A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 62: Reading Journey to the West

Zhou Qing thought for a moment, folded his coat and placed it on the bed, then took out all the papers from the paper box on the desk, counted them, and found there were fifty-six layers, which he also neatly stacked on his coat.

Then he sat down in front of it, reached out and touched the paper above, concentrated his attention, and came up with an idea: choose to extract half a pancake and place it in the space below the surface of the paper.

The next moment, a pancake the size of half a palm appeared out of thin air at that location!

I reached out and picked up the pancake, it was still a little warm.

I saw that the paper towel below was crushed into sixteen layers, just along the shape of the pancake.

The sixteen layers were previously loosely stacked together to match the thickness of the pancake.

Zhou Qing happily crumpled the papers into a ball and threw them into the trash can, then looked at the half cake in his hand.

This cake was extracted from the panel and was free of any microorganisms or dust. He tore off a little from the intact side and tasted it. The taste was very ordinary, so he threw it into the trash can.

After throwing half a pancake, Zhou Qing thought for a while and went to the window. He looked down at the building and found a place where there was no one and continued the previous experiment.

Ninety-nine meters, failure.

……

Nine meters, failed.

Eight meters, failed.

Zhou Qing tried step by step until he reached "eight meters", but still failed.

He turned and walked to the corner next to the bed, then looked at the corner of the door diagonally opposite, and a thought came to his mind: Seven meters...

He started by reducing the distance by half a meter, and when he tried to reach "five and a half meters", a piece of chalk suddenly appeared out of thin air and fell on the carpet in the room.

It worked!
Zhou Qing walked over, found the chalk and picked it up.

The size of a finger, it was exactly the hidden weapon that teachers used to use when we were in school.

"Between 5.5 and 6 meters, that's enough!"

His math grades were average, but he was admitted to a top university after all, so he knew that if he used a bus as a "gravity stamp" to press down on someone, with the target and himself on the ground, then he, the bus, and the target would form a right triangle.

The formula for calculating the maximum height of a person's pressure naturally came to his mind:

Maximum h = maximum hypotenuse 5.5 meters × sin (acute angle)
"If the object you're trying to extract is relatively light, and you want to achieve the effect of crushing the person, you have to place it as high as possible when extracting it, and it's quite difficult to aim for the placement point."

"Fortunately, our bus is big and heavy enough!"

Zhou Qing held the chalk head in his hand and lay on the bed with his head tilted back.

After completing the two experiments and getting the results he wanted, he was in a very good mood.

Although the domestic security is very good, it is not yet to the point where people can leave their doors unlocked at night or pick up things on the streets. Moreover, there are still low-probability events such as accidents. It is always good to have more means to ensure your own safety.

"The most extreme scenario is if a car comes crashing down on you and it's too close for the bus to stop, you can use one end of the bus to 'embed' the car and push it back about 14.5 meters!"

"The key is to react quickly enough... Well, you can make plans for this and practice it constantly. With practice, your reaction will become second nature. When you really encounter a crisis like that, it can really save your life in the critical moment."

After being in a daze for a while, Zhou Qing took out his mobile phone to check the time.

In fact, only an hour had passed before he packed his backpack again and headed for Kuanzhai Alley.

Over the next two and a half days, Zhou Qing visited the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base, Du Fu Thatched Cottage, Wuhou Temple, Sichuan Provincial Museum, Dujiangyan, and the Sanxingdui Ruins in Guanghan.

The itinerary is packed.

On his first trip, he was so absorbed in the experience that he even postponed something as important as exchanging his voucher for the Four Great Classical Novels. Of course, he also figured that after a period of intense, intensive reading of eighteen novels, a break would be a welcome relief. "If you are tense without relaxation, you cannot achieve success in civil or military affairs; if you are relaxed without tension, you cannot achieve success in civil or military affairs; the alternation of tension and relaxation is the way to civil and military affairs."

Zhou Qing has little knowledge and experience, but he still understands the principle of maintaining a balance between relaxation and tension.

Of course, a trip with too full an itinerary is tiring.

It's just a different kind of tiring from reading and studying. Studying and researching are mentally demanding, while this one requires going to bed late and getting up early to run around, which is more tiring.

On the afternoon of the third day, he took the high-speed train back to Tanzhou. On the train, he was thinking, "Studying and researching doesn't have to be all mentally demanding. This second round has accumulated seven long-form reads and three intensive reads... In the future, I'll definitely find a way to tackle the best of the Four Great Classics. Maybe I'll even decide to do a round of ten long-form intensive reads. That would mean I'd have to complete ten lucky missions. There's always a time for physical exertion."

"And it's not certain what kind of labor it is."

Zhou Qing smiled, called out the panel, thought about it, redeemed ten draws, and chose to read "Journey to the West".

The next moment, the panel changed to——

Name: Zhou Qing

Currently reading: Journey to the West

Cumulative number of draws: None

Extractable items: a bus, an entry-level astronomical telescope, a bottle of Quaalude, etc.

……

"Journey to the West" is the first long novel about gods and demons in my country written in chapter form by Wu Cheng'en.

This is also the story Zhou Qing is most familiar with.

Of course, what we are familiar with is not the original novel, but the 1986 version of the TV series "Journey to the West".

When he was in elementary and junior high school, he would go to his grandmother's house to pay New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival. He would always gather in front of the TV with his cousins ​​to watch TV series for two or three days. The ones he watched the most were "Journey to the West", "Ji Gong" and "My Fair Princess".

In total, I've watched it in its entirety at least twice.

"I was so engrossed in the Monkey King's charm that I only cared about the monkeys. Actually, there are so many beauties in this drama."

"The Queen of the Kingdom of Women, Chang'e... and all kinds of beautiful female fairies, all of them are natural beauties."

Zhou Qing opened the downloaded Journey to the West e-book on his phone and began reading:
"In the first round, the spiritual roots nurtured the source of life, and the mind and nature cultivated the great way."

"The poem goes: 'Before the world was divided, the world was in turmoil, vast and boundless, invisible to all. Ever since Pangu shattered the primordial chaos, the world has been divided into clear and turbid. All living things look up to the Supreme Benevolence, and all things are created for good. To understand the power of creation, one must read 'Journey to the West: The Emancipation of the World'."

……

Sitting on the high-speed train and reading the original version of "Journey to the West" that he often read as a child, Zhou Qing had a very wonderful feeling.

It's like a connection with my childhood self.

This made him feel more happy and relaxed while reading.

However, this is a classical novel from the Ming Dynasty after all, and since I am too familiar with the plot of the TV series, when I read it, I couldn't help but look for the differences between the original novel and the TV series, and my reading speed was very slow.

Sometimes I can’t help but read a passage two or three times, trying to convert the description into pictures in my mind.

This has never happened before when I read "Water Margin".

I had been reading the first chapter for half an hour, and before I finished, my landlady Lin Jiao suddenly sent me a WeChat message: "Zhou Qing, when will you be back? I have something urgent to discuss with you."

(End of this chapter)