parentshiftbook Chapter 27 Mysterious Muscle Burst!
Chapter 27 Mysterious Muscle Burst!
Su Ye followed behind Zhou Jingtang, walking along the quiet corridor.
The old administration building is usually quiet, but the further you go in, the stronger the smell of disinfectant becomes. At the end of the corridor is a private ward. There is no bed number sign like those in regular wards, only a simple line of words: Consultation and Observation Room.
Zhou Jingtang raised his hand and pushed the door open.
The ward was very quiet.
A middle-aged man, around forty years old, sat by the window. He had short hair, a dark complexion, and wore a simple gray tracksuit. His shoulders and back were ramrod straight, and even just sitting there, he exuded a chilling aura.
That wasn't a deliberately put-on posture; it was something ingrained in his bones from years of military service, training, and life on the edge of danger.
Su Ye made his judgment after just one glance.
This is a soldier.
Upon seeing Zhou Jingtang enter, the middle-aged man immediately stood up, his movements swift and efficient.
"Elder Zhou, we're troubling you again. We need your personal assistance."
Zhou Jingtang smiled and waved his hand.
"Your father and I are old friends, this is nothing to worry about."
After saying that, he stepped aside to let Su Ye pass.
"This is one of my students, named Su Ye."
The introduction was very simple.
However, this also acknowledged Su Ye's identity. Although nothing was explicitly stated, Old Master Zhou Jingtang's high regard for Su Ye was already evident.
The middle-aged man's gaze fell on Su Ye, and he first gave him a habitual scrutinizing look before his eyes flickered slightly.
This young man had clear eyes, a calm demeanor, and a natural posture, without the restlessness often seen in young people. Yet, he possessed a hidden sharpness, like a knife concealed in its sheath, not revealing its edge, but certainly not ordinary.
The middle-aged man nodded to Su Ye.
"Professor Zhou, your student is quite extraordinary."
Zhou Jingtang smiled but didn't respond. He simply pulled out a chair and sat down.
"Alright, tell me about your situation first."
The middle-aged man nodded, sat back down on the edge of the bed, and paused for two seconds, as if organizing his thoughts.
"My condition is strange. At first, I just occasionally felt tightness in my arms, and my muscles would involuntarily tighten."
"At first, sometimes I felt like a tendon in my muscles suddenly tightened, followed by a brief spasm, like a cramp, which would last for a few seconds."
"At first I didn't take it seriously. After all, I've had all sorts of injuries during training before. Myofascitis, strains, muscle strains, they're all old problems."
"But then something went wrong."
He raised his right hand, slowly clenched his fist, and his expression became somewhat solemn.
"Once, when I came home and opened the door, my hand had just touched the doorknob when I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my forearm, and then I unconsciously exerted force in my hand..."
"I snapped that metal doorknob in half."
The ward fell silent for a moment.
Su Ye's gaze sharpened slightly.
The middle-aged man himself found it strange and gave a wry smile.
"I definitely don't have that kind of strength normally. Later I tried it and, let alone breaking it, even if I used all my strength, I couldn't even deform it. The feeling at that time was very strange, as if my hands didn't belong to me anymore."
"This happened more and more frequently later on."
"Sometimes it's the forearm, sometimes the shoulder, sometimes the calf. First, a local muscle trembles, like something inside is shaking, and then there's a sudden burst of energy."
"I have to be careful even when I handle a cup, afraid I'll accidentally crush it. I have to be careful when opening doors, grabbing things, or holding onto railings. It's starting to affect my normal life."
Zhou Jingtang listened quietly, without rushing to a judgment, but simply asked:
"Were there any obvious triggers before the attack? Were you more likely to experience it during periods of emotional fluctuation or fatigue?"
The middle-aged man thought for a moment and nodded.
"have."
"Especially when I'm very tired, this happens more often at night. The spasms are the most obvious. Also, the more focused I am, the more likely I am to have problems. A few days ago, when I was practicing shooting, my arm visibly shook when I was aiming at the target, and I accidentally fired. This made me realize that I couldn't put it off any longer."
You must be extremely careful when handling a gun; his situation was far too dangerous.
Zhou Jingtang asked a few more questions about the patient's medical history, asking in great detail about past injuries, family history, and recent history of insomnia, fever, emotional fluctuations, alcohol consumption, and medication.
The middle-aged man answered them one by one.
After asking the question, Zhou Jingtang nodded slightly and turned to look at Su Ye.
The meaning is quite obvious.
Listen to this too, and see if you can figure anything out.
Su Ye hesitated for a moment, then looked at the middle-aged soldier instead of immediately offering his analysis.
"May I see your arm?"
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man looked up at him and gave him a gentle smile, like an elder looking at a younger person.
"Sure, it's a good thing for young people to be curious."
As he spoke, he stretched out his right arm and rolled up his sleeve.
As Su Ye approached, his muscles were clearly defined, with well-developed forearm flexor and extensor muscles, but not exaggerated. They were the kind of practical muscles that had been formed through long-term training, and there was no obvious damage or atrophy on the skin surface...
He reached out and pressed it.
The moment he felt the touch, Su Ye's heart skipped a beat.
It's too tough.
This is not the muscle texture of an average trainee.
Normal muscles are soft yet firm when relaxed, but the forearm muscles of this person in front of me, even when completely relaxed, still have an almost excessive density, as if the fascia and muscle fibers have been repeatedly compressed by some force.
Su Ye pressed slowly along the muscle belly with his fingertips, gradually infusing his senses into the area.
next second.
His gaze shifted slightly.
Beyond the routine palpation, he sensed a deeper abnormality.
His muscles seemed to be trembling.
It was an extremely subtle, high-frequency vibration, and with Su Ye's keen perception, he could almost hear the strange frequency of the vibration.
Once such muscle groups exert force to a certain limit, they will resemble countless tiny ripples beneath the surface of water, layering upon each other.
That's not right.
Or rather, that's absolutely right.
This is not something that can be explained by ordinary medicine.
Su Ye slowly released his hand, without speaking immediately.
Zhou Jingtang leaned back in his chair, his gaze calm, but his voice seemed to pierce through something.
"Where do people get so much extra strength out of thin air?"
"You simply synchronized the force that would normally be released layer by layer over ten or twenty muscle recruitment repetitions in an extremely short period of time and compressed it into a single point."
You compress and concentrate the power that should have been slowly transmitted along the entire power chain in advance, and then release it with a bang at close range.
In the ward, the air seemed to freeze for a moment.
Su Ye's heart skipped a beat.
It's not that there's an extra force.
Instead, it compressed the originally dispersed force into a single point in an instant.
Shock, convergence, explosion.
This is……
The "technique" hidden within muscle fibers!
In Su Ye's mind, something that was originally vague was rapidly taking shape.
Zhou Jingtang didn't look at him, but continued speaking calmly:
"In modern medicine, it can be explained as abnormal synchronization of motor unit recruitment. When a person exerts force, muscle fibers are recruited layer by layer, like lighting lamps one by one."
"But he's different."
"It lit up completely all at once."
"So what you see is spasm, tremor, and loss of control, but from another perspective, it is actually a highly efficient way of exerting force. It's just that his body has learned it first, but he himself hasn't learned how to control it yet."
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment after hearing those words.
Even he didn't expect that the "strange illness" that had been tormenting him for so long could be described by Zhou Jingtang with an almost terrifying sense of logical beauty.
Su Ye's eyes had completely changed.
He understood.
I've also come to understand.
This is not an illness!
It was the 'discomfort' that arose after this outstanding soldier's physical body evolved first!
Zhou Jingtang sat there, his expression unchanged.
However, Su Ye was extremely excited, as if he had opened the door to a new world. But Su Ye suddenly realized that he should not be too excited. The power of the water-type golden core flowed through his body, calming Su Ye's excited spirit.