Chapter 191 Three Views Shattered and Reshaped
In the laboratory.
This is Zhang Shengnan's second night sleeping here.
After six hours of sleep, she got up from the bed without hesitation, brushed her teeth and washed her face hastily, and went to the laboratory next door with a steamed bun and a boiled egg in her mouth.
When Shen Linglan saw Zhang Shengnan, her temples throbbed twice, and she asked helplessly, "Professor Zhang, you didn't go home again?"
Zhang Shengnan finished the boiled egg in two bites, and after swallowing the choking feeling with soy milk, she said to Shen Linglan, "I've slept for six hours. It took a lot of effort to get an experimental sample. If you hadn't asked me to, I wouldn't even want to sleep."
The experimental sample herself, Chen Xiaohong, was sitting in the laboratory, blinking and taking a bite of a boiled egg.
Her eyes were still cloudy, but the redness on her face had faded a lot. She looked much cleaner than before and was no longer afraid of lamps and light.
"Good morning, Professor Zhang."
Chen Xiaohong greeted Zhang Shengnan and picked up the kettle of hot soy milk. She poured a cup for Shen Linglan first, and then filled her own cup and Zhang Shengnan's cup.
"How's the progress?"
Shen Linglan asked again after taking a sip of soy milk.
"It can be improved and relieved, but it is still difficult for us to cure it at present."
Zhang Shengnan said calmly. She would never fall into a state of internal friction or self-blame just because what she did was not as expected or satisfactory.
In her world, she tries her best in everything she does, so if she can't do something, it's either because of the limitations of her professional knowledge or because the world has limited things to offer, which delays her research.
Chen Xiaohong, who was standing aside, darkened her eyes when she heard that a radical cure would still be difficult, but soon she took a deep breath and suppressed her emotions.
But Shen Linglan noticed it.
"Have you finished breakfast?" Shen Linglan asked her.
Chen Xiaohong drank the soy milk in her hand and nodded to Shen Linglan, "I'm done."
"Come with me."
Shen Linglan took her into an empty conference room.
"How have you been feeling these days?" Shen Linglan asked.
"It's good. I feel much better than when I was in the dormitory. I eat well and sleep well."
Chen Xiaohong's eyes were indeed brighter, and they were sparkling when she looked at Shen Linglan.
Shen Linglan nodded and then told him the purpose of calling her in.
"There are some rumors out there now that I was the one who planted the virus in the sewer. I need you to make your experience public and tell everyone the truth."
Chen Xiaohong had known that this day would come, but she didn't expect it to come a few days later than she had imagined.
She thought she was in a laboratory, where she would be dissected and her flesh cut up, or at the very least, locked up like the chained man.
Then Shen Linglan made her miserable, painful and desperate experience public to the public, so that netizens and citizens would feel sympathy for her and blame Shen Zhaoshan after seeing her miserable condition.
But no.
After Chen Xiaohong came to the laboratory, her life became more comfortable than when she was in school, no, when she was in her senior year of high school.
Although Professor Zhang controlled her food and water intake, she was not allowed to eat too much meat or drink too much water. He said that this was to prevent the virus in her body from absorbing energy and gradually expanding.
She didn't understand, she ate whatever Professor Zhang gave her. The food was clean, hygienic, and nutritionally balanced, and her complexion became rosy and she gained a lot of weight on her face.
"Okay." Chen Xiaohong did not protest, and said to Shen Linglan, "I'll go back and draft a draft and give it to you for your review first."
Shen Linglan shook her head. "No need for that. Just say whatever you want to say. There's no need to deliberately polish it."
After all, netizens are not fools. If there are manuscripts, it will be easier for people to become suspicious and the credibility will be greatly reduced.
"OK."
"I will have someone from the SZ Operations Department take you to the SZ office building tonight and broadcast live in the studio inside at 8 o'clock."
Chen Xiaohong agreed to all the requests with a respectful attitude, without any trace of the arrogance she had in school.
When Shen Linglan nodded and was about to leave, Chen Xiaohong suddenly called her.
"Linglan, no, Mr. Shen."
Shen Linglan turned around to look at her and found that Chen Xiaohong was pinching the corner of her clothes. Because she was an experimental sample, she needed to have blood drawn and infusions from time to time, so the clothes she wore were still the common hospital gowns.
"What's wrong?" Shen Linglan asked.
"What happened before was because I was stupid and ignorant. Whether it was bullying you in the beginning or stealing your cosmetics later, it was all because of my short-sightedness, narrow-mindedness, and impulsiveness..."
She used a bunch of derogatory words to describe herself. After that, she bowed deeply to Shen Linglan and said to her sincerely, "I'm sorry, Linglan, I don't expect you to forgive me. I just want you to know that I am really grateful that you saved me."
Chen Xiaohong asked herself, if she and Shen Linglan switched places, she would definitely not be able to forgive that stupid self, let alone save herself?
Shen Linglan had not expected Chen Xiaohong to do this. She was stunned for a moment before she said, "I received your apology. I am truly sorry and grateful. I will cooperate with Professor Zhang's experiment."
Chen Xiaohong nodded quickly several times, "Yeah, I know!"
Having said that, Shen Linglan opened the door and went out first.
In fact, both of them knew that the so-called "rescue" was just because Chen Xiaohong was worth researching, so Shen Linglan would "save" her.
But even though she knew the truth, Chen Xiaohong did not act like a spoiled child because she was the only experimental sample. Instead, she apologized to Shen Linglan sincerely. The apology and gratitude in her eyes were real and almost overflowing.
This surprised Shen Linglan.
It seems that Chen Xiaohong was quite traumatized after being infected, and she hovered on the brink of life and death for a while.
Therefore, her three views and cognition have been overturned and reshaped.
That's fine.
Shen Linglan also didn't want to keep an ungrateful person for nothing.
After leaving the laboratory, Shen Linglan went to the SZ office building to prepare for the evening live broadcast.
Unexpectedly, when she just arrived downstairs of the office building, she saw someone hanging a banner at the door, which clearly read: SZ is making money unscrupulously, junk companies should be closed down as soon as possible!
Chen Mengxue was so angry that she wanted to call 110 to report the incident. Shen Linglan stopped her hand and said to her, "Have someone from the company come out and say that we will put in another wave of purifiers after the live broadcast ends in the evening. But we will report anyone who hangs a banner at the door of the company to the police, and after we get their ID information, SZ will blacklist them for life."
Chen Mengxue nodded and called the company administration.
The two were still in the car when they saw the company's executives come downstairs and face six or seven people holding banners at the company's gate. After they conveyed Shen Linglan's words, those people looked at each other and left after a while.
As long as people are not stupid, they will make a wise choice between the two options of acting on impulse or never being able to buy the purifier.