"The dragon lurks in the abyss, its scales and claws fly, the sleeping ones never die, the awakened ones will eventually return"
"Two-level reversal?" The situation of bipolar conflict may be reversed》
"Four months of slumber, 'S' level, you missed too many things"
"Gorgeous betrayal or complicated frame-up, now everything should be finalized..."
On the laptop, the popular posts on the Night Watch forum are almost maxed out. A large number of posts with the same blue tags have been pushed to the top by heat and artificial refinement. Only two or three popular posts about Christmas remain. The popularity is in the top few, but it is only a matter of time before this popularity is pushed down... No one can complain about someone's getting up on Christmas Day to steal the limelight. Everyone is involved in quite heated discussions, such as this one Behind the surface of things, there are many secrets worth exploring and pondering.
The door of the intensive care unit was pushed open. Lin Young moved the mouse lightly to cross out the web page, closed the notebook and looked up at Professor Manstein who walked in.
"Lin Nian, I heard that the first person you want to see when you wake up is me?" Manstein walked into the room. Today he is still wearing the old-fashioned black teaching suit and blue tie. The frame of the glasses on the bridge of his nose was neither crooked nor slanted, and what was underneath was a picture of peace and comfort. Lin Nian couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the IV drip on the hospital bed.
"To be honest, I thought you would choose to see your friends first. Chu Zihang and Caesar Gattuso rushed here as soon as they knew you woke up, but Principal Angers rejected their offer. Apply for medical visit and prepare to give you more rest time."
"...Four months?" Lin Nian watched Manstein walk to the bedside, "They said I slept for four months."
"It's been four long months." Manstein nodded slightly, a trace of fatigue flashed across his eyes, but he still hid the difficulty. "In the first three days, everyone thought it would be difficult to save you. But the principal still ordered all the medical resources of the college to be used to forcibly hang you up... The bullet did not cause a penetrating wound. After breaking the bones in your precardium, the force was basically buffered, but It still entered your heart and got stuck in the muscles of the left ventricle. There were no immediate symptoms of heart rupture... But afterward, during the transportation, you gradually developed insufficient blood supply and hypoxia to the brain. We could only Emergency surgery will be performed on you at the local hospital in the town of Carmel..."
"But I was still in a coma for four months." Lin Nian said, "Is it because of the lack of oxygen? Did it cause irreversible damage to my brain?"
For example, people with carbon monoxide poisoning will suffer from delayed sequelae even after being rescued. This is because when excessive carbon monoxide is inhaled, the brain will enter a long-term hypoxic environment. In this case, a large number of brain cells will slowly die. This can lead to irreversible brain damage, ranging from amnesia and forgetfulness to hemiplegia or even complete paralysis. The heart and various organs will gradually develop various problems.
According to Manstein's description, Lin Nian must have lived through a long period of danger. During that period, it was difficult to ensure that his brain did not suffer certain trauma.
"No...the reason why you were comatose was not because of the brain injury." Manstein said softly, "The real reason why you were comatose was because of the bullet that hit you."
"Bullet?" Lin Nian touched his skinny chest, and there was still a brown wound in the heart. "Is that bullet still in my heart?"
"We thought," Manstein said, "that the bullet could be removed with another surgical procedure."
Lin Nian put down his hand and looked at Manstein with a puzzled expression.
"According to the description of the surgeon in charge of the operation at the time, after cutting open your chest, the bullet stuck in the heart was not a conventional brass bullet, but a dazzling red crystal color," Manstein said.
Lin Nian suddenly raised his head and looked at Manstein, who also nodded slowly, "It's what you were thinking about."
"The Philosopher's Stone...?" Lin Nian whispered, "The one that hit me was the Philosopher's Stone?"
"Bright red, crystal texture, visual inspection is artificial quartz crystal, with a purified dragon blood filament in the center. It is made from the bones of pure blood dragons. In alchemy, it represents pure 'spirit'." Man Stein said slowly.
Alchemy was not his main subject before, but these four months have passed. Even if he has never been exposed to alchemy, he can now describe all the characteristics of the Philosopher's Stone in detail. If necessary, he can even The description of the Philosopher's Stone in that entire chapter was recited simply because he had reread it so many times that he knew it by heart.
"The surgeon tried to take out the bullet, but the moment the tweezers touched the bullet... it shattered, like broken ice crystals. The fine fragments stuck in your heart, and most of them merged into your broken heart. In the ventricle of the heart. At that time, you had severe internal bleeding that could be fatal. The surgeon had no way to perform other operations and could only rush to stop the bleeding. But after the bleeding was stopped, the bullet no longer existed..."
"In other words, it's everywhere." Lin Nian stretched out his hand and gently pressed it on his chest, "It's in my body."
"After hitting the bone, the bullet has already reached the critical point of collapse. Touching it with tweezers is the last external force to break the critical point. The Philosopher's Stone itself is extremely fragile. After being broken, it has become countless The fragments flow into every corner of your body with every beat of your heart..." Manstein said, "You were hit in the flesh, but from an alchemical point of view, he hit at the same time It's also your spirit. The vice-principal has personally seen your condition. In his own words, even if you are revived, you will still be in a vegetative state, because your spirit has definitely been hit. The spirit' was dead at that moment."
"...In the eyes of a master alchemist, the Philosopher's Stone can cause immeasurable mental trauma. You may have a strong bloodline, but your spirit is still like soft flesh without a protective shell. This is why the Philosopher's Stone has repeatedly appeared in The reason why it has been able to cause fatal injuries to dragons of the next generation and above throughout history."
"It seems that the enemy is well prepared." Lin Nian ignored the sentence that was tantamount to a death sentence, because he was still sitting here talking and breathing normally, "I'm awake now."
"So today the vice-chancellor publicly announced a year of sobriety."
"What does it have to do with him quitting drinking if I wake up?"
"He previously said that the chance of you sobering up is as high as the chance of him quitting drinking, but it is probably impossible for him to completely stop drinking. Due to the public opinion on the forum, he can only say that he will stop drinking for a year to calm down. He lost face." Manstein said lightly, "Alchemy is his specialty, and it would be difficult for him to get over being slapped in the face in this area."
"..." Lin Nian didn't speak for a while. He seemed to have thought of something, but he couldn't verify it at this time.
"Has the murderer been caught?" he asked again.
"Caught." Manstein paused, turned his head and looked elsewhere. Due to the angle, Lin Nian couldn't see his eyes.
"After the trial of King Solomon, he has been transferred to the Chernobyl prison. There is no right of defense or right of appeal. Because the evidence is conclusive, it is almost an ironclad case. Within the third day, the school board and other elders of the secret party They all sentenced him... to life imprisonment!"
Lin Nian closed his eyes and didn't seem to care too much about the murderer's final fate. As long as he was caught, the school board would always find a way to interrogate something. He had been to the interrogation room of the execution department, and he had only slightly learned the techniques there. A little superficial knowledge was enough to make those tough guys cry for their fathers and mothers, and the murderer finally got the end he deserved.
But there were more important things he wanted to ask about than the murderer.
"Where's Mandy?" he asked.
But no answer was received, and the room suddenly became quiet.
He opened his eyes and found Manstein looking down at him. The emotion in his eyes was very stable, which reminded people of dry rocks covered with moss. What filled the wrinkles was mud under stagnant water, full of decay and decay. The sadness that cannot be hidden.
"Where's Mandy?" Lin Nian repeated his question.
Manstein still didn't answer him, which seemed to be killing the harmonious atmosphere in the room, and the temperature dropped little by little.
In the cold air he exhaled, Lin Nian lowered his voice and said, "Don't tell me she's dead."
"Not dead." Manstein shook his head and said, "Didn't I say it before? King Solomon's trial against her was life imprisonment, not a purge."
"...?"
Maybe it was because of the winter. Even when he was sitting on the bed, Lin Nian felt a little numb. Only then did he feel a little warmer. Then it suddenly cooled down again, and it was even more unforgettable cold.
"What are you talking about? I don't understand." He asked.
Manstein looked down at him and said, "Let her go past some things. There is no need to defend her and hide anything... I know she means a lot to you, and she means a lot to me too." A rare student... But if you do something wrong, you are doing something wrong, and some things cannot be undone once you make a wrong step... This is party discipline that cannot be provoked."
"Lin Nian..." He finished speaking in one breath, watching Lin Nian take a deep breath and said, "Accept the reality... Although it is not easy, all kinds of evidence have been solidified."
"What evidence...?"
"She was the one who shot you that day... Mandy Gonzalez. She betrayed your trust and committed an intolerable betrayal under the inducement of forces outside the party. She used you to give Her Philosopher's Stone... fired the fatal shot at you," Manstein said.
