Volume 4: Holy Capital Tribulation Chapter 262 The Poisoner
The Inner Guard Palace was still crowded with people, but the experts were gone, replaced by the best medical officers in the Holy City.
"Sir..." Seeing Xu Zun return, Huo Anu immediately stepped forward and asked, "How is it, the Queen Mother is looking for you, is she asking you to thoroughly investigate this case?"
"Where is Zhao Yu?" Xu Zun did not answer Huo Anu's question.
"He..." Huo Anu replied, "He followed Hou Zhen and the others to interrogate Luo Jia! Sir, the facts are obvious. The assassination of Xuanmen is definitely not just an assassination."
"How is Ku Niang?" Xu Zun asked again, "Didn't I ask you to take care of her?"
"Oh, Ani is treating her wounds," Huo Anu pointed to the innermost room, "Ku Niang is seriously injured, not only is the internal and external injuries serious, it seems that she has also been poisoned!"
"Ah?" Xu Zun was very worried and hurried into the house.
But Ani and two other medical officers who were sent over were treating Ku Niang.
"Sir..." Like Huo Anu, Ani asked the Queen Mother for instructions as soon as she saw Xu Zun. Did she want Xu Zun to thoroughly investigate the case?
"Mother..." Xu Zun asked hurriedly, "What happened?"
"Yes, she was indeed poisoned," Ani said, "I know some prescriptions for detoxification, but I don't know if they are effective for Ku Niang? So... let's ask these doctors for a consultation!"
Xu Zun came closer, but saw Ku Niang unconscious on the bed, just like the first time he saw her, motionless, and he didn't even know if she was still breathing.
"Doctor," Xu Zun asked hurriedly, "How is she?"
"Well..." One of the medical officers frowned and said, "Her external injuries are not serious, but her internal injuries, well..."
"Sir," said another medical officer, "the poison that the heroine has been poisoned with is rare in the world, and the two of us are really powerless!
"However, judging from the pulse of this heroine, it seems that... the poison is not fully effective, so ... we really can't say for sure how she is."
"We wanted to prescribe some detoxifying and breathing-regulating medicine for her, but her pulse is different from that of an ordinary person," the doctor from the previous clinic shook his head and said, "We dare not use it recklessly!"
"Yes," Ani nodded, "They are right. I also feel that if Ku Niang is not seriously injured, the poison will not kill her. But now it seems that it is hard to say."
"No way?" Xu Zun was anxious. "After all this talk, it means that whether Ku Niang can get better depends entirely on her luck?"
"This..." The three of them didn't dare to say anything.
“Sir,” Huo Anu advised, “I have heard of the Zhao family’s Jin Yi Dan, which is known as a life-saving pill and is very famous in the martial arts world.
"Besides, Ku Niang is a master of martial arts, so her life won't be in danger. I don't think she needs to take medicine, she will definitely be able to heal on her own."
"Oh..." Xu Zun squatted in front of Ku Niang and gently touched her forehead.
Ku Niang's hair had grown a lot, and it was black and shiny, but unfortunately the burn scar on the top of her head and the scar on her cheek were still noticeable.
If not, Ku Niang should be a pretty girl.
"Ani," Xu Zun warned, "take good care of Ku Niang, don't let anything happen to her!"
"Yes!" Annie agreed quickly.
Everyone knows that if it weren't for Ku Niang's action in the Wanfu Palace Hall, Empress Dowager Lin would have met with a tragic accident long ago.
So indirectly speaking, it was Ku Niang who saved everyone.
At this point, Xu Zun no longer has any doubts about Ani and can assign her tasks with confidence.
"You two," Xu Zun ordered immediately when he saw Huo Anu and Ani had not had time to treat their injuries, "Let the doctors treat them immediately, without delay."
Indeed, in this brutal fight, Huo Anu and Ani were also seriously injured, especially Ani, whose left arm was almost pierced by a sharp sword.
"Don't worry, sir," Ani nodded and said, "Sister Anu and I are fine. We are both injured. We just need to treat each other's wounds."
"Sir," Huo Anu pulled Xu Zun aside and asked again, "You haven't told us how to deal with this heavenly calamity incident!
"What instructions did the Queen Mother give you?"
"You guessed right," Xu Zun nodded and said, "The Queen Mother asked me to thoroughly investigate this case and find out who is behind it!"
"That's true, but..." Ani whispered, "The mastermind behind this seems to be someone who knows something about the palace!"
"Moreover, according to the principle of benefit," Huo Anu lowered his voice, "Why do I feel that the emperor..."
"Shh!" Xu Zun hurriedly stopped him and said, "During this emergency, don't talk nonsense!"
"Sir..." Huo Anu said, "Just now Zhao Yu was still saying that this is a mess that cannot be cleaned up at all, and whoever takes it will be unlucky.
"But he said again," Huo Anu continued, "You must accept it, because the Queen Mother wants to find an outsider to handle this matter.
"If you handle it well, you will be the most powerful official in the country. If you handle it badly, you will be blamed..."
"This guy..." Xu Zun frowned and complained, "Where did he get so many words of suffering from!"
"But..." Huo Anu said worriedly, "This case involves the royal family. We can't even enter the palace. How can we investigate it?"
"I think what Zhao Yu said is right," Ani said with a worried look on her face, "Although the military camp has captured a lot of Xuanmen spies, it is impossible for them to know the inside story. Even for Luo Jia, I'm afraid is not much hope.
"Besides," she looked at Xu Zun and said, "I'm even worried that they will use me as a target. After all, I used to be a member of the Xuanmen, and that female Taoist master was my master..."
"Wait..." Xu Zun suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly held Annie's shoulder and asked, "What did you just say?"
"oh……"
Ani lowered her shoulders in pain, and Xu Zun realized that he had touched the wrong place, and quickly bowed to apologize.
"I said, I'm worried that they will arrest me for questioning, but..." Annie thought of something, "Fortunately, this case is under your investigation, maybe..."
"Not this one," Xu Zun reminded, "It's the one before. Did you just say you caught the spy?"
"Yes," Ani nodded, "I just heard from the internal guards that they caught a lot of poisoners according to the list of Yan Hai, the Minister of Personnel."
"The poisoner..." Xu Zun savored it carefully and seemed to have grasped something.
"Sir," Huo Anu asked, "Do you think something is wrong? Those spies must be small characters hired by Xuanmen. How could they know Xuanmen's high-level secrets?"
"No..." Xu Zun said after thinking, "I'm not talking about these minor characters, Ani," he asked Ani, "Can those drugs that can drive people crazy change their characteristics?
"Like making it into a cake, or some other food?"
“No,” Ani waved her hand and said, “Each of those pills has a dosage, and they can’t be made into something larger.
“But…” She shook her head again and said, “I don’t know if Master has improved it again! But as far as I know, it shouldn’t be possible, otherwise it will affect the efficacy of the medicine.”
"In other words," Xu Zun said, "the madness drug must be delivered to the military camp in the form of pills?"
"That's not necessarily true?" Huo Anu said, "Can't they just hide it among the rice and vegetables? The important thing is that they have planted insiders, and these insiders are all from the military camp, so... Hey? Hey hey hey..."
Before Huo Anu could finish his words, he saw Xu Zun running out in a hurry...
