Ma Xiaoling didn't care about anything else, she just bet all her chips on Lu Ming.
Everyone dispersed, leaving Lu Ming alone standing by Ma Tengyun's sickbed.
First, all the miscellaneous equipment was removed, and then Lu Ming began to apply medicine to Ma Tengyun, oral and external, complete from inside and out. Leaving aside other things, Lu Ming's method of applying medicine was incredibly smooth.
The entire process took less than 15 minutes and was all done.
Lu Ming stood quietly by the bedside, watching.
As time ticked by, slowly, a miracle truly happened! Ma Tengyun, who had been declared 'dead', miraculously opened his eyes.
He was alive, he was alive!
A series of strange atmospheres filled the room.
Ma Xiaoling was naturally overjoyed, while Jiang Mengxin looked shocked. She had never imagined that Lu Ming could actually cure Ma Tengyun.
As for those doctors and nurses, they all felt incredibly ashamed.
Especially the chief physician!
Ma Tengyun, whom they had exhausted all efforts to treat without success, was cured by Lu Ming in just 15 minutes? Wasn't this a blatant slap in their faces?
The doctors and nurses felt a burning shame, as if their faces were on fire.
But the next scene made the doctors and nurses even more uneasy.
As soon as Ma Tengyun woke up, before he could even utter a word, he suddenly felt an unbearable pain in his head, as if it were about to split open.
Ma Tengyun clutched his head with both hands, writhing in pain on the bed.
"It hurts."
"I'm in so much pain."
"Why does my head hurt so much?"
"Ah!!!"
This scene stunned Ma Xiaoling. She had thought that once Ma Tengyun woke up, everything would be fine, but what was this scene before her?
Ma Tengyun's illness was not cured!
Ma Xiaoling looked at Lu Ming and questioned, "What's going on? Why is my father's head hurting again?"
Before Lu Ming could reply, the chief physician said very rudely, "Do I even need to ask? This is the after-effect of reckless medication. Miss Ma, you didn't listen to me and let a charlatan run wild. Now something has happened, right? Although President Ma has temporarily woken up, he is still unable to escape the fate of death! Originally, President Ma could have passed away peacefully, but now look, he will die in extreme agony! Miss Ma, is this what you wanted to see? Heh heh."
His words utterly demeaned Lu Ming.
The chief physician, unable to cure the illness himself, of course, couldn't let Lu Ming succeed either, otherwise, where would he save face?
Ma Xiaoling faltered.
She looked at Lu Ming, "Is all of this true? Will my father still die? Can the poison of Juxianxiang truly not be cured?"
Lu Ming chuckled.
He seemed to have anticipated this, and calmly took out a small packet of powder from his briefcase. "This situation was bound to happen. Because President Ma has always been troubled by headaches, but due to the numbing effect of Juxianxiang, his headaches have been suppressed by his brain. Although he couldn't feel the pain, the illness was constantly worsening."
He paused, then continued, "Now that the toxicity of Juxianxiang has been eliminated, the headache symptoms can no longer be suppressed, and naturally, he will feel intense pain. This is President Ma's own condition, unrelated to Juxianxiang. As long as it is treated properly, it will be completely cured."
Everything he said sounded reasonable.
The chief physician, however, sneered, "Hooey, keep on with your lies. You speak as if it's true, but it's clearly you, a quack, who has harmed President Ma with your reckless medication! You still want to shirk responsibility? Bah!"
Lu Ming ignored him. Instead, he handed the powder to Ma Xiaoling and instructed, "Dissolve this powder in water and feed it to President Ma while it's still warm later."
"What is this powder?" Ma Xiaoling asked.
"It's a medicine to relieve headaches and induce rapid unconsciousness for a short period," Lu Ming replied truthfully.
Unconsciousness?
Ma Xiaoling didn't understand. "What are you going to do?"
Lu Ming then took out a box of silver needles and said, "Let President Ma sleep peacefully for a while. I will administer a few needles to his head to help him resolve his headache."
This was becoming increasingly insane.
Needling someone's head. If anything went wrong, Lu Ming could send Ma Tengyun to his grave without the illness doing it!
Jiang Mengxin became a little scared.
If Lu Ming accidentally killed Ma Tengyun, would she also be implicated?
"Ahem." Jiang Mengxin deliberately coughed, "Lu Ming, don't go too far. For acupuncture, please let someone else do it."
Lu Ming shook his head. "This set of acupuncture techniques is incredibly complex. Only I can perform it; no one else can."
Everyone burst into laughter.
Exaggerated!
Bragging!
Shameless!
The chief physician said, "You are truly amazing. You make it sound as if only you in the entire world know acupuncture, and no one else can do it, only you. How can you be so capable? Do your family members know how capable you are?"
Lu Ming thought for a moment and said, "Speaking of which, this set of acupuncture techniques truly seems to be known only by me in the entire world."
The chief physician's mouth was contorted with anger. "Didn't you hear me speaking sarcastically? Damn it, you actually took it seriously?"
Turning back, the chief physician said to Ma Xiaoling, "Miss Ma, before things go from bad to worse, please give up. Don't let this charlatan continue to abuse President Ma!"
They had already reached this point.
Give up?
Ma Xiaoling chose to continue to believe in Lu Ming. In any case, it was a desperate situation, and it wouldn't be too late to hold Lu Ming accountable if Ma Tengyun's illness couldn't be cured in the end.
There was no rush.
Ma Xiaoling said earnestly, "Lu Ming, I will trust you one more time."
With that, she personally took the powder to dissolve it. At this moment, Ma Xiaoling trusted no one but herself.
The powder was soon dissolved.
Ma Xiaoling personally fed it to Ma Tengyun.
It had to be said, the powder was quite effective. Not long after Ma Tengyun drank it, he slumped down and fell unconscious.
Everyone present was secretly astonished.
"This powder is so potent, more effective than our anesthetics."
"I'm increasingly suspicious of Lu Ming's true identity. Perhaps he has used this powder to harm people often."
"Perhaps those who were drugged in bars were given this powder!"
"Makes sense."
These people were making up elaborate theories, as if Lu Ming were some kind of criminal.
Lu Ming didn't have time to pay attention to them. He silently took out all the silver needles he had prepared beforehand and began to apply them to Ma Tengyun.
Because the needles were being inserted into the human brain, the precision required was much higher than when applying them to the body.
It imposed very strict requirements on the needle insertion techniques.
However.
This was nothing for Lu Ming.
Each needle was placed precisely and perfectly!
In less than an hour, Lu Ming had inserted all eighty-one needles into Ma Tengyun's head. His entire head was densely covered with needles.
It looked like a giant porcupine.