The Runaway Groom
Chapter 505

Chapter 505

Mark Wickers was acting all shady and suspicious as he sneaked intothe forum, and was craning his neck while waiting for the right timing toget a seat.

"Mr. Wickers," Irene called out to him.

As Mark turned around, he stumbled backward when he saw her face,barely keeping his balance as he quickly kept a hand against the wall."A-Are you a ghost?" he stammered.

Irene remembered that she had mostly healed from her burn scars. Itwas natural that Mark would be spooked to see her now, since hewould still be convinced that she was dead.

“No, I'm not dead," Irene tried to explain.

"What?!"

What was going on? How did she come back to life?!

“Look, now's not the time for that,’ Irene quickly said. "What are youdoing here?"

Mark sighed. "I didn’t get an invitation, but I really wanted to be here,SO...

"Got it," Irene replied. "Come with me."

Mark was surprised. "You can get me in?"

He even tried to pull strings, but he simply could not make it in.

Irene turned and gave him a look, but said nothing.

In her opinion, the worst thing about Zidonia was its strict adherence toa pecking order. Anyone who wanted to learn about anything should begiven the chance, even if they were not professionals.

And even if they did not know a thing on the subject before, they couldlearn on the go, and they might even offer a better insight.

She had a few words with Dr. Pitt, who nodded and discussed it withthe host.

Mead Clinic did have a say in things since they had the data on thelatest development of a fully artificial heart, and Irene soon returned tolead Mark to a seat.

“Thank you," Mark said. "Oh, wait. Does Mr. Jefferson know-*

He quickly stopped himself, since “alive’ seemed rather inappropriate.Irene did not mind it, however, and replied, "He knows. I'll be headingback now."

"Sure, sure. You go do that." Mark smiled.

He thought that she was different, though it was probably also becausehe saw her in a different light after replaceing out her relationship withIsaac.

The forum soon began with the Zidonian host giving the usual formalspeech. "Thank you everyone for making the journey across the globe.It's my honor to welcome our foreign guests-please give them a warmround of applause.’

“The title of our forum is "Salvation without Borders’, and among themain topics is the prospect of a fully artificial heart. I'm sure ourperseverance in research would allow US to triumph against death...’After that, it was another speech from Dr. Pitt, but it was the usualformalities with no actual information offered.

Soon, they began discussion about various issues and all participantswere allowed to speak freely.

Everyone naturally came prepared, and as many Zidonian researchersvoiced their experiences and ideas for potential development, Irenewould quietly make notes-the country had its fair share of talents afterall.

Most questions raised had been discussed internally at Mead Clinic,though the Zidonians' ideas were more viable.

Someone then asked the Mead Clinic representatives a question, and Dr. Pitt picked Irene toanswer it.

As Irene rose to her feet, her expression was solemn, "As a doctor specializing incardiovascular diseases at Mead Clinic, I have taken part in many researches and gainedconsiderable progress, but that also means its fair share of problems. My personal opinion isthat while medical advancement has allowed for heart transplants to avert lethal heartattacks, most patients do not get a donor, and being forced to face death despite the equalityof all lives is savage."

At that point, she paused-she insisted that it was her personal opinion, and that she was notrepresenting Mead Clinic. After all, the hospital had given them scripts that offer long-windedanswers without anything meaningful.

Moreover, the so-called equality was hardly maintained.

Heart transplants were denied because of money, even though it was exceedingly difficult toreplace the right donor.

Now, she was going to narrow things down to the various ideas proposed by the Zidonianresearchers, so that there was a greater chance for those ideas to be realized. Stil, there wasplenty of jargon involved and it was going to be a long speech...

I think-" she continued, when someone rushed into the hall!