It seems that the villain is targeting me.

Doctor Chen's face darkened. He took out his cell phone from his pocket, opened the screen saver, and glanced at the message on it.

"It's an emergency," she looked up quickly, "Sorry, I have to leave now."

Xiao Niao was a little confused and nodded slowly, watching Dr. Chen turn around and leave in a hurry.

——Then, at the corner of the door, he turned around and shouted to me, "I'll come see you again in the evening."

As soon as these words fell, the other party disappeared without a trace.

Xiao Niao stared blankly at the room which had become empty again, and his head felt even more confused.

Her lips trembled, and her voice was filled with deep confusion and bewilderment.

"Why...why did you come to see me?"

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In the evening, ten forty-five.

The red light in the emergency room had just gone out, the door was opened from the inside, and the patient lying on the gurney was pushed out with tubes inserted.

Chen Xiaoyue was left behind by the gurney. She pulled off her mask and threw it into the trash can, while exhaling a breath of foul air from her lungs.

The wheeled bed outside the door was a little blocked. Chen Xiaoyue blinked her sore eyes and saw that a colleague who was pushing the wheeled bed was stopped by the patient's family, who kept asking about the patient's condition.

"Is it the patient's family member?"

Chen Xiaoyue walked out the door and helped her colleague out: "Don't worry, the patient is out of danger now, and follow-up treatment will follow. Please go to the emergency room and pay the outstanding fee first, so that we can arrange a bed for the patient."

The patient's family member was a middle-aged woman who looked quite uneasy: "Ah, why do we have to pay again? Didn't we already pay?"

This is not easy to explain. It is indeed very expensive when you first enter the hospital, because that is also the time when you undergo the most examinations and use the most medications.

Examination is necessary, and the medicines are all emergency medicines, basically used to save lives in an emergency.

To be honest, it’s not really a big deal if you can spend money at this time.

But for people from ordinary families, this amount of money is really painful.

And in the hospital, such things happen every day.

A look of fatigue flashed across Chen Xiaoyue's brows, but fortunately, colleagues from other departments soon came over to comfort the patient's family - in the hospital, there are people who are specifically responsible for communicating with the patient's family.

Dr. Chen Xiaoyue has treated many patients and has seen all kinds of human life, but what happened today can only be said to be a trivial episode.

After many days like this, Dr. Chen gradually tempered his temper and began to learn to look at life and death with a calm attitude.

It was late at night, but the hospital corridor did not seem lonely.

There were also many people sitting on the benches on both sides waiting for news, and some people were standing next to the charging stations fiddling with their mobile phones, typing messages quickly with their fingers.

Chen Xiaoyue stood in the corridor for a while, her body swaying a little.

The emergency department was in a very dangerous situation tonight, with two critically ill patients arriving one after another. Her nerves had been tense for several hours, but now they suddenly relaxed, and even her brain went blank.

It was already past the shift change time and it was time for her to get off work.

Chen Xiaoyue looked out the window. Today was not a full moon.

Normally at this time, she would probably go back to the apartment to sleep, she thought a little dully, yes, it’s time to get off work, I can go home.

But returning to the apartment seemed like a very boring thing. I just lay in bed and slept. When I woke up the next morning, it was the same life again.

In fact, Chen Xiaoyue is not completely without choices. The emergency room is notoriously dirty, tiring and low-paying. People have to be there as soon as the phone is called, regardless of day or night. It is more tiring than working three shifts.

Basically, everyone with some connections in the hospital is trying to transfer from the emergency department to other departments - but Chen Xiaoyue chose to stay here on her own initiative.

If she weren't in the emergency department, her workload might not be as intense as it is now.

But if you stay in the emergency room, you can save lives with your own hands.

Doctor Chen raised his palm.

Whose life is being saved?

She stood there motionless, looking out the window nervously. The moonlight was blocked by the leaves, and she could only see fragmented arcs of light.

Chen Xiaoyue's breathing became heavier, and she suddenly shivered violently as if she had just woken up from a nightmare. Then she took a few steps eagerly and rushed in a certain direction.

Her nerves suddenly tensed up again as she walked through a very narrow corridor, passed the emergency room's cashier window and waiting hall, and followed a path around the outpatient department's building.

A colleague greeted her on the way, and she guessed that she didn't look very well, because the other party suggested with concern that she go to rest as soon as possible.

But Chen Xiaoyue was just afraid that she was in a dream.

She wanted to go faster and faster, just like last time.

If she could have walked faster, maybe she could have prevented all that from happening.

If she had realized it earlier, maybe she could have avoided such a tragic ending.

Chen Xiaoyue walked into the door of the inpatient department.

The legs have developed muscle memory from repeating the same path so many times.

She came to the ward not by relying on her memory, but by her body's instinct.

Chen Xiaoyue gripped the door handle, her palms felt cold. She pushed the door open, praying that this was not a dream.

The lights in the inpatient ward were turned off at ten o'clock. The room was dark now, but a thin moonlight came in through the window, allowing the doctor to see the figure on the bed clearly.

Neither disappeared nor left.

This is understandable, as Xiaoniao is still struggling to get out of bed on her own and she can't run around.

The sound of the door opening seemed to wake Xiao Niao up. She opened her eyes and looked in the direction of Chen Xiaoyue with a surprised expression.

"...Doctor Chen?"

No way, sister, why are you still here at this late hour?

Xiao Niao resisted the urge to say the above words.

Chen Xiaoyue walked closer to her, which made Xiaoniao subconsciously alert.

what are you going to do?

Before Xiaoniao could ask this question out loud, the doctor's fingers were on her neck.

Xiao Niao didn't know how to react for a moment, her body froze in place.

His fingertips carefully touched the hair on her skin, and a strange tingling sensation crept up her spine, like a cat having its tail touched.

After a while, Dr. Chen withdrew his fingertips.

A feeling of dizziness hit her mind the next second.

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The unfamiliar ceiling. When the doctor regained consciousness from the feeling of falling that felt as if it were piercing his brain, it was already the next morning.

A few golden dots of light fell on her closed eyes, causing her eyelashes to flutter slightly.

After realizing this, Chen Xiaoyue immediately became alert. She climbed up, and the blanket covering her body slipped down and fell into her palm.

The doctor lowered her head. This was the woolen blanket she had given to the bird to cover itself with.

Sleepiness came too quickly last night, attacking her brain almost the moment she relaxed. Her memory was still stuck on the moment she touched the bird with her fingers. When she opened her eyes again, it was already morning.

She realized belatedly that she must have slept in the ward last night.

In the past, Chen Xiaoyue always came here as a doctor, but suddenly it was her turn to lie on the hospital bed, and even the ceiling seemed unfamiliar to her.

The bed next to it was empty, with the bedding piled on it in a mess, as if the owner of the bed had just left.

Chen Xiaoyue was a little at a loss for a few seconds, then she lifted the quilt and wanted to get out of bed to look for someone.

The movement of getting up made the bed make some noises, and then a slightly guilty and embarrassed voice sounded in the air.

"Um... Doctor, are you awake?"

Chen Xiaoyue subconsciously paused. It was the sound of a bird, but she didn't see anyone in her field of vision.

The situation was becoming a bit like a cliché urban legend. Dr. Chen swallowed his saliva and felt a chill on his spine.

She hurried into her shoes—the ones she had been wearing were neatly placed by the bed—then stood up and called out tentatively, "Birdie?"

The person being called hummed vaguely. Chen Xiaoyue turned her head: the voice came from her left side.

Dr. Chen then turned to the left and took about five steps. There seemed to be something on the ground, so she looked down.

Xiao Niao was lying on his back on the floor at this moment, his posture somewhere between a Christian saint who peacefully went to death and a crab lying on its back with its legs spread out. It was hard to describe.

Doctor Chen was a little frightened. He stared at the bird's face and was speechless for a moment.

The latter was quite calm, lying on the floor and nodding slightly, greeting the doctor: "Good morning, doctor

. "

It took Chen Xiaoyue two seconds to react. She rushed over anxiously, bent down and tried to pick up the bird from the ground.

"How did it become like this?" she asked instinctively.

Xiao Niao had been lying on the floor in this position for who knows how long, his blood forced down by gravity. When he was suddenly pulled out, he felt a slight numbness in the back of his chest.

"Um..." Xiao Niao grabbed the doctor's arm rather awkwardly, "I was a little thirsty when I woke up, so I reached for the cup on the table... and accidentally fell out of bed."

Dr. Chen lowered his head and saw a small water stain and an enamel cup that had rolled into the corner of the wall.

Doctor Chen was a little angry: "Why don't you call for help?"

"It's not time for the nurses to come to work yet..."

Xiao Niao's expression was bright: "It's nothing anyway. It's embarrassing to yell and make a fuss... I thought someone would find me when they do the ward rounds."

Chen Xiaoyue remained silent. She could probably recall the scene: Xiaoniao went to get something on the table, then accidentally lost her balance and fell under the bed.

She didn't want to scream for help, but she didn't have enough strength to get up on her own. After struggling for a while, she simply found a more comfortable position to lie down.

Dr. Chen: "..."

Dr. Chen feels that this kind of behavior is really hard to evaluate.

But as a doctor, she was very angry, so she lectured the bird sternly: "You can't just lie on the floor like that! What if you fall and get hurt?"

Xiao Niao felt guilty and just muttered softly: "Doctor, aren't you here? What are you afraid of..."

"Doctors are not omnipotent." Chen Xiaoyue shook her head and said without thinking.

Modern medicine is advanced, but there are still incurable diseases. Doctors can try their best to save patients, but in many cases the situation is beyond repair.

She put her arms through Xiaoniao's knees, put her arms around his shoulders, and carried him from the floor back to the bed.

"...You don't understand." Chen Xiaoyue's eyes were clouded for some reason. "Even if we were right next to the hospital and emergency treatment was immediately given, there's a chance we wouldn't be able to save him."

Xiao Niao was stunned by this sentence and suddenly had a very strange feeling in his heart.

She still couldn't recall anything specific about the person in front of her, but she inexplicably felt that there was indeed some kind of connection between them.

Even a person with little experience could see that those unconscious actions and words undoubtedly showed his concern for her.

"...I now kind of believe what you said." Xiao Niao said this to Dr. Chen.

Chen Xiaoyue's back became a little stiff, but the expression on her face didn't change much.

"What?" she asked back.

"You said before that you knew me when you were a child."

Xiao Niao clasped his hands together calmly in front of his chest: "You just called me 'Little Bird' - only my best friends call me that."

At this point, Xiao Niao's tone suddenly stagnated and his expression became a little strange.

She seemed to recall something and looked up and down at Chen Xiaoyue in front of her with a very strange look.

"Well, what's wrong?" Doctor Chen couldn't help but ask.

"That's right," Xiao Niao said with a slight stammer, "Actually, I've recovered a lot now. You don't need to spend so much time coming here..."

Chen Xiaoyue looked at her doubtfully.

"Doctor Chen, you work in the emergency department, right? I heard that the work in the emergency department is very tiring and rest time is very precious."

Xiaoniao seemed to be trying hard to adjust his words, trying to find the most tactful and appropriate sentence.

"I actually understand. People tend to behave strangely when they're under too much pressure. It's no big deal..."