NOVEL NEXT Chapter 229 How Difficult It Is
"Hypertension, hyperglycemia, cardio-cerebrovascular diseases—these three ailments have yet to be conquered to this day. One could only say they can be managed with lifelong medication, but not truly overcome. By choosing these three conditions as topics, it is evident how ambitious the organizers of this Traditional Chinese Medicine gala are."
"They aim to derive some inspiration from this competition, or maybe even have the attendees come up with a prescription, but that's an extremely difficult task."
"Exactly, if it were that simple, it would have been solved long ago. But it remains unresolved even now."
"Yet it's precisely because this competition is challenging, and due to the nature of these three topics, that the champion of this Traditional Chinese Medicine fest will gain far more honor and benefits than any previous winner."
Below, people began discussing among themselves.
Above, after several rounds of the competition, only three contestants remained.
Wang Ye.
Zhong Feng.
Elder Jiang.
Zhong Feng and Elder Jiang were almost always among the top three in every competition, with only Wang Ye emerging as the dark horse.
All three contestants, upon hearing the host's words, did not immediately begin working.
From the grave expressions on their faces, it was clear they were deep in thought.
Clearly.
Elder Zhong and Elder Jiang had likely pondered this issue before, so their expressions revealed they were revisiting previous thoughts.
However, Wang Ye hadn't considered these problems before.
But Wang Yifeng had discussed with him some methods for treating these three conditions.
Basing on what Wang Yifeng had told him before, Wang Ye started to think.
The third segment gave the contestants three hours to work.
During this three-hour period, the participants had to stay on the stage. If they needed to use the restroom, someone would accompany them to prevent any cheating or seeking outside help.
If they grew tired, there were specialized masseuses on stage to offer the best services to the contestants.
Wang Ye thought for a moment.
Then suddenly turned his head and looked behind him.
Below, the audience and the host became curious when they saw Wang Ye look behind.
What was Wang Ye looking at behind him?
Wang Ye asked the dedicated masseuse behind him, "Please give me a head and neck massage. Thank you."
The dedicated masseuse paused, clearly not expecting Wang Ye to request a massage right away.
You see.
Normally, participants would start a massage only after some time spent pondering and working, when they truly felt tired.
And Wang Ye.
Was requesting a massage right from the start?
The spectators below were slightly stunned upon hearing Wang Ye's request.
They didn't react immediately.
What was going on?
The competition had just begun.
Was Wang Ye already letting the masseuse help him?
Could they have heard wrong?
Seeing his dedicated masseuse freeze, thinking the masseuse hadn't heard him, Wang Ye repeated,
"Please give me a head and neck massage. Thank you."
"Oh, oh."
Wang Ye's dedicated masseuse finally snapped out of it and promptly went behind Wang Ye.
Meanwhile, Wang Ye lay in the massage chair, enjoying the massage provided by his dedicated masseuse.
Beneath, the audience, upon seeing Wang Ye begin to enjoy himself right away, grew indignant.
"What's happening? It's just the start, is he really that tired to have the masseuse massage him right from the beginning?"
"Could it be that he has a very skillful master, and the first two rounds were taught by his master, and he just practiced them well, but in reality, he doesn't know much about Traditional Chinese Medicine? Maybe he truly doesn't know what to do in the third round, so he's just going with the flow?"
"Even if he truly doesn't know what to do, he shouldn't be resting right from the start. Elder Zhong and Elder Jiang are still thinking about how to solve the problem, continuing to strive hard, while he's just enjoying himself right from the beginning. That's extremely disrespectful to the competition and to people."
Down below, some folks with shorter tempers were infuriated by Wang Ye's behavior,
Wishing they could rush up there and teach Wang Ye a lesson themselves.
But some were still speaking in favor of Wang Ye:
"Maybe Wang Ye really feels tired, especially since he had just been giving someone else a long massage. It's normal for him to feel worn out."
"Possibly, Wang Ye finds that thinking while getting a massage is the most comfortable way for him, so that's why he does it."
Twenty minutes later.
Elder Zhong and Elder Jiang began picking up the herbs already prepared on the stage, mixing them according to their own guesses.
After the mixtures were prepared, they put them into the herbal property testing device for assessment.
The herbal property testing device was specifically prepared for competitions to avoid the time-consuming approaches of Shennong tasting herbs and using lab rats for experiments.
Contestants could check if the prescriptions they mixed achieved the desired effects using this device.
However, whether these mixtures could really work would still need actual experimentation to figure out.
Of course, actual human trials wouldn't be used in the competition.
That would not only be contemptuous of life,
but if word of such practices spread, it would surely provoke a significant societal backlash.
Seeing Elder Zhong and Elder Jiang start to work, the onlookers' gaze shifted to Wang Ye.
There Wang Ye lay, still enjoying the masseuse's services.
This made the onlookers even more dissatisfied.
"Look at that, how can he possibly defend himself? He knows he's bound to lose, so he's just given up already."
"If he knew he was going to lose, he might as well just surrender. There's no need to be so passive and make a show of it onstage."
"Exactly, seeing his utter disrespect for the contest, the way he doesn't show any respect at all for Elder Zhong and Elder Jiang, just fires me up."