Chapter 009: The heart is like a knife
The bus stops and goes, connecting more than 20 stations, it takes 78 minutes, and when the "Dongcheng Central Hospital" stop is reported, the fat man finally gets off.
After getting off the bus, the advertising wall of the bus stop comes into view.
“...... The 19th Youth King Championship is in full swing, and elite fighters in the school and people from all walks of life are invited to participate.
As in previous editions, participants are limited to 18-25 years old...... In addition to the prize money increased to 500,000 dragon coins per person, the finalists can also choose a rare genetic potion or sky-high equipment......"
On the LED screen of the advertising wall, the sweet hostess gasped for breath and then suddenly raised the volume.
"Champion, we have come back to life. That's right, in the past 200 years of the new era, there have been less than 50 rebirth fruits in the world, which is claimed to be able to live and die human flesh and bones, and is a legendary fairy fruit......"
On the advertising wall, the picture switches to a glass cover, which contains an antique-level sky-high Kowloon painted bowl.
In the flat mouth of the Nine Dragons bowl, a fruit with a diameter of six or seven centimeters is placed, the fruit looks a bit like a peach, but it is blue and dreamy.
The fat man looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
200 years ago, a nuclear war opened a space channel, and with the influx of millions of demonic beasts, there was also a strong aura from another world.
That strong otherworldly aura has a very strong assimilation, and in the past 200 years, the dark blue planet heaven and earth have transformed in an irreversible direction, well, it's a bit like the aura is restored.
Then, the deep blue earth began to give birth to the spirit herb elixir, and this time the fruit was one of the top spirit fruits, and there were indeed less than 50 of them in history.
Moreover, this thing cannot be planted artificially, and to pick it, it is necessary to go to the hinterland of barren mountains and mountains where demonic beasts are concentrated, which is extremely dangerous.
As for the efficacy of the rejuvenating fruit, the flesh and bones of the living and dead are spread to the gods.
The rumors can't be believed, but it's worth it.
Take it and sell it, and the salted fish will become rich in an instant.
Hug left and right, eat and wait for death.
Flattered!
Don't blame the fat man for slandering, it's everyone who slanders.
However, the fat man will also take a look, the magic capital youth king battle is held every 4 years, and almost all of the people who can enter the finals are E-level high-level young geniuses.
The times are advancing, and the human sequence warriors are getting stronger and stronger, and in the last two sessions, in the finals, there were even big metamorphoses who broke through to the D rank before the age of 25.
D-class, 5 spirals.
That's not a twist, it's a genetic sequence!
1,000 people out of 1 F grade, 10 F grades out of 1 E grade, and about 50 E grades, 1 D grade is possible.
That is, 500 sequence warriors, barely able to give birth to a D-class.
Sequence warriors, what they want to improve and evolve is the most mysterious gene of the human body, the higher they go, the more difficult it becomes, many people practice and practice, they are stuck at a certain node in the F or E level, and they do not move for decades.
D-class is almost the end point that most sequence fighters need to look up to.
“...... The deadline for entries is May 10, which is tomorrow at 17:00 p.m. Please seize the last opportunity to register, the 19th Youth King Tournament in the Magic City is looking forward to your participation, perhaps, you are the high-profile young king......"
On the LED advertising wall, the sweet young lady chatters non-stop, which is very exciting.
Fat, but gradually drifting away.
The Youth King Championship is a bit far away for him now.
The fat man staggered forward, bought some fruit on the way, and walked into Dongcheng Central Hospital.
In wards 18-20 on the 19th floor, a young girl leans on the head of the bed.
She has a bald head and a thin face, a dark gray face, slightly sunken eye sockets, irregular macula distributed on her thin cheeks, and some moles, which is Yuan Meng, who is only 15 years old.
Macular spots and moles are not innate, but are side effects of medications.
After three years of genetic drug treatment, Yuan Meng no longer saw the angel-like face with a smooth face and picturesque eyebrows.
At this moment, she is reading textbooks and studying on her own, and Yuan Xi helped her choose child welfare compensation, so she is now a second-year junior high school student in an aristocratic middle school.
The hospital gown is very large, Yuan Meng is too thin, and the exposed little arms are frighteningly thin, because the buttocks are too meatless, he can't sit in the same posture for long, so he moves around, maybe his body is still a little uncomfortable, and his brows are wrinkled from time to time.
The fat man desperately slapped off the dust that did not necessarily exist on his body, patted it twice, pulled the collar and pants straight, and then slapped his cheeks fiercely, squeezed the smiling face, and then pushed the door in.
Yuan Meng raised his eyes and saw it, and immediately let go of a tired smile, and shouted sweetly: "Fat brother." ”
In the past three years, she has experienced hardships, and the only thing that has not changed is her voice, with a little baby voice, which is extremely clean.
This voice is quiet and heartfelt, and has a strange power to soothe the soul, which makes the fat man enjoy it very much.
"Huh!"
The fat man replied heavily, stepped forward, put the fruit on the table casually, and then sat on the edge of the bed, held her hands, and said with concern: "Have you been better these days?"
"Hmm!"
Yuan Meng squinted his cute smiling eyes, turned his head sideways, stared at the fat man's whole body, looked at it again and again, and said in surprise: "Fat brother, you have become handsome." ”
"Xiaomeng, you really have vision, and I also think I've become handsome. ”
The fat man laughed as he reached for the kiwi on the table.
"How can you boast so much, you are so stinky. ”
Yuan Meng said, frowning: "You spend money again, it will take a month or two for the kiwi fruit to ripen, and now it is out of season, so expensive." ”
"Actually, it's not much expensive, this thing is nutritious and good for the body, come, open your mouth. ”
The fat man tore open the skin, peeled one off, and stuffed it into Yuan Meng's mouth.
Yuan Meng opened his mouth and took a bite hard, narrowed his cute smile and said, "It's so sweet." ”
When the fat man saw it, he almost burst into tears, she had just been injected with a cheap genetic drug a few days ago, and the side effects were very great, and she wanted to vomit badly, but she forcibly held back, so her chest continued to rise and fall violently.
Moreover, until now, her sense of smell and taste has been abnormal, and she has a lot of sweets, which are numb and bitter to eat.
Yuan Meng pretended to be relaxed, swallowed the first bite of kiwifruit, and went to bite the second bite, halfway through the chew, he couldn't help it, and vomited.
The fat man hurriedly pulled out the garbage can under the bed to catch it, Yuan Meng vomited so much, after vomiting a small amount of food residues in his stomach, he began to vomit gastric juice again, retching nonstop, the green tendons on his neck bulged, and he almost didn't carry his breath, and his thin body kept trembling.
The fat man wiped his hands and helped pat his back, seeing that she was so uncomfortable, he finally couldn't hold back his tears and slipped down his eyes.
After Yuan Meng vomited, he reached out to wipe away the tears on the fat man's cheeks, stretched out his hands, and hugged him tightly.
The two hugged each other and were silent.
When the nurse aunt, other patients and their families in the ward saw this scene, they all turned their heads with moist eyes, and they couldn't bear to look at it more.
This is a triple room, and most of the bed fees can be reimbursed by local hukou residents.
Yuan Meng went from a single ward that was completely self-funded at the beginning, to a double ward that could be reimbursed for a small part, and then to a triple ward today.
The nurses have also changed from full care of 360 yuan per day at the beginning to half care of 80 per day now.
A bowl of white porridge and mustard at the entrance of the hospital dares to sell for more than 20, long-term hospitalization is too expensive, the economy does not allow it, there is no way, everything can only be like this.
The fat man stayed for a while, and was urged by Yuan Meng to go to school and kicked out of the ward.
Leaving the ward, the fat man deposited the 3,000 dragon coins he had saved hard into Yuan Meng's medical card.
Coming out of the doctor's office again, the fat man collapsed in the doorway, as if he had lost all his strength.
"Gene drugs have just appeared for 30 years, and the technology is very immature, because the gene sequence is too complex, although there are thousands of mutant cases, it is difficult to find exactly the same reference case. ”
"Ordinary gene medicine is a conservative treatment, which can only delay the weakening rate of Yuan Meng's gene breakage. What is actually her current situation...... The gene chain can cause a chain reaction at any time and completely collapse. ”
"If you want to stabilize your condition, you can only keep trying new drugs, and the price of new drugs is relatively high...... If your family members can't afford to pay, be ready for the future...... Even if everything is normal, she can only hold on for another two or three months at most. ”
The fat man's mind echoed with the words of the responsible doctor, and his heart was like a knife.
Yuan Meng now has to inject tens of thousands of ordinary genetic drugs every month, plus the cost of seventy-seven eighty-eight, Yuan Xi's high-paying job and fat man to help raise money are already stretched.
New drugs, not only are they more expensive, but they are three or five times more expensive, and hospitals cannot guarantee their safety.
With Yuan Meng's now sick and weak body, if she doesn't get it right, a new medicine can kill her immediately.
"Is there no way?"
The fat man asked himself over and over again, and the sadness in his heart flowed backwards.