Chapter 166 High Fever Alert

It was two o'clock in the morning. Lin Che had just closed the notebook at the table when a few soft noises came from outside.

He stood up, and before he took two steps, a suppressed sob suddenly came from behind the side door.

Lin Che pushed the door open and saw the girl curled up in the quilt, with beads of sweat on her forehead and her body curled up into a small ball.

Lin Che frowned, leaned in and touched him, and as soon as her fingers touched his forehead, she immediately withdrew them.

The temperature was extremely hot. The girl said in a muffled voice, "It was very uncomfortable, as if smoke was coming out of my whole body."

He didn't have time to say anything more, and hurriedly opened the door and shouted: "Su Wanqing, Lu Zhao, come quickly!"

As he shouted, he picked up the bedside form to record his temperature.

Su Wanqing rushed over first, and when she saw the number on the thermometer, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Her fever has reached 41 degrees!"

Lin Che hurriedly carried the girl out and put her on the emergency stretcher. Lu Zhao then entered the room, carrying a medical kit, and attached the portable analyzer to the girl's wrist, staring at the analysis screen.

"The special elements are decreasing too fast." Lu Zhao lowered his voice unconsciously.

He stood on tiptoe to adjust the angle of the instrument, and two curves rose and fell anxiously on the screen.

"One third of the active elements in her body were lost in five minutes."

Lin Che couldn't hide the anxiety in his eyes. "If she continues like this, she will be in danger. Conventional cooling treatment will not be enough." As he spoke, "Ye's" emotions also affected his reactions, and every action was filled with a hint of urgency.

Su Wanqing lowered her hand pressure even lower, took out all the first aid kits, and handed three to Lu Zhao, "Try the remaining adrenaline, combined with the thermostat."

Lu Zhao took them one by one and injected them into the girl's vein skillfully. The data curve slowed down suddenly but did not stop declining.

He took a deep breath, pursed his lips and stared at the display.

The girl was stimulated by the drug and trembled slightly: "It's cooler, but it's very empty inside."

She curled up her legs again and her voice gradually became lower. Lin Che pulled the stretcher and tried to use his supernatural power to help her disperse the heat, but it could only delay.

Su Wanqing nodded to her subordinates and looked around at the medicine bottles, but there was not a single bottle that was suitable for the condition.

Without waiting for her to hesitate, Lu Zhao spoke: "I judge that her reaction is caused by an imbalance in the metabolism of the core elements in her body. This is not an ordinary virus symptom, and medication is ineffective."

Lin Che leaned against the edge of the table and said in a low voice, “Wait for the device to refresh for another minute. If it really can’t be suppressed, we can only ask the military for help.”

Su Wanqing's brows were furrowed more than in the past few days. She turned on the emergency communication: "Call Major General Fang to the hotline, immediately."

After a while, the communication was connected. She lowered her voice and said, "Major General Fang, if you can send someone who knows the most about biochemistry and the metabolism of highly active elements, there is a patient here with a high fever and the medicine has run out."

The other party replied with one word: "Understood." Within three minutes, four short and one long connection signals came from outside.

Xiao Ran was guarding the main passage. He went out with a gun in hand to meet the people.

As they reached the side door, the three of them walked very heavily. Xiao Ran looked up and saw a few beams of light switching in the shadows at the corner of the street.

The person who walked in from the front emergency passage was Doctor Zheng, dressed in military gray and blue, dragging a box of equipment in his hands, and at least three sets of medicine bags in his backpack.

Doctor Zheng was less than 40 years old, with a faint smile on his face. He saluted first and said simply, "I brought a full set of cooling equipment and rapid metabolic regulators."

He took the initiative to hand Xiao Ran a detailed list, unpacked the equipment box, and connected the data terminal to the emergency power supply first.

Xiao Ran walked around, lowered his head and glanced around the corners, then lowered his voice and said, "There are three groups of snipers on duty outside, and the team has eaten and drunk enough. There are no offensive moves, but they are all aiming."

Doctor Zheng didn't even glance outside. He laid down four sets of cold compresses one by one, and took out disinfectant alcohol and white powdered medicine from the box. "Can you open a cleaner room? It would be best if it has an insulated window."

Su Wanqing asked everyone to step aside and vacate the cleaned secondary experimental area.

"Her body temperature is now 41.3, and the element curve in her body is extremely unstable."

She handed Dr. Zheng a temporary summary of the medical records.

Dr. Zheng was straightforward and immediately used cold compresses to cool down key parts of the girl's body, while at the same time pushing specially formulated medicines into her veins one by one.

While operating, he connected the portable host to Lu Zhao's analyzer.

The data interaction speed on Beiping is extremely fast, nearly 30% faster than the existing equipment at the base.

Lu Zhao stood side by side with Doctor Zheng and read the biochemical parameters synchronously with him. "In the past twenty minutes, the element loss rate was too fast. The conversion point between the old and new metabolism was extremely short. It was faster than any other case I have seen in the laboratory."

Doctor Zheng unscrewed another package of liquid medicine, "Is it cyclical? Did you test the element recovery process a few days ago?"

Lu Zhao took out the past archives and explained them clearly. "She has had several minor fluctuations before, but never this level of decline. She usually recovers by resting normally. This fluctuation was too violent."

Doctor Zheng nodded. "That means that these elements are an adaptive process involving living tissues. There must be a rhythm to their loss, recovery, and peak. The occurrence of this metabolic abnormality must be tracked synchronously with the external environment and the two recent pendant signal stimulations."

After that, adjust the ratio of the medicine.

Lin Che kept staring at the girl, pressing his fingers against the edge of the stretcher, looking extremely uneasy.

"How long will the drug last?"

Doctor Zheng turned around and said, "If the body temperature doesn't go down within five minutes after the first round of medication takes effect, we'll have to switch to the second plan. But the special elements will depend on her own recovery. If she can hold on, she'll definitely be able to catch up."

The girl looked much weaker than before, with chapped lips. Su Wanqing wiped the sweat off her forehead and said, "Where are you feeling uncomfortable? Tell me more."

The girl stared at the ceiling and spoke in a staccato voice, "It's very cold, and very hot. Some places are disappearing, and then growing again."

Lu Zhao quickly measured blood oxygen, heart rate and other indicators, and whispered: "The lowest point of concentration in the body has passed, and the value has been slowly recovering. I have only seen two cases of this recovery curve in the database."

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Doctor Zheng nodded: "This shows that her body does have its own regulating mechanism, and this process cannot be completely replicated by external drugs."

He threw a temporary record sheet to Lu Zhao and added: "If it doesn't return to normal fluctuations tomorrow, add medicine at any time. I will take the data back for review."

Su Wanqing and Dr. Zheng stayed by the bed, recording the changes in parameters at any time.

Lin Che sat at the door and said nothing, with "Ye" in his mind always focusing on those floating numbers.

Seeing that everything had been arranged inside the room, Xiao Ran slowed down his pace when he went out, and patrolled outside under the pretext of contacting the military.

He passed by the abandoned building to the north of the shopping mall and looked up at an angle. In the distance, there were three standard sniper points clearly distributed on the upper floors of the building. There were two people at each point, but they were all just monitoring and did not pull the safety of their weapons.

He thought about it and took out three extremely small remote-controlled explosive devices from a hidden place. On the way back to the base, he hid them one by one in the previously marked pipes and sewers.

These devices are sufficient to create chaos in an emergency and delay time for the team to evacuate.

Xiao Ran was covered in dust when he entered the room. He quietly walked to the back of the locker and put the remote control into his pocket.

After checking the data, Lu Zhao synced the latest analysis to Dr. Zheng's tablet, and the two quickly discussed each parameter using very brief phrases.

"You see this element is resuming its ups and downs. It should rise to the stable line in another hour."

Lu Zhao handed over a set of information.

Doctor Zheng quickly looked through the data and simply compared them, “Each descent and recovery is accompanied by a hyperthermia reaction, which is somewhat similar to the active metabolic stress we saw in the Armed Forces Hospital before.

Such signs generally have limited exogenous intervention, which can only accelerate recovery but not completely reverse the process.”

Lin Che turned to look at the two of them, "If we encounter the next acute metabolic imbalance, what else can we do besides medication?"

Doctor Zheng lowered his head and closed the instrument box. "In theory, it is enough to ensure that her external environment maintains a constant temperature and that she receives nutritional supplements. If there is no interference from the virus signal, she will be able to survive on her own."

Su Wanqing raised her head and glanced at everyone in the room: "All data and operations should be recorded twice. We will hold a team meeting after dawn to record all the analysis results tonight."

The girl's body temperature had dropped slightly to 39.8 degrees, and her lips had regained some color.

Su Wanqing patted her hand gently and said, "Hold on a little longer. It will take a few more minutes for the medicine to take effect."

The girl nodded and said softly, "Actually, I still remember everything. I feel safe when you are around."

Doctor Zheng silently packed up his instruments and medicine box, handed the temporary treatment report to Su Wanqing, and explained that he would be on call that night.

Xiao Ran checked the communicator at the window one last time and quietly informed Lin Che: "If there is a special situation, I can detonate the three outer exits in three seconds. You just stay in the house and guard it."

Lin Che switched the watch to monitoring mode. He sat back next to the girl and stared at the temperature display on the instrument.

It was so quiet outside that one could hear the wind blowing in through the cracks in the iron door. The air was filled with the sound of instruments and the friction of people's feet walking, and no one spoke again.