Su Qinghai fell silent after hearing Su Ya's words.
He hadn't uttered a single word for a long time.
Suya did not urge them.
After all, this matter involves many people and events.
It felt like an eternity had passed.
Then I heard Su Qinghai let out a long sigh.
She said with a hint of helplessness, "Ya Ya, you knew all along?"
"I know part of it, but not the whole story, so I want to hear the truth. And this involves Grandma Yan, so I need to know what happened afterward."
Su Ya told the truth.
After a while, Su Qing recalled what had happened. Although more than fourteen years had passed, the incident was still vivid in his mind, as if it had just happened yesterday. "It was fourteen years ago. Your mother and I took you on a trip, and then we lost you in Nanlin Town. When your mother went out to look for you, she was in a car accident. At that time, such a big thing happened to our family. If your mother hadn't been alive, I wouldn't have wanted to live anymore. Two months later, it was our Su family's turn to go to an island abroad. In the meantime, coordinating people and deciding who to send kept me exhausted every day."
"I still remember that day when I had everything arranged and led the team to hold the island. Two months later, the head of the laboratory told me that their experiment had made new progress. They had successfully removed the radioactive material from the meteorite and developed the first batch of drugs. The results of animal experiments showed that it could double the lifespan. However, animals are not human, so the effect on humans may be less pronounced. But conservatively, they could live for twenty years."
"After I reported this news to the heads of the eight great families and four powerful clans, they were very excited and insisted on coming to witness this miracle. They wouldn't listen to any advice. In the end, everyone came except for your grandfather, Ye Qinchuan's grandfather, and your great-grandfather. That day, I suddenly received a message from you saying that I saw you in a small town in the south. After thinking it over, I decided to go and see you."
Su Qinghai also found it a bit strange that his daughter's message had to come on that particular day of all days.
Su Ya guessed that Su Qingsheng had a change of heart and was afraid that something might happen to his older brother, so he tricked the person away.
"And then what happened?"
"Later, I will never forget what happened. The people in the laboratory went to meet the eight great families: the Lu family, the Jiang family, the Yun family, the Guan family, the Jing family, the Bai family, the Ji family, the Dai family, and the Qiao family, one of the four great families. Then, the door to the laboratory where they were still extracting radioactive materials was opened by someone."
Then everyone on the island was infected.
Everyone quickly evacuated the island, and I even got scolded for it because they told me I didn't need to go back to the island; it had been abandoned.
However, at that time we did not know that this thing had mutated after we extracted it. Seven years later, one day the head of the Yun family, one of the eight great families, suddenly died. The cause of death was the damage to his bodily functions. This head of the Yun family had always been healthy. He was the oldest among the heads of the family. Everyone thought he had aged normally. However, his death aroused our suspicion. After a lot of investigation, we finally realized the seriousness of the situation.
This thing can continuously damage bodily functions inside the body, and the rate of repair can not keep up with the rate of destruction.
Those whose bodies had been exposed to radiation underwent examinations and found that although they appeared fine on the outside, they were aging day by day inside, and their organs were no longer as good as before.
This incident caused a huge uproar. It turned out that they were doing this in secret in order to achieve immortality, but they didn't achieve immortality. Instead, it damaged their bodily functions, meaning they died young.
Upon hearing this, Su Ya became suspicious. At that time, Yun Xi was about 15 years old. It must have been because the Yun family's leader suddenly left, causing chaos in the family, that he was kidnapped by villains and taken to Nanlin Town, where he was eventually rescued by Su Ya.
"Later, we had no choice but to tell our superiors about this and ask them to think of a solution. You see, the eight great families control the lifeline of China. If Wan Neng Yi were to fall, the impact would be enormous."
Su Ya nodded in agreement; Ye Qinchuan had also mentioned this point.
"After that, they spent several more years developing a drug that inhibits the damage to bodily functions, which we all called Little White Pill."
"What about the people in the lab?"
"After the incident at the lab, they were given some severance pay and allowed to leave. Later, when problems arose, the issue was ultimately the fault of the Su family for their lax oversight. In the end, I saved the Su family by withdrawing from the four major wealthy families. Thinking about how many people in the lab were also harmed, I couldn't sleep at night. Later, after making inquiries, I found some of the lab's employees. Some had already died, but their families were still alive. I gave them a sum of money, some 100,000 yuan, some 200,000 yuan, depending on their family's circumstances, and told them it was compensation from the company."
"At that time, were you still unaware that this was contagious?"
"Yes, we didn't know that at the time. We thought that controlling the infected people would solve the problem. Later, as you know, some families were actually quite chaotic. They had many wives and many children, and then we found out that they all had problems to some extent. We felt that this was very wrong. Later we found out that it was contagious. Even if we forcibly suppressed it, it wouldn't work."
"So this little white pill can only suppress the rate of damage to bodily functions, but it cannot completely solve the problem. Moreover, it is contagious and can be transmitted to the wife and offspring."
Suya analyzed.
"Yes, that's right. In the end, based on my memories of sending money before, I found some people in the laboratory. So I gave them these little white pills to take, which can slow down the aging process."
"Dad, is this medicine being delivered by your organization?"
"No, I was no longer a member of the four major families at that time. I was just cooperating by giving out the list. The medicine was delivered by someone from the China Academy of Medical Sciences."
Suya added, "No wonder."
"What's wrong, Ya Ya? No wonder."
Su Qingsheng felt a little sensitive when his daughter suddenly said those three words.
“Grandma Yan’s husband also worked in the lab. When Grandma Yan was sick, I took her to the hospital for a checkup, and they all advised me to give up, saying that for some reason her body had aged. Just when I was at a loss, someone contacted me and gave me some white pills, saying that they would bring them once a month.”
"You mean Grandma Yan is also taking those white pills?"
Su Qinghai suddenly asked loudly.
“Yes, she said she also received a compensation of 100,000 yuan from her employer that year, not long after she adopted me.”
Su Qinghai was filled with regret upon hearing this; he wished he had gone himself.
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