Chapter 204: The Phone Was Blown Up (Alliance Leader Deng Chaohong's Bonus Chapter ×4)

Zhao Xiangming was fishing.

He was a standard fishing enthusiast; as long as it was the weekend, he had to arrive shortly after three in the morning, otherwise he wouldn't be able to secure a good spot at all.

Many people couldn't understand why fishing enthusiasts had such a paranoid love for fishing, and Zhao Xiangming couldn't be bothered to explain it either.

It was just that this afternoon, Zhao Xiangming received a phone call asking if Ji Xiang was from the Second Affiliated Hospital, and asking if he knew him.

At first, Zhao Xiangming was quite moved, a feeling mixed with a little bit of envy and a little bit of jealousy.

Ji Xiang was attending a conference in Shanghai; Qin Chu must have told the people in the academic circle there that he was going to take on a young apprentice, and it was so formal that everyone was very surprised.

It was truly enviable! Zhao Xiangming felt a bit jealous.

However, the other person spoke in a hesitant, stuttering manner, as if their emotions were in chaos, and they hung up after just a few sentences.

Zhao Xiangming became confused and very unhappy.

Fishing didn't seem to have its former joy anymore; Zhao Xiangming's mind was filled with that young man whose surgical skills were beyond reproach.

Soon, he received several more phone calls.

He wasn't familiar with the people calling; they were all local department directors he had happened to sit next to when he went to the Imperial Capital to attend academic conferences, people he had added on WeChat and pulled into academic groups with each other.

They were asking what kind of background and educational qualifications the young man recently favored by Qin Chu actually had.

Zhao Xiangming found it very strange; logically speaking, even if Qin Chu had taken a fancy to Ji Xiang at first sight and wanted to take him as his closed-door disciple, it absolutely shouldn't have caused such a big stir.

The last person told him what they knew in bits and pieces, and Zhao Xiangming listened, dumbfounded.

Ji Xiang had rejected the olive branches extended by Qin Chu and Ling Tian, and had directly counter-attacked at the academic conference, scolding the famous Qin Chu of the Interventional Department until he was speechless and fainted dead away.

!

!!

!!!

Logically, Zhao Xiangming wouldn't believe such an absurd thing.

It was so exaggerated that, judging by Zhao Xiangming's experience, it was definitely a case of rumors being passed along, and by the end, one wouldn't even know how far the story had deviated from the truth.

But there were some things Zhao Xiangming had experienced personally.

That time he observed a surgery while drunk, at first Zhao Xiangming attributed everything to the fact that he had indeed drunk too much, to the point where he wailed loudly in the restaurant, and to the point where he came to the hospital to watch a surgery and was almost scared to death by a small Standardized Training Student.

But as time passed, every time Zhao Xiangming thought about this matter, he felt some doubts; the seeds had taken root and sprouted, gradually growing, and Zhao Xiangming could no longer get around it.

He wasn't sure if those absurd feelings were all real, and at other times he felt they were just hallucinations.

But connecting it to what the directors of other hospitals in the South were saying today, Zhao Xiangming had a strange realization in his heart—this kind of thing was something Ji Xiang could do.

Strange.

Instead of being the well-off closed-door disciple of Qin, he insisted on causing trouble; Zhao Xiangming couldn't understand it at all.

His enthusiasm for fishing gradually dissipated; Zhao Xiangming watched the fishing float absent-mindedly and began to lose focus.

The phone rang again.

Zhao Xiangming paused for a few seconds before picking up the phone to take a look; it was Liu Zhuren.

Answering the call, Liu Zhuren said urgently, "Lao Zhao, what on earth happened at the interventional conference?"

"What happened?" Zhao Xiangming subconsciously repeated Liu Zhuren's words.

"Right, my phone has been blown up today!" Liu Zhuren said, "The Urology Department directors from several hospitals in Shanghai, people who wouldn't even look at me when I went up to talk to them in the past, actually took the initiative to call me today, and even started a group."

"What? Slow down."

Zhao Xiangming couldn't understand Liu Zhuren's rapid-fire words at all; his mind was filled with the fact that Ji Xiang had scolded Qin Chu until he fainted.

It must be that Qin Chu wanted to give the student who had just arrived a "welcoming beating" to dampen his spirit, but Ji Xiang wouldn't take that abuse and had taken action to knock Qin Chu out.

That would be reasonable and logical.

He felt regret in his heart, not having understood what Liu Zhuren meant.

Liu Zhuren paused on the other end, but he didn't continue to explain; instead, he invited Zhao Xiangming to sit at a German beer house.

Zhao Xiangming had no heart for fishing, so he packed up his gear and drove to the beer house.

This beer house was opened by the nephew of the Ultrasound Room director; for small gatherings, many people were willing to give the Ultrasound Room director face and meet here.

Although the prices were high, it had the advantage of being quiet.

When Zhao Xiangming arrived, Liu Zhuren was already there, holding his phone and typing one character at a time.

"Liu Zhuren, what are you busy with?" Zhao Xiangming asked.

"Lao Zhao, the Urology Department directors from several hospitals in Shanghai contacted me today; at first, I thought it was a scammer," Liu Zhuren said, "But..."

"But what?"

"They said it couldn't be explained clearly over the phone, so they added me on WeChat, then pulled me into a group, and even pulled your Interventional Department director in."

"!!!"

Zhao Xiangming became even more certain that something big had happened in Shanghai.

"Isn't it said that Qin, Qin Lao, was going to take Ji Xiang as his closed-door disciple? But at today's academic conference, Ji Xiang went head-to-head with Ling Tian and Qin Lao, and in the end, he scolded Qin Lao until he fainted."

"I heard that too, but I think it was Xiao Ji being young and impulsive, and he took action to knock Qin Lao out," Zhao Xiangming said helplessly, "You tell me, young people are really unreliable. Just starting out, being scolded by the boss and given a 'welcoming beating' is very normal. But..."

As he spoke, Zhao Xiangming spread his hands to show his helplessness.

"Is that so? Let me ask." Liu Zhuren hurriedly lowered his head and began to type clumsily again.

Seeing how clumsy Liu Zhuren was at typing, Zhao Xiangming wanted to lean over to help, but Liu Zhuren blocked the phone directly, cautious to his very bones.

"Liu Zhuren, you must have done a lot of bad things and been caught, right?" Zhao Xiangming laughed.

"Privacy, do you understand what privacy means?" Liu Zhuren said dismissively, but he didn't look up, still staring at his phone and sending messages with a serious expression, only glancing at Zhao Xiangming's every move out of the corner of his eye from time to time.

After five minutes, Liu Zhuren finally looked up and said very solemnly, "Zhao Zhuren, what you said is wrong; a director from Shanghai went to attend the conference this morning, and he said that..."

Zhao Xiangming pricked up his ears, waiting for Liu Zhuren to speak, but Liu Zhuren suddenly stopped, his expression strange.

"Liu Zhuren, what on earth is it?"

Liu Zhuren paused for a few seconds before saying in a hoarse voice, "It is said that no one knows what happened, but Qin wanted to use academic means to suppress Ji Xiang, only to be counter-killed by Ji Xiang on the spot."

"!!!"

Zhao Xiangming had never imagined such a possibility.

Academic, suppress, counter-kill—these words strung together, and describing Ji Xiang at that, made it completely impossible for Zhao Xiangming to comprehend.

That was an academic conference; once a dispute arose, it was a matter of life and death! Ji Xiang might be good at surgery, but his academic attainments definitely couldn't be up to par.

Let alone Ji Xiang, even if it were himself up there, he would absolutely be wiped out in an instant, crushed into dust.

Ji Xiang could counter-kill?

On what grounds!

(End of chapter)