Zheng Ren was in the middle of surgery when he heard a crisp, melodious ring in his head.
Huh? The mission was completed?
The System's emotionless, robotic female voice appeared.
[Hostility from a Peer. Mission completed. Time remaining: 16 hours, 23 minutes, 43 seconds. Host will be awarded 2,332 experience points for exceeding completion. Mission reward … Calculating.]
As expected, Zheng Ren was in a good mood.
But what the hell was with the experience points? Wasn't skill points supposed to be used to climb the skill tree? Why were there experience points again?
Zheng Ren suppressed the joy and excitement in his heart and focused on completing the appendectomy.
It was just an ordinary patient with simple appendicitis. It wouldn't take long for him to be treated.
Two minutes and fifteen seconds later, Zheng Ren was done with the subcutaneous suture and bandaged the incision. Then, together with the anesthesiologist and the doctors from the first general surgery department, they carried the patient to the operating table.
"I'll take a break. You can anesthetize the next patient first," Zheng Ren said.
The anesthesiologist, who had just finished his shift, was still in high spirits. He estimated that Zheng Ren would be exhausted after performing forty appendectomies, so he nodded.
Zheng Ren went to a corner of the operating theater and took off his dark green sterile surgical gown. He did not throw it into the red pollution bucket but threw it on the ground and lay down without a care for his image.
This was a common occurrence during the night shift in the emergency department. The doctors and nurses in the operating theater were used to it and no one thought it was tragic.
It was good enough to have food to eat. How could they be picky?
Zheng Ren closed his eyes and entered the System.
After forty surgeries, the System had completely returned to its original appearance. Even the fox statue in front of the thatched cottage looked more lively. The pond seemed to have grown bigger. The air … was still as fresh as ever. Zheng Ren, who was used to breathing smoggy air, coughed involuntarily.
[Mission reward calculation completed. The System Shop will be opened to the host. Please pay attention to reasonable spending,] the robotic female voice said. [Mission reward: 150 skill points, one chance to enter the System's operating theater for 20 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes, 43 seconds.]
After that, the robotic female voice disappeared, leaving only its echo echoing around the pond.
This reward … was amazing.
Zheng Ren, who had experienced the System's operating theater training before, knew how big of an opportunity this was.
Every experimental subject from the system was more suitable to practice surgery than the precious cadavers in medical schools.
The training time rewarded for this mission was also longer than the appendectomy practice. The System was really generous. As expected of Zheng Ren's System.
Moreover, Zheng Ren noticed that the surgery intensive training time reward was rounded out. It seemed that the normal reward was 20 days, and the extra 16 hours was the time left after completing the mission.
However, whether this was the case or a coincidence remained to be seen.
The voice disappeared. Zheng Ren did not look for the source of her voice. Instead, he observed the skill tree.
Forty emergency surgeries in one night were like high-efficiency farm manure that boosted his skill tree.
The 1005 general surgery points had become 1067 points, which was a gratifying increase. However, there was still a long way to go before he could reach the peak of the Expert Level. What could he do with the 150 Skill Points he had received from the quest reward?
The other skill trees had also more or less grown, but it was not as obvious as the General Surgery skill tree.
What the hell was that? After going through the skill tree and gaining an intuitive understanding of his abilities, Zheng Ren started searching for the Shop mentioned by the System.
With a thought, the screen opened, displaying the System's so-called Shop in front of him.
"…" What a fool, Zheng Ren thought.
Other than surgeries, the system did not want to create some grand formalism to decorate its appearance at all.
It was a very practical and utilitarian System.
Zheng Ren began to admire the items in the Shop. The first thing that caught his eye was a set of general surgery instruments with a price tag of 15000 experience points.
So, experience points were the currency used to purchase items in the System's Shop. Zheng Ren was speechless. Couldn't he just use gold ingots? He had almost misunderstood the System.
He continued to browse and found a description of the item behind the price tag.
General surgery instruments had various functions, such as automatic sterilization, minor repair functions when dissociating connective tissues, and so on. Moreover, there were a variety of general surgery instruments, many of which Zheng Ren had never seen before.
They were good items, but they were too expensive for Zheng Ren to afford at the moment.
Apart from general surgery, there were also surgical instruments from other departments on the menu.
Although they were similar, they involved different branches of surgery. Once his surgical skills improved, he would have a deeper demand for them.
For example, Zheng Ren now had a deep understanding of long curved forceps. The long curved forceps in Sea City General Hospital's operating theater were not easy to use and had almost affected the completion rate of surgeries on two occasions.
It was better to wait until he had the money. Having the instruments was not enough. How could he circumvent the operating theater's rules and carry them for surgery? This was another problem.
However, it was not necessary for Zheng Ren to think about this problem at the moment.
The last reward was also the one that Zheng Ren desired the most — 20 days of in-service training in the System's operating theater.
He had searched for a long time but still could not find the right way to access this reward. It was illusory and did not even have a physical body.
"God System, how do I obtain the in-service training reward?" Zheng Ren searched the small System space but could not find the operating theater, so he could only seek help from the System.
Unfortunately, the System was as cold as ever and responded indifferently to Zheng Ren's question.
It seemed like this was the only way. Zheng Ren pondered for a moment and did not add the 150 skill points to the general surgery skill tree.
What if the System went crazy again and gave him a mission that would result in his death if he failed to complete it? Some skill points in his inventory might be useful.
The System space was deserted. After looking at the items in the Shop one more time, Zheng Ren left the space with a mouth full of saliva.
"Hey, stop lying there. Get up and start the surgery." The anesthesiologist kicked Zheng Ren's leg gently to wake him up.
After resting for ten minutes, Zheng Ren realized that the flow of time in the System space was usually the same as in the real world. The System seemed to consume a lot of energy to keep time still during the training. It was an emergency mode.
Zheng Ren felt full of energy as he got up from the ground. Perhaps resting in the System space could help him recover his Mentality quickly. He would find a chance to try it out.
"I'm getting up now," Zheng Ren said.
"Can you still do it?" the anesthesiologist asked.
After all, he had never seen forty surgeries in one go in his life. Based on experience, Zheng Ren should have been dead from exhaustion.
"If you can't do it, I can do it. How can a man say he can't do it?" Zheng Ren said with a smile.
Speaking dirty words was a special culture in the operating theater. There was no theoretical basis for it. Anyway, the operating theaters in the country were the same, the same, the same.
After scrubbing, disinfecting, putting on sterile sheets, and putting on surgical gowns, another new appendectomy began.
As fast as ever, the appendix became obedient under Zheng Ren's scalpel. It was removed in a few minutes and thrown into the specimen basin.
A new day had begun in Xinglin Garden's live broadcast room. More people flooded in.
It was the first time on Xinglin Garden's website that forty appendectomies had been broadcasted live in a sleepless night.
Even the medical colleagues who were watching the live broadcast in real life had never experienced something like this, let alone live broadcast on the website.
There were many people who could perform eight to ten appendectomies in twenty-four hours.
He once had such an experience. While he was drinking beer and eating skewers at a roadside barbecue stall during his break, he had the capital to show off to others that he had performed ten appendectomies in one night on a certain year, month, and day.
Ten appendectomies alone was enough to make smoke billow and blood splatter.
However, in the surgery live broadcast room, everything seemed so insignificant.
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