Chapter 1116: Choice and Persistence

Hiram lay on a diagnostic bed, watching Lanse and the doctor talking beside him, but he couldn't understand what they were saying at all.

After returning from the explosion scene, he went directly back to Xinjin City. Xinjin City has the best medical technology here.

After a period of automatic recovery, his situation became a bit better. Although he could hear some sounds, he couldn't hear clearly.

In his world, no matter what sound it was, it was buzzing, just like Lanse who was talking to the doctor at this moment.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz."

"Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz..."

Lanse turned his head and glanced at the bewildered Hiram, and then refocused his attention on the doctor. "So is surgery the only way now?"

The doctor nodded. "His eardrum perforation on both sides is a bit serious. Relying on his own recovery ability, it is basically impossible to ensure that he can hear again."

"Even if we undergo some training later, it will be difficult to fully understand people's conversation sounds, and such life brings not only inconvenience that cannot be communicated normally."

"Phone sounds, doorbell sounds, alarm sounds, you know there are many sounds in our lives that remind us what to do and what not to do, including the honking of cars speeding on the road."

"If we lose our judgment on these sounds, life will encounter many troubles."

"Maybe for a short time, we can find someone to help him, but it is impossible to always do so."

The doctor seemed to think of something, pursed his lips. Others definitely couldn't do it, but these people, they must be able to do it.

Because they have money.

Money is really good. If Hiram is an ordinary person, he is unwilling to have surgery, or cannot afford the surgery fee, his world's sound will be like being covered with a drum skin for the rest of his life, everything will not be heard clearly, and life will become a mess.

But he has money. Even if he doesn't have surgery, he can find someone to become his ears to help him live.

Lanse considered for a while. "How high is the success rate of the surgery?"

The doctor had a relaxed smile on his face. "You can find us here, it must be that someone mentioned our advantages to you."

"I dare not talk about other surgeries, but in terms of eardrum repair, we are professional."

He didn't mention how high the success rate was, just constantly instilling in Lanse that this hospital is an authority in this regard. This is also a way to avoid risks.

After all, any surgery, even if it is just a circumcision, has certain risks. No one can say when God suddenly wants to take someone to heaven to accompany him.

So he doesn't talk about the success rate. Once it is digitized, people will always focus on the successful side and ignore the risks.

What if you encounter one percent, one thousandth, or even one ten-thousandth of failure? By then, I'm afraid it won't be clear.

Lanse turned his head and glanced at Hiram again, and finally reached out and shook hands with the doctor. "Arrange it as soon as possible, no matter if it is funds or other aspects, just open your mouth."

"I only have one requirement: let the most authoritative expert perform the surgery, and only repair one side first."

If it is repaired, then naturally the other side will be repaired.

If it cannot be repaired, at least there is a bottom-line opportunity.

The doctor shook Lanse's hand. "I understand what you are worried about. I will arrange this for you as soon as possible. It will be on the operating table in three days at the latest."

Hiram then got off the diagnostic bed. "This damn light makes my eyes hurt. How are you talking?"

He just said it subconsciously. He didn't know if Lanse could understand, because he found that he couldn't fully understand what he was saying either.

Everything was buzzing.

Lanse took a writing board from a nearby table and wrote what he wanted to say on it.

"Surgery in three days, do one side first, then the other, to ensure you have a chance to hear again."

Hiram read these sentences slowly and sighed. "I hope everything goes well."

As for what happened that night, Lanse had already heard a more detailed version from others. In fact, it was not just Hiram's eardrum that was damaged, but several others' eardrums were also damaged.

But they were a little far from that position at the time, although the vibration broke their eardrums, the perforation was not large, unlike Hiram, who stood too close.

This kind of thing... can only be said that he is unlucky. Even if Lanse was at the scene, he couldn't avoid it. Who could have thought that Hiram would set fire to the basement, and who could have thought that the basement would explode suddenly?

However, Lanse was still very satisfied with their results.

You robbed my wine, and I destroyed your goods. The war between gangs vividly demonstrated "mutual harm"!

Hiram needs treatment now and can't preside over the work. Lanse thought about it and transferred Enio over.

He might not be an expert in combat, but he is smooth enough and cautious enough. Real combat can be handed over to the captains to be responsible for. He only needs to take care of the situation and call Lanse when necessary.

The brothers in the family were quite surprised that Hiram was injured. Mo Lisi even made a separate call to Lanse for this matter.

"I heard that Hiram's eardrum was damaged, causing him to be unable to hear now?"

"Yes, the explosion caused his eardrum to perforate, and surgery is needed to recover. What's wrong?"

Mo Lisi laughed twice and then sighed. "Since I got married, I have been thinking about one thing, Lanse."

"Time passes too fast."

"The picture of me and Enio running around on the street before seems to be yesterday. I seem to be only ten years old, but now, I am almost thirty."

"Time passes too fast. In a blink of an eye, I have even become a father."

Mo Lisi's wife gave birth to a child for him, a girl, and is now pregnant again.

There are only a few ways for a not-so-smart woman to tie a man down, and having a child is a good choice.

Family life has given Mo Lisi some insights into life and himself that are different from the past. It seems that he has grown up overnight and is no longer the him of the past.

Life is divided into many stages like this. Each stage will have some unique thoughts and psychological changes for this stage. This is normal.

"I don't know how to say it. I find that I, we, most people seem to be stuck in the past, our judgment of our own age."

"Enio is also not married. Those who are married are only a very small number, let alone having children."

"I think, should we remind everyone?"

"And if something happens, at least... can you understand what I mean?"

Lanse "hmm"ed. "At least there is an heir, right?"

"I know what you mean. I will consider it. What you said is indeed valuable to us."

"But you also know that it is very difficult for me to force them to do this. They have to figure it out themselves before they can do it themselves. I can't change anything."

After ending this not-so-long call, Lanse felt that Mo Lisi might have had a child after marriage and started to enjoy "family happiness," and his thinking was changing.

You can't say this kind of thing is bad. It means that a person is more completely integrated into this society.

Have a family, have responsibilities, have things to worry about.

But for a gang, it is not necessarily completely good. It is a double-edged sword that can make people find goals to strive for, and can also make people have more hesitations.

People often say that those forty or fifty-year-old people who have families, children, and careers, if they say they want to kill you, they are basically just talking big.

But if a ten-year-old half-grown boy says he wants to kill you, then this guy really might give you a hit.

Because of burden, because of responsibility, because of entanglement.

This actually also tells Lanse from the side that everyone is growing up, and they may also have to walk the path that other families have walked.

Just like the Perez family at this time, or their friends or enemies in the past, these gangs are becoming indecisive, becoming burdened, and having drags.

After smoking a cigarette by the window, he returned to his chair and sat down. "Did the girl's family report to the police?"

Alan nodded. He was watching this matter. "Already reported to the police, the police have started to investigate."

Lanse nodded slightly. "Find a way to provide them with some ideas. In addition, it is best to let the girl's family know about this. Don't let them know what happened to their daughter, but let them know who this matter is related to. Do you understand what I mean?"

Alan nodded. "I understand what you mean. Let them guess that it was young Porter who did it, but there is no evidence."

Lanse pointed at him. "Exactly right. It's best if they can put some pressure on the police."

Alan nodded again. "I know how to do it."

The action in the old city has to wait for Enio to arrive there, which will take a few days. Now Lanse's instruction to that side is to defend and wait for new orders.

At the same time, Lanse let them arrange some explosives and the like in some nightclubs. Once they attack fiercely during this period, give up guarding those industries and then send them to the sky.

Although using explosives in the city is a bit excessive, he believes that the Perez family can suppress these things.

And compared to the work here, it is more important to handle Porter now.

Lanse turned his head to look at the TV in the office. On the TV, Mr. Porter is participating in propaganda activities in the name of the Freedom Party's presidential candidate.

He stood on a podium, waving his arms, and saying something loudly.

This is a recording, which is the presidential campaign speech that happened yesterday, and it is also Mr. Porter's first speech.

He stood on the podium and threw out all the campaign strategies the Freedom Party gave him. Among the few points worth noting, there is de-gangsterization. Of course, there is also another content that Lanse had not heard of before, government efficiency and integrity.

This is his first speech, which attracted a lot of attention. Shortly after he delivered this speech, the telephone lines across the Federation appeared at the peak of use.

If de-gangsterization is content that some people have already expected or already known, then efficiency and integrity are unexpected things.

"... We are currently facing many problems in the federal government. In some environments I have touched, corruption and lazy administration are very serious."

"Some local officials even treat these as their work to do. They accept black money and provide convenience in policies or work for people who provide them with black money."

"Or I have seen some low-level officials go to work on time every day and get off work on time every day. They stay in the office, and a few newspapers are read for a whole day."

"Such a situation has always existed, widely existed. It has affected the role our government can play in today's rapidly developing society."

"So if I can win, I will establish a clean and efficient department to focus on these problems..."

The sound from the TV was a bit noisy. There were too many audiences at the scene, and they kept making exclamations or applause. Honestly, the effect of this TV broadcast was very bad.

But in the preliminary public opinion polls promoted by some consulting agencies in time, Mr. Porter's support rate has already shown a clear lead.

Some random passersby interviewed said they support Mr. Porter because he looks more pragmatic than those presidential candidates of the Social Party.

He doesn't mind exposing the worst side, and then showing his courage to correct mistakes, which has won him a good support rate among voters.

Looking at Mr. Porter's performance on TV, Lanse felt he was playing with fire.

The federal government has never talked about corruption, or rather, does not put the corruption problem on the table to talk about. Why? Because the entire federal government, from top to bottom, has this problem. If someone wants to stand up against corruption and against job-related crimes, then he is against the Federation!

From a bullet in the military warehouse to the coffee machine in the Presidential Palace, this covers too many people's interests.

In Lanse's view, you can fight corruption and job-related crimes, but you can't make it public.

He is asking for trouble.

After watching for a while, Lanse turned off the TV. He didn't want to watch it anymore, because it was meaningless and unnecessary.

At the same time, the parents of the missing girl just came out of the police station. They had reported the case, but the police told them to go back and wait for news.

Every year, two or three hundred thousand people go missing in the Federation, but it's just another girl who went missing. The police already have some basic judgments in their hearts, especially when they see the girl's high school graduation photo.

Young, beautiful, with a head of golden hair, a good figure, and it is said that she was once a member of the cheerleading team.

Such girls are often the toys that some people in the upper class like the most. Many missing person cases they come into contact with every year are similar situations.

Suddenly disappearing one day, and then unable to be contacted, until a certain insider surfaces because of other cases, will it drive the detection of such missing person cases.

Otherwise, in all likelihood, these missing person cases will just be like this for a lifetime, becoming a cold case.

On the way back, the girl's mother asked the girl's father, "Just now I saw a police officer pull you into the stairwell. What did he say to you?"

The girl's father's face showed a bitter taste, as if he had eaten something bitter to the extreme, and his eyes also showed fatigue and helplessness.

"He... told me that this kind of case happens a lot every year, and asked me to be mentally prepared for no follow-up, and also asked if we had other children."

Hearing what her husband said, the girl's mother couldn't help but ask loudly, "What does he mean by this?"

Her husband sighed. "He wants to tell us that if there are no other children, just have another one."

"Because you can't find her back."

The girl's mother was silent for a while. She hugged her husband. "So, they actually know what happened, right?"

The man endured his sad emotions. "I don't know, maybe this kind of thing happens too much, and the results are roughly the same, so he had such a judgment."

The girl's mother's voice already had some crying. "But I have never seen these things in the newspaper!"

This might be the most fantastic scene in the Federation! Two or three hundred thousand people go missing every year, sometimes even three or four hundred thousand people go missing, but newspapers, magazines, and any official media have never reported these things, as if these missing person cases do not exist at all.

When every channel that can make a sound is keeping silent, sometimes it already explains its problems and seriousness.

Maybe these channels that can make a sound, newspapers, magazines, their holders themselves are one of the links, and an important link, so they are not willing to let the public know about this.

After the couple hugged and comforted each other's emotions, the girl's mother asked, "Are we still going to look for her?"

The girl's father nodded firmly. "Yes, we are. She is our angel. No matter where she went, we must find her!"

His eyes showed a kind of light, a bright light. "No matter what!"

After the couple went back, they packed up their emotions, and the next day they began to embark on the road of looking for their missing daughter spontaneously.

They printed a lot of missing person notices, although they were of no use, they still held a glimmer of hope.

What if someone has seen their daughter?

Only at this time did they find that they were completely ignorant and unclear about their daughter's usual social circle and circle.

They didn't know who their daughter usually played with and what they did. As parents, they might also be derelict in their duties.

They are like the parents of hundreds of thousands of missing people in the past. Maybe after a period of torture, after being exhausted to the extreme in body and spirit, they will give up, but at least now, they have not given up.

For two or three days in a row, there was no news from the police, or rather, no one went to investigate at all.

Just when the couple felt desperate, they had the courage to face everything, but didn't know how to exert force, someone called them.

Said they had seen the girl on the missing person notice. ===== CHAPTER 1117 =====