But just as he was about to leave, a very important question suddenly occurred to him… What right did he have to say such a thing?!
Don't forget, he's Chen Xu now, not SMMH. Making phone calls or communicating with the outside world is forbidden in this military camp. So, what right does he have to discover the side effects of this drug?! Tell him about Xiaomin—yes, this headset—saying it's a good thing SMMH gave him, that besides helping him fall asleep quickly, it can also detect… Don't be silly! It's one thing if someone can't get their hands on something this good, but if they could, wouldn't they try to get their hands on it and study it?!
Chen Xu only mentioned that the headphones helped him fall asleep, to downplay the prop's function and prevent anyone from coveting it. He also kept it in mind during regular use. He wore it to sleep, and during training, he wore Xiao Min as a necklace around his neck, making sure no one else could touch it!
So, what kind of solution should we come up with?
Just then, Instructor Wang, who was sleeping, suddenly heard a series of hurried footsteps outside. He immediately jumped out of bed and saw Dr. Zhang rushing over, shouting, "Instructor Wang, something bad has happened! Chen Xu drank half a bottle of physical recovery fluid and is now complaining of stomach pain. He's rolling around in pain, clutching his stomach!"
"What?!"
Chapter 286 The Terrifying Physical Recovery Fluid (Part 2)
Chen Xu was faking it... well, actually he was quite convincing at it, because in the virtual reality, the one-eyed instructor had taught him a disguise technique.
Chen Xu studied this disguise technique very seriously at the time, because he thought that the biggest benefit of learning it would be that he would never have to worry about not having a reason to ask for leave in the future!
This kind of disguise teaches people how to fake various illnesses. One of the simplest methods can be done without any props: a pale face and profuse sweating. This kind of disguise doesn't require any props; in short, it's hypnosis!
Self-hypnosis!
As we all know, when a person is in extreme pain, they will turn pale and break out in a cold sweat. If you hypnotize yourself into this state, it is easy to show these symptoms on the outside.
Of course, Chen Xu's own hypnosis skills weren't quite up to par, but he still had Xiao Min! For Xiao Min, who possessed the ability to create virtual illusions, hypnosis was her forte!
And so Chen Xu ended up like this, lying on the bed holding his stomach, groaning and moaning.
As everyone knows, the abdomen is a very common place for problems because most internal organs are located there. Chen Xu kept groaning and complaining of stomach pain, but he wouldn't specify whether it was his spleen, liver, or stomach—just vaguely referring to his "abdomen." So Dr. Zhang pressed around for a long time but couldn't pinpoint the exact location of the pain, figuring it was probably in the stomach area. But seeing Chen Xu's pale face and the large beads of sweat on his forehead was truly frightening. So, Dr. Zhang had no choice. He thought to himself, "This kid is very precious; if something happens to him, I'll be punished!" Therefore, he decided to go find Instructor Wang and get the guy to the military hospital immediately!
When Instructor Wang arrived and saw Chen Xu's condition, he was stunned. Normally, soldiers wouldn't care about minor injuries and pains; they'd just endure them. But Chen Xu claimed it was due to the physical recovery fluid, which naturally worried Instructor Wang.
Instructor Wang and Dr. Zhang discussed it and realized they couldn't continue like this. If there was a problem with the energy supplement, it would be a huge problem. So they decided to go to the military hospital as soon as possible!
How do I get there?
Take a helicopter ride!
It was already night, and only Instructor Wang could operate the plane. Logically, it would be best not to fly at this time, but without flying, they couldn't leave this godforsaken place. So Instructor Wang and Dr. Zhang quickly lifted Chen Xu onto the plane, fastened his seatbelt, and then the two of them boarded the plane and started the engine.
Seeing the two of them busy with their tasks, Chen Xu felt a little guilty, but he quickly put it aside... "I'm doing this for everyone's good."
After all, they're just putting in some extra work, but if I don't help them, many people's lives will be ruined!
On the plane, Chen Xu pretended that his stomach pain had subsided a bit and asked, panting, "How long has this physical recovery fluid been in service with the troops? How many troops are there?"
Instructor Wang frowned and said, "If you're not feeling well, don't talk. Besides, it might not even be a problem with this physical recovery fluid."
“I think so,” Chen Xu said, making up a story. “I have a problem. I’m sensitive to things like medicine, and even the slightest thing can make me uncomfortable. Um, I have a request.”
"What?"
"This medicine should still be classified, right? I want to get some samples for my teacher, SMMH, to see if they can find anything."
Chen Xu inadvertently mentioned "them." Instructor Wang turned around and said, "SMMH isn't a single person?"
Chen Xu laughed. It was actually the same person, but who would believe it if he said it out loud? So many top-notch achievements from different fields—who would believe it was just one person? However, he didn't explain further, but instead said, "My teacher also has research in medicine, and at a very high level. I don't know if you know that. The food testing instrument we're launching at the end of this year is my teacher's product. So, Instructor Wang… since you're letting me use this, the level of secrecy shouldn't be too high. If possible, I hope you can agree to my request."
"I can't make that decision myself." Instructor Wang seemed somewhat tempted, but still followed procedure: "However, I can ask my superiors for you... It shouldn't be a big problem. To be honest..." He gave a wry smile: "I really hope it's not a problem with the stamina recovery fluid, because we've been using this stuff with the Eastern Divine Sword for a month now. If there's really a problem... wouldn't that endanger our brothers?!"
Chen Xu smiled wryly. A month? Well, that should be enough time.
The plane quickly arrived at a military hospital in Beijing. The medical staff, who had already received the news, were very nervous. This nervousness was not because of Chen Xu, but because the report said that there was a problem with the newly produced physical recovery fluid. So, regardless of whether it was true or not, they decided to have an examination first.
So Chen Xu was stripped naked and taken away for inspection. Naturally, no personal belongings were allowed during the inspection, so Chen Xu had no choice but to lock Xiao Min away first and then hand her over to Instructor Wang, treating her with utmost care!
Fortunately, after Chen Xu finished his check, he secretly checked Xiao Min from Instructor Wang and found no problems... However, it's best to avoid doing things like this. At this moment, Chen Xu's heart rate was at least 180 beats per minute!
Chen Xu almost cried when he was taken back to his ward. He had been taken for an ultrasound, X-ray, and blood tests, which had exhausted him. Ah, all for his beloved comrades in arms!
"Why did you give this to SMMH? Do you have SMMH's specific address?" After Instructor Wang reported the matter to his superiors, a colonel surnamed Huang came to handle it. He was clearly very interested in how to contact SMMH.
But Chen Xu was well aware of their intentions, and used a method he had already thought of: "I can contact my teacher online, but I certainly don't know where he is. But I also have a way, which is to use express delivery."
Ha, so this is the method Chen Xu used to get Yi Shuihan to send him those special shoes: send them out by express delivery, then hack into and modify the electronic stubs so that no one can find them.
Moreover, Chen Xu didn't need to worry this time; he could just send the medicine under any name. SMMH was unlikely to receive it anyway. However, he still gave a reminder: "I know the military cares a lot about my teacher, but I believe there's a reason why he hasn't shown himself, and I hope you can understand that. So, I don't want any signal transmitters or satellite positioning devices in this package… Frankly, these things are meaningless to the God of the Internet, and I don't know how my teacher would react if he found out."
These words were spoken lightly, but the threat was blatant. Colonel Huang smiled good-naturedly: "Don't worry. We're not that stupid."
The package was sent out, and Chen Xu put on his headphones and lay down to sleep in the intensive care unit. No one could have imagined that he had actually carried out the intrusion by controlling Xiao Min, a supercomputer, within a virtual reality environment… right behind them in the ward.
After examination, Chen Xu was perfectly fine and in excellent health. However, when he got off the plane, everyone noticed that his lips were bloodless, which puzzled them. Nevertheless, they still carefully sent the energy recovery fluid back for further review and examination.
But how can you possibly detect anything?!
If it were detectable, it would have been detected long ago!
Right now, there are still no examples of failure... and by the time examples appear and targeted research is done, it will be too late!
Just like AIDS and rabies, by the time it's discovered, it's often incurable.
So at this point, we can only wait for news from that SMMH.
Actually, regarding Chen Xu's overreaction this time... his stomachache might just be diarrhea! The experts responsible for researching this medicine were extremely dissatisfied that he directly suspected the physical recovery fluid. They believed that Chen Xu's sudden stomachache was completely unrelated to the medicine. They even asked Chen Xu to drink it again, and if he still had a stomachache, then there was a problem.
Chen Xu would rather die than drink it!
What a joke! They knew it was poison, fine. Even if it's a very slow-acting poison, so what?
That's poison anyway!
No normal person would know that it's poison and still drink it... Of course, those contemplating suicide or using drugs are a different story; heroin is also a drug.
Anyway, the experts were thoroughly exasperated by Chen Xu. They were all just waiting to see what would happen if SMMH didn't produce anything of note. Well... to be honest, all they could do was hum along. What could these white-haired experts possibly argue with a 20-year-old?
On the third day, in the middle of the night, Chen Xu was still asleep... Actually, he had entered a virtual reality world and started operating it, after all, SMMH was himself! How could he go online under such strict surveillance? He still had to rely on Xiao Min.
Before Chen Xu went to find Hao Aiguo and told him that the medicine was harmful, he asked Xiao Min to retrieve all the information about the drug so that he could have a reasonable and evidence-based explanation.
Just as Chen Xu was about to connect with Hao Aiguo, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the text on a document:
Title… "Reflections on the Great Scam of the 21st Century"
One passage reads: "The most shocking scientific hoax of the 21st century actually stems from our shallow understanding of the world and our excessive descent into an extreme. The initial premise of this so-called hoax was a gateway to another world, but unfortunately, our scientists were too biased… The study of deities—what exactly are deities? After countless failures and the emergence of laughable, useless products, we finally realized that the reason this century-long hoax transformed from a proposition into a hoax was actually due to human greed."
There's an old story that goes like this: A man had a magical cabinet from which he could conjure anything—gold, jewels, fine wine… but he always had to put something back in with it. One day, two thieves broke into his house and kidnapped him. The thieves discovered the cabinet's secret and, ignoring the man's warnings, frantically took gold without putting anything back in as a bargaining chip… Finally, the cabinet exploded, killing both thieves. The man lamented, "Your deaths weren't because of the cabinet, but because of your greed."
Aren't we humans the same?
The study of theology, a major deception of the century, teaches us one thing: to gain something, you must pay a corresponding price.
In fact, this kind of vigilance is very common in life. We have advanced means of transportation and developed productivity, but we have caused irreversible damage to the earth; we desperately want to make money, but we find that we have lost the happiness and time that an ordinary person should have...
We hoped to live forever, but we became unconscious senile, reduced to nothing more than a walking corpse;
We hope to become smarter and learn things faster, but we find that this kind of forced growth ultimately leads to irreversible damage to the brain.
We wish we didn't need to rest, so we could have more time to work or play, indirectly extending our lifespan... but we've found that our bodies simply can't handle it.
Our desire for strong bodies and godlike superpowers led to the outbreak of war, and also... to those poor, modified people... if they can still be called human.
We have overturned morality and ethics, overturned the rules that this world should have. We believe that science can accomplish everything, but in the face of true science, we realize how insignificant we are...
This world has its own set of rules, unseen by any means.
Although most scientists still do not acknowledge the existence of "God," I must say that this may be what God decreed after creating the world: to gain something, you must give something in return...
This is the rule, which I call: the Way of Heaven!
Upon seeing these words, Chen Xu was startled.
What alarmed him wasn't some vague concept like the Way of Heaven, but rather the line: "We wish we didn't need to rest, so we could have more time to work or play, indirectly extending our lifespan... but we've discovered that our bodies simply can't handle it."
Isn't this the kind of physical recovery fluid you're referring to?!
Could it be that this product was created based on that classic "scam of the century"?!
Chen Xu knew about that "century-long scam," and now he was the only one in the world who knew it. The world's number one organization, X, was completely fooled by this century-long scam and bowed down to its masters.
Chen Xu was somewhat surprised to learn that this drug was developed in the same way.
Was it an accident, or... does it have some special meaning?!
So Chen Xu contacted Hao Aiguo: "The production and distribution of that physical recovery fluid must be stopped immediately. At the same time, you must conduct a detailed investigation of all the experts involved in the research of this drug, including who proposed the drug and who the breakthrough point is. I need to share these results. We must act quickly; this is a matter of life and death for the entire country, and even the entire world!"
Chapter 287 Investigation (Part 1)
Chen Xu's heart was pounding as he said this.
The description of the "great hoax of the century" is unclear to Xiaomin because the loss of a lot of data makes this grand hoax, which affected two generations of scientists and the entire course of world development, vague and unclear.
Chen Xu initially thought this grand scam was nothing more than a child's play, something that would at most require a little more effort. Therefore, he presented it to Organization X, hoping to divert their attention.
However, after reading the article "Reflections on the Great Deception of the 21st Century," Chen Xu suddenly felt an indescribable sense of panic.
The outbreak of war...
It subverted ethics and morality...
It overturned the rules that this world should have...
Chen Xu didn't know what these words meant, but when he thought of Xu Jiang's dying words, "The birth of a powerful organization, a pipe dream of unifying the world," he realized that they were meaningless.
Will war really break out?!
There is no such information in Xiaomin's file.
What Chen Xu found strange was that in Xiao Min's information, the possibility of such a war was not due to incomplete information, but rather seemed to have been deliberately erased!
Chen Xu didn't understand why this was happening, but at this point, he was already on edge and felt that any caution was necessary.
Hao Aiguo was shocked by SMMH's words: "What? There's something wrong with the medicine?! Are the experts who conducted the research also having problems?!"
"I don't yet know if the experts involved in those studies have any issues, but the drug itself is definitely problematic. We've researched this drug before, but we failed; you're following in our footsteps. Any research that attempts to overturn the rules of this world is not allowed. Below is the report on the harmful effects of this drug and its analysis. This is my first request to you; please provide me with all the research reports on this matter. Because this matter... is probably not solely your involvement."
Hao Aiguo, true to his political background, quickly realized something and asked, "You mean... this potion might be part of a conspiracy orchestrated by hostile forces?"
"I'm not sure, but I hope it's not. I have a very bad feeling... turmoil is coming."
"turmoil?!"