remaining patients?"

"Their lives and deaths are originally unrelated to me. Besides, this time my relatives and friends were almost killed, so I still want to find out who the perpetrator behind this is."

Ye Qiu said coldly.

He didn’t know if the perpetrator was in the hotel or related to these people. But their lives and deaths were unrelated to him.

Today, after treating his relatives and friends collectively, he had almost exhausted the Spiritual Energy he had cultivated in recent days.

Just now, after treating those eight critical patients, he was further drained of his remaining Spiritual Energy and would need to cultivate from the Moonlight Essence tonight.