Chapter 445 The experiment has yielded results.

Lan Yan ignored him, stood up, and put her hands in her pockets: "We've seen it all. Since there's nothing else, let's go shopping first. We'll talk again after you're discharged. I've taken care of the special training team for you. Take your time to recover your leg. Oh, and I'll tell Aunt Wang later that she needs to watch what you eat. A patient should be mindful of their diet! You can't have pig's trotters or roasted chicken! You can't even smell them!"

Liang Ping: "Is this how you behave? Lan Yan, you just wait! Wait till I recover and see how I deal with you! No wonder you're so old and still single! Tell me, with your personality, if you don't change, what girl would want to be with you?!"

Lan Yan picked up an apple and threw it at him: "Shut up! I have plenty of girls in the cultural troupe chasing after me! Let's go! Take good care of your injuries!"

After saying that, he nodded to Gu Yin and Gu Shu and left the ward.

The two followed.

While waiting for the elevator, Gu Shu looked at Lan Yan curiously: "Instructor, do you and Instructor Liang have a good relationship?"

The elevator doors opened, and the three people entered.

Lan Yan nodded: "When I was in basic training, he was my squad leader. He was a local. Don't let his unreliability fool you, he was actually a very good person. When we were on leave and had nowhere to go, he would take us home and treat us to the best food and drink. Later, I was selected for the special forces, and he was too. Our relationship became even better. I'm an orphan, so I recognized his mother, Grandma Wang, as my godmother. Whether I was on leave or injured or sick, it was always my godmother who took care of me."

Oh, so that's what happened. Gu Shu suddenly realized, "No wonder you guys are so close! So where are we going now?"

After getting off the elevator, Lan Yan thought for a moment and looked at the two of them: "How about we go eat that family bucket? Don't you kids all like to eat that? Or what do you like to eat? Tell me, and I'll take you there."

Gu Yin said helplessly, "Instructor, we're not little kids anymore. We don't like that kind of food. Besides, it's only a little past ten o'clock, not lunchtime yet. Let's sit down here for a bit. I need to send an email to my teacher. My family will bring my computer over, and after I'm done, we can go eat. It'll be quick."

Lan Yan didn't care: "Okay, let's sit there. But are you from Beijing?" This was the first time Lan Yan had heard of this.

Gu Yin nodded and then shook her head: "We are from Z province, but our family bought a house in Beijing and transferred our household registration here, so we can be considered Beijing residents now."

"I see," Lan Yan nodded. "You guys sit down first. I'll go buy some water. Don't wander around. Wait for me to come back." With that, she walked towards the vending machine in the distance.

Gu Shu looked at Gu Yin: "When did you call home?"

“I didn’t call, I sent a text message. I did a research project on my own before, and I’ve been working on it. I have some results in the last couple of days, and I’m going to send them to my teacher to take a look, so I asked my dad to bring my computer over.”

Gu Shu sighed upon hearing this: "How are you so amazing! Even military training didn't stop you from thinking! Am I being too lazy?"

Gu Yin smiled and said, "That's normal. I've worked on this topic before, but I was just missing the ending."

This experiment is about shingles. She had been conducting experiments in the system lab before, and this was one of them. Just now in the ward, 001 informed her that the experimental results were in and that the experiment was successful.

The system lab is great. The experimental results you get are not like those in the real world. It requires experiments on mice, clinical trials, and multiple trials until it is confirmed that there are no problems before it can be reported. After that, it has to pass through all the layers of hurdles before it can be launched on the market. These procedures take at least half a year, and may take several years in some cases!

As for why we are studying shingles, this thing has another name: shingles!

Gu Yin hadn't noticed this before. It was only after the college entrance exam results came out that she heard Li Li's grandmother tell her about it during the few days she stayed in her hometown. She said that Aunt Li Pang in the village had this thing and it hurt terribly. In the end, she used a folk remedy to get better, but she also suffered a lot. In just half a month, she lost 10 pounds!

Gu Yin thought of her past life. It was also a hot summer day. Uncle Gu was using his cane to harvest corn on the back mountain. It was just a small plot of land, and he harvested it all by himself for several days, from morning till night.

He was too tired during that time and didn't pay attention. His stomach was in great pain at first. He thought it was a strain and just endured it. But when he woke up the next day, the painful area was red and three small blisters appeared. He felt a pang of anxiety and suspected that he had shingles.

I asked around in the village, but no one was sure. However, his neuralgia was indeed like a snake coiling around his waist, so someone told him to go to the hospital.

Uncle Gu thought it might not be true yet and wanted to check again. Then the next day, five small blisters appeared on his genitals! The pain was so bad that he wanted to roll around in agony.

When the villagers saw him like this, they called Gu Yin. Gu Yin told him to go to the hospital first, and she would buy a ticket to go back immediately.

At the time, some elderly people in the village had also had this thing and went to the hospital for treatment. When Gu Qingming was about to go to the hospital, that person came over and told him not to go, saying that he had been cured, but there were aftereffects. Not only would it recur, but he would also experience nerve pain from time to time! The pain was unbearable! That person told him to find Aunt Li Pang in the village. Aunt Pang had also had it before, and after being cured, it never recurred and had no aftereffects!

This thing really hurts. Gu Qingming didn't dare to go to the hospital because he was afraid of the aftereffects!

So he went to Aunt Li Pang, who gave Gu Qingming the person's contact information. But the person who treated this thing was no longer around!

Gu Qingming didn't know what to do.

When Gu Yin returned, she saw that his chest and back were covered with blisters the size of a thumb! They stretched from the left side to his back, covering a large area!

Gu Qingming was already unable to sleep and couldn't sit still!

Gu Yin was completely terrified! Plus, everyone around her was saying that if it went in a complete circle, even God wouldn't come back!

Gu Yin didn't even have time to drink water before she hurriedly pulled Uncle Gu to the hospital.

Just as I was about to leave, Aunt Pang came to my house and said that her married sister-in-law knew someone in the village who could cure this, and had cured many people. No medicine was needed; just applying the herbs he found in the mountains would do! This was true! There were no side effects! And if you applied it that day, the blister would turn a little darker the next day, flatten out in three days, and scab over in a week, after which it wouldn't hurt anymore!

Upon hearing this, Gu Qingming asked for the address and then had Gu Yin take him there.

That place isn’t far; it’s only a 30-minute taxi ride, then you can take a motorcycle in. Just tell them your aunt’s name!

Seeing that her uncle was reluctant to go to the hospital, and worried that the disease might recur and have long-term effects, Gu Yin had no choice but to listen to her uncle and take him there. However, she also told her uncle that if there were no results by the next day, they would go to the hospital.

Before going, they bought over a hundred yuan worth of lychees in town and also brought two kilograms of beef with them.

When they arrived at the village entrance, Aunt Pang's sister-in-law was already waiting there.

Afterwards, she led the two to that person's house. The man looked at Uncle Gu's back, then told him to sit down and rest for a while, while he took a sickle and went up the mountain.

Half an hour later, the other person returned with a plastic bag containing crushed herbs. It was unclear what they were. The person immediately applied the medicine to Uncle Gu's face and told him to keep it in the refrigerator when he got home. He instructed Uncle Gu to use a clean gauze pad, about the size of an egg, and press it onto the blister repeatedly, repeating this seven or eight times a day. He said that once all the medicine was used up, the illness would be cured.

It cost a total of two hundred yuan.

After returning home, Uncle Gu kept pressing the area. The next morning, Uncle Gu showed it to Gu Yin, who noticed that the large blisters had indeed turned black around the edges and were no longer translucent. The loss of luster proved that it was indeed effective!

But because Uncle Gu's condition had been dragging on for so long, he had to apply medicine for half a month before it finally got better!

After that, Gu Yin began to pay attention to this disease, which mostly affects the elderly, especially those with low immunity! She even discovered at the hospital that there was a vaccine available!

However, this vaccine doesn't provide permanent protection; its effectiveness seems to last for about four years!

After Uncle Gu fully recovered, Gu Yin took him to the hospital to get vaccinated. It cost 1,500 yuan per shot, and he needed to get two shots. The vaccine was imported; there wasn't a domestic vaccine available yet.

Then in July 2020, vaccines began to be administered in Beijing and Shanghai. More and more people became aware of the disease, and by the time Gu Yin died, it had become widespread throughout the country.

After the domestic vaccine was launched, she looked at the reports at the time. The domestic vaccine is a recombinant vaccine. The principle is to transfer the varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein E gene into the genes of domestic hamster cells, and then use these cells to express varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein E. The glycoprotein E is extracted as an antigen and injected into the human body, which can stimulate the body's antibodies and immunity against varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein, thereby preventing varicella-zoster disease.

Vaccines only provide prevention; they are not 100% effective and cannot provide permanent protection.

When Gu Yin was trading with people from the cultivation world, she obtained a kind of pill containing several medicinal herbs that could directly inhibit the activation of the herpes virus. If the herbs were old, they could even directly eliminate the genes of the herpes virus!

After more than half a month, Gu Yin has finally managed to get this done!

When Gu Qinglang arrived at the hospital with his daughter's notebook, he saw his daughter being protected. Gu Shu and a man in military uniform were standing in front of her, confronting a middle-aged man and a young woman!