Chen Mu was momentarily stunned.
As he snapped back to reality,
he sprinted towards the direction of the person approaching.
On the school's path, he saw a boy being supported by others, struggling to walk towards the school medical room.
As they moved, drops of blood occasionally fell along the way.
"Oh crap! This must be the most severe case I've seen on the live stream today, right?"
"He's still conscious; I'd say the hypoglycemia one was more serious."
"It's hard to tell for a moment whether this is the school medical room or the ER at a hospital."
"No way, this dude must've gotten into a fight! I saw on his arm, there's a big row of bite marks!"
"..."
—
"Hello, student, I am the doctor from the school medical room. My surname is Chen. How can I help you?"
Upon hearing Chen Mu's words,
the two boys looked at Chen Mu like he was their savior.
The injured boy grabbed Chen Mu's hand, looking desolate, "Doctor, I feel like I've lost so much blood. Am I going to die soon, wah..."
The live stream camera showed,
this grown man,
started crying like a severely wronged child when he saw Chen Mu.
"Roll up your sleeve a bit, let me take a look at your wound."
Chen Mu inspected the wounds one by one.
His expression grew more serious.
Once he confirmed the boy's wounds looked scarier than they were and the blood loss wasn't serious, Chen Mu sighed in relief.
"Come to the medical room with me. The area of your wound requires you to lie down for me to deal with it properly."
Boy: "Boo hoo... Doctor, I think I'm dying. Can't you call an ambulance?"
Chen Mu turned and walked away, "You won't die! Follow me!"
The boy sobbed twice and followed Chen Mu with a pained expression towards the medical room.
Su Bingbing followed Chen Mu.
She would occasionally look back at the injured boy.
Ultimately, curiosity got the better of her, "Dr. Chen, a girl earlier was injured by an acne needle, and you seemed really angry. But this boy's wounds look much worse, why don't you seem angry..."
Even...
There was not much concern shown for this boy's condition.
"Bingbing's question echoes my feelings!"
"Could it be that Dr. Chen treats patients with favoritism towards females over males?"
"I'm shaking with anger! When will us guys unite and stand up!"
"I feel bad for this student, injured this badly and still has to walk to the medical room himself, without even a wheelchair or stretcher..."
"..."
—
Chen Mu didn't even glance back at the boy.
He confidently said, "Based on my experience, his wounds are bite marks, likely from stray dogs on campus."
"The school has repeatedly stressed, do not tease cats and..."
Before Chen Mu could finish,
a voice behind interrupted excitedly, "I'm different from them! I didn't tease any dogs; the dog came to me!"
"This time, the dog started it!"
Chen Mu stunned, turned back.
He saw the boy with an aggrieved, flushed face.
Loudly and hoarsely defending himself, "Doctor, you have no idea how tough my last fortnight has been. Every day, before I could get downstairs, my delivery was stolen!"
"I've asked around the dorm; I'm the only one losing deliveries every day."
"I'm thinking, did I offend someone? Otherwise, why would the thief only target me, and not others?"
As he spoke,
Su Bingbing, standing next to Chen Mu, couldn't help but nod in agreement.
She also had similar thoughts.
—
The boy wiped tears off his face.
Chen Mu sighed and handed him a tissue.
The boy took the tissue, and the more he wiped, the more tears flowed; in the end, he was speechless, sobbing bitterly.
"Suddenly reminded of this saying, 'Men don't easily cry unless they've reached a point of heartbreak.'
"How wronged must this kid feel, truly miserable, and even at this stage, facing cold jokes from the school doctor."
"I can understand the doctor's perspective, this kind of situation has happened before, that's why he assumed the boy was also teasing animals."
"Regardless of why, I can't stand being misunderstood by others."
"..."
—
The sobbing boy blew his nose and wiped his tears.
A clean tissue was handed to him once again.
"I'm sorry, student."
The boy looked up incredulously.
Seeing Chen Mu standing in front of him, looking at him compassionately, "I misunderstood you earlier and I apologize. Are you feeling a little better now?"
The boy instinctively wanted to shake his head.
But the next second,
big drops of tears uncontrollably fell down again.
"Better? No chance it's better!"
"I'm a grown man, and I couldn't even handle one dog! How can I not feel bad! Wah!!!"
"Wait, it wasn't just one!"
"This afternoon I woke up hungry, so I thought to order delivery."
"After ordering, I remembered the recent delivery thefts and hid downstairs in the dorm, wanting to see who this cunning thief solely targeting me is!
"Snatching deliveries from me every day!"
Seeing the boy run out of tissues, Chen Mu thoughtfully handed over another one.
Seeing the boy's hands already holding several used tissues,
Chen Mu reached into his lab coat pocket, pulled out a crumpled plastic bag, and handed it to the boy to use as a trash bag.
"Indeed, I caught the thief."
The boy had a gritting his teeth expression on his face.
"But I never expected the thief was not a person, but a dog!"
"A yellow Chinese rural dog!"
"Out of a bunch of deliveries, it accurately chose mine!"
"I couldn't hold back, ran out, snatched the delivery from its mouth!"
—
Su Bingbing: "..."
"Oh wow, snatching delivery back from a dog's mouth, this guy's hardcore."
"Although I sympathize with this guy's plight, can you still eat food taken from a dog's mouth?"
"Probably can't, could stray dogs in school even have rabies?"
"I've figured it out, all the students coming to the medical room aren't your average students!"
"..."
—
Chen Mu touched his nose.
Sincerely asked, "Student, can you really eat food snatched from a dog's mouth..."
The boy gave Chen Mu an odd look, "It only tore the delivery bag, why couldn't you eat it."
"That dog was quite cowardly, once I snatched it back, it got meek and wouldn't dare bother me!"
"The more it cowered, the bolder I got!"
The boy seemed to recall something amusing and proudly raised his chin.
Though coupled with his battered appearance, he looked somewhat comically peculiar.
"After snatching back the delivery, I didn't go upstairs; I just sat right by the dorm entrance to eat in front of the dog!"
"It steals my delivery daily, it surely knows how delicious it is."
"I wanted to let it watch me eat, smell but not taste, angering it to death!"