Chapter 443 — The Experiment Fails
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What surprised Divine Physician Kang and his family was that this clinical trial had produced no effect whatsoever!
Everyone in the family, including Divine Physician Kang himself, who had taken the "original" life-extending and detoxifying pill, showed nothing but varying degrees of nausea and diarrhea—not a single sign of detoxification appeared!
Apart from the cold sweat brought on by diarrhea and exhaustion, no filth was expelled from their bodies at all.
Propping up his weak body by sheer force of will, Divine Physician Kang sat in his study. He had no choice but to convene an emergency family meeting to look into this matter!
"Zhaolong, what exactly went wrong? Why haven't any of us achieved the detoxification effect?" Dr. Kang was puzzled. Logically speaking, even if the composition of the dog shit was off, he himself had consumed the original Life-Prolonging and Detoxification Pill! Kang Jingming had taken half of it and clearly felt its effects, while he had taken the other half—so why was his current condition no different from that of those who had merely eaten dog shit?
"I don't know either, Grandfather. Logically, the ingredient is dog shit, and you consumed the original Life-Prolonging and Detoxification Pill—how could it have no effect?" Kang Jinglong replied weakly, his head swimming.
"Could it be that it varies from person to person?" Dr. Kang wondered aloud.
"No, Grandfather, I didn't feel any effect this time either—" Before Kang Jingming could finish his sentence, he clutched his stomach and shot to his feet: "I can't hold it—I'm about to shit my pants! I need to get to the bathroom right now!"
With that, Kang Jingming bolted out of the study in a chain of foul-smelling farts.
But no one complained about the stench of his farts, because every person present had been passing gas all day long.
"What Zhaoming said is right—he didn't feel any effect either. Could there have been some error in our experiment?" Dr. Kang nodded and asked.
"Well... Grandfather, I've considered every scenario I can think of, but no explanation fits." Kang Jinglong shook his head. "Could what Zhaoming ate earlier be different from what you ate afterward?" "Different? Weren't they two halves split from the same pill?" Dr. Kang frowned.
"It's only my guess, and we have no evidence now, but thinking it through carefully, our research direction must have been wrong," Kang Jinglong said. "We were so swept up in our excitement that we believed the most unlikely thing was the most likely—that dog shit was the Life-Prolonging and Detoxification Pill! But if you think about it, could it really be that simple?" "You mean the Life-Prolonging and Detoxification Pill is not dog shit?" Dr. Kang quieted down and considered the matter. Kang Jinglong's words were not without reason—miraculous as the Life-Prolonging and Detoxification Pill was, if it were merely dog shit, wouldn't that be far too simple?
"Yes, that's only my guess, but I do have two bold hypotheses!" Kang Jinglong was, after all, a doctorate holder—the most highly educated member of the Kang family—and he laid out his analysis with cogent reasoning.
"Let's hear them!" Dr. Kang gestured for him to continue.