Chapter 176   People Were Sinister

There was an old saying, “When a horse is suffering, end its misery.” But on the contrary, Death Acupuncture Therapy was used to treat the living as the dead.

Fang Liu held her breath and slowly pushed the silver needle into Old Man Gong’s acupoints. Then she adjusted the needle’s position and stuck it into the acupoint’s most precise location. After that, Fang Liu proceeded with the next needle and acupoint.

When Fang Liu finished inserting all the silver needles into Old Man Gong’s body, his vital signs plummeted to zero on the heart rate monitor. If there had been an assistant beside Fang Liu, they would have called an end to the operation and written down Old Man Gong’s time of death.

Fang Liu was already drenched in sweat after sealing specific death acupoints with her silver needles. Acupuncture was a skill that most traditional Chinese medical doctors knew. However, not every doctor could master the subtle differences in pressure and angle of the needles.

As for Death Acupuncture Therapy, even a tenth of a millimeter difference would mean a catastrophic failure. Fang Liu took a deep breath and looked down. The medicine that Old Man Gong soaked in was initially light green, but it was gradually turning black.

After Fang Liu discovered what kind of poison Old Man Gong had ingested, she managed to concoct an antidote overnight. It seemed that the antidote would indeed be effective.

The poison in Old Man Gong’s body was novel. Fang Liu found out that Old Man Gong showed signs of lividity on his body, but she couldn’t understand why the older gentleman would show such signs since he was still alive.

Later on, Mo Yu found out that Big Gong had visited an old Taoist who cultivated in Mount Longhu and often gave money to the old Taoist.

Mo Yu followed through with the investigation and discovered that the old Taoist was selling spiritual herbs. At this point, Mo Yu almost figured out the origins of the poison in Old Man Gong’s body. Big Gong must have bought herbs from the old Taoist and persuaded Old Man Gong to take them so that he could prolong his father’s life. However, the spiritual herbs contained some sort of deadly virus. The accumulation of the poison caused Old Man Gong to become critically ill.

Mo Yu used a fake ID to contact the old Taoist and ordered a set of spiritual herbs at a high price. Then Mo Yu threatened the old Taoist to keep it a secret or else he would spend the remainder of his life cultivating immortality in a prison cell.

When Fang Liu analyzed the herbs, she found that they contained metal, some toxins, and corpse oil. Fang Liu finally understood why Old Man Gong showed signs of lividity on his body. It was a side effect of the corpse oil in the spiritual herb.

According to some records left behind by an old Chinese doctor, if one were to ingest some refined corpse oil, all kinds of lividity marks would appear on one’s skin.

Old Man Gong’s body contained excessive metals, apart from the corpse oil. This boosted the effects of the poison, causing Old Man Gong’s skin to decay and damage his internal organs.

Mo Yu’s expression was unsightly when he heard about the corpse oil. Mo Yu was worried that Fang Liu would get scared and uncomfortable, so he took the report from Fang Liu and frowned, “These pictures are disgusting. I don’t want you to look at them anymore.”

Fang Liu smiled helplessly and took the report back from Mo Yu. After all, she still needed to use its contents to prepare an antidote for Old Man Gong

Although Fang Liu was disgusted with the corpse oil, she could still bear to look at the word itself. There were all kinds of strange things in this world, but the most dangerous thing was the human heart.

There were all kinds of strange things in this world, but the most dangerous of them all was the human heart. Corpse oil was nothing compared to that. It’s like when Big Gong went to the old Taoist to buy such a terrifying thing to feed to his father.

Big Gong stood at the sidelines and watched as his father rotted. He even used his father’s condition to clear his name and pretend to be a dutiful son so he could win an award.

Fang Liu heaved a sigh of disappointment, and in an instant, she no longer hated Old Man Gong as much as she did before. ‘I pity Old Man Gong. Although he is unreasonable, Big Gong is worse than him.’

Fang Liu lowered her head and waited for the medicine to turn black before completely replacing it with another batch. The genetic make-up of the poison in Old Man Gong’s body was complicated, so Fang Liu could only remove it bit by bit.

In the blink of an eye, it was already six o’clock in the evening. Fang Liu began the operation at eight in the morning, and she hadn’t come out of the operating room since then.

The people outside were already beginning to cause a commotion. Some assumed that Old Man Gong was already dead, while others suspected that Fang Liu had killed the patient in the process and was afraid to come out.

The other doctors asked Cui Mao to go into the operating room and take a look. They thought that it would be troublesome if any accidents were to happen.

“Wretched girl. How dare she show off so shamelessly? Other reputable doctors in Southern City couldn’t even cure the old man, yet she thinks she can do it?”

“Aren’t you going to intervene, Doctor Cui? We don’t want to be known as doctors who treat our patients’ lives as jokes.” “Should I knock on the door? It’ll be troublesome if someone dies in there.”

“We’re finished. There are reporters already taking pictures. Our hospital will be scrutinized and ridiculed by the netizens of Southern City, and it’s all Fang Liu’s fault.”