Chapter 570: Old Wei

At the end of the corridor of the high-ranking cadre ward of the Provincial People's Hospital, the air solidified like the dead silence before the storm.

Lü Yizhi stood by the window, the special cigarette held between his fingers had burned half, and he didn't even notice the ash falling down.

His face, which was usually calm, was gloomy enough to wring out water at this moment.

Sharp eyes swept over everyone in the ward from time to time, as if to penetrate the door panel and see everything inside clearly.

The secretary and several hospital leaders were holding their breath and surrounding them, not daring to breathe.

Everyone knew in their hearts that Deputy Provincial Governor Lü's personal visit today was not a simple inspection of work, but to prevent Lin Dongfan from waking up Qiao Lianzhou.

Things had developed to this point, and Deputy Provincial Governor Lü, who had been kicked out of the ward, not only lost face, but also lost control of the scene!

Now everyone was betting.

Deputy Provincial Governor Lü was betting that Qiao Lianzhou's fear of death could overcome everything, betting that the person who would rather pretend to be sick to save his life would absolutely not dare to "wake up" at this moment!

As long as Qiao Lianzhou didn't wake up.

He could slap a big hat of abusing power and tossing critically ill patients on the arrogant Lin Dongfan! When the time came, he would make a big fuss about this hat, and he could reverse the investigation direction of the whole case!

And Lin Dongfan bet on Wei Shouqin, betting that Wei Shouqin would definitely be able to wake up Qiao Lianzhou.

"Inside... how far has it progressed?" Lü Yizhi's voice was not high, but it carried cold pressure, breaking the silence.

The vice dean who accompanied him reported the truth: "The ward door is locked from the inside, and no one knows the situation inside yet. However... Wei Shouqin was a surgeon when he practiced medicine before. Now that he is intervening in the neurology case, I guess he can't play any tricks, graduation requires specialization."

"This Wei Shouqin!"

Hearing the vice dean say that Wei Shouqin was messing around across departments, Lü Yizhi also breathed a sigh of relief.

Lü Yizhi smiled lightly: "A fallen hall official suspected of giant corruption actually ran to the hospital in casual clothes to take a pulse and see a doctor for another person involved in the case. It's simply absurd! Today, if they can't make any movement..."

Speaking to this point, Lü Yizhi suddenly tightened his mouth.

The dean was so scared that his forehead was sweating.

Didn't dare to answer.

Lü Yizhi's implication was already very obvious. If Lin Dongfan and the others couldn't wake up Qiao Lianzhou today, then everyone in the ward would have to bear the consequences with Lin Dongfan.

Inside the ward.

The atmosphere was equally tense, but it revealed a kind of strange focus.

Lin Dongfan pulled a chair over and sat down, crossed his legs, and raised his chin to Wei Shouqin, who was waiting in full battle array: "Old Wei, did you hear that? It's quiet outside. Deputy Provincial Governor Lü is pricking up his ears, waiting to see our jokes. He is betting, betting that we can't wake up a person who is 'pretending to sleep' today."

Wei Shouqin had long since lost the decadence in the detention center, and his slightly turbid eyes flashed with professional focus and a hint of excitement at being challenged.

He smiled while taking out a row of silver needles of different lengths and cold light from the old cowhide needle bag that was polished and shiny:

"Director Lin, just put 120 hearts in your stomach. On the matter of corruption and bribery, I, Old Wei, fell, and I admit my guilt and accept the law.

But on the matter of this acupuncture work, in the entire Baiyue Province medical system, I, Old Wei, recognize the second, and no one dares to jump out and recognize the first.

Isn't Deputy Provincial Governor Lü just wanting to see a joke?

Today I will let him open his eyes and let him see what is called the true ability passed down by the ancestors! Whether we are mules or horses, we will know after taking them out for a walk."

Saying this, Wei Shouqin walked to the hospital bed.

He looked smilingly at Qiao Lianzhou, who had his eyes tightly shut and was breathing steadily, as if admiring a piece of exquisite craftsmanship, his tone carrying a hint of mockery: "Prosecutor Qiao, if you really don't want to wake up, then I can only provide you with a full-service wake-up call. I guarantee the effect will be top-notch, and the key is that I won't charge a single cent—the main point is serving the people for free."

Round 1: Friendly probing, precise acupoint pressing.

Wei Shouqin picked up a fine needle as thin as cow hair and carefully disinfected it with alcohol cotton.

"Comrades who don't believe in Chinese medicine, please open your eyes and watch. The first needle, let's do a gentle 'system diagnosis'."

Saying this, Wei Shouqin aimed at the Baihui acupoint in the center of Qiao Lianzhou's head.

While inserting the needle.

While teaching on the spot, "This acupoint, known in the Jianghu as the 'general switch of a hundred meridians', is the main acupoint of the Du meridian, governing the yang energy of the whole body! It is equivalent to the BIOS system of the computer motherboard, responsible for boot self-test and basic guidance!"

The needle tip was gently inserted and slowly twisted.

"A normal person pricked, refreshed, equivalent to doing a fragment sorting for the system. A real vegetable pricked, may trigger nerve reflex, equivalent to trying to trigger hardware restart. As for the friend who is pretending to sleep..."

Wei Shouqin squinted his eyes, carefully observing Qiao Lianzhou's facial muscles and breathing frequency.

At this moment...

Qiao Lianzhou had no reaction on the surface, but he was panicked in his heart, suddenly feeling a slight sour and swollen feeling coming from his scalp, as if a weak electric current had swept over.

Silently roaring in his heart: "Wei Shouqin, I fuck your ancestors!!!"

Finally, he kept reminding himself: "Hold on! Must hold on! Open your eyes, whether you fall into Lü Yizhi's hands or Lin Dongfan's hands today, it's life worse than death, must hold on!"

Qiao Lianzhou mobilized all his willpower, trying hard to suppress all his physiological reactions, not even daring to turn his eyeballs under his eyelids.

However, Old Wei was not a fuel-efficient lamp either.

Old Wei seemed to hear Qiao Lianzhou's roar and will in his heart, his mouth smiled evilly, and he twisted the silver needle again, excitedly teasing: "Hmm, BIOS self-test passed, hardware identification normal, but system guidance failed—refused to respond! Qiao Prosecutor's concentration is okay! Deep sleep mode is quite stable."

Round 2: Increase intensity, forced intervention!

"Gentle doesn't work, then don't blame me, Old Wei, for using means. Qiao Prosecutor, please bear with me."

Wei Shouqin changed to a slightly thicker silver needle.

His tone also became sneaky: "Next is the famous first-aid retention program—pinching the philtrum! Why is this effective? I won't talk about scientific principles, just talk about the layman's words!"

His fingers pressed accurately on the Shuigou acupoint (philtrum) in the middle of Qiao Lianzhou's nasolabial groove.

"This place is like the 'forced restart button' of this precise system of the human body, and it's the kind with a physical lock! Usually, you can't press it randomly, but once the system crashes, blue screen, no response, pop! Aim at this place, give it a hard one! Equivalent to forced power off and then power on, forcing the CPU to run the code again!"

Saying this, his technique changed suddenly, his fingers moved like wind, quickly inserting the silver needle into the acupoint, and then began to lift, insert, and twist with large amplitude and high frequency!

"Restart for me!"

This angry order, how the acupoint stimulation was, only Old Wei himself knew.

Anyway, Lin Dongfan, Jian Sining, and others beside him were all like curious babies, carefully observing Qiao Lianzhou's slight reaction, just hoping for a miracle to happen quickly.

What everyone didn't know was that Qiao Lianzhou's attitude was already on the verge of collapse.

The moment the silver needle was inserted into the acupoint, Qiao Lianzhou felt as if a red-hot iron wire had been violently poked into the bottom of his nose!

A sharp pain, like high-voltage electricity, rushed straight to the top of his head, exploding his eyes black, his brain buzzing, and he almost sat up reflexively.

It was all thanks to his shadow-level perseverance and extreme fear of the consequences of exposure that he bit his back teeth dead and swallowed the painful cry that had reached his throat.

His whole body's muscles instantly tightened like steel plates, and cold sweat soaked his hospital gown.

However...

Wei Shouqin didn't stop there.

Wei Shouqin keenly captured Qiao Lianzhou's stiffness in an instant, as well as the fine sweat beads oozing from his forehead, and he was happy: "Oh ho! Sweat is spraying out? Haha, CPU usage is 100%, right? The cooling system can't hold it anymore? Still pretending? Electricity doesn't need money? System logs are about to report errors!"

Round 3: Ultimate mystery, saturation attack!

Wei Shouqin was completely energized, feeling that his professional dignity had been seriously challenged: "Qiao Prosecutor, you can hold on, your hardware firewall is quite tough! Forcing me to sacrifice the ultimate killer move, right? Today, if I don't kill this 'zombie process' of yours, I, Wei Shouqin, will write the word 'Wei' upside down in the future!"

Saying this, Old Wei grabbed one of Qiao Lianzhou's hands, aimed at the Jing acupoints (such as Shaoshang, Shangyang, etc.) of his fingertips, and stabbed down. The key to the action was three words—fast! Accurate! Ruthless!

"Comrades who don't believe in Chinese medicine, please look at the ultimate arousal mystery—'Ten Fingers Connected to the Heart · Saturation Traffic Attack Method'."

The principle of this move is very simple:

The peripheral nerves of the human body are the densest and most sensitive, and pain signals are transmitted directly to the brain's core processing unit, with high bandwidth and low latency!

This is like, I give this 'pretending to be dead' computer of yours, all USB interfaces, Type-C interfaces are full of equipment, crazy reading and writing data!

At the same time, I open 10,000 download tasks for you, pop-up ads fill the whole screen! Virus Trojan family bucket all come up!

Let's see if your system crashes!

Let's see if you blue screen!

Let's see if you wake up!"

Old Wei's move was inhumane.

One hand grabbed Qiao Lianzhou's hand, one hand grabbed the silver needle, left and right, continuously piercing the Jing acupoints of Qiao Lianzhou's ten fingers, and added strong twisting stimulation.

Needles fell like rain, stimulation like tide!

At this moment, Qiao Lianzhou was undoubtedly in extreme pain, only feeling that his ten fingers were being crushed by ten tigers at the same time, or as if countless toothpicks were nailed into his fingernails!

That kind of sharp, dense, unblockable sharp pain!

Like a tsunami, roaring along the arm nerves, rushing straight to the brain's central nervous system, instantly collapsing all his willpower defenses!

This was no longer something that could be held on by acting, this was the most primitive physical attack!

"Awoo——!!!"

A miserable howl that was distorted and completely out of control burst out from Qiao Lianzhou's throat! In an instant, he sat up like a corpse, the silly eagle was actually myself! ===== CHAPTER 571 =====