I do admire Zhao Zichen’s skill in knowing people. He is very young but has a very high prestige in the Red Lantern Society and the congregation is very deferential to him.
Not only that, but even Baldy thinks highly of him. This man does have some tricks up his sleeve when it comes to enlisting people.
In the lift, Zhao Zichen and I talked about Qingqing and Ma Dazhuang, who had recovered and been discharged from hospital, but I had been too busy to care about this recently.
The advertising company is no longer nominally related to me. I transferred all my shares to Chu Xiaoxiao, and when I’m done with the business at hand, I’ll let Chu resume work on the company, as many people are still waiting to work and get paid.
This floor is particularly quiet, filled with the solemnity of death, not many people’s voices can be heard on the whole floor, instead there are the sounds of machines dripping one after another, these are the sounds of the physical signs testers.
Zhao Zichen took me to Arashi’s ward, which was different from the normal wards in that the wall facing the corridor was completely transparent, allowing the doctors to monitor the patient.
I had seen countless gruesome deaths in the war, but I was still shocked by Arashi’s appearance.
His face was buried under the covers, so I couldn’t see it clearly, but the hand that was exposed, if I didn’t look closely, I wouldn’t have believed it was a hand!
It was as swollen as a thigh and all black and yellow, not at all like a living human hand.
Suddenly, Arashi began to breathe heavily and the ward’s vitals screamed desperately.
Zhao Zichen took a step backwards as the emergency doctor pushed his equipment into the ward. Through the gla*s door, I could see the doctor lift the covers and Arashi was covered in black and yellow, unbelievably horrible, like a banana on the verge of rotting.
“How did this happen?” I asked Zhao Zichen.
“Why do you get the feeling that someone has poisoned her?”
“It’s a long story, you can check his needles to see if they’ve actually been drugged.”
Zhao Zichen would be convinced and confirmed with me again that the poison was put in the needle and not in the potion.
Arashi was now being resuscitated and Zhao Zichen had to be sterilised before he could enter the ICU. He told me to wait for a while, went to the sterilisation room next door to change into a new suit and went into the ICU.
Inside, their doctor’s conversations were so quiet that I couldn’t hear them clearly through the mask and gla*s door.
After Zhao Zichen said a few words, the others gave a big shock and looked at Zhao Zichen in amazement.
Zhao Zichen argued with them and in the end, Zhao Zichen pulled the injection out of Arashi’s hand and opened the door again and came out.
“Do you know exactly what kind of poison it is?”
Lin Fang didn’t tell me, and I shook my head.
“That’s a problem, I need a bit of time to compare. But if we can’t find out what the poison is, it’s a waste of time.”
I actually didn’t care if I could find out what kind of poison it was, I just had to make sure there was no poison in it.
If there really was poison, then Lin Fang was telling the truth and Lin Fang must know something.
I knew that she was looking for me because of her brother, and it turned out that I had been looking for her too, to use her against Liu Rong, but this was a time when I no longer needed to use such tactics against Liu Rong, and the identity of the man behind Lin Fang made me even more curious.
I still had to find Lin Fang, just not now.
Right now I have to concentrate on the gun trafficking case, and I can’t let Liu Rong shift his attention from Han Kun to me. If I met Lin Fang, once Liu Rong found out about this, he would definitely set me as his number one enemy.
I wasn’t afraid of Liu Rong, it was just that the Snow Leopard mission was more important.
It was almost dark when Arashi was brought back to life and the doctors were about to give him an injection when Zhao Zichen hurried over, knocking on the door without having time to say hello to me, and walked in, telling everyone to wait.
“There’s something wrong with all these potions.” Zhao Zichen said hurriedly, “It’s not the potions that are faulty, it’s the needles that are faulty, go to the pharmacy and fetch new needles immediately.”
Through the gla*s door, I could hear him shouting at his colleagues, and the doctors were as surprised as I was, all thinking that Zhao Zichen was talking nonsense.
“It’s true, there was extra thallium in the needle, something that’s not fatal in trace amounts, but it doesn’t take long for a person to die. The patient’s health was already bad, so the toxicity played out even faster. The toxin wasn’t in the potion, it was in the needles, and someone replaced the faulty ones.”
“What?” Everyone looked at each other, obviously not believing Zhao Zichen’s words.
Zhao Zichen was the dean’s son and the young and talented head of the cardiology department, even if some people didn’t believe him, they didn’t think Zhao Zichen was going crazy.
Very quickly, Zhao Zichen called for the young nurse he trusted the most, and bothered her to go down and fetch a trip for the needles herself, and to go to the pharmacy to fetch them herself, without going through anyone’s hands.
“That’s impossible, if someone had poisoned it, why not just put it in the potion?”
“You’re stupid, it’s easy to be found, he must not want anyone to find out.”
“But the needles all look the same, so who knows who they’ll be used on. This isn’t the same as a potion, it’s not like it has a name written on it for exclusive use, what if someone else uses it and mixes it up?”
“There’s no way someone could have mixed it up, he’s the only one in the entire intensive care unit with this condition, everyone else’s signs are stable. In that case, the person who poisoned him must have been the one with the most access to the patient’s medication.”
Zhao Zichen was no longer interested in listening to their analysis, opened the door and came out, saying to me, “You heard it all, right? What’s wrong? Didn’t you already know about it? Why are you scared silly?”
I shook my head with a bitter smile, how could he know that I was not scared silly by Arashi’s condition, I was scared silly by Lin Fang.
Lin Fang knew I was looking for the key to my laptop and knew I was going to hold onto Arashi’s life. She contacted me twice and used these two unrelated underhanded cards, trying to use them as a bet to get her brother back.
But how on earth did she know? Not many people knew that I was looking for the notebook, and even fewer knew that I was going to keep Arashi alive.
The first time Lin Fang mentioned the notebook, it startled me, but not nearly as much as when she mentioned Arashi.
It was as if she knew everything about me, so she could casually mention two of my weaknesses to tempt me into trading with her, but where on earth did she know that?
I wanted to see Lin Fang so badly now, but I also knew very well that if I went to see her, I’d fall for it.
This woman is a snake with a heart of gold. I can meet with her, but God knows how many traps she has designed for me. Last time too, she said she would pretend to be a couple with me for a day and then let me off the hook. I kept my promise and almost got her killed as a result.
I resisted the urge to call Lin Fang immediately and said to Zhao Zichen, “No, I just didn’t expect it to be true, and I was given the information by others. Thank you for your hard work, I’ll trouble you to look after it for me again in the next few days.”
“Help is no problem, but don’t forget the notebook, that’s something we’ve had a hard time getting, when are we going to make a trip to Yuzhou?”
“I’ll go as soon as I’m done with this. Zhao Zichen, you get busy first, I have something very important to do tonight.”
I saw that it was already dark, it was time to go to Lao Shen in Tianqiao, this was also a clue that Arashi had confessed, it was a waste of time not to check.
In fact I was looking for an excuse to slip away from Zhao Zichen, which pot he was not talking about, what I was most afraid of hearing now was if the notebook, because it meant that Lin Fang had found my true weakness.
If Zhao Zichen knew that Lin Fang had the key, as soon as I handed her Lin Kang, then Zhao Zichen would have put a knife to my throat and ordered me to cooperate with Lin Fang immediately.
