Zhang Fan was young and just a resident doctor. He didn’t need to mind his status like how Superintendent Ouyang and the directors would. Not only that, Zhang Fan really did have the ability to perform this surgery.

Professor Chang wasn’t able to win a war of words against Zhang Fan, so he started trying to scare Zhang Fan instead. “Young man, don’t make it so that you’re unable to stay in the medical field just for the sake of getting into your leaders’ good graces.”

“Doctor Zhang, just talk about the surgery! You must have class rather than only talking! It’s not good to make others look bad!” Superintendent Ouyang finally felt like she could vent some of her anger. Although she was nominally lecturing Zhang Fan, everyone present knew that her comments were actually aimed at Professor Chang. Earlier, since Superintendent Ouyang had still wanted to rely on Professor Chang for the surgery, she was forced to tolerate his behavior. But now that Zhang Fan was talking like this, she understood that Zhang Fan had to have a guarantee of being able to perform the surgery!

Professor Chang suddenly felt like something was off about the situation, but he was unable to figure out what it was.

“You have the guts to say such things? Does that mean you can actually perform such a surgery?” Professor Chang said condescendingly.

Meanwhile, Zhang Fan didn’t want to keep talking to Professor Chang. All Zhang Fan wanted in the first place was to say a few words to help his coworkers and Superintendent Ouyang vent their anger. He ignored Professor Chang and spoke directly to Superintendent Ouyang and the others. “Superintendent, directors. If there’s no problems with the patient’s pre-surgery checkups, let’s prepare for the tumor removal surgery tomorrow. The surgery will take a long time, so there’s not enough time to do it today.”

“Do you have a guarantee?” Superintendent Ouyang asked again.

“Yes. My teacher was the one who invented this technique for tumor removal!” Zhang Fan stated.

“Hahahaha!” Professor Chang laughed out loud while everyone else was still being astonished. Everyone turned to look at him again because his laughing was far too sardonic.

“Brag! Keeping bragging! You probably don’t even know who invented this surgical technique! Why not claim that Qiu Fazu is your teacher instead! Oh man! This is so funny!” Professor Chang felt that it was really funny. This was because he knew that Superintendent Lu of Bluebird City University Hospital, the surgeon who pioneered Chinese surgical removal of liver tumors, hadn’t personally taught any graduate students for countless years already. If Zhang Fan really was Superintendent Lu’s disciple, then he would at least have to be a doctorate degree student. Would any doctorate degree students realistically come out here to such a small hospital in the border province? [TL note: Qiu Fazu is a real person, and considered the father of modern Chinese surgery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiu_Fazu However, Superintendent Lu is a fictional character.]

Zhang Fan glanced at Professor Chang, but ignored him. Instead, Zhang Fan continued to speak to Superintendent Ouyang. “Back when I was studying at Bluebird City University Hospital, Superintendent Lu and the others just started using this technique in clinical treatment. I was lucky enough to perform a few of these surgeries.” Zhang Fan was telling a lie here in order to make it sound plausible why he would know how to perform such a surgery. While it was indeed true that Superintendent Lu had started using this technique in clinical treatment at the time that Zhang Fan arrived at Bluebird City University Hospital, Zhang Fan had been busy grinding orthopedic surgery back then.

Only after he leveled up orthopedic surgery was he able to access general surgery courses in his System. Although Zhang Fan had never done tumor removal surgery in real life before, he had already practiced it in his System for over 100 times already.

He was saying all this in order to give Superintendent Ouyang and the other Chasu City Hospital doctors more confidence. Otherwise, Superintendent Ouyang would never dare to actually allow him to perform this surgery.

“This is no time to be joking around!” Superintendent Ouyang said with a serious expression.

“I’m not joking!”

“If you don’t have much of a guarantee, then you really don’t need to perform this surgery. I can apply to have this patient transferred to a different hospital,” Superintendent Ouyang said once again. She was being extra cautious because this would be a highly difficult surgery that even most expert doctors such as Professor Chang from the provincial tumor hospital would be unable to perform. She was worried that Zhang Fan was being reckless.

“You might as well just transfer the patient. Don’t think that you’re an expert already just because you learned a few things from your teacher. Young man, you need to do only the things you can do. This is only a small local hospital, after all.”

Zhang Fan would never miss an opportunity to level up his general surgery experience in his System. The more challenging the surgery, the more experience it would give him, and the more interest Zhang Fan would have in performing it. Zhang Fan had been an ordinary person before receiving the System. Now that he had something as powerful as the Medical System with him, it would be false to say that he didn’t feel a sense of superiority. However, since Zhang Fan was the paranoid type who didn’t know if the System wouldn’t suddenly disappear on him one day, he had intentionally suppressed this sense of superiority and worked his hardest on grinding as many surgeries as he possibly could. Actually, he felt even more a sense of lack of security that the System might disappear compared to the sense of superiority. Zhang Fan’s emotions over the past two years could be described as an emotional roller coaster.

Zhang Fan’s skill level still wasn’t good enough to go out into the world by himself. He could only stay here and continue working hard while grinding as many surgeries as possible. What would he do if he went to one of the best hospitals in China right now, but the System suddenly disappeared and Zhang Fan’s own skills weren’t good enough? That was why Zhang Fan had previously refused Guo Shubin’s offer to come work under him at Shuitanzi Hospital, one of the most renowned hospitals in all of China. Zhang Fan was clear that talent-wise, he was only an ordinary person without his System. There were plenty of geniuses out there far smarter than he was. Zhang Fan wouldn’t even count as above average without his System.

Right now, he could only work his hardest on improving his foundations with the assistance of his System. Once his personal skill level achieved a certain realm, he would be able to go anywhere he wanted!