Chapter 96

"Are you Mr. Lu Sanping, the famous doctor?"

Su Peng saw the middle-aged man with a short goatee and a book in his hand and said, this man had a naturally stern face, broad forehead, and a square face, looking rather serious.

"Oh? What do you want with Lu Sanping?"

The man slightly narrowed his eyes, not answering but asking instead, questioning Su Peng.

Su Peng smiled. His sense of smell was sharp, and as soon as he entered the room, he detected a smell similar to formaldehyde on this man, with a faint hint of blood. From Xie An's description, he knew that this man seemed to have some surgical skills and a penchant for handling corpses. Perhaps he had obtained some exotic inheritance from somewhere, finding something similar to formaldehyde. When Su Peng mentioned Lu Sanping, the man's gaze did not waver, and he slightly raised his chin. From these details, Su Peng had already deduced that he was the notorious doctor, but the man might be cautious by nature, fearing any mishap, so he asked such a question.

Su Peng did not reveal the truth, and with a bow, he said, "I am Su Peng from the Black Water Army of Jiangning County. A friend told me that the city lord invited the famous doctor Lu Sanping to Jiangning County. Coincidentally, I am ill and have been unable to find a good doctor, so I rashly inquired about Mr. Lu's residence from my friend and came to seek his help."

"Hmm..." The man with the short goatee did not reveal his identity and pondered, "The news of Lu Sanping coming to Jiangning County should not have leaked much. And the people who know he lives here are only a few from the city lord's residence. You say you got the information from a friend, but the city lord is very strict with his subordinates. If he dared to tell you, he must not be a subordinate... Is your friend a young master or a young lady from the city lord's residence?"

Su Peng frowned. This man still did not admit to being Lu Sanping and instead started inquiring about him. Su Peng put his hands down and said, "I apologize, but since my friend told me the information in private, I am not comfortable revealing who he is. However, you are in Dr. Lu's room and have asked me so many questions. I wonder who you are, sir."

"Heh... Young man, don't be upset. Although I am not Lu Sanping, I do have the skills to diagnose illnesses. I see that your complexion looks rosy, but there is a faint black line on your forehead, and your voice is slightly hoarse. Have you been poisoned and suffered internal injuries, or both?" The man examined Su Peng's face and asked.

"You have a keen eye, sir!" Su Peng praised, realizing that although this man strongly denied being Lu Sanping, his medical skills had already given him away.

"Hehe... Young man, from your complexion, I can see that you have taken some medication to suppress the poison, which must have been prepared by an expert, controlling your poisoning... And you must have also practiced a powerful internal skill, so there are faint green and red lines on either side of the black line on your forehead. Is my deduction correct?"

This man's insight was truly remarkable, Su Peng thought.

"Sir, you are truly a divine being!" Su Peng had read this line in novels before and found it interesting, never thinking he would use it today. He said to the man, "Please, Mr. Lu, diagnose me and cure my illness."

"I have already said... I am not Lu Sanping. Although your poisoning is severe, it has been controlled... However, there seems to be a hidden injury. If you don't mind, may I examine you closely?" The man said. Su Peng felt a bit puzzled. This man's face looked very stern, but his tone was relatively light, which seemed inconsistent, but he did not think much about it and said, "Sir, please feel my pulse."

As he spoke, he extended his hand to the man.

The man reached out and felt Su Peng's pulse. After a while, he released his fingers and lifted Su Peng's eyelids, his stern expression unchanged, but his tone became much more serious, "Truly remarkable, how have you managed to live until today?"

"What?" Su Peng was greatly puzzled and asked, "Sir, have you discovered something?"

The man stroked his beard and said, "Your pulse is very deceptive, and an ordinary doctor would not notice it. Fortunately, I am not an ordinary person... From your pulse, I see that your triple burner meridian is in chaos, your heart and kidney meridians are nearly depleted, and your internal organs are damaged. Looking at your eyes, it seems that your mud pill palace is damaged, and you could die at any moment, yet you are still full of yang energy. If an ordinary person had your pulse, they would not be able to sleep at night and would die within seven days. I see that you have had this strange illness for about ten years. How are you still alive and well?"

Su Peng was struck by a bolt of lightning!

What he described... wasn't that his real-life condition?

Could this man see his real-life condition even in the game?

Su Peng controlled his shock and bowed respectfully to the man, "Sir, since you have diagnosed it, can you tell me if this illness will affect me?"

"Of course, it will... Although you are full of yang energy, which is keeping you alive, your organs have been overworked for too long. Within three years, you may seem fine, but one morning, you will suddenly die."

The stern-faced man with the short goatee said to Su Peng.

Su Peng felt cold sweat on his back...

Regardless of how his real-life condition was reflected in the game, this man's words were precise and not baseless.

Su Peng asked himself, he was not afraid of death, but he wanted to die with a purpose. He still had many things to accomplish, no marriage, no family, no children, no taste of more delicious food and wine, and most of the world he had not explored. How could he die like this?

"Sir, can I be saved?" Su Peng composed himself and asked the man.

"Your strange illness should have killed you long ago, but you are still alive, which means you are not meant to die. There must be a way for you to survive, but I have some urgent matters and must leave soon, so I cannot treat you in detail... In three days, fifty miles southeast of Jiangning County, there is an old temple. At the third hour of the evening, I will meet you there. I will definitely treat you then, but remember, do not tell anyone about our meeting." The man said, bowed, and left.

Su Peng watched him go, his heart racing. Regardless of the reason his body was projected into the game, what the man said should be true.

Su Peng was also puzzled by why his body only needed one hour of sleep a day. Now it seemed that it was definitely not a good thing.

"In three days, no matter what, I must go and meet him there," Su Peng thought to himself.

At this moment, Su Peng remembered that he had come to find Lu Sanping. The man claimed he was not Lu Sanping, so where was Lu Sanping?

Thinking of this, Su Peng looked upstairs. He slowly climbed the stairs and called out, "Is Mr. Lu here?"

After a few steps, Su Peng suddenly noticed something was wrong. There seemed to be a faint "drip, drip" sound of liquid falling and a smell of blood upstairs.

Su Peng immediately became alert. He drew his sword from behind and quickly climbed the stairs. He found a man in a blue robe lying in a pool of blood upstairs!

"Someone is dead?" Su Peng's heart tightened. He stepped onto the floor and carefully approached the body, gently turning it over to see the face of the man lying in the blood.

This sight made Su Peng gasp...

The face of the man was exactly the same as the one who had just left, claiming he was not Lu Sanping!

Just as Su Peng was shocked, a sound of armor clashing, like soldiers running, came from the courtyard.

A loud voice rang out downstairs:

"I am Ge Ning, the head of the city lord's guards, ordered by the city lord to capture the incompetent doctor Lu Sanping!" (To be continued. Search for Piaotian Literature for faster updates and better quality!)