Chapter 800: Esteemed wangfei leaves tonigh (2/2)
Young medical assistants delivered all of the proof. Gu Beiyue outlined them one by one. They included not only the tortuous deeds against Little Qi, but all sorts of nasty things they’d done in the medical academy over the past few years. Of course, the ugliest proof came from Gu Qishao himself. Everyone listened quietly to the proceedings. Gu Beiyue and Han Yunxi stopped minding Gu Qishao because too much attention would just be an insult. He wasn’t someone who needed their pity. Mu Linger listened to each testimony with her own ears and felt her eyes turn red. But she remembered her vow to Han Yunxi and didn’t cry.
Of course, besides them, everyone else in the crowd was looking at Gu Qishao as well. They had even more complicated expressions than the last reveal at the Apricot Woods Conference. Most of them pitied or sympathized with his plight. Gu Qishao openly faced them all. He was even wearing a smile on his lips as he disdained Gu Yuntian. None of the stares moved him. One who was truly strong didn’t need to bear suffering, but shoulder the pity and sympathy of outsiders instead.
Finally, Gu Beiyue finished discussions with the three academy heads and the Council of Elders to pin Gu Yuntian with his crimes. He was to be paraded before the public before being locked away in Medical City’s Nine Lives Hall. That was a place meant for infectious patients of incurable diseases. Although different patients were kept in different isolation rooms, it was still a dangerous location. Medical workers had to take preventive pills before entering the hall and couldn’t stay long in case they caught one of the illnesses. For Gu Yuntian to be locked up there long-term meant that his fate was set.
Meanwhile, Head Elder Ling had achieved merits by helping with the case, so he simply got the death penalty. Hearing this, he exhaled in relief. When Gu Qishao first threatened him with his stores of evidence, he knew that he and Gu Yuntian were hard pressed to escape. Thus, he chose to betray Gu Yuntian in exchange for a clean death.
Thanks to Gu Yuntian, Gu Beiyue pinned the Gu Clan with the crime of harboring a criminal and banned them from any involvement in medical academy administration affairs for the next decade. After the trial finished, Gu Beiyue rose to his feet as representative of the medical academy to express his regrets for what had happened. Then the department heads, Council of Elders, and medical academy directors rose as one to join Gu Beiyue in facing Gu Qishao.
Gu Qishao didn’t expect this and hastily stood up, his expression cautious. “Gu Beiyue, what are you doing?”
Gu Beiyue didn’t reply beyond giving him a deep bow. “Little Qi, Medical City is sorry for what they’ve done! Medical City will welcome you home at any time.”
As soon as Gu Beiyue finished, everyone behind him all bowed in unison and chorused, “Little Qi, Medical City will welcome you home at any time.”
Go home...
Gu Qishao blinked and laughed, but there were tears in the corners of his beautiful eyes.
So as it turned out, I still have a home?
When he was expelled from the medical academy, he had been hit with eggs and rotten vegetables the entire way out. He had lost his home then, and the ability to go back. Now Gu Qishao studied Gu Beiyue’s serious, devout face and laughed louder and louder, the sound easy and carefree. He was about to reply when Bai Yanqing stood out from the crowd.
“Academy Head Gu, Little Qi was fed medicine as soon as he emerged from his mother’s womb. Then he was experimented on with pills and tested with various diseases. Why hasn’t he died? Why does he have no aches or pains now? It couldn’t be that he’s some freak?”
An uproar rose at his words. Actually, everyone had been considering the same questions, but no one had the gall to voice it in public. Bai Yanqing walked forward until he was standing right in front of Gu Beiyue and Gu Yuntian. “Furthermore, Little Qi was infected with the plague back then and apparently died. Even his pulse and breathing stopped. Why did he come back to life? If he can revive from the dead, was he a freak infant when he was born? Does his life and death differ from regular humans?”
The uproar died down. Although Bai Yanqing was questioning “Academy Head Gu,” everyone didn’t know whether he meant the new or former academy head. In the silence, the crowd stared at Gu Qishao again. This time their gazes lacked pity or sympathy, but were filled with curiosity and a bit of fear. It was as if they were facing a monster.
“I wanted to ask too. Gu Yuntian, does Little Qi still count as a human?”
“He shouldn’t right? He was a freak from the moment he was born. To survive all that without dying means he couldn’t die from the moment he came into this world, heheh!”
“Then that’s really not human...hehe, even birds and beasts don’t have a body as good as his, right?”
A few people with ulterior motives began to question and mock in loud voices. Gu Qishao’s smile had all but vanished, his long eyes narrowed into slits as his expression turned ruthless. His fists were clenched. Before he could make a move, however, Han Yunxi suddenly stepped forward and tightly clutched his hand...