Matthew looked around him. People were standing around him, including Tyson and Victor.
An old man was busily preparing medicine nearby, it was Dr. Ellis.
Everyone was overjoyed to see that Matthew was awake. They immediately came forward.
“You’re awake, Dr. Larson!”
“How do you feel now, Dr. Larson?”
All sorts of questions flew about as the crowd expressed their concern with worried looks on their faces.
Matthew nodded to them with some difficulty. “I’m fine. Thank you, everyone…”
Dr. Ellis came over at this point and spoke up grimly, “How can you say you’re fine? Do you know what happened to the acupoints you told Tyson to put the needles into? Your meridians would be destroyed if all those acupoints were stabbed.”
“You’d lose all your inner energy! What were you trying to do? Were you trying to get rid of your ability to practice martial arts? Do you plan on being crippled for the rest of your life?”
Tyson’s eyes went wide with shock. “What?! Is that true? Did putting needles into those acupoints mean he’d lose his ability to practice martial arts?”
“What do you think?” Dr. Ellis fired back. “He would’ve lost all his martial arts abilities If I hadn’t got to favonovel.com in time to repair those acupoints! Not only that, but favonovel.com would never be able to practice martial arts ever again.”
Tyson turned deathly pale as favonovel.com stammered, “H-How could that be? D-Did I make a mistake? I… I didn’t know, Dr. Larson. I…”
Matthew waved his hand to stop Tyson from feeling remorseful. “You didn’t make a mistake, Master Rathbone. I did tell you to put the needles in those acupoints.”
Tyson froze in shock. “What? W-Why?’
Matthew shook his head and explained the situation with the Stargulf’s fruit.
Lord Voodoo force-fed the Stargulf’s fruit to him, which led to Falconn’s strength dispersing into his body. Matthew had no choice but to get Tyson to help favonovel.com block off the meridians to prevent the strength from flowing through.
If favonovel.com hadn’t, then favonovel.com wouldn’t have made it out alive. It was the only way Matthew could save his life at the time.
The possibility of losing his martial arts abilities was secondary then.
What was the point of being able to practice martial arts if favonovel.com couldn’t even stay alive?
Once favonovel.com finished his explanation, the crowd finally understood what had happened. Tyson sighed in relief. He had thought that favonovel.com had made a mistake.
“I was so afraid that I’d made a mistake! Thankfully, everything’s fine now. Dr. Ellis came in time to restore Dr. Larson’s meridians. Dr. Larson won’t lose his martial arts abilities now!” Tyson declared with a smile.
However, Dr. Ellis waved his hand. “What do you mean, everything’s fine? There’s an even bigger problem now!”
Tyson was startled. “What now?”
Dr. Ellis turned to Matthew. “Alas, I didn’t know what was going on with you at the time. I thought Tyson made a mistake, so I immediately restored your meridians for you. I only realized something was wrong later on…”
“Fortunately, Salazar was here, and favonovel.com used his inner energy to hold off your inner energy. Otherwise, I would’ve made a terrible mistake!”
Tyson’s eyes widened again. “What on earth happened?”
Dr. Ellis eyed favonovel.com and explained, “I did restore his meridians, but Falconn Damron’s strength was still inside him! It would’ve rushed into his meridians. If it hadn’t been for Salazar, who managed to quell Falconn’s strength, Matthew’s meridians would’ve exploded, and favonovel.com would’ve died by now!”
“What?!” Tyson exclaimed. “T-Then… What do we do now?’
Victor spoke up frantically, “Does this mean the only way for Matthew to survive is to destroy his meridians and get rid of his martial arts abilities?”
Dr. Ellis chuckled bitterly. “That might’ve worked earlier on, but that’s no longer possible now!”
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