"I have already heard Mr. Kikuoka mention the matter in advance. This week, Kapok Ji also mentioned your affairs to me, saying that you are likely to come to visit, so I have been prepared for it."
Dr. Kurahashi said this to everyone.
"Anyway, let me take you to see Kapok Ji first. Her ward is on the top floor of the central building, which is a bit far away from here. It would be good if you make some mental preparations now."
After leaving such disturbing words, Kurahashi led the way.
Luo Zhen and Asuna immediately looked at each other, one with a calm face and the other with an uneasy face, but they held each other's hands tightly and followed Kurahashi forward.
Kikuoka Seijiro had already completed his mission, but he was also following behind Luo Zhen and Asuna, seemingly intending to watch the whole thing.
Under such circumstances, the group of people walked towards the three elevators lined up in the central hall, heading towards the elevator marked "Staff Only" on the far right.
Kurahashi put a card around his neck on the panel on the right side of the elevator, and the door immediately slid open with a steady ringing. After everyone entered, the elevator opened with almost no movement sound or acceleration. Start rising.
According to Kurahashi, the twelfth floor, the top floor here, is completely off-limits to outsiders, so as soon as you step out of the elevator, there is a heavily guarded door in front of you.
Kurahashi once again put the card hanging around his neck close to the scanner next to the door, and put his palm on the panel for biometric authentication. The metal isolation rod lowered with a subtle metallic sound, allowing everyone to pass.
With such tight security, it is conceivable that if Kikuoka Seijiro, who represents the country, does not come here to clear the customs for Luo Zhen and Asuna, it will definitely not be easy to enter here.
This place is also different from the rest of the floors. There are no windows at all. The passage covered by smooth white panels extends straight forward, and then divides into two roads on the left and right in front.
Kurahashi headed to the passage on the left, letting everyone pass by several nurses in white clothes on the way. They came to a corner where they could hardly hear any noise from the outside world.
Here, on the right wall, there is an automatic door.
On the wall next to it, there is a metal panel set there.
The door plate embedded on it reads: "No. 1 Special Measuring Machine Room."
Kurahashi swiped the card through the gap under the panel.
"Didi!"
As the electronic sound sounded, the door opened.
Inside the door is a rather long and narrow room. The front wall has the same door as before. There is a console equipped with several screens on the right side. There is a large horizontal window on the left wall, but the glass is black. , the interior scene is completely invisible.
Kurahashi stopped here.
“Behind this glass is an air-conditioned sterile room that is inaccessible.”
Kurahashi said this.
"Now, let you meet Kapok Ji."
After saying that, Kurahashi approached the black window and manipulated the panel below.
After a few seconds, the color of the window quickly faded with a slight vibration, and finally turned into transparent glass, revealing the scene inside.
Both Luo Zhen and Asuna saw it clearly.
What appears behind the glass is a room.
A room that is quite large in terms of area, but looks very small at first glance.
Because, the room was filled with all kinds of instruments, including tall, short, simple quadrilateral, and various complex-shaped instruments. There was only a gel bed in the center of the room.
"...!"
Asuna was stuck to the glass almost instantly.
the reason is simple.
I saw a petite figure lying on the gel bed as if half-sunk into the blue gel.
The white sheets covered her chest.
The exposed shoulders were too thin to look at.
There are various pipelines on the throat and two arms connecting the surrounding machines.
There was a white cube integrated with the bed that completely covered the other person's head, making it impossible to see her face. Only her bloodless thin lips and pointed jaw could be seen.
The white cube looked exactly like the picture Asuna had seen in the car.
In other words, it is a complete stealth machine for medical use——.
However, the person using this machine was a pitifully thin girl.
That scene made Asuna's heart twist at some point.
Luo Zhen's eyes also changed.
Just because the scene in front of him somewhat stimulated Luo Zhen's painful past.
In the past, Luo Zhen was like this, lying in a white ward, connected to various instruments.
Even Matthew collapsed after the fifth singularity, and his body developed a condition. He may still be in such a sterile room now.
As a result, such a scene naturally makes Luo Zhen unavoidably irritable.
Asuna was completely confirmed.
"Is that Yuuki?"
Asuna's eyes looked so bitter.
Yes.
That is Yuuki, or Konno Kapoki.
Yuuki is just the other person's character name, Konno Kapoki is the other person's real name.
The other party was the experimenter of , a real critical patient.
"In May 2011, Kapok Ji's mother decided to have a caesarean section due to dystocia. Although it is no longer possible to confirm it from the medical records, at that time, due to the accident, Kapok Ji's mother suffered a large amount of bleeding, which made the doctor at the time It was decided to perform an emergency blood transfusion to save the lives of the mother and daughter."
Kurahashi began to explain without any warning.
"Unfortunately, unfortunately, the blood used at that time was actually infected with the virus."
Kurahashi's words made Asuna turn her head and look at him.
"Virus-infected blood...?"
Asuna's eyes widened.
"That's right." Cangqiao nodded and said with a somewhat sad voice: "Humans usually check blood to confirm whether they have been infected by a certain virus, but within ten days of infection, even using nucleic acid tests cannot Once the existence of the virus is discovered, this period is called the window period.”
“During the gap period, even if the blood for transfusion provided by blood donation activities is infected, there is still no way to detect it. The result is that the chance of being infected with the virus after a blood transfusion is only one in hundreds of thousands. In modern times, Science still cannot reduce this probability to zero."
The implication is very obvious.
"Kapokji's mother misused infected blood, which eventually caused the mother, daughter, and even the whole family to become infected with the disease."
Hearing such words, Asuna's heartbeat accelerated at an alarming rate.
"... Yuuki... what disease did Miss Konno contract...?"
Asuna asked in a slightly hoarse voice.
Kurahashi lowered his eyes and answered.
"Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome."
"Commonly known as - "AIDS". "