With over eleven thousand points, no matter how Yao Jun and the others managed to do it, Bi Fang felt quite delighted.

What is the cure for worries?

Only wealth.

There were still three days until the store refreshed, and without any rush to spend, Bi Fang decided to first digest the rewards he had already secured.

The Joint Strengthening Coupon, just by its name, one could tell it was fantastic.

Bi Fang was very much looking forward to the effect of this guaranteed reward coupon; every mission’s guaranteed reward was quite good, and very impactful.

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He always thought that the mission’s guaranteed rewards were a baseline, that only by getting them could he barely keep up with the pacing of the mission’s difficulty. Without them, he wouldn’t even meet the pass mark.

Clinically, the normal human skeleton, after meticulous counting, has a total of 204 bones, but the human body has many joints, with a total of 78 clearly named ones. However, there are also some small joints that are not named, and thus not within this count.

For example, there are many small joints in the spinal region of a patient that are not clearly named, and these are not among the 78. However, the Joint Strengthening Coupon clearly includes all of them, named and unnamed, without exception.

Europeans and Americans actually have 206 bones, and some scientists even believe that the two bones Asians are missing compared to Europeans and Americans are located in the toes.

Europeans and Americans have larger physiques than Asians, so to maintain body stability, their feet are larger, providing more substantial support.

Bi Fang disagreed, as he was also of a tall build and never felt that his body was unstable. He could throw a punch just as powerfully, enough to make someone spit blood.

Moreover, those two bones did not disappear, but merged with other bones.

Ancestors of humans had over 300 bones initially, which means that, initially, humans had many more bones than they do now.

Survival of the fittest, natural selection.

Our ancestors, in order to better adapt to the environment and live better, gradually reduced the number of bones to what it is now.

Although the number of bones doesn’t necessarily correlate with the level of evolution, and bone quantity doesn’t directly signal the direction of evolution, Bi Fang felt it was a trend toward better environmental adaptation.

Certain movements Asians can do, Europeans and Americans cannot, highlighting a difference in flexibility.

Therefore, Bi Fang believed more in the second scientific theory that, during the evolutionary process, Asians had merged unnecessary cartilages between pubic bones to reduce the load from friction between skeletal parts.

Europeans and Americans did not undergo this evolution, hence, they have two extra small bones compared to Asians, but this does not affect normal life.

Clicking use, the golden Joint Strengthening Coupon dissolved into a fine powder, merging into his body.

Initially, Bi Fang didn’t feel anything as it entered his body, but gradually, he noticed his knees warming up first. It wasn’t painful but rather itchy, and there was a barely perceptible pleasurable sensation, as if he knew his AE86 was about to be fitted with a racing-grade engine, a very peculiar feeling.

As expected.

The knees are the largest and most complex joints in the human body, one of the few that can only move in one direction.

They are also the body’s largest weight-bearing joints, with an average load capacity of 35 kilograms, part of the hinge joints, but the more weight they bear, the higher the probability of wear and tear on the joint cartilages, and the tendons are more likely to suffer injuries, leading to faster joint degeneration.

Moreover, for every 1 kilogram of body weight exceeded, the knee joint has to bear six times the weight.

If you are 5 kilograms overweight, then your knees will have to carry an extra 30 kilograms.

During squatting, the knee joint bears 3 to 6 times the weight of one’s body weight, not to mention the damage caused to the knees by overloading exercises such as deep squats with heavy weights.

65%-75% of running enthusiasts have experienced more or less damage to their knee joints. 90% of knee injuries are caused by the impact force of instantaneous foot landing.

The caused cartilage wear is irreversible, but now, under the effect of the Joint Strengthening Coupon, Bi Fang even felt his knee joints were completely transformed, capable of high-intensity use into the next century.

The largest knee joints reacted first, followed closely by the second-largest, the hip joints. Gradually, Bi Fang began to feel a warmth spreading throughout his body, the entire sensation was like having a high fever of forty degrees, as if in a sauna.

In the bath, Bi Fang even saw a faint hint of blood diffusing in the water, which scared him enough to almost climb out.

“It won’t be like this when I used the Platinum Body, will it?”

Bi Fang remembered that after using the Platinum Body, he woke up the next day with a faint strange smell on his body, and after taking a shower, he rushed to catch a plane.

The state of high fever lasted for a full half hour, and it finally ended just as Bi Fang’s head was about to succumb to the heat.

Bi Fang struggled out of the water, gave himself a rinse, and then clenched his fist forcefully.

There were many joints in his fingers, and while they looked no different from the outside, when he clenched his fist, an indescribably pleasant sensation emanated from his joints.

More flexible and harder?

That was Bi Fang’s first impression, then he sat down into a deep squat, and to his surprise, he didn’t feel any heaviness.

With a forceful jump and landing, his knee joints hardly felt any recoil, as if a soft sponge had been cushioned at his ankles, nearly dissipating the impact by the time it reached his knees.

Bi Fang was dumbfounded—was the effect really so exaggerated, or was it an illusion created by the strengthening of his mind?

Wrapped in a bath towel, Bi Fang kept throwing punches in the bathroom, the sound of the air splitting with the speed of his fists, his finger joints cleaving through the air like arrows, muscles coordinating with bones, twisting joints, all incredibly smooth.

His punching speed had increased.

Bi Fang was certain he hadn’t misjudged this, and this improvement alone made him feel it was worth it.

Awesome!

“Phew.”

The fully warmed-up Bi Fang felt completely revitalized, rolling his shoulders with no trace of soreness, and sat on the bed wrapped in the bath towel—just in time as room service arrived with his meal.

“That was fast?” Bi Fang glanced at the time, two fifty, ten minutes early.

As he opened the door, the service staff, pushing the cart in, stared at Bi Fang, then looked around the room, spotted the grass skirt on the floor, and was shocked.

What in the world?

Yesterday he looked like a savage, and today he’s a handsome guy?

Could a bath change someone that much?

The astonished staff member froze in place until Bi Fang reminded him to proceed, and after briskly setting everything up, he didn’t forget to inform Bi Fang that there was a delivery for him at the front desk and offered to bring it up.

“A package?” Bi Fang began unwrapping his chopsticks, intending to eat, but was startled by the remark, “Mine?”

“It’s a backpack, left with the people from the reserve by Mr. Zhou, saying that you entrusted it to him for safekeeping,” said the service staff.

Bi Fang made a slight gesture with his chopsticks, then remembered he did have something like that. The bag contained his phone, clothes, and such, which he had left in the cabin when changing. He had asked Zhou Weisheng to have someone keep it for him since he didn’t have any spare clothes at hand and was still wearing a bathrobe.

“Then please bring it up when you come to clean up later. Thank you.”

“Sure thing.”

Preoccupied, Bi Fang devoured his meal.

It had been more than twenty days since he had last enjoyed the fragrant, soft, steaming white rice, so appetizing and sweet to the taste.

Carbohydrates are indeed the source of life!

There was also the fragrant braised pork knuckle, the soy sauce mixed with sugar for an enhanced flavor, a depth of taste not achievable with salt alone in the wilderness.

It wasn’t long before a bowl of rice, the pork knuckle, and some greens were all consumed. Bi Fang didn’t leave even the oil behind, and he hadn’t eaten much. Zhou Weisheng had mentioned there was a dinner party tonight, so he saved some room for the good food to come.

Half an hour later, as the service staff came to clear the dishes, Bi Fang also received his backpack. He took out fresh clothes to change into and then got ready to open the can.

Bi Fang first washed his hands. After a moment’s consideration, he decided to forgo the burning of incense and bathing—a ritual of worship.

He opened the System.

In mid-air, a can that only he could see appeared, floating idly. At the moment Bi Fang decided to open it, fissures spread across it, and with a loud bang, it burst open.

A coupon shimmering with colorful light floated in mid-air, and Bi Fang read it word by word.

“Forbidden Zone Hunter Skill Coupon?”

Upon use, it would replace his Special Forces skills. Oh, no, more precisely, it would override them, eventually becoming a Special Purple Skill, the same level as Youlong Bagua, but the skill level would be reduced to Purple Level One.

What’s there to hesitate about, just swap them.

Having the mentality that Special Skills were definitely better than ordinary ones, Bi Fang didn’t hesitate to choose to replace them, and the coupon exploded.

An uncountable number of professional skills, experiences, and knowledge surged into his brain. Bi Fang quickly assimilated them as he was accustomed to, and as he assimilated more, his expression changed dramatically, eventually his pupils contracted.

This thing was much fiercer than the Special Forces skills.

Forbidden Zone Hunter.

Hunt what humans cannot, gain what humans cannot attain.

Everything in the world has a health bar.

Doesn’t it?

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