Tears rolled down Damon's closely-shut eyes.
When the nurse anesthetist noticed, she quickly yelled, "The fair Dalang is awake!"
"That's pretty fast. Athletes do recover quickly. An anesthetist walked over with a smile and said in English, "Eldest [1], how do you feel?"
Damon froze for a moment and asked, "How did you know that I'm the eldest son? I've never told anyone about this before."
Once he said that, Damon touched his waist with his hands and anxiously asked, "Did you guys run an investigation on me? What did you guys steal?"
While he spoke, he began to panic.
"I spoke too soon. This guy may be having postoperative delirium. His blood pressure and cardiac rhythm look all right though…" The anesthetist struggled to understand the teenager's South African English and gestured at the nurse anesthetist.
Right then, Damon was already moving around and trying to pull off the tubes on his body.
Translator's note:
[1] Eldest and Dalang: Dalang also means the eldest son in a family. Over here, the anesthetist uses this meaning instead of the Dalang he usually uses when he "feeds his patients medication", as though he was Pan Jinlian. Also, later on, the nurse anesthetist called the anesthetist Doctor Pan even though his surname was not Pan, right? Because she also knows that he refers to himself as Pan Jinlian whenever he feeds his patients medication.
[2] The scariest patients are the ones who go from Dalang to Erlang. Wu Dalang is poisoned to death in Water Margin (one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature), and in this context, it means that the person was anesthetized. Meanwhile, Wu Erlang killed a tiger with his bare hands when he was drunk. In this context, it means that a person is agitated even under the effects of anesthetics.
[3] A breed of dairy cattle originating from the Dutch provinces of North Holland and Friesland, and Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany and Jutland. They are known as the world's highest-production dairy animals. (Source: Wikipedia)