From this day on, Lu Yuan's clinic had a new nurse.
At the same time, Room 96 of the clinic welcomed its new occupant.
Considering Lin Youyou's lack of professional nursing skills, Lu Yuan initially assigned her to the night shift at the clinic.
This was what Lin Youyou had hoped for.
Even though she had abandoned the idea of taking her own life, it would still take time for her to emerge from the shadows of her past.
During the night shift, Lin Youyou was also responsible for the clinic's emergency hotline.
This was a new service recently introduced by Lu Yuan, with the number 121, providing on-site emergency care within the Yun City area.
As for the driver of the ambulance, Lu Yuan entrusted that task to Xiao Chen.
Two medical robots equipped to handle basic emergency care and perform CPR accompanied him in the vehicle.
The commercial vehicle that Xiao Chen had driven was originally white, and Lu Yuan made some modifications to turn it into the clinic's ambulance.
Two days passed.
During these two days, Lin Youyou's heart surgery had already been completed.
The heart of the Spirit Dragon was the most suitable for humans among all living creatures.
This level of suitability even exceeded that of the human heart itself.
Implanting the heart of the Spirit Dragon had a high probability of unlocking the genetic potential in an ordinary person, turning them into an "ability holder."
The method of unlocking the genetic potential, different from the surgery Lu Yuan had performed on the youngest child, installing a biotic limb containing the genes of an ability holder, allowed one to control the ability rather than just the body part.
In terms of the growth potential of abilities, level of control, and fluency in combat, unlocking the genetic potential far surpassed the method of installing biotic limbs.
If an ability holder replaced their heart with the heart of the Spirit Dragon, it would elevate their abilities to a higher level, and they might even develop a second ability.
Thanks to the powerful regenerative capabilities, Lin Youyou, who had just undergone heart surgery, had fully recovered within a day.
On this morning, Lu Yuan took Lin Youyou's mother out of the cryogenic chamber on the negative first floor.
Her mother was the old woman who had attempted to eat Zhang Baobao's heart, but was turned into a doll and given to Lu Yuan by Zhang Baobao.
Liu Yuan dressed the old woman's body in funeral attire and placed her in the coffin.
The coffin was ordered online by Lu Yuan two days ago.
In this world, coffins were considered luxury items and very expensive.
Of course, the money for it would be deducted from Lin Youyou's salary.
Around 9 o'clock in the morning, Huang Ming and Xiao Chen carried the coffin out from the warehouse using the large elevator and brought it to the foot of a small hill behind the Medical Academy.
Lin Youyou didn't have any particular preference.
She casually walked around the hill, and when a sense of sorrow suddenly overwhelmed her, she chose that spot as her mother's burial place.
She dug a simple grave herself with a shovel, and when Huang Ming and Xiao Chen arrived with the coffin, they stood silently in front of it for a moment of mourning before burying the coffin.
There were no ceremonies, and besides Lin Youyou, Huang Ming, and Xiao Chen, there were no other mourners.
Lu Yuan didn't come, and if he had come, it would have been too much to bear.
However, even so, Lin Youyou's mother's burial ceremony was considered relatively extravagant in this world.
At the very least, she had a coffin and a burial plot.
With everything settled, the three of them left, and tranquility was restored to the small hill.
...
Today was a working day at Lu Yuan Clinic, but no patients came for consultation.
It wasn't until the afternoon, as the sun was setting, that Lu Yuan stayed holed up in his second operating room and didn't come out.
A little after seven, just as it had turned dark, the wind started to blow.
Bang!
A loud and intense noise erupted from the second operating room.
Lin Youyou, who was outside with Liu Yuan, a nurse she was shadowing, suddenly froze.
Liu Yuan, on the other hand, calmly said, "Being a nurse for Dr. Lu means you have to get used to mysterious sounds that might suddenly occur at any time because you never know what he might be doing in the operating room."
Bang!
As Liu Yuan finished speaking, the door to the second operating room burst open.
Lu Yuan held a metal ball about one centimeter in diameter in his hand and murmured to himself, "Finally, it's done!"
Lin Youyou was puzzled and asked, "W-what is that?"
Without even looking at Lu Yuan, Liu Yuan told Lin Youyou, "It has nothing to do with us. Remember, when Dr. Lu is in the operating room, if he doesn't call for you, don't go in."
"Unless it's his designated time, like when he wakes up. Even though you're on the night shift, you might encounter this situation."
"Because you never know which day he might end up sleeping in the operating room until it gets dark."
Lin Youyou found it difficult to understand. In her understanding, doctors led very disciplined lives.
Just as Liu Yuan was about to continue speaking, suddenly, the wristbands worn by both of them vibrated.
Someone had arrived at the reception hall to get a number.
"Hello, how can I assist you?"
Two minutes later, Liu Yuan led Lin Youyou to meet someone in the reception hall... a strange person.
This person was wrapped in a thick robe made of animal hide, with a black veil covering their head and a gauze cloth wrapped around their face, exposing only a pair of narrow eyes.
They deliberately suppressed their voice and whispered, "I've come for surgery."
Liu Yuan casually asked, "Are you an ability user?"
Surgery for ability users and regular people undoubtedly followed different procedures, so it was necessary to ask.
But as Liu Yuan asked, the person instantly became wary, and a glint of coldness flashed in their narrow eyes.
Suddenly, the temperature in the entire reception hall seemed to drop by several degrees.
Initially, Lin Youyou, who was receiving a patient for the first time, felt a little nervous, but now, seeing the atmosphere, whoosh—
A gust of cold wind swept across the reception hall floor, sending shivers down one's spine!
Lin Youyou's hand, hidden in her nurse's uniform, began to change little by little!
In an instant, the person's eyelids twitched vigorously!
At that moment, Liu Yuan held onto Lin Youyou's hand, and the chilling wind in the reception hall vanished instantly.
Liu Yuan kindly explained to the person, "Surgery for ability users and regular people are definitely different."
"If it's inconvenient for you, you can specify whether you want to undergo surgery as a regular person or as an ability user."
The man looked at Lin Youyou warily and then lifted his voluminous robe, pointing to the service project notice hanging on the wall of the reception hall. In a low voice, he said, "I want to undergo that surgery."
Liu Yuan and Lin Youyou followed the man's gaze to the robe, and gasped simultaneously.
Even Liu Yuan, who had been working in the clinic for over two years, was no exception.
The hostility emanating from Lin Youyou, who had just exchanged angry glances with the man, vanished in an instant.
What the man was pointing at was the new service project recently added to the notice board by Liu Yuan: Gender Reassignment Surgery.
"Are you... Are you sure you want to do this?"
Liu Yuan asked.
"Are you planning to transition from male to female or from female to male?"
Well, that's what the new and inexperienced Lin Youyou asked.