In his previous life, Meng Chao had never learned something as high-end as injury examination.
He cast a glance at Kindling at the top of his field of vision and brought up his skill list.
Aside from Basic Harvesting Skill, which could harvest normal monsters, he had also activated Intermediate Harvesting Skill, which could harvest Nightmarish Beasts.
The two important branches of harvesting skills — Seven Dissection Methods Performed in Reverse and Jade Testing Skill — had also reached Specialist Level.
Besides, after he cleared 1,024 branch meridians, his senses had become incredibly sharp.
When spirit energy gushed out of his pores and flowed slowly through his spirit tattoos, he could tie dozens of different knots on any single strand of hair on his body.
"I can try." Meng Chao's confidence was off the charts. "Where are the corpses?"
"They're here." Ning Xueshi pointed at the entrance of the warehouse.
More than ten freshmen in monster controller uniforms with bruised faces and covered in wounds were led by a few upperclassmen. They used carts to push more than ten monster carcasses into the room.
Meng Chao was a little stunned. He recognized them as the strongest freshmen in the monster controller course Xie Feng had mentioned, but he did not see Wu Wu.
The monster carcasses on the carts had control rings on their heads and necks. There were also serial numbers branded on their bodies and nameplates embedded in them, which meant that they were modified biochemical beasts and not wild monsters.
But that made sense. If they were monsters killed by the northern frontlines, the military or the Supernatural Tower would naturally send harvesters to examine their injuries on the spot.
If they were evolved mutated monsters that had never been seen before and the frontlines could not handle them, Ning Xueshi and the normal students from the resource course would not take action. Instead, specialists like Ning Shewo would take action.
During the freshmen tournament between the martial arts course and monster controller course, aside from Panther Lady Wu Wu's sudden rise to power, the monster controller course was actually at a disadvantage.
At the very least, before Xie Feng and the other three ran into Wu Wu, they had won a few rounds and killed quite a number of biochemical beasts.
It was impossible for the monster controller course to rely on Wu Wu alone to conquer the world.
The freshmen naturally had to understand the reason behind their defeat, and through the fatal injuries of their biochemical beasts, they could reflect on it and change their fighting techniques.
Just as she expected, an upperclassman with a lot of wrinkles on his forehead strode forward and said to Ning Xueshi with a smile, "Big Sis Ning, Professor Wang and the lecturers from the resource course are talking about providing reinforcements to the northern frontlines. He said that you'll be in charge of this place. This year, the freshmen from the monster controller course are disappointing, and the martial arts course nearly managed to turn the tables around. We'll have to trouble you and the resource course students to help us search for the reason."
As he spoke, he turned his head around and sternly reprimanded the monster controller freshmen. "Pay attention and learn later. Don't miss out on even a single detail. Regardless of whether it's harvesters, monster controllers, martial artists, or other fighting occupations, injury examination is an important skill. Learn to read the information on a corpse, and you'll be able to improve your fighting skills nonstop, understand?"
The monster controller freshmen nodded in agreement. Then, under their seniors' lead, they went forward to greet him.
A thought came to Ning Xueshi's mind. She grinned and said, "Fang Lin, you've come to the right place today. Senior Brother Meng's skills are among the best in the resource course. With his guidance, you'll definitely be able to find all the fatal injuries in the biochemical beasts."
The monster controller course senior named Fang Lin was stunned.
He had been in contact with the resource course for a few years, and he basically knew all the upperclassmen who were rather good at harvesting, but he had never heard of Senior Brother Meng.
Meng Chao wore a filter mask, goggles, and an airtight protective suit, so Fang Lin could not tell just who he was.
However, with Ning Xueshi's status as the student council president of the resource course and her usually stern personality, it was naturally impossible for her to joke around with him.
Fang Lin knew how to conduct himself. He quickly called the freshmen forward. "Senior Brother Meng, I'll have to trouble you!"
As he looked at the respectful monster controller freshmen, Meng Chao nodded expressionlessly. He took two steps back and pulled Ning Xueshi to the side before he whispered, "What are you doing?"
"I'm letting you see the treatment you get when you join the resource course!"
Ning Xueshi said with a smirk. "When you're in the martial arts course, you fight against the monster controller course until you're covered in sweat and blood. Neither of you is willing to submit to the other, but when you're in the resource course, everyone is polite to us."
Meng Chao found himself speechless.
But he did not intend to deliberately make things difficult for the monster controller freshmen.
When it came to harvesting skills, he would not allow himself to show any signs of unprofessionalism.
He was also not interested in the grudges between the martial arts course and the monster controller course. If the Ultimate Style wanted to rise to power, the Beast Soul Style, which was currently in control of the martial arts course, and the monster controller freshmen in front of him were all targets he needed to "convince". He would treat all of them equally.
When he thought of this, Meng Chao put on a friendly smile to the monster controller freshmen.
It was the kind of friendly smile a big bad wolf would give when it saw a rabbit.
Unfortunately, it was covered by the mask, so they could not see it clearly.
The monster controller freshmen shuddered and rubbed the goosebumps on their arms. They whispered, "The warehouse is really cold. Why does it feel a little eerie?"
Ning Xueshi ordered a few of the resource course freshmen who were pretty skilled to move the biochemical beasts that died during the tournament to the dissection table.
The other students who were only average and had not come into contact with injury examination just watched attentively by the side.
The monster controller freshmen also stayed by the harvesters. They widened their eyes and did not miss even the smallest wound or defect on the carcass.
"Those people from the martial arts course are hilarious. We were just lucky, and they managed to win a few rounds in a row. Look at how happy they are. They look so proud and elated. They're just short of writing the words' we've been humiliated 'on their foreheads."
"When Big Sis Leopard went up, they were all dumbfounded!"
"And they're the Four Great Kings? In Wu Wu's eyes, they're just four shivering chicks, right?"
"But the monster controller course can't rely on Big Sis Leopard alone. We have to work hard too!"
"Of course, we've just learned how to control monsters. Our mental connection with the monsters isn't stable yet, so our synchronization rate can't reach more than 80%. That's why we're at a slight disadvantage. Once we cultivate stronger minds and our synchronization rate reaches more than 90%, we'll definitely beat up the martial arts course!"
The monster controller freshmen who had not had their turn yet started whispering behind them.
The martial arts course and monster controller course were old enemies who loved to kill each other. It was normal for them to talk trash behind each other's backs. The resource course students who were not involved in the matter were already used to it.
Some of them sized up Meng Chao. "Just who is this Senior Meng? He's been pacing back and forth for five minutes, but he hasn't said a word. He's really arrogant!"
"I don't think there's such a person in the resource course. Does he know injury examination as well? Why isn't he doing anything?"
Meng Chao ignored them. He placed his hands behind his back and surveyed the dissection tables.
He paid full attention to the resource course freshmen's dissection actions and thought about the difference between injury examination and harvesting.
The monster controller freshmen were naturally not controlling peerless monsters.
They were just normal monsters that had been genetically modified. At most, they were Grade One superbeasts.
Their structures were relatively simple, and they did not have any deformed or mutated organs.
Hence, Meng Chao only needed to observe them for five minutes before he gained a general understanding of the monsters' cause of death and the main points of injury examination.
"Wait."
He suddenly stopped one of the resource course freshmen. "Don't be in a hurry to cut it. Look at this Silver-fire Lion. Its abdomen is slightly bulging, but when you touch it, it feels even softer than when it's bleeding internally. This isn't a major hemorrhage caused by organs rupturing. Instead, it's the Velvet Fungus that's commonly seen in liger-type monsters. It's the rapid decay of its organs, which is why its carcass is filled with flammable, explosive, and poisonous corpse gas.
"If you cut it recklessly and release high pressure, it'll easily explode. If the poisonous pus after the organs decompose sprays all over you, your Grade Three protective suit might not be able to handle it.
"Even if you can handle it, the explosion in the Silver-fire Lion's body will be a mess, and it'll be very difficult for you to find the fatal cause of death.
"Come, insert a needle between the third and fourth ribs and inject five hundred milliliters of condensate into it to prevent the corpse gas from exploding. Take note that you have to inject the medicine slowly. Even slower. You have to be even gentler than when you harvest. That's the best way to protect the damaged organs."
Once he finished guiding the freshmen in dealing with the Silver-fire Lion, he moved to another dissection table.
"Blade Shattering Pythons have never been valuable monsters. Our goal is just to perform an injury examination, not to harvest its materials. That's why there's no need for us to be so careful."
Meng Chao used his finger to draw an imaginary line above and below the Blade Shattering Python's head. "If I'm not wrong, this Blade Shattering Python died because an opponent from the martial arts course used a thin sword to stab through its throat. It pierced through its esophagus and reached its heart.
"That's why, make a cross-shaped incision along the line I drew. Make a vertical cut of twenty-five centimeters, and a horizontal cut of twelve centimeters. That way, you'll be able to expose the entire wound in front of us. You'll be able to recreate the scene at the moment it was injured and the movements of the attacker and defender."
The resource course freshman followed Meng Chao's instructions and cut open the Blade Shattering Python's head. Then, he flipped open the flesh and fixed it in place.
Just as he expected, a fine but clear wound appeared from the throat to the esophagus, and then to the heart.
The attack trajectory and the angle of the stab practically followed the line Meng Chao had drawn just now.
When the resource course freshmen and monster controller course freshmen saw this, they gasped at the same time.
It was especially so for the latter freshmen. All of them gasped in amazement and treated Meng Chao as an outstanding person among the seniors in the resource course. When they looked at him, their gazes were filled with respect.
"I'll handle the next biochemical beasts, okay?" Meng Chao volunteered.
The wounds were rather clean, so the carcasses that were easier to handle were cut into pieces. Meng Chao found the fatal wound.
The remaining carcasses were all torn to pieces. They were a bloody mess and shattered at the slightest touch.
Originally, Ning Xueshi should have brought the seniors from the resource course to handle them.
But Meng Chao's hands were itchy. He wanted to know just how much his harvesting skills had improved after he cleared all 1,024 branch meridians.
"Senior Meng, you're going to handle it yourself. Of course it's not a problem." Ning Xueshi smiled.
"Senior Meng is going to take action!"
All the resource course freshmen put down what they were doing and surrounded Meng Chao. They stood on tiptoes and craned their necks to look at him.
Fang Lin, the senior from the monster controller course, quickly gave his juniors a meaningful look. "This is an outstanding person in the resource course. Hurry up, open your eyes and learn from him!"
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