If you don't want treatment, get out! This doctor has a terrible temper.

Chapter 161 The Right Way to Do Team Building

Located in the western suburbs of Changxiang City, this area was once a famous "black gold" production area, but now only a piece of abandoned factory buildings overgrown with weeds remain.

The rusty iron frame, like the skeleton of a dead behemoth, stared blankly at the gray sky.

A stretched Bentley Mulsanne was parked incongruously on a gravel-strewn open space, its gleaming paint reflecting off a Wuling Hongguang parked next to it, its surface thickened from years of hauling cargo.

Wang Minyu sat in the leather back seat of the Bentley, holding a Parker pen in his hand, the nib hovering over the last page of the contract.

"Boss Tu, let me make this clear from the start." He didn't rush to sign, but instead tapped the terms on the contract with the cap of his pen. "After this mine is transferred to me, even if you dig up Ultraman, let alone gold, that's still my private property. Of course, if you dig up some ancient zombie or alien creature, the disposal fee will be calculated separately."

Sitting across from him, Tu Jinshan had no desire to haggle anymore. His legs were swollen like water-filled sausages, his trousers were stretched taut, and even his Italian handmade leather shoes were deformed.

As soon as I close my eyes, that scraping sound from deep underground seems to be doing renovations on the top of my head.

"Sign it! I'll give you this land if you can get rid of that bastard!" Tu Jinshan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and shakily pulled out his personal seal from his pocket. The gold ring made a rapid, crisp sound as it hit the table. "Dr. Wang, is your team... reliable? This is a mine shaft, not a park stroll."

Wang Minyu glanced through the car window at the convoy that was "preparing" outside.

Guan Shan was putting on an oversized work uniform, but because of his large muscles, the zipper got stuck on his chest and he couldn't zip it up. In the end, he simply left it open, revealing the pink T-shirt with SpongeBob SquarePants printed on it underneath.

He was carrying a large entrenching tool, not for mining coal, but for trimming the feet of dinosaurs.

Su Qing, carrying a first-aid kit covered in skull stickers, was sterilizing a multi-functional folding scalpel, her eyes colder than a blade.

The most outrageous one was Pierre. This old Frenchman had a miner's lamp on his head, a black cooking pot big enough to stew a whole sheep on his back, and a string of jingling bottles and jars containing pepper, cumin, and some kind of unknown green liquid hanging from his waist.

"Don't worry, it's not my specialty, but I'm resourceful." Wang Minyu signed his name with a flourish, stuffed the contract into his pocket, and asked, "Zero, how's the equipment setup going?"

The Bluetooth headset he was wearing crackled with static, followed by Zero's slightly disdainful electronic voice: "The control system for this mine elevator is a relic of the last century, practically Windows 98. I've taken over, and while I'm at it, I've reactivated the safety warning module that Boss Tu disabled to save money. Also, Boss, according to the geological scan, the heat source reaction three thousand meters below is very unstable. I suggest Pierre throw away that pot and replace it with a fire extinguisher."

"That was his pillar of support in dire straits; he couldn't throw it away."

Wang Minyu pushed open the car door and got out, and a sense of desolation, like that of a late autumn wilderness, rushed towards him.

"gather."

There was no sound of synchronized footsteps.

Pierre was still complaining about why they couldn't bring red wine down the well, Guan Shan was studying whether the shovel could break the rocks, and Su Qing coldly reminded everyone to hang up their gas masks.

Tu Jinshan was carried over by two bodyguards, like a prisoner about to be executed.

"Dr. Wang... Doctor Wang, can I go down too?" Tu Jinshan looked at the dark well opening, which was the throat leading to hell, and was emitting a chilling aura.

"You are the key." Wang Minyu placed a helmet with a talisman (actually a sticky note with a QR code) on Tu Jinshan's head. "That 'valve' requires a specific biomagnetic field to be sensed and opened. Simply put, your weak kidney energy is the best guide."

"I...can I pay? I'll pay double!"

"No way. These are the laws of physics. If money could solve everything, Newton would have been the richest man in the world long ago." Wang Minyu didn't give him a chance to back out and gave Guan Shan a wink.

Guan Shan understood immediately. Like lifting a turkey, he grabbed Tu Jinshan by the back of the neck with one hand and stuffed him directly into the cage-like elevator that looked like it could fall apart at any moment.

"Clang—"

The rusty iron gate closed.

The winch started to turn, making a teeth-grinding metallic scraping sound.

"Everyone, welcome to the first underground team building activity of Renxin Pharmacy." Wang Minyu turned on the headlamp above his head, the beam of light piercing the thick darkness in the shaft. "The theme of today's activity is: Pipe dredging."

A feeling of weightlessness washes over you.

Tu Jinshan's screams echoed through the narrow shaft, but they seemed insignificant amidst the roar of the rapid descent.

As the depth increased, the surrounding temperature not only did not rise, but instead began to drop sharply.

Large patches of dark green moss began to appear on the well wall, resembling some kind of skin disease.

The air became thick and humid, carrying a mixed smell of old blood and moldy mushrooms.

"Depth 1000 meters," Zero's voice announced in the earpiece. "Increased spore concentration detected in the air. These spores... are very active; they are attempting to connect to the regional network."

Wang Minyu glanced at Tu Jinshan beside him. The coal boss had stopped screaming and was now curled up in a ball, his teeth chattering louder than the winch.

"Cold...so cold..." Tu Jinshan shivered as he grabbed Wang Minyu's sleeve. "Dr. Wang, this is what I was talking about...yin energy! It seeps into the bones!"

Wang Minyu reached out and felt his pulse. It was deep, thin, and barely perceptible, like a candle flickering in the wind.

"This isn't called cold, it's called 'cold-dampness trapping the kidneys.'" Wang Minyu took out a bottle of red powder from Pierre's pouch and poured it into his palm. It was a specially made "fiery ginger" powder. "The moisture underground is too heavy. Your kidney fire was already extinguished, and now you're like a dilapidated house with drafts coming from all sides. Just bear with it."

Before Tu Jinshan could react, Wang Minyu slapped him on the Mingmen acupoint on his lower back.

"Snapped!"

The force of that palm strike was considerable, and Tu Jinshan let out a muffled groan.

But then, a surge of heat, like molten lava, burst forth down his spine, instantly dispelling the bone-chilling cold.

"Holy crap... It's hot! It's cooked!" Tu Jinshan squirmed.

"It won't cook through. This is lamp oil to keep you alive." Wang Minyu withdrew his hand, his palms covered in black cold sweat. "This slap is worth fifty thousand. Put it on the tab."

The elevator jolted and came to a sudden stop.

Arrived.

Before us lay a bottomless mine tunnel. The rock walls on both sides showed no signs of human excavation; instead, they resembled the intestines of some enormous creature, covered in folds and mucus.

"Is this a coal mine?" Su Qing raised his powerful flashlight, and the beam of light fell on a rock not far away, where a cluster of mushrooms shaped like eyeballs grew. When the light shone on them, they all "closed" up.

"It used to be like that." Wang Minyu stepped out of the elevator, the soil beneath his feet as soft as rotten flesh. "But ever since that 'valve' loosened, the ecosystem here has been rewritten. Be careful, every stone here might have been starving for a long time."