279: Chapter 279 All Green Lights!

There was an irrepressible tremor in Zhou Kai's voice.

Hearing this, Lin Yuan turned around, his gaze falling quietly upon Zhou Kai's flushed and excited face.

He did not rush to speak, but instead raised an eyebrow slightly, a sense of calm control flashing in his eyes as he waited quietly for what the other had to say.

"Furthermore, Academician Lin!"

Zhou Kai swallowed hard, desperately suppressing the drum-like pounding of his heart.

"We have strictly followed the exclusive testing protocol included in the technical documentation you provided to conduct a comprehensive, 360-degree verification of these two finished products!"

"Molecular activity concentration, targeted fusion stability, herbal extract purity..."

As he spoke, Zhou Kai quickly pulled the test report, still warm from the printer, out of his lab coat pocket and handed it to Lin Yuan.

"Every single indicator is basically consistent with the theoretical values described in the documentation!"

"The margin of error... is within 0.3 per thousand!"

Hearing this, Lin Yuan nodded, reached out to take the test report, and scanned the dense data on it.

A few seconds later, he closed the report, the corners of his lips lifting slowly as a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"Not bad."

"The progress made by you seniors over these past few days has far exceeded my expectations."

"Thank you all for your hard work."

Hearing Lin Yuan's praise, Zhou Kai's old face turned slightly red, and he waved his hands repeatedly.

"Academician Lin, you are too kind; you embarrass us with such words."

He rubbed his hands together, his tone filled with deep admiration and awe.

"As for hard work, it's really not worth mentioning."

"It's just that the set of data you provided was truly too perfect, so perfect that..."

"If you don't mind me saying so, I, Zhou Kai, have led many key national biological projects in my life, but I have never experienced such a 'smooth' project!"

"No technical bottlenecks! No repeated trial and error! And certainly no headache-inducing debates over direction!"

"What to do at every step, which reagents to use, what temperatures to control, and the level of precision required..."

"Everything is written clearly in the documentation; it even marked out perfect avoidance plans for places where we might have made mistakes!"

Zhou Kai looked at the young man in front of him with a complex tone.

"To be honest, rather than saying we are conducting scientific research breakthroughs..."

"It would be more accurate to say that we are just a group of dull students holding the perfect answer key, frantically copying homework in an exam room!"

"As long as you aren't stupid, you could get a perfect score on this exam even with your eyes closed!"

Hearing this analogy, Lin Yuan couldn't help but chuckle.

He shook his head and said in an unhurried tone.

"Dean Zhou is being too modest."

"Data is static, but people are dynamic."

"I am well aware of what I provided; while that set of data is complete, the preparation procedures involved add up to hundreds of steps."

"The temperature control nodes for herbal extraction, the active window for reverse transcription vectors, the nano-level precision perfusion..."

"If there is even the slightest deviation in any of these links, the result would be a failure."

Lin Yuan looked at Zhou Kai with genuine appreciation in his eyes, providing plenty of emotional validation:

"To be able to run through these hundreds of procedures without a single error in just a few short days, and to create finished products that perfectly meet the standards..."

"That is not something just any team can do."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Kai's previously tense shoulders relaxed slightly, and a simple smile of being recognized appeared on his face, as if all the fatigue of the past few days had been swept away.

After a brief exchange, Lin Yuan did not dwell on this topic any longer.

He switched to the next topic very decisively.

"Now that the preparation of the finished product has been cleared, I wonder..."

"What is the current status of the mass production process?"

"Have you encountered any bottlenecks?"

Zhou Kai perked up at these words, immediately straightened his back, and reported with confidence.

"Rest assured, Academician Lin! While we have been pushing forward with manual preparation these past few days, the automated production line has also been undergoing debugging day and night."

"The core extraction reactor has completed three rounds of extreme no-load testing, and the sterile standards for the filling process have also passed the highest level of acceptance."

"Currently, only the final parameter fine-tuning for a few robotic arm nodes remains."

Zhou Kai paused, then gave a definitive conclusion.

"Now that the finished product is out, with the physical object for reference, the underlying logic has been completely validated, and there is no need for any rework."

"In three to five days at most, the prototype of the automated preparation line will be fully formed, allowing for direct scale-up to mass production."

After listening, Lin Yuan nodded gently, a smile flashing in his eyes.

"Good."

He crossed his arms and leaned slightly against the edge of the operating table behind him, his posture relaxed.

After a two-second silence, he spoke.

"Since the preparation of the finished product is complete and the mass production channel is about to be opened."

"Then—"

Lin Yuan raised his eyes, his gaze clear and determined.

"The next step is clinical trials."

"Yes!"

Hearing this, Zhou Kai nodded repeatedly, his eyes full of anticipation, but also reflecting the rigorous instinct of a conventional researcher.

"Although the indicators of the finished product perfectly match the theoretical values, whether the drug can ultimately achieve the expected effect on the human body still requires clinical data to verify!"

"I will go ahead and push forward with the animal experiments, and rush to prepare the pre-application materials for Phase I clinical trials, striving to..."

However, before Zhou Kai could finish speaking, Lin Yuan smiled and raised his hand, pressing it down slightly, directly interrupting him.

"You can skip all that red tape regarding application materials."

"Don't worry about the approval process; I have already communicated with the authorities over the past few days."

"These two drugs, as well as other subsequent drugs, will all go through a special channel with simplified procedures, getting the green light all the way."

Hearing this, the words that Zhou Kai was about to blurt out were stuck in his throat.

Lin Yuan ignored Zhou Kai's shock and, looking at him, continued.

"Time is tight; we want to deliver this surprise to the people across the country before the New Year."

"Therefore, over the next few days, I need Dean Zhou to lead the team in using this batch of finished products to rapidly push through the animal experiment process with maximum efficiency; this is necessary."

"However, there is no need to spend months observing long-term toxicology like in standard procedures; we only need to confirm that there are no acute rejection reactions or hidden metabolic conflicts in the short term."

Lin Yuan stood up straight, his hands hanging naturally at his sides, his eyes filled with confidence and control.

"And then, once the animal experiments pass."

"Before the New Year, we will directly launch Phase I human clinical trials!"