Everyone looked at each other, knowing that staying here would be of no help, and quietly retreated.
Doctor Xiao walked to the door and specifically reminded Jin Sichen: "I will stay on duty today. Call me anytime if anything happens."
"Me too!" Wu Yi echoed.
"Thank you, I understand." Jin Sichen smiled and watched them leave.
This time, Song Ren and Li Chunhua did not leave, and Jin Sichen did not care about them. Lin Fan was sweating more and more.
"Go to the cafeteria and get some food," Song Ren instructed Li Chunhua. It was already lunchtime, and the caregivers needed to replenish their energy. "What would Doctor Jin like to eat?"
"It's all right, thank you." Jin Sichen didn't look back, and focused on the person on the hospital bed.
Song Ren gave Li Chunhua a look and she went out quietly.
Lin Fan was still trembling, the thin blanket barely covering her, shaking gently along with her. Her lips were tightly pursed, though a few humming sounds would occasionally escape her.
"Lin Fan..." Jin Sichen called out twice but received no response. He didn't know whether she was too exhausted or had fallen into a coma again.
Jin Sichen was right, watching others suffer while being unable to do anything was extremely painful. Even though Song Ren was determined, he still felt a little uncomfortable.
Li Chunhua came back soon with dinner.
At this time, Lin Fan's shaking gradually slowed down, and the groaning was not as frequent as at the beginning, and it seemed that it was not as painful.
The three of them finally had the appetite to eat, and they quickly finished their food in two bites at a time, paying no attention to what they were eating.
Jin Sichen lifted the blanket, revealing Lin Fan's right hand. He gently grasped it, his hand soaked in sweat. Under the blanket, his hand felt cold and damp, and he could feel a subtle tremor, barely perceptible to the naked eye.
When he looked up, he saw Song Ren had returned with a basin of warm water and wrung out a hot towel, handing it to him.
Jin Sichen stared at Song Ren for two seconds, then took the towel, gently unfolded Lin Fan's palm, and slowly wiped her.
Song Ren did the same thing on the other side. He gently pinched Lin Fan's wrist, used a little force to open her clenched hand, and wiped it gently.
Although his body was barely trembling, he could still feel a faint tremor as he gripped Lin Fan's hand. Song Ren had weathered all sorts of powerful blows without a care in the world, but this subtle tremor struck him to the core, causing him to move even more gently.
Jin Sichen glanced at him without saying anything and continued to wipe his arm bit by bit.
Lin Fan's fall left a lot of dirt on her skin. She'd been busy with other things before and hadn't paid attention to them. Now that it was convenient, she could help clean them up.
Thinking about Lin Fan’s mysophobia…Jin Sichen’s lips curled up slightly.
Li Chunhua couldn't help and could only help the two of them scrub towels and do what she could.
Afterwards, Jin Sichen helped Lin Fan wipe his face and neck, and together with Song Ren, cleaned his legs and feet, which were also covered in dust.
As the two men moved methodically, Lin Fan's breathing gradually steadied, his body shaking becoming barely noticeable. The atmosphere in the ward gradually returned to peace...
In the conference room on the other side, the atmosphere was depressing.
After everyone walked back silently, they were no longer as happy as before.
The image of Lin Fan in unbearable pain kept replaying in their minds, difficult to forget.
"Doctor Xiao, how long will Lin Fan be in pain?" Yu Guangli couldn't help but ask.
"It's hard to say." Doctor Xiao shook his head. "Lin Fan's condition can't be judged by common sense. But generally speaking, the pain may gradually subside over time. It's also possible that after a long time, she will gradually feel less pain."
"Isn't this the same meaning?" Zhang Zhaojie felt like he was listening to a tongue twister.
"No. The human body will adapt to pain. Some people suffer pain for a long time, and after adapting to the pain, they will feel that the pain is not as severe as it was at the beginning. In fact, the pain has not subsided, but her body has tolerated it." Wu Yi explained.
"If I remember correctly, Lin Fan has been in pain all the time, right?" Ke Wenbin suddenly remembered what Jin Sichen said on the first day he came.
"Yes, prolonged pain will naturally affect her mood. Today's situation will definitely have a negative impact on her mental state." Dr. Xiao has also recently been studying psychology. "It is very likely that all the psychological recovery she has achieved recently will return to the starting point, or even worse."
Everyone hadn't anticipated this outcome, believing that forcing Lin Fan to endure the pain was already a serious problem, momentarily forgetting her critical mental state. Lin Fan's recent recovery and stable performance had misled everyone.
In this case, not being injured doesn't seem so fortunate after all.
"And as far as I know, Lin Fan is very sensitive to pain." Doctor Xiao added.
"What do you mean?" Zhang Zhaojie asked.
"That is to say, her pain nerves are more developed than those of ordinary people. She can feel even slight pain very clearly. For example, the pain you feel like a needle prick may feel like a knife stab to her." Wu Yi explained seriously.
When everyone heard this, they opened their eyes wide in disbelief. How painful must that be?
"So when you see Lin Fan in so much pain, it's her pain-sensing nerves at work. Aside from some impact on her heart rate and blood flow, it doesn't have any real impact on other organs. The actual data is all within normal limits, so there's no danger." Doctor Xiao shook his head helplessly. "Of course, it hurts. It definitely hurts. An average person might never experience the kind of pain she felt in their entire lives."
Lin Fan was just feeling the pain.
It sounded like good news, but no one was happy. Instead, their frowns deepened.
"Isn't there anything we can do?" Zhang Zhaojie wailed, holding his head.
Ever since he saw the mecha video that afternoon, his blood had been boiling with excitement. But when he saw Lin Fan trembling and crying out in pain, it was like a bucket of ice water was poured over his head, chilling him completely.
Before determining the reason for the transformation, there are too many concerns...
"Yes." Kuang Li said.
Several people looked over there.
Kuang Li still looked serious and pedantic: "We can review it."
"Review?" everyone shouted. But Kuang Li remained silent. He had already said enough today.
Zhang Zhaojie's fist suddenly felt itchy.
I had wanted to hit him in the ward just now. Although his words were accepted and tacitly implemented by everyone, every time I thought of Lin Fan's painful expression, I couldn't help but want to punch Kuang Li and shatter his serious face.
"We can use the information we gained from this transformation to compare it with previous transformations to see any similarities and differences. The more information we have, the better it will help us grasp the patterns." Ke Wenbin also gave Kuang Li a blank look. But before he could finish his words, he was struck by lightning.
Yu Guangli nodded in agreement, and Dr. Xiao and Wu Yi also came to help.
Just do it.
Everyone put the transformation video aside for the time being and took out the information provided by the special affairs office to study it carefully again.
"First transformation, event: plane crash. Duration: unknown. Coma time: about 7 hours. Others: no memory upon waking up." Yu Guangli was the first to speak out and summarize.
Zhang Zhaojie ran to the whiteboard and started recording.
"The second time, incident: the truck lost control. Duration: 7 to 8 seconds. Duration of sleep: about 7 hours. Others: saved his companion John Woo, but had no memory when he woke up." Ke Wenbin said loudly.
"The third time today, event: Pangu fell. How long...how long did it last?" Yu Guangli asked others.
Several people rewatched the video, and Ke Wenbin said uncertainly, "From the time he appeared on camera to the time he fell to the ground, it took 9.6 seconds. Finally, he was blocked by Pangu, and we couldn't see when he returned to his original form."
"Then write it down as 9.6 seconds first," Yu Guangli said to Zhang Zhaojie, "The duration of sleep..."
Dr. Xiao spoke promptly: "More than 8 hours, almost 9 hours."
This is quite different from the previous two times.
"Others: I saved Pangu and the driver, and prevented Pangu from being damaged. After waking up, I first lost consciousness, and then felt severe pain all over my body." Yu Guangli continued to state.
Lin Fan's trembling appearance could not help but reappear in everyone's mind, and they unconsciously turned their faces away.
"What do you think?" Yu Guangli asked, looking at the entries on the whiteboard.
"The most obvious difference is the duration of sleep and the state after waking up," said Dr. Xiao.
"Putting aside the length of time he was in a coma, wasn't there any special condition after waking up the previous two times?" Yu Guangli asked.
"No, the first video shows that Lin Fan emerged from the woods seven hours after the plane passed. His gait was normal, and there was nothing unusual except for the torn clothes." Wu Yi flipped through the Special Affairs Office report to confirm. "Oh, by the way, the torn clothes need to be added. His clothes were torn three times."
Zhang Zhaojie was writing furiously on the whiteboard again.
"The second time, Wu Teqin from the Special Affairs Office was by his side. After waking up 7 hours later, he got up and asked questions on his own. He showed no obvious abnormalities, so he probably wasn't in any pain," Wu Yi speculated.
"So, what caused the difference between her behavior today and the previous two times?"
A group of people looked at the whiteboard, searching for answers from the few clues.
"I think we should mark the weight of airplanes, cars, and Pangu," Wu Yi said, raising his hand. "Although they're all machines, their sizes are different, so the forces they require should also be different, right?"
"Yes, we always think that airplanes and cars are the same type of things, but we ignore the differences between them." Ke Wenbin also thought of this. Kuang Li also nodded in agreement.
"How heavy is the plane?" asked Zhang Zhaojie.
"Officially, it's a little over 36 tons if fully loaded," Wu Yi said, flipping through the Special Affairs Office's documents. "But normally, planes aren't fully loaded, so you can assume it's 36 tons."
Zhang Zhaojie wrote it down and asked, "Where's the heavy truck?"
"It was a 13-meter trailer truck with a deadweight of 17 tons. Including the cargo, the total weight was about 30 tons." Ke Wenbin found the data.
"How heavy is Pangu?"
"One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four tons." Yu Guangli was familiar with Pangu's external data.
When a few people looked at it again, the information was different again.
"The time of the first transformation is unknown. But the time from when the plane passed over the community to when it passed the last camera has been calculated, right?" Yu Guangli stared at the only unknown in the day shift, thinking about solving it.
"Yes, 9 to 10 seconds. If Lin Fan puts down the plane and immediately returns to the grove and falls asleep, it can also be counted as 10 seconds." Wu Yi said as she looked at what Kuang Li pointed out to her.
"Then write for 10 seconds first." Yu Guangli ordered.
This makes many things clearer.
"So the first two transformations were similar, but this one is different. The reason for the difference is..."
"Weight!" several people said in unison.
During the same transformation time, the difference in why Lin Fan lost consciousness and felt pain after waking up was that Pangu's size was too large.
Compared with airplanes and heavy trucks that weigh only more than 30 tons, Pangu's weight of more than 1,000 tons is obviously too large.
The video footage also shows that Lin Fan was struggling to push Pangu. Considering that she was only the size of Pangu's finger joint, it was quite astonishing that she was able to push Pangu straight.
"So, Lin Fan is overloaded?" Zhang Zhaojie was the first to draw the conclusion.
"Overload?" Dr. Xiao had never heard of this term and didn't understand what it meant.
"It means overload," Ke Wenbin explained. "That's very possible. Pangu was too big for Lin Fan. She exceeded her maximum load capacity, so it backfired on her body. The increased duration of her coma could also be due to this."
"This speculation sounds reasonable." Yu Guangli nodded.
"It's a pity that it cannot be verified at the moment." Zhang Zhaojie sighed.
"There will be opportunities in the future, don't worry." Ke Wenbin believed that Lin Fan would not transform only this time.
"I was afraid that every time Lin Fan transformed, it would be like today. If that were the case, I wouldn't want her to transform at all." Zhang Zhaojie liked mechas, but he was not a cold-hearted person. Seeing Lin Fan in so much pain, although he couldn't empathize with her, he still felt very uncomfortable.
"No. We've discovered that the source of this pain is overload. We'll pay attention to this aspect in the future, and it won't happen again. The fact that she was fine the first two times is the best proof." Yu Guangli soothed in a deep voice, then raised another question, "But...what's the reason she falls asleep every time she transforms?"
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