The woman shrieked, instinctively covering her face. She truly felt the glass shards flying at her like hailstones, striking her exposed arms and thighs, causing them to bleed instantly. Even her thin slip dress and ultra-short skirt were stained crimson with her blood. Her injuries were more than ten times worse than Chen Xiao's scraped arm.
In an instant, pain and rage surged to her head, making her roar even more uninhibitedly:
"Kid, where did you get the guts to lay a hand on me? Aren't you afraid of death..."
Before she could finish, the woman was stunned. She clearly saw Chen Xiao charging into the emergency department's inpatient building not far ahead, without looking back.
"Scared already? Loser! Coward! Useless! Just you wait. I don't care if you're a doctor, patient, or patient's family member from the Central Hospital. I don't care if you run to heaven or hell. One thing's for sure: you're dead once I'm done!"
She wasn't worried about not finding Chen Xiao. After all, there was a camera hanging from the streetlight above her head, and she had great confidence in her connections at the Central Hospital.
However, she never dreamed that Chen Xiao's sudden dash away wasn't because he was afraid of her, but because Zhou Wannong was calling again, urging him.
...
In the extremely tense emergency room, accompanied by the piercing "beep-beep-beep" of the electrocardiograph monitor, led by a haggard and sweaty Zhou Wannong, seven or eight doctors and nurses, including Hu Yun and Yang Longjian, were doing their utmost to save the patient on the operating table, who was covered in blood from head to toe. The patient's vital signs had almost completely disappeared, making them appear no different from a corpse.
It wasn't that Hu Yun, Yang Longjian, and others, who usually liked to slack off, had a sudden change of heart. It was because the patient was Wen Xinyi, the highly cherished granddaughter of Wu Jianzhong, the director of the Municipal First Hospital.
Since Wen Xinyi had been involved in a fatal car accident near the Central Hospital, and it might have been too late to get her to the Municipal First Hospital, Wu Jianzhong personally called Bai Su, requesting the Central Hospital's emergency department to do their best to save Wen Xinyi's life before transferring her to the Municipal First Hospital for better treatment.
Therefore, in addition to Zhou Wannong, the Central Hospital had also arranged for two attending chief physicians who were on duty that night to participate in Wen Xinyi's rescue. One was Ye Tongwei from the Orthopedics Department, known for his exquisite surgical skills as "Ye Yidao" (Ye One-Cut). The other was Xiang Longfei, chief physician of both Neurosurgery and Cardiac Surgery.
In terms of both medical skill and seniority, the two men, both over fifty, were naturally far superior to Zhou Wannong. However, considering the severity of Wen Xinyi's injuries, neither of them was confident in saving her. They repeatedly deferred, ultimately letting Zhou Wannong take the lead as the attending physician.
Seeing that Wen Xinyi was beyond saving and Zhou Wannong was repeatedly ducking into the restroom to make calls or secretly send messages, Ye Tongwei could no longer maintain his composure. He feigned indignation and shifted the blame to Zhou Wannong:
"Xiao Zhou, are you sure your associate chief physician qualification wasn't obtained through favoritism? Even intern doctors know that mobile phones are strictly prohibited in the operating room. Don't you know that? Don't forget, the patient is Director Wu's granddaughter!"
Xiang Longfei, who had tried his best but was helpless with Wen Xinyi's severely injured brain and heart, was already frustrated and looking for an excuse to shift blame. As soon as Ye Tongwei finished speaking, he seized the opportunity, angrily threw down the resuscitation equipment in his hand, and cursed:
"I'm not afraid of wolf-like opponents, but I am afraid of pig-like teammates! Zhou Wannong, if your emergency department's inpatient and outpatient departments hadn't been constantly feuding, and all the capable people had gone to the outpatient department with Meng Baobao, leaving only a bunch of useless people in the inpatient department, would Director Wu's granddaughter be beyond saving? Hmph! It's one thing to ruin my reputation, but I'd like to see how you explain this to Director Bai and Director Wu!"
With that, he even prepared to slip away.
Zhou Wannong clearly hadn't expected that the two usually respectable chief physicians would also shift blame when faced with a helpless patient. She was immediately furious and coldly explained:
"Director Ye, Director Xiang, the feud between the emergency department's inpatient and outpatient departments is not my doing. It's Gou Shunquan who can't tolerate Meng Baobao! As for my repeated phone calls, they weren't for personal matters, but to ask Chen Xiao to come and help!"
"Chen Xiao? Which Chen Xiao?"
Ye Tongwei was completely bewildered, racking his brain but unable to recall who Chen Xiao was.
Xiang Longfei, who had just opened the door to the operating room, couldn't help but burst into laughter, his face filled with disdain.
"Zhou Wannong, are you talking about that intern doctor who was almost fired not long ago for mass-texting and harassing all the young female doctors and pretty nurses in the hospital, and who you eventually saved? He's quite lucky, apparently saving the richest man, Song, by chance. But frankly, he's even better at causing trouble. Ever since you pulled strings to get him an exceptional appointment as a resident physician, he's been getting into fights almost every day, nearly turning the Central Hospital upside down. I heard he even beat up the son of Jian Xiaojun, the vice president of Wealth Bank, during the day. Director Bai had to work very hard to suppress it. Even Director Ye and I are helpless with the patient's injuries. How can a troublemaker and violent thug like him possibly help?"
As soon as Xiang Longfei finished speaking, Chen Xiao, who had been running at full speed, arrived at the door of the operating room.
Seeing Chen Xiao as a stranger, not wearing a white coat, and with a bloody arm, Xiang Longfei naturally assumed Chen Xiao was an emergency patient. He glanced at him casually and was about to slam the door shut and leave.
However, to Chen Xiao, Xiang Longfei and Ye Tongwei were not strangers. After all, their promotional materials were everywhere in the Central Hospital. So, he retorted unceremoniously:
"Director Xiang, you and Director Ye are helpless with the patient's injuries, which only proves you are useless. So what if I'm a troublemaker? So what if I'm a violent thug? At least I'm not useless! As doctors, shouldn't we compete based on our medical skills, not on who is younger or handsomer? But then again, you're not younger or handsomer than me, are you?"
"You... you are Chen Xiao?"
Xiang Longfei and Ye Tongwei were both shocked, their faces extremely grim.
"Beep-beep-beep—"
At the same time, with the electrocardiograph monitor emitting even more piercing alarms, Zhou Wannong urged him in a panic:
"Chen Xiao, stop bothering those two useless people who only shift blame. Save the patient first. The patient... the patient is dying."
Xiang Longfei and Ye Tongwei only wanted to escape as quickly as possible while Wen Xinyi on the operating table still had a breath left. They no longer cared about being angry with Chen Xiao, scrambling over each other like rats scurrying across the street.
Seeing the extremely critical situation, on the verge of life and death, Chen Xiao decided to stop dealing with them. He flashed into the operating room, snatched a stainless steel disinfection tray from the instrument nurse, and with a clean and decisive movement, inserted a silver needle into Wen Xinyi's Baihui acupoint. The mysterious, wordless golden formula in his mind immediately began to operate at lightning speed, it was the "Life-Generating Creation Needle" that could revive the dead, regenerate flesh, steal yin and yang, and seize creation!