Paige looked him in the eye, “You two alone together?”
Isn’t that like a collision of planets?
“If there’s a problem, it’s not like we’ve never been alone before,”
Enrico said coldly, turning his head to glance at Gabriel, who was slurping his congee with gusto. “You tell me, don’t you want to be with me?”
“…”
Gabriel silently lifted his little face out of the rice bowl and forced a smile that was even more hideous than crying.
I really, really want to.
“…”
Did Enrico threaten him with a knife?
Paige looked at the two of them in silence. “Okay, I’ll go find a gift and be back in time to cook lunch.”
“No need, we’ll manage on our own,” Enrico said, looking at her with lowered eyes. “Paige, I’ve given you plenty of time, so don’t come back with nothing.”
“…”
The pressure was intense.
Paige was so stressed out by Enrico’s time limit that she didn’t care about Gabriel, who was standing there with a blank expression on his face.
…
After breakfast, Paige said goodbye to the father and son and went out on her own.
She wandered through the shopping mall, looking at the shops, but no matter what she saw, she could imagine Enrico’s face of disgust.
She sat down in the rest area and ordered a glass of juice.
Maybe she could design something for Enrico to show that she cares?
But what?
Enrico had already designed the ring, he just hadn’t given it to her. She couldn’t design a car.
Paige was thinking about this when suddenly there was a scream from downstairs. She stood up from her seat, walked over to the glass railing and looked down. She saw someone on the floor below suddenly falling to the ground and convulsing. Passers-by gathered around, then nervously dispersed.
“Has he caught the Ferris wheel virus? It looks like he has the symptoms.”
“No way, we have such good management here, and there hasn’t been a single case.”
“But look at him, it really looks like it. Call an ambulance, quickly.”
Someone said this, and everyone was so scared that they covered their mouths and noses and kept backing away.
Paige frowned slightly, looking at the person on the ground. People who had contracted the Ferris wheel virus would indeed have these symptoms. Could it be that Kevin had also contracted the virus?
She pursed her lips, took out a mask and gloves from her bag, put them on, and prepared to go down to help. If she didn’t help, the convulsions could easily lead to accidents.
But before she could go down, a little girl walked out of the crowd.
The little girl looked about six years old, with two ponytails, wearing a white shirt with a short skirt, and little leather shoes on her feet, dressed very prettily.
She was wearing a mask and gloves and walked straight towards the convulsing patient. People around her tried to stop her, but she waved them away, knelt down in front of the patient, took off her school bag and used it as a cushion, then began a series of methodical actions. Her dark eyes revealed a calmness beyond her age.
Soon, the convulsing patient gradually stopped, lying there resting, his eyes gradually clearing.
There was thunderous applause.
The little girl gave the patient a pill and then stood up to leave. The patient wanted to thank her, but she had already taken off her mask and gloves and thrown them in the trash can.
Paige stood tall and could see clearly.
She saw the little girl keep walking, until she reached a bench against the wall in the distance. An elderly man sat on the bench, looking to be in his 90s.
The old man lifted his hand and touched the little girl’s head. The old man and the little girl then walked away holding hands.
“…”
Paige looked at the old man’s face and immediately remembered that this was the legendary healer Monteo.
Many people had heard of this name, but few knew what Monteo looked like. Paige would know, because back then, when she wanted to cure Enrico of AS schizophrenia gene, she used Kevin’s intelligence network to frantically collect information on some strange people.
Monteo, itinerant doctor, famous doctor.
When she stayed with Jasper the old man to learn about medical curses, she heard him persuade a few patients to try their luck with Monteo. The successor of the Medicine Curse Sect does not easily heal people, unless the patient is beyond the reach of medicine or is truly incurable. After all, not every patient can withstand the tossing and turning of the worms inside the body.
It’s like someone who has caught the Ferris wheel virus: the illness comes on quickly, the body weakens rapidly, and death is imminent and unpredictable. In this state, it is simply not suitable for the medical worm method.
Monteo is different. He is famous for his slow and steady approach to medicine. Patients who have been treated by him will continue to do well after recovery.
He has personally overcome dozens of difficult and miscellaneous diseases.
He would send his own medical manuscripts to The Capital for the benefit of medicine, but his whereabouts were uncertain. It was difficult to know where he had gone, let alone receive any medical awards. He didn’t even have a clearly registered identity name.
It was as if she had just come from Wind Island, a black market.
But she was forced to do it, while Monteo did it on purpose. He was too capable and famous, and there were countless people looking for him. He would rather be a black market than be found.
When the Ferris wheel virus broke out, she, Dr. Clinton, Derrick, David, and the others all thought of this person at the same time and wanted to invite this elderly person out because he had previously overcome a similar infectious virus.
However, they could not find him.
Over the years, he has been wandering around, never staying in one place for long.
They never expected to see him in this place.
Paige was overjoyed. If this Monteo could join Derrick, Dr. Clinton and their research team, then a vaccine would be just around the corner!
She grabbed her bag and chased after them, but once they reached the bottom floor, the old man and the little girl disappeared.
She searched everywhere in the mall, leaving no store unturned, but she couldn’t find them no matter how hard she looked.
Paige rushed into the security office, called Kevin again, and used her connections to directly pressure him into checking the mall’s surveillance cameras.
As it turned out, the old man and the child had left the mall while she was downstairs looking for them.
“…”
Paige could only walk out of the mall in disappointment and said to Kevin on the phone, “Monteo is now on your turf, and you must be responsible for finding him. This is a top priority.”
“This Monteo is unpredictable. I couldn’t find him when I looked for him for you back then, and I’m not sure now. It’s possible that the person I found has already left the border,” Kevin said on the phone.
This old man can always find ways to get out of other people’s sight in strange and unusual ways.
“He must be found. If we find him, we can hope for a vaccine, and we can hope for a vaccine in Country A. Do you understand?”
Paige said anxiously, adding that this person must not be let go.
“Okay, okay, I will definitely find him for you,”
Kevin said helplessly over the phone, before suddenly changing the subject, “Wait, didn’t you come all the way to the border to chase after your husband? How did it turn into a business trip?”
“…”
Paige was dumbfounded.
Oh, her gift…
Oh, she was in the middle of a relationship.
Paige stood on the roadside, looking at the dense traffic passing by, her head about to explode.