Chapter 517: Coming Back to Life (Part One)
At least 60% of the medical institutions worldwide were watching this live broadcast.
To be able to confidently and successfully invite Hawking, it meant the Mandala Lab must have made some solid breakthroughs.
There was also more than half of the cancer patient population watching this live stream, for hope.
When the host finally stopped talking, a staff member arranged by Lin Dong got up onto the stage, indicating that the test had begun!
The audience all held their breath and looked at the stage.
Hawking’s eyeballs were moving around, showing that he was quite nervous. The staff had his assistants bring over a table for Hawking to lay on as they fixed his arms and legs in place.
His guardian didn’t have the heart to look and only walked to the backstage and silently waited.
The staff took out the anesthetic needle and displayed it to the audience as he said, “We will anesthetize the patient first.”
Then, he injected Hawking with anesthesia. Slowly, Hawking lost his consciousness as he closed his eyes.
Immediately after, the staff took out a dose of the medicine from the glass box. To be honest, he was also very nervous. He was just a nurse. He did know how to do proper injections and the compensation offered by the Mandala Lab for this event was high, so he took it without hesitation.
But at the thought of the preciousness of this medicine and also the patient, he became very nervous.
He injected all of the serum inside the syringe into Hawking’s body without leaving a drop left.
Then, in front of the whole world, they waited for a full half-hour.
During the half-hour, the host wasn’t just idling either; he was filling the time with lessons on what kind of serious illness Dr. Hawking had, and explained the severity and seriousness of the illness to the world.
Just half an hour later, Hawking’s body that was fixed on the bed suddenly began moving violently!
Everyone watching was shocked, including the host himself, thinking that the drug had caused some severe side effects inside the body, making it struggle and fight back.
“Look! This drug triggered some side effects! This is simply a scam!”
“Yeah, Dr. Hawking must be under a ton of pain right now!”
“Hurry up and end the test! Call the real doctors! Do you guys want him to die on the experimental table?!”
There were people under the stage that directly stood out to refute and condemn the staff.
But at this time, there were medical personnel at the scene that began to spoke, “Don’t be nervous, everyone, you must all know that due to ALS, Dr. Hawking’s body was at the stage where he could hardly move any part of his body. But now, are you guys seeing this? His body is beginning to react!”
As this person mentioned this, the other people immediately realized it too and were shocked.
That was right, Dr. Hawking had long been paralyzed and could not move any part of his body other than his three fingers and his eyeballs. But at least right now, not to mention whether the drug was taking effect, the scientists at the scene that were familiar with Dr. Hawking’s physical conditions knew that at least for Hawking, this kind of violent resistance-like movement was a good sign from the perspective of Hawking’s condition!
Those guys that directly stood up and spoke out against the experiment immediately felt awkward and embarrassed to be faceslapped this quick
Chapter 517: Coming Back to Life (Part Two)
“Those guys are probably from other medical institutions.” Xu Cheng smiled and expressed his disdain.
Those guys were indeed medical scientists and influential scholars. Of course they were in disbelief and denial that an unknown lab of such a tiny scale was able to develop something that could win the war against cancer.
They couldn’t wait to destroy the Mandala Lab. If this small lab actually succeeded, how embarrassing would it be for them to have tried for all those years and made comparably insignificant progress?
“Everyone, please be patient and wait, the treatment is not over.” The staff that did the injection pointed at the electrocardiogram and said to the audiences, “This can prove that at least Dr. Hawking isn’t dead yet. Maybe it is the drug beginning to play an effect on his body. For every drug out there, it would need time to be absorbed by the body. This medicine is already being absorbed and exerting an effect after just thirty minutes. Just as the scientist pointed out earlier, Dr. Hawking’s body is now at least able to regain the reception of pain. His body is at least able to experience pain and be able to resist. This is the sign of benign progression in terms of Dr. Hawking’s condition, isn’t it?”
The audiences all fell silent as they quietly watched the operating table/bed, afraid to miss a frame.
But soon as the staff finished his explanation, the electrocardiogram stopped.
The whole crowd remained dead silent briefly after that, even the sound of a needle falling onto the ground could be heard right now.
And at the next moment, the audiences went into an uproar. The guys from the other big hospitals and medical institutions immediately went off!
“Dead! Unscrupulous lab! You guys killed the great Dr. Hawking! His heartbeat stopped! Did you see that? Fack! I’m furious! How dare you guys conduct such an unsafe experiment on the greatest physicist of the generation! And to broadcast his death to the world? You guys are just willing to give up and do anything for attention and views!”
“Yeah! What kind of medical ethics could a small lab like this have? This is ridiculous! Did you see this now? Dr. Hawking’s dead!”
“Our medical institution had been working on a cure for cancer for decades, and even we are still incapable against cancer! Such a small lab could actually accomplish something? So ridiculous! It’s such a pity that our great Dr. Hawking had to end up paying the price! He’s a genius, and you guys killed the genius that contributed so much for physics!”
At this time, both behind the stage and off the stage, chaos broke out!
The media immediately began capturing the chaotic atmosphere. Oh, how they hoped for the chaos to be even bigger, because that would only mean more views and more engagement for their news broadcast!
Some reporters even fought to try and get up onto the stage to try and photograph Dr. Hawking’s body. What if that was the last photo of him that would ever be allowed to be taken? These things were all money in their eyes!
The guardian from backstage immediately ran out. Seeing that Hawking’s electrocardiogram had stopped, he immediately began roaring, “You facking scammers! Con artists! Motherfackers! I’m going to sue you all to death! The British Government won’t let the Mandala Lab off the hook!”
Fortunately, the organizer arranged for the police to come here and maintain order, so at least there was some order and no fights broke out.
Just then, the staff member, who had already received Lin Dong’s heads-up and instruction ahead of time, raised his head and said, “Everyone! Please be patient! The treatment is still not over!”
“The guy’s already dead, and it’s still not over? Are you guys going to abuse the dead body too? Don’t go too far! He’s a great prodigy!”
People were getting even more furious, especially those from Britain. After all, Hawking was from their country.
Just then, the staff brought out a bucket of water and directly dumped it onto Hawking’s body.
The audience both at the scene and behind screens were all shocked.
But what shocked them to their core was what happened right after!
As if summoning the soul back into the body, Hawking suddenly got up and sat upright, gasping for air. It felt as if he had been put underwater and wasn’t allowed to breathe for a long time. Suddenly, when he was allowed to climb out of the water, he exhausted all of his energy to do so, as if coming back to life!
The whole world watched the Hawking on stage gasping for air, and looking at his chest heaving up and down and the guy sitting upright, everyone’s eyes and jaws almost dropped onto the ground!