Chapter 157

"What me?"

Ji Jue widened his eyes innocently and countered: "You know, as a newcomer, I value hospital regulations more than anything, how could I voluntarily violate them?"

Thus, Director Tang Tang Qian's smile became even more radiant: "Then why did you perform medical treatment without reporting it to your superiors? This doesn't comply with hospital regulations, does it?"

An uncontrollable, hair-raising chill rose from his heels and shot up to the back of his head.

A cold shiver swallowed his soul.

And behind him, Tong Hua had already seen giant mouths, invisible to the naked Ether Eye, emerging from the void, already faintly shrouding Ji Jue entirely.

Heads, necks, hands, legs, internal organs...

Eagerly longing to lick and chew!

"In an emergency, one must act with discretion; the patient's life is the priority."

Ji Jue answered without wavering, his expression solemn: "While I was performing my duties, I received a request for help from a patient. After my assessment, the worsening condition was already endangering the patient's safety.

After I explained the treatment method, and with the consent of the patient and the patient's family, I successfully completed the treatment and achieved gratifying results."

In that instant, the smile on Director Tang Tang Qian's face vanished without a trace, leaving only ferocity: "Get your status straight, you are just a resident, hospital regulations do not allow you to accept requests for help from patients!"

"But they don't forbid it either, do they?"

Ji Jue countered, completely unbothered by the malice behind him, staring at that unrecognizable face: "Besides, as a doctor, how can one watch a patient suffer?"

"Is that so?" Director Tang Tang Qian was expressionless, staring at him fixedly.

Ji Jue nodded decisively, "Of course that's so."

A kind-hearted doctor provided emergency aid to a suffering patient during rounds, helping her escape the sea of misery, winning the gratitude and respect of the patient's couple, and also leading other patients to praise him, defending and guarding the duties represented by this white coat with his own actions.

Isn't that so?

Just based on this matter, if the hospital newspaper headline for this month isn't me, nobody would be convinced, okay?!

In an instant, the malice and ferocity vanished without a trace.

The giant mouths retreated into the shadows, and the exaggerated smile reappeared on Director Tang Tang Qian's face, containing approval and pleasure:

"Just as I understood!"

Director Tang Tang Qian patted his shoulder, his expression becoming even more 'kind': "It seems you and the patients get along very well. You never hesitate when it comes to healing the wounded and rescuing the dying.

I really didn't misjudge you, you are the one with the best quality among the newcomers this time!"

"Thanks for the praise, this is all part of my duty."

"It's just a pity, I originally thought you would make a small mistake. I was even thinking about whether I should help you out... hehehehe..."

As if sighing with emotion, Director Tang Tang Qian's hair wriggled like snakes as he looked over again: "Since even this can't stump you, then I'll leave the next surgery to you as the lead surgeon."

His smile was radiant, full of anticipation: "You definitely won't let me down, right?"

If this were outside, Ji Jue would at least ask, 'Do you want to take a look at what kind of pig-headed nonsense you're saying?'

Me? Surgery?

I don't even have a physician's qualification certificate, for crying out loud!

But considering this crappy hospital doesn't even pay a salary and treats its own people's lives like dirt, it's perfectly normal to treat patients' lives like dirt too.

It's a piece of cake.

No big deal.

After searching his brain for all possible reasons and finding he couldn't refuse Director Tang Tang Qian's request, Ji Jue could only nod: "What surgery?"

"What kind of surgery could there be in the OB-GYN department? Midwifery, of course."

Director Tang Tang Qian patted his shoulder one last time and instructed kindly: "Go back and take a good look at the patient's records, prepare to go on stage in a while."

Just like that, he turned and left.

Only, in the darkness at the end of the corridor, he suddenly turned back, his radiant smile shrouded in shadow: "If you don't do it well and violate hospital regulations, very bad things will happen, oh."

Disappeared without a trace.

Leaving only Ji Jue pouting in place: "How bad? Deducting salary?"

Tong Hua, who had been terrified, couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Of course it's deducting your lifespan!"

"Then it's decided."

Ji Jue pointed at her decisively: "You'll be my first assistant!"

"Why?" Tong Hua was shocked.

"Where is the logic in a teammate suffering while you're fine?" Ji Jue asked as if it were a matter of course: "We're all so familiar now, of course we have to die together!"

"I really thank you so much!"

Tong Hua was furious: "When I get out, I'm going to cry to Sister Wen and tell her you bullied me."

"Cry, let's all cry together, I'll even say you peeked at me changing clothes and wanted to ruin my innocent body!"

Ji Jue walked in front with his head held high, full of confidence.

That's it, decided!

Then, he quickly had Tong Hua quantum-read all the files and books, stuffing all the information related to midwifery into his brain.

Even Ji Jue felt dizzy and completely unable to handle it.

It could be said that for the sake of safety, he had read through all the records and all the knowledge and technique analyses in the books, even including half a book on postpartum care for sows.

But he felt it probably wouldn't be useful.

Given the bizarre conduct of the Time-Ruins Hospital at this time, he wouldn't even be surprised if the person lying on the bed was a sex-changed, two-hundred-pound, burly, black-skinned rugby player.

All he could say was, it's better to be prepared.

Even so, upon seeing the 'parturient' on the operating table with four or five legs, seven or eight arms, and only the head still looking somewhat Heavenly Human, Ji Jue couldn't help but shake his head and sigh at the magical and absurd nature of the Time-Ruins.

This damn design, if put in a horror game, would at least be a final boss. The kind where you have to trigger a chase sequence and run a marathon in a haunted house.

At this moment, seeing fresh meat delivered to her door, the parturient on the delivery bed immediately struggled violently, opening her mouth full of fangs, eager to replenish her nutrition.

It was a pity that chains were tightly wrapped around her limbs, body, and neck, making it impossible for her to move at all. The two pitch-black eyeballs on her face, without a hint of white, stared fixedly at Ji Jue, constantly opening her mouth to howl.

"Hurry up, everyone is waiting for you."

Beside the operating table, Director Tang Tang Qian, who was standing by, smiled brightly: "Don't keep the parturient waiting."

Under the shadowless lamp, which was like a spotlight, various facilities were already prepared, but in the shadows outside the light, it seemed... heads were crowding.

Ten, twenty, or thirty?

Around the operating table, one blurry outline after another had been waiting for a long time, and at this moment, they were anxious and expectant, longing for the surgery to begin. Scarlet eyes flickered from the darkness, like hungry stars.

"Who are these people?" Ji Jue turned back.

"Family members accompanying the birth." Director Tang Tang Qian told him, "Don't worry, they won't disturb you, you should also understand the bond between the family and the parturient.

At such a critical moment, they naturally have to be present."

Present for what?

To start the banquet?

Watching those blurry outlines rubbing their hands and drooling, Ji Jue's eyelids twitched wildly—if the child is born, they set up a banquet, if the child isn't born, they take the doctor to eat at the banquet, right?

Quietly kicking Tong Hua to signal her not to space out, Ji Jue took the lead and walked to the front of the operating table, raised his right hand, which was already wearing sterile gloves, and made a gesture to the side. To avoid Tong Hua thinking he was trying to make a heart shape, he specifically reminded: "Prepare the anesthesia, give me the tools."

Tong Hua immediately retracted her little hand that she had just raised halfway as if she had been electrocuted, and after a long time of scrambling, she finally found the syringe containing the anesthetic from a pile of trays, but was ruthlessly slapped away by Ji Jue.

"Not this one."

He pointed to the corner of the operating room: "Get a bigger one."

In the corner of the operating room, on the wall, leaned a large hammer.

The handle was covered in dark red stains, the hammerhead was covered in rust, and the moment he touched it, he could almost hear wails in his ears; he didn't know how many unlucky doctors or patients had been hammered to death by it.

"Here goes!"

Bang!

Right in the stunned gaze of the family, the director, and even the assistant, Ji Jue swung the large hammer around and brought it down straight onto the 'parturient's' head.

The entire delivery bed groaned, almost falling apart.

And under the entanglement of the iron chains, the parturient, who had been struggling endlessly with seven hands and eight feet, suddenly stiffened, her body straightened, and then she went limp, with no more sound.

The wailing and screaming stopped.

"Whew..."

Ji Jue whistled and nodded with satisfaction: Stunned but not brain-damaged, the force was just right!

But immediately after, he saw the parturient's eyes suddenly open again, filled with scarlet, and she began to scream again.

Ji Jue's smile stiffened for a moment: This is somewhat unappreciative.

Since that's the case, then let's cause some brain damage!

Bang!

In an instant, Ji Jue added another hammer blow, then another, several more!

Every time a dull thud landed, countless hands and feet would spasm and lift and fall, as if playing whack-a-mole, spectacular.

Only after that ferocious face was completely bloody and there was no more movement did he stop. He tentatively raised the hammer again, and after finding no reaction, he put down the anesthesia tool with some disappointment.

He was still saying he wanted to play a little longer.

"If the patient wakes up, remember to remind me, I'll add another one, intraoperative awareness is very dangerous."

Ji Jue instructed Tong Hua solemnly, making Tong Hua's eyelids twitch uncontrollably.

Dangerous? Dangerous my foot! How come I feel your way of anesthesia is more dangerous!

It's thanks to Masterful Craft being able to control the force, otherwise, with the way you swing, the first few hammer blows would have directly exploded the parturient's head, okay?

"Small matter, piece of cake." Ji Jue comforted: "Don't be nervous, what's there to be afraid of? Isn't it just cutting it open, taking it out, and then stitching it up?"

"I, I'm not nervous!" Tong Hua tried to be tough, wiping the sweat from her forehead, and then saw Ji Jue turn back to look: "No, I wasn't comforting you, I was saying it to myself..."

Instantly, everything went black before her eyes: Big brother, are you capable or not!

But she wasn't tough enough to pat her chest and say 'get out of the way and let me do it', so she could only worry in vain.

"Alright, stop dawdling, the anesthesia time is limited." Ji Jue ordered: "CT, hurry up!"

For a moment, Tong Hua was even more stunned.

CT? Where is the C... oh, it's me, right?!

Tong Hua gritted her teeth, glared at him for a long time, and finally reached out her hand—first day entering the Time-Ruins, shooting me, mocking me, scaring me for fun, and now making me do a CT!

I've noted this grudge.

When I get back, I'll spread your famous quotes eight hundred times!

The Ether Eye of Aether instantly penetrated everything, and then, the observed scene was converted into records, continuously pouring into Ji Jue's brain.

It was like turning on X-ray vision.

Everything became so clear.

But after seeing the condition inside the parturient's body, Ji Jue couldn't help but gasp several times, his eyelids twitching wildly.

How the hell is this midwifery?!

What's the difference between this and bomb disposal in an armory?

I mean, since it's reached this point, couldn't we just take a step further and find a bomb disposal expert?