Chapter 566
Arielle Moore and Vinson Nightshire
Arielle prepared the needles and other instruments that she needed to perform the acupuncture, but she did not begin just yet.
She crushed some herbs and added a few drops of antibiotics. Then, she soaked all her silver-plated needles in the concoction.
After about ten seconds, she pulled out the needles, waited for the liquid on the surface of the needle to solidify. Then, she began inserting the needles at several targeted areas.
Zachary, who had studied traditional Chanaean medicine and acupuncture under Queenieâs tutelage, saw that Arielle was about to insert a needle into a fatal point and quickly grabbed her arm.
âWhat are you doing?â he yelled furiously. âAre you trying to kill the patient? Do you even know what acupuncture point that is? If you put your needle there, it will be an instant death!â
Zacharyâs hand had shot out suddenly and grabbed Arielleâs arm, almost scratching the patientâs head in the process.
Arielleâs patience finally ran out. She turned her eyes to stare straight at Zachary.
Zachary visibly shrunk away from her gaze.
âYouâ¦â Zachary hesitated, but still insisted, âWhy are you looking at me like that? Iâm preventing you from accidentally committing a murder! You will kill the patient if you stick your needle there!â
Arielle yanked her hand away from him and said in a deadpan voice, âThank you for your kind warning, but thereâs really no need for that. The acupoint Iâm inserting the needle in is not the fatal point. Please do not bother me while Iâm performing acupuncture.â
âYouâ¦â Zachary said anxiously. âThis patient is very important to us! We canât afford to have anything go wrong!â
Arielle lost her patience and said simply to the attending physician, âHe is too distracting; get him out of here.â
âUhâ¦â The attending physician glanced sheepishly at Zachary.
Zachary was a much more well-known doctor than the attending physician. However, this was not Rocher Private Hospital. This was a public hospital, and here, everybody answers to the attending physician.
The physician recalled that Vinson had requested him to help Arielle in any way he can and said through gritted teeth, âDr. Ziegler, you should not be distracting Ms. Moore! Mr. Nightshire knows what he was doing when he sent her here. Even if you donât trust in her medical skills, you should have faith in Mr. Nightshire!â
Zachary clamped his jaw and said, âFine! I wonât say another word, but let me make it clear that Iâll take no responsibility for what happens to this patient! Iâll have nothing to do with this at all! Itâll all be your fault!â
Is she really going to stick that needle in there? These people are all fools! Idiots! I wonât let these people drag me into hot water together with them! Zachary thought angrily to himself.
He did want to stay in the emergency room any longer. He whirled around, pressed the switch on the lower right side of the door with his foot, and strode huffily out of the room.
The attending physician turned his anxious eyes on Arielle. âMs. Moore, do you want me to ask Dr.
Ziegler to come back in? Heâs the top surgeon at Rocher Private Hospital. Heâll be of great help if something bad were to happen!â
âNo need,â Arielle replied lightly, glancing at the door that was slowly swinging shut behind Zacharyâs retreating figure. âI can do it alone. If you have other matters to attend to, you may go as well.â
The attending physicianâs eyes widened in surprise. Does she mean that she doesnât need anyone elseâs help? Is she very confident or just very arrogant?
In the end, the attending physician decided that Arielle was just very confident in her skills.
Well, since sheâs so sure of her herself, I should stick around and watch how she deals with this snake venom. Maybe I could learn a thing or two from her..
All eyes were trained on Arielle. Some of them wanted to see her fail, but even more of them wanted to see how she would neutralize the venom.