sunk in yesterday

The portrait that has been magnified dozens of times looks much weirder, Xia Zhuo doesn't understand why Xia Youjiang can't put it down so much.

He was afraid over and over again that the person in the portrait would turn his head or turn his face sideways.Although Guan Yuzhou said that it should be his mother, but... under the irresponsible word "should", he still couldn't help feeling pimples.

The time of the aborigines was not confused. At this point, Xia Hong had already had breakfast and went out with the help of his assistant. He would stay outside for about an hour before returning.

Yu Ziang and Chu Jin stayed near the kitchen so that they had a reason to stay on the first floor. Taking advantage of this empty space, Xia Zhuo went to the HVAC equipment room with Guan Yuzhou first.

The size of the house is here, and the equipment room is not much simpler. It is even divided into three small compartments: the mechanical room, the electrical room, and the central monitoring room.

Xia Zhuo didn't know anything about it, so he could only follow behind.

The data of different colors and wires of uneven thickness dazzled him, and the only thing he could understand was the temperature display.

"The stairs on the fourth floor are only minus 28 degrees, and the display on the far left has reached minus [-] degrees, and it is still fluctuating behind the decimal point." Guan Yuzhou frowned, the situation is not optimistic, "Tan Hei's endurance is stronger than normal humans We must be strong, if we rush in, even the enhancement of the dream will make it difficult to move, and it will be easy to pass out and die after a long time-and this kind of death is unaware of the person himself."

Xia Zhuo nodded clearly: "I understand this. Didn't the little match girl just die laughing at the end?"

"Huh?!" Tan Nian was taken aback by his words, and stammered, "Then, isn't that, did you smile happily?"

Xia Zhuo grinned at him strangely: "No. She went through four stages from the beginning to the end, and finally had the hallucination before freezing to death, and only then did she see her grandma and a table of delicious food. So she was dying I was not even aware of my own death before, and I was not aware of the reality of the hallucinations, so I felt happy."

Tan Nian opened his eyes wide in astonishment.

He had read Andersen's fairy tale collection, but he always thought that the fairy tales in it were beautiful, and Xia Zhuo undoubtedly overturned his perception.

"Ah? Is that so... I don't even know..."

"But then again," Xia Zhuo stopped teasing him, and calmly looked at the blue temperature numbers that were still jumping back and forth on the monitor, "The illusion in the eyes of others is real in front of her, and such an ending is also true. pretty good."

For some people, being kept in the dark for a lifetime is not a bad thing.

"Okay, the chat is over~ Mr. Guan, let's leave as soon as we finish, the aborigines will have to come back if we drag on."

Guan Yuzhou hummed and began to operate neatly.Turn on the buttons that control the central air-conditioning and floor heating on the fourth floor, and open the ventilation facilities by the way, so that the cold air can be sent out.

In order to confirm whether it was effective, the three of them stayed for a few more minutes until the original number of minus [-] to [-] degrees began to shrink, and then they closed the door and left.

It seems that the temperature problem on the fourth floor has been solved, and now only the brightness problem remains.If the flashlight doesn't help, then you have to find the source of it and remove it completely.

Chu Jin and Yu Ziang were still waiting around for Xia Hong to appear. Xia Zhuo glanced at them from a distance, and then walked decisively to the back of the stairs.

Qin Nian contributed a blade, pried open a corner of the gap in the wall, and opened the door leading to the basement.

The long staircase descended into darkness, and they stood high as if they were in the air.The flashlight couldn't reach the end, it could only illuminate a few steps in front of them, and the faint light was swallowed up by the boundless darkness.

Xia Zhuo looked down, her thick eyelashes trembling.

There was no dust on the stairs, suggesting that someone had been there recently, which meant they had to save time and get back inside the house as soon as possible.

There was no mechanism outside the secret door, but there was a handle inside, so Tan Nian carefully closed the door, carefully pretending that no one had been there.

It took a few seconds to settle down, and they started to investigate down.

The three people's footsteps broke the original tranquility. The flashlights shuttled aimlessly on the walls and stairs. Unfortunately, the light beam was a bit narrow and could only illuminate a circular area, which still couldn't dispel the damp and depressing atmosphere in the basement. of darkness.

But fortunately, the stairs are not high, even if they were vigilant at every step, they set foot on the flat ground within 2 minutes.

As we walked further in, an indescribable strange smell gradually filled the air.

Xia Zhuo could distinguish the pungent smell of the disinfectant, and what smell was buried deep below, standing still in the dead environment, mixed with a slightly lower temperature pouring into their respiratory tract.

He grabbed Guan Yuzhou's sleeve and took a few steps inward. As soon as he lifted his leg, he kicked something under his foot. The plastic bottle rolled around on the ground a few times, and then hit the iron object, making a loud noise.

Xia Zhuo cried out in a low voice: "Ah, I didn't mean to!"

"It's okay." Guan Yuzhou moved the flashlight to the sounding position, and saw a white medicine bottle lying next to the silver-white iron cabinet. The medicine in the bottle was empty, and it should have been accidentally left behind when disposing of garbage, or from It fell off the cabinet.

He quickly jumped over the cabinet and flicked the flashlight in his hand.

A flashing light illuminated the operating bed, shadowless lamp, and pendant placed in the center. The anesthesia machine and the unactivated monitor were placed on one side, and there was a control panel with an invalid timer on the rear wall.

This place is actually a remodeled advanced operating room.

Xia Zhuo raised her eyebrows and couldn't help sighing silently.

Oh wow.

No wonder it is necessary to hide it tightly, which is a serious illegal act.

Rao Guan Yuzhou was also deeply surprised by this. He found the chandelier switch from the control panel, and the light tube above his head flickered several times, quickly lighting up the surrounding pattern.

With the support of brightness, the three tacitly dispersed to find clues.

Yellowed scraps of paper were scattered on the ground, and there were some well-preserved documents in the cabinet besides various medicine bottles.Xia Zhuo rummaged around, and finally found a black splint full of dust at the bottom, which actually contained Xia Hong's medical records.

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[Name]: Xia Hong

[Sex: Male

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[Chief complaint]: epigastric pain with jaundice for more than 2 months

[History of Present Illness]: The patient began to have epigastric pain in July 2015 without obvious incentives.Accompanied by jaundice of the sclera and skin of the whole body, accompanied by abdominal distension.Acid reflux, loss of appetite, aggravated upper abdominal discomfort after eating, and intermittent pain... After diagnosis and treatment, it was diagnosed as cancer of the head of the pancreas.

[Mast history]: The patient is usually in good health, with no history of chronic disease, blood transfusion, infectious disease, major trauma, operation, family disease, genetic disease, or vaccination.

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The following is a detailed physical examination, except for the moderate yellow staining of the sclera, everything is normal.

Xia Zhuo looked a little dignified, and turned to Guan Yuzhou with this document.

"He was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, did he die because of the cancer?"

Guan Yuzhou took a few pages and flipped through them hastily, "The cause of death is not clear, but if it was pancreatic cancer...it is very likely. This is a terrible cancer. Even after a total surgery, the survival rate in five years The probability is only ten percent."

But in 2015...

Guan Yuzhou's eyes paused, and he remembered a little detail.

In 2015, Xia Zhuo was 23 years old. That year Xia Hong suddenly brought him in full view and introduced him to everyone as the heir of the Xia family.

Now that he has a case to testify, he has to think that Xia Hong probably knew that he would not live for a few years, so he made up his mind to pave the way for Xia Zhuo—after all, with his temperament, Xia Zhuo is a member of the Xia family anyway. If he really died one day, it would not be the turn of outsiders to bully their Xia family.

So with him as a bridge, Xia Zhuo often went in and out of the banquet venue, and his popularity in the circle suddenly increased. Those high-ranking officials and nobles soon understood what Mr. Xia meant, and their attitude towards Xia Zhuo gradually eased.

But it was also in the same year that Xia Zhuo had a homosexual's secret that was exposed by the media. Xia Hong was furious when he found out and ordered them to break up. So he kept talking, saying that he looked just like his dead father, and that he couldn't support the wall with mud.In the end, Xia Zhuo didn't want to contradict the old man, so he resolutely left Xia's house with a small bag on his back, and lived a miserable life living with him for two years.

Recalling that period of time, Guan Yuzhou lost his mind for a moment.He quickly sorted out his emotions and continued to look back.

The last page of the information shows that Xia Hong underwent surgery at the end of 2015.However, after the operation, his physical decline has not stopped, and he occasionally suffers from abdominal bleeding. In 2017, he was so thin that he lost his human shape. He could not eat anything with oil, and often had to rely on injections to continue his life.Not long after that, Xia Zhuo returned to Xia's house again.

From the current point of view, this operating room seems to be used for Xia Hong's follow-up treatments.

"But why? He can go directly to the hospital." Xia Zhuo was puzzled by this. Judging from the assets of the Xia family, Xia Hong can live in the best room in the best hospital for a lifetime, and there is no need to be illegal He built an operating room at home, and according to the data, he even made his diagnosis secretly here.

Guan Yuzhou whispered thoughtfully: "Because he can't let others know that the Xia family is almost over."

If the current head of the family is weak, and the legal heir is a novice who knows nothing, then people with bad intentions may take the opportunity to swarm in.

So Xia Hong chose to hide the fact of his cancer, and pushed Xia Zhuo to a high point in the fastest time.

However, Xia Zhuo ran away halfway, and ran away with a man he could not accept more than a "prostitute".

"If his illness can be stabilized, I'm afraid he won't call you back in [-]. But judging from various treatment records, he knows that his body can't hold on, and the most necessary thing is to continue the incense for the Xia family, so He..." Guan Yuzhou became irritable, the more he knew, the more uneasy he became, and he always felt that Xia Zhuo's death was not a simple suicide.

"So what's the matter with him?"

"So he hired a psychiatrist to treat you, and planned to let you marry the only daughter of a political family he chose to stabilize your position."

"...So those doctors really didn't want to treat my sexuality problem." Xia Zhuo's face was full of unreasonableness.

"According to his thinking, everything that violates his common sense is a disease. When Xia Youjiang refused to marry because of your mother, Xia Hong felt that he had a psychological problem and sent him to the hospital for treatment many times. He thinks that His father was unreasonable, so Xia Youjiang left Xia's house in a rage, and would only come back during the Chinese New Year."

"You know this as well?"

"Combining the information collected by Chang Yiqing, some conclusions are not difficult to draw."

Xia Zhuo murmured: "It turns out that some people really think this is a disease?"

"Regular hospitals will definitely not tell the consultants that this is a disease, so I think that the five 'psychotherapists' including Feng Yongxin are all fake identities. Anyone with a little medical ethics will not accept Xia Hong. entrust."

"I know!" Xia Zhuo suddenly felt cold, and his voice was mixed with imperceptible tremors: "The phone call... the breakup call I made to you before... was also because of him? How could he do that! Haven’t you ever heard that it’s better to destroy a temple than tear down a marriage! Damn, when I remember everything, I’ll go to his grave and scold him!”

Guan Yuzhou pursed his lips: "...Okay, I'll go with you."

"People who are really terminally ill are also confused. How is it different from those ancient fools who pursued alchemy and immortality? It's simply disrespectful!" Xia Zhuo let out a breath, and used an idiom indiscriminately, feeling much more at ease.

Guan Yuzhou rolled his eyes and reached out to pull him into his arms.

"What are you doing?" Xia Zhuo blinked, then raised her hand to pat Guan Yuzhou's back, "There are still children here, don't mess around."

Tan Nian immediately shrunk his body with his back facing the squatting Tan Nian, trying to minimize his sense of existence, and whispered like a mosquito: "No, I, I'm not here..."