Chapter 528: Seeing Through at a Glance

"What kind of person is this! This is clearly making things difficult on purpose!!" Liu Zhuren shouted loudly.

"It is indeed a bit difficult," Bai Chuzhang smiled helplessly, "but this is a variety show. If Ji Xiang shows too powerful an ability and crushes the others, then instead..."

Bai Chuzhang stopped there; he couldn't continue. He was already starting to argue illogically, and to say more would be beneath his status.

"Lousy show!" Liu Zhuren said indignantly.

On the television.

Ji Xiang's smile remained unchanged.

"Your MRI looks fine; the T2-weighted signal is slightly high, but that doesn't explain the problem."

As he spoke, Ji Xiang looked at the woman opposite him, his smile carrying a hint of playfulness.

"I can't just prescribe medicine randomly either, I here..."

As he spoke, Ji Xiang's fluent speaking pace paused slightly, giving one the feeling of a sudden, jarring brake while driving at 120 miles per hour on the highway.

"You just said you were running to lose weight, but you still can't slim down. How is your diet every day?" Ji Xiang suddenly changed the question.

The woman was also stunned for a moment.

"Is that important?"

"Just chatting, it can also be considered part of taking the medical history," Ji Xiang said.

The woman covered her ears with her hands, seemingly doing something.

Liu Zhuren didn't understand, but Bai Chuzhang sat up straight abruptly.

"Lao Bai, what's going on?"

"She's wearing an earpiece!" Bai Chuzhang said.

"An earpiece? Could it be vertigo caused by wearing earpieces all the time? Since Bluetooth earpieces came out, similar patients haven't been rare," Liu Zhuren asked.

"No," Bai Chuzhang's expression turned serious, "I highly suspect there is an Expert in another Consultation Room providing a consultation."

"..."

Liu Zhuren was stunned all of a sudden.

Lao Bai's imagination was too rich; how could there be such a bizarre plot?

However, he trusted Lao Bai and did not continue to question him, focusing his attention on the television.

Nowadays, not only young people but even middle-aged people are used to wearing earpieces.

Whether it is for answering calls or listening to novels, programs, or storytelling to pass the time in their leisure, it is excellent.

So when the woman appeared wearing white earpieces, no one felt anything was wrong.

But after Ji Xiang asked a strange question, the woman pressed her hand against the earpiece and hesitated for more than ten seconds.

Her sense of hesitation was many times stronger than Ji Xiang's just a moment ago, appearing particularly stiff.

As time passed, Liu Zhuren also saw where the problem lay.

"I've been greedy for food lately, always eating hot pot, spicy hot pot, and skewers," the woman said after more than ten seconds. "I know it's unhealthy, but I just love eating it."

"What kind of work do you do?" Ji Xiang continued to ask.

His questions seemed to have no direction; he was just stalling for time.

The woman did not hesitate this time, "I am a dance teacher. The children are all in class now, so I'm a little busier on weekends, but to say I'm particularly busy, I have to wait until the children are on vacation."

"No wonder you keep your figure so well."

As Ji Xiang spoke, he had already sat up straight and began clicking the keyboard.

"Doctor, what medicine are you going to prescribe for me?" the woman asked.

"Let's do one test first," Ji Xiang said. "A blood test, it doesn't hurt, don't worry."

The woman's lips moved slightly, and before she could speak, Ji Xiang continued, "Do you usually like to eat hot pot by yourself or with others?"

"Occasionally with my boyfriend."

The woman's medical history was inconsistent, but Ji Xiang was not startled. He just smiled and reached out, taking the paper the moment the printer "spat" it out.

"You must have the real Patient go for blood collection, you must. If you are worried, you can have an Expert from our hospital provide a consultation," Ji Xiang said to the woman as he handed over the paper.

These words... the woman was stunned all of a sudden.

The feeling of being high and mighty, with everything under control, vanished instantly. The positions of the two sides were swapped, and Ji Xiang instead became the one in control of the whole situation.

"Doctor Xiao Ji, what do you mean..." the woman stopped pretending as well, and she asked in a low voice.

"You are wearing a wedding ring," Ji Xiang said. "And you really don't look like a dance teacher who runs and does yoga every day. Not talking about this, I feel... does the Patient have cyanosis of the lips?"

"..."

The woman stared blankly at Ji Xiang, as if looking at a monster.

Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren in front of the television didn't speak; they watched the screen quietly, even controlling their breathing to a very low level.

They realized that something seemed wrong; it was as if something was hidden in Ji Xiang's smile.

"The Patient might be wearing lipstick, ask her to wipe it off," Ji Xiang said. "Girls all do their nails and wear lipstick now; you might not be able to see it at first glance."

"!!!"

"!!!"

"!!!"

Everyone was surprised.

Those who didn't understand were a bit confused, only feeling that Ji Xiang was amazing.

But the doctors watching the program became cautious at the same time. Connecting it to the questions Ji Xiang had just asked the "Patient," a diagnosis appeared in their minds—carbon monoxide poisoning.

"Lao Bai, is there such a thing as chronic carbon monoxide poisoning?" Liu Zhuren asked in a low voice, frowning.

"Yes," Bai Chuzhang said. "But it usually counts as an occupational injury, appearing in factories where carbon monoxide is produced. It's becoming rarer now. I participated in an occupational injury assessment a few years ago and saw a similar patient."

"Damn it," Liu Zhuren gripped his wine glass tightly with one hand, cursing softly under his breath, his eyes flashing with light.

The scene shifts to another Consultation Room.

Yang Zhuren and a row of directors wearing White Uniforms sit upright, and opposite them is a woman around 30 years old, wearing lipstick, with her fingernails sparkling.

"Please wipe off your lipstick," Yang Zhuren says, not being polite at all.

"Doctor Yang, what is going on?" the woman asks, puzzled.

"Doctor Ji Xiang suspects you have carbon monoxide poisoning."

"Ha." The woman covers her mouth and smiles, "If it were carbon monoxide poisoning, I would have been sent to the hospital for emergency treatment long ago; I wouldn't have waited until now. Besides, I don't even cook, so I don't come into contact with gas."

"No," Yang Zhuren insists, "Since you came here wanting to participate in the program, to be blunt, please cooperate."

The woman hesitates for a moment, then gets up to remove her makeup.

"Lao Bai! Who is she?" Liu Zhuren exclaims.

"How would I know," Bai Chuzhang says, "Many years ago, there was a young girl in Shenzhen who asked Guanxi to film a movie, and there was a kissing scene, do you know?"

Liu Zhuren shakes his head.

"So, why do you care who she is," Bai Chuzhang says, "She is just here for fun, to be on the show. But who would have thought that by sheer luck, a problem was discovered!"

"Lao Bai, a kissing scene with Guanxi? How come I don't know about this," Liu Zhuren says, "It must have been before '08, after that scandal, Guanxi left."

"Yes," Bai Chuzhang says, "I was very surprised at the time too, but let's not talk about that, do you guess the Patient's lips will be cyanotic?"

(End of this chapter)