Surgery Godfather
Chapter 893 - 786: Entering the Capital

Chapter 893: Chapter 786: Entering the Capital

After waking up, Guo Peihua kept telling the doctors and nurses about his out-of-body experience.

He wanted to tell the nurse, who was drawing his blood and was too busy to listen to his nonsense.

But Guo Peihua didn’t care whether the nurse wanted to listen or not and vividly described his bizarre experiences while he was unconscious: the dark abyss, voices whispering in his ear, and a distant glimmer of light, and so on.

"Really, don’t disbelieve me, my soul really left my body. During the rescue in the operating room, I felt myself floating up, suspended in mid-air, clearly seeing the doctors performing surgery on me."

Being materialists, the medical staff couldn’t possibly believe his story, deeming it hallucinations or abnormal brain cell activity.

Once the nurse finished drawing blood, she looked at Guo Peihua expressionlessly, turned off the IV line valve, and said to another nurse, "Let’s get the doctor to sedate him; he’s a bit agitated."

Guo Peihua was scared into silence; he didn’t want to go back to sleep in a stupor.

Since the nurse didn’t believe him, Guo Peihua became anxious. He tried to tell the doctors, but how could he find them while lying in bed, restrained by straps?

Fortunately, Doctor Ruan came by to make his rounds, checking Guo Peihua’s consciousness and auscultating his heart. Guo Peihua seized the opportunity to speak to Doctor Ruan as well.

He spoke with such conviction that it seemed true.

"Doctor Ruan, listen to me, it’s absolutely true. I felt surrounded by dark void and oppressive darkness. The space kept twisting and pulsating. I was so scared, I ran aimlessly in one direction. Then, a face appeared and a voice whispered in my ear—’Go back, child, hurry back.’

"I later realized that the face was my deceased grandfather’s; no wonder it seemed so familiar."

Doctor Ruan laughed and asked, "Did your grandfather speak Mandarin, or was it in a dialect?"

After thinking for a moment, Guo Peihua said, "Dialect, right, he spoke in a dialect."

"So I turned and ran in the opposite direction, and I heard the voice shouting again—’Run, child, don’t stop, just keep running in that direction.’ Finally, I saw a glimmer of light. I was exhausted, almost collapsing from fatigue, but I clenched my teeth and continued running. The light became brighter and brighter until it enveloped me, so bright that I couldn’t open my eyes. I struggled to shield my eyes from the light and saw a huge door ahead of me. I kept walking, fighting through the pain and entering the doorway, facing the blinding light as I slowly opened my heavy eyelids."

"And then you saw us?" Doctor Ruan followed up his story.

Guo Peihua nodded, "Yes!"

"That was Director Kang’s flashlight stimulating you. The light from the flashlight stimulated your retinal cells, producing the sensation of light in your cerebral cortex, which is why you saw light," Doctor Ruan explained steadily.

Guo Peihua was momentarily at a loss for words. After thinking it over, he seemed to remember something more and continued, "But what about my grandfather’s face?"

"You don’t have any memory of your grandfather in your brain?" Doctor Ruan retorted.

Guo Peihua nodded but still seemed hung up on the matter, murmuring to himself, "This is really strange. I reckon if not for that face guiding me, if I hadn’t run for my life, I definitely wouldn’t have made it back."

Seeing him still not getting it, Doctor Ruan said, "If the paramedics hadn’t come for you, could you have run back by yourself? If Professor Yang hadn’t performed the surgery on you, could you have made it back on your own?"

Guo Peihua was once again at a loss. He thought about it and realized that it made sense.

Suddenly, as if he had found new evidence, he said, "I had never seen Professor Yang before, right? The first time I saw Professor Yang, he looked familiar because I was floating above the operating room, watching him perform surgery on me. His face, I saw it clearly. So when Professor Yang first came for the rounds, I immediately recognized—"

"During surgery, everyone wears sterile caps and masks, covering up completely. Could you, floating up there, really see Professor Yang’s face clearly? And remember it?"

"Could you recognize him again during his rounds, even with a mask on?" Doctor Ruan pressed Guo Peihua further.

"Oh, they wear hats and masks during surgery?"

Guo Peihua fell silent again, deep in thought, trying to figure out how to convince Doctor Ruan. After all, Doctor Ruan was willing to listen to him, unlike the other doctors and nurses who wouldn’t listen at all.

"No worries, keep thinking about it. It’s best to write it down in a notebook," Doctor Ruan suggested, not having the time for endless idle conversation.

Guo Peihua grabbed Doctor Ruan’s hand, "Don’t go, I haven’t finished talking."

Just then, Yang Ping came to make his rounds, accompanied by Liang Fatty and Director Xiang from the Thoracic Surgery Department. Doctor Ruan stayed behind to accompany Yang Ping during the rounds.

"Vital signs are stable; blood pressure and oxygen levels are normal; hemoglobin is already above 100; postoperative CTA has been rechecked," Doctor Ruan reported the latest status.

Yang Ping listened to the heart sounds, which were normal, and said, "I’ve already seen the postoperative CTA, Very Good. How’s the mental state?"

Doctor Ruan laughed, "He’s very spirited and a bit excited, grabbing me every day to talk about paranormal events. He claims his soul left his body and that he traversed a fourth dimension, then ran back on his own."

"It wasn’t me who ran back on my own; it was my grandfather guiding me that I was able to return," Guo Peihua corrected.

Doctor Ruan proposed, "He can be transferred out of CCU and back to the Comprehensive Surgery Department, right?"

Everyone left the Ward and sat down in the Doctor’s Office.

"Transfer him back to our Comprehensive Surgery Department. Before transferring, please have someone from the psychology department come over and assess him," Yang Ping instructed Doctor Ruan.