Chapter 740: Chapter 740: Medicine for Free
“So now I’m going to take a look at the specific composition of this poisonous fruit,” Luo Mengmeng said as she put on her lab coat and entered the laboratory.
Dr. Carl followed closely behind.
Xiaobao stood there, looking confused.
Could the fruit he ate on a whim actually be the cure for his illness?
Wasn’t his luck a bit too good?
After what seemed like a long time, Xiaobao, who was dozing off in a chair outside, finally heard the sound of the laboratory door opening.
He quickly moved his head, his eyes turning towards the direction of the laboratory.
“Mommy, how did it go?” he asked with his soft, childish voice.
Luo Meng didn’t speak at first but quickly walked up to him.
“Mommy?” Xiaobao couldn’t help but call out again.
The next second, an excited kiss landed on his cheek.
“Baby, there’s hope for your illness to be cured!”
As Luo Meng spoke, tears of joy streamed down her face.
“Mommy and Dr. Carl just found that the venom inside this poisonous fruit can eliminate the virus in your body.”
“Our Xiaobao will also be able to go to school and do everything he likes just like healthy children.”
For more than three whole years, they had left their homeland to come to this strange country for the sake of treating the child’s illness, and now at last, their hard work and dedication had paid off, as they saw a glimmer of hope for a cure!
“Fight poison with poison?”
This idiom suddenly popped into Xiaobao’s mind.
Luo Meng’s eyes were red as she nodded vigorously. “Yes, fight poison with poison.”
Xiaobao looked at her tear-streaked face and gently reached out to wipe away her tears, “Mommy, don’t cry. This is good news, why are you crying?”
“Mommy is just too happy,” Luo Meng quickly took a few deep breaths to hold back her tears and tried hard to bring a smile to her face.
“Such a good mommy,” Xiaobao said, patting her head like a little adult.
This scene looked strangely as if Luo Mengmeng were the child instead.
Luo Mengmeng couldn’t help but feel awkward.
With the significant discovery of the “poisonous fruit,” research on the virus could advance further.
Later, Luo Mengmeng and Dr. Carl purchased all the poisonous fruit trees from the scenic area mountain in the name of research.
Although the poisonous fruit could kill the virus, the process was incredibly slow, and it needed to be combined with more rare and precious medicines.
One year later.
The medication was successfully developed.
But the cost of the medicine was extremely high; the poisonous fruit was cheap, but the other ingredients in the medicine were worth millions, and adding on to that the expenses the research institute had invested over the years, including labor and time, meant that one pill would cost at least over a million yuan.
And one had to keep taking it for ten days to cure the disease.
That is to say, to completely cure a patient, one needed to spend over ten million yuan on ten pills.
A typical medicine for the wealthy.
Thinking of this, Luo Meng couldn’t feel happy at all.
“Luo Meng, what’s wrong?” Dr. Carl and others, seeing her sullen expression, couldn’t help but feel puzzled.
Xiaobao was now healthy again; she should be happy.
“Doctor, although we have developed the medicine, an average family simply can’t afford such exorbitant medical costs,” Luo Mengmeng voiced the reason for her troubled feelings.
Even though her initial goal in researching the medicine was to cure her own child’s disease, once the research was successful, she hoped that all the children in the world suffering from this illness could be cured.