Chapter 241: The So-Called Straight Man

"Impossible." Seeing the adhesions between the renal capsule and the peritoneum being separated with such ease, and the anatomical structures within the entire abdominal cavity becoming visible, Lu Gang muttered to himself in astonishment.

"Heh, the Hemostatic Forceps are quite tough, chew slowly when you eat them," Bai Chuzhang teased. "Do you like them braised, stewed, or perhaps raw? See what suits your palate."

"..."

Lu Gang was speechless.

He never expected Bai Chuzhang to say such a thing, but that wasn't what mattered.

The most critical point was that Lu Gang refused to believe everything he was seeing.

It made no sense; it was rare to see anyone write about the surgical treatment of Giant Hydronephrosis under laparoscopy in top-tier world journals.

Whenever similar articles were seen, the authors would always mention how difficult the surgery was to perform.

Damn it, how could it be this simple, to the point where a Standardized Training Student could handle it!

He had actually been fooled by the bullshit authors of top-tier world journals!

This was intolerable!

Lu Gang really wanted to have a good chat with those authors.

The surgery continued; the patient's Gerota fascia had disappeared, and the kidney had shriveled like a thin piece of paper. Ji Xiang separated down to the former lower pole of the kidney to find the Ureter, then followed the Ureter to dissect it to the renal pelvis position.

The course of the renal artery and vein at the renal hilum had deviated from normal anatomical structures, but as Ji Xiang operated the long forceps to press and flick, the artery buried underneath "jumped" right out.

Ji Xiang then carefully separated the renal artery, then found the vein and carefully separated it as well.

The blood vessels and Ureter were clipped repeatedly with Titanium Clips and hemolok clips before being cut.

A Drainage Tube was inserted, and the puncture holes were closed.

At this point, the patient's position should have been changed to remove the kidney, but because of the special circumstances, the patient's kidney had almost "disappeared," so Ji Xiang did not perform this step.

Irrigation, no active bleeding found, surgery ended.

"It's that simple?" Lu Gang asked in surprise.

"It was already quite difficult," Ji Xiang said calmly.

"This..."

"Not bad, let's go," Bai Chuzhang said in a deep voice.

With the surgery finished, Bai Chuzhang felt his brain was a bit chaotic; he urgently needed to go back and rest to figure out exactly what had happened.

As for the matter of Lu Gang eating the Hemostatic Forceps, mentioning it once was enough; if it were brought up repeatedly, given Lu Gang's personality, he might explode on the spot.

And asking him to clean up was even more absurd; Bai Chuzhang himself had already forgotten about it entirely.

As Bai Chuzhang left and the surgery concluded smoothly, the Anesthesia Doctor relaxed and looked up at the time.

Only then did he notice that the surgery had just begun 42′21″ ago.

"Director Liu, this is..."

"The one from the grand competition who broke the record Dean Zhao set decades ago," Director Liu laughed and said proudly.

He hadn't performed the surgery himself, but Director Liu felt even prouder than if he had completed it.

Through this surgery, he confirmed one thing, only this couldn't be said aloud.

"Awesome!" the Anesthesia Doctor gave a thumbs up in praise.

"Xiao Ji, you did a good job on the surgery," Director Liu said with a smile.

Ji Xiang smiled and didn't accept the praise. The surgery he had just performed had slight flaws; Ji Xiang was reflecting and reviewing it to grow.

"Clean up and get ready to head back," Director Liu said. "By the way, I have something to tell you."

"What is it, Director?"

"I heard the Head Nurse wanted to introduce a girlfriend to you, but you refused?"

"Uh, I'm not interested in finding a girlfriend," Ji Xiang said.

He felt his words were too blunt, so he added a word, "For now."

"Pfft, how could that be? If I could live my life over again, I'd find eight hundred girlfriends when I was in college. What do they call it now?"

"Sea King," the Anesthesia Doctor laughed.

"Right!" Director Liu didn't think 'Sea King' was a derogatory term, and he said with a smile, "Back when I was in school, there was a Doctor of Philosophy at the neighboring school whose 863 project had just yielded results."

This was the rhythm of chatting after a successful surgery; the Anesthesia Doctor listened while filling in the surgery time.

It was just that the surgery time was so short he couldn't believe it; the Anesthesia Doctor's hand shook slightly while filling it in.

"It just so happened to be a mixer. According to an insider, there was a girl who had always liked that Doctor of Philosophy, but after the mixer ended, the Doctor of Philosophy called the police."

"Called the police? What happened? Why call the police?" Tang Yan asked in surprise.

"Hahaha." Director Liu glanced at Ji Xiang. "That girl from the management school, in order to have topics to talk about with the science and engineering nerd, studied the details of engines for quite a while. As a result, this science and engineering nerd actually thought it was fundamentally impossible for a management school girl to understand engines, so there must be an ulterior motive, and he concluded she was a spy!"

"!!!"

"!!!"

"!!!"

Everyone in the operating room widened their eyes.

Straight men are common, but a man who is straight to this degree is truly rare.

"So, Xiao Ji, don't be so straight in your thinking," Director Liu said. "In your prime years, while making progress in your skills, you should also have gains in love. A double harvest of career and love, as the older generation always says."

"Director Liu, you aren't young anymore; you belong to the older generation," Tang Yan inserted a knife.

"..." Director Liu paused for a moment and sighed.

"Director, thank you." Ji Xiang applied the dressing to the patient, and the sound of the System Task completion reached his ears.

The task reward was no longer important; Ji Xiang had gained a great deal from this surgery.

Although a large amount of Surgical Points had been consumed, his eyesight had been improved through the training, and he estimated that performing Interventional Surgery in the future would be much simpler.

After sending the patient back, Ji Xiang was called to the office by Director Liu.

"Xiao Ji, let me ask you something."

"Zhuren, please go ahead."

"Are you interested in doing scientific research?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"I am." Ji Xiang gave a definite answer.

However, what he was thinking about in his heart was the truly meaningful research mentioned by the System NPC, not the so-called research of swindling funding, publishing SCI papers indiscriminately, and so on.

"I want to have Zhao Yisheng come for further studies... regarding research between Renal Cancer Partial Nephrectomy and Interventional Surgery; can you take this on?"

Ji Xiang's eyes lit up.

Although Zhao Yisheng Zhe was a chatterbox, his work was meticulous and patient, and he had accumulated Patient data for over a decade, day after day; he could be considered a quite awesome talent.

Since Liu Zhuren wanted to bring Zhao Zhe here, it meant he truly wanted to conduct an extremely awesome piece of research, not just fool around to get it over with.

"I... seem to be leaving in a month and a half," Ji Xiang said helplessly after his excitement faded.

"It doesn't matter; other departments aren't necessarily busy either, so you'll have time to come over to perform surgeries. As for the Department of Science and Education, they don't know a damn thing; if they come to check, just say the person has been seconded by me, it'll be fine."

"Okay!"

Ji Xiang agreed directly.

If it were only about performing surgeries, Ji Xiang felt that this matter was worth doing.

Although Zhao Zhe was coming for further studies, for a maximum of one year, that was all Liu Zhuren's business.

(End of chapter)