988 Strange Ailmen (1/2)
Recently, three young people from the village had come to find Wang Yao for treatment. They went to the clinic every day. Their illnesses were quite unique. They fell ill at a specific time every day. Their bodies convulsed, and they lost the ability to make any sounds, but they were always conscious.
Wang Yao diagnosed them and found that they were infected with a special toxin. The cause of their illness was very strange. All three of them had gone to the same mountain and returned with symptoms of the disease on the same day. During the start of the illness, the symptoms did not persist for long. As time went by, the length of the symptoms during the fixed time they happened gradually became longer.
”Did you guys touch anything special when you were on the mountain?” Wang Yao was very curious as to how they got infected with this special illness.
”Well, about that…” The three young people hesitated when they heard the question.
A young man, who was the leader of the group, stood up and said, ”I'll tell him.”
”We've been to a place. It was a collapsed tomb.”
”An ancient tomb?”
”Yes, but it can hardly be considered an ancient tomb,” the leader said. ”It should be a tomb from the Republic of China. There were no decent protection there. It was just circled off.”
”Did you guys go in?” Wang Yao asked.
”Well, we were curious. We went in to have a look.”
”Ha-ha!” Wang Yao laughed.
Young people were quite interesting. Those tombs had always been regarded as an unlucky symbol. Other than the days where visiting them was mandatory, the living were usually unwilling to even go and visit the tombs of their relatives. Of course, those ancient tombs with treasures inside were exceptions. These young people were interesting. They actually wanted to go in and have a look in such a tomb.
”What was in there?” Wang Yao asked.
”Nothing much,” the leader said. ”There was just a broken coffin.”
”Did you guys touch it?”
”Yes, we just patted it.”
”What courage,” Wang Yao said with a smile.
Ordinary people thought it was unlucky to see those things and insisted on taking a detour. He hadn't expected these young men to be so brave and eccentric. They actually wanted to touch other people's coffins.
”Dr. Wang, can you treat our illness?”
”Yes,” Wang Yao said with a smile.
After conversing for a bit, Wang Yao started the treatment. During his treatment, he realized that the toxins in these three young people were more stubborn than he had thought. That's right, they were stubborn. The young men were not rid of the toxins until they had taken Antidote Powder for three consecutive days.
”Alright, the toxins in your bodies have been completely detoxified,” Wang Yao said.
”Are we really cured?”
”No.”
They replied in unison. In fact, they had felt the effects of the medicine the first time they had taken it. Although they still got sick, the duration of the symptoms had shortened by half. At that time, they felt elated and shocked.
It had worked. They had made the right choice in going to the village clinic.
After only the first treatment, they saw hope. They had no hesitation and were eager to carry out the next treatment.
Something even more surprising happened on the second day. The did not become sick at all that day.
The three of them were so happy that they couldn't fall asleep for almost the entire night.
Now that Wang Yao had told them they were cured, they were over the moon. At the same time, they had worries as to whether the illness would relapse.
”If I said that you're cured, that means that you are cured,” Wang Yao said.
”Thank you, Dr. Wang.”
The three paid for the treatment and happily left.
”Hey, do you think we're fully cured. Will it recur?”
”That's easy. Since we're already here, we'll stay another two days here. We'll wait and see. If we don't have another episode in a few days, we can be sure that our illness is gone for good. If we fall sick, we'll just go and find him again.”