Chapter 180: Acute Liver Failure

There were three coffins in Juxian Garden, and there were three ghosts in the coffins.

For a very long time, Ning Zhe had thought so.

As a result, Lan Shiwen suddenly called to tell him that the remaining two coffins were empty. Surprised? It was too surprising.

Juxian Garden enshrined three immortals: Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity, and three coffins corresponding to the characters Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity were sealed at the bottom of the pool.

It was known that the white coffin with the "Prosperity" character contained the "Emperor Wenchang of Eternal Prosperity," which was the God of Wealth Wealth Wu Tong. This immortal had been usurped by Ji Bochang forty years ago, and the white coffin was filled with copper coins hidden by this old guy.

Plus Lan Shiwen opening the red coffin with the "Fortune" character and the black coffin with the "Longevity" character, this meant that when he and Lan Shiwen entered Juxian Garden together, the three coffins in the garden were actually all empty.

"If there were no ghosts in the coffins, then when I was in Juxian Garden, who killed me?" This question surfaced in Ning Zhe's mind.

When he entered Juxian Garden with Lan Shiwen, Lan Shiwen had seen the scene of Ning Zhe's death multiple times through his rule of foreseeing the future and gave warnings. At that time, Ning Zhe guessed that it might be the ghost in the red coffin with the "Fortune" character exerting influence on him.

But the mirror had been thrown away by Yu Zi Qian, and even his limbs had lost control. It was impossible for him to crawl up and find the mirror again under the interference of other numerous personalities. Without a mirror, he couldn't trigger the medium of "eye contact" and couldn't apply Thought Steel Seals to this group of people again.

"Either Lan Shiwen lied; he wanted to swallow the ghosts buried in the red and black coffins."

"Or he was acting; there were no ghosts in Juxian Garden from the beginning, and his so-called foreseeing that the future me would die was just some small tricks of playing god and devil."

"Or... there were other people in Juxian Garden at the time."

Or other ghosts.

Lan Shiwen did not reveal the details of his second exploration of Juxian Garden, and Ning Zhe could not continue to infer. In short, regardless of which possibility it was, he had to go to Yundu.

"I have to explain to Chen Yaming that I have to go to Yundu alone and cannot take her with me." Ning Zhe exited the call page and clicked on the voice message sent by Zhang Han-ying.

On the other side of the network, thousands of miles away in Yundu, a pair of worried twin sisters sat on a stainless steel bench in the hospital corridor, nervously staring at the WeChat chat interface on their tablet screen.

"Yunwen, look! Yu Zi Qian replied..."

"Great... he didn't find us annoying."

Not long after the message was sent, a video call window popped up on the tablet screen. The sisters walked to a corner of the corridor where no one was around, and after connecting the video, they finally saw the face they had been longing for.

—Zhang Han-ying and Zhang Yunwen both carried a 13-inch iPad with the largest screen, specifically for making video calls with Yu Zi Qian every day.

So every time Ning Zhe saw girls online saying they were slow to warm up, he felt it was nonsense. In fact, there was no such thing as slow to warm up; slow to warm up was just a euphemism for "don't bother me unless you're rich, tall, and handsome." If they really liked someone, they would rush to throw themselves at them.

"Yu Zi Qian..." Zhang Yunwen's gaze lingered on Ning Zhe's face, then stopped on the red brick wall behind him.

The wall was old and mottled, with clumps of green ferns growing in the brick joints. Looking at the environment, it seemed to be in some unknown rural town.

"Yu Zi Qian, where are you?" Zhang Han-ying couldn't help asking: "Have you finished your business? Yunwen and I think of you every night..."

"Stop, let's talk about business." Ning Zhe interrupted the sentimental feelings drifting across the network and asked directly: "Tell me about the strange situation you encountered during this time." "Okay, okay."

Zhang Han-ying hurriedly wiped away the tears that were about to fall with the back of her hand, spent a few seconds organizing her language, and then said:

"After you entrusted Yin Lishang to us, Yunwen and I first took her to the mall to buy clothes, and then used your money to rent a VIP suite at the Mansha Hotel for a long time. There are two beds in the suite; Yunwen and I sleep in one, and Lishang sleeps in one by herself.

But later she said she was afraid to sleep alone, so Yunwen and I took turns sleeping with her."

Zhang Yunwen had a tacit understanding with her sister and took over the conversation at the right time:

"We originally planned to take her to the hospital for a physical examination after settling down, but just a few days after checking in, a strange thing happened in the hotel..."

"The Mansha Hotel is an independent 7-story building. The 2nd to 4th floors are ordinary suites, while the VIP suites are on the 5th and 6th floors.

In another suite separated from ours by two corridors and an elevator, lived an old man in his 70s. He came to Yundu from another place for medical treatment. He had just finished his postoperative recovery period and was recuperating in this hotel accompanied by his children, planning to go home after his body had fully recovered."

"But on the 3rd night after we checked in, this old man suddenly became critically ill and was sent to emergency care overnight."

"At that time, neither my sister nor I paid much attention to this matter, but because of a series of strange events that happened later, we specifically found someone and asked for the ins and outs of this matter:"

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This old man had a minimally invasive tumor resection surgery at Yundu Hospital. The wound was small, and his postoperative recovery was also very good. He could have gone home, but on the night before checking out, he and his children ate mushroom hot pot at a hot pot restaurant and accidentally ate a kind of poisonous mushroom. The poisoning symptoms didn't break out until they returned to the hotel.

The old man was critically ill due to acute liver failure caused by poisoning, while his children escaped disaster because they didn't like eating mushrooms, so they hurriedly contacted an ambulance."

In order to talk more with the person she longed for, Zhang Yunwen's account of the process was very detailed, trying not to miss any details. Ning Zhe knew her little thoughts and didn't urge her.

Zhang Han-ying took over the conversation and said:

"The ambulance arrived near the hotel very quickly, but because someone parked illegally, blocking the emergency rescue channel, the ambulance was delayed for a long time before arriving downstairs at the hotel. By that time, nearly 2 hours had passed since the old man showed symptoms of poisoning."

The doctor we asked said this: 2 hours had completely missed the golden rescue time for acute liver failure induced by poisoning, and the old man's children didn't induce vomiting in time. By rights, he should have died of poisoning before the ambulance arrived."

"But until the ambulance arrived and the hotel staff scrambled to carry the old man downstairs, this old man, who had been poisoned for more than 2 hours, still had clear vital signs. The doctor on duty at the time thought it was a miracle and even joked that it seemed the King of Hell didn't want to take him."

"However, on the way the ambulance was driving to the hospital, the old man died without warning."

"The nurse who was on duty in the ambulance at the time told me: The old man's vital signs were originally very stable, whether it was his heartbeat or blood pressure, they were abnormally stable, completely not at the level of someone with acute liver failure. If it weren't for being called over by 120 to rescue him, she would even have felt that this old man was a healthy person."

"But just after the ambulance drove away from the hotel and onto the overpass, the old man's originally stable vital signs suddenly disappeared... It wasn't a slow deterioration, nor a sudden turn for the worse, but a direct disappearance."

"He just changed from a 'healthy person' to a 'dead person' without warning."

Zhang Han-ying said, looking sideways at her sister, took a deep breath, and then continued: "Neither of us paid too much attention to this matter, and we didn't say anything when we made video calls with you before, until later, when we took Yin Lishang to the hospital..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 181 =====