33 The Recklessness of the Young (1/2)

”Doctor Ling, thank you.” The several young people surrounded Ling Ran as they thanked him one after another.

The expression on Ling Ran's face did not change. He asked, ”Where did you see the video?”

”Patient Group, City Forum. It's all over my friend circle as well. It was even forwarded in Weibo.” The thin and tall young man was trying to butter Ling Ran up with some immature techniques as he said, ”Doctor Ling, you're handsome and your medical skills are good. You're standard material for internet celebrity status. Everyone's sharing it. It wouldn't be logical if you're not famous, unlike us…”

”You guys don't seem like internet celebrities either.” Ling Ran could never be able to accept such a crude way of flattery. He only thought of ending the conversation as soon as he could.

So, the conversation was killed off, as expected.

The tall, skinny young man coughed and awkwardly said, ”Our appearances are indeed a little disappointing to the audience. Oh, I forgot to mention this. We're all from the Summit of Clouds Club.”

He waited for a moment. When he saw that Ling Ran did not respond to the name at all, he was little disappointed. He then said, ”The Summit of Clouds Club is an eSport club that was founded by our team in Yun Hua City. Our coach used to be a civil servant of the sports committee. If it weren't for him pushing hard for this idea to come to fruition, our club wouldn't have formed in the first place.”

”That's right. Coach has given a lot for the club.”

”He had to drink with government servants every single day. We thought he would die of drinking…”

”Hey, cut the nonsense.” The tall, skinny young man felt a little embarrassed and stopped the others before he said, ”Our club is focusing mainly on dominating King of Glory this year. My name is Dong Zhizhuan. Do you play mobile games, Doctor Ling?”

Ling Ran could not help but take a quick glance at the few of them. Then he said, ”I've played King of Pesticide[1] back in school.”

”Haha! That's great! We can add each other as friends and bring your rank up when we're all free.” Dong Zhizhuan seemed to have cheered up again and said with a chuckle, ”While we may not be able to bring you up to king rank, it'll be easy as pie for us to bring you up to diamond rank.”

”I'm free now.” Ling Ran did not hold back as he took out his phone.

Indeed, he was free. It was about time for him to get off work.

Dong Zhizhuan probably seldom met people who were as straightforward as Ling Ran. He was stunned for a moment before he quickly added Ling Ran on WeChat. He smiled and said, ”I forgot to ask, how do you rank in this game, Doctor Ling?”

Ling Ran lifted his head slightly and said, ”Bronze Level 3.”

Dong Zhizhuan's expression suddenly froze a little.

As a professional eSports player who practiced more than twelve hours a day, Dong Zhizhuan acknowledged that he was capable of killing all amateur players in an instant.

However, if he was supposed to talk in terms of partying with these amateurs, then as the lowest ranked players in the entire ranking system of the game, the Bronze Level 3 players constantly played a miraculous role in dragging the entire party down.

”Doctor Ling, you must seldom play games, right?”

”Definitely.”

”It shouldn't be possible to be Bronze Level 3 even if you're a casual player.”

The players from the eSports club were consoling each other.

Ling Ran put on a smile on his face and explained. ”I should have played a total of more than one hundred hours. It's just that I lose more than I win.”

”No worries. We can help pull your ranking up. You can win,” Dong Zhizhuan gritted his teeth and said. At least he was able to get the doctor's WeChat.

In current times, even if you pushed money gifts to the doctors, you might still not get the doctors' WeChat.

”When are you getting off work? Let's play one round, shall we?” Dong Zhizhuan decided to push the ”money gift” even more firmly into Ling Ran's hands. The coach had bled a lot. It seemed that he would need to stay in the hospital slightly longer.

”A little while more… Two minutes. I'll start the match when I get into the waiting room. Doctors aren't allowed to play games in the patient's room.” Ling Ran appeared to be very particular when it came to following rules.

Dong Zhizhuan repeated his promise as he sent Ling Ran out through the door. He got back to the coach's side and turned on his phone. Then with a serious look, he said to the others, ”We shall work together to act as mentors to Doctor Ling. Just treat it as a mission arranged by the coach.”

”For the coach!”

”For the coach!”

”Let's give it our best.”

Everyone looked at their pale coach while he lay on the hospital bed. They could not help but clench their fists.

…..

Ling Ran spent two pleasant hours after that.

His ranking had improved. That was not the source of his joy though. The greatest source of his joy was no matter how he played and how badly he played, he was always able to rain down a massacre.

Truth be told, he could have lasted for two more hours if it were not because Dong Zhizhuan and the others had other things to attend to all of a sudden.

After the game ended, Ling Ran did not rush back home. He just started to browse through Weibo.

As expected, he was able to find the video after he keyed in a few keywords.

There was a Weibo thread titled ”Handsome Doctor Stops Bleeding with His Bare Hands”. It was the most forwarded and most commented on video. There were about three thousand comments for that one Weibo thread.

Ling Ran clicked it to have a look at them. The first ones that appeared were pointless copy pasted comments: [Doctor, I scraped my knee. Please help me take a look at it.]

Ling Ran scrolled the page down in silence.