The drowsy Lin Jie squinted at the time and realized it was a quarter past six in the morning, and he had only been asleep for three hours.

He also noticed Lin Miao was sitting on the hospital bed sipping porridge in small bites, asked with extreme dissatisfaction, "Li Ting, did you wake Miaomiao too?"

"Yes, this is fish porridge. It won't taste good if it gets cold!" Li Ting replied with a smile.

At this, Lin Jie could no longer contain his anger and shouted, "Li Ting, do you know that Miaomiao suffered from a headache and only managed to fall asleep past three in the morning last night?"

"What's so good about this stupid porridge, you know, if Miaomiao sleeps for one more hour, she will have one less hour of headache torture!"

"I... I didn't know!" Li Ting was a bit at a loss, her eyes immediately turning red,

"Brother..."

At this moment, Lin Miao called out, accusingly, "You're not allowed to be fierce to Tingting, she means well and did it unintentionally, and besides, I was nearly awake anyway."

"Miaomiao, I'm sorry!"

Li Ting said this with a sob, then walked over to Lin Jie, her tears started to drop down with a plop, choked up as she said, "Lin Jie, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have woken you either!"

After saying this, she wiped her eyes hard and ran out of the ward.

Lin Miao was a little anxious, shouting, "Brother, aren't you going to chase her?"

Lin Jie laid back down on the bed, snorted, and said, "My butt injury hasn't healed properly, how can I chase her? I'm exhausted, I need to sleep a bit more."

Lin Miao puffed her cheeks in anger.

But she also knew that Lin Jie was indeed worn out these past two or three days, so she couldn't bear to blame him again, and the porridge in her hand became the target of her venting as she muttered, "Hmph, I'll finish it all by myself, won't leave any for you!"

Lin Jie's grand plan for sleeping didn't last long before it was ruined by the barging in of Zhu Qiang.

"Dr. Lin, several university students are downstairs seeking treatment! They've all been stung by jellyfish. Two of them are reacting quite severely, please have a look!"

Jellyfish is a relatively common marine cnidarian at the seaside, with a bell-shaped body, usually translucent, white, or pale yellow, making it generally hard to detect in seawater.

They have many club-like and filamentous tentacles, with a large number of stinging cells containing venom, capable of penetrating the skin to release toxins, causing harm to the body.

Once stung, the injured person will immediately feel a stinging sensation.

If not properly treated, a few hours later, the affected area may develop striped red rash, papules, and some may even suffer from local redness, swelling, bruising, or even necrosis.

Some allergic or weak-bodied individuals might have a strong reaction after being stung, experiencing anaphylactic shock or acute pulmonary edema, and if not promptly rescued, there is a danger of death for such patients!

Of course, the probability of such fatal incidents occurring is quite small.

Even so, hearing Zhu Qiang's account, Lin Jie dared not take things lightly.

He hurried to the treatment hall on the first floor and saw seven university student-looking youths, four males and three females, crying out in pain intermittently, and all of them were soaked.

The period from July to September is indeed the peak time for jellyfish stings.

The clinic was already prepared with plenty of alum and sodium hydroxide solutions in stock. These alkaline solutions can effectively neutralize the acidic toxins and relieve the pain when washing the stung areas.

Lin Jie hastily examined the two more severely reacting victims!

The two were males, physically quite robust, and Lin Jie found they only had accelerated heart rate and rapid breathing, with no allergic reactions like laryngeal edema!

Checking further, he discovered that the reason for their severe reactions was simply the large areas of sting on their bodies.

Relieved, Lin Jie washed their stung areas with alkaline solutions, while probing for the reason.

The reason he uncovered made Lin Jie shake his head unconsciously, thinking to himself that they really were a bunch of reckless fellows who didn't realize the danger.

These university students were all from Binhai University, new freshmen this year, and took the opportunity after finishing their military training to rush to the seaside for fun early on a weekend morning, even planning a seafood feast.

They picked up two dead jellyfish by the sea, knowing that jellyfish can sting people, so they started playfully stinging each other as a prank.

The ringleader, also the most heavily stung male, was named Zhou Yuda!

He ruefully admitted to Lin Jie, saying, "I stung myself first, felt it was similar to a kind of stinging green caterpillar from my hometown, but didn't expect jellyfish toxins to be so potent."

Lin Jie sternly advised, "You're not kids anymore, jokes and pranks need to be done in moderation. Being stung by jellyfish can sometimes be fatal."

The sting areas on the other five were not large, and they had already alleviated most of their pain with the alkaline washes, all came closer, concerned.

One baby-faced, well-built female curiously asked, "I heard that human urine can relieve jellyfish stings, why didn't it work when we tried?"

Another male moved closer to the baby-faced female and echoed, "Yeah, I heard the same. We saw Zhou Yuda in the worst condition and tried to... help him as much as we could despite ourselves!"

With those two sentences, Lin Jie immediately realized where the faint urine smell on Zhou Yuda came from and quickly stepped a big pace away from him.

Lin Jie chuckled a bit and said, "The rumor that urine can effectively ease the pain of jellyfish stings is not very accurate."

"The solutions used to wash your stings are alkaline, which can neutralize the acidic jellyfish toxins. Human fresh urine's pH level fluctuates and is related to one's diet."

"Generally, a diet high in protein and fat can result in acidic urine, while a diet leaning towards vegetables can lead to alkaline urine."

"Even if it is alkaline urine, it's weakly alkaline, and the effect is minimal."

With Lin Jie's explanation, the group exchanged glances and couldn't help but chuckle softly.

Seeing Zhou Yuda's condition improving and his face turning beet red from embarrassment, their laughter became unrestrained, evolving into hearty laughter.

Zhou Yuda suddenly became anxious, pointed to the baby-faced girl, and exclaimed, "Tang Xinling, how dare you laugh again? I know you're wearing pink! And you two..."

He pointed to the other two females, "You both are wearing black!"

"Ah..." Tang Xinling rushed to cover her face with her hands in embarrassment and anger, exclaiming, "How can you be like this! You promised to keep your eyes closed."

The others exchanged looks and moved closer, with a tacit understanding!

"Too much!"

"Let's beat him up!"

Watching them playfully fighting, Lin Jie felt a bit envious of their vibrant energy.

At that moment, Lin Jie saw Da Hei's Hummer drive into the courtyard.

After the car parked, Da Hei and Monkey got out, and Lin Jie walked out of the small clinic building to greet them.

Da Hei said softly, "Dr. Lin, the matter you instructed has been handled by Monkey; here is the hair of those two people."

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