Five years old kid, no matter how genius she was, she was still a kid. Seeing that she couldn"t learn one language overnight, they injected her new medicines with latest formula. Though it wasn"t the result they expected, it worked better than before.
They reduced her sleeping time from six hours to three hours. With language cla.s.s, she learnt general knowledge, science, politics, mathematics, religion, philosophy. They wanted early result. The pressure they gave her, made her hair grew white in a week.
Seeing her like that, they stopped teaching her language and took her in the center of the laboratory. There, they injected her with HIV. Human Immunodeficiency Virus broke down certain cells in her immune system that was her body"s defense against diseases that helped her stay healthy. The symptoms started to show within two weeks.
No matter how much she ate, she grew tired easily, she would have headache and muscles pain, her throat would be sore and she would have fever. It was called First Stage: Acute HIV Infection.
As she was still being educated, she didn"t have time to rest. Her health deteriorated sooner than anyone expected and as a result her progress was slower than usual.
After her immune system lost the battle with HIV, though she was given medicine, the flu-like symptoms went away. It turned out to be the Second Stage: Chronic HIV Infection. During this time, untreated HIV began killing CD4 T-cells and destroying her immune system.
The researchers went astonished that her body couldn"t keep up with HIV even though they gave her medicine. They started to investigate and tested her blood.
The fact was that normal number of CD4 cells were between 450 and 1,400 cells per microliter. But without treatment, the number of CD4 cells would drop significantly. As the number dropped, and Hua Lan would be vulnerable to other infections.
The researchers found out that she easily went to the second stage if HIV because the number of CD4 cells in her body dropped and it was because her body didn"t get the medicine.
They also discovered that she didn"t take medicine for whole two months which caused her this. They looked into the reports and saw that she began hating medicine as they always forced her to take tablets and liquids. But after giving her HIV, they told her that if she wanted to live, she had to take medicine. It was a psychological test.
At this period, the tiny hope of her father would come and save her was gone. She soon forgot her father, mother and little brother. She had no emotion, no feelings. She was more like a living corpse. If she gave her food, she ate; if they taught her, she leant; if she scolded her, she would do nothing but listen.
But now they gave her a path to choose. They gave her two choices; she could live like this or she could die and end this misery. She chose the latter. She stopped taking medicine, though she felt more weak day by day, she endured without uttering a single world. She thought that it was better than living in a cage like this.
After finding out the truth behind her health deterioration, the researchers became angry. They spent billions of dollars on her and she was trying to kill herself. The female scientists scolded ad hit her and the male scientists threatened her. But nothing worked against Hua Lan. She didn"t take medicine. Seeing her like this, they tied her up again and restricted her movement. They forced her to eat. Whatever she had eaten, she vomited out them all. Then, they used another statistic. They gave her tube nutrition and medicine.
However, it didn"t prevent her to go on the third stage of HIV which was AIDS. At this point, her CD4 T-cell number dropped below 200. She suffered from Kaposi"s sarcoma (a form of skin cancer) or pneumocystis pneumonia (a lung disease). Her body weight lost unexplainably; she sweated a lot at night; purple spots on her body could be seen; her breathing was short; she had severe, long-lasting diarrhea; fever wouldn"t go down; if she cut her skin, her bleeding wouldn"t stop; She suffered from yeast infections in her mouth and throat.
She was almost in the death door, when they scientists invented their dream creation. At last, they were able to give her the only drug that could cure her incurable disease. Though the scientists weren"t sure if it was going to work or not, they hoped to be successful.
After injecting their dream creation which was called elixir, in two days, Hua Lan became healthier and her illness reduced. She progress was faster than before.
The scientists too her blood sample and discovered that she was completely healed. Not only she was cured from the most incurable virus, but also her brain worked better.
Therefore, the researchers planned on testing her capability. They restarted her language cla.s.s and also gave her music lessons, drama lessons, drawing and painting lessons, martial arts lessons.
Remarkably, it took her two months to learn the most ancient languages including Latin and Ancient Greek, she could even write fluently in those languages. It took her a month to learn how to play piano, violin, cello, flute, zithar, ehru and guqin. She could even paint at that age. It took her three months to learn Kung-Fu. Even her body became stronger in less than two months where it took Kung-Fu masters years of practices.
Seeing her ability to learn so fast, they let her use computer. She still had no idea what it was, but it became her favorite thing. She played with her new toy day and night. And one day, she hacked the security system of the research center.
Her every movement, att.i.tude, her improvement, everything was written in details. She was treated differently from others. Like before, no scientist or researcher scolded her or threatened her. They always smiled at her whenever they saw her and asked if she was fine.