Chapter 139 - Chestnuts, Brazil Nuts
"Mr. Asker, who is this?" Suddenly, a man wearing a green suit and glasses appeared. "This is a confidential area."
"If you agree that chestnuts are fine as long as you don't eat too much," Gregory replied, while taking out a piece of paper. "If I remember correctly, from the office of the two of you,
The label says that he is your boss, and this is Mr. Furitani’s permission slip.”
"The permission slip issued by Mr. Furutani?" The man with glasses took the permission slip in surprise. "...Okay...don't lead him around, otherwise I don't mind pretending that I didn't see this note."
"Of course." Gregory shrugged.
...
In the ward, the agent who was hanging up water heard the sound of the door opening and immediately turned his head with all his strength.
"The chestnuts you asked for are here," Gregory explained while pointing to the bag. "The bag was torn on the road, so I bought a bag on the roadside to put it in."
"Chestnut..." Although the agent was too weak to make any obvious expression, his mood obviously improved.
However, when Qianyu peeled open a chestnut and fed it to the agent, he was rejected by the agent.
"?" Gregory looked at the agent's affection and was a little surprised. "What's wrong?"
The next moment, both Gregory and Qianyu were stunned.
After all, if a chestnut lover asks "What is this?" to a chestnut, there is obviously something wrong.
"Then you know," Gregory took out an unshelled chestnut from the bag and showed it to the agent. "What is this?"
The agent answered with a blank look in his eyes.
"..." Gregory pondered, but saw the agent's eyes change from blank to lifeless. "Hello? Hello!?"
"Is he unconscious?" Qianyu asked tentatively.
"Yeah, so..." Gregory took a deep breath and led Qianyu out of the ward. "Let's go buy something."
When the two of them went out, they happened to bump into a female doctor in a white coat.
"Mr. Gregory," after the female doctor spoke, Qianyu realized that this was the owner of the female voice who had previously introduced Gregory to the patient's condition. "Have you found out the cause of the disease? If you can overturn the old man's isotope assassination theory, it can be established.
The cause of the disease.”
"Do you really hope that I can overturn that guy's diagnosis?" Gregory raised his eyebrows.
"If the disease you deduced is better treated than the isotope that the old man thinks, I hope you can overturn him." The female doctor said seriously. "How about it, can you do it?"
"Well..." Gregory's expression was a little subtle. "How should I put it... If my guess is correct, then it is indeed better to treat than the old man's diagnosis and symptoms, but the treatment method will not change."
"Ah?" The female doctor and Qian Yu were confused together.
"Then, this kid and I will go together to see if our inference is correct. You first prepare a cordyceps herbal soup for this patient." As Gregory said, he pulled Qianyu and prepared to leave.
"Cordyceps sinensis?" the female doctor was surprised. "What is that?"
"A kind of herbal medicine produced in the Far East that is parasitic on insects," Gregory explained. "If it is fed to patients during treatment, it can effectively reduce the erosion of radioactive poisons (that is, isotopes) on the body... The current results
It’s only been confirmed by monkey experiments, but maybe you can give it a try. At least there won’t be any negative effects, right?”
"Oh..." The corner of the female doctor's mouth twitched. "Monkey..."
"Anyway, it's up to you," Gregory and Qianyu disappeared into the stairwell.
...
Outside the fruit shop designated by the agent.
"Is this the fruit shop he designated?" Gregory looked at the name of the fruit shop in surprise. "Sure enough..."
Before Qianyu could ask what was going on, Gregory took Qianyu and walked in.
"Nethas?" As soon as Gregory walked in, he spoke an unknown language with a strange accent.
"Ah!" The fruit shop owner actually understood Gregory's language. After making a clear voice, he took a bag to a fruit grid in the distance and began to pack things.
"What language is this?" Qianyu said speechlessly. "That agent was assigned to work in Bolivia before. Is it the Spanish spoken in Bolivia?"
"No," Gregory looked at Qian Yu as if he were looking at a rookie who has fallen into a trap. "You have fallen into a thinking trap."
When the fruit shop owner handed over the bag filled with the fruits that Gregory requested to Gregory, Qianyu looked confused - he thought that Gregory had just used a certain language to ask the fruit shop owner.
I bought chestnuts that I didn’t know where to hide, but the dried fruits inside were obviously not chestnuts.
"What is this?" Qianyu asked.
"Brazil nuts," Gregory's face immediately darkened, and he took out a few dried fruits from the bag. "You go home first, I will go back to deal with this patient before I go back. You can take the remaining dried fruits home to eat.
, don’t eat too many pills a day.”
...
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Department, an office.
The female doctor is sitting in the office filling out documents, while the man in green clothes and glasses is waiting for the female doctor to complete the documents she needs.
At this moment, the door was violently pushed open, and Gregory barged in with an obviously unhappy expression.
"Asco, you are finally back." The female doctor was about to greet her, but was immediately questioned by Gregory.
"Idiot!" Gregory cursed directly.
"Who are you talking about?" the female doctor asked in surprise.
"Anyone who knows that the agent is actually in Brazil and not Bolivia!" Gregory snapped.
"Brazil?" the female doctor repeated, then turned her gaze to the man in green clothes and glasses. "Mr. Fengmi, is what he said true?"
"It seems that you are the fool who knew this but didn't tell us?" Gregory asked.
"What's the difference between Brazil and Bolivia?" Feng Jian asked. "Same region, same parasites, same diseases..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Gregory, who had an expression that said "I hate iron but cannot become steel." "But it's not the same language!"
"?" Feng Jian's expression turned to confusion.
"In Bolivia, chestnuts are chestnuts!" Grigori exasperated. "But in Brazil, chestnuts represent as nethas do para, which means chestnuts from the Para tree, because no Brazilian is stupid enough to call them Brazil-nuts.
!” (Nuts, English nuts, also means idiot. The purpose of Gregory stressing the word here is to use this word to scold Feng Jian)
After saying that, Gregory shook the Brazil nuts in his pocket in front of Fengmi and threw them hard on the sofa where Fengmi was sitting.
"Okay, so what?" Feng Jian asked. "So what?"
"Brazil nuts are one of the foods richest in selenium in the world. Excessive intake of selenium can cause fatigue, vomiting, dermatitis, and nail loss. Does it sound familiar?"
"..." Feng Jian's momentum immediately disappeared and he lowered his head without saying a word.
"So, how to treat it?" the female doctor asked.
"There is no need to do anything else," Gregory was no longer aggressive and just said calmly. "Although the chelating dithiopropanol currently being used is used to remove isotopes, it is used to treat selenium caused by nuts.
Poisoning works better.”
Chapter completed!