Su Xiaoqiang stumbled out of the conference room door, her high heels clicking crisply on the tiles of the hospital. The bright light from the window cast her shadow on the white cold corridor wall through the shade of the green trees, making it look a little skewed. , cool.
Behind her, in the door that has not been completely closed, experts from all over the conference table wearing thick glasses are discussing the details of the relevant cases in hand in a formulaic manner.
In academic exchanges, those experts whose sympathy has long been overdrawn are quite calm and calmly use words to dissect the patient they are discussing. Every word, every look, every case is flipped skillfully. The movement of the paper is like a scalpel performing an invisible operation.
This was something Su Xiaoqiang couldn't bear. She knew that everything those experts and professors said was a fact accumulated through countless experiences, but when words such as "diffusion", "middle and late stages" and "survival period" were coldly and calmly spat out When she came out, she found that she was not as strong as she thought. The more she sat on the chair in the corner and listened, the colder her heart became. The temperature of her body seemed to have dropped a little along with the survival rate of those diagnoses.
It wasn't until she stood up and said she wanted to go to the bathroom that the experts noticed that the family members had been in the corner. They watched in silence as the young girl, who was pretending to be strong and piled up with brand-name clothes and bags, pushed away from the conference room in despair. As he left the door, no one offered any words of comfort, and no one expressed incomprehensible emotions.
They have seen too many scenes like this. Cancer is the fairest thing in the world. Everything is impermanent and life is limited. In front of cancer, everyone is equal. Whether it is a person with high authority, a billionaire, or They are athletes. Before cancer, all the power and power they had in this world seemed so fragile.
They have seen many figures like Su Xiaoqiang. The only difference is that this girl may be a little younger, but she is not that much younger. At least compared to those whose families are poor, she has wealth behind her. Her family fortune allows her to summon experts and professors like them to sit here and think about how to save patients a longer survival period. She is...a relatively lucky person.
The dean gently closed the door of the conference room. Lively discussions continued to erupt on the conference table, and the words were more intense and cold than when the family members were present.
No matter where it is, the environment of the hospital is always much better than other places. It is quiet and bright. The shadows of the trees outside the window sway on the shiny floor. The light refracted on the tiles is a bit dazzling. Along with the corridor The cool air that came out made me feel chilly on my body. In a quiet place like the hospital, I always feel that everything is cold, my heart is cold, my words are cold, and even the sunlight is cold. .
Su Xiaoqiang sat at the entrance of the deserted corridor, took out a lipstick-shaped lighter from her handbag, then found the pack of mint-flavored Moore cigarettes that didn't have much left, patted the bottom of the cigarette box, shook out one, and bit it between her lips and teeth. , burying his head and trying to light a fire, he suddenly found that the lighter in his hand was missing.
This made her pause for a few seconds. She looked at the stairs on the left and right, touched her pockets, and looked for her handbag again. She found that the lighter she had just held in her hand had disappeared inexplicably.
She searched all around her with an expressionless expression but couldn't find it. The more she searched, the more irritated she became, until finally she suddenly picked up her expensive handbag and slammed it down on the steps in front of her. The items contained in the handbag, including a mobile phone and a small mirror, , lipstick, Bluetooth headsets and other things all fell out one after another, and fell down the stairs with a "crackling" sound, all in pieces.
The sound of things falling in the empty corridor was quite harsh. Su Xiaoqiang sat on the steps with her head lowered, chewing on the unlit Moore's cigarette and holding her head with both hands for a while.
When the lipstick finally rolled to the last step and stopped, she became completely quiet. She took a deep breath, raised her head, released the crumpled cigarette case, took out the thin cigarette from her mouth with her left hand and held it in her hand to get up.
At this moment, the familiar subtle "beep" sound of a lighter suddenly sounded in her ears.
Su Xiaoqiang turned around and saw that at some point, the boy who drove her to the hospital in a Ferrari was standing behind her, playing with the side-sliding lighter. When she raised her head, the boy also looked down at her.
The two looked at each other, and Su Xiaoqiang immediately turned back, lowered her head, stretched out her hand to wipe her reddish eyes, coughed a few times, took a deep breath, frowned hard and said, "Why are you still here?"
The sound made by the gold-plated copper lighter that belonged to me was being played with constantly. It was annoying. "Are you a thief? You walk silently and you take other people's things."
"You have a habit of smoking." Lin Nian's thumb ran across the fine gears surrounding the lipstick-shaped lighter. Beautiful sparks and a little smoke rose up, and were immediately covered and extinguished. "I used to think that stress was just a excuse for my addiction to cigarettes. , it was not until later that I discovered that people who smoke are not necessarily stressed, but people who are stressed will smoke in all likelihood. It’s not that they don’t know that it is harmful to the body, but they simply feel that since their lives are facing the end, The harm nicotine causes to the body seems to be nothing compared to the temporary pleasure it can provide."
"Crazy? You suddenly said all these things." Su Xiaoqiang didn't look at him. She sat on the steps and raised her wrist to wipe her face. She could tell from the low air pressure on her body that she was in a bad mood.
"Some things cannot be rushed," Lin Nian said.
This was his experience gained countless times. In the past, he might have been extremely angry due to the current situation, and just wanted to blow up the whole world. But it was not until later that he discovered that this manic and restless self was exactly that guy. Want to see.
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Instead of getting angry, it is better to calmly wait for the time when the time comes and look for more ways to break the situation after doing everything you can.
After sorting out her image, Su Xiaoqiang reached back without looking back and said, "Give me the lighter."
"This is a hospital."
"Let them fine me."
"They are now saying that your dad is hopeless and that he has less than a year left to live at most. On the one hand, they want to stabilize you and let you invest more medical funds, but on the other hand, they don't know how to deal with this serious fact.
Let you be willing to spend a little more money for some treatments that have little effect." Lin Nian turned his head and looked in the direction of the conference room door, with no intention of returning the lighter to the stretched out hand, "What are you going to do?
Do?"
"Treat it if it can be cured...transfer to the hospital if it can't be cured. Experts and professors are a bunch of quacks. They just swore to me before that my dad's condition should be in the early stage, and now they suddenly say that it has spread and worsened..." Su Xiaoqiang showed no expression.
say.
Lin Nian was quiet for a while, then walked up and sat next to her, lit the lighter and handed it to her. The flame between the two of them was slightly swayed by the wind.
Su Xiaoqiang was silent for a moment, biting the thin cigarette again and lit it in front of the flame. But before she took a slight puff, the cigarette in her mouth was twisted away. She watched helplessly as the boy snatched her cigarette and gently
He took a puff and exhaled mint-flavored white smoke, extinguished the flame and stuffed the lighter into his pocket.
"Do you want to consider my approach?" Lin Nian took a puff of Moore's cigarette, twisted the lit cigarette with his fingers and put it in front of his eyes to watch. It was his first time smoking. To be honest, it was a bit choking, just because of his body structure and
Ordinary people are slightly different so they can cough without embarrassing themselves.
There was no one else nearby except the two of them, otherwise, he wouldn't have made do with this girl and lit this cigarette.
After all, looking at Su Xiaoqiang's face, his thinking and behavior could not help but be affected. Could this be part of the deliberate calculation of this level?
"Your method? Do you mean to find another group of quack doctors to defraud my family's money? It turns out that this was your idea from the beginning." Su Xiaoqiang raised her hand expressionlessly and snatched the cigarette from Lin Nian's fingers and put it on the
He took a deep breath from his lips, raised his head and blew out a long, thin stream of white smoke before the smoke was taken back by Lin Nian.
"The doctors I know are not the quacks in the office. The medical methods in the mixed-race world are indeed much more advanced than those in normal society. After all, a group of interest groups at the head of the pyramid care about life. You are always worth it."
I believe they have invested a lot of money. Even I know at least one way to cure your father from cancer, but I am not sure if that method exists in your world."
"Do you really think that since my dad has cancer, you can take advantage of it, make a few phone calls in front of me, and make up some unfounded terms and circles to deceive me?"
"Why don't you want to believe that there are always some fantastic colors in this world? Maybe this color that is different from gray can really save the life of your important person."
"In your case, you may be able to deceive minors. I have to say that you are the most interesting liar I have seen after taking over my father's company. You are very innovative and your appearance is just passable. You were carefully investigated and found.
You approached me at a good time? You really mean it." Su Xiaoqiang regained some composure, looked at the ceiling, and some unspitted mint-flavored smoke escaped from the corners of her red lips.
She should have been crushed by pressure and reality like an ordinary person, but surprisingly, until now she can still speak well and use her own thinking to calmly sort through the confusing information.
Lin Nian turned his head and looked at the confused girl in the smoke. Although she was a few years older than him and had gained some maturity from her social experience, the Su Xiaoqiang between her eyebrows was indeed the one he was familiar with. It was just that The name on the ID card has changed, and my past experiences have changed.
He said, "People with cancer will suddenly be willing to believe in things in this world that they have always scorned, such as religion, folklore, legends, and rumors. They also need something urgently, and they will believe it more urgently. I I don’t think this is a stupid behavior. We have all heard the story of a drowning man clutching at a straw. Even if a straw cannot save his life, it will eventually allow him to struggle for a while instead of sinking to the bottom of the sea in despair."
"So what kind of strange cult leader are you actually? Are you interested in our family's property and want to use me to work hard to gain wealth and freedom for the rest of your life?" Su Xiaoqiang tilted her head to look at him.
"I don't need a fortune, I just think that the first familiar person I meet after I get out of the subway is you, which always means something." Lin Nian looked at her and said, "If you want an answer , then I will temporarily pass the blame to 'fate'."
"Fate? This is a very clumsy way to strike up a conversation. If you are a cult, you should say this is the guidance of the 'master'." Su Xiaoqiang sneered.
"Usually when I call Him 'bastard' or 'bastard,' there's no respect at all. I'm not sure what His purpose is in showing me these things now, but since He has posed the problem to me, In front of me, there is no reason for me to ignore it. This is our usual way of fighting." Lin Nian said.
Here it comes again, the kind of incomprehensible words that seem like a secondary disease. Su Xiaoqiang thought.
"If you don't want my property, what do you want? You don't want both the property and the people. You've fallen in love with me and want me to sacrifice myself for your lies? Say something and sleep with me if you want to save your father. What nonsense?" she asked thoughtfully.
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"Usually when we were getting ready to go to bed, you would tell me this kind of nonsense. I was worried for a while, and then I asked my sister in a cryptic way and said that it seemed like you wanted to get back some of the things you asked for in high school from me. No, so some kind of compulsive plot arises unconsciously in my heart."
Lin Nian raised his hand to catch the slap from Su Xiaoqiang, slowly and gently put down her hand, took a puff of the mole cigarette, and then handed it to her mouth. When she looked at Lin Nian expressionlessly, he actually took the initiative. Take another sip, and the warmth of each other's lips on the end of the cigarette is transferred to each other.
"I'm sorry, I was just joking." Lin Nian looked at her stubborn look in the face and could only take a step back and admit that he went too far.
Inexplicably, he would always regard Su Xiaoqiang as the girl he knew. In the end, this Su Xiaoqiang was not the little goddess he knew, so making such a joke was indeed a bit too much.
Su Xiaoqiang curled her lips. In fact, she didn't really want to slap Lin Nian. She just had to show off her posture when a man made a pornographic comment to her. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a mess if everyone thought she could just use a pornographic accent to make fun of her?
She twitched her hand without twitching, glanced at the anti-wolf spray that rolled down the stairs to the corner, and regretted throwing her handbag.
"Let's go." Lin Nian stood up from her side and let go of her wrist.
"What are you going for? The fraud has failed. Are you worried that if you get violent, I will shout and call the hospital security to take you to the police station?" Su Xiaoqiang, who was sitting on the stairs, chewed on a fine Moore cigarette and rubbed her wrist angrily. It doesn't hurt, but the feeling of absolute power still makes girls a little scared.
"While you were staying in the conference room, I took a trip to the city's viaducts. Although I didn't find what I was looking for, I unexpectedly discovered some strange phenomena." Lin Nian took a few steps down the stairs. , bent down and picked up something Su Xiaoqiang dropped on the ground.
When he just bent over, he reached back and grabbed the ankle of Su Xiaoqiang's right foot. The opponent's strength was not very strong. He probably didn't want to kick him down, but was planning to shake him lightly to scare him. .
He glanced back at Su Xiaoqiang, and from this angle, he grabbed the other person's ankle again. At a glance, the other person seemed to realize that he was at a disadvantage, and he pulled his foot back hard and stopped talking.
"You haven't called the police or called anyone yet, so I assume that you have some basic trust in me. Then you might as well come with me and show you some interesting things. Maybe it will change your mind." Lin Nian. He packed up all the things scattered on the ground, put his bag next to Su Xiaoqiang, and walked past her, "I went to the parking lot to drive, and I was prepared to believe in me, or in other words, to believe that there might indeed exist in the ordinary world. If you want a little bit of fantasy, just come to me at the entrance of the hospital, I will only wait for you for three minutes."
A good one will only wait for you for three minutes.
Usually Miss Su says this to others. When has it ever been her turn for an inexplicable guy to put such a time limit on herself?
She hasn't called security or called the police to arrest him yet. It's all because she feels really uncomfortable and just wants to find someone to talk to. She really gives him face, right?
Su Xiaoqiang sat on the steps and listened to the footsteps of the boy leaving behind her. She picked up the crushed cigarette box beside her and wanted to light another one, but found that the other party did not return the lighter to her at all, and could only spit out the cigarette. He stood up from the cold stairs, turned around and left.
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Lin Nian put his hands on the steering wheel and adjusted the Ferrari's sun visor so that the high-hanging sun would not dazzle his eyes. When he flipped the sun visor, he found a pair of sunglasses hanging on it, so he simply took them off. I looked at the brand and prepared to wear it on my face.
"Give me the lighter." A hand stretched out from the passenger window. It was Su Xiaoqiang. She looked at Lin Nian in the driver's seat from across the seat with an unhappy expression.
Lin Nian put the Hermès lipstick lighter that was probably given as a gift when buying a handbag in his pocket and put it in the storage basket. Su Xiaoqiang happened to be stuck outside the passenger door and couldn't reach it. She took a deep breath and opened the passenger door and sat in, then forcefully When the door was closed, the frameless glass shook several times. She was probably one of the few girls who had such a bad temper after sitting in the passenger seat of a Ferrari.
"Drive slowly." Su Xiaoqiang warned Lin Nian.
"Just drive 60." Lin Nian started the engine, put the accelerator in gear and stepped forward.
The opening time is 60, but he didn't say how much it would be at zero time.
Su Xiaoqiang saw the Ferrari driving onto the road like a fish in water, passing cars one after another like a breath. She sighed and grabbed her seat belt and asked, "What did you say you wanted to take me to see just now?"
"Rather than asking you to see it, I want you to help me verify what I saw." Lin Nian drove the car to the entrance of the elevated road not long after, "When you were in the hospital conference room, I
I took some time to walk around the viaduct, trying to find something interesting, but I couldn't find anything. When I came back and passed the beltway, I discovered an interesting phenomenon."
"What an interesting phenomenon?" Su Xiaoqiang frowned, not understanding what Lin Nian was talking about at all.
"I'll take you to see it right away." Lin Nian stepped on the accelerator and the speed of the car reached 60, but the Ferrari completely disappeared on the elevated road. The normal driving vehicle being overtaken could not even hear the usual roaring sound, and could only feel
There seemed to be a very red shadow flying past me. Looking forward, it was like seeing a ghost and I couldn't see anything. I could only see a red dot in the distant horizon.
It didn't take long for Lin Nian to turn onto the beltway. When Su Xiaoqiang saw that the road sign next to her was heading out of the city, she couldn't help but grab her seat belt and looked at Lin Nian warily, "Where do you want to take me?"
This guy finally deceived her into trusting her. Is he going to do something to her?
"That's the wrong question. It's not where I want to take you, but where I can only take you." Lin Nian stared at the road ahead. It was originally a straight and smooth highway, but Su Xiaoqiang was puzzled.
In sight, he suddenly started to slow down after driving a certain distance. The Ferrari gradually stopped in the emergency lane on the side of the highway and turned on its double flashers.
"Nine points will be deducted for illegal parking on the highway. Aren't you afraid that something will happen? Hey...hey! What are you doing when you get out of the car? Are you looking for death?" Su Xiaoqiang watched Lin Nian open the car door and get onto the highway after parking the car.
, he couldn't help but unbuckle his seat belt in a hurry, rolled over to the outside of the guardrail and walked forward in the direction of Lin Nian.
Lin Nian was walking on foot in the middle of the highway. His attitude was as if no one was watching, as if the highway was driven by his family. To be honest, he was to blame for his behavior. Fortunately, there were no cars on this section of the road. Otherwise, Su Xiaoqiang felt that she could really see
The bloody scene of taking off from the ground.
In the midst of her urgent shouting, Lin Nian suddenly stopped. He stood in the middle of the highway, squatted down and traced a tiny crack on the asphalt that spanned the entire road with his fingers. He didn't know that it was caused by a large car running over it.
The crack was caused by the movement of the earth's crust, and it was this crack that stopped him from moving forward.
Plato once advocated that the real world only exists in imagination. Based on this sentence, later directors produced two classic science fiction movies, "The Matrix" and "The Matrix" in 1999. In the movies,
Those real worlds are virtual products built by computers. Everything is the result of calculations of 0 and 1, which makes people think about virtuality and reality.
Lin Nian stood up and looked up. What he saw was different from what Su Xiaoqiang saw, who was holding the iron railing and shouting at her. In the latter's eyes, Lin Nian was just standing still in the middle of the highway as if he was seeking death. In his eyes, the endless horizon ahead was another weird and abstract scene.
It is a world composed of grotesque black space and green lines, stretching as far as the eye can see. On the endless landscape filled with black blocks, green symbolic three-dimensional lines outline the undulating terrain. It all looks like it has not yet been rendered in the game. The map model means that this is "God's" unfinished sketch and it is also the edge of the world.
Lin Nian reached forward and tried to jump over the boundary represented by the cracks on the asphalt road on the ground. Sure enough, he touched a wall. It was an invisible obstacle. No matter how hard he exerted force, he could not penetrate it. Reach the other side that has not yet been rendered.
"What are you doing?"
In Su Xiaoqiang's eyes, what Lin Nian is doing now is undoubtedly quite weird. He is actually performing a mime in the middle of the highway, just like those clowns who put their hands in the air and pretend to be blocked by a wall of air. Make the audience laugh through non-physical performances.
He glanced sideways at Su Xiaoqiang, walked over, climbed over the guardrail, and said as she subconsciously retreated, "Can you go through?"
"Through it? Through what?" Su Xiaoqiang couldn't understand what Lin Nian was doing at all.
"Take two steps forward." Lin Nian pointed in the direction of the unrendered black and green module in his field of vision.
"Take two steps? Why?" Although Su Xiaoqiang was puzzled, it didn't seem difficult to just take two steps. Besides, Lin Nian's attitude was also very serious now, so she took two steps forward... nothing occur.
Lin Nian watched Su Xiaoqiang standing in the module rendered with black and green lines, looking back at him, and also took the initiative to move forward...no doubt blocked by the invisible wall.
"From your perspective, is this normal?" he asked, staring at Su Xiaoqiang's back.
"How could it be abnormal?" Su Xiaoqiang really felt that Lin Nian was a lunatic.
"so..."
But then, under Su Xiaoqiang's horrified gaze, Lin Nian's pupils changed color in the sunlight, gradually heating up from the beautiful light gold to a terrifying molten red, and blood-colored mist and pale scales inexplicably spilled out of the corners of his eyes. A dense object like that broke out from his neck, and more mist-like blood spilled out between opening and closing, forming a "ring" around the top of his head.
"Use me as a shield and run farther back," he said.
Lin Nian didn't need to say anything, Su Xiaoqiang ran away quickly. She didn't know whether she was afraid of Lin Nian or what Lin Nian was about to do.
As she ran, she looked back at Lin Nian and saw him raising his right arm covered with inhuman white scales and punching the air with a punch - hitting a non-existent transparent wall!
The next moment, an incredibly exaggerated explosion erupted in the air!
Su Xiaoqiang lay on the ground in the dirt, with the deafening sound behind her. The shock wave visible to the naked eye overturned the ground within a few hundred meters. Trees planted in the green belt and large sections of steel guardrails were uprooted by the aftermath of the violence. It flew up and trembled like torn paper. The hard and thick asphalt pavement of the highway was raised several meters high, and the segmented strata were clearly visible! The Ferrari parked in the emergency lane was naturally not immune to the disaster. Like a Category 12 hurricane, the ton-level supercar was blown up in the strong wind, spun countless times in the air, and fell into the wasteland hundreds of meters away!
After everything calmed down, Lin Nian faded away from his dragon transformation and gospel, and stood at the tip of an impact fan. To his left, right and most of the back, the entire land was plowed by the movement just now, and it was a mess. It was like being bombarded by a large-volume bomb. This was just the effect of his half-strength punch. He was confident that if he really hit it, he would be able to take the life out of a next-generation dragon species.
But in front of him, the scene behind the invisible wall remained unchanged. All the damage and influence caused by him could not penetrate to the other side of the invisible wall.
"This is boring." Lin Nian looked at this scene and said calmly.