nucmednet Chapter 249 Perilous Poison
Chapter 249 Perilous Poison
Almost simultaneously, Chu Yunchuan strode towards Bai Zhi and pulled her tightly into his arms.
He said nothing, his chin pressed against Bai Zhi's head, his breathing rapid.
"It really is you..." Bai Zhi let him hold her, her hands stroking Chu Yunchuan's back and clutching his clothes. Her heart pounded all the way to her temples, and her vision blurred; the feeling of unreality had not yet subsided.
Chu Yunchuan lowered his head and buried his face in Bai Zhi's neck, taking a deep sniff: "It's me, it's me."
After a while, Bai Zhi asked again, "Is it really you?"
Chu Yunchuan answered her again: "It's me, it's Chu Yunchuan."
Bai Zhi suddenly pulled back with increasing force, hugging him tighter and tighter, without saying a word. Chu Yunchuan placed one hand on the back of Bai Zhi's neck, his warm fingertips touching her pulse, feeling the strong, powerful beat there.
Soon, heavily, she was alive and well. Chu Yunchuan closed his eyes, his frantic breathing finally slowing down a bit.
After a long pause, a muffled voice came from Chu Yunchuan's chest: "I want to drink water..."
Chu Yunchuan immediately shouted, "Someone! Get the water bags!"
A bodyguard brought over a water bag, and Chu Yunchuan opened the lid and gently fed it to Bai Zhi.
After gulping down several large mouthfuls, Bai Zhi tilted her head slightly, indicating that Chu Yunchuan was full. She removed the water bag and asked, "Is there anything to eat?"
The guard immediately took out a pancake from his person, and Chu Yunchuan tore it into small, easy-to-eat pieces and fed it to her one by one.
Watching Bai Zhi eat and drink, Chu Yunchuan felt a lump in his throat.
After taking a few bites, Bai Zhi let out a long sigh of relief. She looked straight at Chu Yunchuan and asked out of the blue, "Is it really you?"
Chu Yunchuan couldn't help but laugh, wiping the crumbs from the corner of her mouth with his thumb, and patiently answered her, "It really is me."
Bai Zhi's heart, once a precious stone, finally shattered into dust. She stopped asking questions and opened her mouth: "Ah—"
Chu Yunchuan tore off another piece of cake and fed it to her, his gaze remaining fixed on her face.
After finishing the pancake, Bai Zhi asked, "What are you doing here? Did you come all this way to find me? How did you know I was in the Southern Barbarian Lands?"
"Qiaoqiao told me."
Chu Yunchuan began to recount his story in a rambling manner, starting from the day Qiaoqiao met him and mentioning Lu Jiliang's message. Bai Zhi nodded knowingly, leaned over and kissed the corner of Chu Yunchuan's lips, then turned her head and chuckled softly, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
“…Bai Zhi.” Chu Yunchuan grasped her wrist, his eyelashes lowered so he didn’t look at her, his voice low and husky, “I will never let you leave again.”
Bai Zhi glanced at Chu Yunchuan's handcuffed hands and couldn't help but chuckle, "I didn't originally intend to stay too far away from you, if it weren't for..." She paused, then changed the subject, "I'm relieved that Qiaoqiao and Chuqi are both alright, the informant you sent..."
Chu Yunchuan interrupted her and pressed, "Otherwise what? Did Ge Zhen kidnap you?"
"Don't ask yet, this matter is a bit complicated, I'll tell you later." Bai Zhi gently patted Chu Yunchuan's hand to comfort him. "We're going to Salam now. When your informant rescued me, he also brought out the drug makers from Salam. Their fate is unknown now. If we can't rescue them, all our efforts will be in vain."
After some hesitation, Chu Yunchuan listened to her and nodded, saying, "Okay, let's go now."
None of those present knew where Salam was, so they went back into the pile of corpses to rummage through them for survivors. Unfortunately, the guards were always skilled at killing with a single blow, and all the barbarians were dead.
The guards looked at each other and silently began searching the barbarian's body.
Chu Yunchuan squatted down and carefully searched the front of a barbarian's robe. When he pressed on the abdomen, a strange phenomenon occurred: a wisp of white smoke spewed from the barbarian's mouth, catching Chu Yunchuan off guard and spraying it all over his face.
The guard who happened to witness this scene suddenly changed his expression and pulled Chu Yunchuan away as quickly as possible.
But we were still a step too late.
Chu Yunchuan's body went limp in an instant, and he collapsed to the ground. Then, blood slowly gushed from the corner of his mouth.
Things happened so fast that Bai Zhi, who was standing on the outside, rushed over in three steps, slapped Chu Yunchuan's face with a little force, and raised her voice: "Chu Yunchuan, Chu Yunchuan!"
The guard immediately stuffed a pill into his mouth, and Bai Zhi asked, "What is this?"
"The antidote for Sukhavati. But now the barbarians' poison has been repeatedly refined..."
Bai Zhi paid no attention to what was said after that. She acted immediately, her cold, trembling hands quickly sealing three major acupoints on Chu Yunchuan's body to protect his heart meridian. Then she picked him up and placed him in a sitting position, gently breathing on him with one hand behind his back, and said sharply in his ear, "Chu Yunchuan! Wake up! Don't sleep! Chu Yunchuan!"
Chu Yunchuan's eyes remained closed, but Bai Zhidu's internal energy had some effect, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of dark red blood.
The guards stood in a circle around the two of them, their faces grim. Bai Zhi had never been on the battlefield, and although she had heard of Xin Suhe, she had never witnessed the power of the poison firsthand. However, these guards were very familiar with the poison.
At such close range, the old antidote wouldn't work, and Chu Yunchuan was almost certainly dead.
Several of the guards had already slowly lowered their heads, tears welling in their eyes.
Bai Zhi did not give up. She called Chu Yunchuan's name again and again, and every bit of internal force under her palm was steady and accurate.
However, Chu Yunchuan's head slumped limply onto Bai Zhi's shoulder. His face, pale as paper against the dark bloodstains, seemed lifeless.
Bai Zhi experienced a sudden, intense ringing in her ears.
Strangely, her other five senses suddenly became sharper, and she could clearly see Yun Chuan's long eyelashes and feel the weight of Chu Yun Chuan leaning on her shoulder.
"...Chu Yunchuan?"
The sound was like the echo inside a jar, a jar that had been covered over someone's head, the sound only reaching their own ears, as if only they could hear it. So she gently patted Chu Yunchuan's face again, her fingertips clearly touching something icy cold, like touching a cold porcelain bowl.
Her mind was frozen half an hour ago, and she couldn't quite understand what had happened.
Only when the shrill ringing in her ears stopped and she could hear the vast expanse of the wilderness rustling in the wind and birdsong again did Bai Zhi regain some sense of reality.
Is Chu Yunchuan dead?
die?
...No, no, this is too strange, this is too sudden. Can a person die so suddenly?
Bai Zhi paused for a moment, then quickly touched Chu Yunchuan's neck.
Empty.
Suddenly, the words "CPR" belatedly popped into Bai Zhi's mind. She quickly snapped out of her daze, laid the person in her arms flat, took off her coat, and placed a thin layer under Chu Yunchuan's head.
One of the guards called out, "Miss Bai."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Bai Zhi lifted Chu Yunchuan's chin, placed her two palms on his chest, and began to press hard. "His blood pressure is too low, so I can't feel his pulse. Wait for me, wait for me."
The other guards exchanged glances, their eyes devoid of any joy—when CPR was first introduced to the army, the doctors had tried this method, which was somewhat useful for soldiers whose hearts had stopped, but it was utterly ineffective in saving their poisoned comrades.