Chen Rou nodded: "Thank you!"

She turned around, waited for Director Liu to open the door, and went straight into the operating room.

At this moment, Nie Zhao was also wheeled in from the other side, outside the operating room door. The red light came on, and the surgery officially began.

Nie Rong was also there, behind a huge glass window in the operating room cubicle.

That spot is usually used by hospital leaders to supervise surgeries and by interns to observe surgeries.

However, as long as the patient's family is willing to spend enough money, they can watch from outside the glass window the entire time until the surgery is over.

Chairman Nie Rong looked disheveled. His hair was messy and flat, and his glasses were broken at some point, with one frame missing and leaning crookedly on his nose.

After all, she was worried about her son. She watched as several foreign doctors took out chisels, electric saws, and other tools, and practically lay on the glass, their eyes fixed on their son on the operating table.

Secretary An was right beside him, and he said something to her. Suddenly, he glanced to the side and looked at Chen Rou, who was standing by the operating table. After a long while, he sighed deeply and shook his head.

Director Liu is right. During this period, Nie Zhao's mind would occasionally clear, but most of the time his mind was in a deep coma and his consciousness was extremely confused.

In this situation, logically speaking, he should not even know where he is. However, he woke up three times and only communicated with Chen Rou three times, but his three communication sessions were all very important.

The first time, he corroborated Chen Rou's story, causing her to focus her suspicions on Mei Lu. The second time, he talked about something she was allergic to, Musk moscene. Allergic reactions vary in severity; minor allergies might only cause rashes, redness, and itching, but severe allergies can be fatal. So, what he was talking about involved something that could potentially harm her life. She hadn't figured out what it was all about yet, so she decided to leave it for now.

The third time, which was just now, Chen Rou herself didn't expect Nie Zhao to say such a thing.

He told his father to listen to her, which meant that even though she was in a deep coma, and even though he rarely woke up and saw her violently beating people, he chose to completely trust her, even more than he trusted his father. This made Chen Rou a little uneasy.

After all, although the Nie family is small, the situation is complicated enough. As for the outside world, besides Gui Tou Chang, how many other underworld figures and gangs were involved in the murder of Nie Zhao? Chen Rou has to investigate all of this slowly.

When it comes to solving cases, her abilities are beyond doubt.

But this is not the future China, and she has no powerful public security, procuratorate, court, or South China Sea military behind her. She is fighting alone. She will worry and doubt, fearing that she will be assassinated by the other party before she can solve the case. If she loses her life, she will also fail Nie Zhao's trust.

Fortunately, Nie Zhao will regain consciousness once the surgery is completed and he has passed the critical period.

And as long as he can still trust her as he does now after he wakes up, Chen Rou won't have to hold back and can investigate the case freely.

Not to mention the lawless gang leaders in Hong Kong, Chen Rou must wipe out that devil, Gui Tou Chang, and his pirate park that only knows how to kidnap and kill. She wants to raze it to the ground.

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The doctor was going to perform a minimally invasive surgery on Nie Zhao, but as with any brain surgery, the process was, of course, very bloody.

The doctor is administering anesthesia to him at this moment. Although the nurses in the intensive care unit have already prepared his skin before the operation, Dr. Marry seems dissatisfied with the nurses' preparation and is directing the doctors to redo the preparation.

Then came the actual craniotomy.

The air was first filled with the smell of disinfectant, and then, as the electric drill whirred, a burnt, roasted meat smell rose up.

It was almost noon. Chen Rou hadn't eaten much in the morning and was hungry. The smell of roasted meat made her feel a little hungry, but of course, the thought that it was all Nie Zhao's charred flesh and human flesh made her lose her appetite instantly.

The patient is under anesthesia, so he is neither conscious nor hungry.

Doctors eat a full meal and go to the toilet before entering the operating room. During the operation, in order to ensure a sterile environment, they cannot eat or drink. Even if they go to urinate, they have to be disinfected again before they can come back in. So once they are on the operating table, no matter how long it takes, doctors basically just tough it out.

Time flies, and three hours have passed in the blink of an eye, but the surgery is only halfway through.

Nie Rong, who had been leaning against the window, couldn't hold on any longer and sat down. Chen Rou's legs were also very sore, and she was thirsty and hungry, but she chose to persevere so as not to disturb the doctors.

In this operating room, time seems to flow exceptionally slowly.

The clock ticked away, the minute hand kept moving, but when Chen Rou looked at the clock again after waiting for a long time, she found that only five minutes had passed.

This brings us to the professionalism of the doctors from Switzerland.

The lead surgeon, Marry, was a woman, and quite old and overweight. She didn't seem to be in good health, but four hours had passed in the blink of an eye. Chen Rou felt that she had worked hard, but she didn't show any signs of being tired or exhausted. Instead, she would cheer on the other doctors from time to time.

Finally, the fifth hour arrived, and suddenly, all the instruments beeped simultaneously.

Chen Rou was startled, and Nie Rong on the other side of the glass also jumped up and peered into the glass window.

The other doctors were also flustered and scrambling, but Dr. Marry remained calm. She turned to look at Chen Rou and joked with her, saying, "You must be this patient's wife. Your husband has a very handsome face. He is also very lucky to have found a wife like you who accompanies him into the operating room."

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