Chapter 42 Noisy
Ryan also knew the seriousness of the matter.
He made a quick decision: "I will inform the Major General's sire right now."
After the major general refused the family marriage, his relationship with his family has been at a freezing point, but no matter what, he is still the major general's father.
The female insect with gray eyes on the screen and the major general were almost cut from the same mold, except that a scar ran across his eyebrow, making him look more fierce.
After listening to Ryan's words, he frowned and said, "Useless."
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Ryan and Xue Huanchao looked at each other, it seemed that they would not get any help from the Webster family.
Xue Huanchao turned on the microphone connected to the next room and tried to wake up Major General Enoch and Xia Yi.
There was still no fluctuation on the mental monitor.
Wait another half an hour. If he still doesn’t wake up, Xue Huanchao pursed his lips.
He began to organize the knives needed to break open the cocoon.
Enoch, come on!
——
"Suxin, let's go back." The man said tiredly. He was only forty years old, but his head was covered with white hair. He looked older than a fifty-year-old man.
The woman bent over cleaning the stove looked up and asked dully, "Where are we going back to?"
"Xiao Yi's third phase of treatment is about to begin."
"Let's go back home," the man continued. "Let's go back together, back to town."
"...Xia Xiangwen, what do you mean?" The woman looked up at him. The heavy burden of life made her back a little hunched. When she stood up, she still held the rag tightly in her hand.
"It's incurable. Let's go home." Xia Xiangwen took a deep breath. "I haven't sold the house in town yet. Let's move back together, Xia Yi and Xiao Yuan."
"What about my son?!" the woman raised her voice. "How long have I been waiting to see a specialist? If we miss this opportunity, there's really no hope for him!"
After a long while, the man said, "Give up."
The woman screamed, "Xia Xiangwen, what did you say? He's your own son!"
"Isn't Xiaoyuan the same?!" Xia Xiangwen roared back, "Do we give up our daughter to pay for our son's medical treatment? We've sold both of our houses. Is that enough?! Xia Yuan changed schools three times in her junior high school career. She's moving out before she's even settled into a new place! She can't even make friends!"
"Have you ever held a parent-teacher conference for Xiaoyuan since your son got sick?! Do you know what class she's in now?! Do you know if she's happy at her grandmother's house and if she's getting along well with her new classmates?!"
"This disease is a bottomless pit! There has never been a single case of ALS being cured! Why don't you believe it?"
Xia Xiangwen grew increasingly agitated as he spoke. "Look at yourself now. Instead of being a good Chinese teacher, you're now cooking and washing clothes for people in the capital... I work during the day and am a driver at night. Is the money we make enough?! Is it enough?!"
"But Xia Yi..." The woman burst into tears. "He's my son! How could I give up on him? He's still so young, why wasn't I the one who got sick?"
The couple hugged each other and cried bitterly. The woman was held in the man's arms, and her hands kept patting the man's shoulders.
"Okay, okay, stop crying, the baby will wake up soon."
Jiang Suxin wiped away her tears and whispered, "I'll go take a look."
She tiptoed to the next room, where the radio was still playing music and the boy lying on the bed had his eyes closed, sleeping soundly.
"Still asleep..." the woman said softly as she closed the door.
After the door closed, the pale-skinned boy in the room opened his eyes.
A line of tears flowed from the right corner of his eye.
The hand under the quilt struggled for a long time but couldn't find the strength to stretch it out.
In the end, he could only turn his head and wipe his tears on the pillowcase.
"Brother, are you really coming back?" The sound quality of the copycat phone was not very good, but fortunately the volume was very loud. On the screen, my sister was wearing a school uniform, lying on the table.
"Yes!" Xia Yi replied with a smile, "I miss you and grandma very much."
"I miss you, too!" Xia Yuan brought her phone closer. "I really miss you, brother! I showed my classmates your photos, and they said you looked so handsome!"
"Why am I not as pretty as you? Your skin is whiter than mine, and your eyelashes are longer than mine. I'm so jealous!" Xia Yuan said coquettishly, "How is the capital? Isn't it very prosperous? I saw the photos of the Water Cube, it's really beautiful——"
"Yes." In fact, Xia Yi had been in the capital for so long, but had never seen the Water Cube.
His illness is a bottomless pit. Even if he sells the house in his hometown, it will not be enough to relieve the disease.
They lived in an old alley, renting a house. The owner had built another room outside. It was extremely hot in the summer and drafty in the winter.
Xia Yi watched his particular father squatting outside smoking, the cigarette butt was about to burn his hand, but he was reluctant to throw it away. He also watched his quiet mother with more and more white hair on her head. She used to be always reading, but now she wears an apron all year round, and the book in her hand has become a rag.
And my younger sister.
The person he feels most sorry for is his sister.
He deprived her of the right to grow up with her parents, took away her childhood, and took away her fatherly and motherly love.
"Brother, are you feeling better?" Xia Yuan frowned and asked cautiously on the phone, "Will Mom and Dad come back together?"
"Much better." Shay smiled, "I will."
Xia Yi returned to his hometown with his parents.
He and his grandmother sat under the elm tree to enjoy the cool air.
Grandma was sitting on a small stool picking vegetables, and he was half lying on the rattan chair that grandpa used to use.
There are always a lot of mosquitoes in the summer, and Xia Yi is a bit attracted to mosquitoes. He saw a mosquito land on his hand.
See it insert its mouthparts into its own skin.
Watch it fly away.
Watch as your skin becomes red and swollen from the acetic acid.
He can't swat the mosquito.
I can't move. There's no way I can move.
He is now having difficulty breathing, and perhaps it will not be long before he will need a tube cut into his throat and a ventilator inserted.
After picking the vegetables, grandma continued to fan him with a palm-leaf fan. Seeing the redness and swelling on his hands, she hurried into the house to get some medicated oil and applied it on him.
It was very hot in the summer and the sun was very glaring. A few beams of light shone into his eyes through the elm leaves.
He closed his eyes and grandma thought he was asleep.
"My beloved grandson, how could you have contracted this disease... What a sin..."
Cicadas chirping.
Birds singing.
Shay thought, it would be better if he died.
His body was so light that he seemed to be floating in the air.
Shay stayed there for several minutes before slowly realizing that he was dead.
Where is he now?
Oh, hospital.
He searched for wards one by one and finally found his parents in one of them.
Several doctors in white coats were bowing to him.
"This is my son's last wish," his father said. "Don't be sad. His life will live on in someone else."
"From now on, if others see something, he sees it too. Wherever others go, he'll go traveling too. The farthest place he's ever been in his life is Beijing. He's never even been to the Forbidden City..." Xia Xiangwen burst into tears. "But from now on, he can go abroad, to the seaside, to the beach. He can go anywhere..."
Xia Yi flew over and hugged the two crying people.
He wanted to say, it's okay, but they couldn't hear him.
He went to find Xia Yuan again.
Xia Yuan didn't come in and stayed with her grandmother.
"Is my brother really gone?" she cried.
"Little Shay is a brave child. This is a relief for him," the elderly man said. "He donated all his usable organs to help others."
"Your brother saved many lives."
As time went by, Xia Yi saw that the corneas he donated helped the two young people regain their sight, and his kidneys and liver were also successfully transplanted.
This is also good.
Xia Yi felt relaxed and comfortable.
He wanted to sleep and felt like he might dissipate.
Just then he heard the crackling sound of electricity.
He opened his eyes and saw a square projection appear in front of him. Different figures were constantly scrolling in the upper part of the projection, but they were scrolling too fast and he could not see clearly.
Below the projection is a button with the word PUSH written on it.
Is this... reincarnation?
Xia Yi stretched out his finger in a daze and pressed the button.
The scrolling figures above became faster and then stopped suddenly.
A figure appeared on the screen. He had black hair and dark gray eyes. There was a faint vertical line between his brows, which made him look stern and unforgiving.
But Shay felt that he looked very familiar.
Who is it?
He frowned in thought.
The portrait of the character quickly disappeared, and was replaced by two small round dots that looked like a pair of eyes, making this square machine appear as cute as a cartoon character.
It seemed to be saying something to him, but the voice was vague and unclear.
Xia Yi tried hard to make sense, but only heard a deep male voice ringing in his ears.
——When the sun comes out, I will wake you up.
Whose voice is that?
——Shay, wake up.
Who is calling him?
Xia Yi opened his eyes blankly and began to look around for the voice.
The surrounding streetscape has changed dramatically.
The illuminated sign on the roof of the hospital building disappeared, and the doctors' resumes on the wall disappeared too.
Instead of parked cars, there were sleek, streamlined Frisbees?
What's this?
He saw a tall man leap down from something that looked like a Frisbee.
Wow, this must be about seven or eight meters!
The man was very tall and was wearing pajamas, but he looked very imposing. His semi-long black hair could not hide his anxious expression.
What is he in such a hurry for?
Xia Yi floated over to look and found that he was holding someone in his arms.
Is this person sick?
He leaned over to check on his condition, but found that the patient was wrapped tightly.
Curiosity prompted him to follow in.
A doctor wearing gold-framed glasses discusses a patient's condition with a man.
"Let's see if he can make it through this."
As soon as the doctor finished speaking, the man showed a terrifying expression as if he was ready to devour anyone, and black hard scales appeared on his neck.
Medical trouble?! No, mutant?!
Shay opened his mouth in surprise and was shocked.
The doctor said a lot more, but he didn't understand much.
"Even so, are you willing to bear the consequences?" asked the doctor.
Xia Yi understood one thing, that if this patient died, the black-haired man would also die.
He felt inexplicably sad.
Then his perspective changed again.
A man was lying on top of him, it was the black-haired man.
There was a hint of orange in his gray eyes, like the morning sun shining on the lake.
"Is the sun going to come out?" The voice seemed to come from himself.
He felt a cool kiss on his eyelids.
"I'll wake you up when the sun comes out," he heard the man say.
So is this the man who has been calling him?
Xia Yi's head hurt, as if it was about to explode, but his body was bound again. He was familiar with this feeling, like a soul clamoring in the body of a puppet.
He heard someone arguing.
I heard the sharp beeping of the instrument.
I heard someone banging on the door.
"Admiral Art!"
"Open the door!"
"Are you going to disobey military orders?!"
Very noisy.
It's noisy!
——Shay, wake up.
Amidst the chaos, only the man's voice remained the same as always.
Steady, gentle and tolerant.
Shay liked it very much.
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