An Encounter with a Superpowered Girl

Medical Center.

After saying goodbye to Meredith, the heifer who was standing upside down, Adam went to the emergency room.

"Dr. Duncan."

The nurse handed Adam a medical record. "He's come four times in three months; it seems there's a problem."

Adam looked up and saw that the patient was a cute little girl of five or six years old, but she had a very frightening wound on her calf.

"Notify child protection agencies and talk to her parents."

Adam gave a brief explanation, took the medical record, and walked over. "I am Dr. Duncan."

"I am Megan Clifford, and things are not as bad as they seem."

The little girl bypassed her parents and spoke directly, quite skillfully.

"She fell in the amusement park, bled a lot, and had a deep wound."

The mother stroked the girl's head.

"We know the injuries are terrible; she can be quite rough sometimes..."

The father said somewhat awkwardly, "These are her medical records, including those from before we got her."

"Are you adoptive parents?"

Adam took the more detailed medical record and made some casual remarks as he looked at it.

"Right."

The mother came over and said sincerely, "Megan is a good girl, she just plays too roughly. We all love her very much."

I believe it.

Adam glanced at them a few times and nodded, saying, "You two go to the nurses' station first and give the documents to the nurses to make copies. I'll take a look at Megan's leg first."

"All right."

Megan's adoptive parents nodded helplessly.

They also knew what Adam meant.

"Honey, we'll be back in a bit."

"Um."

The little girl Megan obediently saw her adoptive parents off, and then, looking at Adam with a somewhat stubborn expression, emphasized. "They are not what you imagine. They are the best parents I have ever met."

"Don't worry."

Adam reassured him knowingly, "I believe you. This is just a formality. Don't worry, it'll be fine. Let me stitch up your wound first. You don't want to have an unsightly scar, do you?"

"I don't want... do you know what I'm worried about?"

Megan blinked her beautiful big eyes at Adam.

"Certainly."

Adam sat down, took the suture instruments the nurse brought him, and while cleaning Megan's leg wound, he smiled and said, "I have two good friends. One of them has adopted a large group of children like you, and the other has only adopted one."

So I understand your thoughts perfectly.

Although both of them gave these children enough love.

But I know that every child wants a complete family, and wants parents who love them more, right?

In the orphanage, whenever someone comes to adopt a child, all the children dress up carefully beforehand, look on expectantly, and then show their brightest yet saddest smiles, staring intently at the adoptive parents who walk in.

They are still just children, but they have already entered society a decade or two ahead of time, and have learned the rules of society without being taught: greet people with a smile, choose me, choose me!

"All right."

The little girl Megan looked at Adam intently for a while, then relaxed and lay back down.

"Huh?"

Adam then noticed the marks on Megan's inside arm, immediately reached out and pulled up her sleeve, frowning as he asked, "What happened here?"

However, there was a ten-centimeter-long wound on the inside of her left arm that had not been stitched up at all; it had been stapled on with three staples.

"I did this myself."

Megan shrugged nonchalantly. "I don't want to come to the hospital again, so I'll handle it myself. It's no big deal."

"Aren't you in pain?"

Adam looked serious.

The wound looked painful to him, but little Megan didn't react at all. She just kept stapleing her arm shut herself.

"It doesn't hurt at all."

Megan said something, then beckoned to Adam, "Come here."

Adam's lips twitched.

This sentence sounds so awkward.

But he still went over.

"I'll let you in on a secret: I have superpowers."

Megan leaned close to Adam's ear and said mysteriously, "No matter how you hit me, it won't hurt. If you don't believe me, punch me in the stomach, hit me however you want."

"You really don't feel any pain at all?"

Adam certainly wouldn't hit her, he confirmed.

Not at all.

Megan proudly stated, "The kids at my school didn't believe it at first, but I let them hit me. They hit me 25 times, and they were all out of breath. Even though they used baseball bats, it didn't hurt me at all!"

"Bat?"

Adam's eyes narrowed, and he pointed at Megan's stomach. "I'll hit your stomach."

"Yes."

Megan nodded as a matter of course.

Adam gently lifted Megan's clothes and immediately saw severe bruises.

"I'm going to take you for a CT scan."

Adam picked up Megan and hurried toward the CT Room.

The wounds on my legs and arms can wait.

He is now seriously worried about the severe abdominal trauma Megan suffered, which may have caused internal bleeding.

In the last train derailment incident, the person who appeared fine, made a phone call to reassure friends and family, and was laughing and joking, but was slowly bleeding internally, eventually died silently in the emergency room.

"Excuse me, can I cut in line?"

Upon arriving at the CT Room, Adam addressed the doctor and patient who were about to enter.

"You go first, Dr. Duncan."

The doctor was very easy to talk to. After Adam went in, he began to soothe the unhappy patient.

CT Room.

"There was indeed internal bleeding."

Adam looked at the display on the scanning screen and let out a long sigh of relief.

If you know in advance, you won't be afraid.

The worst thing is not noticing at all.

"Go and inform Megan's parents."

Adam instructed the nurse.

Not long after.

Megan's parents have arrived.

Adam pointed to the CT scan screen and said, "Megan has internal bleeding and needs immediate surgery. I will take care of her wounds during the surgery."

"We really didn't hit her."

Megan's parents said helplessly.

"I trust you."

Adam nodded and said, "Megan probably has Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, an extremely rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder that causes her to not feel any pain when she is injured."

"OMG!"

Megan's adoptive mother covered her mouth and said, "That's why she plays so roughly and always gets hurt."

"Right."

Adam said, "This still needs to be tested with genetic tests. Right now, the most important thing is to perform surgery on Megan to stop the bleeding... Megan, where are you going?"

But as he was speaking, he caught a glimpse of Megan running outside.

Adam immediately caught up with Megan.

"I don't want surgery!"

Megan struggled, saying, "It's too expensive! They can't afford it. Don't keep telling my adoptive parents that I have a defect, they'll send me back."

"Don't worry, they won't."

Adam met her pleading gaze and felt a pang of sadness as he listened to her pitiful words.

If his diagnosis is correct, Megan has Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, she should have been diagnosed at a very young age.

But after hearing her words, Adam understood that Megan must have moved between many families.

No foster family was willing to take her seriously and always sent her back to the orphanage as soon as they noticed she seemed to have a problem.

This is why there were no confirmed cases, so we should take good care of ourselves and protect ourselves.

"Oh! Baby!"

Hearing such heartbreaking words, Megan's adoptive mother rushed over and hugged her daughter, crying, "Mommy and Daddy will never send you back. You are our daughter!"

"Right!"

Megan's adoptive father also came over and hugged his wife and daughter with a look of heartache. "Don't worry, Dad can afford it. We are a family and will never be separated."

Seeing this, Adam smiled with satisfaction.

There are still good people in this world.