Chapter 2109: 2036 Ostrich (Monthly Ticket 66500 Bonus Chapter ×133)

Su Yun was stunned.

What I said earlier was a potent medicine.

I wanted to use opposing force to wake this man up, so he wouldn't sink into the grief I set up for him and end up messing things up.

Whether it's self-harm or reckless behavior, not undergoing surgery, delaying treatment and causing tumor cells to spread—these are all things Su Yun does not want to see.

But Boss's words……

The patient already has metastatic lesions……wrong!

Su Yun's mind instantly flashed with a bolt of lightning, cutting through the mist.

The lung lesion doesn't look like a metastasis; lung metastases are usually round nodules, differing from the shape occupying the patient's film.

Yet the pelvic lesion is so large—could I have misread the film?

He looked doubtfully at Zheng Ren, while the man opposite paid no attention to what they were saying, just gulping down drink after drink himself.

"You're from out of town, right?" Zheng Ren asked.

The man ignored him, continuing to stare red-eyed at the three strangers.

He had already been struck down into the eighteenth layer of hell, unable to extricate himself. What these few strangers said or did didn't matter to him; they were merely passersby.

And I, too, am a passerby in this world, and moreover one who is about to get off.

Zheng Ren looked at his appearance, knowing it would be hard for him to take in his words, and also felt somewhat helpless.

"Zheng Lao Ban, are you thinking of using psychotherapy?" Lin Yuan asked softly.

"No, his condition requires immediate surgery, nothing serious." Zheng Ren looked at the man and asked, "Are you from out of town?"

The man still didn't speak, and the atmosphere became somewhat awkwardly inexplicable.

People who drink too much are like this; Zheng Ren expressed helplessness.

"Boss, tell us your thoughts." Su Yun said, "Don't mind him; just call security later."

Zheng Ren thought it over and could only do that.

"It's just a simple lung lesion; after surgical removal, the five-year survival rate is very high—we can say no chemotherapy is needed, and it's nothing serious."

"As for the pelvic mass, are you considering it a benign lump?" Su Yun frowned and asked.

"No, that's cryptorchidism."

"……" Su Yun and Lin Yuan both stared for a moment.

"You see his beard is rather sparse… you could say he has none; that's one piece of evidence." Zheng Ren looked at the man opposite and said.

The man was somewhat dazed, but Zheng Ren's words touched his deepest secret.

Emotion instantly lost control; the man sprang to his feet and smashed the bottle in his right hand down onto his head.

"Ah……" Lin Yuan let out a startled scream; she had never imagined things would turn out like this.

Instinctively covering her eyes, but only after a few seconds did Lin Yuan notice there was no sound of the imagined bottle shattering, no fighting noises, and certainly no drunken shouting after the man finished his drink.

Nothing at all, very quiet.

The quiet was like…… she wasn't being literary; instead, she lowered her hand shielding her eyes, and astonished saw the bottle gripped in Su Yun's hand, while the man sat in the chair clutching his chest, dazed.

Zheng Lao Ban's hand patted his shoulder.

Lin Yuan felt a bit regretful, wondering what had just happened—she actually knew nothing about it.

"Burying your head like an ostrich? One could say you're even more thorough about it than Boss." Su Yun glanced at Lin Yuan and said contemptuously.

"It's fine; now are you ready to listen to what I have to say?" Zheng Ren patted the man's shoulder and said softly.

The man was a bit dazed.

Just now, how did the bottle in my hand end up in theirs?

What happened? I don't even know.

"When you were young, you had some physical problem—I don't know why—but your parents never took you to the hospital." Zheng Ren sat opposite the man and said, "You're a bit insecure, afraid to look for a girlfriend, and also afraid to marry."

"Avoiding it is useless; if you go to the hospital, you only need a small surgery to resolve this issue." Zheng Ren continued.

The man's gaze shifted from anger to fear in an instant.

My secret, which I've never told anyone—how does this young man know it?

Su Yun looked at the man's expression and immediately understood what Zheng Ren was saying. Comparing it with the images and reasoning backward, she instantly grasped the whole sequence of events.

This sequence of events is both laughable and lamentable.

Just now I wrongly blamed Lin Yuan, but the man before me is the real ostrich.

"Cryptorchidism? It's a minor issue. The surgery is simple, and there's no ischemic necrosis. It merely causes a disruption in male hormone secretion, so you've felt different from other boys since childhood."

Zheng Ren continued, seeing the man's expression and knowing he had finally taken in what he said.

I've said what needed to be said; the rest isn't my concern. If this man before me can't overcome his own psychological barrier, I can't exactly strap him to the operating table and force surgery on him.

"I guess you were in 912 with classmates or something, discovered the problem back home, the doctor wanted to do a physical exam or suggest surgery. So you simply refused and came straight to Di Du."

"Without a physical exam, a diagnostic step is missed, making misdiagnosis easy. Pelvic cryptorchidism is rare, which is also a factor."

"The shadow in the lung is only about 1 cm, still a small nodule; a wedge resection will take care of it."

"What you should worry about is actually the cryptorchidism. Its position is relatively high and deep. Without a physical exam or palpation, it's likely non-palpable. The chance of malignant transformation is high, so you need to be careful."

"I suggest you hurry to be hospitalized for two surgeries: first remove the lung nodule, then perform the cryptorchidism restoration surgery. Afterward you'll be a so-called normal person—no problem."

Zheng Ren finished speaking, looked seriously at the man before him, and asked, "Did you hear everything I said clearly?"

The man nodded blankly, his eyes hiding a hint of fear. Moreover, he looked at Zheng Ren as if seeing a ghost, still not knowing how this man could have discovered his secret hidden for years.

"Say it again." Zheng Ren said in a deep voice.

"Again……" Lin Yuan was speechless. Could this man pick out the main point from that long speech just now?

"Are you a doctor?" the man asked dazedly.

Zheng Ren nodded.

"I have an illness, not a congenital disability?" The man's concern is completely different from that of Zheng Ren, Su Yun, and Lin Yuan.

Zheng Ren smiled and said, "Yes, it's just a minor ailment; do a small Shou Bing, and you'll recover in two or three days, and after a week the stitches come out, then it's fine."

The man remained silent.

"Look at you, hiding away for so many years—what's the point? If something comes up, go to the Hospital; don't keep it bottled up inside." Zheng Ren said, "I've told you everything; it's up to you to decide what to do."

Having said that, he stood up, patted the man's shoulder again, placed the film beside him, turned and left.