Shen Yanming glanced at Yu Shui beside him and asked, "Do you have a rash? Why is your skin all bumpy?"
Yu Shui touched her arm, and the texture was indeed not very good. "I don't know, maybe it's because I haven't showered in a long time."
As Yu Shui spoke, he opened his lunchbox and started eating. Li Yinhe glanced at Yu Shui's arm and asked, "How long has this been sitting here?"
"I don't know, it must have been a long time ago. Before, when there was no water, I couldn't take a shower. I thought it was because my skin was too dirty that it was bumpy. But after I took a shower, I realized that there was a problem with my skin."
Upon hearing this, Li Yinhe's heart skipped a beat. She rolled up her sleeves and said, "Look, isn't it the same as yours?"
Yu Shui stared in shock at Li Yinhe's arm, even touching it with her hand, "How, how could this be?"
Li Yinhe pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I've been feeling nauseous and have headaches a lot lately, and I'm also unsteady on my feet. What about you?"
"I feel weak in my limbs, and sometimes my muscles ache. I thought it was because I hadn't rested enough!"
Li Yinhe thought of Cui Xian, and said in a trembling voice, "Could we... also..."
Yu Shui seemed to realize something as well, and burst into tears. "Am I going to die? I was just laughing at someone for having worms in their stomach, but it turns out I'm the one who's really suffering! God, I want to live!"
Li Yinhe's eyes reddened as Yu Shui cried. "Why are you crying? If you die, I'll be there for you."
So the two grown men stopped eating and just hugged each other and cried.
Shen Yanming was getting a headache from the noise from the two people next to him. "Why don't you two go to the hospital for a checkup? Even if you really have some kind of disease, you two have been jumping around for so long. If you weren't going to live, you would have been dead long ago!"
At this moment, Yu Shui remembered that Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan had reminded him to go to the hospital for a check-up a long time ago, but he had never taken it seriously.
Yu Shui looked at Shen Yanming timidly, "Great God, did you already know I was sick?"
Shen Yanming stared intently at Yu Shui. "Don't you know your own body condition? Don't you even look at how thin you've become?"
Yu Shui...
"Although what you said makes a lot of sense, I still feel like you're hiding something!"
Shen Yan understood Yu Shui's meaning and said, "Let's eat!"
Okay, Yu Shui pursed her lips and started eating by herself.
Although he really wanted to go back to the city right now, he had come to Hucheng County today in a car driven by a colleague. Moreover, Yu Shui and Li Yinhe only had a guess about their physical condition at the moment, and neither of them had any obvious clinical symptoms. Therefore, their leave requests were not approved.
With no other option, the two could only eat their meal absentmindedly, and then work anxiously for three or four hours before finally returning to Haishi with everyone else at 4:30 pm.
Yu Shui and Li Yinhe didn't even go home; as soon as they arrived in Shanghai, they rushed to the hospital.
"Doctor, doctor, please take a look at me! Am I going to die?" Yu Shui started shouting as soon as she entered the hospital, making Li Yinhe feel embarrassed.
"Stop yelling, let's register first!" Li Yinhe, ignoring the strange looks from others, pulled Yu Shui toward the registration desk.
The interaction between the two amused the patients, doctors, and nurses who came and went.
Actually, Yu Shui's voice startled the nurses in the lobby the moment he opened his mouth, but his voice was strong and his complexion, though not very good, showed no signs of pain. In addition, there was no blood on his body, he was able to move on his own, and the man beside him was not flustered. So, everyone was relieved.
The two didn't know what illness they had, so after thinking about it, they made an appointment with a dermatologist.
"Doctor, look, why do I have so many bumps all over my body? And I also..."
Before Yu Shui could finish speaking, the dermatologist pointed to the door and said, "Turn left outside, that's the infectious disease department!"
"Huh?" Yu Shui was stunned, staring blankly at the doctor. "This is contagious?"
The dermatologist smiled and nodded. "Go on, it's almost time to go home!"
"Oh, oh!" Yu Shui quickly grabbed her medical record, turned around and left the dermatology department, with Li Yinhe following closely behind.
"Young man, what's wrong with you? Let me examine you first before you go with him, otherwise I'll be off work soon." The dermatologist saw that Li Yinhe also had a medical record in his hand and quickly called out to him.
Li Yinhe stopped in her tracks, raised her hand and rolled up her sleeves. "I have the same problem as him, so I should also go to the infectious disease department, right?"
The dermatologist took one look and nodded, "It's the same. You should go over there quickly. I don't know what's going on, but there are so many people getting this disease lately. This disease can't be delayed; the sooner it's treated, the better."
Yu Shui and Li Yinhe panicked when they heard this. Could this disease really be fatal?
The two quickened their pace noticeably, and when they reached the infectious disease ward at the top, they found it packed with people.
"Isn't this the infectious disease ward? With so many people crammed here, aren't you afraid of cross-infection?" Yu Shui muttered.
Li Yinhe glanced around and said, "They probably have the same problem as us; they all have small bumps on their bodies."
Yu Shui couldn't help but shiver, his limbs so weak that he could only be supported by Li Yinhe.
As soon as they entered the examination room, the doctor asked them, "Have you eaten raw pork?"
"No, I only eat canned meat!" Yu Shui shook her head and said.
"Bought on the black market?"
Yu Shui nodded. "How did you know?"
The doctor pointed outside the door, "They're just like you; they ate canned meat from the black market."
Yu Shui's legs went weak when he heard this, not only because he had been diagnosed with the disease, but also because he had taken Li Yinhe and several other colleagues to the black market. If he and Li Yinhe were sick, how could the others escape?
After briefly inquiring about their symptoms, the doctor asked them to take off their coats.
Neither Yu Shui nor Li Yinhe hesitated; they took off their coats. After examining them, the doctor performed local tissue biopsies and then gave them a referral to wait for a brain CT scan.
Now the two of them finally understood why there were so many people outside the door.
"Doctor, it's almost seven o'clock, aren't you going home?"
The doctor rolled his eyes at Yu Shui. "Isn't it all because of your troubles? What do you mean the food isn't good? You're eating pork with rice? The infectious disease ward has been overflowing these past two days. If we don't work overtime to treat you, are we just going to let you die?"
"Is it...is it that serious?" Yu Shui's voice was stammering.
"It depends on the person. Some can get better with some medicine, while others keep recurring and never get better. You two should be mentally prepared."
"Doctor, can't you comfort us? I feel like crying..." Yu Shui's eyes were red, and she looked at the doctor with a whimper.
The doctor softened his tone, "I'm a doctor, it would be harming you if I didn't tell the truth!"
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