1839 "3 Years"

———— "AIDS".

This is not a common name at all, but a professional term.

Its common name should actually be another name.

"AIDS..."

Kikuoka Seijiro read out the name of the disease in a low voice, which made Asuna feel dizzy and difficult to breathe, and her whole body seemed to be frozen, and she couldn't even react.

Luo Zhen also lowered his eyes and said nothing.

Only Cangqiao's voice sounded again.

"Now AIDS is not as scary as the general public thinks. Even if you are infected with human immunodeficiency virus, as long as you start treatment early, it is possible to suppress HIV for as long as one or two decades. With advanced health management, you can even live the same life as before the infection."

After speaking, Cangqiao paused slightly, then sighed, and continued to speak.

"However, the five-year survival rate of newborns infected with HIV is much lower than that of adults. This is also an indisputable fact. After knowing that the whole family was infected, Kapok Ji's mother seemed to have thought that everyone would go to hell together, but Her mother was a Christian since she was a child, and after the initial crisis was overcome by faith and her father's help, she chose to continue to fight against the disease."

In other words, from the moment Yuuki was born, she was doomed to fight against the virus in order to survive.

In her life, she has never had a healthy body, only the god of death who is always by her side.

"After getting out of the most dangerous period, the petite kapok season can grow up safely and even enter elementary school. Even for a child, it is quite hard work to take a lot of drugs on a regular basis. Transcriptase inhibitors are also drugs with quite strong side effects, but Kapok Ji still believes that his illness will be cured one day and keeps working hard. There are also many friends, even if she knows her fate, she still has a very dazzling smile."

Isn't this a matter of course?

Even now, Yuuki always wears such a bright and lively smile, let alone before?

pity...

"The fact that Kapok Ji is an HIV carrier, when she was in the fourth grade of primary school,

For some unknown reason, the parents of some students in the same year found out, and rumors spread immediately. Even though the law expressly stipulates that HIV infection cannot be used as a reason to discriminate against carriers, not everyone in this society has good intentions, so At the beginning there were protests against her coming to the school, or there were tangible and intangible pranks such as phone calls and letters. Even though her parents tried their best to save her, they still had to move, and Mumian Ji had to transfer to another school. . "

Kurahashi looked at Yuuki who was lying on the gel bed, with an increasingly heavy heaviness appearing on his face.

"Although even so, Kapok Ji is still very strong and goes to the new school every day to attend classes. However, it is cruel that since then, the indicator used to judge the decline of immunity is the lymphocyte called "CD4". The value decreased rapidly. "

what does that mean?

It meant that Yuuki's condition had flared up.

"Due to weakened immunity, it is easy to be attacked by viruses and bacteria that can be easily repelled at ordinary times. As a result, Kapok Ji developed a complication called Pneumocystis pneumonia, and was subsequently infected by Candida esophagus. He was admitted to this hospital. That was about three and a half years ago."

Kurahashi turned to look at Asuna.

"However, what is admirable is that even in the hospital, Kapok Ji has always been full of vigor, with a smile every day, saying "I will never lose to the disease", no matter how painful it is to examine her Never complain. "

Hearing this, Asuna's eyes were already moist.

At this time, Kurahashi pointed at the full-dive machine Yuuki was using.

"At this time, there was a huge commotion in the society because of the incident caused by , and the experimental unit No. 1 of the medical full-stealth machine , which was continuously researched and developed by the state and some manufacturers, happened to be used for clinical trials. And moving into this hospital, but it is really difficult to find patients who are willing to assist in the experiment. After knowing this, I made a suggestion to Mu Mianji and her family, that is to become the experimenter of , maybe There is still a chance of survival.”

In this way, Yuuki became the experimenter of .

"Because the testing machine of is a very sophisticated machine that requires careful maintenance, it must be placed in an environment that excludes dust, bacteria and viruses in the air before it can be used. As long as the patient voluntarily enters the sterile room, it can be greatly improved. To reduce the risk of infection, that's how I suggested that Kapok Ji and her family accept this experiment, but because of this, Kapok Ji couldn't leave the sterile room, and couldn't contact anyone directly, so Kapok Ji has been here Live in Taiwan ."

Kurahashi's words made Asuna's breathing stagnate.

Always?

What does always mean?

Shouldn't...

Asuna looked at Rozen.

Luo Zhen met Asuna's gaze, and nodded with an unexpectedly cold expression.

"Even though the is a full-dive machine for medical use, as long as it is a full-dive machine, Yuuki...or Konno can go full-dive and live in a virtual world. This is also a kind of The good thing is that patients don't need to lie on the bed alone in a boring hospital. As long as they give their bodies to the doctor, they can always eat, drink and have fun in the virtual world, live like ordinary people, and take risks in games. There are many benefits. "

Luo Zhen opened his mouth lightly.

"I think, since Konno entered this sterile room, she should have almost never returned to the real world. Perhaps it should be said that she has never returned. Except for a few hours a day of collecting archives and experiments, She should be traveling in various virtual worlds all the time, almost 24 hours a day in a stealth state."

Hearing this, Asuna finally understood.

I understand why Yuuki has higher full-dive aptitude and integration into the virtual world than SAO players.

It's just because Yuuki has been living in the imaginary world all these years, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, all year round, living in it almost all the time.

And since her body can no longer move in the real world, for Yuuki, the virtual world is her world, a world that is more real than the real world.

The SAO survivors have been fully submerged for only two years. After SAO is cleared, it is impossible for anyone to continue to soak in the imaginary world 24 hours a day.

But Yuuki was different.

Yuuki's full stealth time was three years.

More players than SAO.

That's why Kirito said—"You have become a complete resident of this world".

That's why Luo Zhen said——"There is another kind of people who also treat the virtual world as the real world to survive."

The two already knew about , so they were able to guess that Yuuki was from after realizing that Yuuki was not a survivor of SAO through Yuuki's amazing full-dive ability and degree of integration into the virtual world. experimenter's business.

And it was learned that Yuuki was a patient who had to be treated by .