Chapter 70: Kneeling Quite Decisively

"Mo Jiaoshou, you... you didn't see that wrong, did you?" Wu Zong asked, stuttering.

Mo Chenggui shook his head; he didn't answer Wu Zong's question directly. The answer to this question was very clear, but even though Mo Chenggui had witnessed everything with his own eyes, he still felt it was somewhat unreal.

Perhaps he had misjudged it, or perhaps Ji Xiang had "lucked" into it by some twist of fate.

Although the probability of "lucking" a Zebra Guidewire into the ureteral orifice was extremely low, it was still higher than the probability of a Standardized Training Doctor skillfully operating and sending the guide wire in.

"Impossible."

"Impossible..."

Wu Zong muttered. Mo Chenggui could detect that Wu Zong's pupils were slightly dilated.

Gently patting Wu Zong on the shoulder, Mo Chenggui turned to change his clothes and left the Operating Room.

He dared not watch any longer.

He wanted some quiet.

He was terrified that his worldview would shatter.

Ji Xiang sent the Patient back to the ward and received the next patient to go on the table.

"Ding-dong~"

Just as Ji Xiang was soothing the Patient's nervous emotions, a crisp sound rang in his ears.

A mission?

Ji Xiang felt the frequency of the system giving missions had clearly increased.

【Triggered Mission: Preaching.

Mission Content: Raise Resident Chief Wu Qingshi's Stone Crushing and Extraction Surgery level to LV4.

Mission Time: Unlimited.

Mission Rewards: One: Within 3 years, for this type of surgery performed by this doctor, you can obtain a certain conversion of Experience Points.

Two: Obtain 30 Surgical Points.】

This mission...

Ji Xiang had been chatting incessantly with the Patient the previous second, but the next second, he fell into deep thought.

This mission was different from the previous ones; it was flaunting itself in the upper right corner of Ji Xiang's field of vision like a seductive, cheap harlot.

The mission actually wanted him to teach Wu Zong how to perform surgery...

Ji Xiang felt a slightly strange sensation in his heart. He glanced at the "Gaze of the Superior Doctor" skill, that idiotic ability, and secretly made up his mind: if it were possible, he would definitely not use this skill!

Of course, Ji Xiang also knew the possibility was slim.

Because the reward given by the mission made Ji Xiang's heart race.

If the mission were successfully completed, every Stone Crushing surgery a clinical Resident Chief performed during his own Standardized Residency Training would feed back a certain amount of Experience Points to him.

This was practically equivalent to bringing a pet along to farm for experience.

He could just comfortably wait for the Experience Points to roll in.

It couldn't be more awesome!

It was just that he didn't know how high Wu Zong's level was, or how he could find out Wu Zong's surgical level.

Then, "next time for sure"? Ji Xiang had already begun to waver.

"Doctor..." Seeing the young Doctor who had just been laughing and joking with him suddenly fall silent with a grave expression, the Patient couldn't help but start to feel uneasy.

"Huh?" Ji Xiang was imagining the wonderful future where he worked hard on his training while Wu Zong "toiled tirelessly" to farm experience for him; his train of thought was interrupted by the Patient.

"Should I give Wu Laozong a red envelope?"

"..."

"I want to give one, but I don't know how much is appropriate." The Patient lowered his voice and asked Ji Xiang, "Doctor Ji, this happened so suddenly, and the people in the same ward don't know how much of a red envelope is appropriate either."

"What are the rules on your side?"

As the Patient spoke, he grabbed the hem of Ji Xiang's White Uniform and pulled him toward the Fire Exit.

With the exertion, the Patient's waist hurt, and he let out an "Ouch."

Ji Xiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Don't mess around, don't mess around."

"I don't mean anything else; the rules back in my hometown say a red envelope must be sealed," the Patient explained while enduring the pain.

"Move gently." Ji Xiang sighed.

He thought of the pain that had brought him to the verge of Shock when he had experienced Empathy.

At that time, his whole body was cold and damp; every time the stone moved down and got stuck in the narrow part of the Ureter, there would be a heart-wrenching, agonizing feeling.

Better to just get the surgery done quickly. Ji Xiang smiled and said to the Patient, "These are all small matters; we at the Second Affiliated Hospital don't have those rules."

"But..."

"The main thing is that the hospital administration is cracking down hard." Seeing the Patient was still being persistent, Ji Xiang casually spouted nonsense, "They say now that if a case is discovered, the doctor has to go to the Medical Affairs Department for a disciplinary talk and then be suspended from their post for half a year."

"You tell me, which doctor would dare? Anyway, I know Wu Zong; he wouldn't dare. Rest assured, would the surgery be intentionally done poorly just because you didn't give a red envelope?"

The Patient hesitated for a moment; although what Ji Xiang said made some sense, the knife wasn't falling on him, after all.

What if?

"First of all, although doctors aren't as noble as they are advertised to be, they are all ordinary people who need to support their families, ordinary people just like you and me; the basic point of doing things is kindness."

"If it were me..." The Patient said half a sentence and stopped abruptly.

"Hey, if it were you, you would do the same. Those people who have no rules and stop at nothing to get things done would have already become the Dean."

"..." The Patient felt Ji Xiang was talking nonsense, but upon closer thought, this statement seemed to actually make sense.

"Rest assured." While chatting with the Patient about everything under the sun, Ji Xiang arrived at the entrance of the Operating Room.

Bringing the Patient into the Operating Room, Ji Xiang discovered that Wu Zong had changed.

A light bar had inexplicably appeared above his head, marked with a level—LV3.

It turned out the system had already made arrangements; Ji Xiang smiled slightly.

Wu Zong did not have a system; wanting to jump directly from LV3 to LV4 required the accumulation of a lot of Experience Points, and who knew when the System Task could be completed.

Ji Xiang had already formed an expectation when he saw that the System Task had no time limit.

While pondering Wu Zong, who had a light slot above him like a System NPC, Ji Xiang positioned the Patient.

"Lift your legs."

"Right, spread them a bit, place them on the leg rests."

Once the Patient was positioned, his face suddenly turned red.

"Damn it, I never thought I'd have a day where I'd have to..."

"What did you say?" Ji Xiang didn't hear clearly; he adjusted the angle of the leg rests, spread the legs apart, and reserved space for the operator.

"This position... is too shameful..."

"It's fine, it's fine." Ji Xiang said cheerfully, "That's because you haven't been to the Anorectal Department. If you had so many thoughts, you wouldn't be able to undergo surgery in the Anorectal Department at all."

"Besides, every day when changing dressings, you have to stick your butt up... When I was a Standardized Training Student, I met a Patient who told me when he was discharged that he had been sticking it up for dressing changes every day, and suddenly not having to do it anymore made him feel a bit unaccustomed."

The Patient was speechless.

The doctors at the Second Affiliated Hospital were truly capable of spouting nonsense; a few sentences were enough to pull his thoughts to the other side of the sky.

After positioning and disinfection, Ji Xiang and Wu Zong went to scrub in.

"Did you change dressings for patients every day when you were a Standardized Training Student?" Wu Zong asked, "Changing dressings in the Anorectal Department is like slaughtering a pig; I've seen it, it's very uncomfortable."

"Mm, I learned quickly, and the teacher let me handle things." Ji Xiang narrowed his eyes.

Learned quickly... Wu Zong had some indescribable thoughts in his heart.

After scrubbing in and stepping up to the table, Wu Zong carefully observed Ji Xiang's movements while performing the surgery.

However, Ji Xiang did not have any superfluous movements; he simply did his duty as an assistant with peace of mind.

The surgery proceeded step by step; the Zebra Guidewire was threaded into the bladder, and Wu Zong found the Patient's left Ureter opening and attempted it once.

The attempt failed, as expected.

Inserting a Guide Wire into the Ureter opening was an operation that Surgeons were not proficient in; the best doctors in the hospital for this type of operation were all in the Interventional Department, Circulatory Internal Medicine Department, and Neurology Department.

The Urology department only did this for Stone Removal Surgery; Wu Zong had little contact with it, so it was reasonable that he was not proficient.

If Wu Zong hadn't been diligent usually, his skills wouldn't have reached LV3.

"Wu Zong, would the effect be better if you pressed your hand down slightly?" Ji Xiang, hanging onto the task, tentatively offered guidance to Wu Zong.

"Are you teaching me..." Wu Zong was somewhat displeased.

But he immediately recalled the aura that Ji Xiang had been exuding.

Although Wu Zong didn't feel anything now, he still subconsciously took care, fearing another accident and being stared at by that death gaze.

Ji Xiang was also speechless; his mind stirred, and he really wanted to use 【Superior Doctor's Gaze】. But this idiotic skill... Ji Xiang always felt it would bring him great disaster, and it was also especially awkward to use, so he would wait and see.

As a Standardized Training Student, Ji Xiang knew his place.

One should do less of the kind of thing where the guest usurps the host's role, so he was very unwilling to use a skill like 【Superior Doctor's Gaze】.

But the "True Fragrance" law was still at work in the dark.

Even if Ji Xiang was unwilling to use it, he had inadvertently used it several times.

Wu Zong did not know he had walked back and forth before a gaze; he calmed his heart and mind, suppressed his restless state of mind, and began to try again.

But for some reason, today's surgery just wasn't going smoothly.

It was no wonder Clinical doctors would believe in those superstitious things; sometimes it was just a coincidence—if one surgery didn't go well, the whole day's surgeries wouldn't go well.

This might also have something to do with the doctor's state of mind.

After all, not every doctor could work like a robot, without any emotional waves.

Even for Ji Xiang, who was praised by the System NPC and rewarded by the system, his emotions would not always be as calm as water.

The more anxious Wu Zong became, the more disobedient the Zebra Guidewire was. The Ureter opening was not large, and it moved back and forth with the peristalsis of the bladder, adding to the difficulty.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

Failure after failure soaked Wu Zong's cap again and again.

"Wu Laozong, your body isn't up to it." The Circulating Nurse joked while wiping sweat for Wu Zong, "You're sweating so much from just a minor surgery. This is just moving your hands; if it were a full-body workout, wouldn't you be dehydrated in three minutes?"

"..." Wu Zong sighed.

These words were not "driving" to him at all; Wu Zong had long been accustomed to all this, and the world was static to him.

What made Wu Zong silent was that today's surgery was truly not going smoothly.

"You try." Wu Zong handed the Zebra Guidewire to Ji Xiang.

The Circulating Nurse was startled, and she glared fiercely at Wu Zong.

Because it was Continuous Epidural Anesthesia, the Patient could hear the conversation, so the Circulating Nurse only said some random things; if she really had an opinion on Wu Zong's surgery, she absolutely could not say it explicitly.

Wu Zong pretended not to see.

Ji Xiang took the Zebra Guidewire and twisted it lightly with his fingers.

In Ji Xiang's hands, the Guide Wire was like a tamed wild horse; it didn't move fast, but it was firm and composed.

Wu Zong's eyes watched the shape of Ji Xiang's hand, opening wider and wider, while his pupils shrank smaller and smaller.

Watching helplessly as the Zebra Guidewire obediently and smoothly "slipped" into the left Ureter opening, there wasn't even a ripple of disturbance.

【Doctor Wu Qingshi Experience Points +3.】

Ji Xiang smiled; Wu Zong had knelt down quite directly.

(End of this chapter)