Chapter 720 - 437: This Terrifying Reaction! Don’t Tell Me He Took Poison!!

Chapter 720: Chapter 437: This Terrifying Reaction! Don’t Tell Me He Took Poison!!

"Argh..."

Wang Hao’s face was flushed crimson. He clenched his fists, veins popping on his forehead as beads of sweat formed and trickled down his cheeks, dripping onto the thin blanket covering him.

"Why is this happening? Was there something wrong with that black pill?" Chen Xiaoyan said anxiously, watching Wang Hao’s agonizing state. "Just hang in there. I’m calling an ambulance right now."

As she spoke, she pulled her phone from her pocket and typed in the number for an ambulance. Just as she was about to press the dial button, Wang Hao shouted, "Don’t call an ambulance!"

"But look at the state you’re in! If we don’t call an ambulance, you could die..." Chen Xiaoyan said, worried.

"This is a normal reaction to the medicine. It’ll be over in a little while," Wang Hao explained, enduring the erupting waves of pain.

"This... This is insane!" Chen Xiaoyan’s jaw dropped in shock at Wang Hao’s explanation. She had never seen a Healing Medicine that caused such a dramatic reaction.

Seeing Wang Hao’s wretched condition, she thought, ’If I were injured and someone offered me a Healing Medicine like that, I probably wouldn’t have the guts to take it.’

"Argh..."

Broken, agonizing screams echoed from the room, reverberating throughout the small, one-story house.

Fortunately, all the neighbors around the house had already moved away. Otherwise, if anyone had been living nearby, the screams coming from inside would have scared any normal person out of their wits and prompted them to call the police.

About ten minutes later, Wang Hao, who had taken the special Healing Medicine, finally stopped his skin-crawling screams. He lay on the bed, completely drained, his clothes soaked through with sweat.

His chest heaved violently as he gasped for air, as if he had just collapsed from a life-or-death battle.

"Wang Hao, drink some water," Chen Xiaoyan said, walking into the guest room with a glass of water. She sat down beside him and helped him sit up.

GLUG, GLUG, GLUG...

Wang Hao downed the large glass of water in one go. He already looked much better.

"How are you feeling now?" Chen Xiaoyan asked with concern, placing the glass on the nightstand. The ten-odd minutes of Wang Hao’s screaming had really frightened her.

If Wang Hao hadn’t been so certain that there was nothing wrong with the special Healing Medicine, she would have suspected the black pill wasn’t a Healing Medicine at all, but some new poison developed by the organization.

"Other than being a bit weak, I feel much better than before I took it," Wang Hao said, pushing himself up from the bed with his right hand.

"You should lie back down and rest!" Chen Xiaoyan said to Wang Hao, who was now standing on the bed and stretching his arms and legs.

She was genuinely afraid he would suddenly get dizzy and fall right onto the floor.

Stretching his limbs, Wang Hao ignored Chen Xiaoyan’s advice to lie down and rest. His entire focus was on his body’s condition.

’The special Healing Medicine from my friend in R&D tormented me for over ten minutes, but its effects are undeniably incredible.’

’My body, once immobile from severe injuries, can now move freely without any pain.’

’Of course, this doesn’t mean it’s an instant, complete recovery.’

’The foundation of a Cultivator, my Dantian that stores Spiritual Energy, is empty. It’ll take a few days to be fully restored.’

Seeing Wang Hao moving his arms and legs without any adverse reactions, Chen Xiaoyan finally relaxed and said with a smile,

"The organization invested a lot of money into this new special Healing Medicine. The results are exceptionally good!"

Wang Hao nodded. "My physical injuries are almost completely healed. It’s just my Dantian that hasn’t recovered yet. I’ll probably need about two days to get back to my pre-injury condition."

"Two days! That’s even faster than we expected," Chen Xiaoyan said.

Wang Hao’s rapid recovery was undoubtedly good news for the investigation into Liu Menglong’s death.

"Call Zhu Daqi and ask him if there have been any new developments with the man he’s surveilling, the one named Lin Li," Wang Hao ordered.

"Okay." Chen Xiaoyan nodded, then pulled out her phone to call Zhu Daqi.

BEEP... BEEP... BEEP...

The phone rang several times, but no one answered. Chen Xiaoyan couldn’t help but frown.

Just when she thought the call would go unanswered, someone finally picked up.

"Yan."

"Zhu Daqi, what took you so long to answer?" Chen Xiaoyan asked, a little annoyed.

"A traffic Security Officer was checking my driver’s license just now, so I..."

"Alright, I get it... I have a question for you. How is the surveillance on the target going? Did he do anything new today?"

"Uh..." Zhu Daqi hesitated for a moment before speaking. "This morning, the target left the city and went into the wilderness, probably to hunt Mutant Beasts. I followed him, and then..."

Hearing Zhu Daqi trail off, Chen Xiaoyan grew suspicious and prompted, "And then what?"

’I should probably hide this,’ Zhu Daqi thought. ’If I tell Yan that I lost the target and that he might have spotted me, I’ll look totally incompetent.’

But now that Chen Xiaoyan had called to ask about the target specifically, he thought it over and decided to come clean.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Daqi said, "Then I realized the tracker I’d planted under his car lost its signal. I suspect the target might have found it and destroyed it. To avoid being discovered myself, I stopped following him and came back early to wait for him outside his residential complex."

Chen Xiaoyan’s brow furrowed as she listened to Zhu Daqi’s words. She thought for a moment, but instead of scolding him for his incompetence, she offered some reassurance.

"It’s possible the tracker you installed just malfunctioned. The target might not have realized he was being followed at all..."

’That’s possible,’ Zhu Daqi thought. ’I did cheap out and buy a second-hand tracker.’

"From now on, if anything else unexpected happens, report it to me immediately. Don’t wait for me to call and ask you," Chen Xiaoyan instructed.

"Okay, Yan." Hearing no trace of annoyance in Chen Xiaoyan’s voice, Zhu Daqi felt quite pleased and quickly agreed.

"Alright, that’s all for now. Wang Hao is recovering very quickly. After another two days of rest, we can make our move."

"You must keep a close watch on the target for these next two days. Don’t let anything go wrong." After giving a few more instructions, Chen Xiaoyan hung up.

"Was there a problem with the surveillance?" Wang Hao asked after Chen Xiaoyan ended her call with Zhu Daqi.

"Sigh..." Chen Xiaoyan sighed and recounted what Zhu Daqi had just told her.

"He’s just a normal person, after all. We can’t expect too much. What he’s done so far is acceptable," Wang Hao said, speaking up for Zhu Daqi, whom he had a decent impression of.

"You’re right. If one of our organization’s own people were on surveillance, this never would have happened," Chen Xiaoyan said with a nod.

"I’m going to take a shower. Can you order me some takeout..."

With the pain from his injuries gone, Wang Hao’s appetite returned with a vengeance, his stomach rumbling loudly. He gave the order to Chen Xiaoyan, then got off the bed, grabbed a change of clothes, and headed for the bathroom.

’Wang Hao’s injuries are almost completely healed. In two days, his body will be fully recovered, and we can go find that target.’

’Once we get a lead on Liu Menglong’s case from him, we can quickly get to the bottom of his mysterious death in the wilderness.’

’After everything is settled, Wang Hao can put in a good word for me with the higher-ups, and I’ll be completely cleared of the blame for dereliction of duty...’ Chen Xiaoyan thought gleefully as Wang Hao went to the bathroom to shower.

Then, she picked up her phone, opened a food delivery app, and ordered a huge amount of takeout for Wang Hao.

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