Chapter 498: I’m Going to Save Someone

Chapter 498: Chapter 498: I’m Going to Save Someone

The three of them ended up finishing all four dishes, the soup, and all the rice from the rice cooker.

"Isn’t it your turn to do the dishes?" Wang Chenning said slowly, picking his teeth. "It’s not right to just eat for free, is it?"

The two women didn’t even glance at him. They just pushed their bowls aside, got up, and went back to the sofa to eat fruit.

Wang Chenning had no choice but to clear the table himself.

’Good thing I have a dishwasher, or this would’ve taken me forever!’

He had just finished clearing the dishes when he received an urgent call from the First Affiliated Hospital’s emergency room. A patient who had ingested paraquat had just been brought into the resuscitation room. The patient was a high school student who, after being scolded by her parents for not finishing an exam, had fallen into despair and impulsively drank the highly toxic substance.

The patient had drunk a full half-bottle, about two hundred milliliters, of paraquat. When she arrived at the ER, her condition was still stable, and they had just finished pumping her stomach.

But everyone knew that paraquat poisoning was practically a death sentence.

No matter the rescue method, the patient would ultimately die from irreversible pulmonary fibrosis.

Even with a small dose, the lungs would develop severe fibrosis. It was a type of poisoning for which there was virtually no cure.

"I’m on my way!" Wang Chenning threw down the dishcloth, grabbed his medical kit and jacket, and ran for the door.

While putting on his shoes, he quickly explained the situation to the two women, saying that if he could get there in time, he might be able to snatch the young girl’s life from the clutches of Death.

If he didn’t go, the girl’s death was a hundred percent certain.

"She’s an eighteen-year-old girl in the bloom of youth. I have to save her, no matter what. Give her a chance to regret her impulsive act." The moment the words left his mouth, Wang Chenning shot out like a gust of wind.

He didn’t take the elevator. Instead, he leaped directly down the fire escape stairs.

In less than half a minute, he was down on the ground floor from his fifteenth-floor apartment.

By the time the two women processed what had happened, he was already gone.

After exchanging a look, Zhao Xiao’an quietly asked Yang Xiaofei, "What should we do? Should we go and see?"

"Let’s go. Let’s see how he fights Death for a person!" Yang Xiaofei said after a moment’s thought. "Let’s see if he’s bluffing!"

"Okay!"

In truth, both women had seen Wang Chenning save lives before. They believed he wasn’t lying just now but had genuinely gone for a consultation.

Their plan for the day hadn’t been carried out yet, so of course, they weren’t willing to just leave.

They were also curious to see how Wang Chenning would snatch someone from Death’s grasp today.

After tidying themselves up a bit, the two women also left.

Neither of them asked why Wang Chenning had acquired this apartment, or which woman he intended to make its mistress.

While waiting for the elevator, Yang Xiaofei and Zhao Xiao’an both instinctively pulled out their phones to search for information on paraquat poisoning.

Paraquat irritates and corrodes the skin and mucous membranes. Systemic poisoning can damage multiple organ systems, with the lungs being the most severely affected, leading to changes such as pulmonary congestion, hemorrhage, edema, hyaline membrane formation, degeneration, hyperplasia, and fibrosis. Furthermore, it can damage the liver and kidneys and affect the circulatory, nervous, hematological, gastrointestinal, and urinary systems. Typically, ingesting just 10 ml is enough to be fatal.

Seeing the information on their phones, the two women’s expressions turned grim.

No wonder Wang Chenning had run off in such a hurry. This was truly terrifying.

When Yang Xiaofei and Zhao Xiao’an arrived at the emergency resuscitation room, Wang Chenning was already discussing the situation with the doctors and nurses involved in the rescue effort.

After listening to the doctors’ and nurses’ report and personally examining the patient, Wang Chenning immediately ordered her to be sent to the blood purification center to first clear the paraquat from her blood via hemodialysis.

During the blood purification process, he would administer related treatments.

After the hemodialysis, he would follow up with a combined treatment of acupuncture and medication.

The patient had drunk the poison an hour ago. Upon seeing their daughter drink the herbicide, her parents had rushed her to the hospital.

The girl was their only child. They loved her very much and had raised her to be exceptional, with excellent academic performance.

Their high hopes for their daughter’s future led them to place very high demands on her.

The Gaokao was just a few months away, and they hoped their daughter could get into a good university.

Whether she could stay in Yandu or not would be decided by her Gaokao scores.

After all, her parents’ household registration wasn’t in Yandu. For the children of migrant workers like them, the Gaokao was the only way to become a citizen of the capital.

They never expected that their proud and ambitious daughter would, in a moment of despair, resort to protesting with her own life.

Inside the resuscitation room, the girl’s parents, a mess of tears and snot, begged the medical staff to save their daughter, saying they couldn’t live in this world without her.

After hearing the explanation from the medical staff and then seeing Wang Chenning arrive, they dropped to their knees before him with a THUD.

"Dr. Wang, please save Xiaoyun! She’s only eighteen, she can’t die!" the girl’s mother wailed, clutching at Wang Chenning’s pant leg. "We know you’re a miracle worker! Please save her! If you save her, we’ll spend the rest of our lives as your servants to repay you!"

Standing in the corner, Yang Xiaofei and Zhao Xiao’an couldn’t help but be moved by the scene.

They turned away, silently wiping their reddened eyes.

Zhao Xiao’an took Yang Xiaofei’s hand and said softly, "If he can save this girl’s life, let’s forgive him."

Yang Xiaofei looked at the couple, who were still trying to kneel and beg even after Wang Chenning had helped them up, and finally gave a slight nod.