Chapter 19: The Dispute over First and Last

Xiao Chen carried Luo Ling and ran all the way to the school hospital. Behind him, Chen Hansheng gasped and said, "You can't tell, Xiao Xiao! You are lean, but you have good physical strength. You are much stronger than Li Jiake."

"Me? Good physical strength?" Xiao Chen then realized that he was actually carrying a person on his back and ran three to four hundred meters without knowing it. This has never been his strong point, maybe it's just that crisis brings out people's potential.

It is a great blessing that the hospital was not damaged in the disaster. There were not many injured people in this disaster, but because there were very few medical personnel who traveled through time, the hospital was still very busy. When Xiao Chen and the others walked into the hospital, the waiting hall was almost full of lightly wounded people who were resting. The air was filled with a faint smell of blood, and from time to time, the wounded moaned in unbearable pain. The doctors and nurses are already too busy to be seen. After Chen Hansheng shouted several times, a female doctor hurried out from the nearby consulting room.

"Isn't this Dr. Feng?" Chen Hansheng immediately recognized Feng Yao who burst into the conference room angrily. But Feng Yao was obviously not in the mood to say hello to him. She asked Xiao Chen to put Luo Ling on a hospital bed, and quickly checked her pupils and mouth with a flashlight, and then checked her blood pressure, pulse, body temperature and breathing. While she was checking, she asked Luo Ling about her situation before and after she fell into coma. Then he pulled off the bandage on her forehead and looked at the wound that had begun to scab.

"All her signs and reactions are normal. She shouldn't be in such a coma. I think it's more like a coma caused by extreme mental fatigue. She will stay in the hospital for observation first. I will ask the nurses to come when they are free. Help her redress the wound."

"Don't you need an in-depth inspection?" Xiao Chen couldn't help but ask.

"We really don't have enough manpower, and there are many seriously injured patients waiting for treatment. In a situation like hers, there shouldn't be any serious danger. Can you two take blood pressure?"

Xiao Chen nodded.

"Take this blood pressure monitor and thermometer, measure her blood pressure every hour, and keep an eye on her temperature at all times. If there are major changes, or if there are convulsions, vomiting, incontinence and other obvious symptoms, call me."

Xiao Chen was a little embarrassed. It was difficult to connect the independent and strong Luo Ling who had shared hardships with a patient who asked him to pay attention to his urine and feces.

"Are you okay?" Feng Yao asked anxiously. There were so many patients that she had almost no time to lose.

"Oh, okay! Okay!" Xiao Chen came to his senses and took the blood pressure monitor.

At this time, there was a burst of shouting and screaming at the hospital gate, and a group of people rushed in. They carried an old man on a simple stretcher. A young man carrying the stretcher shouted: "Doctor, come quickly, doctor, this teacher has just been dug out by us and is seriously injured."

"Isn't this Professor Ge?" Xiao Chen recognized the old gentleman. He was an authority on urban planning in the school. When Xiao Chen was studying the topic of urbanization, he went to his class and asked many questions. In his impression, the old man was not only humorous and professional, but also took great care of his students. He quickly ran to the stretcher and found that the old man's face was very pale, his brows were wrinkled in pain, his eyes were slightly open, there was cold sweat on his forehead, and there were blood stains on the corners of his mouth. Looking at the body covered with dust, the two legs were obviously broken and bent unnaturally. Xiao Chen called him several times in succession, but Professor Ge seemed to have no reaction and just hummed a few times.

"The femur of the right thigh is fractured, the tibia of the left leg is open fracture, and the internal organs may still be bleeding. The wounds need to be treated immediately for further examination." Feng Yao called a nurse and gave instructions.

Before he finished speaking, a woman in her thirties rushed in from behind, holding a seven or eight-year-old child. The child was crying, but the voice was very weak, like a cat purring. Seeing Feng Yao in a white coat standing at the door, the woman rushed to her and begged: "Doctor, please save my daughter, she is trapped underneath. I can just dig it out." Dig her out."

The woman's hands were bloody and bloody, and she didn't know how long she dug in the rubble before digging out the child. The child's head was covered with blood and he had obviously suffered head trauma. He lay motionless in the woman's arms. The woman could no longer control her emotions. She babbled: "They said they couldn't find the location and they couldn't dig her out, but I dug her out. They said she was injured so badly that she was about to die. I don't believe it! Please!" Save her, save her."

Xiao Chen looked at it, feeling miserable in his heart. He couldn't bear to hear the answer given by Feng Yao. A mother held the best hope and tried her best, but what she got in the end was the body of her child. This is such a heart-wrenching thing. We can accept the casualty of an adult more calmly, but we seem very fragile and powerless in front of these little angels who left too early.

However, Feng Yao's answer contained a glimmer of hope. She said to the nurse beside her: "Send him to the operating room for emergency treatment immediately."

"But, what should Professor Ge do?" Although Xiao Chen was happy that the little girl could be saved, seeing Professor Ge lying here so miserably was not an option. He couldn't say anything to ask Feng Yao to save Professor Ge first, but he just hoped that Feng Yao could find a way to get the best of both worlds.

"But other doctors are also performing operations, and now I'm the only one." Feng Yao looked at the two critically ill patients and couldn't make a choice for a moment. The little girl's injuries were even more critical, and life or death could be between ten minutes. But Professor Ge is not optimistic. After all, he is over 70 years old. If he is a young man, there is probably hope for him to wait until the little girl's surgery is completed. However, at such an old age, his body is too weak to afford it.

"Save the child first!" A faint voice came from the bed. Professor Ge woke up at some point. After saying this, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength and lay on the bed for a long time, panting, "Go quickly."

Feng Yao finally made up her mind. She asked the nurse to treat Professor Ge's wound and send him to the radiology department for an X-ray. She also said to Xiao Chen: "If you know the professor, you can talk to him and distract him. He must be in great pain now. Wait until I or other doctors are free and perform surgery immediately."

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The nurse arranged Professor Ge and Luo Ling in an empty ward. After doing the basic treatment, they were busy going to other injured people. Only Xiao Chen was left to take care of the two of them, and Chen Hansheng, who had been tired all day, did not stay here to rest, but rushed to the disaster relief site without stopping. According to him, since he could still swing the shovel, he would try to dig out a few more people.

After Professor Ge took a shot of painkiller, he was obviously relieved and no longer in so much pain that he couldn't even speak. But he was a little depressed and could not say much. He just listened to Xiao Chen talking about the outside situation.

"It's not just... an earthquake, right?" Professor Ge shook his head when he heard Xiao Chen describe the incident as an earthquake. "Don't hide it from me. Something strange must have happened. Look, this window should look south to the library. But the setting sun is hanging next to the library now. How could the sun set from the south?"

Xiao Chen was speechless for a moment. He didn't expect Professor Ge to be so sharp despite being seriously injured. He didn't want to tell such a bizarre situation to a dying person, for fear that he would be frightened and affect his injury, but now, he had to tell him the real situation. Xiao Chen talked for a long time, from underground to above ground, from himself to Li Jia, and Professor Ge listened very attentively.

"A different world..." He sighed when Xiao Chen finished. Somehow, after hearing the news of crossing, Professor Ge did not panic or worry as Xiao Chen worried, but showed a very yearning expression. "I really want to see this new world."

"You will get better, there is no rush." ​​Xiao Chen said.

"You don't understand, for an old man like me who has little time, all new things are so interesting." Professor Ge was a little excited, "Just think about how people in the other world organize society, how to build cities, how many unique buildings there are, and what kind of aesthetic culture has been formed. This, this is such an interesting thing."

Xiao Chen could only nod in agreement.

"I regret it now, regret it." The old man shook his head and hummed a few words.

Xiao Chen thought he regretted giving the opportunity of treatment to the little girl, and couldn't help but sigh. Unexpectedly, he said: "I regret letting them carry me to the hospital. I don't know if I can get out. I would rather they carry me to the edge of the school, let me see the scenery of this world, and then look at the local town from afar. That way it won't be a loss."

"You are right. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Good people like you will definitely be rewarded."

Professor Ge chuckled twice, shook his head and said: "Let's not talk about retribution. Killing and arson get a golden belt, building bridges and paving roads without corpses. I have seen many such things in my life. I just don't want to do a loss-making business before leaving. Money can be earned back if lost. But if conscience is lost, how can it be made up?" He raised his eyes with difficulty, looked at Xiao Chen seriously and said: "Actually, I am afraid of death. But I am more afraid of becoming a shameless old thing. I am afraid... I am afraid..."

Professor Ge kept repeating the word "afraid", so Xiao Chen held his hand and wanted to comfort the old man. But suddenly, he found that the old man's clenched hands stiffened for a while, and then relaxed. The words he repeated over and over gradually died down.

Xiao Chen shouted in surprise, and gently put his hand in front of his nose, and found that he was no longer breathing...

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When Feng Yao came to the ward, she saw Xiao Chen standing quietly in front of the window, not knowing what he was thinking, and Professor Ge's bed was covered with a white sheet. When Xiao Chen heard her come in, he turned around and asked nervously: "How is the child?"

"Stable, although not completely out of danger, but the situation is getting better." Feng Yao walked to Professor Ge's bed, pulled open the white sheet, and quietly looked at his uneasy face.

"Finally..." Xiao Chen's heart was relieved after hearing the news. He also walked to Professor Ge's bedside. "He died peacefully."

"He gave the girl a chance. Her mother was exhausted and asked me to thank the professor."

"I hope the girl can get better soon. One day, I can take her to see the world." Xiao Chen also looked at Professor Ge's face and said.

"Who... are you going to take to see the world?" Another female voice sounded. Xiao Chen's heart jumped suddenly. He turned his head and saw a sick beauty leaning on the bed, looking at him with big eyes as if talking.