A Replacement Bride

Chapter 291

When Katherine rushed to Keith's ward, he was still unconscious. His eyes were sunken, and his cheeks were hollowed; he looked badly out of shape.

"He was just fine yesterday. Who knew he would turn out like this after a night had passed?" Tyler sighed, looking worried.

Listening to his words, Katherine bit her lips and immediately pressed the bell. When the nurses came into the room, she ordered them, "Push him into the examination room. I'm going to give him a checkup."

Since the nurses had just received an order to cooperate with Katherine no matter what she did, they didn't hesitate and quickly obliged.

The nurses ushered Keith into the examination room, and Joaquin stood outside of the room since he knew he couldn't be of any help. As for Tyler, he was bewildered by the outcome. While they waited outside the room, he couldn't help but ask Joaquin, "Who exactly is Miss Cornell? Is she an expert in the medical field too?"

Hearing his words, Joaquin only hummed in response, seemingly uninterested in answering the man's question. Noticing his reaction, Tyler understood and stopped asking.

After all, there were many hidden talented people in the world. As someone who held a high position, he had met some of those people, so he was not surprised at all.

Half an hour later, Katherine walked out of the examination room with the nurses pushing Keith back to the ward. When both men saw her, they trailed behind her and asked, "How's Keith?"

At this moment, Katherine's face looked paler than before and she was perspiring profusely, seemingly as if she had used up all her strength. "It's bad. He is being infected by the man-faced curse. It wasn't that of a big deal at first, but Keith has a special physique. Thus, not only will the antidote be ineffective, but it will also shorten the curse's incubation period in his body, which is why he had an outbreak after a night. To Keith, the antidote is useless now," she replied.

When Joaquin heard her words, he was stunned. "Does that mean there is no way of saving Keith from the man-faced curse?" he asked.

"Yes. I tried my great-grandmother's ancient medical techniques, and it didn't work." Katherine nodded.

"Well, what do we do now?" Tyler was anxious as he didn't expect things to turn out like this. "Keith is my utmost outstanding student. He is a genius, and I was going to recommend him to advance his studies to a higher level. He can't have anything happen to him!"

Hearing his words, Katherine bit her lips without saying a word. She was Keith's sister, and she didn't want anything to happen to him too. At that moment, her eyes darkened, and she said seriously, "Well, there is a way to save him. The curse will be lifted if we find the source of it."

"Source? What does that mean?" asked Joaquin with a frown.

"There is a mother insect and larva in the man-faced curse. Since the mother insect controls the larvae, it will still be within the body even though the larvae have been killed. Only when the mother insect dies will the larvae disappear, which means the mother insect is like a switch. The larvae will stop being active once the mother insect is gone. Now, it was the larvae who infected everyone." Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

As Katherine explained about the curse, Tyler felt lightheaded from the information, and it took him a while to understand what she was saying. I only found out about the man-faced curse two days ago, but she knows so much about it. Plus, she mentioned some sort of ancient medical technique, so she must be highly skilled.

Thinking about it, Tyler couldn't help but change his perspective of her and was in awe. "How do we find the mother insect, Miss Cornell? You can leave this to me," he said.

From his perspective, he felt it would be more convenient for him to take up the task than Katherine. After all, he had lived in Kyoland at a very young age and knew many people within the medical field and scientific community.

However, she shook her head and replied, "You won't be able to find it, Mr. Morris, but I will entrust you to keep an eye on Keith. I have already sedated his nerves, so he will be fine for now. I'll do my best to find the mother insect."

When Joaquin heard her words, he frowned and looked at her worriedly. "I'll go with you. Where are you going to look for it, though?"

However, Katherine didn't reply to him and only said solemnly, "I need a room where no one will disturb me."

When Joaquin and Tyler heard her request, they were stunned, but no one asked questions.

"Alright, I'll tell the nurse about this," replied Joaquin as he nodded.

Katherine nodded upon hearing his words. After Joaquin left the room, she looked at Keith lying in bed, her gaze dark. In that split second, she sensed something was off and raised her head abruptly to stare at Tyler.

"Keith never came in contact with the man-faced curse, nor did he encounter any of the patients before, so how did he get infected by it?" she asked.

Tyler was stunned when he heard her words. However, he shook his head and looked lost. "I… I'm not sure. Keith is indeed a good kid. He never walked around Kyoland and only stayed in the test

laboratory. He never really met anyone outside of it…"

Suspicion rose in Katherine when she heard his words. Then, she quickly asked, "Did he meet anyone or do anything when he had the symptoms yesterday?"

Judging by Keith's condition, Katherine knew that he had been infected yesterday. However, it was abnormal as to where he had gotten the curse from.

"Nothing special in particular…" Tyler shook his head. Suddenly, his eyes lit up as if he had thought of something. "Oh, right! The school administrator came to inspect each laboratory. Keith was busy doing experiments in the lab, and the school administrator made small talk with him." As he spoke, he paused for a moment and frowned. "However, this happens once a month, so there isn't anything unusual with it."

At that moment, Katherine squinted her eyes and had her guard up. "Did that school administrator have any physical contact with Keith?" she asked.

"Physical contact, you say…" He thought for a moment before shaking his head. "I don't think so."

Although he denied it, she still felt that something was off. She pondered for a moment before requesting, "I want to see the test laboratory's footage from yesterday, Mr. Morris."

As soon as Tyler heard her request, he immediately understood what she was thinking and looked surprised. "Do you think…"

"Although it is still unknown, I will thoroughly investigate every clue I find. I hope that you can understand." Katherine bit her lips.

After hesitating for a moment, Tyler sighed and said, "Fine. After all, Keith is one of my students. Seeing him lying here makes my heart ache too. All I can do is help him with this." Then, he

immediately called the staff member at the test laboratory and asked them to send him the footage from yesterday.

Fifteen minutes later, he received the footage, and Katherine immediately forwarded the timestamp to where the school administrator was checking up on Keith. Then, she inspected it closely.

At that moment, time passed slowly. After five minutes, Tyler suddenly gasped in surprise while Katherine's face turned cold, her eyes filled with fury.

As the footage played out, they saw the school administrator pouring white liquid into Keith's cup when he was getting something from the cabinet!