Chapter 1336 Imprisonment (7K)

Su Xiaoqiang stumbled out of the conference room door, her high heels clattering on the hospital tiles. The bright light from the window cast her shadow on the cold corridor wall through the green shade of the trees, which looked a little crooked and cold.

In the door behind her that had not yet been completely closed, experts from all over the world wearing heavy glasses were discussing the details of the relevant cases in a formulaic manner.

In academic exchanges, those experts whose sympathy had long been overdrawn used language to dissect the remaining time of the patient they were discussing quite calmly and plainly. Every word, every look, and every skillful movement of flipping the case paper was like a scalpel performing an invisible operation.

This was something Su Xiaoqiang couldn't stand. She knew that every word those experts and professors said was a fact accumulated through countless experiences. But when the words "spread", "mid-late stage", "survival period" and so on were uttered coldly and calmly, she found that she seemed to be far less strong than she thought. The more she sat in the chair in the corner and listened, the colder her heart became. The temperature of her body seemed to drop a little bit along with the survival rate obtained by those diagnoses.

It was not until she stood up and said she wanted to go to the toilet that the experts noticed that the family members had been in the corner all the time. They silently watched the young girl who pretended to be strong with brand-name clothes and bags piled up and pushed open the door of the conference room and left in despair. No one spoke to comfort her, and no one started to sigh inexplicably.

They had seen too many scenes like this. Cancer is the fairest thing in the world. Things are impermanent and life is limited. In front of cancer, everyone is equal. Whether they are people in high positions, billionaires, or athletes, all the power and strength they have in this world before cancer seems so fragile.

They have seen many back figures like Su Xiaoqiang. The only difference is that this girl may be a little younger, but not much younger. At least compared to those people from poor families, she has a wealthy family behind her, which allows her to gather experts and professors like them to sit here and think about how to save patients' survival longer. She is considered a relatively lucky person.

The dean gently closed the door of the conference room. A heated discussion continued to break out at the conference table, and the wording was more intense and cold than when the family members were present.

No matter where you are, the environment of the hospital is always much better than other places. It is quiet and bright. The shadows of the trees outside the window sway on the mopped floor. The light reflected on the tiles is a little dazzling white. With the cool air flow from the corridor, it even feels a little cold when it shines on your body. In a quiet place like a hospital, I always feel that everything is cold, my heart is cold, my words are cold, and even the sun is cold.

Su Xiaoqian sat at the entrance of an empty corridor, took out a lipstick-shaped lighter from her handbag, and then found the mint-flavored Moor cigarettes that were not much left. She patted the bottom of the cigarette box and shook out a cigarette, lowered her head and bit it between her lips and teeth. When she buried her head and tried to light a cigarette, she suddenly found that the lighter in her hand was gone.

This made her pause for a few seconds. She looked at the stairs on the ground on both sides, touched her pockets, and searched her handbag again. She found that the lighter she had just held in her hand had disappeared inexplicably.

She searched around her expressionlessly but couldn't find it. The more she searched, the more irritable she became. Finally, she suddenly picked up the expensive handbag in her hand and slammed it on the stairs in front of her. The objects in the handbag, such as mobile phones, small mirrors, lipsticks, Bluetooth headphones, etc., all fell out at once, and fell down the stairs with a "crackling" sound, scattered all over.

The sound of things falling in the empty corridor was quite harsh. Su Xiaoqian sat on the stairs, lowered her head, biting the unlit Moore cigarette and holding her head with both hands for a while.

When the lipstick finally rolled to the last step and stopped, and it was completely quiet, she took a deep breath, raised her head, loosened the cigarette box that was squeezed into a ball, took out the cigarette in her mouth with her left hand and held it in her hand to get up.

At this time, she suddenly heard the familiar "beep" sound of the lighter.

Su Xiaoqian turned her head and saw that the boy who drove the Ferrari to bring her to the hospital was standing behind her, playing with the side-sliding lighter in his hand. When she looked up, the other party also looked down at her.

The two looked at each other, and Su Xiaoqian immediately turned back, lowered her head, reached out to wipe her slightly red eyes, coughed a few times, took a deep breath, and frowned hard, saying, "Why are you still here?"

The copper-plated gold lighter that belonged to her behind her was constantly being played with, making annoying noises, "Are you a thief? You walk without making any sound, and you take other people's things at will."

"You have the habit of smoking." Lin Nian's thumb slid across the fine gears surrounding the lipstick-shaped lighter, and beautiful sparks and a little smoke rose up, which were immediately covered and extinguished. "I used to smoke with The reason they said they were stressed was just an excuse for their addiction to smoking. It was not until later that they discovered that smokers were not necessarily stressed, but people with stress would smoke. It was not that they did not know that it was harmful to the body, but they simply felt that since their lives were about to end, the damage caused by nicotine to the body seemed so insignificant compared to the temporary pleasure it could provide. "

"Are you crazy? Why are you suddenly saying these nonsense?" Su Xiaoqiang did not look at him. She sat on the stairs and raised her wrist to wipe her face. From the low pressure on her body, it could be seen that she was in a bad mood.

"Some things cannot be rushed. "Lin Nian said.

This is the experience he has gained from countless experiences. In the past, he might have been furious about the current situation and only wanted to blow up the whole world. But it was not until later that he realized that this kind of manic and restless self was exactly what that guy wanted to see.

Instead of being angry, it is better to calmly wait for the right time after doing everything you can, and look for more ways to break the situation.

After tidying up her image, Su Xiaoqian reached back without looking back, "Give me back the lighter."

"This is a hospital."

"Let them fine me."

"They are now saying that your father is hopeless and has less than a year left to live. On the one hand, they want to stabilize you and let you invest more medical funds, and on the other hand, they don't know how to make you willingly pay more money for some treatments with little effect under this grim fact." Lin Nian turned his head and looked in the direction of the conference room door, with no intention of returning the lighter to the hand that was stretched out, "What are you going to do?"

"If you can treat it, treat it. If you can't treat it, transfer it to another hospital. What experts and professors are you talking about? A group of quacks. They just swore to me that my father's condition should be in the early stage, but now they suddenly say that it has spread and worsened." Su Xiaoqian said expressionlessly.

Lin Nian was quiet for a while, walked up to sit beside her, lit the lighter and handed it to her. The flame between the two was slightly swayed by the wind.

Su Xiaoqian was silent for a moment, bit the thin cigarette again and put it in front of the flame to light it, but before she could take a puff, the cigarette in her mouth was twisted away. She watched the boy snatch her cigarette, took a puff and exhaled minty white smoke, extinguished the flame and put the lighter in her pocket.

"Do you want to consider my method?" Lin Nian took a puff of Moore's thin cigarette, twisted the lit cigarette with his fingers and put it in front of his eyes to watch. It was his first time to smoke. To be honest, it was a bit choking, but he didn't cough shamefully because his body structure was slightly different from that of ordinary people.

There was no one else around except the two of them, otherwise he would not let this girl light this cigarette.

In the end, looking at Su Xiaoqian's face, his thoughts and actions were inevitably affected. Was this also part of the deliberate calculation of this level?

"Your method? Are you talking about finding another group of quack doctors to cheat my family out of money? So this was your idea from the beginning." Su Xiaoqian raised her hand expressionlessly, snatched the cigarette from Lin Nian's fingers, put it between her lips, took a deep breath, and raised her head to exhale a thin white smoke before Lin Nian took the cigarette back.

"The doctors that the people I know are not the quacks in the office. The medical methods in the world of mixed-bloods are indeed much more advanced than those in normal society. After all, a group of interest groups at the top of the pyramid are always worthy of your trust in the cost they invest in cherishing life. Even I know at least one way to cure your father's cancer, but I'm not sure if that method exists in your world."

"Do you really think that my father has cancer, so you can take advantage of it, make a few phone calls in front of me, and make up some unfounded terms and circles to deceive me?"

"Why don't you want to believe that there are always some magical colors in this world, maybe this color different from gray and white can really save the life of someone important to you."

"As for you, you may succeed in deceiving minors. I have to say that you are the most interesting liar I have seen since taking over my father's company. You are very innovative and your appearance is barely acceptable. Did you conduct a careful investigation and find a good time to approach me? You are really thoughtful." Su Xiaoqiang regained some calmness, looking at the ceiling, and some mint smoke overflowed from the corners of her red lips.

She should have been crushed by pressure and reality like an ordinary person, but surprisingly, she can still speak well until now, and use her own thinking to calmly distinguish those chaotic information.

Lin Nian tilted his head to look at the girl in the smoke with a confused look. Although she was a few years older than him and had more mature charm in the social experience, she was still the familiar Su Xiaoqiang between her eyebrows, but the name on the ID card had changed, and the past experience had changed.

He said, "People with cancer will suddenly be willing to believe in things in the world that he has always sneered at, religion, folk remedies, legends, and rumors. They also need something urgently, and they will believe it more urgently. I don't think this is a stupid behavior. We have all heard the story of a drowning man grasping a straw. Even if a straw can't save his life, it can make him struggle for a while, instead of sinking to the bottom of the sea in despair."

"So you are actually some strange cult leader? You have set your eyes on our family property and want to make a difference through my efforts to achieve financial freedom in the second half of your life?" Su Xiaoqiang tilted her head to look at him.

"I don't need the family fortune. I just think that you are the first familiar person I met after I walked out of the subway. There must be something behind this." Lin Nian looked at her and said, "If you want an answer, I will temporarily blame it on 'fate'."

"Fate? What kind of cheap way of chatting up is this? If you are a cult, you should say that this is the guidance of the 'master'." Su Xiaoqiang sneered.

"Usually I call Him 'bastard' or 'fucking mother', without any respect. I don't know what His purpose is in showing me these things now, but since He has put the problem in front of me, I have no reason to ignore it. This is our usual way of fighting." Lin Nian said.

Here it comes again, the words that I can’t understand as if I’m a middle-aged child. Su Xiaoqiang thought.

"If you don't want my family property, then what do you want? You don't want both the family property and the people. You have fallen in love with me and want me to sacrifice myself for your lies? What did you say to save your father and then sleep with me? What nonsense?" she asked thoughtfully.

"Usually when we were getting ready to go to bed, you would tell me such nonsense. I was worried for a while, and then I asked my sister in a cryptic way, and she said that it seemed like you wanted to get back some of the things you asked for in high school from me. No, some kind of compulsion arises unconsciously in my heart.”

Lin Nian raised his hand to catch the slap from Su Xiaoqiang, slowly and gently put down her hand, took a puff of the mole cigarette, and then handed it to her mouth. When she looked at Lin Nian expressionlessly, he actually took the initiative Take another sip, and the warmth of each other's lips on the end of the cigarette is transferred to each other.

"I'm sorry, I was just kidding." Lin Nian looked at her insistent slap in the face and could only take a step back and admit that he went too far.

Inexplicably, he would always regard Su Xiaoqiang as the girl he knew. In the end, this Su Xiaoqiang was not the little goddess he knew, so it was indeed too much to make such a joke.

Su Xiaoqiang curled her lips. In fact, she didn't really want to slap Lin Nian, but she had to put on a show when a man made a pornographic comment to her. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a mess if everyone thought she could make a pornographic joke at will?

She twitched her hand without twitching, glanced at the anti-wolf spray that rolled down the stairs to the corner, and regretted throwing her handbag.

"Let's go." Lin Nian stood up from her side and let go of her wrist.

"Why are you leaving? The fraud has failed. Are you worried that if you get violent, I will shout and call the hospital security to take you to the police station?" Su Xiaoqiang, who was sitting on the stairs, chewed on a fine Moore cigarette and rubbed her wrist angrily. It doesn't hurt, but the feeling of absolute power still makes girls a little scared.

"While you were staying in the conference room, I took a trip to the city's viaducts. Although I didn't find what I was looking for, I unexpectedly discovered some strange phenomena." Lin Nian took a few steps down the stairs. , bent down and picked up something Su Xiaoqiang dropped on the ground.

When he just bent over, he reached back and grabbed the ankle of Su Xiaoqiang's right foot. The opponent's strength was not very strong. He probably didn't want to kick him down, but was preparing to shake him lightly to scare him. .

He glanced back at Su Xiaoqiang, and from this angle, he grabbed the other person's ankle again. At a glance, the other person seemed to realize that he was at a disadvantage, and he pulled his foot back hard and stopped talking.

"You haven't called the police or called anyone yet, so I assume that you have some basic trust in me. Then you might as well come with me and show you some interesting things. Maybe it will change your mind." Lin Nian He packed up all the things scattered on the ground, put his bag next to Su Xiaoqiang, and walked past her, "I went to the parking lot to drive, and I was prepared to believe in me, or in other words, to believe that there might indeed exist in the ordinary world. If you want a little fantasy, just come to me at the door of the hospital, I will only wait for you for three minutes."

A good one will only wait for you for three minutes.

Usually this sentence is said by Miss Su to others. When has it been the turn of an inexplicable guy to put such an ultimatum to herself?

She hasn't called security or called the police to arrest him yet. It's all because she feels really uncomfortable and just wants to talk to someone. She really gives him face, right?

Su Xiaoqiang sat on the steps and listened to the footsteps of the boy leaving behind her. She picked up the crushed cigarette case from beside her and wanted to light another one, but found that the other person didn't return the lighter to her at all and could only spit out the cigarette in her mouth. Cigarette stood up from the cold stairs, turned and left.

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Lin Nian put his hands on the steering wheel and adjusted the Ferrari's sun visor so that the high-hanging sun would not dazzle his eyes. When flipping over the sun visor, he found a pair of sunglasses hanging on it, so he simply took them off and looked at the sign before putting them on his face.

"Give me the lighter." A hand reached out from the passenger window. It was Su Xiaoqiang. She looked at Lin Nian in the driver's seat from across the seat with an unhappy expression.

Lin Nian put the Hermès lipstick lighter in his pocket, which was probably given when buying a handbag, in the storage basket. Su Xiaoqiang happened to be stuck outside the passenger door and couldn't reach it. She took a deep breath, opened the passenger door and sat in, and then He pulled the door shut so hard that the frameless glass shook several times. She is probably one of the few girls who has such a bad temper when sitting in the passenger seat of a Ferrari.

"Drive slowly." Su Xiaoqiang warned Lin Nian.

"Just drive 60." Lin Nian ignited the engine, put the accelerator in gear and stepped away.

The opening time is 60, but he didn't say how much it would be at zero time.

Su Xiaoqiang saw the Ferrari driving onto the highway like a fish in water, passing cars one after another like a breath. She sighed and grabbed her seat belt and asked, "What did you say you wanted to take me to see just now?"

"Rather than asking you to see it, I would rather ask you to help verify what I saw." Lin Nian drove the car to the entrance of the elevated road not long after, "When you were in the hospital conference room, I I took the time to walk around the viaduct, looking for something interesting, but I couldn’t find it. When I passed the beltway on my way back, I discovered an interesting phenomenon.”

"What interesting phenomenon?" Su Xiaoqiang frowned, not understanding what Lin Nian was talking about at all.

"I'll take you to see it right away." Lin Nian stepped on the accelerator and the speed reached 60, but the Ferrari completely disappeared on the elevated road. The normal vehicles that were overtaken couldn't even hear the usual whistling sound. They could only feel that there seemed to be a red shadow flying by their side. Looking forward, it was like seeing a ghost. Nothing could be seen. Only a red dot could be seen in the distant sky.

It didn't take long for Lin Nian to turn onto the ring road. Su Xiaoqiang saw that the road sign next to her was actually the direction of leaving the city. She couldn't help but grab the seat belt and looked at Lin Nian with a vigilant face, "Where do you want to take me?"

This guy finally deceived her trust. Is he going to do something to her?

"You asked the wrong question. It's not where I want to take you, but where I can only take you." Lin Nian stared at the road conditions ahead. It was originally a straight and smooth highway, but in Su Xiaoqiang's puzzled eyes, he suddenly slowed down after driving a distance, and the Ferrari gradually stopped in the emergency lane on the side of the highway and turned on the double flash.

"Illegal parking on the highway will deduct nine points. Aren't you afraid of something happening? Hey, hey! Why are you getting out of the car? Are you looking for death?" Su Xiaoqian watched Lin Nian open the car door and walk onto the highway after parking. She hurriedly unbuckled her seat belt, climbed over the guardrail and followed Lin Nian's direction.

Lin Nian walked in the middle of the highway, his attitude as if he was the owner of the highway. To be honest, it was his own fault if he was hit and killed for this kind of behavior. Fortunately, there were no cars on this road now, otherwise Su Xiaoqian felt that she could really see a bloody scene of taking off from the ground.

Amid her anxious shouting, Lin Nian suddenly stopped. He stood in the middle of the highway, squatted down and ran his fingers across a fine crack on the asphalt that ran across the entire road surface. It was unknown whether it was left by a large truck or caused by the movement of the earth's crust. It was this crack that stopped him from moving forward.

Plato once advocated that the real world only exists in imagination. Based on this sentence, later directors shot the two classic science fiction movies "The Matrix" and "The Matrix" in 1999. In the movies, the real world is a virtual product built by computers. Everything is the result of 0 and 1 calculations, which makes people think about virtuality and reality.

Lin Nian stood up and looked forward. What he saw was different from what Su Xiaoqiang saw when she was holding the iron bars and shouting at her outside the guardrail. In the eyes of the latter, Lin Nian was just standing still in the middle of the highway as if he was looking for death, while in his eyes, there was another strange and abstract scene in front of him.

It was a world composed of bizarre black space and green lines. It was endless. On the boundless landform filled with black blocks, the green lines symbolizing three-dimensional outlined the high and convex terrain. All of this was like a map model that had not yet been rendered in the game, implying that this was an unfinished sketch of "God" and the edge of the world.

Lin Nian stretched his hand forward and tried to jump over the boundary represented by the cracks on the asphalt road on the ground. Sure enough, he touched a wall, which was an invisible obstacle. No matter how hard he tried, he could not penetrate it and reach the other side that had not yet been rendered.

"What are you doing?"

In Su Xiaoqiang's eyes, what Lin Nian was doing now was undoubtedly quite weird. He was actually performing a pantomime in the middle of the highway, just like those clowns who put their hands in the air and pretended that they were blocked by an air wall, constantly making the audience laugh through non-physical performances.

He glanced at Su Xiaoqiang, walked over, climbed over the guardrail, and said as she subconsciously retreated, "Can you get through?"

"Get through? Get through what?" Su Xiaoqiang couldn't understand what Lin Nian was doing at all.

"Take two steps forward." Lin Nian pointed in the direction of the black and green module that had not yet been rendered in his field of vision.

"Take two steps? Why?" Although Su Xiaoqiang was puzzled, it didn't seem difficult to just take two steps, and Lin Nian's attitude was particularly serious now, so she took two steps forward. Nothing happened.

Lin Nian looked at Su Xiaoqiang standing in the module rendered with black and green lines and looking back at him, and took a step forward. He was undoubtedly blocked by the invisible wall.

"In your vision, everything is normal here, right?" He stared at Su Xiaoqiang's back and asked.

"How can it be abnormal?" Su Xiaoqiang really thought Lin Nian was a psychopath.

"Is that so?"

But then, under Su Xiaoqiang's horrified gaze, Lin Nian's pupils changed color in the sun, gradually warming from the beautiful light gold to a terrifying molten red, and the corners of his eyes inexplicably overflowed with blood-colored mist, and dense objects like pale scales broke out from his neck, and more misty blood overflowed between opening and closing, forming a "ring" on the top of his head.

"Use me as a shield and run farther back." He said.

Without Lin Nian saying anything, Su Xiaoqiang ran away quickly. It was unclear whether she was afraid of Lin Nian or what he was about to do.

As she ran, she looked back at Lin Nian and saw him raise his right arm covered with white scales that didn't look like a human and punch the air - hitting a non-existent transparent wall!

The next moment, an incredible and exaggerated gas explosion broke out in the air!

Su Xiaoqiang lay in the mud, with a deafening sound behind her. The visible shock wave directly overturned the ground within a range of hundreds of meters. The trees planted in the green belt and the large steel guardrails were uprooted by the aftermath of the violence, and flew out like a piece of paper. The hard and thick asphalt road surface of the highway was lifted up several meters high, and the segmented ground was clearly visible! The Ferrari parked in the emergency lane was naturally not spared. As if it was hit by a Category 12 hurricane, the tons of super sports car was blown up in the strong wind, turned countless times in the air, and fell into the wasteland hundreds of meters away!

After everything calmed down, Lin Nian shed his dragon transformation and the gospel, and stood at the tip of an impact fan. To his left and right and behind most of the ground, the entire ground was evacuated and plowed by the movement just now, and it was in a mess, as if it had been bombed by a large-yield bomb. This was only the effect of his half-strength punch. He was confident that if he hit it hard, he could kill a second-generation dragon.

But in front of him, the scene behind the invisible wall remained unchanged, and all the damage and influence caused by him could not penetrate to the other side of the invisible wall.

"This is boring." Lin Nian said lightly as he looked at this scene.

He was imprisoned in this city.