I’m The Only One With Genius DNA 42

I’m The Only One With Genius DNA chapter 42

Player of Life (4)

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Kim Joo-chul is a young politician who won re-election. He was building his skills by building up his support base.

Desperate for fame, he did anything to make a name for himself.

And because I was in Daejeon just in time, I was able to come to see Ryu Young-joon first.

It would have been quite helpful to make a name known if one could hang one’s face on the provocative event of a superstar attack.

Kim Ju-cheol visited Ryu Young-joon’s hospital room for that purpose.

Since it was late at night, I was thinking about the extent of taking pictures together and promoting them on social media rather than taking a reporter to make a fuss.

“Hello.”

Kim Ju-cheol entered Ryu’s hospital room with a smile.

“Hello.”

Ryu Young-joon replied dryly.

I was talking to Rosaline in my head. It was not a daily conversation, so I wasted a point on fitness.

What do you think?’

You have stomach cancer. It’s the 1st generation.

What if I control myself?

– We need to go to total resection.

I thought a man of that age would carry a small bottle, but it’s a big bottle from the start.

Does Kim Joo-chul know that he has stomach cancer?

“Dr. Ryu, how are you feeling?”

asked Kim Joo-chul.

“That’s all right.”

“What’s the big deal for those who work day and night for the development of science in our country. It breaks my heart.”

Kim Joo-chul came and sat next to Ryu Young-joon with a sad look on his face.

“It’s okay. I had a thorough examination and it wasn’t that serious. I’m going to have an endoscopy tomorrow.”

Ryu Young-joon said. It was a bait thrown at Kim Joo-chul.

Politicians use any material to build rapport.

“Oh, I see. I also had an endoscopy recently.”

said Kim Joo-chul.

“What kind of endoscope?”

“I had a gastroscope.”

Bingo

An endoscopy would have found a serious stomach ulcer.

“Is there any problem?”

asked Ryu Young-joon.

“Ha ha. I asked her to get a thorough examination and she was diagnosed with stage 1 stomach cancer. But since it’s the first stage, can’t you fix it with endoscopy?”

Kim Joo-chul said with a smile.

“It’s not been long since I was re-elected, and I’m very busy right now, so I can’t get surgery right away, but I’m going to come back and treat it soon.”

“Endoscopy?”

asked Ryu Young-joon.

“Yes.”

“Did the doctor say that?”

“No, but it’s the 1st generation.

“So you didn’t ask your doctor how much you need to resect your stomach?”

“Yes·····.”

When Ryu Young-joon asked one after another, some anxiety spread over Kim Joo-chul’s expression.

“I think you’d better ask. The first stage isn’t all that can be solved by endoscopy.”

“Really?”

“There are times when you have to do a complete resection. Usually, people think that the higher the cancer progression, the more gastric resection they will have, but in fact, how much gastric resection they have depends on where the cancer occurs.”

Kim Joo-chul’s expression is a little stiff.

“Sir, where did the hospital say the cancer occurred?”

“Up, up, up ····.”

“I didn’t see the examination table, so I can’t judge it exactly, but I usually do a total resection if the tumor is positioned up in three parts. It’s an operation that takes out the whole stomach and connects the esophagus and the small intestine.”

Kim Joo-chul’s expression froze coldly.

It’s news like a bolt out of the blue. We have to get all the stomachs out?

“What do you mean, “····· We’re in the first unit, and we have to get the whole thing out? It’s the 1st generation. Why?”

“If only the upper part of the stomach with cancer cells is resected, side effects such as severe reflux esophagitis occur. Then normally, you can’t even eat at all. That’s why I have a total stomach resection.”

“Ha, but the doctor didn’t say that.”

“I don’t know what’s going on with you. You might be thinking about it because the location is ambiguous. Doctors and congressmen have busy jobs, so they may have failed to communicate with each other. Anyway, I’m just telling you the general case.”

“······.”

When he received medical treatment, he was late for a meeting of re-elected lawmakers. The first stage of stomach cancer came out only after hearing that the cure rate was close to 100 percent.

I’m busy, so I said I’d listen to the rest later on the phone.

It’s not that I didn’t care at all. I just put off contacting him for a few days. But now that I hear it, it could be much worse than I thought.

“Let’s call the teacher in charge and ask her. How much gastric resection should be done?”

“Please wait a moment.”

Kim Joo-chul, who turned pale, hurriedly took out his cell phone and called his doctor’s cell phone.

It’s already time for doctors to get off work, but Kim Joo-chul was so shocked that he couldn’t even pay attention to it.

“Hello, sir, this is lawmaker Kim Joo-chul. The last time I received medical treatment, yes. That’s right. Yes. Do I have to resect all of my stomachs

asked Kim Joo-chul.

And after a while, his hands and cell phone fell weakly.

The breath in shock became a little rough.

Ryu Young-joon sneaked in while looking at the side view.

“Do you need total control?”

“Yes, yes, yes, yes. He says it would be good ········.”

“I can’t help it. Don’t worry too much. Although the quality of life may be a little low.”

Ryu Young-joon said.

“Once you’ve removed your stomach, you’ll have to chew your food at least 30 times and eat it slowly for at least 20 minutes. Your stomach can’t digest it, but you have to chew a lot in your mouth. And because of the lack of food storage capacity, you have to eat more than five or six times a day in a relatively small amount.”

“······.”

“If you’re not careful, you can have symptoms such as abdominal bloating, cramps, vomiting and diarrhea as undigested high levels of food pour down your intestines, and if you’re unlucky, you can have dizziness or coma. So you have to be careful about your diet.”

“······.”

“And you have to lie on your back for about half an hour after eating. We need to slow down the food passing. You can’t get up and move right away. There are some types of food that need to be restricted, including dairy products, but the hospital will let you know. You have to take good care of yourself.”

Kim Joo-chul hurriedly turned his head toward him.

“Come on, sir. Is there any way?”

“How?”

“He cured glaucoma, didn’t he? You said you’d treat Alzheimer’s, too.”

Ryu Young-joon touched his chin as if he was contemplating for a moment. Kim Joo-chul swallowed his saliva.

“Teacher·····?”

“The surface of the cancer cell is attached with a biomaterial called CD44. They are in normal cells, but they are particularly present in cancer cells. If there’s one in a normal cell, there’s about a hundred on the surface of a cancer cell. So a lot of scientists were trying to target it and develop anti-cancer drugs. Then the anti-cancer drug will destroy only the cancer cells with 100x efficiency.”

Ryu Young-joon said.

“But as scientists developed it, very few cells in the stem cell line of the body had as many CD44s as cancer cells. There were about 80 if not 100. So the anti-cancer drugs killed all the cells, which was pretty lethal. Because of that, the pharmaceutical industry has yet to make an anti-cancer drug that targets CD44. Even though it’s one of the most efficient targets.”

“······.”

“By the way, among cancer cells, gastric cancer cells have a distinctive CD44 mutation.”

“The metamorphosis?”

“It’s a substance called CD44v8. As it originated from CD44, there are many numbers. But it’s a metamorphosis, so it doesn’t exist in other cells.”

“Sure ·····.”

Kim Joo-chul managed to follow Ryu Young-joon’s explanation.

“So I just have to make a pill out of it?”

“That’s right, so you won’t have to control your stomach cancer at all. You can also treat it by applying the medicine to the tumor. It’s highly toxic to cancer cells.”

Ryu Young-joon said.

“But the development process is very tricky. It’s hard to make antibodies unique to CD44v8. That’s why the scientific community hasn’t constrained it yet. I had a few ideas. I think the success rate is quite high. Unfortunately, development has not even started. As you can see.”

Ryu Young-joon lifted his arm with a ring gel injection.

“It’s like this.”

For a moment, Kim Joo-chul’s eyes sparkled.

Ryu Young-joon smiled bitterly. He said in a joking voice.

“I should have been born earlier. I’m sorry.”

“No ·····.”

“But I also have stem cell technology. Gentleman, it is okay to have a complete stomach resection. Hang in there and I can make you a stomach.”

Ryu Young-joon said.

“If I could stay alive until then. I think someone is after my life.”

“······.”

Kim Joo-chul bit his teeth.

“Dr. Ryu, who have you done what you wanted to do?”

“The right way to live, I have enemies.”

“Please let me know if you have any guesses.”

“I can guess, but I can literally guess. I want to deal with it empirically and legally based on evidence. I’m afraid he’s going to lose more than his share of the damage if he gives his name to the senator.”

“If you’ve touched someone like Dr. Ryu, you’re a powerful person. Wouldn’t you try to cover it up if I let you?”

said Kim Joo-chul.

“I’ll do as the law says, as Dr. Ryu wants. I’m going to investigate it thoroughly and reveal it.”

***

In just a few days, there were dozens of people who met Ryu Young-joon.

And the political world was slowly beginning to show a hideous atmosphere.

The people’s demand for “strict investigation” is an old-fashioned stimulus to long-standing political worms.

However, what Ryu Young-joon gave was a much more powerful motivation.

Everyone who met Ryu Young-joon once was caught up in a blazing rage.

In the meantime, Ryu Young-joon met more intimate and welcoming people.

As soon as she heard the news, she skipped all afternoon classes and got on the train.

He was playful and always cheerful, but he must have been very shocked by stories like attempted murder.

She lay face down on Ryu Young-joon’s bed and cried her eyes out.

“Unlike you, I suddenly felt like I was doing well these days!”

She said, sobbing away the tears.

“Just don’t do research. What’s wrong with that? You’ve become famous, and you’ve twisted weirdos, right?”

“I can’t say it’s because I’ve become famous, but I’ve got more enemies.”

“More enemies? My brother?

“Yes.”

“······. Yeah, he’s a bit of a dirty person. Now take your bodyguard with you when you go somewhere. I looked it up, and Einstein took his bodyguard with him.”

“He’s a German Jew, and he was Nazi in Europe during Hitler’s reign. It was a life without tomorrow.”

“You’re a tough guy, too.

“And after that Einstein defected to the United States, he got rid of his guard.”

“Anyway.”

“Never mind. Einstein is racist and his private life is pretty rubbish. Don’t compare with me.”

“But what about mom and dad?”

“He came the day I was hospitalized, and he’s stuck here almost every day. He’s out to eat now. You can take him out for a cup of coffee later.”

“Youngjun!”

Park Joo-hyuk appeared as the door of the hospital room suddenly opened.

Lawyer Lee Hye-won followed.

“Hey, you crazy man, what are you doing here? What happened?”

Park Joo-hyuk made a fuss and came up to see Ryu Ji-won and said hello.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen Jiwon. How’s school going?”

“Yes. Hehe.”

“You’ve done a great job. You must be busy studying, but your brother, he came all the way here because of this idiot. Whew.”

Park Joo-hyuk stared at Ryu Young-joon for a few seconds.

He said so.

“What are you Kim Jong Nam? I thought I was going to be famous, but I can’t control myself. What kind of power struggle is not a chaebol III, but assassination is a real kaeoba, man.”

Park Joo-hyuk said.

“I never imagined that I would be so reckless. That’s why I was attacked. But why did you bring the patent attorney?”

“You’re a great customer and a breadwinner, and if you’re cut off, who’s going to feed her?”

Lee Hye-won smiled a little embarrassed at Park Joo-hyuk’s words.

“But I’m glad you’re okay.”

“I’ll give you a lot of work when you’re out of the hospital, so take a lot of rest now.”

“Ugh·····.”

Lee Hye-won’s face turned dark.

Park Joo-hyuk stepped in.

“Hey. Ryu Youngjun. I did some research on a private security company. If you search on Naver, you’ll find about 100 of them, half of them are ghost companies, and half of them are terrible. I’m not a trained bodyguard, but I use a lot of part-timers. I’ve been carefully selecting you because I’m afraid you’re going to be stabbed in an alley or something.”

“Where are you?”

“K-Cops.”

“······. Robotics?

“That’s a joke that Jiwon doesn’t understand. It smells like an old man, so be careful.”

In fact, Ryu Ji-won looked puzzled.

Oh, my God.

“Anyway, K-Cops is a reliable place, so please give them private security. Or apply for protection from the government.”

“Okay, thank you.”

“Take care of yourself. Phew. My brother has a lot of worries because of you.”

Park Joo-hyuk said, kicking his tongue.

I’m The Only One With Genius DNA chapter 42

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