Chapter 1213: Chapter 1213: Gu Yangzhi’s Choice
"You all..."
Gu Yangzhi was at a loss for words.
His face bore the awkwardness of humiliation.
For the first time, he felt utterly ashamed and disgraced.
He stood up and walked to the door, turning to face Ren Min and the other two.
His expression was gloomy, with a trace of malice in his eyes that was hard to conceal.
"You three better think carefully, the first preliminary round doesn’t count for much! The upcoming semifinals and finals require solid medical knowledge and extensive surgical experience. If I’m not wrong, there’s at least one neurosurgery involved. I’ve been following Professor Smith abroad! I’m undoubtedly the main surgeon, my experience is unparalleled. Are you really going to give up on me over a minor flaw?"
Ren Min looked at him, utterly calm, without a ripple of emotion! There was no regret at all.
Old Xie shook his head, "Professor Gu! Learn to be a decent person first before talking about skills, otherwise one might have immense skills but still be a selfish person, forgetting about national dignity and interests. Such a person has no sense of patriotism, what’s the meaning of living then?"
Gu Yangzhi slammed the door and left.
Xiao Cheng watched the vigorously shaking door, confused, asked Ren Min and Old Xie, "What exactly happened? Give me an explanation."
To know, it took a lot of effort to invite Professor Gu back.
Now he just left like that.
Old Xie recounted yesterday’s events in full detail.
Old Xiao was dumbfounded.
Then he slammed the table and stood up.
"Bastard, did such a disgraceful thing and now dares to come to us to threaten us, really thick-skinned. Why didn’t you tell me earlier, let me expose that charade of his, what the hell."
He was furious, ready to hit someone.
He truly didn’t expect Gu Yangzhi to be such a person.
His character is irredeemable.
"Did that Bai Xiao really go back to bring others out and even help them complete the advancement task?"
Xiao Cheng couldn’t believe Bai Xiao, this unknown Bai Xiao, was really that capable?
"If you don’t believe me, go watch the recordings yourself. Our people copied all the recordings back. Synchronized recordings are also available in our office, just need to be organized. Bai Xiao is indeed the niece of Director Yu. With such courage and determination to put aside her own achievements, going back to find others, I feel even if we lose, we lose with dignity."
Ren Min held great admiration for Bai Xiao.
They didn’t take this girl seriously in the beginning; with Director Yu’s position, many were watching Bai Xiao’s captaincy with skepticism, they couldn’t ignore her, but they felt she was unreliable to shoulder such a heavy responsibility.
The young girl was indeed far behind compared to those old professors and directors.
"Ah, we are so old and yet our judgment was so off, no wonder Director Yu promoted kin over avoidance, Bai Xiao truly sees the bigger picture in critical moments, with such high awareness and thought, willing to sacrifice her own honor and future to lead the team out of difficulties, we all feel shame." Ren Min sighed, initially, no one took Bai Xiao seriously.
To put it bluntly, the captain was just a figurehead.
Now what?
A slap in the face.
"No need to mention anything else, this girl really has skills, didn’t you see her first bringing out a team of ten and then with Qi Yuqing leading out a team of nineteen? What’s important is her incredible luck, like a giant panda, our delegation of thirty making it to the next round broke all our previous records. Just this alone is enough for us to credit her with an accomplishment."
"Indeed, she deserves credit. The list for the semifinals is coming; the upcoming semifinals won’t be as simple as the preliminary round. Let them prepare well."
"Yes! We really hope they make significant progress this time. Only through relentless efforts of our doctors can we surpass other countries."
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Later that afternoon, a shocking incident occurred in the competition.
Gu Yangzhi did not withdraw from the competition; instead, he held a press conference announcing his departure from the China Delegation, joining the Alishan Delegation ranked nineteenth and acting as the captain for the semifinals.
This news caused a huge uproar, even more of an outcry.
Hardly anyone does this.
It’s not impossible, just that no one does it.
After all, representing one’s own country, such honor isn’t something one simply casts aside, yet Gu Yangzhi chose Alishan, almost tantamount to betraying his own country.
Though the Alishan team shares ancestry with China.
The clamor couldn’t stop the incident from further escalating.
Bai Xiao and the others were completely unaware; after staying up all day yesterday, they ate and then slept.
No one had the mind to care about it.
They only learned about this heavyweight news the next day during the observation of the semifinal rules.
The entire team was nearly speechless about Gu Yangzhi.
This person redefined the upper limit of shamelessness.
Utterly shameless.
And does Gu Yangzhi really not plan on keeping his nationality, such a switch is akin to slapping his own country in the face, what good does it do him?
Bai Xiao paid no mind to Gu Yangzhi, for her, she came to the competition earnestly, without any perfunctory attitude.
She simply wanted to learn, hoping to borrow from others’ strengths academically, enhancing their research achievements, striving to surpass those major nations and elevate China’s medical skills to a level where more people could be freed from the suffering of diseases.
The rules for the semifinals were completely different from those of the preliminary round.
This time, the organizing committee couldn’t act wilfully, as the semifinals would determine the rigorous medical assessments that followed.
This semifinal tested their ability in medical imaging technology.
Seeing this, they all got somewhat serious.
Medical imaging technology in China was mostly borrowed from foreign technologies, including imported equipment, and this was undeniably their shortcoming.
The final evaluation criteria for imaging technology included comprehensive understanding of the lesion, precise analysis of each part, and devising a surgical plan based on the imaging technology, followed by successful surgery based on the plan.
This time, it would be a real show of skill.
The patients were specially selected from tens of thousands of cases, communicated with, agreeing to accept surgeries from various delegations, fifty teams with fifty cases.
The difficulty levels of the cases were relatively consistent, but the locations of lesions differed, which determined possible complications later.
The fifty teams were to draw lots to decide their competition projects.
Bai Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.
The challenge of imaging technology for them lay in the immaturity of their technology, the limited number of cases they had seen, truly testing them with difficult and rare diseases.
Although this was a challenge for others, to Bai Xiao, did she really still need more imaging technology assistance?
What’s crucial is that they have the opportunity to observe the surgical processes of other teams, it’s truly the time to learn from experience.
Bai Xiao was already exhilarated.
Replicating all the surgical processes would be a massive project.
One must know that competition material wasn’t allowed to be filmed, specific recording was only allowed for archiving by the organizing committee.