Stardust Remembrance

Chapter 27: Life Has Its Changes (1)

That's what's so wonderfully tantalizing about climbing, it's like life, there's never a way to plan, there's always an unexpected turn of events.

Loraine's injuries weren't anything serious, and after a few days of rest, she was almost done.

Early in the morning, Loran was getting ready to go to work when she saw the glasses case on the dresser. She shook her head in amusement, turned to leave, walked a few steps, and then suddenly turned back, taking her glasses out and putting them on.

When she arrived at the institute, Loran waited for the elevator while looking down at the information. Feng Lin walked over and asked with concern, "Is your injury all healed? Not resting for two more days?"

Luo Lan said without lifting her head, "It's already fine, I don't want to miss today's meeting."

Feng Lin patted her shoulder, "Zi Yan said that Chen Sha gave you a gift, do you like it?"

Luo Lan lifted her head, faced Feng Lin, and pointed to the "cold and scholarly" glasses on the bridge of her nose.

Feng Lin let out an "uh" and showed an expression of "Tatsuza, what am I going to do to save you?".

Loran quickly pressed his terminal, took a picture, and sent Feng Lin's wonderful expression as he looked at himself to Zi Yan.

P.S. "Thanks! But genuinely don't need it next time."

Feng Lin muttered glumly, "Is there a mistake? Didn't Purple Banquet tell him what he should buy?"

Loran remembered Tatsusa's words that night when he was willing to listen to someone else's advice, it was only because he also happened to want to do that.

The beeping beeped as Ziyan asked for a visual and Loran picked up.

Zi Yankee smiled a joyful smile at the sight of Loran, "It's quite nice."

"So good looking, do you want to give a pair to each of your ladies?"

Zi Yan smiled and said, "I would like to, but unfortunately I don't have a boring woman who likes to read and do research and has to use her eyes all day."

Loran gritted his teeth.

Feng Lin sneered, "Thank you so much for not coming to wreak havoc on us!"

"You're welcome." Zi Yan was frank and comfortable, and his face skin was thick, he surveyed Luo Lan's head, "The wound isn't all healed yet, right? You're working so hard, does your boss know?"

Luo Lan subconsciously touched her head and explained to Feng Lin with a compensatory smile, "There's nothing wrong, the doctor said it's okay to go out."

Feng Lin said helplessly, "Be careful yourself."

Luo Lan waved her fist at Zi Yan and immediately cut off the video feed, pressing him not to give him a chance to fight back.

Luo Lan changed into her work uniform and walked into the large conference room to find that many people were already there.

At a glance, they were all in white work uniforms, but there were subtle differences, those with the Red Cross insignia on their chests were doctors, and those with the green four-leaf clover insignia on their chests were researchers.

Chu Mo was answering a junior researcher's question about a patient's clinical reaction, very patient and meticulous.

Luo Lan supported her chin and looked at Chu Mo and sighed: fortunately the Federation still has such a reliable man as Chu Mo, perhaps Feng Lin is because he has seen too many unreliable guys that he fell in love with Chu Mo.

Feng Lin sat next to Luo Lan and poked Luo Lan with the electronic pen in his hand, "I know Chu Mo is everyone's male god, but you're already married, so don't think about it."

"Don't worry, I won't snatch it from you."

Feng Lin was full of caution and said in a disguised manner, "What do you mean? It's not like Chu Mo and I are related."

Luo Lan smiled and looked at Feng Lin, asking provocatively, "Don't you want to have a relationship with him?"

Feng Lin was silent for a split second and said wanly, "You, your affairs are still a mess, so don't worry blindly for me."

"Where am I in a mess?" Loran's heart skipped a beat, surprisingly feeling inexplicably weak.

Before Feng Lin could say anything, Anna walked onto the stage and reminded everyone that the time for the meeting was up, and both Feng Lin and Loran immediately cleared their minds of all distracting thoughts and listened attentively.

Under Anna's presidency, the speakers went up to the stage one by one, in order.

The doctors talked about their clinical treatments, the researchers talked about their experimental observations, and the two sides drew on each other's experience, questioned each other, and started a heated discussion.

Finally, it was Chu Mo and Feng Lin who spoke.

"Genetic mutations have always been categorized as sudden mutations and natural mutations, and we've always studied both as if they were two diseases, but maybe they're not unrelated. At least theoretically, if we can cure sudden mutations, natural mutations should also be cured ......"

"Over the centuries, countless research trials have failed. It may seem that these failures are pointless and cause us great despair, but perhaps they have been telling us where the right path is. It's like breaking into a maze in a game, if you can't get a strategy, you can never know the correct path, but you can rule out the wrong path a little bit through trial and error ......"

Chu Mo and Feng Lin should have been completely unaware of what the other would say before they spoke, yet, their speeches seemed to be inextricably linked. Not only were the onlookers very surprised, and they couldn't wait to record every word they said, but even they revealed their surprise and delight.

The eight hours passed in a flash.

When Anna announced the end of the meeting, everyone was in a trance, sitting still, seemingly immersed in thought.

Loran vaguely felt that Feng Lin and Chu Mo seemed to have touched a door, only now they couldn't find where the key was.

Chu Mo walked over and said approvingly to Feng Lin, "A wonderful speech!"

Feng Lin raised his eyebrows and smiled, "You're not bad either!"

Chu Mo extended his hand, "Cheer up! Otherwise, our hospital will make your research institute lose face, you're a professional research organization."

The doctors laughed out loud.

Feng Lin shook Chu Mo's hand and said glowingly, "Dean Chu Mo, if you don't work harder again, maybe the patients will come running to our research institute to request treatment, we're not running a hospital!"

The researchers erupted into cheering and clapping.

For a moment, Loran, who was in the middle of it all, actually got a little hot under the collar.

If Tatsusa and the Consul were fighting for the Federation on a smoke-filled battlefield, then Chu Mo and Feng Lin were fighting for the Federation on a battlefield without smoke, it looked like there was no danger to their lives, but the countless failures, the countless days and nights of boring experiments, searching for a little bit of slim hope amid despair, the amount of courage and perseverance required was not at all less than that of those soldiers who fought with their lives.

Loran put her hand on her heart area, clearly feeling her resounding heartbeat.

Suddenly, she realized that many things had changed without her realizing it.

Ten years ago, she just utilitarianly and realistically chose the profession of genetic research; ten years later, she liked her job. She liked Feng Lin, she liked Chu Mo, she liked her colleagues who struggled hard together, and she liked every insignificant discovery in her research.

Ten years ago, she wanted to become an excellent gene repairer because she wanted to have the skill to live better; ten years later, she wanted to become an excellent gene repairer even more because she not only wanted to live better herself, but she also wanted to cure Qian Xu's disease so that Qian Xu could live better.

Loran returned to her office and sat in her chair, looking at the 3d photo frame on her desk, silently contemplating.

Inside was a 3d sunrise picture, taken when she and Chisoku went to climb Mount Iral, the highest peak in Arikata.

Ever since she and Chisoku had gone to Adventurer's Paradise, she had wanted to go to the real Mt. Iral.

When she worked hard to raise her physical ability to rank D, Chisoku promised her a reward when she offered to climb the main peak of the Ural Mountains.

This physical ability to challenge the planet's highest peak was a stretch, but Loran wanted to fulfill this wish so badly. Every one of her heart's desires seemed like an impossible task, and climbing to the peak of the highest peak of Alicata had been the easiest.

Without asking her why she had made such an irrational decision, let alone saying anything about the coming days and suggesting that she work her way up to C-rank physical fitness before climbing, Chisoku had agreed.

He made thorough preparations: procuring the best equipment, training her in self-rescue for wilderness survival, designing climbing routes, and previewing various dangers ......

Even after all the preparations, the climbing process was still very dangerous. Even because she made a mistake, two people almost fell off the cliff.

In the end, they managed to save their lives, but not only did they lose most of their equipment, but they also deviated from the intended climbing route.

The night fell, a strong wind blew, snow fell, and the whole world a dark, except for the snow was ice, like to swallow up all the life of the dead domain.

Luo Lan was so desperate that even she wanted to slap herself a few times, why didn't she live a good life and drag Qian Xu to her death?

However, Qian Xu did not blame her.

His voice was as usual, warm and calm, ''This is the most wonderful and tantalizing part of climbing, just like life, there is never a way to plan, there will always be unexpected changes. Changes do not only mean difficulties but also different scenery. It is because of these changes on the climbing path that one is always in awe of life and looking forward to the next moment."

"What if the next moment is still windy and snowy?"

"Then keep waiting for the next moment."

The next moment, the blizzard didn't stop.

One next moment after another, two days later, the blizzard stopped.

Loran was shocked to see-

The thick snow had formed a thousand strange shapes because of the wind and the terrain, and the whole world was powdered and haunted, not humanly possible. At that time, the sunlight broke through the clouds, a rainbow across the clouds, and the ice and snow were so beautiful that they did not look like Earth.

Luolan excitedly rushed into the world of ice and snow of agarwood and stood under the rainbow, looking back at Qian Xu.

Qian Xu stood calmly behind her, looking at her with a smile.

Luo Lan's chest was suddenly filled with the courage to move forward, no matter what happens in the future, she has to work hard to move forward with hope in her heart, because changes are not just difficulties, as long as they are overcome, they will also be unexpected beauty.

Three days later, Loran and Chixu climbed to the top of the mountain from a different route after a grueling journey.

When she saw the sun rising from the snow-capped mountains at her feet, its light spilling over the rolling majestic mountains, she felt that all the suffering had not been in vain.

Against the rising sun of a thousand mountains, she snapped this picture and said to herself with great pride in her heart: the first wish is granted!

Loran sent a message to Thousand Rising Sun, "Are you free in the evening, I'd like to invite you to the Everest Restaurant for dinner."

"What special thing happened?" Qian Xu immediately captured the point.

"One is to thank you for saving my life a few days ago, and two is that I have an answer to the question you asked me ten years ago."

"There's still a bit of work at hand, and I can't finish it until half an hour later."

"Meet me at the diner in an hour?"

"Good."

After Loran made a reservation, he contacted Tatsuha by videocommunication.

The image showed that Tatsusa was at the training ground, his head covered in sweat, and behind him was the Consul, who was wearing a combat uniform and covered tightly.

Tatsuza's eyes rested on Loran's glasses, "What is it?"

"I'm going out to dinner with a friend tonight, I'll probably be back a little late."

"A coworker?"

"No, it's Chisoku. He saved me last time and I wanted to treat him to dinner to show my appreciation."

"Got it." Tatsuha cut off the video message dryly.

Loran rubbed his terminal, pondering the images from earlier.

Tatsuha and the consul were in a confrontational training session, and it seemed that Tatsuha was the one who was being abused... Could it be that the consul's physical abilities were better than Tatsuha's?

However, it couldn't be easy for the consul, it should just be because he couldn't be seen, so he thought he had it easy.

As expected, guys who wear masks are the best at pretending!