"Su Yi, lunch is here?"
Snap!
Bai Ye deliberately placed the prepared Chinese food heavily on the bedside table in the ward.
"Su Yi" was still lying on the hospital bed, eyes closed, not waking up.
Bai Ye sat in the chair and didn't say anything.
The doctor said that the heart surgery was successful. Logically, Su Yi's body should have recovered. There is no reason for him to be unable to wake up like this when sleeping.
Besides, Su Yi has always been a light sleeper and would open his eyes if he was called.
Bai Ye looked at the person on the hospital bed and felt a sense of strangeness.
He quietly got up and walked towards the backpack by the windowsill, where Su Yi's cell phone was. He wanted to see if the lamb pendant was really... thrown away.
Sizzle, sizzle.
He pinched the zipper of the backpack, slowly opened it a little, and reached his hand in...
After searching for a while, Bai Ye found nothing. It was strange. Su Yi's phone should be in the backpack. How come he couldn't find it for a while? He was about to unzip it to find it——
"white night."
Suddenly, Bai Ye heard a call from behind.
"Su Yi" sat up on the hospital bed, and just when he was about to find his cell phone, he woke up at the right moment.
"…Bai Ye, what are you doing?"
"Su Yi" lying on the hospital bed was sleepy, with his dark eyes half open and half closed. He stretched out his delicate hands to rub his eyes, looking a little pitiful.
There was no expression on Bai Ye's face, but he was frowning madly inside.
What happened to "Su Yi"'s voice? It became as if... a little bit coquettish?
It wasn't very obviously coquettish, but Bai Ye felt uncomfortable listening to it, as if the voice was deliberately pinched to talk to him.
Su Yi usually speaks in a rather soft voice, slowly, and with a gentle tone, but this is probably because he is sick, so his voice sounds thin and small, not as full of energy and vitality as other boys of the same age.
When Su Yi's condition improved significantly, his voice would become more handsome, not so weak and timid, and he would not deliberately pinch his voice to pretend to be weak in front of him.
"I'm a little hungry, Bai Ye..."
Being coquettish again!
Bai Ye quietly took a half step back, feeling a chill in his heart.
For the first time in his life, he didn't want to feed the patient, and he didn't even want to go near the bed. Bai Ye pointed at the cafeteria food on the bedside table and said coldly:
"eat."
"Su Yi" lying on the hospital bed turned his head and glanced at the box of Chinese food. His brows instantly furrowed and he revealed an expression of disgust.
Bai Ye was a little surprised. The meal he ordered was Su Yi's favorite sweet and sour pork ribs, and he had never seen Su Yi show such an expression.
"Ah, but what should I do? I... don't really want to eat this."
The "Su Yi" in front of him frowned and looked very embarrassed. She spoke softly with such a pretty face. I felt pity for her, but Bai Ye saw some affectation in her.
"I want to eat the beef sandwich downstairs in the hospital. Can you buy it for me, Bai Ye?"
——Don’t act like a spoiled brat!
Bai Ye really wanted to say this, but he held himself back.
There was an unpleasant stench emanating from the bed, filling the air everywhere. Bai Ye couldn't stand it anymore. He held his breath, hummed briefly, and quickly fled from the ward.
Bang--
The door of the ward was closed, Bai Ye heaved a sigh of relief, and took a deep breath of the disinfected air in the corridor.
After heart surgery, "Su Yi" became... so weird!
Bai Ye thought about it and decided to go downstairs and buy a beef sandwich from the fast food restaurant next to the hospital gate.
He wanted to see if "Su Yi" really wanted to eat.
According to his understanding, Su Yi has never really liked eating beef and mutton, especially the beef and mutton from foreign countries, which have a strong fishy smell. Foreigners have strong tastes and may think that such meat is the original flavor, which Su Yi cannot eat.
Now he is specifically asked to buy a beef sandwich. How strange?
Moreover, this matter itself does not quite suit Su Yi's personality. Su Yi is a person who seldom takes the initiative to ask others for anything.
When he was first hospitalized, Su Yi always advised him to just hire a nurse to take care of him at night and not to have someone stay by his bedside. However, Bai Ye disagreed and insisted on taking care of him himself.
Because the caregiver is a stranger, Su Yi rarely makes requests to people he is close to, and he is even less likely to speak to strangers. If the caregiver is not thorough in any way, he will just endure it silently.
Now, he ordered some delicious sweet and sour pork ribs for Chinese food, but "Su Yi" said he didn't want to eat it and asked him to go outside to buy a beef sandwich with a stronger flavor.
When talking to him, there is a sense of affectation, such as "What should I do? I don't want to eat" and "Please come, Bai Ye". It is so disgusting!
This is totally not like Su Yi.
Bai Ye frowned in confusion.
His words and actions don't seem like Su Yi, but his appearance and body are clearly Su Yi. What... is going on?
Walking out of the hospital gate?
The street was bustling with people, and the afternoon sun shone through the fallen leaves of the sycamore trees. Bai Ye turned left with ease and walked into a food alley.
The second one? The storefront is the sandwich shop that "Su Yi" wants to eat. The shop sign has a big "Sandwich" in white letters on a green background. There is also a big reddish-brown flag next to it with a piece of beef on it and the words: BEEF
There was a small blackboard at the entrance of the store, with today's menu written on it. The names of the dishes were all handwritten, with tadpole words written one after another in a flamboyant style. Bai Ye could only recognize one word: MENU.
This store was doing a booming business, with quite a few people queuing up. There were people of all races in the line. Bai Ye took a quick look and saw a white man behind him, a black girl in front of him, and an Asian youth in front of him who was about the same height as him, blocking his view forward.
The ordering process at the sandwich shop was very quick and it wasn't long before Bai Ye's turn came.
“Beef sandwich”
There was no need to understand the menu. Bai Ye didn't care and just blurted out two words to the owner.
The bearded shop owner was very enthusiastic. He smiled at him in a friendly manner, and then mumbled a string of English words.
Bai Ye didn't understand a word and was confused. He only heard that the tone of the sentence ended with a rising pitch, which meant it was a question.
He ruminated over this sentence carefully in his mind as if he was sitting in an English listening test. There seemed to be a very familiar word in this sentence, which sounded like "toilet".
Special toilet, tomato...tomato!
Let's speculate further. This sentence is a question. The situation is that he is buying a sandwich, so he should be asking him what sauce he wants on his beef sandwich, xxx sauce, yyy sauce, or ketchup?
Since he didn't understand the other sauces before ketchup, Bai Ye smiled and nodded at the owner and said:
“…Tomato.”
After buying the sandwich, Bai Ye left the ordering line, moved two steps, and waited at the food delivery counter.
The people waiting in front of him were a little black girl, a tall Asian youth, and an old woman with gray hair. The white man who had placed his order behind him also ordered and joined the queue.
While waiting, Bai Ye looked down at his phone and searched on the Google app:
[After the heart surgery, I seem to have become a different person?]
First search result:
"With the continuous development of modern medicine, today's high-end medical technology can even perform heart transplants on humans. But surprisingly, there have been patients who have successfully undergone heart transplants in the past, and they seem to have become a different person after the surgery. The weirdest thing is that the source of these habits and movements is precisely the original owner of the heart."
Bai Ye frowned as he watched.
He slid his fingers and quickly browsed on the search app. There were many rumors of this kind.
Report 1: A patient who underwent a heart transplant surgery in a certain country often had the urge to jump from a high place. After investigation, he found out that the previous owner of the transplanted heart committed suicide by jumping off a building due to depression.
Report 2: A truck driver who dropped out of school at the age of 15 in a foreign country actually became interested in writing poetry after undergoing a heart transplant. His writing style is excellent, and it is completely hard to tell that this is something that a truck driver who has not received much education can do. After verification, it was found that the previous owner of this heart was an elderly poet.
But these reports all have one thing in common: the locations where the events occurred are generally overseas, the names of the people are all unknown, and the reports do not look like formal news stories. There is not even a time or place, and it seems like they were written completely casually. Bai Ye has no way of verifying them.
Did he think about it? After thinking about it, he decided to search for more scientific evidence related to the heart.
Science shows that the human heart is just an organ responsible for supplying blood to various parts of the body, acting as a pump.
This scientific report also said that people have long believed that spiritual and emotional activities are felt with the "heart", which is a complete misunderstanding since ancient times. People's personality habits and emotional activities are all carried out in the relevant areas of the brain.
Therefore, a heart transplant will not transfer the original owner's personality traits.
...Then, why did Su Yi become weird?
Bai Ye frowned and thought hard, but he couldn't figure it out.
Did you encounter something strange that cannot be explained by science?
Or...
He thought for a while.
Suddenly! A thought flashed through Bai Ye's mind:
[People's personality habits and emotional activities are all carried out in the relevant areas of the brain]
He suddenly thought of something:
Using what Su Yi often said? Mathematical reverse reasoning, if we know that [personality habits and emotional activities] have changed, then we can infer that [relevant brain areas] have changed.
Su Yi's brain...changed??!
Therefore, Su Yi's personality traits and mental activities also changed accordingly. He became no longer like Su Yi, but like another person. This makes perfect sense.
The question is: Why did Su Yi's brain change? Did it change during the surgery?
...Who did it?
BANG! !
Suddenly, there was a loud noise in my ears.
All the question marks in Bai Ye's mind were shattered by this sound.
The sound was crisp and familiar. He had heard it thousands of times on television and in movies.
This is... a shooting!
“Aaahh ...
Screams of men, women, young and old in different languages could be heard all around, and the narrow streets were in chaos.
Bai Ye, who grew up in China and received 19 years of anti-gun law education, heard a gunshot for the first time in his life while buying a sandwich in his daily life.
Bang-bang-bang-bang
Gunshots rang out one after another, bullets with the smell of gunpowder cut through the air, shattering the glass of surrounding shops, the screams of the crowd rose one after another, and dense bullets pierced the big BEEF beef flag in front of the sandwich shop.
The flagpole broke, and the large red-brown flag fluttered in the air, then fell down.
Bai Ye immediately bent down, crawled on the ground, and rolled into the fallen flag. The wide flag cloth covered him as a cover. He curled up his body and lay in the corner of the shop to avoid the flying bullets.
A strong smell of gunpowder spread out. It was the first time Bai Ye encountered gunfire. His ears were buzzing and his mind was blank. Only one thought came to his mind:
What if he died?
What should Su Yi do?
All of Su Yi's close brothers and sisters passed away due to congenital heart disease, and his only adoptive father also died in a car accident. Now he is the only one left by his side. If he is shot again...
Is there really no one? Who cares about Su Yi?
It is obvious that something is wrong with Su Yi now. Bai Ye thinks to himself that he must not leave Su Yi alone here.
The sunlight shone on the reddish-brown flag cloth, which glowed blood red in the light. Bai Ye looked at the street outside through the blood-red cloth.
The surroundings became quiet and the shooting stopped?
The people on the road who were holding their heads and screaming gradually stood up and looked around. Bai Ye waited for a while, and only came out from under the flag when the situation was indeed stabilized.
As soon as he lifted the cloth, he heard a cry.
Under the table in front of the sandwich shop, there was a little black girl squatting. Bai Ye recognized her because she was in front of him in the queue. The girl opened her eyes wide in fear and started crying.
The old woman who was squatting down holding the table also saw something. She immediately covered her chest and gasped rapidly, as if she had been extremely frightened.
"Hey, Hey!"
A white man walked over, stretched out his hand to test the phone twice, and then immediately started making a phone call. Passersby gathered around him, all with terrified looks on their faces.
Bai Ye squatted beside the flag and looked in the direction they were looking. His eyes focused on a pool of blood.
He stood up and could see clearly now.
The man lying in a pool of blood was an Asian youth. Bai Ye remembered him. They were in the same queue when they were buying sandwiches.
When ordering food, behind Bai Ye was a white man, in front of him was a little black girl, and in front of the little girl was this Asian young man.
Bai Ye guessed that there was an old lady in front of the Asian young man?, old lady? There was no one in front?, so it must be the bearded sandwich owner?.
Because the Asian young man was quite tall and blocked Bai Ye's sight, he did not see the old lady and the sandwich shop owner when he ordered. However, when waiting for the food, everyone stood casually and Bai Ye saw the old lady.
Bai Ye is over 1.9 meters tall, and few people can block his sight, so he has a good impression of this Asian young man.
The person who was still alive and well and queuing to order food just now is now dead in the street, with a bullet in his neck and blood gushing out. There is definitely no way to save him.
Two out-of-focus eyeballs were placed in the white eye sockets. The bullet happened too suddenly and he died with his eyes open.
The white man had already called the police. Soon, sirens sounded on the street, followed by an ambulance.
Bai Ye scanned the entire street to see the casualties.
A small number of people were hit by broken glass, overturned plates and bottles and suffered minor injuries; some people did not know how to avoid the sudden incident and fell and got hurt; and some people, like the old woman, were simply frightened.
In that series of shootings just now, the only person killed was the Asian youth, and no one was injured.
Bai Ye looked at it and felt a strange feeling in his heart. There were people of all races on this street. After the shooting, the only victim was an Asian youth under the flying bullets.
Is it just pure bad luck?
Moreover, the Asian youth blocked his view while queuing, which meant he was of similar height and age to him.
...Just like that? Coincidence?
At this moment, a small idea popped up in my mind like a spring bud:
It is said that foreigners are actually a little face-blind to Asian faces. Similarly, some Asian compatriots are also a little face-blind to foreign characters when watching foreign movies.
In the sunshine, Bai Ye felt a chill.
He couldn't help but think of the car accident of Su Yi's adoptive father. Su Yi insisted that it was a disguised murder, but he couldn't find any evidence, so it could only be classified as an accident.
Was this shooting also an accident?
When I was in China before, I often saw news reports about street shootings abroad. This time, was it just bad luck that I happened to run into such an incident, or was it...
Bai Ye stared at the Asian youth who was dead in a pool of blood in front of him, thinking quickly in his mind, and a terrifying guess popped up in his mind:
Could this shooting be...specifically aimed at killing him?
! !
This? After this hypothesis came up, Bai Ye himself was a little bit unconvinced.
He was just an international student who couldn't even speak English fluently and his grades were not good. His family did have some money, but people with wealthy families were plentiful in this world, and his father's business was not at the level of "rich enough to rival a country." What ability did he have that was worth such a big scene of a street shooting?
……worth.
This word made Bai Ye pause, and suddenly, he suddenly thought of:
...Su Yi!
He didn't deserve it, but Su Yi did. He wasn't shot because of his identity as Bai Ye, just like Su Yi's adoptive father, he wasn't killed in a car accident as Wang Suren himself, but was killed as Su Yi's adoptive father.
Even without [Wang Suren], there would be [Li Suren] and [Zhao Suren] who would raise Su Yi and then be killed.
Bai Ye woke up completely at this moment. He found that all the close people around Su Yi since childhood were now dead.
His younger brothers and sisters who grew up together died one after another because they had no transplantable hearts; his adoptive father Wang Su, who had been raising him, suddenly died in a car accident.
Now, it's his turn.
Bai Ye swallowed his Adam's apple and his heart beat nervously.
In front of him was lying the body of an Asian youth. This was the first time he had seen a dead body alive and experienced guns and bullets personally. The foreign news he used to watch while eating and killing time was actually happening in front of him.
Bai Ye could imagine how the subsequent news reports about this incident would be written. It would say that a vicious shooting occurred on XX Street and an Asian youth unfortunately became the victim.
There is no possibility that something like [Su Yi] would happen.
No one except him would connect the street shooting in front of the hospital with a heart surgery patient in the hospital.
Those who fired the shots will probably soon realize that they are not dead yet.
These people dared to fake a car accident to kill Su Yi's adoptive father before, and now they dared to shoot him on the street, just to make everyone around Su Yi disappear? They went to such great lengths, what on earth did they want to do to Su Yi?!
Bai Ye calmed himself down, turned around, blended into the crowd, and quietly ran towards the hospital.
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