Saya Takagi looked somewhat stunned at the hard drive in her hands.
The strange interface from before - the data port that had been pitch black inside - was no longer like that. It had completely transformed into an interface that computer data cables could plug into.
This had automatically changed like this, which was somewhat eerie.
Thinking about it, this thing probably wasn't a hard drive from this era, but a high-tech product from the future. For it to actively undergo such changes wasn't too strange.
So she directly connected the cable, and the computer also booted up.
During startup, she also looked at the guy beside her. After thinking of something, Saya Takagi gave him a look like she was regarding trash.
"Takagi, sorry, but your disgusted gaze like that doesn't excite me unless you also give me a reward at the same time."
"Reward my ass! Who wants you excited!"
Saya Takagi scolded with a flushed face, because everyone had heard this guy's strange fetish through the radio - he hadn't turned it off.
So did this guy really have such a fetish?
Or was it purely to comfort Senior Saeko Busujima's soul?
After all, suddenly exposing such a fetish created a huge disconnect from his original character.
Hmm?
She wouldn't waste more words with this guy, because the computer was acting strangely, quickly entering a screen.
This screen seemed to be verifying her information, and her appearance also appeared on screen. But this time she was finally wearing clothes - the clothes she was currently wearing.
Wait, this was also somewhat eerie. The her on screen was in her current posture. When she raised her head, the her on screen also raised her head.
It was as if there was a god's-eye view looking at herself.
But this computer didn't have a camera.
Could it be—
Saya Takagi looked at that hard drive, then looked again at the computer screen. The camera angle seemed to be looking at her from this hard drive's direction.
But there was no camera visible on the hard drive.
Forget it, don't think about it too much, because identity verification had already succeeded and she had entered the computer desktop, which also left her stunned.
It looked like a very simple computer desktop with only one icon.
After clicking on it, it was like opening a PPT document.
"Panacea?"
Ejie behind Saya Takagi frowned as he spoke the name of the product in this STC, feeling somewhat disappointed that it wasn't the universal cure he had been hoping for.
The treatment scope described above didn't specifically mention what diseases it targeted, but had this sentence: "Can prevent and cure almost all diseases of humanity from 15,000 years ago."
As Saya Takagi went to the next page, additional descriptions made him pause.
Very good, it was useful to him too.
It stated that if one was already a universal cure user, in special circumstances where bodily functions were severely damaged and regeneration was slow, panacea could be used in combination to supplement sufficient nutritional components needed for human regeneration, enabling rapid recovery.
His current severed limb, in this era, with purely ordinary food, simply couldn't be regenerated quickly through massive consumption alone.
The next page was the manufacturing formula, and here an interesting choice appeared - a customizable search option.
"Input: How to quickly manufacture panacea on Terra in the 2K era."
"2K era? Terra?"
Saya Takagi also muttered curiously, following his words to input that string of content.
The next second, the computer seemed to freeze briefly - even the cursor couldn't move.
Then quite a few windows popped up.
After quickly scanning through them roughly, Saya Takagi couldn't sit still.
"Is-is this real or fake?"
The genius Saya Takagi looked incredulous. According to what was described above, even elementary school students could easily manufacture the so-called panacea.
After looking at one document in detail first, without waiting to finish reading everything—
"What kind of fool-proof teaching is this?"
Saya Takagi again voiced incredulous amazement. But this time she wasn't suspicious, because her brain told her it was correct and problem-free.
She trusted it just like that - after all, things had developed to this point.
Soon, she also somewhat understood this panacea teaching system. So Saya Takagi had an idea she wanted to try.
"Teacher Shizuka, please come help me."
"Ah? O-okay."
Shizuka Marikawa, who had just finished treating Rei Miyamoto's wounds, heard Saya Takagi's words and trotted over.
"How can I help?"
"I'm not a doctor, so I'm unclear about some medicines. Look at the descriptions above - which existing medicines in the hospital should match these?"
So after five hours of working on this—
"The-the formula is complete."
Saya Takagi said somewhat dazedly.
Fortunately, later attempts allowed this system to interface with the hospital's system and scan for corresponding medications. Otherwise, some drugs had the same effects but different names, which would have been troublesome.
"This-will this really work? Won't this waste too much medicine?"
Shizuka Marikawa, who had also helped for five hours, somewhat understood how this formula came about.
Many of the formula materials above weren't readily available. But they could be synthesized and extracted through chemical reactions using existing drugs.
The extracted portions were called second-level materials, which then had to continue reacting with second-level materials extracted from other drugs, further synthesizing together. Or combining with higher-level raw materials, or with same-level materials, or lower-level, or even lower-level materials, etc.
Ultimately, if they could obtain the formula above to create the so-called panacea, almost all the hospital pharmacy's drugs would need to be used, and most would be wasted.
For example, painkillers that could originally provide a thousand people a month's supply would ultimately only extract enough to manufacture panacea for a hundred people, with the vast majority of substances becoming waste residue.
Incidentally, under normal circumstances, hospitals and pharmacies were separate. But this was a general hospital with inpatient facilities that needed to provide medication to admitted patients, so it had a pharmacy.
As for the pharmacy, they had already checked it earlier, and it hadn't been transferred away. Because there were also living dead in the pharmacy, somehow locked inside.
So the hospital survivors, in their rush to escape, naturally wouldn't spend time breaking in.
"Teacher, what stupid things are you saying? This thing might be a vaccine that can deal with the living dead virus. Do you think it's not worth it compared to wasting one hospital's pharmacy? Besides, who knows when the EMP attack will come. When that happens, most equipment will be broken, making manufacturing even more troublesome. So wasting large amounts of medicine to quickly manufacture success is naturally more beneficial than harmful."
Based on calculations using the pharmacy's drug resources - calculated through that panacea system - if there were no mistakes in the manufacturing process, they could make about a hundred doses, enough for about a hundred people.
However, if there were mistakes, given the fool-proof teaching above, anyone who could still mess up would truly be a pig.
The reason for such wasteful use of medicinal materials was because most people here were high school students who lacked professional medical knowledge and didn't understand professional drug manufacturing. So they could only provide safe operation methods within their capability range without high-precision instruments and sterile environments for synthesis and extraction.
Right, safe operations that also avoided potential toxic gas production from some drug reactions.
So the proposed plan also avoided these issues.
Otherwise, with gas masks or equipment that could safely handle toxic gases, manufacturing could be accelerated and more finished products could be made.
Now, Saya Takagi also had everyone assemble for clear division of labor, to manufacture the panacea at the fastest possible speed.
Like this, after another two hours, the first panacea was completed.
But Saya Takagi's expression wasn't very good, because problems had appeared. It looked like the final manufactured medicine wouldn't exceed thirty doses.
It wasn't because some pig had made operational errors, but because problems existed with the hospital's drugs themselves. Some drugs had discrepancies from their described effects - false advertising where the drug efficacy wasn't as great as advertised, meaning there were quality control issues.
To put it bluntly, these were counterfeit drugs!
Damn it!
Fortunately, this problem could also be addressed through reconfiguration from that panacea system, which meant production dropped from a possible hundred doses to less than thirty.
This meant that while Saya Takagi's genius brain had memorized the formula based on the drugs currently available at this hospital, if she tried to implement this elsewhere without this fool-proof panacea guidance - which also included relevant problem encyclopedias - she probably couldn't configure it.
Now, looking at the first dose, the drug's color and form seemed the same as described, but it was uncertain whether it was truly effective.
Speaking of which, this also looked very subtle - very much like some kind of subtle semi-fluid gel substance, or could be described as white viscous blood.
So they needed to experiment, right?
Who would take it and then let a living dead bite them?
Although they hadn't been told specifically what they were making, everyone wasn't stupid - the manufactured drug might deal with the virus.
So everyone's gaze focused on one person - on Ejie.
Of course, it wasn't to have Ejie inject himself for experimentation, but to see his decision, his choice.
Who would be the lucky one - assuming it was effective, becoming the first person who didn't need to worry about the virus or becoming a living dead monster.
Or possibly the unlucky one - if it failed, becoming a living dead.
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