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Chapter 130 A Huge Uproar: Harris, Used as an Experimental Subject

Damien's house, bedroom.

After a series of examinations, pharmacist Yud was finally able to confirm that the silver-haired girl in front of him had successfully overcome her craving for Twilight Tea.

"Have you taken any medicine or food before? Or have you encountered anything unusual?" Yud asked eagerly.

However, for this young girl who had just recovered from a serious illness, his slightly ferocious monkey face was too frightening, so much so that she stood there dumbfounded, at a loss for what to do.

"Ahem, Elisa, this is the pharmacist who cured you, Mr. Yud." Seeing this, Damien coughed twice and quickly tried to smooth things over.

Xia Mingyu walked up to the girl and repeated the question he had asked earlier.

“I’ve only ever taken sage,” Elisa answered truthfully, while giving Yud an apologetic smile.

"Strange, these medications shouldn't help with evening tea addiction at all!"

After hearing the reply, Yud fell into deep thought, his brows furrowed as he repeatedly overturned one guess after another in his mind.

"Do you think it's possible that it's because of a fever?"

Xia Mingyu thought for a moment and said.

He seemed to have seen a news report on Earth about someone who recovered from a high fever and actually had some of their ailments removed.

“That’s certainly possible.” Upon hearing this, Yud’s eyes lit up.

"However, to confirm this hypothesis, we need to conduct at least one human experiment. We need to find someone who has a high fever and is addicted to evening tea."

A hint of helplessness flashed across Yud's face; he felt that this person would definitely not be easy to find.

"Don't worry, Twilight City is so big, we'll definitely find it, it just might take a little longer." Xia Mingyu got up to leave.

With the lives of at least one-fifth of the city's citizens at stake, every minute of his time was precious, and he had to return to Red Fox Fortress immediately to find a suitable candidate with the help of manpower.

"Mr. Youde, can you concoct a medicine that causes a high fever?"

Upon seeing Xia Mingyu's anxious expression and actions, Damien suddenly asked Youde a question.

“Easy,” Yud replied without hesitation.

For a pharmacist, curing a patient is difficult, but turning a normal person into a patient is all too easy!

“Mr. Yude, Sage, my father is also addicted to Twilight Tea. Why don’t you use him as a test subject? You just need to make him have a fever first and then cure him,” Damien said calmly.

He owes Lord Xinghuo so much kindness, so he might as well repay some of it by taking that drunkard father as a starting point.

Xia Mingyu and You De: "???"

A son asking his father to be a human test subject—isn't that a bit too filial?
"That's not a good idea."

clap clap clap!
"Yay! Father can finally make a contribution to the Southern Territory!"

Before Xia Mingyu could finish refusing, he saw the silver-haired girl on the bed, who had just recovered from a serious illness, clapping happily. Her cheerful expression showed no trace of her previous sickly state.

This scene of grand filial piety left Xia Mingyu speechless.

"Did your father do something incompetent?" he asked after a long silence, puzzled.

"Actually, it's nothing much. It's just that when we were little, my father would often beat my brother and me when he was drunk. Then, when we grew up, he wanted to sell me to an old man known for his lechery, and sell my brother to a few wealthy women to have their way with."

Elisa counted on her fingers the anthropomorphic incidents her father had committed, while Xia Mingyu's expression gradually darkened.

"Hahaha, that does sound like a great human test subject." A bright smile flashed across Xia Mingyu's face as he reached out to pat the girl's head with a touch of tenderness.

Facing Xia Mingyu, who was as handsome as her brother and whose identity was rumored to be that of a sage from the Southern Territory, Elisa affectionately grasped his outstretched hand and even placed it on her head, allowing Xia Mingyu to freely stroke her silver hair.

As for Yude, just as Elisa began counting on her fingers, he had already silently taken out his tools and herbs to prepare a fever-inducing medicine.

living room.

Harris slumped into the sofa as if he had no bones, looking at the wine glass in his hand that still had more than half a glass of wine left, and tossed it onto the table with considerable disdain.

"After drinking the evening tea, all the other drinks tasted like plain water. Now my body is itchy and sore, and I feel like I'm going to die if I don't drink tea soon."

Harris scratched his back, thinking irritably.

"That idiot Damien took all the money to buy tea and then lost it, making me feel so bad now. It seems I have to get some money to buy tea." Harris seriously considered ways to make money quickly.

"Isn't Sir Marin, that old lecher, always trying to buy Elisa? It just so happens that she's about to die, so selling her to Sir Marin before she dies is a way of making good use of her."

A brilliant idea suddenly popped into his head, and he increasingly felt that this idea had great potential.

I'll get rid of this burden and make a fortune to buy tea, but I'll have to consider Damien's hatred for me.
Perhaps I could hire someone to secretly kidnap Elisa without me showing up myself.

"Freezing, wind, water, impact"

Just as Harris was seriously considering the feasibility of the plan, a chill suddenly swept over him.

rustling.

That was the strange sound of ice spreading.

In an instant, before Harris could react, his hands and feet were frozen to the floor and sofa, rendering him unable to move.

"What...what are you doing?!"

He watched in horror as Damien, holding a strangely colored bottle of potion, led a man and a monkey toward him.

“Father, the evening tea is poisonous. You have a very serious illness, and we need to treat you,” Damien said calmly.

"I'm not sick!"

"No, you're sick."

Ignoring his struggles, Damien expressionlessly poured the medicine into Harris's mouth.

Gudongdong.

Yud wanted to remind Damien that only half a bottle of the potion was needed, but before he could speak, he saw that the bottle in Damien's hand was completely empty.

Yud fell silent.

Although he is not married yet, and doesn't even have anyone he likes, this pharmacist has secretly vowed that if he ever has a child, he will treat him well.

"Aaaaaah, it's so hot! I'm burning up!"

Not long after drinking the fever-reducing medicine, Harris's skin turned red and hot all over, and he screamed wildly like a shrimp that was about to be cooked.

The three people in the living room, who already knew about each other's past misdeeds, turned a blind eye and even chatted idly.

Harris was heartbroken to see his own son poison him; he never expected Damien to be so filial to him.

You know, all he did was desert and lose the castle, drive away his children's mother and beat the children, and then try to sell them. Uh, it seems reasonable for him to hate me.

While suffering from a high fever and becoming delirious, Harris felt a pang of guilt.

"You can give them the fever-reducing medication now."

After some time, Yud examined Harris's body and only spoke after confirming that the other party had reached his physiological limit.

Gudongdong.

After being given another bottle of medicine, Harris's body temperature dropped rapidly, like a rollercoaster.

"Father, would you like some more evening tea?"

Damien shook the man, who was about to faint, awake with force and pressed him for an answer.

"I don't really want to think about it anymore," Harris mumbled sleepily.

Strangely enough, after experiencing this extreme contrast of hot and cold, the itching and pain in his body completely disappeared, and his previous fervor for the Twilight Tea, which he was willing to sell his daughter for, subsided considerably.

Could the Twilight Tea really be poisonous? Is Damien being so rough with me because he wants to cure my illness?

Thinking of this, Harris felt a surge of gratitude and then fainted on the sofa.

"My sage, your guess is correct! As long as you have a high fever and then bring it down, you can successfully cure your craving for Twilight Tea!" Yud exclaimed excitedly.

"Great!" The problem that had been bothering him for so long was finally solved, and Xia Mingyu breathed a long sigh of relief.

However, he still has one thing to consider now—how should he destroy the tea leaves for tomorrow's Fox Gate Opium Destruction?
(End of this chapter)