"Can you perform this surgery?"

Before Lin Jie could reply, Chen Shi, looking surprised, further questioned, "Are you confident in completing the liver damage repair in three to four hours?"

Upon hearing this question, Lin Jie knew that Chen Shi had already thought of the surgical plan he intended to use.

Truly worthy of an expert, he immediately understood.

He nodded and said, "I'm about seventy to eighty percent sure. The patient is willing to take the risk. After all, the bullet's position is too dangerous. One fall might trigger the bullet, causing massive bleeding!"

Chen Shi nodded slightly, empathetically saying, "Yes, living with a guillotine hanging over one's neck is not a life anyone wants. It's better to take a chance."

"If I were in such a situation, even with only thirty to forty percent certainty, I would be willing to try."

He looked at Lin Jie, stroked his chin, and pondered, "This surgery requires life support system, various vital sign monitoring instruments, and a near-sterile surgical environment."

"Having Weize set up such an operating room is not very realistic."

"We can only use the existing high-standard operating rooms. The University Affiliated Hospital happens to have two such operating rooms."

"It's just..."

Chen Shi hesitantly said, "After the Spring Festival, you'll be my student. I can take you into the operating room and let you be my surgical assistant, participating in the surgery process!"

"But, Lin Jie, you must know that the University Affiliated Hospital is a teaching hospital!"

"Every day, many interns, resident trainees, and young doctors sit in the observation seats outside the operating room, watching and learning the details of surgeries. This particular surgery will no doubt attract many to watch."

"If you perform some auxiliary surgical tasks, they won't have any issues, but seeing you as the chief surgeon, that's a different matter..."

Lin Jie also understood this issue.

For many people, there's a limit to how much of a genius you can be, otherwise, you turn into a freak.

Lin Jie thought that perhaps many people already viewed him as a monster. He wondered what Old Chen thought of him.

He couldn't help but look at the pondering Chen Shi!

Lin Jie suddenly realized that if he were to be the chief surgeon under everyone's gaze, fresh into Medical College, the malicious gossip might put Chen Shi at risk of bearing responsibility.

If something were to go wrong during the surgery, resulting in the patient's death, Chen Shi would have to bear even greater responsibility, and there would be no way to shirk it.

Thinking about how genuinely kind Chen Shi was to him, Lin Jie regretted coming to him and said, "Don't worry about this. I'll explain the situation to Ye Hongqing and let him figure it out!"

Chen Shi sighed and said, "Within the constraints of the rules, I really can't think of any good solutions. Ye Hongqing has been thriving in society for years; maybe he can find another way!"

With that, he stood up and said, "Let's go! Follow me!"

Lin Jie also stood up and asked, "Where to? What for?"

Chen Shi snorted and said, "You said you have seventy to eighty percent certainty; do you think I'll just take your word for it?"

"This concerns a life; it's not child's play. I need to see for myself. Follow me to the teaching surgery room!"

Under Chen Shi's guidance, Lin Jie left the office building and headed towards an independent six-story gray building a hundred meters away.

During this process, Chen Shi made two or three phone calls, giving some instructions.

Upon setting foot inside the building, Lin Jie smelled formalin, knowing that it likely housed many specimens, even cadavers.

Taking the elevator to the sixth floor, he followed Chen Shi into a surgery preparation room to change clothes, put on surgical attire, meticulously scrub his hands, disinfect, and put on surgical gloves before entering the adjacent operating room together.

Lin Jie surveyed this room, noticeably larger than a standard operating room.

The operating table, new shadowless lamps, specialized cranial surgery headrests, various surgical microscopes of different models, and equipment like extracorporeal circulation machines and ventilators were all complete — everything needed was here.

Targeted combinations of various equipment and instruments could turn this into a specialized neurosurgery operating room, ENT surgery room, or general surgery room.

Just then, there was a knock on the operating room door. Chen Shi went to the door and took a small organ preservation box from someone outside.

He approached Lin Jie, gently tapped the box in his hand, and said, "You're in luck. The specimen room just received a human specimen with a death time of less than three hours. I had them cut out one lobe of the liver!"

"Practice on it, and let me see your real skills!"

Lin Jie indeed needed such a practice opportunity, so he readily agreed!

He set up a microsurgery workstation, adjusted the light source, eyepiece, and objective lens, and the work chair, then laid out the appropriate surgical instruments within easy reach and in the most suitable positions.

Once prepared, he said to Chen Shi, "I'm ready. We can start!"

Chen Shi removed the liver lobe from the organ preservation box, carved a peanut-sized pit on it with a scalpel, and then carefully placed the liver lobe on Lin Jie's microsurgery workstation!

Solemnly, he said, "The time is now 2:47:30 PM. The operation begins!"

Lin Jie picked up the microsurgical scissors and tweezers and began debriding the wound on the liver...

Other than the previous demonstration of the sheep's heart transplant surgery, this was the second time Chen Shi saw Lin Jie operate, and it was still from such a close distance.

Seeing Lin Jie's shoulders steady, hands moving at a deliberate pace, ten fingers rhythmically dancing, Chen Shi couldn't help but admire this kid's commanding demeanor. Just by looking at his surgical posture, one could feel an absolute sense of confidence.

In five minutes and forty seconds, Lin Jie completed the debridement and began the most crucial and tedious part, sealing and suturing the various capillary channels on the liver wound.

The liver, as the body's largest digestive gland, has a rich presence of capillaries and numerous digestive gland channels, all of which need to be treated one by one...

The principle of handling this surgery is not difficult; the challenge lies in the need for speed—to complete the sealing and suturing of hundreds of capillary channels within a limited time—and the requirement for no omissions.

Missing a few capillaries is not a big issue; the blood loss is minimal, and the body can sustain itself while the liver heals on its own, but missing a digestive gland channel can lead to significant problems.

The digestive juices, somewhat corrosive, can easily cause inflammation of the liver wound, leading to various complications!

Time passed by the second.

Chen Shi glanced at the timer and found that an hour and forty-one minutes had already passed.

He noticed that Lin Jie's ten fingers continued their active rhythm as at the start, like playing a beautiful piece of music, the notes and rhythm still precise, as if a robot were operating.

At this moment, from outside the corridor, the voices of two people suddenly came!

One seemingly excited person was speaking increasingly louder.

Finally, the voice passed through the door and reached Chen Shi's ears, "That Lin Jie is so domineering and unreasonable; he actually wants to ruin my future. How is he any different from the Hu Yitong he despises?"

Hearing someone criticize Lin Jie, Chen Shi became interested and slowly moved closer to the door, listening intently.

A familiar voice came through, "Junior, I conveyed your explanation and apology to him without missing a word."

Chen Shi recognized him as his doctoral student, Shijing Mountain!

As a part-time doctoral student and the eldest among all students, Shijing Mountain was experienced and skillful, earning Chen Shi's considerable trust.

Whenever Shijing Mountain was at the school, Chen Shi would prioritize passing tasks requiring assistance to him.

Now hearing his voice, Chen Shi furrowed his brows slightly!

The voice from outside continued, still Shijing Mountain's voice, "But Lin Jie insisted that ultimately, you're the one who caused the online named-help incident, causing him to be cursed and denounced by countless people.

"Therefore, your actions cannot be forgiven."

"He explicitly told me to inform you that you shouldn't consider being a graduate student under the professor; instead, aim for your second choice goal or directly contact a workplace!"

Another voice cried out in grief and indignation, "Is there no justice? I gave up my opportunity for guaranteed graduate admission just to apply for Professor Chen's graduate program, and he actually wants me to give up?"

"Does he have the right and capability to do this?"

"I know the root cause of the matter was that I couldn't control my mouth, and that's my fault. But I didn't instigate that online video for help from behind the scenes. How others act, can I control it?"

"Moreover, once that charity fund was established, Lin Jie received all kinds of praise, didn't he benefit from the misfortune?"

A long sigh came from outside as Shijing Mountain continued, "I'm not sure what's going on in Lin Jie's mind, but the tone he spoke in was very firm at the time."

"You must understand, the professor values Lin Jie greatly, and accomplishing this seems not difficult for him..."

"I don't believe it!"

Another voice shouted excitedly again, "Professor Chen has always had a reputation for being upright; though I have some faults, they aren't severe enough to abandon my medical career!"

"Senior, please help me. I need to explain this matter to Professor Chen in person; it concerns my entire life!"

Chen Shi's brows furrowed even tighter, about to push the door open, when suddenly he realized there was someone standing beside him!

Startled, intending to jump away, he suddenly realized it was Lin Jie and angrily whispered, "Aren't you supposed to be doing your surgery? Why are you over here listening?"

"I'm finished!" Lin Jie calmly replied!

Chen Shi was stunned and asked incredulously, "You're really done?"

"You can check it out if you don't believe me!"

At this moment, Chen Shi no longer cared about the two people outside the door and went straight back to the microsurgical table to examine Lin Jie's surgical results.

The reinspection was not easy; it took over an hour just to complete!

After the inspection, Chen Shi nodded in satisfaction and said, "Lin Jie, whatever you say from now on, I'll believe. Even if you say you can pluck the stars and moon from the sky, I'll believe you!"

"Hey, you brat, tell me, what's this about cutting off someone's future and not letting someone apply to be my graduate student?"

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