"Why?"
Tian Mengyao was extremely surprised, and for a moment, she forgot how to cry.
She could now be sure that Lin Fan definitely knew the secret of Luofeng Mountain.
"Don't you think the situation has caused enough trouble?"
"I'll talk about it when I get back. You guys go first."
Lin Fan sighed inwardly. Truly, trouble finds you even when you're at home.
Wu Lei stepped forward to support Tian Mengyao and said, "Secretary Tian, let's go."
Tian Mengyao stared blankly at Lin Fan, her heart filled with guilt and regret, as if being sliced by a knife.
"Let's go."
Wu Lei urged.
"Mm."
Tian Mengyao nodded gently, then, supported by Wu Lei, walked down the mountain.
Lin Fan, carrying his medicine chest, strode towards the quarry.
At the quarry.
Professor Fu unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and was feeding it to his students one by one.
"Little Hu, drink some water, it can dilute the toxin."
As he spoke, Professor Fu helped up student Little Hu, who was lying on the ground, completely unconscious.
He helped Little Hu sit up and inserted the bottle's opening into his mouth.
But Little Hu clenched his teeth tightly and trembled all over, all the clear water flowing out from the corners of his mouth.
"It's all my fault for harming you!"
Professor Fu, an old man who had seen many hardships, now felt like crying out loud.
Each of his proud students was carefully selected, rare talents.
But all because of a moment's recklessness...
Alas!
At this moment, the breathing of the three students beside him was growing weaker.
And the two students sitting on the ground behind him were also in a worsening condition.
Therefore, he was now in despair.
If anything happened to his students, how could he continue to live with any dignity?
"Is anyone there?"
Just then, from the entrance of the quarry, there was a sound of stones colliding, indicating someone was walking over them.
"Xiao Tian!"
Professor Fu shouted excitedly, "We are here!"
He put down Little Hu and shouted again, his voice filled with emotion, "Xiao Tian, has the rescue team arrived?"
"They're almost gone!"
After shouting this, he saw a slender young man walking over, carrying an ancient wooden chest.
"You, are you a villager from nearby?"
Professor Fu, though disappointed, did not forget to ask.
Lin Fan casually pointed down the mountain and replied, "I'm a villager from the foot of the mountain."
"Oh," Professor Fu sighed, "Then please help us. My students accidentally entered a cave and seem to be poisoned."
Although he didn't know how much help this young man could offer, he was now out of options and would try any glimmer of hope.
"Let me take a look."
Lin Fan cautiously glanced at the deep, dark cave about a hundred meters to the west.
From the current situation, it was clear that there was something terrifying inside that cave.
Lin Fan squatted beside the three students in the worst condition.
With just one glance, he knew these three were on the brink of death, any moment could be their last.
These three had pale, dark complexions, completely devoid of blood.
Their lips were also pale and dark, clearly indicating that the poison had completely entered their bloodstream.
Lin Fan remained relatively calm, as none of them were people he cared deeply about.
He opened the medicine chest and began to rummage through it.
"Are you a doctor?"
Professor Fu's eyes lit up with excitement upon seeing the medical supplies in the wooden chest.
"I'm just a barefoot doctor in the village. Don't get your hopes too high."
Lin Fan said this as he took out herbs one by one from the chest: Forsythia, Honeysuckle, Banlangen, Andrographis, Daqingye, and so on.
There was no condition to decoct the medicine, and time was of the essence.
So, without a second thought, Lin Fan found two smooth stones, one to use as a chopping board and the other for grinding the herbs.
"I'll help you."
Eager to save his students, Professor Fu knelt down to assist.
He snatched a stone from Lin Fan's hand and asked, "Doctor, can my students be saved?"
"It's hard to say. I don't know what poison they've contracted, so I can't prescribe the right treatment. I can only try now."
Lin Fan spoke the truth.
He had already used his Violet Extreme Spiritual Eyes.
In the blood of these five students, there were wisps of abnormal purple gas that were attacking their blood vessels, looking like they could break through at any moment and claim their lives.
"Then..."
Professor Fu gritted his teeth fiercely and cried out in grief, "Please, you must find a way to save them!"
"I am a professor at Huake University. I will not treat you unfairly!"
Lin Fan waved his hand, "Alright, alright. You grind the medicine first, and I'll go and draw blood to detoxify them."
He detested such words the most.
If it weren't for saving lives, he wouldn't have come, no matter how much money was offered.
Holding a silver needle in one hand and pinching the upper lip of one of the students with the other, he gently pricked it.
A few drops of dark blood flowed out, appearing exceptionally striking against the pale, dark skin.
Lin Fan frowned. The poison had already infiltrated their internal organs. Even a celestial being might be powerless to reverse it!
Now, he could only do his best and try a desperate measure.
"Doctor, is this okay?"
Professor Fu used all his strength and quickly ground the herbs into powder.
Lin Fan glanced at it and nodded, "It's fine. Rinse it with water and administer it to them."
After speaking, he and Professor Fu each unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and began to force-feed the students.
"Eh!"
While Lin Fan was administering medicine to one of the students, he suddenly saw a flash of light on the open ground near the cave.
"Doctor, your medicine is working."
Professor Fu comforted himself.
"It's only temporarily alleviating the toxins. If it drags on, they will still die."
Lin Fan's tone was indifferent, his gaze still fixed on the cave.
He was contemplating whether he should go and investigate.
"Doctor..."
Hearing his words, Professor Fu's heart sank.
Could it be that he could only watch helplessly as all his proud students died here?
"You stay here. I'll go find a way to save them."
Lin Fan instructed, then walked towards the cave.
Seeing this, Professor Fu immediately shouted, "Hey, don't go over there! There's poisonous gas in the cave!"
He had personally witnessed three of his students enter and, before they had gone ten meters, they had collapsed.
The two students outside, despite the danger, had rushed in to pull them out but had also been poisoned.
As a geologist who had traveled all over the country, Professor Fu had never encountered such a situation.
Especially since there were no prior signs!
"I have a sense of it."
Lin Fan replied without looking back, just waving his hand.
He possessed divine eyes, and since he could see the toxins within others, he could also see the toxins in the air.
Moreover, it seemed that apart from a wisp of persistent purple gas at the cave entrance, there were no other dangers.
However, this purple gas strongly resembled the purple qi in his dantian.
But the purple qi in his dantian was not poisonous. What was going on?
Hearing his nonchalant tone, Professor Fu thought, "This young man who calls himself a barefoot doctor might not be as simple as he seems!"