AWB Chapter 1052 "Sleeping Beauty"
Chapter 1052 "Sleeping Beauty"
With a cutting sound, the tightly closed door was forcibly torn open.
Then Xiaotian reached his hand out of the hole and carefully explored everything around him.
The reason he was so bold was that no one stopped him when he was cutting, and now he doesn't have to worry about being attacked.
A moment later, with a soft click, the bolt on the door was finally pulled open.
The moment the door opened, a chilly aura rushed out, making the three people lying by the door feel much more comfortable; they were all as hot as if they had been pulled out of the water.
Jiang Jiyun gave Nan a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water (a traditional Chinese medicine for heatstroke), and she quickly drank it herself to avoid heatstroke.
After drinking the heatstroke medicine, Xiaotian, using the light from his flashlight, saw a passage that seemed to stretch endlessly before him.
"This looks like a sewer!" Oda frowned, looking at the scene outside the small door and muttering to himself.
After he finished speaking, he went down into the passage, and Nan followed closely behind.
Jiang Jiyun stayed where she was, holding a flashlight and shining it down to see the condition of the passage before coming down.
This shouldn't be a sewer. Jiang Jiyun squatted down and gently touched the slightly dry ground with his fingers.
She looked at the passageway and saw no moss like in a well, and said that a real sewer would be filled with a strong, pungent odor and swarms of rats and insects. There wasn't even any trash here; it was too clean.
Upon hearing this, Nan instinctively looked to the left and right, only to find dark passageways on both sides.
"Which direction did they run off in?" Nan turned to Xiaotian beside him, his face full of doubt.
The latter did not answer, but squatted down and stared intently at the ground beneath his feet, trying to discern some clues.
Xiao Tian suddenly discovered an important clue and pointed in one direction, shouting to the other two: "It's over there! Look, their shoes are covered with moss from the bottom of the well. There's a little bit of moss here, and it's going that way!"
After confirming the target's location, Jiang Jiyun and the other two acted decisively, quickly putting on their helmets and bulletproof vests, and loading their guns and magazines full of bullets.
The three of them were on high alert, ready to deal with any unexpected situations that might arise.
After making some inquiries, Jiang Wenming and Xiao Wei learned that the old man in the mansion was seriously ill, so most of the people in the mansion did not leave the city yesterday.
After receiving the news, the two disguised themselves, carried the necessary props, and then walked past the gate of the mansion as if nothing had happened.
Two men guarding the gate were eating steamed buns while looking around.
Suddenly, they caught sight of an old man with a full head of white hair and a white beard slowly walking towards them, followed closely by a young man carrying a medicine box on his shoulder and holding a flagpole in his hand.
The fluttering flag prominently displayed eight large characters: "Hua Tuo is alive today, and medicine can cure all diseases."
Upon seeing this, the gatekeeper, who was munching on a steamed bun, instantly became excited and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Old man! Stop right there!"
He nodded to the person next to him, signaling him to go inside and find someone, then put down the steamed bun in his hand and ran over there.
Seeing the other person charging towards him menacingly, Xiao Wei quickly stepped in front of him to block his path, saying, "Hey! What do you think you're doing? My master is getting old and can't stand you barging in like this!"
The man who was stopped realized that the person blocking his way was just a young boy. He suppressed his anger and asked in a stiff tone, "Who exactly are you two? Are you itinerant doctors?"
"What do you want? My master is going to have breakfast, don't block the way!" Xiao Wei said with displeasure.
Just then, another gatekeeper ran in and called someone out. The middle-aged man heard what Xiao Wei said, stepped forward, bowed, and said, "Sir, may I ask if you could take a look at my master? Breakfast is provided by our master!"
Xiao Wei turned to ask, "Master, what do you think?"
“Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda, then this old man will go and take a look!” Jiang Wenming said, stroking his beard.
"Sir, please!" The middle-aged man led the way.
Jiang Wenming followed closely behind the person in front, passing through the winding corridors, and finally arrived at the backyard of the house.
A beautifully crafted two-story building, with an antique charm, suddenly appeared before us.
The two entered the building, climbed the stairs, and went straight to the second floor.
The person in front pushed open a door, and Jiang Wenming immediately saw the old man lying on the bed.
When he got to the bedside, he saw that the old man's eyes were closed and he was unconscious, but his face was unusually rosy, as if he were in a deep sleep.
Jiang Wenming's heart tightened. He quickly stepped forward, gently grasped the old man's wrist, and began to carefully take his pulse.
A moment later, he couldn't help but frown slightly, secretly surprised: the old man had been poisoned by "Sleeping Beauty"!
Moreover, only Xiaoyun could make this kind of poison.
Once the victim of this "Sleeping Beauty" poison falls into a coma, it is difficult to wake up without an antidote. Even if they survive for three months, their body will begin to slowly rot, eventually leaving only a skeleton.
More importantly, only a handful of people knew about this poison; only those who had followed Xiaoyun to the base knew.
Thinking of this, several names quickly flashed through Jiang Wenming's mind.
Ma Chao and his group had already taken the train to Shanghai. So, could the person who poisoned them here be Zhang An and his group?
But they are clearly in Jiangsu Province right now, so how did they suddenly appear here?
A host of questions welled up in Jiang Wenming's mind, leaving him feeling deeply perplexed.
But he knew it was not appropriate to show his surprise too much at this moment, so he took a deep breath, slowly opened his eyes, and put on a solemn expression.
He said in a deep voice, "Old sir, you must have offended some evil spirit this time!"
The middle-aged man and the woman, who had been waiting for news, were overjoyed to hear this.
The woman, in particular, was so excited that her face turned bright red. She exclaimed repeatedly, "Old Doctor, you are truly a master! We have sought out many famous doctors before, but they were all helpless. We never expected that you could know the cause of the illness just by taking the pulse. We are truly impressed!"
Jiang Wenming stroked his white beard and said, "Who was he three days ago? And where was the last person who came into contact with him? I need to find the source from that person."
The middle-aged man said with a grim expression, "Three days ago, our old master was invited to a banquet at the Shi family's house in the north of the city. He came back like this, and everyone who went with the old master is like this too."