I am the Holy Poisoner, the Empress advised me to calm down

As night fell, a small island came into view. It was brightly lit and looked like a resort.

"Welcome to Paradise Island," Li Xiaoya introduced. "This will be your home for the next period of time."

After the speedboat docked, Lin Feng was taken to a building on the island. The building looked modern, but the windows were all covered with iron bars.

"Doctor Lin, this is your room." A staff member opened a door. "Someone will come to pick you up for work tomorrow morning."

The room was fully equipped, but it was clearly a prison. Lin Feng checked and found that the doors and windows were locked tightly, making it impossible to escape.

Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Lin Feng heard voices coming from the next room.

"Lao Wang, do you think there's something wrong with those patients?"

"Of course there's a problem! I've been practicing medicine for 30 years and have never seen symptoms like that..."

"But the organizer said that if we can cure those people, the first place winner will get the Hua Tuo Classic..."

"The Hua Tuo Classic? Do you really believe that's true?"

Lin Feng realized that the people living next door were other Chinese medicine practitioners who had been deceived. He knocked lightly on the wall and soon received a response.

By knocking on the wall, Lin Feng established contact with the Chinese medicine practitioner next door. He learned that there were more than 30 Chinese medicine practitioners imprisoned on the island, treating some strange patients every day.

The symptoms of those patients were indeed very strange, and the effects of the medication were also unstable. Even more terrifying, some patients died suddenly during treatment, but the organizers simply disposed of the bodies and replaced them with new patients.

The more Lin Feng listened, the more shocked he became. This was not academic research at all; it was clearly an experiment on human bodies!

The next morning, Lin Feng was taken to a place that looked like a hospital. There were many wards, and each ward had a patient.

"Dr. Lin, welcome to our research center." A middle-aged man in a white coat walked over. "I'm Dr. Zhang, the person in charge here."

"Dr. Zhang?" Lin Feng looked at the man in front of him. "Are you Mr. Zhang from Huaxia Biotechnology?"

Dr. Zhang smiled and said, "Yes, I am both the general manager of the company and the chief scientist of this project."

"What exactly do you want to do?" Lin Feng asked directly.

"It's simple. We're developing a new drug, but we need the cooperation of Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners to verify its effectiveness." Dr. Zhang pointed to the wards. "These patients are our experimental subjects. Your task is to treat them using Traditional Chinese Medicine methods."

Lin Feng walked to a ward and saw a young man lying in it. He was pale, breathing rapidly, but his eyes were indeed empty.

"What disease does he have?" Lin Feng asked.

"Well...the specific condition is quite complicated, you can just diagnose and prescribe medicine." Dr. Zhang was a little vague.

Lin Feng went forward to take the patient's pulse and found that the patient's pulse was very strange. The pulse was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and it felt very unnatural.

"This person was poisoned." Lin Feng said directly.

Dr. Zhang's face changed: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"His pulse clearly shows signs of poisoning, and the poison is very strong." Lin Feng looked at Dr. Zhang coldly, "You poisoned these people and then asked us to detoxify them. Is this what you call research?"

"You...how could you tell that?" Dr. Zhang obviously didn't expect Lin Feng to discover the problem so quickly.

"I'm a Chinese medicine practitioner. Treating patients is my job," Lin Feng said angrily. "What you're doing is a crime! These people are innocent!"

"Innocent?" Dr. Zhang sneered. "We paid for them and signed contracts with them."

"Bought it?" Lin Feng was shocked. "Are you a human trafficker?"

"Don't be so harsh. We're just hiring them to participate in the experiment. We're providing them with food, lodging, and compensation," Dr. Zhang said confidently. "And after the experiment is over, we'll detoxify them."

"What if they die?" Lin Feng asked.

Dr. Zhang shrugged. "It was an accident. We will give the family some compensation."

Lin Feng was completely furious. These people were simply inhumane!

"What exactly is your purpose? Is it just to develop new drugs?"

"Of course not only that." Dr. Zhang smiled smugly. "Our real target is the 'Explanation of Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica' in your hand."

"I already told you, I don't have that book!" Lin Feng said angrily.

"Don't pretend! The Wang family all said you stole their heirloom." Dr. Zhang didn't believe it. "Every prescription in that book is priceless. If we could get it, we could develop countless new medicines!"

Lin Feng finally understood that these people had been completely deceived by the Wang family's lies. In order to retaliate against him, the Wang family fabricated a medical book that did not exist at all, and then used these people's greed to deal with him.

"You've been deceived by the Wang family." Lin Feng said, "There is no such thing as 'Shennong's Herbal Classic Annotations'. It's just a lie made up by the Wang family."

"Impossible!" Dr. Zhang firmly refused to believe it. "Your medical skills are so advanced. How could you have achieved this without the inheritance of ancient texts?"

Lin Feng was unable to explain his system and could only say, "My medical skills are the result of my own research and have nothing to do with the Wang family."

"Since you refuse to tell the truth, we can only use other methods." Dr. Zhang waved his hand, and several of his men immediately surrounded him.

"Take Dr. Lin to the special ward and let him see the effects of our new medicine."

Lin Feng was taken to an even more gloomy place. The wards here were all single rooms, and the patients inside looked even more miserable.

"Doctor Lin, look at these patients." Dr. Zhang pointed to one of the wards. "He's been poisoned by our latest poison, and no one has yet found an antidote. If you can cure him, we'll believe you truly don't have that medical book."

Lin Feng looked at the patient in the ward. It was a middle-aged man with convulsions all over his body and foaming at the mouth. It looked like he could die at any time.

"What if I can't cure it?" Lin Feng asked.

"That proves you're lying. We'll continue to use various methods to make you tell the truth." Dr. Zhang sneered, "Don't worry, we have plenty of time and patience."

Lin Feng walked into the ward and carefully observed the patient's symptoms. Through systematic analysis, he found that the patient was suffering from a complex toxin containing multiple toxic components, which was indeed difficult to resolve.

However, the system provided a detoxification solution. Lin Feng needed to use several special herbs, and the ratio required was very precise.

"I need some herbs." Lin Feng said to Dr. Zhang.

"What herbs?"

Lin Feng reported a string of medicine names, Dr. Zhang wrote them down and asked his men to prepare them.

An hour later, the herbs arrived. Lin Feng began to prepare the antidote, strictly following the system's instructions at every step.