After bidding farewell to the girl, she drove into the hospital, and Long Xiao followed her.
There were many people waiting for the elevator, and Long Xiao waited for a while before reaching the eighth floor.
The eighth floor had high-end wards on the left and regular wards on the right. He glanced at the left, sighed, and was about to walk to the right when he heard someone shout, "Doctor, doctor, my grandpa is spitting blood, quick, save him."
A girl in a beige dress, pale and flustered, ran out of a ward.
Long Xiao recognized her at a glance; it was the girl he had just saved.
She had heart disease and could easily go into shock if she got excited. Long Xiao couldn't help but worry about her and walked towards the ward she had run out of.
Three doctors, with several nurses, pushed the emergency equipment and rushed into the ward. Long Xiao followed them.
There were many people in the ward. Besides the doctors, nurses, and the girl, there was a middle-aged couple with worried expressions, and two bodyguards in black suits. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
On the bed was an elder with white hair and delicate skin. His eyes were closed, and his face was contorted in pain. With each cough, dark red clotted blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.
Soon, the emergency equipment was all in use, the cardiac stimulant was administered, and all possible resuscitation methods were tried. The elder's cough grew weaker, his heartbeat slowed down, and he was close to stopping.
"Mr. Ji, we are powerless. Prepare for the funeral," said a dejected doctor, straightening up.
"A bunch of good-for-nothings, get out, all of you, get out."
The middle-aged man lost control completely, kneeling on the ground hysterically, holding the elder's hand, and trembling as he said, "Dad, I'm sorry, it's my fault for not finding you a better doctor."
The middle-aged woman took out her phone and dialed a number. Soon, a mobile phone alarm rang from outside the ward.
An elder in a Tang suit, with a ruddy face and carrying a cloth bag, rushed into the ward. He ignored the ringing phone in his pocket and did not take it out.
"Divine Doctor Li, my father is not doing well. Please examine him quickly." Seeing the elder, the middle-aged woman called out anxiously.
Divine Doctor Li parted the crowd and went to the bedside. He took the elder's pulse, opened the cloth bag, and took out silver needles.
More than a dozen silver needles were inserted into the elder's chest. The elder's cough became stronger, and his heart rate quickened, but the dark blood seeping from his mouth did not stop.
Divine Doctor Li frowned, grabbed the elder's wrist, and examined it again.
Divine Doctor Li's brows were tightly furrowed. The ward was silent; everyone was afraid of interrupting Divine Doctor Li's treatment of the elder.
A minute later, Divine Doctor Li sighed, his expression dim, and shook his head, saying, "It's still too late. The Gu worm of the Heart-Devouring Gu has already entered the heart. Elder Ji cannot be saved. Prepare for the funeral."
Divine Doctor Li stepped back. The middle-aged man and the young girl went to the bedside, grabbed the elder's hand, and wept uncontrollably. Everyone else stood there, not daring to speak.
Elder Ji was the pillar of the Ji family and also the pillar of Tianhai Group. As long as he was there, no one dared to touch Tianhai Group or the Ji family.
Long Xiao was conflicted. He did not have a medical license. If he stepped forward now and succeeded in healing, it would be fine. If he failed, he would face imprisonment.
Seeing that both doctors had declared the elder beyond help, Long Xiao thought of his father and his own helplessness in the past. He could not bear to watch a living being fade away like this.
Long Xiao couldn't resist and stepped forward, saying, "Let me try."
All eyes turned to Long Xiao. None of them knew him or where he came from.
"Who are you? You're not one of our doctors, are you?" asked the doctor who had first attended to the elder in the ward, his voice filled with surprise.
"I'm not a doctor. I was passing by and heard crying from inside, so I came in."
"Get out of here! You're not a doctor, so why are you interfering? This is not a place for you to show off," the doctor said sternly.
The girl turned and saw Long Xiao, like a drowning person spotting a life buoy. She stood up and grabbed Long Xiao's arm.
"Brother, please save my grandfather, please save my grandfather."
"But I'm not a doctor."
"Yes, you are a doctor. If you can save me, you can save my grandfather. Please."
The girl, with tears streaming down her face, knelt before Long Xiao and pleaded, holding his hand.
She didn't know if Long Xiao could save her grandfather, but the fact that he could save her was enough.
Everyone in the ward was dumbfounded. No one knew why the girl was so convinced that Long Xiao could save a dying person.
The doctor grabbed Long Xiao's arm, trying to pull him out of the ward. In his eyes, Long Xiao was just a plebeian seeking attention. If Long Xiao did anything that caused harm, the hospital would be held responsible.
Suddenly, the elder coughed violently again, then his head lolled and he went still. His faint heartbeat instantly vanished, and the electrocardiogram flatlined.
"No heartbeat," a nurse exclaimed.
Divine Doctor Li stepped forward, checked the elder's breathing, and stepped back with a shake of his head, saying nothing.
Long Xiao knew that if he didn't act now, the elder would truly be beyond saving.
He shook off the doctor's hand, sidestepped the kneeling girl, grabbed a silver needle from the cloth bag on the bedside table with his left hand, and took the elder's wrist with his right.
Using inner sight to examine the elder's heart, Long Xiao clearly saw a dark red worm about to enter the elder's heart.
He pierced the silver needle into the elder's chest, directly through the worm, fixing it in the vein at the entrance to the elder's heart.
He then picked up seven more silver needles. A faint green mist appeared, enveloping the seven silver needles.
The seven silver needles, arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper, were rapidly inserted into seven acupoints on the elder's chest.
"Who is this person? He's actually seeking attention in the hospital."
"He's a scumbag, just showing off by using a dead person. How shameless."
"Look at his shabby clothes, he actually thinks he's a divine doctor."
As Long Xiao hastily made his move, several nurses standing behind him whispered and discussed.
"Bastard, my father is gone, and you're still stabbing his body."
Just as Long Xiao pricked the last needle, an angry roar came.
With a bang, the middle-aged man's fist landed on Long Xiao's face, sending him flying. His head buzzed, but he still managed to shout with all his might, "Don't pull out the silver needles!"
Seeing Long Xiao make his move, Divine Doctor Li couldn't help but sigh, thinking, *This is too reckless. Elder Ji has no heartbeat and no breathing; he can't be saved.*
When Divine Doctor Li saw the seven silver needles arranged in the Big Dipper formation, he suddenly remembered a legendary life-saving acupuncture technique: the Ghost Gate Seven Needles.
It was said that the Ghost Gate Seven Needles were incredibly miraculous, capable of pulling people back even from the brink of death.
Long Xiao got up, rubbing his sore face. He hadn't expected saving someone to be dangerous. It seemed he needed to learn some martial arts from the Dragon Scripture for self-defense.
"There's a heartbeat, look, there's a heartbeat!"
The nurse's exclamation drew everyone's attention to the resuscitation equipment.
What had been a straight line, with a few beeps, the heartbeat grew faster and faster, returning to normal in less than a minute.
Just as everyone was feeling surprised, Elder Ji on the bed opened his eyes.