Lin Muci rushed out, and everyone was bewildered by her sudden departure.
Then, they watched as she took out her acupuncture tools from her pink suitcase. She patted her chest with a sense of relief.
“Good thing I brought them.”
“Wait a moment.”
She massaged the limbs of the little girl named Xiaoxiao.
Xiaoxiao’s arms and legs had been hanging limply, devoid of any sensation.
After a few vigorous rubs from Lin Muci, the little girl’s eyes gradually widened.
“Mom, Dad… I can feel it!”
Even Lin Muci found it hard to believe.
She was massaging Xiaoxiao’s key acupoints.
Lowering her head, she slowly stroked the acupoints on the girl’s body, then said.
“We need to find a proper traditional Chinese medicine clinic. Continuous massage will lead to improvement.”
“This isn’t an incurable terminal illness. But the key is, you must stop listening to this TCM practitioner, Doctor Luo!”
The middle-aged man opposite her, with an air of immortal grace, trembled at the corners of his lips.
“What are you doing? Are you trying to ruin my reputation? I said this little girl couldn't be cured! Her paralysis is her own problem. I am absolutely infallible— ”
But Lin Muci was not afraid of him at all and confronted him directly.
“You are absolutely infallible? What a joke.”
She looked coldly at the middle-aged man.
She would show no mercy to this charlatan.
“Then I ask you, from which school or sect do you hail?”
“From south to north, there are hundreds of traditional Chinese medicine sects passed down through generations. If you can tell me your lineage, I will inquire with your elders about how they raised someone as ungrateful as you, who treats patients as tools for profit and harms them like a useless piece of trash!”
She was determined to expose him today.
The man’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“You—how dare you be so arrogant?”
“I am from the prestigious Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy… with a legacy of two hundred years…”
Lin Muci interrupted.
“You, of all people, dare to mention Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy? Do you even know when Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy chooses to save or not to save?”
“It saves the impoverished, it saves women of humble status, it saves mothers and newborns, and it saves those who perform acts of righteousness.”
“It does not save corrupt officials, nor does it save those who are wealthy and cruel, nor does it save murderers and thieves, nor does it save those who have committed heinous crimes!”
“You, with your bloated belly and body full of corrupted qi, are destined to suffer a cerebral hemorrhage. How dare you claim to represent Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy?”
“Furthermore, the current successor of Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy is not you at all!”
She spoke fluently, leaving him speechless.
The audience was stunned.
【Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy?】
【Someone fill us in, so traditional Chinese medicine also has schools and lineages? Is this Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy very reputable?】
It could be said that among millions of viewers, all sorts of peculiar individuals were present.
【Of course, it’s reputable! Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy, wow, that’s a grand pharmacy with a legacy dating back to the Qing Dynasty… It’s said that the elder TCM practitioners there are incomparably skilled.】
【However, Xiao Ci is so certain that this man isn’t the current successor of Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy.】
【Could it be that Xiao Ci knows who the current successor of Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy is?】
Everyone speculated.
【Xiao Ci is mighty and domineering! I truly love her to death, woo woo woo.】
【She actually seems to know some TCM, I heard her maternal grandfather was very ill before, and was about to undergo brain surgery, but she cured him with TCM! She’s got the real skills, which is why Xiao Ci can corner him to the point of no return!】
The man trembled with rage, the jowls on his cheeks shaking.
Called out by name by Lin Muci.
His eyes rolled back.
Suddenly, his complexion turned dark purple.
He appeared to be in a bad state, twitching uncontrollably, as if he had a seizure.
Watching this scene, everyone was startled!
“What’s happening, what’s happening?”
【Tsk, she hit a sore spot, didn’t she? I bet he couldn’t argue with Xiao Ci, so he pretended to collapse to cover his embarrassment. We’ve seen through this trick long ago.】
【He’s just putting on an act, like stuffing garlic into a pig’s nose.】
【I agree, he’s faking it, tsk tsk, how shameless.】
But Lin Muci, staring at his now purple cheeks, quickly squatted down.
“Give me the needles.”
Her needling was divine!
The man opened his eyes, coughed out a mouthful of black clotted blood, and then Lin Muci spoke, turning to look at the production team.
“Don’t just stand there, hurry up and call for an ambulance. This is a critical myocardial infarction. If not treated properly, there could be sequelae. I told you he was obese and his face was puffy. Someone like him, who indulges in drink and women for so long, can’t even take care of his own health, how can he practice TCM and treat others?”
The production team frantically found someone to send him to the hospital.
Lin Muci went to wash her hands, and Ling Qianhe had been watching her.
As she went to the sink to wash her hands, he stood not far away, watching her. The warm morning light fell on her cheeks, and Ling Qianhe’s voice sounded softly near her ear.
“You said you wanted to treat me, were you serious?”
Lin Muci rolled her eyes at him, unamused.
“Do you think I was lying to you?”
Ling Qianhe’s voice was warm, with a hint of a low chuckle.
“Initially, I thought you were a fraud.”
“So, who is the current successor of Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy?”
“You spoke so confidently, it made it seem like you knew him. Is it your psychologist, Yang Lany an?”
Lin Muci snorted, “Not at all.”
The system happily chimed in. Da Feng Novel Network.
“Ling Qianhe is usually quite intelligent, capable of all sorts of probing, and can guess that you are his Mu Ci sister.”
“Why has he suddenly become so foolish?”
“Who the current successor of Bai Zhi Lin Pharmacy is, isn’t that obvious?”
“You spent a full five years in this world. Host, besides raising this villain who turned malevolent, you were not idle at all. Those aliases you had are probably still useful.”
Lin Muci waved her hand, now only wanting to know.
“Has the mission been completed? Will the points be credited?”
The system hummed.
“It’s still being calculated, but it should be okay. The subsequent mission is already in the activation state.”
“That bully is not easy to deal with. He has been entrenched in the local area for years, and your next mission location might involve encountering his cronies.”
Lin Muci finished washing her hands and returned to the production crew.
After the incident, the production team no longer dared to proceed with any breakfast tasks.
They hastily handed out a few pieces of bread to everyone and told them to get on the bus.
Sitting on the bus, everyone looked at Lin Muci with newfound respect.
Skills are never a burden; one of them will always come in handy.
The director coughed and quickly began to read out the new mission content.
“New mission.”
“Proceed to the second floor of the Ancient Capital Building.”
“Enter the escape room and successfully complete the murder mystery script 《Infinite Slaughter》!”
“Please note, this mission carries a certain degree of danger—this murder mystery is horror-themed! Everyone must be careful to protect yourselves!”
Horror-themed?
Lin Muci couldn’t help but look at Ling Qianhe.
Mentioning horror, why did she have a premonition of something ominous again?
Especially with Ling Qianhe sitting behind her, his lips curved into a half-smile—although she was the one executing the mission, in this variety show, Ling Qianhe was the one who knew the complete storyline.
Lin Muci huffed indignantly.
This feeling of their roles being reversed was truly… utterly terrible.