21st Century Necromancer

After the academic conference ended, Chen Yu also set off for Tokyo, but he didn't choose to use "Necromantic Space" to return to Tokyo; he still opted for the Shinkansen train.

From Kyoto to Tokyo, traveling by plane takes roughly just over an hour, and the Shinkansen is slightly slower but doesn't cause much delay. Plus, he found the scenery along the train route more interesting.

Like other modes of transportation in Japan, the Shinkansen was very quiet as well. Even if people were talking, they kept their voices low. Chen Yu almost felt sleepy due to the sunlight coming in through the train window.

Just as Chen Yu was about to doze off in his seat, an emergency broadcast suddenly rang out in the carriage, "Attention to all passengers, attention to all passengers. A 6-year-old child in carriage number 5 is experiencing a sudden foreign object airway obstruction and needs assistance. Any passenger with medical qualifications or who knows first aid, please proceed to carriage number 5 to provide help."

Hearing that a doctor was needed to provide emergency aid, Chen Yu's eyes snapped open, and any trace of sleepiness vanished.

He retrieved his surgical instrument kit, which he carried with him at all times, from his luggage on the overhead rack and ran towards carriage number 5.

Moving quickly at a normal person's pace, Chen Yu arrived at carriage number 5 where he saw a little boy, looking very uncomfortable, clutching his throat, and the woman beside him, likely his mother, looked extremely anxious. Two attendants were trying to assist them.

"I am a surgeon. May I ask, what is the situation now?" Chen Yu approached the little boy and quickly began examining him, while also inquiring the mother beside him about what had happened.

"Jianjiang was eating a piece of hard candy when suddenly it got stuck!" Hearing Chen Yu say he was a surgeon, the mother quickly explained the situation to him, "I saw him choking and immediately asked the attendants for help."

A piece of hard candy stuck in the throat? Upon hearing the mother's explanation and seeing the child's complexion turning blue, already showing signs of breathing difficulty, Chen Yu laid the child on the floor of the carriage while asking, "How long has he been like this?"

"About five or six minutes! As soon as Jianjiang choked, I asked the attendants for help." The mother quickly explained to Chen Yu, while pleading with him, "Doctor, please save him! He's only nine years old!"

"Don't worry, I'll save him." After laying the child down, Chen Yu, noticing a tendency for passengers to gather around, quickly said to the attendant by his side, "Don't let anyone gather around; this child needs air!"

After saying this, Chen Yu placed his palm on the child's upper abdomen and started to press upwards forcefully.

With Chen Yu's actions, the child clearly felt an urge to vomit. Although he retched twice, he didn't spit out whatever was in his mouth. Nevertheless, after these two retches, the child's breathing seemed to recover, and his complexion looked less alarming than before.

Seeing this, Chen Yu's expression turned even more serious.

He had just used the Heimlich Maneuver, and in theory, this method should have expelled the foreign object stuck in the child's mouth. However, the child indeed retched twice, dislodging the object that had likely been blocking the trachea, but since it hadn't come out, Chen Yu felt something was amiss.

Chen Yu dared not delay and hurriedly said to the two attendants, "Put the child on a seat, I need to remove the foreign object!"

Hearing this, the two attendants quickly cleared a seat, allowing Chen Yu to place the child's head facing outward on it.

Pulling out a flashlight, he handed it to an attendant beside him, as he opened the surgical tool kit he had brought with him, he instructed, "Please shine it on his throat and support his head with the other hand."

Taking a pair of curved-tip surgical forceps from the kit and disinfecting them with an alcohol swab, Chen Yu inserted the forceps into the child's mouth under the lighting provided by the attendant.

"Don't move at all, uncle is going to take the thing out of your mouth, so please don't move," Chen Yu soothed the child while he searched for the foreign object in the child's throat.

Fortunately, the child was very obedient. Even though it was uncomfortable to have a foreign object inserted in his mouth, he lay still without moving around.

Eventually, Chen Yu found the piece of hard candy that was stuck and, using the surgical forceps, he managed to extract it from the child's throat.

Looking at the extracted piece of fruit candy, Chen Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn't expected that the hard candy, which had dislodged from its position in the airway thanks to the Heimlich Maneuver, would get stuck between the child's tongue root and the epiglottic cartilage, making it impossible to spit out or swallow, and necessitating removal with forceps.

Luckily, the object was successfully removed without any serious consequences.

Seeing Chen Yu remove the foreign object from the child's mouth, another attendant quickly took out a tissue to catch the piece of fruit candy from the forceps and asked him, "Doctor, is the child alright now?"

"For now, he's fine; the object has been removed. However, I recommend going to a hospital for a check-up, just to be sure," Chen Yu said, turning to the mother beside him to explain, "In the future, be more careful when your child eats. Choking on foreign objects can be very dangerous, and if they're not promptly removed or expelled, it could even lead to life-threatening situations."

"Thank you, doctor! Thank you so much!" The child's mother kept thanking Chen Yu, her voice filled with gratitude as she asked, "What would we have done without you, doctor? May I have your name?"

"I'm just a surgeon passing by," Chen Yu said with a smile, wiping his forceps clean and placing them back into the kit. After giving a few more instructions, he prepared to return to his seat.

At that moment, another doctor, who had rushed over after hearing the announcement, had just arrived. "I'm a doctor; who needs help... Professor Chen Yu? Have you already taken care of the situation here?"

Hearing the voice of the doctor, Chen Yu, who was about to leave, turned his head and saw it was someone he had met at an academic conference before. He greeted him, saying, "Turns out it's Professor Aihara. The child just choked on a foreign object; I've already extracted it. Are you also traveling on this train, Professor Aihara?"

"Yes, I am. I didn't expect to encounter you on this train, Professor Chen Yu. It seems one can't compare to you younger folks once they reach a certain age. You had already handled everything by the time I got here. If there had been an emergency, my old arms and legs would have only caused delay," Professor Aihara said, relieved to hear the situation had been handled. After chatting with Chen Yu for a few moments, they both returned to their seats amid the mother's continuing words of gratitude.