Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Chapter 437 Lan Youde's Death

The day Yun Jianyue visited Lan Youde was also the day Lan Youde was scheduled to have surgery.

Before the surgery, Yun Jianyue meticulously acted as Lan Youde's psychological mentor, helping him alleviate his pre-operative anxiety. "Youde, don't be afraid, I'm here, this surgery will definitely be successful."

"Okay." Lan Youde squinted and leaned back on the sofa, nodding somewhat reluctantly.

"Youde, I have a way to reduce your anxiety, which will also help you with the surgery. Would you like to try it?"

"What method is it?" Lan Youde's eyes widened slightly.

"Come here, look at this watch." Yun Jianyue took out a watch, held it up in front of Lan Youde, and began to slowly shake it.

A moment later, Lan Youde's already cloudy eyes looked even more lifeless. Yun Jianyue took out a share transfer agreement and stuffed it into his hand. "Youde, I know what you worry about most is the empire you built. But you're not in good health now and don't have the energy to manage it anymore. Seeing you like this really makes me sad. I happen to have some free time recently, so why don't I take over managing it for you?"

“These are equity holding agreements and irrevocable property management authorization letters. I have had my lawyer design them to take effect under certain conditions—once your health improves, all rights will automatically revert to you. During this period, I will only hold the shares and make decisions on your behalf, without any transfer of ownership.”

Afterwards, Yun Jianyue said a lot more, but Lan Youde couldn't understand it or concentrate. His head was buzzing and he felt a bit of pain; he didn't want to think. Only those few keywords—debt isolation, tax optimization, and nominee shareholding as a safety net—he understood clearly; those were words that protected his family business.

At Yun Jianyue's urging, he personally signed those agreements.

After the agreement was signed, Yun Jianyue immediately had Lu Jingqian put it away and arranged for a reliable person to send it home as soon as possible. He, on the other hand, happily put Lan Youde in a wheelchair and took him to have surgery.

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In the sterile operating room, the donor heart had been trimmed, and the extracorporeal circulation machine was running smoothly, with blood oxygen, blood pressure, and heart rate all within safe ranges. The surgeon glanced at the data on the instruments and gave the order in a deep voice: "Initiate immune induction. Xiao Wang, inject the anti-rejection inhibitor."

"Okay." The assistant physician quickly injected a dose of potent immunosuppressant into Lan Youde's central vein.

Unexpectedly, less than a minute after the injection, an accident occurred. Lan Youde's skin developed mottled changes, his body temperature soared, his calm face slowly became distorted, and he continued to convulse uncontrollably under general anesthesia, his chest and abdomen heaving violently.

The alarms from various instruments, including the monitor and the extracorporeal circulation machine, started blaring incessantly.

"Drip-"

"Drip drip drip!"

"Heart rate 178 beats/min, supraventricular tachycardia! Frequent premature ventricular contractions!"

"EtCO? A sharp drop, causing an increase in airway pressure!"

"Abnormal coagulation function, unexplained prolongation of ACT!"

"SpO2 continues to decline, from 90 to 85 to 81!"

"Zero vascular resistance indicates early-stage DIC, which means the virus has spread throughout the body!"

……

The doctors standing by the equipment reported what they had seen in a flurry of voices.

The faces of the doctors turned deathly pale instantly. The surgeon, trying his best to remain calm, instructed those around him, "Initiate the intensive care unit resuscitation protocol!"

"Sodium bicarbonate corrects acidity, and calcium chloride corrects calcium influx disorders!"

"Accelerate plasma exchange and prepare for artificial liver support!"

……

This is the brilliance of the virus Yun Jianyue injected into Lan Youde. It is a highly mutated, latent virus that usually lies dormant in the liver tissue without causing major problems. It can be detected, but people will only think it is a common, proven virus.

However, once the body uses immunosuppressants or anti-rejection drugs, it is immediately activated and spreads throughout the body via the bloodstream, not only causing fulminant hepatic necrosis but also directly attacking cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells, and even leading to the dissolution of multiple organs throughout the body. Conventional antiviral drugs, immunoglobulins, and plasma exchange are completely ineffective against it.

He will surely die if he injects the special inhibitor he invented into his body; otherwise, he will die a painful and gruesome death.

Seeing a group of people busy trying to save her, their voices filled with despair, Yun Jianyue, who had been watching from the sidelines, stepped in with her tools. "Let me do it. You're treating the symptoms, but you can't stop the source."

Before Lan Youde entered the operating room, he specifically instructed the doctors that if anything went wrong, they must listen to Yun Jianyue and absolutely not offend him. Therefore, the chief surgeon immediately gave him his place.

Yun Jianyue stepped forward and connected the positioning probe of the nano-targeting navigation device he had brought to Lan Youde's central vein. The device's screen instantly lit up with a complex three-dimensional image of the liver segment. Then, he injected a silver-blue reagent into Lan Youde's body.

As he performed the procedure, he explained, "By using nanocarrier drugs, we can target and bind to hepatocyte membrane receptors, locking all actively replicating viral particles within the endoplasmic reticulum of hepatocytes, thus severing the entire chain of entry into the bloodstream, replication, and release. Combined with continuous plasma filtration and adsorption, we can remove free viral antigens and inflammatory factors from the circulation, ensuring the patient's safety as the virus can be completely contained."

After the procedure, Lan Youde's heart rate dropped, his blood pressure rose, his blood oxygen levels returned, his mottled spots gradually faded, and his vital signs gradually returned to normal. All the top doctors present were stunned and incredulous upon seeing the data displayed on the instruments and the changes in Lan Youde himself.

The organ transplant surgery ultimately failed. The doctors feared that Lan Youde's repeated ordeal would cause him to die, so they dared not continue. However, they were also unwilling to watch over Lan Youde, as he was currently infected with an unknown virus and was at high risk of death. If he did die at their hands, they didn't know who would bear the responsibility.

In the eyes of these doctors, although Lan Youde had been saved during the organ transplant surgery that day, his future survival was uncertain. Several of them, intelligent and composed, grasped the key information Yun Jianyue had gleaned: the virus had been contained.

The virus being contained only means it's temporarily locked down, not eradicated. Therefore, there's still a possibility of an outbreak, and how it will ultimately unfold, whether it will be contagious, are all unknown. They love money, but they love life even more.

After discussing it, the doctors decided to persuade Lan Youde's housekeeper to send Lan Youde to a large hospital outside for hospitalization.

And so, Lan Youde was transferred to a large hospital for inpatient treatment.

Three days later, the virus in his body broke free of its shackles and erupted again, causing him to lose consciousness completely amidst excruciating pain and suffocation.