Xiao Chen ran all the way with Luo Ling on his back to the school hospital. Chen Hansheng, who was behind him, panted and said, "I can't tell, Xiao Xiao! You are skinny, but you have good physical strength, much better than Li Jiake."
"Me? Good stamina?" Xiao Chen then realized that he had actually carried a person on his back and ran three or four hundred meters without realizing it. This had never been his strong point, perhaps it was just that danger had stimulated one's potential.
The hospital was not destroyed in the disaster, which was a great blessing. There were not many injured in this disaster, but because there were few medical staff who traveled through time, the hospital was still very busy. When Xiao Chen and his friends walked into the hospital, the waiting room was almost full of lightly injured patients who were resting. The air was filled with a faint smell of blood, and from time to time the injured groaned in pain. The doctors and nurses were so busy that they were nowhere to be seen. Chen Hansheng shouted a few times before a female doctor hurried out from the consulting room next to him.
"Isn't this Doctor Feng?" Chen Hansheng immediately recognized Feng Yao who stormed into the meeting room. But Feng Yao was obviously in no mood to greet him. She asked Xiao Chen to put Luo Ling on a bed, and quickly checked her pupils and mouth with a flashlight, and also checked her blood pressure, pulse, body temperature and breathing. While checking, she asked about Luo Ling's condition before and after she fell into a coma. Then she pulled off the bandage on her forehead and checked the wound that had begun to scab.
"Her signs and reactions are all normal. She shouldn't be in such a coma. I think it's caused by extreme mental fatigue. Keep her in the hospital for observation. I'll ask the nurses who are free to come and rebandage her wounds."
"Don't you need a deeper inspection?" Xiao Chen couldn't help but ask.
"We are really short of manpower, and there are many seriously injured patients waiting for treatment. In her case, there shouldn't be any major danger. Can you two measure blood pressure?"
Xiao Chen nodded.
"Take this blood pressure monitor and thermometer. Check her blood pressure every hour and keep an eye on her temperature. If there are any major changes, or convulsions, vomiting, incontinence, or other obvious symptoms, call me."
Xiao Chen felt a little embarrassed. It was hard to associate Luo Ling, who had shared hardships with him and was independent and strong, with a patient who wanted him to pay attention to his feces and urine.
"Can you do it?" Feng Yao asked anxiously. There were so many patients that she had almost no time to waste.
"Oh, okay! Okay!" Xiao Chen came back to his senses and took the blood pressure monitor.
At this time, a group of people rushed in from the hospital gate with loud shouts. They were carrying an old man on a simple stretcher, and a young man carrying the stretcher shouted, "Doctor, come quickly, doctor, this teacher was just dug out by us, and he is seriously injured."
"Isn't this Professor Ge?" Xiao Chen recognized the old gentleman, who was an authority on urban planning at the school. When Xiao Chen was researching urbanization, he went to his classes and asked him many questions. In his impression, the old man was not only humorous and professional, but also very caring towards his students. He quickly ran to the stretcher and found that the old gentleman was very pale, his brows were knitted in pain, his eyes were slightly open, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and there were bloodstains at the corners of his mouth. His body was covered in dust, and his legs were obviously broken and bent very unnaturally. Xiao Chen called him several times, but Professor Ge didn't seem to respond, just hummed a few times.
"The right femur is fractured, the left tibia is an open fracture, and the internal organs may still be bleeding. The wounds need to be treated immediately and further examined." Feng Yao called a nurse and gave her instructions.
Before she could finish her words, a woman in her thirties rushed in holding a seven or eight-year-old child. The child was crying, but the sound was very weak, like a cat's meow. Seeing Feng Yao standing at the door in a white coat, the woman rushed to her and begged, "Doctor, please save my daughter. She, she is trapped underneath. I dug her out."
The woman's hands were bloody. It was unknown how long she had dug in the rubble before she dug the child out. The child's head was covered in blood, and it was obvious that she had suffered a head injury. She lay motionless in the woman's arms. The woman could no longer control her emotions. She kept talking in a rambling voice: "They said they couldn't find the location and definitely couldn't dig her out, but I dug her out. They said she was so badly injured that she was about to die. I didn't believe it! Please save her, save her."
Xiao Chen looked at it, feeling miserable, and couldn't bear to listen to Feng Yao's answer. A mother held the greatest hope and tried her best, but in the end, she got the dead body of her child. How heartbreaking it was. We can accept the casualties of an adult more calmly, but in front of these little angels who left too early, we seem very fragile and powerless.
However, Feng Yao's answer contained a glimmer of hope, "There's still a heartbeat. Send him to the operating room for emergency treatment immediately."
"But what about Professor Ge?" Xiao Chen was also very happy that the little girl could still be saved, but seeing Professor Ge lying here in such a miserable state was not a solution. He could not ask Feng Yao to save Professor Ge first, but just hoped that Feng Yao had a way to achieve the best of both worlds.
"But other doctors are also doing surgery, and now I'm the only one left." Feng Yao looked at the two patients in critical condition and was at a loss for words. The little girl's condition was even more critical, and her life might be just a few minutes away. But Professor Ge was not optimistic either. After all, he was over 70 years old. If he were a young man, he might still have hope until the little girl's surgery was over, but at such an old age, his body was too weak to wait.
"First...save...the child!" A faint voice came from the bed. Professor Ge woke up at some point. After saying this, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength. He bent over the bed and panted for a long time, "Go...quickly."
Feng Yao finally made up her mind. She asked the nurse to treat Professor Ge's wound and send him to the radiology department for an X-ray. She then said to Xiao Chen, "If you know the professor, you can talk to him and distract him. He must be in great pain right now. Wait until I or other doctors are free and perform the surgery right away."
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The nurse placed Professor Ge and Luo Ling in an empty ward. After doing the basic treatment, she went to see other injured people. Only Xiao Chen was left to look after them. Chen Hansheng, who had been exhausted all day, did not stay here to rest, but rushed to the disaster relief site without stopping. According to him, since he could still swing the shovel, he would try to dig out a few more people.
After Professor Ge was given an injection of painkillers, he felt much better and was no longer in so much pain that he couldn't even speak. However, he was a little depressed and couldn't say much. He just listened to Xiao Chen talk about the situation outside.
"It's not just... an earthquake, right?" Professor Ge shook his head when he heard Xiao Chen describe the incident as an earthquake. "Don't hide it from me. Something strange must have happened. Look, this window should look south to the library. But the setting sun is hanging next to the library now. How can the sun set from the south?"
Xiao Chen was speechless for a moment. He didn't expect Professor Ge to be so sharp despite being seriously injured. He didn't want to tell such a bizarre situation to a dying person, for fear that he would be frightened and affect his injury. But now, he had to tell him the real situation. Xiao Chen talked for a long time, from underground to above ground, from himself to Li Jia, and Professor Ge listened very attentively.
"A different world..." He sighed after Xiao Chen finished speaking. Somehow, after hearing the news of time travel, Professor Ge did not panic or get worried like Xiao Chen had worried. Instead, he showed a look of longing. "I really want to see this new world."
"You will get better, there is no rush." Xiao Chen said.
"You don't understand. For an old man like me who doesn't have much time, all new things are so interesting." Professor Ge was a little excited. "Just think about it, how do people in other worlds organize society, how do they build cities, how many unique buildings there are, and what kind of aesthetic culture they have formed? This is such an interesting thing."
Xiao Chen had no choice but to nod in agreement.
"I feel a little regretful now. Regretful." The old man shook his head and hummed a few words.
Xiao Chen thought he regretted giving the opportunity of treatment to the little girl, and couldn't help but sigh. Unexpectedly, he said: "I regret letting them carry me to the hospital. I don't know if I can get out. I would rather they carry me to the side of the school, let me see the scenery of this world, and then look at the local town from afar. That way it won't be a loss."
"You are right. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Good people like you will definitely be rewarded."
Professor Ge chuckled twice, shook his head and said, "Let's not talk about retribution. I've seen a lot of things in my life, such as killing people and setting fires for gold belts, and building bridges and roads without corpses. I just don't want to make a loss-making business before I die. Money can be earned back if it is lost. But if conscience is lost, how can it be made up?" He raised his eyes with great effort, looked at Xiao Chen seriously and said, "Actually, I am afraid of death. But I am more afraid of becoming a shameless old thing. I am afraid... I am afraid..."
Professor Ge kept repeating the word "fear", so Xiao Chen held his hand, trying to comfort the old man. But suddenly, he found that the old man's tightly clenched hands stiffened for a while, and then relaxed. The words he repeated over and over gradually died down.
Xiao Chen cried out in surprise, and gently placed his hand in front of his nose, only to find that he was no longer breathing...
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When Feng Yao arrived at the ward, she saw Xiao Chen standing quietly in front of the window, not knowing what she was thinking, and Professor Ge's bed was covered with a white sheet. When Xiao Chen heard her come in, he turned around and asked nervously, "How is the child?"
"He's stable. Although he's not completely out of danger, the situation is improving." Feng Yao walked to Professor Ge's bed, pulled away the white cloth, and quietly looked at his uneasy face.
"Finally..." Hearing this news, Xiao Chen felt relieved. He also walked to Professor Ge's bedside. "He passed away peacefully."
"He was the one who gave the girl the opportunity. Her mother was also exhausted and she even asked me to thank the professor."
"I hope the girl can get better soon. One day, I can take her to see the world." Xiao Chen also said, looking at Professor Ge's face.
"Who... are you going to take to see the world?" Another female voice sounded, and Xiao Chen's heart skipped a beat. He turned around and saw a sick beauty leaning on the bed, looking at him with big eyes as if talking.