A few days later.

United States.

San Francisco.

afternoon tea time.

Eddie Lewis was sitting at the table in the lounge, enjoying the coffee in his hand, and a plate of blueberry waffles was on the table in front of him.

The mist that had permeated for a long time finally dissipated, and the afternoon sun came in through the window behind him, just covering his body, brightening his newly shaved bald head.

It is said that Mark Twain once said: The coldest winter I have ever encountered was the summer in San Francisco.

The California cold current blows from the Pacific Ocean, the hot summer wind blows from the inland, and is blocked by the north-south mountains. A cold and a hot two air currents can only meet at the bay of San Francisco, often with heavy fog.

The summer weather in San Francisco is complicated. While Silicon Valley in the South Bay area enjoys the sun, residents of San Francisco may wear thin down jackets.

The food at the Matthew Davis Cancer Research Foundation is very good. Although it is not as good as the full-man seat of the Internet predators in the Silicon Valley of the South Bay Area, it is delicious and it also provides afternoon tea.

Eddie's gaze fell on the wall on the side of the lounge, which was a photo wall with pictures of Foundation members. His eyes fell on his own photo, in which he wore a Foundation-printed sportswear and grinned at the camera. This was taken by a colleague when he participated in the annual BaytoBreakers San Francisco Bay Cross Marathon in May this year. This event is also an important charity event that the Foundation regularly participates in every year.

It seems to be blessed than last year ... He looked at his photo, and stared at the sweet waffle in his hand, hesitated a bit, and bit it down hard.

News is broadcast on the TV in the lounge. Generally speaking, he uses the sound of the TV as the background sound, but today's guest of news is a person who has had many connections, so he caught his attention.

"Today we invited Dr. James Murphy from the CDC to explain to us the recent worrying chronic wasting diseases." The news host said, "Hello, Dr. Murphy."

"Hello."

A middle-aged man with a mediterranean hairstyle and eyes sitting in the guest seat, nodded politely to the host and the camera.

"Dr. Murphy, recently, roe deer infected with chronic wasting have been found in some parts of the central United States. Because of its strange symptoms, especially the aggressiveness that will appear in the late stage of the disease, people are called zombie deer. People are worried about this. This disease is transmitted from deer to people. What can you tell us about chronic wasting? "The moderator guided the topic.

"Uh ..." Dr. Murphy pushed his glasses. "First of all, there is no evidence that chronic wasting disease can be transmitted to people ..."

"However, it is said that Canadian researchers have performed experiments with monkeys, and monkeys that are primates, like humans, have been infected." The host's job is to dig deeper into the news, thereby arousing the interest of the audience, increasing the program ’s ratings and Personal popularity, of course, do not want the program to be too bland, so interrupted.

"Yes, I have heard of this experiment. To put it simply, the experiment was feeding five monkeys with infected venison. Three years later, three monkeys were found to be suffering from chronic wasting." Dr Murphy nodded. " But I need to emphasize that monkey infection does not necessarily mean human infection ... "

"But the possibility of human infection exists?" The host held on to this point, "Should people be warned not to hunt deer and eat venison recently?"

Dr. Murphy was always interrupted, seemed very annoyed, and increased the volume. "I cannot rule out the possibility of human infection, but that experiment was based on the premise that the monkeys were fed a large amount of venison every day. Normally people are It ’s impossible to eat so much venison, so I do n’t think it would be dangerous to eat venison sold in a small amount, but avoid wild venison, especially the deer ’s brain and spinal cord. I ’ve never heard of it. Who would like to eat deer's brain and spinal cord. "

"It doesn't matter if you eat only venison?" The host asked.

Dr. Murphy was dissatisfied with the host's out of context, "I didn't say that!"

"You said that eating venison does not cause danger," the host pointed out.

"You listen to me, I don't say that!" Dr. Murphy was almost mad at the table.

"Haha!"

Eddie Lewis put a waffle in his mouth, chewed lightly, and took another sip of coffee to relieve the sweetness.

He has a good memory. At previous events organized by the Foundation, he had met Dr. Murphy, and talked a few words, knowing that this person was not good at words and was a straightforward person, but today he encountered a sharp tooth ... It's a host with a low-pitched mouth, which is really bad luck.

He ate waffles with coffee, stared at Dr. Murphy's embarrassment on TV with a bitter smile, took the show as a talk show, and had little interest in the news itself-as Dr. Murphy said, who would like to eat deer What about the brain and spinal cord? He didn't even eat venison.

Living in the United States, he has long been used to the sensationalism of news programs.

A few years ago, he was invited by a friend to go on vacation. When the friend walked with him into the forest to hunt, he encountered a beautiful doe. He raised his gun and aimed at the heart of the deer.

However, the deer suddenly turned his head and met his sight.

He saw the doe's watery eyes as if begging him.

In addition, he noticed that his belly was a little big ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ may be pregnant, but he was not sure.

After hesitating for a long time, in the end he still couldn't pull the trigger, and he and his friend could only sleep hungry that night.

This was the closest he had been to venison, and since then he had a quarrel with that friend, and he never went into the forest to hunt deer again.

On TV, the battle between Dr. Murphy and the host is still going on, but Eddy's tea time is over. He has packed the coffee cup and saucer. He plans to call and consolate after returning home from work at night. This friend hasn't been in contact for a long time.

Back at the office, there was a stack of invitations on the desk.

In order to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the foundation, the foundation is preparing to invite some guests to the scene. The invitees have either made significant contributions to the foundation, have high standing in the society, or have left a moving impression in the history of the foundation They have witnessed the growth and progress of the foundation.

Eddie checked the invitations one last time and planned to send them before work.

The farthest invitation will cross the Pacific Ocean and be sent half a globe away.