Chapter 661: Before the Surgery (Two chapters combined!)
After the matter was settled, the two left. The laboratory door was opened, and Gu Yin looked over and saw several professors secretly watching.
"Are you gone?" Zhao Chengguo asked in a low, furtive voice.
Gu Yin nodded: "What's going on here?"
Zhao Chengguo opened the door, and several people came out.
"We researchers are the worst at chatting with these people. We're too blunt and easily offend people, so we just pretend we don't know they're coming! Hehe!"
Gu Yin smiled helplessly, "The old leaders are all very easygoing, what's there to be afraid of? By the way, how are your experiments going?"
Some of the people nodded, while others shook their heads.
"I've made a breakthrough! The new equipment is so convenient! When will our country have something like that?! Sigh!"
"Mine isn't ready yet, it'll take some more time!"
"That's exactly what I'm researching, which makes it even more difficult!"
Gu Yin smiled and said, "It's alright, take your time!"
This time, thanks to the use of Gu Yin's lithography machine, their work has made great progress, but Zhao Chengguo's experiment has not progressed. The materials required for this lithography machine are not yet available to anyone in the Gu family, and foreign countries have imposed a blockade, preventing them from entering the next stage.
So during this period, he kept going back and forth between the Academy of Sciences and Gu Yin.
While she was busy preparing, Gu Yin had already asked someone to help her hire the best surgeon.
The application for this surgical experiment has already been approved.
Seeing that Gu Yin was working on a chip again, Zhao Chengguo asked curiously, "Are you sure your chip can capture real-world images based on the nervous system's responses?"
Having done it once, doing it again is much easier.
As Gu Yin worked, she laughed and said, "You all saw the rabbit's neurological reactions before, but I'm not sure if it will work on humans. We'll have to do surgery."
Zhao Chengguo nodded seriously: "Indeed, if your thing really works, it will be phenomenal, whether in military or medical fields! It will usher in a new era of intelligence!"
Seeing that Gu Yin hadn't reacted yet, Zhao Chengguo briefly mentioned, "Vegetative state patients can play a very important role in land, sea, and air operations, as well as aerospace! Is the doctor you hired reliable? Do you need our help? I think you should still talk to your superiors about this experiment to ensure safety!"
Gu Yin blinked. She did this entirely to borrow people from the Physics Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so she would have help when disassembling the lithography machine later. She also needed to address Li Li's eye problem. She hadn't really thought about anything else! Because she didn't really understand military industry or artificial intelligence, she had a vague idea of which projects needed these technologies, based on what she'd seen online in her previous life. She wouldn't have bothered to look it up. If Zhao Chengguo hadn't mentioned it, she really wouldn't have thought of it!
"The doctor was found with the help of my teacher. He said he's the director of a military hospital. The higher-ups know about this chip. Anyway, you and the professors already know, so you could consider it notification!"
Zhao Chengguo shook his head: "I was referring to the military headquarters."
Gu Yin thought about it and decided to wait and see how things went after the surgery. She had the surgery performed by a doctor in the system library, and the surgery was very successful. Nobody knows how it will turn out in reality, so she didn't want to make a big fuss. It would be embarrassing if it failed.
"Let's see how the surgery goes first! No rush! Anyway, it's all in a military hospital, so it's very safe. Besides, there are people guarding the door, they'll take care of things."
Zhao Chengguo thought about it and agreed, saying, "When do you plan to start? I'd like to go and take a look too!"
"We haven't found a volunteer yet. I'll talk to my teacher and ask the hospital to help us find one, then we can start!"
Gu Yin had barely finished speaking when her phone rang. People really do come around so quickly; she had just mentioned Old Cheng when he called.
"Ah Yin, have you found a volunteer for your experiment yet?"
Gu Yin smiled and shook her head: "Teacher, not yet. I was just thinking of asking you to talk to the dean and recommend someone."
Old Cheng: "That's good! Here's the thing, there's a soldier here who encountered soldiers from a neighboring country operating within our borders while on a border patrol. He called out to them many times, but they didn't respond. In order to protect the integrity of our territory, a battle broke out, and his eye was injured by an explosion. He is currently being treated at a military hospital. After the hospital director learned about your experiment, he told him about this, and the soldier agreed to the surgery. What do you think about giving him this spot?"
Gu Yin thought for a moment and asked, "How long have you been injured? Has your wound healed?"
“I was injured last week and have become completely blind. My wounds haven’t healed yet, so I need to undergo supportive surgery.”
Gu Yin nodded: "Okay, then please ask the dean to help me find a volunteer who has been blind for a long time. I want to see if it works and if there will be any difference!"
"Okay. I'll reply to him now, and I'll contact you again after he finds it!"
Seeing that Gu Yin had hung up the phone, Zhao Chengguo's mouth moved, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Because two new chips were needed, Gu Yin was busy for a while. The volunteers from the hospital director's side had also been hospitalized and completed all the necessary examinations, and were just waiting for Gu Yin to start the surgery.
Knowing that Gu Yin was going to have eye surgery, Li Li arrived at the Gu family home early that day. After Gu Yin finished breakfast, they went to the military hospital together.
"Although I'm not the one having the surgery, I'm still very nervous. I hope everything goes smoothly!" Li Li said in a deep voice as he listened to his heart pounding rapidly.
Gu Yin was talking to the dean on her phone when she heard this and smiled, saying, "Don't worry, the result is pretty much the same. If it doesn't work this time, it will definitely work next time! Just wait and see!"
Li Li nodded upon hearing this: "When you asked me about this before, I guessed you might be interested in it. At the time, I thought it was just interest, but I didn't expect you to actually do research. I never thought that after several years, you would actually do it and succeed! Ah Yin, you are truly the most amazing person I have ever met!"
When he heard about this, he was so shocked that he couldn't sleep for two nights. His grandmother was also so excited that she stayed up all night to light incense and pray to the gods, hoping that Ayin's experiment would have a smooth process!
Gu Yin patted Li Li on the shoulder: "Save your excited words for when your eyesight is restored! We're here, let's go, get out of the car!"
From the car, they could see the laboratory floor of the military hospital. When the two got out of the car, Meng Yu was already waiting there.
"The professor went to the research institute and asked me to come and keep him company. Let's go! The dean and the others are already waiting upstairs!"
Gu Yin nodded upon hearing this, and the three of them took the elevator directly to the top floor.
As soon as I stepped out of the elevator, I saw Zhao Chengguo and his men; soldiers were standing one meter apart in the corridor.
Gu Yin asked in surprise, "Didn't we say we wouldn't notify the higher-ups?"
Zhao Chengguo smiled and shook his head: "There was no notification, but Dean Ren felt that this matter was of great importance and made the arrangements."
As the two were talking, footsteps came from the end of the corridor. A middle-aged man wearing a military uniform underneath a white coat strode over.
The other person was very imposing and robust, and his gait looked like that of a general who had just come down from the battlefield! His aura was extremely powerful!
This doctor was nothing like the one Gu Yin had seen in the top-tier hospitals in her previous life. To put it simply, judging from his appearance, this hospital director didn't look like someone who would wield a scalpel; he looked more like someone who would wield a gun!
The person walked up to Gu Yin, nodded to Zhao Chengguo and the others, and then looked at Gu Yin.
A smile appeared on his serious face, but it also diminished his overall demeanor.
"You must be Comrade Zhou! We've been talking on the phone all this time, and it's great to finally meet you in person! Just as I imagined! You're indeed a promising young man! I admire you! I'm Dean Zhang Wenjun!" He extended his hand as he spoke.
Gu Yin shook hands politely and smiled, "Dean Zhang, but you're a little different from what I imagined!"
"Hahaha! Do you think I should be the bald, pot-bellied type?" Zhang Wenjun laughed heartily as he let go of her hand.
Gu Yin shook her head: "I thought he would be a refined scholar, like our teacher, but I didn't expect him to be like a general on the battlefield."
“What you said is true. Let’s talk as we walk. I’m not usually at the hospital. I’m on missions, sometimes at the border, sometimes abroad. I also train every day, so my physical fitness is not bad. A military doctor is both a soldier and a doctor! There’s no contradiction!”
Gu Yin truly admired them! Especially the medical teams in impoverished or war-torn regions abroad! The harsher the environment, the more they went!
In her previous life, Gu Yin met a female doctor who had just returned from a war zone abroad while searching for Gu Le. Gu Yin asked her why she would want to go to those places abroad when the environment in China is so good.
Gu Yin still remembers what she said: "If we don't go, no one will save them."
Such harsh conditions meant that few doctors from around the world went there. Even those who did initially couldn't endure the harsh environment and left early. Only the Chinese medical team, with the Chinese flag, remained permanently stationed there until the local area no longer needed them. Only then would they leave to continue providing medical care elsewhere.
Gu Yin said admiringly, "You are amazing! Our country's medical teams abroad are renowned both at home and abroad, and everyone says you are true angels!"
As Zhang Wenjun knocked on the door, he said, "Just do justice to the white coat you're wearing. One of our volunteer soldiers lives here, and next door is a volunteer teacher. They are of different genders and have a large age gap, so this provides a good contrast and helps to showcase their talents."
A voice came from inside inviting them to come in.
Zhang Wenjun pushed open the door, and Gu Yin followed him inside.
The patient was resting in bed with his left eye bandaged. He looked to be in his early twenties. Even though he was injured, he didn't look dejected at all and seemed to be in good spirits.
Seeing so many people come in, he sat up a little nervously.
"Hello, Dean!"
Zhang Wenjun nodded: "You rest. You have surgery later. Don't worry about us. We just came to check on you." He then handed the patient's medical record to Gu Yin.
Gu Yin looked through the documents and found that this soldier's condition was even more serious than Li Li's; the tissue in the soldier's entire eye socket had disappeared!
Are the nerves around your eyes okay?
Zhang Wenjun nodded: "Don't worry, he immediately drank the nutritional supplements issued by the army when the accident happened, but the bullet casings had already entered his eyes, so there was no other way but to remove them all. The surrounding nerves are fine. Moreover, this time, in addition to me, there are also leading experts in the nervous system with us. We must win this tough battle!"
Because the second surgery would only begin once the success of the first one was confirmed, the other volunteer, Gu Yin, did not go to check on the situation.
They returned to the dean's office and discussed the surgical plan and how to store the chip again for another morning. Finally, after everything was finalized, the surgery was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
Gu Yin will go in with her. She needs to have the chip adjusted after it's inserted into her eye socket to avoid needing another surgery.
When Lu Jie found out, he rushed over. He was mainly worried that Gu Yin was nervous, and that if anything happened to him, he could step in and help. But when he arrived, he saw so many big shots there! Oh well, what a wasted trip!
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