198: Chapter 198 Exclusive Scoop! Training Results May Be Inflated?
The second Sunday of training, a rest day.
Lu Chen woke up promptly at seven in the morning; his biological clock had been thoroughly calibrated by the high-intensity rhythm of the past half month.
Outside the window, the Beijing morning was very quiet. Zhou Haoran was still fast asleep on the opposite bed, occasionally turning over and mumbling a few words in his sleep.
Lu Chen did not wake him.
A rest day was rare personal time, but Lu Chen did not intend to actually rest.
After washing up, he sat down at his desk and opened the supplementary reading materials Instructor Sun Gubei had left behind yesterday, intending to go through the latest guidelines on trauma assessment once more.
His phone lit up.
A message from Shen Xiaoning arrived right on time.
[Xiao Ning: Good morning! It's a rest day today, so you should get some good rest and stop reading books!]
[Xiao Ning: I'm off today, and I just went to the market to buy pork ribs. I plan to try making Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs version 2.0!]
[Xiao Ning: When you get back, I'll definitely make sure you eat until you're satisfied!]
Lu Chen glanced at it and replied with two words.
[Lu Chen: Good morning]
Then he put his phone aside and continued reading the materials.
At eight-twenty, Zhou Haoran finally woke up.
He sat up and rubbed his eyes, seeing that Lu Chen had already been sitting at the desk for at least an hour, his expression complex.
"Do you have some kind of problem?"
"What?"
"It's a rest day, and you're getting up this early to study. Aren't you tired?"
Lu Chen ignored him.
Zhou Haoran sighed and got out of bed to wash up.
When he came out, he was scrolling through his phone, but suddenly stopped.
"Lu Chen."
"Hm?"
"Take a look at this."
Zhou Haoran handed over his phone; the screen showed the recommendation page of a short-video platform.
One video with over three million views had a cover featuring a screenshot of Lu Chen working in the Emergency Department, with the title: [Stunning Looks! Is this really what the provincial Emergency Department champion looks like?]
Lu Chen frowned.
He scrolled down, and there were several more related videos below.
[The most handsome Resident Physician in the Emergency Department! A full record of the god-tier puncture procedure.]
[The new top influencer in the medical field? I fell to my knees after watching his performance.]
[Collection of handsome doctors: Are you sure this young man isn't here to act in a movie?]
The view counts ranged from hundreds of thousands to millions, and the footage in some of the videos was clearly edited and spliced together from several rescue and Suturing videos that had been circulating online previously.
"When were these uploaded?" Lu Chen asked.
"It probably wasn't recent. I guess they've been up for at least a week or two, but you've been in training and haven't been online, so you didn't see them."
Lu Chen returned the phone to Zhou Haoran.
"Doesn't matter."
"You don't care?"
"What good would caring do? I can't control other people editing videos."
Zhou Haoran thought about it and decided that made sense.
"But these titles are all emphasizing your face. Don't you find it annoying?"
"A little."
"Just a little?"
"Yeah."
Zhou Haoran shook his head.
"Fine, your mentality is definitely stronger than mine."
The two of them went downstairs to the Cafeteria for breakfast.
On the way, they met Liu Dong and Fang Yuhang from Group A1.
Liu Dong ran over, looking excited.
"Brother Lu, did you see it? You've gone viral online again!"
"I saw it."
"Those videos were edited quite well, although the titles are admittedly a bit..."
"A bit what?"
"A bit focused on looks and ignoring the technical skills."
Fang Yuhang added from the side.
"It's not 'a bit,' they are completely exploiting your face."
Lu Chen set down his tray and sat down.
"Let's eat."
He really didn't want to waste time on such things.
He couldn't control the videos online, and he couldn't change the titles; he'd rather spend that energy reading a few more pages of a book.
But the situation changed nature half an hour later.
On the way back to the dormitory after breakfast, Fang Yuhang suddenly glanced at his phone again, and his expression changed.
"Brother Lu, come take a look at this."
He held his phone up in front of Lu Chen.
On the screen was an article from a medical self-media official account. The title was long, but every word was eye-catching.
[Exclusive Scoop: Provincial Emergency Department Skills Assessment Champion Team suspected of unauthorized alteration of rescue records; are training scores inflated?]
Lu Chen's eyes narrowed slightly.
He took the phone and quickly scanned the body text.
The article didn't name names directly, but it used a large amount of suggestive vocabulary.
"A certain provincial assessment champion," "first place in a certain training class," "highest score in the team competition," combined with a few blurred screenshots, made the target extremely clear.
The core argument of the article was simple: the operation records of this team in the simulated emergency rescue competition were questionable.
They might have been modified after the fact, and the actual performance was far from as perfect as the published data suggested.
It even added an ambiguous sentence at the end: According to an insider, relevant training clips have been leaked on a small scale, and the content differs from the officially released data.
After reading it, Zhou Haoran's expression was very ugly.
"Isn't this writing about our Group A1?"
"Yeah."
"Unauthorized alteration of rescue records? When did we ever alter any records?"
"We didn't."
"Then where did this article get its source?"
Lu Chen didn't answer.
He returned the phone to Fang Yuhang, his expression still very calm.
But having followed him for so many days, Zhou Haoran could tell that when Lu Chen was calm, it didn't mean he didn't care.
It meant he was thinking.
After returning to the dormitory, the news began to spread in the trainee group chat.
The training class had over forty trainees, all key personnel from Emergency Departments across the country, and most of them had high sensitivity to information.
Although this article was posted on a self-media account with a relatively small following, it spread very quickly within the medical circle.
By twelve noon, several trainees had already sent private messages to ask Lu Chen about it.
Some were well-intentioned.
"Dr. Lu, have you seen that article? Someone is clearly targeting you; don't take it too much to heart."
Some were probing.
"Brother Lu, is the record for that competition really okay?"
There were also some whose attitudes weren't explicitly expressed, but the meaning between the lines was very subtle.
"I don't believe it, but it would be best for the authorities to clarify this kind of thing."
At lunch, the four members of Group A1 sat together.
The atmosphere was different from usual.
Liu Dong poked at the food in his plate with his chopsticks, looking sullen.
"Why? We fought from start to finish for forty-five minutes, and all three injured patients were saved."
"The 95.4 score was given by the expert judges on the spot. Now a crappy article is saying we altered the records?"
Fang Yuhang also put down his chopsticks.
"The key is that the article also claims training clips were leaked, and the content differs from the official data. Where did those clips come from?"
"Aren't the simulation videos from the Training Center confidential?"
Zhou Haoran didn't speak, but he glanced at Lu Chen.
Lu Chen was eating.
Eating very quietly.
"Aren't you anxious?" Liu Dong couldn't hold back.
"Is being anxious useful?"
"At least we need to think of a way to respond, right? A lot of people in the group are already discussing this."
"Then let them discuss."
"But..."
"Liu Dong." Lu Chen put down his chopsticks and looked at him. "Do you think there was any step in our performance during that competition that was problematic?"
"Of course not!"
"Zhou Haoran, what do you think?"
"No."
"Fang Yuhang?"
"Absolutely not."
"Then that's enough." Lu Chen picked up his chopsticks again. "This kind of article, in the final analysis, is two words: rumor-mongering. The person spreading rumors will definitely reveal their flaws. We just need to wait."
Zhou Haoran suddenly spoke up.
"We won't have to wait too long."
The three of them looked at him.
Zhou Haoran lowered his voice.
"Did you notice the detail in the article about the training clips being leaked?"
"We noticed it."
"Our entire simulated emergency rescue took place in a closed simulation center. Only the contestants, expert judges, and staff were present on-site. The videos are managed centrally by the Training Center and are not made public."