Chapter 666 — Cured in an Instant
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"It's nothing..." Wei Zhao could only smile bitterly. Gu Mengyao's waking was only temporary; even now he could almost feel the energy draining from her body, and the speed of it was simply terrifying. It would not be long before she lapsed back into unconsciousness.
"Xiaoyi, why don't you go and look at the other students?" Guan Xuewen said, thinking of the other patients.
"Yes, Xiaoyi, could you help the other students too?" Gu Pengzhan knew that whatever Wei Zhao had done to wake his daughter could not possibly be as easy as it had looked to him. Asking him to save others as well — he did not know whether Wei Zhao would be willing, so Gu Pengzhan phrased it as a request, in a tone of consultation...
The sounds of joy from Gu Mengyao's room drew the attention of the other parents in the ward. When they came out and saw that Gu Mengyao was awake, they rushed into the room in an instant.
"Divine doctor, please save our children, I beg you!"
"Yes, divine doctor, I'll kneel to you — please save our children!"
They had not seen who it was that had woken Gu Mengyao, but it had to be one of the people in that room, so they addressed him directly as divine doctor. After all, the hospital had already issued critical condition notices; when someone could still be saved under such circumstances, what else could he be but a divine doctor?
Wei Zhao glanced at the parents, then at Gu Pengzhan, and in an instant he understood why Gu Pengzhan had asked him to treat the students. If anything were to happen 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 paper, requesting an extra printing of an edition that covered the poisoning incident at the school, and had immediately updated the news on the paper's online edition — a bombshell of a story.
This third-rate tabloid was privately run and hardly famous. The editor-in-chief had been worrying over how to make the paper's name known when suddenly such explosive news landed in his lap. Of course he would not let slip this chance to whip up a sensation!
And so the decision was made on the spot: Canlang would follow the matter, reporting the progress of the investigation simultaneously across online media and the newspapers! Canlang was overjoyed, and a report titled "Unknown Virus Floods First High School — Terrifying Campus or Biochemical Crisis?" instantly went viral online!
It must be said that Canlang was thoroughly devious — his title alone was enough to snare the eye! And the content was written even more fantastically, turning what should have been a news report into a horror story, dissecting the possible causes behind the sudden collapse of twenty-eight students at the school!
Some unknown bacterium had appeared, setting off a new wave of epidemic frenzy...
Others said the school might have been cursed — after the students collapsed, no illness could be found in the hospital, and critical condition notices were issued outright!