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Lily surely has a fever and it seems severe because her body temperature reaches above 40℃.

Abby shakes Lily’s shoulders, trying to wake her up, “Lily, Lily?”

Vaguely aware that someone is shaking her, Lily regains consciousness and opens her eyes faintly. Somehow, she finds the sunlight entering from windows is so blinding that makes her uncomfortable.

But it’s the fever that makes her feel ill, not the light.

Although Lily’s awake now, she feels strongly dizzy and faint. Abby puts a fever cooling pad on her forehead, gets her take some medicine and finally calls an ambulance.

The waiting period is so painful and it makes Abby extremely agitated though the ambulance only takes minutes to come.

Lily’s body temperature is so high that the medicine she took is not working at all.

Fever is not some severe illness while it could lead to many complications with such a high temperature, like pneumonia, pulmonary edema, and meningitis. It’s hard to say.

There’s nothing Abby could do to help while waiting for the medical team besides changing cooling pads and being anxious.

Fortunately, the ambulance soon arrives. Nurses come upstairs with a wheelchair and they pull Lily up from the ground and place her on it, then goes straight into the lift and transfer her to the ambulance.

Everything happens so fast that Abby doesn’t have time to get changed. Then she puts a random coat on hastily and accompanies Lily to the hospital.

On the way to the nearest hospital, the First Hospital Affiliated of J University, a nurse puts her on a drip attempting to reduce her unusually high temperature.

Once arriving the hospital, the medical stuff run a series of tests on her. Abby is literally dazed when she saw Lily’s thermometer which shows her body temperature has risen to —

42℃.

In Abby’s limited medical knowledge system, a fever with a body temperature above 39℃ is rather severe; if exceeding 40℃, it will probably cause a confused state of mind and hallucination. 42℃ is something she never sees before.

of the infusion, she keeps saying to Abby, “Why didn’t you

in her head, she answers, “It’s

be too careful. Fever is

nods and then sits by Lily’s bedside. Lily’s pale complexion is a clear sign of her severe illness; Abby feels so bad for

when she stays with Lily. She didn’t answer the calls, but when he calls a third time, she walks out of the ward and answers it politely in the hallway,

the phone. He tries to

“Lily’s friend, Abby.”

“Where is she?”

the call, acting naturally, “She left

is quiet for a

of tension in her stomach. Abby’s afraid he wouldn’t buy it, “Ryan, are you

not any emotion showing in his voice, so it’s hard to tell whether he believes her or not. “Please tell Lily I called when you

heaves a sigh of relief,

white uniform walks over, “You can go and

get the results. There are a lot of medical jargons and figures that Abby couldn’t understand on the report. So, she hands it

turns out that’s not a common fever that your friend has developed. She has mild alcohol intoxication and there’s a fair number of anticholinergic agents and a few atropines, which

give Abby a fright. She recalls that Lily was being so weak that she could barely speak and move last

going to be fine? What treatment does she need? Is her condition dangerous?” asks Abby

But she is too ill when she came. We’ll see after the fever is gone.” The doctor objectively evaluates Lily’s condition. From the diagnose, the doctor has an inkling of what has happened to

thoughts crowding in on her. She feels utterly

moment, the phone in her

it’s from another

Rex.

still unconscious, deciding to keep silent about Lily’s condition. After all, the decision

didn’t expect that as soon as she answers the phone, he asks, “Did