Chapter 228 You Have More Important Things to Do
Lin Xi lay lazily on the table, playfully poking at Xiang Xin with her fingers.
Neither of them can hold their liquor well. Lin Xi didn't try anything funny with Xiang Xin this time, and their levels of intoxication were about the same.
The task of cleaning up the mess had to be left to the boys.
Lin Xi listened to two footsteps bustling around for a while, and when the kitchen door finally closed and quieted down, Lin Xi's eyelids were already starting to droop.
Liang Hui lowered his voice slightly and said, "I'll move to Xiang Xin, you..."
He seemed to be gesturing something above Lin Xi, and a dark shadow swept past her eyelids.
Then someone put their arm around Lin Xi's shoulder.
Lin Xi struggled to lift her head and turned to look at Lu Wei behind her: "The routine check-up for today hasn't happened yet..."
"Mm," Lu Wei replied.
After Liang Hui returned, this living room became his room at night, so the routine check was done in Lu Wei's room.
Lin Xi used the table to support herself as she stood up, feeling that she could still walk.
But as soon as she took a step, she felt the world tilt at a 45-degree angle. She took two shaky steps, feeling top-heavy and light-footed, making it difficult for her feet to obey her commands.
Lu Wei was supporting her from the side.
Once inside the room, Lin Xi slowly took out the blood pressure monitor and operated it, then measured her pulse and respiration.
The pulse should be measured by placing two fingers on the carotid artery in the neck, but Lin Xi's wrist was too weak to make the measurement. The alcohol had numbed her nerves, and even if she did manage to make the measurement, she couldn't count accurately.
So she simply leaned her cheek gently against Lu Wei's chest.
Anyway, that's how you listen to breathing, so I'll lean on it a little longer today and listen to my heartbeat while I'm at it.
"Do you need help with timing?" Lu Wei's voice came from above, accompanied by a slight vibration in his chest.
Lin Xi waved her hand weakly: "I, I'm very professional."
"..."
Professional doctors don't need to test for a full minute; they can determine the general situation based on the frequency.
As soon as she found something to lean on, sleepiness washed over her. Lin Xi forced her eyelids open to keep herself from falling asleep, focusing her attention on counting her heartbeats.
After what seemed like an eternity, Lin Xi finally came to a clear conclusion: "I was drunk... but my heart wasn't even racing..."
She was unaware that she was slowly swaying to the ground. Lu Wei helped her straighten up and said, "You're not drunk anymore."
"Um?"
Lu Wei repeated, "I can't get drunk anymore."
The words echoed in Lin Xi's mind several times. When Lin Xi finally realized the meaning of the words, her body, which was still hot from being drunk, suddenly felt a chill, which instantly sobered her up.
She sat up in a daze and stared at Lu Wei.
Lu Wei had fair skin and clear eyes as he looked at her, showing no signs of being drunk.
He used to be a much lighter drinker than Liang Hui. The two of them had drunk so much that Liang Hui could barely walk straight, but Lu Wei showed no signs of drunkenness.
Lu Wei just looked at her silently: "You know that."
“…Hmm?” Lin Xi replied unconsciously, sounding confused.
But drunk people are already foolish, and deliberately pretending to be foolish only makes it more obvious.
Lu Wei raised his wrist, operated the watch for a while, and then showed the display screen to Lin Xi.
Lin Xi instinctively resisted.
But there were only the two of them there, very close together, and the content on the screen instantly came into view.
That was a real-time heart rate monitor. A red exclamation mark was flashing next to the value, which had fallen below the lower limit of the normal range, alerting the owner that the heart rate was extremely low.
Lu Wei swiped his finger across the screen, displaying a health report with line charts and text analysis.
Even the most basic fitness trackers can do this, let alone the advanced military equipment that Lu Wei is equipped with, which can not only measure heart rate, but also display respiration and blood pressure.
The line graph showed that in the more than six months since Lu Wei was infected with the virus, all his vital signs had been declining, falling far below the normal range, and the health report issued a serious warning.
Lin Xiru felt as if she had been doused with a bucket of cold water, and immediately sobered up.
She didn't dare to look up and meet Lu Wei's eyes.
She knows.
Day by day, she listened to the heartbeat here gradually slow down, and watched all the values drop to abnormal levels.
She was just deceiving herself, thinking that Lu Wei might not know.
Under her stunned gaze, Lu Wei retrieved the refrigerated medicine box, took out several medications, and injected himself with the liquids, announcing the name of each medication as he injected it: "Delaying agent, antitoxin, special antidote..."
Watching his meticulous movements, Lin Xi suddenly felt like a clown, and buried her face in Lu Wei's chest again to hide her embarrassment.
More than feeling ashamed, I felt heartbroken and powerless about Lu Wei's current situation.
Lu Wei was also aware of his situation.
But he never exposed it, cooperating with his daily "routine checks," turning a blind eye and covering up the fact that everything was fine.
Why are you suddenly pointing these things out now?
Taking advantage of her indulgence and her abnormal drunken state, Lin Xi didn't look up, and tears involuntarily flowed onto another person.
She recalled Liang Hui's words about "separation by life and death".
They hadn't reached that point yet; she had only seen someone's life slowly slipping away.
The atmosphere became strangely tense. Lin Xi didn't know how much time had passed, but she never raised her head.
She didn't even see a pair of hands that were about to fall on her back stop in mid-air, hesitate for a long time before slowly placing them on her shoulders and gently patting them, as if to comfort her.
Lin Xi heard his voice, muffled and heavy, coming from her chest: "Starting tomorrow, I will tell you about my vital signs. I will also administer my medication on time. Let me know if you need me to cooperate with sampling."
Lin Xi did not answer.
Lu Wei simply continued to pat her shoulder gently: "You have more important things to do."
He only said two sentences, but Lin Xi already understood them.
She simply continued to lean against him, taking advantage of her drunkenness; her body temperature had already dropped, becoming warm but not comforting.
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Lin Xi was woken up by the alarm clock and opened her eyes to find herself lying with Xiang Xin in another bedroom of the house.
She rubbed her head, which was throbbing from a hangover, picked up her watch and put it on, only to see a new message: her real-time vital signs status.
Lu Wei shared the information from his watch with her watch in real time, so she no longer needed to find time to see Lu Wei every day, and she could know all the data in real time.
"There are more important things to do."
Lin Xi got up to wash up.
The living room was empty. Liang Hui had already left, Xiang Xin was still asleep, and Lu Wei's bedroom door was tightly closed; his condition was unknown.
Lin Xi looked at the rice cooker on the table with the keep-warm light on, opened it and ladled out a bowl of porridge with the rice and water tightly blended together, leaving the rest for Xiang Xin.
She went to the research institute with utmost concentration.
She wasn't late. Apart from the staff on duty, this was the time when everyone was at work, and many people gathered at the bulletin board at the entrance after clocking in, pointing and gossiping.
Upon seeing Lin Xi appear, everyone's gazes shifted; some avoided eye contact, while others became gossipy.
Lin Xi glanced at the notice above; it was about the addition of a new laboratory to the research institute and Zhao Jing's appointment letter.
Some people whispered, "They're all researching vaccines, so why did Zhao Jing open a separate lab?"
"Yeah... Just what kind of backing do these people from the Dawn Research Institute have that they can all become managers?"
History always repeats itself.
Lin Xi used to be the center of gossip, but now she's become an onlooker.
She ignored it and went straight to her laboratory.
Some people were missing. Besides Zhao Jing, Qu Shuran and others also left. Some of the original staff members of the Watchful Research Institute were also transferred to Zhao Jing's laboratory.
Most people were confused about what was going on. How could the elite team at Dawn Research Institute that developed the vaccine suddenly split up overnight?
The other members of the original Dawn Research Institute were lifeless, and no one said a word.
Everyone could guess that Zhao Jing and Lin Xi had fallen out. One of them was someone who controlled the core technology of the vaccine, and the other was someone who was clearly biased towards the base. The staff members who were focused on their work were now facing the issue of choosing sides.
But gradually everyone noticed that Lin Xi and Zhao Jing didn't argue, and neither of them made things difficult for the other.
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