Chapter 364: Chapter 364
She had seen many farewells, many instances of life and death. She could tell a patient’s family to restrain their grief without batting an eye.
But now, she couldn’t tell herself to restrain her grief!
Her father’s image kept flashing through her mind.
He had said, "Yanyan, come look! This is the car Daddy bought for you!"
He had said, "All of Daddy’s money is yours. Spend it however you like!"
He had said, "A proper young lady shouldn’t casually accept gifts from others; it’s not like we can’t afford things ourselves..."
He had said, "...My daughter, An Zhongbo’s daughter, is not for you to slander..."
He had said, "Although Li Tianyao can’t be with you for now, you still have your dad..."
But now, Dad was gone!
A tissue appeared before her. Her second brother wiped her tears.
"Now is not the time to be sad, Yanyan. We need to find a way to avenge Dad!"
Matsumoto Mina, a blood debt must be paid in blood!
"Mr. An, I suspect there was something wrong with the Revival Dan you just fed to your father. Here is the Revival Dan I brought. As long as you give it to your father, he will surely be brought back to life."
As soon as Matsumoto Mina arrived at the hospital, she held the Revival Dan in her hand up to An Duxuan.
Her gaze was confident and certain.
She spoke to An Duxuan because she felt he was the one who truly wanted An Zhongbo to live.
To her surprise, An Duxuan said, "The Revival Dan was bought from you. From the moment I received it until it entered my dad’s mouth, it didn’t pass through anyone else’s hands. Are you telling me it has a problem because you sold me a fake from the very beginning?"
His eyes were red, his voice hoarse with extreme anger.
"No, that’s not it," Matsumoto Mina said. "Mr. An, I know you might not believe me, but there really are people in this world who can swap something in your hand without anyone noticing!"
An Duxuan glanced at the medicine in her hand and shook his head. "I’ve already been deceived by your medicine once. I won’t believe you again. Please leave!"
It was only then that Matsumoto Mina realized something was amiss. "Mr. An, you don’t want your father to live either, do you? Do you also believe An Yan?"
A sneer touched An Duxuan’s lips. "If I don’t believe Yanyan, should I believe you, an outsider?"
"I bought the medicine from you and fed it to Dad myself. And now you’re telling me someone switched my medicine?"
"Inconceivable as it may be," Matsumoto Mina insisted, "what I’m saying is absolutely true because our Revival Dan absolutely, absolutely cannot be ineffective! Mr. An, please let me feed this medicine to your father..."
"And if this one doesn’t work either? What will you say then?"
"If it’s still useless, then I, Matsumoto Mina, am willing to give you my head!"
A flicker of something passed through An Duxuan’s eyes. "Fine! However, I don’t want to put my dad through this ordeal again. Please find someone else to test it on!"
"As long as you can bring one person back to life, I’ll believe you! If you can’t, then I’m afraid you’ll have to leave your head behind!"
Matsumoto Mina turned to the curious onlookers. "Ladies and gentlemen, I, Matsumoto Mina, am willing to stake my life that our Revival Dan is authentic. Is there any patient’s family member who wishes to give their loved one a chance at resurgence?"
A middle-aged man in the crowd raised his hand. "I am willing. My wife has esophageal cancer, and the doctor said surgery is needed. If this medicine can relieve my wife’s pain, I’m willing to pay any price!"
"You don’t have to pay!"
Matsumoto Mina put back the pill she had prepared for An Zhongbo and took out another one.
"Let’s go. Let everyone see if our medicine can truly relieve a patient’s suffering quickly!"
What she didn’t know was that, as she was switching the pills, An Yan had already cast the Soul-Release Talisman on that Revival Dan.
Matsumoto Mina confidently fed the medicine to the esophageal cancer patient.
However, one minute passed, then two...
Ten minutes went by, and the patient still showed no signs of improvement whatsoever!
Matsumoto Mina stared at the medicine in her hand in disbelief.
There’s no problem with it. The appearance and smell are normal. I’ve tested it many times before; it always takes effect within minutes!
Just when she was at a loss, she suddenly thought of An Yan. "It must be An Yan! She must be behind this!"
She had never been able to figure out that woman’s abilities. Although she didn’t know what method An Yan had used, it had to be her.
"I mean, even if you want to frame someone, shouldn’t you pick someone who’s actually here?"
Some onlookers couldn’t stand it anymore.
"Doctor An Yan is still with her father, many rooms away from here. How could she tamper with anything?"
"I knew there was something wrong with this Revival Dan! So it really is fake medicine! Heh."
An Duxuan stared at her coldly. "You just said that if it didn’t work, you’d give me your head. How do you plan to do that?"
Matsumoto Mina was so angry she could barely breathe. She deliberately ignored An Duxuan’s question, her gaze shifting between the middle-aged man and his wife with esophageal cancer.
She sneered. "I see. You’ve been bribed by An Yan, haven’t you?"
The middle-aged man was furious. "You! It’s clearly your medicine that doesn’t work, yet you’re trying to blame others?"
Seeing he wouldn’t admit it, Matsumoto Mina didn’t press the issue.
"Fine, you can be bought. But the dead can’t be bribed, can they?"
Matsumoto Mina again addressed the onlookers. "May I ask, is there a patient who has just died whose family would be willing to let me test my Revival Dan? If you’re willing, not only will I not charge you for the Revival Dan, but I’ll also give you an additional 100,000 Z currency!"
Money paves the way! She refused to believe she couldn’t find a single willing person!
However, she indeed couldn’t find anyone.
This was a hospital, after all, and hospitals treat patients! ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ n͟o͟v͟e͟l͟f͟i͟r͟e͟.net
Even if someone died because rescue efforts failed, their body would only remain in the hospital for a short time before being claimed by their family.
"There should be some in the morgue! Why don’t you go look there?" someone in the crowd suggested.
Matsumoto Mina nodded. "Alright, I’ll go to the morgue and find one!"
Matsumoto Mina believed that with her Divine Medicine, the families of the deceased in the morgue would surely support her.
However, there were only two deceased individuals in this hospital’s morgue. One was over ninety and had died of natural causes; his family had already accepted it as a "happy bereavement."
The other was a patient who, unable to endure the suffering from a severe illness, had begged their family to remove life support.
He had only just passed away after so much suffering; how could his family bear to bring him back, only for him to continue suffering!
Matsumoto Mina was utterly speechless.
Making an excuse to go to the restroom, she took out her phone and called her subordinate.
"I don’t care what methods you use, get a dead body over here immediately!"
"But our people have already gone into hiding."
"Are those two the only ones available to you?"
"Miss Meina, you know that after the Tian Zhongren incident, our ranks were purged. The few survivors we have left really can’t be risked again."
"What are you thinking? I said get a dead body, not kill someone!"
"Ah~ So we don’t have to kill anyone this time? You should have said so earlier! You have no idea; the operation concerning An Zhongbo and An Yaoluo took our people days to plan and execute successfully!"
Matsumoto Mina gritted her teeth. "What’s the point of saying all this? Hurry up and find someone!"
"And what if I can’t find anyone?" the subordinate asked, a cautious person by nature.
"You must find one. No ’what ifs’! Hurry!"
Matsumoto Mina breathed a sigh of relief. She hung up, stood, opened the door, washed her hands in the restroom, touched up her makeup, and then walked out as if nothing was amiss.
Then she saw that many people had gathered outside the restroom.