Chapter 99: Three Medical Practitioners
Liang Yixiu is the oldest and most advanced medical practitioner here. The younger ones call him senior, and the older ones also respectfully address him as senior brother. He has never been humiliated like this before.
But he was not angry, he just bowed again.
The medical practitioner who spoke earlier said, "Let me introduce myself first. My last name is Liu."
Tao Zi nodded at him: "Doctor Liu."
He said, "Miss Tao, I'm really sorry for not daring to help you before."
She said calmly, "You have no obligation to help me."
Doctor Liu shook his head and said, "But we have a request of yours."
He glanced at the Good Doctor, hesitated for a moment, then continued, "Those few people before were either fame-seeking or cowards, not worth mentioning. But they happened to be from the Nine Transformations Sect, and they also have fellow disciples from the Nine Transformations Sect. We dare not offend them easily. After all, we are just casual cultivators who need the protection of the Nine Transformations Sect. This time, it was Doctor Li Xiu who raised his hand first, otherwise we would not have dared to act rashly."
There are very few large sects that focus on medical practice. Most medical practitioners rely on each other as masters and disciples. The better ones only have more than ten fellow disciples.
To ensure their own safety, many medical practitioners belong to two sects, one belonging to their master, and the other to the sect they are affiliated with.
Tao Zi nodded to show her understanding.
The good doctor said guiltily, "I was originally the leader among the independent cultivators, but... I'm sorry, I was wrong."
Li Xiu spoke up this time to help: "Miss Tao, if Little Bit hadn't been involved, Senior Liang would have definitely raised his hand. He's not one of those people. He's being so aggressive this time because he's been blinded by the plague in town and the demonic cultivators."
She nodded again and replied, "I understand."
She believed this.
Seeing that she didn't take it seriously, Liu Yixiu smiled helplessly and changed the subject: "Miss Tao, can you really deal with that demon?"
"Forty percent sure."
Li Xiu asked, "Did Miss Tao take into account the low resistance of physical cultivators to demonic energy?"
"never mind."
The good doctor spoke again: "Miss Tao, do you have any idea of the strength of that demon cultivator?"
"Yes." Tao Zi paused and said the next sentence, "If I guess wrong, then I can only give up."
Doctor Liu nodded and said, "I understand. After all, we have no right to ask Miss Tao to give up her life."
Li Xiu's friend asked, "Is there anything you need us to do?"
"First of all, I have to keep an eye on my fellow apprentices. I hope they are still alive when I return."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Second, thoroughly search Doctor Xu's room and any nearby places where people could be hiding."
Doctor Liu asked in confusion, "Why is that?"
"Do you think he could conjure up a mutated plague out of thin air?" Tao Zi's gaze swept across the medical practitioners present. "From another perspective, why is he so sure this plague can be transmitted to cultivators?"
The good doctor stood up quickly, his face looking extremely ugly.
Li Xiu held up two fingers and said, "There are two possibilities. The first is that he has been creating this kind of plague before; the second is that he has experimental subjects. Guess which one it is?"
Tao Zi added, "It's also possible for the two to coexist."
Li Xiu's friends carefully counted and said, "Since the town was sealed off, a total of three medical practitioners have disappeared. At first, we all thought they couldn't stand the situation in the town and ran away, but now it seems...
Liang Yixiu called someone in with trembling hands. Just as he was about to give some instructions, he changed his mind and said, "Forget it. I'll go there."
Chen Qiangli stood up: "I'll go too."
Doctor Liu asked, "Miss Tao, can physical contact cause infection?"
She said, "I'm not sure, but you can try to circulate your spiritual energy to resist it. Maybe it will be less likely to be infected."
Several young medical practitioners present, including Li Xiu, followed him, but it was the good medical practitioner who was persuaded to come back.
Several white-haired medical practitioners sat here silently. As time passed, some of them could no longer sit there and simply stood up and paced around.
One of the medical practitioners whispered, "I still can't believe it. How could Xiao Xu do such a thing?"
Good Doctor Xiu smiled bitterly and said, "I can't believe it either. Don't worry about you all laughing at me, I'm good for nothing except treating illnesses. Almost everything that happened recently was solved by Xiao Xu, who forced himself to do it."
Tao Zi interrupted their disbelief and asked, "According to what you said, the plague would kill mortals in just a few days. How did Doctor Xu last so long?"
Doctor Liu sighed and said, "Xiao Xu used a special prescription to delay his death, but the price he paid was that there was no cure. In other words, even if we found the prescription, Xiao Xu wouldn't be able to be saved."
Perhaps to the immortal cultivators, he is a mortal who has committed a heinous crime.
But to ordinary people, Dr. Xu is a good doctor with a kind heart and ruthless methods.
Even Tao Zi, who was plotted against, had to admit that she didn't like Dr. Xu's approach, but she admired him.
While everyone was discussing in low voices, Li Xiu and the others came back, looking extremely gloomy.
Before Liang Yixiu could ask, he stepped aside and let those people in.
There were three stretchers in total. The person on one of the stretchers was covered in bruises and had a strong smell of rotting flesh. The visible parts of his body were full of pits and holes, as if someone had dug out the flesh with a sharp knife and then grown it back.
On the second stretcher, the smell of the person was not as strong, but his body was still covered with many dents and he looked dazed.
The third stretcher, the person lying on it was in better condition, without those potholes, but the spots on his body were extremely clear. Upon closer inspection, they looked like corpse spots, but he was clearly still breathing.
Liang Yixiu closed his eyes and slowly uttered, "You don't know people well, you don't know people well! How could he be so cruel?"
So cruel?
Tao Zi glanced at him. Didn't Doctor Xu order the killing of a dozen mortals a few days ago? Wasn't that cruel enough?
But when she thought about it, she could understand it.
The medical practitioner who was in better condition looked at the medical practitioner Liang, gritted his teeth, and said in a voice full of hatred: "Brother Liang, kill Xu Lie, kill him!"
The good doctor cast his gaze towards the corpse on the ground. The doctor followed suit and the moment he touched the corpse, he cried and laughed at the same time, his expression mad. "Old He, look, that beast is dead, he's dead! Hahaha, a good death, a good death!"
The man on the second stretcher forced himself to focus and looked over, wanting to speak but unable to.
The medical practitioners fed He Yixiu all kinds of elixirs, barely giving him the strength to speak.
His first words were: "Stay away from me, or the plague from me can spread to you."
Liang Yixiu sighed and said, "We understand. We will not leave here during this period of time. Don't worry."
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