Chapter 3: The Fifth Time Cycle (II)

Chapter 3: The Fifth Time Cycle (II)

Li Shiqing was surprised by the outcome of the successful drop-off, but was then overwhelmed with joy.

She really ran out!

Really got out of that car!

Boy, who got out of the car with Li Shiqing, was startled by her sudden outpouring of tears and took a half-step backwards, his mouth opened and closed several times but no words came out, probably because he thought Li Shiqing was not in her right mind.

So what if you're treated like a psychopath?

She got out at last!

"Hey, you ......"

Boy with glasses shows a worried look.

But Li Shiqing couldn't hear what he said to her next, because she had already run out onto the pavement, in the direction she had come from, without looking back.

She had imagined countless times what would happen if she got out of the car, but when she did, Li Shiqing had only one thought in mind.

--Run!

Stay away from this piece of shit car, stay away from these inexplicable people and things, and better yet, never see it again in your life!

"Hey, are you really sick in the head? You need to go get cured if you have a brain problem!"

She heard Boy, who had been pulled out of the car by himself, shouting behind her.

In the past, Li Shiqing would have turned around and said, "You're the one who's mentally ill".

But now, she won't be offended by anything anyone says.

What's more, the way she wore an ecstatic smile and wept while running wildly did look like a psychotic anyhow.

Passers-by heard Boy's shouting and saw Li Shiqing's rampage and gave her a look of horror as they moved out of the way, allowing her to run further away.

"Boom!"

As she ran, there was a loud, earth-shaking sound behind her, as if a thunderbolt had suddenly exploded through the air, shaking even the earth for a moment.

Li Shiqing, who had been running with his head in the sand, was caught off guard by the jolt and turned around, but lost his balance and crashed head-on into a telephone pole in front of him...

"Look over there!"

A harsh scream exploded through the crowd.

"No, no ......"

The familiar sharp pain and dizziness came and Li Shiqing stared in vain, trying to stay awake while her consciousness drifted away.

The last image in my memory is of people turning back with frightened expressions at the startling noise ......

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"Ho!"

Awakened from her nightmare, Li Shiqing's eyes snapped open.

What kind of nightmare had she just had?

Looks like it was on a bus ......

Bus?

What bus?

The pungent smell of antiseptic drops at the end of her nose, the frequent footsteps of bystanders walking to and fro in her ears, a drip needle in her arm and an IV bottle dangling from a hanger above her head.

"Where am I?"

Li Shiqing touches the IV tube and looks to the sides with confusion.

A pale green curtain is drawn next to the bed, the brightness of the fluorescent light makes everything invisible, and on the left hand side there is an instrument of some kind on the bedside table, which is ticking away.

Isn't this a hospital?

She struggled to sit up.

Yet she moved only slightly and a raging vomiting sensation washed up in her throat, unpleasantly.

Why did she have to wake up so early?

If I had known, I would have just laid there, even if I had been dizzy.

"Scary yo, I heard it was a bus that crashed into a tanker and caused a chain of explosions ......"

A few family members of the patients who were accompanying the bed for the infusion whispered next to them.

"It's just over the bridge over the river. It's a good thing I didn't go on the bridge today, otherwise I might have had an accident too."

When she heard the words "the bus hit the tanker", Li Shiqing's body involuntarily cringed and tears even came to her eyes, so much so that she quietly covered half of her face with the quilt on her hospital bed.

She didn't understand what this inexplicable surge of strong emotions was all about.

It's like she doesn't understand when her empathy got so strong and how she could be so upset just hearing about a car accident.

The A&E department was a war zone, with everyone bemoaning the tragedy and some of the family members of patients with minor injuries offering to ask what they could do, while Li Shiqing didn't even want to look at them.

Her soul felt like it had been split in two by a headache, half of it carrying the raging emotions that inexplicably came with it, grieving uncontrollably for these wounded people

The other half was alarmed and wondered where she had gotten such inexplicable emotions.

"Have I really banged my brains out?"

Li Shiqing laughed to herself as she lay in bed staring blankly at the infusion overhead.

Slowly, the IV dangling from her head is nearing the bottom and the mobile phone Li Shiqing is waiting for is not being delivered.

But with so many life-threatening people being brought in, it's only natural that they couldn't care less about her little matter.

Li Shiqing pondered that it would be better not to cause any trouble at such a soldierly time, so she simply adjusted the infusion raft to off herself and continued to lie quietly.

She felt so tired just lying there, as if she hadn't slept in a long, long time, but she couldn't really sleep because of the discomfort she felt, and listening to the wails of pain around her, she only wished that the school teachers would come quickly, or that someone would come and push her out of the emergency department.

It didn't take long for Li Shiqing's dream to come true.

A doctor-like man with a mask hurriedly led two able-bodied men and had her taken to some ward.

"Where are you sending me?"

Li Shiqing asked in surprise, a little panicked.

"You'll have to vacate your bed for other patients who need it, and the hospital has arranged a quieter place for you to rest."

This doctor was not as gentle as the nurse sister before and her tone was a bit cold.

Hearing his explanation made her less flustered.

It was also true that she had only hit her head and could recuperate from her injury in another place, so she might as well give the bed to an injured person who needed the care of an emergency department doctor close by.

So she was quite happy when Li Shiqing was carried on a stroller by the two men and led by the doctor to the inpatient wing.

If anyone says that the doctor-patient relationship is tense and doctors are not good people in the future, she will definitely tear them apart!

Look at this hospital, how good they are to patients, not only are they allocated according to their needs, but they even moved her to a single ward, considering that she is a concussion patient who can't stand the noise!

Li Shiqing closed her eyes happily after being sent off with a "thank you" to the doctor, who was in a rather isolated and quiet area.

Finally a quiet sleep!

She had just closed her eyes, ready to rest, when she heard someone talking at the door.

"Is that the little girl?"

"Yes, she just woke up and we put her here after we got your call."

The voice at the door was also familiar; it was the doctor she had just thanked.

"Thank you for the hospital's cooperation, we'll go in now and take a look."

Who's here?

Is it a teacher arranged by the school?

Wow, that's so generous of the school to get the hospital to give her a single room!

Now Li Shiqing couldn't sleep again and tried to keep her eyes open to thank the teacher who had "taken time out of her busy schedule to come and visit her students".

The push of the door sounded softly and she looked over with a smile that faded to a frosty grin.

Why were there two uniformed police officers coming in?