Chapter 660: Chapter 659: Uninvited Guest

The infirmary of Binhai University Affiliated High School was located on the east side of the first floor of its I-shaped academic building.

The location was pretty easy to find.

Yan Feifan rushed over and found two security guards standing watch at the infirmary entrance.

He gave his name and was invited into the infirmary. Inside the not-so-spacious room, five people stood with grave expressions.

Among them was Tian Yu’s homeroom teacher.

However, one of the five, a man nearly fifty years old in a short-sleeved dress shirt and trousers with his hair slicked back, was the first to step forward.

"Mr. Yan, hello. I am Vice Principal Yui Yi."

After introducing himself, the vice principal quickly continued, "Mr. Yan, a school security guard was patrolling the academic building when he discovered a classroom had been broken into."

"When he went inside, he found a female student in the classroom who had tried to take her own life."

Yan Feifan’s heart sank at these words. He listened as Yui Yi continued, "Mr. Yan, you are a renowned medical expert in Binhai."

"We urgently asked you to come over because we were hoping you could examine the student and see if she suffered anything else..."

Yui Yi paused, then added euphemistically, "An untoward incident for a young woman."

"At the same time, we’d like you, Mr. Yan, to act as a witness for us."

Yan Feifan didn’t bother to dwell on the vice principal’s ulterior motives. He scanned the infirmary and asked, "Where is the student?"

"Oh, in the inner room. Mr. Yan, please!" Yui Yi took the initiative and pulled open the door leading to the back room.

Yan Feifan strode inside and saw a female doctor, about thirty years old, in a white coat. She was standing in the corner by the west wall, her face pale.

On an examination bed near the east wall, a girl in a JK skirt and sneakers was lying stiffly.

Her head and upper body were covered with a woman’s top.

Yan Feifan walked over to the examination bed and removed the top...

It was a girl of fifteen or sixteen with her hair in a short ponytail. She had an oval face and very well-proportioned features.

However, a dark purple ligature mark on her neck and the tip of her tongue sticking out made for a horrifying sight.

Just then, a trembling female voice sounded in Yan Feifan’s ear.

"When the guards brought her in, she wasn’t breathing, had no heartbeat, her pupils were dilated, and her body was already a bit cold..."

"She must have been dead for some time."

The female school doctor, who had come to Yan Feifan’s side, explained timidly, then tried to justify herself. "Mr. Yan, this is the first time I’ve ever encountered such a frightening situation."

"I’m... not very brave, to be honest..."

Yan Feifan was in no mood to listen to her ramble. He held out his hand and cut her off, "Surgical gloves..."

’Since this situation could be a criminal case, he couldn’t perform a bare-handed examination right away. He was afraid of leaving behind traces that could interfere with the police investigation.’

"Oh, gloves..."

The school doctor froze for a moment before it dawned on her. She quickly pulled out a new pair of rubber gloves and handed them to Yan Feifan.

Yan Feifan put on the gloves and began his examination.

Carotid pulse, none!

Respiration, none!

Pupils, dilated...

Hmm...

Yan Feifan, having pried open the girl’s eyelids, confirmed that her pupils were dilated, but they weren’t *fully* dilated.

Seeing this, Yan Feifan unhesitatingly pressed firmly on her eyeball...

The school doctor couldn’t bear to watch this and scolded him, "How could you do that?"

Yan Feifan ignored her, his eyes fixed on the eyeball that had deformed under his pressure.

It quickly returned to its original shape.

Yan Feifan felt a jolt of urgency and shouted, "Adrenaline!"

He then pried open her mouth and found that the base of her tongue was so swollen it had almost completely blocked her throat.

"Scalpel, intubation tube!"

After shouting this, Yan Feifan saw that the school doctor beside him hadn’t moved a muscle, and he became furious.

"Adrenaline, scalpel, intubation tube."

Yan Feifan repeated himself, then added, "The girl isn’t dead! She’s just in a deep coma, a state of suspended animation..."

Suspended animation is a severe state of deep coma in which the patient’s external symptoms mimic death.

The patient’s vital signs, such as heartbeat and respiration, are so faint that they are difficult to detect by ordinary means and can only be measured with more precise medical instruments.

This often leads to the patient being mistaken for dead and treated as a corpse.

Suspended animation is common in cases of mechanical injury, such as hanging, strangulation, and drowning; various types of poisoning, such as from gas, sleeping pills, anesthetics, opium, or morphine; as well as electrocution, concussion, severe hypothermia, uremia, diabetes, and so on.

Suspended animation is primarily caused by a severe lack of oxygen to the brain.

It is a type of stress response, similar to animal hibernation, that reduces the body’s organ activity to an extremely low level, allowing the person to survive on minimal resources.

After surviving the most critical period, there is a significant chance that a person in suspended animation will recover and wake up on their own.

The custom in many places of holding a wake for three days before burial has some medical basis.

It’s like those anecdotes where several friends who died together are sent by their families to a crematorium to be cremated.

One of them, whose family had connections, was cremated early.

The others, however, woke up while waiting.

Such situations have a non-zero probability of occurring in real life.

To determine if a person is truly dead or merely in suspended animation, besides the method Yan Feifan used—pressing on the eyeball to see if it quickly returns to its original shape—there are two other simple methods.

For example, placing a fine feather in front of the patient’s nostrils; if the feather flutters, it proves the patient is still alive.

Alternatively, one can apply soap foam to the patient’s nostrils and observe if the bubbles change.

Of course, the best method is still to send the patient to a hospital for a thorough diagnosis...

At Yan Feifan’s furious shout, the school doctor finally snapped to it and frantically brought him the items he needed.

He injected the girl with adrenaline.

He then made an incision and inserted the airway tube.

After crisply completing these two steps, Yan Feifan began performing chest compressions on the girl.

The school doctor was more alert this time.

Without needing another reminder from Yan Feifan, she retrieved a respirator bag, connected it to the airway tube in the girl’s neck, and began giving her artificial respiration in rhythm with his compressions...

After three or four minutes, the girl’s heartbeat and breathing returned.

At the same time, the ambulance and police cars arrived.

The girl was taken by ambulance to the Affiliated Hospital for further examination and treatment, while the police stayed behind to investigate the cause and circumstances of the incident.

Yan Feifan, for his part, was treated like a hero.

In a brief conversation with Vice Principal Yui Yi, Yan Feifan learned that he was the person Liu Jin had asked for help back then.

’With their previous connection, on top of what happened today, I’m certain that Tian Yu will definitely receive some special consideration from the school,’ Yan Feifan thought.

As for the girl who had attempted suicide, Yan Feifan learned from Yui Yi...

...that based on current information, the girl was neither an existing student on record nor a newly admitted freshman.

Her identity remained a mystery...

Citing a busy day, Yan Feifan politely declined Mr. Yui’s offer to accompany him.

He toured the Affiliated High School—which was as sprawling as a university campus—with his sister, Mr. Tian, and Tian Yu. After a decent lunch in the school cafeteria and giving Tian Yu some parting words, he left the Affiliated High School.

After returning to their residence at Zuimo Court, Yan Feifan got busy with work while his sister relaxed, each leaving the other undisturbed.

Around four in the afternoon, the siblings received an unexpected visitor.

He was a man in his thirties or forties who introduced himself as the assistant to the president of Binhai University.

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