Chapter 469: Am I as Tired as You
A line of small words was engraved on the damp marble bench: I saw [terminal illness], a [terminal illness] that will definitely kill us.

A middle-aged man stepped over the blooming dandelions and morning glories and came up behind her. "Director Lin, the new medicine is now available."

The young woman was squatting beside the bench. After hearing this, she seemed to have some new ideas in her mind, or she finally made up her mind.

She rolled up the sleeves of her sweatshirt and brushed the words with her forearm. The smooth stone slabs soaked by the autumn rain were icy cold, as cold as frost and snow, unusually so.

She stood up and thought for a moment, "I see. You go first, I'll be there soon. But is such a trivial matter worth Deputy Group Leader Peng coming here in person?"

"This is what the team leader meant. Otherwise, who would want to work overtime in the early hours of the morning?"

"Young man, you can't think like that. Team leader Yu also stayed up all night because of this trivial matter. Medicine, that's just an excuse to the outside world. The patient is here. But this is not a proper hospital, but a cemetery."

"It doesn't matter. There is no difference. The team leader said a few days ago that it is best not to touch [his] tombstone. At least half of the [terminal diseases] [he] saw were placed on the tombstone. These half of [terminal diseases] are particularly active because of the new medicine."

"By making the tombstone look like a bench, [his] original intention was not to keep others away. I've heard what Team Leader Yu said before, so you don't need to tell me again."

"Yes. I'll go first, you continue."

"No need. We still have to listen to Team Leader Yu's advice. New drugs aren't always available anyway. I can wait."

She rolled up her sleeves to wipe off the water stains, turned around, and walked with the deputy team leader. The new medicine did not arrive this morning, but it is now available. The storage location of the new medicine is no secret. The big white house is very close to the garden and the tombstone.

The two walked along the path in the grass and passed through a white arched door, which marked their official exit from the garden.

The garden surrounded by high walls is only a small part of the hospital. The new drugs are stored in a corner of the hospital, which is a dark blue building with brick walls and a gray triangular roof. It is called a ward to the outside world and a warehouse to the inside.

The two pushed open the large glass door of the ward and walked along the corridor into a small room. Before seeing the new medicine, they needed to make some additional preparations.

The ward has two floors, and the second floor is where new drugs are stored. Considering the special properties of new drugs, it is not an exaggeration to call the second floor an activity place. These activity places include bedrooms, bathrooms, dining rooms, classrooms, and mixing laboratories.

When it was first built, there were only two bedrooms on the second floor, with six people living in each bedroom, six boys and six girls. The bedroom was extremely empty, with only a large mat on the floor, but the remaining space was much larger than the mat.

From time to time, some harmonious or disharmonious stories are produced between drugs, which is the original intention of living together. However, drugs are updated too quickly, and both harmonious and disharmonious stories will produce adverse reactions.

At the current stage, people should not live together unless necessary, and should not live separately if necessary.

For this purpose, the second floor of the ward was almost rebuilt. It is not as simple as just adding a few more walls on the original basis to solve the problem.

A bedroom with only one bed and a bedroom with two beds cannot be generalized.

For some people, their bedrooms serve other purposes, and their stories require other media, so this cannot be generalized.

In addition, new drugs cannot be used together with old drugs, this is the rule.

There are six rooms on each side, each one is different. You can live in them without people, but you definitely cannot have too many people living in them.

This batch of medicines are all very special.

The deputy team leader pushed a three-layer food delivery cart to the door of the second bedroom. The first layer of the food delivery cart was filled with test tubes, droppers, and beakers, and the second layer was filled with solutions of various colors, which looked a bit like a chemical experiment.

The dean followed behind her, calmly and leisurely. No matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem like she was going to ask for medicine or get treatment. Judging from her extremely casual outfit, it was probably believed that she was going shopping.

The third layer of the meal delivery cart was indeed filled with various medicines, as well as cotton swabs, syringes, and infusion bottles.

The dean arrived later but was the first to arrive. He took out the key from his pocket and opened the bedroom door. The whole process was smooth and completed in one go.

The furnishings in the bedroom are not complicated: a desk, a bookcase, a chair, a curtain, and two beds. A pair of siblings live in this bedroom.

The boy was 14 and the girl was 12, so a curtain and two beds were necessary.

After the deputy team leader entered the room and activated the lighting function of the food delivery cart, he clearly saw that the boy was already fast asleep. The girl was behind the curtain and could not be seen.

The dean opened a 1ml syringe, filled it with a tube of brightly colored solution, walked to the boy's bed, and symbolically pushed the syringe stopper forward a little bit. A small amount of brightly colored solution flew out, forming delicate, star-like colored lights in the air.

When the deputy team leader saw the lights, he subconsciously wanted to dodge.

The dean sat directly on the boy's bed, facing the deputy team leader, and asked coldly: "You have been watching me use this medicine, how much do you know about it?"

The deputy team leader smiled awkwardly. "I don't know much. It seems to be some kind of essential substance to maintain life, but it has never been verified. Note that I said it seems."

"Huh, where do all those "seems" come from? Why do I remember that you are one of the developers?"

"My dad opened a backdoor for me. It's just a name."

"That's not surprising. You've worked hard to become a deputy team leader at such a young age. And note that you didn't work overtime. Even if you talk nonsense, no one will pick on you."

"But there's nothing I can do. The team leader likes to work overtime. I'm here too, right? Why didn't I see the team leader this time?"

"Team Leader Yu is in charge of that girl, so of course she can't be seen now. Don't you even know this?"

"She didn't tell me. As the deputy team leader, I'm just like an assistant, running errands every day."

"Your salary will be paid as usual. I won't waste your time. Okay, I won't bother you anymore. This medicine has many uses, but it is mainly used here to temporarily offset the resistance to the new drug."

"Resistant?"

"It is indeed an essential substance for maintaining life. You can think of it as an inhibitor that inhibits pain, taste, memory generation, memory recall, and so on, almost all non-essential life activities of human beings."

"Maybe! How long will this tube last?"

"Ten minutes. So, hurry up. Don't waste my time. You don't want to work overtime, and I don't want to work overtime either."

"Wasn't this the first thing you talked to me about?"

"Understanding your colleagues' work status and work ability is not just idle chat. Team Leader Yu must have also understood this."

"You're really saying this... How come I've never heard of it before?"

"Touch his tombstone when you have time. Okay, let's stop here for now. It's time to get down to business."

The dean stood up and the deputy team leader sat on the bed, which was still warm.

She gave the deputy team leader a look, and the deputy team leader quickly stood up, changed his seat, and sat down again.

"Hey, get up! If you don't want to be affected by the new drug, you'd better stay away. You haven't been affected, have you? Are you that tired? If you don't get up after the injection, you can voluntarily resign tomorrow."

"why?"

"Type II inhibitors are enough to offset the effects of the new drug. If you insist on sitting on his bed because of the new drug, you will no longer be affected after I give you this injection. You should get up, right? If you are still affected, humph!"

(End of this chapter)