Since Candy Town wasn’t very large, it didn’t take long for the two of them to arrive at the town hall, located in the southwest corner of the town. When Yun Ge saw the town hall, he couldn’t help but show a surprised expression, because the building in front of him looked more like a factory than a municipal office. “Are you sure the town chief really works here? This place looks like a factory,” Yun Ge asked uncertainly.
“That’s right! This is actually a factory. However, it’s a factory exclusive to the town chief. The town chief not only works here but also lives here,” Luke answered as if it were a matter of course. He then approached the guard at the factory gate, briefly explained their purpose, and the two were led into the factory by a receptionist.
Of course, the receptionist didn’t lead them into the factory area but along another corridor into a two-story building on the side of the factory. Even though Yun Ge didn’t enter the workshop behind the factory, he could still smell a strong floral fragrance in the corridor of the office building. Although the whole town was filled with the sweet floral fragrance due to the long-term collection of nectar and the making of candy, the fragrance here was obviously much stronger than that outside, and it was also more likely to make people feel refreshed and, at the same time, stimulate their appetite, causing them to keep swallowing their saliva involuntarily.
The receptionist pushed open the double wooden doors at the end of the corridor and led Yun Ge and Luke into a spacious and bright room before leaving. Luke, familiar with the place, led Yun Ge through a partition outside the room that looked like a laboratory. They passed through a hidden door and entered the ward behind.
There were more than a dozen hospital beds in the ward, and several patients were still lying on the beds resting. At the same time, there were three doctors, one male and two female, in white coats talking to one of the patients in a low voice.
Luke signaled Yun Ge to follow and then walked quickly towards the three doctors, saying in an extremely respectful tone, “Town Chief, I’m sorry to disturb you.”
“Hey! Luke, how come you’re here? What a coincidence! Come over here! We were just talking about you!” The male doctor in the middle, with colorful hair and a burly figure, immediately greeted with a surprised look when he saw Luke appear.
“Town Chief, you were talking about me?” Luke hurriedly ran a few steps to the town chief’s side and asked in a low voice with a puzzled look.
“Yes! Come on, let me introduce you. This girl is named Jamei. She was found by the seventh nectar collection team in the eastern forest a while ago. Although her memory hasn’t been restored, her spirit has recovered well, and she has also adapted to our work here very well,” the town chief first introduced the woman lying on the bed to Luke.
Then, the town chief pushed Luke in front of Jamei and introduced, “Jamei, this is the guy I’ve been telling you about. This guy is honest, energetic, and quite handsome. What do you think? Why don’t you two get to know each other and see if there’s a possibility of developing a relationship in the future?”
Jamei, upon hearing this, pulled the quilt covering her legs up to her face, shyly covering her cheeks, and gently lowered her gaze, neither responding to the town chief nor daring to look at Luke with her watery eyes. Luke, obviously not expecting the town chief to introduce a love interest to him, stood there awkwardly for a moment before finally forcing a wry smile and saying, “Town Chief, this, this isn’t quite appropriate——”
“Huh, what’s not good about it? You can’t stay single forever, can you? Since you’ve met such a good girl, you should look forward and see if there’s a possibility! You can’t always live in the memories of the past, can you?!” The town chief criticized in a feigned stern tone.
After speaking, the town chief looked at Luke and Jamei again and immediately laughed heartily, “Hahaha! I knew I wouldn’t be wrong! Judging from your reactions, you two must be very satisfied with each other! You two are both the shy types in terms of feelings, so it’s normal to be a bit awkward when you first meet!”
“How about this? Jamei, after you recover, I’ll transfer you to Luke’s Thirty-sixth Collection Team. What do you think? In this way, you two can have more private contact outside of work and cultivate your feelings properly!”
“I’ll follow the town chief’s arrangement,” Jamei hurriedly answered. After speaking, she buried her head even deeper.
“Yes, I’ll follow the town chief’s arrangement!” Luke also quickly responded. However, in Yun Ge’s eyes, the embarrassment Luke showed at this time was not because he suddenly met a potential love interest, but rather because he didn’t dare to refuse the town chief and wanted to quickly muddle through.
Sure enough, after Luke ambiguously responded to the town chief, he pulled Yun Ge, who was standing behind the crowd, to his side and said, “Town Chief, actually, the reason I came to find you this time is because of Yun Ge’s matter. He had another memory problem after waking up this morning!”
“Oh? How could that be? It shouldn’t be, should it?” The town chief frowned slightly upon hearing this, and the look he cast towards Yun Ge also revealed a sharpness as if scrutinizing a criminal.
Yun Ge hurriedly said, “Reporting to the town chief, what Luke said is true. I just woke up with a blank mind, and I can’t even remember my own name. Although I’ve lost my memory of this place, I always feel that I’m very familiar with the things here. But no matter how hard I try to recall, I can’t remember why I’m here.”
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Luke then told the town chief in detail the process of him and Lily discovering Yun Ge’s amnesia. After asking a few more questions, the town chief stroked his colorful long hair and said, “Oh dear! I just helped stabilize your condition, but I didn’t expect you to fall into amnesia so soon again! Moreover, even if you have amnesia again, it shouldn’t be serious enough to forget everything, right? I really don’t understand. Could it be that there was a problem with the medicine I gave you?”
While muttering to himself, the town chief pulled Yun Ge to the window and carefully examined Yun Ge’s eye condition under the bright sunlight coming through the window.
Then, the town chief also checked Yun Ge’s tongue coating and simply felt Yun Ge’s pulse, and then said with a puzzled look, “Strange, your physical condition seems to be normal. Usually, when you guys have an episode, many parts of your body will also have pathological changes. How is your situation this time completely different?”
The town chief thought for a while, then ordered the two female doctors, “You two immediately go to ask the other rescued outsiders, especially those who were found at the same time as Yun Ge. You must carefully check their current physical conditions and strengthen the monitoring of their health during this period to see if they will also have problems like Yun Ge’s.”
Then, the town chief first told Jamei to rest well, and then turned to Yun Ge and said, “Come with me to the medical room inside. I need to conduct a more detailed examination of you.”
Yun Ge and Luke followed the town chief through the small door behind the ward and entered another spacious medical room. As before, Yun Ge still felt that this place was more like a laboratory rather than a medical room because, although there were many medical devices here, most of the space was occupied by experimental equipment. This made Yun Ge feel a sense of discomfort as if he were an experimental subject. However, the pervasive floral fragrance here as always relieved Yun Ge’s nervous emotions.
Yun Ge lay on the diagnostic chair as instructed. After the town chief took his blood, he cooperated with the town chief’s use of a series of strange detection methods to ensure that his mental and nervous systems were not problematic.
After checking Yun Ge’s complexion and pulse for the fifth time, the town chief sat beside Yun Ge and said self-deprecatingly, “Sigh! I always thought my research on the pathological characteristics of your amnesia was thorough enough! I didn’t expect to gain new insights today! The world is so vast and full of wonders. It seems I really need to be more humble and not always think that my medical knowledge is sufficient to cure your amnesia!”
Hearing the town chief say this, Luke immediately asked anxiously, “Town Chief, are you saying there’s still hope for Yun Ge?”
The town chief glanced at Luke and said, “Luke, don’t say those discouraging words all the time, okay? When did I say Yun Ge was beyond help? I’m just making a remark because I encountered Yun Ge’s performance for the first time!”
“So, the town chief means that there’s nothing wrong with me?” Yun Ge immediately breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
“Hmm. For the time being, it seems so. Although I’m not sure what caused your amnesia, according to my careful examination, your physical health is in good condition. Amnesia can be caused by various factors, including psychological factors or brain damage. So, for the time being, I can only attribute your condition to a sporadic failure of the medication’s control.”
“Of course, there is another possibility. It could be that there was a slight deviation in the dosage of the medicine I gave you last time, or it could be that your body is prone to developing drug resistance, resulting in a significant decrease in the effectiveness of the same dosage of medicine on you.”
“In short, according to my examination, your amnesia this time will not affect your health. However, to be safe, I need to monitor your health closely in the coming days to prevent your abnormal amnesia from causing irreversible damage to your body. In addition, I will prepare a new treatment medicine for you. Hopefully, after you take the new medicine, you won’t have such severe amnesia anymore,” the town chief said.
After the medical examination ended, Yun Ge left the town hall. As soon as he walked out of the town hall, he saw Lily waiting at the door.
“Yun Ge, what did the town chief say? You’re not going to have any more problems, are you?” Lily immediately ran over to Yun Ge as soon as she saw him and asked with a worried look.
Seeing Lily’s beautiful figure standing outside the door, a sense of indescribable happiness welled up in Yun Ge’s heart.
So, Yun Ge also hurriedly walked up and said, “Hey! I’ve made Lily worry! The town chief conducted a comprehensive physical examination on me, but he didn’t find out why I had amnesia again. However, the town chief confirmed that my current physical condition is very good.”
“So, the town chief is going to prepare a new medicine for me first, and I need to take it on time during this period, while also coming here regularly for check-ups to further confirm my condition,” Yun Ge said, and then detailed the process of the town chief treating him.
After confirming that Yun Ge was not deliberately concealing his condition, Lily finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Phew! I hope the town chief’s new medicine will work this time! But it’s really strange that the town chief’s treatment medicine actually failed to work on you.”
“Is the town chief’s treatment medicine really that effective?” Yun Ge asked.
“Yes. For a long time, all the surviving outsiders found in the Lost Woods have been treated by the town chief and have taken his carefully prepared mysterious medicine. Because, if these outsiders do not take the treatment medicine, their memories will become very short due to brain damage, and they may even fall into a persistent coma.”
“Therefore, you must take the town chief’s treatment medicine regularly. Although you will still lose all your memories before entering the forest after your brain damage recovers, at least you won’t lose your future memories as you gradually recover,” Lily explained.
"So you’re saying that we, the surviving outsiders, must take the town chief’s treatment medicine for a long time?" Yun Ge asked, rubbing his stomach.
Because when Yun Ge had just swallowed the treatment medicine, he felt that although the medicine had a sweet taste and a strong floral fragrance when it entered his mouth, it immediately turned into a bitter medicinal liquid after it was absorbed into his stomach. This made Yun Ge feel nauseous whenever he thought of the treatment medicine.
Of course, the advantage of this bitterness was that the medicine would spread through his body the moment it was absorbed, making him feel refreshed and energetic. This made Yun Ge, despite his aversion to the medicine, have to admit that the town chief was right in saying that good medicine is bitter but beneficial for the illness.
"Here! Eat this piece of candy, and you won’t feel so bad!" Seeing that Yun Ge’s face turned ugly when she mentioned the treatment medicine, Lily took out a small piece of candy and handed it to Yun Ge.
Because Yun Ge knew that these candies were Lily’s food for hunger, he immediately refused, saying, "I’m fine. The reason I have such a strong reaction to the taste of the treatment medicine must be because I’ve completely forgotten its taste. Once I get used to it, this discomfort should disappear."