Trembling At A High Altitude

This class monitor, really careless!

She must have spent time in this house before, when she sat on the sofa, she habitually placed her phone on the coffee table.

The incoming call displayed a name that Li Teng recognized.

The owner of the restaurant outside the residential area: Bo Wen.

It seems the women nearby were quite familiar with Elsa!

No wonder, they must all be suffering from that kind of ailment and were probably seeking Elsa's help.

Just as Li Teng picked up the phone, preparing to answer and tell Bo Wen that Elsa's phone was with him, the call disconnected.

Li Teng picked up the phone, planning to take it to Happiness Hospital for Elsa.

Just then, a WeChat call notification popped up on the screen.

"Doctor Ai, I've sent the photo. Please take a look for me, and if it's not clear, I'll take another one."

A small photo icon flashed by, seemingly…

Li Teng looked towards the door like a thief, then unlocked Elsa's phone screen… the gesture was so simple, he remembered it at a glance.

Opening the call log between Bo Wen and Elsa, Li Teng soon figured it all out.

Bo Wen's younger sister Bo He had been in pain recently, suspecting an illness, but Bo He was too shy to visit the hospital to see Elsa. Since Bo Wen knew Elsa well, she decided to use photos to have Elsa consult remotely.

The photo sent over was taken by Bo Wen for Bo He.

Such beautiful visuals! Great material for a comic.

Li Teng hurriedly transferred the photo to his own phone via Bluetooth.

This kind of comic material, the more the better.

"The photo is not very clear, I can't tell what the ailment is, you need to use the flash." Li Teng sent a message back.

"Okay," Bo Wen obediently sent over a clearer one quickly.

Really, way too beautiful!

"Do as I said and shoot a video this time," Li Teng, insatiably, sent another message.

Bo Wen, without a hint of suspicion, quickly filmed a video according to Li Teng's instructions and sent it over.

...

"Hmm, this is about right, I'll get back to you after I've looked at it."

Fifteen minutes later, Li Teng had Bo Wen stop shooting.

"Doctor Ai, I took the medication you recommended for a while, and my symptoms have improved a lot. Do you think I should come to the hospital for another check-up?" Bo Wen inquired about her condition.

"How about this, you shoot some photos and send them to me, if I think it's unnecessary to come to the hospital, you don't have to make the trip." Li Teng suggested to Bo Wen.

"Okay." Bo Wen obediently took a few photos and sent them over.

"The photos are not clear, did you take them yourself? You can't take good pictures yourself, let your sister do it."

"Okay."

"Hmm, take another video and let me see."

"Okay."

While conversing, Li Teng quickly sent the photos and videos to his own phone via Bluetooth.

Just as he was happily collecting material for his comics, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Done for!

Elsa had come looking for her phone!

The previously exhilarated Li Teng suddenly snapped to sobriety.

He was impersonating Elsa to extract photos and videos from Bo Wen, but he had no ability to treat them, and once Bo Wen and Elsa talked, Elsa would know her phone was in his hands and would definitely guess it was his doing.

Now it would really be troublesome!

Li Teng hurriedly began to delete the conversations he had sent.

The photos and videos he kept, as long as there was no conversation sent from this end by Li Teng, Elsa, seeing that, would assume they were unsolicited photos and videos sent by Bo Wen, and would help them diagnose their conditions, probably not suspecting him.

The doorbell rang again.

There were a few videos from Bo Wen that hadn't transferred via Bluetooth.

He had to painfully stop the transfer.

When the doorbell rang once more, Li Teng turned off Elsa's phone screen and walked over to the door, peeking out through the peephole.

It wasn't Elsa.

It was an unfamiliar woman.

"What is it?" Li Teng partially opened the door and asked outside.

"Eh? Does Chen Lei live here? Which floor is this?" the woman asked.

"Fifth floor."

"Ah, I apologize, I'm going to the sixth floor. Sorry!" The woman quickly moved back to the staircase.

"Really... gave me quite a scare!"

Li Teng touched his racing heart, hurried back to the coffee table, and forwarded the remaining videos from Bo Wen to his own phone.

Back at the WeChat main interface, Li Teng accidentally found Daisy's name.

It was the girl with the ponytail who was chased by the dog and rescued by Li Teng.

Opening the conversation between Daisy and Elsa, scrolling up, he found photos there too?

And it was also for remote diagnosis?

Just about to open the photo to view it in large size, the doorbell rang again.

Li Teng, frustrated, ran to the door ready to scold whoever was bothering him at such a crucial moment… only to find Elsa standing outside.

Li Teng hurried back to the coffee table, closed Elsa's WeChat, and turned off the screen before walking over to open the door.

"Sorry to bother you, I forgot my phone here." Elsa entered and apologized with a smile to Li Teng, then walked over and picked up her phone from the coffee table.

"Ah, I've been busy working, rushing for deadlines, and didn't notice your phone, otherwise I would have brought it to you." Li Teng patted his slightly feverish forehead.

"No need, it's very convenient for me to come here, you keep busy!" Elsa gave Li Teng another gentle smile and then walked out of the room.

"Class monitor, take care!"

"Hmm, has the internet been okay? Hasn't gone out again, has it?"

"No."

"If it does, just call me."

"Hmm, thanks, class monitor."

Li Teng closed the door, his heart still racing.

Did I miss anything? Did I delete everything that needed to be deleted?

There was no chance to check.

She couldn't have noticed anything, could she?

If Bo Wen and her sister knew their photos and videos weren't sent to Doctor Ai but were sent to him instead, wouldn't they be embarrassed to death?

Cough cough, he really had no ill intentions; he just wanted to collect comic material for inspiration.

The most regrettable thing was that he opened Daisy's chat box but didn't manage to transfer the photos in time.

Even just taking a glance at that moment would have been good...

Forget it, I'll find another opportunity later.

Having returned to his desk, Li Teng's inspiration surged wildly as he drew the scenario of Bo Wen and her sister consulting a doctor via WeChat on Elsa's phone that had been left on the coffee table into his comic.

He drew with an addictive fervor.

…

"Oh my, God Teng, your recent state is really good! They all love the drawings you made! I'll settle accounts with you in a couple of days, mmm, there might be a little surprise," the editor called and spoke excitedly.

"Moving out from home really feels different, more freedom," replied Li Teng to the editor.

"Mmm, you should have moved out earlier. You can't perform well in your drawings living with your parents," the editor chuckled.

After hanging up with the editor, it was already well past noon, past two o'clock in the afternoon.

Only then did Li Teng realize he was famished.

After eating lunch downstairs, Li Teng hurried back to the apartment complex, eager to continue his heated drawing streak.

Upon returning to the complex, he saw many people gathered below his building, anxiously pointing upstairs and shouting something.

Looking up where their fingers pointed, Li Teng saw a three-year-old girl, bare-bottomed, hanging from the anti-theft net of her balcony. Only her head remained within the net, her body dangling outside. She was crying and struggling, at any moment she could fall.

That was the sixth floor! Over ten meters above the ground! The consequences if she fell were unthinkable!

"No one's at home, we can't open the security door! Everyone, think of something, quick!" shouted some residents of the complex.

"Does anyone have a blanket? Quick, bring it out and let's find a few people to hold it, just in case she falls down!"

Seconds later, Li Teng suddenly remembered...

The apartment with the little girl hanging from the balcony was right above his rented one!

Li Teng raced upstairs, entered his rented apartment, and rushed to the balcony.

There was an anti-theft net on Elsa's balcony as well, but there was a safety door that could be opened. Li Teng opened the safety door and squeezed out, his hands tightly gripping the net as he climbed to the outside of it.

The little girl wasn't directly above him but about two meters to his left.

Li Teng had no choice but to move laterally outside the net, slowly approaching directly beneath the little girl.

Just then, one of the horizontal bars under his feet suddenly broke!

When he came out, Li Teng hadn't noticed that the vertical bars of the net were made of metal, but the horizontal bars were made of plastic, mainly for aesthetic purposes, and couldn't bear much weight at all!

Caught off guard, Li Teng's body suddenly dropped a bit.

Gasps came from below.

Fortunately, Li Teng held on tight with his hands and his other foot quickly found a support to steady his body.

Though his body was stabilized, a sharp pain came from below.

During the fall, the broken hard plastic horizontal bar had flipped up, cutting his body.

At that moment, Li Teng, determined to save the child, didn't care about his injuries; he continued to climb sideways until he finally reached right beneath the little girl.

But then, another horizontal bar broke under his feet, and Li Teng stepped into emptiness once again.

Fortunately, Li Teng was prepared and didn't slip down, but with no support under his feet, he had to hang from the net by using both hands.

This meant he had no hands left to assist the little girl.

The little girl had been hanging for too long and was now struggling to stay conscious; she couldn't even cry out, and it looked very dangerous.

Her family had not returned yet.

If Li Teng couldn't push her back onto the balcony in time, she might very well hang to death there!

But Li Teng couldn't use his hands. He had no choice but to use his head and face to hold up the little girl, trying hard to push her up to support her body and keep her neck from hanging on the security net.

"You must not pee!" Li Teng was really worried about this.

...

Ten minutes later, just when Li Teng was about to lose his strength, the girl's mother was finally found and hurried home. She rushed inside with several eager neighbors to pull the little girl up onto the balcony.

After pulling the little girl up, everyone realized that Li Teng, who had been rescuing her from below, was himself in grave danger.

He had no support under his feet and was clinging to the security bars above with both hands, visibly exhausted. If they didn't rescue him promptly, he could also fall!

Fortunately, the safety gate of the security net above his home was right above Li Teng.

After the lady of the house opened the safety gate, the neighbors helped to pull Li Teng up with all their strength.

Once seated, Li Teng, still in shock, was gasping for air and didn't even notice the lady of the house thanking him repeatedly.

A while later, Li Teng finally regained some strength and noticed that all the other neighbors had left, leaving him alone in the lady's sixth-floor apartment.

Since the household consisted only of the mother and daughter, it was inappropriate for him, a grown man, to remain there.

After greeting the lady, Li Teng got up to leave, but cried out in pain, "Ouch!"

"You're hurt! Don't move! You've lost a lot of blood!" The lady of the house exclaimed, seeing a large patch of blood on Li Teng's white pants, and hurried to get a first-aid kit.

"I work as a nurse at the nearby hospital. I have a first-aid kit at home. Let me check your wounds and stop the bleeding with some medicine to prevent infection. If it's serious, we might need to go to the hospital for stitches. Don't worry, I'll cover all the medical expenses," she assured Li Teng.

Li Teng had been injured while saving her daughter's life; it was only right and reasonable for her to take full responsibility.

"This... might be a little awkward..." Li Teng glanced at his injury, his expression turning embarrassed.

"What's so awkward about it? I'm a nurse. I've seen it all. We need to treat your wound right away!" the lady insisted urgently, reaching for Li Teng, only to realize... the location of the injury was indeed inconvenient.

But the severity of the injury left no room for hesitation.

With gritted teeth, the lady pulled aside Li Teng's clothes, finally revealing the extent of the wound.

It was clearly very severe, and perhaps due to the injury, the area around the wound was severely swollen.

"Erm, well, you know..." Li Teng felt awkward.

"Bear with it a bit! I'm going to apply some iodine for disinfection, then bandage it up," she said as she began treating the wound.

"It's okay, I can handle the pain.

"Shh..."

Li Teng grimaced with pain, but made no sound.

"If it hurts, just yell. Holding it in will only make it worse," the lady said apologetically.

"It's okay... I can bear it..." Li Teng insisted.

"You're truly strong. You've been enduring this pain for so long. If it hadn't been for you, my Xiao Xiao would have been gone," the lady thanked Li Teng again.

"It's nothing, anyone would have helped," Li Teng dismissed it nonchalantly.

"It's all my fault, I thought having a security net meant safety, never thinking she would climb up on it..." the lady said, still shaken.

"You were at work, was there no one at home to look after the child?" Li Teng asked.

"Yes, I just finalized my divorce. My parents are both ill. It used to be her grandmother who took care of her, but now... alas..." the lady sighed deeply.

"Why get a divorce at all? It's not good for the child…"