Chapter 626 - 11: Physical Fitness (2)
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After figuring out whether the treasure in his hand could be authenticated as genuine, Chen Zhou thanked Feng Yingxuan, arranged a dinner without knowing when it could happen, and returned to his villa.
Ivan’s appearance gave him an inexplicable sense of crisis.
However, since he didn’t know where this feeling came from or how to deal with it, in a country where guns are prohibited, Chen Zhou could only try to enhance his personal combat capability as much as possible—
His current physical condition gave him enough confidence to rely on personal bravery to face most dangers.
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With money in hand, Chen Zhou eventually bought the factory located on the outskirts of the town and spent a fortune transforming it into a private hospital.
Using money to pave the way, after acquiring various professional certificates, Chen Zhou recruited several doctors, signed confidentiality agreements, and began comprehensive testing of his body.
The first test was on Chen Zhou’s strength.
To make this test more credible and closer to his body’s true level, Chen Zhou specifically engaged in seven months of specialized training.
After training, test results showed that the explosive power of Chen Zhou’s fast-twitch fibers, or white muscles, was about twice that of weightlifters, and the endurance of his slow-twitch fibers, or red muscles, allowed him to have about 2.3 times the endurance of a marathon runner.
Matched with his unusual muscle structure, Chen Zhou’s nerve recruitment efficiency far exceeded ordinary people’s.
This means that, with similar muscle volume, his ability to mobilize existing muscle fibers is higher, his muscle coordination stronger, allowing him to quickly and accurately unleash greater power.
Meanwhile, the nervous response of Chen Zhou’s muscles to repeated training also surpassed ordinary people by a large margin; what took the average person thousands of repetitions to form muscle memory, he only needed a few dozen times.
The nervous system specialized for muscle service enabled him to more efficiently activate fast-twitch fibers, granting him a super compensatory ability of the nervous system.
Not only that, Chen Zhou’s bone density and tendon strength sculpted a higher strength ceiling for him, and even his hormone levels showed significant differences from ordinary people.
However, daily training made it difficult for Chen Zhou to enter an adrenaline surge state during extreme crisis.
According to doctors’ estimates, if in a state of stimulated adrenaline, the theoretical physical limits of the test subject could reach approximately three times that of professional athletes.
Subsequent tests on speed, endurance, agility, and flexibility also confirmed the doctors’ assumptions.
Within unit time, Chen Zhou’s rapid mobility and swift reaction to external stimuli greatly surpassed average people.
His nerve system and muscle coordination were extremely high, with powerful explosiveness and flexibility.
Moreover, due to the combined effect of strong cardiopulmonary function, red muscle performance, and hormone secretion, Chen Zhou could remain in an explosive state for nearly fifteen minutes, during which he was akin to the "superman" in ordinary people’s eyes.
And after training, Chen Zhou’s joint flexibility, ligament, muscle elasticity, and stretching ability approached that of a yoga master.
Possessing such frightening muscle attributes and extraordinary flexibility, even though the doctors did not say it explicitly, Chen Zhou already knew that after the challenge ended, he indeed could not be considered an ordinary human upon returning to modernity.
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As for the physical attributes that were hard to reflect in data, such as the hematopoietic function of stem cells, the oxygen-carrying capacity of red blood cells, anti-fatigue ability, physiological adjustment to environmental changes, immunity, metabolism, and even toxin tolerance and digestive capacity.
Tests showed that Chen Zhou’s attributes in these areas were significantly higher than normal people’s.
Honestly, after completing all tests, Chen Zhou felt that the hired doctors would privately discuss him, often giving him the urge to kill to silence them.
After all, from any angle, he was a living treasure trove, a "Nobel Prize in Biology" on the move.
If thoroughly researched, the economic value hidden behind him would be thousands or even millions of times greater than his wealth, potentially altering the future of human evolution.
In the face of such temptation, it was hard for anyone not to harbor sinister thoughts.
However, after some consideration, Chen Zhou dismissed the terrifying idea.
All the documents for this private hospital he transformed were under someone else’s name, and he appeared under a false name when communicating with doctors.
Moreover, when these doctors signed the contract, they not only accepted six times their previous salaries but also accepted nine-figure confidentiality compensation clauses.
On one hand, there was considerable income, on the other, penalties that could bind them for life; in modern society, as long as no one offered a higher promise, they would never easily leak information.
Furthermore, Hua Xia is a nation with intense surveillance and sensitivity to major cases.
If multiple doctors working in the same private hospital died in accidents, it would undoubtedly attract police attention, and if he mishandled things, drawing national interest would directly lead to a data leak of the experiments, an act akin to shooting himself in the foot.
Besides, after completing the tests, Chen Zhou had no intention of retaining the hospital and staying in Balin Town.
He wanted to move to a place more free, convenient for further exploration of his physical attributes, and away from surveillance, a true private territory.
This area could be an island in the Pacific Ocean, North America, or Australia, as long as he could indulge freely and purchase more sophisticated equipment, it was an ideal place for training and testing.
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Before leaving the town, Chen Zhou entrusted a professional organization to continue operating his private hospital and ensure that the salaries of his private doctors were paid.
After his departure, with the funds he left behind, these doctors could still receive 30 years of pay, with annual increases.
For Chen Zhou, it was only a trivial expense, but it could tightly bind these people, reducing the risk of information leaks.
Thirty years later, when they retired, even if they were willing to disclose past secrets, it might no longer be credible.
After all, rumors and hearsay were not uncommon, and elderly doctors nearing 70, likely confused, making it normal to misremember experimental data from 30 years ago.
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After placing the hospital under someone else’s management, Chen Zhou’s biggest concern before leaving was still his parents.
The 28-year challenge had almost wiped out most of his feelings toward his parents, and after returning home, Chen Zhou always felt uneasy around them, yet he could still sense their unreserved love and eager expectations for him.
Blood is thicker than water, and even if Chen Zhou didn’t feel like he had turned into another species, even if he indeed was no longer human, he couldn’t coldly sever this bond.
Entangled with too many secrets, Chen Zhou didn’t dare reveal his wealth and peculiarities to his parents, fearing trouble or danger for the family.
Even when supplementing the family’s income, he took care not to let them sense anything unusual about the source of the money.
After secretly letting his father win the lottery twice and seeing him gradually become addicted to it, Chen Zhou immediately ceased this method to avoid potential bankruptcy despite being wealthy.
Subsequently, he arranged a fictitious friend to find a high-paying, easy job for his mother in the town.
Not long after, Chen Zhou’s father joined a mid-sized renovation company, mentoring newcomers and earning substantial commissions and salary from jobs.
With stable income and security for his parents, Chen Zhou handed over his "income for the year" to his mother.
Since he "joined a big company," his income doubled; the sum handed to Mrs. Chen was substantial enough to help the family maintain if faced with sudden financial needs post-departure.
After Mrs. Chen received Chen Zhou’s earnings, Chen Zhou advised the elderly couple to purchase a new house early, then boarded a plane to Russia—
Not long ago, while sorting through the treasures brought back, he unexpectedly found that Ivan’s "treasure poem" could actually be decrypted using the modern Internet, with difficulty far lower than he had imagined.
After deciphering the lines of poetry, he found that the treasure’s burial site was just outside Moscow, not far from the zoo Ivan mentioned in the teahouse.
Feeling there might be lurking secrets worth exploring, Chen Zhou decided not to notify anyone and planned to first scout the area where the scarlet giant had fallen.