The cicadas were chirping in the trees, and the warm summer sun was shining on the hospital garden, but Bai Ye just felt cold.
After listening to Su Yi's long narration, he felt as if his head was stuffed with paste and he couldn't say anything for a while.
"Are you sure it's Run?"
Bai Ye asked hesitantly:
"Because... there's a long time between the appearance of each letter. Could it be... some kind of coincidence?"
The point R on the math paper and the voltage U in physics might have been circled by Wang Suren simply because he didn't like the two letters. As for the N on the button, it might have been a coincidence.
But if it really wasn't a coincidence, Bai Ye thought, Run, run, what is Su Yi running for? Is he trying to escape from something?
The whole thing is so weird, how could someone just give three letters in four years, not explain anything clearly, and then die like the Riddler?
"I don't know if it was a coincidence."
Su Yi lowered his head and looked at the light spots on the ground with his eyes downcast. The sunlight fell on his eyelashes, casting the shadow of his eyelashes on his porcelain-white face.
"But that cufflink has more than just the letter N. I found a bug in it."
Bai Ye: “What?!”
That evening, Su Yi picked up the button. At first, he just treated it as a souvenir and secretly hid it under the pillow in his bedroom.
He spelled out RUN in his mind, but he wasn't sure what it meant.
Let him run, where to run? And after 4 years, is this really the message?
Su Yi was not sure at that time, and he thought that maybe he could ask his adoptive father openly.
Ever since he asked about [the purpose of adoption] when he was 13, a series of strange things happened. Su Yi kept all his questions about his adoptive father in his heart and never asked again.
However, that night, Wang Suren died in a car accident, and Su Yi could never ask about it again.
After learning that Wang Suren had been in a car accident, Su Yi stayed in the bedroom that night holding the cufflink and studying it carefully.
The bedside lamp cast a warm yellow light, and the golden metal was shining. Su Yi suddenly discovered that there was a small gap on the edge of the cufflinks.
He immediately took a tool to pry it open, and the round shell of the cufflink fell on the table with a slight clicking sound, revealing the inside of the cufflink:
A tiny micro machine is embedded inside.
Su Yi pried the little thing out, disassembled it, and deduced based on the operating principles of the machine parts that it should be a listening device. It had no video function and could only monitor in one direction.
The circuit has burned out and can't function anymore. All the key parts are damaged and it's probably impossible to repair it.
He quickly reported the incident to the police, suspecting that Wang Suren's car accident might be a fake murder case, and the cufflink was submitted as evidence.
"But the police did not find the key evidence between the wiretap and the murder," Su Yi said.
After careful inspection, no evidence of tampering was found in the black BMW involved in the accident. At the same time, the police found that Wang Suren's computer and mobile phone had been hacked before his death, and the company's meeting room was also found to have a bug. The secretary said that many business rivals would indeed use such despicable means, and it had been discovered before.
The police suspected that the eavesdropping devices in the cufflinks might also be the result of vicious commercial competition. The secretary provided the names of several suspected rival companies. After visiting and investigating, no new evidence could be found to prove that they were the ones who installed the eavesdropping devices. Finally, the police gave verbal warnings to the bosses of these companies and the case was closed.
As for the connection between the wiretap and the car accident, there is absolutely no direct connection between them.
Since no further evidence was found, the car accident was eventually closed as a traffic accident.
Su Yi disagreed with this result. If the cufflinks' monitor and the car accident were completely independent events, then perhaps it could have been business competition and an accident, but these two things were connected.
After dropping the cufflinks, Wang Suren deliberately did not let him pick them up, because once he picked them up, Su Yi would definitely hand the cufflinks to Wang Suren, and there was no reason for him to keep them for himself.
Did the adoptive father purposely leave this cufflink for him?
Run.
What on earth could it be that required him to be told to run away in such a subtle way?
From then on, Su Yi became more cautious. He would open and check all the express deliveries he received at places he had been to, to prevent any eavesdropping devices from being installed inside, like the cufflinks.
But he made no new discoveries.
Su Yi: "It's a bit embarrassing to say this, but I also investigated you."
"Hey, me?" Bai Ye was a little surprised.
"Yeah." Su Yi admitted. Since he wanted to run and escape, there must be something that was restraining him, so Su Yi carefully sorted out the relationships with the people around him:
His adoptive father had died in a car accident, and his younger brothers and sisters, who were also heart patients, had also passed away one after another. His own health was getting worse day by day, and if he didn't have a heart transplant in two years, he would probably die. During this period of time, the only person who was relatively close to him was... Bai Ye.
Su Yi quickly investigated the situation of the Bai family. Bai Ye's father was a businessman and his mother worked for a foreign company. His parents divorced when he was 12 years old.
After the divorce, Bai Ye lived with his father. His mother met a foreigner and remarried in the UK. They currently have a son and a daughter, who are of Chinese and British descent. During the Christmas holidays, his mother and her family would bring their children to China for vacation and to visit Bai Ye. His mixed-race brothers and sisters get along well with Bai Ye.
Bai's father's business has always been very profitable. He owns properties in many places across the country. He applied for a Hong Kong ID card in his early years, and later obtained a green card from Country M. He remarried a Chinese woman from Country M and currently has a pair of twin sons. During the summer vacation, Bai Ye sometimes goes to Country M for vacation and plays with his younger brothers.
Generally speaking, I get along well with my parents' second family.
The Bai family also has real estate and businesses in Country M, but the majority of the business is still in China, and Bai's father is the one who runs back and forth between the two. When Bai Ye was 13 years old, his father asked him if he wanted to transfer to Country M to attend junior high school, but Bai Ye felt that he was not used to the living environment abroad, so he chose to stay in China. As his father's business expanded, he moved to L City to attend junior high school. When his father was away, he was taken care of by a housekeeper.
In the second semester of junior high school, Bai Ye transferred in as a transfer student, and happened to be in Su Yi's class. They were in the same class for three years in junior high school, and they were in the class next to each other in high school and even fell in love. Su Yi recalled, thinking about the impression she had of him in her heart over the past few years:
Bai Ye has a cheerful personality and a normal mentality. He does not have symptoms such as arrogance, extremism, darkness, or hysteria. He has normal social skills and above-average academic performance, neither outstanding nor bad. He is good at sports and has been forced by his father to learn the violin since he was a child. Sometimes he is assigned by the teacher to perform in programs. He serves as the sports committee member in the class. He is well-known in the grade for his good basketball skills. He is one of the campus celebrities and gets along well with his classmates and teachers.
No matter how you look at it, he is a normal child from a wealthy family. There is nothing strange about him.
The Bai family's business is also a normal business and there is no involvement with gangs or anything like that.
Su Yi, who couldn't find any clues, still didn't know what RUN meant at that time, and what was the connection with the cufflink monitor?
He also tried to find a breakthrough from Wang Suren's belongings, but found no clues.
At this moment, Su Yi, who was in a foreign country and sitting in the hospital, raised his head and looked at the sunshine in the garden. He was far away from the city and the country where he was born. It can be said that in terms of physical distance, he ran far enough.
Has he escaped now?
Su Yi didn't know.
"call--"
Under the warm sunshine, Su Yi heaved a sigh of relief: "It feels much easier now that I've spoken out."
Although he didn't know what those strange things meant, maybe there was nothing, but just a series of coincidences that made him think too much, which led to something incredible.
Nothing happened in the two years since my adoptive father passed away.
"Just listen to it casually." Su Yi said to Bai Ye, "Don't take it too seriously, I just want to speak it out."
Bai Ye: "Okay."
What Su Yi said was too confusing. Bai Ye tried to think from his perspective. What would happen if he were Su Yi and encountered these things?
He imagined it in his mind and found that if it were him, he would probably be like this: Great! I was adopted! From now on, I will live in a big villa and grow up happily.
——Nothing will be discovered.
Until his adoptive father got into a car accident, he would be sad for a while, and then he would continue to grow up happily with the inheritance.
Bai Yexiang laughed, feeling a little helpless.
Su Yi heard his laughter and asked, "What's wrong?"
Bai Ye told Su Yi his fantasy as a joke, and Su Yi laughed, his eyebrows and eyes curved like a crescent moon in the sky. Seeing his happy look, Bai Ye finally felt relieved.
It's almost time to go back to the ward.
Bai Ye pushed the wheelchair back and prayed in his heart that he was willing to exchange his life's luck for a successful heart surgery.
The smell of grass, soil and sunshine in the garden was left behind. Su Yi, sitting in a wheelchair, re-entered the hospital and smelled a strong smell of disinfectant at the tip of his nose.
...It smells really bad.
Su Yi held his breath. This was probably... the last time he would endure this taste.
If the operation is successful, he will be a normal and healthy person from then on. If it fails, he will be dead.
Thinking of death, Su Yi's hands tightened reflexively, his fingertips clenched the armrests of the wheelchair, squeezing so hard that his nails turned slightly white.
Until a warm temperature covered the back of his hand——
"Don't be afraid."
Bai Ye observed Su Yi's reaction. He held his hand tightly, giving him a reassuring force:
"It'll go well."
Knock knock—there was a knock on the door outside the ward.
Doctor Lin Na and the nurse pushed the door open and came in: "It's time to prepare for surgery."
Su Yi responded, and the nurse pushed in a mobile bed covered with a blue sterile cloth, motioning for him to lie on it. They were going to transfer him from the inpatient ward to a specialized operating room.
His legs tightened, Bai Ye bent over, picked up Su Yi, and gently placed him on the mobile bed.
Doctor Lin Na put on her stethoscope and finally checked Su Yi's basic physical condition:
"No problem. Let's go."
The nurse pushed the bed and Su Yi lay on the blue bed sheet. He felt the wheels rolling and the white ceiling in his sight receding.
When this moment really came, his heart felt like it was stuffed with a large ball of cotton, filled to the brim, yet empty to the point of being bottomless.
Bai Ye followed the movement of the hospital bed closely, holding Su Yi's hand tightly, using his body temperature to convey a sense of security:
"It'll be fine."
The medical staff moved quickly and skillfully. The separation of life and death between patients and their families was part of their daily work. They were very familiar with the process and soon the bed was pushed to the door of the operating room.
The automatic glass door opened to both sides, and the nurse made a stop gesture to Bai Ye.
Bai Ye paused.
He grasped Su Yi's hand tightly, and finally, let go.
The nurse did not stop and pushed the bed straight into the operating room.
The glass door automatically closes inwards from both sides.
Su Yi was lying on the hospital bed. He saw a figure standing behind the gradually closing glass door. Bai Ye gave him a sunny smile:
"I'll wait for you outside."
His smile was caught in the middle by the glass door, and finally——
despair.
A faint sound was heard, and the glass door closed tightly, crushing Bai Ye's figure and smile.
The moving bed was pushed and positioned. Su Yi turned his head and looked out the glass window of the operating room. Bai Ye took two steps and appeared in his sight again.
Through the thick cold glass, Bai Ye was silently cheering him on, making a cheering gesture towards him, showing that cheerful smile, trying hard to show a positive and optimistic look, and wishing him all the best luck.
Su Yi pursed her lips and smiled.
If this is a farewell forever, the last thing he will remember will be Bai Ye's smile.
An indescribable warmth surged through his limbs and bones. Su Yi, who had regained his real memory, felt a completely different experience at this moment. It was also a heart surgery, but in his [virtual memory] there was only coldness and loneliness. He came to the hospital alone, lay on the bed alone, and was sent to the operating room alone. At that time, he also turned his head to look at the glass window just like now.
There was no one there, no one was waiting for him.
But in real life, as long as he turns his head, he can see concern outside the glass.
Su Yi had repeatedly turned his head to look over the side of his bed in the [virtual reality]. The corridor outside his own ward was always empty, with pale fluorescent lights reflecting on the tiles. Occasionally someone passed by. Were they other patients? Their family members hurriedly running to other wards.
No one ever cared about him.
At that time, Su Yi, who was trapped in [virtual reality], couldn't understand himself. He had seen it so many times, and his mind already knew the answer. No one would wait for him, so why did he always have such strange subconscious actions?
Now, Su Yi knew the answer.
"Are you ready? The operation begins."
Dr. Lin Na is fully armed, wearing a mask, latex surgical gloves, and medical gown.
Su Yi: "Yeah."
Swish——
The nurse pulled up a curtain to cover the glass window. The operating room suddenly became dark. Su Yi heard a voice:
Snap!
The huge operating light lit up, and it was like being illuminated by countless bathroom heaters. Su Yi squinted his eyes and almost wanted to cry.
"Start anesthesia now." Doctor Lin Na's voice sounded in my ears.
General anesthesia and endotracheal intubation.
Su Yi felt uncomfortable, a kind of discomfort that he was accustomed to. He had been intubated many times since he was a child. It could almost be said that it had become a daily routine in his life, a terrible daily routine.
A thin tube was inserted from the mouth, through his pharynx, larynx, glottis, and finally into the main bronchus.
Su Yi closed his eyes and endured it quietly. He knew that this was a tracheotomy and a transesophageal echocardiogram monitor.
At this time, his mouth was forced open, and the upper and lower teeth were blocked by medical tools, unable to close themselves. The tiny probe was inserted into his mouth, passed through the oral cavity and throat, inserted into the esophagus, and placed in the middle of the esophagus, and kept there. This kind of ultrasound monitoring of the heart produces clearer images, which can help doctors eliminate the influence of lung gas on heart examination.
This is just another daily routine for him since he was a child.
Even if these things become a daily routine, it is still painful every time you experience them. Illness is the most real pain.
Under respiratory general anesthesia, Su Yi gradually felt his consciousness being separated from his body. He became confused and all his joy, sorrow and pain began to leave him.
At the last moment, he opened his eyes hazily, and the last scene he saw was the pair of green eyes on Dr. Lin Na's mask. Under the illumination of the operating light, the green was a bit creepy.
white.
White wall.
When he regained consciousness, Su Yi saw a white wall.
This vision is very strange, because when the operation was over, he should be lying on the hospital bed, and when he opened his eyes, what he should see is the white ceiling of the hospital.
...What's even stranger is that this memory does not exist in his brain.
Whether it was the [virtual memory] or the [real memory] he recovered, after the heart surgery, everything was blank and there was no impression.
Su Yi turned his head and saw a huge 3D folder lying behind him.
…!
It seems that this is no longer his memory. He sat on the electric chair and put on the helmet in the interrogation room, logged into the Thriller account, and found the folder [Connection Test].
The moment he clicked on the file [First Connection Experiment], Su Yi came into contact with the [Elimination] code, which immediately erased the [False Memory] code in his brain. The [Real Memory] retained in his brain was exposed, reminding him of his previous life.
And now what appeared before his eyes was the [First Connection Experiment] file itself, which was being played holographically, and the viewer could immerse himself in the scene.
The perspective was slowly turning, revealing the snow-white walls of the operating room, the snow-white bed, a person lying on the bed, the snow-white quilt bulging, and Su Yi saw himself.
The first time Su Yi saw himself after heart surgery from a third-person perspective, he felt something was a little strange. He immediately looked at the heart monitoring chart:
drip-drip-drip-
The monitored wave line leaped over the peak, fell into the valley, and then crossed the mountains again, jumping out of the endless mountains on the electronic screen, demonstrating full vitality.
Su Yi stared at the scene in a daze.
…Was his heart surgery successful?
Then why did he have no memory at all? What happened in the real world afterwards?
The perspective was still turning, turning to the glass side. The curtain was half-drawn, and Su Yi saw outside through the gap.
A tall figure stood in the pale corridor like a stone statue.
Bai Ye was still standing there, and no one knew how long he had been enduring in the empty corridor. Su Yi saw that there were dark circles under his eyes.
I guess he didn't eat or drink well, his lips were cracked and peeling, and he looked like a ghost.
Click.
The operating light outside went out.
The ghostly white night suddenly seemed to come alive, with a light in its eyes that was both hopeful and sad.
The glass door of the operating room? Open to both sides——
Doctor Lin Na and the nurse walked out.
Su Yi saw Bai Ye rushing up almost at the speed of light and blocking them.
Dr. Lin Na took a half step back and made a gesture to keep a distance and not get too excited. She took off her mask and smiled.
Through the thick glass, Su Yi couldn't hear what was said outside. He only saw Bai Ye's face full of surprise and a moment of daze.
Then, all his facial features expanded and turned into a huge ecstasy, which overwhelmed him like a tidal wave.
Su Yi saw Bai Ye squatting on the ground, almost crying with joy. Doctor Lin Na patted his shoulder, and the nurse also smiled and nodded, as if to congratulate him.
Only Su Yi wanted to touch Bai Ye's head.
——Bai Ye was so happy and cheerful, thinking that from now on they could realize all their beautiful dreams about the future.
Bai Ye stood up, his eyes red and a look of surprise on his face, and pointed to the glass window, as if he wanted to rush into the operating room. Dr. Lin Na stopped him and said a few words, and other nurses also tried to stop him.
Su Yi couldn't hear, but he could roughly guess that Dr. Lin Na probably said that he had just finished surgery and needed to rest, so she asked Bai Ye to come in and see him later.
The perspective began to rotate again, slowly turning back and freezing on the hospital bed.
The scene seemed to be still, and Su Yi watched himself sleeping.
I don’t know how long it had been, but suddenly, the quilt on the bed moved!
The fingers placed on the snow-white sheets twitched slightly, and the fingertips moved up and down, gradually connecting the five fingers and moving.
The camera angle was gradually raised, recording the patient on the bed. Su Yi saw his own face clearly, lying on the pillow with his eyes closed.
Swoosh——
Suddenly, I opened my eyes on the hospital bed and woke up completely.
His face was pale, but there was still color in his lips, and he looked like he had recovered exceptionally well.
The black eyeballs kept rolling in the eye sockets. Su Yi saw himself rolling his eyeballs on the hospital bed, as if looking at everything around him.
——This feeling is quite strange, I am observing myself closely from a third-person perspective, watching my eyes moving around. But I have no idea what I am thinking.
Finally, Su Yi saw himself on the hospital bed turning his head, not towards the glass window on Bai Ye's side, but in the opposite direction.
He was looking at the bedside table next to the bed.
His cell phone was lying on it, and the plush lamb that Bai Ye gave him was hanging quietly on the phone, stretching out its little hands, wanting to hug another lamb.
——This bedside table is also a bit strange. Su Yi remembered that there was no such bedside table in the operating room originally. He did not bring any personal belongings when he was pushed into the operating room. His cell phone and other things were all placed in the original ward.
Did someone...help him take it into the operating room?
...Who is it? A medical worker like Dr. Lin Na? Why? So that he can play with his phone as soon as he wakes up?
Su Yi felt confused.
At this moment, he was lying on the hospital bed, staring at his mobile phone. He glanced at the lamb pendant with a cold look.
Then, Su Yi saw himself reaching out and picking up the phone on the bedside table.
His expression was very matter of course, without any hesitation at all, as if the phone should be there right now.
Tick, tick, tap, tap.
Unlocking the phone with fingerprints, pressing the buttons on the phone screen with his fingertips, Su Yi saw himself lying on the hospital bed, dialing a number?
...Who should I call?
Apart from Bai Ye, he had no one else to call.
From this shooting angle, Su Yi couldn't see the phone screen and couldn't get the phone number.
Beep-beep-beep-
After three beeps, the other end picked up the phone!
Su Yi held his breath and listened.
But the other party didn't say anything, as if waiting for this side to speak first.
The next moment, Su Yi saw his mouth open, and a voice that was totally unlike his own came out, and he spoke a low English sentence into the phone:
“I’m back.”
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