If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 419 Life imprisonment
"The dragon soars into the abyss, the scales and claws fly, the sleeping never dies, and the waking ones will eventually return"

"Two Level Reversal?The situation of bipolar confrontation may be reversed"

"Four months of sleep, 'S' grade, you missed too much"

"Gorgeous betrayal or intricate framing, everything should be settled now"

On the laptop, the hot posts on the night watchman forum are almost maxed out, a lot of posts with the same blue tag are pushed to the top by heat and artificial refinement, only two or three popular posts on Christmas remain The popularity is at the top of the list, but it will be a matter of time before this popularity is pushed down. No one can complain that Christmas was stolen by someone’s waking up, and everyone has fallen into a very heated discussion, such as this matter There are many secrets behind the surface that are worth digging and playing with.

The door of the intensive care unit was pushed open. Lin Nian moved the mouse lightly to cross out the web page, closed the notebook and looked up at Professor Manstein who walked in.

"Lin Nian, I heard that the first person you want to see after waking up is me?" Manstein walked into the room. Today he is still wearing the old-fashioned black teacher's suit and blue tie. The frame of the mirror on the bridge of the nose was not crooked, revealing a piece of peace and comfort underneath. Seeing Lin Nian on the hospital bed dripping, he couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

"To be honest, I thought you would choose to meet your friends first. Chu Zihang and Caesar Gattuso rushed here as soon as they knew you woke up, but Principal Angers refused their offer. Apply for a sick visit, and prepare to give you more rest time."

".Four months?" Lin Nian watched Manstein walk to the bedside, "They said I slept for four months."

"Four long months." Manstein nodded lightly, a trace of fatigue flashed in his eyes, but he still hid the difficulty, "In the first three days, everyone thought it would be difficult to rescue you, But the principal still ordered all the medical forces of the college to forcibly hang your life. The bullet did not cause a penetrating injury. After breaking the bones in the front of your heart, the strength was basically buffered, but it still entered. Your heart was stuck in the muscle of the left ventricle, and you did not have the symptoms of heart rupture at the first time. However, during the subsequent transportation, you gradually suffered from insufficient blood supply to the brain and lack of oxygen to the brain. We can only do so in the small town of Carmel Emergency surgery will be performed on you at the local hospital."

"But I was still in a coma for four months." Lin Nian said, "Is it because of lack of oxygen? Has my brain been irreversibly damaged?"

For example, people who are poisoned by carbon monoxide will have delayed sequelae even if they are rescued. This is because the brain will enter a long-term hypoxic environment when inhaling excessive carbon monoxide. In this case, a large number of brain cells will slowly die. This will lead to irreversible brain damage, amnesia and forgetfulness in mild cases, hemiplegia or even complete paralysis in severe cases, and various problems will gradually appear in the heart and various organs.

According to Manstein's description, Lin Nian must have passed through a long period of danger, and it was difficult to guarantee that his brain would not be traumatized during that period.

"No, it's not because of brain damage that you're unconscious." Manstein said softly, "The real reason you're unconscious is because of the bullet that hit you."

"Bullet?" Lin Nian touched his skinny chest, and there was still a brown wound on the heart. "Is that bullet still in my heart?"

"We would like to," Manstein said, "so that another medical operation could remove the bullet."

Lin Nian put down his hand and looked at Manstein with a puzzled expression.

"According to the surgeon who performed the operation at the time, after cutting your chest, the bullet stuck in your heart was not a conventional brass bullet, but a dazzling red crystal color," Manstein said.

Lin Nian suddenly raised his head and looked at Manstein, who also nodded slowly, "That's what you were thinking about."

"The Philosopher's Stone...?" Lin Nian whispered, "The one that hit me was the Philosopher's Stone?"

"Bright red, crystal texture, visually it is an artificial quartz crystal, with a thread-like line of purified dragon blood left in the center, which is purified from the bones of pure-blooded dragons. In alchemy, it represents pure 'spirit'." Mann Stein said slowly.

Alchemy was not his main subject, but four months have passed. Even if he has never been in contact with alchemy, he can now describe all the characteristics of the Philosopher's Stone in detail. If necessary, he can even describe The description of the Philosopher's Stone in that entire chapter was memorized only because he had re-read it too many times and he had already memorized it by heart.

"The surgeon tried to remove the bullet, but the moment the tweezers touched the bullet, it shattered, like broken ice crystals, and the fine fragments stuck on your heart, and most of them merged into your ruptured ventricle. At that time, you had severe internal bleeding that could be fatal, and the chief surgeon had no choice but to stop the bleeding hastily, but the bullet no longer existed after the bleeding was stopped.”

"Or it's everywhere." Lin Nian reached out and pressed his chest lightly, "It's in my body."

"After hitting the bone, the bullet has already entered the critical point of collapse. When the tweezers touch it, it is the last external force to break the critical point. The Philosopher's Stone itself is extremely fragile, and it has become countless after it is broken. Fragments of your heart flow into every corner of your body with every beat of your heart." Manstein said, "You are hit in the flesh, but from an alchemical point of view, he is also hitting you at the same time. The vice-principal has personally come to see your condition. In his own words, even if you come back to life, you will be in a vegetable state, because your spirit has definitely been hit. Your 'spirit' It was dead at that moment."

".In the eyes of master alchemists, the spiritual trauma of the Philosopher's Stone is immeasurable. You can be strong in blood, but your spirit is still like soft meat without a protective shell. This is why the Philosopher's Stone has been repeatedly used in history. The reason why they can cause fatal injuries to dragons above the level of the next generation."

"It seems that the enemy came prepared." Lin Nian ignored the sentence, which was tantamount to a death sentence, because he was still sitting here talking and breathing normally, "I'm awake now."

"So the Vice-Chancellor today publicly announced a one-year abstinence from alcohol."

"What does it matter if I wake up and he quits drinking?"

"He said before that the chances of you waking up are as high as his chances of quitting drinking, but it should be impossible for him to quit drinking completely. Due to the public opinion on the forum, he can only say that he will stop drinking for a year. I've lost face." Manstein said lightly, "Alchemy is his specialty, and it's hard for him to deal with being slapped in the face in this regard."

"." Lin Nian didn't speak for a while, as if he had thought of something, but he couldn't verify it at this time.

"Has the murderer been caught?" he asked again.

"Caught it." Manstein paused, turned his head to look elsewhere, and Lin Nian couldn't see his eyes because of the angle.

"After King Solomon's trial, it has been transferred to Chernobyl prison. There is no right of defense and no right of appeal. Because the evidence is overwhelming, it is almost an iron case. Within the third day, the school board and other elders of the secret party They all sentenced him to life imprisonment!"

Lin Nian closed his eyes and didn't seem to care much about the murderer's final fate. As long as he was caught, the school board would find a way to torture something out. He had been to the interrogation room of the executive department, and he had only learned a little about the techniques in it. A little fur is enough for those tough guys to cry for their father and mother, and the murderer has come to an end that he deserved.

But there were more important things he wanted to ask than the murderer.

"Where's Mandy?" he asked.

But there was no answer, and the room suddenly fell silent.

He opened his eyes, and found that Manstein was looking down at him. The emotion in his eyes was very stable, which reminded people of dry stones covered with moss, and the mud filled with stagnant water filled the wrinkles, full of decay and Can't hide the sadness.

"Where's Mandy?" Lin Nian repeated his question.

Manstein still didn't answer him, as if it was killing the atmosphere in the room that had finally been harmonious, and the temperature dropped little by little.

In the cold air exhaled, Lin Nian lowered his voice, "Don't tell me she's dead."

"Not dead." Manstein shook his head and said, "Didn't I say that? King Solomon's trial against her was life imprisonment, not a cleansing."

".?"

It might be because of the winter, even when he was sitting on the bed, Lin Nian felt a little numb all over his body, and only then did he warm up a little, but suddenly the temperature dropped down again, and it was so cold that it was unforgettable.

"What are you talking about? I don't understand." He asked.

Manstein looked down at him and said, "Some things are in the past, let her go, there is no need to defend her and cover up something. I know she means a lot to you, and she is also rare to me. But if you do something wrong, you are doing something wrong, and once you take a wrong step in some things, you cannot recover. This is a party discipline that cannot be challenged."

"Lin Nian." He finished speaking in one breath, looked at Lin Nian, took a deep breath and said, "Accept the reality, even though it is not easy, all kinds of evidences are solid."

"What evidence.?"

"That day, the person who shot you was Mandy Gonzalez. She betrayed your trust and committed an intolerable betrayal under the inducement of forces outside the party. With the money you gave her A Philosopher's Stone... that fatal shot for you," Manstein said.

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(End of this chapter)