Chapter 666 — Cured in an Instant

"Oh! Yaoyao, you're finally awake! Thank goodness, I was worried sick!" Shen Yushu didn't answer Gu Mengyao's question at all. She grabbed Gu Mengyao's hand and cheered joyfully, "Oh! Oh! Arrow-Brand Bro is amazing! I've decided — I'm sticking with you!"

With that, Shen Yushu suddenly threw her arms around Wei Zhao and planted a quick kiss on his cheek.

Wei Zhao was taken aback for a moment, but after a glance at the ecstatic, utterly carried-away Shen Yushu, he didn't think much of it. This was just Shen Yushu's nature — flighty and wild — and neither Gu Pengzhan nor Qing Bo paid it any mind. Their attention was fixed entirely on Gu Mengyao!

"Yaoyao, you're finally awake — thank goodness! How do you feel?" Gu Pengzhan had never expected Wei Zhao to actually wake Gu Mengyao. It was completely beyond anything he had imagined! And what baffled him was that Wei Zhao seemed to have done nothing at all — he had merely taken Gu Mengyao's hand, and after a moment, she had awakened.

Guan Xuemin was just as astonished. What on earth had Wei Zhao done? To make a person on the verge of death suddenly brim with vitality? This was nothing short of a miracle in the history of medicine!

Only Qing Bo wore a thoughtful expression. He had a rough guess as to what Wei Zhao had just done, yet he scarcely dared believe it! But apart from that, there was no other explanation!

In the martial world, there was a practice known as transferring qi — one person channeling their internal power, their true qi, into another through some special method. This most often occurred when one of the two was gravely injured; to save them, the other had no choice but to transfer their own true qi.

Of course, transferring qi had its limits. The one transferring and the one receiving had to cultivate the same technique. If their techniques differed, the true qi within their bodies would naturally differ as well. To rashly transfer qi would not only fail to save the person — the one doing the transferring might suffer a backlash as well!

But how had Wei Zhao managed it? And besides, if Gu Mengyao had been a martial artist, that would be one thing — internal energies, though different, could at least be similar. The crux of the matter was that Gu Mengyao was an ordinary person. How had Wei Zhao transferred qi to her?

Qing Bo was profoundly shaken. Of course, he also understood that such matters might touch upon the secrets of another's sect. Martial artists most abhorred others prying into their school's affairs, so Qing Bo naturally would not voice any questions. Curious as he was, he could only keep it to himself.

"I'm fine, and I feel full of strength all over! How did I end up here?" Gu Mengyao wondered why she seemed to be lying in a hospital. Had her father and Qing Bo come to see her? Wasn't she at school?

"Yaoyao, we were talking at noon, and then you fainted! It scared me to death. I took you to the school infirmary, and it turned out loads of classmates had fainted too..." Shen Yushu said. "Don't you remember?"

"I think I do, a little. I felt so sleepy at the time, like I just fell asleep all at once..." Gu Mengyao thought back to the scene, and it did seem that way.

"Yes, yes! Those doctors even gave you a critical condition notice — the nerve!" Shen Yushu said indignantly. "I thought I'd never see you again, but the moment Arrow-Brand Bro showed up, he cured you just like that! Those quacks — I'm going to give them a piece of my mind later!"

"Heh..." Seeing how much Xiaoshu worried about her, Gu Mengyao felt a warmth in her heart, though she found it odd that the doctors had issued her a critical condition notice. Naturally, she would not think them quacks the way Shen Yushu did — there had to be a reason for what they did! And perhaps Wei Zhao's curing her was not as simple as Xiaoshu made it sound! At that thought, Gu Mengyao cast Wei Zhao a grateful look and said, "Wei Zhao, thank you!"

"It's nothing..." Wei Zhao could only smile bitterly now. Gu Mengyao's waking was only temporary. Even now, he could almost feel the energy draining from her body — at a speed that could only be called terrifying! It would not be long before Gu Mengyao lapsed into unconsciousness again!

"Xiaoyi, why don't you go check on the other students?" Guan Xuemin thought of the other patients.

"Yes, Xiaoyi, could you help the other students as well?" Gu Pengzhan knew that waking his daughter had surely not been as easy as it looked, so asking Wei Zhao to save the others — he did not know whether Wei Zhao would be willing. Thus Gu Pengzhan posed the question only in a tone of consultation...

The sounds of joy from Gu Mengyao's ward drew the attention of the parents in the other wards. When they came out and saw that Gu Mengyao had awakened, they rushed straight into the room.

"Divine doctor, please save our child, I beg you!"

"Yes, divine doctor, I'll kneel to you — please save our child!"

They had not seen who exactly had woken Gu Mengyao, but it had to be one of the people in this ward. So they addressed him directly as divine doctor. After all, the hospital had issued critical condition notices — and to still wake someone under such circumstances, if that wasn't a divine doctor, what was?

Wei Zhao glanced at the parents, then at Gu Pengzhan, and in an instant understood why Gu Pengzhan wanted him to treat those students! If anything happened to them, both Gu Pengzhan's school and his company would be dragged into it!

What neither Wei Zhao nor Gu Pengzhan knew was that after the reporter Can Lang returned, he had filed a report with his newspaper, requesting an extra print run to cover the school poisoning incident, and had immediately updated this explosive news on the paper's online edition!

This third-rate tabloid was privately run and hardly famous. The editor-in-chief had been fretting over how to raise the paper's profile when suddenly such explosive news appeared — of course he would not let slip this chance to stir things up!

So he decided on the spot that Can Lang would follow the story, reporting its progress simultaneously online and in print! Can Lang was overjoyed. An article titled "Unknown Virus Floods No. 1 High School — Terrifying Campus or Biochemical Crisis?" shot to fame online at once!

It had to be said that Can Lang was deeply insidious — his title alone was an eye-catcher! And the content was written even more fantastically, turning a news report into a horror novel, analyzing the possible causes of twenty-eight students suddenly collapsing at the school!

An unknown bacterium had emerged, triggering a new wave of epidemic frenzy...

Others said the school might have been cursed — after these students collapsed, no cause could be found at the hospital, and critical condition notices were issued outright!

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