Wolfbane

While all this was happening, Wang Ming was still oblivious, riding in the ambulance with his customers. Not knowing what had transpired and lucky that the special person was sitting in the ambulance with him. Which let him escape, though if Wang Ming had stayed no one could be sure of who would suffer defeat. Not even Wang Ming, since he still didn't know the limits of his powers.

On the way to the hospital, Wang Ming tried to check up on his customers to see if they were doing fine. Though before he could, the paramedics already started the questions, so he just sat down listening to their diagnosis.

None of them were in a critical condition, and their diagnosis is that someone had poisoned the food and the chances for this was ordinary food poisoning was minimal, like Wang Ming had thought. It had to be something to do with the meat and the suspicious needle holes. The holes were there when he took the meat, so his best bet was to ask Weng Ping about this. He didn't believe that Weng Ping had anything to do with this, but it would be his biggest lead.

There were only three possibilities. The first possibility was that Weng Ping was behind this and wanted to screw him over. The second is someone sneaked into Weng Ping's shop and poisoned the meat and the third that Weng Ping's source did something.

Though the last one wasn't too plausible, it should be the first or second possibility. Though thinking for a while, Wang Ming thought of one person, Weng Ting. Maybe it had something to do with him. Did Weng Ping screw with him because of Weng Ting? Or did Weng Ting want to take revenge, so he coerced his uncle or sneaked into the shop? Well, he would find out after finishing up the business at the hospital. The most important thing now is to take care of the victims.

Arriving at the hospital, the ambulance opened up, and the paramedics unloaded people from the ambulance. Seeing this nurses started running out of the hospital to help the paramedics, Wang Ming also helped the paramedics. He then tried to carry Zhu Han, but his father Zhu Hong stopped him. Zhu Hong carried him by himself.

Following the nurses, Wang Ming felt relieved they placed all his poisoned customers in the same room. This would make it easier for him to get the diagnosis from the doctor and for Wang Ming to explain himself to their families. Seeing the doctors finally arrive, Wang Ming grew nervous. If this was only a weak poison, then it wouldn't be too bad. But if this was a slow acting but lethal poison, then Wang Ming's reputation would be tarnished and he could land in jail.

Seeing the doctor examining one after another not saying anything made Wang Ming even more nervous. The only expression the doctor had on his face was a frown. Finally, examining the last person, he then turned towards Wang Ming's side, where Zhu Hong and his wife also stood. No other family members had come yet, but were probably on their way.

"Who are the family members of these patients? The people who are not please go outside and wait for visit times."

Hearing what he said, Zhu Han's parents and Wang Ming instantly replied.

"We are the little boy's parents!"

"I'm not a family member, but they got ill after eating in my restaurant. I really need to hear about their condition to see if they're fine. And also investigate what went wrong."

Wang Ming didn't have any reason or authority to hear about his customer's situation in the doctor's eyes. But since he asked so sincerely, he sighed and let him stay. He then told them what he had found.

"We have to do a closer examination to know for sure. But we are 99% sure that this is a case of Aconitum napellus poisoning. Aconitum napellus is more known by its alternative names monkshood and wolfsbane. Wolfsbane isn't a herb used in cooking at all, so we don't understand how they all have contracted this poison."

Taking a deep breath, the doctor followed up by saying.

"They got many of the symptoms associated with Wolfsbane poisoning like. Nausea, slowed heartbeat, numbness, dizziness, and weakness. There are some other symptoms, but these are the main ones. We have checked all the patients and luckily they all have a stable heartbeat. So we think they only ingested a small dose of it, meaning they will be ok after a while. But we prefer if they stay here 1 day so we can do a full checkup."

After the doctor had said his piece, he looked at Wang Ming and Zhu Han's parents to see if they had understood what he had said. Seeing them nodding, he made his way out of the room. But before he could run off, Wang Ming stopped him at the hallway.

Wang Ming didn't have much knowledge about poisonous herbs, he only knew that Wolfsbane is poisonous and shouldn't be consumed in any circumstances.

"Sorry for wasting your time, doctor, but I need to ask a question."

Before the doctor could respond, Wang Ming started asking. Since this was an important question for him, he needed to know the answer.

"How do you poison someone with the wolfbane? Do you have to ingest it directly or its seeds? Or can you make it to a liquid formula and potentially inject it into something?"

Thinking for a bit, the doctor then replied Wang Ming. The answer made Wang Ming even more restless.

"Ah, this is easy. The only thing you need to do is cook the wolfbane. This is how many people extract a lot of the poison so they can consume it. So you would only need to inject the water into the thing you want to poison. I guess you want to find out what happened at your restaurant."

After thanking the doctor, Wang Ming got to thinking again. Hearing the doctor's answer, Wang Ming was now sure that the poisoning had happened at Weng Ping's store. Since there was no way for Weng Ping's source to know of who would buy the meat from Weng Ping. So unless they poisoned an enormous amount of meat for fun and didn't want to frame Wang Ming, then it would make sense.

But asking around the hospital, none other patients had been hospitalized because of wolfbane poisoning. He had also asked hospital staff if they knew of any other hospital, who had gotten patients with the same poisoning. But all the answers were no. Which meant that someone had to have targeted Weng Ping's shop or Wang Ming's.

There was no way for him to find out of the answer now, so Wang Ming could only wait to finish at the hospital first. Before going to Weng, Ping's shop.

Making his way back towards the room, where Zhu Han and the others were. He could hear a lot of loud noises inside. Seems like the family members had arrived, and it didn't seem like they were happy. Pumping his chest up, Wang Ming then walked in confidently. He couldn't appear weak here if he did, then they would skin him alive.