690 The Sea Was Calm (1/2)

Ling Ran operated on the patient in a leisurely manner.

It was very easy to familiarize oneself with hepatectomy in patients with liver cancer. He had just done so in Beijing for a month, and there were people watching him and learning from him all the time. Hence, not only was Ling Ran working very smoothly, but he was also guiding Lin Honghou very well.

Lin Honghou obediently acted as Ling Ran's assistant.

The operating theater was just like a jungle. After Lin Honghou realized that his skills were far inferior to those of Ling Ran's, he admitted defeat like how dholes submitted to lions. He was willing to eat the lion's leftovers, and he did not dare to challenge the lion the same way dogs did.

It actually did not matter whether he had the guts to challenge the lion, as those who were gutsy would end up dying. This was a very normal thing in society.

However, even though Lin Honghou's body had admitted defeat, his mind refused to submit.

As Lin Honghou watched the way Ling Ran worked at lightning speed, Ling Honghou's mind even had a slight urge to laugh. 'Go ahead and show off your skills. This is just the first day our rescue team is deployed, and we still have a long way to go. You won't be capable of being this fast every day, right? You can go ahead and tire yourself to death if you want to! Moreover, what's the point of showing off like this? So that I can see it? Wow, I'm flattered indeed…'

As Lin Honghou thought of this, even his mood became a little better.

*Ring, ring.*

The bell in the operating theater rang.

Ling Ran raised his head and glanced at the phone without being aware of it.

He was not using the intraoperative pathological examination method today, as the patient was relatively young, and slicing off a little bit more of normal tissues would not affect his prognosis that much. Of course, it would be better if he could remove less normal tissues. However, since the conditions on the ship did not allow it, he should not waste time just to remove less normal tissues.

Even so, Ling Ran was a little sensitive to the ringing of the phone in the operating theater.

The circulating nurse walked over quickly. She picked up the receiver and hummed a few times in acknowledgment. Her expression was becoming more and more solemn.

*Slam.*

The circulating nurse placed the receiver back to its original position. She then looked at the group of people in the operating theater and gulped. ”The helicopter is sending over two heavily injured patients over. One seems to have a fracture in his skull, and the other fractured both his arms and has lost consciousness…”

Lin Honghou immediately became anxious. ”There are only two operating theaters on the ship. I wonder how the surgery next door is going.”

”Then, we should speed up too.” As Ling Ran spoke, he extended his hand to ask for an instrument. He then said to the nurse, ”Focus. It's time to up our speed.”

”Okay…” There was a baffled expression on Lin Honghou's face.

Next, he saw that Ling Ran had become twice as fast as he previously was.

He finished suturing the blood vessels.

He placed the hepatic ligaments aside.

He totally ignored the common bile duct.

Even after using every last ounce of strength in his body, Lin Honghou could barely keep up with Ling Ran's speed. He was able to keep going for around thirty seconds before he degenerated into a robot who was only operating the retractor.

Ling Ran's style had always been to only let his assistants do what they were capable of.

And with Ling Ran's current speed, Lin Honghou almost could not do anything at all.

He had not carried out hepatectomy before to begin with, and after Ling Ran sped up, everything was beyond Lin Honghou's comprehension. There were quite a few steps that Lin Honghou did not understand at all.

Surgeons were often known as robots, but in reality, their constitution was far more complicated than that of a robot. This was because their surgical field was limited most of the time. It was just like fixing a machine without being allowed to dismantle it. Moreover, the surgeons could only make small incisions, and the incisions might be located at strange positions.

Just imagine a mechanic who was not allowed to open the front cover of a generator he was fixing. He could only open one of the side covers, and that side cover could not be too big, probably around twelve inches. When this happened, what the mechanic saw was totally different from the sectional view of the generator that was usually available. But this was not even the most troublesome part. the most troublesome part was that every single generator would be different on the inside, with all the components and wiring experiencing natural growth. Some important parts may even be located in the wrong position...

It was only natural that Lin Honghou was not able to keep up with Ling Ran's pace, as he had not made adequate preparation. In reality, at this pace, Lin Honghou had lost his mind.

He had no idea what Ling Ran was doing at all at this point, and was only doing everything Ling Ran commanded him to. He was like a dumbfounded resident doctor.

Lin Honghou had no choice but to gather all his mental strength and operate on the patient with full focus.

His mind did not even have the strength to unleash its fury. It had no choice but to mutter constantly, 'He's definitely showing off his skills. This is too much, isn't it?'

His body was already feeling weak, and it scolded angrily, 'Shut up!'

As they carried on, Ling Ran became more and more at ease.

Meanwhile, Lin Honghou's mind continued to become blanker.