am-books Chapter 449 - 320: Returning to Shenzhen, Seeking the Tai Chi Association (Part 2)
Chapter 449 - 320: Returning to Shenzhen, Seeking the Tai Chi Association (Part 2)
Even if it doesn’t develop into bone, the chromium could enhance his recovery ability, allowing for rapid repair of broken bones.
The only drawback is that after consuming these hundreds of kilograms of chromium, his weight would soar dramatically, possibly multiplying several times over.
And the increase in weight would reduce the limit performance of speed-type sports by over ninety percent.
For example, Wang Ye’s original top speed could reach 0.8 Mach, but after his weight doubled, it could only reach 0.6 Mach. The Polar 1.0 bike he designed for himself would surely fall apart under his weight.
But apart from this sole disadvantage, everything else is an advantage, so overall it’s not a loss.
Wang Ye closed the villa door and brought out bags filled with large amounts of chromium. This chromium wasn’t smelted into a whole piece but was in bags like scattered grains, with a handful containing dozens of chromium fragments. Moreover, this chromium bought from the wholesale market has at most seventy percent purity, with the rest being impurities.
This means that if Wang Ye consumes a hundred kilograms of ferrochromium, he can only digest up to seventy kilograms of pure chromium, with the rest of the impurities merely converting into energy to fuel his activities.
Wang Ye grabbed a large handful and shoved it directly into his mouth,
His teeth grinding against the ferrochromium, producing a teeth-aching creaking sound.
Just like chewing peanuts, he quickly chewed the ferrochromium in his mouth and swallowed it down his belly in the blink of an eye.
He immediately grabbed another large handful of ferrochromium and chewed it up. Somehow these ferrochromium pieces seemed to contain some peculiar impurities, tasting slightly salty with a hint of sweetness upon finer tasting,
Wang Ye even thought of finding a bottle of liquor to pair with these few bags of appetizers in front of him.
But given his current physique, probably no alcohol could make him feel drunk anymore. Even the Water of Life with ninety-nine percent alcohol wouldn’t work. Since the moment alcohol enters his body, it’s metabolized by his organs. In the future, if Wang Ye wants to experience intoxication, he might have to consume some high-concentration extracts from Yunnan’s poisonous mushrooms.
He continued grabbing handfuls of ferrochromium from the bag,
His chewing speed was extremely fast, like a high-frequency spinning blender.
But the problem was that he was grinding ferrochromium, which likely would ruin even a blender in seconds.
After about half an hour,
he finally managed to consume hundreds of kilograms of ferrochromium into his belly.
He couldn’t help but open his mouth and let out a belch.
He touched his stomach.
After swallowing so much ferrochromium, his belly had already swelled into a round ball,
Fortunately, the highly corrosive stomach acids were quickly digesting the ferrochromium, and in the blink of an eye, the ball-like belly receded, yet his body’s weight hadn’t decreased at all,
Wang Ye got up and took a few steps, feeling quite unaccustomed,
Every time he put down his foot a bit faster, it would make a rumbling sound, as if he were maneuvering a mecha while walking.
The sense of weight was very strong. He even suspected that if he casually whipped a kick at an ordinary person, he could shatter all their bones in one go.
Wang Ye tried jumping twice with one foot on the ground, but he only managed to bounce a few times before the stone tiles fractured,
Crack—
The floor tiles beneath his feet split open like a spiderweb of cracks.
And as he pressed down with more force, the cracks extended outward.
Heavy furniture can safely rest on concrete floors because the base is large enough,
And now all of Wang Ye’s weight was concentrated on an area of less than twenty square centimeters, naturally causing slight deformation on the stone tile surface, which wasn’t very hard to begin with.
Wang Ye quickly restrained some strength, paced back and forth for a few laps, and gradually adapted to the weight while walking,
The sound of his footsteps returned to a silent level.
Except for the increased energy consumption compared to before,
requiring constant muscle control in his legs to keep them moving at a uniform pace while lifting and lowering.
Subsequently,
Wang Ye stepped onto the scale he had prepared in advance,
These scales are common freight scales found in factories, capable of weighing up to a ton. It has an old-fashioned dial for displaying weight, but only this kind of dial freight scale is of good quality and won’t easily break under pressure.
Wang Ye stepped onto the freight scale and watched the dial quickly swing to the right, stopping at 580 kg.
"It really is over a thousand jin." He widened his eyes, looking somewhat surprised.
On the surface, there appeared to be no change, internally, however, his weight had already exceeded five hundred kilograms,
In fact, those hundreds of kilograms of chromium he consumed had been transformed into countless tiny particles stored in every crevice of his body,
Wang Ye pressed hard against his skin and found it had a metallic chromium texture,
If a sniper bullet were fired at his body right now, it probably wouldn’t even penetrate the outermost layer of skin.
"So consuming metal can also enhance defense power!" Wang Ye was overjoyed.
With this ability, his defense power could rise to a new level.
Yet storing several hundred kilograms of chromium was already approaching his storage limit,
After all, there’s a limit to the density of metal; it can’t be compressed indefinitely like flesh and blood,
If he continued to compress the chromium, it would alter its molecular structure.
Hence, his body could store at most three to four hundred kilograms of chromium particles.
These chromium particles stored in his flesh and blood could only boost his defense power by about 1.5 times,
as his defense power mainly relies on Gang Qi, with the flesh’s own defense power being quite low.
After dealing with all this chromium, Wang Ye left the villa and locked the door.
According to the previous plan, he needed to head to Shenzhen today to handle work. Though called work, it’s mainly to do with the brands he endorses; he has to shoot commercials and endorsement photos to generate commercial value.
Wang Ye didn’t plan on taking the high-speed train or a plane,
as these modes of transportation can’t even reach his top speed,
and they rarely operate at their maximum speeds anyway, with planes maintaining a top speed of five hundred kph at most, and high-speed trains at one to two hundred kph at most.
The most crucial problem for Wang Ye is the cramped cabin space, leaving no room for exercise, which is the most discomforting for him.
Since that’s the case, he’d rather run directly to Shenzhen on foot.
From his hometown to Shenzhen, the total distance is about over a thousand kilometers,
At Wang Ye’s average speed of five hundred kph, running continuously for a little over two hours would get him to Shenzhen.
Wang Ye removed his shoes and stuffed them into his backpack.
Then he used his bone development ability to transform his feet into cheetah-like claws.
The extremely hard toenails curled downwards and embedded into the ground,
providing him with excellent traction.
Simultaneously, countless bone spurs grew on the soles of his feet, akin to the barbs on Spider-Man’s fingertips,
able to pierce into the surface of objects upon contact and cling to them.
This adhesion might increase energy consumption while walking,
but during high-speed running, it offers valuable traction, preventing him from flying off.
The increased weight to five hundred kilograms also provides some downward pressure.
Thus his running speed shouldn’t drop too much.
Time flew by,
and two hours later,
Wang Ye sprinted into the downtown area of Shenzhen from over a thousand kilometers away.
It was five in the afternoon then, just about rush hour, with crowds bustling everywhere.
Arriving here, memories of participating in a competition in this very place half a year ago flooded his mind,
At that time, not only did he participate in his first full marathon, but he was also inducted into the local Shenzhen Tai Chi Association as a vice president, which still pays him five thousand yuan a month.
It seems the association hadn’t removed him yet. Thinking of this, Wang Ye couldn’t help but touch his nose; although he gained no actual benefits from holding this honorary position, he did have an obligation to do some work, and since he was passing by anyway, he decided to drop by the association to check things out.