The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Yun Tianming stood in front of the window of the inpatient ward of the Capital Cancer Hospital, staring at the shadows of trees whirling under the street lights outside the window in a daze.

He was alone in the ward.

Two days ago, Lao Li, a patient in the same ward, chose Anle.

Before leaving, Lao Li told him that the disease was hopeless, and if it continued to drag on, it would only make his children suffer, and he would also suffer.

This is the first euthanasia case in China after the Euthanasia Act was passed at the special meeting of the third Senior Officials Meeting a week ago.

At that time, many media reporters came, but most of them were kept out.

As the patient's representative, Yun Tianming participated in Lao Li's dying ceremony.

None of Lao Li's relatives were present. He kept it from them, and only waited for the Civil Affairs Bureau to notify him after the incident. This is legally allowed in euthanasia.

The comfort room is the original emergency room of the hospital. Perhaps the hospital has decorated the emergency room in order to be more humane, putting in beautiful curtains, placing flowers, and even pasting many pink hearts on the wall. shape pattern.

But this has the opposite effect, decorating the tomb as a new house, adding weirdness to the horror of death.

When Yun Tianming saw the safe room for the first time, a mixture of fear and nausea surged up, almost making him vomit.

But when Lao Li left, there was no pain.

Dr. Zhang told Yun Tianming: “The injection medicine consists of a large dose of barbiturate, muscle relaxant and high concentration of potassium chloride. The barbiturate works first, making the patient sedated and deep sleep; the muscle relaxant makes the patient stop breathing, Potassium chloride causes tachycardia, which is a matter of twenty or thirty seconds."

Oh, I forgot to mention that Dr. Zhang is my sister's high school classmate.

Yun Tianming didn't have any major conflicts with his elder sister, and the siblings had a very good relationship when they were young.

But after growing up and having a family, the relationship is naturally alienated.

My sister and brother-in-law are the kind of people who think they are very smart, but they are not smart, so they live in a disgraceful life. The children are too old to afford a house, and there is no house for the in-laws, so they have to live in the father's house.

In order to cure himself, his father kept taking out his savings and pouring himself into this bottomless pit that was doomed to have no hope.

But I have no money to buy a house for my sister.

I have to leave sooner or later, my father's money is naturally also my sister's money.

So when he heard those words from Dr. Zhang, Yun Tianming understood that this was what his sister meant.

Yun Tianming didn't feel particularly uncomfortable, anyway, this day will come sooner or later, there seems to be no difference between late and early.

But what surprised him was that on the afternoon when Old Li was euthanized, a college classmate came to visit him and gave him three million.

The reason is very simple. During a college outing, I casually mentioned that a kind of wild grass can be used to make a pure natural drink, which was remembered by that classmate.

As a result, after graduating from university, with this drink, this classmate made a fortune.

The classmate didn't forget his roots. When he learned that Yun Tianming's cancer was terminal, he made a special trip to see him and left three million for him.

Yun Tianming did not refuse.

This money gave him a slight hope of survival.

Instead of going to Dr. Zhang, he secretly found the vice president of the cancer hospital. After reading his examination report, the vice president shook his head and finally gave him the death sentence.

Since then, Yun Tianming's heart has been dead.

That afternoon, he submitted an application for euthanasia to the hospital ethics committee.

But since he was about to die, how to deal with the money became a troublesome matter.

My father has a retirement salary and his own house, so he will have no problems in his future life, and leaving this money to his father is no different from leaving it to his sister.

elder sister……

Yun Tianming shook his head, he felt that after he chose euthanasia, he would not owe his sister anything.

After thinking about it, he thought of Cheng Xin.

This sunny girl is one of his best memories in college.

It just so happened that there was a news about the "Stars Project" broadcast on TV two days ago, so he thought about buying a star for Cheng Xin for three million.

I just don't know why, after I submitted the purchase application, the staff of the United Nations Development Program actually told me that I was not qualified to purchase.

It seems that God can't even make his last wish come true.

A bitter smile appeared on Yun Tianming's face.

If it doesn't work, the money can only be left to my father.

Looking at the bank card on the bedside table, Yun Tianming thought about it, stuffed it into an envelope, and put it in the storage box.

These personal belongings will be handed over to his family members when he is at ease tomorrow.

...

The breakfast was rich, but Yun Tianming didn't have much appetite.

Everyone I met today gave him a warm smile. This is the day he has seen the most smiles in his life, but this smile does not belong to him.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Yun Tianming was pushed into the comfort room.

According to his request, the hospital didn't have so many fancy things.

It was just an ordinary ward with white walls, which made him feel very comfortable.

Yun Tianming first signed the notarial certificate, and the notary left.

Afterwards, an Anle instructor came in and told Yun Tianming the operation rules.

There is an LED display in front of the bed, which is connected to a computer, which controls the syringe.

"Mr. Yun, can you see the words on the screen?"

"Can!"

Yun Tianming nodded.

Then see if you can click the buttons on the screen with the mouse.

Yun Tianming tried again.

all the best.

"Very good, Mr. Yun, a question will be displayed on the screen and repeated five times. There are six buttons from 0 to 5 below the question. If you want to answer affirmatively each time, press a button according to the prompt. The number is a random one from 1 to 5. The reason for this is to prevent you from pressing the same button repeatedly in an unconscious state; "

"I see!"

Yun Tianming said calmly.

"Okay, Mr. Yun, then let's enter the safety procedure!"

An Le guided out of the glass door.

When a nurse came in and inserted the needle of the automatic injection machine into Yun Tianming's left arm, her movements were calm and composed.

Yun Tianming looked into the nurse's beautiful eyes, and suddenly he had an inexplicable feeling for the nurse, after all, she was the last person in the world to accompany him.

"Thanks."

Yun Tianming said.

The nurse wore a mask and glanced at him, Yun Tianming could feel the smile in the nurse's eyes.

The euthanasia procedure officially begins, and the upper front screen displays:

Are you going to end your own life? If yes, please press the 5 key; if no, please press the 0 key.

Yun Tianming pressed 5.

Are you going to end your own life? If yes, please press 2 key; if no, please press 0 key.

Yun Tianming pressed 2.

Are you going to end your own life? If yes, please press 4 key; if no, please press 0 key.

Yun Tianming pressed 4.

Are you going to end your own life? If yes, please press 1 key; if no, please press 0 key.

Yun Tianming pressed 1.

Are you going to end your own life? This is the last reminder. If yes, please press 3 key; if no, please press 0 key.

I choose 3.

Yun Tianming thought to himself.

The moment Yun Tianming pressed the death button, the door leading to the comfort room was knocked open, and a group of people rushed in.

The first to come in was Director An Le, who rushed to the bed and turned off the power of the automatic injection machine; the hospital leader who came in later simply pulled out the power socket from the wall; the last was the nurse, who yanked the hose on the injection machine , pulled it off the machine, and at the same time pulled out the needle on Yun Tianming's left arm, causing him to feel a tingling pain in his left wrist.

Then, as people gathered around to check the hoses, he heard a word of relief.

"Fortunately, the liquid medicine hasn't come out yet."

The nurse began to treat Yun Tianming's bleeding left wrist.

Yun Tianming turned his head, he felt that the whole world lit up.

He saw Cheng Xin.

Cheng Xin smiled and said, "Tianming, the Wallfacer wants to see you!"

...

Yun Tianming felt like he was dreaming.

At the last moment when he was about to die, not only did he meet the girl he wanted to see the most, he was even about to meet a Wallfacer.

Wallfacer.

Wall plan.

Ever since he was diagnosed with cancer, although Yun Tianming didn't pay much attention to current affairs news, he knew what kind of existence the Wallface Project was.

These Wallfacers can be called the most powerful group of people on Earth.

Yun Tianming once thought that he was far away from these Wallfacers, and that the doomsday battle four hundred years later would be meaningless to him.

But today, a Wallfacer wanted to meet him by name.

All this is like a fairy tale.

Surrounded by everyone, Yun Tianming came to a quiet reception room, and saw a young man not much older than him, sitting quietly on the sofa drinking tea.

He knew this man, a legendary figure, and there were not many people in the world who did not know him.

Pang Xuelin, the founder of the Wall-Facing Project, former member of ETO, top international mathematician, wall-facer!

"Mr. Yun Tianming, please sit down!"

Pang Xuelin looked at Yun Tianming, the current Yun Tianming was far from being as thick and spacious as the Yun Tianming in the movie who traveled through the vast starry sky and experienced countless hardships.

He was thin and thin, perhaps because of the torment of the illness, his face looked a little pale, and his body even gave off a gloomy aura, and it was only when he looked at Cheng Xin that his eyes became brighter. .

Yun Tianming sat down on the sofa next to Pang Xuelin.

Pang Xuelin said to the others in the reception room: "You all go out! Cheng Xin, you too!"

Cheng Xin opened her mouth, turned her head and gave Yun Tianming an encouraging look, and then exited the reception room with the others.

"Professor Pang, what can you do for me?"

Yun Tianming looked at Pang Xuelin and said curiously.

It was just Pang Xuelin's first sentence that surprised Yun Tianming: "You like Cheng Xin?"

"Cough cough...cough...cough cough..."

It took quite a while before Yun Tianming calmed down from his violent coughing, and a bitter smile appeared on his face: "I... am I entitled to like it?"

Pang Xuelin took a sip from his teacup, and said with a smile, "No one is unattainable. By the way, didn't you want to buy a star for Cheng Xin a few days ago? I vetoed it!"

Yun Tianming's eyes widened: "Professor Pang, you..."

Pang Xuelin smiled slightly and said, "Cheng Xin is not suitable for you, at least the current Cheng Xin is not suitable for you now. As for the future, it depends on your own grasp. Do you want to live?"

"Professor Pang, what do you mean by that?"

Yun Tianming looked at Pang Xuelin in surprise.

Pang Xuelin handed a document to Yun Tianming and said, "You read it first, and tell me your choice after reading it."

The reception room fell silent, only the sound of Yun Tianming turning pages.

After a long time, Yun Tianming raised his head and said, "Why did you choose me?"

"No, you are just one of many candidates!"

Pang Xuelin smiled lightly: "But I am very optimistic about you!"

"Yun Tianming, you were born in a family of intellectuals. Both your parents belonged to socially and interpersonally incompetent people, and they got along very poorly. They didn't have the status of aristocrats, but they insisted on giving you an aristocratic education. The books you read must be classics. , the music you listen to must be classical music, and the people you associate with must be people who they think are cultivated and leveled. They keep telling you how vulgar the people and things around you are, and how much higher their own spiritual taste is than ordinary people. a piece."

"You still had a few friends in elementary school, but you never dared to bring them home to play, because your parents would definitely not approve of you being with such vulgar children. In junior high school, with the further deepening of noble education, you became But it was at this time that the parents divorced. It was the father's third party, a girl who sold insurance, that caused the family to break up. The mother remarried a wealthy construction contractor. These two people They are the ones your parents try to keep you away from, so at this moment they also understand that they are no longer qualified to educate you like that."

"But aristocratic education has taken root in your heart, and you can't get rid of it. It's like the old wind-up handcuffs. The more you try to break free, the tighter the handcuffs are. Throughout middle school and college, you became You became more and more withdrawn, more sensitive, and farther and farther away from the crowd. Until you went to university, and you met Cheng Xin..."

"Cheng Xin belongs to the kind of girl that anyone will fall in love with when they see her. She treats people sincerely, without pretentiousness, and has a pure heart. Of course, coupled with her super good looks, so boys who have a crush on her don't count. In fact, you are also one of her many secret lovers..."

"These, am I right?"

Yun Tianming pursed his lips tightly and did not speak.

Pang Xuelin said: "The ladder plan is cruel. We will send the brain of a volunteer across the cold and empty starry sky, until hundreds of years later, it will be intercepted by the Trisolarans. If all goes well, you will be intercepted by the Trisolarans." Human clone resurrection. During this period, you may have to suffer unimaginable living body sensory limit tests and inhuman torture, until you officially integrate into an intelligent race that is completely different from ours. I don’t ask you to be loyal to humans all the time. I only hope that you can become a Messenger, let our human civilization, before it perishes, be able to truly see the true appearance of extraterrestrial civilization. Would you like to join the ladder plan?"

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