Chapter 2326: with translation of chapter title

「All right, get up. 」 Zheng Ren said.

Dahungya dazedly sat up from the bed in the treatment room, glanced at the tray, and his whole body shuddered.

I go…… so many worms! These are all in my eyes……

He could hardly imagine that so many worms were "caught" from his own eyes.

However, he felt fine, the white mist before his eyes had cleared, and these sensations told Dahungya that he should have recovered.

「Zheng Lao Ban, thank you, thank you. 」

「No need. 」 Zheng Ren said coldly, 「Su Yun, issue him the treatment fee. 」

「Hey. 」 Su Yun looked at Dahungya, laughing.

It's just spending a little money, what's the big deal? Dahungya knew it clearly in his heart.

How the fees are charged, the price bureau has regulations; even if Zheng Lao Ban opens up big, it's only a few hundred yuan.

Compared to worms drilling out of his eyes, this amount of money is nothing!

「Zheng Lao Ban, what's going on with me? 」 Dahungya looked at the worms, still panicked, and asked.

「You've forgotten what I told you last time. 」 Zheng Ren took off his gloves, threw them into the medical waste bin, 「Can't you just earn money honestly to support your family? 」

Again with the lecturing! Dahungya felt a wave of annoyance. Relying on having solved his problem, he just keeps lecturing, lecturing—how annoying!

「I'm going to do surgery. 」 Zheng Ren turned and left, not wanting to say another word to Dahungya.

Lin Yuan hurriedly followed; she didn't have much time, Gu Xiao Ran was helping send patients and position them, and if she didn't go up when Zheng Lao Ban went on stage, she'd likely get a beating.

But even so, she couldn't suppress her curiosity.

「Zheng Lao Ban, how come there are so many worms? What exactly are they? 」 Lin Yuan asked, still feeling uneasy.

「Conjunctival sucking worm. 」 Zheng Ren said.

「Uh…… I heard Yun Ge'er talk about it. 」 Lin Yuan said, 「How did they come about? 」

「This parasite mainly lives in the conjunctival sacs of dogs, cats, etc., but can also infect human eyes, causing conjunctival sucking worm disease. 」 Zheng Ren said, 「The intermediate host is a fly; likely the patient got some fruit fly or similar flying insect smeared on his face when he went into the mountains. 」

Just thinking about swarms of fruit flies triggered Lin Yuan's trypophobia, which she normally didn't have.

Anything in large quantity is frightening; either it looks spectacular or just looking at it makes one scared.

This is a biological instinct.

「When the intermediate host fruit fly licks and sucks the final host's eye secretions, it gets drawn into the fly's body, undergoes two molts to become an infective larva, then enters the fly's head mouthparts.

When the fly again licks and sucks a human or other animal's eye, the infective larva emerges from the fly's mouthparts and invades the host's eye, developing into an adult over 15–20 days. »

「Were those adult worms? If we take them out, will it be fine? 」 Lin Yuan asked follow-up.

「Generally speaking, that's the case. »

「That person is truly hateful, going into the mountains to catch bats and bring them back to scare people. 」 Lin Yuan still had a fairly sound worldview; she waved her little fist and pretended to be fierce, saying: 「Zheng Lao Ban, next time we won't treat him. 」

Zheng Ren said nothing; every time he saw Dahungya, a feeling of annoyance rose from his heart. He really wanted to…… forget it, not worth it.

This kind of mucus worm, just flick it away and it's done.

But thinking about it, is this karma? Dahungya's luck isn't high; if he keeps courting death like this, sooner or later he'll be smashed to pieces.

Arriving at the operating room, he began the day's surgeries.

……

……

At noon, after stepping down, he ate with Yi Ren, returned to 912, and Zheng Ren wanted to go back to read.

「Boss, I'm going to check the Emergency Department; are you coming? 」 Su Yun asked.

「What for? 」 Zheng Ren asked casually while holding the Fifth Edition of External Medicine.

「To see Manager Zhou; you wouldn't be so heartless and unjust, would you? 」 Su Yun said disdainfully.

「Oh, then let's go have a look. »

No surgeries were scheduled for the afternoon, and Zheng Ren didn't mind.

Recently surgeries have been increasing, many patients coming by reputation, and these surgeries are basically scheduled for the afternoon.

However, because Zheng Ren's age is evident here, most patients' families, after glancing at the images, leave with doubts.

Truly few people stay to undergo surgery.

Everyone trusts older doctors; for Zheng Ren, who is under thirty, they still hold a wait-and-see attitude.

Zheng Ren had also analyzed this; Big Pig Trotter divided the task of Fame Under Heaven into several stages, likely taking human psychology into account.

Arriving at the Emergency Department, he saw from afar a girl with a student-like appearance, face gloomy, standing in the corner, as if she were angry.

And Zhou Litao was nowhere to be seen; perhaps he was busy.

Zheng Ren glanced at the girl; the System Panel was clean and tidy, suggesting she was a patient's family member, possibly a roommate whose roommate had fallen ill.

Arriving at the clinic door, he saw Zhou Litao examining an X-ray for a patient with a sprained ankle; Su Yun greeted him.

「Zheng Lao Ban, Yun Ge'er, come sit in my duty room for a while. 」 Zhou Litao handed over the key to Su Yun.

「You go ahead and get busy; no rush. 」

Su Yun tossed the key chain, making a clattering sound.

Zheng Ren heard voices coming from the treatment room, as if someone was swearing.

Such situations aren't too uncommon in the Emergency Department; if there weren't two or three hot-tempered trauma patients cursing each day coming in for treatment, that would be strange.

Zheng Ren had long grown aesthetically fatigued by this; he and Su Yun arrived at Zhou Litao's duty room door, just about to open it and go in, when a twenty-something young man wearing a white head net stormed out, looking resentful.

「Go issue the slip and pay the fee. 」 The Emergency Surgery doctor said expressionlessly.

「I got beaten; why should I have to pay? 」 The young man said angrily.

「No matter who pays, hurry up. 」 The Emergency Surgery doctor, having likely anticipated this patient would dodge the bill, still habitually added, 「Just take the painkillers back; the treatment fee hasn't been paid yet. 」

「You, come over! 」 The young man pointed at the girl standing in the corner at the end of the hallway and said.

The voice was loud, buzzing in the hallway.

「What are you shouting for, just to show off your loud voice? 」 Su Yun said impatiently. Being a friend of women, she most dislikes this kind of guy who points at girls, a total scumbag, utterly impolite.

「How can you talk like that? 」 the young man said angrily.

「Keep quiet, can't you see such a big sign? 」 Su Yun said, 「Check if your vision is affected. 」

Zheng Ren glanced at the young man's System Panel; it was faintly red, displaying the simple diagnosis—head injury.

He was probably hit; he only has a head injury, no complications like brain bleeding. It's nothing serious; for a young man, getting angry after being hit is normal.

「You damn it, hurry over! 」 the young man, seeing Zheng Ren and Su Yun were tall and strong, realizing he couldn't beat them, vented all his anger on the girl.