Seeking Truth with a Sword-Chapter 531 - 477 Evacuation_3

However, Yu Shi wouldn’t be foolish enough to risk his life by coming to Taiyuan Prefecture just to save Wang Jie.

Hearing Wang Bo Fan’s silence, Wang Jie understood that this path was a dead end. He laboriously shifted his neck and asked, "What about Li Ang? Isn’t he researching medicine that can cure the plague?"

"Li Ang..." Wang Bo Fan paused slightly. The meeting in the courtyard had just decided that the Wang Family would acquiesce, or rather, condone the spread of rumors in the city. This meant that Li Ang’s work on developing the medicine would inevitably be disrupted.

Looking at his son’s swollen face, Wang Bo Fan hesitated for a long time before slightly turning his head and murmuring softly, "His medicine has been successful, and it will be ready in a few more days. However, it can’t be mass-produced yet. Your father will find a way to get you an injection of the test reagent, and then your illness can be cured."

"That’s good. Thank you, Dad..." Wang Jie finally closed his eyes contentedly, his mouth beginning to utter incomprehensible nonsense again—something about wanting to fly kites, go swimming, and asking his father to carry him higher to watch the fireworks.

Wang Bo Fan felt his eyes sting and a lump form in his throat. He turned, walked out of the room, quietly locked the door, and muttered to himself, "Son, don’t blame your father. As a member of a noble family, the survival of the family is always the most important thing..."

Muttering these self-comforting words, Wang Bo Fan locked the door, turned, and stepped out of the courtyard. His gaze firmed once more as he instructed the subordinates who had been waiting outside, "Go. Spread the news that Li Ang’s blood can cure diseases."

***

Outside the Governor Mansion laboratory, Li Leqing took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

Li Ang’s voice came from inside. Li Leqing pushed open the door and saw Li Ang in a white lab coat, bustling between various lab benches, while Qiu Feng and Ouyang Shi were at the back of the laboratory, observing through a microscope and recording data.

Li Leqing forced a faint smile. "Busy?"

"Yes." Li Ang nodded. "This batch of soil samples is still no good. The extracted medicine remains too toxic; it’s too harmful to the human body. However, this is already significant progress compared to before. Just give me another ten days. If I can test a few hundred, or even a thousand, more soil samples, we might be able to create a new drug. It wouldn’t just be for the plague. Diseases like tuberculosis could also be cured. In the past, tuberculosis was also incurable—the coughing, the spitting of blood, the chest pain—it could torment patients for years, making their lives worse than death."

Qiu Feng, who was observing the bactericidal effect of the medicine under the microscope, turned and said, "If the new medicine is successfully created, it will save countless more lives."

"This is the charm of Medical Skill. Heh heh." Ouyang Shi also turned around, smiling brightly.

Seeing the three looking so excited and happy, Li Leqing couldn’t help but fall silent.

"What’s wrong, Le Ling?" Qiu Feng couldn’t help but frown as he asked.

"I just received news," Li Leqing said with difficulty. "Over twenty countries, including Jing Country, have issued denunciations against Yu Country, demanding the closure of the Academic Palace. Chang’an sent a message ordering us to evacuate Taiyuan Prefecture..."

"What?!" Ouyang Shi stood up instinctively, exclaiming, "But we’re about to create the new medicine!"

Li Leqing pursed her lips and said helplessly, "The fact that Jing Country and the others issued these denunciations simultaneously means Taihao Mountain has completely turned against Yu Country. As for the situation in Taiyuan Prefecture... ever since the Plague Demon Talisman appeared, conditions in the city have worsened daily. The Imperial Court has decided to withdraw some resources, leaving Taiyuan Prefecture to fend for itself."

Currently, Taiyuan Prefecture hosts not only Martial Arts Grandmaster Duke Yan, Yan Yundang, and Candle Cloud Telekinesis Master Xi Yangyu—Imperial Palace Tributors assigned to protect Li Hui and Li Leqing—but also a large group of scholars from the Academic Palace and Cultivators from the garrison. With Taiyuan Prefecture already succumbing to the plague and the threat of external war looming, the most rational course of action is to evacuate personnel. This policy of ’autonomy and self-rescue’ means they are essentially being left to survive or perish on their own.