NOVPUBHearing Tang Xin say this, Ding Hu only felt his scalp tingle.
"What do you mean even if there is something wrong with you, it can’t possibly be a mushroom problem?"
"You ate mushrooms too?"
Tang Xin nodded.
"Yeah, I ate them. Didn’t I tell you? It’s a local specialty, shouldn’t I sample a taste of home in advance?"
"Alright, Brother Hu, enough talk, the mushroom soup I cooked is almost ready, it’s got to be drunk while it’s hot."
After saying this, Ding Hu watched with wide eyes as Tang Xin walked to the back door of the canteen, picked up the dog bowl of bone broth, and downed it in one go.
That intoxicated expression on his face made it seem to the uninformed as if he had just savored some kind of ultimate delicacy.
Ding Hu: ...
Dog: ...
Under the effect of the "Iron Chain Connection," the deeper Wu Bin was poisoned, the deeper Ding Hu’s subordinates got poisoned.
For a time, the hotpot area became a den of frenzied chaos.
There were those who were eating from aluminum lunch boxes while pouring out their hearts.
Some thought they were milkshakes, clutching their heads in fear of spilling themselves.
Others continuously pulled their hands forward and backward as if they were drawing out rolls of paper.
In just a few short minutes, the place had descended into complete chaos.
The netizens in the live stream fell silent when they saw this scene.
"Can someone from Yunnan explain if mushrooms really have such strong toxicity? Why does it seem like they’re high on something?"
"The brother upstairs, let me correct you, mushrooms are mushrooms, fungus is fungus, don’t mix them up."
"In the North, eat lamb; in the South, eat crab; Guangdong and Guangxi eat everything nature has to offer; Sichuan and Chongqing hotpot scalds it all; the Northeast dips the world in soybean paste; Yunnan mushrooms ascend you to the celestial realm!"
"I’m really done with you out-of-provincers, I’ve said it so many times, mushrooms are not poisonous! Not poisonous! If you got poisoned after eating them, it just means you didn’t cook them properly!"
As everyone’s behavior in the canteen became stranger and stranger, the number of online viewers in the livestream quickly surpassed one million.
Xu Wenyao had finished his meal and was planning to go back to the office for an afternoon nap.
Who would have thought that just halfway there, he would hear the good news from Yang Kang that someone in the canteen had been poisoned.
Xu Wenyao was elated.
This Wu Bin, reliable indeed!
He had just finalized a collaboration with him, and was the task already accomplished so quickly?
Xu Wenyao immediately ran towards the canteen.
By the time Xu Wenyao arrived, the medical team was already there.
However, unlike the previous emergency poisoning treatment, seeing the riotous crowd, Hu Ping and a group of doctors furrowed their brows, standing at the doorway at a loss for action.
"Doctor Hu, didn’t you say someone was poisoned? Why aren’t you going in to save them?"
Hu Ping shook his head.
"If it were any other poison, we would know what to do, but with this kind of fungal poisoning, we have no experience in handling it, and we don’t dare to rush over rashly."
Xu Wenyao didn’t understand.
"What do you mean by that? Shouldn’t you first take them to the hospital for detoxification? You can’t just let them run wild in the canteen like this."
Hu Ping glanced at Xu Wenyao and said, "Most people poisoned by mushrooms are only affected in their logical thinking abilities, causing the affected to have hallucinations and delusions; it rarely affects their physical capabilities."
"At this time, if our people get too close, it could become quite dangerous."
"Let me put it this way, last month, there was a patient who was poisoned by mushrooms, and he threw his own feces at the medical staff."
"He thought the medical staff were monsters, and the feces he threw were hand grenades, believing that he was a hero protecting the Earth."
Xu Wenyao: ...
Is it really that outrageous?
If that’s the case, it would be understandable why Hu Ping and his team didn’t dare to approach.
After all, a mop drenched in shit, Lu Bu might as well be alive.
Using such excessively potent biological weapons is indeed a bit too much.
"So what do we do now? Are we just going to stand by and watch them go crazy?"
Hu Ping said with a calm face, "Don’t worry, leave the professional work to the professionals, they should be arriving soon."
Xu Wenyao was utterly confused.
They?
Who?
Just as Xu Wenyao was puzzled, three vehicles emblazoned with "Yunnan Wild Mushroom Poisoning Treatment Department" stopped at the entrance of the cafeteria.
These doctors were in uniform, with masks and gloves ready for use.
Most importantly, they walked with confident strides as they got out of the cars.
Xu Wenyao was stunned.
Are they this professional?
Does Yunnan have a department dedicated to the treatment of wild mushroom poisoning?
"Old Qiu, you’re finally here," Hu Ping called out.
Seeing these doctors alight from the vehicles, Hu Ping went forward to greet them and shook hands with the middle-aged man leading the group, Qiu Wanshan.
Qiu Wanshan asked in authentic Yunnanese, "Who are the ones poisoned?"
Hu Ping pointed towards a group of people still convulsing in the distance.
"Those people there, they accidentally consumed wild mushrooms, but we’re not sure exactly which kind."
Qiu Wanshan waved his hand and said, "Don’t worry, leave this matter to us, we are professionals."
Qiu Wanshan gestured, and along with several doctors, he marched towards the poisoned crowd with an imposing aura.
Xu Wenyao and He Bingbing followed behind, eager to see just how skilled these doctors from Yunnan were.
Qiu Wanshan approached the first person who had been poisoned.
The man, seeing Qiu Wanshan come over, was just about to react when two male nurses took quick steps forward and pinned him down right there.
The man was not convinced and started to shout.
"Get off me! I just learned grappling! Have a one-on-one fight with me if you dare!"
In a low voice, Hu Ping asked, "Old Qiu, what kind of poison has he got?"
Qiu Wanshan remained calm.
"Don’t rush, wait a bit more."
Sure enough, in less than ten seconds, the man who had just been wildly excited suddenly became listless, unable to muster any energy at all.
Qiu Wanshan sneered, "This is due to eating the poison fly agaric mushroom. The poison won’t kill, but it induces hallucinations, causing excitement and then listlessness."
"Remember the magic mushroom in ’Alice in Wonderland’ that makes one grow bigger or smaller when eaten? It is based on this kind of mushroom. If you eat it, you’ll feel like you’re growing and shrinking just the same."
"Take him to the back."
With a wave of Qiu Wanshan’s hand, the man was immediately taken away.
Hu Ping and the rest of the professional medical team were amazed.
Good Lord!
Not only could he instantly determine what mushroom had been consumed based on hallucinations, but he could also reference classical texts?
Professional!
So damn professional!
Qiu Wanshan moved on to the next person.
This one lay on the ground as if both his hands were broken, hanging limply at his sides, with his upper body motionless, propelling his body forward by pushing with his legs.
The livestream audience was dumbfounded.
A ’grub’... a ’pupa’?
Qiu Wanshan simply glanced at him and immediately made a judgment.
"This one has eaten a Smooth Cap Mushroom."
"Those who’ve eaten this mushroom find everything around them hilarious, and they feel as if they are made of water about to fall apart at any moment, and they’ll prove it with their actions."
"Just like how he’s wriggling on the ground right now."
"This kind of mushroom is lethal, prioritize him for examination and treatment, take him away."
Two doctors stepped forward and dragged away the ’pupa’ as well.
The audience was astonished.
Are doctors from Yunnan all this incredible?
It’s preposterous!
