Your Beloved Sweetheart Is Online

Chapter 920 - 923: Fool, I Never Thought of Leaving You 14

The other person bent over, looked at Chenxing with a puzzled expression, didn’t say anything, and then took the lead.

The two stepped into the surveillance room of the medical research institute.

The surveillance room was quite large, roughly 100 square meters in size.

On one side of the surveillance room were many screens, each constantly monitoring a room, constantly observing the condition inside.

Some rooms were empty, while others housed people.

There were men and women, elderly and young adults.

Chenxing’s gaze fell on one of the monitor screens, where a man appeared to be completely dependent on others, his whole body was muscle atrophied, his appearance making one’s skin crawl; a tube was inserted in his nose, and a nurse seemed to be doing something to him.

"What is she doing?" Chenxing asked curiously, pointing to the screen. "Is he sick?"

"He’s being fed."

Gu Shaocheng’s hands clenched unconsciously, and a tough-to-control chill emanated from his whole body. If one paid close attention, they would notice his entire body was slightly trembling.

Chenxing looked up in astonishment at Gu Shaocheng, "What did you say?"

The doctor who led them in explained: "His oral motor neurons have degenerated. He has lost complete control of his upper limbs. He can only eat and drink when fed, and must be lying down. He has difficulty chewing, chokes on water, slurs his words, and cannot hold up his head. He is really frozen in place, but his consciousness is clear."

Chenxing’s complexion turned as pale as paper instantly.

Suddenly, something dawned on her.

She tried to move her gaze away from that screen, but it landed on another.

A middle-aged man was supporting the upper body of a girl, while another nurse squatted down and alternated pushing her legs forward, bit by bit, step by step, until they were both panting from the effort to get her settled—and her agony of going to the toilet had just begun...

"She can’t take care of herself. Without someone to look after her, she would die from her own excrement."

ALS, the ice bucket challenge, Lou Gehrig’s disease!

Seeing such a scene, Chenxing subconsciously looked at Gu Shaocheng and saw his facial muscles tense, his gaze fixed unblinkingly on a particular screen, not looking at her.

"Shaocheng, let’s go, let’s leave here, I want to go back."

At that moment, Chenxing just wanted to escape!

Even though she already well-understood the disease, even though she had prepared herself during many quiet nights, when she personally witnessed the suffering of those patients, her first instinct was still to leave!

To escape this nightmare-like place!

But Gu Shaocheng was holding her hand tightly, unmoving.

Those who have not personally experienced it can’t imagine the pain brought by this super cancer.

These people came from all over the world, volunteered as experimental subjects, enduring day by day, bearing, hoping, and also despairing......just like him.

He forced himself to watch and forced her to watch too.

One camera after another, one desperate life after another.

"They all have a disease called Lou Gehrig’s disease."

"The people you saw at the entrance earlier, most of them are only in the early stages of their medical records, they still look normal, but gradually, they’ll be like these people in the hospital rooms, as the disease progressively worsens."

"It starts with muscle weakness, with the neurons in the body deteriorating little by little..."