Chapter 2

“Ding Dong! Reminder! A new user gift pack: Training Pack 1.”

Clear subtitles appear in the upper right corner of the vision.

It looks like he really got hit by the system!

Yang Ping swallowed, normally he couldn’t even win a five-dollar lottery, and now he encountered this magical thing.

What on earth is this system, how to use it, and are there any side effects, a series of question marks appear in his mind.

How to enter this system? It seems that when he first tested it, it was like entering a space.

With a thought, Yang Ping makes everything around him disappear and enters an unfamiliar space.

The space is strange, nothing but a tree.

A screen opens in front of him, with many choices of projects: General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology, Dentistry, etc.

With no hesitation, Yang Ping chose General Surgery through his thoughts. Immediately, there are many more subcategories.

Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, Thoracic Surgery, General Abdominal Surgery, Urological Surgery, Plastic Surgery, etc.

Yang Ping chose Orthopedics, and immediately, the screen flashed, a window appeared.

There are some buttons on it: Home, Credits, Skills, Shop, Treasure box–.

Yang Ping controls the cursor on the screen with his thoughts, opens the store, where there are all kinds of items–bone traction, skin grafting, bone grafting, periosteum stripping, tendon fixation, plaster fixation, splint fixation, amputation surgery, local anesthesia, etc.

They are all basic technologies, with prices ranging from one hundred to nine hundred points respectively. The images of these goods are displayed in gray, unable for purchase.

Turning the page further, it prompts: need to unlock.

How to unlock? It seems he needs to spend time studying it in depth.

Opens the treasure box, there is a gift pack pattern inside, click on the gift pack–First Aid techniques, training time is thirty days.

Opens “First Aid Techniques”, the pattern immediately flashes.

“Do you confirm to use it?”

“Confirmed!”

In an instant, light flows, and a person appears in front of him, lying on the ground.

The screen displays: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Training.

Below the words is a 3D transparent image of a human body, very clear, with internal organs, nerves, and blood vessels clearly visible.

Lines of subtitles appear: 1. The time in the system does not occupy your real-world time; 2. The psychological experience in the system is consistent with the outside world, such as the experience of the flow of time; 3. Any behaviors in the system do not consume your physical energy, you do not need to sleep or eat in the system, nor do you need to excrete. 4. Everything simulated in the system is indistinguishable from reality, exactly the same, you can think of it as “real”.

Yang Ping starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, and when he does chest compressions, the transparent human body on the screen will show the sternum sinking, and the red blood being squeezed to circulate throughout the body. At the same time, parameters such as compression strength, depth, frequency, etc., will also be displayed.

Doing artificial respiration, green gas travels through the trachea, bronchi to the alveoli, then exchanges, and finally enters the body’s circulation.

While Yang Ping trains, he corrects according to the images and data on the screen, constantly improving. The system only evaluates as “perfect” before moving on to the next training topic.

The training content includes all first aid techniques, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Heimlich maneuver, cricothyroid membrane puncture, tracheal intubation, electric defibrillation, trauma first aid, etc.

The system times thirty days upon completion of the training, during these thirty days he doesn’t feel hungry or tired, and never thinks about going to the bathroom.

With the end of the timer, the test subject disappears.

“You have acquired 720 points of skill!” The subtitle appears.

The numbers jump out on the screen and, after a brief stay, explode into starlight.

The system gives a detailed introduction to the surgery level: beginner, proficient, specialist, perfect, master, grandmaster, saint.

The beginner level merely masters basic knowledge, basic theory, basic skills; proficiency can proficiently perform common surgeries; specialization reaches the expert level in this field; perfection reaches the textbook level in surgery, which can be a standard demonstration for peers; master can have unique insights into the technology and make innovative improvements; grandmaster has major original innovations; saint opens up a new era of medicine.

Yang Ping speculates that the beginner level is probably equivalent to a resident doctor, proficiency corresponds to an attending physician, specialization is a common associate director and director, perfection is equivalent to an associate director and director of a top hospital; a master improves a certain theory or technique of surgical professors, such as some domestically and internationally renowned figures; a grandmaster is probably at Nobel Prize level; as for saint, he can’t guess for now.

There is also a tree-like upgrade chart, probably the skill tree, surgery is the main trunk, orthopedics is the extension of the main trunk upwards, other branches extending to all sides are neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, general surgery, urologic surgery, plastic surgery, etc.

The branches of Orthopedics are relatively chunkier compared to others, not far upward from Orthopedics there are finer branches: Trauma Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Joint Surgery, Spinal Surgery, Bone Tumors, and so on.

Yang Ping exited the space, glanced at the time on his phone, and then calculated a bit, the system really doesn’t consume time in reality.

That is, in an instant, he completed thirty days of emergency rescue technique intensive training.

Everything was just like what had just happened. However, because it doesn’t consume real-time, the system’s events seem sudden like experiences suddenly inserted into reality.

Moreover, while training in the system just now, he clearly felt the acquisition and improvement of skills were much faster than in reality. For instance, practicing tracheal intubation for the same hour—although he had practiced this in reality before—he didn’t feel such quick progress. Yang Ping was not sure if it was an illusion.

If it’s really like this, even in reality, if he had the conditions and solid training time, it would still not be possible to have the efficiency of the system.

He couldn’t sleep that night, feeling very excited. This meant that he gained an advantage. This was only possible in his daydreams normally.

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Being a doctor is like this, busy for a whole night, but still going to work the next day, no one cares whether you can bear it or not.

Because–you must bear it!

Early in the morning, after handing over his shift, Yang Ping was preparing to help out in the operating room.

He ran into Director Wu at the elevator; Director Wu kindly said, “Xiao Yang, you worked hard last night, so you can rest today, no need to be on surgery duty.”

Possibly due to his outstanding performance on the operating table yesterday, Director Wu started looking at him differently. He definitely had to work hard in the future and not disappoint Director Wu’s high expectations.

Since Director Wu said it, he felt it was not good to rush into the operating room anymore and returned to the doctor’s office instead.

A nurse rushed into the doctor’s office, glanced around, saw Yang Ping, and said: “Doctor Yang, it’s good that you haven’t left yet. Just now, the Human Resources Department couldn’t reach you on your phone, they called the nurse station looking for you, asking you to go to the Human Resources Department.”

Yang Ping responded in agreement, anyway, he didn’t need to be on surgical duty today, he could go to the Human Resources Department and see what the matter was. Would they be raising his salary? Yang Ping chuckled to himself.

When he got to the Human Resources Department, a kind sister indicated for Yang Ping to sit down, took out a piece of paper, and said: “Doctor Yang, your conduct yesterday severely violated the regulations, and regulations are a guarantee of medical safety. We have no choice but to terminate our contract with you in advance. We are very sorry, we will provide some compensation. If you have no objections, please sign here.” A white paper with black writing was passed across the table.

Was he being fired?

It was a bit sudden, he was completely unprepared.

Didn’t Director Wu agree to let him perform the surgery last night?

Why are they saying that he violated the regulations, is there some misunderstanding?

Yang Ping wanted to find Director Wu for an explanation, but this morning when they met at the elevator, Director Wu didn’t mention this at all.

The dismissal agreement now laid out before him, Director Wu must have already made the decision, he wasn’t interested in listening to explanations. The situation was irreversible now, So be it!

It was just, this dismissal seemed inexplicably abrupt to him.

“Thank you!” Yang Ping decisively signed his name.

The big sister in Human Resources took back the agreement: “If you need a new job, can I help with a recommendation?”

“I really appreciate it, but I want to take a break for a while,” Yang Ping tactfully declined.

In a large top-tier hospital like G City People’s Hospital, most of the doctors hold Ph.D.’s and even the master’s degree holders have a hard time surviving. For someone like Yang Ping without any degree from a prestigious university or other background, he wouldn’t have been able to get in the door if he weren’t a top scholar. Even so, after being recruited, he basically did heavy labor. The so-called contract system is nothing more than famous temporary workers, they have no prospects and can be dismissed at any time, as long as the Department Director says so, there would be no reasons needed, just a small amount of money as compensation according to the contract.

Yang Ping walked out of the Human Resources Department office, feeling cold inside. After all, he worked there for many years. But because of the unexpected gain of the system, he didn’t feel too much loss.

Perhaps this was a case of God opening a window as he closed a door.

He returned to the ward to pack his things—there wasn’t much stuff, a big plastic bag was enough. His colleagues in the ward didn’t know that he had been fired, and a nurse even called Yang Ping to change the dressing for a certain patient.

Yang Ping didn’t refuse, temporarily shelved his bag of belongings, went to the dressing room to push the cart, and meticulously changed the dressings for the patient. Looking at the familiar ward, he still felt a little disheartened.

Back at his rented room, a single room in the urban village with a bathroom, costing one thousand a month. The house prices in G City were climbing year after year, and Yang Ping didn’t bother to think about buying a house or a car. He had a vehicle—an electric bike, a famous brand! As for a house? With his current income level, even if he only bought a bathroom, he couldn’t even afford the down payment.

Yang Ping called Little Five to tell him his own situation.

He began to plan his next step—considering how long the money in his account would last and where to look for a job.

In big cities like G City, jobs are easy to find, just that good jobs are very difficult. Back in the day, he relied on his good grades to participate in the public hiring for contract positions at G City People’s Hospital and barely managed to get a temporary job.