LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 80 - Who Said Your Father's Dead?
Chapter 80: Who Said Your Father’s Dead?
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Clarence followed Master Williams into Humanity Hall.
Leanne was continuously shaking Thompson, who was sitting in a chair.
Thompson’s eyes were closed. His breathing and his heart had stopped.
“Dad! Dad!
“Wake up! Don’t scare me!”
With tears streaming down her face, Leanne frantically pinched Thompson’s philtrum.
However, it did not work. Thompson’s basic five senses were gone. He was basically a dead man.
Leanne turned around and yelled at Belle and Melody, “Quacks! You’re a bunch of quacks! My father was fine, yet you’ve managed to kill him!”
“Lady, that’s too harsh. Your father’s old, so it’s about time. What do you mean we’re the ones who killed him?” Belle frowned.
Quite a few of the patients in the clinic looked over.
Had the clinic killed someone?
They could not admit to something like that. It would be bad for their reputation.
“Besides, we told you before the treatment that there were risks, yet you agreed to it. Now, you’re blaming us.” Belle curled her lips and looked around. “Everyone saw! The old gentleman looked terrible when he entered Humanity Hall!
“I told this lady about the disclaimer agreement, too!
“Now you’re blaming the clinic when the patient has died because of his illness?
“You want money, don’t you? We can compensate you with three hundred thousand dollars at best!”
“Three hundred thousand?” Leanne opened her mouth wide.
She felt like she was dreaming. Was her father’s life only worth three hundred thousand?
Her father was the patriarch of the Wright family in Mediterranean City.
He had assets worth tens of billions of dollars!
Now that he had died, Belle was saying she could compensate Leanne three hundred thousand?
“What’s the matter? Did you stop yammering because you now know you can get three hundred thousand? I knew it. You just want money!” Belle shook her head in amusement as if she had seen right through it all. “I’ve seen many people like you.”
More and more patients were watching the scene.
Melody quickly said, “Alright, you can see that this patient is just asking for money.
“She knew that her father was not going to hold on much longer, so she brought him to Humanity Hall to blackmail us!”
“Humanity Hall is benevolent and willing to pay her three hundred thousand!”
The patients around them were pleased.
“I see!”
“Humanity Hall’s so kind!”
“Oh! That girl seems like a cultured person, too. Why is her character so terrible?”
“She’s still thinking about making a final profit while her father is dying. She brought him to Humanity Hall… just to get three hundred thousand for her father’s life!”
“Tsk tsk. It’s just human nature. She gave up her elderly father’s life for money!”
A group of unwitting patients discussed the situation at hand.
Leanne snarled with a ghastly pale face, “What nonsense are you talking about?”
“Lady, are we wrong?” Belle seemed amused.
“You…”
Leanne shuddered with anger. “Just wait and see. I’ll have this clinic torn down!”
Belle laughed unconcernedly, “Lady, maybe you don’t know, but Murphy Property Development Group owns Humanity Hall!
“The Murphy family has over two billion in assets and has a lot of connections in Mediterranean City.
“Do you think you can tear down this clinic as you wish?”
“Everyone, did you see that? She’s threatening us after she failed to blackmail us,” Melody exaggerated.
Leanne was so furious that she was about to lose her mind.
She regretted not bringing her bodyguard out today, or she would have had someone to rip into Belle and Melody’s mouths.
“Murphy Property Development Group, I’ll keep that in mind. Just wait and see! My name’s not Leanne Wright if I don’t destroy the Murphy family!”
Leanne said coldly.
Belle and Melody’s faces were full of disdain.
“Yo!”
“Why does it matter?”
“Wright?”
“Do you think you’re from the Wright family, one of the top three families in Mediterranean City, and you can ruin the Murphy family with just one word?”
Belle crossed her arms with an indifferent attitude.
Melody looked at Leanne casually. “Belle, do you think one of our competitors sent her here?”
“It’s possible!” Belle nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, Clarence pushed his way through the crowd. “Excuse me!”
Master Williams was following behind him. Together, they walked over to Thompson.
Clarence looked over and saw that though Thompson was lifeless and his heart had stopped, he was not dead—he was in medical suspended animation.
He just had to figure out why Thompson was in suspended animation so he could wake Thompson up.
“Clarence, what are you doing here? Are these people your shills?” Belle frowned and looked at Clarence unhappily.
“What happened?” Clarence asked Master Williams, ignoring Belle.
Master Williams sounded helpless. “Master Howard, I don’t know what happened either!
“I asked the man to sit down after he came in. I was going to feel his pulse, but this happened when I was doing so…”
“This happened all of a sudden?” Clarence was a little surprised.
Belle nodded with a sneer. “It did happen all of a sudden.
“We didn’t do anything to him! We just asked Master Williams to feel his pulse. He didn’t even prescribe him any medicine, insert a silver needle into him, or anything like that.
“Can you blame our clinic when he has just died all of a sudden?”
What Belle had said was true.
Thompson had just entered Humanity Hall, and they had done nothing but take his pulse and ask him questions, which was the standard procedure.
Thompson was dead without having been prescribed any medicine!
Anybody would think that Thompson and Leanne were giving Humanity Hall trouble on purpose.
“Are you sure you didn’t do anything?
“Did he eat anything?
“Did he drink anything?” Clarence frowned.
“Well…”
Master Williams looked back at Belle and Melody. He had no idea what these two might have done.
Melody said casually, “I made him a cup of almond tea when he came in.”
“Almond tea?”
Clarence’s heart fluttered.
“There! There it is.”
Melody pointed to the porcelain cup next to Thompson.
Clarence walked over, picked up the porcelain cup to look at it, and smelled the tea. It smelled like almonds.
“Found the culprit.” Clarence nodded.
Leanne’s eyes were red as she said coldly, “Did someone poison the tea?”
“The tea isn’t poisonous.” Clarence shook his head.
Leanne roared, “What does this have to do with the tea, then?”
Clarence said slowly, “Almonds can reduce inflammation, relieve cough, relieve asthma, smooth the bowels, and relieve constipation, but when taken with certain things, they produce toxins.”
“What do you mean? Just say it already!” Leanne looked at Clarence coldly.
“Has your father been taking traditional medicine recently, with herbs like kudzu root and milkvetch roots in it?” asked Clarence.
Leanne was surprised. “How did you know?”
Master Williams smacked his head as if it had just dawned on him. “Master Howard, I got it! Almond tea will produce toxins with kudzu root and milkvetch roots, so it poisoned and killed this person?”
“Even if that’s true, it’s not the clinic’s fault! Almond tea has no poison!” Belle absolved herself of responsibility.
Leanne roared, “How would you otherwise have killed my dad if you hadn’t given my dad almond tea?”
“Who said your father’s dead?” Clarence shook his head.