Rebirth: My Healer Wife Owns Superpowers

Chapter 144: Chapter 144: Catching them All in One Go

As soon as Qi Yue finished speaking, the old woman Zhang collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Then, the soldiers nearest to her began to sway and fall to the ground as well.

“You can’t kill me!”

Qing Nanzun let out a wild laugh, and his body suddenly shot up into the air towards a nearby flowering tree and in an instant, he had leaped onto the roof.

So fast!

Qi Yue had never seen anyone jump so quickly.

She immediately took out that Donggao person’s knife from her bosom and flung it at Qing Nanzun’s back.

“Pfft…”

The knife indeed stuck into his back, but his figure only slightly paused before he sprung away with the knife still in him.

Gao Diao Pang Shou was about to give chase, but Qi Yue stopped him.

“This person is too tricky, we can only look for another opportunity to capture him.”

A faint fishy odor lingered in the air, the result of Qing Nanzun’s blood evaporating.

Qi Yue quickly sampled the bloodstains and handed them to a medical assistant for analysis, swiftly obtaining results.

The blood of Qing Nanzun contained an unidentified hallucinogen that could cause dizziness and deep coma.

Zhang the old woman and the others had fallen into a coma because they inhaled too much of it.

This didn’t trouble Qi Yue, she took out silver needles and jabbed a few into the incapacitated, quickly reviving them.

What was supposed to be a foolproof “luring the tiger away from the mountain” maneuver instead allowed Qing Nanzun to poison and escape.

Zhang the old woman, awakened and filled with shame, finally told the whole story.

“His name is Qing Nanzun.”

It turned out that Zhang was a Donggao person, and the wet nurse of the most famous wealthy Donggao resident, Qin Wushang.

This Qin Wushang was a rare business genius who, at the age of six, earned ten thousand silver taels in one go by bartering goods.

After that, he became unstoppable and within just ten years, he became Donggao’s youngest and most promising business magnate.

Even the military expenses for the Donggao Emperor’s campaign had to be solicited as donations from him.

At the age of eighteen, Qin Wushang became acquainted with the ten-year senior Qing Nanzun.

Back then, Qing Nanzun was a wandering doctor who, thanks to his gift of the gab, had some notoriety.

Qing Nanzun had deliberately gotten close with ill intentions, and the young Qin Wushang had fallen into his trap.

Qin Wushang not only called Qing Nanzun a brother but also let him live in the Qin Family compound year-round.

Eventually, one day, Qing Nanzun falsely accused Qin Wushang of crafting a Dragon Robe harboring rebellious intent, previously planting the robe and other related objects in the Qin household.

With both eyewitness testimony and physical evidence, and given the Imperial Court’s covetous gaze upon the Qin Family’s immense wealth, the Qin Family was obliterated overnight.

Two hundred and thirty-eight members of the Qin family were thrown into prison and subsequently tortured to death.

Zhang saved her life only because Qin Wushang exchanged his last bit of silver for it.

After that, Zhang moved to Longnan County Government to make a living as a servant.

Once, while accompanying her masters to the black market, she stumbled upon Qing Nanzun and learned that he had become an official and the favorite in the eyes of the Fox King, all by virtue of his reporting of the incident.

Seeing him again ignited the flames of revenge in Zhang, so she began to look for someone to aid her.

Eventually, she found Qi Yue.

“Seeing that the young miss has exquisite medical skills, a kind heart, and is the adoptive daughter of the Prefectural Governor, I thought that if I serve faithfully by her side, there would surely be an opportunity to ask the young miss for this favor. It’s just that I never imagined…”

Thinking of how Qing Nanzun escaped because of her, Zhang once more collapsed into tears.

What else could Qi Yue say in such a situation?

It wasn’t really Zhang’s fault!

Who could have expected Qing Nanzun to possess such excellent qinggong, or that even his blood was a weapon seemingly impossible to kill!

“All right, Mama Zhang, he managed to escape this time but won’t be able to the next. One day we will catch him.”

What she needed to consider now was how to prepare for Qing Nanzun’s next attack.

After tonight’s ordeal, as long as Qing Nanzun wasn’t a fool, he would definitely remember the person who competed with him for the “Qimen Secret Arts” at the black market was her.

For the sake of that book, he would surely come back.

Fortunately, today she had rounded up all his confederates, so if he wanted to make a comeback, he would need time to prepare.

Meanwhile, Chu Yuntian was also feeling a bit regretful.

“If it weren’t for my adoptive father’s sudden arrival, Qing Nanzun might not have escaped; it’s all my fault.”

Actually, this statement could make sense.

If Chu Yuntian hadn’t come, she was planning to feed all these people her newly developed poison pill.

It was ten times more powerful than the one she had given to Qian Faliang.

What a pity, she didn’t get to see its effects.

But these thoughts Qi Yue could only keep to herself; she mustn’t utter them aloud.

After a lot of talking, she finally managed to console Chu Yuntian.

Now that the Prefectural Office was involved, the captured suspects had to be taken away by them for interrogation since they were accomplices in the poisoning case.

Everything calmed down, and it was already daylight.

Qi Yue, looking at the rosy dawn light, felt that something about her had changed.

After pondering for a while, she figured it out.

Now she was not only more tempered but also more patient.

If last night’s events had happened in the past, she would probably have rushed in with a knife already drawn.

A flurry of punches and kicks, whether Qing Nanzun would have died or not she didn’t know, but she might also have been knocked out without any warning.

If that had happened, she would have to figure out how to deal with it; to avoid being captured, she would need to disappear into thin air.

Then she would have been completely exposed in front of everyone.

At the thought, she couldn’t help but feel a tingling on her scalp.

She had to hurry up and make the pills that would neutralize Qing Nanzun.

She didn’t rest that day, and in the morning, she saw patients as usual; at noon, after telling Zhang Popo, she went into her room.

The meal was boiled dumplings eaten in her private space.

The dumplings, which she bought from the market, were large, thin-skinned, and generously filled, dipped in oily chili sauce, she could eat half a pound.

After finishing the dumplings, she took a bottle of strawberry yogurt with fruit pulp from the fridge before walking into the study.

The little assistant had already conducted a comprehensive analysis and testing of Qing Nanzun’s blood, with the composition detailed down to four decimal places.

But this poison wasn’t the kind that killed instantly; it induced sleep, so the approach to creating an antidote was much different.

As she was contemplating where to start, the little assistant suddenly interrupted her thoughts.

“Master, I have an idea.”

“Oh, you, a robot, can think?” Qi Yue looked at the little assistant skeptically.

The little assistant’s eyes moved twice.

“To be exact, it’s not thinking, but a conclusion based on the synthesis of multidisciplinary knowledge and past experiences.”

“That makes more sense,” Qi Yue nodded, “Tell me, what is your conclusion regarding this blood, or more precisely, the poison?”

“Master, to counteract this poison, there are three methods: one, to prevent absorption; two, to fight poison with poison; and three, to be immune to all poisons. Based on these three points, I have designed thirty-two proposals for the master to choose from,” the assistant said.

As it spoke, the little assistant connected to the printer and started printing.

Looking at the stack of documents before her, Qi Yue couldn’t help but twitch the corner of her mouth.

Truly worthy of a machine; efficiency is high.

If she were to type it, it would take a full day to produce so much.

There you have it; although the plan for the pharmaceutical factory was in place, the analysis and confirmation of the formula hadn’t even started yet!

After quickly reviewing the documents, she felt the little assistant’s proposals were constructive and could serve as a reference.

Suddenly, she had an inspiration!

Since the little assistant was so capable, why not entrust it with this time-consuming and laborious task?Nôv(el)B\\jnn

After discussing it with the little assistant, it immediately started analyzing the case, and said results would soon be available.

“There’s no need to rush; more cases will need to be added later, take your time,” she said.

Having given the little assistant its task, Qi Yue began to review the data in front of her, marking places she thought could be useful.

After going through the documents, she had a rough idea of what the detoxification pills should look like.

Just as she was about to start making them, she suddenly heard White Rhino calling out.

“Moo… Moo, moo…”

The sounds were urgent and pained.