Surgery Godfather
Chapter 959 - 818: Delivering the Prize on the Sly

Chapter 959: Chapter 818: Delivering the Prize on the Sly

The muscle that grew in the cultivator had slowly transformed from the size of a pea to that of a potato.

Tang Shun and all the researchers were practically living in the laboratory twenty-four hours a day, as they wanted to witness the thrilling moment in the history of medicine.

When the laboratory was originally renovated, a rather spacious resting room had been planned, which, with floor bedding laid out, was sufficient for Tang Shun and the researchers to spend the night together.

Even in the middle of the night, Tang Shun would sometimes wake up to check if there had been any changes in the "muscle" inside the cultivator. This complete dedication to his work had caused Tang Shun to drift away from his dozen or so Japanese girlfriends. Teacher Tang hadn’t opened WeChat to chat with his girlfriends for many days.

This was an unintentional act on the part of Tang Shun, but it dealt a significant blow to his girlfriends. Worrying and suspicious, the Japanese girlfriends began to doubt whether Tang Shun was planning to abandon them, and each felt personally threatened.

If Tang Shun didn’t reply to their WeChat messages soon, his girlfriends might very well band together and come to China to search for him.

However, Tang Shun had now pushed everything else to the back of his mind, completely absorbed in the experiment and constantly thinking about it.

The plan for Yang Ping’s laboratory was based entirely on utilizing the existing equipment for the initial experiment. They could only use the current equipment or instruments available on the market. In future repetitions of the experiment, specific equipment and instruments suitable for this kind of research would be essential.

Furthermore, the initial experiment was focused only on achieving the targets without much consideration for other issues, tasks that naturally fell on Tang Shun’s shoulders.

There was actually a lot that Tang Shun had to think about, such as how to improve the cultivators, when to intervene with the experimental artificial heart-lung machine, how to connect the muscle’s blood vessels, how to design the artificial heart-lung machine, precise control of the volume of muscle culture, how to stimulate and train muscle strength through artificial methods upon cultivation, and how to encourage nerves to mature, among others.

Analysis of dozens of samples confirmed that the cultivated muscle had muscle fibers organized in the same way as normal human muscle, and it was even possible to develop blood vessels and nerves within it.

This indicated that stem cells could still develop into a partial organ outside the human body and separate from the embryonic system. The gene fragments controlling the construction of organs had their precise missions. For example, the fragment Yang Ping discovered controlled cells to build a simple, separate piece of muscle with muscle belly in the middle, tendons at both ends, and blood vessels and nerves distributed inside.

The dozens of successful samples were all of this simple muscle structure. If multiple muscle bellies or multi-headed muscles were to be cultivated, further research would be needed.

Tests showed that the cultivated muscle had relatively weak strength, but if targeted strength training could be conducted, it could completely meet the requirements of the transplant site.

Designing devices and instruments was a weak area for Yang Ping, as all his knowledge was primarily rooted in medicine.

Thus, the drawings Yang Ping sketched for the devices and instruments were only a rough outline, and he couldn’t design the details. These drawings served only to inform Ruixing’s engineers what kind of equipment he wanted, leaving the rest of the work to them.

Yang Ping usually didn’t visit Ruixing Company much, but he came specifically for the experimental equipment this time.

President Huang was no longer the small equipment sales manager of before but was now the boss of the largest domestic medical equipment R&D and manufacturing company—the Ruixing Group.

Ruixing was developing very rapidly. With the support of domestic medical magnates, its orthopedic consumables brand had captured a large portion of the domestic market. In the north, there was the support of Professor Liang, in the south, Professor Su, in the west, Huaxi Professor Fu Shancheng, and in Shanghai, Professor Hong Zhigang. With the support of these professors, Ruixing’s products were on par with, and even starting to surpass, the giants in the field.

Ruixing did not disappoint. After gaining a significant market share and securing a large amount of funds, the company rapidly iterated its products, with each generation proving better than the last, not inferior to imported consumables and even exceeding some.

Seizing the opportunity, Huang Jiacai decisively acquired several fairly good domestic manufacturers, filling in the gaps in the entire product line.

After all the medical consumables were in place, Huang Jiacai started to venture into cutting-edge, high-tech fields, such as medical materials, biological 3D printers, artificial hearts, and so on.

Ruixing’s rapid development wasn’t just owing to the collective support of the big names in domestic medicine but also because it was backed by several wealthy investors.

That is to say, there was no lack of market or funds.

The investors behind the scenes included industry giants such as Anning Group, Southeast Asian consortium Guo’s Group, and the local tycoon Xinchang Mining. Xinchang Mining was growing vigorously, and it was said based on the speed of gold mining, the company could easily make tens of billions a year, with no issues in maintaining this for more than a decade.

To aid Changxin Mining in developing these large mines, it was said that Anning Group and Guo’s Group also invested in support, a case of mutual aid and powerful alliances.

Old Wang had also transformed from a coal tycoon to a gold tycoon, elevating to a whole new level of affluence.

"Professor!"

Huang Jiacai stood at the entrance with utmost respect. As soon as Yang Ping’s car stopped, Huang immediately ran over to open the car door.

"No need to be so formal. Just show me around casually," said Yang Ping, somewhat uncomfortable with the scenario.

In fact, Huang Jiacai had already been quite low-key. In any other company’s case, Huang Jiacai couldn’t possibly be the only one standing there to receive him. Instead, it would be expected for him to lead all the company’s executives to warmly welcome at the entrance, with a red carpet running from the parking spot all the way to the company hall.