Thirteen prisons

16 Lucky
Zhou Yuan already knew from Lao Hu that the real name of that self-igniting guy was Lin He.He found that since he met Lin He, his ordinary life suddenly began to be ups and downs, with frequent accidents, completely out of his control.After discussing with Lu Ming, Zhou Yuan finally found a clue. Although he still had a lot of doubts, he finally had the feeling of grasping the initiative.At least psychologically, I feel much better: Zhou Yuan is no longer passively anxious when receiving treatment, and Zhou Yuan begins to take the initiative to pay attention to the abnormalities.

The inspections in the past few days are all routine items, except for the basic items such as small-scale individual screening of each organ, and blood and urine tests.Today the hospital even performed a brain CT scan on Zhou Yuan. Zhou Yuan found that this machine was brand new. I wonder if it was one of the batch of new machines that the hospital suddenly bought inexplicably this time.Thinking that this might be a deal made with the Central Hospital by the third party using himself as a bargaining chip, Zhou Yuan felt very uncomfortable lying on the machine.

In the afternoon, Dean Zhou came to the ward again, entered the door and said a few clichés before asking Zhou Yuan if the agreement could be signed.Seeing that he was in such a hurry, Zhou Yuan knew better, and said bluntly, "I won't sign this agreement."

Dean Zhou was a little surprised, and said with a smile that it must be a misunderstanding.He even took the initiative to retreat, saying that if he felt that there were problems with the content of the agreement, he could discuss and adjust it.His attitude made Zhou Yuan even more defensive, insisting that he would never sign.

Seeing Zhou Yuan's tough attitude, Dean Zhou turned a little ugly, turned and went out.Zhou Yuan thought he was going to turn his back on him, but he didn't expect that when Dean Zhou came back half an hour later, the expression on his face softened a lot: "Since Mr. Zhou has objections to this agreement, do you think this is okay? I will talk to you first tomorrow." Start treatment. How would you like to ask you to reconsider this agreement when your overt symptoms, namely fever and rash, have subsided?"

Dean Zhou's attitude has changed since he came back from this trip. He obviously called to communicate with the third party. His reaction was within Zhou Yuan's expectations, but the conditions proposed again were different from Zhou Yuan's expectations. .

After all, as a result of the discussion between Zhou Yuan and Lu Ming, he originally wanted to let that mysterious third party show up.But since Dean Zhou agreed to start the treatment without signing the agreement, no matter whether it is the third party's instruction or not, at least it shows that he has a certain degree of certainty about the disease. Zhou Yuan found that such a condition is beneficial to him and has no disadvantages. .

Since there is hope that this strange disease can be cured, the strange behavior of a third party is nothing compared to this most important matter.After all, the death conditions of Liu San and Xiaoqing were so horrific, Zhou Yuan never wanted to follow in their footsteps.

So with Zhou Yuan's nod in agreement, the treatment under the verbal agreement officially started.Zhou Yuan felt like he couldn't laugh or cry.Because the treatment method was completely beyond Zhou Yuan's imagination, and no advanced equipment in the hospital was even used.

Zhou Yuan was asked to take off his clothes before the treatment began. After the nurse removed his body hair, he began to put strange-smelling plasters on his body, and then he was put in a somewhat cold air-conditioned room, where he would not move without eating. Lie down for 10 hours.

The sticking of the plaster made Zhou Yuan feel uncomfortable all over. Lying there like a tortured mummy, he felt like the frozen pork in the freezer was hard. It quickly becomes itchy and numb, and if you move a little, it will rub and hurt.

But no matter how uncomfortable it was, Zhou Yuan gritted his teeth and persisted.The moment he was able to move, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking he was relieved.It's a pity that he was still naive, because he soon discovered that the plasters on his body brought another kind of pain.

Zhou Yuan only found out after checking the Internet that tearing plasters is actually one of the most unbearable pains for human beings.Although some important parts of the body hair have been shaved off in advance, the hair on the whole body is still there. One can imagine how painful it is to tear off the plaster all over the body.Zhou Yuan could only grit his teeth and let the nurse tear off the plaster one by one. When he saw the criss-cross marks all over his body in the mirror, he even began to wonder if it was Dean Zhou's lack of cooperation with him. retaliation.After all, although the Central Hospital is not a large provincial hospital, it is also the best hospital in Beiyang City. With so many advanced equipment and medicines left unused, it is simply unreasonable to use such an indigenous method that can only be used in remote countryside.

I don't know what it was on the plaster, but the traces stuck to the skin were not easy to clean. In the end, the nurse found safflower oil to wipe it off. It is said that only it can remove the stickiness of the plaster.The stimulation of safflower oil made Zhou Yuan feel itchy and painful in one place. When his body was cleaned, Zhou Yuan lay on the bed with a strong smell of safflower oil and could no longer move.

But it was well worth it.After the nurse took his temperature, Zhou Yuan found that his body temperature actually returned to 37.5 degrees.In the past few days, the nurse has measured Zhou Yuan's temperature every day and recorded it on the chart. Before that, his body temperature showed a slight upward trend every day. Although it was not obvious, it was rising by a few tenths of a degree every day. , In less than ten days and a half months, the body temperature will reach 42 degrees, which is the limit that the human body can bear.So Zhou Yuan felt that the slowly rising curve was like a curse that threatened his life.

Now watching the nurse write down the temperature display on the record sheet, the decline of the trend line really cheered Zhou Yuan up. According to the rising range of the body temperature, he no longer had a fever. From a point of view, there is no problem.

This is the first time Zhou Yuan has seen the hope of healing since he fell into a coma and was confirmed to be ill. This feeling of joy is incomparable to anything else.Unexpectedly, this perverted and weird plaster was really effective, and Zhou Yuan also began to be grateful for the mysterious third party who was unwilling to show up.He now only hopes that this kind of luck can last forever.

But Lu Ming didn't think so.When he came to the ward at night, he was also very happy to see that Zhou Yuan's body temperature had dropped significantly. Although his skin was still red with irritation, the strangely shaped rash was really not so obvious.

After listening to the detailed description of today's treatment process, Lu Ming questioned it: "There is still a problem here. You don't have a generalized skin disease. Why do you have to stick it all over your body? I think it may be that the treatment party doesn't want you Knowing where they started, maybe there are only a few spots where the real healing points are."

"You're saying they're using it to cover up their real therapeutic goals."

"Correct."

"It doesn't matter, as long as it works, I don't care." Zhou Yuan said in a low voice.He really doesn't care much about whether there is really any conspiracy behind it, as long as it can make the body recover.

Lu Ming sighed and did not continue on this topic.Sometimes people only look at the good and bad in front of them, and they are easily deceived.The reason is very simple, but there are still too few people who can really resist the temptation when things come to an end.Lu Ming knew that this sudden and strange disease was tormenting Zhou Yuan both physically and mentally. Now that it was so easy to grab a life-saving straw, he definitely didn't want to think about it.

So Lu Ming can only change another way and continue to remind Zhou Yuan: "I can now confirm that there is indeed a third party besides Dean Zhou. Because the expert team that Dean Zhou said was specially established for your treatment is not at all. It exists. The origin of the plaster for your treatment is even more strange. No one knows where Dean Zhou got it.

"Besides, Dean Zhou is a specialist in heart and brain medicine in western medicine. I've never heard that he can make plasters." Lu Ming said with certainty, "It must have been given to him by the third party in advance."

"Anyway, my fever is gone." Zhou Yuan didn't answer the topic, he lowered his head and rubbed the bed sheet unconsciously: "I just hope that tomorrow's treatment won't be so perverted."

Since Zhou Yuan's attitude is like this, Lu Ming knows that it is useless to say anything now.Zhou Yuan is a fan of the authorities, and it seems that some things can only be discussed with Lao Hu first.

"Zhou Yuan's fever has subsided? Isn't that good?" Lao Hu received a call from Lu Ming. Although he didn't understand medicine, his first reaction was similar to Zhou Yuan's, and he thought it was a good thing.

"His temperature did drop, but I don't think it was the plaster."

"How to say?" Lao Hu regained his spirit.

"Zhou Yuan's body temperature was tested immediately after the treatment. But before he was naked, he had been blowing in the air-conditioned room for a day. This is a typical physical cooling."

"What is the significance of the hospital doing this?" Lao Hu chose to trust Lu Ming's professional judgment.But what benefits can Dean Zhou get by doing this?

"I have a guess." Lu Ming said calmly, "The other party is delaying time."

Old Hu was a little surprised: "No way? Didn't Director Zhou of your hospital want to drive him away because he was afraid that Zhou Yuan would have problems in the hospital?" He knew that the hospital's assessment indicators included the mortality rate of inpatients. Yuan received treatment but eventually died in the hospital, which will undoubtedly lower the assessment of this indicator.Therefore, Dean Zhou's approach is obviously contradictory.

"Perhaps it's not Dean Zhou who wants to delay time, but that third party." Lu Ming hesitated for a moment, because he was just guessing what he said next: "The strangest thing about Zhou Yuan's situation is that even though he has a high body temperature It is an ordinary person, but he himself does not feel any abnormalities. There have been such extremely rare examples in the history of medicine, but his symptoms are too closely related to Xiaoqing’s death, and I cannot think that this is just an isolated accidental phenomenon. I doubt... …he's going through some physical changes."

After considering the words for a while, he continued: "I made a bold assumption that Zhou Yuan's body has adapted to this temperature. But it is not stable. When the body temperature continues to rise, the possibility of accidents is very high... "

Having said that, Lu Ming paused for a moment, and Lao Hu knew that the "accident" he was referring to was Xiaoqing and Lin He.Whether it is extreme dehydration or spontaneous combustion, it is indeed like an accident that may happen after the body temperature continues to rise.

"The purpose of the other party's doing this, I can only speculate. One is that the other party did have good intentions, no matter what the method, successfully temporarily controlled the rise in body temperature. The purpose is to secretly observe and study the development of the disease. The other is that They have other plans."

The two stopped talking for a while.Since the third party is deliberately hiding in the dark, they all understand that the possibility of the first situation is very small.Lao Hu suddenly asked: "Did you tell Zhou Yuan?"

"No, he's in a good mood now. I don't want to disturb his mood until there is no conclusive evidence."

Lao Hu nodded to the phone, thinking that Lu Ming did the right thing, even though he couldn't see his action through the phone.Old Hu thought for a while and asked, "Lu Ming, what do you think of Dean Zhou?"

This question was a little too broad, and Lu Ming didn't answer for a while, but Lao Hu added: "Do you think he is greedy for money?"

Lu Ming thought for a while and replied pertinently: "Although Dean Zhou is a bit snobbish, he is also for the sake of the hospital. He has been in the position of the Central Hospital for more than ten years. In all fairness, he is very competent, both in ability and medical ethics. .”

"If you want to drive a patient away in case of a medical accident, is it good medical ethics?" Lao Hu complained, but he didn't seem very surprised by Lu Ming's answer: "But you are right, and the results of my investigation Almost. He didn’t receive any personal benefits from a third party, and he was probably only moved by the medical equipment donated to the Central Hospital.”

Lu Ming didn't ask Lao Hu what investigations he had made on Dean Zhou. He believed that with Lao Hu's ability, since he was so sure, he was very sure.After communicating with Lao Hu, Lu Ming confirmed his thoughts: "I suspect that the next treatment will be the same as today. It's just a cover-up, but I really can't guess what the other party wants to do. I'm a little worried about Zhou Yuan, and Do you think we did something wrong by letting him stay in the Central Hospital?"

Old Hu laughed, full of pride: "Don't worry, I'm here."

(End of this chapter)