Chapter 126 The antidote has been made! In the following month…
For the next month, Sang Zhitao returned from the Upside-Down World every day, and such frequent travels made everyone at the base very worried.
"What discoveries has your medical team made during this period?" Li Mingguo's projection appeared directly in front of the base's conference room.
Zhang Su glanced at the team leader before transmitting the data to everyone's personal smart devices and said, "Judging from the physical data, Tao Tao's body is evolving as predicted, without too many abnormalities."
Li Mingguo frowned and looked at the other groups: "What about you? What did you find?"
The other groups looked at each other and shook their heads.
"We still can't detect the corresponding spatial response, and there's really nothing we can do..." Professor Qian Fang, the head of the space team, sighed heavily, her tone full of helplessness.
The physics research group looked at the space team with expressions of relief, as if they had found comrades-in-arms.
These two groups are the two least busy groups in the base. Basically, the research they are doing now is all on topics that they have been researching outside the base. They have no clue about the research that the base originally wanted them to do.
"The medical team should keep a closer eye on things," Li Mingguo sighed and remained silent for a moment before speaking to Zhang Su and the others.
After each group reported on their work, Li Mingguo concluded the meeting.
As people left in twos and threes, they continued to exchange information about the meeting.
Lin Jing left relatively late. She quietly moved to Zhang Su's side and asked in a low voice, "Is this really okay?"
Zhang Su frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and then said, "Never mind, let's wait and see. We'll report it later if there are no problems."
"Jingjing!" Lin Jing opened her mouth, about to say something, when she heard someone calling her from the front.
"I'll go over first. Tell me if you need anything." She quickly said a few words and hurried back to the teacher.
Sang Zhitao had no idea that the base was so worried about the frequency of her current travels; she only felt that this frequency was extremely beneficial to her.
If it really is like before, where she travels through time every ten days or even months, the world-shaking food would be enough to starve her to death.
"Mia! I've figured it out!" Toya ran out of the lab disheveled, clutching a test tube in her hand.
The test tube contained a purplish-blue liquid with tiny glitters, much like the stars in the night sky, or even the Milky Way star map that Sang Zhitao had once seen. It was so beautiful that one couldn't help but immerse their soul in it and never leave.
"Can this be mass-produced?" Sang Zhitao looked at the medicine in the test tube and asked Tuoya curiously.
Toya paused in her scratching motion before cautiously saying, somewhat embarrassed, "If we're going to mass-produce... we might need your blood..."
She looked down at Sang Zhitao's innocent face and felt really bad about letting the child pay for this.
Sang Zhitao raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised. The original book hadn't mentioned that the potion required Mia's blood. She lowered her eyes slightly, concealing the dark light within them, and spoke in a normal voice, "Can't we do without it?"
Toya scratched her head again before sighing, "Maybe there is, but I really can't touch it right now."
Sang Zhitao rubbed her fingertips, thought for a moment, and then said, "Let's try again. There are so many people. If we use my blood on them all, even a hundred or eighty wouldn't be enough."
A hint of anxiety flashed across Toya's brow: "Is it too late?"
Sang Zhitao suddenly laughed out loud, looked up at Tuoya who looked surprised, and said with a smile, "It's okay, the virus isn't spreading that fast."
“But when we came, didn’t you say…” Toya hurriedly tried to retort, but before she could finish, Sang Zhitao raised her hand to stop her.
Sang Zhitao looked at Tuoya until she felt a chill run down Tuoya's spine before laughing and saying, "You should still do some research. I think there must be a way that doesn't require my blood."
“Actually, not much is used…” Toya opened her mouth to explain, but was stopped by Sang Zhitao once again.
"Toya, aren't you curious? I have antibodies, my cognition won't be altered, and even if a virus invades, it will automatically diminish with metabolism. After so many days, you should have already discovered from my blood that the virus in my body is gone, right? So... aren't you curious why I still speak as if my cognition has been altered?" Sang Zhitao narrowed her eyes slightly, her lips curving into a wide grin, smiling like a little fox.
Toya was taken aback, a hint of panic flashing in her eyes, before she quickly explained, "I...I didn't notice."
“Is that so…?” Sang Zhitao murmured softly.
Before Toya could speak again, Sang Zhitao continued, "Toya, fix it as soon as possible. I believe in you."
After saying that, Sang Zhitao ignored her and turned back to bed.
Toya stared at her silently for a long time, then finally sighed without a sound, took the vial of medicine, and quietly returned to the laboratory.
Sang Zhitao trusted Toya's character. The key to leaving was in her hands. Even if it was just to cure the public as soon as possible, she would do her best to revise the prescription.
But Sang Zhitao was even more curious: how could a kind-hearted person who always adhered to the principles of justice suddenly choose to harm a child in order to save the public?
She didn't believe that Toya could only create such an antidote. If that were all, Mia in the original book wouldn't have been adopted and survived to the end.
After all, even a small amount of blood becomes an astonishing quantity when added to a potion containing tens of thousands of doses.
Therefore, there must be someone behind Toya. This person did not follow the original plot, but instead not only contacted Toya, but may also have designs on her.
Just as Sang Zhitao had guessed, there was indeed someone directing Toya's actions.
Toya silently took the medicine back to the laboratory, looked around at the somewhat messy lab, and walked silently to a chair in the corner.
She placed the medicine on the test tube rack, which already had three or four test tubes, each a different color.
Toya's gaze fell on a test tube that was very similar in color to blue-purple, and a conflict flashed in her eyes.
Before she could figure it out, an urgent ringtone sounded.
Toya stood up abruptly and subconsciously looked towards the door. Only after seeing the tightly closed laboratory door did she breathe a sigh of relief, and her tense body relaxed involuntarily.
The bell kept ringing, sounding rather jarring in the quiet laboratory.
Toya stared at her phone for a long time until the ringtone stopped, then she let out a heavy sigh.
But before she could completely exhale, the bell suddenly rang again.
Toya shuddered, staring at a name flashing on the screen. After a long while, she weakly picked up her phone and pressed the answer button.
The person on the other end of the phone said something, and Toya's face went from white to green to black, finally ending the call when it was completely red.
Sang Zhitao ignored Tuoya's side, focusing on playing on her phone and waiting for Tuoya's result.
As she had hoped, the potion described in the book was successfully created by Toya, only about forty days after they entered the laboratory.
"Shall we go now?" Toya asked, pursing her lips as she looked at Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao toyed with the potion in her hand, thought for a moment, and then said, "Who do you plan to give this potion to?"
Toya was taken aback, then secretly glanced at Sang Zhitao before pursing her lips and hesitatingly asking, "The...Emperor?"
Sang Zhitao paused, looking at Tuoya with some surprise. Then she realized what was going on, narrowed her eyes to hide the deep thought in them, and after a while, under Tuoya's somewhat uneasy gaze, she said, "I remember telling you before that we were looking for the Crown Princess. Why did you think of looking for the Emperor?"
Toya stood silently opposite, swallowed hard after a long while, and said cautiously, "After all... he is the master of the country."
Sang Zhitao stared intently at Toya, already having guessed what was going on, and said with a smile, "Was the first-generation antidote something the emperor ordered you to research?"
Toya stared wide-eyed at Sang Zhitao, somewhat puzzled as to why she knew.
Sang Zhitao ran her fingertips over the antidote, thought for a moment, and then asked curiously, "I'm very curious, why did the emperor want to kill me?"
Toya kept her mouth tightly shut, and after a long while, she replied in a hoarse voice, "I don't know, but..."
She paused for a moment before continuing, "I can sense that he really wants you dead."
Sang Zhitao lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then smiled and said to Tuoya, "It's alright, just give him that recipe."
Toya frowned, her face showing a conflicted expression.
Sang Zhitao waved her hand and said, "Let's give the final antidote to the Crown Princess first, and then give the medicine to the Emperor after a while."
“You…” Toya understood Sang Zhitao’s plan somewhat, but she was still a little hesitant.
“As I said, those people have powerful backers behind them, and I suspect one of them is the emperor,” Sang Zhitao said solemnly.
Toya looked incredulous: "How is that possible... What's the reason?"
"I don't know. I'm just a primary school student, and you're an ordinary scientist. Are you planning to take on that group of forces head-on?" Sang Zhitao raised an eyebrow, a surprised expression on her face.
Toya blushed slightly, an embarrassed expression appearing on her face. She sighed softly before saying, "Then I'll listen to you."
Sang Zhitao shrugged: "Then I'll leave it to you."
Toya was taken aback: "Me?"
Sang Zhitao looked at her in confusion: "Otherwise what? An ordinary student like me can't find this important person's contact information."
Toya opened her mouth, instinctively wanting to refute, but couldn't find a reason to object, so she could only silently agree.
Seeing that she had agreed, Sang Zhitao smiled and sat back on the bed: "I think we can wait for the Crown Princess to come and pick us up. After all, it's not common to see people being kidnapped by bad guys when they go out in this situation on TV."
Toya looked at her, silently agreed, and turned to contact the Crown Princess.
The Crown Princess's arrival seems to have come sooner than expected.
That afternoon, just as Toya had prepared a few extra doses of the antidote in the lab, the alarm went off.
Sang Zhitao directly opened the monitor to check.
I assumed she was the Crown Princess's person, so my attitude was somewhat casual.
But when she saw who had come in, Sang Zhitao's expression changed drastically, and she hurriedly rushed into the laboratory: "Who exactly did you notify?!"
Toya was packing the medicine into an aluminum box when she saw her rush in. She looked puzzled, and only when Sang Zhitao asked her again did she say in surprise, "The...the Crown Princess."
Sang Zhitao frowned, about to continue questioning, when she vaguely heard several loud bangs, and the alarm blared more and more urgently.
Without further hesitation, she stepped forward, took the aluminum box, turned, and ran deeper into the area, not forgetting to tell Toya, "Hurry up!"
Behind her, a loud bang followed, the alarm stopped, and the sound of hurried footsteps filled the air...
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Author's note: I'm out of drafts o(╥﹏╥)o
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