Chapter 555: Chapter 555: Lost Inhibitor
The person looked so pitiful at the time, seeming to regard the suppressant as the last straw for survival, going so far as to kneel down and beg her.
Feeling a moment of softness, Sherry agreed and even let the clinic’s Chinese medicine doctor go with him to treat his wife.
But this made it difficult to explain to the customers who were already urgently pressing for the suppressants.
Knowing she hadn’t handled things well this time, bringing such trouble to the clinic, Sherry felt very guilty inside.
"Oh, I wondered what it was." Ann Vaughn casually picked up a refreshing aroma ball from the table, dabbed some on her wrist, and leaned down to sniff it lightly.
The extracted petal essence mixed with medicinal herbs produced a pure and mild fragrance, fragrant but not pungent, very refreshing and invigorating, with a lasting aroma.
Seeing that she didn’t seem to be concerned about this matter, Sherry smiled wryly, "I’ll go explain it clearly to those customers and ask them to wait a bit longer."
The number of suppressants is insufficient, far from meeting the demand of so many reserved customers...
"No need." Ann Vaughn stopped her, then turned her wrist slightly for Sherry to smell the fragrance above, "How is it?"
"Is this the first project you’ve prepared?" Sherry felt the fatigue in her brain dissipate, and her whole self felt a lot more refreshed, "Hmm... I can only smell the white orchid in it."
Her sense of smell wasn’t as keen as Ann Vaughn’s. Some components Ann Vaughn could identify just by smelling them, getting eight or nine out of ten right.
Ann Vaughn nodded and opened the box on the table, revealing twelve aroma balls in various colors.
"These little guys differ in color and efficacy, twelve in a set." Ann Vaughn explained, "Thanks to them, I was able to produce more suppressants over the past few days than was expected."
"How much stock do we have now?" Sherry picked up a pale purple aroma ball and asked.
Ann Vaughn pondered for a few seconds, "Enough to last until next week when the institute delivers a new batch of suppressants."
Hearing this, Sherry nearly crushed the aroma ball, "You exposed your identity as a pharmacist!?"
"How could I?" Ann Vaughn chuckled at her agitation, "What they received were semi-finished products, skipping the extraction step."
"It’s clever of you to come up with this... So, which institute are you collaborating with? Need me to investigate a bit?"
"You know it, QY Research Institute."
Sherry’s impression of QY was still stuck on those overwhelming numbers of virus reagents.
Although she later heard from Ann Vaughn that the plan seemed to have been terminated, Sherry was still apprehensive.
"Are you sure there won’t be any issues?"
Ann Vaughn understood what she was implying and couldn’t help but smile faintly, "Don’t worry. Besides, where else can you find such excellent free labor?"
The researchers at QY are elites among elites.
Even she, when Director Shaw personally approached her, was taken aback.
Now that she thinks about it, Director Shaw couldn’t have picked a worse time, approaching her at her busiest, calling it a coincidence would be hard for Ann Vaughn to believe.
Ding dong.
Ann Vaughn’s phone on the table suddenly chimed.
She picked it up and glanced at it casually, her eyes suddenly fixed, and then an enchanting shine began to emanate from within them.
"With a smile that sweet, it must be a message from Mr. Hawthorne?" seeing her in such a spring-filled demeanor, Sherry couldn’t help but tease her.
"Yes." Ann Vaughn openly admitted, while opening his message box to reply, she said, "He said he’s returning the day after tomorrow, wants me to wait for him on the home’s lawn."
Looking at the words "wait for me" at the end, Ann Vaughn’s eyes curved, and her already exquisitely beautiful face grew even softer, stunningly beautiful.
The annoyance from him hanging up on her before evaporated like water droplets in the sun.
Sherry asked puzzled, "Why on earth on the lawn in such cold weather?"
Ann Vaughn was also curious about this, suddenly thinking of the man’s talent for saying provocative things, her cheeks flushed instantly.
"Better not be what I’m thinking!"
Otherwise, he shouldn’t dare hope to get back into her bed again!
Sherry: ?? What are you thinking?
"Boss! Boss!"
A shout echoed from afar, as the Chinese medicine doctor Sherry sent out ran all the way to Ann Vaughn’s side, panting heavily.
Seeing him drenched in sweat, Ann Vaughn asked, "What happened?"
"It’s, it’s that customer who bought the suppressant!" The Chinese medicine doctor had a look of pure disbelief, "When I went into the ward to treat his wife, he said he’d be right back, then when he returned, he said he accidentally lost the suppressant!"
"He kept pestering me to buy another suppressant. I felt something was off, so I didn’t stay long."
The suppressant was lost?
Ann Vaughn’s clear eyes narrowed slightly, and her red lips quirked into a mocking smirk, "How coincidental."
"If it was so important to his wife, why would he take it out of the ward?" Sherry’s face also turned unpleasant, "It seems it was a scam from the start."
The Chinese medicine doctor shook his head, "His wife really has cancer, that much I verified."
The customer brought a medical record, with certification from the First Hospital.
Otherwise, Sherry wouldn’t have sympathetically agreed to sell him a suppressant.
But if that customer indeed had other motives, then Vaughn Clinic might be in trouble again.
Thinking of this, both Sherry and the Chinese medicine doctor looked downcast.
"Don’t worry." Ann Vaughn patted Sherry on the shoulder to comfort her, "They likely just want to learn the suppressant’s formula, it’s no big deal."
Because even if they knew the formula, they couldn’t produce a suppressant with the same effect.
Moreover, just the extraction step was enough to thwart all their plans from the very start.
This, Ann Vaughn was sure of.
...
Inside the laboratory of the Medical Association Building.
"President, we have repeated the reagent analysis five or six times, and the results are the same each time." A member in a white coat handed the report to President Pierce, saying as he did, "Look, there are nearly a hundred unknown components."
If it was just two or three components, they could have substituted with other things and succeeded.
But damn, with nearly a hundred, matching them all would take until the end of the world!
Those members doing the experiments were tearing their hair out; they’d never encountered such a difficult drug!
"Not herbal medicine components?" President Pierce frowned.
"It’s both, and it’s not." The member replied, "These nearly a hundred components don’t seem like simple herbal medicine, but I’ve checked, they’re not chemical substances and are beneficial to the human body."