Poison (18)
Yu Shu dialed 110 to contact the school director, but the call was not connected.
Zeng Zhiqiang followed in person. He directed the police officers to protect the scene, maintain order and prevent the plainclothes reporters from taking photos and videos that they should not have. Then he walked quickly to Yu Shu and looked him over carefully.
"Are you okay? Why are you guys at No. 6 Middle School?"
Yu Shu smiled awkwardly: "It's okay."
Jiang Yu was much more direct and gave Zeng Zhiqiang a summary of the whole process.
"I will help you retrieve the footage from the highway cameras. If you have anything to do, please leave first and leave this to me." Zeng Zhiqiang was very smart and immediately captured the key information from Jiang Yu's words.
"I'm sorry, but I still want to trouble you with something." Zeng Zhiqiang's tone was quite helpless. His eyes dimmed a little and swept around the No. 6 Middle School where strange events happened frequently.
"You say."
"Since 3 a.m. last night, we've received several reports of spontaneous human combustion. After a brief investigation, we found that they were either teachers at No. 6 Middle School, or students and parents, all of whom are related to No. 6 Middle School."
The situation at No. 6 Middle School is becoming more and more complicated, but fortunately there is official support.
Jiang Yu readily agreed.
They first returned to the Yide Mansion. Jiang Yu instructed Liu Xu to contact Zeng Zhiqiang and arranged for four people to take talismans and props and split into two groups to find the family members who reported the case according to the list to understand the situation.
He and Yu Shu went to Li Cheng's house to check the situation, because Li Cheng's wife was one of the people who reported the case.
Jiang Yu prepared the necessary items and prepared to go out, but Yu Shu stopped him and said, "You're back anyway, so put on some medicine."
Hearing this, Jiang Yu was stunned. If Yu Shu hadn't told him, he wouldn't have remembered that he had a fungal infection on his fingers and had small bumps that didn't hurt or itch and didn't affect finger movement.
Because he didn't have the habit of closing the door when sleeping, and he also knew that Yu Shu had entered his room last night when he got up to go to the bathroom, checked the condition of his fingers, and gave him some medicine.
Perhaps this is Yu Shu's occupational disease as a doctor. He will be particularly concerned when people around him are unwell. Or maybe Yu Shu is like what people say online. When he reached the age of 30, he found that he is no longer young and he knows how to take care of his body.
Jiang Yu smiled and stretched out his hand naturally: "Here." He was not a squeamish person, but it felt good to know that Yu Shu cared about him and took care of him.
He'd suffered from numerous minor ailments over the years he'd been in the world, but he'd generally been too lazy to take medicine and wait for his illnesses to resolve on their own. He'd only go to the hospital when he couldn't stand a serious illness. While his younger Taoist priests respected him greatly, the employment relationship, combined with the interpersonal relationship between them, created a barrier between them, and they didn't dare to care about his health.
Even the master who picked him up was not as attentive as Yu Shu. When Yu Shu fell down, he said, "Boys, don't be so delicate. Just wipe it with your saliva and it will be fine."
He particularly remembered that he was bitten by mosquitoes in the mountains while chasing rabbits. His master used his fingernails to print the character "米" on the mosquito bites and was too lazy to even pick some herbs to relieve the itching for him.
After being used to a rough life, it was quite novel to suddenly meet a man as careful and gentle as Yu Shu.
"Tsk, you don't have hands?" Yu Shu rolled his eyes.
But he was still honest and mixed sulfur ointment, acyclovir cream, and triamcinolone acetonide acetate econazole cream in proportion, applied it to the infected area and rubbed it for a while until the ointment seeped into the infected area through the gaps between his fingers.
"Don't worry, I will pay you on time even if I'm sick." Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows.
"It's better to come earlier so you don't suffer. And your finger fungus infection won't affect your salary."
Yu Shu still didn't realize that Jiang Yu was joking, and said as he cleaned the ointment off his hands.
Li Cheng's wife was surprised and delighted to see them visiting.
"I was just about to contact you two when you arrived." She respectfully welcomed them into the ward.
They came at the wrong time, as there were other people there, but Jiang Yu recognized the school director in the crowd at a glance.
"Mr. Jiang, what a coincidence you came. I was just about to ask my niece-in-law to contact you to come and see what was going on. And you came just now. It's really timely relief." The school director said tactfully.
The school director calls Li Cheng's wife "niece," meaning they are uncle and nephew. Li Sheng and the director are also uncle and nephew, meaning they are brothers. It's no wonder that Li Minghao openly bullies students on campus, even threatening them to join his bullying efforts. The school leadership has chosen to suppress the incident or settle it privately. This suggests a relationship.
Jiang Yu glanced at the people in the room and forced a cold, almost unbearable smile, not wanting to waste any more time talking to them: "Let me see the situation."
As he said that, he took Yu Shu and rushed into the crowd.
Li Cheng and Li Minghao were lying on two hospital beds, one on the left and one on the right. Their skin was burned over a large area and covered with bandages. The color of their skin was also a different red that did not match the burns.
Jiang Yu saw it, although he didn't know how he made people spontaneously combust, but this was also the work of poison.
Yu Shu thought for a while and said in a deep voice, "I'll go ask someone." Then he ran out.
"Whether they live or die depends on you. Tell me?" Jiang Yu half-lowered his eyes and questioned the school director without any courtesy as he would treat a customer.
The people present did not expect Jiang Yu to dare to speak like this. They were all stunned, but they soon came to their senses and grasped the key point in the words. They all turned to look at the school director.
"Mr. Jiang, there must be some misunderstanding. If it could save my nephew and nephew-grandson, you would have told them everything without asking me." The school director pretended to be panicked, but his face was calm without any disturbance.
"Just pretend I didn't ask. Just a reminder, you don't have much time left."
Jiang Yu was too lazy to talk nonsense. He could talk about it if he wanted to or not. He would just keep it to himself. After all, he wouldn't be the one who got into trouble in the end.
Since the school director refused to tell the hidden truth, Jiang Yu was unable to prescribe the right medicine. He had already seen that the poison was targeting the bully and the school director's relatives.
In addition, a delicate network of relationships was formed between Zhe, the school board members, and the people who released Zhe.
Yu Shu rushed back and said to Jiang Yu, "I asked around, and sure enough, all the people admitted to the hospital due to spontaneous combustion from early morning until now are students from No. 6 Middle School and their parents. While I was asking around, another one was sent in, making it 25 now."
At the same time, Li Cheng and his son woke up. They seemed to have lost their ability to speak and could only make humming and waking sounds instinctively.
Yu Shu saw a strange scene. A gray-white smoke gradually condensed around the bodies of Li Cheng and his son. As the smoke became thicker, blood plasma slowly seeped out of the gauze on their bodies.
Everyone's heart was in their throat, and they quickly asked the two of them to lie down and not move. Only Yu Shu and Jiang Yu could see the smoke.
Jiang Yu was still thinking that since the school director was unwilling to talk, he would take Yu Shu to other wards first.
Before he could say anything, there was a loud bang on the school director's body and flames instantly jumped out.
The flame was abnormal. The blue-green flame completely enveloped the school director, and the dancing flames were like bird wings, flapping continuously.
In just a second or two, the school director's skin had turned red and black, accompanied by a sizzling sound.
Li Cheng's wife had seen it once and reacted quickly. She pressed the call bell and grabbed the boiled water on the bedside table and poured it on the school director.
But the fire not only did not shrink, it burned even more fiercely.
The school director screamed, jumped around, and frantically slapped the flames on his body.
Li Cheng and his son followed closely behind, their bodies embedded in the blue-green flames. The gauze bandages instantly turned black and fell off their bodies.
This nameless and unexplained fire came so suddenly that even Jiang Yu was stunned and almost couldn't react.
He didn't care that he was in the hospital and quickly took out the water-attracting talisman and threw it into the air.
This fire was too strange. The water summoned by the talisman had little effect. It just suppressed the fire a little, but it immediately rebounded and became fierce.
The three firemen who spontaneously combusted rolled over and danced to put out the flames, looking like they were dancing.
There was a commotion inside and outside the ward. The nurse who rushed over blurted out, "Doctor Yu, the patient in the next ward has spontaneously combusted again!"
The fire broke out without warning and could not be extinguished with water, and even patients in other wards who had spontaneously combusted were also burned.
Yu Shu's facial muscles twitched continuously.
He ran out again.
The same was true for the people in other wards. In the white ward, their bodies were embedded in blue-green flames, and the bandages and gauze on their bodies were torn one by one, revealing their freshly burned skin. The air was filled with the sizzling sound of fat being heated at high temperatures.
They looked in agony as they used their hands and feet to put out the fire, leaving the burns on their bodies, which had not yet healed, to be ravaged by the flames again.
The more I look at it, the more it looks like performance art dance.
Yu Shu thought about it and used Jiang Yu's water-summoning talisman to suppress it.
Due to his physical condition, he could use talismans without learning them, but their power was greatly reduced and basically had no effect.
He could only watch helplessly as students and parents from several wards, their bodies ablaze with flames, waving their arms and legs like puppets being manipulated and struggling in pain.
Many medical staff with pots, buckets, and pans rushed into other wards. Yu Shu did not dare to continue using the talisman and ran back to Li Cheng's ward.
He whispered to Jiang Yu: "This fire can't be put out."
"It's resentment." Jiang Yu's eyes were filled with solemnity.
The fire of resentment is one of the Yin fires. It can not only burn the body, but also incinerate the soul. It cannot be extinguished by water or soil. It has a strange color. The more opposite the color is to the original orange-red color of the flame, the stronger the firepower.
Jiang Yu still didn't know where the poison was, so he couldn't use any method he could. All he could do was suppress the fire and minimize the damage.
But talismans are consumables after all. They can last for a while, but they cannot completely extinguish the resentment.
The three of them kept moving around, jumping, slapping their bodies, and rubbing the sheets and curtains. It was like they were improvising a dance using the available elements.
Li Cheng's wife was already crying in anxiety.
The others were also so frightened that they were covered in cold sweats and dared not stay in the ward, fearing that they would be the next to suffer.
Only the school director's wife remained calm, but seeing her husband becoming a fiery man and being powerless to do anything, she clenched her fists and her face turned red.
Spontaneous combustion comes and goes quickly. It was burning fiercely just now, but suddenly it was gone.
She placed all her hopes on Jiang Yu. "More than half a year ago, a young female official named Zhao from the Education Bureau led an inspection. She said the school's laboratory building wasn't well built and needed some renovations. Since then, strange things have been happening more and more."
"What else?" Jiang Yu changed another talisman: "It depends on the situation. It may spontaneously combust later."
"Later, my nephew Minghao fell into a coma for unknown reasons. The doctors were helpless, and she told us there was a folk remedy that could wake him up."
"Later, when the teacher got into trouble, she even kindly offered us PR advice. Although I have no evidence, my woman's intuition tells me that she must be involved."
The school director's wife chattered, looking at Jiang Yu with almost desperate eyes for help.
They guessed who the person from the Education Bureau was. The current solution was to find Zhao Jingyun and find out the whereabouts of the poison from her.
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