Chapter 138 Daily Visits to Patients (I)
When Lu Ren woke up, he saw a pure white roof. It seemed to be daytime, and the warm yellow winter sun shone into the room from the window, making everything very bright and warm.
In his sleep, Lu Ren felt a fishy and sweet taste in his throat, and it was itchy. He couldn't help but cough. Unexpectedly, he couldn't stop coughing, and he started coughing one after another, as if he wanted to cough out all the oxygen in his lungs, and he coughed himself awake.
He ached all over, as if he had been run over by a bus.
When Lu Ren woke up, his expression was tense. The dark and tense situation before he fell into a coma was still vivid in his mind. The first thing that came back to him was his vision. The room was filled with sunlight, and the warm yellow hue made Lu Ren feel that his soul had also relaxed.
Daybreak came. And he was still alive.
Then his hearing returned, and Lu Ren heard the sound of staggered footsteps outside the door, accompanied by the sound of a trolley. Then the door opened, and Lu Ren saw Nurse Xiaojia, whom he had not seen for a long time, pushing a medical trolley into the ward.
She seemed surprised to see Lu Ren waking up: "Ah! You finally woke up!"
Then Nurse Xiaojia put down the trolley and ran out, apparently to inform the doctor. Lu Ren finally knew where he was now - this was the 18th Hospital.
Although he knew that his injuries were unnatural and could not be treated with traditional methods, he still felt a little uncomfortable when he thought of the sign "Livestock Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Center" hanging on the place where he was hospitalized.
Nurse Xiaojia came back quickly, trotting back with the crying Qilin cub.
As soon as Qilin cub entered the room, he didn't care that Lu Ren was still a wounded soldier, and rushed to Lu Ren with tears and snot.
"Wow, Ren, you didn't wake up. I thought you were going to die."
The unicorn cub had been eating well recently, and it was noticeably fatter. Lu Ren rolled his eyes when he pounced on it. He was holding a pink bunny doll in his hand, which looked very cute. When the unicorn cub landed on Lu Ren, the doll also stretched out its long black tentacles and tightly wrapped Lu Ren up .
The rabbit doll is A Bing's new home. The little bear that was originally used for parasitism has been destroyed in the Hades rampage incident.
Xu Hai cannot shed tears, but the strength of the tentacles wrapped around Lu Ren cannot be underestimated. Coupled with the overwhelming pressure from the Qilin cub, Lu Ren was tortured to the point of exhaling more than breathing in.
Nurse Xiaojia at the side saw that this was not going to work, so she immediately found a giant syringe in the trolley, which contained a sedative for the divine beast, and gave one injection each to the Qilin cub and A Bing in lightning speed.
Nurse Xiaojia is very weak, but she has been practicing medicine for a long time. In the old days, she was busy giving acupuncture to people. When it came to Western medicine in modern times, she switched to using syringes to give patients. How can you describe her speed of acupuncture? As long as the doctor gave the order, even Si Yuan would not be able to escape from her syringe.
There is no special reason, just practice makes perfect.
So Qilinzai and Xuhai were knocked down by Nurse Xiaojia before they could react. After being given sedatives, their muscles became sore and limp, like two wet rags.
Nurse Xiaojia angrily grabbed the scruff of the neck of the two people and said, "This is a restricted area in the ward, please do not make any noise!"
Qilin cub and A Bing finally calmed down, and with Lu Ren's help, they lay down on Lu Ren's hospital bed, crying silently. Lu Ren couldn't bear it, so he sat up and touched Qilin cub and A Bing's heads respectively. As if they felt the warmth of Lu Ren's palm, they gradually felt at ease and their crying became softer.
Finally, perhaps because he was tired of crying, the Qilin cub fell asleep at Lu Ren's feet while holding A Bing.
After comforting the Qilin cub, Lu Rencai finally had time to ask Nurse Xiaojia: "Excuse me, why am I here?"
Seeing Lu Ren's confused expression, Nurse Xiaojia said, "Don't you remember? You were sent in because your soul was damaged."
"Soul damaged?" Lu Ren reacted all of a sudden. He vaguely remembered that before he fell into a coma, he seemed to see Bian Cheng cut off the blood chain between him and Jun Fang. Qin Guang said that the blood contract was "deeply hidden in the blood and engraved in the soul." Based on his description, the heavy blow Lu Ren suffered this time did not seem difficult to understand.
Lu Ren figured this out and then asked, "When can I be discharged from the hospital? I have to go to work quickly."
Nurse Xiaojia said, "Don't think about it for now. There's a big gash in your soul. Although Dean Bai Ze personally performed surgery on you and sewed up the gash in your soul, the wound has not healed yet. You have to stay in the hospital for at least a hundred years until it heals."
"One hundred years?" Nurse Xiaojia's words made Lu Ren completely dumbfounded, "But I can't even live for a hundred years."
After hearing what Lu Ren said, Nurse Xiaojia finally reacted: Lu Ren is a human being, and the longest lifespan of a human is only a short hundred years. Doesn't it mean that the person would have died before his soul has even grown fully?
This made Nurse Xiaojia feel troubled: "What should we do? If the wound on the soul does not heal, the seven emotions and six desires will escape from it, and slowly, the person will become an emotionless puppet."
Lu Ren was confused. This was a notification that he would become a vegetable if he didn't stay in the hospital. Although Lu Ren was afraid of becoming a vegetable, he couldn't stay in the hospital for a hundred years. Not to mention the hospital expenses, if he didn't leave the hospital, he wouldn't be able to work, and even eating would be a problem.
The question of the length of hospital stay has always troubled Lu Ren. At first, he thought that what Nurse Xiaojia said was just alarmist, but one night, when Lu Ren was sleeping, Tuan found himself standing up. He lowered his head in panic, but saw another self lying on the bed - that was Lu Ren's physical body.
Unable to react in shock, he stumbled back into his body and rang the call bell.
Lu Ren used his hands and feet to explain his experience, but the night shift nurse Xiaojia just yawned. She seemed to have seen a lot of things, and explained calmly: "This is normal. Your soul is damaged and unstable, and it floated out accidentally. The 18th Hospital has a barrier, so you don't have to worry about ghosts stealing your body. You can rest assured and go back by yourself."
After this incident, Lu Ren no longer dared to rashly say that he wanted to be discharged from the hospital. He didn't want to wake up one day and find that his body did not belong to him.
Fortunately, Lu Ren's absence this time was defined as a work-related injury. The day he woke up, he received a call from the Rain Master, who said that Si Yuan had gone to the logistics department a few days ago to explain the situation and was concerned about Lu Ren's injury. After learning that it was a soul tear, he asked him to stay in the hospital for a while, at least until his soul stabilized before returning to work.
Finally, Master Yu said, "When we have a few days off, all the colleagues from the logistics department will come to see you together!"
Lu Ren could only thank them politely and then counted on his fingers while waiting for his colleagues from the logistics department to arrive.
What was unexpected was that the person who visited Lu Ren most diligently was not his colleague from the logistics department, but Donghuang Taiyi, with whom Lu Ren had almost no interaction.
But in fact, Donghuang was not here to visit Lu Ren, he had other intentions.
Because Shan Gui spends four days a week in the hospital with Lu Ren.
In fact, Lu Ren had already told the mountain ghost that he didn't need to come so frequently. Because apart from intermittently leaving his body at night, Lu Ren had no other symptoms. He could eat and sleep, and even gained a few pounds. His face was ruddy, and he looked no different from an ordinary person. However, the mountain ghost insisted on taking turns with the Qilin cub and staying by Lu Ren's side.
When Dong Huang just walked in, Shan Gui happened to be helping Lu Ren get medicine and was not in the ward. Dong Huang walked in with a look of contempt, then stood beside Lu Ren's bed and asked Lu Ren condescendingly: "Where is your sister?"
Lu Ren was already used to Dong Huang's unpredictable attitude towards people, so he was not angry, but just told the truth: "Help me get the medicine."
Dong Huang frowned and looked even colder when he heard this: "Can't you do this little thing yourself?"
Lu Ren didn't know how to respond to this and could only touch his nose awkwardly.
As he was talking, the mountain ghost pushed the door open and came in. When Dong Huang heard the mountain ghost's footsteps, his expression immediately changed. He kept asking Lu Ren, "Are you okay? Are you seriously injured?" The speed at which he changed his expression was simply shocking.
When the mountain ghost saw Donghuang, he was also a little surprised: "Taiyi? Why are you here?"
Dong Huang coughed lightly: "Ahem, the organization heard that Lu Ren was injured, so they sent me to express their condolences."
This was of course a lie. The organization had clearly agreed to organize a group to visit Lu Ren on the weekend, but Lu Ren did not expose Dong Huang. Of course, he regretted his decision countless times later.
Because of Lu Ren's soft-heartedness, he was forced to eat twelve apples in one go that day.
After a brief greeting with Dong Huang, Shan Gui sat down and planned to peel an apple for Lu Ren. Peeling an apple can be considered a classic activity when visiting a patient. But Dong Huang didn't know what was going on and insisted on taking on this job.
Dong Huang said to the mountain ghost: "How can I trouble you with such rough work? I'll do it!"
But Dong Huang did not do it himself, but used magic. Lu Ren only felt a flash of golden light before his eyes, and then twelve golden swords hung above his head.
The golden swords were of different shapes, lengths, widths, and even materials. Some were iron long swords, extremely slender and thin like cicada wings. Some were jade short swords, wide, short, and crystal clear. Although they were completely different in appearance, these swords all emitted golden light, looking extremely holy and majestic.
These twelve golden swords had helped Dong Huang break through the wilderness, create the world, and pacify the human world in ancient times. They were supreme divine weapons. After thousands of years, Dong Huang had no rivals , so he never used these twelve swords again. In fact, there were only a handful of people in the Ten Realms who had the good fortune to see two or three of them.
However, today, the twelve golden swords were deployed together with amazing momentum, ready for battle.
Dong Huang didn't say much, and threw the bag of apples on Lu Ren's bedside table into the air. Coincidentally, there were exactly twelve apples in the bag. As Dong Huang moved, the apples flew into the air, and in an instant, twelve golden swords came down at the same time. After a dazzling light, twelve neatly peeled apples were placed on the table. The peels were round and smooth, and even the apple skins were not broken.
Apple: My life is worth it.
Jin Jian: If I had known that I would be used to peel apples today, I would rather it have rotted in the wilderness.
Dong Huang looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction, and said to Lu Ren with full energy: "Eat!"
The mountain ghost cheered on the side, it seemed that this was not the first time he saw Dong Huang do this: "As expected of Taiyi, his apple peeling skills are still so perfect."
Lu Ren: “…”
