After arriving at the hospital at the address given by Chen Wei, Zhou Yu's first thing was not to find Zhang Mumu, but to go to the beverage machine to buy coffee.
"Are you so sleepy at ten o'clock?"
"...Take the sleeping pills and try getting up again."
Hearing his unceremonious answer, Chen Wei didn't ask anything, just said: "It's better to take as little sleeping pills as possible."
"I'm cutting back."
Zhou Yu tried her best to keep her eyes open. During this period of time, he could clearly feel that his body had become resistant to sleeping pills, but similarly, when he drank coffee now, he felt that it was no different from plain water.
In order to prevent himself from falling asleep, he leaned his body against the cold wall and asked Chen Wei, "What happened to Mr. Zhang? Did you accidentally get burned by boiling water?"
"That's pretty much it. Her parents were going on a trip for two months, so they let her live on campus this semester, but she encountered this kind of accident within a few days. I was able to send her to the hospital, but after all, some of the care was better for girls. It’s suitable, so I called you here.”
"Don't you have anyone else to choose from? Where is her roommate?"
Chen Wei shrugged and said almost in a relaxed manner: "She is relatively familiar with you in the same grade."
"...How's the injury?"
"My whole hand was wet, and it looked worse."
"What happened? Did you knock over the hot water bottle?"
Chen Wei had a strange look on his face. He shook his head and said, "No."
"So……"
"She put her hand under the boiling water herself. Have you seen the water boiler in school? When the water is boiling, the temperature will be displayed. She put her hand under the faucet when it was more than 90 degrees. Fortunately, the dormitory The doctor did emergency treatment, and the blisters were not too big."
After saying this, he and Zhou Yu looked at each other speechlessly.
"What exactly is she thinking?" Zhou Yu asked.
"Who knows. The dwarf's thinking is not something ordinary people can understand. Just tie her up."
Zhou Yu shook his head.
"Even she is unreasonable."
Zhou Yu specifically complained in her diary about the old-fashioned water boiler used in the dormitory building. It was a huge iron-clad device. When it was boiling, not only would there be a temperature display, but the entire shell would also buzz and get hot. In the summer, even the slightest approach would make people feel hot. That was a warning that no one with a dull mind would ignore.
Moreover, the faucet was deliberately placed very low. Given Zhang Mumu's height, he had to bend down slightly to reach it. Therefore, it was impossible for his foot to slip against the faucet switch and spill the boiling water on his hand.
Zhou Yu couldn't think of an occasion where he could burn a large area of his hand on that machine. The most likely scenario is self-harm. However, based on the frequency of Zhang Mumu's messages earlier, Zhou Yu didn't think she would suddenly become world-weary.
"I regret it. She shouldn't have been allowed to talk nonsense." Chen Wei suddenly said.
"what do you mean?"
"The psychic game we played last week. I should have known better that she shouldn't have participated."
"...Are you going to blame the ghost for this kind of thing?"
"You may think it's ridiculous to say this, and I wouldn't believe it normally. But the exception is the little dwarf - she has a strange physique, and almost every year she encounters several things that cannot be explained by common sense. You and me She will think so if we get along with him for a while."
Zhou Yu was speechless.
These words are irrefutable, because he himself is one of the weird things Zhang Mumu encountered.
"Even so, she just cheated that night."
"I'm just talking casually. Anyway, let's wait until she comes out in person before asking."
The two of them were speechless, waiting on both sides of the corridor.
Just before Zhou Yu fell asleep against the wall, the door to the consulting room opened.
Zhang Mumu walked out accompanied by another girl. Her hand was wrapped with a bandage, but when she saw Zhou Yu, she greeted Zhou Yu happily as if nothing was wrong.
"...Are your nerves made of steel?"
Zhou Yu took her hand and looked at it for a while. There was a faint smell of iodine and scald ointment under the gauze. According to Chen Wei, it was probably the doctor who opened the blisters and cleaned the wound.
When he checked, Zhang Mumu seemed to feel no pain at all and kept turning his wrist. After noticing her movements, Zhou Yu frowned.
"Classmate Zhang, did the doctor tell you the extent of your burns?"
"Eh...it seems to be Qian Er or something?"
"Is it a superficial second-degree burn? It would be difficult to treat if it was a deep second-degree burn. But you should feel a lot of pain now."
"Huh? It's okay."
Zhou Yu exerted slight pressure on his fingertips and carefully observed Zhang Mumu's reaction. Theoretically, the pain should be very obvious from a shallow burn, but Zhang Mumu seemed to be fine at all. If the doctor hadn't judged the degree of burns, he would have almost suspected that it was a deep injury that destroyed the nerves.
To verify the problem, he pinched Zhang Mumu's arm.
"Wow! It hurts!"
"...It seems that there is no problem with the pain. So, classmate Zhang, could you please explain why you were burned by boiling water?"
Zhang Mumu rubbed his arm and said, "I didn't know that was boiling water."
"...I think there is no need to waste time questioning your nerves. Please be more careful."
Under constant questioning from Zhou Yu and another girl, Zhang Mumu finally explained the matter clearly.
Probably not long after Zhou Yu left, her fever symptoms completely subsided. Not only is his body temperature normal, but his energy is surprisingly good.
Because she had already asked for leave, she still stayed in the dormitory playing with her mobile phone. After harassing Zhou Yu to no avail, she ran to the tea room to pour hot water, only to find that there seemed to be something wrong with the temperature display of the water dispenser.
——Although the value is ninety-six, the iron shell of the machine is not hot to the touch at all.
So she turned on the faucet.
The water flowed down, and although there was obvious water vapor around it, I didn't feel any heat at all when I brought my palm close to it.
It's so weird. She put her hand into the water and didn't feel any heat. She just watched her palm gradually turn red.
"…Then I was sent here by the dormitory director."
Zhang Mumu waved his right hand and said, "It's amazing. Look, I've already had such a fever that I'm not afraid of the heat anymore."
"Yes, you are really amazing." Zhou Yu said sincerely.
The dormitory director who accompanied Zhang Mumu quickly entrusted Zhang Mumu to Zhou Yu because he had morning classes the next day, and he went back to school first. After she handed the receipt issued by the doctor to Zhou Yu, Chen Wei also looked at it and said as if sighing: "The doctor's handwriting..."
"For mild second-degree burns, two sticks of Zhilin burn ointment." Zhou Yu took a look and said.
"You don't seem to be a pharmacist, right?"
"This is the abbreviation of the prescription. The handwriting is not very illegible. My roommate's is more..."
Zhou Yu was suddenly stunned for a moment, but forgot what he said next. He quickly put the matter behind him and just urged Zhang Mumu to go to the pharmacy to get medicine.
"Classmate Zhou...I'm sleepy..."
"Take the medicine before going to bed. Otherwise you will forget to apply it tomorrow."
After taking the medicine, Zhang Mumu sat directly on a public chair outside and fell asleep. Zhou Yu walked up to her with the ointment and looked down at her bandaged hand.
"What do you think?" he asked without looking back.
"It's useless to ask me. I can't do anything about medical matters." Chen Wei replied, "But you seem to know better. Do you know what makes people unable to detect hot and cold diseases?"
"I only know about 'painlessness', which is a pain-conducting nerve disorder, but it does not affect the patient's perception of hot and cold. I have never heard of the reverse situation like hers."
"Is it a rare case..."
Zhou Yu turned around and looked at the thoughtful Chen Wei.
"Classmate Zhang didn't have this kind of disease before, right?"
"No. If she had, she probably wouldn't have lived past ten years old. She would have burned herself alive in the bathtub or something like that."
Zhou Yu really couldn't understand this guy's sense of humor. He shook his head and said, "I don't know what's going on."
"In this case, we can only seek help from the sidelines for the time being."
"What's the meaning?"
Chen Wei shrugged and said, "I'll go find a friend and ask for help."
"...Do you know a neurologist?"
"No, I know a young master who practices Taoism."
