The emergency room of the downtown hospital is probably one of the busiest places in the city, and it's busy every day.

The blue light on the roof of the ambulance parked at the entrance of the courtyard has not been turned off, and people's eyes are still flashing through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows in the hall.

The hall was already overcrowded, and the air was filled with the faint smell of disinfectant water.

Lin Chen: They arrived at about five o'clock in the evening.

When he arrived, Lin Chen didn't see the fat man, he walked back and forth a few times, looked around, in the corridor, on the corner, those leaning against the wall, sitting, standing, snuggling, weak patients and their families, helplessly waiting for the doctors to call the call.

The place Lin Chen is most reluctant to go to is probably the hospital, in his impression, the hospital will always be a solemn place, this is the closest to heaven, so here, human nature is also the most fragile.

Xu Aqi tiptoed, constantly looking around in the crowd, looking for it.

"Otherwise, you'd better call the fat man again! Tell him we're here and tell him to come to us! As she spoke, she pulled her phone out of her bag and took out a jam-filled biscuit that slipped from her fingertips and onto the floor.

Xu Aqi picked it up from the ground and handed it to Lin Chen, "If you're hungry, you can eat it first and fill your stomach!" ”

"No, it's already here!"

Lin Chen pointed.

In the crowd, Jin Shiyou, medical staff in white coats, and a few people they didn't know were pushing a gurney over.

"Let's go, let's go!" shouted a white coat.

The flow of people gave way to a passageway.

"32 years old, persistent epilepsy!"

The words of one white coat to another white coat waiting at the door of the emergency room poured into Lin Chen's ears.

Lin Chen relied on his height advantage to squeeze through the flow of people and come over.

He stretched his neck and glanced at the gurney, and it was Ye Jiangchuan who was lying on it.

His eyes were closed, his whole body still twitching severely, and he intermittently let out "Ahhhhh His arms and legs were waving unconsciously. The seizures made Ye Jiangchuan squirm from time to time, and sometimes burst out with shouts, like an animal roaring helplessly.

That voice attracted countless watchful eyes.

A nurse rushed over and helped him replace the empty IV bag, Ye Jiangchuan's gurney was pushed into the emergency room, and the door of the emergency room was completely closed.

In the emergency room, the doctors were rescuing Ye Jiangchuan.

I didn't see the fat man all the time, Lin Chen looked around and found that Xu Aqi was also gone. He estimated that maybe Ah Qi was called away by the fat man, and he didn't know what he was busy with.

In the corridor outside the emergency room, Lin Chen noticed a man who looked like an old man, his face was dark, and he stood silently alone by the window for a while, and then slowly squatted on the ground, looking in the direction of the emergency room with empty eyes.

Lin Chen guessed, this should be Ye Jiangchuan's father.

"Uncle, there's a chair over there!" Lin Chen paused for a moment and stepped forward.

The old man opened his mouth and said nothing.

Lin Chen carried him to the rest chair by the window, and the old man's attention was always focused on the door of the rescue room, looking up from time to time.

"It's going to be fine, don't worry!" Lin Chen said.

The old man turned his head sideways, looked at Lin Chen, his eyes were full of red bloodshots, looked at him in a daze for a while, and then buried his head deep in his arms.

No one spoke, and the minutes passed.

"Isn't he all right? How did this suddenly happen? ”

The old man's words finally broke the silence.

Without waiting for Lin Chen to answer, the door of the emergency room opened, and a doctor came out and asked, "Who are Ye Jiangchuan's relatives?" ”

"I am, how is he?"

The old man hurriedly stood up and stepped forward, and Lin Chen followed.

"It's a little calmer, and I need to do a lumbar puncture, that is, I need to take a part of the cerebrospinal fluid at the bottom of the spine for testing, and I need your signature!"

"Oh! Is his life in danger? ”

The old man's voice could be heard with trepidation, and he shuddered and handed over the signed form.

"We'll do our best, the best doctors are here! Oh, by the way, has he had anything other than a car accident recently, I mean, like quitting alcohol, using addictive drugs? The white coat asked.

The old man tilted his head and shook his head inexplicably.

"No, no, probably not! We've been together for a while, and he doesn't seem to be very good at drinking, and as for that drug, he shouldn't use it, so why does he use that! ”

A blue-uniformed worker next to him who Lin Chen didn't know replied, and he continued: "I'm also strange, I saw that he was fine two days ago, and everyone thought it was okay!" How can you suddenly have a seizure! ”

"The condition will recur, I'll go in first!"

The doctor, apparently uninterested in continuing the conversation, interjected, and then turned around and walked back to the emergency room.

Lin Chen exchanged a few words with the worker, and then helped the old man to sit back on the bench.

In the emergency room.

After a short period of calm, Ye Jiangchuan writhed his body in pain again, the gurney seemed to be electrified, he let out a long, painful roar, his face was almost deformed, his face was almost deformed, the green tendons on his neck jumped violently, and his hands kept scratching back and forth in the air.

The medical staff finally pressed him to the bed, and the doctor injected a tranquilizer into his curled body, and soon, Ye Jiangchuan finally calmed down again.

After a while, the white coat came out of the emergency room again.

"Doctor, Ye Jiangchuan?"

The old man couldn't wait to meet him.

"The patient's epilepsy is now under control, but it is not completely out of danger, and the test results are out, he has meningitis, which may be caused by a severe brain injury!"

"Can a car accident cause meningitis?" Lin Chen asked puzzled.

"The meninges are the membranes between the skull and the spine, and the cerebrospinal fluid runs between them, and meningitis is a lesion that is infected and swollen with the meninges. Generally speaking, most of it is caused by viruses, and a small part is caused by bacteria, which are more dangerous than virals. ”

"Then which kind of Ye Jiangchuan is?" Lin Chen asked.

"Bacterial, it's still dangerous!"

After hearing what the doctor said, Ye Jiangchuan's father was a little at a loss, and he asked timidly: "Then, can it be treated?" ”

"At present, it is mainly treated by antibiotics, of course, even if the treatment is timely, there will still be a mortality rate of about 30%, we have encountered comminuted fractures in car accidents, wound infections leading to meningitis, Ye Jiangchuan's situation is still being evaluated. Another specialist will come in for a consultation in a moment. By the way, his coma may continue, maybe for hours, days, maybe weeks, maybe it will go on forever, you have to be mentally prepared. ”

The white coat spoke calmly and rationally, and there was also a hint of cruelty oozing.

"Oh!" Father Ye frowned slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it after all.

The white coat glanced at the nurse's desk over there and said, "I'll go in first, if there's something, you can find a nurse!" With that, he went back to the emergency room.

After a while, Xu Aqi walked over with a bowl of steaming instant noodles in his hand and the fat man walked over one after the other.

"Where have you been?" Lin Chen asked.

"Help the old man go through the formalities!" The fat man handed over the receipt materials to Father Ye and said, "Take a look, right?" ”

"Thank you!"

Father Ye didn't look at it, and directly stuffed the receipts of the money recovered into his pocket.

"Eat it while it's hot!" Xu Aqi handed over the soaked noodles.

Lin Chen looked at her, took the noodles, held them in front of Father Ye, and said, "Uncle, you haven't eaten yet, have you?" Let's eat first! ”

Father Ye stretched out his hand and pushed the instant noodles back, and said politely: "Young man, you can eat it!" I don't have an appetite! He sighed again and said, "If he doesn't come out, I won't be able to eat anything!" Just now, the doctor said that I should be mentally prepared, you say, what does that mean? ”

Lin Chen didn't push anymore, took a noodle in his mouth, thought about it, and comforted: "Uncle, don't worry too much, the doctor means that 99% of the time it will get better, and 1% of it will get better more slowly!" This is a small probability! How slow it is, they can't say! ”

"Oh! That's it! That's good! ”

Father Ye said this, but judging from his frowning brows, he may have guessed that it was just a comforting word.

A few white coats pushed a patient with a hanging bottle walking by, Lin Chen looked up, and saw an old lady lying on the gurney, with a tube in her nose, and her porcelain white eyes like a ping-pong ball were originally glancing at the ceiling, but when they passed by him, they suddenly turned to him, and the moment they met his gaze, Lin Chen's heart unconsciously raised his throat.

I don't know why, during this time, when Lin Chen saw the eyes of this old lady with many white eyes and small black eyes, he would have an inexplicable fear in his heart.

Until the gurney was pushed away, Lin Chen's heart was still "pounding".

"I wonder how he got into a car accident and flew out of his seat for no reason! Lin Chen, you talk about it, it's like magic, like... Resemble... It's like a fantasy movie, it was good, but it flew out and fell to the ground, but fortunately there was no car behind, is there anything more evil than this? ”

The fat man sat on the bench opposite, sighed and said.

Lin Chen frowned, shook his head slightly, and his gaze fell on Father Ye's body.

The old man didn't know when he squatted alone in the corner without saying a word, leaning on his already hunched back, his temples were white, and there were only a few strands of sparse hair left on the top of his head, he held his head in his hands, silent, and he could see his panic and nervousness.

Lin Chen stood up and walked over.

"Uncle, Ye Jiangchuan will definitely be fine, he is young, in good health, and has strong resistance, he will be fine!"

"I'm just such a son! How did this happen, alas! The old man rubbed his face with his hands, rubbing away some of his tiredness, but what he couldn't wipe away was anxiety.

Time slipped away minute by minute, second by second in people's panic.

About another two hours passed, and the door to the emergency room opened again.

"Doctor! How's he doing? ”

Several people almost unanimously stepped forward.

Bai Da said: "The glucose content in Ye Jiangchuan's cerebrospinal fluid is very low, indicating that the brain lesion is very serious, and it depends on whether the antibiotics can play a role in time, and if it is good, it can be rescued." You also have to be mentally prepared, this needs to be signed by the family! ”

Father Ye was stunned for a moment, and did not take the piece of paper in the doctor's hand, Lin Chen took it. It was a critical illness notice. Lin Chen glanced at it and silently handed it to Father Ye.

"It's nothing, it just means that there will be danger, but it doesn't have to happen! Right, doctor! This involves the issue of responsibility, so it is necessary to sign, and it is really nothing! Uncle, sign it! Lin Chen explained.

Father Ye took it at this time, silently took out the pen from the pocket of his clothes, and signed it without looking at it.

in the rescue room.

Ye Jiangchuan's condition suddenly deteriorated again, with a high fever of forty-two degrees, convulsions all over his body, and he was extremely uncomfortable, but his thinking was very clear, and he could clearly realize that the doctors were busy.

An impact sent the weak man flying, and his head hit something. Ye Jiangchuan opened his eyes, there was a road in front of him, not far away, across the bumper of the car, like a slow-motion movie, he saw that he was thrown between the tree and the car, gradually moving towards death...

Gradually, Ye Jiangchuan felt that his mouth couldn't make a sound, he couldn't say a word, he knew that his pupils began to dilate, spread, and then he couldn't see anything, he felt that he was getting weaker and weaker, and he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes...

Minutes and seconds passed.

The doctors gathered around him, and they found that, despite their best efforts, at this moment, at 9:22, seventeen seconds, his heart had stopped beating and his pulse was completely gone.