When Dr. Xiao arrived at the activity room, Lin Fan had just collapsed on the ground, unable to move.
Actions that are slightly difficult for ordinary people are as difficult as climbing to the sky for her.
She collapsed on the cushion, panting, and refused to move even though the sweat dripped down her body and soaked the cushion beneath her.
What is mysophobia? I don’t have the energy to be mysophobic anymore!
"Doctor Xiao, why are you here?" Li Chunhua came up to him with a smile.
"We have made some discoveries. Come and confirm them." Doctor Xiao couldn't take her eyes off Lin Fan. She was still wondering what that white spot was.
Li Chunhua was stunned, and Song Ren also looked up. Lin Fan, whether he hadn't heard or what, remained motionless, like a dead dog.
"Lin Fan." Doctor Xiao approached and felt her pulse to confirm it was fine. "How effective is her training?"
Song Ren was an expert in training people, so she wouldn't let anything happen to Lin Fan. But as a doctor, seeing Lin Fan in such a miserable state, she still showed concern out of habit.
"It's better than the previous few days. I can last for 10 minutes now." Song Ren said with a smile.
"How long can you last at the beginning?" Wu Yi asked curiously.
"The first time, I couldn't even last three minutes," Li Chunhua replied with a smile. He definitely didn't mean to laugh at Lin Fan; he was simply delighted by her progress.
The medical trio watched the demonstration film still playing on TV and remained silent for a long time, not knowing what to say.
"Ahem..." Doctor Xiao cleared his throat. "I'm glad there's progress. I'm glad there's progress..."
"Doctor Xiao came here this time..." Song Ren remembered that he had just said there were new discoveries.
"Oh, we just found some problems in Lin Fan's film, so we came over to confirm it." Doctor Xiao remembered the purpose of his visit.
"What's the problem?" Song Ren's expression turned serious.
"Where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet." Seeing Song Ren's bewildered expression, Doctor Xiao quickly changed his words, "It's the top of the head."
The problem on his head could be big or small. Seeing that Lin Fan was unmoved and his posture hadn't changed, Song Ren asked, "How do you need my cooperation?"
"I want to take a look at the top of Lin Fan's head." Doctor Xiao saw that Lin Fan was lying on the ground in a bit of an awkward position, and it was not convenient to squat down and touch him.
During Lin Fan's previous physical examination, she hadn't specifically checked for any issues with the top of his head because he had no history of trauma. Later, the X-rays showed nothing was wrong with his head, so she assumed there was nothing wrong with it.
Now that Kuang Li has discovered something abnormal using a microscope, he must confirm it.
Song Ren guessed that Lin Fan would not move, so he stepped forward, grabbed her hands, and pulled her upper body up.
Wu Yi quickly squatted down and supported Lin Fan's back from behind so that she could lean on something. After Song Ren pulled her up, he also used one hand to support her shoulders.
Doctor Xiao carefully parted Lin Fan's hair and looked closely for the problem area. However, he found his scalp to be intact and smooth, with nothing unusual except for the hair.
Doctor Xiao reached out to touch it again, but after just two touches, he froze.
"What have you found?" Kuang Li stood behind Dr. Xiao, supported his knees with his hands, and asked with his waist bent.
"There's something." Doctor Xiao's voice trembled. "I feel a small bump here. It doesn't look like a cyst."
The others exchanged glances, and Song Ren reached out to confirm. He indeed felt a tiny bump, only the size of a pinhead. If he hadn't deliberately touched it, it would have been impossible to detect.
"Lin Fan, does it hurt here?" Song Ren pressed gently.
Lin Fan shook his head and shrugged his hand off. "It doesn't hurt."
"Has it been injured before?" Doctor Xiao asked again. If it had been injured, there might be foreign objects left inside.
But what could penetrate the skull and still produce an image similar to that of bone?
To be honest, if Kuang Li hadn't gone crazy and used a 50x microscope to find fault, he wouldn't have been able to see this thing at all.
"No." Lin Fan replied weakly. She didn't want to stand upright anymore. She wanted to lie down.
Seeing Lin Fan trying to lie down, Song Ren pulled her down and slowly laid her down. "Don't worry about her answer. She has a bad memory, so it's possible she forgot."
...Oh, yes, Lin Fan has a bad memory.
"Seek Doctor Jin!" Li Chunhua said from the side. "He might know more about Lin Fan's past."
The information 800 obtained was all related to the mecha after the transformation, and almost nothing about what Lin Fan had encountered before was passed on.
"Let's hold a meeting," Dr. Xiao suggested. "Let everyone hear the situation and see what they have to say. Our own thoughts might not be comprehensive."
"Okay, you guys go ahead. We'll stay here with Lin Fan. If she needs to be there, notify us." Song Ren said calmly.
Getting a meeting notification just as you're about to leave isn't a pleasant experience. However, everyone on 623 has been working overtime on their own initiative lately, so a meeting is nothing more than a change of location, which will slow down the progress at hand.
They are more interested in new discoveries than anything else.
Xia Jing transferred the film from Dr. Xiao's computer to the large screen. After zooming in, everyone could see the area slightly whiter than the bone suture. Both the size and color difference were very subtle, and without magnification, it was indeed impossible to see.
"What is that?" Yu Guangli asked.
"I'm not sure. It feels a bit hard and has only a little bit of protrusion. Unless you touch it specifically, you can't see anything under the scalp with the naked eye." Doctor Xiao shook his head and sighed.
As expected, common sense couldn't be used to infer Lin Fan's affairs. Who knew how many issues she might have overlooked? When she returned this time, she would thoroughly investigate.
Everyone briefly wanted to touch it. But considering Lin Fan's situation, they decided not to. Even a normal person wouldn't want a bunch of people touching their head, let alone her.
"Could it be bone hyperplasia?" Xia Jing asked.
"Generally speaking, no. That's the bone suture. Even if there is bone hyperplasia, it will grow on the injured bone. Bone hyperplasia cannot occur in an uninjured place." Wu Yi explained the science to everyone seriously.
"Then how can we know what it is?" Ke Wenbin frowned.
"It can be cut open." Kuang Li provided a method.
"Shut up!" Zhang Zhaojie refused angrily.
Lin Fan couldn't use medicine right now. Giving her a blow on the head wasn't just like squeezing a pimple.
After cutting the scalp and muscles, we still don’t know what’s going on underneath.
With Lin Fan's pain sensitivity, he must be in excruciating pain.
No, no, no, no! Everyone still hasn't forgotten the scene of her shaking in pain last time.
"Could this be the reason why Lin Fan has a headache?" Xia Jing remembered that among Lin Fan's many pains, headache was one of them.
"Probably not. Her pain is concentrated in the anterior temporal region, from the forehead to the temple." Doctor Xiao shook his head. "The device is inserted on the top of her head, so it doesn't overlap with the pain area. It's also stuck in the bone, so it shouldn't interfere with the brain tissue or nerves. Theoretically, it has no connection to her multiple pain points."
Xia Jing cooperated by switching the video so that everyone could see it intuitively.
The thing was stuck tightly between the bone joints, penetrating the skull, with the other end protruding very slightly inside the skull, not even as much as it would show on the scalp. It didn't seem to have any effect on the brain tissue or anything else.
Of course, it just looks like that.
"If you want to know what it is, you have to take it out. You can't easily pull it out by just cutting the scalp. Even if Lin Fan can use medicine and undergo a craniotomy, there is no guarantee of the results after it is pulled out. It's hard to say whether Lin Fan can get off the stage alive." Doctor Xiao also disagreed with the incision.
"Besides, if this thing caused Lin Fan's transformation, why do we need to remove it?" Doctor Xiao asked.
"Well... for Lin Fan's safety, let this thing stay there." Yu Guangli also decided not to take the risk.
"But if we don't know what it is, how can we infer whether it is the reason for Lin Fan's transformation?" Zhang Zhaojie looked confused.
"This is also where I'm at a loss. Without surgery, nothing will be known. With surgery, the risks are too great. What if it's not related to the transformation? It would be a waste of time..." Doctor Xiao shook his head and turned to Jin Sichen and asked, "Doctor Jin, have you found anything?"
When Dr. Jin heard his name being called, he spoke slowly, "I've asked colleagues around the world to help me review patients who took the same medication as Lin Fan, examining their medical reports and side effect reports to identify any other mutations caused by side effects. With the help of 800 colleagues, we've already sorted through nearly half of the cases, but haven't found any similar cases yet."
"So, the only things we're investigating right now are Dr. Jin's medication side effects and Dr. Xiao's foreign body on his head, right?" Ke Wenbin concluded. "Dr. Jin needs time to sort out the remaining information. Does Dr. Xiao have any other ideas? I mean, without surgery."
"We think it's possible that Lin Fan had suffered an external injury before, I mean the top of his head, and a foreign object might have entered at that time." Dr. Xiao said.
"That's possible." Yu Guangli nodded in agreement.
If we know what hurt her and what remains in her skull, we can to a certain extent find out whether it is related to the transformation.
"But Lin Fan said no," Wu Yi continued. "Captain Song said Lin Fan has a bad memory, and her opinion doesn't count. She told us to ask Doctor Jin if Lin Fan had ever been injured before."
Everyone was stunned, and then they remembered that Lin Fan had a bad memory.
Oh no! I've been unconsciously treating her like a normal person. Is this a sign of recovery?
Jin Sichen thought about Lin Fan's previous information. External injuries... didn't seem to be there.
"We don't have any information about Lin Fan being injured. However, the situation was urgent at the time, so John Woo only spent three days investigating, so the details weren't very detailed. After he left last time, he went back to investigate Lin Fan's past in detail. I'll contact him tonight to see if there's any new progress."
Everyone had no choice but to accept this result temporarily and discuss it again when Jin Sichen had new information.
After all this commotion, no one felt like working overtime anymore, so they simply left work. This was the first time Lin Fan had left work early since his transformation.
The meeting was delayed a bit because we weren't on time.
Jin Sichen went back to the activity room to pick up Lin Fan after get off work. After returning to the dormitory, Li Chunhua drove to the cafeteria to get food.
He is now a mature takeout delivery expert, and picking up meals on time is one of his important jobs.
While Lin Fan went back to the house to take a shower, Jin Sichen and Song Ren exchanged some information outside the house.
After having dinner together in Lin Fan's house, everyone accompanied her for a walk.
Lin Fan had now left the small flower garden and could wander the main road, walking 5 kilometers at a time without getting anxious or out of breath.
Although she still feels tired after returning, she also feels tired even if she doesn't move. She can feel her physical condition improving, and she works hard every day without putting too much pressure on herself.
She is indeed terrible at aerobics at the moment, but she always tries her best to do her best and never thinks of being lazy and not doing it.
Song Ren also saw this, so he never forced her.
Lin Fan has his own persistence and is a strong-willed person at heart.
After the walk, everyone went back to their rooms.
While taking off her clothes, Jin Sichen called Wu Yusen. The phone rang for a while before it was connected.
"What's wrong?" John Woo's clear voice came from the phone.
"How's your investigation going?" Jin Sichen walked into the room and opened his notebook. "Today they suspect Lin Fan may have sustained a head injury."
"What do you mean?" Wu Yusen asked in confusion. "I just finished looking up her detailed biography, and there's no record of a head injury."
Jin Sichen told Wu Yusen in detail about the thing on Lin Fan's head.
Wu Yusen pondered for a long time before saying, "Actually, there is a chance that she might get hurt on the head."
John Woo, who hasn't been seen for a long time, has appeared. Does anyone still remember him? Hahaha, where is the recommendation? Where is the monthly ticket?
