Chapter 344: One-Sided Public Opinion
"Fucking hell, someone get in here!"
Shentu Di’s expression instantly turned alert. He scanned the hospital room, but there was no one in sight!
"Third Master!"
Just then, a doctor and two nurses rushed in.
"Where’s the person I told you to watch? Where did she go?!" Shentu Di strode forward and kicked the doctor.
The doctor collapsed into a corner, completely bewildered. "Third Master, I was busy with other patients. I specifically assigned two nurses to stand guard at the door. How could she be gone?!"
"That’s right, Third Master. We were at the door the whole time. No one came out at all," one of the nurses explained, her head bowed.
The other nurse added, "Third Master, unless... she jumped out the window!"
The window!
Shentu Di and the others immediately fixed their gazes on the window.
Of course!
’She jumped out the window to escape?’
Shentu Di immediately rushed over, leaned on the windowsill, and looked down.
"Dammit, this is the third floor!"
He turned back and glared at the three people before him. "Unless... she’s a Martial Arts practitioner!"
The more Shentu Di thought about it, the more sense it made!
He bolted out of the room and sprinted toward the security office.
Even though he already guessed what he would find, the escaped woman had to be caught!
Otherwise!
He roughly figured it out: the woman had faked her seizure—the crooked mouth, twisted eyes, and foaming at the mouth—all to get out of the bathroom and escape!
’This is bad!’
If such a calculating woman escaped, wouldn’t she expose the Shentu family’s scandal to the world?
After arriving at the security office, he quickly pulled up the surveillance footage from the hospital wing.
Finally, he saw a woman with short hair in a patient’s gown flash past the ground floor of the building before disappearing!
"It’s over. She really is a Martial Arts practitioner. She’s already left the hospital!"
Shentu Di stared at the monitor, stunned, for a full three minutes.
Then, he raced off toward the bathroom without a moment’s delay.
When he pushed open the bathroom door, his older brother, Shentu Shan, was still diligently at work.
"Big Brother, this is an emergency..."
"Shut up!"
Shentu Shan shot Shentu Di a fierce glare. How could he be disturbed at such a critical moment?
Shentu Di opened his mouth to speak, but hesitated and ultimately closed the door to wait outside.
It had been a long time since Shentu Shan had been able to relax so freely.
But then, there was another knock on the door.
"Big Brother, I really have urgent business! Please let me explain," Shentu Di’s anxious voice came from outside.
"If it’s about the allergic poison, then spit it out. Otherwise, we can talk later!" Shentu Shan lit a cigarette, his eyes surveying the "prime specimens" before him.
"It’s more important than the allergic poison!" Shentu Di finally burst in and explained how one of the women had escaped through a window.
"..." Shentu Shan was instantly dumbfounded.
"You useless bastard! You’re better at ruining things than accomplishing them!"
Shentu Shan shoved Shentu Di aside and ran for his life toward the lab.
Now, if the lab hadn’t developed an antidote yet, he had to make the call and have his fourth brother, Shentu Lin, buy more.
Otherwise, if that woman who escaped exposed what was happening here, the Shentu family would be finished!
Inside the lab.
Everyone was shaking their heads helplessly.
In the end, Shentu Shan had no choice but to immediately dial Shentu Lin’s number. "Fourth Brother, hurry up and buy two hundred doses of the antidote! Get back here, fast!"
Not long after this decision was made, a bombshell piece of news erupted out of Central State.
"The Shentu family has inhumanely confined two hundred models! Their ’Anti-aging Gel’ has toxic side effects and has already claimed three lives!"
The news spread across the entire internet in an instant!
The families of the two hundred models from all over the country had already started sharing information and rushing toward Central State when they found they couldn’t contact their daughters.
It got to the point where Central State’s director, Mr. Sun, had to personally intervene.
He led the public security bureau and a SWAT team toward the Shentu family estate.
Even some spontaneously organized groups of concerned citizens were heading for the Shentu estate.
「At the same time.」
Jizhou, Jishan Hall.
Jiang Xinghai, Lin Qingyuan, and Xue Zhong, along with the mother and daughter pair Meng Lihua and Nini, were all sitting around a table on the first floor of Jishan Hall, eating a meal.
"Divine Doctor Jiang! Help me!"
Shentu Lin, who had been waiting not far from Jishan Hall, came running over in a hurry after receiving Shentu Shan’s order to purchase more of the antidote.
"Quiet."
Jiang Xinghai didn’t turn around, cutting off Shentu Lin as he was about to explain. "Can’t you see we’re eating?"
"Divine Doctor Jiang, there’s no time..."
"One more word, and I’ll have you thrown out." Jiang Xinghai’s voice was filled with indifference.
Shentu Lin opened his mouth, but in the end, he clamped it shut.
He couldn’t afford to provoke Jiang Xinghai right now.
After all, he was here to spend money on an antidote that was the only one of its kind in the entire country!
But he was burning with anxiety.
Although he hadn’t seen the news breaking online.
He had already received the news from his family.
The Shentu family was now facing an unprecedented crisis!
The impact of a single model’s escape had undoubtedly ripped the mask right off the Shentu family!
The families of two hundred models were rushing to Central State from all over the country!
The director of Central State was also leading a team to the Shentu estate to hold them accountable!
Now, their only chance to quell this incident was to buy the antidote!