Chapter 42 Bury Me on the Moon

Lin Xian walked into the inpatient building, entered the elevator, and pressed the button for the 17th floor.

The elevator door closes and rises slowly...

Yao remembered that the last time he came to Xu Yiyi's ward was December 29, 2022.

Because it was at the X celebration banquet and New Year's Eve two days later that Professor Xu Yun was hit and killed by the murderers at 00:42, and died tragically on the street.

After that, Lin Xian never came here again and devoted himself to finding the murderer.

But for now, after a few months, the gains are still considerable.

In the long term, clues to the cosmological constant 42 were found.

Although we still don’t know what 42 represents and what its purpose is, the death of the big-faced cat’s father 600 years later undoubtedly confirms that there is definitely a terrifying secret behind this mysterious number.

Moreover, the original author of "Introduction to the Cosmological Constant" has also been found by himself. It is only a matter of time before the secret of 42 is completely understood.

When he is in a safe situation, he can bring Liu Feng to Donghai, build a laboratory for him, and let him concentrate on studying the secret of the cosmological constant 42.

At that time... Once you have mastered the power of 42, you will truly have the ability to fight the enemy.

In the short term, the identity of the murderer is also revealed.

Zhou Duanyun, Ji Lin, and Ji Xinshui are absolutely inseparable from the murder of Xu Yun.

You just need to find enough evidence of murder... and you can bring them to justice!

Ding----

The elevator door on the 17th floor opened, and Lin Xian walked directly to the door of Xu Yiyi's ward.

"Um?"

The door is ajar, and you can directly see what's going on inside.

A strange man stood in front of Xu Yiyi's ward.

The man was doing rehabilitation stretching exercises for the sleeping Xu Yiyi, so Lin Xian could only see the man's back.

He was not tall but had a strong build and looked like he worked a manual job. His hair was half long and neatly combed, and his chin was cleanly shaved, but a slight blue stubble could be seen.

The man patiently and carefully held up Xu Yiyi's thin calf, slowly bending, stretching, bending, stretching... His movements were exactly the same as Xu Yun's before.

Lin Xian watched quietly for a while.

Finding that the rehabilitation exercises that the man did for Xu Yiyi were very serious and meticulous, Lin Xian's first thought was... Could this man be a nurse hired by the hospital? But if you think about it carefully, it shouldn't be the case. This man really doesn't look like a caregiver.

Soon, the man finally completed the entire set of rehabilitation exercises, and then turned around to find Lin Xian standing at the door:

"Sir, who are you?"

He was polite and spoke standard Mandarin.

"I am a friend of Professor Xu Yun." Lin Xian pointed to the vegetative Xu Yiyi on the hospital bed:

"I'm here to visit Xu Yiyi. Are you..."

The man smiled, turned around, nodded and said:

"My name is Zheng Chenghe, and I am a family member of the ward next door."

As he spoke, he pointed to the wall on the left:

"My sister has been in poor health since she was a child and has been hospitalized all year round. Because her ward is next to Xu Yiyi's, we usually receive a lot of care from Professor Xu Yun."

"Professor Xu Yun took good care of us, brother and sister, and helped us a lot... Professor Xu Yun had many gifts here some time ago, and almost all of them were given to us. My sister and I are very grateful to him."

After saying that, he turned to look at Xu Yiyi:

"Later... something happened to Professor Xu Yun. I was worried that Xu Yiyi would be lonely, so I often came with my sister to talk to her and do rehabilitation exercises for her."

…

I see.

Lin Xian also nodded politely.

This person and Xu Yun can be considered "patients" who share the same disease. One sister has been hospitalized for a long time, and the other daughter is in a vegetative state.

It seems that Professor Xu Yun is really kind to the brothers and sisters, so Zheng Chenghe often comes to do rehabilitation exercises for Xu Yiyi, which can be regarded as repaying his kindness.

He walked towards Xu Yiyi's bed and noticed that the left side of the man's face was covered with scars!

There were even several scars that spread directly from the neck to the ears, which was shocking. Even though the scars have healed for a long time, looking at the growth and redness of these scars... is still a bit scary.

In contrast, the skin on the right side of the man's face was intact.

"The scar on your face is..." Lin Xian asked his question.

"Oh, it was bitten by a dog when I was a child." The man touched the scars all over his left face and smiled:

"When I was a child, I was ignorant and didn't know the heights of the world, so I was bitten by someone else's dog."

"This bite is quite serious."

"It was really serious at the time, but it was okay. It was a little scary and ugly, but it wasn't really a big deal."

"No way!" Suddenly, a childish cry came from the door.

Lin Xian turned to look at the door of the ward...

The visitor was a little girl wearing a hospital gown. Her skin was as white as snow, the kind of white that cannot be seen in the sun, a kind of weak and sickly white.

She has long hair, is very thin, and is not tall. She looks about thirteen or fourteen years old.

"Brother is not ignorant, he is trying to protect me! He is a hero!"

The little girl stubbornly grabbed Zheng Chenghe's clothes and looked up at Lin Xian.

Lin Xian smiled, knelt down and looked at her:

"May I have your name?"

"My name is Zheng Xiangyue." The little girl said in a soft voice.

"Zheng Xiangyue?" Lin Xian nodded in surprise:

"What a nice name."

Lin Xian looked up at Zheng Chenghe again:

"In fact, both of you have nice names, Chenghe and Xiangyue. Your parents must be very educated people."

However...

Hearing Lin Xian's words, Zheng Xiangyue's eyes dimmed instantly.

Hmm?

Lin Xian realized...did he say something wrong?

"I haven't seen my parents..." Zheng Xiangyue said aggrievedly:

"They were beaten to death when I was a child."

Beat to death?

Lin Xian frowned. What's going on?

"Xiangyue, don't talk nonsense. Why haven't you seen your parents? You were raised by them since you were a child...You just have a bad memory and forgot."

Zheng Chenghe smiled embarrassedly, pulled Zheng Xiangyue behind him, and looked at Lin Xian apologetically:

"Don't take it too seriously when a child talks. We really don't have a good background. Our parents had a conflict with the villagers more than ten years ago and were accidentally beaten to death in the conflict...But that's all in the past. Later, those people were also punished by law."

Lin Xian saw that Zheng Chenghe was unwilling to talk about the past, so he stopped asking

Everyone in this world has things they don't want to talk about, and there's no need to force them to ask, which will only embarrass others.

Including the scars on Zheng Chenghe's face...

Combined with what Zheng Xiangyue said just now, it's not difficult to guess that those scars are most likely not as light as Zheng Chenghe said, but more like someone let a dog bully Zheng Xiangyue, and then Zheng Chenghe was bitten by the dog to protect her, so his face was covered with wounds.

As for whether this matter is related to the conflict between their parents and the villagers... Lin Xian thinks it is likely to be related.

Zheng Chenghe looks very strong, but his words are very polite and humble, which is also a very contradictory point. Perhaps this is because his parents died when he was young, and he struggled to raise his sister.

The difficulty of life has smoothed the edges of this man.

Zheng Chenghe looks to be in his thirties, and the age gap between the brother and sister is still quite large. Let's sort out the ideas a little bit...

Since Zheng Xiangyue doesn't remember much about her parents, it means that she was very young when her parents died, only about two or three years old.

Zheng Chenghe should have been around 20 years old at that time.

The age difference between the brother and sister was more than ten years.

Look at the hospital gown on Zheng Xiangyue...

What a miserable couple.

Lin Xian deeply realized a sentence he had read in a book before, which said that when you feel that life is not going well, go to the hospital and you will find how lucky you are, at least you are not sick.

This is exactly what is happening.

The people living in this hospital building are all miserable people tortured by illness.

"What's wrong with Xiangyue?" Lin Xian looked at Zheng Chenghe and asked:

"I don't think there's any big problem? She looks healthy."

Zheng Chenghe had a blank expression on his face, touching his sister's smooth hair:

"Xiangyue has a congenital heart disease, a very serious one. When she was examined when she was a child, the doctor said she would not grow up... and her blood type is very special. She has never been able to wait for a suitable heart, and there is no way to perform a transplant operation."

"But I believe that Xiangyue will definitely recover one day." Zheng Chenghe smiled, bent down and hugged the thin Zheng Xiangyue, and put her on his strong arms:

"After all, our Xiangyue is very strong! Doctors say every year that she won't live past her next birthday... But hasn't Xiangyue survived one birthday after another? So there must be no problem! Our Xiangyue is a good girl blessed by the gods."

"Speaking of Xiangyue, next month is your fourteenth birthday, what do you want "What's your gift? I'll buy it for you."

"Hehe, I don't want any gifts." Zheng Xiangyue smiled mischievously:

"I have only had that one wish since I was a child, just promise me! I told you so many times, but you didn't agree to it."

Zheng Chenghe's expression became serious and he shook his head:

"No, I can't promise you that wish, because your disease can definitely be cured."

"What if it can't be cured? Just promise me!"

"No, no, I can't promise you, I will definitely cure you, no matter how hard I try, I will definitely cure you."

...

The brother and sister were arguing here, making Lin Xian curious, and he couldn't help but look at Zheng Xiangyue and asked:

"What is your wish?"

Zheng Xiangyue looked at Lin Xian and smiled expectantly:

"I want to ask my brother, after I die... bury me on the moon!"

...

This...

Lin Xian was speechless for a moment.

Should we say that children speak without restraint, or that Zheng Xiangyue is young and doesn't know the weight of life and death?

No wonder Zheng Chenghe was unwilling to agree to her.

If it were any other brother, he would not agree to such a thing with his sister. As long as there is a slight possibility of curing the disease, he would try his best as if his life were at stake.

Lin Xian let out a long breath...

Pulling Zheng Xiangyue's hand:

"I guess you can't go to the moon."

"Why!" Zheng Xiangyue widened her eyes, very surprised.

"Because it is very likely that the first generation of hibernation chambers will be put into use soon." Lin Xian explained to her with a smile:

"Do you know the hibernation chamber? It is what Xu Yiyi's father studied. As long as you sleep in it... Once you open your eyes, decades or hundreds of years will have passed."

"Although your disease cannot be cured now, human science and medical technology will develop rapidly in a few decades or hundreds of years. By then, a minor illness like yours can be easily cured."

He turned his head and looked at Xu Yiyi, who was also skinny:

"It just so happens that Professor Xu Yun originally planned to send Xu Yiyi to the future for medical treatment. It would be great for the two of you to be together then, and you can be good friends when you wake up."

"So, don't give up on yourself easily, Xiangyue, don't talk about death, your brother will be sad when he hears it."

However……

At this moment, Zheng Xiangyue's eyes suddenly looked like those of an adult, so mature and sensible that it was heartbreaking.

She sighed softly

He looked up at the moon hanging in the night sky outside the window:

"But...I really want to go to the moon..."

"Why do you want to go to the moon?" Lin Xian was curious.

"Because my brother said, mom and dad are there." Zheng Xiangyue pursed her lips and blinked:

"I really want to meet them..."