I became a fox girl and was captured by the True Dragon Saint

"Give way!"

A group of officers and soldiers dressed in the official uniforms of the Dali Temple rushed into the courtyard and hurriedly pushed aside the merchants in the courtyard to make a path leading directly to the lobby.

Then two people came running in, carrying a stretcher with a wounded man with a dark face on it.

"Hurry up and ask for Doctor Lan from Lingyin Valley!" the officers and soldiers from the Dali Temple said urgently.

"Yilan?" Jiang Ke'er felt a little strange about the name.

"Medical orchid is the name for medical practitioners. Originally, the medical practitioners in Lingyin Valley were called medical immortals. However, in recent years, the word 'immortal' has become a derogatory term, so the name for medical immortals has been changed to medical orchid."

A tall woman in a white skirt and a veil on her head answered.

The woman's voice was very pleasant, a somewhat cool type that made Jiang Keer feel faintly familiar.

However, the gauze curtain hanging from Mi Li's hat blocked her face, making her look like a heroine in a martial arts novel, and Jiang Ke'er couldn't see her appearance.

The woman's answer just happened to answer Jiang Ke'er's doubts. It was as if she knew what she was thinking, and her answer hit the nail on the head about her curiosity.

"What's your name, sister?" Jiang Ke'er asked proactively.

"Qiao Qianxue." said the woman.

"Thank you for clearing up my doubts, sister," Jiang Ke'er smiled innocently, revealing two dimples at the corners of her mouth. "But, this Dali Temple officer is injured, why don't you go to the palace to find an official doctor, but come to the Chamber of Commerce?"

"This is a chamber of commerce under the name of Taiming Sect. There are several doctors from Lingyin Valley stationed here. Their skills are no worse than those of the official doctors." Qiao Qianxue turned slightly and seemed to glance at the injured lying on the ground. "Besides, there is still some distance from here to the official clinic. I'm afraid he can't make it there."

The traveling merchants looked at the situation in the hall curiously. Jiang Ke'er stopped answering the questions and stood on tiptoe to watch the fun.

"Lord Di, the Temple Minister, is on his way, but before that, we must save Mr. Fu's life." A Dali Temple official said with a frown.

As the highest court in the Tang Dynasty, the officers and soldiers of the Dali Temple all wore black official uniforms with majestic black cloaks tied around their collars. The cloaks and shoulders were embroidered with faint golden tiger head patterns.

They rarely handle matters in such a blatant way, and these matters are usually handed over to other departments. And it must be no small matter to bring them together.

"Yilan is here!"

Three women in pink clothes hurried out from the backyard of the lobby, with Lingyin Valley's pink petal tattoos on the back of their hands.

"Wait!"

Before they saw the injured, the leading woman covered her nose, her eyes fixed, and she shouted sternly: "Everyone move away! It's poison!"

Before the woman finished her words, poisonous bubbles began to emerge from the dark body of the injured person.

The poisonous bubble burst, and immediately a pool of twisted white worms flowed out.

Fortunately, the little insect seemed to be afraid of sunlight. As soon as it left the human body, it turned black and became motionless.

"do you died?"

"No! It has transformed into a pupa!" The expression of the woman from Lingyin Valley became more solemn. She first took out a bottle of transparent liquid and poured it on the blood and the insect. The insect immediately twisted again and melted with a sizzling sound and white foam.

This scene finally put the Dali Temple officers and soldiers at ease.

"The doctor of Lingyin Valley is indeed extraordinary."

"Don't be happy too soon," the woman from Lingyin Valley said without any relief. "This acid can kill the bugs that escaped, but it can't kill the bugs in his body. In less than half an hour, his internal organs will be eaten by the bugs."

The Dali Temple Sizhi's face turned pale: "What should we do?"

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5. Dissection

"In the past, Gu poison was not a very difficult poison to deal with, but now that my spiritual power has disappeared..." The doctor sighed softly, "It may be difficult to force out these poisonous insects just by relying on the properties of the medicine. I can only take a gamble..."

She instructed her assistant, "Xiao Yan, go prepare one qian of snake leaf, one qian of turtle tail grass, half a qian of elderberry moth scale powder, a sandalwood burner, half a qian of ethodiola citrate, one qian of penicillium extract, and three catties of dilute salt water."

When Jiang Ke'er heard about these medicines, she nodded slightly at first, but after thinking for a moment, she frowned and shook her head.

Thinking that time was running out, Jiang Ke'er hurriedly tried to push away the onlookers blocking her way.

But the guys were packed so tightly that she had no strength to squeeze through.

At the critical moment, a pair of bare hands reached out from the side, protecting her and pushing through the crowd: "Make way."

The older sister in white, Qiao Qianxue, held Jiang Ke'er in her arms, easily pushed aside the crowd with her arms, and walked to the front with Jiang Ke'er.

"Thank you." Jiang Ke'er only had time to turn around and hurriedly say thank you, then quickly ran to the doctor Lan.

The doctor quickly stopped Jiang Ke'er from moving forward: "Little sister, this place is dangerous, don't get close."

Jiang Ke'er looked at her seriously: "There are some problems with the treatment plan."

Yilan was slightly startled, but she didn't mind being pointed out in public. Instead, she looked at Jiang Ke'er as if she had seen a savior: "Are you also a colleague of Yilan? Do you have a better solution?"

"...Not yet." Jiang Keer scratched her head.

The doctor from Lingyin Valley, Lan, was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. But before she could say anything, the Dali Temple's Sizhi dragged Jiang Ke'er away, sweating profusely, and said angrily, "Then why are you here to cause trouble? Human life is at stake, don't delay the rescue!"

"What should we do with the insect eggs?" Jiang Ke'er suddenly spoke up and looked at Yi Lan.

Yi Lan was startled and quickly signaled Si Zhi to let Jiang Ke'er go.

Jiang Ke'er didn't even bother to tidy up her messy clothes, and said to herself: "Snake leaves, turtle tail grass, elderberry moth scale powder, these are to be placed in the sandalwood burner and burned to make insect repellent smoke. The patient's body is now full of holes, like a rat hole, so the smoke can be poured in to drive the insects out..."

"After most of the living Gu worms are eliminated, we can then use drugs to eliminate the infection and kill the remaining injured worms. Finally, we can use salt water to clean the internal organs and wounds. There is really no big problem with this treatment idea."

Yi Lan looked at Jiang Ke'er in surprise. She didn't expect that Jiang Ke'er had figured out her treatment plan just by hearing the materials.

It was obvious that she had real talent and was not here to cause trouble.

"The problem is insect eggs. There were not only insects but also insect eggs in the previous blood bubble. The eggs will not be affected by the smoke and will be deeply embedded in the bones and flesh. They will soon hatch again. Although we can then perform a second smoke injection, the patient's body will not be able to withstand the second ordeal." Jiang Ke'er touched her chin and looked at the injured in distress, "It will still be too late to save him by then."

Seeing Jiang Ke'er's professional answer and Yi Lan's affirmation, Si Zhi immediately showed hope: "Do you have any solution?"

"No."

"You are still wasting time!" Si Zhi angrily pushed Jiang Ke'er to the side with his scabbard, "Go away, don't delay Yi Lan from saving people!"

At this time, the assistant had already brought all the necessary medicinal materials. Time was pressing, and Yi Lan had no time to think too much. She could only temporarily follow the original treatment plan.

Foul-smelling smoke rose from the incense burner, and a tube was extended from the incense burner and inserted into the patient's mouth. The blood bubbles on the patient's skin surface burst, and sizzling smoke came out of his body.

Countless poisonous insects hurriedly crawled out of the patient's body and twisted their bodies to crawl towards the crowd of onlookers.

Fortunately, Yi Lan had trapped them in a large circle drawn with acid in advance, while the assistant was responsible for killing the pupating white worms with acid.

Jiang Ke'er took advantage of the Dali Temple's inattention and rushed to the edge of the acid circle. She picked up a pair of tweezers and picked up an intact insect pupa.

"Are you crazy!?"

The people around were so frightened that their faces turned pale. They took several steps back and stared at Jiang Keer in horror.

Even Si Zhi didn't dare to run over and touch Jiang Ke'er again.

Jiang Ke'er was staring at the insect pupa intently, watching its head quickly break out of the pupa and struggle to crawl out of the tweezers.

Its mouth was like a pair of pliers, biting everywhere ferociously.

Jiang Ke'er used her other pair of pliers to completely pull it out of the cocoon shell, and it slowly opened its transparent wings full of veins, making a buzzing sound while flapping rapidly.

"Quickly crush it to death! If we let it escape, the consequences will be disastrous!" Si Zhi shouted in fear, but having witnessed the tragic scene of the injured, he did not dare to come forward at all.

Jiang Ke'er ignored his words and even turned the insect over to check its abdomen.

"Nine abdominal segments, Neuroptera, flat abdomen, strange..." She squatted down, pressed the insect to the ground with tweezers, and then looked at the several doctors in Lingyin Valley, "Do you have an extra scalpel to lend me?"

Doctor Lan from Lingyin Valley is knowledgeable and experienced. She did not react much to Jiang Keer's behavior. Instead, she immediately cooperated and handed over the scalpel.

"Why don't you go get a knife to save people, but just sit here cutting bugs for fun?" Si Zhi looked at Jiang Ke'er in disbelief.

Jiang Ke'er ignored him.

The scalpel carefully cut open the insect's abdomen, cutting the entire belly of the insect longitudinally.

"Empty?" Jiang Ke'er was stunned. She carefully checked the abdomen and then confirmed that her eyes were not blurry.

This huge insect belly is actually empty!

There are no digestive organs, nor reproductive organs.

There is only a small amount of nerve tissue in the forelimbs, and the entire worm's stomach is almost completely empty!

Jiang Ke'er laughed immediately, holding the insect corpse in front of Si Zhi and said, "I understand!"

Si Zhi was so frightened that his face turned pale and he took several steps back: "Don't come over here!"

"What are you afraid of? This thing has no lethality at all."

"You call this non-lethal?" Si Zhi pointed at the patient in horror, "He's almost become a nest of insects!"

"No, I mean, these insects that fly out after pupating have no killing power at all," Jiang Ke'er argued. "If you don't believe me, just look at it. It just looks scary, but its stomach is completely empty and has no ability to reproduce. This doesn't conform to the laws of natural growth at all!"

"I don't want to see it! Take it away!" Si Zhi obviously didn't even have the courage to get close to the insect.

Due to the lack of communication and understanding with Miao, in the eyes of most people, Miao witchcraft is a symbol of evil and terror. This fear has been deeply rooted since the disappearance of spiritual power.

Especially after seeing the patients who were poisoned by the Gu with their own eyes, this horrific scene deepened their fear.

"I can cure it!" Jiang Ke'er turned around holding the bug.

But when she looked at the patient, her expression suddenly changed, "Oh no, it's too late!"

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6. Forbearance, Forbearance

At this time, the last white worm had slowly crawled out of the patient's body.

Medical Orchid from Lingyin Valley poured a drop of acid on it, and with a sizzling sound, the white worm twisted and dissolved.

Jiang Keer turned around and saw this scene, and she stomped her feet in regret for a moment.

"What's wrong? Isn't it a good thing to eliminate these bugs?" Yi Lan was puzzled. "Although there are still eggs hidden in the body, without these white worms to continue to destroy, at least it can buy us some time for treatment."

"It is true according to common sense," Jiang Ke'er said with a headache, "but if we want to save his life, we have to rely on these larvae that have not yet metamorphosed."

"Why...?" Yi Lan couldn't imagine Jiang Keer's theory.

"This insect was originally called the Nine-ringed Human Skin Fly, and it is a common parasitic human skin fly." Jiang Ke'er explained, "After the adult insects have emerged from their shells, they like to lay eggs on human skin. After the larvae hatch, they will directly drill into the human skin and gnaw on the flesh. When they grow up, they will drill out from the surface of the skin, pupate, and finally completely metamorphose into human skin fly, fly out to mate, and then start a new cycle of reincarnation."

"No!" Yi Lan immediately shook her head and denied it. "I know about the human skin dragonfly. It only moves in the shallow layer of human skin. If it continues to go deeper into the human body, it will die of lack of oxygen. Although it will cause inflammation, the harm is not great."

"This is a poisoned human skin dragonfly." Jiang Ke'er said while holding up the corpse of the insect. "It is a deformed child artificially bred through special means. Normal human skin dragonflies need to develop sex glands after becoming adults, but this one has the ability to reproduce in its larval stage. This is why I didn't recognize it at first."

"Guhua?" Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment at this new term.

"This is a unique method of insect cultivation. This is how poisonous insects are basically raised," Jiang Ke'er said. "Normal natural selection allows skin flies to find more hosts to expand their population. In other words, they need the ability of adults to fly and spread...

After being poisoned, they lose this characteristic and reproduce wildly from the larval stage, thus increasing their lethality in the human body."

Yi Lan looked at the empty belly of the human skin fly between Jiang Ke'er's tweezers, thoughtfully.

It is indeed as Jiang Keer said, the development of this insect is deformed and not in line with the laws of nature, and the entire process of metamorphosis into an adult insect is completely meaningless.

"But why do you say that the larvae can save him?" Although she knew the true appearance and behavior mechanism of the insects, Yi Lan still couldn't understand Jiang Ke'er's treatment plan.

"Sister should have heard about this in her poisonology class - there are two kinds of poisons in this world, one is a lethal poison, and the other is a deterrent poison," Jiang Ke'er stretched out her slender fingers and said seriously, "There are many lethal poisons. It is too easy to kill a person without any cultivation. You only need some simple compounds to do it quickly. There is no need to use troublesome methods like poison."

"That's right. The purpose of Gu poison is mostly to deter," Yi Lan nodded. "The antidote is only known by the Gu caster, so it can be used to threaten the poisoned person to obey him. But... although this theory proves that most Gu poisons have an antidote, we are not the Gu caster, so it is difficult for us to decipher the antidote."

"I've cracked it."

"real?!"

Jiang Ke'er sighed: "But the larvae have all died. We can only wait for the eggs to hatch again. I'm afraid it's too late... If you are willing to let me take over the treatment, there may still be a chance."

"Come on, I will cooperate with you," said Yi Lan without hesitation, "Just because you can see through the mechanism of the Gu worm, I am far inferior to you... Now I have no other choice, why not let you try."

"Okay," Jiang Ke'er didn't act pretentiously. She put on the sleeves and prepared to help.

However, the discordant voices rang out again.

Si Zhi stopped Jiang Ke'er with his sword: "Tell me how you want to treat it first."

Jiang Ke'er glared at Si Zhi angrily - she had tolerated this guy for a long time.

If he hadn't been delaying time here and there, perhaps the situation wouldn't have developed to this point, and it would have been turned into a hell.

"I plan to help the patient survive first," Jiang Ke'er explained patiently, "Once the larvae hatch, I will sterilize a few of them."

"Eunuch???" Si Zhi seemed to have heard the most ridiculous thing in his life.