251: Chapter 250 Is She Just a Sister?
[First Update] 251: Chapter 250 Is She Just a Sister?
[First Update] Lan Huanxi had breakfast at Li Chen’s place and then said her mother was not feeling well; she couldn’t stay out too long and needed to go back to take care of her.
Li Chen didn’t ask her to stay any longer and went straight to send her down the mountain.
As they were about to part, Li Chen called out, “Huanxi!”
Lan Huanxi turned around, her beautiful big eyes gazing at Li Chen: “What’s up, is there something else?”
Li Chen handed over an ancient Qi Breathing manual and said, “You want to train your body, right?
Follow the practices in here, and I guarantee you’ll be invulnerable to countless ailments!”
Lan Huanxi took the ancient manual from Li Chen, gently stroked the cover with her hand, and nodded with joy.
“Thank you, Brother Li Chen!”
Li Chen gave a faint smile and said, “No need to thank me, isn’t it normal for a brother to care for his sister?”
Lan Huanxi’s smile bloomed like flowers, and she said, “Alright, I’ll head back then.
Otherwise, mom will start to worry!”
Li Chen waved to her and said, “Okay, go ahead and give my regards to your uncle and aunt!”
Lan Huanxi nodded, gave Li Chen one last reluctant glance, and then turned to walk towards her home.
She carefully cradled the ancient manual, her nervous demeanor as if she was holding a precious baby passed down through ten generations, scared that she might accidentally drop it.
Laughing and walking, she replayed the words Li Chen had said over and over in her mind.
When she reached the entrance of the village, she murmured to herself, seemingly out of nowhere, “Just a sister?”
After seeing off Lan Huanxi, Li Chen had planned to go back and get a good sleep.
After all, cultivation consumed a lot of energy.
Moreover, he had intensely concentrated, wrestling with the obscure and enigmatic Sanskrit from Ancient India for two whole hours.
However, just as he was drifting off to sleep, his phone suddenly rang.
The caller ID showed: Aunt Tang.
Li Chen was puzzled; typically, Aunt Tang would call Chuxue directly and not his cell phone.
Unless, there was some major issue.
Remembering that Aunt Tang had recently been involved in a traffic accident at the hospital entrance, his heart tightened, and he hurriedly pressed the answer button.
“Aunt Tang, what’s going on?”
Fortunately, Li Chen’s previous worries didn’t come true.
However, another troubling matter followed closely.
Tang Lan told Li Chen that led by Su Ya, the daughter of Donghua City’s mayor, in collaboration with the Drug Supervision Committee and several biological pharmaceutical companies, they were organizing a medical conference.
Furthermore, many professors, experts, and renowned medical practitioners who enjoyed special state grants were participating.
Although the conference was nominally about medical exchange, it was actually a challenge to the legitimacy of Life Spirit Spring.
Yao Wei, the vice-chair of the Drug Supervision Bureau, even publicly claimed it was a huge scam.
He wanted to expose this false facade personally to restore clarity and order to the Huaxia pharmaceutical industry.
In short, various media were targeting Li Chen, which was quite unfavorable for him.
Under normal circumstances, Li Chen couldn’t be bothered dealing with these overfed clowns, who, having nothing better to do, leap and prance about to draw attention.
However, if he himself didn’t make an appearance, those people would undoubtedly think that he was feeling guilty and become even more unrestrained, smearing Life Spirit Spring through so-called scientific experimental data.
They might even cause Aunt Tang considerable negative impact and work pressure, seriously affecting her life.
After weighing the pros and cons, Li Chen decided to attend the medical conference and see what kind of trouble these so-called experts and professors could stir up.
The conference was scheduled for three o’clock in the afternoon, in a research hall owned by the Drug Supervision Bureau.
The hall was not very large, only about the size of two indoor basketball courts.
However, it was arranged with solemn elegance.
The stage was covered with a red carpet, surrounded by fresh flowers like carnations and September chrysanthemums.
This was jointly organized by the mayor’s daughter and the Drug Supervision Committee, as well as several top-tier Grade-A hospitals in the province, so naturally, the event was of no small scale.
When Li Chen entered the hall, many elder professors, medical experts, and pharmaceutical company CEOs were gathered in groups, discussing the results of medical research or using the opportunity to negotiate related business.
Then they began complimenting each other, all in good spirits.
A group of nurses dressed in showy and very eye-catching outfits flitted back and forth inside the hall, playing the role of waiters, serving tea and water.
At other banquets, having a group of nurses as waiters would be called a “uniform temptation.” But here at the medical conference, it was entirely authentic.
Besides them, there was a group of dashing and elegant men and women, discussing classy topics unrelated to romance, occasionally letting out bell-like laughter.
The most striking among them was a tall woman in a white suit skirt, the curves of her attractive legs as enchanting as fluttering willows, wrapped under black stockings.
Li Chen noticed that her brows were slightly wide, and according to Face Reading, “those with wide brows tend to be promiscuous.” She also had very little flesh on her face, which made her look very boney and charming.
This was also exactly what the Face Reading texts referred to as “thin-skinned, little flesh, promiscuous-looking.”
The handsome man by her side, who looked as if he could rival the statue of David, was also the focus of everyone’s attention.
From their conversation, Li Chen gathered that the woman in the suit skirt was the mayor’s daughter, Su Ya, and the man was Yao Wei, the vice-chairman of the Drug Supervision Committee.
It appeared they were also in a romantic relationship.
Somehow, the conversation suddenly turned to Life Spirit Spring.
A blonde, blue-eyed British woman curiously asked, “Su Ya, I’ve heard that in Huaxia, you’ve developed a Life Spirit Liquid that can protect against all illnesses, enhance the physique, and prolong life.
Is this really true?”
Before Su Ya could answer, the man named Yao Wei took over, saying disdainfully, “Alice, just by thinking with your knees you’d know it’s fake because it’s unscientific!”
Alice, full of doubts, pressed on: “But wasn’t the H7N9 virus that wreaked havoc a while ago cured by this Life Spirit Liquid?”
“That’s just a blind cat running into a dead mouse, sheer luck.
We’re all from medical backgrounds here; surely everyone knows that the flu virus is seasonal, it wreaks havoc for a while and then subsides.”
“The most typical example is the SARS virus from 2003.
At that time, it terrified the whole country and even caused great international concern; wasn’t it even more severe than this year’s H7N9 virus?
But now, isn’t the SARS virus just as disappeared without a trace?”
“Moreover, in the spirit of scientific rigor, I’ve specifically obtained a sample of this so-called Life Spirit Liquid and had it tested in the laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Guess what the results were?”
A group of handsome men and beautiful women were all aroused by curiosity, asking in unison, “What were the results?”
Yao Wei appeared very proud and said, “After numerous tests, that so-called Life Spirit Liquid turned out to be just distilled water, containing only hydrogen and oxygen.
While such distilled water may not have any toxic effects on the human body, it certainly does not have any miraculous effect on suppressing or even killing the H7N9 virus.”
“Therefore, I can conclude that this so-called Life Spirit Liquid is simply fraudulent, an attempt to profit from the viral epidemic.
It is a colossal scam, and as the vice-chairman of the Drug Supervision Committee, I must expose it today, so that these criminals will be shunned like rats in the street, with nowhere to hide!”
As he spoke, Yao Wei even shook his clothes with an air of righteousness, his dashing good looks combined with his sharp ax-like features bewitching a group of socialites, noblewomen, and the young nurses serving as waiters, turning them into his brainless fans.
Hearing Brother Wei’s grandiloquent speech, Li Chen couldn’t help but let out a sneer.
His sneer, among the chorus of flattery, seemed particularly jarring.
Instantly, it attracted countless gazes towards him.
Yao Wei saw a man with unremarkable appearance daring to laugh at him, and his expression immediately darkened.
With a sharp and hostile gaze, he asked, “What are you laughing at?”