Chapter 659 — Critical Condition Notice
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But as things stood, Crippled Wolf could say no more. Still, he was no fool; after a moment's thought he hit on a plan. Since he could not incite the parents now, then he would wait a while — wait until the hospital's examination results came out, and then make an issue of those results!
Of course, he did not know that the mastermind behind this coma incident was Li Cihua, nor that it was Li Cihua who had sent men to poison the school. He merely assumed that Li Cihua and Gu Pengzhan were at odds, and that Li Cihua meant to use this opportunity to ruin the Gu Group and First High School.
Another half hour or so passed before the emergency room door opened and a doctor in a white coat hurried out. Seeing the crowd at the door, he said, "Are you the patients' families?"
"Yes, yes! How is my child?" The middle-aged woman and a crowd of parents immediately pressed forward, waiting for the doctor's word.
Gu Pengzhan wanted to ask as well, but after all, he now represented the Gu Group. Anxious as he was about his daughter, he could only wait for the doctor to answer the parents first.
"The situation is very bad!" the doctor said. "When the patients were brought in, we initially judged it to be food poisoning. But after our tests, the food in the patients' stomachs contained no substance capable of causing a coma!"
"This..." The students' parents were dumbstruck at the doctor's words. If it was not food poisoning, then what was it?
"And the patients' symptoms do not match those of other acute infectious diseases — though it is of course possible that some new virus is the cause," the doctor said. "All the patients are in a very unstable condition. Their physiological functions are declining rapidly. We have put the patients on IV drips, but rather than passing the critical stage, their condition is only worsening! We have already placed the patients in isolation to prevent any possible spread of infection!"
"What? Not past the critical stage, but worsening?" The parents were all the more bewildered. What on earth was going on? Even the hospital could not solve it?
"Yes. We have reported it to the higher authorities and notified experts in the medical field. A panel consultation will be held shortly, but whether there is any solution is hard to say," the doctor said. "These are critical condition notices. Please each find the one for your own child and sign it!"
"Critical condition notices?" This time the parents were utterly at a loss. They had never imagined that a mere coma could turn into a critical condition notice.
"And what happens if we don't sign? We want to see our children!" another parent demanded.
"If you don't sign, we have no choice but to cease treatment," the doctor explained. "Once you sign, we will do everything in our power to find a way, though we cannot guarantee a cure. And for now you cannot go near the patients. We have yet to determine whether this is a new round of viral contagion, and under the regulations governing infectious diseases, the patients must be placed in isolation."