That such a discovery would be made did not surprise Jiang Fuyue.
Duhe is a severe epidemic zone. Conditions in the resettlement camps are harsh, with no management, making cross-infection very easy.
P1 and P2 were both discovered in samples from the resettlement camps.
Next came testing the resistance of Vaccine A against these two mutated strains.
However, the experimental results were not ideal.
The effectiveness rate was under fifty percent.
Since its birth, Vaccine A had encountered its greatest dilemma,
Being “ineffective” against mutated strains: was this only for P1 and P2, or was it ineffective against all other mutated strains as well? This was the first issue.
How to improve it so that Vaccine A would also be effective against other mutated strains, this was the second issue.
To solve the above two problems, the only way was to repeatedly conduct experiments, make comparative references, and perform controlled quantitative analysis.
The time Jiang Fuyue spent in the laboratory grew longer and longer.
Previously, it had been from eight in the morning to ten at night. Now it was directly from six in the morning until the early hours, eighteen full hours in a high-intensity working state.
“Pushing it this far?” Bai Chuanhao frowned. “You don’t want your body anymore?”
Xu Kuan: “Doing research isn’t like rushing factory production, putting in more time doesn’t mean you’ll get more output. There’s absolutely no need to grind yourself down like this.”
“Exactly. You can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry. Jiang Fuyue going on like this will sooner or later exhaust herself.”
Several experienced senior figures from Dan Pinghua’s team also expressed agreement.
Research cannot be rushed, nor can it be accomplished overnight.
It wasn’t that they couldn’t stand to see Jiang Fuyue do well; they were genuinely worried about her.
Although there had been unpleasantness between both sides before, now that Jiang Fuyue had developed Vaccine A, one that might build the strongest defensive fortress against the Schankwo virus, whether for public or private reasons, they could not possibly wish for anything to happen to her.
“How about… someone goes to persuade her?”
After a moment of silence, “Who’ll go?”
Everyone looked at each other.
Dan Pinghua cleared his throat lightly and began calling names: “Bai Chuanhao?”
“Cough… I’m not very good at persuading people.”
“Xu Kuan?”
“I’m the same as Old Bai, clumsy with words, not very convincing.”
Dan Pinghua’s mouth twitched. “Then who goes?”
Surely it couldn’t be him, right? Besides, his relationship with Jiang Fuyue… cough! was really just average.
In the end, Xin Hongcheng volunteered: “If you’re not going, then I’ll go.”
That noon, timing it around lunch, Xin Hongcheng made a trip to Jiang Fuyue’s laboratory.
Sure enough, she was eating.
The table was spread with all kinds of documents and reports. Not far away, indicator lights on the console were still lit, showing that work was in progress, and the nearby instruments also indicated they were running.
Every detail reflected racing against time.
“Professor Xin, do you need something from me?”
Xin Hongcheng suddenly didn’t know how to open his mouth.
Jiang Fuyue looked at him inquisitively.
In the end, he took a deep breath. “…Work is important, of course, but you also have to pay attention to rest. Your body is the greatest capital!”
Jiang Fuyue was taken aback.
He seemed a little embarrassed. “Anyway, just go back to the dorm earlier every day!”
After saying that, he turned and left.
Don’t let his age fool you, his legs were nimble. In no time, he was out of sight.
Jiang Fuyue reacted, and the corners of her mouth curved into a faint smile.
……
Although what Xin Hongcheng said wasn’t without reason, Jiang Fuyue still decided to proceed according to her original plan.
First was to verify the vaccine’s effectiveness against other mutated strains besides P1 and P2.
She discovered that when Vaccine A encountered other strains, its effectiveness performed well, but it showed no interest in P1 and P2.
This required further verification with new mutated strains.
But now all the samples she had brought back had already been tested. Apart from P1 and P2, no new mutated strains were found.
In this case, it was inevitable that she would have to make another trip to Duhe.
And even if she went, it wasn’t guaranteed she’d be able to find new strains.
The research fell into a bottleneck.
Jiang Fuyue suddenly thought of Xie Dingyuan, perhaps he could provide her with a new line of thinking?
But when she excitedly ran to the neighboring lab, she was told,
“Professor Xie? He hasn’t been at the base recently.”
“Not here?” Jiang Fuyue was slightly surprised.
“Yeah. Seems like he has other tasks. Anyway, he’s been gone for a while already.”
Jiang Fuyue said thank you and turned to leave.
After taking two steps, she suddenly turned back, her gaze intense: “What day did Xie Dingyuan leave?”
“This… let me think…”
Another team member suddenly spoke up: “April 24th. I remember it clearly, because that day happened to be my birthday.”
Jiang Fuyue was momentarily enlightened, then seemed to understand something. Only after a long while did she regain her calm, her tone returning to normal: “I understand. Thank you.”
With that, she turned and left.
The two members looked at each other, both a little confused.
……
Just as Jiang Fuyue was preparing to set off once again for Duhe, an off-road vehicle returned from there, bringing back over three hundred new samples.
“Dr. X said these were collected from the Kenny Bay resettlement camp.”
The appearance of these samples relieved Jiang Fuyue’s urgent predicament.
She calmly accepted them and immediately plunged into the laboratory.
Three days later, she discovered three new mutated strains in this batch of samples.
Without any pause or slackening, Jiang Fuyue immediately used these three strains to test Vaccine A. The results showed,
An effectiveness rate as high as eighty percent!
At this point, it could be confirmed that only the two new strains P1 and P2 affected the vaccine’s effectiveness; other mutated strains were not included.
So next, all that was needed was to improve Vaccine A specifically for P1 and P2!
With the direction identified, Jiang Fuyue’s efficiency skyrocketed.
In just three days, she completed the improvement and upgrade, then used five more days, one infection cycle, to test the vaccine’s efficacy against P1 and P2.
The results were gratifying.
After improvement, the vaccine not only achieved an effectiveness rate of eighty-five percent against P1 and P2, its effectiveness against ordinary strains also increased by nearly five percentage points!
Jiang Fuyue named the improved new version of the vaccine, Vaccine A+.
Representing the first upgrade and improvement.
When the news reached the higher-ups, it swept away the gloomy clouds of the previous days, instantly clearing the skies,
“Wonderful!”
“In less than half a month, Jiang Fuyue actually handed in such a dazzling answer sheet, this, this is simply unbelievable!”
“She is a miracle!”
……
Meanwhile, the experimental zones on both sides fell into synchronized silence.
Not because there was nothing to say, but because there were no words to express it.
A big shot really is a big shot!
Who said the time you put in isn’t proportional to the gains?
Who said haste can’t produce hot tofu?
And who said research can’t be rushed, and certainly can’t be accomplished overnight?
All these so-called “experience,” “conventions,” and “generally speaking” were overturned in Jiang Fuyue’s case.
Every second she spent produced visible results.
Every drop of sweat she shed, every bit of effort she put in, was rewarded.
Bai Chuanhao swallowed with difficulty. “What kind of great demon king is this?”
Too terrifying.
Xu Kuan: “Every time, she refreshes the definition of ‘strong.’”
Dan Pinghua had nothing to say. No matter how unwilling the former wave was, it still had to acknowledge the surging grandeur of the next wave.
Xin Hongcheng was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes, looking as though he himself had succeeded.
“I knew it! I knew it!” She would definitely make it!
Next door was equally in an uproar,
“This speed, there’s really no one else like it.”
“I heard she works eighteen hours a day. Too crazy. A cold, emotionless work machine, confirmed.”
“The key is, she spends the time and actually sees results. Unlike us, staying in the lab until the end of time, and we still might not be able to produce an A+ vaccine.”
“Listen to you… why are you being so honest? That really hits where it hurts.”
Then, the old tune was played again, ,
“You tell me, between our professor and Jiang Fuyue, who’s actually more impressive?”
“This…”
“Ahem!”
“Well…”
“Hard to judge.”
“?” What about the promised “the professor is invincible,” “the professor is number one under heaven”?
It hasn’t even been that long, and it’s already “hard to judge”?
……
The attenuated live vaccine once again achieved a breakthrough success. The A+ strain began large-scale domestic production, and the academic results were announced to the world at the earliest opportunity.
The world was shocked. Countless flowers and applause surged toward Jiang Fuyue like a tidal wave.
Some were stunned, some questioned, some worshipped, some praised……
For a time, good and bad, all kinds of evaluations fell upon Jiang Fuyue.
But no matter what, none of it could shake her pioneering status and tremendous achievements in Schankwo attenuated live vaccine research!
With the wind rising in a single day, the great bird soars ninety thousand li.
She did it.
Huaxia did it.
Just as everything seemed to have reached a perfect conclusion, at this moment Jiang Fuyue suddenly submitted an application to the higher-ups, requesting to go to Duhe once again.
“Why? Hasn’t the new mutant strain already been found?”
“And the A+ vaccine has also been successfully improved.”
They couldn’t think of any necessary reason for Jiang Fuyue to risk another trip into a severely affected epidemic zone.
If it was to obtain more samples, they could have simply had X help with the collection.
Yes, before those three hundred-plus new samples arrived at the base, Xie Dingyuan had already formally submitted an application to the higher-ups to assist Jiang Fuyue in completing the collection work.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have dared send them to the base so openly.
As for his injury… not a word was mentioned.
Jiang Fuyue slowly shook her head. “It’s not a sample collection issue, but rather, ”
She paused for a moment. “Among the more than three hundred blood samples sent later by Dr. X, I discovered antibodies.”
As soon as these words were spoken, not only were the higher-ups a bit stunned, the research team was also frozen in place.
The former because they only half-understood and didn’t quite grasp it; the latter because they were too shocked to react at all.
Time seemed to stop.
No one knew how long passed, “Anti, antibodies? Are you sure?!” an expert asked in a trembling voice.
Jiang Fuyue, however, was quite calm. “Of course. It can be confirmed that the donor of this sample has never previously been vaccinated with any vaccine related to the Schankwo virus.”
Then could one boldly speculate that Schankwo infection actually has the possibility of self-healing within the human body?
If vaccines are forced immunity, achieving only a preventive effect, then exploring the body’s own immune-triggering mechanisms could allow Schankwo infections to be effectively treated!
But the premise is that the person who possesses this self-generated immune antibody must be found in order to carry out further research.
The expert: “Who is it?!”
Jiang Fuyue only said, “The person is at the Kenny Bay resettlement camp. I need to go there personally.”
The higher-ups immediately approved it. In addition to having Zhong Ziang and Yici accompany her, they also arranged a team to provide covert protection.
……
Duhe region.
After nightfall, the temperature dropped sharply, and the moonlight was bright and clear.
The entire vaccination site had already fallen asleep.
After more than ten days of recuperation, Xie Dingyuan’s hand had basically recovered.
After the stitches were removed, only a light pink scar remained.
At this moment, he turned off the lights and lay on the bed in the room, beginning to work up some sleepiness.
Suddenly, the faint sound of a car engine came from outside. Xie Dingyuan abruptly opened his eyes and flipped himself upright.
He immediately threw on his clothes and headed outside.
Then he suddenly remembered something, turned back, grabbed a mask, and put it on.
The stationed guards were also startled by the noise and instantly took up armed alert.
“Dr. X.”
“Doctor…”
“There’s a situation.”
Seeing Xie Dingyuan appear, everyone seemed to find their backbone. They automatically parted to both sides, making way for him.
The guard who went forward to scout returned to report: “If our judgment is correct, there should be three vehicles driving toward us. Their specific identity is unknown. Then… what should we do next?”
Intercept? Block? Or open fire directly?
Xie Dingyuan stared in the direction the sound came from, his gaze sharp as fire: “Wait a bit longer.”
Soon, three off-road vehicles appeared within sight.
“They’ve got signal flags up. Should be our own people!”
Sure enough, the other side stuck their head out and made a hand signal code. It was indeed a vehicle from the base.
But they hadn’t received any prior notice that the base would be sending people.
And at such a late hour, no less.
“Professor?”
Xie Dingyuan pondered for a moment, then gave the order: “Open the gate!”
“Yes, ”
The off-road vehicles drove in one after another and finally came to a stop.
Before Xie Dingyuan could step forward to ask, the rear door of the lead vehicle had already opened.
Jiang Fuyue bent down and stepped out. After standing steady, she immediately looked toward him.
Her clear, cool gaze under the moonlight seemed even more faint and profound, subtly carrying a sense of depth.
Especially in the instant she looked over, it was as if something flashed quickly through it.
The man froze, his eyes blank, as though he couldn’t accept the fact that she had suddenly gotten out of the car.
After blinking hard several times, he finally confirmed, it was her!
In his pitch-black eyes, surprise and delight surged first, then gradually turned into a thin anger,
“Why are you here?!”
Only after saying it did he realize his tone wasn’t quite right. In his urgency, he had also forgotten to lower his voice.
Jiang Fuyue, however, seemed not to notice at all. She directly took out the documents and handed them to the man. “The higher-ups approved my coming.”
“Haven’t the new samples already been sent to the base? Why did you still come?”
“Sorry, I’m on assignment. It’s not convenient to say more.” The girl kept a cold face, looking all business.
Behind the mask, Xie Dingyuan ground his teeth several times, his jaw stiff. Every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth: “This is not a place you should be staying.”
“Then where should I be?” Jiang Fuyue shot back.
“The base is more convenient for research. I can deliver new samples to you at any time…”
What’s wrong with that? Why insist on coming here personally?!
Jiang Fuyue pretended not to understand the man’s anxious concern hidden in his words and only said: “This is an order.”
Behind her, Zhong Ziang: “?” Wasn’t it her own initiative to apply and insist on coming? How did it become that the higher-ups ordered her to come?
Yici: “……” We don’t know either, and we don’t dare ask.
This is an order,
A familiar line. Not long ago, Xie Dingyuan had said the same thing to her.
Now she had learned it on the spot and turned it back on him, choking him so badly he couldn’t respond.
“You!”
“It’s late,” Jiang Fuyue cut him off directly. “We traveled overnight and are very tired. We need to rest.”
After saying that, she headed straight toward the previous room.
Zhong Ziang, Yici, and the other accompanying soldiers were also each arranged into their respective accommodations.
Now it was set in stone.
Xie Dingyuan could only clench his fists on the spot. The mask hid his facial expression, but it couldn’t hide the obvious rise and fall of his chest.
Tsk, just how angry was he?
He had originally thought this was already bad enough, but he didn’t expect that the next day Jiang Fuyue would actually say, “I’m going to Kenny Bay.”
99: She totally pissed me off!
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