Chapter 15 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Zheng Ren’s words were captured by the microphone, processed by the audio transmission system, and broadcast through the speakers of the surgical demonstration cla.s.sroom.

“Outrageous!” shouted Chief Surgeon Liu when he finally found a flaw in this surgery.

“Chief Surgeon Liu, why convert your shame into rage? Zheng Ren was just making a joke. Besides, he wasn’t cracking jokes with you, so why are you even mad at him?” replied Chief Physician Pan with a wide grin.

“As a rigorous and strict surgeon, what will they think of us when such irresponsible jokes are spread publicly?” criticized Chief Surgeon Liu, who was trying to add fuel to the fire.

Since Chief Physician Pan had won this compet.i.tion, he was able to cross swords with Chief Surgeon Liu with ease and instantly changed the argument from the woundless appendectomy to the misdiagnosis by the first general surgery department.

The continuous fire forced Chief Surgeon Liu to flee the battlefield.

[Finis.h.i.+ng an appendectomy with a continuous suture technique with an absorbable suture to achieve minimal scarring effect. Is he demonstrating a perfect surgery—without any flaws at all?]

Comments continued to overwhelm the chatroom of Xinglin Garden.

For doctors who watched live streams, the initiation of peritoneal cavity irrigation basically signified the end of a surgery.

[Of course. It’s extremely difficult to conclude that an appendix is in an ectopic position, but he diagnosed it without hesitation and even turned on a live broadcast of the surgery with confidence. I’m guessing that the surgeon is Lecturer Zhang from Union Medical College Hospital.]

[Impossible. Lecturer Zhang wouldn’t broadcast his surgery.]

Most of the viewers typing ‘666¹‘ in their comments were trying to guess the surgeon’s ident.i.ty as well.

No matter who they guessed, one thing was for sure—this surgeon had earned their respect. This was a flawless surgery that could become learning material in medical textbooks.

There was no audio in the livestream, so none of the viewers heard the woundless appendectomy Zheng Ren mentioned.

The surgery progress bar reached 100 percent as soon as Zheng Ren cut the suture thread. A perfect surgery!

After Zheng Ren changed into a normal attire and returned to the first general surgery department, Old Chief Physician Pan gave him a huge thumbs-up.

It was an old-fas.h.i.+oned style of expressing his joy, but that was how Old Chief Physician Pan complimented and approved Zheng Ren from the depths of his heart.

On the other hand, Zheng Ren’s colleagues in the first general surgery department appeared dispirited and their gazes on him were foreign and adrift.

“Let’s take a break and eat,” said Old Chief Physician Pan as he tapped Zheng Ren gently on the shoulder and pushed him toward the exit.

However, food and rest were not Zheng Ren’s main concern at the moment. His sharp eyes noticed that the transparent screen on the upper right corner of his vision seemed to have become clearer after the surgery was completed.

He needed to confirm something urgently. It was a life-and-death situation.

Old Chief Physician Pan’s eyelids flickered momentarily as Zheng Ren rejected his kind offer. Left with no choice, he invited Xie Yiren to grab a casual meal.

Zheng Ren returned to the emergency department, turned on his cell phone, and ordered a set of dumplings with chives and egg fillings.

Since the food delivery rider would arrive with his food twenty minutes later, Zheng Ren made use of this time to lie on the bed in the male on-duty room, closed his eyes, and entered the mysterious world in the System.

The scenery remained the same as where he left last time. The only notable difference was the constant alteration in the color of everything in the world.

When he entered the System and was a.s.signed a mission to complete ten perfect surgeries last time, the mysterious world was etched in gray as if a dust storm had rampaged through it.

Now, it seemed that all the color had been restored and this place was starting to brim with life and vitality again.

There was a huge change in his skill tree as well, from a Graduate rank with 330 skill points to the Expert rank with 1005 skill points.

Was this the result of the intensive training? Wow, was he that amazing already? It was unbelievable. At the same time, Zheng Ren felt exhilarated.

“h.e.l.lo, anyone here?” yelled Zheng Ren.

No response, as usual…

What a strange System. Was it programmed not to communicate with the host at all? Well, Zheng Ren came here last time and was told that failure to complete the mission would end up in peril. That suggested the System lacked emotional intelligence entirely.

After making some silent complaints and failing to find any clues, he summoned his consciousness back to reality.

At least he learned something from this visit. He presumed the System had run out of power and required some sort of method to ‘recharge’ its energy.

Perhaps the completion of a perfect surgery was its method, after all.

That was a wild stretch of his imagination for a surgeon, but Zheng Ren had no other explanation.

Fortunately, he was off to a good start today. His first surgery was a complicated case of acute phlegmonous appendicitis with an ectopic appendix.

Most importantly, Zheng Ren’s general surgery skill had reached the Expert rank, which boosted the junior attending surgeon’s confidence tremendously.

Hopefully, the next few surgical cases were some simple, uncomplicated appendicitis cases. It was better not to take any risks and survival was of utmost importance in this situation.

His colleagues in the emergency department felt a little conflicted when they saw his arrival.

Those who were transferred to the emergency department were usually ordinary, unmotivated doctors, who had either been cast aside by their original department or merely wanted to rest for three to five days after being on call for twenty-four hours.

If an emergency operating theater was successfully established in the emergency department, did it mean that everyone would have an increased workload with greater responsibility?