Stardust Remembrance

Chapter 30: Life has its variables (4)

Qian Xu's scarlet eyes were filled with coldness within them as he raised his sharp claws to stab her.

Loran's face was filled with tears and she cowered back in fear, but she still refused to shoot.

Suddenly, Qian Xu's movements became slow, as if power was rapidly draining from his body.

The scarlet eyes turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye, the bloodthirsty coldness within his eyes turned into a painful struggle, and the hand that had already stabbed Luo Lan's heart shook violently.

Luo Lan shouted, "Qian Xu!"

He violently closed his eyes and fainted.

Loran froze for a moment, hesitantly reaching out, wanting to touch Qian Xu, when Tatsusa suddenly appeared and threw Qian Xu outside the flying car with one hand.

Immediately afterward, Feng Lin and Anna also rushed over, Feng Lin eagerly asked, "Loran, is there any injury?"

Loran wiped away her tears and shook her head, "I'm fine."

Tatsuya probed to assist Loran, wanting to take her away.

Loran pushed his hand away and got out of the car herself, looking worriedly at the unconscious Qian Xu on the ground, "He ...... won't be okay, right?"

Anna, who was checking on Qian Xu, had a grave expression and didn't say anything.

"There should be nothing this time." Feng Lin picked up a disposable syringe from the compartment and said dejectedly, "He injected the medicine we developed in advance when he realized he was not right, but it did not have any effect, and the mutation still occurred."

Loran sighed in relief and eagerly asked, "What exactly is Chixu's disease? The physical features are only partially mutated, but there is a loss of sanity and a bloody good kill." Sudden mutation would completely animalize without warning, lose their sanity, and become aggressive; natural mutation would partially animalize their physical features but not lose their sanity, but Qian Xu matched neither.

"His disease is very rare, of course, it's not rare enough to get into the institute. I'll call it 'Pseudo Sudden Alteration of Natural Alteration' for now."

"What?" Loran was pretty well acquainted with all kinds of mutations, but had never heard of this disease.

"It's possible for the patient to briefly enter a state of sudden mutation. When Professor An introduced Qian Xu to me, I felt that he was in a special situation and should be helpful to our research on sudden mutation, so I left him behind." Feng Lin looked down at the already empty syringe and said in a lost voice, "This is the latest potion developed after studying your genes. For so many years, the institute neither helped him nor made any research progress."

The medical rescue robot carries Chisoku to the ambulance and Anna escorts Chisoku back to the institute.

"I'll go ahead and you take Loran back." Feng Lin and Tatsusa greeted each other and wanted to tail the ambulance and leave.

Loran hurriedly said, "I'll go back to the institute with you."

Feng Lin advised, "Go back and rest. You can't help Qian Xu's illness at the moment."

"I still have something to say to Qian Xu, I must wait for him to wake up." Loran was insistent.

Tatsuya clapped his hands and made the decision, "I'll send you to the institute."

Inside the flying car, Luo Lan was stunned.

Over the past ten years, she had wanted to ask Qian Xu countless times what kind of disease he had, but she had never asked, always feeling that she was not yet capable of helping him, hoping to wait until she became stronger, never imagining that Qian Xu's disease would be revealed to her just like this out of the blue.

Feng Lin looked at Luo Lan, then at Chen Sha, and sighed silently in his heart.

Luo Lan suddenly remembered something, ''Who was that case of sudden mutation that was the only one to regain his sanity? Can I participate in the research of this case?"

Feng Lin didn't say anything.

Feeling odd, Luo Lan tentatively asked, "The patient's identity is special?"

According to reason, with such an important case, all aspects of the research should be very in-depth, but every time this case was mentioned, it was incoherent, and there was even a complete lack of the patient's personal information, everyone just knew that there was a case of recovering his sanity and turning back into a human being.

Feng Lin looked solemn: "It's the first consul of the Federation, You Beichen."

It dawned on Loran that it was that legendary figure who had created the Odin Federation! The outside world only knows that You Beichen died at the age of less than three hundred, thinking that he was suffering from a disease caused by hard work, but I didn't realize that it was due to a sudden mutation, if this is spread out, it will definitely cause a big uproar in the whole interstellar world, no wonder that Odin wants to keep it a secret.

Feng Lin said: ''Because it is related to the consul, the research has always been led by a special person, and now it is Prof. An who is responsible for it, that is, I can only view the results of the research, and I can't directly participate in the research. If you want to transfer to Professor An's research lab, I can help you submit an application, but ......"

"No need."

Loran didn't want to touch such a confidential matter at all, that was the gene of the most amazing person in the history of the Federation, the last time because of two apples, she was almost executed by the Al Empire, and had already deeply comprehended that for the sake of life safety, stay away from rare genes!

However, that was after all the only case that recovered his sanity from a sudden mutation, and although he still died of a sudden mutation later on, it surely had a reference value for Qian Xu's illness.

Loran gritted his teeth and asked, "Can I access Professor An's research materials?"

"It's all on the internal data network, I'll help you apply for access. If there is a special research need, you can also contact Professor An directly and request his help."

Loran was relieved, it seemed that those old professors had long ago devised a set of processes that would allow everyone to do research without bringing danger.

When Qian Xu opened his eyes, he saw Luo Lan half lying beside his hospital bed browsing through the medical information, supporting his head with one hand and taking notes with an electronic pen in the other. The long, slightly curly hair was tied haphazardly at the back of her head, with one strand still sticking out in a shaggy manner, and there were a few red marks on her fair skin, revealing a woeful condition, but her expression was focused, exuding a serious beauty.

Qian Xu was staring at the abrasions on her cheeks, and as if Loran sensed something, she immediately lifted her head, spreading her face and smiling, "You're awake?"

"Hm. Why are you here?"

"I'm returning this to you." Loran placed the gun he had given her earlier in his hand.

Qian Xu held the gun, his gaze deep, "Why didn't you shoot?"

"Do you ...... remember what happened?"

"It was like a dream, it didn't seem like something that happened to me, but I know I cracked the car window and tried to kill you." Chisoku stared at Loran, "Why didn't you shoot?"

Loran fires, "You told me to shoot when you knew you could regain your sanity? If I listen to you, won't I become a murderer who killed his best friend?"

"You'll be killed by me before I can regain my sanity."

"Oh, so you made me a murderer in order not to be a murderer!"

Qian Xu froze and shut his mouth tightly, his eyes filled with pain within.

Loran immediately softened, "Let's not fight over something that didn't happen, anyway, the result is that you didn't kill me and I didn't kill you, everything is normal."

"You really think everything is normal? Do you still have the courage to go out with me alone?"

"Yes! Why wouldn't I?"

Qian Xu stared at her, "Even if I can regain my sanity this time, it doesn't mean I can do it next time!"

"I'm not afraid!" Luo Lan raised her chin, "If you don't believe me, we'll go out alone for a day tomorrow."

"But I'm scared!" Qian Xu averted his eyes and said bitterly, "I don't want to kill you or be killed by you, the best option is for everyone to have less contact."

Loran looks at Chisoku in disbelief, "Are you serious?"

"No one would joke with their lives."

"Less contact? I see that no contact is the safest! How about we never see each other again!" Loran was completely mouthing off in exasperation, and had a bit of a woman's stupid little nature, counting on the hurtful, cruel words to irritate Qian Xu and make him take back his words, but men are animals of a different system of thinking.

Qian Xu froze for a moment and surprisingly said in agreement, "This is certainly better."

Luo Lan is going to be mad with anger, colorfully questioning, "Qian Xu, I'll ask you for the last time, are you going to cut me off?"

Qian Xu was silent and did not answer.

Luo Lan coldly looked at him, seemingly full of stubbornness, nothing matters, but only she herself knows how panicked her heart is, and how difficult it is.

The doorbell suddenly rang, breaking the stalemate between the two.

Luo Lan turned back, before she could say anything, the door opened, and Brown Li and Zi Yan walked into the ward one after the other.

Luo Lan asked, "What are you doing?"

Zi Yan stood beside her and said with a smile, "Work."

Brown Li walks straight to the hospital bed and shows his credentials to Qian Xu, "I'm Brown Li, the head of the Federation's security department, there are four people who have died in the Federation and I need you to cooperate with the investigation."

Qian Xu sat up, "Okay."

Brown Li is the head of the police, the appearance of fake police, of course, to come to investigate, but ...... Loran suddenly reacted, eagerly grabbed Zi Yan's arm, and said in a suppressed voice: "Do me a favor ...... "

Brown Li's cold and icy voice rang out, interrupting the words she hadn't finished: "Mrs. Commander, please evade, I need to question Qian Xu alone."

Loran's hands tightened violently, her entire body petrified, standing frozen, her mind blank. She had never expected to be able to hide it from Qian Xu for the rest of her life, and had even considered when she would confess to him, but no matter how much she thought about it, she had never imagined that she would be in a situation where Qian Xu would find out that she had been deceiving him.

"Mrs. Commander?" Chisoku's voice drifted feebly, as if coming from a very distant place.

Maybe he wanted Loran to say "wrong person", but Loran didn't even have the courage to look at him.