The wind blows.
The grass is green on all sides.
Li Meng has cleaned the villa very clean during this period. There is no garbage in the house, and the curtains are opened, making it ventilated and bright, and it is no longer so dark.
After hearing Lu Wen's words, she was stunned for a moment.
She had never thought about the name seriously, but the name suddenly popped into her head.
Now that I think about it, I actually can’t tell a reason.
After all, she had never met anyone named Lu before that.
"At that time... maybe I just suddenly thought of this name."
Li Meng thought about it carefully and looked at his memory chip.
There was a flash of confusion in her eyes.
It seems that something has been forgotten.
"I want to take a look at your data." Lu Wen said.
"Can."
Lu Wen had never read Li Meng's data.
Either her death or her later resurrection.
Their hands held each other gently.
Data transfer is enabled.
…
It seemed like he had been sleeping for a long time.
The past is blown away by the soft wind.
Lu Wen felt weak all over and his limbs were no longer functioning.
He seemed to be lying on a small boat, floating around on the calm sea, or enjoying the cool under the big banyan tree in summer, with the shadows of the trees dancing around him.
"Du..."
"Du..."
A certain sound sounded in my ears.
He gradually gained consciousness.
It was like a soul-calling bell, but also like a quiet whisper.
Lu Wen slowly opened his eyes.
What comes into view is white.
This is a ward.
Separate wards.
There are no other patients.
On the right side of the hospital bed is the door, and on the left is a glass window. It is summer outside, and the chirping of cicadas and sparrows can be heard in my ears.
The light blue curtains swayed gently in the warm summer breeze.
Sunlight shines through the half-open glass window.
The "beep" sound I just heard came from an instrument next to the hospital bed.
There is more than one mechanical instrument in this ward.
There was a very weird machine with strings of characters flashing on it. The strings contained some Chinese names.
Li Meng, Huang Liang, Fang Zhou…
Lu Wen sat up from the bed. He felt a headache. It seemed that something was pouring into his mind, but it was blurry and hazy through a veil, and it could not become clear for a long time.
He noticed that he was covered in various tubes.
There were gastric tubes, some for infusion, and some were inserted directly into the head, and the needle seemed to have entered the inside of the skull.
"Squeak..."
The door to the ward suddenly opened.
A little nurse walked in, holding some medical supplies on a plate.
Before she could get closer, she looked at Lu Wen who was sitting up, and her eyes suddenly widened.
"You... are you awake?" Her surprised eyes seemed to have seen some miracle.
"What?" Lu Wen looked at her.
"You have been comatose for more than two months."
"Yeah?"
Lu Wen was thoughtful.
Talking with a stomach tube is uncomfortable.
He was going to pull it out himself.
The little nurse hurriedly stopped him and immediately notified the doctor in charge.
It didn't take long.
The door to the ward was pushed open one after another.
Lu Wen was soon surrounded by a group of people wearing white coats.
Then came various physical examinations and asking about feelings...
After confirming that Lu Wen was in normal condition, the doctors finally helped him remove all the tubes all over his body.
"I have to say that I am surprised that you have been in a coma for more than two months and you are in such good spirits when you wake up. It seems that the new treatment equipment is effective."
"What instrument?"
"This is the one next to your hospital bed..."
The doctor explained in detail to Lu Wen.
This is a therapeutic device developed in Taiwan and is currently in the experimental stage.
It is mainly aimed at patients who have been in a coma for a long time, that is, in a vegetative state. By stimulating the inside of their brains, it may be possible for them to enter a virtual world while in a coma.
If they are stimulated enough in that world, there is hope of waking up.
"Do we have this kind of technology?" Lu Wen asked with a frown.
"Actually, we weren't sure at the beginning. This thing is still in the experimental stage, and you are one of the voluntary test subjects."
"I?"
"It's your family, their names signed on the experiment list."
Lu Wen wanted to think seriously, but soon felt a dull pain in his head.
Before he fell into coma, it seemed that the world did not have such cutting-edge treatment equipment, and even the news had not been released.
The doctor continued: "Actually, even if your family does not sign the agreement, when this device passes the trial stage and is successful, we will first use it for you. Your current status is very special."
"What identity?"
"Your disease is a disease that has never appeared before. More than two months ago, we decided to name this disease after you."
"Is there anything special about this disease?"
"To be precise, this disease has caused some kind of special pathology in your cells. Now the cells in your body are dividing infinitely, and the telomeres are not shortened. Just like cancer cells, they are immortal. In other words, you... You carry the hope of eternal life for all mankind.”
"Is it so special? Then wouldn't I be close to eternal life?"
"No... It's hard to say. It still needs to be studied. The current research progress is very slow. It only started less than two months ago."
Hearing this, Lu Wen turned his head and looked at the instrument next to the hospital bed.
Some of the familiar names flashing across it would give him a headache.
Since he was awake, there was no need to stay here anymore, so he asked, "When can I be discharged from the hospital?"
"Your illness... If you feel fine, you can be discharged from the hospital now. We won't stop you. It all depends on your wishes." The doctor pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and continued: "But I suggest you stay here. Rest for a few more days and observe the follow-up situation.”
"also."
Lu Wen agreed.
After checking again, the doctors left one after another, giving him some quiet space.
Lu Wen tried to stand up and take a few steps.
He can walk, but he has just been lying down for two months, and people often give him hot compresses and kneading on his joints and muscles to prevent them from shrinking so quickly.
The little nurse was still in the ward. She looked at the time and asked, "It's lunch time. Do you want me to bring you a meal? It's a working meal for the hospital."
"Aren't all my family here?"
"They... they paid a fee and then handed you over to us."
Lu Wen nodded.
In my own memory, the relationship with my family is indeed quite dull.
"Then please bring me one."
Not a moment.
The little nurse came back with a lunch box.
Two meat and one vegetable, and seaweed and egg drop soup in a small plastic bowl.
Lu Wen thanked him and took the lunch box.
After delivering the lunch box, the little nurse left.
Lu Wen was the only one left in the ward again.
He opened the clear plastic lid on the lunch box.
"It still smells pretty good."
Lu Wen picked up the chopsticks and was about to have a taste.
He was suddenly in a trance for a moment.
Smells
Smell
It seemed that his experience in that virtual world made him feel that his sense of smell was valuable.
The feeling of not being able to smell is really uncomfortable.
Lu Wen tasted his first meat dish.
The sense of taste is also present.
This is an amazing feeling.
But he swears.
This is definitely the nastiest dish in the world, and there won't be anything nastier.
Then Lu Wen tasted the second meat dish.
So his previous vow was broken.
…
Had a meal.
Lu Wen walked out of the ward.
He found that the location of his ward was very special and few people seemed to come here.
The corridor was deserted.
The lighting and wall paint were sickly pale.
The air is also filled with the smell of disinfectant.
Lu Wen turned around and looked at the numbers on the door of his ward.
[9]
A very ordinary number.
But not too ordinary.
In this kind of place, the general room number should be preceded by the floor number.
His room is at the end of the corridor.
There is a wall further inside.
Lu Wen slowly walked towards the other side of the corridor.
There are also numbered wards on both sides of the corridor.
[8]
[7]
[6]
[…]
Both sides are symmetrical.
There are five wards on each side.
Lu Wen came to the exit of the corridor and approached the hall.
There was a ward on his right with a number like [0] marked on the door.
This number is different from other numbers.
Everything else, including the [9] on Lu Wen's door, is all white.
But this [0] character appears dark red, giving people a sense of danger.
When he saw this number for the first time, Lu Wen was in a daze for a moment.
There seemed to be something stirring in his mind, burning his nerves.
He stood at the door of the room and stared intently for a long time. He didn't look away until he felt really uncomfortable.
When he was in the ward before, he knew that this floor was the ninth floor, the highest floor in the building.
The lobby on the ninth floor was also empty.
Ice cold.
Dead silence.
Empty.
Across the hall is another corridor.
It's also the same pale color.
There are two elevators on one side of the lobby and stairs next to the elevators.
The green safety channel sign turns on and off.
The number in the elevator has been hovering between [0-8], as if there is no ninth floor in this building at all.
Lu Wen walked towards the corridor opposite.
The empty hall echoed with his footsteps.
Just took a few steps.
Lu Wen stopped.
"There seems to be other footsteps?"
He looked back.
Behind him was still the pale corridor where his own ward was, with no one around.
There were no signs of anyone coming up the elevator and the stairs on one side of the lobby.
Lu Wen felt that he was overthinking, so he moved on.
"This corridor is quite long."
Lu Wen stood at the entrance of the corridor and looked around.
There are also wards on both sides.
Every room is neat.
But there is no number on the door, but a simple character [×].
This negative character is also dark red.
Like solidified blood.
It looks very conspicuous in a world of white.
Look around.
There are dark red symbols on the doors of the wards on both sides of this long corridor.
At the end of the corridor are passages to the left and right.
Lu Wen glanced at the light tube above his head that flickered from time to time, and then stepped out of the corridor.
The left foot just stepped in.
He was in a daze again for a moment.
The world in front of him seemed to be blurred. The doors and light tubes overlapped each other, as if they were alive and shaking, eroding his mind and making him feel dizzy.
But it soon returned to normal.
Lu Wen frowned and tried to make what he saw in front of him clearer.
He stepped forward slowly.
After taking only two steps, there was some kind of low sound coming from beside me, which was very harsh.
It was as if thousands of steel needles were stimulating his brain.
The sudden severe pain forced him to lean against a door.
Lu Wen held the door with one hand and pressed his head with the other.
He bent as far as he could.
This will make you feel better.
The lights overhead flickered again.
Lu Wen couldn't straighten up yet, his neck was bent, his head was lowered, and his eyes could only look at the ground in the corridor, which was very smooth.
He tried to straighten up.
But the severe pain came back instantly, mainly headache, double the pain, as if the whole brain was about to burst.
It was as if someone was holding a saw and cutting open his skull bit by bit.
His eyes returned to the ground.
But this time, there was something more on the ground.
Dark red liquid.
Sticky.
Slowly flowing out from the crack of the door of the room where Lu Wen was leaning.
The pungent smell of blood surged in the air.
"Click..."
The door actually opened slowly.
(End of chapter)