Poison (Twenty-four)
The hospital has set aside a special area to accommodate patients who have spontaneously combusted.
The police considered that Jiang Yu's methods should not be known to too many people, so they arranged a 24-hour shift. When Jiang Yu came, doctors and nurses were temporarily not allowed to enter.
Lin Wenxue's burns were particularly severe, and her mother stood in front of the bed with tears in her eyes, not knowing what to do.
She heard a knock on the door, looked up and saw Yu Shu, her eyes suddenly turned red, and she rushed to Yu Shu.
She stood on tiptoe at her 5'6" height, grabbed Yu Shu by the collar, and glared at him angrily: "It's all your fault, useless school doctor! It's all your fault! How come you're not the one who's sick?!"
She screamed loudly and unreasonably.
Yu Shu frowned, pushed the woman's hand away, and took two steps back, creating a safe distance. When he was still working at the hospital, he had witnessed several incidents of medical disturbances, where the destructive power of frenzied patient families was extraordinary.
Jiang Yu took advantage of the opportunity and stood in front of the woman like a wall, his warning voice as cold as ice: "This is a hospital, not your home."
"What's it to you? If it weren't for him, would my daughter be lying in this hospital?"
Lin Wenxue's mother persisted, "So many students at No. 6 Middle School have had accidents, and the cause hasn't been found in half a year. Is it not the school doctor's fault, or our parents' fault?!"
Jiang Yu turned around and saw two bloody marks on Yu Shu's collarbone caused by his nails. His eyebrows twitched slightly.
He was too lazy to argue with this woman and called out to the medical staff and police officers on duty outside the ward, "Take the person out."
"Who are you?!" The woman was still unconvinced. As soon as she finished speaking, she was asked to leave by two policemen. She turned around and stared at Jiang Yu fiercely, demanding in a shrill voice, "Why do you do that? I'm her mother!"
Yu Shu looked at Jiang Yu gratefully and said with a smile, "Thank you."
"I want compensation for work-related injuries."
Jiang Yu walked to Lin Wenxue's bedside jokingly.
The girl was wrapped in gauze all over her body, even her eyes were covered, like a mummy.
"If you're injured, it's a civil dispute, not a work-related injury." Yu Shu stood on the other side and carefully checked Lin Wenxue's condition.
Yu Shu could sense the residual heat of the bandage; it must have been changed just minutes before they came in. No wonder Lin Wenxue's mother was screaming and shouting, disregarding her image. Seeing her daughter burn several times, how could she not collapse?
The essential requirement for a doctor is to treat patients within their ability. It was precisely because of the family's misconception that doctors must save patients that he lost his job. Now, standing here in a different capacity, he has experienced another incident of extreme behavior from a patient's family.
He could empathize, but he couldn't understand.
"The essence is that they are all hurt." Jiang Yu reminded in a joking tone, but Yu Shu couldn't understand his true meaning.
His half-closed eyes were fixed on Shu's face.
Yu Shu noticed the change in Jiang Yu's eyes. He didn't know what was wrong with Jiang Yu, but it would be better to go down the stairs immediately.
"I have a feeling that before long, Lin Wenxue will catch fire again." Yu Shu changed the subject and took the initiative in speaking.
Yu Shu continued, "Her condition is much worse than the previous person. Her smell is also different. It's more bloody and has a slight rotten smell."
"The dog is different."
As he spoke, Jiang Yu squatted down and pasted talismans on the four corners of the wall. If a fire started again, the talismans would be effective. It wouldn't prevent spontaneous combustion, but it would greatly reduce the intensity of the fire and minimize the damage to the human body.
Afterwards, he placed water-attracting talismans in the three directions of Zhen Wood, Xun Wind and Li Fire in the ward.
Although resentful fire differed from ordinary flames, it still adhered to the basic principle that wood and wind would intensify the fire, and the fire direction, as the fundamental direction, must further weaken its influence. This double insurance policy could minimize the chances of Lin Wenxue's life being in danger.
"Being a doctor makes me more sensitive to smells."
Jiang Yu smiled and didn't respond.
Sure enough, within just two sentences, Lin Wenxue's whole body was on fire. The fire instantly ignited the mattress, and the pungent smell filled the ward.
The fire was so fierce that one could hear a continuous grilling sound coming from Lin Wenxue's body, as well as a distinct smell of burning.
Lin Wenxue kept rolling and wailing, her hoarse voice sounding like a duck with phlegm stuck in its throat.
She could only howl, not daring to move her body at will. Even if she moved half an inch of her skin, the tearing sensation of blood spurting out of her flesh would be so piercing that she could hardly breathe.
Jiang Yu took out another water-summoning spell, but it had little effect.
Yu Shu's eyes widened: "Why are your talismans and formations ineffective?"
Jiang Yu also thought that the talisman had lost its effect, but when he looked down, he saw the cinnabar writing glowing and exerting a suppressing effect.
“It’s working.”
Yu Shu lowered his eyelids. The talisman was indeed taking effect. Looking at the flames on the man's body, he was stunned.
Even with the double weakening, the fire was still so intense. Without the two buffers, the entire bed would have been engulfed in flames, with tongues of flame reaching the ceiling, leaving a puddle of black smoke. "The situation has worsened. Go to the other wards to see what's happening."
"Okay." Yu Shu responded, opened the door and rushed out.
There was no fire in the other wards, and the burns on their bodies were not of the same level as Lin Wenxue's. Yu Shu could not smell any rotten or burning smell, nor did he feel any residual heat.
This is enough to prove that the last spontaneous combustion was greatly reduced due to the double protection set up by Jiang Yu.
In order to verify his guess, Yu Shu went to find the medical staff in charge of this ward and asked them about their situation today.
"The situation today is much better. Although it still spontaneously combusts from time to time, the fire is much smaller and the gauze is not seriously burned."
"But the girl who was brought in not long ago was different. When she was pushed into the ward, she suddenly caught fire and it spread to me. Look." The nurse stretched out her thumb, and the vertical lines left by the fire were clearly visible.
"But even on the first day of hospitalization, it was different from the previous ones. The fire was so intense that it was burning to death."
The two nurses spoke one by one.
Yu Shu had already found the answer. After thanking her, he ran back to Lin Wenxue's ward.
The fire had stopped, but the pungent smell of burning was trapped in the ward, and I couldn't get out even if I opened the doors and windows.
Lin Wenxue was barely breathing, and the youthful girl had completely disappeared, leaving only the outline of a human figure.
The medical staff removed the gauze that had almost been burned from her body, revealing bloody and sticky flesh, which was like a mixture of solid and liquid, stuck to the mattress and stained with blood, creating a large area.
It's just horrible.
The smell of medicine and burnt odor mixed together, it was very unpleasant. The two of them went out and sat on the iron chairs in the corridor.
"How about it."
"Only Lin Wenxue's situation is different."
Jiang Yu raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead: "It's malicious targeting."
The poison maliciously targeted Lin Wenxue. Could it be that he was trying to retaliate against her?
Yu Shu wanted to ask Jiang Yu why he said it was malicious targeting, but his attention was drawn to Jiang Yu's fingers.
The lighting in the ward was very good. He sat next to Jiang Yu and could see the eyelashes of the person next to him by moving his eyes slightly. Therefore, he could also clearly see that there were a few more transparent bumps on Jiang Yu's fingers.
I've been applying the medicine for a few days, but the condition hasn't improved and it's even gotten worse.
"Your fingers shouldn't be like this. They grew a few more after I was away for a while." Yu Shu frowned.
Jiang Yu was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that Yu Shu not only had a good memory but also had such good eyesight that he could even see the new transparent blisters the size of sesame seeds.
He never told Yu Shu that, in addition to his fingers, his feet were also the longest and the longest.
He had a vague feeling it wasn't a common bacterial infection, but more of a warning. The first time it appeared was the night he summoned the spirits of stray cats and dogs, and it would continue to grow every time he drew a talisman or cast a spell.
Unusual diseases require unusual methods to treat, so he tried boiling water with talismans and mixing it with ashes to drink. It had some effect and could quickly eliminate the bumps, but it didn't last long and they would grow back again after a good night's sleep.
Fortunately, this small lump does not affect his life and work at all, and he has no other symptoms.
"This fire is poisonous." Jiang Yu made up an excuse.
Yu Shu grabbed Jiang Yu's hand, frowned between his brows, and after looking at it for a long time without finding anything unusual, he simply applied disinfectant alcohol and rubbed it on his hand.
"Does it hurt? Do you feel any soreness or a foreign body sensation? Does it itch?"
"You can also treat skin diseases in clinical internal medicine?" Jiang Yu's voice rose slightly at the end.
Yu Shu glared at him and said, "Don't interrupt me. Answer seriously."
Jiang Yu seemed to see through the tone between an order and a suggestion that Yu Shu, wearing a white coat and a stethoscope, was treating a patient with a serious expression on his face.
Jiang Yu blinked slowly, and his eyes, which were always covered with a layer of mist and without any emotion, suddenly showed a bit of gentleness.
He shook his head and said, "None."
Yu Shu fixed his doubtful eyes on Jiang Yu's face: "Don't be so stubborn and refuse to tell the truth. It would be better if there really is no truth."
"If you lie to me, I'll have to pay to re-register."
Jiang Yu evaded the question without changing his expression.
Asking Yu Shu to help with the small bumps would be like using a cannon to kill a mosquito. Furthermore, the stuff wasn't clean. If Yu Shu got involved, his pure Yin constitution would become a breeding ground for it, potentially causing unwanted symptoms.
"How strange." Yu Shu muttered in a low voice.
Jiang Yu didn't respond.
Yu Shu did not ask any further questions. He had never felt that the hospital was so lacking in warmth before. Now, just by sitting there, he could feel the spiritual chill brought by the white walls that were reflective, and the smell of disinfectant hidden in the air, which penetrated into his lungs with a single breath and rushed through his body.
The police officer rushed over, interrupting the brief silence, his chest heaving as he gasped, "Something happened."
"Say it all in one breath." Jiang Yu slowly raised his eyes, his brows frozen into a glacier.
"The school director's body disappeared from the morgue." The police officer was so surprised that he couldn't speak clearly.
The school director’s family refused to claim the body, and it was kept in the morgue for several days. Now, they suddenly say the body has disappeared for no reason.
There are so many messy things.
Jiang Yu nodded impatiently, signaling the police officer to finish his words in one breath and not to rush him to finish.
"An hour ago, she was still there. Just now, the hospital staff pushed a new body into the morgue and saw the cabinet was open. The person was gone."
"We were called down and watched the scene and the surveillance video. The body had gotten up on its own, wrapped in a white sheet, and walked out..."
The police officer turned pale.
The situation became increasingly complicated. Yu Shu and Jiang Yu exchanged a glance and stood up in tacit understanding.
"Find more surveillance cameras to check the traces. You lead the way." Jiang Yu took two steps and didn't hear any footsteps behind him. He turned back and gave the order in a cold voice.
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Shu's cell phone rang. It was Zeng Zhiqiang calling.
"The principal of No. 6 Middle School has jumped off the building again."
Okay, no need to look for it anymore, let’s just go directly to the crime scene.
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