Chapter 172 Buddha's Bone Relics, Strange People and Events
"Buddha's bone relics?" Linglong muttered something, and Chen Jue's expression changed when he heard it.
Previously, when Chen Jue was reading Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian classics, he had seen the description of Buddha bone relics. The "relics" here were not a state of Buddhist practice similar to the "golden elixir", but a real object.
According to legend, the earliest relics were beads formed after the cremation of Sakyamuni's body. Later, some eminent monks were also able to obtain relics after cremation.
The relics are divided into bone relics, hair relics and soft relics. Most of them are in the shape of hard beads, which are somewhat similar to the glass marbles we played with when we were children, but smaller and more colorful.
Buddhist scriptures say that the appearance of sarira is due to the perfect merits of the monks. From a scientific point of view, the main component of sarira is the recrystallization of bone after burning.
However, people have different opinions on whether this relic has any mysterious power. But after encountering the mental shielding of Zhao Zhen and his nine clones, Chen Jue feels that there are some things in this world that cannot be explained clearly from a scientific perspective.
Just like inferring the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine from the perspective of Western medicine, it is difficult to discover its original effect due to different entry points.
Moreover, since Zhao Zhen has practiced Yoga Mahamudra to the level of Sakyamuni, it is not impossible for him to discover the effect of mind shielding from the real relics.
"Could it be that this mind, spiritual imprint, and boxing consciousness are all like this innate Qi, not illusory things, but some kind of radiation fluctuations similar to the innate Qi that cannot be detected by existing scientific instruments?"
"And the Buddha's bone relics, because they carry the spiritual imprint of the eminent monk, can they emit similar shielding and interfering radiation fluctuations?" Chen Jue subconsciously speculated and exchanged shocked glances with Linglong.
"Daoyou, what you said is very possible!"
"There are many secrets in this world. If I hadn't seen these meteorite fragments, I would never have imagined that there would be such wonderful things in the world." Linglong nodded and couldn't help but sigh.
After figuring this out, the two young men and women, who stood at the pinnacle of human practice, fell into deep thought in their respective seats.
No one knew what Linglong was thinking, but Chen Jue discovered that the more he practiced, the higher the level of power of the people, things, and objects he came into contact with.
Just like business and socializing in the world, the richer and more prestigious you are, you will find that your social circle is constantly expanding, until you are on the rich list and then climb to the top of the list. Then, looking back, you will find that business, socializing and making money are just the same thing.
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The small plane of Xingyimen flew for more than three hours and landed at a small airport in the north of Antarctica. After that, Chen Jue and Linglong changed to a larger private plane and stopped in Kangaroo Country to refuel.
Linglong also ordered people to send over two large square lead radiation-proof boxes to pack the harvested meteorites to prevent the innate Qi inside from dissipating.
Due to the shortage of supplies at the Antarctic research station, we did not prepare this kind of lead boxes in advance. Naturally, we had to make up for it after arriving in Kangaroo Country.
As for the clear yellow liquid developed by the Hongmou Group, Linglong guessed that it was a synthetic liquid similar to maternal amniotic fluid, which could also contain the innate Qi.
However, due to the lack of an effective formula for that liquid, we can only use lead boxes to make up the number for the time being.
After refueling, the private plane started heading straight towards the flower grower's home.
After landing at Longjiang Airport in Wenzhou, Linglong specially contacted a business car to take Chen Jue and his box of meteorites back to Chen Village.
However, before saying goodbye, Linglong specifically reminded Chen Jue to be careful of Zhao Zhen and Hongmou Group.
As for the investigation on Zhao Zhen, there has been no feedback from the intelligence department of Xingyi Sect. Linglong said that she would inform Chen Jue as soon as there was any news. Chen Jue then nodded and said goodbye to this smart female Taoist friend.
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During the time when Chen Jue was returning, in a fully enclosed private hospital far away in Kangaroo Country, Zhao Zhen was staring at a clone lying on the operating table behind a floor-to-ceiling glass with a gloomy face.
Various advanced medical instruments in the operating room were constantly sounding alarms, indicating the clone's current very poor physical condition. Several white doctors in blue sterile suits were also busy at the operating table.
It was not until the ECG monitor in the operating room showed a straight line that Zhao Zhen in the observation room was finally overwhelmed by anger and lost his mind, punching the tempered glass in front of him.
With a "bang", the tempered glass shattered, and Tom, who was not far behind him, shuddered and whispered, "Father..."
"What about Bruce and the others?" Zhao Zhen turned around and glanced at his mediocre son.
"The doctor reported that Bruce, Jack, Charlie, and Norton all had ruptured eardrums to varying degrees, and their vision was damaged. They will need some time for rehabilitation and physical therapy."
"Richard and Hans died on the spot and their bodies have been sent for cremation. Alan and Andy had three broken bones and some ruptured internal organs. They are still under observation in the intensive care unit." Tom swallowed. He hadn't seen his father so out of control and angry for a long time.
"For 182.3 kilograms of meteorite fragments, my team sacrificed the lives of three members who had been trained for more than 20 years, and the rest were all injured to varying degrees."
"Tom, let John investigate! Investigate it thoroughly! I want to know all the information about that young man from his birth to today!" An inexplicable light flashed in Zhao Zhen's eyes.
After witnessing Chen Jue's incredible fighting power, everyone can think of the secret hidden in Chen Jue.
What's more, there is an immortality fanatic like Zhao Zhen who stands at the pinnacle of humanity and does not care about human ethics. He wants to know the secret of why Chen Jue is so powerful.
"Okay father, I will notify John immediately to do it."
"And those meteorites we brought back, should they be immediately distributed to Bruce and the others for use? The doctor said that their abnormal aging condition, with shortened telomeres and defective chromosomes, is getting worse..." Tom continued to report.
"Assign them! And notify the laboratory that a new batch of meteorites has arrived. Ask them to advance the research and development of telomerase inhibitors as soon as possible. I don't want these team members to get ahead of me." Zhao Zhen said expressionlessly, as if he was giving orders for something that he was accustomed to.
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At the same time, at a nature reserve research institute far away in Gongshan, a young researcher who had just retrieved the storage card of a field research camera from the reserve was sitting in front of his computer bored, using decoding software to fast-forward the night video taken by the camera.
"That old bear just gave birth to cubs. Let's see if there are any interesting shots."
“It would be better to record some wonderful clips and publish them online to attract some traffic like pandas, gain more exposure for the institute and make it easier .” The young researcher thought.
Just when he viewed the middle part of the video, he suddenly discovered that there was a strange young man in the video who danced with a bear and then flew up a tree and slept for a night in just a few seconds!
"???"
“How could someone be recorded?”
"And this person... can he climb walls and run on rooftops? How can he climb trees so fast?" The young researcher's eyes widened and he suddenly became alert. He cut out the video, watched it several times, found a lot of problems, and then ran to the director's office to invite the director over.
The director of the institute was a middle-aged man in his fifties. When he first watched the video, he was also confused. He repeatedly compared the time it took the man to climb the tree with the young man. Finally, he took a deep breath, as if he remembered something. He reached out and patted the young man on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Wu, there is no copy of this video, right? Cut the original video for me now, and then delete it. You don't have to participate in this anymore."
"Just think of it as a dream. You won't know anything when you wake up. This is to protect you. Do you understand?" said the middle-aged director.
When the young researcher heard this, he nodded obediently like a chick at rice. They had signed a confidentiality agreement before working in the institute, so they knew what to do. He hurriedly took a copy of the video from the director's USB flash drive, and then permanently deleted the original video in front of the director.
The middle-aged director hurried back to his office with the information, picked up the office phone, and dialed an internal number: "Old Meng, I remember your unit held an activity to collect strange people and strange things last year. I have a video to show you. It was taken in the old forest of Gongshan Mountain and showed a young man staying overnight in a bear's nest. I think you should be interested, Old Meng."
A slightly surprised voice came from the other end of the phone: "What? Staying overnight in a bear's den? Lao Zheng, hurry up and upload the video to the database using the intranet! If you are selected, I guarantee that your funding will double next year!"
The middle-aged director was also slightly surprised when he heard this: "Double the funding? Are the organizers so generous?"
The person on the other end of the phone said, "Nonsense! This activity is specifically designated by the higher-ups, and the funding is huge. Old Zheng don't ask too much, it's all confidential, I only know a rough outline, just upload the video, and remember to mark the shooting location and time! If you are selected, someone will contact you to investigate the situation."
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged director hurriedly responded, "Okay! I'll upload it right away!" He logged into the internal website on his computer and started uploading the video according to the process.
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Chen Jue didn't know that he had spent the night in the old forest of Gongshan and was captured by a field scientific research camera. At this moment, he was still in the dark about the whole process.
Taking the car arranged by Linglong, Chen Jue successfully returned to his hometown in Chencun, and opened the door of his house carrying a huge lead box.
Chen Jue was stunned by the aluminum packaging boxes filled with the Hongmou logo!
The Hongmu Group delivered a total of 10,000 sets of internally supplied nutritional products. If the house wasn't big enough, there would probably be no place to step.
After moving the lead box upstairs, Chen Jue first lay down on the bed and took a short nap, washing away the fatigue from days of running around in Antarctica.
Feeling his tense mind relax a little, Chen Jue got up and went downstairs. He casually opened a box of nutritional supplements and looked at the three items inside.
Chen Jue felt relieved when he found that the food was exactly the same as what he had eaten in Antarctica.
After being ambushed by Zhao Zhen before, Chen Jue now began to be wary of the Hongmou Group.
However, these nutritional supplements were delivered before the incident, and they are all standard products, so Chen Jue is not worried about being tampered with.
It took Chen Jue half a day to unpack more than 10,000 aluminum packaging boxes and arrange the three sets inside neatly into categories. However, he did not find any surveillance or eavesdropping equipment hidden in the boxes.
He went to Uncle Chen Qiang at the store at the entrance of the village and asked for the contact information of a scrap collector. It took almost half a day for Chen Jue to clean up and sell all the aluminum boxes piled up in front of his house. Only then did he feel refreshed.
After collecting the money and sending the scrap truck away, Chen Jue returned home and locked the door. He took a palm-sized meteorite fragment from the lead box, held it in his palm, and sat cross-legged on the sofa on the first floor.
The innate Qi emanating from the meteorite fragments was stimulating all the cells in his body to become active. Chen Jue felt refreshed and very calm inside.
Chen Jue glanced at the attribute panel and saw that he was only 5 points away from proficiency in the operation of the small and large circulations. To be on the safe side, he first filled his stomach with a three-piece set of nutritional supplements, and then added 0.01 attribute points.
"bite!"
"Proficiency has exceeded the upper limit, and the operation of the big and small cycles has been upgraded successfully!"
