After telling Mu what Minami meant, Xiangzi let out a long sigh, finally letting out the frustration that had been suppressed in his heart.

"Is that so..." Mu nodded. Things had just changed very quickly, and because of Minami's relentless questioning, she didn't have any extra time or energy to think.

After calming his thoughts a little, Mu came to his senses and understood what Minami meant: "Xiangzi, why do you have to take responsibility for me?"

Hearing this, Xiangzi's mouth corners gradually rose, and he said jokingly: "What's wrong? You want to thank me? No need to be like that, we are childhood sweethearts, it's only natural."

After Xiangzi finished speaking, Mu said softly, "But I told Minami-chan before that these are my own thoughts."

"..."

Xiangzi looked at Mu in confusion. She blinked, as if she was not sure whether these words came from Mu's mouth.

After a long silence, Xiangzi finally spoke: "You...have you told Miss Minami before?"

Seeing Mu nod, Xiangzi's face turned red. She felt like she had just performed like a clown in front of Minami.

Suppressing his inner embarrassment, Xiangzi coughed twice and continued, "It seems that Miss Minami never wanted you to leave Mujica. She just wanted you to speak out what was in your heart."

Mu nodded, agreeing with Xiangzi's statement, but she still had one question in mind: why did Minami let her speak out her heart? She had clearly been blindly planning her path before.

"Since Miss Minami has no intention of letting you leave Mujica, I will go back first."

At this moment, Xiangzi finally smiled again. Without waiting for Mu to start, she turned and walked towards the station. With her back to Mu, she waved. The street lights shone on Xiangzi, lengthening her shadow.

Looking at Xiangzi's back as he walked away, Mu clenched her fists and a smile appeared on her face.

This is the Xiangzi I first knew, always helping me, thank you...

Time passed by little by little. When she returned home, Mu looked up again and looked towards Minami's room. She really wanted to know what Minami was thinking.

Without much hesitation, Mu walked up the stairs and came to Minami's room. He raised his hand and knocked on the door gently: "Minami-chan?"

"Come in."

After getting Minami's consent, Mu gently pushed open the door and walked in.

"Oh?" Minami's eyes flashed with surprise after seeing Mu. "Why are you back again?"

Mu glanced around the room. The chair Xiangzi had just pulled out had been put back to its original position. She stood in front of Minami: "Minami-chan, why did you do this?"

Minami's hand paused, then returned to normal. She looked at Mu curiously.

This kid... is coming back to question me now? I never expected that.

Although Minami knew clearly what Mu wanted to ask, she deliberately asked back, "Why do that?"

"Minami has already won, and I can continue to follow the path you paved for me before... Why are you doing this again?"

Minami's expression became calm. She stared into Mu's eyes for a long time before she spoke: "Will you be grateful to me then?"

Listening to Minami's voice without much ups and downs, Mu was stunned. Minami's stare made her feel a little insecure.

Mu shook his head slightly.

"Isn't that the end?" Minami turned her head to look at the world of feasting and revelry outside the window. Her own darkened room seemed so small. For a moment, she was a little dazed. After a moment of stunned silence, she turned her head and glanced at Mu, "As for why you said I did this..."

After a pause, Minami raised the corner of her mouth: "I am very interested in you now."

Ignoring Mu's surprise, Minami continued, "I saw you were so brave to refute me before, so I wanted to make a bet with you. Number one on the world's trending search list? How could you possibly do that? I know all this."

Minami stood up, walked to the window, and continued to look out. This was the first time she felt that the city outside was so beautiful. "At that time, I really wanted to know how far you could go in the end, and how you would face me after it was over."

Mu lowered her head, she already understood what Minami was doing.

"Although I was a little disappointed in you in the beginning, but now it seems like you've passed the test."

After Minami said this, she couldn't help but think of what happened last night - she knew that she would be performing at Tokyo Dome soon, so she canceled her own performance and took the Shinkansen back. As for the tickets, she had already asked someone to buy them in advance.

After watching Mu's performance, Minami admitted that Mu had made great progress during this period of time and her performance was amazing.

Xiao Mu is very talented on the guitar - this was Minami's evaluation of Mu after the performance.

"Well," Minami turned around and looked at Mu standing by the door. She smiled, "To be able to get two top searches in Japan, you are indeed very capable at your age."

"But..." Minami walked up to Mu and patted her shoulder, "If your grades drop in the future, come back and follow the path I've arranged for you."

After saying that, Minami gently pushed open the door. Just as she stepped out of the room, Mu suddenly reached out and grabbed her.

Minami turned around, looking confused, "What?"

"Thank you, mother."

When Minami heard these four words, her whole body stiffened, but she quickly recovered, said "hmm" softly, and withdrew her hand.

Because she had postponed a scene yesterday and had to make up for it tomorrow, Minami had to leave in a hurry.

Chapter 340 The most worrying thing happened

It has been a while since the Tokyo Dome performance, and Mujica and mygo's tour has come to an end for the time being.

Today is Aine's first checkup, but because of Sumimi, Chuhua did not accompany her.

Looking at the NCNP in front of her, Aine's face was not looking good. Here, the few good memories she had were only the group of girls around her. The rest, apart from taking medicine and injections, were just endless examinations.

"I'm back again..." Aine sighed. If given a choice, who would want to come to the hospital?

"Okay, Xiao Ai, don't be sad." Xiangzi gently stroked Aiyin's long hair, "After you finish the examination, I will take you wherever you want to go."

"Yeah." The lights flickered, and the woman nodded, "Aine-chan, come on."

"Oh, I know." Aiyin was helpless and slowly walked towards the hospital.

This time, she was not as willful as she was when she was discharged from the hospital. She calmly accepted Su陾3鏾兀琪IX溜叁%yj/u*e-已世's support.

When I arrived at the door of Dr. Yamada's diagnosis room, Dr. Yamada was already standing there.

Aiyin was a little surprised by Dr. Yamada's appearance: "Dr. Yamada?"

"I just saw you guys coming up from the window." Dr. Yamada looked at Aine, his eyes flashing with admiration. "You're such a stubborn child. You still don't want to use a wheelchair."

Aine grinned, "Well, a wheelchair isn't as comfortable as your own legs after all."

"Okay, here's the checklist. Let your mother and your friends take you there." Dr. Yamada handed the checklist to Aine's mother.

"Yeah." Aiyin nodded and left with Su Shi's support.

"Thank you, Dr. Yamada." Mu, who was following at the end, bowed his head and thanked him.

"nothing."

By the time they finished their inspection, it was already noon.

Dr. Yamada sat in his office chair, his brows furrowed, his hands tightly clutching the report, as if he had doubts about the contents.

The diagnosis room was eerily quiet. The report was wrinkled in Dr. Yamada's hands, and wailing sounds filled the entire room.

After a long time, Dr. Yamada put the report on the table, stroking his chin, as if thinking about something.

"Doctor Yamada?" Aine was sitting opposite him. Seeing Doctor Yamada's expression, her palms became moist and her body tensed up with nervousness.

"Neurofilament light chain levels haven't decreased, and SOD1 mutant protein levels have increased compared to the last test before discharge."

Dr. Yamada held his forehead with one hand; the thing he was most worried about had happened.

As expected, the gods won't always be on our side. One genetic reprogramming surgery isn't enough to completely eliminate the SOD1 mutant protein. If that's the case, all subsequent surgeries will have to be postponed...

Dr. Yamada's eyes turned serious, and he looked down at the wrinkled report on the table.

Besides... the risk of editing twice will be even higher than the first time. I hope Chihaya-san's good luck will always be with her.

Aine's mother was stunned when she heard Dr. Yamada's explanation: "So... what do you mean?"

"Chihaya, although I know you don't like it, please continue with the admission process this afternoon. I will have a meeting with someone and then perform the second editing surgery." After saying this, Dr. Yamada picked up his phone and stood up.

The cold words fell into the ears of several people. When they came to their senses, the door of the diagnosis room was half-open. Doctor Yamada had already left the diagnosis room.

“So… the first surgery was a failure?” Aine turned around and stared blankly at the half-open door. “But… I feel fine.”

Su Shi lowered his head: "So... does that mean that the progress was delayed because of that operation?"

Aiyin didn't like to hear this sentence, but she had to listen to it. She knew that what Su Shi said was basically the truth.

"Ain, just stay here with everyone. Mom will go and arrange for you to be admitted to the hospital." Ain's mother tried her best to suppress her voice, but a few people could still hear the trembling in her voice.

After saying that, Aine's mother turned around and walked out without stopping.

"Xiaoxiang, Xiaomu, Xiaodeng, you guys stay here with Aine-chan, I'm going to go see my aunt." After saying that, Su Shi also ran out.

Xiangzi nodded: "Yeah."

Not long after, Aine returned to the same ward she had been in before. The furnishings inside were exactly the same as when she left, as if the hospital knew she would come back.

“Really? It’s exactly the same as when I left.” Aine sat on the hospital bed, unhappy expression written all over her face. “It’s like it was prepared specially for me.”

Aine's mother sat next to Aine: "I've already told your father about the clothes and other things. He will bring them to us after work."

"We originally planned to go out and play after the examination." Aiyin pouted and looked at Xiangzi.

Seeing this, Xiangzi smiled helplessly. She reached out and stroked Aiyin's cheek: "It's okay, Xiaoai, wait until you finish this operation, then we'll go. There's no rush."

……

"No one answered..." Dr. Yamada frowned as he looked at the address book on his phone. He and the other doctors in the neurology department called each one, but received no response. "Is it in the conference room?"

Thinking of this, Dr. Yamada glanced at the elevator and said, "Tsk, let's take the stairs."

Dr. Yamada hurried to the neurology department's meeting room and pushed the door open. The huge force caused the door to hit the wall with a loud "bang", which also attracted the attention of other doctors inside.

"Yamada? What's wrong with you? Why are you so anxious?"

Dr. Yamada gasped and walked to the table: "I..."

"Don't worry, take a break first."

Dr. Yamada shook his head and declined the offer: "The neurofilament light chain... didn't go down."

With just these few words, the other doctors instantly understood what he meant. The originally noisy meeting room was now eerily silent.

After a long moment, someone said, "So... the first genetic programming attempt failed?"

Dr. Yamada had recovered. He shook his head. "That's not true. Although there's more SOD1 mutant protein, it's only slightly higher than the last check before discharge. The genetic programming hasn't failed, it's just not completely effective."

"That's it..."

Hearing this, the other doctors breathed a sigh of relief. They could accept that the effect was not complete, but at least it was not completely useless, and their efforts were not in vain.

"So... you want to edit it again?"

"Yes." Dr. Yamada nodded and looked at the doctor who had spoken. "The risk of a second edit is greater than the first, so we need to call the doctors in the immunology department, imaging department, and critical care department who have free time to come to a meeting to discuss this."

"Did you tell them?"

"Not yet." Dr. Yamada shook his head. "Call them and ask who's available. Have them come over."

Chapter 341 Medical Malpractice

After meeting with doctors from other departments to discuss countermeasures, Dr. Yamada looked at several doctors in the neurology department and said, "Go prepare the injection first. The type of AAV needs to be changed."

"We know this. Two types are already unusable." Several doctors nodded and left the meeting room.

"Then let's go prepare for what we need to do." After saying hello, the doctors from other departments also left the meeting room. "I never thought that one day I would be able to participate in the treatment of ALS."

"Indeed, if this disease could be cured, I can't believe how famous we would be in the future."

Several doctors who remained in the conference room looked at Dr. Yamada and comforted him, "Yamada, don't be so nervous. Relax."

"Ah, I know." Dr. Yamada nodded. He sat in the chair, his hands shaking unconsciously because of nervousness.

"You're the child's attending physician." A doctor walked up to him and patted his shoulder gently. "If you're so scared, what about the child?"

Dr. Yamada fell silent for a long time. Then he slowly said, "I'm becoming less and less confident about this disease."

"This is your first real fight with this disease, so it's normal. But don't worry, everyone in the neurology department will be with you..."

"That's right, you asked us for so much help back then, why are you so discouraged now?"

"Show your drive."

Listening to everyone's advice, Dr. Yamada nodded gently: "Yes, I understand."

"When do you plan to have surgery again?"

"Wait until they're fully prepared." Dr. Yamada lowered his head in thought for a moment. "Maybe the day after tomorrow?"

……

In the blink of an eye, it was the day after tomorrow, which was also the day that Dr. Yamada planned to perform surgery on Aine.

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