Miaomiao's stunned look really worried her friends. They thought she had been so grief - stricken that she had lost her wits.
Wei Ziqi quickly comforted her, "Miaomiao, don't be too sad, and never act impulsively. The doctor said that Uncle Lin is not really in a coma. His body has not suffered any trauma, and his organs are healthy. There is no danger at all. We just don't know why he has been sleeping. Maybe he will wake up soon..."
Half - way through Wei Ziqi's consolation, Miaomiao's sluggish mind suddenly came back to life, and her eyes regained their sparkle. Her friends thought they would see Miaomiao crying and wailing, but instead, after she came to her senses, she patted her chest and said, "Thank goodness, thank goodness. It's not that Dad doesn't want me anymore."
"Um... Miaomiao, aren't you crazy? Aren't you worried?" Cheng Ruan tentatively poked Miaomiao's chubby face and asked worriedly.
"I'm not crazy. Just now, the doctor said that Dad is just sleeping and there is no threat to his life. If it's just an illness or he's just in a long - term sleep, there must be a way to solve it. Before I studied medicine, I would definitely have panicked because I couldn't help at all. But now I've studied medicine for so long. Grandpa Sun also said that I'm already a capable young doctor who can handle things independently. I can help Dad. Maybe if I take a look at Dad, I can find out the cause of his illness and help him wake up. So the most important thing now is that I need to be rational, calm, and an independent good girl. Dad has already told me that if one day he falls asleep and never wakes up, Miaomiao must be strong. Otherwise, Dad will be sad even if he's asleep. I don't want Dad to be sad, so Miaomiao will be strong."
Um...
The friends were completely confused. They bet that when Uncle Lin said "never wakes up", he meant passing away in the future, trying to make Miaomiao not be overly sad.
Unexpectedly, this thought, planted unintentionally, really made Miaomiao calm and strong when Uncle Lin got sick.
"You're right. You're already half a doctor now, and you've done a lot of research with the research institute. So you must be very good at diagnosing diseases. Maybe you can find a way to help Uncle Lin. Since that's the case, let's go to the hospital to see Uncle Lin first."
Cheng Ruan quickly followed Miaomiao's train of thought. Helping Uncle Lin recover might be the only thing keeping Miaomiao going, and they must make Miaomiao firmly believe this.
"Okay, let's go to the hospital together!"
The friends didn't know which hospital Lin Yao was in. They first asked Miaomiao to contact the Lin family, and then took a taxi from the airport and rushed there in a hurry.
When they got to the hospital ward and saw Lin Yao with a rosy complexion, looking just like he was asleep, Miaomiao felt a little more at ease.
She felt his pulse. Wei Ziqi was right. Dad's body was indeed still relatively healthy. The problems he had were all old ailments from before and would not pose any threat to his life. He was just asleep.
But why had he been sleeping for so long?
Miaomiao frowned slightly and examined Lin Yao from head to toe. Finally, she found a small red dot on the tip of Lin Yao's finger.
This red dot wasn't a wound. It was like it was printed inside the skin, more like a mole. But she remembered that Dad had never had a mole on his hand.
There must be something fishy.
Miaomiao felt Lin Yao's pulse again. All the knowledge she had learned recently echoed in her mind, but nothing seemed to match.
A red mole...
A suddenly - appeared red mole...
It was so familiar, but she just couldn't put her finger on it.
Miaomiao wracked her brains, trying to catch the fleeting thought in her mind, but she just couldn't remember. Just then, Uncle Lin Er, who had just got off work, rushed over from outside. When he saw Miaomiao at the door, he adjusted his expression and greeted her with a smile, "Miaomiao's back."
Uncle Lin Er's words interrupted Miaomiao's train of thought. But the moment she saw Uncle Lin Er's face, Miaomiao suddenly remembered the scene of identifying a corpse when she was a child.
!!!
Gu!
"Yes, it's Gu!" Miaomiao suddenly looked up and jumped up from the chair, scaring Uncle Lin Er.
"What's going on? What's wrong? Miaomiao, Uncle knows you're worried about Dad, but..."
"No, Uncle. Do you still remember when I was a child, you took me to a very cold room to identify a corpse? The corpse I identified at that time also had a small red dot on its hand, which looked very much like a mole. That was the sign of being poisoned by Gu worms. Dad now has one on the tip of his finger too. So I think Dad is not sick. Dad has been poisoned by Gu worms!"
Miaomiao quickly interrupted Uncle Lin Er's words and held up Lin Yao's hand for Uncle to see.
"What?!" Uncle Lin Er was also very shocked. After a careful look, he also found the inexplicable red dot on Lin Yao's hand.
He was sure that his younger brother had never had a mole on his body. Could it really be that he had been poisoned by Gu?
In the case of the human trafficker last time, after all the investigations, the mastermind behind it was never found, and it became an unsolved case. So later, through Miaomiao, a person who raised Gu worms was caught, but he was not the final mastermind. This case had been shelved for such a long time. If Miaomiao hadn't come back today and discovered the abnormality on Lin Yao's hand, he wouldn't have remembered.
"If it's really Gu poisoning, can you tell if the Gu your dad was poisoned with is the same as the one on those corpses you saw when you were a child?"
Uncle Lin Er asked eagerly.
"No, they're different. That kind of Gu worm can control people's minds, but Dad never said that it could make people fall into a coma. But Dad said that all Gu worms need to be planted, so there will definitely be traces on people. The red dot is the trace. Dad also said that there are many kinds of Gu worms. There are those that can harm people, and naturally, there are also those that can save people. There are those that can take people's lives, and there are also those that can make people sick. Although I don't know what kind of Gu Dad was planted with, I'm sure that Dad must have been poisoned by Gu, which is why he's in a coma now. If we want Dad to wake up, we must find the person who planted the Gu."
Once a crack is opened in some things, it's not so difficult to think about all the subsequent things.
Previously, none of them had thought about Gu worms, so they could only rush around like headless flies, pinning their hopes on a medical miracle. But now that they've found the right direction and have a goal, it might not be as difficult to solve as they thought.
"I understand. Miaomiao, you stay with Dad well first. Uncle will go and investigate."