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89. Failed Romance
After crashing onto the Fallen Beast Planet and becoming a fallen beast again, Edgar was unable to do anything for Shu Shu. Because of this, he always felt very guilty and had long pondered what to do to make Shu Shu happy . . . . A candlelight dinner seemed like a pretty good idea?
He asked the chef on the s.p.a.ceship to help make some delicious food. Then he ordered the soldiers from the s.p.a.ceship to bring along a fallen beast who was very familiar with the environment of the Fallen Beast Planet aboard the aircraft and go find some beautiful flowers.
The food smelled so good; Shu Shu would definitely like it. As for the flowers brought back . . . .
There were not many types of plants on the Fallen Beast Planet. Most of them were ferns, so naturally, there were not many flowers. As a result, the flowers brought back were not particularly beautiful, and there were even a lot of gra.s.ses mixed in.
Edgar knew he could not be too demanding. So he did not feel dissatisfied at all when he saw these flowers and plants, and he even gave some rewards to the men who went to pick the flowers. After that, he personally arranged those flowers and plants and put them into a vase one by one.
While doing the arrangement, Edgar suddenly found that one of the gra.s.ses was a little different . . . . The spiritual power on this planet was very rich, yet the animals and plants he had seen before did not have spiritual power at all. This gra.s.s, however, was different. There was actually some faint spiritual power lingering on this gra.s.s.
A gra.s.s with spiritual power? Shu Shu would probably like it . . . . Edgar put this gra.s.s together with the most beautiful flowers and stuck them into a crystal vase placed on the table.
The little snake was already handed over to Jesse and Reynolds to be looked after. Edgar then switched on some pretty but not bright lights. Everything was ready and only lacked one tiny crucial item. Edgar began to wait for Shu Shu’s arrival under the dim lighting.
Shu Shu was stopped by Jones and the old doctor who once wanted to worship him as a teacher this afternoon. The two men pulled him and wished to discuss medicine with him.
Previously, right after studying with Jones, Shu Shu had already learned some medical knowledge, but he was simply not quick-witted enough to put it to use. He even failed to intuitively realized a lot of faults because he only relied on reading the materials. It could be said that when he talked, the words spoken were full of mistakes.
Jones was okay; he understood Shu Shu"s situation and did not think it was strange. The old doctor who listened, however, was left speechless and even looked at Shu Shu with doubt—this was clearly a person who did not understand medical knowledge that even ordinary people knew; did he really have the ability to discover a method to help the fallen beasts restore their beast cores?
The old doctor had good medical skills, but because he put all his mind on studying medicine, he seemed to be rather weak in other aspects. For example, he could not conceal his own thoughts when speaking.
The doubtful expression on this man"s face could even be seen by Shu Shu.
He was looked down upon . . . . Shu Shu frowned and decided that he had to show a little skill and make this doctor take a good look! However, he basically had no skill at all. He had only been in the Beastman Empire for a short time, and when he was a hamster on the earth, he simply had no conditions to learn medicine.
Of course, he actually understood some traditional Chinese medical science because there was a lot of knowledge about concocting pills of immortality inside the red bead. However . . . the plants shown by the red bead basically didn’t exist on the Fallen Beast Planet, ah!
Shu Shu very much wanted to show off to let the man have a whole new level of respect for him. Unfortunately, he did not know a lot of things. Anxious and in a hurry, he suddenly thought of one kind of thing related to medicine that could make him look cool, which was acupuncture points and veins!
Although beastmen and sub-beastmen were different from humans in many places, but their physical structures were in fact about the same. When Shu Shu helped Edgar heal and helped the fallen beasts restore their beast cores and taught Jones cultivation, he used spiritual power to probe their bodies and naturally grasped their acupuncture points . . . . Looking at the old doctor, Shu Shu snorted twice. "This is exactly the kind of medicine that I’ve learned since childhood."
"The medicine system you learned is different than mine? Could it be that what you learned is shamanic healing? I also have some understanding about shamanic healing." The old doctor said. In the ancient times when science and technology had not developed yet, beastmen who fell ill or felt uncomfortable all went to find the shamans. After science and technology had developed, many of the shamanic healing methods such as bloodletting and so on were proven to be wrong. However, some methods had been confirmed to be very useful, and thus such arts of healing spread and were even enhanced further by many people.
Nowadays, on some planets in the Beastman Empire, everyone still liked to look for the shamans to treat their illnesses.
“What I learned isn’t shamanic healing. The things I learned are completely different than yours.” Shu Shu looked at the doctor proudly and suddenly pointed at a certain position on the doctor"s body while saying, "You try to press there. Doesn’t your body feel numb?"
The old doctor tried, and half of his body indeed felt numb.
"I told you so. You’ll feel this way because there’s an acupuncture point there!" Shu Shu stated. Then he talked about acupuncture points, mixed with a lot of miscellaneous knowledge . . . . Considering that he knew the body of beastmen and sub-beastmen like the back of his hand, what he said was actually clear and logical.
Of course, there was another reason why he could make those arguments, that was, these beastmen and sub-beastmen seemed to have real talent for cultivation, to the extent that if you exerted some force on their acupuncture points, the effect would be very good. And if you used a little energy, such as weak electric current, the effect would be even better.
This time, it was the old doctor who was unable to make sense of what he was hearing, and the doubtful look he gave Shu Shu also changed into a reverent one.
Such a look made Shu Shu"s heart slowly swelled up. After giving some explanations about acupuncture points, he brought up the subject of concocting pills of immortality.
"There’re some plants that have magical effects. Long ago, there was once a beastman who had inadvertently eaten a red fruit. Afterwards, his strength increased greatly . . . . It seems that Mr. Reynolds could be so strong because of such an adventure." The old doctor said.
Jones had been listening very diligently. Having heard what was said, he nodded, "Indeed, Reynolds once fell into a cave and lived there for quite a long time. After he came out, his strength increased rapidly."
It could be like this, too? Shu Shu was a little stunned but also quite eager to give it a try—could it be that there was also spirit gra.s.s in this world?
"Crown Princess, the medicine system you spoke of should be a completely new system. I feel that you’re still in the exploratory stage . . . . Is this what you came up with?" The old doctor asked.
Shu Shu very much wanted to admit it but felt embarra.s.sed. In the end, he still gritted his teeth and denied, "No, I learned it from some materials I read."
"Crown Princess, you’re too modest." The old doctor said. He had lived for a long time yet never heard of this subject matter. He mulled it over and guessed that the crown princess had probably discovered this acupuncture point with his innate ability . . . .
After thinking this way, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the crown princess was great. Not to mention anything else, when they began to discuss medical knowledge, although the crown princess only had a smattering of knowledge on many subjects, but he had memorized all the information!
The crown princess was really very serious in learning. If he did not understand . . . wasn"t that because of his young age? Looking at Shu Shu’s appearance that seemed to be somewhat reluctant, the old doctor suddenly felt that the crown princess was a little beastly.
The old doctor continued to chat with Shu Shu, and Jones also joined in. The more they chatted, the more speculative they were.
Edgar waited until the dishes were cold, but Shu Shu still had not returned. He had obviously made clear to Jones that he could only pull Shu Shu to chat for a while and should make Shu Shu return when it was time to eat dinner!
Jones were chatting with Shu Shu and suddenly felt hungry, so he took some food out of his s.p.a.ce b.u.t.ton and distributed it to Shu Shu and the doctor. As they ate together, he glanced at his silenced communication device in pa.s.sing.
". . ." There were a lot of messages from Edgar on his communication device. He . . . forgot what Edgar had asked him to do . . . .
Jones abruptly stood up and s.n.a.t.c.hed the biscuit in Shu Shu"s hand. "Shu Shu, it"s already very late. You should go back."
Shu Shu somewhat failed to understand the reason why, but after he stopped chatting, he did miss Edgar a little . . . .
The biscuit from Jones was gone, so Shu Shu took some food out of his own food pouches to eat. He ate while walking back home.
Back to the place where he and Edgar lived, Shu Shu opened the door and at once saw a lot of tiny lights twinkling with various colors inside the house. The lights were not bright, so that the whole room looked rather dim. Surrounded by the lights, the table held a lot of food and a few bunches of flowers. The set up looked a bit like the sacrifice offering to the ancestors. And behind the table, there was a huge black snake, his two eyes gleaming in the light.
It looked so scary! Shu Shu had an urge to beat a hasty retreat.