medical road with you

Chapter 111 Help
The equipment in the hospital and laboratory is quite complete, but it is a bit old.

Lu Ping glanced at the equipment and asked, "How is your current research progress?"

The female doctor replied: "Right now, daily nucleic acid testing consumes a lot of our manpower and material resources. How can we have any energy for research? Researching vaccines is not our place. A virus research institute has been set up in the city, where they study vaccines."

"How is the research progress of the vaccine?"

The female doctor shook her head: "This time the virus mutated faster than the one ten years ago. Often, another batch of mutated virus came out before the effect of the new batch of vaccines was tested."

Lu Ping nodded.

At the beginning, when it was clear that the Spike virus reappeared, the first solution that Lu Ping thought of was the vaccine.

Ten years ago, people also relied on vaccines to win the plague war.

However, after several generations of cultivation, Lu Ping discovered that the virus had mutated, so Lu Ping changed his mind and started from the direction of inhibiting virus replication.

In ordinary viruses, this inhibitory effect is already obvious, but Lu Ping only has a virus sample from one patient, and she needs more samples.

Lu Ping was chatting with the female doctor, but Tian Hai on the side just wanted to leave this place with Lu Ping.

"Where can I get the samples, can you take us there?" Tian Hai interrupted the chat between the two technicians.

The female doctor was embarrassed: "Okay, yes."

"How many samples do you have in your laboratory?" Lu Ping asked again.

"I haven't counted them specifically, but they are not the same, so it must be another seven or eight hundred."

"Can you collect it directly from the patient, instead of cultivating it?"

"can."

The hospital adds dozens of patients every day, and the most indispensable thing is this kind of sample.

After filling up the portable freezer with more than 100 servings, Tianguan closed the box, put it on his back and got up to leave.

"Lu Ping, let's go, let's go back."

The female doctor was surprised: "Where are you going back?"

"Go back to Seoul!" Tianhai replied as a matter of course.

The female doctor felt that the other party was joking: "Why do you go back to Seoul? Now, Liangcheng has not allowed anyone to leave the city."

"What's more, you still have so many viruses in your hands, how could Seoul let you go back."

When Tianhai heard this, his expression immediately changed. He and Li Gang had made it clear at the beginning that they wanted to go and return quickly, but Li Gang fully agreed and agreed.

Tianhai dialed Li Gang's cell phone directly: "Li Gang, have you arranged for someone and a car to take us back to Seoul?"

Li Gang began to complain: "Oh, Mr. Jiang, when I responded to your request to the leader, the leader refused to agree. I begged several times, and finally the leader let go, saying, go, yes, but, if you want Come back, you have to figure out your own way."

Tianhai's face was as dark as a dark cloud that was about to drip rain, he bit each word: "So, we are now trapped in Liangcheng."

Li Gang hesitated: "It seems so."

Tianhai was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother.

"Then have you arranged accommodation for us?"

We can't let them go to the hospital.

"I'll make arrangements right now."

Li Gang hung up the phone quickly.

Tianhai raised his eyes and looked at Lu Ping with a gloomy face.

Through the protective mask, Lu Ping could see how angry Tianhai was.

After thinking about it, Lu Ping said, "There are a lot of patients here, so it's very convenient to take samples, so it's more convenient for research."

Tianhai gave her a hard look, you really know how to comfort people!
The more patients there are, the more dangerous it is here. Does she have any sense of safety?

Fortunately, he came with her, otherwise, nine times out of ten, her little life would be ruined here.

However, no matter how stupid my wife is, I still have to protect her.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Tianhai said to his wife: "Forget it, you can go and do your work first."

Since he is trapped here, he can only pray that Lu Ping can quickly develop a treatment method, and that the epidemic will pass quickly so that they can leave this place as soon as possible.

As soon as Lu Ping heard this, he got an amnesty immediately and got into the laboratory with the female doctor.

In less than half an hour, Li Gang called: "The accommodation has been arranged. I will live with the doctors and nurses in Seoul. I will arrange you and Dr. Lu in the same room. That's okay."

"Okay." Tianhai hung up the phone.

It can't be done, it can only be like this.

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In addition to accommodation, meals are also included in the hospital. Of course, everyone can’t get together to eat in the cafeteria. They all take their lunch boxes and eat in their rooms.

Every time he returned to his residence, Tianhai would first spray Lu Ping and himself with alcohol, and then wash his hands with soap three times.

Lu Ping is a little allergic to alcohol. Every time Tianhai helped him spray, she would cover her nose and retreat desperately, and kept saying, 'Is it all right, is it all right'.

Tianhai got a microwave oven from somewhere, no matter whether the food is cold or hot, he would heat the food in the microwave for 3 minutes before taking it out to eat.

In the past few days, he also checked the information, and the virus is afraid of heat but not cold.

During this time, Tianhai became Lu Ping's shadow. Wherever Lu Ping went, Tianhai followed. His eyes were glued to Lu Ping's protective clothing. Once he found a scratch on the protective clothing, he immediately asked Lu Ping to change it. a new one.

"Who is that person?" The female doctor Ye Mei asked Lu Ping.

Knowing that Lu Ping came here as a researcher, Ye Mei suggested that Lu Ping go to the virus research institute in the city, after all, the equipment there is more advanced.

However, Lu Ping insisted on staying here, because it can directly contact the latest virus.

After Lu Ping arrived in the laboratory, he helped a lot, and Ye Mei quickly became familiar with her.

Lu Ping turned his head to look at Tianhai who was waiting outside the door, smiled and said, "He is my personal assistant."

"Go and see, how is the effect this time?" Lu Ping quickly changed the subject.

Ye Mei made a smear and placed it under the electron microscope. With just one look, her complexion changed.

"What's wrong?" Lu Ping hurried over to see.

The field of vision was full of viruses, and these samples were collected from the latest incoming patients.

These viruses have mutated again, and Lu Ping's suppression methods are completely ineffective against them!She had spent so much time, expended so much energy, and ended up with a total failure.

Today, Tianhai clearly felt that Lu Ping's mood was not right.

She has been silent since leaving the experiment.

Without a word, let him pull her to the residence, without a word, let him spray alcohol on her once, without a word, let him wash her hands three times, and then push her to the table beside.

In 3 minutes, the rice is hot.

Tianhai put the rice in front of Lu Ping, opened the lunch box, took the chopsticks and put them on the lunch box.

Everything was ready, Tianhai said: "What happened?"

Lu Ping turned his head, frustrated: "My method of suppressing virus replication has completely failed."

"Oh." Tianhai simply said "Oh" to the doctor, his face was still calm, only he knew how worried he was.

This time the epidemic is more ferocious than the last one. There are hundreds of new patients in Liangcheng every day, and there are deaths every day.

He has also been paying attention to the research on vaccines, but there seems to be no progress.

In fact, like Lu Ping, he has been looking forward to a breakthrough in Lu Ping's research.

Once he started to vent, Lu Ping's emotions became agitated: "It's a complete failure, do you understand?"

"I have studied for so long and experimented many times. I have tested it on ordinary viruses, and it is indeed effective. It is even effective on the spike virus at the beginning. I thought it would be successful soon."

"However, a mutation of the virus completely defeated my method."

"Tianhai, am I really not smart enough, am I never going to be able to defeat this virus?"

Feeling that Lu Ping's emotions were a little out of control, Tianhai suppressed the worry in his heart and comforted her: "Lu Ping, the virus research institute in the city couldn't find a good solution for a while, but you asked yourself to spend a few months alone Find a good way, aren't your demands on yourself too high?"

Lu Ping looked up at Tianhai: "It's not just a few months, since the clinic's laboratory was built, I started researching."

Tianhai was startled, he knew that Lu Ping would spend all his free time in the laboratory, but he didn't expect that she had been researching this all the time.

"Even if it takes more than a year, so what, some people can't find any results in their lifetime research, so don't be too impatient."

"However, if we don't find a way as soon as possible, I'm afraid that we will never be able to leave Liangcheng in this life."

Lu Ping's words successfully increased the panic in Tianhai's heart.

Not in the mood to eat anymore, Tianhai put down his chopsticks and bowed his head in silence.

After a long time, Tianhai spoke up: "I don't understand viruses, and I can't give you any advice, but I don't think you can dig into the horns alone. You can try to seek some help or advice."

Ever since she was a graduate student, Lu Ping has been used to researching alone. She would look up information, but she never thought of asking others for help. Tianhai's words suddenly woke her up.

"Professor Fu Tong!" Lu Ping's eyes lit up.

Although I only met Professor Fu once, although I only talked to him a few words, Professor Fu is Lu Ping's most respected scholar.

In just a few words, Lu Ping saw from Professor Fu the rigor, enthusiasm, and true love for his work of a true scholar.

"Do you have Professor Fu's contact number?"

Lu Ping remembered the postgraduate interview. Tianhai helped him find those test questions. He should have the professor's contact information.

"Yes." Tianhai's eyes lit up.

Lu Ping called with his mobile phone, beep, got through.

"Hello." An old voice came from the phone.

"Hello, is this Professor Fu? I'm Lu Ping, that's the one..." Lu Ping was worried that the professor would not remember his name, so he tried to explain.

"Lu Ping!" Just hearing this name, the professor was very excited and interrupted Lu Ping directly: "Are you Lu Ping?"

"Yes, Professor Fu, you still remember me." Lu Ping was deeply moved by the professor's attitude.

"Hehe." The professor smiled: "Of course I remember, you are the only student who answered my last question correctly in the many years of my interviews."

"What a pity, not being able to teach you personally is the biggest regret in my life."

Speaking of which, the professor was dismissed by BGI because of Lu Ping, and Lu Ping has never apologized to the professor: "Professor Fu, I'm sorry, you were dismissed by the school because of me."

"Hey, why are you blaming you? I was at fault." The professor was very generous, and when he mentioned this professor, he joked: "We have the same fate as master and apprentice, and we were both expelled from Huada Medical School."

Lu Ping was taken aback: "Professor, you have been following me since then?"

"You are my favorite student, of course I will pay attention to you. That's right, Lu Ping, you are really good. Even without my guidance, you still wrote an excellent paper with your own ability, which is currently the most popular paper in Seoul. Valuable patents."

Lu Ping knows about patents, but papers?
Lu Ping asked puzzledly: "During my graduate studies, I didn't publish any papers."

Fu Tong smiled: "Isn't it your credit for the paper published by Yuejin to speed up the PCR amplification of RNA viruses?"

In a word, Lu Ping was so moved that he wanted to cry.

Some people, you face him every day, but you may not really understand him. Some people, you only met once, and you really understand him only after reading what he wrote.

It's like Professor Fu knows her well.

Although Lu Ping's signature was the second author, Fu Tong still guessed that she was the real author.

"Thank you, Professor Fu." Lu Ping's voice was a little crying.

"Tell me, what is the reason for calling me today?" After recounting the past, the foreshadowing was also completed, and Fu Tong knew that Lu Ping must have encountered some difficult things when looking for him.

Lu Ping also picked up his mood, cheered up and talked about the business: "Professor Fu, I am in Liangcheng now, and I am researching methods to inhibit the replication of spike virus, but the current research has entered a dead end."

"Tell me the main results of your current research."

Lu Ping began to talk slowly, saying that she had studied the method of inhibiting virus replication as early as in her laboratory, but by coincidence, she encountered this outbreak of pneumonia, so she turned her direction to spike virus.

Lu Ping spoke very carefully, and the professor listened slowly.

In the end, Lu Ping asked: "Professor, now my method is completely ineffective against the new mutant virus. Is my direction wrong?"

The professor was silent for a while: "Lu Ping, do you still remember what I said to you when I interviewed you?"

"Remember, you said, to study a virus you have to be in awe of it."

"Yes, you must be in awe of the virus and think from its perspective. Lu Ping, you have done a good job in the two previous studies. One is that you accelerated the replication speed of RNA viruses, and the other is that you made RNA viruses The virus expresses a protein that is not effective for it. Lu Ping, have you ever thought about why your two studies were so successful in the end. "

Lu Ping was silent. She never thought about why those two studies were successful in the end. At that time, she was just brainstorming and tried all the methods she could think of. In the end, she was lucky and found a successful method.

The professor went on to say: "I have carefully studied your paper and your patent, and they actually have one thing in common."

"What common ground?" Lu Ping had never thought about it before.

"You have adopted the method of inducing the virus, making the virus think that this is going in a direction that is beneficial to it."

After hearing this, Lu Ping was startled. After careful recollection, it turned out to be the case.

(End of this chapter)