NOVPUBWhen Wu Bin woke up, it was already noon the next day.
He found himself lying in a hospital, with Yin Yourong standing beside him, recording the data from the monitoring equipment.
"Yourong?"
Wu Bin tentatively called out, and Yin Yourong was startled at first, then, upon seeing Wu Bin regain consciousness, she suddenly screamed loudly.
"Director, Wu Bin is awake! Wu Bin has come to!"
Yin Yourong shouted as she ran out of the ward.
Wu Bin didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Even if you need to go out and call somebody, you should at least ask me what my condition is.
Soon, He Bingbing and Zhu Ling walked in from the outside.
They had been waiting in the adjacent room all along and, upon hearing that Wu Bin was awake, came in to check on him immediately.
"Wu Bin, how do you feel now?"
Wu Bin tried to sit up but felt an intense soreness throughout his body as he moved.
This severe pain was like having overexerted himself in a workout, making it feel as if all his muscles were torn and strained.
"I’m in a lot of pain all over, I’m hungry, and I want to eat something."
That’s how patients who’ve been unconscious for a day are; since their body’s nutrition is maintained through IV drip, they feel very hungry once they wake up and just want to eat something, nothing else matters.
As soon as Zhu Ling heard about eating, her eyes immediately lit up.
"Bro, what do you want to eat? I can go buy it. Spicy hot pot, Sichuan hot pot, or grilled fish?"
Wu Bin’s mouth twitched.
He was, after all, a patient; could a patient really eat such spicy food?
Fortunately, at that moment, Li Guotai came in with a group of doctors from outside.
After giving Wu Bin a quick full-body check-up, Li Guotai said with a reproachful look on his face, "You really are lucky to be alive, boy. If you hadn’t been brought in on time yesterday, you wouldn’t have seen today’s sun."
He had been brought in yesterday?
The last thing Wu Bin remembered before passing out was being in the sea.
He felt safe when he saw the volunteer team from the ninth institution arrive, so he let down his guard emotionally.
Maybe it was that relaxation that caused him to faint on the spot.
However, Wu Bin hadn’t expected that he would be brought to Li Guotai for treatment. He had thought that the ninth institution had its own hospital.
"Director Li, so what’s my condition?"
Li Guotai looked at him.
"Decompression sickness, and a very severe case at that."
"When you arrived at our hospital, your whole body was convulsing, and you were in a state of deep coma."
"But it’s also a good thing you passed out then. Otherwise, the pain of the convulsions alone might have been too much for you to bear."
"I really don’t know what you’re up to all day. Did you go swimming in the ocean? How did you get such a severe case of decompression sickness?"
Upon hearing he had decompression sickness, Wu Bin didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
So this is what they mean by an occupational hazard.
Because underwater, the deeper you go, the greater the pressure.
And as the pressure increases, it can significantly affect the amount of nitrogen in the blood.
So when someone surfaces too quickly from a great depth, the pressure decreases suddenly causing nitrogen in the blood to be released in large amounts. This can have a severe impact on the body; this is the infamous decompression sickness.
Decompression sickness can cause muscle soreness, nausea, and vomiting. In more severe cases, like with Wu Bin, it can lead to immediate unconsciousness and even life-threatening conditions.
It could only be said that Wu Bin was lucky. The medical team from the Ninth Institute arrived just in time before he passed out.
Otherwise, had Wu Bin been left floating alone at sea, it would’ve been impossible to find him, akin to looking for a needle in a haystack.
Nevertheless, Wu Bin felt quite fortunate.
Although decompression sickness might sound terrifying at first, he had fainted, so he hadn’t felt any pain.
That must be better than something like burning pains or full-body compound fractures, right?
After confirming that there was no problem with Wu Bin’s current health, Li Guotai said indifferently, "Alright, you might feel some muscle soreness for the next couple of days, but that should be all."
"You just stay in the hospital and lie down for these two days, don’t go wandering around, and don’t go diving for no good reason. Learn your lesson."
Li Guotai still didn’t know that Wu Bin had been on a mission and thought that his current state was because he had been fooling around.
Once Li Guotai left with a group of doctors, He Bingbing naturally sat by the bed, picked up a fruit knife, and began peeling an apple for Wu Bin.
"Wu Bin, how could you leave without saying a word? None of us knew where you had gone, and the next thing we know, we find you’ve been taken to the hospital."
"Were you kidnapped or maybe involved in something that’s inconvenient to talk about?"
It’s no wonder He Bingbing was so anxious.
After all, her job was to shoot Wu Bin’s entire journey.
And in the middle of filming, Wu Bin disappeared without a trace, only to later receive news that he was in an emergency rescue.
That kind of incident would make anyone anxious.
He Bingbing complained, "Next time something comes up and you need to leave, can’t you let us know in advance? We were looking all over for you, thinking something had happened."
Wu Bin gave a sheepish smile and said he would definitely inform He Bingbing next time.
In the end, it was Nightingale’s fault.
After all, when she took him away, he hadn’t had any time to prepare.
Nightingale never informed him before carrying out a mission; she would just come over and take him away.
Over the next two days, Wu Bin lay in bed to recover. During that time, he even enjoyed being fed by Yin Yourong. Life was so comfortable that he began to feel reluctant to return to school.
The viewers in the live streaming room couldn’t help but comment when they saw this scene.
"Most people are miserable in the hospital, lying in bed in pain, but Wu Bin seems to actually be treating the hospital like his home, looking quite content there," one viewer said.
"Don’t talk nonsense; no one has it this good at home, having a beautiful girl like Yin Yourong feed you meals. I couldn’t even dream of such treatment in my dreams," another commented.
"Wu Bro is staying in a deluxe ward, with air conditioning, a couch, a TV, and all that is one thing, but I even saw a bathtub in the bathroom! It’s infuriating how much better his hospital room is compared to my rental!"
"Bro, don’t be envious. Your rental may be rundown, but you have to pay rent. Wu Bro’s deluxe ward is not only luxurious but rent-free. Does that make you feel any better?"
"Thank you for the consolation, it does make me feel a lot better," responded another.
After Yin Yourong finished feeding Wu Bin, she considerately took out a tissue and wiped his mouth for him.
Once Yin Yourong and He Bingbing left the room to let Wu Bin rest alone, the lights had just been turned off when he suddenly saw someone standing by the window, startling him.
