Chapter 643 There's hope!! (Two chapters combined!)
I went upstairs and thought it would be a living room, but from the outside I could tell it was more like a special ward.
As they approached one of the doorways, the old commander stood there for a while, pressed his eyes together, sighed, shook his head, and walked away. Then he looked at Gu Yin and said, "Come and take a look."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yin stepped forward and looked into the room through the glass window in the door.
The room was filled with various life-saving instruments, and several doctors were busy at work.
On the only hospital bed lay a man who was completely naked, with only a thin cloth covering his waist.
The man's skin was completely cracked open! Blood was everywhere! Gu Yin had good eyesight and could clearly see that all the open wounds were festering! The doctors were all frowning as they cleaned his wounds, but the wounds would bleed profusely after being cleaned! So they filled the sunken wounds with gauze! Some doctors were even cutting up the gauze from a few days ago, making holes in it with each cut! It made Gu Yin's scalp tingle!
Gu Yin took two steps back and looked at the old chief: "Xiao Sheng, is this a skin problem?"
The old leader sighed and sat down on the sofa. He said in a deep voice, "Everyone's situation is different. Xiaosheng has skin cancer. It keeps cracking open. He says it hurts and itches so much! He feels like he's dying. All the painkillers and anti-itch medications are useless! If the wound isn't cleaned for a day, it will ooze pus. But if it's cleaned too much, the bleeding won't stop. The blood we replenish isn't enough to keep him from bleeding. To keep him alive, we can only clean it every other day. He's in a lot of pain right now. We keep him in a coma every day with medication, but we can't keep him unconscious forever, or he'll have brain problems. Every time he wakes up, he begs me to do it. As a father, I can't bring myself to do it, but seeing him in so much pain, I don't know what to do."
Given Xiao Sheng's status, Gu Yin really couldn't understand why he would go to that kind of laboratory. Gu Yin was actually skeptical of what her former boss had said, since that laboratory was full of top scientists in the field, and Xiao Sheng wasn't qualified to be there!
Gu Yin didn't hold back and asked the question. The old chief sighed, "I can't hide anything from you. Actually, what I said before wasn't a lie, I just didn't go into details. My wife was in that lab and was also exposed to radiation. She was originally here for rehabilitation, but she couldn't leave the experiments, so she had Xiao Sheng help her back to the lab. When Xiao Sheng heard that she wanted to go back to the front line to observe and record data, he locked up the assistant who had just returned from his honeymoon and wanted to go in, and put that comrade's protective suit on her. By the time my wife found out, he was already within the radiation range, and the protective shield automatically closed. He wouldn't let my wife go in. He felt that the first radiation exposure might still be treatable, but if it was a second exposure, it would be terrible. He was already in, so what could he do? He could only make the most of this opportunity and let him record and observe. Less than a week after he came out, he turned out like this."
Gu Yin didn't know what to say for a moment.
"So, you called me here today?"
The old leader looked at her and said, "Your application for the second phase of the experiment has been approved. I explained the pros and cons of this matter to Xiaosheng. He strongly requested to be a volunteer for the second phase of the experiment. I asked you to come here to ask if he can participate given his current situation."
Gu Yin frowned: "If you can bear the consequences, you can participate, but I'm not sure whether using my medicine will alleviate the pain or accelerate the mutation. I can't guarantee that."
After thinking for a while, the old leader said seriously, "Let's administer the medication. Whatever the outcome, it's his fate."
Seeing that he had made up his mind, Gu Yin nodded: "Okay, let him take the medicine here. During the time he takes the medicine, I hope you can arrange for some special people to watch over him. If an irreversible situation occurs, I hope you can be decisive."
The old leader understood Gu Yin's meaning: "I know, the nation comes before the individual!"
"I'll take the medication too."
Gu Yin looked at Professor Cheng in surprise: "Teacher? Is your illness serious?"
Cheng Dong's illness was slowly worsening, but it wasn't as terrifying as Xiao Sheng's.
But Xiao Sheng is the son of his old boss, and those in positions of power are often suspicious. With him involved, the other party should feel more at ease. If anything really happens, they won't blame Gu Yin too much, since the old man is there with her. People's hearts are fickle. Right now, they say they won't hold any grudges no matter the consequences, but who knows what will happen when the time comes? A Yin is his apprentice, a genius, and he doesn't want her to be sidelined when the time comes.
So Cheng Dong smiled and said, "It's much worse than before."
Seeing that his face was indeed very pale, Gu Yin nodded: "Then I'll have someone bring the medicine over."
The senior leader next to him immediately said, "I'll arrange for someone to get it. Is it in the lab or at the hospital?"
"They're all at the hospital. I've sent a message to the people in the lab to tell them to make arrangements and wait." Gu Yin finished speaking and then called Fang Chongming to give him instructions.
An hour later, two people appeared at the top of the stairs on the second floor, each carrying a refrigerated box containing the medicine needed for this mission.
Gu Yin looked at the old leader: "Just give it an intravenous injection."
The old leader nodded, walked over and knocked on the door. A moment later, the door opened from the inside, and a doctor came out.
One of them handed the refrigerated container to the doctor, and the senior leader said a few words before letting the man go in.
"Doctor, wait a minute!"
The group turned to look at Gu Yin.
Gu Yin stepped forward and said, "After administering the medication, I would like you to arrange for someone to continuously monitor the patient's condition and record the data! It would be best if the patient remained awake!"
Before the group could even frown, she continued, "I need to see changes in the data; this might help in developing a complete cure! Thank you all!"
The doctor nodded repeatedly: "Okay! I'll remember!" After disinfecting, the doctor went in through the special passage.
Cheng Dong looked at Gu Yin and the others: "Then I'll go back and take my medicine too."
His house was next door, and there were also dedicated treatment rooms and doctors there.
After Cheng Dong finished his injection, Gu Yin still asked the doctor to make a record.
Because it was the first day of medication, Gu Yin was a little worried, so she stayed in Cheng Dong's room, and her former boss stayed next door.
Cheng Dong didn't experience any reaction after taking the medicine.
Meanwhile, Xiao Sheng, who was next door, was first woken up by the doctor. Before he could even react, the pain and itching felt like thousands of ants were biting his skin, making him feel like he was dying again.
He didn't even realize when the doctor gave him an injection.
"Our former leader just brought over a new drug he's researched, and we've already given you the injection. You need to be fully conscious this time so that the drug can be developed more effectively. We hope you can hold on!"
Xiao Sheng knew it was Gu Yin's medicine, but he was too weak to speak at this moment, his whole body was trembling!
Fearing he would bite his tongue in pain, the doctor put a mouth diffuser in his mouth and restrained his body. Then, one person observed and recorded the information, another drew blood for testing every now and then, and a third wiped his sweat.
Xiao Sheng really couldn't take it anymore! He finally understood what it meant to be in worse than death! In the past, when the pain was unbearable, the doctor would give him medication to make him sleep, but now it was a trial drug, so forget about fainting!
Just as he was about to faint, he was woken up again! Xiao Sheng truly felt that this room was hell!
Gu Yin came over to check on things in the middle of the night and found the old leader resting with his eyes closed on the sofa on the second floor, clearly worried about him.
Hearing the noise, he opened his eyes, his sharp gaze softening upon seeing Gu Yin.
"Not sleeping? Why did you come here?"
Gu Yin shook her head: "I was worried, so I came to check on you. Are you alright?"
The old leader took off his glasses, pinched the bridge of his nose, and sighed: "He's been screaming ever since he woke up, and he starts screaming again after only a few seconds of passing out."
No sooner had she finished speaking than a hoarse roar came from inside the house again, startling Gu Yin so much that her heart skipped a beat!
They were completely caught off guard!
The old leader beckoned: "Come sit down for a while, don't look, you'll be scared later."
Or they would sit down upon hearing this, and soon someone would bring them food.
The old leader gestured to Gu Yin: "Sitting around all day can make you sleepy. Have some nuts to cheer yourself up."
Gu Yin nodded upon hearing this and started eating the almonds, mainly because she was a bit bored.
"If this medicine works, can it be improved into a medicine that can completely cure the disease?" the old leader asked.
Gu Yin shook her head: "This medicine has already reached its limit. If it is to be effective against these radiation sicknesses, I need to go to the site to see what it is so that I can make a breakthrough based on its structure."
The old leader frowned upon hearing this: "I cannot agree to this. You know your achievements, and the responsibilities on your shoulders are enormous! If anything happens to you over there, I will be a sinner against the country! If you need data, I can have someone get it for you, but you absolutely cannot go there!"
Gu Yin knew she would be rejected, so she used a retreat as a strategy: "Isn't there a protective shield? As long as I don't stand within the radiation range, I'll be fine. Besides, I'm a researcher. I have to dedicate my life to scientific research. If I back down when I encounter difficulties, then I'll be useless in the future."
The old leader sighed helplessly: "None of them are afraid of death! Even if I agree, the people there won't! To put it bluntly, you're the hope of the future, you're so young! Your future is limitless! Those old guys definitely won't let you in!"
Gu Yin was a little thirsty. She took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, and said, "As long as you agree, that's fine. I'll figure out the rest myself. I am the hope of the future, and the others are the nation's treasures! What if they manage to make a medicine?"
She mainly wanted to see what that thing was, and she needed 001 to scan it.
She had wanted 001 to go and scan directly, but the lab there was unusual and too far away. If he scanned, it would release a lot of energy, and if 001 made any move, there was a high chance that the fluctuations would be noticed. So 001 refused and said that they could only see it from there! As long as they were close enough, 001 wouldn't need much energy to get the results.
The two chatted for a while longer, and gradually, the sky outside the window began to lighten.
After staying up all night, the old leader was exhausted: "No one came out from inside, so there's obviously no major problem. Go back and get some sleep."
Gu Yin stood up and said with a smile, "This medicine should be working."
The old leader's previously listless eyes widened with suspicion: "How could that be? How did you know?"
Gu Yin smiled and said, "After I arrived here, the interval between the screams increased from once every ten minutes to once every fifteen minutes within an hour. After the second hour, it became once every 25 minutes, and after the third hour, it became once every 30 minutes. And just now, from five to six o'clock, it has become once every 35 minutes! That is to say, now he has only screamed twice in about an hour! This shows that the drug is working!"
The former leader asked in surprise, "You've been keeping this in mind all this time?"
Gu Yin nodded: "I'm used to it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the treatment room opened, and the doctor from before came out! His eyes shone as he looked at Gu Yin, excitedly saying, "The area that was oozing pus is still bleeding after cleaning! But it's not oozing pus anymore!" As long as it stops oozing pus, the wound will heal!
The key to this drug is its ability to stimulate new cell growth and boost immune cells! As long as I grow fast enough, you can't kill me, and I can instead quickly devour you!
"And another thing! Before the medication, Xiaosheng was screaming non-stop! He only stopped screaming when he fainted after the injection! But starting in the second half of the night, he started having rest intervals! Although they weren't many, they were enough for him to catch his breath! When I came out, he was already asleep! He hasn't been able to sleep on his own for a month!"
The old leader stood up excitedly! He quickly walked to the door and looked through the window! He saw Xiao Sheng's sleeping face! His hair was soaked, and his brows were still furrowed, but the relaxed expression on his face was the only one he had seen since he fell ill!
"Good, good!! As long as it works!! As long as it works!!"
Gu Yin smiled and nodded: "Continue to observe and see if it recurs. This medicine can relieve the pain, but it can't cure it."
The old leader quickly waved his hand: "It's already very good that the pain can be alleviated! It's a luxury to let him sleep peacefully! Go see your teacher. If this drug trial is successful, then those old guys can enjoy their retirement! After you see him, get some rest! Don't overwork yourself!"
He was genuinely happy! The little guy is amazing!
Gu Yin also wanted to know how things were going with her teacher, so she didn't linger and went downstairs.
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