Chapter 102: 0100 Only a moment is needed to distance oneself from strangers

0100 Only a moment is needed to distance oneself from strangers.

The woman looked about thirty, fairly pretty, but her hair was thin, not matching her age.

Zheng Ren guessed it was a side effect of chemotherapy.

She wore a relaxed smile on her face and walked over together with Chang Yue.

"Hey, why are you hiding like mice?" Chang Yue laughed.

Zheng Ren gave an embarrassed smile, feeling helpless inside. At this point he still didn't understand the situation, so he could only go along with whatever Chang Yue said.

"Come on, let's go find Su Yun and have a meal together." Chang Yue said, then returned Zheng Ren's cigarette to him, "You're already an Inpatient Chief, yet you keep half a cigarette—how embarrassing."

"You guys?" Zheng Ren exclaimed.

What the hell, his EQ is ridiculously low…… Zheng Ren then looked down on himself. But he was mainly worried, hoping they wouldn't eat and drink, in case that woman did something impulsive and hurt the people around him.

Chang Yue smiled, making people feel like they were basking in a spring breeze.

"It's nothing, sis, I'll blow some wind, I'm also hungry, let's go out and grab a bite."

"Oh oh, go find Su Yun." Zheng Ren again threw himself to the ground in admiration.

From strangers to close friends, for Zheng Ren it would take at least five light-years, but for Chang Yue it only takes a blink of an eye.

That's the gap.

Everyone arrived at the sixteenth floor; only Zheng Ren was wearing a white coat, so he had to go in himself to call Su Yun.

This guy, really slow as molasses; we should just add him to the WeChat group and give him a heads-up.

Although he had to see post-op patients, Zheng Ren couldn't help muttering about that handsome guy who could perform Shou Bing at a glance, almost omnipotent.

Entering the ICU, Zheng Ren saw Su Yun sitting between two beds, lazily looking at the numbers on the monitor and ventilator.

"How's the situation?" Zheng Ren greeted the ICU nurses and then approached Su Yun.

In the upper right corner of his vision, the System Panel indicated that the two post-op patients had already escaped the acute phase of hemorrhagic shock and were now fully recovering.

Although he still had a tracheal tube inserted and was assisted by a ventilator, this was only for patients with more severe trauma to keep the bodily load as low as possible; Zheng Ren estimated he could extubate by Ming early.

"It's fine." Su Yun brushed back the black hair on her forehead.

"You don't need to watch over me in the Evening, right?"

"There's an on-call doctor in the ICU; I'm an Emergency Department doctor, just looking after the post-op patients for two hours." Su Yun sat up straight, and as she said this, Zheng Ren felt the atmosphere in the entire ICU turn extremely eerie.

Several pairs of eyes glared with the intent to kill him, sharp as knives.

Zheng Ren involuntarily shivered.

"Let's go." Su Yun stood up, waved her hand, and headed straight for the ICU doors without looking back.

Zheng Ren felt those resentful gazes wanting to cut him into a thousand pieces, his whole body uncomfortable; he hurriedly followed Su Yun out of this damned ICU.

Leaving, changing clothes, Su Yun asked: "What do you want from me?"

"Huh?" Zheng Ren blinked, "Didn't Chu Yanran and the others say they wanted to go eat? I just came up to check on the post-op patients and asked you to change clothes to go eat."

Upon hearing the two words "eat," Su Yun's expression shifted slightly, but she quickly tried to return to normal; however, her facial muscles stiffened, looking somewhat comical.

"Tonight I'll tell them not to drink with you, so rest easy." Zheng Ren looked pleased, patted Su Yun's shoulder, and feigned concern.

……

Outside the ICU's main door, four girls were chatting heatedly on the red hard-plastic chairs in the lobby with that woman just now.

Su Yun froze for a moment, not knowing who that person was.

Zheng Ren also had no time to explain, deliberately pretending not to see Su Yun's gaze, he clapped his hands and said with a chuckle: "The handsome guy's out, you guys go eat."

"What do you want to eat?" Xie Yiren asked.

"No need, you eat yourselves; the road is too slippery, no need to bring me anything—I'll just grab something at the cafeteria." Zheng Ren said.

"How can that not work? Anyway, we still have to send Sister Yun back, no trouble, no trouble." Xie Yiren refused, stubbornly believing that eating is the best thing in the world, unwilling to let Zheng Ren give up any of it.

Zheng Ren felt utterly helpless; he didn't think eating was such a big deal. If he could avoid hunger, he'd rather not eat.

The last few girls ignored Zheng Ren's words, chatting and laughing as they took the Elevator downstairs; Zheng Ren got off on the second floor, while they went straight to the underground parking lot.

Just as the Elevator doors were about to close, Zheng Ren suddenly stopped them and asked: "Whose car are you taking? Are the anti-skid tires on?"

"Mine." Xie Yiren said: "Volvo is one of the safest car series in the world; I've never changed the anti-skid tires."

"……" Zheng Ren had nothing to say in rebuttal, and finally watched the Elevator doors slowly close.

He wasn't stupid enough to ask Xie Yiren whether using anti-skid tires in summer would waste fuel; people in the downtown CBD wouldn't care about a little gas money.

Zheng Ren walked back to the Emergency Department from the corridor, feeling lonely, desolate, and cold.

Outside, the wind and snow were fierce, the wind whimpering; only footsteps echoed in the corridor.

If it were a horror movie, something indescribable should appear right about now, Zheng Ren thought.

All the way lonely, completely unlike the way he came.

The lively girls ran off to eat, plus Su Yun that guy, and additionally Zheng Ren was a bit worried about the Sister Yun that Xie Yiren mentioned.

Hope her emotions are stable, hope she's already been completely persuaded by Chang Yue.

Returning to the Jizhenbingfang, Zheng Ren habitually made a round; the patients in the ward were all stable.

This morning, the patient with gangrenous appendicitis had fully awakened, slowly sipping porridge from a disposable plastic bowl.

Given his severe condition, he shouldn't be eating this early. But relying only on glucose, his recovery would also be slow. Zheng Ren had confidence in Shou Bing, so following the ordinary appendicitis procedure, allowing gas to pass permits the patient to take liquid food.

After chatting with that guy about his condition, Zheng Ren learned his porridge had been made by Chang Yue at noon; when they had just left, Chang Yue also brought over the porridge kept warm on the shared large water heater, which touched Zheng Ren a little.

In terms of value, it was just a bowl of leftover porridge.

Chang Yue, this girl…… really not bad, Zheng Ren sighed in his heart.

Back in the office, it was quiet all around; the on-duty nurse wasn't familiar with Zheng Ren and sat at the front nurse station.

Zheng Ren wasn't Su Yun either; the little nurses had no interest in him at all.

However, Zheng Ren was glad to have no one around, and he focused intently on the book *Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery*, accumulating Experience Points bit by bit.

Zheng Ren always believed that heaven rewards diligence.

Of course, he now has no right to say that; as a new-generation show-off, he just needs to lie around comfortably putting on airs.

But years of habit made it so that if he didn't read, Zheng Ren would feel Uncomfortable all over.

In a night of wind and snow, it was very Silence, few people went out to have fun, and the Emergency Department was also rarely quiet.

After a busy day, a plain night arrived.

Around 9:30, Su Yun returned with a lunch box, followed by a little night nurse.

The nurse sisters not being interested in Zheng Ren doesn't mean they aren't interested in Su Yun.

On the night shift, in the long long night, Zheng Ren became that annoying light bulb.

Zheng Ren felt the disdainful gaze in the nurse sisters' eyes, feeling somewhat helpless; in this looks-oriented world, it really doesn't give ordinary people a way to survive.

Silently eating the dinner Su Yun brought back, listening to Su Yun tell the story of Elder Sister Yun.