Chapter 665: 655 The Way Out of a Desperate Situation

Zheng Ren was worried.

All collectible medical supplies had almost been exhausted.

The helicopter, due to weather, was unable to land for a long time. According to Zhao Yunlong's report, two helicopters from the military region's aviation regiment took off for rescue after receiving the news.

But upon entering the mountain valley, thick fog blocked visibility, and nothing could be seen.

Even after climbing 2000 meters, the situation remained unchanged. They forced their way over 10-plus kilometers, amidst thunder and lightning, and had to return.

In the disaster zone, after a massive earthquake, the weather remained unfavorable, increasing the difficulty for the follow-up troops' rescue.

Helicopter rescue was severely limited in its area of use.

Not only could they not find the locations needing rescue, but even when forced to return, they could not airdrop the supplies they carried.

Zhao Yunlong and his team, after great effort, cleared a corner of the town center square into a temporary helipad, but it served no purpose at all.

Supplies were nearly exhausted, with over a hundred seriously wounded awaiting rescue.

There was no plasma, no medicine, and even the incision kits were used up.

Zheng Ren stared blankly at the critically wounded, unable to summon his strength.

Zheng Ren bought an incision kit in the System Mall, but the System Space had no medicine for sale.

After much hesitation, Zheng Ren still lacked the courage to directly operate on the suffering patients. Only local anesthesia was available, but patients needing surgery had organ rupture, which is fundamentally different from appendectomy or cesarean.

The rain poured down, visibility extremely poor. Even trying to start a bonfire was difficult.

Damn this weather! Zheng Ren cursed fiercely in his heart.

"Boss, do you know that in the earliest days of surgery, there was no anesthesia?" Su Yun muttered, wondering what she was thinking.

Her voice sounded somewhat faint amidst the heavy rain.

Although it was still afternoon, the overcast sky made it feel like deep night.

Su Yun's voice sounded ghostly; Zheng Ren frowned, wiping rain from his face. It was useless—the heavy rain made breathing difficult, and after wiping, more rain clung to his face.

No anesthesia……This seems rather difficult.

Rescue team members searched for supplies, trying as much as possible to shield the wounded from wind and rain. Yet no matter what they did, everything remained extremely rudimentary.

Zheng Ren stared blankly, but his mind was thinking of something else.

Local anesthetic was still available; I had used it for appendectomies before, so the on-site patients with liver or spleen rupture……

Shall we try?

They had already entered hemorrhagic shock, with dulled pain perception; perhaps it could work.

When surgery first emerged, there was no anesthesia; speed was essential!

Zheng Ren knew this.

But back then, most procedures were amputations; removing and suturing organs was beyond the earliest surgical means.

The thought of giving it a try ignited like wildfire, gradually spreading into a prairie blaze.

Having surgical training time, we could first do a few procedures to see.

As for surgical instruments, relying on the sometimes reliable, sometimes unreliable Big Pig Trotter, Zheng Ren wasn't worried.

The incision kit bought from the System Mall can be disinfected with clean water and self-sterilizes.

But the unreliable Big Pig Trotter does not provide medicine, leaving Zheng Ren somewhat disappointed.

He gave Su Yun a perfunctory reply, then went to the System Space and purchased surgical training time.

The test subject simulated a patient with spleen rupture; Zheng Ren entered the System Operating Room, without hesitation, began anesthetizing with local anesthetic, then made the incision.

Blood pressure was very low; Zheng Ren estimated the patient's systolic pressure at most 60 mmHg.

After the incision, the test subject bled little, and the local anesthetic still worked.

Blunt dissection of skin and muscle tissue proceeded; up to this point everything remained under control. However, the incisions for spleen and appendix differed, requiring double the anesthetic dosage.

When Zheng Ren opened the peritoneum and touched the ruptured spleen, the test subject convulsed violently, dark red blood gushed out, and breathing and heartbeat stopped.

What the hell stimulated this?

Zheng Ren froze.

What did I do? Why did the test subject have such a huge reaction?

After standing stunned in the System Operating Room for a few minutes, Zheng Ren shook his head and resumed surgical training.

He tried to recall the appendectomy procedure under local anesthesia, considering how traction on the spleen caused a systemic neural reflex and how to block it.

Surgical progress was slow, with the test subjects being swapped out one batch after another.

If not for having ample surgical training time on hand, Zheng Ren might have the will but not the strength.

Looking at the test subjects' mortality……If this were done outside, I'd probably have been beaten to death by Zhao Yunlong.

With the test subjects providing experience, Zheng Ren gradually gained more understanding of the various reactions caused by organ traction.

Under normal circumstances, splenectomy can use continuous epidural anesthesia or general anesthesia; various reactions need not be worried about, as they rarely occur under anesthesia.

Special events, special places, special circumstances have driven Zheng Ren to this desperate situation.

The failure of hundreds or thousands of surgeries accumulated countless experiences; organ traction causing various reactions, Zheng Ren understood them thoroughly.

The best sites for local anesthesia were gradually figured out.

At this moment, Zheng Ren truly felt how fortunate it would be to stand in an operating room, perform surgery with anesthesia and instrument nurses, without worrying about these matters—just focusing on the surgery itself.

After practicing spleen and liver ruptures, Zheng Ren performed nearly 2000 surgeries.

The vast majority were failures.

Upon leaving the System Space, Zheng Ren first felt some fatigue.

Really mentally exhausting—performing splenectomy and liver rupture repair under local anesthesia is fundamentally different from the surgeries I previously learned and mastered.

The considerations are completely different; the surgical difficulty has increased by orders of magnitude.

Fortunately, all of this is now past.

Zheng Ren felt his skill tree seemed to have changed, but time was pressing, he couldn't examine it closely. After picking up a set of purchased automatic disinfection cutting equipment, Zheng Ren left the system space.

After leaving the system space, the splashing rain sound made people somewhat irritable.

"I think we can try it." Zheng Ren said, placing the cutting pack into his individual first-aid pack, "Let's get ready."

"What?" Su Yun felt the rain was too loud, she thought she had misheard Zheng Ren, looking bewildered, she asked in surprise.

"Local anesthesia, we can try it." Zheng Ren said, "I've done local anesthesia for appendicitis in Hai Cheng."

"Boss, are the appendix and liver and spleen the same?" Su Yun stared at Zheng Ren, like she was looking at an idiot.

"Better than waiting to die." Zheng Ren shielded his eyes with his hand and looked upward diagonally.

The sky was overcast, the rain poured down, with no sign of stopping.

In such weather, helicopters can't take off or land. Even with cutting to stop bleeding, the wounded would hardly survive.

But we still need to do something.

Zheng Ren narrowed his eyes, looking through the rain curtain, searching for Zhao Yunlong's figure.