After Dina's operation, all that is needed now is to wait quietly.
In the lounge, they were chatting and seemed to be putting on makeup.
In just a few days, Joanna and Dina became a pair of plastic sisters.
In the guard room, Egg is cleaning his gun. However, these guns are usually well maintained, and there is not much that needs to be cleaned.
Egg is just using mechanical movements to assist his thinking.
Egger has thought about the meaning of his existence countless times, and he has suffered a mental breakdown because of it. It is undeniable that he has not completely let go in his heart.
It's not that he doesn't want to let go, it's that he simply can't let go.
"Why come", "Where to go"
These are the two ultimate problems of mankind. If you want to solve the second problem, you must first understand the first problem.
Egger envies those around him. In Egger’s daily observation, whether it is Joanna, Andy, Vance, Nicholas, etc., all of them, including that guy Under, from Egger’s standards,
They are all believers.
Believing in an illusory God and attributing "why you come" and "where you go" to God's will can reduce most of people's mental pain.
Egger's pain is that even if he encounters something that cannot be solved with his known knowledge, he is still not ready to believe in the so-called "Lord".
Egger is more willing to believe that behind all of this, there is just simple, cold, and extremely precise calculation.
As a straight man with an engineering background, Iger always believes that in this world "there is no love without reason, and there is no hatred without reason."
To put it simply, all effects have causes, and all causes have effects. 11=2,2=11. This is the law of the universe, not something that the so-called "lord" can control or change.
However, Egger is becoming more and more convinced that his variable was invested after careful calculation.
I am the first crack in a perfect avalanche.
The reason why Egger is so anxious is closely related to his growth experience.
Although the parents of Egger's family are both high-level intellectuals, their way of educating their children is barbaric and rough.
While instilling "you have to become a useful person" to your children all day long, you set goals for your children that are almost impossible to achieve, and then use the methods of heavy rewards and heavy punishments that you believe in to stimulate your children.
Iger, who grew up in such an environment, has a very extreme personality.
Egg wanted to know, even though he didn't know what the previous plot was, he just wanted to know what changes the successful development of the treatment serum would have on the world line.
In fact, Iger also understood that the therapeutic serum might not be of much significance. In the past six months, no one he knew had actually died of blood plague infection.
What Iger fears most now is what if the treatment serum cannot be developed at all? Doesn’t that mean everything remains unchanged?
However, since sending him here is meaningful, no matter what the result of this meaning is, it will definitely bring about changes.
The meaning of existence is a lingering obstacle in Egger's heart.
The idea that he must be "useful" is like a stamp of thought that is deeply stamped into Iger's mind. Because once he is "useless", he will be ruthlessly abandoned, just like his elder brother.
No, it must be meaningful.
“In the beginning, the Lord created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the face of the abyss, but the Spirit of the Lord was hovering over the waters.”
Egg's mind became more and more confused, and he couldn't help but read the first few sentences of the Bible he had copied.
"The Lord said, Let there be light, and there was light."
Egger suddenly stopped what he was doing, and murmured to himself: "I am the light."
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On the fourth floor of the Morgan Building in Jixi Town, in the chairman's office, Nicholas is submitting his resignation report and transfer application to Andy.
Andy took a quick look and saw that Nicholas applied to resign as the field captain of the gospel team and applied to be transferred to Ross Town.
Nicholas is not a core member of the Egger family. The relationship between him and Egger was extremely bad at the beginning. The two were tit-for-tat, and both did some unpleasant things for each other.
After Iger left, Nicholas served as the captain of the field team. For such a long time, it can be said that he fought for the gospel team through life and death, fought bloody battles, and achieved numerous results.
Ask yourself, he treats Nicholas well, but Andy doesn't know why Nicholas wants to go to Ross Town. Does Nicholas also believe the rumors and think that he is the mastermind behind the death of Father Locke?
"Why are you going?" Andy asked Nicholas.
Nicholas said with a happy smile on his face: "Erica is pregnant."
After the two were silent for a while, Andy signed the two reports and handed them to Avella for processing and filing later.
After Nicholas left the office briskly, Andy sighed, and then pressed his head with both hands.
Regarding Erica, Andy no longer feels anything. He now has a headache, and Andy's migraine attacks again.
Andy used to suffer from severe migraines. He went to many doctors and tried many methods to relieve them for a period of time.
As Andy's work intensity has gradually increased in recent times, his headaches have become more and more severe: before, he only had headaches on the left side, but now the right side also begins to hurt.
Sometimes it hurts on the left side, sometimes on the right side, or they hurt alternately, or they hurt together. Anyway, they tortured Andy so much that he wanted to dig a hole in his head with a chisel.
Andy found Dr. Heidemi, who could only prescribe some painkillers for Andy and emphasized that he should rest more and rest for a period of time.
Only the first half of Dr. Heidemi's words are relevant.
Andy opened the drawer and took out a small bottle. He first poured out two tablets, and after hesitating, added another tablet. In order to make the medicine take effect faster, Andy chewed the three tablets carefully with his teeth, and then closed them.
Swallow the water.
Afterwards, Andy lay on the sofa. There were a lot of things going on in the gospel team, and they were all good things.
Father Locke laid a foundation for the gospel team, but in Andy's hands, the gospel team has truly grown. The profit from the scissor difference just from the sale of goods every day is so huge that it is equivalent to making a net profit of a truck of supplies every day.
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The number of members of the gospel team also continued to increase. After the initial framework was set up, as new people continued to fill in, they quickly adapted to the life of the gospel team with the help and management of the elderly.
People are all about interests.
"Every bustle in the world is for benefit, and all the hustle and bustle in the world is for benefit."
Although Andy has never heard of this sentence, his understanding of it can be said to be profound.
After lying down for a while, the headache relieved a lot, and Andy closed his eyes and rested on the sofa.
Avella came in, and Andy pointed to the transfer application on the table with his eyes closed. Andy reminded Avella and asked her to ask Nicholas who the backup candidate for the field captain was.
It has become a tradition to recommend a new captain after a field captain leaves office. Since this method is easy to use, it can always be used.
The reason why Andy didn't ask Nicholas just now was because he had a headache and forgot about it.
Avella took away the two documents and then closed the office door thoughtfully.
Afterwards, Andy fell asleep on the sofa and never woke up again.
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In the afternoon, Lily called anxiously on the gospel radio, calling the director of the gospel team to return to Jixi Town urgently.
At night, the secretary's office on the fourth floor of the Morgan Building was crowded with people.
Vance sat on the sofa tiredly, his energy becoming less and less day by day.
Now, Vance has stopped doing any work in the workshop. He is just like an old dog who habitually lies at the door of the workshop and stares at it every day.
Unexpectedly, Andy, who looked much younger than himself, would suddenly die like this. Vance once suspected that someone had poisoned him.
After stern questioning of Dr. Avila and Dr. Hedmi, both of them confirmed that Andy had severe migraine. In fact, during this period, everyone could see that Andy did not look good, and everyone knew that Andy was not looking good.
Dee's daily work is so tiring.
Through a simple autopsy, Heidemi speculated that Andy died of migraine-induced cerebral infarction.
After Vance ordered the security team to seal off the fourth floor, he informed Avila to go downstairs to greet the returning directors. Today's meeting can only be held on the fourth floor.
At night, people from Ross Town finally came, but it was not the person Vance was waiting for.
"Where are the Eggers?" Vance asked angrily at the woman who claimed to be the acting director of Rose Town.
"It's been almost a week since Egg left Ross Town." Bella said to Vance, "He is currently performing an extremely important mission."
After Vance heard Bella's words, he couldn't hold back his anger. He stood up from the sofa and roared loudly: "What can be more important than what is happening now?!"
Facing this grumpy old man, Bella still said with a respectful tone: "Develop a serum that can cure the blood plague."
As soon as Bella said this, all eyes in the room focused on her.
Now that this matter has come to an end, there is nothing we can’t talk about.
So Bella started talking about her discovery of Dina in Rose Town, and then told how the three of them went to a military fortress in an unknown location to develop a healing serum.
Bella does not need to explain further, everyone knows the importance of this matter. The treatment serum can be called the hope of mankind.
If someone else were to do this, no one would have any idea, because everyone thinks it can't be done at all.
But if Iger went there in person, there might be hope for this matter.
The worry and anxiety that had been locked in the secretary's office were instantly dispelled by this news.
This is not disrespectful to Andy, but everyone's expectations for the future are different.
Generally speaking, good news does not carry as much weight as bad news, but the development of a therapeutic serum is extremely good news.
With expectations, there is naturally confidence and hope, and the sadness caused by Andy's sudden death has dissipated.
Next, there is the matter of the meeting.
The gospel team passed the reform and now has a total of 91 directors, including 9 regular directors and 1 alternate director. The alternate director is a consultant of a sub-team promoted by Andy.
After the board of directors expanded from the original 7 to 9 people, Nicholas became a full director from a substitute, and the consultants of the other two sub-teams were promoted from reserve directors, with one person becoming a full director and one person becoming an alternate director.
Now it seems that this substitute director will become a regular director after this board meeting.
However, although Lily has given an urgent notice today, among the current nine official directors, three are absent. In addition to Iger and Joanna, Fran, who has not been seen for thousands of years, is also absent.
Vance told the people crowded in the secretary's office what happened in Jixi Town today.
"At around 11 this morning, Nicholas approached Andy to go through the resignation and transfer procedures.
At 11:30, Avella entered the chairman's office, took away the documents that Andy had processed, and also had a conversation with Andy.
At 13 o'clock in the afternoon, Avella entered the chairman's office to remind Andy that it was time for lunch, and then found that Andy had died in his sleep.
According to Dr. Heidemi's report, Andy died suddenly due to severe migraine headaches that led to migraine cerebral infarction due to a long-term high-intensity work without adequate rest."
Then, Vance said: "As required, we should conduct a chairman election, but since 1/3 of the directors are absent, I suggest that the chairman election be postponed and re-elected at an optional date."
When Vance said this, everyone knew what he meant. Vance was waiting for Iger to come back.
Now that Vance had spoken like this, everyone nodded in agreement. When Vance was about to move on to the next topic, about Andy's funeral, someone suddenly interrupted him loudly.
"I disagree! The vacancy of the chairman will bring fatal harm to the team, so I think the chairman election must be conducted as soon as possible.
I propose to recommend myself as the candidate for the third chairman of the gospel team."
