Chapter 10 The Talking Bat <TOC> Chapter 12 Half-Written Formula
Translator: SumTLMan
Rayne had advanced to transcendence and no longer needed to hide this fact.
At dawn, he heard a commotion in the lab next door and came straight out.
At about a hundred square metres, the lab was relatively small and was the most extravagant building in the “Demon Weasel Bandits” base.
The room was divided into two parts, one half of the room held various test tubes, crucibles, distillation pots… The other half of the room was filled with scalpels, hemostatic forceps, syringes and all kinds of medical equipment staged for an operating room…
The room is also surrounded by dense rows of bookshelves, mostly introductory texts on medicine and magic potions.
The room was brightly lit with incandescent lamps overhead.
At the moment, Pythius, an early riser, is dissecting a “sawtooth rat carcass” on the operating table.
Both doctors and magic potion masters require a lot of practical training. This profession was no easier than any other combat-related profession.
The old man looked at Rayne as he stepped out, glanced at the bulging, knotted muscles and slightly raised his brow as he asked: “You’ve successfully broken through?”
Rayne nodded, not hiding the joy in his voice: “Yes! It was only thanks to the high-grade magic potion given sent by Teacher that I was able to advance successfully…”
“Good.”
Pythius nodded expressionlessly, the corners of his eyes twitching subconsciously.
It was a little depressing to waste such a high-grade magic potion on a dying man and not get what he wanted.
At this point, Pythius looked at Rayne and added: “Since you’re now my disciple, I’ll start by teaching you all about the doctor profession starting from today…”
After a pause, he pointed to the bloody rat carcass on the dissecting table and added: “The basis of all surgical operations is formed on an understanding of biological anatomy. Therefore, dissection and suturing are the most fundamental skills that a doctor must master…”
This old man thought that since he had promised to accept this recruit as his disciple, he might as well act the part of a teacher.
Both medicine and magic potion are vast subjects like the vastness of a sea of stars, and just basic anatomy is enough for an apprentice doctor to study for several months.
He thought it would be a good idea to teach him a couple of things over the next few days, and that a one-day introduction to everything in “biological anatomy” would be enough. With this plan in mind, it wouldn’t make the boy feel as though he had nothing else to do, and start having other random thoughts…
“You observe carefully…”
“Yes, sir.”
Hearing this, Rayne walked over to the dissecting table, looked at the disembowelled rat carcass and said with his usual expression: “Please teacher…”
Since he will be considered a “Combat Doctor” in the future, he naturally had to learn the relevant medical knowledge. With more skills under his belt, the more relaxed he can be in the future.
If the old man was genuinely willing to teach him, he was willing to learn.
At this time, the system prompt from his “Wisdom Brain” kept ringing out.
[Ding! Automatic recording of ‘Basic Anatomy Skills’, video details being recorded…]
……
The more critical the situation, the less eager one should be.
In this way, Rayne played the role of being Pythius’ docile disciple as he began actively assisting in the laboratory.
The laboratory was so small that Pythius’s actions were always in Rayne’s sights, whether he was preparing magic potions or doing magic potion research.
The old man wasn’t afraid of his research being stolen by his disciple and didn’t shy away from any procedure or process. In his eyes, this recruit wouldn’t survive for more than a few extra days anyway.
What’s more, what could a new apprentice, who had just learned how to hold a scalpel, steal?
But what he didn’t realise was that his disciple’s “Wisdom Brain” had recorded everything.
When Pythius was in the laboratory, Rayne behaved like a qualified apprentice, helping out by passing over materials and doing whatever he requested without complaints.
Of course, Rayne never lost sight of his goal.
He became Pythius’s disciple in the first place so that he could use the laboratory openly!
Although Pythius also had a storage ring, it wasn’t possible to fit everything in his one cubic metre storage ring.
So, the laboratory held a large number of potion materials and professional books.
Then, while Pythius was away from the laboratory, Rayne began frantically thumbing through each and every book he could grab from the bookshelves!
A fist-thick tome filled with professional secrets can be read in a minute or two, and his “Wisdom Brain” automatically scans any image or text that crosses his eyes!
In half a day, Rayne had “read” all the thousands of introductory medical and magic potion books that Pythius had collected over the years!
“Basic Anatomy”, “Introductory Potions”, “Surgeon’s Skills”, “100,000 Beast Species in Detail”, “Introduction to Magic Potions”, “Basic Magic Potions and Material Refining…”
Under normal circumstances, these professional books are part of the “doctor sequence”, with a bias towards support and treatment, and had almost no intersection with combat-related martial arts skills at all.
These classics are divided into different categories and ordered by detail, including all the introductory classics compiled by the “Magic Potion Master Association” and Omagh Empire’s “Royal College of Medicine”.
These weren’t just books, but a nearly comprehensive introduction to this world’s medicine/magic potion system.
It’s like a packaged introduction from beginning to end on these vast subjects, allowing someone to quickly start in these related field.
Rayne also doesn’t know that… This is Pythius’s personal collection as a royal two-star magic potion master and senior doctor, which is incomparable to those quacks with nonsystematic unprofessional secret books out in the world!
This collection was initially reserved for the exclusive use by royal college students and nobles, and this is the private collection for the doctor profession that couldn’t be found in the outside world.
At this moment, he had recorded all of it like a whale swallowing massive amounts of seawater.
……
Rayne didn’t even try concealing his “book flipping”, so Pythius naturally noticed that his books had been tampered with.
But even if he had found the traces of his book being thumbed through, the old man simply didn’t think it mattered.
Not to mention that Rayne was a dying man in his eyes, it would take a lot of time and energy to read through all of these books.
Under normal circumstances, it would take an apprentice at least a year and a half to finish reading all of these professional books, and years or even decades later of painstaking study to fully comprehend the theoretical knowledge contained within them.
It was self-evident that all the books on his bookcase had only been casually turned over, just randomly being flipped through.
The old man thought that Rayne was probably trying to find the cure to [Zombie Potion].
Haha, what a naive thought.
……..
“Sure enough, there’s nothing about [Zombie Potion] in these tomes…”
With the “Wisdom Brain” search function, Rayne didn’t need to personally look any of it up, from just flipping through the books, it was easy to find that there was no record of [Zombie Potion] in these thousands of tomes.
This, of course, was to be expected.
He wasn’t just “reading” these tomes to find clues for the cure, but mainly focused on actually learning!
The “Wisdom Brain” is the single most remarkable invention of the 21st century. It has a bug-like ability, and that’s… The deep memory learning function!
This is the most critical feature of the “Wisdom Brain” as a must-have technological product for the people in his previous life.
Studies have shown that the ratio of time passing during deep sleep to time passing in reality is roughly 1:20!
By making full use of this dream time, one can extend one’s life horizons by almost twenty times.
But during the vast majority of the time, one will wake up and be unable to remember what had happened in their dreams. Those memories aren’t truly gone but stored in the deeper layers of the subconscious brain.
The “Wisdom Brain” can actively intervene in the deep sleep dream state and activate these “lost memories”!
The host is pre-programmed to fall into a state of deep sleep and the “Wisdom Brain” will guide him/her into a planned dream, for example, to rapidly learn knowledge!
Then, when the person wakes up, the “Wisdom Brain” activates the memories stored during deep sleep in the brain, allowing them to recall what had happened in their dream last night.
That’s the reason Rayne spent a year in the “Demon Weasel Bandits” training base, it was to train almost all of the basic thief skills to “max” level.
During the day, he trains with the drill instructor, and his “Wisdom Brain” automatically records the martial art moves, angles, and poses demonstrated by the drill instructor…
At night, Rayne continues practising in his dream state.
The whole process recorded by his “Wisdom Brain”, allows the system to automatically compare and correct errors during practice, which is equivalent to the drill instructor’s firsthand instruction at all times.
When he wakes up in the morning, his subconscious memory is reawakened. His mind is in firm control of the theoretical experience gained with having twenty times longer practice time than anyone else.
In reality, all that’s needed was a little practice to familiarise himself with the muscle “memory” his brain has gained, and he will soon be able to form actual muscle memory and turn it into an art he can completely master!
For example, if one was a former swimmer who has taken over the body of a landlubber. When this person enters the water, except for their initial awkward movements that come with getting used to a new body, they will still be able to master their previous set of swimming skills. All it takes is a little familiarisation with the new muscle memory and movements in their head. Then they can skillfully begin swimming like a fish in water.
And with twenty times more practice time to learn a subject, even for a fool, the effect is several times greater than the next person!
Rayne’s “golden finger” was also his greatest reliance that allowed him to survive his recruit training period, which had a mortality rate of over 60%. All his experience in practising basic thief skills was at least ten or twenty times greater than the others.
He has been training hard over the past year without slacking off, even to this day.
Regardless of his actual combat experience, he is no worse than any of the drill instructors in the regiment in terms of martial arts skills alone, not to mention the same batch of new recruits.
If he hadn’t been deliberately hiding his skills, Rayne would’ve been considered a super genius in the “Weasel Recruit Training Regiment”, instead of receiving the quiet, untalkative “Crane Tail” title he is perceived to be!
Chapter 10 The Talking Bat <TOC> Chapter 12 Half-Written Formula