Dr. Blanc turned and motioned for Lily to come forward. He tapped on his keyboard, and a few data lines appeared on the monitor. Lily squinted her eyes and studied them."With your background in traditional herbs, we hope you can give a different insight and work with us to find a way to tackle this virus," Dr. Blanc said."Can I have a look at the earlier research data?" Lily added after pondering. "Especially those on the virus.""We don't fully understand the virus," Dr. Blanc replied with a sigh. "Since it hasn’t spread domestically and we've kept it under control, we have minimal samples to study. We don't have a proper reference value.""Why?" Lily frowned in confusion.‘Why would there be no reference value if they managed to get a hand on a virus sample, even if it wasn’t from the main transmission chain?’"The thing is, our recent research has found that the virus mutates and evolves very quickly, but because the samples we took are from the end of a transmission chain,
They re-entered another elevator. Then, the elevator began to descend again.This surprised her. She had already thought that this research base was very far underground. She didn't expect that there were any floors below. After a while, the elevator finally stopped. Dr. Blanc walked out, followed by Lily, then Dr. Morris.This floor was relatively empty. Few machines or people were around, and an uneasiness lingered in the air. After taking a few steps forward, Lily could hear a faint moan. She perked up her ears, but the sound seemed to have disappeared. It was as if it was a hallucination.However, as they moved forward after being disinfected, she was sure it wasn't an auditory illusion. It was real!There weren't just groans. There were sounds of suppressed cries, coughs, and pants. These sounds didn't come from just one person. It was discomforting for anyone to hear.Afraid that she might shrink away, Dr. Blanc turned back to look at her and noticed her solemn face.
"But you're pregnant!" Dr. Morris couldn't help but call out."What?!" This was news to Dr. Blanc, and he subconsciously glanced at her lower abdomen. It wasn't pronounced through the heavy layers of the protective suit. The two times Dr. Blanc had met her, she was clad in protective gear. Therefore, he could not tell that she was pregnant. On top of that, Dominic did not bring it up, which surprised Dr. Blanc further. Lily smiled lightly. "What's wrong with being pregnant? Pregnant women are humans as well. It is precisely because I'm pregnant that I understand the importance of finding a cure for this virus. Otherwise, not only will it affect us, but it will also affect the next generation.”After saying this, she reached out and was about to open the door."No!" This time, it was Dr. Blanc who stopped her. "I can't let you take the risk.""If I can't take the risk, are you saying that the rest of you can?" Lily looked at him and questioned. "I'm sure everyone knows the dan
Dr. Blanc did not speak as he just stood aside and watched.Lily checked the patient's pulse before standing up and disinfecting her hands. Then she walked out of the room. Dr. Morris stared at her back doubtfully, waiting for her to speak. However, she left without saying a word.He glanced at Dr. Blanc, who didn't seem to want to question her, and pursed his lips. He then followed behind her and went to the next room quietly. They went into one room after another. There were patients of all ages here. After reading the pulses of more than a dozen people, Lily was starting to get a little tired.Dr. Blanc immediately picked up on her fatigue and asked with concern. "Do you want to take a break? I think we can wrap it up for today. We're almost done anyway."However, she shook her head. "It's okay. I'm fine!"She wanted to see a few more cases. By pooling the data from different people under similar conditions, she could form a more robust hypothesis. When she got to the nex
After a long while, Lily moved her fingers away from the little girl’s wrist. The little girl did not throw a tantrum when Lily took her pulse and only looked at Lily quietly.Lily did not say a word and slowly got to her feet. Dr. Blanc knew Lily was sad and did not say much except, “Do you need a break?”Before Lily could reply, the little girl said timidly, “Am I going to die?”“Nonsense! You won’t, okay?” Dr. Morris, who had been quiet, spoke. He hurried over, tucked the blanket around the little girl, and put the toy back into her hand. “You only have a cough and fever. You’ll be fine after a few days.”“But… my mommy died,” she said softly, slightly quivering. She was trying to suppress her feelings, but her eyes were already brimming with tears since she was still a kid.Lily was shocked and looked toward Dr. Blanc. She saw the usually calm man turning his head away in silence. It was clear that what the girl said was true.“Your mommy had a different disease than yours. Y
Just thinking about it made Lily clench her teeth and want to kill whoever created the disease.“It was an unusual case.” Dr. Blanc sighed and was rather sad. No one would be in a good mood seeing a weak child enduring such pain.“Unusual? Unusual?! There are patients in their 60s and 70s here, aren’t there? The girl’s mother would only be 30 at the most! How could she die?” Lily knew she had slightly lost it.However, she felt terrible when the child told them her mother had died. It was as if someone was choking her throat, and she could not breathe.“That’s because her mother had cancer.” Dr. Morris said blandly.Lily looked at him in disbelief and was in a daze for a moment.“Her mother had late-stage cancer and got infected with the virus. Her condition quickly worsened, and she died within two days, probably because she was already frail from her cancer.”Dr. Blanc sighed and continued, “Since the kid stayed by her mother, she got infected. However, the kid’s symptoms are
When Mike returned, he bumped into Rhea in the corridor as she was leaving. She looked at Mike with resentment after what had happened last time. As the two crossed paths, Rhea suddenly put out her hand to stop him. “Did the boss ask you to look for Lily?”Mike stopped and rubbed the back of his neck as he chuckled coldly. “Why don’t you ask him yourself?”Rhea lifted her chin and said arrogantly, “Don’t you dare think I don’t know what you guys are up to. Do you think Lily can replace me if she returns?! I’m irreplaceable in the lab!” From her studies to her work, she was always the cream of the crop in every field. Rhea genuinely despised and looked down on Lily.‘She’s just a perfumer with some fame. So what if she knows about herbal medicine or learned from Dominic Fike?’Since Rhea was a significant part of the virus research, she had an indescribable sense of accomplishment seeing the pandemic spread worldwide.‘Everyone will know me one day and shudder at the mere mentio
“You knew Lily was sensitive and knew a lot about drugs, yet you tried to spike her tea. Did you do it to tip her off so that she’d switch her tea with yours? Did you let her go on purpose?” He slowly walked a few steps forward, then climbed up the stool. Standing on top of it, he stared into Mike’s eyes judgingly.“I thought she wouldn’t discover my drug and that she would overlook it. I hadn’t thought it through.” Mike regarded him calmly, showing no sign of alarm. His boss stared at Mike for what seemed like an eternity through the mask, and then he started laughing. “Why? Aren’t you going to open the box and see what’s inside? It’s for you alone!”Mike was filled with dread after hearing those words. He held up the box and opened it abruptly, finding a small, severed finger inside. The blood on it had dried up, and he could tell from its shape and size that it did not belong to an adult.An explosion occurred in his head, as if a bomb had been thrown at it.The next second,