Original Cannon Fodder Gong’s Ending:
At the No. 1 hospital in the city center of M City, when the shift was changing at noon, the ward was silent, with only the occasional footsteps in the corridor. The young nurse took out a pen and marked the sign of the medicine bottle that had been instilled, then raised her head and carefully adjusted the titer of the infusion tube for him.
The person in the hospital bed closed his eyes tightly, and his face was ridiculously pale. Although the whole person was already very haggard from the pain of illness, his eyebrows were still clear and elegant. These days, he has lost weight, and his three-dimensional facial features look even more profound and vivid. Lying so quietly, his breathing was very weak.
The little nurse couldn’t help sighing, feeling sorry for him from the bottom of her heart.
“Let’s go; let’s go get dinner.” A little nurse stood at the door, knocked on the door of the ward, and urged.
“Oh, it’ll finish soon.”
The sound of drifting footsteps sounded on the hard marble floor, followed by the sound of the door being closed.
“Why didn’t I see his family? Was no one around to take care of him?”
“Yes, he has a sister. She should come to deliver food later… Let me just say, poor people like us can’t afford to get seriously ill; we really can’t afford to cure…”
The other little nurse frowned, stopped, and said, “You said that, but… can’t they blame themselves? Why didn’t they buy commercial insurance earlier? Otherwise, they would be able to repay a lot of money.”
“No, no, I’m not talking about the cost of treatment. It’s bone marrow matching. I heard Dr. Li say that there is a Chinese-American man in the National Bone Marrow Bank of Country M. His initial match was very high, at nine points, but the man was unwilling to donate, saying that there was a project in hand and he didn’t want to delay time for this. He seems to be a small boss. It is said that he is quite rich…”
“Then there is no way… This kind of thing was originally voluntary, but he is really unethical. If you really don’t want to donate, don’t match it. It’s really useless to hope and then regret.”
“That’s it, eh… The elevator is coming.”
Silence returned to the empty corridor, and occasionally family members walked by with prescriptions and plastic bags containing medicines, all without saying a word.
In the ward, Chu Yan slowly opened his eyes, and it took a while to adapt to the light in the room that was too dazzling for him.
The 1551 system spread its belly on the balcony and basked in the sun for a while, and then said out loud when he woke up: [Master host, the task has basically been completed, you can actually choose to end the world early.］
Chu Yan lay on the bed and thought for a while, then said, half jokingly and half seriously: [I think I can still rescue it.］
After a while, the door of the ward was pushed open, and Liang Fangyuan came in with the insulation box. The room was terribly quiet. When she looked at her dying brother lying on the hospital bed, her nose was sour and her eyes were red almost instantly.
She raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, walked over to uncover the insulation box, and then raised her hand to probe his forehead. The temperature was still a little hot, and then she asked in a low voice, “Did you feel dizzy today?”
Chu Yan shook his head, looked at her, and said, “I haven’t been dizzy for a long time.”
Liang Fangyuan looked at him; her throat seemed to be blocked by something bitter. She helped him sit up slowly and then watched him finish drinking the porridge one by one.
“Xiao Ci, let me tell you, don’t be sad and don’t worry.” She cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks that Chu Yan had eaten and comforted, “It won’t work this time. There will be another time. Just listen to the doctor and follow them obediently, you know?”
Chu Yan looked at her and smiled slightly, “Well, I know.”
His face was pale without a trace of blood, but his eyes were still bright and warm.
Liang Fangyuan seemed to feel a little better when she saw him like this. Her heart relaxed a little bit, and she couldn’t help but smile.
In the afternoon, Liang Fangyuan had something to do, and she was about to leave after sitting with him for a while. She got a job in a housekeeping company, which was equivalent to a part-time job for cleaning. The income was actually very considerable, but it was still a drop in the bucket for high medical expenses.
But he is her younger brother, and she must cure his illness no matter what. Not to mention that in the past two years, her younger brother has given her a lot of money to help her… In this matter, even the usually selfish and greedy husband rarely has any objection, saying that one’s life is important and that as long as they still have money, they can still earn it back.
…
Dr. Li hung up the phone, took off his glasses, and pinched the bridge of his nose. He didn’t know how many calls he had made to the Chinese-American man who had successfully matched in the past few days, but the other party either didn’t answer or was perfunctory. At first, his attitude was polite, but then it got worse and worse.
Especially this time, he actually said directly: If you want to donate, you can do it. The business in my hand is worth more than five million. If you can get five million, I can donate; otherwise, don’t bother him with calls in the future.
Dr. Li sighed. Five million… He knew the background of the patient in his hand, and it was impossible to get so much money.
However, he still conveyed the news to Chu Yan. After all, under the current medical conditions, although leukemia is not considered a terminal illness, it has developed into an acute stage like this, and organ infection may take away the patient’s life at any time, so any possible vitality should not be let go.
After listening to the doctor, Chu Yan was silent for a while and then nodded, “Thank you, I understand.”
“This is just a suggestion. You don’t have to feel a lot of pressure. I don’t know about this kind of thing. Maybe a new bone marrow match will appear tomorrow.”
Chu Yan didn’t speak, but quietly moved his gaze out the window.
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In the villa on the outskirts of P City in Country F, in the silence of the night, one can only hear the murmur of the fountain in the center of the garden, and the breeze blows across the grass and the dense, broad-leaved sycamores in front of the lawn.
Li Xi used his tablet to read his work emails for a while, signed his name with an electronic pen, and sent it directly to his assistant after the security system recognized the signature.
As soon as the tablet was put down after the processing was completed, the mobile phone on the side vibrated. Li Xi picked up the mobile phone and glanced at the caller ID. It was Zhang Chengye.
“Hey, why can’t I get through when I call? If it weren’t for your assistant, I wouldn’t even know you changed your number. You said that you’re not coming back? What business trip takes two months to complete?” The background on the other side of the call was very lively, and the noisy vocals were mixed with metal rock music, which sounds very ear-grinding.
“There are still a few things at hand, and I will probably be able to go back at the end of this month.”
Zhang Chengye didn’t expose him either; he just smiled. “Then when you come back, I will have a welcome party for you and find a few little stars to make trouble. They are all handsome guys in the sea. They have all the styles that you want. For example, the little fresh meat that has been in the limelight recently…”
Li Xi took a long breath, and his voice seemed to have a little smile, and he said, “Okay.”
Zhang Chengye finally let go of his snacks after listening to him. Although this hurdle is sad, he can forget everything over time. He believes that Li Xi is not such a fragile person.
After hanging up the phone, Li Xi leaned on the recliner for a while. As if remembering something, he suddenly got up and pulled out the mobile phone he used when he was in China from the drawer of the bedside table.
Pressing the power-on button with his index finger, the screen lit up for a while and then went dark again, indicating that the battery was low.
Li Xi found the charger to charge the phone for a while, and then he pressed the power button to restart successfully.
His mobile phone has a work number and a private number. In fact, there are not many contacts on this mobile phone, but as soon as he turned it on, more than a dozen missed calls popped up.
Li Xi gulped, and his fingers crossed Zhang Chengye’s phone calls one by one to delete them. Suddenly, his fingers paused, and his eyebrows suddenly raised.
Among the more than a dozen missed calls from Zhang Chengye, there were two calls from that person, which were on March 13 and March 14. It has been about a week since then, and the time was in the afternoon.
In addition to this, there was another message. Li Xi clicked to read it, but there were only two words—Li Xi.
Li Xi frowned when he saw these two words of unknown meaning, and subconsciously pressed the callback button, but after dialing it, it showed that it was turned off.
He glanced at the time in the blink of an eye. It was about three o’clock in the afternoon in Beijing time. He raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows heavily. Finally, he put down his phone, took off his bathrobe, and walked into the bathroom.
When he came out, it was already half an hour later, and Li Xi dialed again, but this time it was quickly connected.
Li Xi subconsciously gulped, stood up, and walked to the balcony, holding on to the guardrail.
“Hello, hello, are you looking for Mr. Liang… He is now…”
It was a woman’s voice. Li Xi’s back gradually crept into a kind of extremely embarrassed irony, and his voice suddenly cooled down. “Who are you? How could his mobile phone be in your hand?”
His tone was not intense, but the coldness in it made the nurse subconsciously silent, and it took a while to react. “Uh…this gentleman, are you a friend of Mr. Liang? It is not convenient for him to answer the phone now. I am the nurse hired by Mr. Liang. Do you have anything I can help convey?”
Li Xi choked for a moment and asked rhetorically, “Nurse? What’s going on?”
“Hey…” If it weren’t for the remarks on the phone, the little nurse would have wondered if this person had called the wrong number. She continued to explain, “Yes, don’t you know…”
“He is receiving treatment now, so you can call later when he comes out.”
……
Li Xi booked the plane ticket overnight. It was still early in the morning when the plane arrived at M City Airport. He faintly felt unreal in his heart, but there was a lingering panic and anxiety in his heart, and it couldn’t go away for a long time.
It was a strong palpitation, as if something had happened quietly under unforeseen circumstances…
Several experts and vice presidents of the inpatient department of the hospital were alarmed in the middle of the night. A group of little nurses who had been on duty overnight were not sleepy at all when they saw the movement, and they all looked at each other.
The wall lamps on both sides of the aisle reflected on the walls, making them empty, cold, and silent.
Dr. Li poured a cup of tea for Li Xi into a paper cup and put it in front of Li Xi. As soon as he left the operating room, he was called over by the vice president as soon as he changed his clothes, and the situation was not clear.
“Did you go for surgery just now? How is that patient?” Li Xi looked at him again, his voice sounding flat and calm.
Dr. Li was confused and didn’t understand what he meant at all. “Why, Mr. Li? Do you happen to know him…”
Li Xi was expressionless and used his gaze to directly suppress what he had to say next, “Just say it.”
Dr. Li nodded and said with deliberation, “The leukemia has entered an acute stage, the lungs are infected with a high fever, and many organs have begun to fail. He just had a minor operation, but now he has temporarily passed the dangerous period.” He unconsciously spoke in a tone of regret that he didn’t notice.
Li Xi keenly captured it. As soon as he breathed, his internal organs seemed to be splashed with a bucket of ice water. “Temporarily passed the dangerous period? What do you mean by this?”
“The situation is not optimistic, but we will try our best… But even so, it’s just procrastinating.” Dr. Li looked at the pale face of the other party in an instant and stopped without saying any more.
Li Xi looked at him, dazed for a moment, and opened his mouth. His always sharp and calm gaze was blank, unable to even focus. “What about the bone marrow match…”
Dr. Li looked at Li Xi, and the doubts in his heart became stronger. At first, he thought that Li Xi had something to do with the patient in his hands. Based on his reaction, this guess was completely wrong.
