GBP Chapter 447 - 319: Draining the Rare Metal Wholesale Market (Part 2)
Chapter 447 - 319: Draining the Rare Metal Wholesale Market (Part 2)
In the twenty-second body refining session with the hydraulic machine just now, the skill level of Vajra Indestructible increased by about one percent. This is almost equivalent to half a day’s hard training with a plasma cutter.
This is because such training not only causes damage to his body tissues but also deeply stimulates his muscle fibers, thereby achieving a training effect.
And muscle training happens to be the main focus of refining Vajra Indestructible.
The Martial Monks in Shaolin Temple can withstand blows from sticks,
and it’s not entirely due to the toughness of their bones or the thickness of their skin.
Seventy percent of the reason is actually because their muscles are hard enough.
In ancient times, there are even records of muscles being strong enough to block sharp arrows.
In modern hospitals, when muscles are sufficiently hard, even surgical scalpels have difficulty cutting through. When some professional athletes suffer from appendicitis and go to the hospital for an appendectomy, they often draw complaints from doctors because their muscles are so strong and resilient that even sharp scalpels struggle to cut through.
But because Wang Ye’s muscles are so strong, it’s always been difficult for him to effectively train his muscles. It’s only when running at high speed that his calf muscles feel a bit sore. Now that he’s purchased a hydraulic machine, he can easily stimulate his muscles through heavy pressing. Although the training effect might not be perfect, from the system’s perspective, this counts as an effective body refining exercise, which is why the improvement of Vajra Indestructible was so significant.
After reviewing the panel data, Wang Ye sensed the changes in his body.
The muscle groups in areas like his thighs and shoulders, which were stimulated by the heavy pressure just now, indeed experienced slight strength improvements,
indicating that this kind of training is indeed effective,
In the fitness realm, the best method for increasing strength is also to use extreme weights for stimulation. In the fitness world, there’s a professional term called RM. It refers to the maximum weight a person can lift in a single movement, usually expressed as a number, like RM10, meaning the maximum weight liftable in a single motion is ten repetitions. If a person’s RM1, or maximum weight, is a hundred kilograms, then their RM8 is probably around sixty kilograms. For muscle gain, the weight to choose is RM8-12, for strength gain it’s RM1-6, and if wanting to simultaneously gain muscle and strength, RM6-8 can be chosen.
This training principle is actually quite rudimentary for Wang Ye; his usual training has always adhered to this principle. When he wants to improve strength, he increases the intensity to approach the limit, when he wants to improve endurance, he reduces the intensity.
But now his strength is so surpassingly high that in strength training he finds it hard to select RM1 intensity for training, and Wang Ye’s training intensity in the hydraulic machine just now was roughly at the RM1 level. Leveraging his ability to evoke muscle potential allowed him to persist for twenty seconds, otherwise, without stimulating this potential, he might have not lasted even a second without being crushed.
Realizing the impressive efficiency of training with the hydraulic machine, Wang Ye couldn’t help but start the machine again and went through successive rounds of training, only ending today’s training after his mind and body were completely exhausted.
Wang Ye unplugged the hydraulic machine, walked out of the villa, and locked the door,
then headed directly to the rare metal wholesale market he often visited.
Ever since Wang Ye discovered that forty percent of his bones contained chromium,
he’d go to the rare metal market every two days to purchase a batch of chromium.
Sometimes he’d buy fifty kilograms, sometimes a hundred or two hundred kilograms.
He’s practically cleaned out the stock from the boss there,
as it’s known that such small-scale rare metal wholesale markets only stock one to two tons of chromium maximum,
and Wang Ye purchases up to hundreds of kilograms at a time, plus coming back every few days to buy again,
so naturally, their stock is running low now.
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After walking briskly for about ten minutes, Wang Ye arrived at the rare metal wholesale market several kilometers away.
The market gatekeeper, a thirty-something local middle-aged man who liked speaking in dialect despite Wang Ye’s use of Mandarin, noticed Wang Ye approaching from a distance,
and immediately a change came over his face.
"Damn, this guy’s here to buy chromium again."
Though doing business is no bad thing, this guy’s purchase frequency is just too high.
With chromium already hard to procure, having his stock flown off the shelf by Wang Ye makes other business hard to do.
But he dares not refuse business with Wang Ye,
since chromium is pricey, nearing a hundred thousand a ton, and Wang Ye buys over ten thousand worth each time—all in all, a very valuable long-term client.
This made the boss ponder whether he should stock up on more chromium.
He didn’t suspect Wang Ye’s massive chromium purchases had any special purpose.
Chromium, with its excellent properties, is a necessity in many alloy productions, so it’s not that unusual for people to buy it. Though many may not knowingly interact with chromium in daily life, believing it irrelevant to them, it’s actually seen daily in chrome alloy products on the street.
Common stainless steel is an alloy containing chromium,
only when chromium content in stainless steel reaches a certain level can it have outstanding corrosion resistance, ensuring no rust forms under long-term exposure.
Putting a bit of it in other metals increases hardness and corrosion resistance to some extent.
So the boss isn’t particularly surprised by Wang Ye’s bulk chromium purchases,
as chromium is indeed a quite prevalent metal,
only domestic supplies are scant, thus pricer than other metals.
Even the human body requires a certain chromium amount for blood sugar regulation, commonly found in trace amounts in whole grains or high-protein foods, but overdosing could lead to toxicity, though in everyday normals, overdosing levels are unreachable,
for example, each hundred grams of corn holds about 0.45 mg of chromium, converting into percentages equals 0.00045%. Normal daily safe intake is around twenty milligrams, implying ten pounds of corn a day still falls short of chromium toxicity thresholds.
But someone like Wang Ye directly consuming chromium metals is a different story. The boss speculates Wang Ye perhaps privately manufactures alloys.
At the same time,
Wang Ye had already entered the wholesale market and began bargaining with the boss.
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Fifteen minutes later,
Wang Ye placed a hundred kilograms of chromium on a tricycle,
entrusting the boss to deliver it to the villa area.
Then Wang Ye left the wholesale market,
as indeed, carrying this hundred kilograms of chromium himself wasn’t practical, hence he paid extra for delivery,
prompting him to consider buying a car,
never having needed one over the past decade commuting via subway.
Now with the funds, suddenly a car need emerged,
albeit mostly for transporting large items,
hardly for commuting,
considering his casual running speed far surpasses that of civilian vehicles by countless times.
Wang Ye pondered briefly, realizing a car was unnecessary, even considering simply flying items atop his head when no one watched,
unsightly perhaps but practical,
without any financial stress for any car purchase,
opting out solely due to the car’s futility.
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