The Crazy Son-In-Law

After a day of endless discussion, both sides failed to reach a conclusion. The park staff, responsible for coordinating with the hospital, seemed to have no power to make decisions. The majority of the park’s shares were held by the government, and going through the bureaucracy would inevitably take time.

Xiao Shun lost interest in the meeting and left the conference room to visit the injured staff members in the hospital. As he reached the second floor, he heard a heart-wrenching cry. He followed the sound.

In one of the hospital rooms, an elderly woman, above the age of fifty, was kneeling on the ground, repeatedly kowtowing to several doctors.

“My son is not dead, I beg you to save him!” she cried. “He’s only twenty-three, his wife just got pregnant. He can’t just leave us like this. Please, I beg you, check him again. My son won’t die.”

The old lady was crying and shouting, her tears flowing freely. A thin-faced middle-aged doctor stepped forward to help her up, but the old woman seemed to have lost her strength in grief and couldn’t stand up.

“Get up, our son is a hero, don’t cause trouble for others,” said an old man with a dark face next to the old woman. With his help, they barely managed to get the old woman up.

“I don’t want my son to be a hero, I want him to live…” the old woman said through her tears, wiping them away with her rough, dry hands.

“Why did you send my son to save people? How am I supposed to explain this to my daughter-in-law? She’s carrying his child…”

The doctors looked guilty and couldn’t find the words to respond. Even as seasoned medical professionals accustomed to life and death, they were moved by the scene.

“Madam, we really did our best,” the thin-faced doctor sighed, expressing his regret. “I’m truly sorry.”

The old woman didn’t respond to him, but instead, with trembling hands, she lifted the white cloth that covered her son’s body.

A young and resolute face appeared, eyes closed peacefully, skin a purplish color. Seeing her son’s face, the old woman threw herself on him and broke down in sobs again.

Shaking his head helplessly, the thin-faced doctor turned and walked towards the door. He looked up to see Xiao Shun, who was staring intently at the young man on the bed.

“Who are you?” the doctor asked, thinking he was another relative.

“What happened to him?” Xiao Shun asked.

“He was a firefighter. He went into a cave to save people and ended up like this,” the thin-faced doctor said with regret.

Remembering that Xiao Shun hadn’t answered his question, the doctor gave him a stern look. “If you’re not family, you shouldn’t be here. Please leave.”

Xiao Shun had been curious about the incident from the start. Seeing the condition of the firefighter who had been inside the cave looking like he had been poisoned, his curiosity was piqued.

Ignoring the doctor’s dismissal, he walked in, quickly moved to the bedside and examined the young man closely. He could detect a very faint and barely noticeable sign of life in the young man.

Without a word, Xiao Shun took out his needle box, planning to give it a try. There might still be a small chance.

“What are you doing?!” the thin-faced doctor turned back and scolded.

“He might not be dead,” Xiao Shun replied without looking up, “Let me try.”

The old woman stopped crying and looked at Xiao Shun, then exchanged a glance with her husband.

“Is it true what you said?” The old woman wiped her tears, a glimmer of hope shining in her cloudy eyes, as if grasping at the last straw.

“Are you saying that after twenty years in medicine, I can’t tell whether a patient is alive or dead?” The thin-faced doctor was visibly annoyed.

As a seasoned doctor, if he made a mistake about a patient’s life or death, his career would be over. He wouldn’t let that happen.

“You should know that he died of poisoning,” Xiao Shun said calmly, looking at him.

“But you probably don’t know what kind of poison it was. Could it be a neurotoxin that causes a state of ‘apparent death’?”

“Do you know what poison he was affected by?” the doctor challenged.

He indeed didn’t know what poison had killed the patient, but he didn’t think this young man in front of him did either.

Experts from the provincial capital had come in the morning and were equally at a loss. They took blood samples for research, but to date, there was still no news. Unfortunately, the patient couldn’t wait for the results. Sometimes, human life seemed so fragile and cheap.

“I don’t know either, but I can tryto draw out the toxins from his body,” Xiao Shun said. He then turned to the old woman and her husband, seeking their consent, “Given his current condition, why not let me try? What if it works?”This content © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

The old woman and her husband exchanged another glance, then both fell to their knees. “If you can save my son, I… I am willing to do anything for you.”

There was nothing else she could promise. This was the only thing she could think of.

Xiao Shun helped her up and looked at the thin-faced doctor, “If I do manage to save him, it won’t be your fault for misjudging. After all, no one knows this poison, and his current condition does indeed look like death. It’s not your fault.”

Xiao Shun knew his concerns. His words were meant to reassure not only the doctor, but also the old woman, her husband, and the surrounding medical staff.

Whenever possible, Xiao Shun preferred to persuade others with reason. The thin-faced doctor hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

“Here, help me sterilize this,” Xiao Shun handed the silver needle to a nearby nurse.

The nurse took the needle to sterilize it. Xiao Shun lifted the young man’s eyelid and examined it. From a standard medical evaluation, the young man was indeed already dead.

Xiao Shun wasn’t sure if he could save him, but he could try his best to draw out the toxins from his body. Whether the man could live or not was up to fate.

“Help me turn him over,” Xiao Shun said to the other medical staff.

Despite their doubts about the young man’s chances, they helped turn the young man over. Since he was already shirtless for the sake of treatment, they saved the step of removing his clothes.

The nurse handed the sterilized silver needle back to Xiao Shun.

Receiving the needle, Xiao Shun flicked his wrist and quickly inserted the needle into several points on the young man’s back.

The toxins in his body had likely spread throughout his entire system. It would be a challenge to draw them out without using the full force of the “Ghost Door Thirteen” technique.

Xiao Shun twisted the tail of the needle carefully, transferring his spiritual energy into the young man’s body. As a result, the needle went deeper.

When all thirteen needles were almost completely inserted into his body, everyone in the room faintly heard the echoing sound of a dragon’s roar, which disappeared as quickly as it came.