22: Chapter 22 Jiangcheng City Meteorological Observatory Issues Warning

Lu Chen returned to the Green Zone, sat in the consultation room, and felt very good.

He could go to the Yellow Zone next week, and he would also be able to participate in the work of the Red Zone.

This meant his leveling speed was about to take off.

The difficulty of cases in the Yellow Zone was several times that of the Green Zone, so the experience points given were naturally higher.

And the Red Zone, that went without saying.

Every patient in the Red Zone could be a massive gold mine of experience points.

Especially those critical cases; if he could participate in the rescue, the probability of triggering a cross-level challenge would increase significantly.

Once an experience critical hit was triggered, that was rocket-speed leveling.

He opened his system panel and took another look at his current skill status.

[Host: Lu Chen]

[Identity: Trainee Physician (Jiangcheng City Central Hospital · Emergency Department)]

[Skill Panel]

[Manual Hemostasis: Master Level (Progress: 23/100)]

[Suturing: Perfect Level (Progress: 15/100)]

[Basic Surgical Operations: Proficient Level (Progress: 25/100)]

[Internal Medicine Diagnostics: Introductory Level (Progress: 12/100)]

[Laparoscopic Appendectomy: Master Level (Progress: 60/100)]

[Basic Theory of Emergency Medicine Mastery Progress: 22%]

[Title Column]

[Currently Equipped: enemy of yama (Beginner)]

[Effect: When a dying patient is within 10 meters of the host, the rate of decline of vital signs slows by 50%]

[Achievement: newcomer: surgical blade]

[Effect: When performing surgery, hand stability is permanently increased by 10%]

[Gratitude Points: 400]

[Available Lucky Draws: 0]

Five skills: two Master level, one Perfect level, one Proficient level, and one Introductory level.

Internal Medicine Diagnostics was his weak point, only at the Introductory level.

But that didn't matter. After entering the Yellow Zone, he would come into contact with a large number of internal medicine cases, and the experience points for Internal Medicine Diagnostics would grow rapidly.

The theoretical progress of Emergency Medicine was still at 22%; he needed to find time to continue gnawing on the textbooks.

With 400 Gratitude Points, they were useless for now; he would wait until he had accumulated enough before doing a lucky draw.

Overall, his skill panel was already taking shape.

Once he raised Internal Medicine Diagnostics above the Proficient level and gnawed his way through over 60% of the Basic Theory of Emergency Medicine, he would be a truly qualified doctor in the Emergency Department.

Although his current status was still a newcomer.

But his strength was already quietly surpassing this status.

"Take it slow."

Lu Chen closed the system panel and continued to see patients.

Patients in the Green Zone came and went as usual.

Headaches, diarrhea, fevers, sprains.

He saw them one by one, treated them one by one, calm and unhurried.

Every case was experience points.

Although small, they added up.

Next week, see you in the Yellow Zone.

The week after, perhaps it would be the Red Zone.

He could feel that he was stepping, step by step, toward that core battlefield.

That true Shura field.

The Red Zone of the Emergency Department.

He couldn't wait.

...

Past five in the afternoon.

Outside the consultation room in the Green Zone, several girls who didn't know which department they ran over from appeared again.

They stood in the corridor, poking their heads in to look.

When Zhao Yaqin passed by, she glanced at them.

Then she walked away without looking back.

She couldn't be bothered to care anymore.

Anyway, he would be going to the Yellow Zone next week.

Let the people in the Yellow Zone have a headache.

Zhao Yaqin walked back to the Nurse Station, where Zhou Xiaoman was lying on the table playing with her phone.

"Zhou Xiaoman, what are you doing?"

Zhou Xiaoman was startled and quickly stuffed her phone into her pocket.

"Teacher Zhao! I, I was looking at medical materials!"

"Medical materials? I saw the app you were looking at; that's a short video app."

"That, there are medical science videos on there too."

Zhao Yaqin glanced at her and didn't pursue it.

"Go and change the trash can in Consultation Room 3; it's full."

"Okay, okay, going right away!"

Zhou Xiaoman trotted towards the Green Zone.

After running a few steps, she slowed down.

Then she walked to the door of Consultation Room 3 unhurriedly.

She first tidied up her hair.

Then she pushed the door open and went in.

Zhao Yaqin watched all this from the Nurse Station and closed her eyes helplessly.

It's over.

The productivity of all female staff in the entire Emergency Department had plummeted.

The culprit was that newcomer who used Safeguard soap to wash his face.

Zhao Yaqin rubbed her temples.

She suddenly began to doubt whether letting Lu Chen go to the Yellow Zone was the right decision.

What if the Nurses in the Yellow Zone also fell?

Then the entire Emergency Department would be wiped out.

She thought about it and felt she was overthinking.

It shouldn't come to that.

Should.

Probably.

Maybe.

Zhao Yaqin gave up thinking and lowered her head to continue writing her shift handover notes.

...

Sunday.

Lu Chen had a rare sleep-in.

No alarm clock, no system prompts, and no phone vibrations.

He was woken up by the sunlight.

The curtains in the on-call dormitory were too thin, and the sun from after eight in the morning shone directly through, making his whole face feel warm.

Lu Chen rolled over and covered his head with a pillow.

He lazed for another ten minutes.

Finally, he got up.

He washed up, changed clothes, and went to the Cafeteria for breakfast.

There weren't many people in the Hospital Cafeteria on Sunday; most medical staff were on rotating leave, and only those on duty were still there.

Lu Chen ordered a bowl of porridge, two steamed buns, and a small plate of pickles.

He sat down and ate slowly.

Halfway through, his phone rang.

It was a WeChat voice message from Director Mother at the Orphanage.

"Little Chen, I received the money you sent back last week. Is it enough for yourself? Don't send all the money here; keep some to eat better."

The corners of Lu Chen's mouth curled up, and he replied with a voice message while biting into a bun.

"It's enough, Mom. The Hospital provides food and housing, so I don't spend much money. Don't worry."

"Really enough?"

"Really enough. I even have bonuses from my department now, I'm doing quite well."

"That's good, that's good. Work hard, and don't get too tired."

"I know, Mom. Take care of your health."

After hanging up the voice call, Lu Chen checked the balance of his bank card.

There was still a portion left of the 800 yuan surgery bonus that Attending Physician Liu Wenqiang had given him last time, plus this month's Trainee Physician subsidy, which was barely enough to get by.

However, he would have to be frugal with the rest.

Fortunately, he didn't have to pay rent for the on-call dormitory, and there was the Cafeteria for meals, so his daily expenses were kept very low.

"Make money, make money."

Lu Chen repeated it twice in his heart and stuffed the last bite of the bun into his mouth.

Today was his last day in the Green Zone.

Starting tomorrow, he would officially transfer to the Yellow Zone.

Thinking of this, his mood inexplicably improved.

Although he had been accumulating experience in the Green Zone these past few days, the growth rate was indeed too slow.

Headaches, colds, and diarrhea—the experience points given for one case were pitifully small, barely enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

The Yellow Zone was different.

The patients there had more complex conditions and higher treatment difficulty, so the corresponding experience points were naturally more substantial.

Not to mention the authorization for mobile support in the Red Zone.

Just thinking about the high-difficulty critical cases in the Red Zone made Lu Chen feel full of energy.

Others feared the Red Zone; he looked forward to it.

Others saw risks; he saw experience points.

This was probably the difference between having a system and not having one.

...

After breakfast, Lu Chen returned to the Green Zone consultation room for his shift.

The Green Zone on Sunday was busier than on weekdays.

Many people weren't able to come for medical treatment during workdays, so they saved it for the weekend.

So even though it was Sunday, there were still quite a few people lined up outside Lu Chen's consultation room.

He saw them one after another.

Colds, fevers, sprained ankles, stomach aches.

Lu Chen handled them with ease, occasionally turning on the "Eye of Truth" to scan them to ensure there were no hidden major problems, then prescribing medicine or ordering examinations as appropriate.

Experience points ticked slowly on the system panel.

+3, +2, +5, +3.

It was a little low, but Lu Chen had learned to face it with a Buddhist mindset.

Anyway, he would be upgrading his battlefield tomorrow, so he would just treat today as a warm-up.

Around eleven in the morning, several peeping figures appeared outside the consultation room again.

Lu Chen glanced at them from the corner of his eye and ignored them.

They were girls from other departments; he was already used to it.

The number of female medical staff coming to "visit" the Green Zone these days was increasing, and their reasons were becoming more and more ridiculous.

Some said they came to borrow Band-Aids, some said they came to ask for directions, and some said they came to look for Teacher Zhao.

There was an even more absurd one who said she was doing an environmental survey of the Emergency Department.

Environmental survey.

What was there to survey in Consultation Room 3 of the Green Zone?

Surveying what the doctor looked like?

Lu Chen turned a blind eye to all of this.

He was now full of thoughts about making money and leveling up, and he was completely uninterested in other things.

Focused on seeing patients.

He was busy until twelve-thirty in the afternoon, and the number of patients finally decreased a little.

Lu Chen leaned back in his chair and took out his phone to scroll through the news.

He didn't usually read the news, but he was free today, so he flipped through it casually.

Then he saw a push notification for the local weather forecast.

[Jiangcheng City Meteorological Observatory issues an orange warning for heavy rain: Affected by the convergence of cold and warm air currents, it is expected that starting from the early hours of tomorrow, our city will experience heavy to torrential rain, with localized extraordinary torrential rain, lasting for about 12 to 18 hours. Please make preparations for prevention, citizens.]