At the Ji family mansion.
Bai Lian hung up the phone, frowning slightly. After a minute of thought, she decided to bring Lansi along.
“What’s up?” Lansi was playing chess with Jiang He.
Bai Lian looked serious. She remembered meeting Zhou Jian that day, and felt like she was on the verge of connecting something, but couldn’t quite grasp it yet.
Seeing Bai Lian’s expression, Lansi didn’t dare to say much.
Ji Mulan hadn’t been clear on the phone, so Bai Lian decided to go to the hospital directly.
Twenty minutes later.
At the entrance of Xiangcheng Hospital.
An ambulance was ready.
When Bai Lian and Lansi arrived at the ward, Xu En’s assistant was discussing the hospital transfer with the doctor.
Seeing Bai Lian, the assistant turned around with a grave expression, “Miss Bai.”
Hearing it was a neurotoxin, no hospital in Jiangjiang was willing to accept the transfer.
Xu Wenyao was still looking for options.
So neither Xu En’s assistant nor Ji Mulan looked happy. Ji Mulan didn’t look at Bai Lian, only staring at her own hands, “I shouldn’t have let him come back…”
“Neurotoxin?” Bai Lian finally heard the diagnosis. She tilted her head and asked Lansi, “Have you heard of it?”
Knowing Lansi was the doctor who operated on Shen Qing, Xu En’s assistant also turned his gaze to Lansi.
“I know about it,” Lansi replied in English. His Chinese was decent, and after listening to their conversation and flipping through the medical records in Dr. Li’s hands, he said, “MTR has an antidote.”
Finally hearing a familiar term, Dr. Li looked excitedly at Lansi, “Yes, Dr. Lansi is correct. MTR definitely has an antidote!”
Neither Ji Mulan nor the assistant had heard of this lab before, so they were both a bit confused, “What’s MTR?”
“It’s the largest medical research laboratory abroad,” Dr. Li pushed his glasses back up his nose and explained to them, “They have many experimental medical equipment, pharmaceutical products, and cutting-edge medical research. If they don’t have an antidote for this neurotoxin, it’s unlikely anyone else would.”
Ji Mulan and the assistant were completely lost listening to this.
“Can you get it?” Bai Lian asked Lansi. She was wearing a plain white long dress, her demeanor calm and composed.
The assistant looked at Bai Lian, also quickly regaining his composure.
He recalled Xu Wenyao’s words and smiled bitterly, “Miss Bai, it’s not that easy to get medicine from this kind of laboratory…”
“It’s possible,” Lansi frowned, “But there are two issues. First, how to transport it back, and second… what specific neurotoxin is in his body.”
Different neurotoxins require different antidotes.
If MTR didn’t have the antidote for the neurotoxin in Xu En’s body, they would have to look elsewhere.
The assistant looked at Lansi in shock.
He had always known Lansi was skilled in surgery, but his perception of Bai Lian’s acquaintances was limited.
To think that this Dr. Lansi could so easily obtain an antidote that even Xu Wenyao couldn’t find?
Unlike the assistant, Dr. Li had seen Jiang Fuli bring over equipment from MTR before.
So he wasn’t surprised by this.
“We have an analysis of the toxin in Mr. Xu’s body,” Dr. Li turned and brought out another report, “As long as we find the original toxin and analyze it with a mass spectrometer, we can determine its source.”
A nurse listening nearby reminded them, “But we don’t have this kind of toxin in our country.”
Dr. Li nodded, but then said, “We don’t have it domestically, but there’s one place in Xiangcheng that might.”
Xu En’s assistant caught on to what Dr. Li was implying and drew in a sharp breath, “Black Water Street?”
He had suspected earlier that the toxin in Xu En’s body came from Black Water Street, and even started to wonder if it was the doing of that Black Water Street boss, “Mr. Lu”.
Dr. Li nodded slightly.
“Dr. Li,” Xu En’s assistant smiled bitterly, “What’s the difference between mentioning this place and not mentioning it?”
Not to mention what kind of place Black Water Street was, whether they could even go there was another matter.
Even if they went, where would they find the neurotoxin? This kind of toxin couldn’t be bought without some special connections.
This was the second time Ji Mulan had heard of Black Water Street. She vaguely understood what kind of place it was. She took out her phone to call Ren Qian.
Ren Qian now answered their calls very quickly, his tone slightly surprised, “Mrs. Ji.”
Seeing Ji Mulan make the call, Xu En’s assistant finally remembered this point as well.
The Xu family had no roots in Xiangcheng, but the Ren family were the local power players.
“Black Water Street? I’ll try my best to help you make contacts,” Ren Qian was also clueless about the neurotoxin, “As for the Black Water Street pass, I can get it to you by 8:30 tomorrow morning.”
Black Water Street didn’t belong to Xiangcheng, nor was it within the country’s borders.
They needed to arrange passes in advance every time they entered.
Tomorrow morning at 8:30 was already the fastest Ren Qian could manage.
“Thank you.” Ji Mulan hung up the phone.
Beside her, Xu En’s assistant and Dr. Li had overheard their conversation, but their heavy hearts still hadn’t lightened. Whether they could find the needed toxin in Black Water Street was still uncertain.
Moreover, a place like Black Water Street…
They would need to be fully armed just to enter.
Xu En’s assistant looked at Ji Mulan, pondered for a moment, then said, “Ask Old Mr. Ren if he knows any mercenaries in the area.”
Nearby, Bai Lian leaned slightly against the wall.
Her expression was calm, her eyelashes lowered, her right hand turning her phone as she pieced together the cause and effect.
About three minutes later, she looked up at Dr. Li, “Can that mass spectrometer be taken out?”
The mass spectrometer was a gift from Jiang Fuli to the hospital for research purposes.
It was rarely used.
If anyone else wanted to take it out, it would be impossible.
But this was Bai Lian asking, so there was room for discussion.
“If you need to use it,” Dr. Li put down the test results in his hand, “I can apply to the hospital director.”
“Thank you,” Bai Lian nodded. She gripped her phone, “Are you free now?”
Dr. Li shook his head. He was technically working overtime now. This was the first time he had seen Xu En’s symptoms, so he had stayed to observe Xu En’s physical data. This would be his academic paper.
“Alright,” Bai Lian lowered her head and leisurely dialed a number on her phone, “Bring the mass spectrometer down. I’ll wait for you at the hospital entrance.”
Bai Lian walked towards the elevator, pressing the button with her fingertip. She turned back to look at Xu En’s assistant, “Did you drive here?”
Under the dim corridor lights, her face was vaguely cold and elegant.
There was a touch of unconventionality etched into her grace.
“Yes.” Xu En’s assistant answered reflexively.
“Ding—”
The elevator doors opened.
Bai Lian walked in and looked up, “Then come with me.”
At the hospital entrance, the assistant found the parked car and drove it over.
Dr. Li and several male doctors had just brought the mass spectrometer to the hospital entrance.
The mass spectrometer was quite large, but fortunately, the assistant had driven a business van today. By folding down the last row of seats, they were just able to fit the mass spectrometer in.
Bai Lian sat in the back.
Dr. Li opened the front passenger door and sat down.
“Miss Bai, where are we going?” The assistant looked in the rearview mirror. Bai Lian was looking down at her phone.
Bai Lian lowered her eyes, leisurely opening her vocabulary app, “Go straight.”
Xu En’s assistant drove according to Bai Lian’s directions, the route becoming increasingly familiar.
Finally, after passing through Qingshui Street and arriving at a bridge, Xu En’s assistant and Dr. Li both saw the large black characters “Black Water Street” at the end of the bridge, and drew in sharp breaths.
“M-Miss Bai…” Xu En’s assistant’s hands and feet went weak.
He and Xu En had both heard of this place, especially that bar and auction house. Even international mercenaries couldn’t fare well here.
Dr. Li was no better off than the assistant.
Both were terrified in their hearts. If they had known Bai Lian was directing them here, Xu En’s assistant wouldn’t have dared to come even if threatened with death.
“Keep driving.” Bai Lian didn’t even look up, her tone neither cold nor warm.
Xu En’s assistant had no choice but to keep going forward.
When they reached the entrance, they were stopped, and the assistant and Dr. Li finally breathed sighs of relief.
They hadn’t even considered how Bai Lian knew this place.
“Miss Bai, you need a pass to enter here. Mr. Ren said the earliest we could get one is tomorrow morning,” Xu En’s assistant looked in the rearview mirror and explained, “Besides, the people we hired haven’t arrived yet. We should leave first!”
Dr. Li also clutched his seatbelt nervously, terrified, “That’s right, we can’t enter now…”
Bai Lian finally looked up. She didn’t speak, just looked ahead.
The assistant instinctively followed Bai Lian’s gaze.
At the entrance, a young man slowly walked over. He wasn’t very old, looking scholarly and refined. The assistant felt he looked somewhat familiar.
The young man just raised his hand to the guard at the entrance.
Dr. Li, who hadn’t finished speaking, and the assistant both watched in astonishment as the barrier slowly rose.
Bai Lian put away her phone, her fingertip lightly tapping the phone case, “Aren’t you going in?”
“Huh?” The assistant came to his senses. A car behind them was honking its horn.
At this point, there was no room for retreat, nor for him to wonder why the barrier had risen. He tore his gaze away from Xiao Qi and quickly started the car, driving inside.
The Qinglong Bar was right at the entrance.
Bai Lian had Xu’s assistant park the car in the empty lot across the street.
Like the auction house, the Qinglong Bar’s sign was extremely flamboyant. The characters for “Qinglong” in two languages hung arrogantly on the side, each character as tall as a floor, flashing with colorful lights.
Bai Lian got out of the back seat and stood there, looking at the flashing “Qinglong” characters, seemingly lost in thought.
“Miss Bai.” Xu’s assistant came to his senses. He quickly turned off the car and carefully got out.
Then he looked up at the legendary Qinglong Bar.
His heart was pounding.
He had heard Xu En mention this Qinglong Bar a few times, but had never been to Black Water Street. It was chaotic here, and unless you understood the power dynamics of Black Water Street, even Xu En wouldn’t dare say he could leave safely.
Just then, suddenly, more than a dozen men in black emerged from the Qinglong Bar with a “whoosh”.
The leader was a man with yellow hair. He looked left and right, then walked straight towards Bai Lian.
“These are people from the Qinglong Bar, one of the three major powers in Black Water Street. What do they want?” Xu’s assistant swallowed hard. He had heard about this from Xu En.
That Mr. Lu who had previously acquired the land had some connections with the Qinglong Bar, which was why even Ren Qian feared him. Xu En had tried to meet with Mr. Lu several times but never succeeded.
If someone with just some connections was so arrogant, not to mention these people who were actually from inside the Qinglong Bar.
Xu’s assistant’s heart was in his throat, “Miss Bai, do you see them walking towards us?”
The bloodthirsty aura around each of them was very strong, giving off an extremely oppressive feeling.
At this point, not just the assistant, but even the usually detached Dr. Li realized these were no ordinary people.
His legs shaking, he grabbed Xu’s assistant’s arm.
Compared to Xu’s assistant, he was even more panicked. He was just an ordinary doctor, and before this, he had only heard old people talk about Black Water Street. Now, as soon as they arrived, they encountered people from the Qinglong Bar.
Dr. Li watched wide-eyed as the yellow-haired man walked straight towards Bai Lian without even a slight detour.
Xu’s assistant also noticed that the yellow-haired man was heading straight for Bai Lian.
He turned his head, about to speak to Bai Lian.
Bai Lian put her phone back in her pocket and walked forward, only glancing at Mao Kun, “I asked you to find two people to move things, why did you bring so many people out?”
The ten bodyguards instantly made way for her with a “whoosh”.
Eight thousand words, consider it my third update, okay? (…6
By the way, yesterday someone actually guessed he was poisoned. See you tomorrow. (PS: No way, how did you know I pulled Jiang’s laser card?)
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