21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 11: Chapter 11 Potions

"Just as I expected, this idiot increased the dosage on his own!" Looking at Inomata Naoki's medical report, Chen Yu slammed the table in anger, the tone of his voice carrying both fury at Inomata Naoki's recklessness and self-reproach for not being able to save his friend's life: "His body's vitality has declined again, and now it's already below half that of a normal person!"

Seeing Chen Yu like this, Jounouchi Hiromi gently placed her hand on his shoulder, taking Inomata Naoki's medical report from Chen Yu's hands and looking at the data closely, her brow furrowing as well.

Having already reviewed Inomata Naoki's medical history before, Jounouchi Hiromi knew what his condition had been, so seeing the further decline in vitality on the medical report, she also understood that the situation had become even more serious.

Furrowing her brows in thought for a moment, Jounouchi Hiromi asked Chen Yu, "Mr. Chen Yu, can Inomata-san stop taking the medication? I remember you saying that if the medication you developed is discontinued, the patient's vitality can recover, right?"

"Discontinuing the medication can certainly allow his vitality to recover, but at the same time, the tumor that had been suppressed would also revive." Chen Yu felt a headache coming on but still took the medical report from Jounouchi Hiromi's hands and placed the X-ray on the lightbox next to him, explaining to Jounouchi Hiromi as he looked at the results: "Naoki was already in the late stages of esophageal cancer. He's alive now only because my medication is suppressing the tumor's activity. If he stops the medication..."

"He won't live past six months..." Jounouchi Hiromi naturally knew what a late stage of esophageal cancer meant. The tumor on Inomata Naoki's X-ray had already invaded the abdominal aorta, so without any treatment, giving him three months to live would already be optimistic. Jounouchi Hiromi mentioned six months, still taking into account the suppressive effects of Chen Yu's medication on the tumor.

However, as a surgeon, Jounouchi Hiromi still instinctively thought about how to cure the patient, and she couldn't help but suggest to Chen Yu, "What about surgery? If we could remove the tumor through surgery and then stop Inomata-san's medication for treatment, wouldn't we be able to cure him?"

"In theory it's possible, but there are only a handful of doctors in all Japan who can remove such tumors. Even when I was at East University, I showed Naoki's medical record to the professors, and even those top professors at East University Medical College felt that Naoki's surgery was tricky and were uncertain of a successful outcome." Chen Yu shook his head helplessly, clearly not optimistic about the surgical success: "Moreover, with Naoki's vitality now so low, even if the surgery could succeed, his post-operative recovery is very problematic. It's quite possible he'd end up in a state where we cut him open but can't sew him back up."

Post-operative recovery has always been a very important aspect of surgical procedures, since most surgeries involve cutting open the body of the patient, especially tumor surgeries, which involve removing a piece of flesh from inside the patient's body. Even the healthiest person, having undergone a surgical tumor removal, would be greatly weakened and need a long time to recover, and those with weaker constitutions might have an even harder time recovering.

This is also why, for elderly patients, doctors often advise against surgery, because their bodies can't handle the heavy burden that a surgical procedure imposes.

Although Inomata Naoki is not an elderly person, his vitality, suppressed by the medication, is even less than that of an elderly person, and the result of a surgical procedure could well be the tumor being removed but the wound unable to heal.

"Then what about drug therapy? Would it be possible to administer drug therapy while simultaneously stopping the medication, using the drugs to shrink the tumor while allowing his body to recover?" Jounouchi Hiromi was not discouraged by the rejection of her surgical proposal, rather, she seriously considered a new treatment plan.

"Hiromi, the professors at school also proposed this type of plan initially, but the medicine I developed is a new drug," Chen Yu explained to Jounouchi Hiromi, fetching his experimental records, "Through drug trials on mice, I found that when bodily activity is suppressed, the drug therapy does have some effect, but it's not effective, and it causes more damage to the test subjects than under normal conditions. Moreover, during the experiment, pathological changes occurred due to drug conflict, leading to the death of the test subjects."

"So, you're saying the drug therapy is ineffective, and the side effects have worsened?" Jounouchi Hiromi understood what Chen Yu meant, and her expression grew troubled. Although she felt it was a thorny issue, Jounouchi Hiromi still wanted to comfort Chen Yu, encouraging him softly, "Mr. Chen Yu, let's think of another way, there must be a cure for Inomata-san. If you don't mind, I'll send Inomata-san's medical records to my friends in the United States, maybe they can find a solution."

"Thank you, Hiromi," The tenderness and concern from Jounouchi Hiromi touched Chen Yu's heart, but the more he felt Jounouchi Hiromi's kindness and gentleness, the more he dared not accept her feelings.

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After returning home, Chen Yu laid out the purchased Parrotfish in front of Audis and then directly opened the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium," looking for the formula of the potion he referred to when he first researched drugs to suppress cancer, hoping to find inspiration and a way to cure Inomata Naoki.

Even though he had read over this potion formula more than a hundred times, and knew every word by heart, Chen Yu still read it word by word, hoping to find something he might have missed.

This was a necromantic potion formula, its original effect was to turn a living person into an undead creature, commonly used by necromancers to spread necromantic plague and create immortal armies.

Initially, Chen Yu was interested in this potion's ability to suppress life activity, hoping to use it to develop a drug for cancer through its capacity to suppress life activity.

By modifying the original potion formula and substituting hard-to-find ingredients with available materials, diluting the potion concentration, and reducing its effects, Chen Yu's initial experiment could be said to be indeed successful. However, regarding the effectiveness of the drug he developed, he also failed because he could not eliminate the drug's suppression of human life activity, making it target only the cancer itself.

"What can I possibly do to improve this potion so that it only targets cancer itself?" Chen Yu scratched his head, his frustration with no outlet, and he couldn't help but complain, "Why are there so few potion formulas in this whole book! It would be great if there were new formulas to reference!"

His unintended complaint triggered an unexpected change in the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium." The text on the pages shifted, forming a line of words, and at the same time, the voice of the Book Spirit echoed in Chen Yu's ear, "Advance the mage level, ascend to a Certified Necromancer, select Potion specialization for research to obtain new potion formulas."

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