"Master Wei, what's wrong with you?"
Just as Imperial Physician Zhang was explaining, a sudden cry rang out from the contestant seats beside the arena.
Wei Chengyang was seen spitting out a mouthful of blood and suddenly collapsing to the ground. Two people grabbed his arms and helped him up. His face was purple, and he had fallen into a coma.
"Chengyang!"
At the sight of this, Grand Tutor Wei let out a loud cry and suddenly stood up. Disregarding etiquette, he staggered towards his son, followed by Lady Wei, whose face had turned pale.
Imperial Physician Zhang was only stunned for a moment before he quickly walked up to Wei Chengyang. After a quick check on his body, he placed his fingers on the young man's wrist. After a moment, he said with a solemn face,
"Master Wei has an injury on his arm and has been poisoned by the Disorienting Incense. He has now fallen into a coma. If there is no antidote within seven hours, he will surely die!"
As soon as Imperial Physician Zhang's words fell, the entire audience was in an uproar. In particular, the contestants began to check their own wounds one after another.
Lady Wei let out a sorrowful cry and fainted.
Grand Tutor Wei didn't even have time to attend to his wife. His face instantly turned as wilted as an eggplant beaten by frost. He tightly hugged his only son's shoulders with both hands. His eyes were bloodshot, and his face was full of pleading as he looked at Imperial Physician Zhang and said,
"Imperial Physician Zhang, you are highly skilled in medicine. You must be able to save my son, right?!"
Facing Grand Tutor Wei's hopeful gaze, Imperial Physician Zhang shook his head very reluctantly, causing Grand Tutor Wei's heart to sink to the bottom in an instant!
Since Wei Chengyang was the first to take the stage, the toxin had already spread in his body. It was too late to detoxify him using ordinary methods.
"No! You must have a way!"
Grand Tutor Wei, as if he had been sentenced to death, placed his son on a chair and then crawled on his knees in front of Imperial Physician Zhang. Imperial Physician Zhang looked very embarrassed and just hurriedly told his colleagues from the Imperial Hospital to quickly prepare first - aid strategies.
"Your Majesty! You must save my son!"
Seeing that even Imperial Physician Zhang was at a loss, Grand Tutor Wei shed old tears and couldn't help but kowtow heavily towards the Emperor.
Although he almost believed that it was Ke Keqin who had poisoned his son, there were many involved in this matter. His remaining rationality didn't dare to speak too clearly.
He just hoped that by putting pressure on Ke Keqin through the Emperor, the other party would take out the antidote and save his son!
Watching the situation below, the Emperor fell silent for a moment. His eyes were fixed on the Third Prince, Yuan Zhen, who was naturally in a hurry to clarify.
He kept arguing that he had never poisoned anyone, so there was no antidote on him!
During this back - and - forth, two more contestants were poisoned and fell into a coma one after another. Their families wailed continuously and knelt in front of the Emperor together with Grand Tutor Wei.
Some people were even less rational than Grand Tutor Wei and had already started to accuse Ke Keqin of having the intention to rebel and deliberately provoke the royal family with this incident!
Looking at the chaos in front of her, Yun Xi felt confused. She vaguely guessed that this matter must be related to Qi Rong.
But when she looked up at Qi Rong, she saw that his brows were deeply furrowed and he had been staring in the direction of Wei Chengyang. There seemed to be a flicker of anger in his deep eyes.
"Go and check on him."
Yun Xi placed her hand on the back of Qi Rong's hand and gently comforted him.
Qi Rong unconsciously tightened his hand that was holding Yun Xi's and then let go. He strode towards Wei Chengyang.
Without the Emperor's order, Imperial Physician Zhang didn't dare to take the poisoned people away casually. He could only order his colleagues to quickly go to the Imperial Hospital to fetch some antidotes and quickly apply acupuncture to the poisoned people to delay the spread of the toxin.
Imperial Physician Zhang was just applying acupuncture to Wei Chengyang when he suddenly saw Qi Rong walking over. Then Qi Rong squatted down and groped for something on Wei Chengyang's chest.
Seeing that he suddenly took out a pill from Wei Chengyang's bosom and was about to put it into the latter's mouth, Imperial Physician Zhang quickly asked,
"Prince Xian, what are you doing?"
Wei Chengyang's current situation was not optimistic. Taking medicine privately might cause great damage to his body!
"This is the Thousand - Flower and Hundred - Dew Pill."
Qi Rong just explained lightly. The pill had already been put into Wei Chengyang's mouth. He closed the young man's mouth, lifted his chin, and helped him swallow it.
"The Thousand - Flower and Hundred - Dew Pill?!"
Imperial Physician Zhang couldn't hide his shock in his eyes.
This was a medicine that the divine doctor Baizhu rarely gave out. One pill was extremely hard to obtain. How could the young master of the Wei family have such a medicine?
No, if this medicine belonged to Wei Chengyang, how did Prince Xian Qi Rong know that the medicine was on the other person?
"Why didn't he take it at first if you gave it to him?"
At this moment, Yun Xi's voice sounded from behind Qi Rong.
She didn't need to think to know where this Thousand - Flower and Hundred - Dew Pill came from!
Just now, she had asked Zhen Yuanfeng, who had been on the stage before. Fortunately, the other person was not injured and not poisoned.
It seemed that the two Thousand - Flower and Hundred - Dew Pills she had given to Qi Rong had both been put to use by him.
"Aren't you angry?"
Qi Rong didn't answer Yun Xi's question but stared at her intently, with a hint of worry in the bottom of his eyes.
Because he knew how much effort Yun Xi had put into getting these two pills from the divine doctor Baizhu. He had just given them away, and she might be unhappy.
Yun Xi tilted her head from behind Qi Rong and looked at Wei Chengyang, who was still in a coma. She said naturally,
"What's there to be angry about? Since I gave them to you, of course you have the right to use them."
Rather, she never knew that a cold - hearted person like Qi Rong actually had a friend he cared so much about.
She finally understood why the Wei siblings, who were friends with such a notoriously bad - named person like Qi Rong, had always gotten along well with him.
It was just because Qi Rong was very generous to his friends and rarely showed a bit of human kindness.
"Thank you."
Qi Rong hooked Yun Xi's hand and tightly held it in his palm. Unprecedentedly, he actually thanked her, which shocked Yun Xi greatly. She couldn't help but subconsciously look up at the sun in the sky.
It was strange. It was the hot summer. There wouldn't be hail falling from the sky later, would there?!
Seemingly seeing what was on Yun Xi's mind, Qi Rong couldn't help but curl up a smile.
He turned his gaze to Wei Chengyang, and his eyebrows furrowed again. He seemed to be explaining to Yun Xi,
"I anticipated this situation, so I gave him the medicine early on and agreed for him to be the first to take the stage."
Who would have known that Wei Chengyang didn't listen to him and take the medicine!
Yun Xi thought for a moment and said obscurely,
"Maybe he knew this and deliberately didn't take the medicine?"
In this way, wouldn't it be more beneficial for Qi Rong's plan to be implemented?
Qi Rong might not be so kind to others, but he didn't want Wei Chengyang to be hurt.
And Wei Chengyang knew this but chose to fulfill Qi Rong's plan and was willing to be used by Qi Rong!
Understanding Yun Xi's words, Qi Rong's expression was unpredictable. He said to Imperial Physician Zhang,
"Imperial Physician Zhang, you must do your best to treat him and don't let any hidden ailments remain in his body."
You should know that he had personally experienced this kind of poison. After more than half a year of recuperation, there was still some residual toxin in his body.
He was naturally strong. Since a long time ago, to prevent himself from being poisoned, he had started taking small doses of poison to make his body adapt. Ordinary small poisons couldn't hurt him at all. One could say that he was immune to all poisons!
But the Disorienting Incense was extremely poisonous and almost cost him his life!