Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven: The Corpse at the Children's Hospital

Faina took a few quick steps and opened the window upwards.A burst of refreshing, cool air rushed in. Pat turned the scalpel and used the handle to gently press on a small bump on the baby's head.It was soft there, as if there was a gap hidden under the scalp.Jiang Xia knew that Pat was looking for the unclosed fontanel of the baby, and it seemed that he wanted to start there. Sure enough, Pat put down the scalpel and replaced the needle with a long curved needle.He gently held the baby's head with his right hand, and slowly inserted the needle through the protrusion with his left hand.He closed his eyes and carefully felt the direction and touch of the needle.After determining the location, Pat pumped out some gray liquid.

Is it brain cells?Jiang Xia was full of doubts.Pat used Faina's connection as a nurse at Boston Children's Hospital to steal the half-baby corpse, just to extract some brain cells? Children who have been dead for 50 years and soaked in formalin, what value can these cells have?Who is this baby?Why only his brain cells? Just as she was thinking about it, Faina turned around and left the kitchen, fearing that she might feel sick again, or she just couldn't bear to look at it anymore. Lying on Faina's bed, Jiang Xia could only look up at the ceiling in a daze.The roof of the house at that time was very high, and the top fan hung loosely from the ceiling, but the four brown wooden fan blades stood up vigorously, but it seemed that they hadn't been running since autumn.

I lost my memory for three years in the 21st century, and even encountered such strange things in the 1930s.Is it so difficult to live a peaceful life?Jiang Xia was a little frustrated and began to complain about the injustice of life.And this parasite-like life began to make him tired, and he couldn't do what he wanted to do at all.Out of curiosity, he can open his eyes to see what happened around a little nurse seventy-five years ago, and listen to the conversations between other "ancient people" and her.But if he was allowed to live like this, what kind of despair would it be?

Feeling anxious, Jiang Xia decided to start looking for a way to go back.If he can go back, he will drop out of school and stop using dream recorders, and let his lost three years go to hell!He wants to go back to China to accompany his parents, and he wants to persuade Qingzi to go back to China together and start over together.He doesn't want to look for his lost memory anymore, and he doesn't want to live in other people's memory... Faina turned over and closed her eyes facing the window.So Jiang Xia couldn't see anything.But he could still hear, he could hear Pat rustling as he went about his business in the kitchen.

Live in someone else's memory? Jiang Xia was taken aback by this thought. If dreams can be recorded, memories can be recorded.So can memory also be transferred?If memory can be transferred, for example, Faina's memory is recorded and then transferred to her own brain, will it become part of her own memory? Although in terms of feeling, it was me, Jiang Xia, who went to the warehouse to steal the dead baby, and it was me, Jiang Xia, who was talking to Liz, Megan, Pat and Principal Gustley, but what I saw in the mirror was Faina after all, no one Aware of Jiang Xia's existence.Because the past happened seventy years ago, and it was just restored to the mind of a fool named Jiang Xia in 2010.So Jiang Xia is just experiencing what Faina experienced as a bystander. The only difference is that her memory is now mixed with his consciousness and feelings in one brain, so there will be double feelings ...

Following this logic, Jiang Xia analyzed one by one, and began to feel a little excited. The outer door knocked lightly, and it was Pat who left and didn't come in to disturb Faina's rest.The little nurse opened her eyes, she was just feigning sleep. When the light from outside the window entered Faina's pupils through the curtains, Jiang Xia felt somewhat disappointed.Everything around here is so real.He even clearly felt the smoothness of his hands rubbing against the clean sheets, and he clearly smelled Faina, or the feminine scent of himself mixed with the smell of hospital disinfectant.Even if my deduction just now is correct, it should only be like a dream, how could there be such a real feeling?

Besides, who would graft this girl's memory into his own brain?Maybe I am Faina, a little nurse who lived in Boston, USA in 1935, and Jiang Xia is an unfounded fabrication, right? Faina got up from the bed and walked to the living room. Pat was gone, and the kitchen was as tidy as ever.The bottle containing the dead baby lay on the edge of the leather bag, the cork melted with the wax chips collected earlier and resealed. It looks like nothing happened. Faina picked up the specimen jar with her left hand and held it in front of her eyes, and she actually looked at the baby inside.After a while, she carried the jar with one hand and put it back into her purse, took a rag and wiped the kitchen countertop, wiped it over and over again, and then shed tears.

"Jiang Xia." In the darkness, someone whispered his name in his ear. Jiang Xia opened her eyes, and what she saw was Zhou Qingzi who was thinking about it day and night! All the cells in his body were violently colliding and boiling!He tried his best to move his arms, and pulled the girl with eyes full of concern into his arms with all his strength.He pressed his face tightly against Qingzi's cold face, and cried like a child.Jiang Xia didn't want her to see him like this, but his arms gave away his secret.He hugged her tightly, not letting her leave half a step away.Jiang Xia hadn't cried so heartily for a long time, but at this moment his voice was hoarse and he couldn't cry.

"Okay, okay, it's okay, ah." Qingzi kissed his cheek, probably kissing Jiang Xia's tears. Suddenly someone coughed beside him. Jiang Xia was startled, and protected Qingzi aside with both hands. Qingzi smiled shyly and sat up straight. "Can we not do this? I left Yang Shan alone in the United States for New Year's Eve. Come here to see you two make out?" It's Ye Guangting! Jiang Xia wanted to sit up, but her whole body was extremely weak, she only struggled a little and then lay down again. "Don't move," Ye Guangting patted Jiang Xia's shoulder, handed him a bottle of mineral water, and said to Qingzi, "My brother must lie here for three days, right?"

Qingzi stroked Jiang Xia's forehead distressedly, and nodded. "What happened, what happened?" Jiang Xia hasn't fully recalled it yet.He could not speak, only breath. "Let's go first, let's take him to the hospital for a checkup." Ye Guangting came over and helped Jiang Xia up from the ground with Zhou Qingzi.Only then did Jiang Xia feel that his legs could not move at all. Jiang Xia's car was still outside, but the battery had already run out.Qingzi had already called rescuers to switch off the battery for his car, and Ye Guangting drove the three of them to the city.

Jiang Xia lay powerlessly on the back seat of the car, with her head resting on Qingzi's leg.Ye Guangting has already fed him a can of Coke brought off the plane, and he is now more energetic. "Since we talked on the phone last time, I haven't been able to find you, and the phone is turned off, really," Qingzi said with some complaints, "I called Guangting and called him back when I was in a hurry. No one will know where you died." "My buddy is righteous enough, plus this time, this is the second time you lie in our arms, hahaha. The last time was at MIT, I have to remind you from time to time. Don't Said, I can’t do it without me. As soon as I told Qingzi Tukang Road, she said you must be here. In this area, let alone Qingzi, I dare say that few people in Beijing can find it.” Ye Guangting was in The front is nagging and expressing merit. Hearing Ye Guangting mention the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jiang Xia's heart seemed to fly to Boston, USA, and he couldn't help holding Qingzi's hand. "I found a small scroll at home with a picture on it telling me how to get here." Jiang Xia looked at Ye Guangting hesitantly. Ye Guangting said in surprise: "Before I left, I packed all the dream CDs you left behind in my bag, and later I found this when I was digging through the bags on the plane. Take a look. Otherwise, I can't find it! I thought it was you who drew it. It's right." He said and handed over a ball of things. Qingzi took it over and turned on the lights in the back seat. This is also a scroll, unfolded to be a pencil-drawn map, marking Beijing's ring road and some place names, following the arrows, you can see the three characters "Tu Kang Road"! "It seems that someone wants you to go to that factory building, and someone wants us to pick you up. How many people are there?" Qingzi said to Ye Guangting: "Let him rest for a while, we'll talk about it in the hospital." Jiang Xia waved his hand: "I want to eat." He just came back from the American hospital in the 1930s, and he didn't want to go to that ghost place no matter what. Ye Guangting laughed, and muttered: "I booked a high-priced ticket and rushed back after receiving Qingzi's call. I didn't even get off the plane." "Got it, I'll treat you later. What shall we eat?" "Boil mutton!" The two said in unison, but Jiang Xia's spirit was like a silk. Smoke billows from the Donglaishun Shabu restaurant, and there is a big bronze hot pot on every table.Fresh meat of various colors is cut into the thickness of a cicada's wing, and it changes color in a short while in the tumbling broth.If it is accidentally attached to the outer wall of the furnace, the meat slices will make a creaking sound, accompanied by the cheerful conversation of people, the clinking of wine cups, and a lively scene of singing and dancing.The Gregorian New Year has passed, and people seem to be still immersed in the festive atmosphere.2010 is a good year, how can we not give it away grandly? Jiang Xia ate a lot and had already returned to normal.Unlike before, his hand never left Zhou Qingzi. "Okay, I can't run, just don't run around." Qingzi said embarrassingly. Ye Guangting, on the other hand, was a little sluggish, yawning profusely, and suffered from jet lag. Jiang Xia looked gratefully across the table at the buddy who had returned home because of him, and kept toasting. "Drink less. You are still weak." Qingzi wanted to persuade him. "He's not good? Another catty of mutton, this guy can go to the house!" Ye Guangting quickly drank the wine in the glass, "You still said that you want to send him to the hospital for water? Isn't this pot of soup better than that stuff? Do you want me to drink it? It is said that in the future, the hospital will use mutton soup instead of drips." "Guangting, Qingzi. I really have to thank you all. I thought I wouldn't be able to come back." Jiang Xia straightened her face, filled another cup of white wine, and picked it up. Even though Qingzi felt sorry for Jiang Xia and didn't want him to drink anymore, he couldn't bear to spoil his interest after seeing this scene, so he also picked up the wine glass. "Where did you go, buddy? I just saw you and didn't ask, what happened?" Jiang Xia looked at Ye Guangting, his eyes sparkled: "You are from New York to Beijing, my buddy is farther than you, from Beijing to Boston, Boston in 1935." After so many strange things, both Ye Guangting and Qingzi knew that Jiang Xia would not speak casually.So I didn't interrupt him, and listened very carefully. Jiang Xia told about the encounter with Faina, and even though they were mentally prepared, the two were still very surprised.Ye Guangting's eyes widened, all jet lag disappeared.Qingzi listened calmly, with an unnatural expression, probably resentful that Jiang Xia lived in another woman's body and consciousness. Ye Guangting is more sensitive to girls' thoughts than Jiang Xia, he joked: "Why can't I do this kind of thing? Just force Jiang Xia to do something he doesn't want to do." Qingzi knew that Ye Guangting was helping Jiang Xia: "I don't think he would be happy." Ye Guangting winked at Jiang Xia, and said: "Finish, buddy can't cover you anymore. That's how I figured it out. This matter is completely a trap, and someone is planning all of this. He, or her next to the word "female" , lead you to the factory building on Tukang Road, guide you to enter the string of passwords, and then activate what switch, let you discover Faina's secret." Jiang Xia looked at Ye Guangting, her lips moved but finally she didn't speak. Ye Guangting looked at everyone and saw two people listening, so he continued: "I don't think there is any space-time travel here, you are just controlled by a kind of energy, you just saw the memory in your brain. And This memory belongs to Faina." Qingzi nodded: "Can't you record your dreams and memories for us to see? Maybe more than half of your recorded memories belong to Faina?" The analysis of the two coincided with what Jiang Xia thought. "I thought about it too, but you don't know how real that feeling is, just like I am eating with you now, the only difference is that I don't have the initiative to act at all." Jiang Xia poked the ground with her finger Looking at the table, "There is no way to poke the table, poke, table, child! Hahaha!" Ye Guangting and Qingzi both laughed. "It's over, this person is crazy. Is that the case with personality fission?" "Don't say it, it's kind of mean. I once wondered who is the real one, Faina or Jiang Xia." He did have such a strange feeling, so he said it while drinking. Qingzi held Jiang Xia's hand and said softly: "You are all real, but you live in different times and spaces. What we need to figure out now is who asked you to experience everything in Faina? Who is Na? What did she do in 1935? What do they want?" "Need to say? It must be related to that child!" Ye Guangting followed Jiang Xia's example and poked his finger on the table with a smile on his face. "Hiroba is right! This child must be extraordinary! Pat took his brain cells, it must not be as simple as making a microscope section. He once said that this child is very important to the whole world. And Faina is right Pat is infatuated, and even I can feel her joy and pain." Jiang Xia pondered for a moment, "So I want to go back and have a look!" Qingzi's hand tightened. "It's okay. Now that I know I can come back, there's nothing to be afraid of. Just watch over me and wake me up if something goes wrong?" "It's fine, but you'll only be lying down for three days, and the two of us are like guards next to you..." "Go, don't talk nonsense." Qingzi patted Ye Guangting's arm lightly, and turned to Jiang Xia, "I'm worried about your other things, we still don't know what's going on. Even if you're lying beside us alive The brain is reading Faina's memory, even if we can wake you up at any time; but if Faina's memory conflicts with yours, or her memory suddenly disappears and enters some black hole, How can that be good? Things in the brain are so complicated that scientists can't explain them clearly..." Only then did Ye Guangting realize that things were not so fun, if this kind of energy activity would damage the brain cells, it would be a disaster if Jiang Xia became stupid or died. Jiang Xia seemed to have made a decision, he poured another glass of wine, and drank it tragically, even he himself didn't know how he could be so righteous.Putting down the wine glass, he refilled it on his own. Instead of drinking, he wiped his mouth. "When I woke up just now, I saw Qingzi for the first time. Don't laugh, Hiroba. I really felt so happy as if I had been reborn. My whole body was shaking. I still remember that feeling. It started from the apex of the heart, and then spread to the whole body..." Jiang Xia drank the wine on the table, stopped for a moment, "then I saw you again, Guang Ting, I almost lost consciousness at that time, I didn't expect that you came here from the United States on purpose, and I... felt very happy at that time." Ye Guangting looked at Jiang Xia, who was half-lowering her head, almost talking to herself, and then at Qingzi. "You haven't experienced this, you don't know. I really, really felt that I would never see you again. What do you say I am afraid of now? I am very content now!" "Then you still don't cherish us well." Qingzi interjected. "Of course I cherish it. If this incident can bring me any benefits, it is to learn to cherish..." Ye Guangting squinted at Jiang Xia from the side, pursing his lips happily. "Let's do it like this," Jiang Xia continued, "just try once, if it doesn't work, forget it. What if you find something? I've had a hard time, and you've seen it. Three years... three years Ah, it’s gone! Now I just got some clues, so let’s forget about it?” "Grandma!" Ye Guangting scolded Jiang Xia, raised his glass, "I did it, you can do whatever you want." Of course Qingzi knew that it was not so easy for anyone to bear these things.Looking at Jiang Xia's appearance, she feels distressed and doesn't want him to take risks, but what else can she do? Satisfied with wine and food, the three of them came to the old factory building of "No. 1 Tukang Road" again, and it was almost two o'clock in the morning.It was already afternoon in the United States, and Ye Guangting gradually became more sober.He called home as soon as he got off the plane.My father was still entertaining the leaders outside, and my mother was watching TV alone at home. Knowing that he had something to do tonight, she didn't say much, only complained. Jiang Xia's wine has sobered up a little.Ye Guangting and Qingzi were by his side, and they came to the water storage tank in a short while. "I was standing here at the time, and the moment I entered the password, I entered Faina's memory, and I didn't feel anything at all," Jiang Xia said. "That's where you fell." Ye Guangting pointed upwards with a flashlight.A thin pipe bent down from the side of the water storage tank caught his attention.As with the box to enter the combination, the style, finish, and placement of the tubes don't belong here.There is a small umbrella-shaped cover at one end of the tube, just like a small sprinkler head, facing the Jiangxia station. "Did you move me after you came in?" Jiang Xia asked. Light child nodded.Ye Guangting said: "At first we didn't wake you up no matter what we called you, it was as if you were dead. We were going to send you to the hospital. My buddy just walked a few steps behind your back when you started humming. So we rushed you Let it go." Jiang Xia thought for a moment and said: "Can we assume that this pipe is a channel for emitting some kind of energy. The real big guy is hidden in the big water tank. After entering the correct password, the instrument is activated and emits energy to the The person under the tube activates the memory fragments in the brain. If you keep being shrouded in this energy, this dream will continue. Once you remove me from the energy field, I will come back." "Reliable." Ye Guangting knocked on the big pitcher with his hand, but there was no sound. Either it was full of water or something extremely heavy was placed in it. "It's easy to figure this out, so I don't need to talk about it. Move me out of here in twenty minutes, remember, unless you don't want me anymore. Get started." Qingzi was still worried, but he didn't know what to do.She walked to the side of the water tank and tapped it with her small hands, then went under the pipe, swept the ground with her feet, in case something sharp would touch Jiang Xia, and said, "Guang Ting, after he falls, help him up." lie down." Ye Guangting was inspired and said, "If Jiang Xia and I stand here together, will we enter Faina's memory together?" "I don't think so, why don't you try?" Jiang Xia thought it was fun. "Farewell!" Qingzi begged, "I can't move you both down." "Come!" Ye Guangting stuck to Jiang Xia, and stretched out his hand to Qingzi, "Why don't you come with Qingzi! Let us leave this troubled world!" He said, holding Jiang Xia's shoulders with both hands. "1889526..." Jiang Xia read out while entering the password into the box. Jiang Xia shook her body, her back and buttocks felt cold, as if she was sitting, but her eyes were completely dark.He tried to open his eyes, but still couldn't see anything.It's terrible in my heart!Jiang Xia felt that something might have gone wrong.Could it be entering a segment with no visual memory?He tried to listen, but still nothing. "Guangting, Guangting." Jiang Xia broke the silence and called softly. No one agreed. Ye Guangting did not follow. At this moment, Jiang Xia vaguely heard footsteps coming from a distance!He subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound, but couldn't see anything at all.The footsteps were getting closer, and Jiang Xia's breathing couldn't help but quicken. Strangely, Jiang Xia's hands and feet also began to shake.He thought he was just feeling Faina's memory, and he couldn't control her actions, but why did he tremble with his emotions at this moment?Could it be that this time it's me, Jiang Xia?Thinking of this, he became even more nervous, twisting his head back and forth. As the footsteps approached, a man pressed Jiang Xia's head with his rough and big hands, blowing in his ear, beckoning him not to move. Jiang Xia stopped, feeling the oppressive feeling of being in a big black room in her previous dream.He seemed to see that he was under the dome of the huge acoustic laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and there was a person standing beside him! There was a sound of bolts spinning next to his ears, and Jiang Xia felt that there were four rubber-like round heads coming from four directions, fixing his head in place.This made him feel as if a tiny electric current was swimming numbly on the scalp, down the neck, down the spine and down to the waist. The man beside him didn't speak, but just connected some wires, took two wires and pasted them on Jiang Xia's forehead, and the other two on the back of the neck below the hairline.The man is very steady and serious in his work, breathing heavily with his mouth every time he sticks a thread, as if he is afraid that the conductive metal sheet will be cold to Jiangxia.Jiang Xia tried to move her hands and feet, but in vain, her arms and ankles were fixed by something. Knowing that he was powerless to resist, Jiang Xia tried to calm himself down.In the dark environment, he tried to use all his senses to discern his situation.Unfortunately, this didn't help much, he didn't smell anything suspicious, his hands and feet couldn't move, his eyes couldn't see, and the sound he could hear was really limited, all he could do was wait for the next move of the mysterious man beside him . After connecting the line, the man touched the top of Jiang Xia's head with his hand, compared it up, and then touched the top of his head, as if he was estimating the distance between something and the top of Jiang Xia's head.At this time, he had already guessed eighty to ninety percent.He also took these cables when he was doing dream recording experiments in Schweil's laboratory, but there was nothing above his head at that time, and his head was not fixed, let alone his hands and feet! There are two possibilities: one is that someone wants to take his brain cells; the other is that this situation is what he has personally experienced before, and with the lost memory gone, it is now reactivated and reflected in his mind. middle. Twenty minutes is almost up, Jiang Xia is very conflicted in his heart now, if it is the first possibility, he wishes Ye Guangting and Qingzi could drag him out of the energy field immediately.But what about the latter possibility?He wanted to stay and see what happened.He always felt that his amnesia was not due to any disease, and now the answer to the mystery was in front of him, how could he be willing to leave without seeing the true face of this mysterious man! Everything seems to have been set up properly, the man still did not speak, turned and walked away.Jiang Xia simply closed her eyes and listened attentively.The footsteps were small and steady, as if they were familiar. The man walked twenty steps and stopped. Jiang Xia's heart was in her throat, not knowing what would happen. Qingzi Hiroba, you should pull me out! At this moment, there was a sound of opening the door in the distance! "mark……" A very low voice of a woman reached Jiang Xia's ears very thinly. "Hush!" The man quickly stopped the woman, walked out quickly, and closed the door. mark?who is mark This name seemed to put a big question mark in Jiang Xia's mind. Mark Jenquis?Jiang Xia was shocked!A bright white flashed in front of my eyes, and then it was filled with darkness again! Jiang Xia opened his eyes and looked around. The room returned to silence again, but Jiang Xia couldn't calm down like a boil in his heart. Jenquis!This ghost-like person!Once appeared in his dreams, and then mysteriously disappeared in Spain.According to Dr. Schweil's understanding, this person may have appeared in China, by his side!He fell down inexplicably in front of his eyes, the phone with the name "Zhao Cheng" written on his hand, but the phone was registered by Qingzi's sister Lin Jiayun... And now, Zhanquis unexpectedly appeared in Faina's Come to life! Scenes of pictures flashed in Jiang Xia's mind.At this moment, he suddenly felt that the person who existed vaguely in the past but could connect the whole thing was not Jenquis?Think about it, MIT professors, MIT acoustics labs, mysterious blueprints, black rooms in America, and black rooms in China!The little nurse at Boston Children's Hospital...these are no coincidences at all, the same person standing behind seemingly segmented events.And until today, only a woman called out his name inadvertently: Mark Jenquis! And that man named Pat... Could it be Jenquis' father? ... ... ... Often the bigger scientists are the scarier. They have whimsical ideas in their minds, and sometimes they will sacrifice everything to experiment with their ideals.They are so smart that other people can naturally become their guinea pigs. In the midst of chaos, when the door rang, it must be that Jenquis had returned.I just heard him whispering to the woman who called him just now, almost breathlessly: "You go back first, come to my office at nine o'clock tomorrow, um." However, the room was too quiet, Jiang Xia could still hear clearly, This made him suddenly have a strange feeling in his heart. Jiang Xia felt her tongue move, and licked out a piece of rice grain-sized thing from the gap between the upper molars, and passed it from the tip of her tongue to the front teeth to bite it.A tiny drop of liquid came out, and he swallowed it without thinking.The liquid is bitter, but cool.Jiang Xia suddenly felt dizzy and wanted to fall asleep.In an instant, he seemed to have retreated from Faina's body, floating in the dark and silent space, but he was unconscious, and he seemed to be unable to remember anything, and nothing existed anymore. Jiang Xia gradually regained consciousness and was lying on the bed, her eyes were brighter, but she still couldn't see anything.Her head swelled up badly, and she didn't know whether it was hers or Faina's. Jiang Xia Nahan wrote that there was obviously a flock of birds singing outside, and there were occasional sounds of cars passing by.If it was Faina's memory, then she should be resting with her eyes closed. Just when he had no idea, Jiang Xia felt himself sitting up slowly, but did not open his eyes.Then, he raised his hand to touch his hair, curly and long! Is this still Faina? He slowly smoothed the hair with his fingers, then slowly rolled it up into a bun and tied it behind his head. He held it down with his left hand, and touched it behind him with his right hand. Then he found a rubber band beside the pillow, and tied the hair Wrap the bun and secure it.There was also a nylon hairnet next to the pillow, which he also touched and put on his head.After tidying up, rubbed the hair net twice with both hands, and put the hairstyle back in place. What happened to Faina?Jiang Xia was very puzzled, why didn't she open her eyes?Why is her movement so feeble?Could it be that Jenquis drugged her?Jiang Xia still felt swelling and pain in her right arm. It must be that Jenquis injected Faina with drugs for his memory experiment, which made her faint. What made Jiang Xia even more puzzled was that Faina seemed very calm.He didn't feel any surprise or anger when he heard Jenquis's name, maybe he was not familiar with him.Recalling the scene when Faina saw the baby specimen in the warehouse, Jiang Xia could clearly feel two fears and panics, one was her own and the other was Faina's; In the movie, the little girl's ignorant feelings will rise at any time, permeate the hot cheeks and forehead, melt into the crystal tears, and the pain is on the trembling heart. Psychological feelings are part of memory, and perhaps in the surviving memories, feelings are far weaker and more illusory than sight and hearing.But it is the strong feeling that is the sharp knife that is unforgettable. But this time, Jiang Xia seemed to only have her own mental activities, while Faina was unusually calm, and nothing could startle any waves in her heart. This doesn't look like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, but an old lady in her sixties or seventies. Faina touched the edge of the bed, rubbed her legs and turned half of her body, put her feet under the bed, and inserted them into a pair of cotton slippers.She supported the bed with her hands, leaned forward, and stood up tentatively.Jiang Xia felt that those legs were very heavy, and her ankles were soft, as if they might break at any time. After standing there for a while, Faina walked forward slowly, stretching her hands slightly forward.She went to a writing desk, flipped on an old-fashioned radio, and turned the volume up loud.A very magnetic male voice came out: "Good morning, this is NPR, the morning news program of National Public Radio. Yesterday, March 4th, President Clinton signed a decree banning human cloning research activities. The European Parliament will also discuss and pass a similar bill in the near future..." Jiang Xia, who was still in the dark, was heartbroken. He has been interested in life science since he was a child, and he has participated in biology extracurricular groups since middle school, which also led him to apply for the university's biology major.He has always been very concerned about the memorabilia in the industry.When did human cloning be banned?I remember that they had collectively discussed this important matter concerning human ethics. You just started middle school, right? That should be 19...97.Jiang Xia suddenly remembered another thing, about the three years when he lost his memory.If it is said that he lost his memory for three years, then he should have been born in 1983, and in 1997 he should have been fourteen or fifteen years old.But in his memory, he obviously graduated from elementary school that year. There is only one explanation, which is what Qingzi once analyzed with him: when his memory was taken away, all previous experiences were pushed back three years to fill in the gap.That's why in 1997, he was already fifteen years old, but in Jiang Xia's incomplete memory, he had just entered middle school. Jiang Xia was in a daze for a moment, and her thoughts returned to Faina. In any case, this moment should be 1997.Faina is already an octogenarian, and her eyes are no longer blind!No wonder her movements were slow and her legs were heavy and weak. Faina stopped in her tracks and listened attentively. "Dr. Singer, chairman of the US National Science Ethics Committee, expressed his appreciation for the passage of this bill, but he believes that the strength of this bill needs to be strengthened. Dr. Singer said that the current bill only prohibits federal scientific research funds from funding research on human cloning. Although the National Federation Research funding is the main source of income for scientists, but there are still people who can obtain funding for this type of research through other channels. Dr. Singer finally advocated that for the sake of human development, such research should be considered illegal..." After hearing this, Faina continued to walk forward, but unexpectedly her shoulder hit the door frame and staggered. Jiang Xia estimated that Faina had not been blind for too long, and she was far from used to the darkness. When Faina came to the kitchen, the sound of the radio could still be heard.She touched the stove, touched the desk, and slowly bent down to take out a seven-inch plate from the closet and put it on the counter. Jiang Xia has seen Faina's bedroom and kitchen, but after walking around and exploring, he feels that the house is still the same house, but it seems to be a lot more empty, and some of the original furniture seems to be gone. landed.Well, more than sixty years have passed, how many things will happen in sixty years... A little girl who was originally lively, lovely, and full of energy is now in her twilight years.Is she married to Pat?Do you have any children?For some reason, Jiang Xia didn't like that Pat, he felt that Pat was very hypocritical, there was no love in his eyes, only desire.He could actually use a little girl's love for him to realize some ulterior plan of his own.Jiang Xia didn't know if it was the kind of despicable "unspeakable", at least he didn't tell Faina what he wanted to do.He also said that he wanted to protect her, so let your mother's fart go! Faina opened the refrigerator and took out a piece of bacon and a box of cream cheese, took a long breath, and slowly spat it out.She took the bacon with her left hand and pressed it on the table, and opened the drawer with her right hand to take out a jam knife.The blade cuts in from the side at the lower edge of the left thumb.Slightly rotating the bacon with the left hand, and swipe the knife in and out with the right hand, the bacon was divided into upper and lower pieces in a moment, and then put into the oven of the bread machine.Jiang Xia knew she couldn't see anything, so she simply closed her eyes and felt Faina's every move.He marveled at her deft hands.An old lady who is nearly eighty years old has unstable legs and feet, but her hands do not tremble. The two slices of bacon she cut out are even in thickness and do not stick together. You can even feel that the incision is smooth.I thought that sometimes when I was cutting bacon for breakfast, the edges of the knife would not meet in the end, and I had to tear the two pieces apart with my hands. The old lady cut it blindly! 1997 was the year Jenques came back.According to Schwell, Jenquis was hired as a full professor at MIT in January 1997.So he should be in Boston by now, which fits in with what happened last night.The question is, how did Jenquis find Faina?What does he want?What did he have to do with that Pat? What's more, it's been more than a dozen hours, so Qingzi and Guangting didn't have anything wrong, right?怎么没有按原计划把自己拖出能量场呢？又或者是当初的估计错了？根本没有什么能量场，他们叫不醒自己了？ 江夏的心情并没有因此产生很大的波动，这连他自己都觉得吃惊。当你经历了这么多匪夷所思、没有答案的事情，当你见到一个小女孩一夜之间变成老太太，最重要的是，当你短时间内亲身感受到岁月在你身体和心灵上留下的衰老痕迹以后，还有什么事会让你特别的惊慌吗？ 法伊娜单手扶着墙，来到一架钢琴前，手摸琴凳，屈腿坐下。她轻轻翻开琴键盖子，似乎生怕被什么剐蹭到那油亮的纯黑色琴漆。她沉吟片刻，十指微动按下琴键，浑厚悠扬的斯坦威钢琴的声音立刻传了出来，混杂了睡房中播报新闻的收音机的声音和厨房中烘烤培果与鲜磨咖啡豆的香味，一幅昏黄陈旧如老照片一般的生活场景在江夏的脑海中显现出来。 让江夏吃惊的是，法伊娜弹奏的竟然是他喜欢的《西班牙随想》！只是她弹得很慢很慢，原本充斥整章音乐的奔放与豪情在法伊娜的指间却流露出淡淡的忧伤。可是无论是快是慢，这只曲子的每一个音符都能很奇怪地契合在江夏心里。在一片黑暗中，江夏从这音乐中细细品味这位八十岁老人的一生。 电话响起来，那种刺耳的老式电话的铃声让江夏感觉很不舒服。法伊娜扶着琴站起身来到厨房的一角。每次法伊娜一活动江夏就把一颗心提到嗓子眼儿，生怕撞到什么东西。虽然撞在法伊娜身上，可是那实实在在的痛感还是由他来承受的。 法伊娜摘下挂在墙上的听筒，却并没有说话。 “法伊娜？你好，我是詹奎斯。你在弹琴吗？” 法伊娜“嗯”了一声。 江夏听詹奎斯的语气就好像什么都不曾发生过一样，甚至有几分激动。这么说法伊娜是认识詹奎斯的。 “那可真不错！还是那支曲子吗？” 法伊娜又“嗯”了一声，仿佛根本没有兴趣和他继续交谈下去，想必是昨晚听到了詹奎斯的名字而对他起了疑心。 而詹奎斯却不以为意，他笑了笑：“法伊娜，你知道吗？我的朋友们组织了个大的聚会，再过三个月，他们都会来波士顿为我庆祝！施韦尔博士也要来！你还记得他吗？” “你们有很久没见了吧？”法伊娜终于说了一句整话。 江夏听到自己导师的名字很吃了一惊。法伊娜也认识施韦尔吗？Could it be that…… “是啊！”詹奎斯的话里透着兴奋，“自从我离开波士顿回到老家，我们就一直没有见过面，已经十五年了。他现在是纽约哥伦比亚大学的助理教授！” 江夏想起施韦尔曾经对他讲起过他在哈佛求学时与当时的麻省理工学院博士生詹奎斯合租了房间，原来法伊娜就是那个整天弹琴而少言寡语的房东老太太！ “法伊娜，你在听吗？今天晚上我请你去听音乐会吧？小泽征尔指挥波士顿交响乐团演奏柯萨科夫的《西班牙随想》，你喜欢吧？” 法伊娜嘴角露出一丝微笑。 詹奎斯在电话那头等了等法伊娜的反应，见没什么动静，于是接着说道：“去年初波士顿音乐厅请我帮助他们设计改造音响系统和大厅构造来提高演奏的声学品质。这是他们依照我的图纸改造后的第一场演出。音乐总监小泽先生还征求了我的意见问我第一场应该演奏什么。我特意为你安排了这个曲目！” “谢谢你。”法伊娜说道，语气很平和，“我接受你的邀请。” “太好了！晚上我来接你！”詹奎斯喜出望外，结束了通话。 江夏很是不解，詹奎斯仿佛对法伊娜并没有什么恶意，言语中似乎还很尊敬。如果法伊娜只是他的一个房东，詹奎斯能存如此的感恩之心也是相当不错了。只是，他为什么要拿法伊娜做实验呢？这总是让人难以接受的吧？老太太对人总是不冷不热，不表露自己的情感。也说不上她是怎么想的。或许是有她自己的盘算。 再或者，就是詹奎斯表里不一，对法伊娜表面上很友好，实际上是准备继续利用她。帕特不也是这样吗？法伊娜到底知道什么秘密让这些大科学家趋之若鹜？詹奎斯本不希望法伊娜知道自己就是拿她做实验的人，可一时大意泄露了自己的身份，今天约她出去一是来试探一下，二来……不会是要灭口吧？ 刚吃了几口烤好的培果，法伊娜的电话又响了起来，这次似乎更加刺耳难当。 “请法伊娜听电话。”对方说话就像一块铁，冷冰冰没有生气。 “我是。”法伊娜也冷冷地回了一句。 江夏听得好笑，这两个人凑在一起还真不容易呢，如果是夫妻的话一整天也说不上半句话。 “我是联邦调查局特别侦探肯尼·弗勒。” 法伊娜出人意料地长叹了一口气。是一颗悬着的心落了地，还是本已平静的心被提了起来？再或者是一直担心的事终于发生了？江夏无从判断，他只觉得这个怪老太太本身就是一个谜。 “我们想就一宗案件找你谈谈，九点钟我们到你那里。”FBI的人说话从来不与人商量。 法伊娜挂了电话，又去吃她的培果了。当路过一台可以报时的电子钟时，她摸了来在手里把玩，按了一下按钮：“现在时刻，上午八点五十三分。”电子钟报道。 法伊娜把早餐的碟子和刀子用水冲了一下后统统摆入水池旁的洗碗机中。这时楼下传来很重的砸门声。 “谁？”法伊娜通过装置在墙上的对讲机问道。 “肯尼·弗勒。” “拉门上来吧。”法伊娜按了开门钮。 厚重的皮鞋踏在木制楼梯上发出杂乱的空空声，像是有两三个人。法伊娜慢悠悠地去开门。 “法伊娜，我是弗勒侦探，这是我的助手纳什侦探。” 江夏看不到两位FBI侦探的模样，但是能够感觉弗勒的声音就在与法伊娜脸部一般高的位置，应该是个小个子男人。纳什的呼吸粗重，位置很高，这位助手倒是牛高马大。 “我的警号是5211，弗勒侦探是0280，这是我们的警徽。”纳什说。 如果联邦调查局的警号是按顺序排列的，那么弗勒还确实很资深了。Jiang Xia thought. 法伊娜没有去碰两位侦探掏出来举到她手边的警徽，转身来到客厅自顾自坐下来：“那边有个小沙发，你们挤着坐吧。” 记得年轻的法伊娜家里有着各种各样在当时属于很高级的陈设和家具，江夏还曾经感叹过一个年纪轻轻的护士如何能置下那么大一份产业。而现在的她，房子虽然没变，但是家具却似乎都被变卖一空，只有一个沙发供客人“挤着坐”。 “我们在波士顿儿童医院一座正在拆除的病房楼的墙壁中发现了一具男性尸骨。”弗勒说道，停了停。估计是在观察法伊娜的反应。 而法伊娜一点儿反应都没有。江夏与法伊娜也算“阔别已久”，十几岁的小护士活泼调皮，而现如今的法伊娜却如一潭止水，喜怒哀乐的情怀一概察觉不到。江夏就像生活在一尊空壳之中。 “我们希望你能帮助我们提供一些线索，需要你跟我们到局里去。” Faina nodded. “现在可以走吗？”纳什问道。 法伊娜站起身走到钢琴旁，小心翼翼地将琴键的盖子合上，然后缓缓摸进睡房。她拉开衣橱的门，用手在衣架上挑了一件毛料衣服套上。又从衣橱墙上挂着的小布袋中摸了摸，捏了样东西放在上衣兜里。江夏感觉不出那是什么。 “你们在楼下等我吧。”她手扶橱门向客厅里喊了一声。