Chapter 31: A Fatal Coincidence (3)
The heart was still beating violently, and although there was no sense of smell in the dream, the smell of blood was so real. Liu Ling felt that her entire chest was hot, and the inexplicable fear made her feel nauseous for no reason.
When she woke up, she found that Luo Zhen was not around, but just put a coat over her. Liu Ling looked around and found that there were more people in the corridor, and the sky was already bright.
Is it dawn? Liu Ling reacted suddenly, and she hurriedly looked at her phone. Only then did I find that the lock screen showed three missed calls, two from my aunt and one from my mother. Luo Zhen didn't know when to help her turn her phone to silent, so she wasn't woken up by the phone, and she didn't even hear the alarm at half past five.
"Are you awake?"
Luo Zhen ran over from a distance with two plastic bags in his hand, "Don't worry, my aunt has already received it, and now she is accompanying my uncle to do an inspection." Let's have breakfast first! By the way, do you want to call the unit to ask for leave? β
Liu Ling took the porridge with preserved eggs and lean meat, rubbed her temples, and smiled at Luo Zhen: "Thank you Officer Luo." β
"I have to go to the unit in a while, I don't have a clue about the case, and I guess I have to go back late today." Luo Zhen took a bite of the bun and said indistinctly.
Liu Ling suddenly remembered the dream she had just had, she hesitated for a moment, and said to Luo Zhen: "There is something... I think I'll tell you about it. β
Luo Zhen nodded and motioned for her.
"Before my uncle fell into a coma, he once said that he had gone to Baihua Lane for dinner at about seven o'clock yesterday evening." Liu Ling looked at Luo Zhen and said slowly.
Luo Zhen was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at Liu Ling: "Such a coincidence?" The time of the crime was more than seven o'clock. Where did my uncle eat the rice? β
"He didn't say, and I didn't ask." Liu Ling replied, "And that's..."
She was about to say anything when the elevator at the end of the corridor suddenly burst into a noise, drowning out her voice in an instant. Something seems to have gone wrong over there. "I'll take a look." Luo Zhen also noticed, he put down his breakfast and said to Liu Ling, and then quickly ran over.
"Exploded! Exploded! The head exploded! β
A hysterical male voice roared, almost shaking off the porridge bowl in Liu Ling's hand like thunder, and she quickly stood up and looked over there.
Through the crowd of people, Liu Ling saw a young man dressed as a migrant worker struggling frantically on a stretcher, and the nurses and doctors next to him were pressing him with all their might, trying to squeeze into the elevator. The man's face was flushed, and he waved his hands and feet desperately, as if the elevator room was the blood basin of the monster. During the pushing, he kicked a male nurse directly to the ground, causing screams all around.
After Luo Zhen ran over, he separated the crowd and took the initiative to help subdue the crazy patient and maintain order. Soon the elevator doors closed, the incident subsided, and the crowd gradually dispersed.
But Liu Ling's heart could no longer be calm, and the shouting words of the migrant workers just now were still in her ears.
"Exploded! Exploded! The head exploded! β
Why, why did he roar out that horrible nightmare he had just had? She didn't have the heart to eat breakfast anymore, and she looked at the breakfast box and was stunned.
"What's wrong?" Luo Zhen, who returned to his seat, saw that his girlfriend seemed to have an incorrect expression, and asked with concern.
Liu Ling was stunned for a moment and asked, "What happened just now?" β
"A migrant worker fell off the scaffold in the morning and went crazy when he was taken to the hospital. Just now, the doctor was going to send him to have a brain CT scan, but he didn't cooperate, so he shouted and exploded. Good guy, big strength! Luo Zhen sighed.
"Oh...," Liu Ling replied absentmindedly.
"Finished eating? Let's go and take care of my aunt. Luo Zhen threw the leftover food scraps into the trash can and pulled Liu Ling to stand up.
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At noon, outside the EICU where Lou Ming was located.
"You say, why did you fall into a coma? I can't wake up now, what can I do with your cousin! β
Looking at the sobbing middle-aged woman in front of her, Liu Ling kept comforting her and helping her wipe her tears.
"Mom, don't worry too much. The doctor said that there is no need for a craniotomy for the time being, which means that it is not so serious. The teenager next to him clasped his hands and tried to persuade the middle-aged woman, "Maybe Dad will wake up in the afternoon." He was wearing a wide blue school uniform, and his eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Lou Ming.
"What a disaster from the sky!" The middle-aged woman choked up, "I told your dad to retire and stop doing it, and now if it's like this, one day's hospitalization fee will cover half a year's income!" β
Liu Ling sighed, not knowing what to say. Luo Zhen has already gone to the unit, she took a day off to help take care of it here, and her cousin has to go to school in the afternoon.
"Don't worry too much about the family," Dr. Zhang suddenly appeared from around the corner, followed by a nurse, with a rare warm expression on his face, "The patient's condition is relatively stable now, and there is no danger to his life, rest assured!" After saying this, he walked straight forward, and the three of them did not react for a while.
"Doctor Zhang!"
A middle-aged man appeared out of nowhere, and suddenly blocked Dr. Zhang's way. He wore a yellow hard hat, his clothes were very shabby, his skin was dark, and his face was covered with dust.
Liu Ling found that this person was dressed very similarly to the man who went crazy before, could it be that he was also a migrant worker?
"Doctor Zhang, I really can't get together that much money! Can I transfer to a general ward first? The man looked at Dr. Zhang earnestly with a bitter face.
"No, your brother has a sudden cerebral hemorrhage now, his condition is very serious, and he must be admitted to the intensive care unit," Dr. Zhang shook his head firmly: "You hurry up and raise money, delaying the treatment of the patient will be life-threatening." β
Hearing this, Liu Ling chuckled in her heart.
"Here, where can I find 50,000 yuan, doctor!" The man cried out almost in despair.
Doctor Zhang patted the man's shoulder: "Knowing your difficulties, try to overcome them!" He said and walked forward, leaving the man stunned and unmoved for a long time.
Liu Ling couldn't suppress the doubt in her heart anymore, she ran to the man's side and asked in a low voice-
"Excuse me, is your brother, isn't itβ" She hesitated for a moment, and finally asked as if she had made up her mind, "Is it the one who went crazy in the elevator in the morning?" β
Hearing this, the man suddenly looked at her, his expression full of doubt. "Who are you?"
"Did he have a sudden acute cerebral hematoma?" Liu Ling didn't answer him, but continued to ask.
The man was even more curious: "yes, how do you know? Who the hell are you? β
Liu Ling pursed her lips, not knowing how to explain for a while. "My uncle is also an acute cerebral hematoma." She tried to clear her mind, "I had a dream that a man's head exploded, and I heard that your brother seemed to be... It seems that the head exploded..."The more she said it, the more she felt that she didn't know how to describe it.
"You had that dream too?" The man interrupted her and asked with a look of surprise.
Liu Ling was stunned: "Also?" β
The man whispered, "Several of our co-workers have had this dream, it's really evil. But how did you have this dream? β
"What?" Liu Ling was stunned, she didn't expect things to become so confusing.
"Just last night, everyone's dreams are the same." The man recounted to himself, "I dreamed of a man with an exploding head and blood everywhere. It's really strange, no one knows him! β
"Around seven o'clock last night," Liu Ling suddenly looked at the man, "where are you and what are you doing?" β
The man was startled when he heard this, and looked at Liu Ling with wide eyes.