Chapter 42 Mission Upgrade
The doctor said, "Each patient's condition is different, and the treatment results will also vary from person to person. It's like an exam; some people get 100 points, while others only get 30."

Lymphoma has many pathological subtypes and is extremely complex, and its clinical manifestations are also very varied.

The diagnostic criteria, treatment methods, and post-treatment outcomes for this disease all vary.

Some patients recover well and live to a similar age to normal people, but the treatment outcomes for some high-risk lymphoma patients may not be so optimistic.

“However…” The doctor did not rush to leave the ward. He reached out and pushed up his glasses, his gaze falling on Mr. Zhang, who was nearly sixty years old and lying on the hospital bed: “I have never seen a case like yours in all my years of practice.”

Everyone in the ward instinctively turned their gaze to the doctor.

The doctor didn't hide anything and directly addressed the condition, saying, "The results of your last chemotherapy session showed that the multiple enlarged lymph nodes next to the bilateral iliac vessels remained unchanged, while other areas in the neck and other places showed significant reduction and improvement. Normally, after these two chemotherapy sessions, radiotherapy would be added, but this time you were completely relieved. It's truly a blessing from heaven."

If a young person is in good health, that's considered lucky; it's not that surprising.
But Old Zhang is almost sixty years old.

The patient didn't understand the medical jargon the doctor used, but he knew what the doctor meant: normally, Old Zhang wouldn't have fully recovered; he was just too lucky.

After the doctor finished his routine rounds and was about to go to another ward, he jokingly said before leaving, "Old Zhang, think about what you've been eating lately. Maybe you've eaten something good that will help your condition."

A doctor's casual joke caused an uproar in the ward.

The patient's family member near the door closed the ward door and pulled Old Zhang's wife, saying, "What did you eat at your house? I'll get some for my dad too."

The patient's husband, who was sitting by the window, also came over.

“I’ll arrange treatment for my wife too, no matter how expensive, as long as she gets better.” The man said, his eyes reddening. “She’s only in her forties, what will she do if she gets this disease?”

Although the doctor said that if the treatment is successful, it won't endanger his life, it also depends on the individual's situation.

Doctors aren't gods; they can't give definitive answers to these things, so their statements are always ambiguous.

In short, this disease is a painful experience for any family.

Old Zhang's wife thought about it carefully, "I didn't eat much. It's just that my protein level was low due to chemotherapy. I made some meat and loach soup to supplement protein, as suggested online, but it didn't help much. It was only the protein injections from the hospital that had an effect."

"Loach soup, my family has eaten it too. I've made it for my dad several times."

"I've made loach soup for my wife quite a few times too."

Another person was a relative who came to visit a patient. Upon hearing this, he immediately said, "Hey, I heard from my hometown that there's a folk remedy: swallow a whole live loach and let it roll around in your stomach a few times, and it can cure any kind of cancer."

The daughter of the patient near the door asked, "Third Uncle, is what you're saying true or false?"

The others: "..."

The man said enthusiastically, "It's true, I heard that some people in my area really eat it this way, so I ate it."

The woman in the hospital bed by the window said bluntly, "Come on, if stuffing a loach in your mouth really worked, would so many people in the world still be going to the hospital for this disease? Loaches would be selling for exorbitant prices."

The relative of the patient near the door was speechless for a moment.

When he was in the countryside, he would always hear this and that, and even if he had never heard of it before, he would just make it up on the spot. He just wanted to join in the lively conversation.

The man then asked Old Zhang's wife, "Sister, think about it again, has Brother Zhang taken any supplements or anything like that?"

"Supplements?" Old Zhang's wife scratched her head. "We only take the medicine prescribed by the doctor. We don't dare to take any medicine that the doctor hasn't prescribed, let alone any supplements."

The man asked urgently, "Or, what kind of fruit? Did you eat a bit too much?"

Old Zhang's wife thought back and shook her head: "No, not at all."

The man rubbed his face, looking utterly defeated.

Perhaps some people in this world are just exceptionally lucky; that's just fate.

At this moment, Old Zhang, who was lying on the hospital bed, said "Hey".

Everyone looked at him again. Old Zhang raised his arm and slowly said, "If you ask what's different from before, it's that about half a month before this chemotherapy session, my daughter bought vegetables online, saying they were homegrown, not greenhouse vegetables, and they were quite cheap. They tasted great, and I really enjoyed them. My wife complained that I didn't eat enough meat and that my protein intake was always low, and she's said that to me several times."

The man asked in confusion, "Vegetables?"

"Yes, I bought the vegetables from that live-streaming platform. They were fresh, delicious, and cheap. Five yuan a pound. I didn't know what kind of vegetables were inside when they arrived; I only found out when I opened it. My daughter said it was like opening a blind box," said Lao Zhang.

When people hear that it's five yuan per pound, they think it's quite cheap.

Anyway, we have to eat vegetables every day, and the man isn't short of money at all.

Since his wife fell ill, he desperately wished he had superpowers to cure her, but reality is reality.

He didn't care whether the vegetables were actually useful or not; at that moment, he felt like he had finally grabbed a piece of driftwood in a boundless ocean.

He quickly asked, "Which account is it?"

Old Zhang thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be called something like 'Farming Rice Dumplings,' or something like that. It's a really strange name."

The man opened Fengqi Live and searched. He found people, but there were no shops at all, and they didn't look like they were.

We've all been undergoing chemotherapy in the same ward for several days now.

Old Zhang's wife had seen how much men doted on their wives, and seeing how anxious he was, she said, "I'll call my daughter and ask her."

The man clasped his hands together and said, "Sister, could you please ask her for me?"

Old Zhang's wife took out her phone and called her daughter to ask her the name of the grocery store.

"Planting rice dumplings, right? Planting rice dumplings, right? Oh, no, it's the 'ancestor's' 'ancestor ...

After hanging up the phone, Old Zhang's wife said, "It's called 'Zhongdi Zong' (种地宗). Old Zhang and I always thought it meant zongzi (粽子), but it turns out it means 'ancestor' (祖宗).

"Thank you." The man searched in the search box and found an account with more than 10,000 followers. The videos it posted before were all free giveaways, and it hadn't posted any new updates in a long time, but there were still 3 vegetable blind boxes left on the yellow bike.

He looked up and asked the patient in the bed near the door, "There are three more portions left, do you want to buy them?"

The relative who came to see the patient spoke up again: "What vegetable can cure diseases? It's even less reliable than the live loach I mentioned. If this vegetable could really cure diseases, it would be selling for exorbitant prices. How could it be only five yuan a pound?"

He returned the sarcastic remark he had just received from the woman to him.

The woman frowned and quickly said, "Third Uncle, please don't say that."

Then, the woman turned her head and smiled, "We won't buy any. We have more vegetables at home than we can eat. Homegrown vegetables are cleaner."

“Okay.” The man added the last three vegetable blind boxes to his shopping cart and bought them with one click, spending only 150 yuan.

He looked at the details page of the vegetable blind box and saw that the seller was even offering free shipping.

Vegetables for five yuan a pound, with free shipping?
Is this boss really not doing charity?
Jian Ning's fishing rod arrived, and she's assembling it at home.

The task progress has been updated in real time.

[Task: Develop a source of wealth using spiritual plants as a foundation. 1000/1000]

[The spiritual plants you have cultivated for your sect are thriving, imbued with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Your skillful use of these plants has solidified your foundation and fostered positive relationships in this world of cultivation, opening up a new avenue for wealth for your sect. This is truly a blessing for the sect, and your future is limitless.]

[Reward: The beginner-level spell "Easy Catch" has been issued.]

[System has identified the sect's harsh environment and successfully triggered an upgrade to the current mission!]

[Task: Develop a source of wealth using spiritual plants as a foundation. 0/5000]

Jian Ning's expression remained indifferent until she saw the latest line: the rewards for completing the mission after this upgrade. Her eyes suddenly lit up.

(End of this chapter)

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