Lv Zheng was dressed in casual attire and had co today in a private capacity, bringing only his assistant secretary along.
However, there were quite a few people at Jiangdu Private Hospital who recognized him.
After all, the day he had brought the elder there, the senior doctors and experts at Jiangdu Private Hospital held a eting about it.
Lv Zheng had t with the doctors from Jiangdu Private Hospital at that ti.
"Lv..."
"Just call Mr. Lv." Lv Zheng saw soone in the distance and quickly stopped Chu Man from speaking.
Chu Man took a deep breath and nodded: "Mr. Lv, why have you co today?"
"Haha, why, am I not allowed to co? Don't worry, I'm not here for an inspection today; I've co to the hospital in a private capacity to visit soone." Lv Zheng laughed.
Lv Zheng, as the newly appointed deputy, wielded power even greater than Zhang Shu before him, far surpassing Zhang Shu's other rival.
Moreover, he happened to oversee the Health Bureau, which naturally included hospital hygiene.
This was Lv Zheng's way of showing amiability through a small joke.
However, Chu Man couldn't laugh; she barely managed a slight smile.
Secretly, she was quite distressed; Lv Zheng had chosen a particularly inconvenient ti to co.
The elder's condition was uncertain, and although she had confidence in Su Chen, the elder's status and background put a lot of pressure on her.
Seeing Lv Zheng being equally respectful towards the elder, it suggested that the elder's status was extraordinary.
If sothing were to happen to the elder in the hospital, under Su Chen's care, they would face more than just Lv Zheng's overwhelming anger.
"Dean Chu, I wonder if it's convenient for to see Elder Lv now?" Although Lv Zheng seed to be asking Chu Man's opinion, his determination to see Elder Lv was unwavering.
But Chu Man dared not agree.
"Mr. Lv, I'm afraid it's not convenient right now..." Chu Man looked troubled.
"Not convenient? Did sothing happen to Elder Lv?" Lv Zheng's expression changed dramatically, losing its previous warmth.
"Mr. Lv, I assure you, Elder Lv is fine." Chu Man's face looked equally unpleasant, but admitting sothing happened to Elder Lv was absolutely out of the question.
She kept him in the dark for another reason: her confidence in Su Chen's dical skills. She believed Su Chen could heal Elder Lv, or at the very least extend his life for so ti, which shouldn't be difficult.
"Then I want to see him now."
"That's impossible!" Chu Man resolutely said.
Lv Zheng took a deep breath and looked at Chu Man. After a while, he spoke heavily: "Dean Chu, I won't elaborate on Elder Lv's identity, but you must understand, if anything happens to Elder Lv, you and all involved will not be able to bear the consequences!"
"I've already said, Elder Lv is fine; he is currently receiving treatnt and is not suitable for visitors." Chu Man responded stiffly.
"Fine, then I will wait right here." Lv Zheng unapologetically sat on a seat in the corridor outside the ward.
Lv Zheng did not leave, though he had made so concessions. Even Chu Man found it hard to argue further.
Lv Zheng was rely waiting outside; trying to drive him away would be unreasonable, wouldn't it?
Ti ticked away, and Lv Zheng had astonishingly sat in the corridor for three hours, during which he answered several calls, seemingly with still other urgent matters to handle.
Yet he put these affairs aside, wholeheartedly waiting for news from Elder Lv's side.
As ti went on, Chu Man grew anxious as well.
It had already been more than seven hours since Su Chen went inside.
During this ti, there hadn't been any feedback from the intensive care unit, which inevitably caused her to worry as well.
Inside the closed doors, within the intensive care unit, Su Chen's treatnt of the elder had reached its critical phase.
The issues with the elder's brain were more severe than initially imagined.
If an ordinary person had attempted to perform the surgery, the elder would likely have long passed into the Netherworld.
Yet Su Chen was different; his control over the human body had reached an incredible level.
He keenly sensed the unusual situation within the elder's brain.
Had he not witnessed it himself, Su Chen might not have believed it.
The cause of the elder's brain tumor, almost sending him into the Netherworld, turned out to be a worm.
That's right, Su Chen extracted a worm from the elder's brain, about the size of a fingernail.
The worm was a vivid blood-red and glowing with intensity.
Su Chen was able to remove it from the elder's brain, largely thanks to his Essence Blood.
To this worm, Su Chen's Essence Blood was like an elixir.
Initially, when Su Chen was examining the elder's brain, the worm seed to be in a state of hibernation, completely still, until Su Chen's Essence Blood spread within the elder, dissolving and devouring his toxins.
It was only then that the worm began to stir, like a cat slling fish.
Holding the captured worm, Su Chen felt an inexplicable sense of strangeness in his heart.
This creature... seed familiar?
The worm, wrapped in Su Chen's Inner Strength, struggled continuously, a formidable fierceness manifesting within its tiny body.
"Gu worm?" These were the words Su Chen's mind surfaced.
Gu worm — Su Chen had encountered it briefly during a mission in the southwest, but only once or twice.
At that ti, had it not been for tracking down a long-harmful drug-manufacturing gang, Su Chen and his team wouldn't have been needed.
The gang may not have been large, but their offline drug-trafficking groups were countless. Moreover, operating in the mountainous southwest made infiltration incredibly difficult, allowing the gang to rampage for a prolonged period.
It was during that mission that Su Chen ca into contact with the existence of Gu worms.
There are many extraordinary entities in this world.
Before then, Su Chen would never have believed that humans could communicate with insects.
But the existence and potency of Gu worms were beyond Su Chen's imagination.
Of course, Gu worms weren't omnipotent; to place a Gu, one needs to co into contact with a person, allowing the Gu worm to make contact.
Moreover, cultivating a Gu worm is not easy.
Su Chen observed the sharp-clawed Gu worm in his hand, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
"Boom!"
Under the pressure of Inner Strength, the Gu worm in Su Chen's hand was instantly crushed into powder, leaving only a sinister red stain on Su Chen's palm.
All of this blood belonged to the elder, the Essence Blood from his heart.
Because the Gu worm had parasitized the elder, constantly absorbing his Essence and Spirit, it had caused nurous bodily issues, rapidly deteriorating his condition.
Now that Su Chen had extracted the Gu worm from his body, as long as he recuperated properly, saying the elder could live another three to five years was entirely feasible.
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