Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 812 The Knight's Knighthood (Part 4)

Just then, a landline call came in; the last four digits were 110.

Li Xia, who was on her way to the hospital, answered the phone. It was a call from the police station, calling back based on the previous report. They were asking Li Xia about her relationship with the middle-aged man and whether she knew his relatives or friends.

Knowing that fighting in underground boxing was illegal, Li Xia naturally wouldn't admit to the police about her relationship with the middle-aged man. On the phone, she simply explained that she happened to be passing by and saw someone lying on the ground, so she called the police.

The police officer on the other end of the phone neither suspected nor questioned him. Just as he was about to hang up, Li Xia faintly heard a sigh and a low conversation coming from the other end of the line.

Listen, that middle-aged man's condition doesn't seem to be very good.

"Wait a minute." Li Xia hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Officer, how is the man now?"

"She's still in the hospital receiving emergency treatment. Yes, we need to notify her family to come over," the police officer replied quickly.

"Does she need surgery? Is she in danger?" With a seriously ill mother at home, Li Xia was somewhat familiar with the tricks of these hospitals.

"Hmm, more or less, it is a bit dangerous."

The police officer seemed busy and perhaps unwilling to spend any more time on this unsuspecting passerby, so he quickly hung up the phone.

Standing by the roadside, Li Xia felt a chill run down his spine as the night wind blew in. His heart was pounding wildly.

Inside the emergency room of the county hospital, there was a tense and busy atmosphere.

The quiet evening was shattered by a middle-aged man who had just been brought in. His face was covered in bruises, and there was still blood at the corner of his mouth.

Several nurses stood around him, using various instruments to measure his vital signs.

The male doctor standing to the side had a grave expression. He had examined the man's pupils earlier and knew that the man's condition was extremely critical.

Drop drop drop!

The electrocardiogram monitoring device suddenly emitted a sharp beep.

"Blood pressure is dropping rapidly!" a young nurse wearing glasses exclaimed quickly.

“The heart rate is very unstable!” another slightly older nurse added, staring at the monitor.

Defibrillation.

The male doctor took the electrode pads handed to him by the nurse next to him and attached them to the man's chest. With a "bang," the middle-aged man lying on the bed suddenly convulsed.

The male doctor glanced at the cardiac monitor and then delivered another electric shock.

The middle-aged man's body convulsed again.

Click again, and it twitches again.

Finally, the male doctor lowered his hands.

Apart from the beeping of the electrocardiogram monitor, there was no other sound in the emergency room.

"Dr. Sun, his blood pressure is getting lower and lower," the bespectacled nurse said nervously, pointing to the medical equipment placed beside the bed.

"Give them adrenaline." The male doctor said calmly, but his brows were furrowed.

Five minutes later, the nurse, who had been staring at the cardiac monitor, turned her head with some fear to look at the male doctor and said in despair, "The blood pressure is starting to drop again."

"Keep fighting."

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"Hit again."

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"beat."

Standing at the door of the emergency room, Li Xia stared wide-eyed through the small glass pane of the door, waiting. Suddenly, he realized what was happening, quickly stepped aside, and lowered his head. *Bang!*

The emergency room door was opened from the inside, and a male doctor led several nurses out.

"Dr. Sun, we just gave him ten doses of adrenaline. Can he handle it?" The bespectacled nurse followed closely behind the male doctor. This was the first time she had encountered such an emergency, and to be honest, her heart was still pounding.

Li Xia, who was hiding behind the door, couldn't help but prick up his ears.

Dr. Sun stopped, glanced back at the middle-aged man lying in the emergency room, and said helplessly, "Ten shots? I reckon we'll have to give him another twenty or thirty shots tonight to keep him alive."

"Ah! Twenty or thirty shots?" The bespectacled nurse let out a small scream, covering her mouth in surprise. "With so many shots, will they be able to save the person? Won't they damage the person?"

Dr. Sun, who has extensive experience in emergency care, shook his head.

"If he can't be saved, why are you still holding on? Dr. Sun, shouldn't we perform surgery to save him? Or arrange a specialist consultation or something?"

"His skull was fractured at the back of his head, and the inside was completely shattered. He also had four broken ribs and his lungs were punctured. Even a miracle couldn't save him. They gave him so much adrenaline so that his family could come and see him one last time."

"Hey, his body is covered in bruises from beatings. He probably got into a fight and beat himself to death."

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Li Xia couldn't hear anything more. He staggered out of the hospital, dragging his heavy body, his mind blank.

He walked to the steps at the door and stopped. For some reason, he couldn't get down those short ten or so steps.

Li Xia took several deep breaths, trying to calm himself down, but the tense and desperate scene in the emergency room kept flashing through his mind, along with the doctor's last words, "Even a god couldn't save him."

Night had fallen, and there were almost no pedestrians on the road outside the hospital.

After an unknown amount of time, a silver minivan screeched to a halt in front of the hospital. A middle-aged woman with a tragically pale face opened the car door and stumbled toward the emergency room.

A moment later, a desperate cry of anguish came from inside.

It sounded particularly jarring on this quiet night.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Xia recovered and turned to the hospital registration desk to inquire about the cost of her mother's surgery at the end of the month.

The nurses working at the bar were naturally unaware of this, but fortunately, there wasn't much going on at the hospital that night, and seeing the poor young man, the nurses still lent a hand.

She made a few phone calls and found out the approximate cost.

"Around 80,000. Young man, don't worry. The government is implementing medical insurance now, so in the end it won't cost much. Oh, I see your mother is from the village. Here's what you do: tomorrow, when you have some free time, go to the town to apply for a major illness subsidy. You should be able to get a subsidy of 10,000 or 20,000."

My mother has nothing; she can't even afford to pay the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme fee, which only costs a few hundred yuan a year.

If she doesn't have surgery, her illness will only drag on day by day, and her condition will only worsen.

According to Li Xia's previous consultation with the doctor, the surgery at the end of the month was the latest possible treatment deadline. If that time was missed, perhaps only a miracle could save him.

After so many years of treatment for serious illnesses, I have borrowed from all my relatives and friends, and there is no way I can borrow even a single penny more.

Thinking of his mother's increasingly thin figure, Li Xia felt as if his heart was being cut by a knife.

"Ahhh!"

"Woo!"

"My life is so miserable!"

"Why!"

Li Xia twisted his neck, turning his head inch by inch, as if mechanically, staring blankly at the emergency room where the crying had suddenly started, his eyes gradually dimming.

(End of this chapter)