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Shen Xuan furrowed his brow even tighter. He anxiously glanced at Landlord Zhao and then at the others, who were also showing signs of suspicion. He said, frustrated, "Physician Gu is not that kind of person!"
Landlord Zhao sneered, "How do you know she's not that kind of person? Are you very familiar with her? Or... have you been bribed by her?"
Shen Xuan retorted angrily, "Surnamed Zhao, don't make baseless accusations!"
"You can stay if you want." Gu Jiao said calmly and composedly, "I’ll leave your corpses behind."
The patients' faces changed immediately!
Landlord Zhao pointed at Gu Jiao, "There you go! Your true colors are showing! You're here to kill us!"
Ignoring him, Gu Jiao took the armor from one of the dark guards and calmly walked onto the wooden bridge. She asked the patients behind her, "Does anyone want to stay?"
The six dark guards drew their chilling swords from their waists simultaneously.
The patients shrank back in fear.
People were like that. Given the chance to live longer, no one would choose immediate death.
As Landlord Zhao watched Gu Jiao approaching him with a weapon longer than himself, he suddenly felt a surge of fear. In a split second as Gu Jiao approached, he swiftly darted away!
He hid behind Little Shitou, Shen Xuan.
Gu Jiao never intended to lay a single finger on Landlord Zhao, yet he managed to scare himself like that.
"Take care, Physician Gu." One of the dark guards cupped his hands facing Gu Jiao's back.
Gu Jiao didn't turn around, just casually lifted her right hand.
Under the escort of the dark guards, the group departed.
Due to heavy snowfall, the footprints on the ground quickly disappeared under the accumulating snowflakes.
Gu Jiao sat in the death warrior's hut, resting with closed eyes.
As the sky began to brighten, two soldiers from the remnants of the previous dynasty arrived with food and medicinal soup.
Gu Jiao knocked on the door three times from inside.
The two soldiers left, assured.
Once they were at a distance, Gu Jiao stored away the food and disposed of the medicinal soup.
At noon, the two soldiers returned.
They took away several food boxes and left new ones.
Gu Jiao, as usual, discreetly managed the food and medicinal soup without leaving a trace.
At this point, Gu Jiao could have left. After all, if nothing unexpected happened, the soldiers wouldn't come back until dinner time, by which time the Gu Family Army would have already launched an attack on Lingguan City, and it wouldn't matter whether anything was discovered in the village.
However, out of caution, Gu Jiao stayed until dinner time.
When the soldiers from the previous dynasty came to deliver dinner, she killed them.
Gu Jiao removed her isolation gown, put on her armor, slung her back basket and red-tasseled spear, and followed the secret signals along the way.
Gu Jiao found them in the forest where the Gu Family Army had previously camped.
They were housed in a tent, guarded by the six dark guards.
When they arrived, the Gu Family Army had not yet departed. They witnessed the disciplined troops, the flags of the State of Zhao, and the banners of the Gu Family Army. Their anxious hearts finally settled down.
Thankfully, it really was the Gu Family Army.
The Gu Family Army would not harm innocent civilians or act unjustly.
Landlord Zhao was sitting on a cushion in the tent, he was coughing violently and blood was seeping out of his face mask.
Gu Jiao placed his red-tasseled spear outside, lifted the tent and walked inside.
"Physician Gu!" Shen Xuan stood up, looking at her with surprise. She had removed her isolation gown and was now wearing dark armor, different from the silver armor of the Gu Family Army, but emanating an inexplicably powerful aura.
Merely looking at her made Shen Xuan feel excited.
Gu Jiao nodded at him and then went to Landlord Zhao. She crouched down on one knee to examine him. First, she checked his pulse, then used a stethoscope to listen to his lungs.
After listening, Gu Jiao frowned at him, "Did you really take the medicine?"
Landlord Zhao's eyes flickered!
Shen Xuan quickly noticed his panic and incredulously said, "You didn't take the medicine?"
Landlord Zhao coughed up blood, almost unable to speak due to the coughing fit.
Gu Jiao, wearing gloves, removed his bloodied face mask and placed it in a basket covered with parchment, saying coldly, "Why didn't you take the medicine?"
Landlord Zhao had a high fever and dizzily said, "Who... who knows if what you gave... was... poison?"
Shen Xuan, frustrated, said, "You are overly suspicious! If it were poison, would any of us have shown signs of improvement?"
Landlord Zhao had to come all the way here to truly understand whether they really got better or not. Everyone was locked up in the stockaded village. Shen Xuan said he was feeling better, and the others followed suit.
However, Landlord Zhao thought it might just be psychological. Perhaps they weren't actually recovering.
But just now, he had collapsed multiple times on the way, while the other patients had almost the same stamina as normal people. Even Little Guo, whose improvement wasn't as apparent, managed to keep up with the group.
He realized he had misunderstood Gu Jiao.
That medicine was really a cure for the plague.
Unfortunately, he understood too late.
He... he... he was going to die...
He was gasping for breath...
Landlord Zhao's breath choked, his face quickly turning blue and purple, his body stiffening, and soon, he began convulsing in seizures.
Gu Jiao quickly broke off a piece of wood from the firewood pile and stuffed it into his mouth. Then, she swiftly pressed on his acupuncture points such as the Philtrum Point(below the nose and above the upper lip in the center of the philtrum), Union Valley(situated on the back of the hand, in the webbing between the thumb and index finger), Inner Pass(located on the inner forearm, approximately three finger-widths above the wrist crease, between the tendons) and other acupoints until his body stopped convulsing.
Gu Jiao took his temperature and it was forty degrees Celsius, indicating a high fever.
Given the circumstances, the possibility of physically lowering the temperature was slim. He was unconscious to the point where administering medication was futile.
"Physician Gu, is there any hope for him?" Asked Little Shitou in a low voice.
"I don't know." Gu Jiao replied, furrowing her brow.
This was the truth. The mortality rate of the plague was already extremely high, and with his lack of cooperation in treatment, it seemed they could only leave it to fate.
Gu Jiao administered an injection, starting with an antipyretic injection before switching to an intravenous drip containing streptomycin.
Just as Gu Jiao was about to find something to hang the IV bag, Landlord Zhao suddenly woke up. Feeling the chilling sensation in his arm, he stared and was so startled that he immediately tried to pull it out, "What are you doing to me!"
Gu Jiao was in the middle of hanging the IV bag.
Little Shitou rushed over to restrain him, but it was too late.
A gush of blood burst out, splattering across Gu Jiao's face. It dripped from her goggles onto her face mask.
She caught a whiff of the strong, metallic scent of blood.
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