Nancy Stewart hesitated for quite a while, but still chose to refuse. With the previous effects of physical recovery, Nancy Stewart felt that once these 8 points of recovery value were deducted, the burns on his back would most likely heal in a very short time. Although the recovery of his back injury was a good thing for him, Nancy Stewart simply couldn’t explain the reason to the doctors.

According to what the doctor just said, burns are usually divided into three degrees. First-degree burns are only damage to the epidermis, causing redness, swelling, heat, pain, and small blisters, but no scarring, and they heal in about seven days. Superficial second-degree burns involve redness, swelling, heat, and pain of the epidermis, and take about half a month to heal. Deep second-degree burns require more than a month to fully recover.

But the burn on Nancy Stewart’s back was a third-degree burn, with the injury reaching the bone, making it very difficult to treat. If not treated properly, it could easily lead to sepsis, and in severe cases, even be life-threatening. Even with timely treatment, it would take at least two to three months to gradually recover, and it would leave a large scar.

The recovery value that appeared in Nancy Stewart’s mind was simply too unscientific. If the burn on his back healed quickly and Nancy Stewart couldn’t give a reason, he felt he would very likely become a lab rat for some departments’ experiments. Nancy Stewart would rather endure the pain for a while than let that happen.

Even the matter of his physical recovery, Nancy Stewart didn’t plan to tell anyone.

He decided to spend a week first to help the doctors mentally prepare, letting them gradually accept the fact that his body was recovering quickly, and then request to be discharged and go home to rest. In any case, he couldn’t just jump out of bed right now—doing so would probably even scare his little sister.

“Damn it, I need to get the doctor to remove this urine bag first.”

Nancy Stewart suddenly noticed the yellow liquid in a plastic bag hanging by the bed, and couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of his mouth. If his body was still numb, it would be fine, but now that he had recovered, with a tube still inserted in that place, Nancy Stewart really couldn’t stand it. This accident was much more serious than the last car crash—he didn’t even get the “catheter treatment” last time.

……

“Brother, I’m back. Are you okay?” Emily Stewart returned quickly. Nancy Stewart saw that her hair wasn’t even dry yet, clearly she had rushed to the hospital right after her shower.

“I’m fine, Xiaoxiao. Just put the clothes here, I’ll change myself.” Nancy Stewart thought for a moment and said, “Go find a nurse and see if they can remove my catheter. It’s really inconvenient.”

“You can’t get out of bed right now, so just leave it in.” Emily Stewart shook her head. “Wait until you finish your checkup and see what the doctor says. Don’t try to act tough, brother.”

“Act tough? I’m actually pretending to be sick right now.” Nancy Stewart smiled bitterly to himself. He was suffering in silence, and could only gradually increase his activity to dispel the doctors’ doubts about his rapid recovery.

“Let’s wait until after the checkup, then. You go out first, I’ll change my clothes.”

Nancy Stewart sent his sister out, and quickly changed into a vest. Only after taking off the hospital gown did he realize that, because of the tube, he wasn’t wearing any underwear at all. Luckily, he was still well-endowed, otherwise Nancy Stewart would have been too embarrassed to face anyone.

“No matter what, I have to get this tube out this afternoon.” Nancy Stewart put on the hospital pants, determined in his heart.

“Little sis, where are my things?” While changing, Nancy Stewart noticed that, aside from his phone, the pendant that used to hang around his neck was also missing. He wondered if the doctors had taken it off during surgery.

“What things?” Emily Stewart walked into the ward and said, “Your phone is completely destroyed. I got you a new SIM card, so you can put it in this phone later.”

“What about the pendant I wore?” Nancy Stewart asked. “The one Dad gave me. I even bought an 18K gold chain for it. Why is it missing?”

It’s not that Nancy Stewart was particularly attached to the pendant, but the chain he wore it on had cost him over three thousand yuan. That thing wasn’t an electronic device, so it definitely couldn’t have been damaged by lightning.

“The pendant is gone, but Uncle Uncle Miller kept the gold chain for you. It’s in the bedside cabinet. Why are you looking for it?” Emily Stewart looked at her brother in confusion.

“As long as it’s not lost, it’s fine.”

Hearing that the gold chain was still there, Nancy Stewart breathed a sigh of relief. As the saying goes, poor kids grow up fast. His mother passed away early, and his father was rarely home, so he had always lived frugally. The most expensive gift he had ever bought for himself was that gold chain.

As for the pendant, Nancy Stewart didn’t really care about it. When his dad gave it to him, he didn’t think much of it. He just wore it for style while running his stall at the antique market. In fact, among the people in the antique market, if you didn’t have a gold chain around your neck, you’d be embarrassed to go out, never mind whether the chain would float if you put it in water.

However, what Nancy Stewart didn’t know was that if it weren’t for that pendant absorbing all the energy from the electric shock and lightning strike, and then gently feeding that energy back to repair part of Nancy Stewart’s body, he would probably be nothing but a pile of rotten flesh by now. First electrocuted, then struck by lightning—even if Nancy Stewart were a cultivator crossing tribulation in a xianxia novel, he probably wouldn’t have survived.