Chapter 80 - Breaking Through to Four-Star (2/2)
“But Qin Fen is Qin Zhan’s little brother.” Phoenix’s tone was brimming with pride. “I told you guys that you were worrying yourselves blind.”
“Yeah We were worrying ourselves blind.” Squadron Leader Trash’s laugh caused his eyebrows to rise. “I don’t know just who was the most worried one in these past few days.”
Phoenix got into a fighting stance, while Gale Riley came out to dissuade her, “Okay, okay. The kid’s fine, and that’s all that matters.”
Qin Fen felt a burst of emotion as he watched these people beside him. Their feelings of care weren’t things that could be expressed by fake gestures.
Boor grabbed a spoon and ate a bite of Qin Fen’s nutritious meal. He coughed a couple times and spat it out. “Hey, Cook. Are you making food here, or are you making poison? Do you want to poison someone to death!?”
“Really?” Squad Leader Hao couldn’t hold back from grabbing a spoon and trying a mouthful. “Can you make it even more disgusting? I want to see Qin Fen eat only the food you make. He won’t be going to the canteen.”
“Huh?”
Qin Fen, who was in the middle of eating, was shocked for a moment. He could eat delicious food these days. Nobody would want to eat disgustingly tasting food. The taste of the canteen’s food was much better than this cook’s food.
“You’re lucky, kid! If you weren’t Qin Zhan’s little brother, and you hadn’t entered the gravity chamber for self-cultivation. You wouldn’t even be able to think about eating the food I make.” Cook smacked his chest as he spoke. “Since Old Hao said so, let’s do it that way.”
Phoenix only expressed her tender female side when she was in front of Qin Fen. “Qin Fen, you’re only eighteen. Your body is still in the developmental stage. This Cookster’s food may be getting more and more worse, but its best to have nutrients match with your body. When he specializes in cooking for someone, he will do it different for every person according to their body. He formulates different menus for each person. He is the best nutritionist you can ask for.”
Qin Fen stood up and gave a very sincere bow. It didn’t matter how bad tasting the food was. The most important thing was how good it was to the body.
“Kid, it’s not that I don’t know how to make good tasting food.” Cook patted Qin Fen on the shoulder. “When people get used to enjoying good tasting things, the mouth becomes picky. When the mouth becomes picky, other bad habits can easily and quickly form.”
Butcher interrupted him at this time, “Kid, since you made a breakthrough, what do you think of letting me test you out in a little bit?”
“Oh? I’m very tired.” Qin Fen had a face that asked for forgiveness. “Can you please be considerate?”
Butcher was stunned at first, but he suddenly saw a faint smile in the corner of Squad Leader Hao’s eyes. Butcher’s eyes immediately lit up and he patted Qin Fen on the back. “Don’t fake it too much with me. Stop it with the trickery that you learned from Old Hao for now. I’m not one to be underestimated.”
Qin Fen looked at Phoenix very puzzled. Wasn’t his performance done rather nicely?
“Qin Fen, your squad leader sold you out.” Phoenix pointed at Squad Leader Hao. “Even I was tricked by you just now, but you weren’t able to trick Old Hao.”
“Kid, next time conceal your excitement even deeper.” Squad Leader Hao pointed to his own heart. “Your excitement just now told me that you’d love to give Butcher a surprise.”
Qin Fen grinned. It looked like Squad Leader Hao’s trickery was very useful. If Squad Leader Hao hadn’t been present, his trickery this time would have been totally successful.
“But it’s still worthy of praise.” Squad Leader Hao looked at Qin Fen very seriously. “You have an honest personality, and an appearance that isn’t shrewd nor cunning. You have good makings to be using trickery.”
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The recruit camp, the hospital.
The walls were white, and the hospital bed was simple. Lying there was a young man whose four limbs were covered with bandages to form thick plaster. Purple scars could be seen all over his face, and an IV drip was pricked into his forehead. He was in deep sleep.
Park Jong-Hwan silently stood before the bed, surrounded by the other recruits of the State of Korea. He watched the miserable appearance of own younger brother. His amiable face gradually darkened.
With modern science and technology, people could utilize advanced technology to quickly and fully integrate a bone in the case of a bone fracture injury.
However, such a procedure merely integrated bone, missing the complete reorganization and assembly of the meridians. The quick connection of bone instead destroys the channels of the meridians, leading to permanent damage to the meridians. The patient would then have nearly no hope of traversing the path of the martial dao.
Park Jong-Hoon was an ideal person for the martial dao, so only the most old-fashioned of methods could be used to treat him. The doctors would not integrate the bones hastily.
“He fought with someone?” Park Jong-Hwan’s forehead wrinkled as a dark cloud loomed over his head.
“Yes.” A Korean recruit carefully answered, “He fought with a recruit called Du Peng not too long ago and got injured.”
“Was it one on one?” Park Jong-Hwan was a bit surprised. His older brother Park Jong-Hoon was a three-star Neo Taekwondo expert, yet he was actually injured to this degree by someone using a heavy fist technique.
“He only fought one against one after fighting several people in a row. That person wouldn’t stop even when Jong-Hoon lost. Only after breaking Jong-Hoon’s four limbs did he stop.”
Park Jong-Hwan’s eyes glared, and his essence, spirit, and energy fused together into a divine glow akin to coursing lightning. The Korean recruits caught in his gaze shivered subconsciously.
“Tiring someone out by taking turns? They’ve simply ignored the basic principles of the martial dao! And seriously injuring the defeated is even more of a trample to the principles of competition! Great! Great! Our fellow countrymen lying in the other beds… were they first tired out using the same tactic then fought one on one?”