120: Chapter 120: Breakthrough in Suturing Technique! Reaching God-Level!
Lu Chen watched as the progress of Comprehensive Trauma First Aid jumped from 3 straight to 19.
Today's emergency rescue for multiple trauma was the first time this skill had been fully utilized in actual combat. With the 12x critical hit plus the 50% bonus from the Emergency Surgery Skill Enhancement Card, the progress increased rapidly.
Suturing also increased by four points, reaching 91.
Getting closer and closer to 100.
He knew very well what came after reaching full progress at the perfect level.
God-level.
God-level Suturing Technique.
Just thinking about it felt terrifying.
There were also two new skills added today.
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Master Level.
Vascular Anastomosis, perfect level.
Although the progress for both was zero, the skills themselves had been fully acquired. All the theory and operational instincts were etched into his mind; he only needed practical experience to fill the progress bar.
On his skill panel, there were now twelve skills.
Four at the perfect level, six at the Master Level, one at the Proficient Level, and one at the Skilled Level.
Lu Chen closed the settlement interface and glanced at the final system panel.
[system panel Updated]
[Host: Lu Chen]
[Identity: Resident Physician (Jiangcheng City Central Hospital · Emergency Department)]
[Skill Panel]
[Suturing (perfect level): Progress 91/100]
[Basic Surgical Operations (Master Level): Progress 65/100]
[Internal Medicine Diagnostics (Proficient Level): Progress 52/100]
[Manual Hemostasis (Master Level): Progress 61/100]
[Laparoscopic Appendectomy (Master Level): Progress 93/100]
[Basic Theory of Emergency Medicine (Skilled Level): Progress 48/100]
[Tracheal Intubation (Master Level): Progress 48/100]
[Closed Thoracic Drainage (perfect level): Progress 33/100]
[Comprehensive Trauma First Aid (perfect level): Progress 19/100]
[Ultrasound-Guided Puncture (Master Level): Progress 74/100]
[Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (Master Level): Progress 0/100]
[Vascular Anastomosis (perfect level): Progress 0/100]
[Current Total gratitude points: 538 points]
[Available Draw Chances: 0]
[Title Bar]
[Currently Equipped: enemy of yama (Beginner), newcomer: surgical blade, one needle to settle the world, First Step into the Academic Hall]
[Emergency Surgery Skill Enhancement Card activated, effect in progress, time remaining: 2 days 12 hours 33 minutes]
[Body Enhancement Status: genetic enhancement serum (Beginner) in effect, Stamina Limit +20%, Energy Recovery +15%, Sleep Efficiency +25% (Permanent)]
Lu Chen closed the system panel.
It was completely dark outside the window.
The lights of the Emergency Department in the distance were still on, and the sound of ambulance sirens could be heard faintly.
He picked up the Emergency Medicine textbook from the bedside, flipped to the chapter on trauma first aid, and continued to study the theory.
The system provided the ability.
But to use that ability to its limit, there could be no gaps in the theoretical foundation.
After reading for about forty minutes, his phone vibrated again.
Shen Xiaoning sent a picture.
It was a photo of a piece of raw tenderloin on a cutting board.
[Shen Xiaoning: The tenderloin is bought! I'll get up at six tomorrow morning to fry it!]
Lu Chen took a look.
[Lu Chen: Stay safe, don't let the oil splatter on you]
[Shen Xiaoning: Don't worry, I've prepared goggles this time!]
[Lu Chen: Wearing goggles to fry meat?]
[Shen Xiaoning: Better safe than sorry! Safety in production is everyone's responsibility!]
Lu Chen looked at the sentence on the screen and smiled.
[Lu Chen: Go to bed early, don't stay up too late]
[Shen Xiaoning: Okay! Goodnight Dr. Lu!]
[Lu Chen: Goodnight]
He put down his phone, closed the textbook, and turned off the light.
There would be new patients to save tomorrow.
He needed a good night's sleep.
...
For the next week, every day was much the same for Lu Chen.
He arrived at the Red Zone at 7:00 AM sharp for the shift handover. During the day, he followed Zhao Yaqin and Wu Fan to handle various emergency cases, and during the night shift, he took charge on his own.
Trauma Suturing, trauma first aid, Puncture and drainage, airway management.
Every critically ill patient who came to the Red Zone was a source of experience for him.
The enhancement card also expired within this week, and the experience acquisition efficiency dropped back.
But Lu Chen's surgical volume did not decrease.
During this week, almost all the Suturing work in the Red Zone was taken over by him.
Brother Long didn't come back to cause trouble, but there was a constant stream of various trauma patients.
Those scratched by steel bars on construction sites, those who cut their hands while chopping vegetables in the kitchen, those with bleeding gashes from fighting, and those who fell off electric bikes and cracked their heads.
There were as few as four or five Suturing cases a day, and as many as a dozen at peak times.
With every stitch, the system progress bar moved forward.
By the evening of the fifth day, the progress bar for Suturing had reached 97.
Lu Chen looked at that number, calmly closed his textbook, and turned off the light to sleep.
No rush.
What is meant to come will come.
Day six.
At 9:00 AM, a middle-aged man who had been stabbed in the forearm by a glass bottle sat on the treatment bed. The wound wasn't deep, but it was long.
After Lu Chen finished Suturing him, the system notification popped up.
[Suturing (perfect level): Progress 99/100]
One point short.
Lu Chen packed away the instruments, washed his hands, changed his gloves, and went back to the Nurse Station to sit down.
Sun Ji leaned over.
"Brother Lu, when you were Suturing that uncle just now, why did your expression have a kind of excitement as if you were about to clear a game?"
"You saw wrong."
"I didn't. The corner of your mouth twitched."
Lu Chen ignored him.
...
At 2:00 PM, another Suturing case arrived.
A female factory worker had a gash on the back of her hand from a wire; it wasn't deep but required meticulous handling.
Lu Chen disinfected, anesthetized, and inserted the needle.
When the first stitch went in, his movements were no different from before.
Steady, accurate, and fast.
After the last stitch was finished, he pulled the thread, tied the knot, and cut the thread.
Then, the familiar notification sound rang in his consciousness.
[Suturing (perfect level): Progress 100/100]
[Skill progress detected as full, attempting breakthrough]
[Suturing is breaking through the level limit]
[perfect level → God-level]
Lu Chen's movements paused for a split second.
A massive stream of information instantly flooded into his brain.
That feeling was different from every previous skill upgrade.
Previous upgrades were enhancements and completions based on the original foundation.
This time, it was a qualitative change.
All knowledge, techniques, feel, and judgment regarding Suturing were completely reintegrated, compressed, and optimized.
An unprecedented sense of sensitivity came from his fingertips; the tension of every suture and the elasticity of every layer of tissue were all clear to the extreme.
The information stream receded.
System notifications followed one after another.
[Congratulations to the host! Suturing breakthrough successful!]
[Suturing has been upgraded to: God-level!]
[God-level Suturing Technique Effect Description: The host's Suturing operations have broken through the limit of the perfect level. Suturing precision and speed have reached the ultimate level of current human medicine. Tissue alignment error approaches zero. The healing speed of wounds sutured by the host is increased by 35%, the scar formation rate is reduced by 80%, and the optimal Suturing plan can be achieved under any complex wound conditions.]
[Additional Passive Effect: God-level Suturing Technique activates a permanent passive buff. When the host performs Suturing operations, hand tactile sensitivity is increased by 25%, allowing the perception of tissue layer differences invisible to the naked eye.]
[Suturing (God-level)]
Lu Chen looked at this panel and took a deep breath.
God-level.
His first God-level skill.
He looked down at his hands.
Compared to before, the appearance of his hands hadn't changed at all, but the sensation in his fingertips was completely different.
He could feel the texture of every fiber on the inside of the glove and the subtle temperature differences on the metal surface of the needle holder.
This level of sensitivity was no longer something a normal human should possess.
"Dr. Lu?"
The female worker's voice pulled him back.
"Alright, the wound has been treated. I've written the follow-up precautions on the slip."
"Thank you, Dr. Lu!"
The worker left with the slip.
Lu Chen returned to the Nurse Station, his expression the same as usual.
But he knew in his heart that from this moment on...
His Suturing had reached a brand-new height.
Shen Xiaoning walked over carrying two cups of water and placed one of them in front of Lu Chen.
"Dr. Lu, when you were Suturing that auntie just now, your expression seemed a bit different."
"How was it different?"
"Well, at the corner of your mouth, you seemed to be smirking secretly."
"I wasn't."
"You were!"
Lu Chen took a sip from the water cup and didn't respond further.
Shen Xiaoning tilted her head and looked at him for a few seconds, then muttered something.
"There's definitely something good happening, and you're not telling me."
Lu Chen didn't respond; he opened his phone's memo app.
He quietly recorded all the effect descriptions of the God-level Suturing Technique.
The passive buff of this skill was too strong—a 25% increase in tactile sensitivity.
This meant that when he was Suturing, he could perceive many things that others simply couldn't detect.
Tiny differences in tissue layers, changes in resistance as the suture passed through the subcutaneous tissue, and the tightness of the cell arrangement at the wound edges.
In the past, this information could only be judged by experience and intuition; now, it had directly become real-time tactile feedback.
It's insane.