Chapter 558: Chapter 558

When they reached the shore, the 120 ambulance hadn’t arrived yet. Zhou Yiyi, worried about the boy’s life, quickly started performing CPR on him. As she was about to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, she pushed his hair back, took one look at his face, and panicked, "Lin Mu? You idiot, how could it be you?"

Lin Mu was lying in front of her with his eyes closed, his face deathly pale. She touched his face with her hand, meeting no resistance, eerily soft and frightening.

What surprised her even more was that the person who had jumped in to save him turned out to be Zhou Mo.

Since Zhou Mo got to the shore a step later than her, even though his legs had started to shiver from exhaustion, he still staggered over. Seeing Lin Mu lying motionless on the ground scared him pale.

"Zhou Mo? Why is it the two of you?"

Zhou Yiyi shouted urgently at Zhou Mo while she continued performing CPR on Lin Mu.

Because it was dark, Zhou Mo had to crouch down to see clearly that it was Yiyi. All three of them were soaking wet, and it was obvious to anyone what had happened.

As more and more onlookers gathered, Zhou Yiyi yelled, "Everyone back off a bit, give him some room to breathe, and please, hurry up and call 120 again. How come they aren’t here yet? He’s only a teenager; he absolutely can’t die ."

After finishing CPR, Zhou Yiyi started giving Lin Mu mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and Zhou Mo’s eyes nearly popped out of his head, "You...,"

"What do you mean ’you’? Do you want to give him mouth-to-mouth instead? I’ll keep doing the chest compressions. You give him mouth-to-mouth, quick, time is life!"

"Breathe once, tilt his head to the side, hurry!"

Zhou Mo, imagining himself giving mouth-to-mouth to Lin Mu, felt ridiculous, but with a life at stake and Yiyi already doing it, what excuse did he, a grown man, have to be squeamish?

Thus, Zhou Yiyi and Zhou Mo coordinated their efforts, just as Zhou Yiyi’s arms were going numb, a middle-aged man squeezed through.

"Young girl, you must be tired. Come and rest a bit to the side. I saw how you were doing it. Let me try, see if I’m doing it right."

"Uncle, thank you. Please, use some strength, even if you have to press his ribcage down, keep going, he’s only fifteen, just fifteen!"

Zhou Yiyi’s voice trembled as she spoke, and Zhou Mo, standing by her side, felt unbearably oppressive.

Watching Yiyi wipe away her tears, he felt a lump in his own throat and couldn’t bring himself to say a word.

The people around, witnessing this scene, couldn’t help but feel that fate was cruel.

"120 is here, quick, the paramedics are here, this way, this way."

A middle-aged lady immediately pulled them toward their direction. As the medical staff took over, the person who had been lying motionless suddenly choked like he’d been drowning, tilting his head and beginning to cough up water. Yiyi, seeing this, quickly scrambled up from the ground.

"He’s going to make it, he’s going to make it, hurry, save him, please save him!"

Lin Mu, Zhou Yiyi, and Zhou Mo were all eventually taken to the hospital.

The couple that had dragged Lin Mu, and yes, they were a couple, both died.

How ironic, huh? The couple, neither yielding to the other, almost killed Lin Mu. Even though Lin Mu was rescued, his lungs got infected, and he had to stay in the hospital for a month to recover.

Why did Lin Mu survive while that couple did not?

It probably had to do with Zhou Yiyi taking every second seriously, pulling him to shore first, then tirelessly doing mouth-to-mouth and CPR.

The couple, though also victims, were wrong in endangering Lin Mu. Of course, the most despicable was the drunk driver.

The media, informed by locals, had broadcasted the whole story, but all three of them refused to give any interviews. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ Nov3lFɪre.ɴet

Lin Mu’s parents were almost on their knees thanking her, because their son was nearly lost to them forever.

Zhou Yiyi naturally refused to take the credit, insisting it was due to the medical workers. However, in that emergency, her commanding presence and the fact that she pulled Lin Mu out of the lake herself was an undeniable act of heroism.

Zhou Mo and Zhou Yiyi were placed in the same hospital room. Lin Mu was in the ICU for a week before being moved to a general ward. By that time, Zhou Mo and Yiyi had already been discharged. Lin Mu came close to death and looked weak, but he never forgot Yiyi’s role, constantly thanking her whenever he saw her.

Yiyi playfully tapped on his forehead, "You dummy, couldn’t you have saved one at a time? Didn’t you think about your own limits before trying to save two?"

Lin Mu felt unjustified; "I didn’t plan on that. I was only trying to save the woman, but under those circumstances, that man just thrashed towards me, and somehow, both ended up clinging to me. With the water’s resistance, I couldn’t break free."

"If I had known sooner it was you in the middle of the lake, I would’ve come for you first. I saved a young lady first, then rushed back to look for you,"

At this point, Zhou Yiyi turned to Zhou Mo, "Didn’t you notice that something was wrong over there?"

Zhou Mo gave her a cold glance, "What was I supposed to do? I was already carrying an old man. Should I have just tossed him away?"

Zhou Yiyi: "...Fair enough. Zhou Mo did get the people to shore before swimming over to you. Did you end up saving those two?"

Zhou Mo snorted, "No, didn’t the rescue team arrive? Let them do their job. I was pulled out by the rescue team."

"Although those two were also victims, I don’t feel any sympathy for them. In a crisis, they only thought of themselves. Well, now neither of them will get to live."

Lin Mu did not want to remember that traumatic experience, but he was curious, "How come you swim so well? And knew CPR and mouth-to-mouth?"

"Hey, I was the one who gave you the mouth-to-mouth, remember?" Zhou Mo interjected, looking for recognition.

"Yes, yes, I know it was you. Do you think I thought it was Zhou Yiyi?"

Zhou Yiyi, remembering that she had actually given mouth-to-mouth to Lin Mu twice before Zhou Mo took over, knew that as long as she kept quiet and Zhou Mo didn’t mention it, Lin Mu would never find out. Otherwise, how would they continue to interact?

"Didn’t you see it in dramas? Next time don’t be so impulsive. Even if you want to save someone, wait until they’re almost done thrashing. How many people have died trying to save others? Especially in drowning incidents, you have to be extremely careful, not that you shouldn’t save them, but you must first assess your own abilities."