"Poisoned!?"
Mu Hongyu was also startled, and quickly stepped forward regardless of his embarrassment.
"Are you sure? Do you know what poison he was poisoned with?"
Chu Liuyue covered Liao Zhongshu with the quilt again, and did not immediately answer Mu Hongyu's words. Instead, she looked at Liao Zhongshu and asked:
"Have your legs been itchy in the past two days, and the skin breaks and bleeds whenever you scratch it?"
Liao Zhongshu nodded blankly.
"That's true...how do you know?"
Chu Liuyue just took a look through her clothes, but she guessed so accurately!
"How I know is not important. What is important is that this poison has now spread to your whole body. It will invade your lungs in less than three days, and then you will really be helpless."
Liao Zhongshu suddenly became nervous:
"So... so serious? But I haven't even left the house since I came back. How could I be poisoned? And the teachers didn't say anything about it—"
"This kind of poison is called 'Blood Red Gu', and it is an extremely rare poison. Once contaminated, wounds on the body will ulcerate repeatedly and cannot heal. What's more serious is that the area around the wound will become rapidly congested, the skin will become brittle, and it will hurt. It was unbearably itchy and would burst at the slightest touch. In the end, the skin all over the body would be chapped and bleed out, and he would die!"
Every time Chu Liuyue said another word, Mu Hongyu and Liao Zhongshu turned pale. By the end of hearing it, both of their faces were as pale as ghosts.
Especially Liao Zhongshu, who was already so angry that he couldn't even breathe after hearing these words.
"This...this...I don't know how...could it be that I..."
He couldn't say the rest of the words, but both Chu Liuyue and Mu Hongyu knew what he was worried about.
Even the teachers at the college couldn't detect such a powerful poison, let alone treat it!
Then I'm afraid he only has the last few days left in his life!
Mu Hongyu looked at Chu Liuyue worriedly:
"Liu Yue, is it really this serious? Then you, what can you do? Since you can recognize it, there must be something you can do, right?"
Liao Zhongshu also looked at her with the last glimmer of hope.
Chu Liuyue was silent for a moment.
"I know this kind of poison, but if you want to completely detoxify it, you need to refine at least hundreds of medicinal materials, and most of them are extremely precious. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find them in a short time..."
If it were her in her previous life, dealing with this kind of poison would naturally not be a problem, but under these conditions now, it is really difficult!
There are some things that even if you search all over Yaochen Kingdom, you won't be able to find them.
The light in Liao Zhongshu's eyes gradually dimmed.
He was stunned for a while and said with a wry smile:
"It seems...I have no choice but to wait to die..."
Mu Hongyu looked at Chu Liuyue and then at Liao Zhongshu, his heart feeling like it was being roasted on a fire.
Liao Zhongshu has always had a good relationship with her, and since they were able to survive this time, Liao Zhongshu helped a lot.
The affection between them has already surpassed that of ordinary classmates.
But now, do you want to watch him die
The room fell silent for a moment.
Chu Liuyue suddenly asked:
"How did you get the poison?"
Liao Zhongshu looked confused:
"I, I don't know... I was fine before I went to the Wanling Mountains. Even after I came back from there, my wounds kept getting better..."
"So, you were poisoned in the academy after you came back?"
"Probably...yes. I haven't even left this door since I came back."
Liao Zhongshu said, frowning again and thinking hard.
"But, I don't know what went wrong. Ever since I came back and started to recuperate, I have always followed the teacher's instructions, take medicine and rest... and haven't touched anything else."
Chu Liuyue folded her arms and suddenly asked:
"How does Ji Yurong treat you?"
"Him? He is very good to me! He has been taking care of me these past few days—do you suspect he was the one who poisoned me?"
Liao Zhongshu finally understood what Chu Liuyue meant, but subconsciously denied it.
"This is impossible. He and I have lived here together since the day we were admitted to the academy, and we have always gotten along well. Although not as good as brothers, we still have a very good relationship. Doesn't he have a reason to attack me?"
Mu Hongyu couldn't help but interjected:
"That's right! Liu Yue, I also know Ji Yurong. He is a very nice person and should not be able to do such insidious things."
"Knowing people but not their hearts, if it wasn't him, would it be you who poisoned yourself?"
Chu Liuyue disagreed with what the two said.
If she really didn't do anything, then why did Ji Yurong feel so guilty when he saw her just now
Mu Hongyu and Mu Hongyu looked at each other speechlessly.
What Chu Liuyue said is not unreasonable...
"Then what should we do now? We can't just arrest him and ask him, right? Even if he did it, he definitely wouldn't admit it!" Mu Hongyu rubbed his temples and felt a little pain in his brain.
Chu Liuyue glanced around and saw an empty bowl next to Liao Zhongshu, and she could smell a faint scent of medicine.
"Is this the bowl you drink medicine from? Is it so clean?"
Liao Zhongshu nodded.
"Every time he drank the medicine, Yurong would immediately take the bowl and wash it. He said the medicine tasted too strong and he was worried that it would affect my rest, so he would wait until I finished drinking it and take it away, then wash it and bring it back again. …”
Liao Zhongshu's voice gradually became quieter, and his eyes looking at the medicine bowl became a little subtle.
"...Could it really be him?"
At first, he thought it was Ji Yurong taking care of him, and he was very grateful, but now that he thought about it, it was indeed a bit strange.
As a patient, what if he could just smell the medicine
Even he didn't care, so why did Ji Yurong take this matter so seriously
He tried to persuade him several times, saying that there was no need to go to such trouble, but Ji Yurong always dismissed it on the grounds that it was a trivial matter.
Mu Hongyu jumped up suddenly, ran to the medicine bowl, and looked at it carefully.
"Liu Yue, are you saying there is something wrong with the medicine? Unfortunately, the bowl has been washed clean now, and there is no evidence. Otherwise, when Zhongshu drinks the medicine next time, we can check it on the spot?"
Chu Liuyue raised her red lips slightly and shook her head.
"He won't make any more moves. The poison he gave before is enough, we just need to wait a few more days. What's more -"
Besides, Ji Yurong should have noticed her vigilance and would never give her a chance to verify.
Mu Hongyu is dejected:
"What should we do?"
Liao Zhongshu forced a smile.
"Red Fish, don't think about this. Even if you find out something now, I'm afraid it's already too late. My body..."
Chu Liuyue shook her head in disapproval and said with a slight smile:
"The more this happens, the more we need to investigate. Only by finding the person who poisoned you can we hope to get the antidote. You take good care of it first, and Red Fish and I will go and investigate."
…
After telling Liao Zhongshu to take a good rest, Chu Liuyue and Mu Hongyu left together.
After walking out of the door, Mu Hongyu looked back and asked worriedly:
"Liu Yue, how can we check now? Without the antidote, Zhongshu won't survive for a few days. Are we in time?"
Chu Liuyue raised her eyes and looked in a certain direction.
"So the most important thing for us now is to temporarily stop the spread of toxicity in his body."
Mu Hongyu was stunned:
"You're not saying that the antidote is difficult—"
“It’s hard to completely detoxify, but it’s not hard to suppress the toxicity.”
Chu Liuyue said, raising her feet and walking forward.
"Hey-where are you going?"
Chu Liuyue didn't even look back:
"Tianyao Pavilion."
(End of chapter)