Lin Fan opened his eyes and saw a white ceiling.
Where is this? She was a little confused.
Thinking back, I seemed to be looking at Pangu just now... Pangu fell...
"Lin Fan?" Jin Sichen quickly realized that Lin Fan was awake. "How are you feeling? Are you feeling unwell?"
Lin Fan wanted to shake his head, but he felt unable to move.
Jin Sichen keenly noticed something was wrong: "What's wrong?"
"I can't move." Lin Fan frowned slightly.
"Doctor Xiao!" Jin Sichen quickly pressed the bedside pager and shouted, "Lin Fan can't move!"
Dr. Xiao was still waiting in the conference room and had not left work yet.
Lin Fan was still unconscious. According to Jin Sichen, he would have to wait seven hours, but it was already past six. When the communicator rang, she was considering whether to go to the ward to check.
There were two pagers at the bedside of the ward, one linked to Dr. Xiao's and the other to Wu Yi's. The pagers were for emergency communication; they didn't ring, but simply transmitted the sound. So when Jin Sichen's words came through, even though they were quiet, they silenced the entire conference room.
Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing and rushed out.
At the same time, Song Ren and Li Chunhua, who were outside the ward, also heard Jin Sichen's cry. They had already seen Lin Fan open his eyes from the surveillance video, but they hadn't had the opportunity to enter.
"Lin Fan can't move?" Li Chunhua became particularly nervous about Lin Fan after changing her stance.
Song Ren took a few steps to the other side of the bed and took a quick look around.
Lin Fan's face was still pale, his eyes still weakly open, and he looked even weaker than before, listless and listless.
There was a flurry of footsteps in the corridor. Zhang Zhaojie and the others rushed in, leaving Dr. Xiao behind. The spacious room was instantly packed with people.
"Lin Fan, how are you feeling?" Doctor Xiao took a deep breath and squeezed over to the head of the bed. Knowing she couldn't move, he leaned his head closer.
"I can't move." Lin Fan replied, looking at Doctor Xiao's big face.
The inability to move might be due to nerve damage. But she could open her eyes and speak... Doctor Xiao frowned slightly and put his hand above Lin Fan's eyes: "Look at my hand."
She moved her fingertips slowly, and Lin Fan's eyes followed suit: "Can you see clearly?"
"Sure." Lin Fan replied.
Doctor Xiao pulled Lin Fan's right hand out from under the quilt again: "Can you feel it?"
“…No.” Lin Fan replied after a pause.
Doctor Xiao's expression changed, and he frowned. He squeezed it again, "No feeling?"
Lin Fan didn't say anything.
The onlookers watched as Lin Fan's hand was squeezed by Doctor Xiao until all the blood disappeared, but she remained unaware.
Doctor Xiao suddenly let go, and Lin Fan's hand and entire arm fell heavily on the bed.
What should we do... Everyone felt something was wrong and became nervous.
Dr. Xiao took a few steps to the foot of the bed and lifted the quilt from her feet.
The others watched silently, not daring to breathe, as Dr. Xiao pinched Lin Fan's foot and asked, "Do you feel anything?"
Lin Fan said nothing.
Doctor Xiao didn't give up. He took out a pen from his pocket and scratched Lin Fan's foot with the tip of the pen. "Now what?"
Still no answer.
Lin Fan seemed to realize what was wrong with him and didn't want to speak.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Is there something wrong with the nerves? Doctor Xiao calmly and quickly analyzed the situation. Undeterred, she returned to Lin Fan's side and pressed hard on her cheek. "Do you feel anything here?"
“…Yes.” Lin Fan, whose head was pressed sideways, uttered a word vaguely and straightened his head.
…
"You can move?!" Dr. Xiao discovered with surprise.
Lin Fan also noticed it. She tried turning her neck again and it indeed moved slowly.
"What about other places?" Doctor Xiao was eager again. But after waiting for a long time, there was no movement.
"...It seems not to work." Lin Fan felt it and it seemed that only his neck could move.
"But she couldn't even move her neck just now." Jin Sichen said on the side.
Doctor Xiao touched his neck again and felt something, and there was also a little feeling below his shoulders.
Doctor Xiao probed downwards little by little, kneading the arm up and down in the process, and unexpectedly discovered that Lin Fan's fingertips moved.
"Hands on!" Wu Yi, standing at the end of the bed, also saw the subtle movement clearly. "Do we need to massage her limbs?"
"Let's give it a try!" Doctor Xiao also had the same idea and grabbed the arm in his hand and pressed it professionally.
Song Ren, who was standing on the other side, didn't care about much. He took out Lin Fan's left hand from the quilt and began to massage with even force.
Seeing that someone was pressing both of his hands, Wu Yi lifted the quilt and pressed Lin Fan's left leg.
Li Chunhua also wanted to help, and saw Jin Sichen quickly walk to Lin Fan's right leg, bend down and press carefully.
The others stood quietly, watching the people busying around nervously, looking forward to the results.
If Lin Fan becomes paralyzed, then nothing will happen to him from now on.
Lin Fan gently raised her neck and saw four people concentrating on massaging her, with a bunch of people staring at her. She felt very embarrassed and a little ashamed. But after a while, she didn't care about these things anymore.
The pain comes suddenly!
Starting from the place where it was pressed, there was a stinging pain like being pricked by needles, the frequency gradually increased, and it quickly spread throughout the body.
I didn't know where the pain came from, as if it was poured into my body for no reason, a little bit at first, then it became thick and dense, and after a moment it penetrated my heart and bones.
"Hiss..." She couldn't help but gasp, and the four of them stopped at the same time.
"What's wrong?" Yu Guangli saw Lin Fan's usually expressionless face begin to frown.
"Lin Fan..." Before Dr. Xiao could ask, Song Ren suddenly felt a movement under his hand. He looked down and saw that Lin Fan's left hand was curled up.
"It's moving!" Zhang Zhaojie shouted with sharp eyes, attracting several people to look over.
Massage works!
But Lin Fan was obviously wrong.
"Lin Fan, how are you?" Jin Sichen asked worriedly.
"It hurts..." Lin Fan clenched her teeth. The intense pain made her eyes go black.
"Where does it hurt?" Song Ren asked. Did they hit too hard?
"...It hurts everywhere..." Lin Fan squeezed out four words from between his teeth. The part above his shoulders began to tremble, a physiological reaction to the pain. However, there was still no reaction below his shoulders.
Everyone was worried, but only Dr. Xiao remained calm.
She pressed Lin Fan's upper arm, "Don't you feel anything here yet?"
"...It hurts..." Lin Fan groaned.
"Does it hurt here? Lin Fan, bear it for now and tell me if you can really feel the pain when I press here?" Doctor Xiao was very sure that he didn't feel anything when he pressed here just now.
“…Yes…” Lin Fan’s right fingertips also began to twitch.
"Here?" Doctor Xiao pressed on Lin Fan's elbow, but he didn't respond.
"Keep pressing!" Doctor Xiao ordered decisively, kneading his subordinate's arm vigorously. The other three also hardened their hearts, ignoring Lin Fan's reaction and pressing hard.
"But she cried out in pain..." Li Chunhua was puzzled.
"It's right that it hurts. Didn't you see that she can move her hands now?" Doctor Xiao replied without looking up. "Her body just lost its sensitivity to external stimuli. I don't know why, but pressure can obviously restore it. It hurts... but there's nothing I can do about it!"
Jin Sichen and Song Ren had thought of this a long time ago, and Wu Yi also understood it.
It's normal to feel pain when falling from a height; it's abnormal not to feel pain. Compared to pain, not feeling anything is even scarier.
The others hid at the end of the bed, watching quietly as Lin Fan gradually regained control of his body in pain, his entire body beginning to tremble slightly in pain.
Doctor Xiao finally stopped operating after making sure that all parts of the body could move and the joint reflexes were normal, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"I should be fine." This is the normal reaction to a fall from height. Even if the test results are clear, the pain will not disappear for no reason. The video clearly shows that Lin Fan hit the ground hard. Doctor Xiao gave the order: "Wu Yi, prepare the pain pump!"
Wu Yi tidied up Lin Fan's quilt and went next door to get medicine.
"Wait!" Kuang Li stopped her.
"What are you doing?" Wu Yi was unhappy. Lin Fan was groaning in pain beside her. Why was this man stopping her?
"What medicine do you want?" Kuang Li pressed on. As someone in the biochemical world, he knew a lot about medicine.
Wu Yi replied directly: "For a traumatic injury like hers, she needs to take opioid painkillers. To prevent vomiting, she will also take antiemetics."
The pain pump had been installed by Dr. Xiao to prevent Lin Fan from experiencing pain upon waking. Wu Yi had installed it himself, so he could simply go and get it.
Li Chunhua stepped forward to separate the two and looked at Kuang Li strangely: "Why are you asking this?"
Kuang Li looked at everyone's puzzled gazes and asked seriously, "Are you sure Lin Fan can take painkillers?"
"What do you mean?" Ke Wenbin asked.
"What is the pain-relieving principle of painkillers?" Kuang Li asked Wu Yi.
Wu Yi didn't understand what was going on, but he still answered obediently: "Opioid painkillers work by acting on the opioid receptors in the central nervous system, blocking the transmission of pain impulses and producing analgesic effects."
"What's the problem?" Zhang Zhaojie didn't know what was so good about asking. As long as the painkiller could relieve the pain, it didn't matter what principle it worked on.
"...Are you worried that painkillers will affect the central nervous system?" Jin Sichen reacted.
"Yes." Kuang Li is an expert in biochemistry and is very sensitive to changes.
"It may not have any impact, right?" Yu Guangli expressed his opinion hesitantly.
"What if?" Kuang Li refused to budge. "If the root cause of Lin Fan's transformation lies in her nerves, who can guarantee there won't be any problems if we administer medication to her central nervous system now? What if the medication has adverse effects and she can no longer transform?"
"If I remember correctly, she hasn't taken any medication in a long time. That means, aside from food, her body hasn't been exposed to any other external contaminants." Kuang Li defined the effects of medication as pollution. "Doctor Jin also said that the medications she took previously had many side effects. If it was precisely these side effects that caused the changes in her body that led to the transformation, would the introduction of a new medication disrupt this balance?"
Everyone was silent. They all felt that what Kuang Li said made sense.
Li Chunhua understood what Kuang Li meant. It wasn't just painkillers; it sounded like he didn't want Lin Fan to use any medication until he found out the cause of his transformation.
"What should we do now?" Zhang Zhaojie swallowed.
Everyone looked at Lin Fan, who was lying on the hospital bed, breathing rapidly, trembling slightly, and groaning from time to time, and they were at a loss as to what to do.
"You want her to just fight it out?!" Li Chunhua was incredulous. "But... if it hurts too much, she'll die, right?!"
"She appears to be in a lot of pain, but judging by the monitoring data, her vital signs are stable and there's no risk of death." Dr. Xiao frowned and sighed. She wasn't willing to accept this approach. However, the examination results were normal, and the monitoring data also indicated no problems.
In other words, apart from the unbearable pain, Lin Fan had no other symptoms.
Dr. Xiao could only defiantly add, "If her life is in danger, no matter what you think, I will use medication!"
"But..." Li Chunhua was speechless.
Lin Fan will feel pain!
Everyone knows this.
Seeing that everyone seemed to agree with this approach, even Song Ren lowered his head, Li Chunhua could only turn her gaze to Jin Sichen hopefully: "Doctor Jin..."
Jin Sichen walked silently to Lin Fan's pillow, looking at her frowning face, pale face, big beads of sweat oozing from her hairline, and humming from time to time...
His eyes were slightly sore under his sunglasses, his heart felt heavy and he was a little breathless.
Kuang Li is right.
Especially today, she transformed in front of everyone and saved Pangu, which just confirmed the fact that she can transform.
Right now, the mecha was more valuable than Lin Fan himself. As long as Lin Fan's life was not in danger, the mecha was the most important thing.
This is also what the director meant.
Jin Sichen felt sad. He had always thought himself to be so capable, but at this moment he was completely helpless. He didn't even dare to hold Lin Fan's hand to encourage her, for fear of causing her more pain.
He sighed, pursed his lips, and pulled a handkerchief from his pocket. He gently wiped the sweat off Lin Fan's head and said without turning back, "Companionship without help is meaningless. Watching someone in pain only increases anxiety."
"You all go out, I'm here with her."
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