Chapter 205: Chapter 43 Taxi Chapter 205: Chapter 43 Taxi How can parents be on the moon?
Lin Xian couldn’t understand anymore.
And he also discovered…
Although Zheng Xiangyue was about to turn 14 years old, her mentality still seemed like that of a seven or eight-year-old child.
Was it because she had been in the hospital for many years, had not gone to school, and had no contact with the outside world?
Anyway, it definitely wasn’t because of intelligence, since Zheng Xiangyue seemed quite smart and quick-witted.
“Xiangyue, it’s time for your check-up!”
Outside the door, a nurse called out, summoning Zheng Xiangyue for an examination.
Zheng Chenghe set Zheng Xiangyue down on the floor, and she waved at the two of them, following the nurse…
“I’m sorry you had to see that,”
After watching his sister leave, Zheng Chenghe smiled apologetically:
“My sister has been lying in the hospital since she was very young…
She’s quite naive, just like a little child.”
“It’s because when she was little, she always asked me where mom and dad went after they died.
I told her that our parents went to the moon.
Whenever you miss mom and dad, just look up at the moon, and they’re also watching you from up there.”
she remembered it and took it seriously.
Even though she’s grown up now, she still believes this lie, imagining that after death she can be interred on the moon…
She would be able to reunite with mom and dad and also watch over me from the moon, watching me every night from the moon…”
The muscular man sighed:
“But I won’t let Xiangyue leave, in this world I only have Xiangyue, my one and only sibling, my one and only family member.
If one person must send the other away…
I really don’t want to see my sister go before me.”
Lin Xian patted his shoulder.
This man showed strength in front of his sister, but now with her absence, he also revealed his vulnerable side.
It seemed that Zheng Xiangyue’s illness was far from as mild as he claimed.
Congenital heart disease is a very frightening illness…
It often has no warning signs or symptoms, and once it strikes, death can occur within minutes, very rapidly.
Therefore, patients with severe heart conditions generally cannot leave the hospital; they must be under constant monitoring.
Just now, Lin Xian also noticed that even though Zheng Xiangyue seemed to move freely, there were leads protruding from the cuffs of her clothes, indicating she probably had a personal monitoring device attached.
If any danger was detected, if an irregular heartbeat was detected, an alarm would be immediately triggered remotely.
Just as Zheng Chenghe had said…
Children with severe congenital heart diseases typically don’t live very long.
Making it past five or six years old is lucky, and surviving into their teens…
can already be considered a miracle.
For Zheng Xiangyue now, every upcoming birthday might possibly be her impending day of remembrance.
“With technology advancing day by day, you should try to be optimistic,”
“Like I just said, perhaps the hibernation pod will be developed soon.
You are well-acquainted with Professor Xu Yun, so you should know what he is researching.
Once we have the hibernation pod, Xiangyue’s illness would be a trivial problem, easily solved in the future.”
“I appreciate your auspicious words,” Zheng Chenghe nodded:
“Sir, how may I address you?”
“My name is Lin Xian, just call me Lin Xian.
You are older than me, so there’s no need to be so formal.”
There are many pitiable people in this world, and Lin Xian isn’t able to help them all.
In this hospital building over twenty stories high, each floor houses dozens of wards, big and small, and each person living in them is similar to Zheng Xiangyue and Xu Yiyi, all racing against life’s ticking clock.
This is the reality of this world.
In the face of the absolute natural laws of birth, aging, sickness, and death, humanity truly is helpless.
The inventions of Professor Xu Yun and Tang Xin seem so remarkable.
Once the hibernation pod is successfully developed, for the first time in history, humanity will be able to challenge fate, use hibernation to voyage through time, and exchange time for potential opportunities.
This, for human civilization, is obviously a great blessing…
So why, why do people like Zhou Duanyun want to kill Professor Xu Yun, Tang Xin, and the others?
What exactly is their purpose?
How could human civilization not advancing for hundreds of years, or even regressing, be of any benefit to them?
These questions, Lin Xian had pondered for a long time, and still did not find the answers.
Perhaps it is just as Huang Que said…
Inside the Genius Club, lies all these answers, and the simplest way to learn the answers…
is to obtain an invitation to the Genius Club.
Thinking of Huang Que.
Lin Xian also thought of the reason why Huang Que specifically led him here today.
If her purpose was to have him encounter Zheng Chenghe and Zheng Xiangyue, what was the hidden significance?
Huang Que is not someone who makes moves without purpose; her actions today must have deep intent.
Perhaps it is a reminder,
or perhaps an indirect way of telling…
that he has not yet found any useful clues, has he “missed” something?
Lin Xian scanned Xu Yiyi’s ward.
Trying to figure out what he hadn’t noticed, any oversights.
He suddenly realized—
This floor of the inpatient department consists solely of single rooms, with each room housing only one patient.
In a place as expensive as Donghai City, the price of a single room is naturally steep.
Listening to Zheng Chenghe and Zheng Xiangyue, it seemed they were not from a wealthy family, and could even be described as a somewhat tragic pair of orphans without parental support…
Logically, they shouldn’t be able to afford such expensive hospital fees!
Moreover, Zheng Xiangyue wasn’t just staying for ten or eight days; she had been there for many years, and the clothes on Zheng Chenghe looked very ordinary, even somewhat worn out, making it hard to imagine they had such financial strength.