Chapter 83 - 69: The Shortest Distance Between Two Points is a Straight Line

Seeing Chen Jue had made his decision, Xu Ping’an didn’t try to keep him any longer. He was so busy he was constantly on his feet, with dozens of surgeries scheduled from morning to night.

It was already a great effort for him to find time for a consultation.

However, after seeing such a rare and unusual case, Xu Ping’an made a point of adding Chen Jue on WeChat. He planned to track Chen Jue’s condition for a while.

If Chen Jue had any changes in his condition or any questions, he could consult him on WeChat.

Of course, Chen Jue’s long trip to Shanghai for medical advice was not in vain.

According to Chen Jue’s logic, since Modu Dongfang Hospital was the number one gallstone specialist in Huaxia, if the doctors here couldn’t cure him, then there were basically no other options left.

This was because the top medical resources were all concentrated in mega-cities like the Imperial Capital, Shanghai, and Wudu. The wealthy had driven up housing prices in these places, valuing not only the school districts but, most importantly, their own health.

Take the special-needs clinic here, for example. A simple appointment registration cost hundreds or even thousands. A one-night hospital stay was a four-figure sum, and a single surgery could cost tens of thousands.

A team like Xu Ping’an’s could perform over ten thousand surgeries a year. With just a few doctors working in rotation, they generated over a hundred million in economic value annually—and that was just the output of a single department.

But there were only a handful of such expert departments in the entire country, which highlighted the scarcity of top-tier medical resources.

Moreover, while waiting in line earlier, Chen Jue had even seen a group of blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigners speaking a foreign language.

The fact that even foreigners came to this hospital by reputation meant its gallstone treatment technology was among the best in the world.

Chen Jue was just an ordinary person with no money or power. Accessing this level of medical care was already the absolute best he could hope for.

Fortunately, the result was a happy one!

Upon learning that his gallstones were shrinking, the heavy weight on Chen Jue’s heart was finally lifted.

’Looks like this panel really is powerful! To think it can even affect something like gallstones, a condition the medical community can’t even figure out.’

’But the stones shrinking probably also has to do with medication, exercise, diet, and a regular routine,’ Chen Jue mused to himself.

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Leaving Dongfang Hospital, Chen Jue snagged the earliest available ticket and rushed back to Hang City before dark.

However, on the way back to Hang City, Chen Jue kept mulling over Xu Ping’an’s words.

Humanity’s current medical technology really wasn’t that advanced. The functions of many human organs were still not fully understood.

Forget fatal diseases; even for a chronic condition like hair loss, there was no effective treatment.

If he were to blindly have an internal organ removed like an ordinary person, only to find out decades later that a new, non-invasive, side-effect-free treatment had been developed, wouldn’t he regret it for the rest of his life?

’This must be what they call the limitations of our era!’ Chen Jue’s mind raced with thoughts.

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After a full day of intercity travel, he went to bed early upon returning home.

Without the pressure of clocking in at work, Chen Jue found that he was becoming more and more spontaneous with his time.

He no longer deliberately checked the time on his phone. Instead, he could figure out what he should be doing just by observing the sunrise, sunset, and the angle of the rising moon.

When he got up the next day, he did his usual Eye Health Exercises. His vision was recovering well, but his Constitution Attribute no longer increased by 0.01 after his morning exercises like before.

Instead, the growth notification only appeared once every two days.

According to Chen Jue’s speculation, his Attribute was higher now, so his body was starting to develop something like a drug resistance to the stimulus from the [Eye Health Exercises] + red light therapy combo.

But the good thing was that his nearsightedness was still decreasing and things were becoming clearer. Chen Jue knew his persistence was paying off.

He went downstairs for a run in the park. The recommendation letter from Elder Wu for him to become an auditor had been written for some time.

It’s just that the old man didn’t have Chen Jue’s contact information, so he had asked Wu Fang to send him a message.

But Chen Jue had gone to Shanghai for medical treatment yesterday, so they had rescheduled their meeting for today.

When he saw Teacher Wu again, she was as vibrant and beautiful as ever.

She was wearing a white training uniform, her ponytail tied with a red silk ribbon. Her face, glistening with a light sheen of sweat after her workout, seemed to glow in the morning sunlight.

It was an external aura of healthiness that could make any normal man’s hormones spike with just a single glance.

However, after the night of Fatty Bai’s sudden death, when he had an epiphany about his own pursuits, Chen Jue had become much more detached from such physiological urges. He reflected on whether he had been a bit too creepy in the past.

After all, a pretty face can be had for a night, but an interesting soul is one in a million.

Therefore, Chen Jue’s attitude toward Wu Fang had also changed, from desperately trying to suck up to her to his current lukewarm, detached distance.

He just didn’t expect that this change in attitude would, in turn, prompt the other party to take the initiative.

"Master Chen, are you really going to be an auditor at Jiang University?" Wu Fang put away her Rope Dart, rolled up her sleeve to wipe the glistening beads of sweat from her forehead, then went to get the recommendation letter from Elder Wu and handed it over.

In Wu Fang’s eyes, she found this man, who was growing leaner by the day, increasingly hard to figure out.

Not only had his appearance and weight changed drastically in a short time, but even his actions and behavior were different from those of an ordinary person these days.

Never mind making videos for social media—that, along with being a food delivery driver or a Didi driver, had practically become the standard three-piece comeback kit for laid-off, unemployed middle-aged folks.