Chapter 534: Traditional Chinese Medicine Department, Showdown!

Lin Yuan stood at the doorway, his back to the entire crowd.

Lin Yuan merely coldly flung out one sentence: "A frog at the bottom of a well knows nothing of the vastness of heaven and earth."

Having said that, he turned around……and continued walking out without the slightest pause.

That group of so-called Western medicine authorities wasn't worth him having any desire to communicate with.

"Wait!" The genius girl Chu Yuwei reacted, immediately got up and chased after him……

Chu Yuwei ran a bit unsteadily, quickly catching up outside.

She intercepted Lin Yuan in the hallway outside the lecture hall.

"What else do you want to do?" Lin Yuan coldly looked at this genius girl before him.

It's undeniable that Chu Yuwei is indeed very good-looking, and she possesses that kind of lethal, absolute beauty.

So beautiful that a man glances at her and his heart races, unable to move his feet—that kind of beauty.

But unfortunately, Lin Yuan couldn't muster any interest in such women.

He even found them distasteful.

He despised Western medicine, and even more so all female students who studied it.

"How did you do it? With just two silver needles, how could you possibly complete the removal of a liver tumor in a mouse?! Can you explain?" Chu Yuwei's tone was urgent.

In her beautiful eyes, the previous contempt was gone, replaced by a hint of inquiry and unwillingness to accept defeat.

Lin Yuan halted his steps, turned sideways to look at her, his gaze indifferent: "The essence of traditional Chinese medicine is not something someone like you, wearing tinted glasses, can comprehend."

He paused, his tone carrying a hint of aloofness: "Since you look down on traditional Chinese medicine from the core of your being, I have no need to explain it to you."

"Hold on, I haven't looked down on traditional Chinese medicine……" Chu Yuwei immediately explained, her stunning pretty face flushing from excitement, "I merely…… I've just never seen such a miraculous technique."

She took a deep breath, as if making a momentous decision.

Chu Yuwei's eyes became earnest: "Instructor Lin, I'd like to have another match with you, how about that?"

"Let's set a wager…… If I lose, I'll acknowledge you as my mentor and devote myself to studying traditional Chinese medicine; if you lose, you must publicly admit that traditional Chinese medicine is merely anecdotal experience, lacking scientific basis! Okay?" Chu Yuwei proposed.

At that moment, many students had also come out into the hallway, everyone gathered to watch this scene.

Lin Yuan asked coldly, "Why must you insist on betting with me? Are you studying Western medicine just to compete in medical skill with others?"

Chu Yuwei was stunned by the retort.

She stubbornly rebutted, "Medicine is rigorous. I merely want to confirm whether traditional Chinese medicine actually works! Moreover, what's wrong with competing in medical skill? Medical arts advance only through mutual comparison and struggle. Isn't that right?"

Lin Yuan looked at her obstinate eyes, coldly smirked and shook his head: "No need."

Lin Yuan inherently despised this kind of spiteful match……

He even less wanted to use the essence of traditional Chinese medicine……to cater to others' doubts.

"Besides, let me remind you: medical skill does not progress through comparison and competition, but through healing and saving lives." Lin Yuan said coldly.

Upon hearing this, Chu Yuwei froze.

After finishing his words, Lin Yuan sidestepped Chu Yuwei and continued to leave.

"If you dare not compete, just say so!"

Chu Yuwei's face flushed red from anger at his attitude, she shouted at his back, "After all, you're just guilty, afraid of losing and losing face!"

As her shout fell, laughter from the Return to Dawn team came from the lecture hall.

Yu Shanfeng sauntered out.

Yu Shanfeng had his hands tucked in his suit pockets, his tone thick with mockery: "I said traditional Chinese medicine is just a showy facade that can't produce anything real; Instructor Lin is probably rushing out because he's afraid that once he acts, his shortcomings will be exposed, right?"

"Exactly, not even daring to accept a student's challenge, and still has the nerve to call himself a teacher?"

"Those two earlier moves might have been luck; if it came down to the real thing, he'd have panicked long ago!"

The Return to Dawn teachers and students exchanged remarks back and forth……

Mocking words kept drifting over.

This left the faculty and students of Zhijiang University with grim expressions.

They wanted to rebut, but Lin Yuan, the person involved, didn't rebut either.

The faculty and students of Zhijiang University hardly dared to rebut at all.

At that moment, Luo Renhai hurriedly chased after him.

Luo Renhai grabbed Lin Yuan's arm, his face full of pleading: "Lin Yuan, we've had no one bully us to this extent. Please, I'm begging you! Now isn't the time for you to hide your talents; they're humiliating you, humiliating traditional Chinese medicine, and even slapping the face of our Zhijiang University! This time you must step forward."

Lin Yuan shook his head, still refusing.

Luo Renhai was helpless.

Luo Renhai pointed at the surrounding Zhijiang students with their heads bowed in silence……

Dean Luo's voice sighed, "Look at these kids; they all came here with a love for medicine…… They are all your students in the traditional Chinese medicine class."

"But now…… they're being disparaged like this about their school and major, feeling awful inside. Please, for these students, for the dignity of traditional Chinese medicine, accept this match!" Luo Renhai urged.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan's pupils trembled slightly.

Lin Yuan turned his head, looking at Luo Renhai's reddened eye sockets.

He then glanced over those Zhijiang University students with heads down and clenched fists.

Lin Yuan's steps gradually came to a halt.

He could disregard personal honor or disgrace, but he couldn't stand by and watch traditional Chinese medicine be wantonly slandered……

Moreover, he couldn't let these students, full of enthusiasm…… lose faith in the traditional Chinese medicine profession.

After a moment of silence, Lin Yuan finally loosened his mouth.

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Fine, the match, I accept."

"Great!" Luo Renhai excitedly patted Lin Yuan's shoulder.

Luo Renhai hurriedly pulled Lin Yuan back the way they came.

Chu Yuwei heard this, and her beautiful eyes lit up instantly.

Chu Yuwei quickened her pace and followed.

She looked somewhat excited on her pretty face, and she wanted to see just how skilled this so-called TCM practitioner Lin Yuan really was??

Returning to the lecture hall, the crowd's focus shifted back to Lin Yuan once again.

This time, Lin Yuan almost became the center of everyone's attention.

He also became the sole hope of Zhijiang University's School of Medicine.

The faculty and students of Zhijiang University gazed at him…… with anticipation, with worry……

Meanwhile, the faculty and student teams of Fudan University, looking at Lin Yuan, did so with schadenfreude.

Obviously, the faculty and students of Fudan University were all waiting for Lin Yuan to make a fool of himself.

Because the one competing against Lin Yuan was Chu Yuwei.

She is Fudan University's…… a once-in-a-century genius in Western medicine!

At 24, she was already the youngest doctorate holder at Fudan University!

Such a record, looking across a century, no one can break.

How could Lin Yuan, a mere student of Chinese medicine, possibly be compared to Fudan University's genius girl?

They believed Chu Yuwei would surely win this match.

Yu Shanfeng cleared his throat, went on stage, and said: "Since Teacher Lin is willing to accept the match, we should set a fair rule. The content of the match shall be jointly discussed by both sides and carried out under open and transparent conditions. How about that?"

Lin Yuan nodded: "Sure."

Chu Yuwei immediately stood up.

Her beautiful eyes firm, she said in a solemn voice: "I propose the match content be 'removal of arterial blood clots.' This is a common difficult clinical problem, demanding extremely high operational precision and professional judgment, and it best showcases true skill."

Chu Yuwei paused, then added: "To prevent anyone from using underhanded tricks, we must conduct this under extremely harsh conditions."

"I suggest using a simulated human artery model, with the clot position randomized inside, and the artery wall thickness only two-thirds of normal; the operational error must be kept within 0.05mm, and any damage to the artery wall counts as failure!"

As soon as this condition was proposed, the venue erupted in an uproar.

You know, even an experienced surgeon would find it as hard as climbing to heaven to remove a clot with a scalpel under such harsh conditions……

Let alone Lin Yuan intending to use acupuncture, a method of Chinese medicine.

The faces of the Fudan team all showed smug smiles……

They felt Chu Yuwei had seized the weak point of Chinese medicine.

Luo Renhai also furrowed his brow, and softly said to Lin Yuan: "Lin Yuan, this condition is too harsh; should we renegotiate?"

Lin Yuan, however, remained calm and shook his head.

Lin Yuan looked at Chu Yuwei and calmly asked: "I have no objection to the rules. But the wager needs to change. If I win, you must not only acknowledge me as your mentor, but also publicly apologize to Chinese medicine; if I lose, I will voluntarily resign from my position at Zhijiang University's School of Medicine and never again engage in medical education."

As soon as he said that, the entire venue fell completely silent.

Nobody had expected…… that Lin Yuan would raise the stakes so high.

This was no longer a simple academic contest, but a gamble on one's professional dignity.

Chu Yuwei gazed at Lin Yuan's determined eyes……

She hesitated not at all, nodded and said: "Okay, I agree!"

Not even half an hour later, two staff members pushed an equipment cart quickly into the lecture hall.

On the cart…… were two highly simulated artery models.

Beside it, the accompanying high-definition display…… could show in real time every detail inside the model.

A detection probe with precision up to 0.01mm hovered above the model, ready at any moment to record operational data.

Luo Renhai personally stepped forward to inspect.

After an inspection, confirming the model's parameters…… were completely consistent with Chu Yuwei's demands.

Only then did Luo Renhai cough and announce loudly: "I declare the start of this Sino-Western medical exchange competition! Chu Yuwei, you may begin!"

Chu Yuwei nodded and stepped forward in response.

She donned a white lab coat surgical gown, her dark black hair lightly coiled up.

At this moment, she appeared even more professional and stunningly beautiful.

She revealed her slender wrists, her beautiful eyes focused intently, breathtakingly beautiful.

Chu Yuwei first stood before the model.

Her gaze fixed intently on the display…… showing the randomly generated clot location diagram.

That dark red simulated clot happened to be lodged in the narrow part of the artery branch.

The blood vessel wall around the clot was as thin as a cicada's wing; a slight mistake would cause rupture.

"Prepare the minimally invasive instruments." Chu Yuwei's voice was utterly calm.

Her serious demeanor now bore no resemblance to a twenty-something girl; she looked like a seasoned operating-table expert.

Behind her, the accompanying Fudan University teachers immediately handed over a specially made micro scalpel and clot-extraction forceps.

After Chu Yuwei disinfected both hands, she held the instrument with her fingertips…… and slowly inserted it into the model's artery entrance.

Throughout the procedure, Chu Yuwei's eyes never left the display.

The gazes of the several thousand students present…… closely followed her movements……

The lecture hall was so quiet that only the faint hum of the equipment…… and the audience's breathing could be heard.

On the display, one could see Chu Yuwei's surgical procedure……

Her micro scalpel precisely avoided the vessel wall…… making an extremely tiny incision at the edge of the clot.

Afterwards, Chu Yuwei picked up the clot-extraction forceps, carefully inserting them……

She gripped one end of the clot as delicately as picking up a feather……

Chu Yuwei's wrist turned slightly, peeling the clot away from the blood vessel bit by bit.

During this process, the monitoring probe showed the operational error steadily within 0.03mm……

This exceeds the prescribed standard.

Half an hour later.

When Chu Yuwei removed the complete clot…… a prompt popped up on the screen:

【Arterial wall intact, clot removal success rate 100%】

Seeing this prompt, the entire lecture hall burst into thunderous applause!

"Good heavens, this technique is too steady! I can't even clearly see the instrument's movements!"

"No wonder he's a genius who won the national award three years in a row—if it were me, I'd probably mess up as soon as I made the first cut!"

The members of the Fudan team were even more proud, faces beaming.

Even the faculty and students of Zhijiang University couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

Setting aside the school's stance…… Chu Yuwei's surgical skill is truly master‑level!

She is so young, only in her early twenties, yet already possesses such exquisite surgical skill—she can literally be called a genius among geniuses!

She is indeed a super genius!

At this moment, Yu Shanfeng proudly slapped the table and said arrogantly, "See? This is the strength of our Fudan! Dean Luo, you'd better watch closely and learn well."

Chu Yuwei took off her gloves and wiped the thin sweat from her brow.

Her beautiful eyes gazed softly at Lin Yuan.

In Chu Yuwei's eyes lay a hint of provocation.

She took 28 minutes to remove an extremely high‑difficulty clot.

This result is something even a senior surgeon…… would find hard to match.

"I took 28 minutes, Lin Laoshi—your turn now." Chu Yuwei said softly.