86: Chapter 86 This is the Shura Field He Wanted
6:00 PM.
Duty Room.
Lu Chen closed the door and lay on the bed.
He didn't rush to look at the system panel.
He closed his eyes first, letting his brain empty for five minutes.
From the opening of the Operating Room at noon until now, he had been working continuously at high intensity for nearly four hours.
Three surgeries, over twenty trauma cases treated.
This was his highest daily workload since entering the Emergency Department.
Five minutes later, he opened his eyes.
He opened the system panel.
[Ding! Today's operations settled!]
First, look at the task progress.
[New task: Emergency Operating Room First Battle!]
[Task progress: 3/5]
[Remaining time: 41 hours 12 minutes]
Two more surgeries needed.
Time is ample.
Judging by the follow-up re-examinations of the mine disaster casualties and potential complications, there should be more surgical opportunities tomorrow.
Next, look at experience settlement.
[Suturing (perfect level): progress 74/100 → progress 82/100]
Gained 8 points.
Today's large number of Suturing operations, plus the Suturing during surgeries, provided considerable experience.
[Basic Surgical Operations (Master Level): progress 24/100 → progress 39/100]
Surged by 15 points.
The Splenectomy and fasciotomy surgeries were the main contributors.
The critical hits triggered by A+ and A-level surgeries, plus the stacking multipliers, resulted in terrifyingly high experience gains.
[Internal Medicine Diagnostics (Proficient Level): progress 25/100 → progress 31/100]
Gained 6 points.
The complex injury assessments of the mine disaster casualties contributed a lot of diagnostic experience.
[Manual Hemostasis (Master Level): progress 49/100 → progress 55/100]
Gained 6 points.
Today's multiple bleeding treatments brought stable experience growth.
[Laparoscopic Appendectomy (Master Level): progress 93/100 → progress 93/100]
No change.
Today no appendectomy was performed, so naturally, it didn't increase.
But 93 progress is already very high; one or two more surgeries will break through to the perfect level.
[Basic Theory of Emergency Medicine (Skilled Level): progress 21/100 → progress 26/100]
Gained 5 points.
Daily clinical practice and theoretical study are continuously accumulating.
[Tracheal Intubation (Master Level): progress 46/100 → progress 46/100]
No change.
The intubations for today's two surgeries were done by Zhao Ming; Lu Chen didn't operate personally, so no experience.
[Closed Thoracic Drainage (perfect level): progress 19/100 → progress 25/100]
Gained 6 points.
The Closed Thoracic Drainage done for the first miner in the Red Zone today contributed experience.
Lu Chen looked at these data and nodded with satisfaction.
The harvest was extremely bountiful.
Especially Basic Surgical Operations, jumping directly from 24 to 39, getting closer and closer to the breakthrough to perfect level.
Look at gratitude points again.
[Current gratitude points total: 189 → 536 points]
Gained 347 points in one day.
The proportion of severe injuries among the mine disaster casualties was high, and the contribution of gratitude points far exceeded ordinary cases.
Especially that Splenectomy patient—an S-level critically ill patient saved from a near-death state—contributed over one hundred gratitude points alone.
At this rate, in another one to two weeks, he will have enough for the next 1,000-point lottery threshold.
Lu Chen closed the system panel.
He took out his phone.
Director Li Sen sent a message.
[Director Li Sen: Write an operation report for each of today's three surgeries and hand them to me tomorrow.]
[Lu Chen: Okay, Director Li.]
[Director Li Sen: Also, I will submit today's mine disaster rescue summary report to the Hospital, and your name will be on it.]
[Lu Chen: Thank you, Director Li.]
[Director Li Sen: It's not a matter of thanks; it's what you deserve.]
Lu Chen put down his phone.
He saw a message from Shen Xiaoning.
[Shen Xiaoning: Dr. Lu, are you resting?!]
[Shen Xiaoning: Today was really tiring, but also very fulfilling!]
[Shen Xiaoning: You were really amazing when you were performing surgery! Although I couldn't understand it, I could feel that everyone was stunned by you!]
[Shen Xiaoning: By the way, what are you eating for dinner! I can help you bring food!]
[Shen Xiaoning: Not braised pork! No time to cook today! I'll just go to the Cafeteria and get it for you!]
Five messages, all ending with exclamation marks.
Lu Chen replied with one.
[Lu Chen: I'll go eat myself later, you eat yours first.]
Two seconds later.
[Shen Xiaoning: No! You've been tired for so long today, you should let someone else run errands for you!]
[Lu Chen: Alright then, help me get some food, two meat dishes and one vegetable.]
[Shen Xiaoning: Okay! Going right now! What meat dishes do you want!]
[Lu Chen: Whatever.]
[Shen Xiaoning: What dish is "whatever"! The Cafeteria doesn't have a dish called "whatever"!]
[Lu Chen: Then you choose.]
[Shen Xiaoning: Okay! Leave it to me! Just wait!]
Lu Chen put down his phone.
He closed his eyes again.
Images of today's surgeries surfaced in his mind.
During the Splenectomy, his hand reached into the abdominal cavity full of accumulated blood.
Relying on the tactile sensation of his fingertips and the dual guidance of the Eye of Truth, the moment he accurately found and controlled the splenic pedicle bleeding.
During the fasciotomy, the moment the scalpel sliced open the first layer of fascia, the muscles bulged instantly, and the pressure was suddenly released.
In less than four hours, he completed three completely different types of emergency surgeries.
Hand trauma treatment, abdominal organ removal, limb fasciotomy decompression.
Each one was a different field, different technique, different challenge.
But he did it.
And he did it very well.
The first day the Emergency Department Operating Room was enabled.
It had already proven its value.
He also proved his own value.
But this was not enough.
The Operating Room task still needed two more surgeries.
There were still 41 hours left in the 48-hour window.
Tomorrow, continue.
...
Lu Chen turned over.
In the darkness, he glanced at the numbers that had jumped in the system panel.
[Basic Surgical Operations (Master Level): progress 39/100]
61 points away from perfect level.
According to today's growth rate, it would take about three to four high-difficulty surgeries to break through.
No rush.
One by one.
He closed his eyes.
Letting himself rest.
Twenty minutes later, the sound of Shen Xiaoning knocking on the door came.
"Dr. Lu, the food is ready!"
Lu Chen got up to open the door.
Shen Xiaoning stood at the door holding a tray.
Two meat dishes and one vegetable.
Braised chicken leg, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, stir-fried seasonal vegetables.
A big bowl of rice was piled up.
"I got an extra half bowl of rice; you had a high consumption today, eat more."
"Mm."
Lu Chen took the tray.
"Have you eaten?"
"Ate! Sister Fang helped me get it."
"Okay, thanks."
"You're welcome!"
She stood at the door without leaving.
Lu Chen glanced at her.
"Anything else?"
"No."
"Then why aren't you leaving?"
"I just... wanted to watch you finish eating."
Lu Chen lowered his head and took a bite of the chicken leg.
"What's good about watching me eat?"
"I just think the way you eat is good-looking."
Lu Chen looked up.
Shen Xiaoning's face turned red again.
"I'm leaving first! Put the bowl at the Nurse Station!"
She ran off again.
Lu Chen shook his head.
After finishing the meal and washing the bowl, he walked back to the Duty Room.
He took out the Emergency Surgery textbook and turned to the chapter on crush syndrome.
He did a fasciotomy decompression today, but he still needed to pay attention to renal function and electrolytes later.
He needed to deepen his theoretical knowledge in this area.
He read page by page.
The phone lit up.
[Shen Xiaoning: Good night! Keep up the good work tomorrow!]
[Lu Chen: Good night.]
He put down his phone.
Continued reading.
After reading for forty minutes, he picked up the phone again.
Not to look at Shen Xiaoning's message.
But to transfer some money to the Director Mother at the Orphanage.
He attached a sentence.
"Mom, my salary has increased a bit recently, so I'm sending a bit more this month. Take care of your health."
A reply came one minute later.
"Xiao Chen, Mom doesn't lack money. Keep it for yourself to spend, don't be too frugal."
"Please keep it."
"You child..."
Lu Chen looked at those three words on the screen and smiled.
Then he turned off his phone.
He reopened the system panel and scanned the total results for today one last time.
[Host: Lu Chen]
[Identity: Resident Physician (Jiangcheng City Central Hospital · Emergency Department)]
[Skill Panel]
[Suturing (perfect level): progress 82/100]
[Basic Surgical Operations (Master Level): progress 39/100]
[Internal Medicine Diagnostics (Proficient Level): progress 31/100]
[Manual Hemostasis (Master Level): progress 55/100]
[Laparoscopic Appendectomy (Master Level): progress 93/100]
[Basic Theory of Emergency Medicine (Skilled Level): progress 26/100]
[Tracheal Intubation (Master Level): progress 46/100]
[Closed Thoracic Drainage (perfect level): progress 25/100]
[Current gratitude points total: 536 points]
[Available lottery chances: 0 times]
[Title Column]
[Currently equipped: enemy of yama (Junior), newcomer: surgical blade]
[Emergency Surgery Skill Enhancement Card activated, effects in effect, remaining time: 9 days 17 hours 32 minutes]
[New task: Emergency Operating Room First Battle! Progress 3/5, remaining time: 41 hours 12 minutes]
Comprehensive increase.
The numbers for every skill were moving forward.
Especially Basic Surgical Operations and Suturing, the growth rate had obviously accelerated.
gratitude points were also accumulating steadily.
This was the value of the Red Zone.
This was the value of the Operating Room.
This was the battlefield he wanted.