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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.

temperature is apparently surprised too, as when she prepares the drug of the infusion, she keeps saying to Abby, “Why

her head, she answers,

here. You can’t be too careful. Fever is big

pale complexion is a clear sign of her severe illness; Abby

calls a third time, she walks out of the ward and answers

an unfamiliar voice from the phone. He tries to

“Lily’s friend, Abby.”

“Where is she?”

me.” Abby uses the excuse she prepared before picking up the call, acting naturally, “She left her phone in my apartment yesterday. She’ll pick

quiet

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

tell whether he believes her or

heaves a sigh of relief, “Sure, no

up the phone, a nurse in white uniform walks over, “You can

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

that your friend has developed. She has mild alcohol intoxication and there’s a fair number of anticholinergic agents and a few atropines, which are ingredients of knockout drops, in

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

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

the fever is gone.” The doctor objectively evaluates Lily’s condition. From the diagnose, the doctor has an inkling of what has happened to the two girls, and

of uncomfortable thoughts crowding in on her. She feels utterly angry at the

phone

from Ryan, instead, it’s from another person, someone she’s so

Rex.

silent about Lily’s condition. After all, the decision to tell him or not should be made by

surely didn’t expect that as soon as she answers the phone, he asks, “Did you stay in Abby’s apartment