Chapter 89

Orville's surgery was scheduled for nine in the morning. Because there were not enough people, Feng Ran picked a few trainee doctors from the surgery department and even dragged Ting Yun out of the villa. Ting Yun looked unwilling and dawdled while changing into his surgical gown.

Feng Ran asked inexplicably, "What? Your medical license has been revoked?"

Tingyun: "No."

Feng Ran: "Is it because you're rusty?"

Tingyun: "No, and I only need to keep an eye on the instruments, it's not difficult at all."

Feng Ran: "Then why do you look like that?"

Tingyun: "I find it disgusting."

Feng Ran: "Wasn't it said that their whole family was quite honest and upright?"

Tingyun: "Then I'm also disgusted, regardless of whether I'm honest or not."

Feng Ran ignored him, quickly put on her protective gear, and went into the operating room. She gathered the resident doctors who would assist her around the operating table, hesitant to move forward.

Xu Zhi, the assistant, took the lead in asking Feng Ran among the group, "Are we really going to perform surgery on Mr. Ceylonka?"

Feng Ran was impatient: "Which part is wrong? Isn't the use of basic medical devices a core compulsory course? If you don't know how, don't agree to it in the first place."

The number of times they go into the operating room is closely related to their internship assessment scores and their evaluation for permanent employment. Of course, they want to accumulate as much experience as possible, but this is not just anyone, this is Sri Lanka. What if he wakes up and finds out that a group of resident doctors performed the surgery on him and flies into a rage? None of them can bear that responsibility.

Feng Ran: "Tsk, what's there to be afraid of with the surgery authorization he signed himself? It's just an appendectomy, how could it kill someone? If you're really that capable, be careful Xisen might give you a red light."

This trainee doctor, who looked even younger than them, sometimes had a more intimidating aura than the department head. The assistants looked at each other and eventually took their positions.

For this surgery, Fengran specially made an analytical scanning mirror, and Xingtong monitored and analyzed all the operation and processing steps in the cloud. In fact, if the precision of Sleica's XDU medical robot can be accurate to the millimeter level, this kind of surgery can be performed without human intervention.

However, the current situation is that most medical robots on the market can actually replace doctors in performing surgery. For most surgical procedures, they are precise enough. However, they require a large amount of operational data to be entered before they can be used. But performing surgery in order to enter data would require increasing the precision and complexity of ordinary surgeries, which is putting the cart before the horse for both doctors and patients.

The original purpose of surgery is to treat patients. The surgical plan and procedure are determined according to the patient's condition. Simple suturing techniques certainly have their advantages. The operating table is not a place to show off skills. Increasing the difficulty of surgery in order to improve the accuracy of data entry is irresponsible to patients. Therefore, the development of this type of chief surgeon medical assistant robot stagnated not long after its introduction.

Feng Ran inserted the laparoscope through the puncture point, his gaze wandering across the red and white on the monitor. Xing Tong thoughtfully marked the images: stomach, duodenum, colon, diaphragm, cecum... appendix found.

It's alright, no pus has formed.

"Ultrasound knife".

"Vascular clamps".

"Electrocoagulation".

The mesentery and blood vessels are among the more difficult parts to handle during surgery. The incision at the puncture point is relatively small, so Feng Ran handled it very carefully. Finally, after ligating the inflamed part at the base of the appendix with a vascular clamp, the inflamed part was cut off.

After taking the specimen bag out and placing it on the surgical tray, Feng Ran glanced at Ting Yun, who was sitting at the head of the bed.

Tingyun: "Vital signs: blood pressure 100, heart rate 80, stable."

Feng Ran nodded: "Rinse with saline solution to expel the gas."

The incision for minimally invasive surgery is very small. Feng Ran felt that manually suturing it would be making a fuss over nothing, so he simply used suture staples to fix it.

The others in the operating room breathed a sigh of relief.

Tingyun stood up from the machine: "The surgery will end at 10:12, the anesthesia will end at 10:30, and I will be awake by 6:00 in the evening."

Feng Ran: "It took a little longer than I expected."

Tingyun: "At least there was almost no bleeding. As long as there was only a small amount of blood in the abdominal cavity, that would be fine. For a first time, this level is already quite good."

Feng Ran: "Yesterday I asked Xisen and he told me he could finish the operation in twenty minutes. He wouldn't even bother with this kind of surgery."

Tingyun: "He's a recognized medical genius, why are you comparing yourself to him?"

Feng Ran shook his head and walked out of the operating room: "I don't have any other patients today, can I leave work early?"

Tingyun followed behind her listlessly: "Ask your boss, I'm off work anyway."

Feng Ran: "It's rare for you to do your old job, why aren't you happy?"

Tingyun: "It's been too long since I've done this, and the protective inhibitors are making me feel a bit nauseous."

Because of the special nature of the second sex, when performing surgery on Alpha or Omega patients, all staff in the operating room must take protective inhibitors in advance to avoid interference from pheromones in the patient's blood. The inhibitors block the receiving tissues in the glands for a short period of time and are a type of strong anesthetic inhibitor. After the surgery, supplemental capsules to counteract the effects of the inhibitors must be taken to complete the protective measures.

Feng Ran: "You've really had a tough time."

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Fengran normally gets off work at 5 p.m., but her patient doesn't wake up until 6 p.m., so she talked to the easy-going Dr. Fei Lie and figured that since she had finished her surgery today and didn't have any appointments or night shifts, she could go home early at noon.

The two robots in the house were pleasantly surprised and hurriedly prepared lunch for her. During the meal, Shen Shiqian called again. Feng Ran answered casually, reasonably suspecting that this person had planted a lot of eyes and ears around her, otherwise how could he always manage to call her during her free time?

"Ranran, what are you doing?"

Feng Ran held the bowl and took a sip of soup: "Can't we tell just by looking?"

Shen Shiqian was alone in the starship's command room. The projection view of the command console reminded Feng Ran of the countless times they had confronted each other in their previous lives. It was from this same perspective that they looked at each other, and there was a strange feeling about it.

How's the situation on your end?

Shen Shiqian: "The alien species in the outer area have been basically eradicated. The inhibitor you provided is very effective. However, the internal wormhole pathways are different from what I remember. We will have to explore and record them again, which will probably take a long time. Have you been missing me at home?"

Feng Ran: "It's a pity that the energy detectors around the black hole can't be used, otherwise the energy reaction of the alien species would be quite obvious. If we could make an indicator, it would be much more convenient. But we probably can't count on the people at the Academy of Sciences."

Shen Shiqian sighed, "Ranran."

Feng Ran shoveled a mouthful of rice into his mouth and replied expressionlessly, "Yeah, yeah, I miss you so much, I can't eat or drink. I've lost four pounds in three days without you here, and I'd rather stay in the hospital than go home. Is this enough?"

She changed her tone: "Just remember I said I wouldn't secretly enjoy holographic communication with you, otherwise, if you keep provoking me like this, I'll definitely bite you so badly that you can't even operate your mech. When I'm not around, some people can't even control their pheromone imbalance, and then they'll be ruined."

Shen Shiqian ignored her teasing and smiled lightly, saying, "I will find a way to go back as soon as possible. I miss you very much too."

Feng Ran clicked her tongue, thinking that Shen Shiqian was indeed a pervert. She put down her chopsticks and said, "It's so sour it hurts my teeth. I'm not eating anymore."

Xiao Fen looked at the leftover sweet and sour pork in her bowl, and a question mark popped up on the screen. It was clearly made to be sweet!

The cores of the Legion-level mutants have been sent back through the covert channels prepared by Feng Ran. Hilde called to complain to Feng Ran as soon as the vanguard's operation ended, cursing and grumbling. No matter how many times she was betrayed, she never learned her lesson. After hearing the information she wanted, Feng Ran cut off the communication. If she was not mistaken, he was still working hard under Shen Shiqian.

Feng Ran was just figuring out what to do with the crystal cores that had been sent back when he received a message from Jiang Lan.

[Jiang Lan: Before the extermination of the aliens in Black Hole No. 5, Sena sent a team to secretly mine on nearby mining planets, but aliens appeared there, resulting in heavy casualties. After the team returned, many people in Franklin started to have fevers. The hospital, under pressure, said it was a new type of flu, but there were deaths a few days ago. They are currently being hidden and have not yet been exposed. What should we do?]

[Fengran: Do you know the cause of death for the infected?]

[Jiang Lan: Physical condition collapses.]

Sena was the lord of Franklin and the two surrounding asteroids. His heinous crimes drove the people to revolt. The Society of Light grew to the point that even Geno was worried. The Empire was unwilling to admit that someone of his character was a member of the Imperial Bureaucracy. In the end, the blame fell on Feng Ran.

Feng Ran knew almost nothing about what was happening on Franklin Planet in her previous life, but she couldn't possibly be unaware of such a major event as a new infectious alien disease. Although she knew that this deviation couldn't be blamed on Sena, she still thought irritably, "That fatso really knows how to cause trouble."

The cause of physical collapse and death is undoubtedly the draining of the body's energy by the invasion of a foreign species. While physical decline has a four- to five-year cycle, the rate of life force loss during physical collapse can be as short as three to five days, leading to the failure and atrophy of all organs and ultimately death from disorganized shock. According to Feng Ran's knowledge, only the crystallized form of a foreign organism can achieve this energy conversion.

[Wind-borne: Can the transmission route be determined?]

[Jiang Lan: The initial infected individuals were members of the squad who returned from the mining planet. They all contracted the virus through wounds, and the subsequent transmission route is preliminarily speculated to be indirect contact.]

Do alien species also have viruses? And considering only the energy carrier, it's far too small.

[Fengran: How widespread is the spread? What about the number of infections?]

[Jiang Lan: The affected area radiates outwards from the city of Truss. The number of confirmed cases is currently close to a thousand. Due to the unusual source of infection and the inability to contain the transmission route, the actual situation may be more severe than this figure.]

"Please pull up the list of tests conducted on infected individuals that are under the hospital's control, so I can take a look."

Xing Tong quickly "stole" all the hospital's medical records. While Feng Ran browsed them, the core processor was running at full speed to organize the relevant data and analyze the case details, quickly generating a report detailing the entire incident.

"Master, there is no record of a virus with this structure in my database. Moreover, given its inert immunity to most drug components, there is an 82% chance that it is a foreign biological virus. The data in the examination report is limited and cannot be analyzed for structural comparison of related genetic factors..."

However, Feng Ran's mind was not on this matter. Since the alien virus was infected near the No. 5 black hole, then Shen Shiqian's extermination force should be the hardest hit area.

Fengran interrupted its analysis: "What's the situation in the war zone?"

Xing Tong: "The mineral planet where Sena landed is the origin of the pathogen. It is planet i5962 on the outer edge of the war zone. The aliens on i5962 have now been eliminated by the Third Combat Force, and the front line is steadily advancing inward. Due to the widespread use of the new alien inhibitor, there has not yet been a large-scale outbreak of fever. It is preliminarily judged that the inhibitor is also effective against the alien virus, but I need to observe the actual specific data again using the local biological monitoring system."

Fengran: "What about the simulation analysis data?"

Xing Tong: "Based on Franklin's infection radiation situation, we made a preliminary infectiousness model, loaded the inhibitor's effectiveness range data, personnel flow data, and took the correlation coefficient of 0.8 as a comprehensive evaluation. The comprehensive analysis shows that the potential infection rate in the war zone is currently 17.63%, but this is only a simulation data obtained under the condition that there is only one pathogenic point i5962."

Jiang Lan was still sending her messages asking for her opinion.

[Jiang Lan: What should we do now?]

Feng Ran: "What about the population movement on Franklin Planet? Has it spread to surrounding planets?"

Xing Tong: "At first, there was some, but now Sena has controlled entry and exit, as well as the spread of public opinion within the country, so apart from a small number of people panicking, most people don't realize the seriousness of the matter."

Feng Ran was racking his brains for a headache: "Tsk, should we get rid of that fatso now and let Jiang Lan take over Franklin Star? Or should we wait for things to escalate and let the Empire handle it? But the most urgent task is definitely to research the virus and antibody drugs, right?"

Xing Tong: "Yes, in terms of current research on alien creatures, Master, your technology and discoveries are at the forefront of the Empire. The time from infection to outbreak of this virus varies from ten to fifteen days depending on individual constitution. If we wait for the situation to develop naturally, the infection and death rates will likely be very severe. Although this deviates from our plan to replace Sena, if we do not take action now, the influence that the Light Society has established in Franklin will be greatly reduced."

Feng Ran glanced at the flashing terminal again.

[Jiang Lan: Can you save them?]

Tsk, how come they really think they're saviors?