After Li Jie unlocked the height limit that restricted the levitating supercar, he adjusted the ground clearance of the body to a height of 50 meters. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info This is a great way to avoid the traffic jams of New York City.

It's no longer about driving on the road, it's flying at low altitudes. Especially when flying at low altitudes at 300 km/h and ignoring traffic lights.

In less than seven minutes, Li Jie and Thor and his party had flown from the southern suburbs of New York to Almond Central Hospital in Manhattan.

"It's not very good. After taking Penny to the emergency room, Christine used her connections at the hospital to review Penny's previous medical records.

It's not the first time she's been sick. It's just that Christine didn't know Penny before, and she didn't know about this patient. After reading Penny's previous case report, she said to Thor and Li Jie with a bad face.

"What's the situation with this girl?" Li Jie had just learned about Penny on the way, and knew that this child was one of the fifty children currently in Thor's care.

Thor's face was not very good-looking, so Li Jie opened his mouth and asked in his place, "Why did this girl named Penny faint suddenly?" without warning. ”

"Because of congenital diseases. Christine found an empty lounge where everyone could sit and talk. She pulled a medical case and a CT scan from Penny's profile.

"When I just looked up the information, I found out that Penny was a patient at this hospital. The hospital has a file of her, and she had come to the hospital for check-ups in previous years. The person who took her for a check-up before was her father. However, she hasn't been here for more than half a year or so. ”

Thor understood why, he said, "Maybe it's because you were caught committing a crime? If her father had been caught, then no one would have come to take her to the hospital for examination. ”

"So what is the congenital disease?" Li Jie glanced at Thor, feeling that now was not the time to talk to him about plans, and that what needed to be cared about at this time was the child.

"Congenital neurodysplasia. Pointing to a CT scan, Christine said, "Penny was born with compression of her brain and spine, which caused her brain and spine nerves to develop poorly. ”

"The first episode was when she was three years old. Her father should have taken him to New York Central Hospital, and then because of a neurological disease, he was transferred to our hospital. "Because Almond Central Hospital is the best hospital in the field of neurology.

"This neurodysplasia is difficult to control, and some people get better with age, but others don't. Christine sighed.

"It's like a ticking time bomb, no one knows if it's going to explode. The brainstem and spinal nerves are the most important central nervous organs in the human body, and they control most of the body's organs and limbs. Even thinking. If there is no cure, the consequences are severe. ”

Li Jie and Thor had already heard the meaning of Christine's words, and Li Jie's mouth chewed unconsciously twice, and then he said in a tone that was not very good, "What's the worst outcome?"

"Lifelong paralysis, the kind of high paraplegia. Either brain-dead, or vegetative. Chrissdin said dryly, "Even if you want to have surgery to cure it, the risk is extremely high. And the cost of the surgery will also be astronomical. Half a million dollars is already the most conservative estimate, and it could be even higher. Penny she ......"

Christine shook her head as she spoke, but she didn't continue. But everyone knew what she was trying to say, and even if Penny's father hadn't been caught, he wouldn't have been able to see the money. That's a lot of money, and it's a prohibitive cost for the vast majority of middle-class families in the United States. What's more, Christine still said that maybe the actual cost would be higher than she said.

Li Jie gasped. A six-year-old girl was sentenced to the worst outcome of her life, but she didn't even have a real beginning in life!

Thor was still clutching two pieces of candy that Penny had given him, and he moved the stiff muscles on his face. Then he glanced at Li Jie and said, "Can you lend me some money?"

Li Jie knew what Thor wanted to do, so he nodded and said, "Naturally, it's no problem." ”

For the first time, Thor showed a look of gratitude to Li Jie, he turned his head to look at Christine and said, "Then can Christine trouble you to arrange the operation as soon as possible through the hospital's connections?"

Christine glanced at Li Jie, she knew that Li Jie had a comic company, and now the sales have been rising, and Li Jie's annual income from the comic company is very objective.

Li Jie is not a person who cares about money very much, so if he is willing to pay, then the whereabouts of the basic surgery fee are available. But some surgeries are not done with money.

"This surgery is difficult, Jason. There's a good chance your hundreds of thousands will go down the drain. Christine still reminded Li Jie first: "This operation requires the surgeon to cut off the dysplastic nerves in Penny's brain stem and spine and reconnect them, and the success rate of this operation is not high." Moreover, Penny is so young, the risk of operating on her is very high, and ordinary doctors may not dare to operate on her. ”

Li Jie touched his chin and suddenly thought of the new technology that the Osborne Group was doing, which was also about the nervous aspect. Nerve growth is more complex and sophisticated than the regrowth of a limb.

Now the spin-off of Osborne's limb regeneration program, known as neuroprosthetics, is still flawed.

"Like reflexes, like explosiveness, and so on. The company had previously performed such an operation on a former world track and field champion who had been involved in a car accident. Although he was able to run and jump after the operation, he could not return to his subversive state. Li Jie roughly talked about the advantages and disadvantages of this operation.

"He can only move at the level of a normal person, and it is impossible to be a world trapeze in the two-hundred-meter run like he used to. And flexibility is greatly reduced. It's kind of a flying man to a mortal. ”

Thor and Christine looked at each other, and Christine said, "I think it might work for little Penny, if she doesn't have the ambition to become a world flyer, or the best pianist in the world, or something." There's nothing wrong with just living happily as an ordinary person. Her life was just beginning. ”

Thor agrees with Jack's suggestion, and is ready to ask the child for his opinion when Penny wakes up from the emergency room.

But Li Jie thought of one more thing, and he said with a little frown: "But there is another problem here." ”

"What?" Thor glanced at Li Jie.

"Nerve regeneration technology is very similar to amputated limb regeneration in that the original nerve needs to be removed and injected with a special agent to allow the exercised nerve to regrow in a normal and healthy way. However, it is necessary to remove the original nerve without damaging other parts, which is a difficult technique. Li Jie said.

"Of all the surgeries of this type at the Osborne Group, there is only one doctor who can guarantee a success rate, and that is the external consultant Dr. Steve Strange. Li Jie shook his head.

"The Osborne Group and Strange only have an external consultant agreement, and we can't force him to treat a certain patient, he has the right to choose whether to accept it or not. And Strange's character, I miss you two. Dr. Christine, in particular, should know better than I do. Li Jie waved his hand.

"He never does surgery that he is not sure of, and you just said how hard Penny's surgery is. ”

The entire rest room fell silent.

Suddenly, Li Jie heard the sound of tearing open the plastic bag. It turned out that Thor had torn open the plastic packaging of the two candies in his hand, and some of the sweets that had melted in his palm were thrown into Thor's mouth. One is fruit candy and the other is toffee, and the taste mixed together is not very good, weird.

Thor casually crumpled the candy wrapper and threw it on the ground, and he stood up and prepared to go out.

"Thor, Penny's first aid isn't going to end so soon, now wait. Christine thought Thor was going to see Penny.

"No, I'm not going to see Penny. I just wanted to talk to someone. There weren't too many mood swings in Thor's tone.

But Li Jie heard a hint of bad taste, and he asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"Steve Strange!"