Li Wangxi's complaints pulled me out of that mood.
The internet still wasn't back, and they all felt uneasy. They could manage without internet, but the communications blackout was deeply unsettling.
"Does that mean we can't even call an ambulance?" Li Wangxi quickly realized.
"Probably not..." Her coworker wasn't sure. "Don't emergency calls use a different signal? I thought other calls couldn't get through, but emergency calls could?"
"Probably not?"
The two of them stared at each other, neither one certain.
Li Wangxi sighed. "If we could get online, we could find out."
Her coworker smiled, then suddenly asked Li Wangxi quietly about her love life.
"It's not like we can make calls anymore. Who knows what'll happen after this..." Li Wangxi was dejected.
A notification popped up on the computer at the nurses' station.
"I'll go take a look." Her coworker glanced at it and got up.
Li Wangxi only glanced at the screen too. After checking the bed number, she said flatly, "Probably another inquiry about when someone will wake up."
Her coworker didn't react and headed straight for the ward.
I couldn't match the bed number to a patient, but from the faint impressions in Li Wangxi's mind, I remembered who was in that bed: the unconscious patient whose family member had been staying by their bedside.
The pop-up on the screen disappeared soon after.
Li Wangxi opened the patient's electronic medical record and filled in some details from her earlier rounds.
The phone in her pocket suddenly started vibrating.
Li Wangxi didn't rush to take it out. She assumed it was vibrating because the battery was low. But within seconds, she dismissed the thought herself.
Her phone began to ring.
Li Wangxi froze. She still didn't take it out.
It was nighttime in the ward, and