Walking by the Abyss on Thin Ice

Chapter 80: Willing to be a barbarian rather than a gentleman

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"This voice..." Su Yun's heart moved slightly, and a stone finally fell to the ground.

His eyes fell on the tall spiritualist, and he said silently in his heart: "Lin Qingsheng, a scholar from Shuofang Academy, ranked first in the exam two years ago..."

The tall spiritualist's face changed slightly, and he looked at the approaching shadow, and said cautiously: "Which senior is speaking? I am indeed Lin Qingsheng from Shuofang Academy, and also Lin Qingsheng from Shuofang Lin Family. I was ordered by the Martial God Constable to search for the demons causing chaos in Shuofang City."

"Of course I know the Shuofang Lin family. If you weren't from the Shuofang Lin family, you would be a corpse now."

The shadow gradually approached, and it turned out to be a middle-aged man with a big belly, a round face, smiling eyes, and chubby hands. He was holding a wooden box in his hands, and looked like an ordinary doctor.

"The city is in chaos now, with demons everywhere. The scholars from Shuofang Academy took advantage of the chaos to break into the streets at the bottom and kill innocent people. Maybe if you die here, you will just be killed by people as demons." The round-faced doctor smiled with his eyes narrowed.

This doctor was none other than Doctor Dong, the "ordinary doctor" whom Monk Tu Ming invited to treat Su Yun's arm on the second day after he entered the Shuofang Academy.

Doctor Dong may not look impressive, but his medical skills are superb. Su Yun's arm was injured, and it took Aunt Luo from Tianmen Town ten days to heal him, but he only needed half an hour!

The pupils of the tall spiritual scholar Lin Qingsheng suddenly shrank, and he became more cautious. He smiled and said, "We scholars work under the Wushenbu during the holidays to earn some money. We follow the Wushenbu's orders to hunt down the monsters in the Old No Man's Land, and we also consider the safety of Shuofang City."

He smiled and said, "Senior, please look, there are demons everywhere on this street, so I suspect they came from the old no-man's land, so there was a conflict..."

"Where did the demon come from?"

Doctor Dong was surprised and said, "There are obviously people on this street, where did the monster come from?"

Lin Qingsheng looked around and was slightly shocked to see that the hundreds of monsters in the uninhabited area on the street just now had turned into human forms and looked very honest!

A spiritualist beside him took out a whistle and put it to his lips, just as he was about to blow it, Lin Qingsheng snapped his fingers and smashed the whistle to pieces, smiling and saying, "Senior, this is a misunderstanding. We also lost three scholars because of this misunderstanding, all of them were elite scholars of the Shuofang Academy, and Tong Pushe will definitely blame us. How about this, we take the monster and the bodies of the scholars back to report, and we will take over this matter. What do you think, senior?"

Beads of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

The whistle is a spiritual weapon specially made by the government. As long as it is blown with blood and energy, it will resound for more than ten miles, and the government officials nearby will come quickly upon hearing the sound!

But before that, they would probably all die here!

This fat doctor is unfathomable, and he did not come alone. There was also a spiritualist who was good at archery hiding in the dark.

That's why Lin Qingsheng didn't dare let the spiritualist blow the whistle. Once it was blown, there would be no room for maneuver.

Doctor Dong was unwilling to fight to the death. He could certainly kill Lin Qingsheng and other scholars, but if the government officials came, there would be no end to it.

If Lin Qingsheng and other scholars died here, not only would the government be furious, but the Shuofang Academy would also massacre all the monsters at the bottom of Shuofang in anger!

By then, the lower classes of Shuofang would probably be flooded with blood!

Doctor Dong waved his hand and said, "Take the body away."

Lin Qingsheng heaved a sigh of relief and ordered his men to take down the bodies of the three spiritualists. Several spiritualists then went to drag out the demon that Lin Qingsheng had beheaded. Two spiritualists walked towards the body of the bull demon next to Su Yun, and Su Yun said in a hoarse voice, "Don't touch him."

Lin Qingsheng raised his eyebrows and ordered: "Leave this body behind."

The two spiritualists stepped back.

Lin Qingsheng looked at Su Yun, smiling, and said softly: "Congratulations to Junior Brother Su Yun for getting first place in the exam and being admitted to Wenchang Academy. Junior Brother Su Yun won a great reputation in the North after his performance in the Ten Brocade Embroidery Paintings. He will definitely be a man of great talent in the future. I am a few years older than you, so I have something to say to you."

Su Yun's face was indifferent: "Brother, please speak."

Lin Qingsheng smiled and said, "A mature upper-class person has no hatred in his eyes. I am only following orders, so I have offended you. This is a public matter, and there is no personal grudge or enmity involved. Junior brother, do you understand what I mean?"

Su Yun said indifferently: "Please tell me clearly, Senior Brother."

Lin Qingsheng frowned slightly and said patiently, "There is no grudge between you and me, only a conflict over work. But after tonight, when the work is over, you and I may have the opportunity to cooperate and have a drink and talk about love. This is what a mature upper-class person should do. What do you think?"

"Get lost." Su Yun had no expression on his face.

Lin Qingsheng's face turned cold, he turned around and walked away, sneering: "Country barbarian, childish and ignorant!"

"Two months."

Hearing Su Yun's voice behind him, Lin Qingsheng stopped and turned to look.

Su Yun raised two fingers, his voice was hoarse, but it was like thunder, rolling back and forth in the dirty streets of this lower world: "I said in two months, I can surpass your achievements in two years!"

Lin Qingsheng laughed, shook his head, and said to the other spiritualists: "A fool who talks about dreams. Let's go."

Su Yun's voice came from behind him, exploding: "Two months later, at the gate of Shuofang Academy, you and I will fight. I will kill you to avenge my fellow countryman."

Lin Qingsheng couldn't help but get angry: "Country bumpkin, you don't know how to be polite! All right, two months later, in front of the academy, we'll see who's better, and who lives or dies! Humph!"

He waved his sleeves and left.

The group of people flew away quickly. Su Yun felt a sweetness in his throat and a mouthful of blood gushed out of his lungs.

"You injured your heart and lungs, and you forced yourself to speak harshly, which made your injuries worse."

Doctor Dong came forward with a small wooden box, looked Su Yun up and down, as if he were looking at a treasure, and said with a smile: "You are an ordinary scholar, but you are as wild as an untamed horse. I like your personality very much. But you made a mistake. You should have agreed to him."

He took out a set of silver needles and used them to drain the blood from Su Yun's heart and lungs.

Su Yun finally felt more comfortable, and said in a hoarse voice: "Sir, am I too immature? Should I agree to him, make peace with him, and meet him in the future?"

Doctor Dong treated him attentively and said, "Logically speaking, a mature upper-class person should not bear grudges, and at least be a superficial brother, just like he said. But if you agree to him, I will not treat you, and I will turn around and leave."

He smiled and said, "I don't value being smooth and worldly. There are too many smooth and worldly people in this world. On the contrary, there are too few country folk like you who have principles and persistence. I also wanted to be like you."

He drained the blood from Su Yun's body, frowned slightly, stood up and said, "Did you use something like Jiehui to improve your Qi and blood? Your blood vessels and organs were damaged by the impact, and the injuries are a bit tricky... I have a pharmacy on this street, go there and treat you carefully."

Su Yun said yes, then looked at the bull demon's corpse on the ground, feeling sad.

He rummaged through his body, took out all the Qinghong coins, handed them to Second Sister Mao, and whispered, "Second Sister, help me give this little money to his family. Also, in two months, please bring his family to the gate of Shuofang Academy to see his enemy executed."

Sister Mao quietly accepted the money, a little timidly, and whispered: "Xiaoyun, don't tell me what I did in the city when you go back..."

Su Yun nodded and followed Doctor Dong to a pharmacy on the corner of the street.

"Doctor Xinglin, you must cure him!" Mao Erjie shouted.

Su Yun looked up and saw the words "Xinglin Medicinal Herb Shop" written on the plaque of the medicine shop. When he walked in, a strong aroma of medicinal herbs hit his nose.

Doctor Dong flicked his finger, and the shop's ash light came on. He walked into the counter and said as he dispensed medicine, "Zuo Pushe is a stingy old man. I can barely make ends meet with the little salary he gave me, so I opened a shop on the street to supplement my family income. Almost everyone on this street knows me."

Su Yun's heart moved slightly. This was definitely not a comfortable place. The streets were full of feces from the upper world's carriages. In the summer, it would be like living next to a cesspool.

Moreover, this is definitely not a place where it is easy to make money. Those who live here are poor people who work as laborers.

I'm afraid we won't make any money from treating these people, and we'll even have to lose money.

With Doctor Dong's medical skills, he can definitely make a name for himself in the upper class world of Shuofang. It won't be difficult for him to own a fortune, and he might even be able to live in a place like Shenxianju!

But he stayed here.

This ordinary doctor at Wenchang Academy has something extraordinary about him.

“Another thing is that living here is very convenient.”

Doctor Dong picked up the herbs and placed them in the medicine box. He gently pushed the door of the cabinet with his chubby hand, and the heavy door creaked open, revealing a secret room behind it.

Doctor Dong smiled and said, "Follow me."

Su Yun walked to the counter and followed him into the secret room of the herbal medicine shop. He saw that the secret room was very bright, with a long corridor and glazed windows on both sides.

There is a lamp every few steps here, illuminating everything inside the glazed window.

Inside the window were brain slices, cut extremely thinly and sandwiched between two pieces of glass, through which one could see the most delicate structure of the brain!

“Do you know how many slices the brain can be cut into?”

Doctor Dong had a weird smile on his face, his eyes narrowed into slits, and without waiting for Su Yun to answer, he said, "Seven thousand pieces. I got this brain, cut it into seven thousand pieces, sealed it in colored glaze to prevent it from decaying, and studied its structure. Haha, only dissection is the ultimate in the pursuit of knowledge. All other Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are fucking heresies!"

Su Yun looked around and saw that the corridor was filled with brain slices of all sizes. There should be as many as seven thousand slices!

"Don't be afraid, this is not a human brain."

Doctor Dong walked in front and said, "When I was studying abroad, I had already dissected human brains. At that time, we went to dig up graves and dug out the dead who had just been buried... These brains are from an old demon in the old no-man's land. The front is his nerves, which I peeled out."

Su Yun walked forward and saw a nerve system that was like tree roots. The thick nerves were connected to countless root-like nerves in clusters. When these nerves were combined together, they looked like a monster with four arms!

"The old demon in the no-man's land...what kind of monster is that?" Su Yun murmured.

“It’s the old no-man’s land.”

Doctor Dong corrected him, "The new no-man's land cannot be compared with the old no-man's land. The old no-man's land is full of extremely terrifying old monsters. Some of them even fell from the sky along with Tianshiyuan. They are not species from our world. His heart is in front of him."

Su Yun's eyes suddenly went dark, and he hurriedly stimulated his blood and qi to regain his vision.

He could hear the sound of his heartbeat, and the powerful and terrifying pressure of his blood and energy made it difficult for him to breathe.

It is a cardiovascular system. Thick blood vessels extend from the heart and connect to countless tiny blood vessels like cilia. You can even see the hands, feet, head, neck, lungs and other body structures from these vascular systems!

"This is a human-shaped monster!" Su Yun was shocked.

The monster's heart was still beating and its blood was still circulating!

"This monster must have been extremely powerful and terrifying when he was alive... No, he should not be dead yet!"

Su Yun's heart was pounding and he kept looking back at the heart.

Finally, they came to the deepest part of the secret room. This was a secret room built in the center of the building, covering an area of about four or five acres, with more glazed windows and hiding more incredible things.

Su Yun was dazzled by what he saw. Many of the collections here were limbs of demons and monsters, as well as their subtle body structures. He even saw the skeleton of a Yanshi puppet!

"You don't seem afraid of these things."

Doctor Dong was surprised and said, "You are not afraid of me either. It's really weird. In the entire Wenchang Academy, except for the old master, there is no one who is not afraid of me, Dong Xinglin. Many other scholars are scared to death when they hear my name."

Su Yun smiled and said, "It is said in the Neijing: If a man is eight feet tall, his skin and flesh are here, and can be measured and cut to find out from the outside. If he dies, he can be dissected and examined."

Doctor Dong was surprised and delighted, and recited along: "The hardness and fragility of the organs, the size of the bowels, the amount of grains, the length and shortness of the pulses, the clarity and turbidity of the blood, the amount of qi, the twelve meridians with more blood and less qi, and those with less blood and more qi, and those with both more blood and qi, all have large numbers!"

Su Yun said seriously: "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic is the origin of anatomy. Anatomy is the great science of the ancient saints! I see that you have profound attainments in the science, and what you see is the great way, the great truth of the ancient saint Yellow Emperor. Why should I be afraid?"

Doctor Dong laughed out loud: "Well said, well said! I was originally planning to dissect you, but now after hearing what you said, I feel a little reluctant!"

Zhaizhu: Scholars who study medicine, come and collect it, come and vote! This chapter is almost 4,000 words, and I am so tired, tears are running~~~