"What did you say?" Xia Chuhe wondered if he had misheard.
Xia Chuhe had personally witnessed 123 use the all-purpose medicine; one injection produced immediate results.
By the way, 123 is also an artificial human. Back then, the mutation level suddenly increased, and the gene serum lost its effect on her.
The healing-type evolved being said loudly, word by word: "My life is not going to last much longer."
Xia Chuhe clenched his fists.
Li Yue placed her hand on Xia Chuhe's fist and said softly, "It's alright."
She said to the evolved being who made the diagnosis, "Thank you."
The evolved being waved his hand: "Don't just thank me with words. If you really want to thank me, write me a good story or get me some good food."
Li Yue smiled politely, without saying a word.
Since her health deteriorated, she has rarely cooked.
Xia Chuhe muttered to himself, "Something's not right? This problem only started recently; you were perfectly normal at the base before. Were you using gene-editing agents at the base as well? Where did you buy them?"
Li Yue said gently, "Five Star Company, the medicines I use have always been purchased from the same place, including this one. Don't overthink it, okay?"
A silence fell between the two of them.
The grief of Lu Dangui's departure struck Xia Chuhe once again. That pain was like the moss by the riverbank, slippery and sticky, impossible to get rid of completely.
Besides grief, Xia Chuhe also felt a sense of panic about Li Yue's departure.
Xia Chuhe suddenly realized that when faced with the departure of her best friend, she had no way to make amends at all.
Li Yue broke the silence: "I should have died long ago, I should have died in the animal kingdom. I'm very content to have lived so long, to have met you all, and to still be able to enjoy delicious food at the food amusement park."
Xia Chuhe forced a smile: "Once you recover, you'll live a long time. By then, Bu Yi and the others will have complete control of the Heavenly God Temple, and I'd like to get some land to cultivate. I'm waiting for you to help me find seeds."
“Okay,” Li Yue said.
Xia Chuhe escorted Li Yue back to the room he had reserved for her at the hotel, and behind her back, he frantically browsed through the posts on the Haijiao Forum that had previously recruited healing-type evolvers.
The post that was made to help Li Yue get treatment has received many replies, but without exception, no one knows the cause of Li Yue's illness.
Xia Chuhe went to the housekeeper, Changsheng, Su Ye, and all the connections she had, but no one could help, no one could save Li Yue.
The passage of time was like a saw, repeatedly tearing at Xia Chuhe's fragile psyche.
The hotel staff knocked on the door and asked Xia Chuhe if he wanted to come out and get something to eat, but Xia Chuhe couldn't eat.
Xia Chuhe's eyes were bloodshot from staying up all night. She began searching repeatedly on the official website and the Tianya forum for words like genetic disease, deterioration, and drug failure.
She carefully read each potentially relevant piece of information, one by one.
Suddenly, a new reply appeared in the thread on the Tianya forum: "[The situation described by the original poster seems familiar. Several years ago, I was traveling outside the base, and there was a woman whose gene serum also failed to work.]"
Xia Chuhe immediately sent a private message to this person using her administrator account: 【Has the person you mentioned in the post been cured? What was the cause of their illness? How was it treated?】
The person did not reply.
Xia Chuhe checked this person's registration method and personal information in the background.
This person was brought into the forum by Lao Qin.
Xia Chuhe immediately contacted Lao Qin, hoping he could help make the connection.
Xia Chuhe sent Lao Qin many messages, but received no reply. She had no choice but to call Lao Qin, and this time he answered.
Old Qin's voice was still sleepy: "What's wrong?"
"Help me contact someone," Xia Chuhe reminded him to check the message.
After reading the message, Lao Qin went to contact the person who posted it on the forum.
It was only after receiving this phone call that Xia Chuhe realized it was already late at night, and the person who posted the message might already be asleep.
Fortunately, Lao Qin was helpful, and it didn't take long for that person to reply to Xia Chuhe's message on the forum.
I've spent many years in the wasteland and have seen two such strange patients. One had a rotten face; I heard it was from deep radiation exposure in a dungeon, and gene serums could only alleviate the symptoms, not cure it.
Judging from the man's description, the patient seemed to be number 123. Xia Chuhe did not interrupt the man and waited quietly for him to tell the second case.
[The second one was outside the wasteland, but the patient wasn't an android; she was a normal evolved human who also suddenly contracted the disease. I later gave her a gene serum, which alleviated her symptoms.]
Xia Chuhe couldn't hold back any longer: "Could you tell me first, did the person eventually recover?"
Perhaps Xia Chuhe was too anxious, because she always felt that the messages on the other end were being replied to very slowly. She wished she could crawl into the phone and see with her own eyes what the other end was typing.
Xia Chuhe stared intently at his watch when there was another knock on the door.
Xia Chuhe replied instinctively, "I don't eat dinner."
Li Qiusheng's voice rang out from the doorway: "Boss, come out...and see Sister Li."
Li Qiusheng's voice was different from usual, with a heavy nasal tone.
Xia Chuhe's heart skipped a beat; he had a bad feeling.
My watch vibrated.
The person sent a message: "[It's not cured. We've tried everything, but nothing works; it's only getting worse. I still don't understand what her illness is. If you manage to cure her, please mention it in the thread. It would be a valuable contribution to our research as healing-type evolvers.]"
Xia Chuhe blinked; his eyes were very sore.
She tried to open the door, but as soon as she stood up, her left leg suddenly went weak, and she stumbled and fell to her knees.
Xia Chuhe pushed himself up and stiffly brushed the dust off his knees.
"How is she?" Xia Chuhe asked Li Qiusheng, whose eyes were red.
Li Qiusheng whispered, "He's dead."
“She was sleeping peacefully, without making a sound. As she slept, her face slowly turned ashen. When I touched her…” Li Qiusheng choked up, unable to continue.
Xia Chuhe walked stiffly toward Li Yue's room.
...
Lu Danggui's broken bones are still on Xia Chuhe's farm, and now Xia Chuhe has another set of ashes in his hands.
Bu Yi and Wang Yan arrived late and had no chance to say goodbye to Li Yue; they only had time to see her one last time.
02 put his arm around Xia Chuhe's shoulder and whispered, "She really liked the food and amusement park. She... has chosen a burial place. Let her sleep there, okay?"
Xia Chuhe silently walked to the spot that Li Yue had already chosen for him and mechanically dug a hole in the ground with his hands.
What has happened these past few months feels like a dream.
Lu Danggui's death came suddenly.
Li Yue's death was both slow and sudden.
It was as if fate was playing a cruel joke on her; Li Yue died the very next day after she returned.
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