171 Please Find Another ‘B*tch Friend’ (2/2)

From dawn until now, Ling Ran had already worked for around eighteen hours. Even though Lu Wenbin's work hours were slightly shorter, he did not take any naps in between surgeries. Usually, Ling Ran got off work at about five or six o'clock in the evening. But today, not only did he extend his work time by three hours, his workload was also greater.

After drinking an Energy Serum, Ling Ran's body and brain recovered in a totally logic-defying manner. He stretched his body and massaged his own neck and shoulders. He realized that his tensed up muscles had loosened a lot after that, and his brain was awake again. His muscles felt the same as when he consumed a large amount of amino acids, and his brain felt as if the ammonia had been removed from it after he took a nap. However, his stomach still growled, and he became even hungrier than before.

”The braised eggs should be ready,” Ling Ran said as he headed for the on-call room.

Lu Wenbin perked up when he heard the word 'braised' and chuckled a few times. ”How would we even have time to braise eggs?”

”That's true…” Ling Ran thought about it for a bit, he then whipped out his mobile phone and began to order takeout.

Lu Wenbin quickly said, ”There are still pork trotters.”

”I don't want pork trotters today.” Ling Ran paused for a moment and said, ”I'll have them two days later.”

Lu Wenbin froze again.

Thirty minutes later, Ling Ran woke Su Jiafu on time and watched as Su Jiafu performed the general laryngeal mask airway anesthesia on the patient. At the same time, the nurses who just came for their shift also completed basic preoperative preparations.

”Persevere for a bit longer. After this surgery, you'll get to sleep for an hour,” said Ling Ran, who had consumed an Energy Serum, energetically to Su Jiafu.

With his head lowered, Su Jiafu said feebly, ”What do you mean by 'sleep for an hour'?”

”I'll let another anesthetist participate in the M-Tang technique surgery later. You can take the opportunity to sleep,” Ling Ran said.

”You're still performing an M-Tang technique surgery later?” Su Jiafu asked in disbelief.

”I have to operate on this patient because a lower-tier hospital took the initiative to transfer that patient here. Besides, I'll get to energize my brain,” Ling Ran said, as though this was completely natural.

Lu Wenbin just took a cold shower. He asked dumbfoundedly, ”How is performing surgery using the M-Tang technique considered energizing the brain?”

Ling Ran thought for a moment and said, ”It's just like when you were in school. After you get tired of math, you can study physics for a while. This is what I meant by energizing the brain. It'll prevent you from restricting yourself to only one single thought process.”

”Doing physics after you're sick of math absolutely does not energize your brain. It's pure brainlessness.” Lu Wenbin sneered and said, ”After you're sick of math, you should study languages. If you still study physics after that, you might even mix up the symbols.”

Su Jiafu raised his head a little and said, ”It doesn't work to go straight to languages from math. After physics, I usually go for chemistry, and then biology, before studying languages. If you make a major leap, your brain won't be able to react to it.”

”That's you—”

”I got more than six hundred marks in my college entrance examination. Do you know how I did it?”

”Who cares about how you flunked?” Lu Wenbin looked down on Su Jiafu, just like how a clinician did when they oppressed an anesthetist.

Su Jiafu was enraged. He said in an extremely clear-headed manner, ”Come, come, come, I do want to listen to the highly valuable opinion of a BARBER…”

”Needle holder,” Ling Ran said softly, afraid of disturbing Lu Wenbin and Su Jiafu. After all, arguments would cause blood to rush to the brain, and they would no longer be sleepy.

After Ling Ran finished the finger replantation, he did not ask Lu Wenbin to act as his assistant anymore. He simply called a resident doctor from among those who were on-call, and started his M-Tang surgery. He then took a brief rest before waking Ma Yanlin. A wonderful cycle then ended.

Of course, this was only Ling Ran's assumption.

Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin only persisted until the third day before they begged for mercy in unison, ”Doctor Ling, please find another b*tch friend… We mean, please find another assistant.”