Chapter 43: Anxious Waiting
Luna's gauze and her hands were dyed red, the red plasma rendering the ground where the anti-materiel bullets had crashed, and the police car with red lights fell from the sky to Lucius' house.
In the next moment, a white ambulance with the same flashing red signal light arrived, and the men in white coats fixed Alice and Franklin to the stretcher, and Bertha also arrived, and several people who were urged also boarded the ambulance and sped forward at a violent speed.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Luna pushed Alice lying in the capsule as she dispersed the people on both sides of the medical center's aisle, "Don't get in the way!" "People got out of the way, and we made our way through the aisle to the door of the emergency room, where two doctors came out in a hurry, and when they saw them coming, they immediately replaced their stretchers.
Luna said to the two attending doctors urgently, "Doctor, I'm sure you know who he is...... but before Luna could finish speaking, they pushed her away and yelled at Luna, "Don't get in the way of the medical work!" Then he pulled the stretcher and went into the house.
In the fragments of shattered consciousness, Luna's mind constantly traces the points of divergence, seeking a different future, but Luna is unable to change the past.
"Sister, don't scare me!" Voices burst out from Bertha's thin bloodless lips, her face twisted and distorted, but even more poignant, and tears swirling in her eyes like a waterfall.
The light in the operating room was still on, but after a long time, the back door was unexpectedly opened, and a female nurse walked out. Bertha looked at the white figure walking straight away. It was a young nurse who looked like he had just graduated from nursing school. Facing the other party with a solemn expression under the neatly trimmed front hair, Luna's words blurted out almost automatically.
"How...... How? ”
"Doctor, the assistants have done their best...... "The nurse's voice was a little hoarse, as if pretending to be strong," but...... The girl's internal organs were so injured that we invested almost all of the protein microrobots, and the condition was finally stabilized, and the further deterioration of the condition was finally delayed. ”
"What about the other one?" Luna asked urgently, "That's the man!" How is he? ”
The nurse lowered her head, and at that moment, the door to the operating room opened again, revealing a corpse of Franklin, his face covered with a white cloth...... He's ......
Faced with this scene, the three of them fell into inexplicable fear again.
"Hurry up with the nucleus!" Bertha yelled, and Luna suddenly thought of this stubble, and added to her, "Yes! Use that! ”
The nurse looked at Luna and Bertha in a daze, their eyes like monsters, and before we could ask questions, Lucius beckoned the nurse away, and then pulled us to the side.
"What's wrong!" "Why don't you let us go on?" Luna and Bertha said in unison.
Lucius gestured to them with his hand to shut up, and then said to both of them solemnly, "I understand how you two are feeling right now. ”
"Then why don't you let us say?"
"Hear me out first......" Lucius stopped, "see the nurse over there?" He gestured to the other corner, where it was the nurse who was pointing at their prices with another colleague.
"See." Luna said, "Isn't that the nurse we just had?" ”
"Excellent! Listen to me! Lucius held out a finger and explained, "Don't talk about the plasma ions, including Luna's modification of your body!" ”
"Why?"
"Unlike your country, all nominal enhancements to the human body are considered moral crimes." Lucius's expression became more serious, "Moral crimes are punishable by life imprisonment at least and punishment on the street at worst. ”
Luna and Bertha stopped talking, bowing their heads silently, then he tapped them on the shoulder, and continued, "You guys just wait here until you're done talking about something else." ”
"Then Mr. Franklin...... Luna's anxious "will Alice ...... too"
"Well......" Lucius sighed, "wait for the final result...... and walked to the room where Franklin's body was kept, while Luna returned to the chair outside the operating room with a hesitant Bertha on her face.
The nurse came back and said, "Hello, do you have the contact information for this child?" ”
"What......" Luna said, and she sat down beside her speechless, and the nurse leaned out and continued, "The child's information hasn't been fully found, and the information around her neck hasn't been registered, so I'm going to ask if you know the child's home phone number, the child...... Is it your ......? ”
Luna couldn't answer the question-like end right away.
Who is Luna? Men? A lifesaver? Luna didn't want to use the words anymore, but how could she, friend or sister, say it...... The pain echoes through Luna's heart again.
Facing Luna, who was stammering, the nurse spoke first, "...... Family, huh? ”
Luna didn't speak, reflexively shrunk up, and then she reached out and handed out a small notepad, covered in black synthetic leather, with Osroni's coat of arms stamped on it, "I'm sorry I accidentally saw it while looking up the contact information to confirm the child's personal belongings." The nurse left apologetically.
A slight smile appeared on Luna's tense face, and she gently flipped to the last page of the student handbook to open it, revealing the residence card with Alice's portrait in the transparent folder on the left, and Luna's picture on the right. She took the manual with trembling hands and stared at her bewildered self reflected in the transparent clip on the photo.
There was a "snap", a drop of water fell on the surface of the photograph, it was something that spilled from her eyes, and she didn't realize it for a while, and the whimpering voice of "Alice ......" trembled violently, and the next moment turned into a childlike cry.
"Uh......h Woo...... Ahhhh......h Woo-a-aa-aa! Luna clutched the manual to her chest, leaned down and wept bitterly, tears pouring out one after another, across her cheeks and to the ground, old images across her mind, and now her chest was ripping off as if it had been ripped off, and old and new wounds overflowed from there.
In this way, the operation lasted almost five hours.
Moment of vision turns from late evening to late at night, Luna sits motionless in her chair after sending an email to Alyssa, who is still on the scene to assist in the investigation, explaining the situation and telling her that she will stay in the hospital tonight. In this way, Mr. William was also notified. Next, Luna is like a middle-aged lawyer, after completing all the formalities of Alice's identity.
After a long wait, when the red light finally went out, the pointer was already pointing to the zero point. A young doctor stepped out and saw the confused expressions of Luna and Bertha in the hallway, and although he was a little tired, he explained the situation in a cautious tone, "That...... Although the hemostasis was successful, the patient's internal organs were so badly damaged that it was not surprising that he could die at any time, and the synthetic protein microrobot swarm is working hard to repair and assimilate, but ultimately it depends on the patient's own physical strength. He paused, "...... All in all, the current state has to be said to be a thread-hanging, and the next twelve hours are the most critical...... Be mentally prepared. With a serious expression, the doctor and the few assistants who had just come out left the white hallway.
Luna glanced at her quietly, and the nurse said to us in a gentle voice, "You should go back and rest quickly, and wait for tomorrow's news!" ”
"Tomorrow......" Luna said with a slurrel, "...... It's too late. Looking at Bertha, who was full of hesitation and low mood on the side, Luna replied with a stubborn attitude of not leaving this place for half a step, "The doctor just said that these twelve hours are the key, Alice is obviously working hard here, but no one is by her side, this is ...... It's so cruel."
“…… Such...... Also, have you been in contact with your family? ”
"Hmmm......"
"Got it, then, I'll get you a blanket, wait a minute." With that, she walked quickly into the duty room deep in the hallway and quickly retrieved a thin blanket and handed it to Luna, "Don't worry, that kid will be fine, so cute...... With such wonderful sisters as you two and a happy life, everything has just begun. ”
"Non-...... Thank you so much. Luna said gratefully, "That'...... When can I visit her? ”
"It's impossible today, the miniature robot operating room is fully sealed." She said, "However, the images can be seen through the hospital's network, only now, special services......" The nurse smiled, sliding her fingertips in the air, and with a "bang", Luna's vision appeared as a Livy projection.
Luna was surprised that Osroni's VR technology had reached such a point that it could communicate wirelessly with the nurse's neuronal connection terminal, but soon realized that it was possible through the hospital's local area network.
Click on the icon to pop up an animated window. The picture is dim and unclear, but if you look closely, you can notice a strange bed in the center of the frame, half of which resembles the shape of an open capsule, filled with translucent liquid, and the snow-white body soaked in it is exposed to the point slightly below the shoulder.
The catheter connected to the mouth of the two wrists was heart-wrenching, and the eyes were closed and motionless.
"Alice......" Bertha on the side couldn't help but murmur.
Now, inside that luxurious body, countless micro-robots, and their own life force, are battling a massive injury, and only in this struggle, we cannot give any help, and we can do nothing but prayer.
"Don't worry. You will be saved. The nurse repeated, patting Luna on the back and standing up, "The condition is detailed on the monitor, and if anything, I'll be right away." You can take a break, too. ”
"Yes. That...... Thank you very much...... "Luna" Luna said, and the nurse left.
In this way, Luna and Bertha stayed by the door of the operation all night......