Chapter 99: with translation of chapter title

0097 Being a person, one must be down-to-earth.

【Emergency mission: serial car accident completed.

Rescued 2 injured patients in the serial car accident, successfully saved 2.

Mission reward: 200 skill points, 30,000 experience points, 2 silver treasure chests.

Mission duration: 9 hours 23 minutes, remaining experience points 52,620 points.】

The system's mechanical female voice said coldly.

The reward from the emergency mission seems not much either; Zheng Ren feels that the reward given by peers' admiration for that kind of task is better, more abundant.

Of course, it's not ruled out that the system, this Big Pig Trotter, is in a good mood and gives rewards like this.

Although these two rescues were urgent, the surgery level was not high; both were level-three surgeries. Zheng Ren saw that the Main Line Quest had 9% completion, still missing a bit to finish a round, temporarily no experience gain.

After a busy day, the season of harvest arrived.

Zheng Ren sat down and began to take stock of his inventory.

General Surgery skill had increased from 3,154 to 3,161 points, this being the skill points gained from recent surgeries and reading. Meanwhile, the unused skill points in storage had reached 1,739 points.

Seeing the General Surgery skill tree getting closer to master level, Zheng Ren's heart grew ever more fervent.

Expert level can already handle so many difficult surgeries; what about master level?

From the post-operative feeling of the master-level interventional surgery granted by the system, expert and master levels have an essential difference.

When performing the placental abruption surgery, Zheng Ren had just reached expert level. Using unsuitable cardiology equipment, he barely managed to do one surgery.

But when performing the pelvic fracture interventional embolization, Zheng Ren was already master level. During super-selective embolization of the external iliac artery branch, each super-selective step was so smooth, as if the microguidewire in his hand had come alive, automatically finding the path to the artery branch it should go to.

As one wishes, that's probably this feeling.

Really looking forward to it—what feeling will it be when General Surgery surgery jumps from expert to master level?

Because Zheng Ren has been in General Surgery since he started work, prioritizing the improvement of General Surgery skill is his deep-seated obsession.

Only 100 skill points short, just one task; Zheng Ren showed a faint smile.

Looking at the thriving skill tree, Zheng Ren seemed to see the not-so-distant future where, after reaching master level, he would accumulate depth and then burst forth.

Skill tree… wait, that's not right; the highest skill tree before Zheng Ren's eyes is the interventional surgery skill forcibly raised by the system, then the General Surgery skill tree.

Originally, other disciplines were low, but a little grass Xiao Cao had unknowingly broken through the soil and was growing vigorously.

This is…

It is actually the Cardiology skill tree.

Zheng Ren suddenly thought that, worldwide, interventional surgery is applied in cardiology, neurology, blood vessels, viscera, etc. But the field with the most practitioners should be cardiology interventional surgery, such as placing a stent in the blocked coronary artery of a myocardial infarction patient.

It is likely that the improvement in interventional surgery level directly boosted cardiology interventional level, and indirectly raised the Cardiology skill tree.

No, after Zheng Ren looked more carefully, he discovered that the system had raised interventional surgery level to master, not only visceral interventional surgery but also cardiology, neurology, and peripheral vascular interventional, all raised to master level.

It seems that performing myocardial infarction stent surgery in the emergency room is also within the Emergency Department's scope of treatment.

The thought had just arrived here when Zheng Ren brushed it away.

If we say a surgeon's nervous tension is 8, then a cardiologist's nervous tension is 10.

I still remember from many years ago during my internship, resting with the supervising teacher in the on-call room Zhibanshi. Late at night, the hallway echoed with a mournful shout; Zheng Ren blearily opened his eyes and only saw the supervising teacher barefoot, without even slippers, rushing out to rescue.

Later the patient was rescued successfully, but the supervising teacher's foot was punctured, bleeding all over the floor.

Cardiac arrest… just thinking about it makes a doctor exhausted all over.

In surgical rescue, there can still be several minutes or even ten-odd minutes of rescue time, but for myocardial infarction patients, rescue time is calculated in seconds.

Even if I could perform this kind of surgery, there are no corresponding professional nurses to complete the other operations.

Establishing a green channel for emergency chest pain patients is a momentous task; maybe we should leave it to Director Pan to think about. For now, I just need to properly raise my General Surgery skill to master level.

The road must be walked step by step.

Food must be eaten bite by bite.

Zheng Ren placed the lead clothing that converts radiation ray energy properly, and immediately saw three silver‑glinting boxes.

This mission rewarded two, plus one from the previous mission's reward; Zheng Ren couldn't be bothered to open the boxes.

Zheng Ren inwardly dislikes this kind of luck‑based thing.

Since childhood he's been poor, lacking the economic means to come into contact with such things; that's the essence. Moreover, a year ago Zheng Ren saw an elderly patient.

He was thin, his mental state poor, only fifty years old, yet he looked as if he were seventy.

During the conversation, Zheng Ren knew that this patient had once enjoyed great prosperity.

In the late 1980s, when the state‑owned mall at the center of Haicheng first began leasing counters, he keenly seized the business opportunity, almost monopolizing half of Hai Cheng's large shopping malls.

Back then making money… anyway, seize the opportunity and making money is truly not that simple.

In the late 1980s, over three years he accumulated three million in family wealth. Converted to today, that would be several hundred million, anyway back then the richest person in Hai Cheng was him, not the Bu Family.

But good times didn't last; in the early 1990s, the 'entertainment' of slap‑the‑poker machines rose.

Within less than a year, he threw all the three million cash he had saved into them.

Afterward he quit the poker machines, made a comeback, but later fell back in, unable to extricate himself.

After many repetitions, over about ten years he ended up destitute and unable to recover; he could only open a small convenience store opposite the Hospital, living a modest life.

His woman is much younger than him, appearing to be a strong‑willed woman.

Their marital relationship is also so‑so; the shrewd, capable woman looks down on him, this man worn down by the poker machines, lacking vigor.

As for the final outcome, Zheng Ren does not know.

Anyway, that patient hasn't been seen in a long time, and the supermarket not far from the Hospital also declined and was transferred out as other supermarkets rose.

In short, this is a story that doesn't make people very happy.

Pay‑to‑win, opening loot boxes—Zheng Ren has heard of this; many games do that. The complaint that paying makes you stronger has become a buzzword, often heard.

Zheng Ren never thought about whether he had an Ou Emperor physique or a Non-chief physique; he puts luck‑based matters aside and doesn't even think about them.

Being a person, one must always be down-to-earth and take steps forward.

No matter how nice a treasure chest looks, it's not as reassuring as solid skill points.

Having no thought of opening the treasure chest, Zheng Ren glanced at the Skill Tree again, feeling fully satisfied, then left the System Space.

In the Gengyishi, after changing clothes, Zheng Ren heard the wailing from the Operating Room.

"The riders aren't coming out; what on earth are we eating today?"