Chapter 375
As she said that, she was reassuring herself as well as Josiah.
Then she let go of Xavier’s and Josiah’s hands. “All right. I’m going in for the examination now. Go get busy.”
While Winnie was getting examined, Xavier asked Josiah, “Is what you said true? Or are you only saying that to comfort her?”
Frowning, Josiah said, “It’s true! It’s just that I had just been dumped back then and lost interest in everything. That’s why I didn’t go deeper into the area of artificial eyes. If my classmates have been researching it, there should at least be some progress. It’s been several years since they started.”
A sense of hope rose within Xavier. “That’s great. Hurry up and contact this classmate of yours, then. I’ll pay it no matter what the price is.”
“I know. I will. Winnie’s my friend, too. I’ll do everything I can to get in touch with my classmate, but”—Josiah hesitated momentarily—“we’ve basically lost contact with this classmate. It’s going to take some effort to find him.”
“It’s fine. We have time. It doesn’t matter as long as you can find him.” To Xavier, it did not matter if it took several years as long as Winnie did not have to be blind for the rest of her life.
At that point, Josiah had calmed down. “Okay, but the situation might not be ideal. The subject of making artificial eyes is quite popular. If they actually created one, there should have been some kind of news about it. Even the Alpha radioactive gas caught the attention of the terrorists. The topic of artificial eyes should attract even more attention. It shouldn’t be this quiet.”
Xavier responded firmly, “I understand what you mean. Even if there are no artificial eyes created, we’ll make one on our own. So, go ahead and call that old classmate of yours. Whether he made no progress or was forced to stop for some reason, we can take over and continue with the research. It doesn’t matter if it takes ten, twenty, or even thirty years. I’m willing to pay for all of it even if I go bankrupt.”
Josiah’s lips curled to form a bitter smile. “It shouldn’t cause you to go bankrupt, but that sentence gave me confidence.”
Xavier patted Josiah’s shoulder and prompted, “Hurry up and call him.”
“Okay.” Josiah cast the examination room one last glance before turning around to leave.
The examination results were not promising, but Winnie had already expected that.
Xavier, too, had slowly learned to accept the truth.
After all, he was determined not to make Winnie’s blindness a permanent condition. I’ll definitely find a way to make her see again. That day will come. I’m sure of it!
After leaving the hospital, Winnie returned to the quarantine room.
Before the surgery, Winnie had only believed the success rate was fifty-fifty despite Xavier and the others telling her how high it was.
She had known she could either stay blind or recover, and each possibility had a fifty percent chance.
Thus, she did not tell the Speiser family about it, not until she had a clear answer.
After all, there was a possibility of her seeing again after the surgery.
Now that the surgery had failed, she needed to let the family know about it.
Besides, she needed to seek the Speiser family’s help.
The moment she entered the quarantine room, she grabbed her phone and called Wilhelm to tell him everything.
Wilhelm stated he would fly over immediately to see her upon learning about her situation.
Meanwhile, Xavier waited patiently for her to end the call before saying to her, “I just received news that Lisanne and her colleagues have ended their quarantine. Winnie, we can go home soon.”
“That’s great. Get the medical staff to do the final test on me. I’m tired of the smell and silence here. I want to go home. Let’s go to Lagune Mansion when we get out. That place is huge and filled with birds chirping,” Winnie responded with her eyes closed.
“Sure. I’ll go wherever you want to go.”
“Can you accompany me to visit Granny? I want to hear her voice.”
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