Chapter 501

September 9th, morning.

Today is Sunday, Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi have no ward round tasks, and they got up around six thirty.

Nie Mingxian joked, "I say, Boss Wu, you're a person of status and position after all, isn't your 'method' of freeloading a bit shameful?"

Nie Mingxian got up first, had already finished washing up, and was combing his hair in front of the mirror.

Wu Xuanqi, on the other hand, walked out from another room wiping his hair, covering his mouth with his right hand and yawning, "What's shameful about this? This is called the rational utilization of resources."

"Rent is being paid normally, it's empty if no one lives there, with this money, I can treat the brothers to a few more barbecue meals, that's good too, right?"

"Why rush to give money to the landlord?"

Wu Xuanqi, who had become Nie Mingxian's roommate again, walked into the restroom and then pulled half his body back out, "Also, please don't call me Boss Wu, Fang Ziye is the real boss."

Nie Mingxian rolled his eyes at Wu Xuanqi, "Tsk, your level of shamelessness is truly invincible under heaven."

"Wu Xuanqi, you're here for advanced study, not hired by Fang Ziye to do manual labor. If you do work, you should get paid, right?"

Speaking of thick skin, Nie Mingxian felt he couldn't even catch up to Wu Xuanqi's eleventh.

This guy Wu Xuanqi heard Nie Mingxian was renting a two-bedroom apartment, and after Fang Ziye's room had been vacant for a long time, he just freeloaded his way in!

He even gave it the nice-sounding name of avoiding the capitalist's wealth accumulation.

Wu Xuanqi had already squeezed out toothpaste, "Hey, we're all adults, give a little no matter what."

"I don't mind, no seafood, congee works too."

"Oh come on, stop complaining, I'm doing this for their own good as a couple, you single dog wouldn't understand a damn thing."

Hearing this, Nie Mingxian said, "Who's a single dog?"

Nie Mingxian even walked to the restroom doorway and questioned inside, "I'm saying, you, isn't it just a long-distance relationship right now?"

Wu Xuanqi's mouth was full of foam, he glanced at Nie Mingxian, leaving him with an extremely disdainful look.

This kind of contempt and disdain made Nie Mingxian unable to bear it, "Speak clearly."

Hearing this, Wu Xuanqi gargled and spat out a mouthful of water, too lazy to even brush his teeth, "You bring her back then?"

"Can't bring her back? Then go out and get a hotel room?"

"Still, still, still, still speaking clearly, you're really embarrassing us brothers." Wu Xuanqi clicked his tongue in disdain, then stuffed the toothbrush back in his mouth, leaving Nie Mingxian with nothing but contempt.

Nie Mingxian was speechless for a moment, and after ten seconds said, "I'm respecting her, you understand a damn thing."

Wu Xuanqi ignored Nie Mingxian for a short time, but after finishing brushing his teeth, he lecherously laughed, "You're the one who understands a damn thing."

"Son of a bitch, you think women can't be lustful?"

"The ancients said, at thirty a woman is like a wolf... you understand my meaning."

"You're almost thirty twice over, Nie Mingxian."

"..."

At seven fifty, Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi walked into the animal testing lab with straight faces.

Nie Mingxian rolled his triangular eyes, knitted his long brows, and said seriously, "Xuan Qi, play is play, fool around is fool around, but during equipment debugging later, no more joking."

"Rest assured, I have my limits." Wu Xuanqi replied.

But Wu Xuanqi hadn't finished speaking when unexpectedly Nie Mingxian walked a few steps toward the distance and tentatively said, "Liao Jia?"

Hearing Nie Mingxian's voice, a half-Mediterranean young man wearing a shirt who was chatting with someone turned his head.

The half-Mediterranean young man had a full forehead, square jaw, thick brows and big eyes, yet carried a scholarly air; fair and clean, after turning around and recognizing Nie Mingxian, he said to the three people carrying cameras beside him.

"This is the friend I told you about."

"Nie Mingxian, a current PhD student at Peking Union Medical College Hospital."

"A bit old, a bit ugly, but academic strength is very strong, most importantly, he has the biggest advantage I told you about, stingy."

"Since I formally retired from the workplace and went solo, this job here is the 'low point' of my career." Liao Jia spoke fluently, without any taboo.

But Nie Mingxian ignored these, looking at the few people carrying cameras and holding microphones beside him, he asked carefully, "Liao Jia, who are these people?"

Liao Jia is Nie Mingxian's classmate and friend, although not the same major, the two got along very well during grad school.

Also an eight-year program.

But Liao Jia chose the animal testing track, achieved relative financial freedom around age thirty-two, and has currently resigned to become a free agent, working solo.

The kind of 'free person' who occasionally does a job, then rests for a long time after one job.

Liao Jia's build is fairly standard and upright, has the muscles that should be there, but isn't a pure musclehead.

At 1.8 meters, he's slightly taller than Nie Mingxian, slightly shorter than Wu Xuanqi beside him.

"These are reporters interviewing me, I previously impulsively joined a variety show, after participating, I now have a bit of fame."

"So there's this exclusive interview." Liao Jia introduced.

"This is Reporter Meng."

"Hello Reporter Meng." Hearing it was a reporter in person, Nie Mingxian hurriedly smiled and greeted.

Reporter Meng looked at Wu Xuanqi, very enthusiastic and generous, "You must be the Director Nie that Teacher Liao mentioned, right?"

Nie Mingxian holds the professional title of Associate Chief Physician, but is currently a PhD student.

Whether Liao Jia ever made Professor, Nie Mingxian really doesn't know.

Seeing the doubt in Nie Mingxian's words, Liao Jia said, "I previously got evaluated as an Associate Professor, retired but the title doesn't disappear, I also paid a large breach of contract penalty."

"It was personally fully funded."

"Brother Nie, the only one who can affect my mindset is you, this damaging friend."

Liao Jia seems to still love money very much, so he still nags on about Wu Xuanqi's price being too low.

Then Liao Jia explained the purpose of this visit again, that a reporter learned of Liao Jia's deeds and wanted to do an exclusive interview on him.

During the interview, they kept hearing Liao Jia mention a damaging friend, including the price for a job being too low, so they were very curious about Nie Mingxian's side.

And when asked which animal testing model Liao Jia remembered most deeply, Liao Jia said it was Han City's Zhongnan Hospital.

Reporter Meng asked why again, and Liao Jia directly brought her into the Disabled Persons' Federation first; only after they came out of the Federation did Liao Jia explain the greatness of this animal experimental model...

Upon hearing there was such a "secret" with almost no news about it on the entire internet, Reporter Meng immediately thought of going to broadcast it.

She requested instructions from her leader right then, and only then was she brought over by Liao Jia...

"This is a very casual interview, Nie Mingxian, you see whether you want to report this matter to your hospital's Publicity Department."

"We won't stay very long, estimate about thirty to forty minutes, and if the final aired content can have half a minute that would be good." Liao Jia asked this.

Nie Mingxian said: "A short airtime doesn't matter, just don't interview other content; this is an animal laboratory, you've surely taken Reporter Meng and them to other animal laboratories too."

"But you cannot enter our office, you can only visit the conference room, operating rooms and such inside the animal laboratory."

The office has relatively important data and materials; if these curious reporters photographed them and released them, they would certainly be excerpted by ill-intentioned people, and that would be a huge loss.

The conference room is a public area, with no private data.

Liao Jia nodded and said okay.

The group walked in, and as they walked Liao Jia said: "Nie Mingxian, can you demonstrate that standardized treatment of the mangled extremity animal model later?"

"Your technique should be practiced up by now, right?"

Nie Mingxian nodded: "No problem, my friend can do it."

"Wu Xuanqi, Deputy Director Physician of Tongji Hospital affiliated with Huazhong University of Science and Technology!"

Liao Jia was startled upon hearing this, then immediately bowed his head slightly and said: "Hello, Director Wu."

Reporter Meng and the others also politely called out "Director Wu," and Wu Xuanqi just exchanged a few polite words.

He wasn't familiar with Liao Jia, so of course he didn't dare act presumptuously; his words and deeds were very proper.

Liao Jia continued asking: "Mingxian, what have you been doing recently? Last time I chatted with you, you said your research group's project had gone a layer deeper from standardized treatment of mangled extremities, right?"

"Mm, doing quite a few things, clinical work on one hand, learning on one hand, tinkering with some little gadgets on the side..."

Immediately after, Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi brought Liao Jia's group to visit the Model Production Area, Operating Rooms, and Animal Breeding Area inside the animal laboratory.

In the operating rooms, there were still quite a few people performing treatment training operations on mangled extremity rabbit models.

All of this looked very standardized and modern for a laboratory.

When the group reached a certain operating room, they asked again: "Mingxian, what's inside here? It's empty now, convenient to look?"

Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi glanced at each other, blinked, and said: "The project in this laboratory hasn't concluded yet, how about letting me keep you in suspense for now."

Upon hearing this, Reporter Meng asked as if afraid the world wouldn't be chaotic enough: "Director Nie, are there some secrets inconvenient to make public inside here?"

"Is it a project secret?"

A reporter must have sensitivity to important matters to obtain better news material.

The more Nie Mingxian said not allowed to look, the more curious she became.

After arriving here from the Disabled Persons' Federation, she understood even more clearly the significance of this interview.

Perhaps the people she saw there, at the moment of injury, were in a state similar to the rabbits inside; because of limitations of current medical standards, it led to amputation, disability.

If technology develops later, the Federation's members will become fewer and fewer, and that is the meaning of medical development.

The contrast between these two sides will highlight that this interview is even more meaningful.

"Not anything particularly secret, but some things related to data inside cannot be photographed and taken out."

"Mm, how about I tell you what this is?"

"It's an improved microcirculation instrument; for example, the current artificial lung is a kind of improved human blood circulation device, it can extend the survival time of lung tissue."

"Similarly, our lower limb human blood circulation device is a new instrument that extends lower limb survival time."

"More importantly, our limbs are not like human viscera organs; they can survive ex vivo."

"That is to say, if deployed to remote areas, due to local medical technical conditions being limited, unable to treat some disease types that appear to need amputation."

"No problem, amputate first, then transport the amputated patient together with the amputated limb alongside this microcirculation instrument to a unit capable of limb replantation surgery, which can greatly extend the survival time of the amputated limb..."

Hearing this, Liao Jia froze.

His body gradually stiffened.

Liao Jia also came from a clinical medicine background, just later went onto the animal experimentation track and got irrevocably hooked.

His choosing the animal experimentation track doesn't mean Liao Jia completely doesn't understand clinical work.

Precisely because he understands, he deliberately emphasized this point.

Because Liao Jia was very confused; clearly Zhongnan Hospital's functional reconstruction surgery and mangled extremity limb salvage surgery are done so well, yet several months have passed and he hasn't seen a shred of news about it online.

This is very suspicious!

Right during this period he had a special interview, so he thought to bring up this matter.

Sure enough the visiting reporters were very interested in this place, so Liao Jia brought them, just hoping for half a minute of screen time.

But unexpectedly, he brought a team and blew out a whale.

Before Liao Jia could reply, Meng Changyi, with very keen news instinct, caught a clue and pursued: "Director Nie, you mean this blood circulation device you've improved now."

"Can to a certain extent break the limitations of space and time, making the radiation circle of medical resources expand further?"

This is called professionalism; Meng Changyi's wording was very apt and formal.

The radiation circle of medical resources.

Nie Mingxian savored it carefully, then nodded: "From a certain level, it can be said so; of course its applicable scope is currently very narrow, only applicable to limb trauma."

"We also cannot exaggerate, and moreover this project hasn't concluded yet, so I cannot bring you inside."

Nie Mingxian knew the other party was a bit interested, but Nie Mingxian still insisted on his principle; before the project ends, he cannot casually bring people rushing inside.

The talk having reached this point, how could Meng Changyi let go of such a good opportunity: "Director Nie, then what would it take for us to go in?"

"If there's anything taboo, you can say it directly."

"Our Longtai's technology channel has always been very interested in researchers' new technologies and inventions, and also very much hopes to take some unknown-before scientific workers as positive publicity material."

Meng Changyi directly revealed her identity.

Longtai, in Eastern Han, holds a very special sentiment; it may not compare to Huaguo Red and that flag representing faith, but it is the most official program and channel.

Meng Changyi's words left Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi both stunned—

The two simultaneously turned to look at Liao Jia.

Liao Jia also looked at the two, not knowing what to say.

He came over, his true intention being to bring these reporters to see the fish, but here a whale surged out directly—do you think they wouldn't be curious…

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