In the following two days, Shen Qiang quietly waited for the virus to finish its final evolution.

Su Xiaonuan became very busy.

She said that, in the end, the head nurse had changed her tune, admitting that her relationship with Director Wang was consensual. Although this spared Director Wang from prison, he was still dismissed by Dean Su.

This outcome left Shen Qiang faintly disappointed.

However, it was probably for the best. After all, with his reputation ruined, mired in scandal, and now dismissed, it would be nearly impossible for him to find another respectable hospital in Provincial City to work as a director again.

His reputation and status were gone; the current Director Wang was no longer worth mentioning.

Beyond that.

Shen Qiang's internship contract had also expired, and he had no further ties with Bikang.

If there was anything at all,

It was the pot of Clivia on the terrace garden.

After all, with nothing to do, one feels unburdened.

He was to report for work at the Medical University Affiliated at the beginning of next month.

Temporarily at a loose end, Shen Qiang couldn't sit still at home. While waiting for the virus to evolve, he visited the antiques market twice.

Besides picking up a couple of underpriced items and making a quick two hundred thousand, he spent more time chatting with Sun Kaiping and Boss Ma.

Both were more cunning than the other.

And neither would admit the other was better.

Sun Kaiping would always mock Boss Ma for being blind, for after decades he still frequently bought fakes.

Boss Ma would retort that Sun Kaiping was a swindler, selling fakes; he ought to be caught and shot.

Beyond that, the only topics they could engage in together were about massages and spas.

Once they began talking about this subject, they were indeed experts.

They knew all the places, all the shops, all the masseuses, the positions, and how good they were—listening to them made a pure-hearted young man like Shen Qiang blush.

But at the same time, even Shen Qiang had to admit, it was quite enjoyable to be friends with these two old guys.

They didn't fuss about morality and were not pretentious.

They could enjoy a meal at a street dumpling stall or dine in a five-star hotel.

They did as they pleased, carefree and content.

Although it felt like they were just fair-weather friends, they were far better than those who professed to stand by you come what may but truly didn't.

Beyond that.

During these two days, Shen Qiang also checked out the auction items that Wan Xinhe Sheng had listed, about the artifacts used by cultivators—they had just created a separate category for them in their mobile app.

There weren't any detailed descriptions of the items.

Usually, it was just a picture with a line stating the year and the object, followed by the starting bid price.

And that was it.

While hanging out with Sun Kaiping and Boss Ma, Shen Qiang inadvertently learned that within the framework of the antiques auction market, Wan Xinhe Sheng wasn't the biggest player.

There was another auction house called Cheng Xinyi, which was somewhat larger and had a better reputation than Wan Xinhe Sheng.

They said they would take Shen Qiang there when he had the time.

This reminded Shen Qiang of the gentleman's agreement with Xu Nan.

Besides, Xu Nan sent news that at other stores' auctions, a bottle of Jade Cream sold for 9.98 million, and a bottle of Blood Ganoderma Bone Healing Ointment went for 31.5 million, setting a new record high.

From Shen Qiang's perspective, the price of the Jade Cream seemed a bit low.

After all, the cultivation of Mo Yunzhi and Blood Ganoderma is the same, and the True Qi and time spent during refinement are almost identical.

But its price is only one-third of that of the Blood Ganoderma Bone Healing Ointment.

The cost-effectiveness of refining this stuff is obviously a bit low.

However, on second thought, damn, a bottle nearly ten million in price, and there are still thirty-one bottles in the Storage Ring—that's three hundred million!

This kind of money, if one were to rely on a salary, they wouldn't even think about it in a lifetime.

But Xu Nan said, to ensure that the Blood Ganoderma Bone Healing Ointment could always fetch a good price at auction, Wanxin Hesheng needed to do a lot of publicity work while also ensuring its scarcity. The remaining eight bottles of Blood Ganoderma Bone Healing Ointment were to be auctioned in eight stores, one every week.

Eight weeks, that's about two months' time.

Shen Qiang had no objections to this.

Because anything, once it becomes abundant, loses its value.

But the trouble lay here; Shen Qiang now had a lot of Blood Ganoderma and Mo Yunzhi. If he sold them in large quantities, it would lead to a price drop. Slowly dealing with them, using starvation marketing, would allow for the smallest quantity to chase the maximal profit.

So this matter, for now, could only be this way.

In addition, in the past two days, with some free time, Shen Qiang cooperated with Lv Shuyao for another live cooking show, which received a good response.

That girl hasn't been idle in England either; she still streams local delicacies.

Her popularity is pretty good.

It's just that she seems a bit homesick and really misses Shen Qiang, so she occasionally sends him some provocative photos.

Xin Xiaoting, on the other hand, has become somewhat of a workaholic, spending all day with her father in neurosurgery.

And Su Xiaonuan is busy working every day.

As for Shen Qiang, he's a bit like a carefree playboy, sleeping until he naturally wakes up, then going to browse the flea market with Boss Ma and Sun Kaiping. After noon, they start eating and drinking, making idle chatter and bantering.

Yet during this process, Shen Qiang's heart was not without concerns.

The beautiful young woman Gao Hui.

Since the day they met on the pedestrian street and he transferred 65,000 to her, Shen Qiang hadn't received a call from her, nor had he gotten any messages from her on WeChat.

Several times, Shen Qiang opened WeChat, wanting to say something to her, but after thinking about it, he decided against it.

Among the people Shen Qiang cared about, Xin Xiaoting was with her father, Lv Shuyao was studying in England, and Su Xiaonuan was nearby. He didn't need to worry about these three, but Gao Hui was a special case, and Shen Qiang even felt a bit clueless about how to face her.

Shen Qiang had considered sending her more money, but giving money wasn't the hard part—Shen Qiang wasn't lacking in that area. However, giving money was definitely not a good thing because people have inertia. Once they can get money without doing anything, they will lose their fighting spirit.

So, after much thought, Shen Qiang entrusted a business investigation center to help him keep an eye on Gao Hui's recent situation.

It didn't cost much, but was very effective.

On the evening of the third day,

after seventy-two hours of evolution, not only had pneumococcus completed its final evolution, but the three types of flu virus, alpha, beta, and gamma, had also evolved.

Shen Qiang excitedly checked and discovered, just as he had anticipated,

in the leaf of the alpha-type influenza virus, the most deadly avian influenza viruses H5N1, H7N9, h9n2 had indeed evolved, and contained all known samples and even several virus samples currently unknown to the public.

This made Shen Qiang ecstatic.

He hadn't yet had the time to closely study these flu virus samples when he suddenly received a call from his stunning female boss.

"There's an urgent mission, coordinates have been sent to you, you must hurry over!"

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