In a ward at Kiev People's Hospital.
A young-looking nurse with freckles on her face was administering Zhang Heng's intravenous injection. Afterward, she adjusted the curtains in the ward.
Once the young nurse turned and left, Zhang Heng was finally able to learn his diagnosis from the Hostess.
Because some of the medical terminology was too specialized, the Hostess had to flip through a dictionary while gesturing as she explained. It took her around fifteen minutes to barely give Zhang Heng a rough account of his condition. Unfortunately, the doctor was not here, so Zhang Heng had no idea whether Grade 3 radiation sickness was good news or bad.
Moreover, the Hostess, acting as his "wife," had failed to coax out the crucial information of exactly how long he had left to live from the female doctor. Zhang Heng could only continue receiving treatment while observing the changes in his own body.
Fortunately, unlike the other unlucky people exposed to radiation, he did not need to worry about radiation-induced cancer later on. For Zhang Heng, as long as he could get through this immediate crisis, he would basically be out of danger. Once the Parallel Instance ended, his body would return to the state it had been in before he entered it, and he would also learn how his body would change at every stage afterward.
For the current situation, that barely counted as good news.
However, unlike the other patients, Zhang Heng could not rest even after being admitted to the hospital. He still had to use this time to study Russian and Ukrainian. If he could solve the language problem in the Parallel Instance, it would be more convenient for him to conduct his investigation after returning to the regular instance.
Thus, Zhang Heng said to the Hostess