Faced with Zhang Jiangyou’s stunned inquiry, Zhang Lide was also looking at Xu Ze blankly at this moment, without answering. Because he was stunned too at that moment. If it weren’t for his immense trust in Xu Ze, he would have rushed over to stop him long ago. However, Zhang Lide knew that Xu Ze wasn’t the type to be reckless; if Xu Ze was doing this, there must be a reason.
So Zhang Lide stopped Zhang Jiangyou’s action, muttering inwardly at that moment, “Kid… at a time like this, you’d better not mess up. Otherwise, not only will you lose face for the Cardiology Department, but I, as the head of the Internal Medicine Department, have also expressed my support for you. If this goes wrong, I won’t have the face to stay here either!”
Seeing that Zhang Lide didn’t answer and also looked stunned, Zhang Jiangyou couldn’t hold back any longer. He shook off Zhang Lide’s hand and walked towards Xu Ze, intending to see what trick Xu Ze was up to.
Seeing Zhang Jiangyou step forward, Zhang Lide opened his mouth to speak but ended up sighing softly. Then, with a grim expression, he also stepped forward to see what Xu Ze planned to do.
Zhang Jiangyou approached and first carefully looked at the silver needle in Xu Ze’s hand. Seeing that the needle was indeed positioned right at the intracardiac puncture site, his face instantly turned pale.
This spot wasn’t somewhere you could just stick a needle! One wrong move, and it could really kill someone.
Just as he was about to speak, he saw Xu Ze’s hand gently holding the tail of the needle. Zhang Jiangyou hesitated, but didn’t dare to make a sound. He could only stand by, wide-eyed and holding his breath, watching. Because he was afraid that if he startled Xu Ze and his hand trembled, actually pushing the needle in, it would be disastrous.
Zhang Lide was much calmer. Watching Xu Ze pinch the silver needle that had already been inserted into the patient’s heart, while the patient’s heartbeat displayed on the nearby ECG monitor remained normal without any particular change, he felt much more at ease.
Hu Xiaojiang, standing nearby, saw both directors approaching with grim faces. He nervously followed them, watching tensely. In fact, he was far more nervous than the two directors. After all, this patient was under his care. If something went wrong, as the attending physician, he would inevitably be held responsible regardless.
As for the mother of Zhang, who was nearby, seeing the tense expressions of the three doctors, her face naturally turned pale too. At this moment, she was beginning to regret agreeing to let Xu Ze use this silver needle. It now seemed that this acupuncture was an extremely dangerous procedure. Otherwise, why would the two directors look so tense? They probably hadn’t realized it would be this dangerous either.
Zhang Linyun, on the other hand, seemed much more relaxed. Although she was a bit nervous at the moment, her understanding of Xu Ze was naturally something others couldn’t match. So now, she still had great confidence in Xu Ze. She firmly believed that even if Xu Ze couldn’t cure her father, he would absolutely not cause any other adverse effects.
Zhang Lide, Zhang Jiangyou, and Hu Xiaojiang carefully stood by the bedside, watching Xu Ze’s movements, curious about what he would do next.
Zhang Jiangyou was already prepared. If he noticed Xu Ze about to perform any dangerous maneuver, he would stop him, absolutely not allowing him to continue like this.
The three of them stared wide-eyed at Xu Ze, waiting for his next move. But after a long while, Xu Ze remained in the same posture, pinching the silver needle, completely still, leaving the three of them exchanging bewildered glances.
Zhang Jiangyou carefully observed Xu Ze, seeing him with eyes slightly closed, motionless, seemingly with no intention of further action. This eased his tension a bit, but he became increasingly puzzled. He turned to look at Zhang Lide beside him and whispered in confusion, “Director… what is he doing?”
How could Zhang Lide possibly know? He could only blink, turn to look at Zhang Jiangyou, and helplessly shake his head. He just made a silencing gesture to prevent Zhang Jiangyou from disturbing Xu Ze now…
Second by second, time passed. The three doctors craned their necks, watching Xu Ze, growing more and more puzzled…
However, Zhang Jiangyou suddenly noticed that Xu Ze, maintaining the posture of pinching the needle, seemed relaxed, but fine beads of sweat were beginning to appear on his forehead, gradually becoming denser.
Following Zhang Jiangyou’s surprised gaze, Zhang Lide also noticed the sweat on Xu Ze’s forehead. The two of them became even more astonished. What exactly was Xu Ze doing? Just holding a silver needle shouldn’t be this taxing, should it?
They didn’t know the effort Xu Ze was putting in. Sustaining this continuous probing using his spiritual sense and bioelectric energy was an extremely energy-consuming task. At this moment, Xu Ze’s bioelectric ability and spiritual sense were being consumed heavily and continuously; it was no wonder he was struggling.
But fortunately, as his spiritual sense probed deeper, following the increasingly fine blood flow, Xu Ze finally located the blocked blood vessel.
Seeing the vessel lumen tightly clogged with some dark red substance ahead, Xu Ze couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Finding this blockage had consumed considerable mental energy and a significant amount of energy.
Now that the blockage was found, it was time to start the dredging treatment. Xu Ze took a gentle breath and began to stimulate his bioelectric energy, carefully starting to break through the blockage.
Of course, he dared not use overly strong bioelectric energy at this moment. If the bioelectric energy was too strong and stimulated the heart, causing some other accident, the gain would not outweigh the loss.
Zhang Lide and Zhang Jiangyou, watching Xu Ze after such a long time, suddenly saw him take a breath, his expression becoming more solemn. Their hearts also trembled at this moment, knowing that Xu Ze might be about to make a move.
However, they held their breath and waited for a long time, but didn’t see any specific action from Xu Ze. They only noticed that Xu Ze’s index finger, gently pinching the silver needle, had the platinum-gold ring pressed tightly against the needle. He began to flick it subtly against the needle handle, rhythmically, with extremely minute movements. But such flicking seemed like an unconscious action on Xu Ze’s part.
Because the degree of this flicking was so slight that it had absolutely no effect on the silver needle, not even causing the slightest tremor… The two of them exchanged puzzled glances again, feeling that Xu Ze’s actions were indeed somewhat bizarre. It was as if he had just taken a simple breath a moment ago.
Just as they were puzzling over this, suddenly Hu Xiaojiang beside them gasped softly. Startled, the two quickly followed Hu Xiaojiang’s gaze to the ECG monitor nearby.
They saw that on the ECG monitor, the originally quite stable heartbeat fluctuations had suddenly strengthened. The ECG waveform began to oscillate up and down, following the original heartbeat rhythm.
Zhang Lide was startled. He really couldn’t understand what was happening. The patient’s heartbeat was originally very stable, but now why was it beating so forcefully? Yet it still followed the original frequency, beating regularly without any other changes.
“Director, look…” Zhang Jiangyou noticed the root cause of this phenomenon even faster than Zhang Lide at this moment. He pointed at the patient’s chest in astonishment, constantly looking at Xu Ze’s finger, then quickly looking back at the nearby ECG monitor.
Seeing Zhang Jiangyou pointing at the silver needle site on the patient’s chest, Zhang Lide was momentarily stunned, but quickly noticed the anomaly that had so astonished Zhang Jiangyou. Because he discovered that with each subtle flick of Xu Ze’s finger, the heartbeat on the ECG monitor gave a distinct thump.
In fact, each of Xu Ze’s flicks was precisely timed with the heartbeat frequency. His flicking did not interfere with the normal heartbeat. Only in this way, when his bioelectric energy impacted the blockage, would it not disrupt the normal heartbeat, preventing the heart from developing arrhythmias or even stopping due to bioelectrical interference.
Now, the heart was simply slightly strengthening under the impact of his bioelectric energy, without any other effects.
“What’s going on? How is this possible?” Zhang Lide’s eyes were full of astonishment and disbelief. He looked up at Zhang Jiangyou beside him and exclaimed involuntarily, “This… is this possible? Old Zhang?”
Zhang Jiangyou also looked dazed at this moment. He had been in the Cardiovascular Department for over twenty years and had never heard of such a situation. He had never seen anything, besides a pacemaker, that could cause a heart to behave like this…
Could a silver needle like Xu Ze’s, just by gently flicking it like this, produce such an effect? How was that possible?
Although they didn’t understand why this was happening, both of them instinctively looked back at the patient. Seeing the patient’s chest still rising and falling slowly and evenly as before, with no change in breathing, they finally felt somewhat relieved.
Zhang Lide looked hesitantly at the ECG monitor, watching the heartbeat fluctuations still beating very regularly. Then he looked at the still-dazed Zhang Jiangyou beside him, shook his head, and said slowly, “Forget it… I can’t figure it out. But since the situation is stable, let’s just watch for now…”
Hearing Zhang Lide’s words, Zhang Jiangyou finally came to his senses. He sighed softly with a strange expression and nodded gently.
Today’s events had finally opened the eyes of this self-proclaimed expert in cardiovascular medicine. Unable to determine the situation, he could only watch like this, waiting to see what changes would occur next.
This continued for two or three minutes. Amidst the surprised, tense, and expectant gazes of everyone, Xu Ze slowly opened his eyes. Without bothering to wipe the dense sweat from his forehead, he quickly pulled out the silver needle…
