Ruan Chen forced herself to get through the morning exam, but halfway through the afternoon English exam, she raised her hand to ask for leave. She went to the bathroom and vomited violently, then went to the school clinic with a pale face and got an ibuprofen tablet.
However, this medicine has little effect on alleviating the aftereffects of mental exhaustion, and you still have to go to the hospital to get a prescription – in Jingzhou, only the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinghua University of Technology can prescribe it.
Ruan Chen handed in her paper an hour early, and behind her came low gasps of amazement and whispers. Ruan Chen knew what they were amazed about.
She also heard Yu Xiaoya, who was sitting in the back, whisper, "The academic genius is awesome."
Unfortunately, this time she really couldn't continue.
She went to Zhou Huayu, the newly appointed head teacher of the rocket class, to get a leave slip, and then took a taxi straight to the First Affiliated Hospital of Beijing University of Technology after leaving the school.
She swiped her Chinese resident identification card, selected the registration option, and then completed the registration procedures.
For people like them who have awakened their spiritual power and are at level seven or above, China has a special system to track and record their medical records related to their spiritual power every time, which is very troublesome.
If Ruan Chen hadn't been in so much pain, she wouldn't have bothered to make an appointment to see a doctor.
Ruan Chen found it strange that she had been staying at the First Affiliated Hospital of Beijing University of Technology for almost a week, and the doctors had never mentioned her mental impairment or conducted any related examinations, yet the medications they prescribed included drugs related to mental impairment.
When she was first discharged from the hospital, her headache symptoms were not obvious. It was only after experiencing that series of events at the Fu family yesterday that her headache became much more severe.
After registering, she sat quietly in the waiting area waiting for the doctor to take her for an examination.
The doctor still needed to verify her personal information. Ruan Chen sat alone on the cold bench in the waiting area. Her headache had subsided a little on the way there, but now that she was at the hospital, it had started hurting again.
Her phone vibrated in her bag, but Ruan Chen was in so much pain that her head was filled with the ringing sound that she didn't notice it and naturally didn't answer it.
The phone screen displayed Lin Fengzi's name.
After verifying her personal information, the doctor called her name using the call button and gestured for her to come into the inner room for examination.
Seeing that Ruan Chen's face looked really bad, the nurse got up and came over to help her.
When Ruan Chen stood up, she lost her balance and knocked her backpack, which was next to her, to the ground. Her backpack was already a mess, and with the addition of her ID card and a bunch of data cables and earphones tangled inside, it was scattered all over the floor.
Ruan Chen clicked her tongue and sighed, thinking that she really needed to change her habit of not tidying up; it was always a bad habit that caused trouble whenever she felt uncomfortable.
The nurse was very helpful. "You should go in and see a doctor quickly. I'll help you pack. Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on things and make sure no one touches them."
"Okay, thank you for your help." Ruan Chen really didn't have the energy to be polite at the moment.
Lin Fengzi had called four times already; the phone was buzzing and vibrating on the floor, screen facing down.
The nurse bent down and struggled to pull her phone out from under the chair. Seeing the incoming call, and glancing at Ruan Chen, who had just sat down and was about to explain her condition to the doctor, she answered the call for her.
Inspection room.
Ruan Chen is answering the doctor's questions one by one.
"Profession?"
"student."
"age."
"fifteen."
"Be specific."
"Fifteen years and seven months old."
Have you done anything that strained your mental energy recently?
"No, it's just that I've been having insomnia and having a lot of dreams."
"Have you been mentally exhausted in the past month?" the doctor asked Ruan Chen through his thick glasses. "There's no need to worry. We will keep your information confidential."
Ruan Chen hesitated.
If I've experienced mental exhaustion recently, it was only during the time at Haitang Port.
But what should I do if the doctor asks more detailed questions?
If he were to ask himself what he had done by overdrawing his mental energy, would he be expected to answer that he had dragged a whole ship of people into an illusion, causing them to kill each other?
Thinking of this, Ruan Chen sighed deeply, and goosebumps rose on her slender arms hidden in her sleeves.
That scene... she still can't bear to recall it.
But she really didn't do it on purpose.
At that moment, my heart was filled with inexplicable hatred and a desire to survive. The instant my mental strength erupted without reservation, everything was already set in stone.
Even though she understood the tragedy unfolding on the ship within seconds, and desperately tried to pull those people back from the illusion by summoning her mental energy again, it was all in vain.
Then she collapsed on the ship due to exhaustion.
When she woke up, she had already returned to China.
The doctor coughed heavily twice, interrupting Ruan Chen's thoughts, and asked again, "Have you overexerted your mental energy in the past month? This is very important. Don't worry, we will definitely keep the patient's condition confidential. Although I haven't awakened my mental energy, I know that people like you on the key monitoring and protection list often have many concerns, but I promise you, I will not tell anyone about the condition you described to me today."
Ruan Chen pressed his middle finger knuckle against his temple and began, "I was in the US about twenty days ago..."
The doctor stared intently at Ruan Chen, his finger gently pressing the recording pen in the drawer.
Ruan Chen is indeed on the list of key monitoring and protection targets.
The key is monitoring.
So when she came to register and seek medical treatment for mental health issues, it alarmed many people.
These people are eager to know if there is another version of the story that happened twenty days ago.
The nurse ran in with her phone in her hand.
"Ruan Chen, is that right? Your friend is looking for you. He called several times. It seems he wants to ask you about some data. He said it's extremely urgent."
Ruan Chen reluctantly got up, apologized to the doctor, and took the phone from the nurse.
She glanced at her phone screen. "Please, bro, I already told you yesterday that the last part of the data is in a hidden folder."
On the other end of the phone, Lin Fengzi's voice was more serious than ever before, "Ruan Chen, listen to me, from now on, you have to answer 'okay' to everything I say to you."
"Okay." Ruan Chen has one good point: she's obedient.
"Don't tell the doctor about what happened in M country. I know he will promise you that he will keep it strictly confidential. Don't believe him."
"good."
“Fake a different illness so that the doctor will believe that your headache must have some other cause. I know it’s hard to do this, but it’s important for you.”
"good."
"I'll be waiting for you in the alley behind the hospital. Come find me as soon as you've finished dealing with things at the hospital."
"good."
Ruan Chen hung up the phone and continued speaking to the doctor, "After returning from the US, I've had a persistent cough and fever, mainly a severe frontal headache, and a very bad runny nose. I had a physical altercation with someone in the US; could I have accidentally hit my head back then?"
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