Chapter 714: The Strange Shou

"There is a small problem with the operating room." Bai Chuzhang tried to keep his tone as gentle as possible while speaking to Ji Xiang.

"The operating room?"

"One of the Shou has been sealed off," Bai Chuzhang said. "I sealed it off forcibly."

"Why?"

"Let's go, let's talk outside."

Bai Chuzhang was also quite helpless about the consultation in the ICU; he only came to go through the motions because he knew the Patient's Family Member, but it was clear that Bai Chuzhang had no interest in this at all.

Coming here, standing for a while, and then being able to leave—this was a matter of attitude.

But there was no need to stand for a long time either.

"If we had these resources, we could treat 10 more people; why bother?" Bai Chuzhang muttered to himself in an extremely low voice.

Hearing Bai Chuzhang's words, and connecting them to the unfinished remarks of the system NPC, Ji Xiang felt a stir in his heart.

However, he was very obedient, just like when Zhou Jiaoshou told him to watch Shen Lang, and Ji Xiang held a brick in his hand.

There was no point in saying more about such things.

Arriving at the ICU office, Bai Chuzhang sat down heavily; he seemed somewhat tired.

"Bai Chuzhang, is it about the four consecutive failed surgeries in Shou?" Liu Zhuren also followed him out.

In public, Liu Zhuren was very careful; he didn't call him Lao Bai, but instead called him Bai Chuzhang.

"Yes." Bai Chuzhang looked slightly distressed, as if he had aged several years.

Ji Xiang was taken aback.

Surgery, failure—isn't this a matter of course?

Only Patients and Family Members who don't understand anything would think that surgery must succeed, and that any failure is the Doctor's responsibility.

How could an old hand like Bai Chuzhang be distressed by this?

Could it be that Bai Chuzhang also has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and he cannot accept any failure?

"I just heard that Gastrointestinal did an adhesiolysis surgery last night, and it almost turned into a huge disaster."

"What kind of disaster?" Ji Xiang asked.

Bai Chuzhang raised his eyelids and glanced at Ji Xiang.

Ji Xiang's tone and his level of gossip about the matter seemed different from before.

But Ji Xiang didn't realize it.

After just a period of Empathy, Ji Xiang had already been led astray by Shen Lang, and the deviation was so great that both Bai Chuzhang and Liu Zhuren noticed the clues.

"The Patient got on the table for surgery, and just as the Anesthesia was about to begin, the Patient started shouting that a large stone was pressing on their chest."

"!!!"

Ji Xiang thought of Lao Wangtou, who would suck away people's life force.

"The blood oxygen saturation kept dropping... the Anesthesiologist panicked, didn't dare to proceed with the Anesthesia at all, called off the surgery, and then started emergency rescue."

"And then?" Ji Xiang's ears were already pricked up.

"The blood oxygen saturation was 80, who would dare to operate? Shortly after being taken off the table, they were fine, and the Patient was jumping around," Liu Zhuren said. "Then there was another emergency surgery, and it was the same situation. It seems the Anesthesiologist on duty last night called the director and sealed off the Shou, right?"

Bai Chuzhang gave an "um," then said with disdain, "They said that before the renovation, Shou encountered a major emergency rescue; the Patient was a female, arrived at the hospital wearing red underwear, and passed away shortly after getting on the table. That operating room is unlucky."

"..." Ji Xiang almost laughed out loud.

These words must have been from Shen Lang, his Lang Ge.

Playing dumb while knowing the truth, willing to use supernatural explanations for everything, when in fact, they know perfectly well what's going on.

"But similar things happened again today."

"One is a coincidence, two is a low probability, three is definitely a problem, and four is bound to be a big problem," Bai Chuzhang said. "The key is that the operating room was just renovated, the pipes were re-laid, and the equipment is all new; it's impossible for there to be old or aging issues."

Bai Chuzhang said.

"I heard the General Managers chatting about this; Wu Zong said that something that shouldn't have been touched was touched during the renovation. Bai Chuzhang, did we have a feng shui master look at it when we first built the building?"

Bai Chuzhang glanced at Liu Zhuren.

In Ji Xiang's imagination, he should have been disdainful and scolded Liu Zhuren for this kind of talk, but he didn't expect Bai Chuzhang to nod.

"Xiao Ji, don't be surprised. Which family doesn't look for one when building a house? They say they don't believe in it, but in their hearts, they believe it very much," Liu Zhuren explained with a smile, seeing Ji Xiang's stunned expression. "The higher you go, the more you believe in these things. It's not like there haven't been cases of surgeries happening upstairs while rituals are being performed downstairs."

"..."

Ji Xiang was sweating profusely.

"Wu Zong and the others said that the formation left by the feng shui master back then was disturbed, which is why Patients experience 'ghost pressing on the chest' as soon as they enter Shou."

"Nonsense, that is pure nonsense," Bai Chuzhang said. "Whose master could set up a formation in every single operating room? Is this a fantasy novel? Or are you saying our hospital is the mountain gate of some sect?"

"I also think it's impossible. By the way, how is Shou doing now?"

"Stopped. All surgeries have been moved to other rooms; nothing can be touched until the problem is found."

This was also a cautious and prudent approach, but where was the problem?

"Shall we go take a look?"

"I've asked the contractor to go look." As Bai Chuzhang spoke, he sighed with distress.

Ji Xiang rarely saw Bai Chuzhang with this expression; he also knew that while Bai Chuzhang looked majestic in Clinical practice, there were many things beyond his reach, where he was powerless.

For example, the people who maintain the operating rooms were definitely not hired by Bai Chuzhang; it's possible that even the Vice President in charge of logistics couldn't make the call, and perhaps not even the Dean could make the final decision.

It's hard to say how many people are behind such a lucrative job; Ji Xiang had heard rumors occasionally.

"What about the equipment supplier?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"The Anesthesia Machine, Monitoring Instrument, and other equipment work perfectly fine in other rooms, but they don't work once moved there. It's not an equipment issue."

"That's truly strange. Could it be that what Wu Zong and the others are babbling about is actually true?" Liu Zhuren said in surprise.

"Impossible."

Bai Chuzhang said this, picked up his phone, and made a call.

The person on the other end said something, but the more they spoke, the worse Bai Chuzhang's expression became.

Finally, he hung up the phone in anger.

Liu Zhuren asked a few questions, but Bai Chuzhang kept a gloomy face and didn't say a word, then stood up and strode away, not even saying a single word to Ji Xiang or Liu Zhi.

Liu Zhuren didn't follow him either; he held Ji Xiang back.

"Zhuren, what is Bai Chuzhang doing..."

"I reckon there's some kind of trouble over there, and Lao Bai is unhappy," Liu Zhuren said. "Don't worry about it."

Ji Xiang hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he still said, "Zhuren, I want to go take a look."

"I haven't seen you so eager to watch the excitement before," Liu Zhuren said, somewhat puzzled.

Ji Xiang was also taken aback for a moment, but then he thought that perhaps he had been assimilated by Lang Ge without realizing it, and he felt quite helpless.

"Find Lu Zhuren, Lu Gang; he is in the Medical Affairs Department and has more contact with them."

Ji Xiang thought about it, and it was indeed so.

It seemed that Liu Zhuren was also unwilling to touch this kind of "messy" business.

He contacted Lu Gang, and Lu Gang agreed immediately to look into the situation first. It wasn't until before getting off work that Lu Gang came over, fuming with anger.

"It's fucking outrageous!" Lu Gang sat down and immediately started spouting profanities.

(End of chapter)