After hearing the whistle of the yacht docking, Elizabeth turned her head and looked over thoughtfully. After meeting Chi Feichi's gaze, she couldn't help but be startled.
Why?
The familiar feeling that spread from the bottom of her heart made her feel as if she had felt this kind of gaze there, and it had lasted for many years.
She couldn't help but think about the past.
She thought of her childhood, when she acted like a spoiled child next to her great-grandfather Marvin; she thought of the moment of peace of mind when she came home from an outing and stepped into the herbal medicine shop as a girl; she also thought of her parents who lost their lives at sea. When she cried bitterly, she seemed to have felt that same feeling. Dao's calm and reassuring eyes were beside her; and the period when Sophia was crazy...
As the yacht docked, Koizumi Hongzi also looked at Elizabeth.
In her daze, Elizabeth felt the two gazes resting on her, and the low hum of bone jade seemed to be heard in her ears. At that moment, her eyes couldn't help but turn red.
The kid named Mitchell was right. There was a ghost in the herbal medicine shop. It was the patron saint of the Montgomery family and her patron saint.
When she was young, when she got married, when Sofia got married, there seemed to be something always watching all of this, and every time Sofia lost control and wanted to run out, and the bone jade sounded, these two eyes were always there. .
After the two gazes disappeared, she felt that something had changed around her, and she was vaguely aware of their existence. She seemed to have discovered it too late. From one day to the next, those two gazes never appeared again. .
The long-term companionship suddenly disappeared, and she seemed to have lost a loved one again. And that time, it seemed that there was no one to accompany her at all, but she also told herself that the patron saint probably needed to rest. The rest of the way, She wanted to go on alone.
But when I felt those two eyes again, she was obviously over a hundred years old, but she still had this strange little daughter mentality like a child who fell down outside and ran home to tell the adults.
She suddenly wanted to say that she fell again, but this time she got up without help and walked back alone. She also helped many people on the way. She didn't cry or feel depressed. Isn't she very brave? Very strong?
A tear rolled down Elizabeth's wrinkled face, seemed to light up for a moment in the sun, and soon fell on the blanket.
After the young girl next to her noticed it carefully, she whispered, "Elizabeth..."
Elizabeth just looked up at the group of people coming off the yacht.
The two people were also looking at her. She wanted to confirm whether the dock under the sun today was a wonderful hallucination that she had when she reached the end of her life.
The young girl followed Elizabeth's gaze in confusion and looked up.
She has seen many tourists here, some dressed casually and some dressed formally, but not as formal as this group of people.
Especially the two leaders.
The young man was wearing a long dark blue cloak, with the front part pulled diagonally to his shoulders and fixed by a row of extravagant gold buttons. The gold chains on the buttons were slightly swayed by the sea breeze. As he moved, the corners of the cloak swayed to both sides from time to time. , allowing her to see clearly the dress on the other person, and a lazy white cat leaning on the young man's arm.
It should have been an exaggerated image, but the young man walked with decisive steps, the expression on Junyi's face was calm and cold, and the purple pupils were deep and difficult to see. She actually didn't feel that this outfit was abrupt or exaggerated.
The young girl on the side is even more exaggeratedly dressed. She must be only a high school student, but she is wearing a dark red and black waist-baring outfit, a long black cloak, a golden headdress on her forehead, and several gold bracelets on her wrists. There is also a gold chain hanging on her chest. Looking at the texture of these gold ornaments in the sunlight, they are all made of solid gold. The purple crystal necklace around her neck that has been wound several times also reflects dim light in the sunlight.
Similarly, the girl's unintentionally arrogant and exquisite face prevented her from feeling that this outfit was inconsistent at all, as if she had seen a witch from the Middle Ages.
Compared to these two people, the people behind her were dressed much more normally. She could roughly guess that they were middle-aged men working as housekeepers and two bodyguards.
"You, are you..." Elizabeth looked at Chi Feichi and Koizumi Hongzi who were approaching, with a questioning look in her red eyes, and said uncertainly, "Are we..."
Chi Feichi stopped some distance in front of the wheelchair and looked at Elizabeth, "Long time no see, Elizabeth."
Koizumi Anko had a smile on her lips, and when she saw the tears on Elizabeth's cheeks, her eyes softened, "You are not someone who likes to cry like that. Also, if you are not feeling well, why do you come to the beach to enjoy the sea breeze?"
"I..." Elizabeth started to speak, her eyes were a little red again, she raised her right hand that looked like a dead branch, and slowly wiped the corners of her eyes.
Koizumi Hongzi felt even more distressed when she thought about how the little loli she once was had grown so old. She sighed softly and looked at the young girl who looked similar to Sophia and was looking at them curiously, "She is..."
Elizabeth hesitated for a moment, put down her right hand, turned to look at the girl, and sighed, "Her name is Tsurumi Yoko. When she was a baby, she was placed at the door of the herbal medicine shop in the winter. The paper left on her body That's the name on the note, so I adopted her."
Koizumi Anko looked at Tsurumi Yezi, silently calculating her age in her mind.
She didn't believe that any child she picked up could look so much like Sophia.
If Sophia hadn't died, she would be in her nineties now, which is not her age.
And Sophia had a son that year, who was sent to Europe by Elizabeth. Sophia's son is now about sixty years old, and the girl in front of her is no more than twenty-five years old. That should be... Sophia's granddaughter?
Thinking that Sophia's granddaughter was so old, she instantly felt like an 'old antique'.
Chi Feichi also guessed the girl's identity and did not reveal it. He turned to Dashan and said, "Mr. Dashan, we met an old friend and would like to invite her to the yacht to talk. You can move freely."
"Yes," Koizumi Anko smiled at Elizabeth, "Stop blowing the sea breeze here, take Miss Tsurumi to sit on the yacht for a while, and then we will take you back."
Oyamaya didn't leave the ship, he got on the yacht and asked someone to prepare hot tea. Naturally, it was impossible for the two bodyguards to leave, and Tsurumi Yezi followed Elizabeth closely.
However, Chi Feichi asked Oyamaya to sit and drink tea with Tsurumi Yezi in the restaurant. He pushed Elizabeth's wheelchair and entered the next room with Koizumi Hongzi.
These three people insisted not to let others follow, and others could not insist on following the room.
"I'm really sorry that I have to ask you to push the wheelchair for me," Elizabeth turned to look at Chi Feichi who was helping her push the wheelchair, and said truthfully, "I'm a little nervous."
Chi Feichi bent down to adjust the wheelchair brake, "I should also thank you for not pouring water into the box that year."
Elizabeth was startled, remembering the childish idea of using bone jade as silkworm babies, and she laughed so hard that wrinkles formed at the corners of her eyes, "Time flies so fast, thinking about my great-grandfather's anxious look when he stopped me, it seems like everything happened yesterday , today is also like being in a dream."
On the side, Koizumi Hongzi smiled and took out the crystal ball and put it in Elizabeth's hand, "It's not a dream. I'm sorry, Elizabeth. For some reasons, I can come to see you now. Do you know me?"
"Of course, your eyes have been with me for so many years and helped me so much. I can remember that it was so good to see you at the last moment," Elizabeth said with a weak voice, but she kept smiling softly. He looked down at the crystal ball and said, "This is..."
"Let me do a physical assessment for you," Koizumi Hongzi explained simply and asked aloud, "Crystal ball, check Elizabeth's body."
"Okay, Anko-sama!"
The crystal ball responded, making Elizabeth startled, and she was soon enveloped in the red light emanating from the crystal ball.
"Start reporting basic physical data, height..."
"I will report on my physical condition next..."
With Elizabeth's current body condition, it would be very difficult to do a comprehensive set of examinations, but with a crystal ball as a scanner, whether it is the degree of organ failure or whether there are any hidden diseases in the blood and heart, it can be scanned.
The Umbrella icon flashed in Chi Feichi's left eye. Listening to the physical condition reported by the crystal ball, he used the Ark to calculate Elizabeth's plan for using AHTX-1031 diluent.
Elizabeth's physical condition was very bad. After listening to the report of the crystal ball and feeling the areas of weakness or pain in her body, her mind was still calm. She just looked curiously at the crystal ball held in her hands.
The crystal ball made a report and added, "In addition, the blood type is O, suitable for using blood bags No. 1, 4, and 9."
Koizumi Hongzi opened the freezer containing the blood bag and medicine, and looked up at Chi Feichi.
"Elizabeth, now you have two choices. One is to die around nine o'clock tonight, and the other is to choose to inject the medicine and blood I brought. There is a 27% chance of failure. Failure means that your body cannot withstand the power of the medicine, and you will Die immediately. If successful, you will have a body close to a healthy state in about two days. During these two days, you will have to have a blood transfusion every 12 hours. You will die from organ failure after two days. "Chi Feichi looked at Elizabeth and said, "Whatever you want to choose, you make your own decision."
"Can we only have two days?" Koizumi Hongzi asked with a frown.
"Two days at most," Chi Feichi said to Koizumi Hongzi. "Based on her current physical condition, if the dose of medicine is increased slightly, her body will not be able to bear it, and the success rate will be less than 10%."
It's not like he hadn't thought about taking a pill of APTX-4869, but Elizabeth's body was too weak and she couldn't bear the power of the medicine.
"Then give it a try," Elizabeth said with an open mind, "You brought the potion here just to extend my life, right? Even if it's only for two days, that's fine. I can take you to see it. Look at Jiang Shenyuan."
Koizumi Hongzi smiled and saw Chi Fei late to prepare the medicine injection, picked up the blood bag and transfusion tube, "We have watched Jiang Shenyuan develop from a desolate foreign mansion to a port city. It seems that there has been no change in the past forty or fifty years. How has it changed? When it comes to our familiarity with Jiang Shenyuan, we may not be any worse than you."
