90: Face Swap

Among these people were Geng Yun, Luo Yunfeng, Luo Pingchuan, Qin Fu Yi, Qin Fu Yang, Qin Gui… They were all waiting for Long Yuan.

A moment later, three figures walked from the other end of the corridor. The one in front was Long Yuan, who had just finished his selection camp training. The two behind him were Yun Yi and Luo Ying. Long Yuan was here to perform the skin grafting surgeries he had planned for the three female patients!

In the afternoon, while training, he also paid attention to the conversation between Prince Fu and Sabado in the secret room, acquiring a large amount of information. However, he hadn't had time to properly digest it before he had to come to Luo Family Hospital for the surgeries.

To perform these three skin grafting surgeries, Long Yuan pushed himself to the limit. After all, he had never performed surgery on anyone before. To succeed now, he naturally needed to put in extra effort. For three consecutive nights, he conducted simulated training in the Heavenly Dao Space, extending each night to a month. This meant he had undergone a full three months of specialized training! This was even longer than the time he had spent in this Otherworld Great Ming Empire!

The Heavenly Dao Simulation Space was an absolutely immersive simulation training, ranging from 3D printed patient models for the three female patients to every minute detail of the surgery, even precise to each incision, the depth of each cut, the size of the resulting knife marks, every drop of blood dripping from the patient, and every stitch sewn onto the patient...

After completing these three months of devilish training, Long Yuan discovered that his Divine Sense power had actually soared to the Golden Core Peak. This was truly an unexpected gain, so he simply added five more energy conversion points, and as a result, successfully made a Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage Realm!

After his Divine Sense power reached the Nascent Soul Stage Realm, Long Yuan found that performing surgeries became even more effortless, and his confidence greatly increased, knowing that this time it was completely stable!

He nodded to Geng Yun and the others who had been waiting there, said nothing more, walked to the entrance of the sterilization room, took a deep breath, and stepped inside. After a while, he changed into a medical gown and entered the laboratory. Luo Pingchuan followed behind him to assist him.

He carefully inspected the new skin in the petri dishes and found that it was growing quite well, with absolutely excellent quality. He couldn't help but nod in satisfaction. Perhaps due to the natural environment of this Otherworld, coupled with sufficient nutrient solution and all-day accelerated growth, the new skin not only grew quickly but also met the standards for surgery!

Geng Yun, Luo Yunfeng, Yun Yi, Qin Fu Yi, Qin Fu Yang, Qin Gui, Luo Ying, and others all stood outside the laboratory, looking in through the glass. They saw that a layer of new skin, as thin as a cicada's wing, had indeed grown in the three original skin cultivation dishes, and they couldn't help but exclaim repeatedly!

"Oh my goodness, their skin really grew out!"

"It's indeed new skin!"

"It's incredible..."

"Can this really be transplanted onto a person?"

"It all depends on Long Yuan..."

Luo Family Old Ancestor Luo Yunfeng's eyes gleamed even brighter at this sight, and his heart pounded. He wished he were inside right now, but he valued his status and still gave this opportunity to his son, Luo Pingchuan.

Luo Pingchuan looked at the new skin with immense shock and tentatively asked, "Long Yuan, can this new skin be used?"

"Yes!" Long Yuan nodded while continuing his inspection.

Luo Pingchuan immediately became excited and asked, "Then when can the surgery be performed?"

"Is the list of tools I provided all here?" Long Yuan asked.

"All here!"

"Then let's begin!"

"Great! Will it all be replaced at once?" Luo Pingchuan asked excitedly.

"All of it? I'm afraid not!" Long Yuan shook his head.

"Why is that?" Luo Pingchuan was startled.

"The burn area on these three patients is too extensive, and skin is the largest organ tissue in the human body. If it were all replaced at once, the burden on the patients would be too great, and they might not be able to survive! It's best to divide it into two procedures!" Long Yuan mused.

"Two procedures?" Luo Pingchuan asked in surprise.

"Yes! Two procedures are safer: one for the facial wounds and the front body wounds, and another for the back body wounds. This allows the patients to have a process of adaptation and recovery. Otherwise, if all the new skin is replaced at once, the patients might not even be able to turn over, which would not be beneficial for their recovery." Long Yuan explained.

"This... makes sense! Shall we start now?"

"No problem! One by one. Be careful not to mix up each person's skin during the surgery, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable!"

"Understood!"

After the two made their decision and announced it to the people outside, everyone couldn't help but cheer...

Soon, the first surgery began!

According to the standards set by Long Yuan, the entire operating room had to be thoroughly disinfected. All personnel wore sterile protective surgical gowns. He was the chief surgeon, with Luo Pingchuan and eight nurses assisting him. Each person had their own responsibilities: some were in charge of disinfecting the ward and bed, some for disinfecting surgical tools, some for passing surgical tools, some for inter-operative cleaning, some for lighting equipment, some for observing and monitoring the surgical process to prevent any errors or omissions, and so on. All of this felt new and exciting to Luo Pingchuan, but he couldn't express any opinions on it because he didn't understand why it had to be done this way. It was too different from the treatments he had done in the past, and he simply couldn't offer his own insights.

What he didn't expect was that there were even more surgical rules later on. Considering the need for agile movement during the surgery and the possibility of infection from blood splashes, all staff were not allowed to wear heavy clothing and had to be lightly dressed, while also wearing sterile surgical gowns over their clothes. These requirements made the nurses feel slightly uncomfortable.

In the eyes of doctors and nurses on Earth, patients are merely a mass of human flesh without gender distinctions, and surgical requirements must be followed exactly as prescribed. However, in the Great Ming Empire, this type of surgical procedure was an unprecedented first, so it was no wonder that the nurses were slightly resistant. But after seeing Luo Pingchuan follow Long Yuan's instructions, they quickly complied.

At this point, the first female patient was wheeled in. She was still in a semi-conscious, semi-awake state. Earlier, Long Yuan had also arranged for Geng Yun to provide psychological comfort to them, which calmed her mood and gave her considerable anticipation, thinking that if she regained her former appearance, she would definitely thank this chief surgeon!

However, what she didn't expect was that the chief surgeon was a young man, seemingly not even 16 years old. This immediately made her slightly nervous. Fortunately, Geng Yun had told her before to absolutely trust this doctor and to trust Luo Family Hospital, so she remained relatively calm, though a hint of suspicion flickered in her eyes. And it was with this trace of apprehension and doubt that she slowly drifted off to sleep...

Yes, a precisely dosed anesthetic injection directly plunged her into deep sleep!

She probably never dreamed of what the doctors and nurses here were doing to her during her unconsciousness...

The first step was to put her on a ventilator, which was also the first ventilator on Blue Star. During deep anesthesia, the patient's breathing actually stops because the muscles responsible for breathing also stop working. If they didn't want to see her die after surgery due to lack of breathing, then naturally, she had to be put on a ventilator first to maintain the passive work of the respiratory muscles, thereby ensuring her basic vital signs. This process absolutely required someone to continuously monitor it; if breathing problems arose during the surgery, the procedure had to be stopped immediately for resuscitation.

The second step was skin preparation, which required shaving all her body hair from head to toe and then covering her with a sterile protective gown to prevent infection from blood splashes during the surgery.

The third step, because the surgery would be somewhat long, to prevent uncontrollable urination caused by deep anesthesia from affecting the normal functioning of her internal circulation during the surgery, a urinary catheter had to be inserted to ensure she could urinate smoothly during the procedure.

The above steps are basically the same for those pushed into operating rooms on Earth, regardless of gender.

After these steps were completed one by one, it was time for the chief surgeon to take action. Long Yuan used his Divine Sense power to check all conditions again, and after confirming everything was normal, he took the scalpel from the passing nurse and made the first cut with unparalleled composure!

This surgery was equivalent to a face transplant. Not to mention the nurses, even Luo Pingchuan had never seen it before. Everyone was incredibly shocked; the faint-hearted directly didn't dare to look, and a few nurses, after seeing it, had their legs trembling and collapsed to the ground...

Among them was a nurse whose job was to pass scalpels. Luo Pingchuan quickly took over this task, but his hands were also constantly shaking...

After three months of devilish training, Long Yuan had long been accustomed to such scenes. His courage had greatly increased, his skills were proficient, and his hands were steadier than a mountain. It could be said that he was already very familiar with this surgery and had it well planned...

Human skin includes the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue. Long Yuan would decide whether to remove the subcutaneous tissue based on his Divine Sense observation. Since subcutaneous tissue contains abundant neurons, blood vessels, and other vascular channels, removing it would cause great harm to the human body and would not be conducive to healing. Therefore, it must be preserved if possible. However, the skin itself is extremely thin, and preserving this subcutaneous tissue places extremely high demands on the chief surgeon. Such knife skills cannot be accumulated without many years of effort, but Long Yuan had the Origin foundation of the Heavenly Dao Nine Swords sword technique and possessed the Divine Sense power of the Nascent Soul Stage. His Divine Sense could clearly see all states of the patient's skin, and based on this, he made his cuts, each one precise!

Even if Luo Pingchuan watched this thousands or tens of thousands of times, he would not be able to do it! It could be said that he and Luo Yunfeng simply did not have the ability to perform this surgery!

If they were to force it, it would cause too much damage to the patient's skin tissue, severely affecting their later healing and recovery speed, and the appearance of the skin could not be guaranteed...

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