護花近衛 - 第662章 千古奇毒 - 清風書屋

"Professor Guan, you've come!" Dr. Sun, who was handling this emergency, had also been one of Guan Xuewen's students back in the day. Upon seeing Guan Xuewen, he hurried over at once. "Are you going to examine the patients yourself?"

"Yes, let me take a look." Guan Xuewen nodded. "Take me there."

"This..." Dr. Sun hesitated for a moment. If this turned out to be an acute infectious disease, it would be extremely dangerous for Guan Xuewen to go in right now. But he knew Guan Xuewen's character well enough - the man did not care a whit for life or death. So after only a brief hesitation, he led Guan Xuewen toward the isolation ward.

Among the parents of the affected students, someone recognized Guan Xuewen and let out a shout: "Dr. Guan is here! My child is saved!"

"What? Dr. Guan? Which Dr. Guan?"

"Dr. Guan Xuewen, of course!"

"Doctor Guan Pharmaceuticals has been all over the news lately! I heard they have two miracle drugs about to hit the market!"

The moment the parents heard it was Guan Xuewen, they burst into joyous excitement. His reputation preceded him - he was spoken of as a miracle-working physician. If he was here to examine the children, then surely there was hope for their offspring!

So the parents surged forward, all reaching out to grab hold of Guan Xuewen: "Dr. Guan, please see my child quickly..."

"Look at my child first, I beg you!"

"Please look at my child! My family has only one heir across three generations..."

"Please, see my child, I beg you, I'm kneeling before you! She's my only daughter. Her mother died in childbirth bringing her into this world - I cannot lose her too, not her..."

Chaos erupted among the parents once again, every one of them desperate to have Guan Xuewen treat their child first.

Gu Pengzhan watched all this clearly from inside the isolation ward, but he had no intention of joining the fray. Worried as he was about Gu Mengyao's safety, the other parents were no less worried about their own children. As the school's chairman, how could he be the one to push his way to the front?

Besides, once the cause of the condition was identified, treatment would follow easily enough!

Dr. Sun was getting a headache from all these parents, but he said firmly: "Everyone, please quiet down! Carrying on like this will only waste precious time. Let Professor Guan choose which isolation ward to examine first! Once we identify the cause of this condition, we can treat all of them!"

Dr. Sun's words struck a chord. In an instant, every parent fell silent, waiting for Guan Xuewen to make his choice.

Yet Guan Xuewen did not so much as glance at the parents' pleading eyes. He simply walked into the nearest isolation ward at random. Two of the parents immediately broke into wild elation - clearly the parents of the child in that very ward.

Guan Xuewen ignored them entirely. He went to the bedside of the unconscious student and within moments was fully absorbed in his examination...

Ten minutes later, Guan Xuewen gave a slight shake of his head. The patient's pulse was exceedingly weak - meaning that every physiological function in the body was failing. The signs of life had grown faint. If this continued, the patient would be dead by tomorrow at the latest.

Yet Guan Xuewen could do nothing. This kind of wasting was reminiscent of an old man whose oil had run dry and whose lamp had gone out - as if a lifetime had been spent in an instant, and the patient was hurtling toward death's doorstep! Theoretically, it was beyond cure.

But the patient was only a teenager, not some ancient on the brink of the grave. The fact that this was happening to someone so young was deeply bizarre! Moments ago the child had been perfectly fine, and then suddenly this - if it wasn't poisoning, what else could it be?

This conviction took even deeper root in Guan Xuewen's mind. As for bacterial infection, he did not put much stock in it - it remained merely a theoretical possibility.