"Vice President Chu, I've arrived at St. Édillon Hospital and met the girl's parents."
"It's heavy, but I have to tell you some unfortunate news …"
The message sent from Manchester across the ocean to Chu Fang Nan's phone was very long. As the sender and editor of the message, Zhou Wei used an extremely solemn yet extremely calm and objective tone to describe everything he learned at St. Edmunds Hospital in detail.
Including how he was the first to arrive at the inpatient department empty handed.
Including his conversation with Dr. Phil.
Including the ALS disease and the variant of Orson Mer Disease.
Including the discomfort caused by the experimental drug on the girl's body.
And the emergency operating room.
And the girl's parents who had been waiting in front of the operating room for the whole night.
The message was really long, but it only took half a minute to read. However, after reading the message, the atmosphere in the back row of the spectator stands once again fell into a long silence.
Holding the phone, Number One slowly closed his eyes. After a long time, he opened them again, took a deep breath, and handed the phone back to Chu Fangnan. He nodded slightly at the latter.
"Thank you."
His tone was still as calm as possible.
However, Number Five pursed his lips tightly. His eyes were slightly red, and even his voice was trembling.
"How … how did this happen?"
Beside him, Number Three's eyebrows were furrowed so tightly that they formed the shape of the character 'Chuan'. His face was filled with rage.
"Discomfort caused by the drug?"
"Didn't they say that the hospital is the top professional hospital in this field? How did they do something like this?!"
However, Number One shook his head and explained to his old friend, "Experimental drugs have risks in clinical trials. The girl's disease is too rare. There are almost no similar cases that can be used as reference. This … can't be blamed on the hospital."
Number Three waved his hand and became even angrier.
"If not the hospital, who is to blame?"
"So that girl deserves to suffer like this?!"
It would have been better if he didn't say it. The moment he mentioned it, Number Five's eyes turned even redder, "Steamed Bun still hasn't come out of the operating room …"
He reached out and patted his beautiful fiancée's shoulder to comfort her. Then, Number One turned to look at Chu Fangnan.
"Nan, there's one more thing I need your help with."
Chu Fangnan's expression turned serious.
"Speak."
Number One calmly said, "Help me book three more plane tickets."
Chu Fangnan was stunned when he heard that. Even Number Three and Number Five could not help but look up at Number One again. Soon, Chu Fangnan came back to his senses and nodded subconsciously. "Alright, when?"
"Tonight."
As he spoke, Number One glanced at the time on his watch.
"Three hours later."
It would take about one and a half hours to get to Pudong International Airport from the Longteng eSports Stadium, including the time for checking in luggage, boarding pass, and security check. If it was a plane ticket that would take off in three hours, they would have to get ready to leave in a while.
But according to the original schedule, there should be at least two to three hours left for the ongoing training exchange competition between the three clubs …
"Let them continue."
As he spoke, Number One looked up at the grandstand before he retracted his gaze.
"Let's go first."
His tone was still calm and composed, but it revealed an unquestionable determination.
Usually, when things reached this point, when Number One took out such a tone and attitude, there was basically no room for negotiation, and no one would argue or go against it.
But.
The next moment.
Number Three's voice suddenly sounded.
"No."
"You stay."
Including Number Five and Chu Fangnan, as well as Number One, they all looked at Number Three. The latter frowned at Number One and emphasized again, "The training is only halfway through. If the three of us leave together, the little guys from these clubs and others will inevitably have some bad ideas."
"At this time … it's taboo to be agitated."
"You stay."
"I'll go with Xiao Wu first."
Number Five also nodded slightly. He looked at his fiancé and advised softly, "Number Three is right.
"Number three is right. As for Manchester City … Let him accompany me over to take a look first. You stay here until the training here is over. You can come over later."
Number One was silent for a while and finally nodded slowly.
"Sure."
As he spoke, he looked at Chu Fangnan again. "Then Ah Nan, you book their plane tickets first. Later … when the training is over, I'll book a ticket myself."
Chu Fangnan naturally had no objection to such an arrangement and nodded decisively.
However, the next moment, he hesitated for a moment. Looking at Number One, he hesitantly chose his words and said carefully,
"Then, about this matter …"
"Do you want to let Lin Feng know?"
The atmosphere quieted down in an instant.
Number Five could not help but look at his fiancé again. They had actually discussed and even argued about this matter before. The result of the discussion was to wait until the situation at Manchester City was confirmed before making a decision —
Then now.
It seemed to be the time to make a decision.
Number Three could not help but frown again and showed a rare look of a headache. "Now that the kid knows about this … it's going to be hard to clean up, right?"
They all knew too well the relationship between a certain someone and the girl on the other side of the ocean, so they knew better what kind of reaction a certain someone would have if the former knew about this matter now.
"If … something really happened to Steamed Bun."
"Then Lin Feng has the right and the right to know all this."
Number Five fixed his eyes on his fiancé and said softly but firmly.
Number One was silent again.
After a long time, he took a deep breath and a rare look of exhaustion appeared on his face. He waved his hand.
"Let me think about it … You guys hurry to the airport first."
"Later —"
"Let me confirm whether I should tell him or not."
…
"Sir Number Three and Sir Number Five have something to attend to and need to leave first."
The team leaders and coaches of several clubs stood up and announced the situation to their own team members.
Although they had only just learned about it and were puzzled, the most important thing at the moment was to continue to maintain the training match. Such a small unexpected variable was not enough to affect them too much.
What's more, although Number Three and Number Five had left, wasn't Sir Number One still around?
It was precisely because of this that although the news caused a commotion among the players of several clubs, the brief commotion quickly ended when they saw Senior Number One still sitting calmly in the audience.
Only a very small number of people.
They vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
"At this time … What urgent matter could there be?"
Huangxue Nightsong stood beside Morning Star and could not help but look at Number Three and Number Five who were about to turn around and leave in confusion. He whispered to his old friend, "I saw that the seniors didn't look too good just now."
Morning Star hesitated for a moment and shook his head.
"Let's not make wild guesses about the seniors' matters."
At the same time.
Lin Feng, who had walked down from the stage, was also looking in the direction where the seniors were standing. He was a little dazed and even subconsciously ignored Tian Tian's voice, who was talking to him next to him.
He did not know why …
But when he looked at the backs of Senior Number Three and Sister Wu leaving …
In his heart, a sense of uneasiness suddenly arose.
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