Chapter 530: Blue Out of Indigo

Bai Chuzhang frowned, and Liu Zhuren also watched Ji Xiang with focused attention.

Suddenly, that sense of stuttering appeared once again. Although it was very brief, less than a second, it made Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren, who had been observing Ji Xiang's every move, feel a sense of discomfort.

"Forget it."

On the television, Ji Xiang suddenly said.

Hearing Ji Xiang say this, Bai Chuzhang's expression relaxed, and he let out a breath.

"Why bother with so much trouble." Liu Zhuren also felt much more at ease; he drank the wine in his glass, "Xiao Ji is still too young."

"It is better for them to decide for themselves whether to explain the condition to the Patient and the Family Member, or whether to call the police," Ji Xiang said softly.

Although this sentence was simple, the tone and inflection Ji Xiang used to say it had changed slightly.

Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren could hear the change in Ji Xiang's mindset.

Regarding this, Bai Chuzhang felt quite surprised.

Was that sense of hesitation really so magical?

If he had encountered a similar situation when he was young and bursting with a sense of justice, he definitely would have acted impulsively, not listening to anyone.

But Ji Xiang had changed his thinking after only one instance of hesitation.

"Xiao Ji's talent is..." Liu Zhuren also felt Ji Xiang's change, and he sighed.

"Talent is something you cannot perceive."

"The scumbag who made me run from Tie Lu Bu to Bao Feng Cheng on a whim has the nerve to say this?" Liu Zhuren said with disdain.

Bai Chuzhang glanced at Liu Zhi and laughed.

"Let me give you an example. You usually swim; let me ask you, can you dive?"

"No." Liu Zhuren shook his head.

"The national free-diving record holder is named Wang Aolin. In 2018, when he participated in the international Bahamas Blue Hole Depth Challenge, he raised the national record to 110 meters."

"The kind where you hold your nose and sink down without an oxygen tank?"

"Yes."

"Awesome!" Liu Zhuren praised.

He could occasionally go diving, but at most one meter; any deeper and he couldn't get in, which was no different from not being able to do it at all.

"The world record is 214 meters, almost double Wang Aolin's."

"..."

Liu Zhuren stared, but then thought of the words "world record" and understood.

"You've played Super Mario, right? The world record is already under 4 minutes."

"Hahaha, I could clear the game in 11 minutes when I was a kid!" Liu Zhuren didn't feel that his 11 minutes and the 4 minutes were worlds apart, he said proudly.

"So, whether one can do something is one thing, but once you reach a certain level, you have to compete on talent. Xiao Ji's talent is truly high; I am very envious," Bai Chuzhang said.

"There is someone that even you, Lao Bai, envy?"

"Of course, he..."

Bai Chuzhang wanted to talk about Ji Xiang performing neurosurgery, but he swallowed the rest of his words just after starting.

Because in that instant, Bai Chuzhang suddenly realized that if Ji Xiang wanted to perform endoscopic surgery in neurosurgery, he definitely could, and his level would be extremely high.

"Xiao Ji is a perfect-score national top student, a top scholar. Others only score 98 because they can only score that much. But for Ji Xiang, it is because there is only 100. The world record for holding one's breath is a little over 24 minutes, ten times the limit of an ordinary person; that is roughly what it means."

Liu Zhuren felt a sense of yearning; he looked at Ji Xiang on the screen, and suddenly his expression became slightly dejected.

"Don't think about it, this is all fate; it's not something you can envy," Bai Chuzhang smiled.

"Dad, what is going on!" Zhao Tianjiao asked in surprise.

Zhao Yuanzhang looked at his "stupid" son, who had a blank expression, and then compared him to Ji Xiang, sighing in his heart.

"Why does Ji Xiang want to call the police? To catch whom? The Patient's boyfriend?" Zhao Tianjiao asked.

Guessing it was the boyfriend was very normal; anyone with no issues in intelligence could do it.

But the subsequent matters were truly a bit complex, and Zhao Yuanzhang knew his son definitely couldn't guess them. Let alone Ji Xiang's overflowing sense of justice, his own stupid son hadn't even understood this matter yet.

The gap between them was as vast as heaven and earth.

"It is like this." Zhao Yuanzhang stopped comparing the gap between his stupid son and Ji Xiang, and he said calmly, "The matter of the condition has been explained very clearly, you know that, right."

"It was caused by long-term low-dose carbon monoxide intake, right, Dad."

Zhao Yuanzhang nodded. Actually, his own son was still quite good, as long as he didn't compare himself to Ji Xiang.

Being better than most people was already enough to make him feel comforted as a father, wasn't it?

Thinking this, his expression softened a lot, and he smiled as he explained to Zhao Tianjiao, "In Clinical practice, one often encounters things that seem problematic. For example, a couple arguing and using a knife, which counts as a serious injury. Let me ask you, what are you prepared to do?"

"Call the police!"

"I called the police when I was young, and ended up getting a lecture," Zhao Yuanzhang looked at his stupid son with a smile.

"Why!" Zhao Tianjiao asked with an indignant look.

"The couple had long since made up, and the victim didn't want to make a fuss, so why should we as Doctors make a fuss? Our night shifts are busy, and the police's night shifts are also very busy. They rush over, only to find that even the parties involved don't want to report it; think about how awkward that is."

"So that's how it is." Zhao Tianjiao seemed to understand, yet not quite.

Zhao Yuanzhang was not in a hurry to explain too much; he knew that his son would only truly understand these things when he encountered relevant cases in Clinical practice.

"The one in front of us is the same. Who knows if the other party did it on purpose? There is indeed a possibility of it being intentional; otherwise, having a charcoal hot pot once a week, and at the girl's home, where the carbon monoxide concentration is low and not easily detected, that is indeed a problem."

"But!"

"What if they just love eating that? You tell me, right."

Zhao Tianjiao was slightly confused; he found it very difficult to put himself in Ji Xiang's shoes.

Now Zhao Tianjiao no longer had any thoughts of competing with Ji Xiang; he couldn't even catch up despite giving it his all, and he couldn't even see Ji Xiang's shadow, let alone have any other thoughts.

"Stop thinking about it. Just remember what I told you when you encounter a similar Patient in the Clinical setting. You won't understand it even if you think about it now. Instead of wasting time on that, you might as well go grab some skewers with General Manager Xu, or the two of you playing some games together would be good too."

"That's true, no point in overthinking it. Are the skewers not tasty, or are my teammates just too bad?" Zhao Tianjiao said with a chuckle.

Although he was smiling, Zhao Yuanzhang could see the confusion in his son's eyes. The child had grown up after all; at least he knew how to hide his worries from him.

This matter was hard to say; it was unclear whether it was good or bad.

"Diagnosis is extremely difficult; Ji Xiang only happened to diagnose this case by chance." Zhao Yuanzhang did not expose the little thoughts in his son's heart; he brought the topic back and continued, "You don't need to mind it. Your specialty is in the Orthopedics Department. Although Ji Xiang performs Sports Medicine surgeries well, the pond is so big that you two have no conflict."

Zhao Tianjiao was silent.

……

……

In the Review Room, Professor Shen also said similar words.

The Guangtou Zhuchiren's mouth was becoming more and more crooked, almost reaching the root of his ear. The minds of these Doctors were truly devious; he hadn't even thought that much in that instant.

"Ji Xiang's level of seeing patients in the Outpatient Department is very high; the student has surpassed the master," Professor Shen praised.

(End of this chapter)