Chapter 177 Poison

"Your Majesty, are you okay?" Wei Xiaoran asked, but he walked towards Lin Qian, looked her up and down, and found that Lin Qian was not injured, then turned his eyes to the emperor.

The emperor glanced at Wei Xiaoran and didn't even bother to speak: "I'm fine. I need to thoroughly investigate what happened today."

Wei Xiaoran nodded, looked around, and then said, "Your Majesty, please go back first. Leave this place to me."

It was unclear whether the men in black had completely left, but the priority now was to ensure the emperor's safety. The emperor knew it was not advisable to stay here for long, so he nodded and followed the generals back to his tent.

As soon as the emperor and others dispersed, the training ground was immediately empty. The only people left were a few royal guards who were stabbed by silver needles and were lying on the ground, their life or death unknown.

Lin Qian walked over to check and found that these people were still alive, but they had been poisoned and had large patches of dark brown blisters on their bodies.

Lin Qian pulled out a silver needle and popped a blister. The dark brown liquid that flowed out emitted a strange fishy smell.

"How is it?" Wei Xiaoran walked over and asked.

"They must have been poisoned, but I don't know what kind of poison it was. Let's gather them in one tent and I'll take a closer look at them later." Lin Qian said.

Wei Xiaoran nodded immediately, then called a team of people to carry the poisoned royal guards away.

"Prime Minister, Madam, I just checked. All the soldiers I arranged to patrol the surrounding area have been poisoned and have black blisters on their bodies." Wang Youshan ran over and said.

The emperor naturally could not come alone for hunting. As the commander of the imperial guards, Wang Youshan had arranged patrols and security teams early in the morning.

When the men in black came out, Wang Youshan called out several times, but no one showed up, and he had a bad feeling. When he looked after the danger was over, he found that all the patrols and security teams around him had been knocked down.

Lin Qian frowned, then said, "If they are still alive, gather them together. I will take a look myself later to see if I can find an antidote.

If that doesn’t work, we can only rely on the man in black who was still alive a moment ago.”

Wei Xiaoran naturally understood what Lin Qian meant and said to Lin Shuo, "You protect your sister well. I will go and interrogate the man in black."

A rough estimate shows that there are more than a hundred people poisoned this time. If the antidote is not found, these more than a hundred people will die.

It took a while before the poisoned soldiers were carried back.

Lin Qian took the patient's pulse, then took the brown mucus from the blister for observation and found that it was a poison that destroyed the blood coagulation function, and it was extremely overbearing.

If the injured person is poisoned, even if it is just a small cut, he will die due to excessive bleeding and inability to stop the bleeding.

Lin Qian tried several detoxifying and hemostatic potions but to no avail. Later, she entered the space and used some cold spring water to see if it would work.

There is an effect, but it doesn't last long. In other words, unless the poison is completely removed, even cold spring water can only stop the bleeding for a while, but it cannot eliminate the poison.

After Lin Qian made this discovery, she left the space. Just as she was about to tell Lin Shuo who was guarding outside the door, she heard many screams of fear.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qian quickly walked out of the tent and asked.

Lin Shuo turned around with an unpleasant expression and said to Lin Qian, "Sister, that poison is contagious. The people who just carried these poisoned soldiers back all have brown blisters on their hands."

"What?" Lin Qian was also shocked and hurried out to see. She found that it was just as Lin Shuo said. The people who had just come into contact with the poisoned soldiers had large brown blisters on their hands and faces.

Several blisters had broken, and blood was flowing out of the wounds.

"How could this happen?" Lin Qian muttered to herself, then raised her hand, only to find that her hand was clean and empty.

"What about you? Are there blisters on your hands?" Lin Qian turned to ask Lin Shuo and found that his hands were also clean.

Lin Shuo asked, "Is this poison selectively contagious? We both came into contact with the patient, so why didn't we get infected?"

Lin Qian was thinking about the same question. Suddenly, she saw a man aside who was squeezing the blisters on his hands. A brown liquid flowed out of the blisters, along with a strange fishy smell.

"I know, it's a blister. The liquid in the blister is poisonous. Anyone who touches this liquid will be poisoned." Lin Qian said loudly.

With this discovery, Lin Qian did not dare to delay and quickly called Lin Shuo and two people who were not infected over and told them that the blister fluid was poisonous.

The two men immediately went to inform others, while Lin Shuo went to report to the emperor.

"Tell the emperor to return to the capital immediately, and then send a group of doctors who have research on poisons here as quickly as possible." Lin Qian said.

Lin Shuo and the other two left. Lin Qian looked at the people around her, feeling powerless.

After the blister was broken and the brown liquid drained out, blood began to ooze out of the wound, drop after drop, and there was no way to stop it.

Soon, the air in this open space was filled with the smell of blood.

After being dazed for a while, Lin Qian quickly woke up and asked people to go to the nearby town to buy medicinal herbs, especially blood-replenishing herbs. As long as they were blood-replenishing herbs, no matter how expensive or cheap, they would all be bought back.

Since she couldn't detoxify the poison now, she could only keep these people alive.

After arranging all this, Lin Qian went to find Wei Xiaoran. She wanted to know whether the man in black had confessed anything.

But at the same time, Lin Qian also knew in her heart that those sent to assassinate were all death squads, and they couldn't possibly know so much.

Lin Qian smelled a strong smell of blood before she even approached the tent where Wei Xiaoran was. It seemed that the person inside must have been severely tortured.

"Xiaoran, come out, I have something to say." Lin Qian did not go in, but just stood outside the tent and shouted.

After a while, Wei Xiaoran lifted the door curtain and walked out, still carrying a lingering sense of hostility.

"What's wrong?" Wei Xiaoran's expression softened when he saw Lin Qian and asked.

Lin Qian frowned and told him about the infection: "The most important thing now is to find out who sent them and what exactly this poison is."

Wei Xiaoran's face turned serious, and he nodded, "I understand. Has the Emperor learned about this?"

"Shuo Shuo has already gone to inform them." Lin Qian said.

"You must be careful and stay safe. After I find out what's going on here, I'll go with you. Don't be afraid, I'm here." Wei Xiaoran touched Lin Qian's face and said.

Before Lin Qian nodded, screams broke out one after another from the residences of these officials' wives.

Lin Qian and Wei Xiaoran's expressions suddenly changed.