If you don't want treatment, get out! This doctor has a terrible temper.

Chapter 172 Entrapment and Corporate Espionage

Kangmei Pharmaceutical acted even faster than expected.

The next morning, as soon as Renxin Pharmacy opened, a young man carrying a backpack, wearing a baseball cap and black-rimmed glasses walked in.

He looked like a recent college graduate, holding a resume in his hand, but his eyes kept darting around, glancing towards the backyard.

"Hello, are you hiring here?" The young man stood in front of the counter, his voice a little timid. "I'm studying pharmacy and I'm looking for an internship."

Wang Minyu was sitting behind the counter, holding a book titled "Quantum Mechanics and Postpartum Care of Sows" (the cover of which he had covered himself), but he was actually looking at the system panel.

[Target: Liu Neng (pseudonym), real name Liu Jie. Senior investigator in the Commercial Espionage Department of Kangmei Pharmaceutical. Carrying a miniature listening device and a pinhole camera. Mission: To obtain the parameters and purpose of an "unknown large-scale device."]

"Sure." Wang Minyu closed the book, revealing his most amiable smile. "We happen to need someone to do odd jobs. Do you know how to dispense medicine?"

"Yes! I studied traditional Chinese medicine processing at school." Liu Jie nodded quickly, secretly pleased. This boss didn't seem to have much guile; the task looked easy.

"Okay, three-day trial period, no salary, meals provided." Wang Minyu pointed to the kitchen, "Go, help that old Frenchman chop onions. Chop ten pounds before you come out."

Liu Jie was taken aback: "Onions? Those are used to make medicine?"

"That's the ingredient for making 'tear gas.' Stop talking nonsense, are you going or not? If not, turn left at the door."

In order to sneak in, Liu Jie endured it.

He put his backpack in the corner (the camera was facing the backyard entrance), rolled up his sleeves, and went into the kitchen.

Upon entering the kitchen, he was stunned by what he saw.

The old Frenchman (Pierre) was chanting in front of a huge bronze pot. What was boiling in the pot was not medicine, but a soup that shimmered with an eerie purple light.

There were piles of underground tubers that looked like potatoes, and a few purple mushrooms locked in lead boxes.

"New here?" Pierre glanced at him and tossed him a cleaver. "Hurry up. These onions are to mask that peculiar smell."

As Liu Jie chopped onions, tears streamed down his face, while he secretly kept an eye on the pot.

He was certain this was no legitimate pharmacy. It was definitely somewhere refining some new type of drug! Or conducting some kind of biochemical experiment!

He quietly pressed the switch on the voice recorder in his pocket.

Just then, the ground suddenly shook.

"Buzz—"

The MRI machine in the backyard has been turned on.

The strong magnetic field penetrated the wall, and despite the shielding, it still caused the electronic devices in Liu Jie's pocket to emit a faint electrical hum.

"What...what's that sound?" Liu Jie asked, feigning curiosity.

"Oh, that's a large soy milk maker the boss bought," Pierre said without turning his head, making up a story. "It's used to grind soybeans; it's quite noisy."

"What the hell is this soy milk maker!" Liu Jie cursed inwardly.

The vibration frequency and the low-frequency noise clearly indicated some kind of high-power industrial equipment! He had to go to the backyard to check.

The opportunity came quickly.

Pierre went out to fetch dishes, leaving Liu Jie alone in the kitchen. He wiped away his tears and tiptoed toward the small gate to the backyard.

The door wasn't locked.

As soon as I pushed open the door, a blast of cold air hit me.

At the entrance of the air-raid shelter, the huge, completely modified GE 3.0T MRI scanner squatted there like a monster.

The surrounding area was filled with copper wires and aluminum pipes, and several glowing screens were displaying incomprehensible data.

"Found it!" Liu Jie was overjoyed. He took out his phone, just about to take a picture.

Suddenly, the phone screen went black.

Immediately afterwards, he felt the recorder in his pocket start to get hot, and the invisible earpiece in his ear emitted a piercing scream.

"Ah!" Liu Jie covered his ears and squatted on the ground, feeling like his brain was about to boil.

"Oops, sorry." Wang Minyu's voice came from above. He was standing on the second-floor balcony, holding a remote control. "I forgot to tell you, this 'soy milk maker' has electromagnetic shielding. Electronic products are prone to... self-destruction if they get too close."

Liu Jie looked up in alarm and found Wang Minyu smiling at him, with the towering Guan Shan standing beside him.

"You...you guys..." Liu Jie tried to run, but his legs were too weak to stand up.

The strong magnetic field seemed to interfere not only with electronic devices, but also with his nervous system.

"Investigator Liu, now that you're here, don't be in such a hurry to leave." Wang Minyu came down the stairs, holding a silver needle in his hand. "Judging from your complexion, you seem to be overly irritable and restless. Have you been under too much pressure lately working for Zhao Dezhu?"

With his identity exposed, Liu Jie simply stopped pretending.

He gritted his teeth: "Unlawful detention is illegal! I'm calling the police!"

"Why are you calling the police? We're treating your illness." Wang Minyu walked up to him, squatted down, and said, "The battery in the voice recorder in your pocket is leaking. Burns can hurt a lot."

Indeed, Liu Jie felt a burning pain on the outside of his thigh.

He quickly took out the overheated equipment and threw it on the ground.

"I don't want treatment! Let me go!"

"You can leave." Wang Minyu pointed to the machine, "But this machine was interfered with by your electronic devices. Due to the backlash from the magnetic field, you now have about ten times the magnetic charge of an average person. If you go out now, you might get stuck on a metal railing, or... get struck by lightning."

Liu Jie also studied science and engineering, and although it sounds far-fetched, he really felt something was wrong.

His body hair stood on end, and tiny electric sparks flickered on his skin.

"Then... what should we do?"

"It's simple. Go in and lie down for five minutes." Wang Minyu pointed to the MRI examination table. "That's the 'demagnetization chamber.' Lie in there, and I'll give you a full 'body, mind, and spirit purification.' By the way, let's talk about how much money Zhao Dezhu paid you to take this risk."

Faced with the choice between personal safety and professional ethics, Liu Jie decisively chose the former.

He climbed onto the examination bed, trembling.

The machine's roar intensified.

Wang Minyu did not activate any demagnetization mode, but instead activated the "deep fear induction" frequency.

This is a new function he developed by combining underground acoustic wave data and nuclear magnetic resonance principles.

Five minutes later.

When Liu Jie climbed out of bed, his eyes had completely changed.

He looked at Wang Minyu as if he were looking at his only savior.

In those five minutes, he saw countless images of Zhao Dezhu turning into man-eating mushrooms in his mind, and only in this pharmacy was he safe.

"Dean Wang... Dean Wang," Liu Jie cried, sobbing, "I'll tell you everything! Zhao Dezhu sent me to take these photos secretly, and he even told me to poison your water source! The poison was hidden in the lining of my shoe!"

"Poisoning?" Guan Shan was furious upon hearing this and immediately tried to take action.

"Wait." Wang Minyu stopped Guan Shan, his eyes turning cold.

He can understand business competition, but poisoning someone is crossing the line.

He pried a small plastic bag from the sole of Liu Jie's shoe, which contained white powder.

"Zero, analyze the components."

"The main ingredient is a high concentration of aflatoxin extract, mixed with some kind of nerve blocker," Zero's voice was icy. "Just one gram of this stuff can cause liver failure in everyone in the store."

Wang Minyu held the poison packet in his hand, his fingers turning slightly white.

"Very well. Zhao Dezhu, if you want to play dirty, then I'll play big with you."

He turned to look at Liu Jie, who was terrified: "Do you want to live?"

"Yes! Yes!"

"Take this bag back. Tell Zhao Dezhu that the mission is complete. You personally poured the poison into our well." Wang Minyu handed the poison bag back (it had actually been switched with a mixture of flour and laxatives), "Then, put this in his office."

Wang Minyu took a black, button-like object out of his pocket.

That's not a bugging device; it's a miniature transmitter encapsulated in "spore crystal" powder dug from the ground.

"What is this?" Liu Jie asked, trembling.

"This is a gift." Wang Minyu's lips curled into a cruel smile. "Since he likes studying mushrooms so much, I'll give him a forest. This thing can continuously release a kind of 'infrasound' that only he can hear. Believe me, that feeling will be unforgettable for him."

Liu Jie grabbed the things and ran away as fast as he could.

"Boss, are we letting a tiger return to the mountain?" Su Qing asked with some concern.

"He's not a tiger, he's a rat carrying a virus." Wang Minyu clapped his hands as he watched Liu Jie's departing figure. "Moreover, this machine's first practical test was a great success. It can not only kill germs, but also... brainwash."

"What's next?" Guan Shan asked.

"Next?" Wang Minyu turned and walked towards the huge machine. "Next, we need to prepare to welcome the real guests. Zhao Dezhu is just an appetizer. The one underground has probably already smelled our scent and is on its way."

On the screen, the red dot representing the underground mycelial network suddenly flickered violently and then split into seven.

All seven valves showed signs of loosening simultaneously.