The surgery was successful. With Yang Lei beside him, Zheng Ren finished it within 20 minutes.
At the operating table, he patiently explained the key steps of the procedure to Yang Lei. Even though it was simply a laparoscopic appendectomy, the techniques he shared were useful and very much applicable to other surgeries, to Yang Lei's benefit.
After leaving the table, Zheng Ren felt bored.
He seemed to have lost his direction in life after returning from Imperial Capital.
No, that was not it. It was Xie Yiren's absence.
Zheng Ren remained oblivious to the truth, however.
His skill points in general surgery were accumulating at a painfully slow rate, still a long way away from Grandmaster.
Zheng Ren thought of practicing the Whipple procedure in the System's operating theater, estimating a gain of over a hundred skill points per surgery.
