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Chapter 499 Watching Fish and Whales (Please Subscribe)
September 9th, morning.

Today is Sunday, and Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi have no ward rounds to do, so they got up around 6:30 a.m.

Nie Mingxian joked, "Mr. Wu, you're a person of status, isn't your 'method' of staying here a bit shameful?"

Nie Mingxian got up first, had already finished washing up, and was combing her hair in front of the mirror.

Wu Xuanqi walked out of another room, wiping his hair and yawning while covering his mouth with his right hand: "What's shameful about this? This is called the rational use of resources."

"I'm paying the rent as usual, and the place is empty since no one's living there. With this money, I might as well treat my buddies to a few barbecue meals."

Why rush to give money to the landlord?

Wu Xuanqi, who had become Nie Mingxian's roommate again, pulled half of his body back after entering the bathroom: "Also, please don't call me Boss Wu, Boss Fang is the real boss."

Nie Mingxian rolled his eyes at Wu Xuanqi: "Damn, your shamelessness is truly unparalleled."

"Wu Xuanqi, you're here to study, not for Fang Ziye to hire you as a laborer. You need to get paid for every little thing you do!"

When it comes to thick skin, Nie Mingxian feels that he can't compare to Wu Xuanqi's eleventh-degree flattery.

Wu Xuanqi, that bastard, heard that Nie Mingxian rented a two-bedroom apartment and that Fang Ziye's room had been empty for a long time, so he just moved in!

They even went so far as to claim it was to prevent capitalists from accumulating wealth.

Wu Xuanqi had already squeezed out the toothpaste: "Hey, we're all adults, give us a little something."

"I don't mind. If there's no seafood, porridge will do too."

"Hey, stop complaining. I did this for their own good. What do you know, you single dog?"

Upon hearing this, Nie Mingxian said, "Who's single?"

Nie Mingxian even walked to the bathroom door and questioned the person inside, "Hey, isn't this the real separation now?"

With his mouth full of foam, Wu Xuanqi glanced at Nie Mingxian, giving him a look of utter disdain.

This contempt and disdain was unbearable for Nie Mingxian: "Explain yourself clearly."

Upon hearing this, Wu Xuanqi spat out a mouthful of water, too lazy to even brush his teeth: "Why don't you bring the person back?"

"If you can't bring him back, why don't you take him to a hotel?"

"You, you, you really embarrass your brothers." Wu Xuanqi clicked his tongue in disdain for a while, then stuffed the toothbrush back into his mouth, leaving Nie Mingxian with nothing but contempt.

Nie Mingxian was speechless for a moment, and after ten seconds he said, "I'm just showing respect, what the hell do you know?"

Wu Xuanqi ignored Nie Mingxian for a while, but after finishing brushing his teeth, he grinned lewdly and said, "You don't know anything."

"Damn it, you think women can't be horny, huh?"

"As the ancients said, 'At thirty, one is like a wolf...' You understand what I mean, right?"

"You've almost reached adulthood twice already, Nie Mingxian."

"..."

At 7:50, Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi walked into the animal laboratory with serious expressions.

Nie Mingxian rolled his triangular eyes, furrowed his long eyebrows, and said seriously, "Xuanqi, it's okay to play around, but you can't joke around when the equipment is being tested later."

"Don't worry, I'll get points," Wu Xuanqi replied.

Before Wu Xuanqi could finish his reply, Nie Mingxian unexpectedly took a few steps away and tentatively asked, "Liao Jia?"

Upon hearing Nie Mingxian's voice, a young man with a receding hairline, wearing a shirt and chatting with someone, turned around.

The young man, with a receding hairline and a full forehead, square jaw, and large eyes, exuded a scholarly air. After turning around and recognizing Nie Mingxian, he greeted the three people carrying cameras beside him.

"This is the friend I was telling you about."

"Nie Mingxian, a doctoral student at Peking Union Medical College Hospital."

"He's a bit old and a bit ugly, but his academic ability is very strong. Most importantly, he has a great advantage that I'll tell you about: he's stingy."

“Since I officially retired from the workforce, this deal with him was the ‘low point’ in my career,” Liao Jia said without any hesitation.

But Nie Mingxian ignored all of that. Looking at the few people around him carrying cameras and holding microphones, he cautiously asked, "Liao Jia, who are these people?"

Liao Jia is Nie Mingxian's classmate and friend. Although they are not in the same major, the two got along very well when they were in graduate school.

It is also an eight-year system.

However, Liao Jia chose the path of animal testing, achieving relative financial freedom as early as around the age of thirty-two. He has since resigned and become a freelancer, working independently.

A 'free agent' who occasionally pulls off a job and then takes a long break afterward.

Liao Jia has a fairly standard and well-proportioned physique, with all the necessary muscles, but he's not the kind of person who's purely all muscle.

He was 1.8 meters tall, slightly taller than Nie Mingxian and slightly shorter than Wu Xuanqi next to him.

"These are the reporters who interviewed me. I participated in a variety show on a whim, and now I have a little bit of fame."

"That's why this interview came about," Liao Jia explained.

"This is reporter Meng."

"Hello, Reporter Meng." Upon hearing that it was a reporter in person, Nie Mingxian quickly greeted him with a smile.

Reporter Meng looked at Wu Xuanqi and said very warmly and generously, "You must be Director Nie that Professor Liao mentioned?"

Nie Mingxian holds the title of associate chief physician, but is currently pursuing a doctoral degree.

Nie Mingxian genuinely had no idea whether Liao Jia had ever slept with a professor.

Seeing the doubt in Nie Mingxian's eyes, Liao Jia said, "I was promoted to associate professor before, but I resigned. However, the title will not be cancelled. I also paid a large amount of liquidated damages."

"It's wholly owned by an individual."

"Brother Nie, the only thing that can affect my mindset is you, my bad friend."

Liao Jia still seems to love money, and he continues to complain that Wu Xuanqi offered him too little.

Liao Jia then explained the purpose of his visit: a reporter had learned about his deeds and wanted to conduct an exclusive interview with him.

During the interview, Liao Jia kept mentioning a bad friend, including the fact that the price for a single order was too low, which made her very curious about Nie Mingxian.

When asked which animal testing model she remembered most vividly, Liao Jia said it was Zhongnan Hospital in Wuhan.

When reporter Meng asked why, Liao Jia took the animal directly into the Disabled Persons' Federation. Only after they came out of the Federation did Liao Jia explain the greatness of this animal testing model...

When reporter Meng heard that there was such a 'secret', and that there was almost no news about it online, she immediately thought of reporting it.

I consulted my superiors at the time, and that's how Liao Jia brought me here...

“This is a very casual interview, Nie Mingxian. Do you think we should report this to your hospital’s publicity department?” “We won’t be there for very long, probably only thirty or forty minutes. We’ll probably only have about half a minute of screen time at the end,” Liao Jia asked.

Nie Mingxian said, "It's okay since you haven't been abroad for long. Just don't interview about anything else. This is an animal testing laboratory. You must have taken Reporter Meng and the others to other animal testing laboratories before."

"But you can't go into our offices; you can only visit the meeting rooms, operating rooms, and other areas in the animal testing lab."

There are important documents and data in the office. If these curious reporters take pictures of them and release them, someone with ulterior motives will definitely copy the contents and spread them, which would be a huge loss.

The meeting room is a public area; there are no private documents inside.

Liao Jia nodded and agreed.

The group went inside, and as they walked, Liao Jia said, "Nie Mingxian, could you demonstrate the standardized treatment for destroying animal models later?"

"Your skills should be up to par by now, right?"

Nie Mingxian nodded: "No problem, my friend can do it."

"Wu Xuanqi, Associate Chief Physician at Tongji Hospital affiliated with Huazhong University of Science and Technology!"

Liao Jia was taken aback upon hearing this, and then immediately bowed his head slightly and said, "Hello, Director Wu."

Reporter Meng and the others also politely addressed Director Wu, to which Wu Xuanqi responded with a few polite words.

He wasn't familiar with Liao Jia, so of course he didn't dare to be presumptuous and behaved very properly.

Liao Jia continued, "Mingxian, what have you been up to lately? Last time we chatted, you mentioned that your research group's work has gone beyond standardized treatment of traumatic injuries, and gone a step further, right?"

"Well, I'm doing a lot of things. I'm doing clinical work, studying, and tinkering with some gadgets..."

Following that, Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi led Liao Jia and his group on a tour of the animal laboratory, including the model making area, the operating room, and the animal husbandry area.

Inside the operating room, many people were practicing treatment techniques on damaged rabbit models.

All of this looks like a very standardized, modern laboratory.

When the group reached one of the control rooms, they asked, "Mingxian, what's in here? It's empty right now, is it convenient to take a look?"

Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi exchanged a glance, blinked, and then said, "The research project in this laboratory is not yet completed. How about I keep you in suspense for now?"

Upon hearing this, reporter Meng, as if eager to stir up trouble, asked, "Director Nie, are there any secrets involved that cannot be made public?"

Is the research topic confidential?

Reporters need to be sensitive to important matters in order to obtain better news topics.

The more Nie Mingxian told her not to look, the more curious she became.

After arriving here from the Disabled Persons' Federation, she understood even more clearly the significance of this interview.

Perhaps, the people who saw it there were in a similar state to the rabbits inside when they were injured, suffering amputation or disability due to the limitations of current medical technology.

If, with the advancement of technology, the number of members in the Disabled Persons' Federation will decrease, then that is the significance of medical advancements.

The contrast between these two sides will make this interview even more meaningful.

"It's not anything particularly confidential, but some of the data-related things inside can't be photographed."

"Hmm, shall I tell you what this is?"

"It's a modified miniature circulatory device. For example, the current artificial lung is a modified human blood circulation device that can extend the lifespan of lung tissue."

"Similarly, our lower limb blood circulation device is a new instrument to extend the lifespan of the lower limbs."

"More importantly, our limbs are not like the organs of the human body, which can survive outside the body."

"In other words, if it is deployed to remote areas, due to the limitations of local medical technology, it may not be able to treat certain diseases that seem to require amputation."

"It's okay. After the amputation, the patient and the amputated limb can be transported together in this miniature circulatory system to a facility that can perform limb replantation. This can greatly extend the survival time of the amputated limb..."

Upon hearing this, Liao Jia was taken aback.

His body gradually stiffened.

Liao Jia also has a background in clinical medicine, but later she went into the field of animal testing and became completely engrossed in it.

His choice of animal testing does not mean that Liao Jia is completely ignorant of clinical practice.

It was precisely because he understood that he emphasized this point.

Liao Jia was completely baffled. The functional reconstruction and limb-sparing surgeries performed by Zhongnan Hospital were so excellent, yet several months had passed and he hadn't seen a single message about them online.

That's really weird!

He happened to have an interview during that time, so he thought of bringing up this matter.

As expected, the reporters who came to interview were very interested in this place, so Liao Jia brought them here, hoping to get half a minute of screen time.

Unexpectedly, he and his team have now unearthed a whale.

Before Liao Jia could reply, Meng Changyi, with her keen news sense, noticed something amiss and asked, "Director Nie, do you mean the blood circulation device you've improved?"

"Could this break down the limitations of space and time to a certain extent, thus expanding the reach of medical resources?"

That's what you call professionalism. Meng Changyi's wording was very appropriate and formal.

The radius of influence of medical resources.

Nie Mingxian pondered for a moment before nodding: "To a certain extent, that's true, although its applicability is currently very narrow, only applicable to injuries to the limbs."

"We can't exaggerate, and this project is not yet completed, so I can't take you in."

Nie Mingxian knew that the other party was somewhat interested, but he still insisted on his principles. He could not casually lead people in before the project was completed.

Now that the topic had come up, how could Meng Changyi let such a good opportunity slip by? "Director Nie, how can we get in?"

"If there's anything you'd like to avoid, you can say it directly."

"Our science and technology channel in Longtai has always been very interested in the new technologies and inventions of researchers, and we also hope to use some unknown researchers as positive publicity materials."

Meng Changyi directly revealed her identity.

Dragon TV holds a very special place in the hearts of Chinese people. It may not be as iconic as the national red flag or the flag that represents faith, but it is the most official program and channel.

Meng Changyi's words left Nie Mingxian and Wu Xuanqi completely dumbfounded.

The two of them turned to look at Liao Jia at the same time.

Liao Jia looked at the two of them, unsure of what to say.

He came here with the intention of showing these reporters some fish, and then a whale suddenly appeared out of there. You can imagine how curious they must be…

(End of this chapter)