Substitutes are not a problem

Chapter22

14 years ago, Yokohama Port——

Winter has just entered, and although the winter in Yokohama is not exactly freezing, it is still quite chilly.

Leaning against the railing of the pier, Chi Songyuan, who was on the phone, couldn't help wrapping up the woolen coat he was wearing.

"Doctor Sen, do you still remember the time of our return trip? There is less than an hour left before the boat departs."

While talking on the phone, Chisongyuan turned his head and looked at the somewhat foggy sea area today, and he still hasn't figured out which ship is here to pick them up.

【It's been so long, and I still use such a polite and distant address, Doctor Yuan. 】

Listening to the artificial tone with strong green tea smell coming from the mobile phone, although Yuan Chimatsu was tired of this, he corrected him again: "Please call me Dr. Chimatsu, thank you."

【Yuan, in fact, you can just call me Rin Taro directly. 】

Hearing that the other party didn't even save time for "doctor (sennsei)" when calling her, Akamatsu Gen replied unmoved: "Okay, Dr. Rintaro."

【Ah, ah, I have been busy buying the strawberry cake I like for Yuan Jiang specially. Even so, can’t I get a kinder name from Yuan Jiang? It’s so sad. 】

...What the hell is "Minamoto"? This kind of cute appellation is not suitable for her. It's fun to tease her, isn't it?

Akamatsu Gen sighed helplessly, but for the sake of the strawberry cake, he still wanted to express his gratitude: "Thank you, thank you for your hard work, Ogai-kun."

[Woo, let’s call him Rin Taro, can’t we just call him Rin Taro directly... But, it’s okay, I forgive you, if it’s Yuan-chan, I’ll choose to forgive no matter what! 】

I want you to forgive the ghost, no matter what you count on weekdays, you probably pissed me off more often.

Chi Songyuan couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

In fact, it's not like she didn't call him Lin Taro directly, but when the smell of white lotus and green tea on his body rushed towards her, she just didn't want to call him, tsk.

[Besides, I still have unexpected gains in the dim sum shop, there will be surprises in a while. 】

I'm afraid there is only surprise but not joy, Akamatsu Gen has always been sober and cautious about the surprises that come out of Mori Ogai's mouth.

After all, Mori Ogai's mouth is a deceiving ghost.

She has a deep understanding of this.

【Ah, yes, yes, there is one more thing. I just received the latest news that our boarding location has changed. The boat that came to pick us up has changed to dock at XX Wharf.But the departure time remains the same, so you have to hurry up and come here. 】

Chi Songyuan was stunned for a moment, saying that he had no fuxx to say.

This thing is the most important thing!Why not say it at the beginning!

After a moment of peace in his heart, Chisongyuan also hung up the phone and immediately checked the route and train schedule.

The vicinity of this kind of cargo ship terminal is inaccessible, and basically you can’t get a taxi on the spot. If you take the main road to the nearest bus station, it will take at least 10 minutes to walk there.

But there will be a bus in 8 minutes, and this bus will only come every half an hour, and it may not be able to catch up.

After looking at the distribution of streets on the map, Yuan Chisong decisively chose to take a small road to the station.

……

The chaos lurking in the dark is the inevitable fate of almost every port city.Not to mention an international port like Yokohama.

In addition, the war in the Pacific has not yet ended, and Yokohama's high degree of autonomy makes it difficult for the government to intervene. The security situation in Yokohama has been very worrying over the years.

In the dilapidated alley, Chi Songyuan, who was speeding up her pace, had to stop temporarily when she saw two thugs blocking her way ahead.

The two hooligans looked at her maliciously, and smiled eccentrically: "Hey, young lady, we brothers haven't had a drink for several days, please give us some money to buy us a drink."

They had already set their sights on this young girl who had been standing alone on the pier for a long time.Although she couldn't tell what kind of social status she wore, but she felt that she could get a lot of money.He was even more happy when he saw her coming towards the alley, it was like throwing himself into a trap.

Glancing at the two gangsters who were obviously trying to rob her, Chi Songyuan said expressionlessly: "I'm in a hurry, please let me go... Or, if I don't hand over the wallet to you, you will definitely not Will you let me go?"

The two laughed even more arrogantly: "Not only your wallet, but also all the valuable things on your body. Otherwise, we can only take some special measures. You should also know that you can't resist."

Chi Songyuan nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Therefore, direct counterattack is the best solution right now.

[In GameTheory, when the enemy strikes, a complete counterattack is the theoretically optimal solution.Moreover, enemies who loudly proclaim that they will never be defeated are often the easiest to defeat. (1)】

Subconsciously, I remembered what the man said when I played chess last time.

Because she lost to him, according to the bet, she hand-washed his clothes for a month.That guy has a lot of cleanliness, and he doesn't want to mix the washing machine with those rough guys in the army.

However, the conditions at the frontline base were already harsh, so he would not be given a special washing machine, so he washed his clothes by hand every time.

In the end, I finally caught her as a free laundry worker, but I have to make the best use of her, tsk.

Concerned about the man in his heart, Chi Songyuan, who walked out of the alley, shook off the blood stained on the scalpel, and then put away the scalpels in his left and right hands.

In the alley, the two hooligans were clutching their bleeding vitals and howling in pain.

They didn't react until now. Just now, in the blink of an eye, the sharp weapon suddenly flashed by the woman's left and right hands hit some part of them, and instantly made them fall to the ground in pain, and the blood couldn't be stopped.

Before Chi Songyuan left, he only left one sentence: "I didn't cut very deep, and it's still too late to go to a clinic to bandage and stop the bleeding."

She is not a violent person and prefers non-violent ways of solving problems if she can.However, the premise also depends on what kind of person she is facing.

……

It has been almost two years since she returned to Japan from Switzerland.

Two years ago, her studies and research in Switzerland were suddenly suspended, and she was ordered to immediately go to Everdark Island in the Pacific Ocean as a pharmacist to participate in the logistical medical work of the 356th Infantry Division of the National Defense Forces stationed there.

In fact, such an arrangement did not quite surprise her.

On the Pacific battlefield, the battle situation is getting worse and worse, and the casualty rate of soldiers is increasing.It will take a long period for soldiers who have not been fatally injured to recover their physical functions to the point where they can return to the battlefield, but the current battle situation simply cannot wait.

The development of drugs that enhance cell proliferation is precisely one of her main areas of focus.

The body's wound healing and pathological tissue repair are all inseparable from cell proliferation. In recent years, the research team led by her has made some achievements in this area. The drugs developed have passed clinical trials, but large-scale use still needs to be done. With caution, it has not been determined whether the drug has hidden side effects.

However, the government couldn't wait any longer, and the deterioration of the war made those politicians unable to wait any longer.

Dang even ordered her to use the medicine on the wounded soldiers on Everdark Isle.And she, the drug developer, was also ordered to monitor the effect of the drug in the army in real time, and even asked her to take this opportunity to collect experimental data and continue to enhance the drug's efficacy, which meant that this army would be used as an experimental base.

Although she can't be said to be a good person, she is not inhuman.And she's not the kind of mad scientist who's obsessed with the world of science.

However, she is just a pawn in the internal and external games of those politicians. All she can do is to control the dosage of the medicine to the maximum that the soldiers can bear.

Or think about it in a better way, she should thank Mr. Tsushima for not revealing the crazy research direction she once hit by mistake——

By inducing programmed cell death while enhancing the activity of telomerase, the cells proliferate exponentially.

If those stupid politicians knew about it, they would definitely demand and even force her to continue researching in this direction.

As for doing so would seriously violate the natural laws of the human body and cause irreversible trauma to the human body, that was out of their consideration.

In this way, she bid farewell to Switzerland, where she had lived for seven years.If there is no reluctance in my heart, it is naturally impossible.Oh, if you don't want to part with it, maybe Shuji Tsushima's little black mud dumpling should be added.

The day she left Zurich coincided with the opening day of the international primary school he was enrolled in, and it was his first day as a primary school student.

In the end, the little ghost escaped the supervision of all the bodyguards without anyone knowing it, and came to the airport to see her off.

At the last parting, the child's expression surprised her.It even made her heart tremble for a moment.

I saw that there was no highlight in those beautiful iris eyes, like dead leaves, a six-year-old child showed an expression like a drowning person who gave up struggling:

"Sure enough, things that you don't want to lose will be lost after all. Everything is destined to be lost one day from the moment you get it. 【2】"

She felt that he would say such words, not just because of her departure, but as he grew older, he became more and more bored with the life that he could not find the slightest value in his eyes, and it was so boring that he despaired.

Is gain equal to loss... A child who is too smart realizes and sees through things that many people may never really understand in their entire lives.But this is not necessarily a good thing for itself.

After entering the army of Ever Darkness Island, according to the requirements, her personal information was almost isolated from the outside world, and naturally there was no direct contact between her and the child.

Even Mr. Tsushima only contacted her once every few months to learn about the new progress of her research and to give her further research instructions from above.

The last contact was three months ago. When she asked about Shuji Tsushima's recent situation after explaining her work, Mr. Tsushima said indifferently that he had sent his youngest son to study in England. away from his side.Because he doesn't contact him usually, he doesn't know the child's current situation.

When he heard about it, he just threw a child under eight years old alone in a foreign country and ignored him.

Even though there were bodyguards and nanny by her side, she couldn't help but feel Zaun greeting her dear father after being surprised.

If it weren't for the fact that the seven-point similar appearance clearly showed a genetic connection, she would have doubted whether the two were father and son.

But when she noticed Mr. Tsushima's eyes when he mentioned the youngest son, she understood somewhat.

As Shuji Tsushima once said, among many children, his father liked him the most, but he was also the one he hated the most.

But now, in the eyes of Mr. Tsushima, disgust has obviously overwhelmed liking.After all, people always have almost instinctive malice and rejection towards the aliens who are different from all living beings, and with the growth of age, there is undoubtedly the sense of alienation in Shuji Tsushima. The delicate father-son relationship can no longer maintain that delicate balance, and all Mr. Tsushima wants to do is escape.

Maybe no one can save the child, but she believes that there will always be someone who can accept the child in the future, even if it is only for a short time.After all, the chances of life are amazing.

Yes, the encounters in life are wonderful, and she has already experienced it deeply.

Two years ago, when she was stationed in the aircraft carrier named Yan Knight on Chang'an Island, when she saw her immediate superior, the chief of the health department with the title of first-class deputy military doctor, she really did not expect that she would not be able to do so on the shore of Lake Constance. Those who waited were reunited on this small island in the Pacific Ocean.

"Welcome to the 356th Infantry Division of the National Defense Forces, Doctor Akamatsu Gen."

What a wonderful encounter in life, don't you think so, Toyotaro-kun.

No, it should be Mr. Mori Ogai.