The patients sent to Lin Jie are mostly marked with red tags, which in triage means they have life-threatening severe injuries that can be saved with timely treatment.

This group of patients is generally the top priority for treatment.

Another characteristic of these patients sent to Lin Jie is that their injuries often involve internal organ damage caused by crushing or collisions with heavy objects.

The main difficulties in treating these injuries are primarily twofold.

First, it's challenging to quickly identify the main bleeding point, control the bleeding, and prevent the patient from dying of massive hemorrhage.

Second, it's difficult to accurately judge the condition of the internal organs, especially when there is a lack of large testing equipment and an abundance of patients.

However, for Lin Jie, these are not major challenges.

With his keen perception and almost supernatural understanding of human anatomy, Lin Jie can always quickly locate the bleeding point and stop the bleeding by sensing the point, flow, and speed of the blood with his eyes and fingers.

At the same time, by feeling and palpating the internal organs and discerning differences from their normal state, he can quickly assess the extent of internal injuries and then decide on treatment plans such as repair, partial resection, or total resection.

What takes other doctors several minutes or even up to twenty minutes to solve, Lin Jie figures out almost instantly once he starts.

During the subsequent treatment, Lin Jie's skillful, fast, and precise surgical techniques leave several surgical assistants in awe, sighing that Lin Jie seems to have invisible hands, living in a world different from theirs.

Moreover, Lin Jie only handles the most critical and difficult tasks.

The beginning and end of the surgery are left to the surgical assistants to handle, which helps Lin Jie achieve the astonishing efficiency of completing a surgery in just fifteen minutes.

In these brief fifteen minutes, Lin Jie also spends a few minutes changing surgical gowns and performing rapid sterilization to prevent cross-infection among patients.

However, maintaining such high-intensity and high-efficiency working conditions drains both physical strength and energy tremendously.

After working continuously for five to six hours, when Lin Jie stepped down from the number one surgical vehicle, his foot felt like it stepped on a cloud.

A nearby medical personnel, quick-eyed and deft, supported Lin Jie swiftly, preventing him from falling to the ground.

The medical soldier said with admiration, "Doctor, there are no new patients sent to the number two surgical car; you can take a break now!"

"Really none?" Lin Jie asked for confirmation.

"Really none!" The medical soldier affirmed with certainty.

Lin Jie felt relieved and said, "Then I'll take a break!"

He leaned against the compartment of the surgical vehicle, sat on a small stool, and closed his eyes to rest.

"Brother, brother!"

Dimly hearing a familiar call, Lin Jie forced his eyes open and saw Lin Miao standing in front of him with concern on her face.

"Go get another stool!"

Lin Jie instructed the nearby medical soldier and asked Lin Miao, "Have you had a nap? How are Kexin and the others?"

Lin Miao nodded, "They are still sleeping. I brought some food and drinks for you."

Seeing the dark chocolate and yogurt Lin Miao handed over, Lin Jie smiled and said, "I've already stuffed my stomach with chocolate, let me have some yogurt instead."

At this time, the medical soldier brought over a stool.

Lin Miao sat down next to Lin Jie, indifferent to the surgical gown on Lin Jie stained with blood, and inserted a straw into the yogurt, bringing it to Lin Jie's mouth.

Lin Jie took a large sip and gently said, "Kexin and Kemeng both have some movement difficulties. You guys can't do much help staying here, so you should head back to Binhai tomorrow morning."

Lin Miao shook her head insistently, "No, I want to stay with you."

Lin Jie took another sip of milk and persuaded, "It's estimated that patients will keep coming these days. Under the current circumstances, you guys can't go out and have fun. It's better to go back, isn't home nice!"

"I won't go back! Where my brother is, that's where home is!" Lin Miao said stubbornly.

Lin Jie somewhat understood that Lin Miao was frightened.

Actually, he was frightened too, but fortunately, his heart proved strong enough, or he might have died of fear.

He took off the rubber surgical gloves, touched Lin Miao's head, and said, "Okay, don't go back then. It'll just be busy for the next two or three days; it'll be fine after these three days."

Lin Jie knew that there is a saying of "golden seventy-two hours" in geological disasters,

"Seventy-two hours" is recognized as the golden rescue period following a geological disaster in the rescue community.

The rescue community believes that within seventy-two hours after the disaster, the survival rate of victims is extremely high. Digging even a small piece of soil and a bit deeper can offer patients a chance to breathe and survive.

Generally speaking, the survival rate of victims decreases over time.

On the first day, within the first twenty-four hours, the survival rate of rescued people is around ninety percent.

On the second day, the survival rate is between fifty to sixty percent.

On the third day, the survival rate is between twenty to thirty percent.

Beyond that, the survival probability of those buried by the geological disaster becomes exceedingly low.

The rescue forces from all sectors of society will work against the clock to save the victims within these seventy-two hours.

This period is also when the number of injuries is the highest.

At this time, Lele limped over, its fracture on the left forelimb already set with a cast.

Lin Jie reached out to touch Lele's head and said, "Lele is indeed a very spirited dog. It senses danger and can rescue injured people!"

"By the way, how is that person?"

Knowing who Lin Jie was referring to, Lin Miao shook her head and said, "I didn't go to see him! I think he should be okay, though his legs are gone, at least his life is saved."

"Brother, before coming to find you, I borrowed a soldier brother's phone, logged into my WeChat, and sent out the news of our safety."

Lin Miao chuckled softly, "Brother, you have no idea."

"As soon as I logged into WeChat, hundreds of messages popped up instantly, crashing that soldier's phone. It only got better after a restart."

"Brother, Mengjiao, Leyi, Momo, Manqing, Daya, and even Brother Kong, Secretary Qin, all asked me to send their regards to you."

Lin Jie gently nodded and said, "It was a false alarm, making them worry too."

At this moment, a rumbling noise came from the sky. Lin Jie glanced up and saw a big-bellied transport plane slowly descending...

The sound of helicopter engines and the sirens of ambulances often echoed during Lin Jie's surgeries. He had grown accustomed to it.

Huh, a helicopter?

Lin Jie suddenly realized something. Judging from the helicopter landing and the occasional ambulance sirens, the injured should be continuously sent over.

But it has been over ten minutes now, and both the number one and two surgical vehicles have been emptied, yet not a single injured person has been sent over?

Feeling something unusual, Lin Jie stood up and said, "Miaomiao, you should go back and stay with Kexin and Sister Xiaoxiao. Take good care of yourself in this chaos."

"I'm going to the triage area to have a look!"

Lin Miao obediently said, "Brother, then I'll go back with Lele, you take care too!"

The triage area was not far from here. After passing by two rows of tents, Lin Jie arrived.

He saw two soldiers pleading desperately with a middle-aged military doctor.

A short distance away, on the stretcher on the ground, lay an injured person in camouflage, and a black tag was affixed to him.

A black tag signifies death or imminent death, essentially categorizing as abandoned patients.

"Doctor, please, please save our company commander, don't give up on him! He was saving a child when a falling beam hit his head."

The middle-aged military doctor remorsefully shouted, "Stop begging, do you think I don't want to save him?"

"Your company commander has a skull fracture and intracranial bleeding. Such injuries require a very skilled neurosurgeon."

"Moreover, we don't have the surgical conditions here."

Just then, another wounded person was brought in. The middle-aged doctor checked and shouted, "Take him to Operating Room Four!"

He turned to the two soldiers and said, "To be honest with you, your company commander's surgery would take at least seven or eight hours."

"Do you know how many people would be delayed from getting treatment if a surgical team is occupied for a full seven to eight hours?"

The middle-aged doctor said in agony, "I have no choice either!"

Lin Jie understood this kind of choice; it was an incredibly painful and difficult one.

Saving one person or saving several is sometimes really hard to weigh.

This is also why he chose a deputy chief physician to be in charge of triage.

In addition to being more efficient, the extensive experience of the deputy chief physician allows him to withstand such overwhelming pressure.

Lin Jie strode over and asked, "Why aren't you assigning patients to the number one and two surgical vehicles?"

The middle-aged doctor's temper flared up, ready to rebuke, upon seeing Lin Jie.

He immediately stood at attention and saluted, "Reporting to Expert Lin, I advised the leadership, and got approval to temporarily halt assigning surgical patients to the number one and two surgical vehicles!"

Lin Jie's face darkened, and he asked, "If I'm not mistaken, I was appointed as the highest commander of this field hospital. How come I didn't know about this?"

The middle-aged doctor hesitated for a moment and said, "Reporting to Expert Lin, since you took over the two surgery vehicles, you've performed as the chief surgeon for twenty-four cases, working continuously for six and a half hours."

"Your surgical workload exceeds that of the other four operating rooms."

"Considering your work intensity, workload, your physical condition, and what happened last night, I suggested to Colonel Fang that we temporarily stop assigning patients to you."

"Colonel Fang consulted higher authorities and approved my request."

Hearing this, Lin Jie was a bit stunned.

He understood that the other party was considerate of his physical condition.

Frankly, if he hadn't just talked to Lin Miao for a while and taken a break, he might have collapsed and fainted.

As a competent surgeon, properly gauging one's stamina and energy is not only being responsible for oneself but also for the patients.

Lin Jie closed his eyes, assessed his physical condition, and then opened them, pointing to the two soldiers standing aside and said, "Send their company commander to my place."

The middle-aged doctor exclaimed in surprise, "Expert Lin, that's a complex neurosurgery!"

Lin Jie nodded lightly and said, "I know! It's not that complex of a surgery for me."

"Moreover, neurosurgery requires carefulness and patience, not much physical strength. I consider it rest while performing the surgery."

With that, his expression changed to seriousness, and he said, "I am the highest commander here. Are you defying orders?"

"Yes, Expert Lin!"

The middle-aged doctor turned and shouted at the two soldiers, "Hurry up and get your company commander to the number one surgery vehicle!"

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