◇ 【075】 One against five, feeling proud (4)
The middle-aged man said, "My name is Deng Yingsong. I'm a high school teacher. I'm 42 years old."
"It's Teacher Deng. Excuse me, Teacher Deng, please wait a moment. Next, it's Catherine's turn to select a patient for Gu. I wonder what Catherine will choose—Oh!" Wen Li said in surprise, "I just realized that Ackerman has also stood up. What's going on?"
Liang Xun speculated, "Could it be that Catherine is going to choose Ackerman as Gu's patient?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Catherine pointed at Ackerman and said to Gu Juan with a smile: "Thank you for your help."
Gu Juan nodded.
Liang Xun suggested, "To facilitate our live broadcast, how about the two contestants take turns starting?"
"Okay. Classmate Gu can go first..." Catherine didn't care. Noticing Ackerman's gaze, she changed her words in time, "Classmate Gu can rest for a while. I'll start first."
Gu Juan returned to his seat without objection.
Catherine asked the middle-aged man to sit down. In addition to "asking", she proceeded with the Chinese medicine's "look, listen, ask and feel" method, and finally took the pulse.
Seeing her standard and skillful pulse-taking movements, the students in the medical school nodded secretly, knowing that her skills were not false.
After writing something on the paper, Catherine nodded to the two hosts.
Liang Xun announced the time, "10 minutes and 20 seconds."
Gu Juan walked up to Ackerman.
Ackerman bluntly said into the microphone, "You're doomed. Even the most prestigious hospital in Country A can't diagnose my illness."
The whole audience was in an uproar.
Gu Juan ignored Ackerman and first observed his complexion, eyelids, gums and teeth in turn, then took his pulse. After about seven seconds, he let go of his hand.
Wen Li handed the microphone to Gu Juan and asked with concern, "How is it?"
Gu Juan said, "Student Ackerman suffers from a very rare viral disease..."
Ackerman was stunned.
"...We don't know what to call this virus yet. But we know for sure that his enhanced physical strength and memory are related to it. Simply put, this virus has unleashed a concentrated burst of his lifelong potential. If I'm not mistaken, his physical and memory talents appeared between the ages of eight and ten. In the next three or four years, his memory and physical skills will continue to improve. However, after four years at most, his physical strength and memory will decline sharply."
Ackerman's face turned pale, and Catherine was also very shocked.
“This is complete nonsense!” Ackerman shouted. “You’re scaremongering!”
Gu Juan remained silent. Whether it was nonsense or not, Ackerman knew it all.
Some students couldn't help but talk about it.
"Gu Juan is indeed very powerful, but he still has to treat Ackerman next. Will he deliberately not treat him?"
"Do you really think Gu Juan is that capable? He's only been studying medicine for a little over half a year, so being able to diagnose this is already pretty good!"
"If Gu Juan's diagnosis is correct, it would be enough to prove that his medical skills are better than Catherine's."
"Yes, the male god is indeed beyond our reach."
“…”
Catherine forced herself to calm down. "Can you heal him?"
Gu Juan shook his head. "Unfortunately, I'm not a skilled practitioner." He could write a prescription, but one of the herbs in the medical manual his father had given him was already extinct. Unless he used the elixir from the space, Ackerman wasn't worth exposing any of his secrets.
The audience sighed. Although Ackerman was arrogant, he was also a genius. The fall of a genius is always regrettable.
Bain said, "I don't believe Gu Juan's diagnosis. Should I ask your school's medical professor to re-diagnose it?"
Wen Li smiled and said, "Since Mr. Bain has such confidence in our Traditional Chinese Medicine, please welcome Professor Chen, a professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Congzhou University!"
"No need!" Ackerman refused coldly.
Liang Xun said awkwardly: "Then, this competition..."
Bain immediately said, "Of course Catherine wins. Gu Juan didn't prescribe any medicine for Beckman, did he?"
Ackerman glared at him.
Bane quickly lowered his head.
Gu Juan said nonchalantly, "Catherine won. Congratulations, Catherine!"
Catherine remained silent with a cold expression. She might have won, but she didn't feel the excitement that comes with winning. She regretted coming to Country C!
The audience applauded Catherine generously, but they all knew that, strictly speaking, Gu Juan had won. He could diagnose a condition that even the most prestigious hospitals in Country A couldn't. Wasn't that impressive?
"The next person to accept the challenge is David." Wen Li said, "I guess the two of them will compete in language or memory."
Gu Juan said that it was a test of memory.
"How do we compare specifically?" Liang Xun asked.
Gu Juan explained, "Please ask the host to find an audio clip online in a language that David and I haven't learned. It should be at least ten minutes long. We will both listen to it and then repeat it. The one who repeats the most content and with the highest accuracy will win."
David raised his voice, "I'm fine."
Liang Xun and Wen Li deliberately chose an unpopular language, Icelandic.
When David heard that Gu Juan not only repeated the audio content completely but also without any mistakes, he knew he had lost and returned to his seat helplessly.
"That's great!" Gu Yinyin's face flushed with excitement.
Han Lin approached Xi Lang and whispered sympathetically, "It must be stressful to be with him, right?"
Xi Lang said calmly, "Why? I can do that, too."
Han Lin's mouth became an "O" shape.
"The final challenge is against Emily!" Liang Xun said. "Ever since she appeared in the 'Five', Emily has always been a mysterious figure. Honestly, I came to today's challenge just for Emily. Will she reveal the mystery today?"
Wen Li asked Gu Juan, "Mr. Gu, I wonder which aspect of Emily you want to challenge?"
Gu Juan shook his head and said helplessly, "I don't know what Emily is good at, so why not let her challenge me?"
Emily stood up, took off the shawl from her shoulders, tied up her loose hair with a hairband, and with a faint smile on her lips, she looked at Gu Juan intently, as if she was looking at her lover.
"Same as Bane...same as Bane...yeah...same...same...same..."
This was the first time she spoke since entering the stadium. Her soft voice was ethereal and echoed in the void, like a dream.
Gu Juan was momentarily dazed, then quickly recovered. Could this be Emily's ability? Her voice was as unreal as a dream, as if it were to lead the listener into a wondrous wonderland. But he didn't sense Emily's energy fluctuations. He secretly emitted a shockwave of true energy, and those who had been somewhat dazed in the room immediately regained consciousness.
Wen Li felt as if he had lost a few seconds of memory and shook his head in confusion, "Did Emily just say... the same as Bane?"
"In other words, this is revenge for Bane?" Liang Xun said in a joking tone.
The audience nodded in agreement.
"With your hands hanging in the air, let's compete in martial arts." Emily spoke again, her voice no longer able to influence others.
Wen Li clenched his fists and held his cheeks. "It's more difficult than before. I'm really looking forward to it!"
Gu Juan said, "Please."
Ackerman smiled coldly and said indifferently: "Emily's skills are stronger than mine. Gu Juan, you are doomed to lose!"
Gu Juan habitually ignored him and walked to the edge of the platform, hanging in the air as before.
The same goes for Emily.
After both of them were secured, Wen Li shouted, "Begin!"
After shouting, she and Liang Xun quickly ran down the stage, where it would be more convenient for them to host the show.
Emily's hands moved alternately on the wooden board, her movements incredibly fast. In just two seconds, she was next to Gu Juan and kicked him. Because she was wearing a long, loose white gauze skirt, her sudden movement caused it to fly up, and she hovered in the air like an elegant white dove (of course, she was wearing leggings under her skirt, so there was no problem of revealing her underwear).
It must be said that the camera captured this scene beautifully, and some viewers couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. But she and Gu Juan were too close, and they couldn't help but worry that Gu Juan wouldn't be able to avoid her attack.
But Gu Juan suddenly rose up, and in an instant his body was almost at the same level as the platform, as sharp as a sword and as steady as a mountain!
The audience, including media reporters, were all excited and cheered loudly, taking pictures with their cameras and mobile phones.
"good!"
"This is authentic ** martial arts!"
“You must worship it!”
“…”
Xi Lang focused his attention on Gu Juan, his right hand reaching into his coat pocket, seemingly stroking something.
Han Lin and Li Ruicheng watched intently, their upper bodies leaning forward nervously without realizing it.
Lin Xuan sighed softly, feeling that he was not as good as him.
Emily's attack missed, and she felt a little embarrassed. She was no longer the quiet and gentle little girl now. She had the stern aura of a seasoned assassin. She held the board with her left hand while stabbing at Gu Juan's hand holding the board with her right hand, her sharp nails like slender blades.
Gu Juan raised his foot and kicked her in the vest.
Emily managed to withstand the blow and took the opportunity to grab Gu Juan's ankle and twist it hard. At the same time, she raised her right leg almost perpendicular to her upper body and kicked Gu Juan's vulnerable crotch hard.
Gu Juan frowned, and with a roundhouse kick from his left leg, he neutralized the attack from her right foot. He grabbed her wrist with his right hand and exerted force as if shaking a rope.
Emily's face turned pale, and her hands holding the wooden board slipped.
"Oh my god, this is so nerve-wracking." Wen Li looked up at the two people in mid-air and whispered into the microphone, "I almost didn't dare to breathe, for fear that even a breath would affect them."
My stomach is starting to feel uncomfortable again, so I'll only update once today. Sorry, good night.
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