18: Can studying medicine save lives?

After Shen Bei snuck out of school, he first went home and put Jian Tong's surprise in a drawer.

He didn't have to worry about thieves.

This neighborhood… there really wasn't anything worth stealing.

Perhaps scavenging a hundred homes wouldn't be as valuable as one villa in the rich district.

It was strange, but there were very few rats in this neighborhood.

Just thinking about it was a kind of sorrow.

...

Labor Market.

Shen Bei was doing his usual job-hunting.

As a child with a normal mind, studying was something that would delay his future.

Studying was out of the question; the people at the Labor Market spoke so nicely, he loved it here.

At this moment, a few laborers were laughing and bragging, which was also a kind of enjoyment.

"I had a dream yesterday, I dreamt I got rich."

"Cut it out, don't go giving the Duke of Zhou extra business."

The surrounding laborers laughed.

Shen Bei also found it amusing.

By evening.

Shen Bei took on three jobs.

The first was digging tree pits for planting trees, earning 40 yuan.

Mainly because this job was incredibly scammy.

It was paid by the piece; digging one qualified pit earned 20 yuan.

The unit price was indeed good.

But the annoying part was, a group of laborers followed the boss, and before they had dug a few pits, a flatbed truck passed by, with an excavator on it!

The speed at which this thing dug pits was incomparable to manual labor.

Shen Bei had just dug two tree pits when the excavator finished all the rest.

The laborers were so angry they spat on the driver's face.

The second job was not bad.

It was to clear a clogged drain at a chemical factory.

Apparently, due to rain a few days ago, tree branches and plastic bags had blocked the outlet, and it needed to be cleared.

None of the laborers at the Labor Market dared to take it.

Fearing danger.

But Shen Bei's eyes lit up.

This was a good job!

It would definitely activate the anti-poison attribute!

Shen Bei naturally didn't back down; the original pay was 300, he negotiated it up to 500, and took the job.

At the chemical factory, the factory prepared protective suits, masks, and other items.

Armed to the teeth.

Logically speaking, entering the sewer should be absolutely fine.

But the sewer was somewhat dim, and if he snagged on some wire or something, tearing the protective suit, it could become dangerous.

Shen Bei went down cautiously, walking carefully and with extreme prudence.

After clearing the sewer, he emerged completely unscathed.

The third job was even more bizarre.

Shen Bei even felt it might not activate the daily settlement panel.

It was a mental hospital that was holding an art performance.

All the performers were mental patients.

They lacked an audience, so they wanted to hire a few people from the Labor Market to be the audience.

Shen Bei thought the director of the mental hospital was also a mental patient.

What kind of good person organizes a performance for mental patients?

Shouldn't the audience be the mental patients?

However, fortunately, this job paid decently, 50 yuan per person, just for sitting and watching.

Originally, Shen Bei didn't want to go, but it was getting late, and for the last job, any money earned was good.

Who would complain about having too much money?

The result was suffering.

The first performance by a mental patient completely stunned Shen Bei.

This mental patient seriously stated: "I personally believe that this spaghetti should be mixed with No. 45 concrete, because the length of this screw will easily directly affect the torque of the excavator. When you smash it in, it will instantly produce a large amount of high-energy protein, commonly known as UFOs, which will seriously affect economic development and even cause a certain degree of nuclear pollution to the entire Pacific Ocean and chargers. Furthermore, according to the Pythagorean theorem, you can easily deduce that artificially bred Tojo eagle chickens can capture wild trigonometric functions. Therefore, whether Qin Shi Huang's cross-section is radioactive or Trump's nth power contains sediment, it will not affect Walmart and Wellcome meeting in Antarctica."

Shen Bei: ...

Awesome!

What imagination!

Couldn't keep up!

After much torment and mental abuse, Shen Bei felt that this was the hardest fifty yuan he had ever earned.

However, Shen Bei was very much looking forward to seeing what tomorrow's settlement panel would say.

...

That night, Shen Bei did not go out to deliver food.

Instead, he studied the books he borrowed from Jian Tong.

Several books were placed on the table.

Shen Bei rubbed his hands, not rushing to flip through them randomly, but picked up "Basic Cultivation Method."

What surprised Shen Bei was that the thickness of the "Basic Cultivation Method" book was similar to "To Live."

"Basic, even the most basic is this thick?"

Shen Bei's head ached a little, he had thought it would be pamphlet-like in thickness.

He forced himself to open it.

The few words on the first page directly shook Shen Bei's state of mind:

【Martial Artists, dare to be the first in the world!】

"What powerful words!"

Shen Bei immediately opened to the main content.

Then he was dumbfounded.

It was actually a human skeleton diagram...

Then there were diagrams of flesh and blood, Meridians, and internal organs...

"Is it fake? It feels like a medical book." Shen Bei rubbed his nose: "Can studying medicine save people?"

But the following content began to delve into the main topic of a Martial Artist.

Taking people with prominent Physique attributes and strength as an example.

First Grade and Second-Rank Martial Artists temper the bones of their limbs.

A First-Rank Martial Artist can temper the bones of their upper limbs or lower limbs; both are fine, just different minor directions.

Whether it's upper limb bone tempering or lower limb bone tempering, once completed, the Martial Artist possesses considerable single-target lethality.

Bones hard as iron, Qi and blood like a rainbow, when unleashed, their hands and feet are comparable to cold weapons.

At this stage, it is common for a Martial Artist to kill an ordinary person with a single punch or kick.

If one chooses to temper the upper limb bones first, there are a total of 64 bones in the upper limbs.

Upon completion of tempering, both hands and arms can be used as machetes, possessing extreme power.

And after completing the tempering of the upper limb bones, and the Qi and blood reach the standard, one can Breakthrough to the Second-Rank and begin tempering the 62 bones of the lower limbs.

Similarly, those who temper the lower limb bones first will temper the upper limb bones after reaching the Second-Rank.

At this moment, Shen Bei had a completely new understanding of You Wuchang.

This guy was a Second-Rank Martial Artist who had already completed the tempering of his limb bones.

At that time, if You Wuchang hadn't been tricked by Shen Bei, his hands and feet could have been used as weapons, easily kicking Shen Bei to death with almost no difficulty.

When Shen Bei used a steel pipe to strike You Wuchang, even with his weakened limbs, he still broke the steel pipe with one punch.

And despite Shen Bei striking You Wuchang's limb bones many times, You Wuchang's hands and feet showed no signs of fracture.

And Third-Rank Martial Artists who follow the Physique and strength path are even more formidable, beginning to temper their torso.

A Third-Rank Peak Martial Artist already dares to directly withstand hot weapons, as long as they protect their vital brain.

Although bullets entering the body will still cause injury, fatal injuries are rare, and they can maintain combat effectiveness.

Of course, a shot to the head would still be fatal.

If one is unlucky and a bullet penetrates through bone gaps and hits vital internal organs, they would also die.

As for how to temper the skull, the book does not introduce it, presumably it does not fall within the scope of basic Cultivation.

Regarding Cultivation in Realms above Third-Rank, the book also did not introduce it; "Basic Cultivation Method" mainly focuses on Cultivation below Third-Rank.

As for other Martial Artists with higher mental and agility attributes, the book did provide explanations, but Shen Bei did not pay much attention to them.

In Shen Bei's mind.

Becoming a Martial Artist should be a contest of fists against fists.

The collision of flesh against flesh, every punch connecting, that's truly passionate!

Therefore, Shen Bei was determined to follow the path of Physique and strength.

As for other Martial Skills... if his attributes were sufficient, he would learn them, but his main focus would still be on close combat.

"The book says, if your attributes are not enough, hurry up and take Medicinal Pills; you must have enough attributes to achieve twice the result with half the effort."

Shen Bei smiled.

Taking Medicinal Pills was not an issue for Shen Bei.

Moreover, taking too many Medicinal Pills could lead to drug resistance.

This is also why Medicinal Pills range from tens of thousands to millions of yuan.

The more expensive the price, the stronger the effect, and the weaker the drug resistance.

And as for how to effectively temper one's bones, one must mention another book.

"Eight Forms of Stance Training!"

He was now flipping through this book.

The first page had a striking warning in large red letters.

"Warning! Please note! Do not Cultivate the content of this book before the Martial Arts Exam! Otherwise, it will cause your four-dimensional attribute points to decrease!"