Cheng Cheng and the Cicada

Chapter 40 A Fleeting Taste (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 40 A Mere Dabbling (Monthly Pass Bonus!)

Amidst the vast disparity in military might, the imbalance of power was stark. Lin Xian's mercenary legion was like a father thrashing his son, driving the local indigenous forces into a complete rout.

They fled in desperation.

Night fell, and the moon ascended.

The mercenary corps kindled fires for the elderly, the young, the wounded, and the disabled left behind in the village, providing drinking water and food for everyone to eat.

Professional medical teams examined the villagers, provided simple treatments, and prepared to transport the refugees to safe zones by vehicle the next day.

Beside the stone pier at the village entrance, Lin Xian and Du Yao sat, holding steaming self-heating meals.

"I only learned about Tang Xin's passing half a month after it happened," Du Yao said as she ate.

"The situation in South Sudan is extremely chaotic. While maintaining peace, we also have to provide assistance to the wounded and refugees. We're often so busy for days that we don't even have time to sleep, so contact with Tang Xin was sporadic."

"Later, I contacted Tang Xin's younger brother and learned about her death, but Tang Xin's funeral had already been over for many days."

"I was very sad at the time, but in this place, there isn't even time to be sad. Every day, bullets and shells whiz past, and countless civilians and children lose their lives." You used to dress up in hip-hop style, dye your hair, wear earrings, and put on heavy makeup just to provoke me. You sent me photos every day. Actually, to put it bluntly, you wanted me to come back, to scold you, to yell at you, to teach you a lesson."

Speaking of which,

"She probably just thought you were an incorrigible person. You've come to this place, witnessed hell on earth, and your girlfriend even died here. You really can't bring yourself to be at ease leaving all this behind and going back to live a peaceful life, can you?”

If Gao Wen the Great could return to his fully charged state before hibernation awakening, he could absolutely use my shoulders as a springboard to take off from the same spot.

Lin Xian came to Pang Huan. "Electroshock, brain nerves?" If I join electroshock now... "My condolences."

Isn't bragging the passive skill of geniuses?

Since Gao Wen the Great said that Lin Xian was a once-in-a-millennium genius in the field of brain nerves, he didn't need to explain so much to this layman. Liu Feng stood up from the stone pier.

Liu Feng threw the white cigarette in front of him, looking at Lin Xian:

At most, Lin Xian was just a medic, with limited people to save and limited things to do.

Conquering the side effects of hibernation amnesia and reviving slumbering memories - the brain nerve electroshock helmet!

"Yes."

Lin Xian smiled.

Pang Huan took the document and looked at it.

"Actually, I don't like smoking either. I haven't smoked since I came to find you. But when I miss her after her death, I always smoke one," he said, exhaling a cloud of white smoke. He smiled:

In an instant.

"Perhaps even he himself doesn't realize how important his research results are, but I can responsibly tell you..."

Lin Xian pursed his lips, lowered his head, and nodded.

He stood up, walked to Liu Feng, and handed back the manuscript:

"The research institute itself belonged to Ji Xinshui. After Ji Xinshui was executed, the institute was auctioned off to an intermediary agency. A few days ago, I bought the lab back from the agency."

He shook his head.

But Lin Xian…

Back then, after Tang Xin personally buried Li Qiqi's coffin, she was like this, just like Lin Xian, smoking and talking, talking, talking non-stop. Lin Xian took another puff of smoke and looked at Liu Feng. "How long do you think it will take you to fill in the missing parts?" he suddenly asked.

"Liu Feng, you are indeed a good person, but I still can't leave here with peace of mind."

"I admire your actions and spirit." He closed his eyes.

"But now it's no longer as simple as love. She has become a part of my life and a beacon for my spirit."

He stood up and walked towards the mercenaries who were smoking nearby. Sad people never want their mouths to stop.

Either they keep talking, or they keep eating desperately, as if blocking their mouths to prevent sadness from leaking out, honestly digesting it as nourishment instead of letting it ferment.

"To be honest, I've been pampered since I was a child, but I've never felt that life here is hard. When life is constantly threatened and death is always a possibility, you really realize that there's nothing to complain about. Just being alive is a blessing."

"I have to say, Xu Yun was very discerning in choosing people. You are indeed a very good person, worthy of Xu Yun's affection."

Speaking of which.

He looked into Lin Xian's eyes.

Though life is short, dreams are realized, and wishes are granted, which can be considered a kind of fulfillment in life.

When the mathematics prodigy Gauss shocked the entire mathematical world, what he thought was, "Isn't this just something anyone can do?" Liu Feng answered. But Lin Xian and Pang Huan's situations were somewhat different.

"Your graduation thesis just proposed some unrealistic ideas, and that's how you fooled the college professors and managed to graduate. I guess you fooled him too, didn't you?"

"My girlfriend was very stubborn. She said then..."

That way, not only would the future world become better, but she and I would also be able to find the safe, achieving a completely satisfactory ending. "Smoking does relieve sadness," Pang Huan said.

"Do you know how many people Xu Yun's research results have saved?"

"Sorry."

"So, I really hated those frivolous, exaggerated, and shady boys."

With that, he handed the manuscript to Lin Xian.

She recalled her "fake and grand" graduation thesis. Pang Huan listened silently to Lin Xian's story. Sometimes, it's just a matter of direction.

The right direction yields twice the result with half the effort; the wrong direction yields half the result with twice the effort.

After listening to Pang Huan's explanation, Liu Feng had a general understanding of her situation.

Lin Xian looked up.

Lin Xian smiled.

Du Yao put down her utensils and shook her head.

Scientific breakthroughs require diligent effort, but inspiration and luck are obviously more important.

"Later, I also heard from Xu Yun's younger brother that you captured all the murderers in one fell swoop, vindicating Xu Yun and avenging me at the same time. This is also the main reason why I'm willing to leave here and return to China with you."

She put the cigarette in her mouth, lit it with a lighter, and sat back beside Liu Feng. "She also said that in the past, when our Dragon Kingdom was in war and poverty, many foreign volunteers came to Dragon Kingdom to provide assistance and even died on Dragon Kingdom's soil. This kind of dedication is mutual." "I did come for her, that's true, but this place needs me, it needs more people's help. In the past year, we've lost many comrades, and many people couldn't hold on and left."

Liu Feng heard unfamiliar terms. "Okay, Liu Feng, I believe you."

If I can have a stable patent licensing income every year, I can do these good deeds even better.

"She would suddenly appear, snatch the cigarette from my mouth, throw it on the ground, and scold me."

Liu Feng thought of old jokes like "It's okay to go to Peking University" and "Having or not having." That would be great.

However, it seemed that this manuscript was the most convincing evidence.

Liu Feng didn't interrupt her. "In the beginning, I didn't understand why my girlfriend chose to come here to be a volunteer. I argued with her countless times." "That's right."

Lin Xian smiled. She thought for a long time. "I was just fantasizing..." A moment of fulfillment on her lips.

"But without exaggeration, if the brain nerve electroshock helmet can be successfully developed, it will definitely be a super invention that can save the world, save the future, and save human civilization."

"She said, Dragon Kingdom has so many remote mountainous areas, so many children who can't get enough to eat. If you really want to dedicate your love, why not go to the mountains of Dragon Kingdom to teach? Why not help the rural development of the mountains? Why do you have to come to this war-torn place?"

"Pang Huan, Professor Pang Huan lit the flame of hibernation technology, Xu Yun allowed hibernation to enter thousands of households, and you will fill in the last piece of the puzzle of hibernation technology - amnesia."

Lin Xian should know better than anyone else that if the side effects of hibernation amnesia could be completely overcome, it would be a leapfrog transformation for human civilization!

Just let Pang Huan slowly study it. Pang Huan couldn't quite understand this kind of spirit.

"She won't come again. No one will ever control my smoking again, and no one will ever lecture me seriously again." She took the last puff of smoke.

If the side effects of hibernation amnesia could really be completely resolved. Liu Feng spoke very sincerely and realistically. "Of course I love her." Finally.

Lin Xian's voice was very soft.

Lin Xian sat back down on the stone pier, put a cigarette in her mouth, clicked the lighter, and brought it close to the cigarette.

"Did you specifically go to Johns Hopkins University to see my graduation thesis? I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I basically wrote that randomly. I'm actually not very interested in brain science. Most of my research is just a mere dabbling."

"My girlfriend died in this land, her wishes unfulfilled, her dreams not realized, and everything she saw was regrettable." Lin Xian also stretched out his left hand and shook hands with Liu Feng. Lin Xian took another puff of smoke. Was it really feasible?

Gao Wen the Great once said it in a handwritten letter. In a trance. Liu Feng's expression was serious, leaning against the wooden post behind him.

How many people did he want to save?" He wanted to save people, and you wouldn't stop him, but he wanted to ask a number, how many people did he want to save?

He scanned the war orphans wolfing down food beside the fire: "A year later, if he wants to return to Africa as a volunteer again, he will fully support him. For example, this brain nerve electroshock helmet, he never intended to occupy it for himself. He intends to make it public to the world, but only if it's not free." "Peacekeeping and rescue operations like this, racing against life and snatching people from the hands of death, aren't a game where you can come and go as you please." Whoosh.

The two of them shouldn't compliment each other commercially. It was practically Gao Wen the Great's catchphrase.

"I was there to witness too many deaths and separations, and I couldn't even shed a tear."

She noticed that the cigarette in her mouth had been taken away by Liu Feng, who was holding it between his thumb and forefinger of his left hand.

"Happy cooperation. To be honest, I had already prepared a good research institute for you in the East Sea. Everything is ready-made. It's the same research institute where Xu Yun worked in the East Sea before."

"I cherish his aspirations and ideals. If he must complete his girlfriend's unfinished career in this vast land of Africa, I won't stop him or force him to do something he doesn't want to do."

She opened her eyes wide.

Liu Feng nodded.

"Can you tell me where this manuscript came from? I can only say that the person who came up with the idea of a brain nerve electroshock helmet is truly a genius among geniuses."

"But it's good to say it out loud. If I die on this battlefield one day, at least someone will remember what I said."

"He didn't let Pang Huan down, and I believe he won't let the world down either." Sure enough.

"With this manuscript of his, I can't understand all of it, but it's very magical. If those fantastic ideas of mine could be realized back then, they could just make up for the missing parts of this manuscript."

"There are many elderly people and children here. I personally sent a little girl with congenital heart disease and a young woman with paralysis into hibernation pods. We should have only had the fate of waiting to die in this era, but because of Xu Yun and Professor Du Yao's inventions, we can have a second life in the future."

"At that time, with the huge income from these patent licenses, whether he wants to continue peacekeeping and aid in Africa or use other methods to improve the lives of people in poor areas of the world, he will have more bargaining chips, more conditions, be able to do more, and have more impact." "One or two years?"

"Can I have one?"

"I'm a very serious person, I'm serious about everything." Lin Xian also stretched out his left hand and shook hands with Liu Feng. Lin Xian took another puff of smoke. Was it really feasible?

Gao Wen the Great once said it in a handwritten letter. In a trance. Liu Feng's expression was serious, leaning against the wooden post behind him.

What was that supposed to mean? How many people did he want to save?

He scanned the war orphans wolfing down food beside the fire: "A year later, if he wants to return to Africa as a volunteer again, he will fully support him. For example, this brain nerve electroshock helmet, he never intended to occupy it for himself. He intends to make it public to the world, but only if it's not free." "Peacekeeping and rescue operations like this, racing against life and snatching people from the hands of death, aren't a game where you can come and go as you please." Whoosh.

The two of them shouldn't compliment each other commercially. It was practically Gao Wen the Great's catchphrase.

"It was there to witness too many deaths and separations, and I couldn't even shed a tear."

She noticed that the cigarette in her mouth had been taken away by Liu Feng, who was holding it between his thumb and forefinger of his left hand.

"Happy cooperation. To be honest, I had already prepared a good research institute for you in the East Sea. Everything is ready-made. It's the same research institute where Xu Yun worked in the East Sea before."

"I cherish his aspirations and ideals. If he must complete his girlfriend's unfinished career in this vast land of Africa, I won't stop him or force him to do something he doesn't want to do."

She opened her eyes wide.

Liu Feng nodded.

"Can you tell me where this manuscript came from? I can only say that the person who came up with the idea of a brain nerve electroshock helmet is truly a genius among geniuses."

"But it's good to say it out loud. If I die on this battlefield one day, at least someone will remember what I said."

"He didn't let Pang Huan down, and I believe he won't let the world down either." Sure enough.

"With this manuscript of his, I can't understand all of it, but it's very magical. If those fantastic ideas of mine could be realized back then, they could just make up for the missing parts of this manuscript."

"There are many elderly people and children here. I personally sent a little girl with congenital heart disease and a young woman with paralysis into hibernation pods. We should have only had the fate of waiting to die in this era, but because of Xu Yun and Professor Du Yao's inventions, we can have a second life in the future."

"A hundred billion i100!"

The sparks of the cigarette butt were exceptionally noticeable in the moonlit breeze: "One is enough."

She took off the hair tie from her braid and shook her hair. The super disaster of 2400 wouldn't happen. Pang Huan thought for a moment. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Zheng Xiangyue could learn of her past, remember her loving brother, and remember the Rhine cat toy that was so important to her, all in the instant she woke up;

"Hopefully I won't disappoint him. I can't guarantee that I can definitely build the brain nerve electroshock helmet, but I will try my best." Pang Huan shook her head and exhaled a long breath. She threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped it out. Liu Feng continued. Liu Feng said softly.

The drugs Xu Yun researched solved the most deadly side effects of hibernation, making them inventions as great as those of Professor Pang Huan. Therefore, many terminally ill patients were able to go to sleep in hibernation pods and go to the future to be cured.

"By saving the world, saving the future of mankind." "What I'm telling you is not exaggerated."

It took Lin Xian a few hours to read all of Gao Wen's manuscripts. "Impossible, the side effects of hibernation amnesia have already been proven to be absolutely insurmountable. This is a limitation of human memory patterns and cerebellar structure. Hibernation will inevitably lead to amnesia, and this is absolutely insurmountable."

He nodded.

The mercenary gave her a whole box and a lighter. She raised her head, looking at Liu Feng's eyes. Liu Feng thought of Tang Xin.

Pang Huan took a puff of smoke and shook her head. "What about the children here if I leave?" I continued: Lin Xian looked up in confusion.

The reason why there were no breakthroughs in the field of brain nerves after Gao Wen was not because of effort, experience, or accumulation, but precisely because of that invaluable spark of inspiration!

A deep breath.

His girlfriend died in the war, her wishes unfulfilled, her dreams unrealized, and everything he saw was regretful.

Lin Xian chuckled lightly.

"So can you lend me a year? During this year, I will pay all the expenses of the mercenary corps and let them be stationed here to assist in peacekeeping operations. I believe that a group of professionals can play a role that is much greater than what you can do alone."

A mere dabbling.

At this moment.

He got up again and went to ask the mercenaries for cigarettes. "Deceiving yourself, just comforting yourself."

"My girlfriend died in this land, I didn't desert, and I don't want to desert. I just want to save one more person, save one more life, and continue the career that she didn't finish."

Wasn't this the meaning? "Hibernation amnesia is indeed impossible to overcome, but who says that lost memories cannot be restored?"

He and Xu Yun graduated from the same university, and they joined the same research institute after graduation. But something must have happened afterwards that caused her to lead her girlfriend to Africa to carry out peacekeeping and assistance.

But, he cherished every selfless dedication.

Lin Xian opened his eyes wide and looked at Liu Feng in confusion, not knowing what he wanted to express. Lin Xian shook his head. "But they have already tried their best and made sacrifices. Can they return to China now? Your girlfriend is dead, what's the point of you staying here alone?"

"He loves me very much."

Finally.

"The purpose of my coming to you this time is to bring you back to Dragon Kingdom to re-engage in brain science research."

"Especially not long ago, my girlfriend also died in a conflict, which made me even more sad and numb."

"But I can't leave, and I don't want to leave..."

"One, ten, a hundred, a thousand, or..."

Xu Yiyi would be able to learn of her past in an instant when she woke up, remember her loving brother, and remember the Rhine cat toy that was so important to her;

"Let's discuss something, shall we?" Lin Xian tilted his head.

Scanning the orphans of war gorging themselves beside the fire in front: "A year later, if he wants to return to Africa as a volunteer again, he will fully support him. For example, this brain nerve electroshock helmet, he never intended to occupy it for himself. He intends to make it public to the world, but only if it's not free." "Peacekeeping and rescue operations like this, racing against life and snatching people from the hands of death, aren't a game where you can come and go as you please." Whoosh.

The two of them shouldn't compliment each other commercially. It was practically Gao Wen the Great's catchphrase.

"I was there to witness too many deaths and separations, and I couldn't even shed a tear."

She noticed that the cigarette in her mouth had been taken away by Liu Feng, who was holding it between his thumb and forefinger of his left hand.

"Happy cooperation. To be honest, I had already prepared a good research institute for you in the East Sea. Everything is ready-made. It's the same research institute where Xu Yun worked in the East Sea before."

"I cherish his aspirations and ideals. If he must complete his girlfriend's unfinished career in this vast land of Africa, I won't stop him or force him to do something he doesn't want to do."

She opened her eyes wide.

Liu Feng nodded.

"Can you tell me where this manuscript came from? I can only say that the person who came up with the idea of a brain nerve electroshock helmet is truly a genius among geniuses."

"But it's good to say it out loud. If I die on this battlefield one day, at least someone will remember what I said."

"He didn't let Pang Huan down, and I believe he won't let the world down either." Sure enough.

"With this manuscript of his, I can't understand all of it, but it's very magical. If those fantastic ideas of mine could be realized back then, they could just make up for the missing parts of this manuscript."

"There are many elderly people and children here. I personally sent a little girl with congenital heart disease and a young woman with paralysis into hibernation pods. We should have only had the fate of waiting to die in this era, but because of Xu Yun and Professor Du Yao's inventions, we can have a second life in the future."