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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.

infusion, she keeps saying to Abby,

her head, she answers, “It’s not this

she’s here. You can’t be too careful. Fever

by Lily’s bedside. Lily’s pale complexion is a clear sign of

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,

moment hearing an unfamiliar voice from the phone. He tries

“Lily’s friend, Abby.”

“Where is she?”

up the call, acting naturally, “She

is quiet for

Abby’s afraid he wouldn’t

There’s not any emotion showing in his voice, so it’s hard to tell whether he believes her or not. “Please tell

sigh of relief,

a nurse in white uniform walks over, “You can go

and figures that Abby couldn’t understand on the report. So, she hands it to the female doctor

has mild alcohol intoxication and there’s a fair number of anticholinergic agents and a few atropines, which are ingredients of knockout drops, in her blood. So, it’s certain that she’s got drugged and drank too

could barely speak

she going to be fine? What

Lily’s condition. From the diagnose, the doctor has an inkling of what has happened to the two girls, and she consoles Abby, “Don’t worry. We’ll try our best

uncomfortable thoughts crowding in on her.

phone in her pocket rings

this time it’s not from Ryan, instead, it’s from

Rex.

is still unconscious, deciding to keep silent about Lily’s condition. After

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