MMB Chapter 157 Kangmei's Trash, My Baby
Chapter 157 Kangmei's Trash, My Baby
Iron-tongued Zhang's "Pants-Pulling Gate" incident not only failed to tarnish Renxin Pharmacy's reputation, but instead made "Jingxin Yuzi" a legendary product.
After all, something that can make a professional critic cry with joy and ultimately "detoxify and beautify" is a miracle in the eyes of a rich woman.
But this fire eventually reached the eyebrows of some people.
It was late at night, and Renxin Pharmacy had already closed.
The screen of the old machine, which was usually only used for playing Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game), suddenly lit up automatically, and the green smiley face made of code, Zero, turned serious and became a red exclamation mark.
"Boss, something's up."
Wang Minyu, who was giving Guan Shan acupuncture (in an attempt to treat his "spinach aftereffects"), paused: "Speak."
"During my routine inspection of the internal networks of major hospitals in Changxiang City, I discovered that Zhao Dezhu from Kangmei Pharmaceutical was conducting data cleaning."
"Clean what?"
"A list of 'failed cases'." Zero's voice quickened. "Kangmei Pharmaceuticals is currently developing a new drug that is highly effective against the nervous system. In order to make the data look better before the market launch, they removed all clinical trial patients who experienced serious side effects or were incurable from the database, and used their connections to transfer these people to an illegal sanatorium in the suburbs in an attempt to cover up the truth."
Wang Minyu's eyes instantly turned cold.
It's Kangmei again. Those bastards, not only can they not cure diseases, but they also treat people like garbage?
"Can you restore the list?"
"Piece of cake. I've already downloaded it all." Zero proudly popped up a folder. "However, one case in particular, codenamed 'Sleeping Beauty,' has caught my attention."
Wang Minyu opened the file.
It was a somewhat blurry photo. The girl in the photo was about eighteen or nineteen years old. She was so thin that she was skin and bones, and her face was as pale as paper. She was lying in a hospital bed with an IV drip.
Name: Lin Xiaoya. Age: 19.
[Symptoms: Idiopathic hypersomnia (questionable). Sleeps more than 22 hours a day, with extremely short periods of wakefulness, and when awake, engages in incoherent speech, claiming to hear "voices from the future."]
[Kangmei Diagnosis: Severe schizophrenia, drug trial failed, treatment discontinued.]
"The Voice of the Future?" Wang Minyu narrowed his eyes.
Why does this description sound so familiar?
"Boss, her EEG is very strange." Zero pulled up a waveform image. "Look, this isn't the alpha or delta waves that humans experience during sleep. It's a... extremely regular high-frequency band, similar to encrypted radio signals. Rather than saying she's sleeping, it's more like she's... downloading data."
Wang Minyu's heart skipped a beat.
Download data?
In this world, besides "Zero" and "Seed" whom he has already killed, what else can turn a person's brain into a receiver?
"Where is this girl now?"
"Half an hour ago, she was picked up from the sanatorium by people from Kangmei. The license plate shows that they were driving towards the abandoned dock by the river." Zero's tone became urgent. "According to big data behavior analysis, scum like Zhao Dezhu usually goes to the abandoned dock late at night not to enjoy the scenery, but to... destroy evidence."
"Hold."
Wang Minyu cursed and pulled the silver needles off Guan Shan's body.
"Guan Shan, wake up! Get up and get to work!"
"Huh? Boss? Are we going to fight again?" Guan Shan sat up groggily, his first instinct being to reach for the bottle of spinach seeds.
"Stop touching that thing! This is about saving lives!" Wang Minyu grabbed the car keys and called Su Qing out again. "Su Qing, take your first-aid kit and that set of minimally invasive surgical equipment. Zhao Shihao, bring your flashy pink tractor... no, your Land Rover! Hurry!"
……
At the old wharf in Changxiang City, the river wind was biting, carrying with it the smell of engine oil and dead fish.
Several black vans were parked in the shadows, and a few men in white coats with fierce eyes were carrying a black body bag onto a speedboat on the riverbank.
"Hurry up! The boss said this girl is too weird, keeping her around is like keeping a ticking time bomb," the scarred leader hissed.
Faint breathing could be heard from inside the body bag. The girl wasn't dead yet, but she had clearly been injected with an overdose of sedatives and was close to death.
Just as they were about to throw the bags onto the boat.
"boom--!!!"
A blinding beam of high beam ripped through the darkness like a sword, followed by the roar of an engine.
A Land Rover Defender, like a mad bull, crashed through the dock's iron gate, executed a beautiful drift, and came to a stop in front of the group of people.
"Who goes there?!" Scarface was startled and pulled out his weapon.
The car window slowly rolled down, revealing Wang Minyu's face, which appeared somewhat sinister under the car's interior lights.
He held a cigarette between his fingers, but didn't light it; he just stared coldly at the group of people.
"Disposing of a body so late at night?"
"None of your business! Get lost if you don't want to die!" Scarface threatened viciously, and several of his henchmen surrounded him, holding stun guns and scalpels.
"Originally, this was none of my business. But I'm a doctor, and I have occupational hazard." Wang Minyu pushed open the car door and got out.
The car door behind him opened, and Guan Shan stood out like an iron tower, cracking his neck slightly.
"Occupational hazard is... seeing trash makes you want to sweep it up; seeing a sick person makes you want to treat them."
"You're asking for it! Get him!" Scarface waved his hand.
The battle ended faster than expected.
These thugs who only bully patients are like a group of kindergarten children in front of Guan Shan, who now has the "spinach constitution" (although he doesn't eat spinach, his physical condition has already mutated).
In less than a minute, a group of people lay on the ground, all wailing in agony as they lost limbs.
Wang Minyu didn't even glance at them, walked straight to the body bag, and unzipped it.
The girl lay there quietly, like a broken doll. Wang Minyu reached out and placed his hand on her pulse; it was weak and erratic, but there was still hope.
Moreover, the system suddenly popped up a red notification the instant it touched her skin.
[Special energy fluctuations detected!]
[Target: Lin Xiaoya.]
[Constitution: Natural medium (information receiver).]
[Status: Not ill, but being forcibly fed information from an unknown frequency. Kangmei's medication not only failed to work, but also damaged her brain's self-protective mechanisms.]
[Recommendation: Take her back to the clinic immediately and use "Zero" to reverse engineer her. This girl might have something very serious going on in her head.]
"Kangmei's trash, my darling." Wang Minyu smirked and picked up the girl.
"Boss, what do we do with these people?" Guan Shan pointed to the group of people on the ground.
"Call the police. Tell them there's a group fight here, and it's suspected of murder." Wang Minyu turned and got into the car. "Zero, back up the video from earlier, and send a copy to Zhao Dezhu. Tell him I've got my hands on this. I want Lin Xiaoya's life; as for his, let him keep it for now, I'll collect it after I'm done with this."
The Land Rover sped away, leaving behind a mess and the scarred man still disheveled in the wind.
I got back to the clinic at 3 a.m.
Lin Xiaoya was placed in a special care ward on the second floor.
"Zero, connect to her brain," Wang Minyu instructed.
Numerous electrode patches were attached to the girl's head.
On the screen, the strange waveform reappeared.
But this time, with Zero, the "super decoder," the garbled text began to gradually become clear.
"Parsing... Parsing progress 10%... 50%..."
Suddenly, Zero's voice became somewhat terrified.
"Boss, this...this isn't nonsense. This is a distress signal."
"A distress signal?"
"Yes. The source of the signal... is three thousand meters underground in Changxiang City." Zero played a segment of the decoded audio.
Amidst the crackling of electricity, a muffled, mechanical voice came intermittently:
"...This is...the Changxiang Defense System...main control center...energy depleted...the seal...is about to...break down...they...are about to emerge..."
Wang Minyu's fingers tightened suddenly.
The Changxiang Defense System? Three thousand meters underground?
What the hell is going on here?
Was that "seed" merely an appetizer?
Looking at Lin Xiaoya, who was still unconscious on the bed, he suddenly felt that he had not picked up a treasure, but rather a key to a new world (or a new hell).
"Looks like I'm still not entirely confident about farming here," Wang Minyu sighed, tucking the girl in. "But since you've come to my Renxin Pharmacy, even if the King of Hell came to take you away, you'd have to register first."