Chapter 347 Breaking the Barrier

Chapter 347 Breaking the Barrier

Chapter 347 Breaking the Barrier
Just as Huang Weiwei and her family were waiting for the dinner order.

The patient in the next ward has completed his last examination of the day.

"Charlie, how's the inspection report?" Henry, who had accompanied his son from the other side of the Eurasian continent, asked nervously.

Charlie, who could see the holographic projection text with his own eyes at this time, had a smile on his face: "Dad, there is no problem with the report. The doctor said we can be discharged from the hospital tomorrow."

"That's great! Charlie!" Henry's face was visibly happy. Although they had spent a lot of money on this trip, it would all be worth it as long as his eyes could be restored.

Charlie got up from the hospital bed, stretched, then opened the curtains and looked at the lush durian plantation not far away. His eyes were filled with excitement, and he turned his head to look at his father Henry:

"Father, I just asked the nurse. If we are in a hurry, we can also go through the discharge procedures at night. Do you think we should be discharged tonight or tomorrow?"

Henry stroked his graying beard, looked at his son's overflowing excitement, and made a decision immediately: "Tonight! We can just go shopping in the local area."

The medical tourism visa for the two people is valid for a total of three months. They have been in hospital for about one and a half months, and they can move around in Serbia for another month and a half.

Henry's company sells medical equipment in Gaul, mainly purchasing medical equipment from Seris and selling some medical equipment to private hospitals and clinics.

However, their business has not been good in recent years, mainly because after Europe joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, it has been more repulsive to various products of the Asian Treaty Organization.

So Henry is looking for a new way out for his business.

It just so happened that this time he took advantage of his friend in Seris and brought his youngest son here for an eye transplant.

With the help of the nurse, the father and son quickly completed the discharge procedures and returned the patient's mobile phone. However, they still downloaded a special APP on their own mobile phones: Hailufeng Hospital Patient Files.

This APP is specifically for patients to use after they are discharged from the hospital. It is equivalent to an electronic medical record, but it is much better than an electronic medical record because this APP can provide offline services. The medical records and various examination reports on it are stored locally on the mobile phone and will not disappear due to other things.

Charlie, who was pulling a suitcase, was operating a tourist's mobile phone.

Although their own mobile phones can be used after entering the country, they are not as convenient as tourists' mobile phones. Although a deposit of 1000 yuan is required for this tourist mobile phone, Charlie still thinks this phone is very good.

The so-called tourist mobile phone is a service device that is compulsorily distributed to all tourists from non-Chinese speaking areas at the entry point in the country.

This type of tourist mobile phone can not only provide translation AI, but also acts as a temporary ID card for tourists in the country and can be used as a passport.

At the same time, the mobile phone can also be used as a temporary bank card or temporary phone card, and is equipped with a global positioning system, a customized map system, a taxi-hailing software, and commercial service reservation functions.

The most critical function is naturally the smart tour guide system in tourists' mobile phones. This system allows tourists in non-Chinese areas to easily use various services in the country and can also guide tourists to various attractions.

The emergence of this type of mobile phone has greatly facilitated inbound tourists and has also eliminated a large part of the language barrier.

Charlie quickly booked a very cheap double room in Jincho Bay, not far from the hospital.

The father and son pulled their suitcases and walked to the Bashang Hotel in Jincheng Bay.

Through the elevator and pedestrian bridge on the sidewalk, they came to the Shanmei urban sea defense dam which was built only in August last year. The Jincheng Bay section of the dam has an altitude of 35 meters. When viewed from a distance, the entire dam looks like a connected high-rise building.

The Bashang Hotel is built on top of the dam.

When Old Henry came out of the pedestrian bridge, he saw the golden waves under the setting sun, and at the same time he saw the giant wall standing on one side of the golden waves, blocking it firmly: "It is really a magnificent scale."

"Is this the giant wall that the Seres people built to resist the will of nature?" This was the first time that Charlie, who had lost his sight, saw the magnificent dam in front of him.

Europeans called the dam built in Seres to resist rising sea levels the "Giant's Wall".

The two stood quietly for a while in the afterglow of the setting sun, then pulled their suitcases to the nearby Bashang Hotel.

The Bashang Hotel has five buildings, each 5 stories high and with 50 suites. It is one of the industries of the Hailufeng Group and is also one of the hotels that provides cheap housing services to the families of hospital patients.

After all, Hailufeng Group is not like other companies. If left alone, the economic growth brought by medical services to Shanmei may be damaged by the exploitation of private hotels, which will also enrich the private hotel operators.

Therefore, from a very early stage, Hailufeng Group has set up a large number of hotels in various places in Shantou and Meishan.

For example, near the Hailufeng General Hospital, there are as many as eight hotels invested by the Hailufeng Group. These eight hotels provide about 3.4 suites in the surrounding area.

If that’s not enough, the Hailufeng Group also has more than a dozen hotels in the local area and more than 40 tourist homestay villages that can provide accommodation services.

It is precisely because of such a huge housing supply, coupled with price control, that local hotel prices have been maintained within a relatively reasonable range.

The double room Charlie and old Henry booked cost only three hundred dollars a day.

If the hotel is near a popular hospital in other areas, and is located in the semi-touristy area of ​​Kanamachi Bay, it is obviously impossible to book a room at this price.

In fact, there are even cheaper accommodation services here, which is to go to the homestay village, where you can rent a 2000-square-meter suite on a monthly basis, usually for 100 yuan a month.

After Charlie put away his luggage, he and his father Henry Sr. came to Bashang District.

This type of dam area is very common in coastal areas of China today. This is also to make full use of land resources. The dam area is a functional area built on top of the sea-control dam.

On the pedestrian street near the sea, there are various food stalls and snack carts run by local villagers. As the sea breeze blows, the smell of various fireworks and spices floats in the air, making people drool involuntarily.

"Dad, try this oyster." Charlie used a tourist's mobile phone to scan the code and buy half a dozen salt-cho oysters. He picked up the scented lemon, squeezed some lemon juice, and handed it to old Henry.

Old Henry was an oyster lover in his hometown. He took the oyster shell, put his mouth to the edge of the shell and slowly took a sip. It was plump and refreshing, with a hint of ocean scent and a slight metallic taste. This taste would make people who like oysters unable to stop.

"good."

"Then have another one."

It didn't take long for the father and son to finish half a dozen oysters.

At this moment, two Europeans not far away greeted them with a smile.

"Hello friends, where are you from?"

Charlie turned around and smiled: "Hello, I'm Charlie from Paris, and this is my father Henry."

"Oh! I'm Gawain Van from the Netherlands, and this is my wife Jenny." The tall, thin middle-aged man with short curly hair stretched out his hand and introduced the middle-aged woman with glasses and a ponytail.

The four people introduced themselves to each other.

Jenny was also very surprised when she heard that Charlie came here for eye treatment: "In other words, your eyes have been cured? I thought the technology was not yet mature, but now it seems there is no problem!" "Aren't you here for medical tourism?" Charlie was a little surprised. After all, many foreign tourists who come to Shanmei come for medical tourism.

Gao Wen Fan shook his head and said, "No, we are here for academic exchange, but we are doing ecological research and don't know much about the medical field."

Henry was very happy to meet the two European ecologists: "I see. It is a great honor to meet you two."

"Mr. Gao Wen, how long do you plan to communicate?" Charlie asked about the itinerary.

Gao Wen Fan thought for a moment and said, "Hmm... maybe two weeks or so! We will be communicating with local ecological scholars in Lingnan about the ecological impacts of global sea level rise."

Old Henry asked with some concern: "Mr. Gawain, Europe has not built such a giant wall. Will the coastal areas be submerged in the future?"

Gao Wen Fan spread his hands helplessly: "This is the inevitable future. Even if the Asian Federation is desperately building photovoltaic films in Antarctica now, blocking a large part of the sunlight and slowing down the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, the melting of the Greenland and Arctic ice sheets will still cause the global sea level to rise by about 20 meters."

Old Henry sighed softly, "Alas! What's the point of Europe joining the North Atlantic Union? Once the global sea level rises by 20 meters, the coastal plains in southern and eastern North America will be submerged."

"These things are the games of big shots. We ordinary people have no way to change anything. We should just live our own lives well!" Gao Wen Fan comforted helplessly.

Old Henry looked a little unhappy: "My business is not doing well now. There are various restrictions on the products of the Asian Federation. It is really difficult for a small trading company like mine to survive!"

Jenny asked curiously, "Business? So Mr. Henry is in business. What kind of business are you in? I'm in the legal services business."

Hearing that the other party was engaged in legal services, Charlie smiled and explained: "My company mainly purchases medical equipment. In the past, we purchased some cheap medical equipment from Asia and then sold them to private hospitals and private clinics in Europe."

Jenny thought about something and then gave some suggestions: "Medical devices? This is indeed a bit troublesome. Recently, the North Atlantic Union has tightened restrictions on medical devices. You should make the transition as soon as possible!"

"We also want to transform, but we don't know what to do better." Old Henry was very troubled.

At this time, Gao Wen Fan laughed: "Mr. Henry, isn't there a good business right now?"

"In front of me?"

"It's organ transplantation!" Gao Wen Fan reminded.

"Organ transplant? Do you mean being an intermediary?" Old Henry immediately responded: "That's something we can consider..."

In fact, old Henry was already slow to react.

Now, some people in Europe and North America have already set their sights on this business and have begun to connect patients who need eye transplants and bring them to Seris for surgery.

Fortunately, this industry is just emerging now.

In the future, as non-rejection organ technology becomes more and more mature and more and more types of organ transplant surgeries are approved for use, it is estimated that more and more patients from other regions will come to Seris for treatment.

After all, after traditional organ transplant surgery, not only do you have to take anti-rejection drugs for a long time, but the transplanted organs can only last for a dozen years, and some can only last for a few years.

Non-rejection organs do not have obvious rejection and are very friendly to the body recovery of patients after organ transplantation.

Charlie in front of us is a living example.

Thinking of this, old Henry asked the Gawain couple to find a place to eat, while he edited an email on his mobile phone and sent it back to his eldest son in Gaul, asking him to study how to develop medical intermediary services.

As for old Henry, he had no intention of going back immediately.

Because he planned to inquire about the situation with some old friends in Seris in the next few days to avoid violating the laws of Seris in the process of conducting medical intermediary business.

The group came to a Chinese restaurant called "Wanghailou" for dinner.

"Henry, this restaurant specializes in local cuisine. I came here to eat a few days ago. It suits our taste very well."

Compared to the spicier Sichuan and Hunan cuisines, Cantonese cuisine is indeed more in line with European tastes. Even in terms of desserts, the high sugar content of traditional Cantonese dim sum is highly similar to European eating habits.

Of course, if it is a traditional Cantonese dim sum that has been modified in modern times, the sweetness will be reduced a lot.

You know, people in Shanmei area used to eat sweet noodles on their birthdays, and they would eat super sweet glutinous rice ball soup during the winter solstice.

However, some of the local Cantonese cuisine at Wanghailou has naturally been improved.

There is no way. Many traditional dishes now seem to have a bad taste and texture. We must take the essence and remove the dross.

The group found a seat by the window overlooking the sea and ordered six dishes.

While waiting for the food to be served, we started chatting.

After taking a sip of tea, Gawain sighed and said, "Mr. Henry, you in Gaul don't need to worry too much about rising sea levels, but we in the Netherlands are facing the risk of being submerged."

Old Henry also graduated from college, and his knowledge of European geography is much better than that of the American people: "Your low-lying countries are indeed much lower in altitude."

"Yes! Now I want to immigrate to Asia." Gao Wen said helplessly.

"Immigration to Asia? Isn't that difficult?" As an old Henry who has been engaged in Asia-Europe trade for a long time, he knows that the immigration restrictions in Asian countries, especially in East Asia and Northeast Asia, are very strict.

As Southeast Asia became part of the Asian Community, its restrictions on foreign immigration were also adjusted to be similar to those in Serbia.

"Haha, I know, but this does not mean there is no solution." Gawain narrowed his eyes slightly.

Charlie saw Gao Wen's expression and guessed: "Technical immigration? Investment immigration?"

"Neither. No need to bother."

Jenny on the side smiled and explained: "Australia, we plan to immigrate to Australia first, and wait for Australia to join the Asian Union. Then we will be a member of the Asian Union."

"Is this still possible?"

“But will Australia really join the Asian Community?”

Gawain said confidently: "They have no choice."

(End of this chapter)