The Wild Doctor and the Fair Beauty

"The antidote... five hundred thousand a packet?"

Shentu Shan’s mouth twitched. "My Shentu family’s private hospital is staffed with top-tier experts. Something we can’t cure, a little pharmacy can? What a joke. He’s just some charlatan from the Jianghu. You believe that?"

"Big Brother, I didn’t believe it at first, either. I was sure it was just some charlatan’s trick to scam money."

Shentu Jie shook his head with difficulty and continued to explain, "But this news came from the Yu Family in the Provincial City. I think there must be something to it."

"The Yu Family from the Provincial City..." Shentu Shan’s brow furrowed slightly.

"Big Brother, do you remember the Divine Doctor named Jiang who came from Jizhou not long ago?" Shentu Jie asked.

Shentu Shan nodded. "Of course. I’ve heard of him."

"I strongly suspect that this Jishan Hall was opened by Divine Doctor Jiang. After all, it wasn’t long ago that Nong Cuiru was utterly defeated by him in a medical skills competition right at Jishan Hall," Shentu Jie analyzed calmly.

"So, you think this is Divine Doctor Jiang extorting us while the Shentu family is in crisis?" Shentu Shan raised an eyebrow.

"I think that’s exactly it." Shentu Jie pursed his lips.

"Divine Doctor Jiang..."

Shentu Shan murmured the name. "Right, you said there’s a President Jiang at AM—Jiang Xinghai, correct?"

"Yes, that’s the one."

Shentu Jie wouldn’t forget Jiang Xinghai. "Yesterday, he went out of his way to target our Central State Martial Arts Family..."

"If that’s the case, then it’s not even worth considering."

Shentu Shan continued to shake his head. "If it were five hundred or five thousand, we could give it a try. But five hundred thousand a packet? Isn’t that blatant exploitation? Besides, what if the antidote is fake? We can’t afford to take that kind of risk right now."

"You’re right to be so thorough, Big Brother." Shentu Jie nodded emphatically.

"Patriarch, something’s wrong!"

A doctor in a white coat rushed over. "Liu... she... she’s stopped breathing!"

"What!"

Upon hearing this, Shentu Shan rushed over.

Shentu Jie’s mouth twitched, and he too rushed forward, his heart pounding with anxiety.

In the operating room, a woman whose whole body was covered in sores lay completely breathless!

"How... how could someone actually die from this!"

Shentu Shan’s expression finally changed. He grabbed the doctor by the collar of his white coat. "Tell me, why?! It was just a skin allergy, how could someone die!"

"Patriarch, it’s a poison from the product. It already seeped into her skin and blood vessels. That, and she was brought to the hospital too late... there was nothing we could do..." The lead doctor was drenched in sweat.

He had never encountered a condition like this before.

"Then... what about the others?" Shentu Shan asked, stunned.

"The others have less severe symptoms. We’re treating them with hormone injections, but their condition isn’t improving. It’s only temporarily suppressing the poison’s assault on their bodies..." The lead doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Spare no expense. Use the best medicine you have. You must save their lives. Report their condition to me every hour. Got it?" Shentu Shan glared at the lead doctor before turning to leave.

"Patriarch, there’s one more thing."

The lead doctor followed him. "According to our questioning, Liu applied the Anti-aging Gel around seven o’clock last night. The time from application to the onset of her critical symptoms was fifteen hours."

"What are you trying to say?" Shentu Shan grimaced.

"Our preliminary conclusion is that the poison reaches its critical stage after about fifteen hours. Therefore, anyone who applied the Anti-aging Gel less than fifteen hours ago must receive treatment immediately. As for those who are past the fifteen-hour mark... they might already be..."

"I understand."

Shentu Shan waved his hand dismissively and swiftly left the scene with Shentu Jie.

「Inside the office.」

"Second Brother, besides the ten women who tested the Anti-aging Gel last night, was there anyone else?" Before Shentu Shan could finish his sentence, Shentu Jie’s phone rang.

"My... my wife used it too!"

The realization hit Shentu Jie like a ton of bricks. Seeing the incoming call was from his son, his legs suddenly felt weak.

Shentu Shan took the phone and answered. "Fan, it’s your uncle. What’s wrong?"

"Uncle! My mother... my mother is dead in the bathroom..." The caller was Shentu Fan, Shentu Jie’s son. "And... and her whole body is covered in sores... she turned the bathwater red... it smells awful..."

Shentu Shan was stunned into silence for several seconds.

Beside him, Shentu Jie collapsed to the floor.

"Fan, gather up all the remaining Anti-aging Gel in your house right now. Don’t use it, and don’t panic. Just wait at home for your father." Shentu Shan hung up the phone.

Shentu Jie silently picked himself up. "Big Brother, my wife used it at ten o’clock last night. That’s exactly fifteen hours ago. Which means... those nearly two hundred models... they only have a few hours left."

With that, he stumbled out of the room, light-headed.

HISS!

Shentu Shan sucked in a sharp breath. The face that was usually set with a stern, bearded jaw now sagged in defeat.

Two were already dead!

At this rate...

"Patriarch, it’s bad!"

Just then, the lead doctor ran over again. "Patriarch, the ones in the operating room are getting worse! We can’t control their condition any longer..."