Chapter 2953 — All at Their Wit's End
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"All right, enough grumbling. Yaoyao, call Grandpa Guan and Teacher Bai. Xiaoshu, call Wu Chengtian, Pi Zhifeng, and Han Xiaohu and tell them to come over and guard the villa for the time being." As for the Hidden Zhuang Family, Wei Zhao did not notify them, because his relationship with them rested solely on coercion and intimidation. Wei Zhao could not guarantee that the Hidden Zhuang Family, upon hearing he had been crippled, would not start harboring new designs. This was another lesson the Zhao family affair had taught him: he would now keep a guard up even against those who seemed reliable.
"Got it!" Complaints aside, Gu Mengyao was the first to dial Guan Xuewen's number, though she said little over the phone—only that Wei Zhao needed him and that he should hurry to the villa in Donghai City at once.
Guan Xuewen was puzzled as to why Wei Zhao would suddenly summon him so urgently, but he had in fact been wanting to visit Donghai City to see Guan Xin, so he agreed on the spot and began preparing to set out.
It was even simpler with Leader Bai. Hearing that Wei Zhao wanted him, Leader Bai rushed over from the school at once. The school was close by, so before long Leader Bai appeared at Wei Zhao's villa.
Seeing that it was Gu Mengyao who opened the door, Leader Bai was somewhat surprised. It had already struck him as odd that Gu Mengyao had been the one to call him; now that she was the one answering the door as well, his puzzlement only deepened.
Normally, when Wei Zhao wanted him, Wei Zhao called himself. Gu Mengyao might be one of the people closest to Wei Zhao, but there was something decidedly strange about all this. Leader Bai could not help asking, "Gu Mengyao, isn't it Wei Zhao who wanted to see me? Where is he?"
"Teacher Bai, there were some things I couldn't say over the phone..." Gu Mengyao's face was rather pale. "Something has happened to Wei Zhao. He's in his room. You'll understand when you see him..."
"What! Something's happened to Wei Zhao?" Leader Bai was startled and hurried inside, forgetting even to change his shoes—though Gu Mengyao did not remind him, for she had no mind left for such things.
Pushing open the door to Wei Zhao's room, Leader Bai saw Wei Zhao lying in bed, his limbs covered in blood and grime, and could not help being shocked. "Wei Zhao, what happened to you? Why haven't you healed yourself?"
Leader Bai knew full well what Wei Zhao was capable of. By all rights, an injury this severe should have been treated long ago—so why was he still in this state? Quite some time had passed between the phone call and his own arrival; Wei Zhao should have repaired his injuries by now!
"Teacher Bai, it's a long story!" Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. He held nothing back and recounted in detail what had befallen him that day, especially the matter of the poison, on which he was particularly thorough.
"So that's how it is..." After hearing him out, Leader Bai's brows knit tightly and he sank into thought...
"Teacher Bai, you're a man of wide experience. Is there truly no antidote to this rare poison of the ages?" Wei Zhao was unwilling to accept it. If an antidote could be found, everything would be simple—after all, the poison's effect was to suppress the mnemonic of his mental cultivation method. Once poisoned, he could not circulate it.
Though Wei Zhao's meridians and dantian were both damaged, so long as he could circulate the mnemonic, he could use the Thunder Pig or General Mighty to automatically guide the circulation of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art and repair his meridians and dantian.
But if he could not circulate the mnemonic, all of that was empty talk.