V2/Chapter 11: The Poet Holds
Even though Ai Yue had helped the patient walk around outside and came back, Spasi and Su still couldn't believe that the scene before them was real.
"He looks OK, but he just recovered and is still very weak." Looking at the patient who quickly fell asleep again, Ai Yue took off the Honkai energy absorption device on her neck and replaced the core inside for her. "It seems to be due to the long-term illness. There is no need for improvement..."
"Ai Yue!"
Spasi then rushed up and grabbed Ai Yue's hand: "You, you..."
"Calm down, Minister Spasi." Ai Yue pointed at the sleeping patient and then pointed outside the door, "Don't disturb others' rest."
The three people left the ward and came to the corridor.
"You really...did it?" Even though he had forced himself to calm down, Spasi still found it hard to believe what had just happened. "That's the Honkai disease serum! Have you really completed the project of artificially synthesizing Honkai disease antibodies?!"
Spasi had thought about whether Ai Yue had found a way to extract the Honkai disease antibodies of a thousand people and made them into serum. However, to complete the antibody extraction of a thousand people in such a short time, Ai Yue would need at least twice as many people as the members of the Fifth Science Department, and they must all be experts in the medical field.
Since both possibilities were equally outrageous, he naturally hoped that the other party had completed the research on artificially synthesized antibodies for Honkai disease.
But it's only been a short time, not even 30 hours!
"I've already said it, it's just a test subject." Ai Yue shook his head and didn't directly respond to the question, "Where are the other patients?"
A single case is not enough to prove the reliability of a drug. Even if it is just to collect data, it must be tested on more patients.
Spasi then remembered that there were still many light blue medicines in the box in the other party's hand, which also dispelled his last bit of doubt, but he still subconsciously said: "Medicines that have not been tested on animals cannot..."
Before he could finish his words, he slapped himself and walked to the front: "Follow me."
The ground building of the Fifth Science Department is not so much a hospital for treating patients with Honkai disease as it is a place for providing end-of-life care for patients and collecting experimental data. From the time this hospital was established to now, only one patient has been cured in the entire hospital, and that is Su.
Many scholars in the Fifth Science Department would laugh at themselves, saying that this place is actually a cemetery, and that these so-called doctors, watching patients being sent here, obtaining data related to Honkai disease from the patients, but being completely unable to cure them, and after the patients die, they have to extract Honkai disease antibodies from their bodies. They are simply a group of zombies.
For these patients, even if the medicine in Ai Yue's hand can only give them a brief moment of life and prolong their dying lives for a few days or even a few hours, it has already far exceeded all the efforts made by the Fifth Scientific Department. In this case, why should he still abide by that outdated dogma?
Special things, of course, require special methods.
Ai Yue still had 19 medicines in his hand, so Spasi also selected 19 patients with the most serious conditions. Accompanied by more and more other doctors who came after hearing the news, all 19 patients returned to normal after receiving the medicines.
"Everything has been arranged. Each patient will receive a complete physical examination and a one-week observation period." Su knocked on the door of the office, then walked in and looked at his teacher and Ai Yue. "But from what I can see so far, the effect of the serum provided by Dr. Ai Yue is basically the same as the serum used on me at the beginning."
"There is still a difference." Ai Yue sat on the sofa and said without raising his head, "My medicine takes effect faster."
"So, how did you do it?" Su now had a feeling called "fear" towards Ai Yue. "To be honest, I really can't understand it."
Most people feel fear when faced with things they cannot understand, and this is the case with Su now.
Before this, most of what Su knew about Ai Yue came from rumors on the Internet and the descriptions of his friends. These contents were more or less distorted, so it was difficult for Su to intuitively realize how outrageous Ai Yue's abilities were.
But today he experienced it all firsthand.
Can one person really complete a difficult problem that the entire Fifth Science Department has spent nearly ten years trying to solve in just one day?
Su couldn't imagine how Ai Yue would behave in his laboratory, but he knew very well that even if he just designed the formula of the Honkai disease inhibitor, it would take much more time than this.
This doesn't even include the subsequent steps of repeated experimentation and refinement.
Su is already a recognized genius in the Fifth Science Department. Spasi is even willing to use a bottle of Honkai disease serum made from the remains of a thousand patients for him. But compared with Ai Yue, what is he?
At this moment in his eyes, Ai Yue's figure had been distorted and expanded, changing into some kind of incomprehensible existence. Only an existence that exceeds the limits of human imagination could be capable of doing such a thing.
There was nothing wrong with Mobius's evaluation; Ai Yue was indeed a miracle worker.
Su couldn't help but look at his teacher.
Spasi is a man who seems gentle and kind, but is actually very stubborn at heart. He is extremely confident in his abilities, and is also proud of his career and keeps working hard for it. Even though he is now disabled and old, he still works as hard as a young man, and sometimes even outlasts Su.
Can such a person accept that his long-term efforts are so easily surpassed by others?
However, to his surprise, Spasi was laughing.
He didn't look at Ai Yue, nor at Su, but looked out the window with a relieved smile.
It was as if what Ai Yue did did not cause him any harm, but instead freed him from some shackles that he had been unable to break free of for a long time.
After a moment, Spasi gathered his scattered thoughts again. He stood up and bowed deeply to Ai Yue with a solemn expression: "Dr. Ai Yue, thank you."
"Hey, don't do that." Ai Yue rolled and crawled up from the sofa, avoiding the direction where the other party bowed, "You are so old, I can't bear it."
"No, you can bear it." Spasi did not stand up, but kept bowing. "Thank you for saving us from the quagmire of despair and numbness."
"All those things are settled now." Ai Yue waved his hand, "Now can we talk about the conditions we agreed on before?"
"You win," Spasi said, standing up again. "Whatever terms you propose, I am willing to accept them."
Ai Yue showed a playful smile on his face: "Even if I ask to disband the Fifth Science Department?"
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