Chapter 61 - Sudden Reward From The Fickle-Minded (1/2)

In the emergency resuscitation room, the doctor in charge of B-scan ultrasonography had already started examining the patient.

Before Zheng Ren had time to read the patient’s condition in the upper right corner of his vision, a bell rang in his ears. “Ding-dong!”

Huh? A mission? Was this person suffering from a special disease?

[Sudden Mission: The Opponent’s Submission.

[Task: Complete surgical treatment for acute obstructive suppurative cholangitis.

[Reward: 200 skill points and 10000 experience points. The higher the surgery completion rate, the greater the reward. If the completion rate reaches 100 percent, additional rewards will be awarded.

[Time: 6 hours.]

What the f*ck… Zheng Ren’s eyes nearly popped out of his head.

Even though the System was not stingy, it was not particularly generous either. In the beginning, when the System had been unstable, the surgical intensive training time given to him had been calculated in hours. Once it had stabilized, the System came up with a new gameplay mechanic—experience points—and started calculating training time in seconds.

The System was indeed fickle-minded.

However, this time, the System was actually awarding 10000 experience points for a simple mission named The Opponent’s Submission. That could be converted into precious surgical intensive training time!

Moreover, the time given for the completion of this mission was six hours, which meant that any remaining time would be converted to surgical intensive training time.

What in the world was this?

The confused Zheng Ren savored the thought carefully, only to realize the meaning behind the mission’s name after a few seconds.

Someone who was hostile toward him had surrendered. That must have been the case.

That made sense!

“Chief Zheng, there is a blockage in the patient’s common bile duct,” said the doctor in charge of the B-scan ultrasonography.

“He needs emergency surgery. Establish venous access, nasogastric tube insertion, urinary catheterization, and start preoperative preparations. Chang Yue, explain the surgery to the patient’s family members.”

No matter whose family this patient was related to, judging by the mission name, his condition could not be delayed any further.

“Do you know how to perform preoperative counseling of a jaundiced patient?”

“I’ll let you review my doc.u.mentation once I’m done writing,” answered Chang Yue.

The nurses and Chang Yue started preparing the patient for surgery without delay.

“I’m going to the operating theater to prepare the equipment. Wheel the patient in as soon as signatures are acquired and preoperative preparations are complete.” Zheng Ren scanned through Chang Yue’s perfectly written preoperative doc.u.mentation and left in a hurry.

He appreciated Chang Yue very much after getting to know her better these few days.

She was definitely the kind of person who could bring the dead back to life and send the living to heaven through conversation alone. In addition, all of her paperwork was flawless and indisputable, which greatly eased Zheng Ren’s workload.

Chang Yue’s preoperative counseling offered better results than Zheng Ren’s.

Apart from that, Chang Yue’s voice seemed to possess a miraculous ability to calm down the patient’s family members without them realizing it.

Zheng Ren hurried toward the operating theater to make necessary arrangements for the operation.

Acute obstructive suppurative cholangitis was a tier-three surgical case, and the surgery was far more difficult than laparoscopic cholecystectomy with new technology.

Most importantly, the System had hinted that this patient was not suffering from a simple choledocholithiasis. It was a rare parasitic infestation of the bile duct!

Zheng Ren wanted to achieve perfection in the surgery, which was why he had to find someplace quiet and visit the Shop for some equipment purchase.

He was going to perform an unconventional operation, one that had never been done in the medical field thus far. It was a surgical technique that he inferred from and experimented with on dozens of mannequins in the System’s operating theater.

Since it was a new technique, the newly established emergency operating theater definitely did not have suitable instruments. In fact, such instruments did not exist in the world, so he had no choice but to buy them from within the System.

In the operating theater locker room, Zheng Ren changed into surgical attire and went to the smoking area. Then, as usual, he lit up a Ziyun and took a deep drag, allowing the spicy tobacco to stimulate his nervous system before diving into the System.

He had previously spent all of his experience points learning laparoscopic cholecystectomy, so he could not buy the equipment even if he wanted to.

After completing the main quest several times recently, he had managed to save up some points, just enough for him to purchase a few instruments.

He opened the Shop and scrolled down the menu. From his familiarity, it seemed obvious that he had been planning to buy the equipment all along.

Zheng Ren clicked “Purchase” without hesitation and left immediately with the equipment in sterile packaging in his hands.

Pathetically, there were only 200 points in his savings after spending 1800 on his new equipment.

Upon returning to the smoking area, Zheng Ren stubbed out his cigarette, put it back into its pack, and entered the operating theater with the newly purchased equipment.

“Chief Zheng, what’s this surgery about?” A slender figure appeared on the other end of the corridor.

Despite having spent two to three days together, Zheng Ren still had trouble distinguis.h.i.+ng the twin sisters—Chu Yanran and Chu Yanzhi.

The question was unfathomable and Zheng Ren would likely never get the correct answer in his lifetime.