Chapter 1418

“You misunderstood me. I’m not suspecting you. Perhaps there were things that we might’ve overlooked.” Nicole continued her attempts to recall as she spoke.

“Right, when I came in, there was a nurse who was about to leave your room. I’ve never seen the nurse before, and she said she was standing in for Lilian.” Martin suddenly remembered.

“A nurse?”

“Yes. Did you know what she was doing inside your room?” Martin asked as he looked at Nicole.

Nicole tried her best to recall and after a while, she said, “I remember that the nurse came in to have a look at Jared before changing my IV drip. The procedures were as usual. I don’t remember seeing anything particularly suspicious.”

“That’s strange. What could it be then…?” Martin began to ponder.

“Wait, no!” Nicole cried out, having suddenly recalled something.

“What’s the matter?” Martin looked up at Nicole.

“After the nurse left, you came in, and I found that the plug on Jared’s life support machine had fallen off. Normally, a plug that has been secured would not fall out like that if no one had touched it!”

“And then the nurse changed my drip…”

Thinking of this, Nicole’s eyes narrowed as she looked up at the IV drip stand.

“Where’s the previous drip bag?”

“Over there. I changed it when I was performing emergency rescue. ” Martin quickly brought the IV bag over to Nicole.

Nicole looked at the drip bag and could not see anything unusual from the surface.

Handing the bag over to Martin, she ordered, “Send it for a toxicology test. Perhaps we’ll find out what’s going on once the results are out.”

Martin looked at Nicole and instantly understood what she meant. “Alright, I’ll send it to the lab right now.”

Martin turned around and left with the drip bag. After he had left, Nicole got down from her bed and walked toward Jared’s, as she was feeling much better now.

She sat down beside him and inspected the instruments. Once she saw that nothing was amiss, she then turned toward Jared.

“Aren’t you going to wake up already? Did you know that something almost happened to you today?

Thank goodness I noticed it first, or else you’d have…”

“Anyway, just open your eyes soon, okay?”

“Nicole! There’s something wrong with this drip bag!” Martin rushed over with the toxicology report and saw her sitting beside Jared’s bed.

“Wait, why are you out of bed?” Martin asked with concern.

“I feel much better now. What were you saying about the IV drip?” Nicole asked.

“After we have tested the contents of the bag, we discovered that there was a slow-acting, lethal poison in it!” Martin said with a grim look on his face.

“As expected!” she cried out.

Even though she had expected that this would be the case, it was still quite harrowing to hear it for herself.

“It looks like it can only be the nurse’s doing.” Nicole narrowed her eyes.

“It must be her then,” Martin concurred.

“I’ll go look for her right now!” Martin said as he got up, wishing to look for that nurse.

“She would’ve fled long ago, so forget it,” Nicole said. “Martin, I didn’t see how she looked like. You ran into her. Do you remember her face?”

“She was wearing a mask at that time, so I could only see her eyes. Her eyes were deep with double-

eyelids… She also looked like she was wearing a pearl earring.” Martin said, attempting to recall.

“A pearl earring?” Nicole asked.

“Right. I felt that something was weird back then. How could a nurse be wearing such a big earring?

Now that I think of it, she’s no nurse at all. Gosh, I’m such an idiot!” Martin sighed while blaming himself.

After all, the culprit was right there, standing before him, and yet he could not tell at that time.