Chapter 184
My heart missed a beat.
I hurriedly protected my mask and shook my head desperately, "No, I can''t. It seems that AIDS can
be transmitted via saliva too!"
Patrick didn''t mind at all. He put one hand beside my ear and said, "Don''t be afraid. If that kind of
thing happens, let''s take the antiexposure drugs together."
He put his hand around my waist. And his hot breath blew on my face.
I could even feel his hot breathing through the mask.
Patrick bent over to kiss my neck and pressed his forehead against my mask...
"Hiss..."
"It hurts!"
I took a deep breath.
Patrick was so scared that he got up immediately, "What''s wrong?"
"My face is in pain." I held my face with my hands with an aggrieved look on my face.
I was telling the truth.
Patrick seemed to have realized something
and looked at me with a serious look on his face, "What on earth is going on?"
I was silent. I indeed didn''t have the courage to tell Patrick that my face probably had been ruined.
If he knew what, I wondered what would happen.
I didn''t even know what was under the bandage now.
Just as I was hesitant, Patrick''s cell phone rang. He took out his cell phone and nced at it. Then
he went out to pick up the call.
About five minutester, he came back.
Behind him, there was a man.
The man, who was about 1.6 meters tall, looked very thin. However, judging from his face, he
should be an adult.
As soon as the man came in, he looked around, "Where is theputer? Let me have a look at it."
I was stunned for a moment.
The man wanted to take myputer away without even introducing himself.
His low IQ made me feel like he could only be someone majoring inputer science.
Patrick introduced him to me instead, "This is Ma, an expert in dealing withputer issues.
Show him yourputer."
"Okay."
I nodded and quickly took out theputer. Although theputer hadn''t been charged,
fortunately, it got some power inside.
I handed theputer to the person named Ma. He quickly turned on theputer and looked
at the documents of several systems inside theputer before asking, "Which disk was the
hidden folder ced at that time?"
"E disk."
I replied.
Ma nodded slightly and quickly made a set of smooth operations. In an instant, several semi-
transparent documents which I had never seen before appeared on the E-disk.
But there was no folder in it.
He nced around and fiddled with some things that I couldn''t understand. Finally, he pointed to an
ordinary document that wasn''t hidden in the C disk and said, "Yourputer has indeed been
infected with a virus. This virus can get specified files to be downloaded into yourputer when
yourputer is used and connected to the inte."
"Where is it?"
I looked at the screen carefully and felt that what he had pointed to me was nothing but an ordinary
document.
"It has been deleted. This virus is very well hidden. It should be that when you started theputer
last time, the virus automatically deleted the video file and itself from yourputer. If this
remaining document is automatically cleaned up by yourputer, it will be treated as a trace of
use and get deleted as well. In that case, there will be no trace of the existence of this virus in the
computer."
Ma kept exining how the virus worked to me.
Hearing his words, I was in a daze. Even so, I generally understood that he basically meant that the
video was gone.
"Can you find out who did this?"
Patrick asked Ma.
"Yes, I can. But I need to take thisputer back to my home."
"How long will it take?"
I looked at Ma.
I didn''t feel sorry for myputer. Instead, it was that we didn''t have much time left.
Ma thought for a moment and said, "It will take at most two or three hours. But I have to hurry
back home now, which will cost me some time as well."
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"Okay." Now I could only try more.
Ma took theptop and left. Patrick''s cell phone rang again.
This time, he didn''t go out and picked up the call in the ward. I heard him say, "Jeremy, how''s the
investigation going on?"
Then Patrick''s face became gloomy.
As he held his cell phone, his knuckles were slightly pale.
Without saying anything, he heard Jeremy talking over the phone.
About two minutester, Patrick said, "I know. Continue to investigate it. We have to find her even if
we chase her to the end of the earth!"
When I heard this, I seemed to realize what had happened.
Sure enough, after hanging up the phone, Patrick looked at me and said, "Caroline has gone
abroad. Although she went abroad for a short- term study tour, it''s hard to find her when she is
abroad."
I lowered my eyes slightly.
In that case, this clue was broken...
"If I can''t find out the truth, the only thing I can do in the end probably is to take the antiexposure
drugs or have a miscarriage."
"I... I can''t ept it!"
Patrick saw that I wasn''t in a good mood. Tofort me, he walked to my side, sat on the bed, and
took me into his arms, "Don''t be afraid, I have already sent someone to check Caroline''s phone call
records. I think the result wille out soon. As for the foreign men, the police are also getting the
surveince videos and looking for them."
"Well, I believe you."
I lowered my head. At this moment, I had no other choice but to believe in Patrick.
After all, with my ability, not to mention 24 hours, even if I had 240 hours, I probably couldn''t find
anything.
Time ticked by.
I sat on the bed and put my hand on my belly. At the thought that my little baby was inside here, I
felt hopeful as well as desperate.
Later, Patrick kept answering the calls.
However, there was no more useful news. Everything seemed to be cut off after Caroline went
abroad.
At noon, Patrick asked the servant to send lunch here. Although I didn''t have any appetite, I thought
of the baby in my belly.
Thinking that the baby probably had a chance to live on, I barely finished the meal.
It was past 3 o''clock in the afternoon. And it was getting closer and closer to the deadline of 24
hours.
When I was lying on the bed and looking at the ceiling as I was full of despair, the door of the ward
was pulled open. I turned my head and saw Edwining in.
Seeing Patrick in the ward, Edwin hesitated and then said to me, "Cherry has been rescued. But we
don''t know when she will wake up."
"Well, thank you, Doctor Edwin."
I sat up and replied in a dull voice.
Seeing me like this, Edwin looked at his watch again and couldn''t help persuading, "You were sent
here at past 22 p.m. yesterday. There are about 7 hours left until the deadline of 24 hours is met. Of
course, the sooner you make the decision, the better it will be."
"Yes, I got it."
I sat on the bed as I was in a daze in my mind.
"What should I do?"
"Should I get rid of the child and take the antiexposure drugs?"
"I''m not willing to do that."
I stared at Patrick with tears streaming down my cheeks.
Patrick walked to me, held me in his arms, and wiped the tears on my cheeks with his hands, "Don''t
cry. It''s not the end yet. Don''t worry. My people are looking into it."
"But, what if, what if..."
"There''s no what if. You''ll be fine. And so will be our child."
Patrick patted my back.
I knew that he wasforting me. All the things couldn''t be ascertained until I saw it with my own
eyes, or those foreign men revealed the truth in person.
When I was choked with sobs, Patrick''s cell phone rang again. He picked up the call and listened to
the counterpart over the phone. And the look on his face was even more gloomy than before.