"You are so shameless."
Seeing Xia Xu describing himself as righteous yet aggrieved, as if he was going to complain to his teacher or parents, Grant was envious but also full of contempt.
"I think you are jealous."
After hanging up the phone, Xia Xu curled his lips in disapproval.
"Jealous of your shamelessness?"
Grant responded with contempt.
But it's impossible not to envy her.
Damn it, he also wants this privilege of being able to report and recruit foreign aid at any time!
"Doctor Cui, what are your plans? Should we send you home first or what?"
Xia Xu ignored the envious and jealous Grant, but just turned his head slightly and looked at Cui Xinghua in the back seat of the car through the rearview mirror.
"Go home first, thank you for your help."
There were too many unexpected events tonight, and Cui Xinghua was still confused at the moment, and just responded vaguely.
He originally worked in a hospital in Shanghai, so his home was naturally also in Shanghai. Xia Xu quickly sent him to the address he gave, and then he did not stay long and went straight back to school.
Judging from Cui Xinghua's condition, tonight is obviously not the time for communication.
"Doctor Cui, you shouldn't doubt my identity now, right?"
The next day, in the afternoon, he visited Cui Xinghua's home again.
"Mr. Xia, what are you talking about? I can't thank you enough for saving my life."
Cui Xinghua just smiled gently and warmly invited Xia Xu in to entertain him, exuding a gentle and elegant air.
Having regained his freedom and experienced the peace of mind of home again, he has returned to his normal life and today his mental state is obviously refreshed. He has finally let go of most of his original doubts and vigilance towards Xia Xu.
Moreover, it was not difficult to hear from last night's conversation that Xia Xu had an extraordinary identity. In addition, his initial remarks seemed to indicate that he was planning to recruit him. Naturally, he tried to investigate his background after he came back.
And this investigation went much more smoothly than he had imagined—it was all available on the Internet and could be found with a simple search.
As soon as the name Xia Xu is entered into the search engine's search box, the first titles that pop up are unprecedented top scorer in the college entrance examination, super talented entrepreneur, youngest billionaire, etc.
After that, there were more detailed information about Xinghai Group, including reports that it proactively lowered the price of its new blood pressure drug and was praised as the conscience of Chinese medicine, and even strange stories about controlling robots to fight werewolves with knives in downtown areas.
Especially the last one, other people might regard it as a strange story or a special effect spoof, but he had seen those high-tech robots, their inhuman bodies and swordsmanship with his own eyes last night.
Such a dazzling figure with a halo all around him, with wealth, power, even wisdom and physical fitness, and seems to have a very close relationship with the authorities. It is indeed unlikely that he would collude with the group of lunatics in Gardner Mental Hospital.
The doubts about his identity were resolved. Thinking about it again, Xia Xu's help to him last night was truly a life-saving grace, or even a rebirth.
After all, as long as the law and morality are not taken into account, there are too many ways in this world to distort people's will.
Even he himself could not guarantee that he would really refuse to cooperate after falling into the hands of Gardner and his gang. Perhaps death would be the best outcome at that time.
"In that case, let's get straight to the point. I briefly mentioned it yesterday. Doctor Cui should know roughly why I'm here, right?"
Xia Xu took a seat after Cui Xinghua's warm hospitality and went straight to the point with a smile on his face.
"Logically speaking, I shouldn't refuse Mr. Xia's request for help, but could you first tell me what exactly you want me to do?"
Cui Xinghua first nodded, then shook his head, looking doubtful. It was obvious that he still had some concerns about the matter at Gardner Mental Hospital.
"I mainly hope that Dr. Cui can join Xinghai Biotechnology and cooperate in conducting some clinical experiments in scientific research."
Xia Xu explained.
"I'm just a surgeon. I'm afraid the only thing I can do is..."
Cui Xinghua frowned thoughtfully.
“It is indeed a human experiment.”
Xia Xu admitted it very frankly and said, "Of course, it's a formal experiment. Doctor Cui can rest assured."
As he spoke, he took a sip of the tea that Cui Xinghua had brewed, and said calmly:
"Xinghai Bio is a formal pharmaceutical company and also a military-industrial enterprise that cooperates with the government. There will be no lack of legal supervision, and things like Gardner's will not happen. Only volunteers will participate in the experiment, and the risks will be within an acceptable range."
"I'm afraid the experiment won't be medical, right? Can I know the purpose of the experiment?"
Cui Xinghua just listened silently, waiting for Xia Xu to finish speaking, and then spoke after thinking for a while.
"Goal? Or purpose?"
Xia Xu did not comment.
"Purpose."
Cui Xinghua responded without any hesitation.
"Purpose… "
Xia Xu hesitated for a moment before saying, "Personally, I think it's about seeking the ability to protect myself and the people or things I care about.
Of course, if you want to put it in a broader sense, we have corresponding cooperation with special official departments, that is, departments that specialize in handling incidents like Gardner's. If you want to sublimate it to the meaning of strengthening national defense, protecting the country, and maintaining order, that's fine too."
"Isn't Gardner's case an isolated one?"
Cui Xinghua's expression was moved.
"Of course not. This world is very exciting now. For example, there are the giants you saw yesterday, werewolves, batmen, and all kinds of messy biochemical experimental products and mechanical creations."
Xia Xu shrugged: "I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, we may be on the eve of a multiple storm of technological explosion, industrial revolution, and perhaps arms race."
"That doesn't sound like good news."
Cui Xinghua took some time to digest Xia Xu's words.
"What do you think, Dr. Cui?"
Xia Xu asked.
"I've considered it, but there is one problem that may disappoint you, Mr. Xia."
Cui Xinghua nodded again, then shook his head.
"What's the problem?"
Xia Xu, who was determined to win, frowned.
"My hands are already useless, and it's difficult for me to perform difficult surgeries."
Cui Xinghua laughed bitterly.
"Then how did you take out Zhao Ming and Hong Lei's controllers?"
Xia Xu already knew about this, so he was not surprised, but just a little curious.
Cui Xinghua: "Use your mouth."
Xia Xu: “???”
"My hands have nerve damage, so they tremble violently when I perform high-precision operations. So I can only hold the scalpel in my mouth and perform some low-difficulty operations."
Cui Xinghua looked apologetic and said, "If necessary, I can cooperate with you, Mr. Xia, to perform some minor surgeries, and I can also provide theoretical and verbal guidance, but if it is a surgery that is too difficult, I am afraid I can't help."
"So, Dr. Cui, the minor surgery you mentioned is to take out Gardner's controller with a scalpel in your mouth?"
Xia Xu's face was full of black lines.
The taste of Versailles is exactly the same as that of the little white flowers.
The device Gardner used to control the Titan test subject was implanted in the neck connecting the vertebrae, which was what he had cut when he chopped the Armored Titan before.
The principle of that thing is closely related to the technology of the mechanical centipede spine, or the Gleipnir system that enhanced the werewolves last time. It is definitely a derivative technology of the human behavior algorithm.
This controller is more sophisticated than the Grampnir system that uses the mechanical centipede's spine to operate. It is implanted directly into the body and connected to the spinal nerves.
In such a crude environment, he had to hold the scalpel in his mouth to take it out. Even if he didn't know any surgical skills, he could use his toes to figure out the exaggerated difficulty of it.
"Mr. Xia, you've taken so much trouble to find me, and it's some kind of special human experiment. I think it must be very difficult. Relatively speaking..."
It’s not that Cui Xinghua has no idea about his own technical ability. On the contrary, it is precisely because he understands it that he is in such a dilemma.
Can someone be so serious, travel thousands of miles, and go alone into the devil's cave to save himself, or this is obviously some kind of biological experiment, human body transformation experiment or the like, how can the difficulty be low
Compared with this, he thought that taking the controller should be of low difficulty, and he didn't have the confidence to do anything more difficult in his current state.
These must be made clear in advance, otherwise it would become deception and tricking others.
"It's not as exaggerated as you think, Dr. Cui."
Xia Xu held his forehead and said, "You can treat this experiment as a special heart transplant. In addition, although the nerve damage in your hands cannot be cured for the time being, I can provide a temporary means of suppression."
"Temporary suppression? Really?"
Cui Xinghua's eyes lit up.
It is obvious that he would not give up his career so easily. Being able to withstand a blow does not mean that the blow does not exist. He just has to accept it due to reality.
"I don't think I have any reason to deceive you."
Xia Xu just kept smiling, stretched out a hand and made a gesture for a handshake.
Cui Xinghua's case is not a rare one.
It's not just injuries. Many people suffer from this condition due to congenital or occupational diseases. They have no problem doing daily things, but once they are doing concentrated or high-precision work, their hands will shake uncontrollably.
But for him who still has a few mechanical centipede spines in stock, this is not a problem. The mechanical centipede spines can bypass the nerves and forcibly control the muscles to a certain extent. As long as his control is strong enough, its stability can even exceed that of a normal human body.
After all, when it comes to precision and stability, humans can never compare with machines.