The cold wind howled.
The wind carrying dust and sand passed through the dense buildings, making a low moan.
The warmth inside is in stark contrast to the cold outside.
Chief physician of Long'an First Army.
Standing in front of the transparent glass, Lin An silently looked at the man in the ward.
It's like a sculpture. I don't know how long I have been looking at it.
Lying on the hospital bed, Chu An seemed to be sleeping steadily, but the electroencephalogram displayed on the side was as calm as the dead sea, without any waves.
"This has been going on... for how long."
His eyes moved back from the ward.
Lin An asked softly to the doctor beside him.
It was already the third day. From the first time he saw Chu An to now, Chu An has always looked like this.
Even if Lin An already knows the answer in his heart, even if he has tested it countless times in his own way.
But this time, Lin An was like an ordinary person and couldn't help but ask questions to the doctors in the base.
The words just fell.
The large number of doctors and presidents who followed Lin An cautiously became frightened and spoke respectfully and cautiously:
"Lord Lin An."
"Your Excellency Chu An, this situation has been going on for a long time."
"He has been sleeping since Commander Zhang Tie sent him here."
"To be precise, it's dormancy. All of Chu An's body functions have been reduced to the lowest level, and brain activity has also stabilized. It seems to be due to some kind of self-repair..."
"to be honest."
The top medical team in the province explained euphemistically.
Lin An tilted his head slightly and interrupted the other party's euphemistic remarks with a cold voice.
He has been tested with mental and psychic powers.
Chu An's current state is not so much that of sleeping or dormant.
Rather...
It has no response to the outside world and is a living dead.
No.
Worse than the living dead.
Brain waves and thought pulses without any changes, worse than even plants.
If it weren't for his breathing and heartbeat, Lin An would have even suspected that this man was dead.
You know, even flowers, plants and trees will have the most instinctive biological reactions when stimulated by electrodes.
But all Chu An's fluctuations are 0.
Lin An couldn't imagine, and didn't want to believe, that Chu An, the most "terrible" person he knew, who could calculate almost everything, and seemed to predict the future, would get himself to this point.
"Master Lin An..."
Everyone's faces instantly turned pale, and their hearts were shocked.
Seeing Lin An's dissatisfaction, one of the leading deans broke into a cold sweat and had to step forward to explain.
"To be honest, this is the first time we have encountered Mr. Chu An's current situation!"
"Judging from our examination, his brain cells seem to be dead. There are a lot of unknown shadows in the MRI images."
"Currently, there appears to be a split in his body and other cerebellar structures, and the respiratory system, originally controlled by the central nervous system, has become physically self-regulating."
"It stands to reason that if there is a problem with the central nervous system, a ventilator will be required to automatically scream. We also need to use surgery to find out what the shadow is..."
"It's just... this situation is too incredible, and we don't dare to act rashly..."
It's a bit difficult to explain.
The dean gave a wry smile, and after speaking, he hurriedly motioned to the doctor behind him to hand over the CT image, signaling it to be handed over to Lin An.
It's not that he doesn't dare to say it, it's that he really doesn't know how to say it.
He has been a doctor for so many years, and even after the apocalypse, he awakened his natural healing ability.
But faced with Chu An's situation, the hundreds of experts they assembled couldn't come up with a plan.
First, Chu An's status was too high, and they did not dare to make any risky attempts.
two is..
"So in a sense, he is indeed biologically dead?"
Didn't receive CT images.
Lin An looked at Chu An in the sterile ward with complicated eyes, and directly said the conclusion that no one dared to say.
Separation of body functions and nervous system.
It's like the car's engine is no longer in the car.
The car can still run now, but it is purely due to inertia, or the remaining power is struggling to pull the car forward.
There was no need to check the image. With Lin An's mental power, he could "see" it at a glance. Chu An's brain tissue was like a necrotic sponge, and the patches of shadow seemed to be burnt. In many places, even Carbonization occurs.
Lin An couldn't imagine what Chu An had gone through and how he could become like this.
But from Zhang Tie's mouth, he vaguely guessed that this might be the price of holding back the Emperor of Alien Species.
The carbonized and charred brain made Lin An's heart extremely heavy when he saw it for the first time.
The degree of carbonization varies from region to region.
This shows that Chu An has persisted for a long, long time to get to this point...
"That must... hurt..."
"Even though the brain doesn't know what pain is..."
Lin An subconsciously covered the glass in front of him with one hand and stared blankly at Chu An on the hospital bed.
Mottled white hair, wrinkles at the corners of the eyes.
Chu An, who originally seemed young to him, now looks like a dying old man.
Such a huge contrast made Lin An feel bitter.
He even felt that the person lying on the bed was not Chu An.
Not only that.
Deep down in his heart, Lin An didn't want to believe that Chu An was really "dead".
He didn't believe that this man who was as resourceful as a monster and whose plans were so terrifying that he didn't even see clearly now would "die" so quietly.
"How could...have it come to this?"
He gave a wry smile.
Lin An had thought about coming back to see Chu An countless times, and thought about the possibility countless times.
He had thought that maybe as soon as he came back, Chu An would get up from the bed with a smile on his face, then calmly lift the frame and look at him, telling him that he didn't lie to him.
Or you may lie weakly on the bed, but still look at him as if you have everything under control, congratulating him for really creating a miracle.
Lin An even thought that as soon as he came back to see Chu An, this guy would disappear, leaving only an enigmatic letter...
The two will argue that Chu An will definitely make up a bunch of half-truths and half-false information in the name of his good to "muddle through".
For this reason, Lin An deliberately rehearsed thousands of conversations with Chu An hundreds of times.
He must ask clearly what this man knows and the mysteries in his heart.
but....
Maybe there are some things that really need to be paid for.
Maybe Chu An is a human being, not a god.
("Believe me, Lin An")
("I won't hurt you")
For some reason, Lin An always seemed to hear this sentence in his mind.
This time, this guy seemed unable to tell him personally.
