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After hugging for a while, she suddenly asked, "Are you free tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow... um, there's an academic seminar about reptiles tomorrow morning, I have to attend and have some academic exchanges." He had arranged to meet Ji Yuanhua tomorrow to treat and remove the poison from Lü Zhong.
After hearing this, Su Xiaoqiang hesitated for a moment before asking timidly, "How long will it take? You won't have a day to spare?"
"Hmm... about a day." Gu Ran turned around, staring at her delicate face, and couldn't help but pinch it. "What's wrong? Is something the matter?"
"I'm in the singing competition finals tomorrow night," Su Xiaoqiang said, pouting.
"Then I'll definitely come." Gu Ran smiled. "Even if the sky falls, I'll come."
"That's a deal!" Su Xiaoqiang happily raised her head slightly and kissed his cheek.
Gu Ran felt the touch of his girlfriend's lips and couldn't help but wipe the spot on his face where she had kissed him.
"What are you doing?" Su Xiaoqiang was displeased and grabbed his collar. "It's rare for me to kiss you, and you just wiped it off. Have I been too nice to you all the time?"
"You always kiss me after you've finished eating," Gu Ran said with a hint of disgust. "Even though you're a beautiful girl, your mouth is all greasy now, and it smells like scallions, ginger, and garlic..."
"I love kissing you right now, so what!" Su Xiaoqiang stood on tiptoe, wrapped her arms around his neck, and was determined to kiss him forcefully.
"Come on then, who's afraid of who!" Gu Ran, unable to bear it any longer, put his arm around her waist and breathed on her nose. "I just ate quite a lot of garlic too!"
"Wow, how much garlic did you just eat?!"
Sure enough, Su Xiaoqiang was overwhelmed by the smell of garlic on his breath, and she desperately tried to avoid him.
The two of them played around like that for a while, until Liu Miaomiao came out after taking a shower, before ending their daily dog-food-like antics.
……
The next morning, Gu Ran took a taxi to Pudong and arrived at a pharmaceutical factory bearing a certain brand name.
This pharmaceutical factory is quite large. After entering, there is a special shuttle bus. After the bus went around, it brought him to a modern building at the very back.
"Oh, what brings you here too?" Gu Ran noticed her aunt Zhang Wanjun as soon as she got off the shuttle bus.
She was still dressed in a dark Lolita style, with a warm vest underneath, a long petticoat that went past her knees, and black low-heeled leather boots on her feet.
Zhang Wanjun, who had her hands behind her back, put them in front of her when she saw Gu Ran arrive.
Then Gu Ran saw the Dragon Slayer Sword in her hand.
"Heh, you're not here to sell swords, are you?" Gu Ran chuckled.
Zhang Wanjun pretended not to understand his pun and also pretended not to be angry.
Actually, she really wanted to beat this kid up.
But she couldn't beat him.
"It seems we should find an open space another day and have an unrestricted fighting match," Zhang Wanjun said with an icy expression.
"Great!" The so-called "unrestricted" means that one can use the power of words.
To be honest, Gu Ran still doesn't know what her Word of Power is. If it could be copied with the Sharingan, that would be great.
"Are you really not going to take this sword?" Zhang Wanjun still patiently tried to persuade her.
Gu Ran didn't even glance at the sword, and said bluntly, "I'm not a member of the Zhang family, I'm not qualified to use it."
Zhang Youlong said this yesterday.
"The old man was just saying things in a fit of anger, he didn't think before he spoke, just ignore him." Zhang Wanjun didn't show much respect for her irritable old father.
Zhang Wanjun tried to persuade him a few more times, but Gu Ran still showed no intention of taking the sword.
The two entered the building, where Ji Yuanhua, Lü Zhong, and Lü Xue'er were already waiting in the lobby.
"Gu Ran, come here, let's discuss this privately. The rest of you... do as you please." After saying that, Ji Yuanhua led Gu Ran to his office.
This building was where Ji Yuanhua specifically researched and developed an antidote for dragon poison.
Most of the people working here are of mixed race, and the rest are people who have some understanding of the Otherworld.
In the office, Gu Ran looked through Lü Zhong's medical report.
The dragon poison on him came from a Deadpool who possessed a Word of Power called 'Deepblood,' which could turn his blood into a deadly poison that would infect anyone who came into contact with it.
When Lü Zhong was hunting this Deadpool, he was injured in the right arm by the Deadpool and infected by the poisonous blood altered by 'Deepblood'.
The poisonous blood entered his body through the wound on his right arm.
This toxin is cunning. At first, it only follows the blood vessels to invade the internal organs, but invading the internal organs is just a cover. While people's attention is focused on clearing the toxins from the internal organs, the toxin quietly attaches itself to the depths of the bones, hiding and lurking there.
Then it erupts all at once.
Currently, the toxins in Lü Zhong's body have adhered to the surface of all bones except his skull, causing him excruciating pain every day.
So he had to take a lot of painkillers every day. But over the years, the types of painkillers changed one after another, and fewer and fewer painkillers were effective. As his body developed drug resistance, the pain relief time also became shorter and shorter.
All Ji Yuanhua could do was inject an antidote into the surface of his bones once a month, which would temporarily remove some of the toxins each time.
However, some toxins will always remain hidden deep within the body and cannot be eradicated. Given the opportunity, they will return and spread throughout the body's organs.
"Have you confirmed that the skull is not infected by toxins?" Gu Ran asked the most crucial question.
Ji Yuanhua said, "It's confirmed. I used an antidote a long time ago to block the pathways for the toxins to reach the head."
"In that case, I suggest you first use the previous method, inject the detoxifier, and then observe the areas where the poisoning recurs, and carry out a deeper cleansing of the toxins."
Gu Ran's suggestion would allow him to save some energy and chakra, while he could focus on the deeper aspects.
Ji Yuanhua nodded slowly: "Yes, I also think this is the best approach. We should inject the antidote first, and then observe the treatment."
“You’ll need a lot of antidote,” Gu Ran said. “My method, when combined with the antidote, is the most effective at removing the poison.”
Chapter 194 Refusal to Remove the Poison
Having witnessed Gu Ran's detoxification, Ji Yuanhua understood his meaning and immediately went to make arrangements.
"Shall we begin today?" Ji Yuanhua asked decisively.
Gu Ran nodded slightly, but then suddenly thought of something.
He borrowed one of Ji Yuanhua's laptops, without saying what he needed to do, only that he needed to look up something, and told him to start.
So, Ji Yuanhua brought Lü Zhong and Lü Xue'er to the treatment room.
Lu Zhong has undergone the usual treatment methods many times.
The first step is to take an oral detoxifying agent to clear toxins from the body.
Then, an antidote is injected into the bone surface through acupuncture to cleanse the bone of the poison attached to it.
This process was extremely painful, and Lü Zhong's face was covered in sweat.
Lu Xueer stood to the side, holding a towel, wiping the fine sweat from her grandfather's forehead.
“Just bear with it this one more time, and the poison in your body will definitely be completely removed.” Ji Yuanhua laughed from the side. “That kid’s detoxification technique is superb. With the addition of my newly prepared antidote, it will remove the toxins one hundred percent.”
He always adds new ingredients to the antidote he prepares, because he's afraid the toxins will develop resistance and render the antidote ineffective.
Hearing that the detoxification master Ji Yuanhua praised Gu Ran's detoxification technique so highly, Lü Xue'er was overjoyed, and a bright smile appeared on her petite face: "That's great, Grandpa! You won't have to endure the excruciating pain of the venom anymore!"
Lu Zhong was also happy. He laughed from the bottom of his heart, "I thought I was going to die with this poison all over my body. I never thought there would be a day when it would be removed. In the rest of my life, I will kill a few more Death Servants. That way, my life will not have been in vain."
"Why bother killing Deadpool? It's just you, me, and my brother left in our family," Lu Xue'er pouted. "From now on, whoever wants to kill can do it!"
"Nonsense!" Lu Zhong scolded his granddaughter in displeasure. "Our Lu family has been rooted there for generations, so it is our responsibility to safeguard peace in this area."
Lu Xue'er stubbornly kept a straight face and didn't say anything back.
Ji Yuanhua said, "Alas, Nuwa said long ago that people from other noble families could come to your place to help guard it, but you just wouldn't allow it. You're such a stubborn person."
“My family was also involved in those things back then, and I feel bad about letting others take the blame for our family,” Lü Zhong said.
Ji Yuanhua shook his head: "What does what happened before the Xianfeng era have to do with you? Your father wasn't even born yet! Besides, it was caused by many factors, so why should you take all the blame?"
Lu Zhong remained silent for a while before speaking: "I only hope that I can eliminate more of the Dead Servants, and that all the responsibilities of the family can end in my generation, so that they will not be passed on to my descendants."
After saying that, he glanced at Lü Xue'er and said, "It would be good if the Lü family could live like ordinary people from now on. I just hope that you can take good care of my only remaining grandson and granddaughter."
"Why leave such a ridiculous will?" Ji Yuanhua said irritably. "If you really want to, just find another wife. Anyway, you're still going strong..."
Lu Zhong smiled and shook his head: "No interest, no interest. I don't want my bloodline to continue. I've seen through it all over the years. In this world, the fewer mixed-race people, the better..."
……
After about four hours, Lü Zhong completed the most basic treatment, clearing away a large amount of the bone-attached toxins.
Each time he finishes detoxifying, he can feel his body regaining its vitality, and he feels much more energetic.
"Next, let that kid remove the poison. I'll have someone call him over." As soon as Ji Yuanhua finished speaking, he saw Gu Ran carrying a laptop and coming in with Zhang Wanjun.
Lu Zhong and Lu Xue'er both looked at him expectantly.
“You’re here. I’ve finished here too, and I was just about to…” Ji Yuanhua was about to say something, but Gu Ran raised her hand to stop him from continuing.
Gu Ran looked at Lü Zhong and Lü Xue'er and asked, "I want to know, where is Lü Yongbin now?"
“My brother is definitely under house arrest,” Lü Xueer said.
Gu Ran showed them the screen of his laptop, which contained several video surveillance clips, all from the airport.
"He boarded a plane in Ulaanbaatar, went to Guam, then transferred to Okinawa, and now his whereabouts are unknown."
He asked Norma to help him find these surveillance clips.
Lu Zhong and Lu Xue'er watched the surveillance footage, which was captured by some hidden cameras.
If Lü Yongbin wanted to hide his whereabouts, he would naturally try to avoid most of the cameras.
However, some hidden cameras cannot be avoided.
There are even more hidden cameras, especially in public places like airports.
Zhang Wanjun was also furious when she learned about this, because she had previously assured Gu Ran that Nuwa's orders were absolute and no one dared to disobey them.
As it turned out, Gu Ran had just found her and even made a sarcastic remark, saying, "It seems that what Nuwa said is of no use!"
She had been mocked by Gu Ran's attitude for a while, and she didn't know how to talk back. Now she was also a little angry with the Lü family.
Zhang Wanjun said coldly, "I just reported this matter to Nuwa. Nuwa said that this is the first time in so many years that someone has dared to defy her decision."
Lu Zhong, feeling somewhat humiliated, turned ashen-faced and angrily said: