Chapter 1018 979: Targeted Drug Insect

In front of everyone's expectant eyes, Zhao Rong finally succeeded in refining a Divine Medicine that could treat lung cancer.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Zhao Rong sat down on the ground, gulped a big glass of water, and said:

"I haven't refined any medicine for a long time. Honestly, it's getting harder and harder. I really feel like I'm running out of steam…"

Just then, Lili stepped forward. She opened the pressure cooker while asking Zhao Rong:

"Brother Zhao Rong, don't try to fool us. Did you really succeed?"

Zhao Rong nodded with absolute certainty and said:

"Of course it succeeded.

Otherwise the assistant would've rushed over and eaten me alive…"

Xuelian, the beauty, asked Zhao Rong, very curious:

"Brother Zhao Rong, is the lung‑cancer medicine you refined some kind of little pill?"

Right at that moment, Lili took out the lung‑cancer medicine Zhao Rong had just refined.

But when the three beauties and the assistant saw this so‑called medicine that was supposed to treat lung cancer,

they all widened their eyes and said in disbelief:

"Brother Zhao Rong, are you kidding us?

This is clearly just a cockroach. How can you call this the medicine you refined to treat lung cancer…"

Lili threw the thing in her hand, the medicine that looked exactly like a cockroach, onto the ground.

Feeling utterly disgusted, she said:

"Brother Zhao Rong, this is pure mischief.

This is clearly a living, breathing little black roach,

so why are you calling it some magical lung‑cancer cure…"

Yu Lan stared at the cockroach, took a mothball out of her pocket, and tossed it over, saying:

"Cockroaches are the most tenacious bugs in the world.

If you want to deal with them, you have to use mothballs to kill them…"

Xuelian stepped forward and questioned Zhao Rong, saying:

"Brother Zhao Rong, can you swear that you were really seriously refining medicine just now, and not just messing with us?"

Zhao Rong stepped up, picked the cockroach up from the ground, then started giving everyone a little science lesson, saying:

"Lili, Yu Lan, Xuelian, Assistant, don't get any extreme ideas yet.

Listen to my explanation first…"

With that, Zhao Rong began to spell it out:

"Lung cancer is basically a malignant, aggressively spreading tumor that grows on the lungs…

The reason medicine can't cure lung cancer

is that we can't kill off those wildly spreading tumors growing on the lungs…

Now, using targeted drugs together with various Immortal Herbs, love potion, Forgetfulness Grass and so on, I refined this thing.

It looks like a cockroach,

but it isn't actually a cockroach. Its scientific name is 'targeted‑drug insect'…"

When the three beauties and the assistant heard the phrase "targeted‑drug insect,"

they felt the term was really tongue‑twisting and said:

"What on earth is a targeted‑drug insect?

Brother Zhao Rong, hurry up and explain it to us in detail…"

Lili asked in a fluster:

"Brother Zhao Rong, I know what targeted drugs are, and I know what insects are,

but I have no idea what a 'targeted‑drug insect' is supposed to be…"

Zhao Rong told Lili:

"A so‑called targeted‑drug insect means that when the patient swallows the insect and it goes into the stomach,

this insect will follow the trail of the cancer cells,

dig out all those cancer cells from the lungs, root and all, and eat them,

then carry them out of the patient's body.

That way, we can completely cure the cancer inside the patient's body…"

After hearing Zhao Rong's explanation, the three beauties and the assistant were all stunned.

They felt Zhao Rong's theory was utterly unbelievable and said:

"Brother, if cancer could be treated this way,

then all the big pharmaceutical giants in the world would've started breeding cockroaches, bedbugs, centipedes and all kinds of creepy things that can eat lung tumors long ago…"

When Zhao Rong realized everyone had misunderstood what a targeted‑drug insect was,

he explained again, saying:

"Lili, Yu Lan, Xuelian, Assistant, you've got it wrong.

In fact, a targeted‑drug insect is neither just a targeted drug nor just an insect,

but a kind of scavenger that can rapidly track down a tumor and dig it out, root and branch…"

With that, Zhao Rong took the cockroach and walked up to the assistant's grandpa, then said to him:

"Grandpa, hello.

Even though your body has no symptoms right now,

the low‑dose spiral CT we just did shows you already have lung cancer,

and it's already in the late stage…"

Hearing this, the assistant's grandpa said, not believing it:

"I don't believe I could have lung cancer.

I'm in great shape.

I exercise every morning,

and I still go work in the fields.

If I had lung cancer, I'd definitely feel unwell.

But right now I still smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, plus a pack of old dry tobacco…"

When Zhao Rong saw that the assistant's grandpa didn't believe him,

he took out the CT test report and handed it to the old man, saying:

"Grandpa, please take a look at this report.

This report is from the low‑dose spiral CT we just ran.

It clearly diagnoses you with lung cancer,

and it's already at an advanced stage…"

After the assistant's grandpa read the report carefully, he collapsed to the ground in shock.

Tears streamed down the old man's face as he said:

"I always figured I'd die of some illness or other,

but I never imagined it would be lung cancer.

Lung cancer, once it gets to the late stage, tortures people to death.

By then you can't eat, can't drink, can't sleep, you just get slowly tormented until you die.

I can't understand why Heaven is punishing me like this…"

Seeing the assistant's grandpa lift his head and sigh to the sky,

Zhao Rong immediately stepped forward, took out the targeted‑drug insect, and comforted him:

"Grandpa, don't worry.

Yes, you've got lung cancer,

but I've got a medicine here that can cure it completely…"

When the assistant heard that Zhao Rong was actually saying he could cure lung cancer with a drug,

he said, disbelieving:

"Cancer—malignant tumors—is an immune‑system disease that arises during human evolution when cell division gets out of control.

There's no one in this world who can truly cure cancer.

So when you tell me you can cure it, I don't buy it at all…"

Zhao Rong comforted the assistant's grandpa, saying:

"Grandpa, the fact is you already have cancer.

Rather than just sitting here waiting to die, why not try this new medicine?

Who knows, it might just cure your cancer…"

The assistant chimed in beside him, making a promise to his grandpa, saying:

"Grandpa, once your cancer is cured, I'll take you and Grandma on a trip to Sanya."

In the end, the assistant's grandpa accepted Zhao Rong's treatment plan.

He said:

"Alright then, give me that miraculous medicine you refined."

When Zhao Rong put the little insect into the old man's hand,

the assistant's grandpa still didn't dare swallow it and said:

"This is clearly a cockroach. I'm scared to eat it…"

The assistant comforted his grandpa, saying:

"Grandpa, once you swallow this medicine,

this targeted‑drug cockroach will automatically head for your lungs,

then eat up all the tumor cells in your lungs,

and then start roaming through your whole body via your blood and lymph systems,

until it has eaten every last cancer cell in your body clean—only then will it come out."

When the assistant's grandpa heard how miraculous this medicine supposedly was,

he immediately shut his eyes, pinched his nose, and swallowed the targeted‑drug cockroach that Zhao Rong had given him.