Chapter 1 Sanatorium by the Sea

Author: Shenyu Buzhou Mountain

Chapter 1 Sanatorium by the Sea

The wind blew across the sea, passing through the cliffs and neatly manicured lawns, carrying the unique salty smell and moisture of the sea water and hitting the white window lattice.

Lu Yuan shuddered.

He pushed the joystick and the electric wheelchair slid and took him to the window.

The weather outside was perfect, and although it was a bit cold on the beach in early spring, the blue-white waves and crisp lawns were undoubtedly a beautiful picture.

But Lu Yuan could only take a greedy breath, and then closed the window to block out the vibrant sea breeze.

The doctors and nurses in this sanatorium earn high salaries and have high professional standards. The nurses will prevent patients from doing anything that harms their bodies. Patients with weak bodies are naturally prohibited from blowing cold air.

Yes, Lu Yuan, who was only twenty-one years old, was so weak that he could not even breathe in the sea breeze.

Not only was the cold wind blowing, Lu Yuan lost all feeling in his legs during the last New Year and could only rely on an electric wheelchair to move around. He didn't have much strength left in his arms, and his grip strength was only the average level of a primary school student.

The body's functions have declined in all directions, and various health indicators have dropped irreversibly. This is the collapse of the entire body. With the current medical technology of mankind, it cannot be cured, but can only be alleviated.

The name of this disease is "Lu's systemic fall syndrome".

That's right, he, Lu Yuan, has a difficult and complicated disease that he named himself!

A world first!

Wrote his name in the history of medicine!

This is a great achievement! After all, almost all people who have achieved this kind of achievement are no longer alive.

After the initial fear and anxiety, Lu Yuan had already accepted his fate.

Fortunately, it is ironic that Lu Yuan's parents died early, leaving only a large inheritance. Lu Yuan did not have the pain of having a son who wanted to support him but was not able to be loved by him. Instead, he felt that the sooner he died and the sooner he was relieved, the sooner he would be able to survive in this life.

He took his parents' generous inheritance and entered this expensive nursing home. If nothing major happened, Lu Yuan would spend the rest of his life in Ward A-03.

Lu Yuan stayed by the window for a long time. At noon, the nurse brought today's lunch. In this seaside sanatorium, the patients who were recuperated were either rich or expensive. The nutritionists would prepare meals according to the doctor's instructions.

Taking into account both deliciousness and nutrition.

In the afternoon, after the doctor finished checking the room, Lu Yuan was bored and turned on the TV to watch the news.

"The Central Meteorological Observatory reports that today is the traditional solar term in my country's lunar calendar [Jingzhe]. The cold air is still active and the temperature fluctuates greatly in the central and eastern parts. We must continue to take measures to keep warm..."

"According to statistics from relevant departments, the number of earthquakes and other natural disasters that occurred last year increased by nearly 12% compared with the previous year. Experts from the Huaguo University of Geosciences said that this was an active period of crustal movement..."

"Xicheng Evening News reported that the serial rear-end accident that occurred in Baiyushan yesterday evening was caused by drunk driving. The driver responsible..."

"Insert a short message. Seven hours later, at 22 o'clock in the evening, there will be a meteor shower over the northern hemisphere. Xicheng is an excellent viewing spot for this Virgo meteor shower..."

Lu Yuan watched the news, his brows tightened unconsciously.

News broadcasts, which are criticized by most people as "rigid and boring", actually have an information density that far exceeds that of any entertainment program. As long as you have the patience to watch and ponder, you can find a lot of useful information.

Lu Yuan has been living in a nursing home for twenty months. He has a lot of time, and watching the news has become a must for him every day.

He clearly noticed that "accidents" had occurred more and more frequently in the past two years.

Car accidents, landslides, missing fishing boats, extreme weather...

Accidents, big and small, happen almost every day.

Of course, China has a large population. Although there are many accidents, on average, they do not affect normal life. I just sigh with emotion after dinner every day, "These days are not easy."

"Is the earth's ecological environment really going to undergo drastic changes? Similar to the ice age?"

Lu Yuan muttered, drank the medicine that the doctor ordered to take exactly, and continued watching TV.

Time passed little by little, and after the doctor's rounds in the evening, the sun completely set.

Lu Yuan washed briefly, turned off the light, and lay down on the hospital bed.

This sanatorium is built on the seaside. Once it falls at night, it is pitch black outside the window. Except for the lights that are on 24 hours a day in the courtyard, there are only a few stars in the night sky.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the people who came to the nursing home to visit relatives and friends left one by one. Now not only the light, but also the sound almost disappeared, and there was not much human smoke left.

Everything is silent.

Lu Yuan was still lying on the hospital bed in a daze.

The clock hanging on the wall made a ticking sound, and the three hands moved steadily. The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the air was getting colder.

"We can see the meteor shower soon." Lu Yuan glanced at the wall clock, turned sideways, and buried his head in the soft pillow.

Over the years, Lu Yuan has struggled with illness. What makes him proud is that even when faced with the reality that his vitality is increasingly depleted, he has not engaged in feudal superstition or worshiped any sacred Buddhas and prayed to prolong his life.

Meteor shower wish? Come on, a few lifeless stones hundreds of light-years away accidentally broke out of the gravitational constraints of their parent star and passed by the Earth's atmosphere. This happens every second in the context of the entire universe.

How can it be possible to realize human wishes if it is an inevitable event?

Meteor showers can grant wishes, which is nothing more than a romantic fantasy of mankind.

Lu Yuan pinched his eyebrows and sighed silently.

How many days can I live? My body functions are rapidly collapsing, and there is no cure. At the best age of my early twenties, I hold a large sum of money and wait for death comfortably in a seaside sanatorium... It sounds like...

Seems good?

Yes, there is nothing to fear about death.

From the first time ancient apes tried to walk upright, to humans summarizing the first mathematical laws, to today's leisurely living at the top of the food chain, too many people have been born and died on the earth.

Emperors, pawns, politicians, scholars, thinkers, poor people...

They will eventually die, without exception.

However, according to modern scientific theory, after human death, the molecules and atoms that make up the body will not be easily destroyed. They will remain silent in the soil, float in the air, and finally participate in the material cycle of nature, becoming birds, pines, and cypresses.

Become the sharp teeth in the shark's mouth.

Even, as the Earth's atmosphere moves, some molecules and atoms will rush out of the atmosphere, leave the solar system with extremely small probability, leave the Orion spiral arm of the Milky Way, and after hundreds of millions of years of wandering, arrive at another place suitable for life.

on the planet.

When the time comes, these molecules and atoms will form novel species that are unimaginable by people on earth, and they will even become part of intelligent life, making them cry and laugh...

But no matter what, there will never be another Lu Yuan in this world.

Snap, the pointer pointed to twenty-two o'clock.

In the dark night sky, there are shooting stars streaking across.

Common, romantic, useless... shooting stars.

Lu Yuan opened his eyes, used all his strength to straighten up, and blurted out in the dark ward:

"No matter who it is, can you let me live?"

In just a few seconds, the darkness outside the window returned to normal.

In the ward, the young terminally ill patient sat in a daze. After a while, he scratched the back of his head, feeling a little embarrassed:

"I'm just kidding, hahaha..."

With an unknown emotion, he lay back down again.

The moment his head touched the pillow, an irresistible sleepiness came over him, and he lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep.

Then, I had a dream.

Lu Yuan and... God's dream.
Chapter completed!