Chapter 7 New Things in North 1
The fact that Liao Yang, a renowned doctor, traveled a great distance and took great risks to provide medical assistance at the front-line base was truly beyond the expectations of his own unit in the north, and even more so of the Central Plains Base No. 3, which was receiving the assistance.
However, he also made it clear to his superiors that he wanted to see old friends.
Personal wishes and the North 1's policy of attaching great importance to this war both became driving forces for Dr. Liao to come to Central Plains No. 3, enabling him to set off very quickly and arrive in 5 days.
When Liao Yang went to Tang Xinying's apartment for dinner that evening, he had already tidied himself up.
He was a man of short stature and somewhat thin, but with a rather handsome face and sharp, clear eyes.
The initial slight awkwardness and unease upon meeting old friends quickly dissipated after a delicious meal specially prepared by Chen Yuezhou. Liao Yang opened up, but before discussing the surgery, he brought up another topic:
"You shouldn't have left North 1 back then; your project has been restarted."
Tang Xinying was slightly taken aback: "A complete restart?"
"Chen Huaizhi, the skinny guy who was the least noticeable among your group back then, is now the head of the remote purification device project. His team has been expanding in the past two years, and recently they even have their own independent research institute."
I spoke with him, and he told me personally that there was a plan to restart the project. Liao Yang was also talkative, and his tone was quite wistful.
Tang Xinying was truly surprised! Restarting this project—does the current leadership of North 1 have such boldness?
She hurriedly asked, "The remote spiritual energy transmission device has indeed received a good response among emergency purification practitioners. I've also read those papers. It can solve the problem of remote wireless energy transmission, which is an epoch-making achievement!"
His team expansion is justified.
However, our initial plan was to have enough energy to fully activate the underground supercomputer, as well as a sufficient number of high-level purifiers, highly intelligent AI, and a sufficiently robust firewall.
"You have all of these?"
Liao Yang: "This..."
Back when he and Tang Xinying were in their final year of high school at the North 1 Base, they both chose neurobiology, a popular field of study due to the pollution that plagues humanity.
However, after university, one of them switched to clinical medicine because of his "clairvoyance" ability, while the other, being a purifier, pursued further research in enhancing human mental resistance.
Liao Yang became interested in Tang Xinying's research project because he was pursuing her. In addition, most of the young proposers of this project were his classmates, so there has been news about it over the years.
But he didn't know the details.
Tang Xinying immediately realized that Liao Yang probably didn't know the details, so she smiled and said, "No need to answer. Now we have Starlink communication. If I want to know, I can contact Lao Chen and the others at any time."
Liao Yang knew this was true, but it was precisely on this point that he had expectations, so he couldn't help but ask:
"If this project restarts, will you return to Base North 1?"
"Perhaps?" Tang Xinying picked up her teacup and blew on it, but her answer was as vague as the rising steam.
For their vision to come true, there is one crucial condition: a "mastermind."
Does this mean that Lao Chen and his team have already chosen a "mastermind"?
Or is it that the most suitable person to be the "mastermind" is by her side?
This imaginative defense design has indeed found its time.
......
Qi An delivered the meal to Teacher Tang's apartment, not wanting to disturb their old friends' gathering and conversation, so she and Chen Yuezhou walked back together after delivering it.
"The defensive pressure is too low right now, and the close-quarters defense forces are too idle," Qi An said. "Right now, both online and offline, people are arguing about our delayed departure.
In the first phase of the campaign, Zhongyuan No. 3 sent a large number of soldiers to the front lines, and it wasn't just one of them who applied to be stationed at the new base after returning.
There were indeed some who applied late and waited until after the base's medal-awarding ceremony to leave.
But other teams aren't getting any attention, so a bunch of idle people are just focusing on their team and criticizing them!
The attitudes of high-ranking military officers must have also contributed to this situation.
Qi An and Chen Yuezhou had never chatted so casually before, expressing such unreserved emotions in their everyday complaints. Chen Yuezhou knew that he had probably revealed a secret and entrusted his life to someone, which brought them closer together in terms of trust.
A smile flickered across his lips, but he also felt contempt for the matter itself.
"Your current predicament is still because of me, I'm sorry." He apologized first, then commented in a calm tone:
"The officers at your base become increasingly narrow-minded as they rise through the ranks, making it difficult to retain talent."
"If your commander-in-chief hadn't fallen, the Central Plains Base No. 3 would have had a very difficult time seizing subsequent development opportunities, and might even have directly hampered the later stages of the war."
Quite sharp-tongued, Qi An couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips: "The possibility of replacing such a high-ranking general at the last minute is basically nonexistent, and the Fallen Insects don't even bother visiting the base anymore."
Chen Yuezhou raised an eyebrow, as if he had thought of something, and leaned down to whisper a few words in Qi An's ear.
Qi An's eyes widened slightly.
......
All the joy, emotions, and regrets of reuniting with old friends were expressed on the night of their meeting, and the doctor got back to work the next morning.
Chen Yuezhou lay on the examination bed and was pushed in and out through the circular opening of the CT scanner.
Liao Yang frowned when he received the CT scan.
This small base doesn't have magnetic particle imaging equipment, and the CT scanner is also outdated. Unless they know there's a foreign object in advance, they can't see any abnormalities in the scanned images!
“The density of the blood vessels in the dissection between the left ventricle and the basal nerve is clearly wrong,” Zhou Yanying observed Liao Yang’s expression and pointed with a laser pointer.
She was a little uneasy, but Liao Yang didn't seem offended or angry.
“I saw it. The foreign object was no more than 7 millimeters long. The outer layer was probably made of some kind of biopolymer material, and it had already fused with his brain tissue. It’s rare that you were able to make that judgment.”
Zhou Yanying kept a straight face, but she had to clench her fists to calm the excitement of being affirmed by the big boss.
“Our equipment is much better than here, the images are much clearer, and I have the superpower 'X-ray vision' and a little bit of microscopic vision. If I strain my eyes, I can see that thing directly with the naked eye.” As she spoke, her tone became serious again:
"There is a relatively large cavity near the left ventricle, which makes it easy for surgical equipment to enter. However, one major challenge is that the radio frequency of that thing has been determined to be a commonly used remote control frequency band, making it a bomb that can be remotely detonated."
Another point is that we cannot be sure if this thing has components such as pressure sensors, and we don't know if it will spontaneously explode if it is touched.
We are also unsure of its explosive power.
The last layer, where the foreign object was located, was one of the most complex areas of his body in terms of blood circulation. The object was completely covered by blood vessels, and a single mistake during surgery could lead to massive bleeding.
Knowing that Chen Yuezhou had a very strong mental fortitude, and since there were no family members present who could speak on his behalf to understand the situation, Zhou Yanying spoke directly to his face:
"The patient has the ability to 'self-heal,' and should be able to survive as long as there is no major blood vessel rupture."
However, the rapid self-healing ability of 'super self-healing' may also interfere with surgery.
Furthermore, it is uncertain whether his nerves can repair themselves. If his nerve tissue is damaged due to the above uncertainties, it is also uncertain.
He may become paralyzed, suffer from amnesia, dementia, or personality disorder.
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