The breakfast was truly hearty, with four varieties of beef alone, and four boiled eggs of different sizes. In addition, there are four different colors of vegetables, which are red, yellow, green, and blue. The main dishes and soup are also four kinds and four bowls, and the table is full.

Seeing that I frowned again and again, Tang Sang immediately explained: "The leader said that the recovery recipe is decided by Mr. Chen, which is completely different from the ordinary sick meal, please try your best to cooperate." The leader also said that a large amount of exercise and a high-calorie diet are complementary to each other, and if you want to achieve your wishes, you must make deep changes to yourself. Otherwise, all ambitions are empty talk. ”

I believe that these words were all said by Zhang Quanzhong, only he understands what I think, and every sentence hits my key point.

"Change yourself, change the world. These eight words are what Zhang Quanzhong wanted to tell me through Tang Sang.

I sat down, put the food on the table in my mouth, and chewed and swallowed it meticulously.

From now on, my body is not my own, but belongs to me and Lianchengbi. When I become a steel and iron skeleton, I can break all barriers and bring the city back to the pinnacle of the rivers and lakes.

Tang Sang stood aside and peeled the four boiled eggs of different sizes for me, and told me one by one that they were wild goose eggs, peacock eggs, parrot eggs, and pigeon eggs.

Pigeon eggs are not uncommon, but the first three are the first time I have seen them.

Although I had my back to the secret door, I felt that the old man was looking at me from afar. So, I didn't say a word, just ate silently.

At the end of the meal, Tang Sang said again: "Mr. Xia, the leader instructs, if you have any request, I will meet it 100%. So, whenever you need it, please let me know. ”

I shook my head silently, didn't look at her, got up and walked into the gym.

I don't have any requirements other than martial arts. For the next month, I will see myself as a martial arts training machine, and I will not have any superfluous thoughts. At this point, I don't need Zhang Quanzhong to remind me, I can also be strict with self-discipline.

"Have you thought of an answer?" asked the old man.

I clasped my hands into fists and bowed deeply to the other party: "Teacher, forgive the disciple for being stupid and not thinking of the answer, and ask the teacher for advice." ”

After one meal, I found my right position, completely giving up my self-esteem and treating myself as a "machine". Machines have no dignity, let alone so-called self-awareness, and what others indoctrinate will be executed mechanically, and it will never take much effort to think.

Thinking is a waste of time, and I don't want to waste even a minute more.

The old man was a little surprised, let out an "oh", took three steps back, and stared at me.

I looked at him in silence, waiting for him to answer.

"This kid, why does it seem like a different person in the blink of an eye?" he muttered with an eyebrow.

Looking closely, although he is thin, he is not obscene, but his body and facial features are two or three sizes smaller than ordinary people, which looks a little strange.

He has a pair of slightly sunken, deep-sighted eyes, high eyebrow bones, and slanted eyebrows, which give me a sense of déjà vu. I definitely haven't met him, though, there's no doubt about it.

"The key to fighting is to attack the softest part of the opponent with the hardest part. If this principle is followed in every fight, every punch and kick, then within ten blows, the opponent will lose, and within a hundred blows, the opponent will die. This is the secret of fighting. The old man said.

In my head, these words were a reproduction of the two sentences "no thick into the middle, the most strong and the softest", but they were more direct, easier to understand, and more vernacular, and even a three-year-old child or an eighty-year-old woman could quickly understand.

"Good. I bowed deeply again.

Master teaching often gives students the feeling of enlightenment, and only a few words can make students feel stunned. I am lucky to have met such a teacher. Because of this, as soon as I understand, I will respond to him immediately and remind him to teach the next one.

"Just now I talked about the goal of fighting, now I will talk about the way of fighting. The world's martial arts, all unbreakable, only fast and unbreakable - this sentence comes from the first empty ninja Zen master in the Luohan Hall of Songshan Shaolin Temple. Since ancient times, China has said that 'the world's martial arts come out of Shaolin', and the Luohan Hall is the core place for the study of the best martial arts in the temple, so every word spoken by the Zen master of Kongren is the supreme essence of Chinese martial arts. Fast is the best way to fight, and if you combine it with the previous one, you can defeat ninety-nine of them if you encounter a hundred enemies. The old man said.

I can understand the truth of martial arts that "only fast is not broken", and the next thing to learn is how to achieve the realm of "fast".

"Okay, tell me, how can I make a faster move?" I immediately asked.

"Wooden stakes, pear-shaped balls, and spring hammers are the three auxiliary tools that are progressively advanced, and after three days of practice, I will teach you the practice methods of Jeet Kune Do master Bruce Lee. He replied with a nod.

The wooden stake is in the northeast corner of the gym, the pear-shaped ball is in the southeast corner, the spring hammer is in the southwest corner, but the northwest corner is still empty.

Modern technology has brought the greatest convenience to the teaching of martial arts, there is no need for martial arts cheats, master demonstrations, there is a large screen hanging on the wall behind the wooden pile, looping the clips of the masters of national arts practicing the wooden pile.

In Chinese martial arts, the techniques used by various schools to hit wooden stakes vary greatly. At present, the most widely publicized and influential is the wooden pile practice routine of the Guangdong Wing Chun School, which is also due to the hot release of the big movie "Ip Man" and the passionate performance of the famous kung fu superstar Donnie Yen.

I've never practiced a wooden stake before, and the on-screen demo is very concise, not teaching basic horse steps and punches, but a costume warrior with long braids directly demonstrating the movement of stabbing a wooden stake with one finger.

The index finger and middle finger of the man's hands were always tightly together, and each time he attacked, he attacked the eyes, ears, throat, and armpits of the wooden stake.

"Fast, the hardest part of the attack on the softest place, no thick into the middle, until the hardest attack soft" - after watching the demonstration more than a dozen times, I have a thorough understanding of the above four key combat rules.

I began to slowly practice hitting the wooden stakes, and I immersed myself in the destructive power of my fingertips when I stabbed them into the opponent's vital points.

If you stab your eyes, you will immediately lose your sight, if you stab your ear, you will faint, if you stab your throat, you will not be able to breathe, and if you stab your armpit, your opponent will be paralyzed. Therefore, the eyes, ears, throat, and armpits are the key points of a normal person, and they are also the cover doors that the opponent desperately protects in martial arts.

"I have to speed up infinitely to avoid the opponent's defense, and I can hit and kill with one hit. The true art of killing the enemy does not require a sword as hard as clay, it only needs to be slightly harder than the enemy's vital point. When I realized this, my eyes suddenly lit up, and when I looked at the wooden stake, there were points that could be attacked everywhere.

The trick that the old man taught me was really practical, if you want to kill someone, the fastest, the most convenient, the most open-handed, and the most easy to pick up is a person's two hands. Only by training one's own hands into the sharpest weapons can one survive a hundred battles.

As the Norse hunters joked, two hunters encountered a hungry black bear in the forest, and one of them ran away, while the other collapsed and collapsed, lamenting to his companions that he could not outrun the black bear. The running hunter bluntly said that it is not important that he can't outrun the bear, the important thing is to be able to outrun his companions, and the bear can eat one person to satisfy his stomach, so as long as he can outrun his companions, it is equivalent to outrunning the bear.

The same is true for human battles, as long as you hit the opponent's soft underbelly, you can win by lightning without thinking about anything else.

I didn't spend the whole day studying the wooden stakes, but only practiced for two hours, which was to turn to the pear-shaped ball.

The essence of the pear-shaped ball is to "avoid the enemy's attack and then return fire quickly", emphasizing the point of "flexible dodge". As for how to attack, of course, we should follow the two basic principles of "fast, hard and weak attack".

Half an hour later, I turned to the spring hammer.

Unlike the pear-shaped ball, which is light and fluttering, the springball bounces quickly and heavily, like facing a middleweight fighter who slams him in the face or chest every time he can't dodge.

During the three-hour training, I gradually realized that dodging is not the way to dodge, and the best defense is to attack, and to contain the opponent's offensive by cutting the stitches and attacking sharply. As long as you reach more than half of the ratio of attacks to hits, you will win.

Before lunch, I had already switched between the wooden stakes, the pear-shaped ball, and the spring hammer, attacking, retreating, and dodging as I pleased, and I had fully mastered the ability to adapt to different opponents.

The old man remained in the gym all the time, but he did not give any advice, but only observed silently.

Lunch was still hearty, and I ate as hard as I did to practice, and I regarded eating as a task as important as practicing.

"I'll show you a good thing. The old man sat down across from me, threw his left palm, and landed two fitness balls in the middle of the table.

"Teach me more useful things. I lowered my head and continued to eat, ignoring the two fitness balls.

The old man smiled, flicked his fingers, and the two fitness balls were dripping and spinning.

"I want to learn more esoteric and sharper martial arts. I said again.

If wooden stakes, pear-shaped balls, and spring hammers all need to be practiced for several days, then if you want to become a martial arts master, you may not be able to hope for three or five years.

I can't wait that long, and I'm afraid I don't have enough patience and resilience.

"What is a deeper, sharper form of martial arts, do you have a goal?" the old man asked.

"Kill the enemy in one move. I only answered in four words.

The sentence of the ancients "If you can control the invasion of the mausoleum, how can you kill more" is no longer applicable to the current situation, and only high-speed killing to deter the enemy's courage can effectively solve the problem I am facing. In other words, only by infinitely improving their status in the rivers and lakes can the road to attack become smoother.

"Good, good. The old man nodded.

"When will it start?" I asked.

"It's now. The old man replied.

He held out his index finger a little and held down a silver ball.

The silver ball is carved with complex animal patterns, but it is not an ordinary tiger and leopard, Pixiu and the like, but an animal with many eyes, many mouths, many hands and many tails.

The old man fiddled with the silver ball and pointed the monster's biggest mouth at me.

"What?" I couldn't guess what he was going to do.

"The fun stuff is in there. He hooked his little finger on a tab in the monster's mouth and slowly pulled it outward.

The ring was connected to a half-inch-wide piece of sterling silver, and the thin sheet was hollowed out, and it turned out to be a series of human figures who were practicing martial arts. The length of each figure was also half an inch, and when the old man pulled the silver piece out half a foot long, what was displayed in front of me was the movements of ten warriors.

I observed carefully, and the ten warriors were all using power weapons such as broadswords, clubs, hammers, and gourds, and their bodies were so fierce that they were all attacking forward with the momentum of King Kong pounce and Mount Tai overwhelming.

Under such a vigorous onslaught, it is natural to kill the enemy with one move, but its own consumption is extremely high, and it is impossible to fight for a long time.

I shook my head slowly: "Teacher, that's not what I want to learn. ”

The old man smiled, pulled out, and showed me the other ten warrior figures.

These ten warriors all use long-range attack weapons such as bows and arrows, crossbow boxes, meteor hammers, and swallow darts, and although the art of killing is ingenious, it is not what I need.

Then, the old man showed me two other groups of martial artists, one was to practice short-bladed fighting and assassination, just like the Fuso ninjas, and the other was to kill people with the help of birds of prey, spirit snakes and other animals, which were very complicated, and it would definitely be half the effort to practice.

I was not interested in the strange arts of these four groups of warrior representatives, so I shook my head frequently and declined the old man's recommendation.

The old man let go of his little finger, and the silver piece contracted, automatically rolling into the silver ball.

"These are all the tricks you said to kill the enemy, but you don't like any of them?" he was a little dumbfounded.

I bowed my head to eat, frowning in thought.

"What the hell am I going to learn? Kill one person in ten steps, and don't stay for a thousand miles. Brush off your clothes and go, leaving no merit and fame...... I said that I wanted to learn a trick to kill the enemy, but the fundamental purpose was not to kill people, but to kill to stop killing, to eliminate the mermaid poison, to restore a harmonious and peaceful social order in Jinan City, and to let those ordinary people who knew nothing about thaumaturgy live a peaceful life. What should I learn? Can he teach me?" I asked myself.

"He wants to teach" and "I want to learn" are two different things, I must find the direction according to my own thinking, not blind, not panicked, in order to learn and succeed.

"What's in the silver ball?" I looked at the other ball.

"Emperor's art. The old man replied.

This time, he didn't mean to show me, but picked up the two silver balls and put them in his pocket.

"Teacher, what is the Emperor's Technique?" I asked.

The old man shook his head: "That's a question that I haven't even figured out, you better don't ask, I can't answer it if I ask." Next, you should continue to practice wooden stakes, pear-shaped balls, and spring hammers, which must be practiced thousands or tens of thousands of times to form muscle memory and play a role in the face of hostile battles. ”

After the meal, I followed Tang Sang's instructions and rested in bed for three hours before I could continue to train at the gym.

The laptop in the ward was attached to a hydraulic rocker arm, and I was half-lying on the bed, and with a slight pull, I could drag the computer over and continue reading.

It is mentioned in the "Shark Ghost Market" section of the information that the merman obtains the treasure by any means, and in the end it is to pay tribute to the lord of the merman in exchange for some limited freedom. For example, there are mermaids who pay tribute to the Guangxi Night Pearl and Burmese jade, which can be exchanged for five years of freedom, and can travel and move around the world without any restrictions, some people pay tribute to the Tang Emperor's imperial pen handwritten "Pardon of the East China Sea Soul Scroll", in exchange for ten years of freedom, and some people pay tribute to the pharaoh's scepter obtained by the French emperor during his expedition to Africa, in exchange for twenty years of freedom...... The way the merman pays tribute and the way of valuing is very strange, and there seems to be no fixed basis, all with an order from the lord of the merman, each can take what he needs and get "limited freedom".

In China, the place with the most antique relics is naturally the Jingshi Forbidden City. If there is a way to sweep away all the treasures there, it will probably be enough to exchange Jingguan Xiaowu for a lifetime of freedom. However, this is an empty sentence after all, and modern thieves can't get their hands on a needle or thread if they want to take away a needle or thread from the Forbidden City, let alone take away all the treasures.

Now, the only feasible direction is to target private collectors, grab their most valuable collections, borrow flowers to offer Buddha, and redeem Jingguan Xiaowu.

There are many collectors in Jinan City, and there are two major folk antique distribution centers of Hero Mountain and North Park, and the treasures of the city appear from time to time, and the status of the national collection circle is not inferior to that of Panjiayuan in the capital.

"For the sake of Jingguan Xiaowu, it is probably not difficult to let Zhang Quanzhong go over the wall to steal. Next, another key step is to go deep into the mermaid community and find out what kind of treasures are in line with their values...... "I watched and thought about it, and a wave of fatigue hit me, and I fell asleep with my laptop in my arms.