After Wu Qi and others left Blue Lake Town, Blue Lake Town returned to its previous peaceful period.
In the inpatient area of the emergency room, Xiang Keping stayed with Renee, who was lying unconscious on the hospital bed all day long, looking at her eyes and pink lips that had never been opened, and watching the packages of nutrients passing through the slender and transparent tubes one after another. Inject it into her body.
Day after day, Xiang Keping had nothing to do and rarely went out to wander the streets. If he goes out, he will wear a mask to avoid being recognized by residents.
Both Xiang Keping and Renee are in a very awkward position in Blue Lake Town, because they are the invaders and saboteurs here. Without the Lord's order, the nurses at the emergency center probably wouldn't have saved them. The lord's order stems from Wu Qi's promise. Now that it has been longer and longer since Wu Qi left, the nurse responsible for caring for Renee is becoming increasingly indifferent to Renee's condition, and Xiang Keping can see it.
Renee still didn't open her eyes today, Xiang Keping wrote this sentence in the electronic diary of the folding computer. It has been seven days since Wu Qi left Blue Lake Town.
On the eighth day, Renee finally opened her eyes.
On a morning like any other, Xiang Keping slept soundly on the folding couch next to Renee's hospital bed. Golden sunlight shines into the dark ward, and many dust particles float in the beam of light.
At the end of the sunlight was Renee's hospital bed. Renee's quill-like eyelashes trembled slightly. She slowly opened her eyes, her blue pupils turning lazily, observing the world she hadn't seen for a long time.
"I... I'm not dead yet." Perhaps the seven days of deep sleep had put heavy shackles on Renee's brain. Renee's thinking was a little slow, and her emotions were also covered in dust.
She slowly turned her head and saw Xiang Keping's sleeping face two meters away. Xiang Keping is much thinner than he was seven days ago, and the flesh on both sides of his cheeks has disappeared like a knife.
"Renee... when will you wake up..." Xiang Keping's lips buzzed and trembled, and he uttered a series of sleep talk that was not very clear, but Renee could distinguish every word of the sleep talk. .
"Did I sleep for a long time?" Renee asked herself. She exerted a little force on her limbs. Although the muscles in her arms were stiff, they gave her feedback, but her legs seemed to have disappeared. She couldn't control them or feel them.
Renee opened the white quilt and saw her body tightly wrapped in bandages. At least the lower body does not smell rancid, and it will recover given time. Renee comforted herself like this.
Xiang Keping suddenly woke up. He saw Renee lifting the quilt to look at her body, and jumped up from the simple bed.
"Renee, you're awake! I have to call the nurse quickly!" Xiang Keping excitedly rang the call bell on the bedside of the hospital bed.
"Xiang Keping, how long have I been asleep?" Renee asked. She was afraid that she had slept for too long and missed contact with Greg.
"Seven days, today is the morning of the eighth day, and you finally woke up." Xiang Keping's voice was choked. He had been waiting for this day for too long.
Renee's face looked a little ugly, and she asked tentatively: "Dr. Greg, have you come to contact us?"
"No," Xiang Keping shook his head, "The doctor has never contacted us, and I have not contacted the doctor."
"Why?"
Xiang Keping's eyes turned to Renee's body under the quilt. He hesitated and said, "I don't want to contact you."
Renee didn't ask further questions. She could tell from Xiang Keping's eyes that he didn't contact Greg because of her.
Xiang Keping has no fighting ability, and the outcome of the battle has nothing to do with him. The defeat by Wu Qi is her fault, Renee. As long as Xiang Keping reports truthfully, Greg may be scolded, but he will not bear the main responsibility. Since Greg brought Xiang Keping with him, he took a fancy to him. After all, the A-11 Laboratory and Greg's team are by no means a place for mere "tool people" to stay.
Even so, Xiang Keping still made such a choice. Renee didn't know what to say, and she was also conflicted in her heart. Half of Renee was saying, "Whether I win or lose, I should be 100% loyal to Greg and cannot hide anything." The other half of Renee was saying, "Greg had such great expectations for me, but I ended up being But I lost, and it was a miserable defeat. If I am seriously injured and cannot recover, how can I go back?"
While Renee was feeling conflicted, the nurse came.
The nurse and Xiang Keping went to the corridor outside the ward to talk. Separated by a wall, Renee should have heard the conversation clearly, but due to the loss of the super-power virus, the "super hearing" failed and she could not hear anything.
Five minutes later, Xiang Keping opened the door and came back. Renee asked Xiang Keping about his physical condition, but Xiang Keping only smiled and said you eat first.
Renee hadn't eaten for a long time, and her stomach heard the word "eat" and made a gurgling sound reflexively. Renee was a little embarrassed. Not long after, the dining car for the hospitalized patients arrived, which was a nutritional recovery meal based on liquid food.
Xiang Keping finished breakfast, and Renee also cleared away the plates and bowls of nutritious meals.
"Now can you tell me how my body is doing and when will my legs recover?" Renee asked directly. She had a bad feeling because the nurse tried to talk to Xiang Keping and avoided her.
Xiang Keping said: "Don't worry. Now that the blood vessels are healed and connected, and the blood circulation is normal, your body below the waist will be closer to recovery. As for the nerve connection problem, the hospital here cannot perform nerve connection surgery. , there are only two options, either go back to Academia Sinica, or stay here until the 'high-speed regeneration' power returns to normal."
Renee wanted to contact the Doctor and ask him to send someone to pick her up, although this was too embarrassing.
"Sooner or later, we have to report the situation. It's better to do it now. The later it is delayed, the less good it will be for us." Renee said. She wanted to face the Doctor calmly. Even if it was scolding or disappointment, she would bear it willingly.
Xiang Keping hesitated, and tried to persuade Renee: "Actually, we can wait until your 'high-speed regeneration' ability is restored and all the injuries on your body are healed before reporting the situation."
"Then we have to wait until the year of the monkey? The surgical blood transfusion must be pure human blood. The antibodies to the abnormal virus will destroy each other with the super virus multiplying in my body." The end of Renee's memory is not far away, but all the common sense Dorothy should have Taught it to her and she learned very quickly.
Xiang Keping couldn't defeat Renee after all. What he had been worried about but didn't say clearly was whether Renee could regain her powers. He and the nurse were talking outside the door just now. The nurse said that it would take a while to see whether he could recover, which was equivalent to bullshit. But Renee couldn't hear what they were saying, which meant that she didn't even have first-level "super hearing" There is no recovery, this is already the eighth day!
Xiang Keping dialed the communication line of the folding computer anxiously. On the opposite side was the fax machine phone of the A-11 laboratory.