Koizumi Ichiro had deliberately selected these patients—all of them suffering from severe, terminal conditions.
Moreover, these individuals were not merely afflicted with cancer or AIDS alone. Their bodies had also been secretly injected with a specially engineered biochemical virus by the Cherry Blossom Country's "human experimentation team."
This biochemical virus possessed extraordinarily high transmissibility.
As a high-ranking spy of the Plum Agency within the Cherry Blossom Country, Koizumi Ichiro carried out multiple sinister objectives during this trip to the [Global Pharmaceutical Expo].
The biochemical virus carried by these patients represented his secondary, far more malevolent purpose.
Should anyone come into contact with these patients and subsequently return to their home country, the infection would initially show no symptoms whatsoever. Even the most advanced medical detection equipment would fail to identify it in the short term.
However, one month later, the virus would erupt with terrifying speed!
Its extreme contagiousness allowed it to spread through virtually any medium: air, water sources, saliva, soil, blood—nothing was safe.
Furthermore, this biochemical virus had been meticulously engineered by the Cherry Blossom Country's "evil expert team" to be maximally lethal, carrying a near-100% fatality rate.
The only antidote formula and vaccine were kept as top-secret military assets by the Cherry Blossom armed forces.
According to Koizumi Ichiro's plan, Su Xiaoyin, Director Zhou Chuan, and the other Great Xia scientists would inevitably come into direct contact with these patients.
Once they returned to Great Xia's territory, they would become unwitting carriers, and the outbreak would rapidly escalate into a full-scale plague!
Of course, Koizumi Ichiro also had another motive.
These terminally ill patients were, in his view, beyond the reach of any cure Great Xia's scientists could provide.
On this public stage, he intended to thoroughly humiliate and "slap the face" of the Great Xia scientific team!
"Come on, people of Great Xia!"
"These patients are right here! Use your so-called [Blue Silver Tablets] and cure them—right now!"
Koizumi Ichiro shouted with absolute confidence.
Director Zhou Chuan gave a slight nod toward Su Xiaoyin.
Su Xiaoyin immediately stepped forward, accompanied by several medical experts.
At the same time, journalists and scientists from various countries surged after them.
All eyes and cameras focused on the scene.
An academician from the Bear Country spoke up:
"The patients brought by the Cherry Blossom Country are all in critical condition! Even with the best equipment and drugs available in top-tier hospitals, their remaining survival time would be no more than half a month at best!"
A white-skinned expert from the Eagle Sauce Country declared with absolute certainty:
"This time, Great Xia is doomed to lose! Their so-called [Blue Silver Tablets] have been hyped to the heavens! In reality, they are utterly useless! Against true terminal illnesses such as cancer and AIDS, who can possibly cure them?"
A noble scientist from the Britannia Country burst into mocking laughter:
"Other than God Himself, who can bring the dead back to life? Cancer and AIDS—these scourges that have plagued humanity worldwide—are far beyond the reach of current medical science!"
Several experts from the Shiva Country stood ready to watch the spectacle unfold:
"Let's see how Great Xia's [Blue Silver Tablets] perform in real life. All that fancy data on paper—once given to patients, they'll probably drop dead on the spot!"
Yet Su Xiaoyin and her team remained completely composed and utterly confident.
Ever since receiving the leaf from the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Empress transmitted by Tang Yi, Great Xia's research team had extracted a special "life factor" from it and developed an enhanced version of the [Blue Silver Tablets].
Su Xiaoyin and her colleagues had already conducted hundreds of experiments. The upgraded [Blue Silver Tablets] were fully capable of overcoming and curing every known form of cancer and terminal illness currently afflicting humanity on Blue Star!
"Great Xia will triumph this time!"
Su Xiaoyin walked straight to the first patient.
This was a man in his fifties suffering from late-stage pancreatic cancer. The cancer had already metastasized to his liver and lungs.
He lay on a stretcher, his face waxy yellow, the whites of his eyes tinged with sickly jaundice, his lips cracked and peeling. His abdomen was severely distended—a clear sign of ascites.
Su Xiaoyin knelt beside him and gently took his hand.
That hand was skeletal and frail, the skin loose, the fingernails dark purple. The patient struggled to open his eyes; his turbid gaze slowly focused on Su Xiaoyin's face.
"Don't be afraid."
Her voice was soft yet carried an inexplicable sense of reassurance:
"It will be over soon."
She released his hand, stood up, and retrieved a transparent medicine bottle from the portable refrigerated case at her side.
Inside were seven pale-blue tablets, each emitting a faint, warm glow, as though tiny stars were embedded within.
She poured out one tablet and handed it to the patient.
"Take it with warm water."
A nearby medical staff member immediately provided a cup of warm water. The patient's trembling hand reached out and accepted the tablet.
His hand shook so violently that the tablet nearly slipped from his fingers. With great effort, he managed to place it in his mouth and swallow it with a sip of water.
The tablet entered his system.
The entire hall fell deathly silent.
Every gaze was fixed upon the patient.
The sound of camera shutters ceased. The murmurs stopped. Even breathing became cautious and restrained.
One minute!
Two minutes!
Three minutes!
......
Time seemed to stretch infinitely.
The smile on Koizumi Ichiro's face grew wider and wider; he was just about to open his mouth to mock them.
Suddenly, the patient opened his eyes.
He drew in a deep breath—then slowly exhaled. That breath was longer, deeper, and steadier than any he had taken before.
Then, under the incredulous stares of everyone present, he sat up.
By himself.
Without assistance. Without leaning on anything.
The man who moments earlier had lacked even the strength to lift his hand now sat upright unaided!
"I…"
The patient spoke. Though his voice still carried weakness, it was incomparably clearer than before:
"I feel… my breathing is smooth."
He looked down at his severely distended abdomen and pressed against it with his hand.
"The ascites… it's gone?"
He pressed again in disbelief, then lifted the blanket. Under the stunned gaze of the crowd, he slowly stood up.
He stood straight and tall.
The late-stage pancreatic cancer patient, who had been given no more than half a month to live, now stood perfectly erect!
He touched his chest, his abdomen, his back. The bewilderment on his face gradually gave way to overwhelming joy:
"It doesn't hurt anymore… not even a little!"
The hall erupted!
"This is impossible!"
The white-skinned expert from Eagle Sauce was the first to shout. He rushed forward in three strides and pressed his portable diagnostic device against the patient's wrist:
"Let me check!"
Blood pressure: 120/80—normal.
Heart rate: 72 bpm—normal.
Blood oxygen saturation: 98%—normal.
The expert refused to believe it and tested again.
The results remained identical.
"Let me see!"
The elderly academician from Bear Country pushed him aside and took over personally.
He not only measured blood pressure and heart rate but also carefully checked the patient's pupils, tongue coating, lymph nodes, and performed abdominal palpation…
The deeper he examined, the more stunned his expression became.
"The tumor… I can't feel it anymore."
He murmured, his voice trembling:
"The ascites has completely resolved. Liver size has returned to normal. No more rales in the lungs…"
The old academician straightened up and looked at Su Xiaoyin, his eyes filled with disbelief:
"You… your team… what kind of medicine is this?"
Su Xiaoyin did not reply. She merely gave a slight smile and turned toward the second patient.
This was an elderly woman with a massive tumor on her neck.
She lay on a stretcher, eyes half-open, mouth gasping with great difficulty.
The tumor on her neck was the size of a fist, severely compressing her trachea. Every breath seemed to require the full strength of her body.
Su Xiaoyin knelt beside her and gently took her hand.
"Don't be afraid. It will be over soon."
She spoke softly.
Then she retrieved a second tablet and helped the elderly woman swallow it.
This time, the effect was even faster.
Less than two minutes later, the woman's breathing changed.
From labored, intermittent gasps, it became smooth and steady.
She slowly raised her hand and touched her neck.
The tumor was still there.
But noticeably smaller.
She touched again.
Even smaller.
Under the gaze of the entire crowd, the fist-sized tumor visibly shrank—smaller, smaller, smaller—until, three minutes later, it disappeared completely.
The elderly woman's hand froze on her now-smooth neck. She remained stunned for several seconds before slowly sitting up.
She turned her head left and right, took several deep breaths, and smiled.
It was the smile of someone who had survived the brink of death.
"I'm not gasping anymore…"
Tears streamed down her face as she spoke:
"I can breathe properly again…"
Every single patient had endured unimaginable suffering.
The overwhelming joy of recovery filled them with profound gratitude!
The third patient—late-stage liver cancer with severe ascites and terrifyingly high jaundice levels.
Twenty minutes after taking the tablet, the whites of his eyes returned from jaundiced yellow to normal white.
The fourth patient—late-stage AIDS with multiple organ failure and viral load off the charts.
Half an hour after ingestion, viral load dropped to undetectable levels, and CD4 cell counts began to rise rapidly.
The fifth, sixth, seventh…
One after another, these terminally ill patients—previously condemned to death by experts from every nation—stood up after taking the [Blue Silver Tablets].
The hall fell deathly silent once more.
The white-skinned expert from Eagle Sauce stood with his mouth agape, unable to close it.
The noble scientist from Britannia wore a frozen, grotesque smile.
The experts from Shiva Country exchanged awkward glances, wishing they could disappear into the floor.
Koizumi Ichiro stood rooted to the spot. The smug grin had vanished from his face. His complexion cycled from red to pale, pale to green, and finally settled into an ugly ashen gray.
"Impossible… this is absolutely impossible…!"
Koizumi Ichiro muttered, his duck-like voice dropping eight octaves:
"It must be fake… they must have colluded!"
At that moment, the elderly academician from Bear Country raised his hand, signaling for silence.
"Ladies and gentlemen!"
His voice was solemn and authoritative:
"I have just conducted a comprehensive examination of these seven patients and collected blood, saliva, and urine samples. I will now announce the test results!"
He paused, scanning the crowd, then spoke clearly and deliberately:
"All physiological indicators of the seven patients have returned to normal ranges. Cancer cells have been completely eradicated. Viral loads are zero. Organ function has been restored to healthy levels. In simple terms—they are cured. Completely cured!"
"This is nothing short of a miracle in the history of medicine!"
The hall erupted once again—this time the roar of astonishment and cheers was even louder, threatening to lift the roof.
Journalists went mad.
They surged forward, cameras trained on the seven patients now standing tall, on Su Xiaoyin, on Director Zhou Chuan, on the display cases glowing with pale golden light at the Great Xia booth.
Just then, the Bear Country academician suddenly frowned, staring at a set of data on his diagnostic device.
"Wait a moment…"
He looked up at Koizumi Ichiro, his gaze turning razor-sharp:
"These patients carry not only cancer and AIDS viruses in their bodies—but also an unknown virus."
"What?"
The hall fell silent once more.
"What kind of virus?"
The Eagle Sauce expert immediately became alert.
"Let me see."
The Britannia scientist leaned in as well.
Several top experts gathered around the device and data sheets, studying intently for several minutes.
The deeper they investigated, the graver their expressions became.
"This virus's transmission routes…"
The Bear Country academician's voice turned icy:
"Air, water sources, saliva, blood, soil… virtually any medium can serve as a vector."
"Incubation period of one month, no symptoms during the initial phase. Unless detected with cutting-edge medical equipment or by top-tier specialists, it would be impossible to discover!"
The Bear Country academician spoke with barely contained fury.
He was one of the foremost authorities in medicine—ranked among the top ten in his country and within the top hundred globally!
His discernment was razor-sharp!
The Eagle Sauce expert also scrutinized the data:
"What is the fatality rate?"
The Britannia scientist gritted his teeth and answered:
"Near one hundred percent."
Every gaze in the hall turned toward Koizumi Ichiro.
After all, these patients had been provided by the Cherry Blossom Country under his leadership.
The presence of the virus in their bodies naturally pointed directly at the Cherry Blossom delegation.
Koizumi Ichiro's face instantly turned deathly pale. He stumbled backward.
"Mr. Koizumi Ichiro!"
The Bear Country academician's voice was as cold as Siberian wind:
"Please explain why these patients you brought here are carrying this virus!"
"I don't know what you're talking about! What biochemical virus? This is clearly a frame-up by the Great Xia people!"
Koizumi Ichiro continued to deny desperately.
At that moment, Su Xiaoyin—who had remained silent until now—finally spoke.
"This virus does indeed exist. And yes—these patients were deliberately injected with it."
Su Xiaoyin paused, her gaze settling on Koizumi Ichiro's bloodless face.
"His plan was simple: allow Great Xia scientists to come into contact with these patients, then carry the virus back to our country. One month later, the virus would erupt, plunging Great Xia into an uncontrollable plague. The only antidote and vaccine are held as top military secrets by the Cherry Blossom armed forces!"
The hall fell into absolute, deathly silence.
Then came an overwhelming wave of outrage.
"Beast!"
"Worse than animals!"
"This is a crime against humanity!"
Several righteous international representatives immediately condemned him.
"You are slandering me! People of Great Xia—where is your evidence?"
Koizumi Ichiro shouted, red-faced and frantic.
At that moment, the first patient—the middle-aged man who had earlier been reduced to skin and bones—stepped forward.
He walked directly up to Koizumi Ichiro and stared straight into his eyes.
"Your people found me when I was in the worst pain of my life. They said they would bring me to an international conference, that the best doctors would treat me. I believed them."
The man's voice was calm, yet carried an undeniable power:
"But I never imagined that not only did you fail to treat me—you injected something into my body."
The patient pointed to his arm:
"Here. You injected me three times. Each time afterward, I would spike a high fever and feel like my body was being torn apart. You told me it was a normal treatment reaction."
Koizumi Ichiro opened his mouth, but no sound emerged.
"I had already accepted death."
The man continued:
"But today, the doctors from Great Xia saved me. They not only cured my cancer—they also eliminated the filthy thing you people put inside me."
The man turned to face the cameras of the international press and spoke clearly, word by word:
"I swear on my life and personal honor that every word I have said is true. The human experimentation team from the Cherry Blossom Islands used us terminal patients as test subjects, injecting us with biochemical viruses. And the [Blue Silver Tablets] from Great Xia saved my life."
The other patients stepped forward one by one to corroborate his testimony.
The evidence was now irrefutable.
There was no room for denial!
Koizumi Ichiro's legs buckled; he nearly collapsed to the floor.
Director Zhou Chuan immediately spoke in a cold, furious tone:
"Such actions are utterly devoid of conscience! According to international conventions on Blue Star, severe punishment must be imposed!"
Koizumi Ichiro was drenched in cold sweat, terrified out of his wits.
The biochemical virus was one of the Cherry Blossom Country's most tightly guarded military secrets. Now it had been exposed at the [Global Pharmaceutical Expo]—in full view of journalists, ambassadors, and experts from every nation.
The Cherry Blossom side would inevitably pay a devastating price!