Wandering

Chapter 44

(Inscription: This article writes about the realm of "returning" when Ishino practiced alchemy. Some people may find it difficult to understand what is meant by "walking, sitting and lying, without losing the realm!" This is indeed difficult to describe in words. We can do an experiment to experience it. Just try. When you speak, at the same time clearly notice the "you" who is speaking, knowing that you are speaking, listening, and feeling. When you are aware of the "you" that is walking, standing, sitting, and lying Only then can you wake up from "ignorance" and feel a clear self-existence.)
While I was talking to Gan Jiang, other students had already left the dormitory one after another. Gan Jiang waved his hand and said, "Most of them here are not practitioners, so let's stop discussing spells. Let's discuss again when we have a chance... let's go to dinner." .” As he spoke, he turned and walked towards the restaurant.

Looking at the back of the carpenter, my heart moved slightly.When I stretched out my hand just now, I felt that his cultivation may not be higher than mine, but I lack the experience of fighting with others.The carpenter said just now that he used the magic of "repelling things", which I vaguely heard, and it seems that he mentioned it when chatting with Mr. Zhang, which is close to witchcraft.Thinking of this, I remembered the origin of the craftsman again——

Carpenter's story:
The code name "Crafting Craftsman" is the most vivid.When you mention these two words, you may think of an ancient and mysterious profession-the mortician.That's right, this is the origin of the code name "Jianjiang".

The carpenter is not Han, he is Miao.His family has lived in Wulong Mountain in western Hunan for generations. There is a well-known TV series "Wulong Mountain Suppression of Bandits" which describes the mountainous area of ​​Western Hunan in the early days of liberation, but this TV series does not mention the mysterious custom of exorcising corpses in Western Hunan.The carpenter would not say that his grandfather and ancestors were cadavers. In fact, his ancestors were wizards in the tribe from generation to generation.There is no other Taoism in their family traditions, only one--repelling things.I don't know what is the connection between repelling things and repelling corpses, anyway, repelling craftsmen have never repelled corpses.

After liberation, the profession of mortician gradually disappeared, and people have not figured out its mysterious inside story until now.I can't tell whether it's a lie or it's true.In modern times, there are no hereditary wizards in Miao villages, but the secret art handed down by the craftsman is still there. He learned it from his father, and his father learned it from his grandfather. Maybe he will teach it to his son in the future. —if he had a son.

The reason why Gan Jiang was selected to this training camp was purely an accident.That's because something happened in their village.An old woman in her 80s passed away in the village. After the death, when the children checked the belongings, they found that a large number of precious silver ornaments that the old woman had hidden for decades were missing!Several daughters-in-law quarreled with each other, accusing others of taking it secretly.

The traditional silver ornaments of the Miao people are very exquisite, including silver crowns, silver capes, and silver pendants.It is often handed down from generation to generation, and many are precious cultural relics and handicrafts.This family is probably a big family in the old society. The old woman has a lot of good things in her collection, and they are very valuable to sell, so the daughters-in-law have long been eager to grab them.Now that people are dead and things are gone, that’s fine!
The old lady lived with her second son, so the second daughter-in-law was the most suspected, but she swore to God that she hadn't touched her mother-in-law's things, and other people didn't believe it.In the end, the second daughter-in-law was forced to do nothing, so she came to find the grandfather of the carpenter, who was an old wizard in the village, hoping that the wizard could come forward and clear him up.However, the grandfather who drove the craftsman had experienced many campaigns after the founding of the People's Republic of China, so he was frightened for a long time. How dare he hear the word "wizard" again, and took his son to hide in the mountains to cut firewood.

Later, the family became more and more violent, and the second daughter-in-law was about to hang herself, but fortunately she was rescued.At that time, the carpenter was also present. He was not very sensible at a young age, and he really couldn't bear the family's troubles, so he came to help.He walked into the mourning hall and told the family to stop making trouble. He tried to ask the old woman where the things were.

Gan Jiang is the grandson of the old wizard. Everyone in the village knows that when he speaks, others will be quiet. Let's see what he will do.The carpenter asked someone to bring a bowl of clean water, then covered the old woman's face with a piece of paper, took a mouthful of water, and sprayed it into the sky.When the water mist fell and wet the paper, the paper suddenly moved, and everyone retreated to the sides in fright.At this time, the carpenter stretched out his hand to point to the old woman, and the dead old woman suddenly sat up from the coffin, raised one hand, and pointed to a direction in the corner of the room.The carpenter accepted the method, and the old woman lay down again, as if nothing had happened.

Later, the family pried open the floor tiles in the corner pointed by the old woman, and found a box buried in the ground. The box contained exactly what they were looking for.

If this incident happened in a mountain village, people would be talking about it as an anecdote, and it would be over.Unfortunately, there happened to be a tourist group passing by, and several reporters from the local media followed the tour group to interview some eco-tourism. They witnessed this incident and took pictures of it.

After the reporter went back, he handed over the results of the filming to the TV station, but the finished program was suppressed by the top, and it was not allowed to be broadcast. It is said that this kind of thing is not suitable for publicity.But not long after, someone came to the village and asked to see the carpenter by name, showing their IDs that they were all important cadres from above.I don't know what those people said when they found Ganjiang's house. It is probably similar to what director Gu said to me, so Ganjiang was also sent here.Regardless of whether it is a class or not, it is a bit vague on the register of Ganjiang's specialty, which is "inanimate object control".I don't know who came up with the term.

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From this day on, I have been experiencing the realm of "returning" in the practice of alchemy every moment.When others see me, they always feel that I am a little stupid, and I am at a loss all day long.This also coincides with my code name "Stone".

The training continued, and soon we came into contact with one of the things that young people are most interested in-fighting.The fighting training here is very special. There are two instructors who teach us two completely different fighting techniques. What's more interesting is that the two instructors disagree with each other and think that the other is teaching crooked ways.What's more interesting is that these two instructors are both surnamed Ding, we call them Lao Ding instructor and Xiao Ding instructor.

The fighting taught by instructor Xiaoding is not called fighting, but defense and attack skills.In our first class, we were not given hands, but were taken to a model room with two life-size plastic mannequins of the human body—a man and a woman, both nude.We almost thought that the instructor was going to give a physiology class, so we all observed the delicate nude female model very carefully.

In the end, the instructor taught how to kill people!How many parts of the human body can be fatally attacked by what kind of attack?How many parts may be temporarily incapacitated by what kind of attack?What kind of attack could result in permanent disability?What kind of attack could cause serious injury but be healed?This is what he said in the first lesson, and what follows is chilling!

The various attack techniques he introduced were neither complicated nor advanced, simple but absolutely effective and covert, making it almost impossible for ordinary people to guard against them.For example, in one class, he specifically talked about how to use ordinary and unnoticed things around us to kill people!For example, the pen we hold in our hand, remove the pen cap, hold the nib forward in the palm of the hand, press the thumb and index finger tightly, exposing the tip of about an inch.Just use this part of the exposed pen tip to forcefully stab about seven to eight parts of the person's body, all of which can be fatal in one blow.The skill required here is not particularly high, ordinary people can also complete it, the key is absolute calm and cold-blooded.be quick!Be accurate!Be steady!Be ruthless!Be calm, act nonchalantly, and not hesitate.

According to what instructor Xiao Ding taught, usually many things can be used as murder weapons.And sometimes, killing people in a busy city can be done very easily, and then they will go away without attracting attention.The pencil sharpeners, teacups, key chains and even a small bamboo toothpick we usually use can cause fatal injuries to others. (These things can’t be introduced in detail.) I don’t really like what instructor Xiaoding said. A person who practices alchemy and pursues longevity will naturally not be interested in killing tricks.Fortunately, this course has only learning and no testing (and no testing).

But instructor Xiaoding's class made me very emotional.What I feel is that human life and body are so fragile, they can be taken away and hurt easily!Of course, what Instructor Xiao Ding was talking about was not entirely about assassination, but about defense, including protecting himself and others.It was in this class that I learned that the most important thing to protect a person is to isolate contact, because sudden attacks from others are really hard to guard against.

When we see killers in movies and TV, they often have a sniper rifle at a distance.In reality, assassins rarely use this method. If they want to kill people like this, it is the last resort.There is a complete set of measures to prevent snipers, such as controlling the shooting angle of the traveling route, controlling the commanding heights of the surrounding areas, etc., and the sniper itself is also limited by many conditions.On the contrary, the people passing by are the most dangerous.Therefore, the easiest thing to protect a person is those who are superior. They have reasons to avoid contact with ordinary people. The most difficult thing to protect is an ordinary person.

Instructor Xiao Ding also has fighting in his courses, but the fighting he taught is very concise, and often a single movement can tell the winner.According to the boss of our group, instructor Xiao Ding must have received training in Israel, because the boss also received this kind of training in the special forces, which is more systematic than the training we are receiving now.

Although instructor Xiaoding lectures are cruel and cruel, he is very easy-going and has a good attitude towards the students. He smiles at everyone he sees, has a harmless expression on his face, is easy to approach, and seems willing to let He approaches.So the students have a good relationship with him, and they usually like to joke with him or something, and have never seen him get angry.

Not to mention a fighting instructor, Lao Ding, would be different.Lao Ding is a black-faced man in his 40s. He always has a straight face, and when he looks at people, he has a fierce look in his eyes, which makes people want to stay away from him unconsciously.The content of Lao Ding's teaching is completely different from that of Xiao Ding. His main content is control and grappling, and his main purpose is to subdue the opponent while minimizing damage.Most of the combat training received by the Armed Police Force and the Police Academy is the same.

The conflict between Lao Ding and Xiao Ding is related to the content of their lectures.Instructor Xiao Ding is very displeased with the grappling skills of Instructor Lao Ding. According to Instructor Xiao Ding, there is a saying in fighting called "every catch must hit", it is difficult to catch a struggling person under the same situation and the same strength , even if it is a woman.The police are able to subdue the gangster one-on-one, often because the gangster first has fear in his heart.If you encounter vicious desperadoes, the police who have only received arrest training will be very dangerous. Many public security officers have suffered from this and even died in the line of duty.

What Instructor Xiao Ding said is very reasonable. The grappling technique can be used against ordinary people, but it may be a bit difficult to use against people like us who have received the training of Instructor Xiao Ding. We have all experienced this ourselves.But this course still has to be learned, and it can be very rewarding while studying.

Instructor Lao Ding didn't do anything when he gave us the first class. He also led us to a model room.There is only one model in the classroom, but it is not clear whether it is male or female.Because this mannequin has no skin, only bones and muscles.At the beginning, instructor Lao Ding explained in detail the direction and range of movement of each bone and muscle in the human body, and the dead angle of each joint rotation.On this basis, the restricted area of ​​body movement and the support area for maintaining the center of gravity are analyzed in detail.

This kind of training requires us to see people as a three-dimensional.For example, if you see a person walking on the street, at first glance, a shadow area will be formed around his body in your mind. This shadow area is the position that needs to be used in grappling or fighting.Of course, the situation is different if he has a knife, stick, or pistol in his hand, all of which must undergo special targeted training.

This set of training is very complicated, and there are many interesting little details.To give a simple example, if two people are fighting and you hug someone from behind, what position should you hug?Ordinary people may choose to hug as a chest, and some people may learn how to strangle the neck from behind in the movie.But it's wrong from the perspective of control. First, you don't want to kill him, and second, you want to control him.The correct position should be below the waist. In short, it should be slightly lower than his body's center of gravity. If you hold him above his body's center of gravity, the opponent can easily break free and fight back, and it's not easy for you to bring him down.If you see a group of people wrestling together on the street, you should know whether it is an amateur or an expert by looking at the hands. This kind of observation is very important.

The most important training taught by Lao Ding is grappling and anti-grabbing.This exercise requires an opponent to come on stage and demonstrate.After the instructor looked through our roster and specialties, in all likelihood, I was the one who came on stage to practice against him—who told me that my specialty is sandbags!Watching me being grabbed and put down by the instructor time and time again, the students in the audience applauded again and again, what a fucking misfortune!

When teaching a new routine, everyone usually has to come up to the stage for the instructor to try. I am the one who has been on stage the most, but there is one person who has never been on stage, and one person who has only been on stage once and the instructor never let him go up again.The one who has never been on stage is the boss of our group, and the one who only goes up once is the little one in our group.

The master didn't come to the stage because the instructor knew his specialty, and the grappling technique based on the anti-joint principle was ineffective against the master who was a special soldier.This is not because the boss is a special soldier, but because of his strange ability, his specialty registration is - musculoskeletal control.

Grandpa's story:
The master is a rural person, but most of the people in his village besides farming, also have a very important livelihood - juggling and performing arts, which is equivalent to a folk circus and acrobatic troupe.This kind of juggling troupe is rare now, but there were quite a few in the past, and they were basically based on village families.

The village where the boss lives is called Luojia Village, and the juggling troupe in their village is called Luojiaban. His grandfather used to be the head of this Luojiaban, until the household contracted production team was disbanded.Since he was a child, he has learned all kinds of acrobatics and basic skills for physical exercise from the adults in his team.The master has shown extraordinary talent in this aspect. Needless to say, skills such as jumping, support, and balance, he has also learned a very rare technique.In the acrobatic troupe, there were traditional jujitsu performances such as ring drilling, and many people's joints were soaked with special potions since childhood.But the master's ability is almost innate, and he can learn it as soon as he learns it.

Have you ever seen a person who can freely control the activities of his muscles, joints and bones?Now some people practice yoga, they can put their heads into their crotches, and some acrobatic troupes perform jujitsu, they can lean back and pick up a flower from the ground.These are trivial skills to the master, his specialty can be described by the "bone shrinking technique" in martial arts novels, it is really so miraculous.

The joints and bones of his whole body can be freely and flexibly controlled, except for the skull on his head.It can be said this way: no matter how small a hole in the wall is, as long as his head can poke through it, his whole body can get through it, there is no problem at all!And he happened to have a small head.

The master's magic doesn't stop there.He can also control the shape of various muscles in his body in a short period of time.Don't underestimate this, it means that he has a very special ability - imitation.He can rub his face in front of the mirror to make his facial features close to that of an acquaintance. If his vision is not clear, it is really easy to be deceived by him.What's more, this kid learned ventriloquism in the acrobatic troupe when he was a child, so he can imitate not only his appearance, but also his voice.While this imitation only lasts a few minutes, it's enough to do a lot of things in many cases.

In the early 80s, household contracted production was implemented in the countryside, and every household was busy planting their own one-acre three-point land, and the Luojiaban was naturally disbanded. (This was indeed the case at the time, and later I heard that this kind of thing has been restored in many places.) This kid has learned all kinds of skills, has such a strange talent, coupled with lack of control, he has done a lot of sneaking in the countryside , became a troublesome teenager.His parents were afraid that he would be idle and troublesome all day long, so they asked a relative who worked in the armed forces to help him and sent him to serve as a soldier, hoping that the People's Liberation Army would take good care of his son.

The master joined the army, and he was quite honest at the beginning, but half a year later he made a big mistake.Even people in the entire military region heard about this mistake, and everyone couldn't help but want to laugh but it wasn't funny.It turned out that the master slipped to the garrison hospital once, imitated a deputy division commander of their army, and got close to a little nurse, and even kissed her!
The master himself said that he just wanted to know what it was like to kiss a woman, and he also wanted to see the attitude of that little nurse who always had a straight face when she saw the leader?Now he knew the answer, but he got into a catastrophe!Naturally, it goes without saying that he was punished for violating discipline. He was able to continue serving as a soldier thanks to the special forces who rescued him. This is very similar to Lao Gai's experience.Our army's special forces have always selected people from the mischievous elements in the army, because it is impossible for people with conventional thinking and no outstanding creativity to complete special operations missions.Although the boss is mischievous, his military qualities are indeed excellent, and he was picked up by the special forces.

The master came to participate in this training camp this time, and he was recommended because of his specialty.Since Mr. Zong often doesn't look like a soldier of the People's Liberation Army, he looks like a KMT leader. People in the old society called these officers "Boss" or "Military Lord", so we shorten his code name to "Mr. Zong".

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The master doesn't need to go on stage during the grappling training, because these movements can't hold him at all.And there is another one in our group who does not need to go on stage is Xiaoxiao.Xiao Xiao's original name is Xiao Zhengrong, he has regular facial features, and his words and deeds are well-behaved, there is nothing special about him at all.But instructor Lao Ding made us look at him with admiration on the first day of grappling class.

The instructor taught a new move and asked us to go on stage one by one to practice against him, that is, to let us experience how we were knocked down by him.When Xiao Xiao took the stage, he was cautious and looked a bit shy. In order to encourage him, the instructor said a word extra: "Little student, don't be afraid... This action is to tell you how to make the opponent stand up in the face of confrontation. Losing your center of gravity... When I do something later, don't hesitate, you can resist as much as possible..."

The reason why the instructor's words are redundant is because Xiaoxiao is famously obedient in the training camp, and he will do what the instructor says, so he really did it.The two of them were in the wrong shape on the stage, the instructor didn't catch Xiaoxiao at all, he went around behind the instructor as soon as he turned around, when the instructor turned around to grab him again, Xiaoxiao waved his hand, it seemed that he was just on the instructor's clothes corner, Lao Ding instructor's burly body flew out.

Xiao Xiao's shot was still measured, he didn't smash the instructor, but turned twice in the air and landed on a mat on the other side of the corner of the room.The instructor's skill is also very good, and he stands firmly on the ground, so he is not too embarrassed after all.I was shocked when I saw it in the audience, because I thought of a person, this person was the Taoist Zeren who once waved my sleeves in Qiyun Temple and knocked me into the air!

Zeren later told me that it was not Taoism, but internal boxing!Looking at Xiaoxiao's waving now, it is very similar to the scene where Zeren beat me up that day. It seems that he is also proficient in internal martial arts.No wonder his specialty registration is "martial arts".Unexpectedly, this child who is only 16 and a half years old has such amazing skills!Seeing his attack, his kung fu is probably still higher than that of Taoist Zeren.Everyone who can come here is not for nothing!I suddenly remembered the two boxing manuals I brought with me, a copy of "36 Ways to Capture Snake Hands" and a half-volume of "Cinnabar Palm".

Feng Junzi gave it to me, asking me to find someone who can learn martial arts, preferably an expert like Ze Ren.I originally wanted to find an opportunity to ask the two Ding instructors for advice, but now it seems that I don't need to find the instructors, I can just find the roommate Xiaoxiao.

The little story is very simple.He does not have such a complicated and exciting background as the other four, and his martial arts are passed down from family.The little grandpa's name is Xiao Tianhong, he is a famous fighting hero in Northeast China, he has joined the Red Army since the Anti-Japanese War, killed countless enemies and made great military exploits.Mr. Xiao Tianhong learned from a great master in the imperial palace in the late Qing Dynasty, and his ancestor was Zhang Zhankui, a famous martial artist in Beijing and Tianjin. Zhang Zhankui once worshiped a master, Dong Haichuan, the famous founder of Baguazhang.Mr. Xiao Tianhong also has a very famous uncle, Han Muxia, a Kwantung hero who had a great influence during the Anti-Japanese War.A small body of martial arts, from a well-known orthodox family.What's interesting is that the little father didn't know martial arts, and the grandfather only taught his grandson this kind of martial arts.

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From the second week after we entered the training camp, we added another routine training content after getting up every morning-a five-kilometer cross-country long-distance run.Another week later, the five kilometers turned into ten kilometers, and another week later, the ten kilometers cross-country long-distance race became a ten-kilometer armed cross-country long-distance race.According to the instructor, this is a physical training, because although we all have our own strengths, not everyone has good physical fitness.

At the beginning, everyone had no problems, because after all, they were all healthy teenagers of seventeen or eighteen years old.But when it comes to the ten-kilometer armed cross-country long-distance running every day, some people gradually can't bear it.

In our group, the boss and Xiaoxiao were very relaxed and ran down like playing.Lao Gai and I have no problem. It's a bit difficult to catch up with the craftsman, but we can still keep up with the big army. The most terrible thing is the ghost, this kid is always lagging behind.We all laughed at him: "How can you be a thief like this? If someone finds out, you can't run away." The ghost spirit always replied angrily: "How can there be such a thief? Are you fully armed and chased for ten kilometers? "

On the first day of long-distance running, I discovered a problem.Our training camp has a total of 18 groups, each with six people, a total of [-] people, all of whom are men.During long-distance running, there are five or six people who are not running, but walking.Some people walk in a hurry, as if they are in a hurry, while others walk very gracefully, without a trace. If you are not in a running team, you can't tell that their speed is as fast as running!

(End of this chapter)