Chapter 1159: Handling a Medical Incident

"The swallows flew away, and their nest has been occupied by this flock of sparrows." Seeing Broken-Waist Wolf standing under the eaves, looking up at the swallow's nest, Xia Qing proactively explained the changes at home to it.

These forty-plus sparrows had driven away over a dozen large magpies, successfully occupied the swallow's nest, and now lived under the eaves of Xia Qing's home.

After looking at the swallow's nest, Broken-Waist Wolf went to check on the little yellow calf lying next to Sheep Boss in the sheep shed, chewing its cud.

Because it saw Wolf Dog Lao Er every day, this little yellow calf was no longer as afraid of wolves as before. Seeing Broken-Waist Wolf standing outside the screen door, it merely stopped chewing its cud, pressed close to Sheep Boss, and stared at Broken-Waist Wolf with a pair of bovine eyes.

Sheep Boss squinted its eyes, still leisurely chewing its cud.

After observing for a while, Broken-Waist Wolf lost interest. It swiped the door open with its paw and entered the living room, sniffed the gun hanging on the wall, then turned its head to look at Xia Qing.

Xia Qing bragged happily, "Your nose is really sharp. I did go out on a mission last night. I didn't just hit a raptor flying above 2,000 meters, I also took down Phantom, the top sniper of Hui Five Base. Broken-Waist, you don't know this, but I'm going viral online now."

Broken-Waist stood up and used its front paw to paw at Xia Qing's protective mask, indicating it wanted to watch the video of Xia Qing's mission.

Xia Qing thought of the Scarface Wolf that appeared in the video and decided to show Broken-Waist Wolf once, so it would know that half-grown wolf was recovering quite well.

Broken-Waist Wolf had seen Xia Qing hunt birds before, so it had little interest in the earlier parts of the video. Only when Xia Qing engaged with Phantom's squad did it stare at the screen with great seriousness.

After watching the video once, Broken-Waist Wolf had Xia Qing play it a second time, starting directly from when the two wolves appeared.

On the third viewing, Broken-Waist Wolf pressed pause, walked up to the screen, and used its big paw to point at the scar on Scarface Wolf's face—the one that had bitten Phantom—then looked at Xia Qing with a solemn expression.

Under the infrared camera, the blood at the corner of Scarface Wolf's mouth and the scar there glowed bright and stood out clearly.

Xia Qing answered Broken-Waist Wolf's question directly. "Yes, I made two wrong stitches when I sutured this wolf's wound last time, but look—it's recovering just fine, doesn't need follow-up treatment."

Broken-Waist Wolf stubbornly pointed at the screen, watching Xia Qing solemnly, clearly not agreeing with her.

Xia Qing carefully recalled the contents of the Medical Ethics course she had mostly forgotten, but still couldn't figure out what point Broken-Waist Wolf was concerned about. She simply asked directly, "You think I should continue treating it?"

Broken-Waist Wolf fetched the territory map from the living room drawer and pressed its big paw down on Territory Seven.

Xia Qing……

"Broken-Waist, you think I should call Third Brother about this and ask for clarification?"

Broken-Waist Wolf bared the tips of its fangs.

"Alright, I'll ask Third Brother how this should be handled." Though she felt it was making a mountain out of a molehill, her idol took Broken-Waist Wolf's education very seriously and had said he would personally guide it to become a qualified wolf talent. So Xia Qing didn't dodge the issue and directly dialed her idol's video call.

Zhang San, who was in a video conference with the heads of two research institutes discussing experimental progress, glanced at the screen, announced a ten-minute recess, muted his laptop, turned off his camera, and only then answered the call.

Seeing the person and wolf on his phone screen, Zhang San took two seconds to adjust before speaking. "Talk."

"Third Brother, I'm not disturbing you, am I?" Xia Qing greeted him, then explained the current situation. "What do you think we should do about this?"

Suturing a three-centimeter wound and you actually got two stitches wrong?! Zhang San shot Xia Qing a look. "Let me see."

"Yes." Xia Qing turned the camera toward the TV so her idol could see the screen clearly.

Watching a TV screen through a phone was really not clear enough. Zhang San pushed his glasses up with a finger, his voice calm and professional. "Misplaced stitches during the suturing of a torn wound at the corner of the mouth isn't just a matter of a noticeable scar affecting appearance. It could also be because the muscle layer or mucosal layer wasn't properly aligned, causing tightness and pain when this wolf moves its mouth, or even slight deviation of the mouth corner. In more serious cases, it could cause uneven local tissue tension and dead space, increasing the probability of fluid accumulation and infection. This wolf failing to bite Phantom to death may be related to those two misplaced stitches of yours."

Xia Qing……no way?

Broken-Waist Wolf let out an "Aowu," agreeing with Zhang San.

Zhang San continued, "This counts as a surgical error. According to the core principles of Medical Ethics for handling incidents—respect, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice—as the party at fault, you should proactively assume corresponding responsibility. First, you need to give this wolf a follow-up examination as soon as possible, confirm the consequences caused by the misplaced stitches, then take appropriate remedial measures to make up for the suffering the surgical error brought to the patient."

Broken-Waist Wolf finally opened its mouth wide, showing the tips of two fangs.

Xia Qing nodded. "Understood, I'll give this wolf a follow-up examination as soon as possible. Sorry to bother you, Third Brother."

After hanging up, Xia Qing also began to face the problem squarely. "I'll find time in the next couple of days to head to the Southern Wolf Pack's territory and check on Scarface Wolf."

Locking eyes with Broken-Waist Wolf for a few seconds, Xia Qing understood. "You want to go too?"

Broken-Waist Wolf immediately grinned, showing the pearly-white tips of its fangs.

"Sure, I'll call you when it's time, and we'll go together." Xia Qing closed the video and opened a first-grade math teaching video. "Broken-Waist, today we're starting to learn some really fun new knowledge!"

Since Xia Qing had promised her idol she would teach Broken-Waist Wolf, she wouldn't slack off.

The videos she had copied from the school were made to teach human children and weren't entirely suitable to play in full for a smart, brain-evolved wolf. So Xia Qing edited the videos, cutting out the parts introducing classroom rules for human students, leaving only what Broken-Waist Wolf was interested in:

"Classmates, besides math in daily life, the Evolution Forest is also full of mathematical knowledge. Let's take a look together!"

Accompanied by the teacher's highly infectious verbal guidance, the video began to show math in the Evolution Forest:

Birds choose optimal routes during flight, completing migration in the shortest time and distance; bees' honeycombs form hexagons that save the most time and materials while also strengthening the honeycomb's structure; ants' ability to calculate food quantities……

Broken-Waist Wolf watched this part with great interest, then noticed there was nothing about wolves. It paused the video and looked at Xia Qing.

Xia Qing, who had prepared in advance, immediately began to explain. "Wolves are of course very smart too, and they use math. When you hunt, don't you first send Black Wolf and Broken-Waist Sister to track the prey, then have the Broken-Legged ones drive the prey, and finally my lord and Broken-Waist catch the prey?"

"This kind of division of labor is the application of swarm intelligence mathematical algorithms. My lord is very smart, Broken-Waist is also very smart—you're all evolution wolves at the top of the pyramid!"

Broken-Waist Wolf immediately showed the tips of four fangs and smiled happily.

After the classroom introduction came the actual teaching content. The first knowledge point: recognizing the numbers 0–10 and their quantity relationships.

This knowledge was really too simple for Broken-Waist Wolf. In less than twenty minutes it had fully mastered this section and passed Xia Qing's test. Then came the second knowledge point—correctly writing 0–10.

After the teacher in the video finished introducing how to write these numbers, Xia Qing gestured very seriously as she communicated with Broken-Waist Wolf. "Broken-Waist, do you want to write numbers? Use your paw."