Crimson Dawn

"Brother Wu, do you want to cooperate?" Chen Ke said carelessly, and then couldn't help but yawned again.

Wu Xingchen thought about what Chen Ke said just now, but he didn't find anything wrong.Making medicines and selling medicines really needs the help of brothers on the road.Wu Xingchen was not worried about what tricks Chen Ke could play.And what Chen Ke said was right, Wu Xingchen intervened in this matter from the very beginning, and the future benefits are indeed very large.If you feel that something is wrong, Wu Xingchen will quit decisively.

But everything that is reasonable and reasonable is unreasonable in this world.This is not Wu Xingchen's rational judgment, but a completely emotional one.Wu Xingchen is very clear about how dark the world is today.Chen Ke should have some hidden tricks.Thinking of this, Wu Xingchen asked, "What exactly does Brother Chen want me to do?"

"First, please ask Brother Wu to find a few prostitutes who are infected with venereal disease. I personally went to collect the pus from the abscess on their faces. Brother Wu does not need to do this matter." Chen Ke said seriously.

Wu Xingchen nodded. This matter is indeed beyond the reach of a guy like Chen Ke.

"Second, after my medicine is made, I will treat these prostitutes for free. You can tell how effective the medicine is. This medicine is very poisonous. It can either cure people or kill them. Sometimes you need to sign a life-and-death certificate. Brother Wu must help you with this matter."

I see!Wu Xingchen's heart lit up.Chen Ke would never be able to do this without the help of his brothers on the road.The death of a few prostitutes infected with venereal disease is not a big deal.But if you don't have a background, it's a big or small thing. "I don't know how likely it is that Brother Chen's medicine will poison people to death?"

"Out of a hundred people, there are at most five or six."

"Eh?!" Wu Xingchen originally thought that three or four out of ten people would die.These days, the treatment of willow disease uses mercury compounds, which are highly poisonous drugs such as mercury.The mortality rate is about [-]%.Even if the willow disease is cured, many people will become dementia due to mercury poisoning.Compared with this treatment effect, Chen Ke's medicine is really powerful.

"What about the third one?" Wu Xingchen felt that Chen Ke's previous request was not troublesome, so he continued to ask.

"Third, I definitely can't sell this thing along the street. After the medicine is made, I will contact patients in Shanghai and sell the medicine. I want Brother Wu to be responsible for doing it himself. After the disease is cured, Brother Wu will also be responsible for collecting the money. Then according to our agreement, just give me what I deserve."

"Do you want me to do anything else?" Wu Xingchen asked.

"No more."

Wu Xingchen looked at Chen Ke, but couldn't see any malice.Although I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in Chen Ke's gourd.But so far, it's believable.Wu Xingchen didn't think there was anything wrong with what Chen Ke said, and he was ready to cooperate with Chen Ke.Not only for future money, but also in a practical sense, some of the top executives of the Tiandihui that Wu Xingchen knew had contracted the disease.There are more diseases in the middle and lower floors.If they can be cured, Wu Xingchen's status in the Tiandihui will naturally increase.

Chen Ke left a bad impression on Wu Xingchen.Wu Xingchen still remembers the failure of the first round of conflict between the two sides.Moreover, Chen Ke didn't care about this matter, but wanted to make friends with Wu Xingchen.This pragmatic attitude is scary.But reality is reality. Driven by the interests of the future and the present, Wu Xingchen made up his mind.

"Then I'll help Brother Chen with this."

There were many people on the street. Chen Ke was wearing a pair of ivory-colored trousers and a white shirt with the same texture as a lab coat.She wore a white lab coat.This strange white dress matched with black cloth shoes.Especially eye-catching.After all, Shanghai is also a metropolis in the East. Citizens know that Western doctors wear white coats.With Chen Ke's short hair, it's not surprising.

Wu Xingchen looked at Chen Ke beside him from time to time, he couldn't get used to this "funeral" attire.Not only did Chen Ke not complain at all, but he even showed some complacency.He couldn't help asking: "Brother Chen likes white clothes so much?"

"In our line of work, this white coat is the outfit for working. I feel very at ease after wearing it. You see, when I dye cloth, it is the kind of blue overalls."

Wu Xingchen hummed, but stopped talking.The two walked in such silence.Chen Ke was already tall, but Wu Xingchen was even taller.Such two tall people walking side by side are very eye-catching.Chen Ke's white coat added a lot of attractive elements to himself.These two people walked in the street, really bathed in the bombardment of men, women, old and young eyes.

Fortunately, both of them don't care about other people's eyes, but Chen Ke found that the eyes of the person looking at him are very strange.Not curiosity, but something inexplicable.While wondering, Wu Xingchen stopped in his tracks, "Go in."

The two of them were in front of a courtyard with a strange gate, and the people who came in and out were not badly dressed.It was these guys who looked at Chen Ke with eyes that they didn't quite understand.Chen Ke looked at himself again. He was wearing light-colored clothes, a slightly wrinkled white coat, a shiny watch on his wrist, and a pair of clean cloth shoes.Simple and clean.It shouldn't be annoying.

Following Wu Xingchen into the yard, the yard looked like a cheap hotel, with men and women coming in and out of the doors of each small room, the men had lustful looks on their faces, and the women had wild smiles.This is supposed to be a brothel.There were two men with fierce faces at the door. When they saw Wu Xingchen coming in, they hurriedly stepped forward with a smile on their faces and said something in Shanghai dialect.Wu Xingchen whispered in Shanghai dialect with a northern accent: "Aren't there people on your side who are infected with venereal disease and are suffering from sores?"

"Hey, Boss Wu, you are laughing at us. There is no such thing in our place. Don't make a joke." The leader said quickly.

"This is a doctor, and he is making medicine to treat the disease of willows and willows. So we need to find a few people to test the medicine." Wu Xingchen still whispered.

The leader looked Chen Ke up and down, "I didn't see it. He's still a foreign doctor. But, Boss Wu, we don't have money to buy medicine. Besides, if you're looking for such a person, there are many of them on the street." Go. Why do you come to laugh at me brother?"

Wu Xingchen was tired of chatting with the boss of the brothel, "Take us to meet now. I can make the decision, and I don't need your money for medical treatment."

Seeing that Wu Xingchen was playing for real, the brothel owner finally sighed helplessly, "Boss Wu, you just know how to make fun of others." As he said that, he led Wu Xingchen and Chen Ke out of the courtyard and walked to the back .

It was almost evening now, and the sun was setting in the west.The buildings in Shanghai are not in a broad style, and the empty alleys feel very cold before evening.Wu Xingchen, brothel owner, thug.These few people were not very kind, walking together in this remote alley made Chen Ke feel quite uncomfortable.

The destination is a small courtyard far away from the downtown. "This is it." The brothel owner said.

In front of him was a locked door in the corner of the courtyard, and the neighborhood was quiet. Chen Ke, who had just come from the street, suddenly felt that he had traveled through time and space again.The sunny and bustling market just now is now a small courtyard with few people.He couldn't help but look back at Wu Xingchen and the others behind him, only to see that their eyes were full of disgust when they looked at the door.

"Listen, there is a doctor who is going to treat you now. Get up and listen to the doctor's orders." The brothel owner shouted viciously.Although the voice was quite loud, he was far away from the door, and he didn't even want to see the room.

There were faint voices in the room, but no one answered. "Did you hear that?" the brothel owner shouted again.

"Understood." A woman's voice came out.

"Now the doctor is going in to treat you. You just stay inside and don't come out." The brothel owner yelled again, and then signaled the thugs to open the door.He himself took two steps back, not wanting to see what the inside of the room looked like.

Chen Ke took out his mask and put it on, waiting for the thugs to unlock it.The thugs only unlocked the lock, but did not push the door. Chen Ke waited for a while, and had no choice but to push the door open and walk in.As soon as he entered, the door was pulled shut by thugs, and there was the sound of a padlock on the knocker.This really startled Chen Ke.Although I know that this group of people will not lock themselves up, it is really extremely uncomfortable to encounter this kind of thing.

He wore a mask, and before coming here, Chen Ke even sprayed toilet water into the mask.Even so, Chen Ke was still deeply smoked.The smell of sweat, urine, musty smell from stagnant air, and body odor made Chen Ke frowned slightly.The light in the room was very weak, and it took Chen Ke a while to get used to it.I saw a few women with many large abscesses on their faces, sitting or lying weakly on several beds covered with straw mats.The women are all disheveled, the weather is already hot, most of them just put on a coat, and from the open front of the coat, you can see the naked chest with abscesses.

Chen Ke has never felt that female nudity can be so disgusting.It was a visceral disgust.The abscesses on the women's faces, the abscesses on their bodies, and the abscesses on the lower body that even though they didn't see it, they shuddered when they thought about it, Chen Ke almost wanted to rush out.

Calm down, the task now is to obtain the pus, this is not the time to get emotional.Chen Ke spoke in very poor Shanghai dialect. "You all don't move, sit on the bed first." The reason for saying this is because Chen Ke is very afraid that these women will suddenly lose their minds and pull him back. In that case, Chen Ke will not be able to protect himself.

But Chen Ke's attire was indeed very unusual, it was just a white coat and light-colored clothes.Chen Ke wore a white mask, which surprised some women.The women who looked at the gate couldn't help shrinking back.Two women who didn't get up at first turned around slowly and sat up in fright when they saw Chen Ke's appearance.

Even though they were frightened by Chen Ke's attire, the eyes of the women were still dull. It seemed that the torment of illness and the "ward" like a black prison had caused great psychological harm to them.The women's reaction to Chen Ke's entry into the house was very slow.Chen Ke felt relieved when he saw that the scene of "desperate women jumping up to save their thighs and starting to cry and beg" did not appear as imagined.

"Which one of you contracted this disease for the first time?" Chen Ke asked.

No one answered.The women looked at Chen Ke with puzzled expressions.Chen Ke asked again, but still no one answered.

"Do you not understand what I'm talking about?" Chen Kexian asked in broken Shanghai dialect.No one responded, Chen Ke changed Mandarin and Henan dialect and said it several times.

Finally, a woman asked in Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialect that Chen Ke could barely understand, "Are you really the doctor who came to treat us?"

Talking with the patient did not make Chen Ke feel very happy. On the contrary, Chen Keqiang resisted the urge to take a few steps back.He forced a smile and said, "I'm a doctor, that's right, everyone sit there and don't move, speak slowly."

"Doctor, we know this disease is dirty. You came to treat us, how dare we touch you." A clean-looking woman slowly sat up and closed her open skirt.After straightening her clothes, the woman said, "Sisters, please sit down and let the doctor see you."

After hearing this, Chen Ke immediately felt respect for this woman.Such an attitude made Chen Ke, who played the guest role as a doctor, feel a sense of security.The other women sat down obediently.

"Sister, please help me to ask, who is the first time to get sick? Who is the first time to get sick, let them raise their hands." Chen Ke asked.

The woman spoke a few words in the south, and five of the seven women in the room raised their hands.The woman talking to Chen Ke didn't raise her hand.Chen Ke took out five test tubes and cotton swabs, and each took a sufficient amount of thick liquid.

With a feeling of giving it a try, Chen Ke asked the woman who had been talking to him, "Sister, is this the first time you have an illness?"

The woman shook her head slightly.Chen Ke's heart tightened, his medicine could only treat the first and second stage patients.It's not the first time it's happened, and 606 or 914 can't cure it at all.Antibiotics such as penicillin are required to be effective.That woman didn't have much contact with Chen Ke, but she was reasonable in this horrible dark prison.Chen Ke still wanted to save her very much.But the facts made Chen Ke's idea come to nothing.

At this point, a woman finally couldn't help asking: "Doctor, do you charge us money for treating us?"

Chen Ke looked at the dreadful abscess and forced a smile, "I don't charge money, don't worry." After hearing Chen Ke's words, the women couldn't believe it, "Doctor, never I heard that this disease can be cured..." At this point, the woman interrupted, "Since there is a doctor here to see the doctor, how can you say such things?"

After finishing speaking, the woman knelt down slowly on the straw mat, "Doctor, I beg you. Please cure us, and I will repay you as long as I can in this life." Seeing this, other women also rushed Kneel on the straw mat.This is not a formal bed.There are a few pieces of broken wooden boards on the two stools, and a broken straw mat on top, which is considered a bed.As soon as the women knelt on the "bed", the wooden boards creaked.Chen Ke looked around the room. There was a toilet in the innermost part of the room. Although the lid was closed, the smell of urine came straight from there.Beside each bed was a broken bowl, some empty, some with some water in it.The windows in the room are extremely small and high, and the light is extremely poor.

After putting away the test tube, Chen Ke said, "I'll come over next week...in seven days. Be careful, everyone, and it will be fixed by then." After finishing speaking, he walked to the door.There was a knock on the door. "Open the door, I'll go out."

As if waiting for a long time, Chen Ke was even worried that no one would open the door for him again.Chen Ke couldn't help but want to yell at the people outside to open the door, and let himself leave this hellish place quickly.Finally there were footsteps, the sound of a door lock, the door opened, and light poured in through the crack of the door.Chen Ke rushed out of the room in two steps in three steps, and rushed into the light.Not long ago, the small courtyard, which seemed quiet and deserted, now looked like a bright and peaceful fairyland compared with the dark room behind it.After a while, behind Chen Ke came the sound of closing the door and padlocking it.Hearing these voices, Chen Ke only felt a burst of relief.That hell was finally sealed.

At this time, a sharp call came from the room, "Doctor, I'll wait for you to treat the illness. Please." Chen Ke could tell that it was the voice of the woman who had been talking to him just now.As soon as the voice fell, there was the sound of knocking on the door panel from the door, followed by the crying and pleading of other women.

The brothel owner cursed angrily, his voice was so fast and shrill that Chen Ke couldn't understand what he was saying at all.The women ignored the boss, but continued to beg for something. Those were all southern dialects that Chen Ke couldn't understand, but Chen Ke understood what they meant.

"Let's go out first." Wu Xingchen said to Chen Ke.Regardless of Chen Ke's response, Wu Xingchen frowned and left the yard quickly.Obviously, the women's voices disturbed Wu Xingchen, so he could stay in this place as long as he could.

Chen Ke followed Wu Xingchen and quickly left the courtyard. Amidst the furious scolding of the brothel owner, the women fell silent.Chen Ke's medicine could not save that reasonable woman.Chen Ke knew very well that he would not even ask his boss to use his own medicine for those two third-stage patients.Even if the two people were given drugs, it would not have any effect.In order to improve the success rate of his medicine, let Wu Xingchen see the magical effect with his own eyes.Chen Kehui made it clear to Wu Xingchen in advance that those two people cannot be saved.

Judging by the attitude of the boss, it is impossible for the first-stage and second-stage patients to live alone.Chen Ke even made up his mind that in order to avoid trouble, he would inject physiological saline to the third-stage patients, including that reasonable woman.A room full of patients, if Chen Ke didn't give those two people injections, he would just make those two women fight with him.And there is no need for precious drugs to be given to useless people.

During this period, it was absolutely impossible for Chen Ke to develop drugs like penicillin.When there is a base area, Chen Ke will set up a pharmaceutical factory in the base area to produce penicillin.Even in the best case, it would be three years away.The reasonable woman could not wait for that time.In this era, she will not be given the chance to live long enough for the medicine that can save her life to appear.

That woman is dead.

After his calm consideration and the final result of seeking truth from facts, Chen Ke found that he had no emotions in it.This is the fact of this era, the lives of the weak are so fragile.If you have fireworks disease, it is difficult to express sympathy for the matter itself.So many more innocent people are also dying and dying in this cruel era.

Wu Xingchen and Chen Ke didn't stop, they walked out of the alley, the closer they got to the bustling market, the louder the voices became, and when they walked out of the alley, the bustling street suddenly unfolded in front of their eyes.In the evening, everyone was rushing home, and the sound of hawking on the roadside was much louder.The whole street showed a kind of vitality.Seeing these, Wu Xingchen let out a long breath, and the depressed mood in the small room was also greatly relieved.He turned his head and saw Chen Ke staring blankly at the street, two lines of tears streaming down his cheeks.Seeing this, Wu Xingchen frowned.When he was treating someone, he even started to cry.Did Chen Ke not tell the truth at all?Wu Xingchen couldn't help becoming wary, and looked at Chen Ke with a lot more cautious eyes.

Wu Xingchen did not follow Chen Ke back to the workshop, but left halfway.When Chen Ke returned to the workshop, there were a bunch of cute and fluffy rabbits locked in a bunch of cages in the yard.

The pus was retrieved, and then a little pus was injected into the rabbit's testicles. Soon, a sore appeared at the injection site that would not heal.These rabbits serve as a batch of drug testers.Chen Ke did not make 606, but chose 914 first. The efficacy of 914 is slightly worse than that of 606, but the safety is much higher.

Unfortunately, the first batch of treated rabbits were all poisoned to death.Looking at the pile of straight corpses, no one dared to say anything.Chen Ke waved at the pair of rabbit corpses. The "cremator" has long been built.The rabbit's carcasses were burnt into coke, and after they could not be eaten, the coke was crushed and thrown into the garbage.The bamboo cages where the sick rabbits used to live were also burned.These two things are either poisonous or have germs and must be completely destroyed.Especially the rabbit's corpse, if it was picked up and eaten by someone, it would probably kill someone.

The second batch of medicines had no effect.Chen Ke made use of waste and injected the third batch of medicine into these rabbits. Half of the little furry creatures began to heal, and half died.Chen Ke paid for another batch of rabbits, and retested the third batch of medicine.Still 10% of rabbits die.

"This medicine is enough?" Chen Ke heard Du Zhenghui whispered outside the room.

"One out of ten people will die? Is this okay? I won't let this medicine be used for nothing." Qi Huishen scolded in a low voice.

"But it's been so long. I thought it would be finished in a day or two." Du Zhenghui said with some dissatisfaction.The young people have been helping these days, and they are already familiar with the places where they can intervene.Under Chen Ke's simple teaching, the chemistry knowledge of the young people has improved by leaps and bounds.A layman like Du Zhenghui inevitably felt slack.Chen Ke could understand this feeling. Historically, many new drugs in Europe and the United States were released in such a hurry, and then sold in China.Many Chinese were poisoned to death.

What puzzled Chen Ke was that Du Zhenghui felt that these medicines could be used, but he never thought that one tenth of the rabbits would have to die. If it were replaced by humans, how much would it take to die.What is human life in Du Zhenghui's heart?Hearing Du Zhenghui's words alone, he will never want to enter the core of the new political party again.

The fourth batch of medicine was quite good, and the rabbits not only saved their lives, but recovered quickly.This is the one time this happened.Chen Ke found an excuse to send the other youths to work.Then called several core members into the room and told them the good news.

You Gou didn't say anything else, but happily wrote down the word "success" heavily in his notebook.Seeing You Gou's performance, Qi Hui rubbed his bloodshot eyes deeply, and asked happily, "Wen Qing, did you succeed?"

"Next, inject five times the amount." Chen Ke said calmly.

"Five times? You want to poison it to death!" Qi Huishen interrupted.

"If five times the dose can't kill the rabbit, then the medicine is barely successful. The medicine is inherently toxic, so we can't be irresponsible to the patients." Chen Ke replied.

"The rabbit has been cured, and it is not dead. As long as the dosage is controlled, I think..." Qi Huishen couldn't help but want to argue.

Chen Ke's deep and powerful voice interrupted Qi Huishen's words, "Carry forward the revolutionary humanitarian spirit of saving lives and healing wounded."

At this moment, there is no other words that can express Chen Ke's mood so forcefully.Recalling what he saw a few days ago at the prostitute who was infected with willow disease, Chen Ke continued: "Revolutionary humanitarian spirit, you have to be responsible for the people."

After Chen Ke finished speaking, Qi Huishen's face became serious.He pursed his lips, reflecting on the words.After a while, Qi Hui repeated in a low voice, "revolutionary humanitarian spirit".

"Wen Qing, last time you said that the revolution is not a dinner party..." Qi Huishen asked.

"When dealing with the enemy, revolution is naturally not a dinner party. But the revolution itself must be humanitarian. If it is not to save the country and the people, what kind of revolution is there?" Chen Ke's voice contained a faint anger.This is not aimed at Qi Huishen, but has heard countless discussions these days. Chen Ke clearly feels that what young people are passionate about is revolution, just like this medicine that can cure venereal diseases.As long as it works, they can accept it.Anyway, if the side effects occur, someone else will die.This mentality made Chen Ke quite dissatisfied.We are all human, so why would you make fun of other people's lives?

Thinking of those women who were tortured to death by Hualiu disease, and their pleadings.Chen Ke only felt a palpitation.Due to the revolutionary situation, Chen Ke could not develop penicillin, and some people could not be saved. There was no way.But within the control of his pharmaceutical company, Chen Ke didn't want any irresponsible things to happen.

"China is already sick. We want a revolution, which is very similar to being a doctor. The medicine you take out is just to see if it works. After you use it, let him die? Revolution is to kill germs, yes. But We want the revolution to save people, not to destroy them." Having said this, Chen Ke's voice became serious.Suddenly, two hands were pressed on Chen Ke's shoulders at the same time. Chen Ke turned his head and saw that Hua Ji Mao and You Gou each had a hand on their shoulders.Chen Ke understood what they meant and sighed. Chen Ke returned to the test bench and picked up the syringe.Everyone in the room who heard Chen Ke's vent-like remarks all looked at Chen Ke.For a while, no one spoke.

Five times the dose, half of the rabbits did not survive.Under this blow, no one dared to say anything.

Chen Ke rubbed his temples, closed his eyes and considered.At that time, Ou Lixi was constantly selecting from hundreds of samples, and Chen Ke had a clear purpose, which was to be able to produce that specific product.It is impossible for this medicine to be synthesized wrongly. The reason for the previous failures was some reaction control problems. As those problems were solved one by one, the efficacy of the medicine has reached such a level. Chen Ke thought about it several times, but he didn't think about it Find out what went wrong.

"Could it be that the purity is not high enough?" You Gou asked suddenly.

Chen Ke is not sure about this matter, or this is the most difficult thing for him to handle.Without an advanced chemical industry, it is very difficult to improve the purity of chemical products.In the chemical industry, it seems that there are countless equations, but the equations are not the most important.The "empirical parameters" in the chemical industry are the most important.Many things do not have a reasonable explanation even in the 21st century.But the empirical parameters can play a huge role in it.

After being silent for a while, Chen Ke finally said, "Let's purify the reagent again."

It's hard work, but also a very effective one.The medicine has been purified once, and the final product can effectively treat the willow disease, and it is not fatal when used on rabbits five times.When the second round of purification and synthesis was completed, Chen Ke did not sleep a wink for 40 hours. Although the rabbits were sick after receiving a large dose of injection, they survived anyway.As soon as Chen Ke sat on the recliner, he didn't know anything.