paranoianovel Chapter 8 Whale Kill Boxing Gym
Chapter 8 Whale Kill Boxing Gym
As I entered the office, the bright morning light shone through the window, and there was some dust on the leaves of several potted plants.
By the window, an elderly man with white hair and a youthful face sat at his desk, smiling at Lin Ye before putting down his pen.
"Sit down." He waved his hand, gesturing for Lin Ye to sit opposite him.
After sitting down, Lin Ye looked at Zhuang Huaizhang and asked, "Teacher, who are you looking for?"
Zhuang Huaizhang smiled, took off his glasses, and gently wiped them.
"You'll be a senior after summer vacation, and I plan to have you join my lab as my lab assistant. According to regulations, you can get a 70% tuition reduction."
Lin Ye's breath hitched. A 70% reduction, which is 42,000!
He stood up, somewhat excited, and bowed deeply. "Thank you, teacher!"
Zhuang Huaizhang pressed his hand down and put on his glasses.
"Sit down and talk. You are my student, so I will naturally help you if I can."
"If you encounter any other difficulties, please tell your teacher. Don't be shy."
"I know you're a strong-willed person and don't want to trouble others, but I'm your teacher and you're my student, so there's no need to be so formal."
Lin Ye blinked a few times unconsciously, then nodded. "I understand, teacher."
After sitting down, he looked at Zhuang Huaizhang with some curiosity.
"Teacher, is the assistant you mentioned the one who's researching that drug with my senior colleagues?"
Zhuang Huaizhang responded, "Yes, the secret medicine. But for now, you'll only be doing some auxiliary work."
"A confidentiality agreement will also be required at that time."
At this point, he smiled and waved his hand.
I'll tell you all about these things in detail after school starts. Just relax during the summer vacation and don't think about these things.
Lin Ye nodded slightly, it seemed to be related to this confidentiality agreement.
Of course, he could also sense that the teacher genuinely wanted him to relax, and he figured it would be difficult to have such an opportunity after school started.
"Thank you, teacher. You've gone to so much trouble."
Zhuang Huaizhang smiled helplessly. "Why are you always so polite?"
"Oh, by the way, there's a party before school starts, you should come too."
Lin Ye raised his eyes slightly. This gathering must be the teacher's way of formally announcing to some friends that he is now the teacher's student.
"Thank you, teacher."
"You rascal. Alright, nothing else, go on." Zhuang Huaizhang waved his hand with a smile.
Lin Ye stood up to say goodbye, turned around and walked to the door. Just as he was about to open the door, Zhuang Huaizhang's voice rang out.
"Kobayashi."
Lin Ye turned around, and Zhuang Huaizhang's expression was somewhat conflicted.
He pushed up his glasses, crossed his hands in front of him to support his chin, and the lenses were somewhat reflective, making it difficult to see his eyes.
"Well... the teacher knows that you young people are full of energy, and it's normal for you to have a summer vacation, but you still need to be careful to moderate it."
Lin Ye's eyes twitched slightly as he thought about the reason he took the black snail-shaped grass yesterday.
"Teacher, I...actually..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhuang Huaizhang raised his hand and said, "Alright, I'm not some old fogey. Just be careful. Go ahead."
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As Lin Ye walked out of the laboratory building, he glanced back at the location of the teachers' offices on the third floor.
During a previous gathering, a senior classmate got drunk and told him some things about the secret medicine.
However, at that time it was only said to be a specially made medicine, without specifying that it was a secret medicine.
According to that senior student, the School of Pharmacy has a partnership with some martial arts schools in the city, and is responsible for providing them with some of the medicines they use in martial arts training.
This information was only accessible to a small number of senior students working in the laboratory building, as well as students like him who were favored by professors in the School of Pharmacy.
For the vast majority of pharmacy students, let alone having encountered it, they may never have even heard of it.
He didn't know the situation of the other colleges at Coastal University.
In fact, the original owner had never felt there was any problem before.
But now it seems that this secret medicine is probably not simple. It may be something similar to a magic potion, involving the mystical side.
It is precisely because it involves the secretive aspects of the mystical world that the selection of people to be contacted is strictly controlled, and confidentiality agreements must be signed.
Walking under the shade of the trees, he looked up at the sky, where the sunlight was blocked by the leaves, creating a hazy, indistinct effect.
The martial arts schools in this world must be extraordinary, unlike the kind he knew in his previous life, which couldn't even beat Sanda and boxing.
After what happened at the church that night, he was convinced that the world... really was different.
I took out my phone and searched for information about martial arts schools. Soon I located a nearby martial arts school.
Without lingering, he strode away.
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"We've arrived at Qingchi Terrace on the south bank."
Stepping off the bus, Lin Ye looked at the huge artificial lake in front of him, which was called "Qingchi".
However, this was not his destination; he walked north along the edge of the Blue Pond.
There's a plaza next to the Green Pond, paved with marble, and quite a few people are there.
An old-fashioned newsstand sits in a corner, seemingly abandoned by the times, appearing out of place. A hunched old man uses a duster to sweep the dust off the newspapers.
Before long, after crossing the square, a commercial street appeared.
A few minutes later, he arrived at a three-story building at the end of the commercial street.
It looked like a modern stadium, with his silhouette reflected in the opaque glass walls.
Next to the entrance of the boxing gym stands a stone monument with a whale carved on top, poised to leap out of the sea.
The monument is inscribed with the four large characters "Whale Kill Boxing Gym" in blood-red dye, creating a striking visual impact.
"Is it closed?"
Lin Ye glanced at the calendar; today was Sunday.
After standing there for a while, he turned and left.
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At dusk, Lin Ye took down the black snail-shaped grass that had been roasted until crisp over the alcohol lamp, and picked up a mortar and pestle about the size of a palm to begin grinding it.
Before him were prepared white tin powder, ground black goat horn granules, and black goat blood in a glass beaker, which smelled fishy and foul.
It has been castrated; I confirmed it with my own eyes at noon.
After a short while, the grinding was completed. The black snail-shaped grass powder was poured out and mixed with white tin powder to form a black and silver mixed powder.
He took a glass plate about half a foot square and used this powder to draw the "Night" rune on it.
The "Night" rune consists of two circles, one large and one small, arranged vertically, with the larger one on top and the smaller one on the bottom.
In the ancient Rhine civilization, the sky was infinitely vast, while the earth was finite yet extremely profound, hence the upper part was larger than the lower part.
The two circles are connected by a vertical line. There are three points inside the larger circle. If you connect them, you will get an equilateral triangle.
These three points represent the starry sky, while the invisible equilateral triangle connecting them represents the wind.
The small circle has a wave pattern inside, with a line under each of the three wave peaks.
Ripples represent flow and also symbolize the changes in all things in the world.
The three lines below the trough represent the path to the deep, bottomless depths of the earth.
In general, the 'Night' rune represents a world without sunlight after sunset.
After drawing the 'Night' rune, Lin Ye took the prepared incense and lit it.
With a gentle touch, the red-hot incense stick ignited the black silver powder.
There was no open flame; instead, it spread like burning charcoal.
A few minutes later, the entire rune had burned out, and he used a small brush to collect the ashes.
After doing all this, he sat quietly by the window, watching the sun gradually set.
Finally, the sun completely disappeared below the horizon.
Without hesitation, he poured the black goat horn particles into a glass containing black goat blood and shook it well, then poured in the collected 'Night Rune Ashes'.
After shaking it a few times to make sure it was mixed evenly, he plugged the wooden awl into the seal and carefully placed it by the window.
Since it's related to the night, shining in the moonlight should have some beneficial effects, right?
He rubbed his palms together, feeling restless, and got up to do push-ups on the ground.
More than four hours later, Lin Ye lay on the computer desk, staring intently at the glass.
看了一眼时间，23:59:56...57...58...59...00！
It's past midnight!
I quickly looked at the glass and saw strands of white light shimmering on the glass, like moonlight.
The moonlight seeped into the glass, like writhing silver worms, and the originally dark red blood, which was full of impurities, quickly became clear.
All the dark red color was absorbed by the black goat horn particles, forming small black and red granules.
Become!