“I don't need to participate!”
After speaking, Dai Qiuyue picked up her lunchbox and stood up to leave. Finally, she glanced at Wan Yunting, her meaning very clear.
“Elder Jiang, if she doesn’t want to participate, don’t force her.”
Watching Dai Qiuyue leave, Wan Yunting smiled helplessly and continued eating.
Jiang Yichun nodded and sighed, “Alright, honestly, I was also worried about having Dai Qiuyue participate. After all, the Dai family in Shanghai City hasn’t expressed their public support for our Lingnan Traditional Chinese Medicine Association. If Dai Qiuyue were to participate, it might cause unnecessary trouble!”
Wan Yunting nodded. If that were the case, the Sima family would definitely condemn the Dai family.
However, Dai Hanchi, Dai Qiuyue’s father, had privately expressed that their Dai family would support the Lingnan Traditional Chinese Medicine Association.
At this moment, Jiang Tongxin walked in. Jiang Yichun asked, “Tongxin, why are you here? Have you had lunch?”
“Grandfather.”
Jiang Tongxin nodded, but her expression was serious. She said, “Wan Yunting, there’s a very strange patient in my emergency department. Since Grandfather is here too, please come with me to the emergency department to take a look.”
“Strange patient?”
Wan Yunting, who hadn’t finished his meal, was stunned. Jiang Yichun also asked, “What kind of strange patient is it? What’s wrong with him?”
Jiang Tongxin’s delicate eyebrows furrowed. She said, “You’ll know when you go.”
Wan Yunting had no choice but to put down his lunchbox, stand up, and follow Jiang Yichun and Jiang Tongxin out of the Traditional Chinese Medicine department and towards the adjacent hospital’s emergency department.
At this moment, in the intensive care unit of the emergency department, a group of people were gathered at the entrance. They were all wearing suits, and two young men were dressed in designer suits, along with a dignified and luxurious woman. They were clearly a family.
They were sitting on the chairs at the entrance. The woman looked haggard and sad. As soon as Wan Yunting saw her, he felt a sense of familiarity!
“Mr. Wan…”
The woman, named Lin Huiping, got up and rushed towards him as soon as she saw Wan Yunting. She pleaded, “Mr. Wan, please save my husband! He’s Tian Guofu. We met at a reception a few nights ago…”
“President Tian!”
Wan Yunting also remembered. This woman was indeed the wife of Tian Guofu, the chairman of Fuqiang Group. He said in surprise, “Is President Tian ill?”
Jiang Tongxin, who was beside him, nodded. “The patient’s name is Tian Guofu, and these are his family members.”
Wan Yunting found it strange. Of course, he didn’t have a deep impression of Tian Guofu from the reception that night. He asked, “Madam, please don’t worry. Let’s go in and see President Tian first, and then we’ll come out and talk to you.”
“Okay, okay, thank you, Mr. Wan…”
Lin Huiping knew that Wan Yunting was a doctor and someone on par with Kang Hongwen. Her attitude naturally improved significantly.
This made Jiang Tongxin and the doctors and nurses beside them involuntarily roll their eyes. This was because since the patient was admitted to the emergency department late last night, this Lin Huiping had been restless. Relying on her family’s wealth, she had been yelling at Jiang Tongxin and other doctors and nurses, spouting all sorts of wild threats, saying that if they couldn’t save Tian Guofu, she would burn down the emergency department.
Therefore, the doctors and nurses in the emergency department, like Jiang Tongxin, found Lin Huiping’s sudden change in demeanor, from being an unreasonable shrew to trying to please Wan Yunting, utterly disgusting.
Wan Yunting and Jiang Yichun were naturally unaware of this. After changing into protective clothing and disinfecting themselves, they entered the intensive care unit with Jiang Tongxin and the others. They saw that the two sides of a hospital bed were filled with various instruments, and a person wrapped entirely in bandages was lying on the bed. Even his entire face was bandaged, making it impossible to see his appearance.
“Third-degree burns all over his body?”
Wan Yunting and Jiang Yichun were still shocked to see this situation. They had never seen a patient with burns all over their body.
“Yes.”
Jiang Tongxin nodded and checked the instruments. His vital signs were normal. “His organs are also failing, and what’s even stranger is that no matter what methods we use, we can’t control the deterioration of his burns.”
Wan Yunting approached the bedside and carefully examined Tian Guofu, who was wrapped in bandages. He was currently unconscious. The gauze on his chest and arms had turned yellow, indicating pus formation.
“Director Jiang, we need to change the bandages again.”
Looking at Tian Guofu’s condition, the doctors and nurses showed expressions of resistance and complexity, as changing Tian Guofu’s bandages was too terrifying.
“Hurry and change them.”
Jiang Tongxin nodded. Several doctors and nurses prepared fresh bandages and began to change them for Tian Guofu.
As a result, as soon as the bandage on his arm was removed, a nurse couldn’t bear it. Tian Guofu’s burn on his arm had festered and emitted a nauseating odor.
Even Wan Yunting and Jiang Yichun were greatly shocked. They immediately leaned in to carefully examine Tian Guofu’s burn injuries. Jiang Yichun said strangely, “Little Wan, are you sure this person was burned by fire? It doesn’t look like it.”
Let alone Elder Jiang’s confusion, even Wan Yunting frowned and was perplexed. As the nurse and doctor slowly cut away the bandages on Tian Guofu’s chest, pus oozed out, emitting a pungent and unpleasant odor, which was simply disgusting and terrifying to everyone present.
“Unnatural energy!”
However, the next moment, Wan Yunting saw the nurse cut away the bandage on Tian Guofu’s head. He could see a ball of strange black energy condensing between Tian Guofu’s forehead and bridge of his nose. This made Wan Yunting’s expression astonished and his heart filled with shock.
“How can there be unnatural energy?”
Wan Yunting’s brows furrowed. Looking at the ball of strange unnatural energy on Tian Guofu’s forehead, he muttered inwardly.
In prison, while learning medicine from his master, the Ghost Hand Medical Saint, he had also heard his master talk about many strange and peculiar illnesses. One such peculiar illness, which was very common in the last century, was being possessed by evil spirits!
According to his master, when a person encountered an evil entity, their mind and body would exhibit strange phenomena. Some people would have their spirits controlled by the evil entity, causing them to appear mad and act in all sorts of harmful ways.
Others would develop various physical illnesses, such as persistent high fever, which even the most skilled doctors couldn’t cure. Therefore, such conditions were now referred to by modern medicine as strange illnesses!
However, Wan Yunting could be certain that this was definitely not a deterioration caused by burns; it was the unnatural energy on Tian Guofu’s forehead that was causing trouble, leading to the breakdown of his surface injuries and organs, and ultimately leading him towards death.
“He definitely wasn’t burned by fire!” Jiang Tongxin said from the side.
“Then what illness does he have?”
Jiang Yichun turned his head and asked, “What did the patient’s family say?”
Jiang Tongxin looked at Tian Guofu on the hospital bed, whose bandages had been removed. From his toes to some hidden parts of his body, almost everything had rotted, oozing various pus and emitting a nauseating smell. It was the first time everyone present had seen such a situation.
Jiang Tongxin said, “We currently cannot determine the cause of his illness. The family told us that the patient began to show signs of being burned all over his body last night, and then they called an ambulance and sent him to our emergency department.”
Jiang Yichun raised his eyebrows. Hearing about such a strange patient made him very surprised. He then turned to look at Wan Yunting, who was standing by the side, his eyes fixed on the ball of unnatural energy on Tian Guofu’s forehead, not speaking. He asked, “Little Wan, what do you think his illness is?”
Wan Yunting turned to look at Jiang Yichun and said directly, “He’s been possessed by an evil spirit!”