"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,
Lily had not slept a wink for two days. She watched the medicinal concoction intently as she drew a tiny bit and carefully fed a white mouse.When the little creature drank it all, she put down the dropper and put the mouse back into the observation cage. She bent over and studied it carefully. Having remained quiet, Dr. Morris asked, despite himself, “Are you sure it’ll work for the mouse?”Lily shook her head. “No.”Dr. Morris was surprised. “It’s because I’m not sure that I’m experimenting first. How could I use it on a human being without knowing what the result would be?” Straightening up, Lily glanced at him, then turned to feed the other white mice.She had familiarized herself with the virus, but it was cunning, and every person of different ages and constitutions would show different changes in their wrist pulse. Therefore, to be safe and accurate, she took the virus from each of them and put it into these laboratory mice.She also selected different strains of mice t
Dr. Morris was confused.‘Can I tell her I don’t quite get it?’“Are you saying we should do nothing and let it mutate?” He thought about it and asked.Lily shook her head. “What I am saying is that herbal medicine is meant to fortify damaged organs and mobilize the defense mechanism. Our bodies know how to protect themselves; that is why we can get well from a common cold after a few days without taking any medicine. That is our defense mechanism working to heal us.“However, this virus disrupts the mechanism. The medicine I’m researching would fix it so our bodies could fight and kill the virus.”She spoke earnestly, and Dr. Morris was dumbfounded. After a few seconds, his lips moved as he blurted out, “That’s a pipe dream!”‘It is! Would the patients still need us if there was a way to fix the defense mechanism and if our bodies could counteract the virus? Aren’t we researching medicine to fight the virus? Herbal medicine physicians are indeed unreliable. They’re full of s*hit