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Chap 789

Chapter 789: Drawing lots, leave it to luck

Thanks to Han Yunxi’s words, Gu Qishao saw Gu Beiyue in a new light. He stopped his scornful stare to rub his chin with interest. Even though the audience was full of whispers and laughs, Gu Beiyue remained calm and self-possessed while standing onstage. He was as light as a breeze and indifferent as a cloud, wearing a faint smile.

Finally, Department Head Huo spoke up as well. “Young man, it’s commendable that you have the guts to step on this stage! If the medical academy had more juniors like you, then our old bones can stop worrying about the future.”

“Such undeserved compliments,” Gu Beiyue remarked modestly without a hint of humbleness.

“Heheh, does anyone else want to come onstage?” Department Head Huo looked at the young members of the medical academy. But none of them had the courage nor will, so they all lowered their heads.

“Since there’s nobody else, then shall we stat?” Department Head Huo shifted his gaze to the judging panel. Originally, the old academy head should be the judge, but since Gu Yuntian was in jail, the medical academy found a few renowned clan heads of Medical City to preside over the proceedings. Of course, the Gu, Huo, Lin, and Ouyang Clans were barred from the panel in the interest of fairness.

Soon enough, the judging panel announced the start of the competition. The medical skills competition, as its name suggested, was a test of medical arts. Competitors didn’t submit reports or research results, but did real life examinations and saved live patients to display their abilities. No one had the skills to find different patients with the exact same ailments for the competition. Even victims of the same disease would have differences based on their constitutions and resistance. Thus, the competition drew lots to choose a random patient for treatment.

Cloud Realm Continent was full of sufferers streaming to the medical academy daily in hopes of a cure for their illnesses. The academy had set up 10 examination halls and assigned a specific party to record the specifics of each patient’s illness along with the difficulty of their cures before delegating them to various ranked doctors. The medical skills competition would be randomly selecting the highest difficulty patients from this very pool. 

Once the panel announced the start of the competition, a young medical assistant brought over a canister filled with 10 sticks. The crowd fell silent at the sight because everyone was looking forward to the three department heads duke it out...as well as watch Gu Beiyue’s failure from overestimating his skills!

Clan Head Ren was the leader of the judging panel. He stood up and proclaimed, “For the sake of fairness, this panel chose 10 patients with the same level of treatment difficulty. May the four doctors please each choose a stick now.”

The silence in the crowd grew more pronounced at his words. The four figures on stage all took out a bamboo stick at the same time. At the bottom of each stick was tied a piece of paper written with the illness case. Each of them reviewed their slip. Gu Beiyue was a habitually quiet man, but he seemed exceptionally still today as he stood upon the high stage. It seemed as if he was a figure removed from this world, free from its struggles and competition. 

Han Yunxi felt a faint sense of uneasiness as she watched him from a distance. There was no such thing as absolute equality in the world. Although drawing lots like this seemed fair, luck played a part as well. All of the illness cases were of the same difficulty level, but that didn’t mean they were equally easy to cure. Each case had different degrees of difficulty from the other. Furthermore, the cases might clash with each doctor’s skill subsets and proficiencies. Additionally, what were the standards of the judging panel? Some illnesses could be treated within a few days, but others needed longer convalescence times. Although the judging panel gave scores based on various factors, subjective judging of a live performance put Gu Beiyue at a disadvantage. As far as Han Yunxi knew, he had no acquaintances amongst the five members of the panel.