Chapter 27-The Lost Memories (2/2)
”I searched his name online and apparently his craniotomies took half the time of regular craniotomies.”
”No wonder he's called the 'Heavenly Hand'. But why would such an amazing person show up in our hospital?”
”Who knows? But I heard the dean invited him here and he'll be staying for a few months.”
Le Yi closed the door, sealing the whispering voices outside. ”Look at the mess you dragged me into. The dean did everything, save for kneeling down in front of me. He insisted on having me perform three surgeries for them.”
”Just do them perfunctorily.” Shen Xinglan did not care for his good friend's life or death. A Miao's matter caused him to nearly lose control over himself.
”You didn't find out anything?” Just from the look of him, Le Yi knew that there was not much progress in the investigation.
Shen Xinglan rubbed the space between his eyebrows. ”No. We only know that she became missing in the streets when she was six. Her mother made a police report and she returned from the seaside two years later.”
”It's reasonable time-wise, but the location…” Le Yi reminded him, ”Isn't it a little too far off?”
”I asked Shen I to check the date that she was rescued and then got them to perform a wind speed simulation. If it's her, from the day she got into trouble and fell into the sea to the day where she was rescued, the difference was exactly one day.”
Le Yi brewed coffee as he listened. ”It's the instant kind. Bear with it.”
”Yi, what do you think? Is she…” Shen Xinglan's eyes became confused and glazed over. If A Miao was here, she would certainly be shocked. This was not the Shen Xinglan that she knew, but a man who had sunken into memories and suffering that could not be expressed.
Back then, human traffickers sold Shen Xinglan to an assassination organization. There were at least one hundred children of similar age to him there. They were transported to an island and put through hellish training and torment. Only six children survived.
The only girl among the six happened to be one that a mysterious person on the island was interested in. She had been sent there to run errands. Yet, it was this girl who secretly brought them medicine and food whenever they became injured in the training and even when they were about to die. She had saved them countless times.
”You must've heard everything outside the door. She doesn't remember anything. Other than the timing, we don't have any proof that she's Shanshan.”
Shanshan was the name that Shen Xinglan gave. It was because the girl would often speak in a soft and gentle voice but her eyes, like A Miao's eyes at the moment, seemed to be speaking. In that grim and ruthless time, it was her who warmed everyone's hearts.
”What about her scars?” Shen Xinglan looked at Le Yi. ”She suffered such a great injury back then. There ought to be scars on her body.”
Le Yi shook his head. ”She doesn't remember and her mother said nothing as well. Moreover, I can't guarantee that her injuries would've left scars. We all have different recovery capabilities. Did you forget Ding V? No matter how heavy his injuries were, he would always recover faster than everyone else.”
Shen Xinglan was frustrated. ”In other words, we have no way of proving her identity.”
”But is that important?” Le Yi smiled. ”Whoever she is, she's yours to use.”
Shen Xinglan's eyes were unfathomable. ”It's a completely different story. You know how I feel.”
”Then consider it to be her!” Le Yi joked. ”Then you'll be a little kinder to her.”
Shen Xinglan's expression shifted after hearing his friend's words. ”I think she's definitely not Shanshan. Shanshan isn't as prickly as she is. She only knows how to provoke others to hate her.”
”That's enough. I've wasted my time having this conversation.” Le Yi stood up. ”Ponder it carefully, old man. I'll arrange for A Miao to do a brain scan.”
Shen Xinglan immediately asked, ”You're saying that her memories can be recovered.”
”I didn't say that.” Le Yi walked out of his office. ”We'll have to wait for the results of the scan.”
Thanks to an important figure like Le Yi paving the way, A Miao was taken to the examination room for the scan. It turned out that everything was normal with her brain and there was not even any blood clot inside.
”Such an outcome isn't unexpected.” Back in A Miao's ward, Le Yi started explaining the results. ”Even if a blood clot forms in your brain after impact, suppresses your nerves, and causes temporary memory loss, it doesn't mean that you'll recover your memories once the blood clot disappears.”
Seeing the dumbfounded look on A Miao's face, Le Yi racked his brain before saying, ”Our brain is just like a database that would automatically compartmentalize our memories.” He picked up several apples and placed them inside the basket.
”But if external interference happens,” Le Yi said as he took out an apple and placed it on a nearby spot, ”and cause a memory fragment to fall from the basket that stores all your memories. If it only falls to a nearby place…”
He moved the basket so that it sat next to the apple and then put the apple inside. ”Then the brain will regain this memory fragment someday and even compartmentalizes it again.” He once again took the apple out of the basket and then tossed it into the trash can.
”If this is the case, then there's no hope of regaining the memory fragment.”
A Miao heaved a drawn-out sigh and stared at him in admiration. ”I think you must be a very capable doctor.”
”Hehe! Why would you suddenly say so?” Le Yi sat down. ”I thought you'll be dejected.”
”Because you translated such a complex concept into such a simple explanation.” A Miao wore a complicated expression. ”I'm a little disappointed but not to the point that I'm dejected. I think most kids who were trafficked wouldn't have good memories of their experience.”
Le Yi smiled. ”You are sure positive.”
”If I'm not positive, then I'll be depressed enough to die.”
The door was suddenly pushed open and Shen Xinglan walked in with a dark expression. ”Looks like you must have recovered to be able to chat so happily. Then let's discuss your mission.”