When Shi Yiyang saw the crowd of people, her heart inexplicably began to race.
She usually had social anxiety and only appeared normal during work hours.
Now, having to face so many people, it was hard for her to stay calm.
A hand patted her shoulder, and when she turned around, Yang Yu was looking at her kindly: "Dr. Shi, don’t worry, you can do it."
Shi Yiyang felt a slight warmth in her heart and nodded, "Okay, I’ll do my best."
Yang Yu sat down, and Shi Yiyang sat next to him, trying to calm her emotions.
Facing the many reporters, patients’ families, and insurance company personnel, Yang Yu showed no signs of nervousness: "Everyone, we have gathered you here today to inform you about the situation of our so-called drug trial accident. We will place all the materials and evidence before you, and if you have any questions, feel free to raise them after our presentation."
"Now, we first invite Dr. Shi Yiyang, who is responsible for this experiment, to talk about the details of this trial."
Everyone turned their gaze to Shi Yiyang, and her heart once again sped up.
However, as she began speaking about the experiment, she immediately entered a professional mode, as if she was a different person: "Ladies and gentlemen, today I will disclose to the public every process of our experiment..."
"First, our drug has passed the National Drug Regulatory Authority’s tests, and all side effects are clearly marked, making it very safe..."
"Next, I’ll talk about our experiment. This is the record of the first day’s experiments, detailing the exact times and specific drugs administered to patients—all monitored—and I’ll extract the relevant parts. If there are any doubts, we are willing to provide the unedited surveillance footage."
After the video ended, Shi Yiyang also displayed all the daily patient monitoring data reports on the big screen.
"Has everyone noticed? All the patients who had incidents were those who were given the placebo, and their monitoring data was fine for the first fourteen days."
"An incident occurred on the last day, with severe liver damage that couldn’t be saved. As to why this happened, I would like to await the third-party medical test report before drawing conclusions."
"Dr. Shi has explained everything in great detail, and all our procedures are in order, aren’t they?" Yang Yu asked, and although the crowd whispered among themselves, no one raised any objections.
In fact, the insurance company also brought their own experts. As soon as Shi Yiyang finished speaking, their representative turned to the experts they had brought.
The two experts shook their heads, indicating that there were no issues, prompting the insurance representative to remain silent.
"Since there’s no objection to this process, let’s continue," Yang Yu said. "After the incident, I immediately reported it. The forensic autopsy report also showed severe liver damage, caused by something very common in our daily lives—cholesterol."
At the mention of this word, many of the patients’ family members instantly looked uncomfortable.
Yang Yu continued, "During routine check-ups, when cholesterol levels are high, doctors always remind us, so there’s no reason for us to be unaware of this substance’s harm to the liver. The fact that these patients’ liver functions worsened dramatically from consuming excessive cholesterol in one day is absurd."
"Keep in mind, even normally with high-cholesterol foods, it takes a lot and a long time to cause such a result. Why did these patients experience such changes in just one day?"
The insurance company’s representative, a female manager, spoke up: "Mr. Yang, what are you suspecting? Please speak directly."
"In such matters, only evidence counts; suspicion is useless and can be seen as shirking responsibility or defamation," Yang Yu sneered, "Fortunately, I found a medicine bottle in a bag."
Yang Yu casually took out a medicine bottle: "This bottle is labeled as liver protection tablets, but the pills inside are highly concentrated cholesterol medication."
"What?" The reporters and the insurance company were all stunned, "What’s going on here?"
"Why does such a medication exist?"
"Is this... a premeditated murder targeting patients?"
Yang Yu continued, "This medication is not available on the market because it’s used for lab experiments."
"Additionally, let me declare that our lab only researches traditional Chinese herbal medicine; we don’t have such items."
"The same type of medicine bottle was found in other affected patients’ bags, but there were no pills left inside. Only one patient’s bottle had pills remaining."
Yang Yu played a surveillance video: "Take a look at this footage of those patients taking these liver protection tablets on that day. Other patients took five pills, but this bottle’s owner perhaps thought five were too many, so they took four, throwing the last pill back into the bottle."
"Refer to our emergency record; the patient who took four pills lasted the longest..."
"You’re lying! You’re slandering us!" a woman screamed hysterically, "How could I harm my husband? We love each other, have four kids, the youngest is only two!"
"I’m just stating a fact, not accusing anyone." Yang Yu glanced at the woman indifferently, "I think if your husband didn’t leave that one pill, it would really be a case of death without evidence, and we couldn’t explain ourselves even with a hundred mouths."
"Some might suspect we intentionally placed that pill, but I can provide all the surveillance from the time of the report to the arrival of the police."
"If there are any doubts about what I said, you can consult the police."
"Finally, regarding the trial fees for the contract, no matter what the final investigation result is, I will pay in full, and also cover their funeral expenses. As for the three million accidental insurance, it can only be paid by the insurance company after the final investigation results."
"What? Three million in accidental insurance?" the reporters were surprised, "With such high coverage, no wonder..."
"Yes, we signed two kinds of contracts," Yang Yu said, "For the placebo group, we signed a three million accidental insurance, but for the actual drug group, only fifty thousand."
"If it weren’t for Dr. Shi’s insistence on insurance, I actually didn’t want to buy it. If something really went wrong, it’s our responsibility, and even if it ruins us, we would compensate."
"Moreover, I have great confidence in our medication; setting aside efficacy, safety is definitely not an issue."
"As it turns out, the most deadly thing in the world isn’t medications but the greedy and heartless human nature."