Chapter 53: An Alternative Enlightenment Class

As a transmigrator whose soul originated in the twenty-first century, Li Li Boyang deeply understood the importance of knowledge.

Therefore, despite Li Jingzhu's physical training being very hard, Li Li Boyang still carved out half a day for her to study and learn to read.

"Which teacher would use medical books and herb classics to educate children..."

Sitting on his specially made small stool, Li Jingzhu flipped through the books on the desk and complained.

Yes, what Li Jingzhu was flipping through now was not some beast skin, bamboo slip, or silk, but a rolled-up sheet of paper.

In fact, when E Tu threw these books in front of Li Li Boyang, his understanding of this era once again became disordered.

In Li Li Boyang's ingrained impression, papermaking had always been a unique patented invention of ancient China.

On the Earth of his past life, Western civilization still used parchment as a recording and writing tool until the early fourteenth century.

Only after Li Li Boyang's serious research and analysis did he notice that these sheets of paper were not made through papermaking.

This rolled-up paper was actually closer to papyrus invented by the ancient Egyptians.

It was not paper made by soaking and decomposing fibers in the conventional sense, but rather directly pressed from a certain special natural plant.

Therefore, these sheets of paper were thin, brittle, and fragile, and their production was extremely limited.

Even with the sky-reaching methods E Tu had demonstrated.

When handing these books to Li Li Boyang, he also wore an expression of heartache.

In E Tu's words at the time, these were rare treasures that only true priests could use.

In terms of preciousness alone, these scrolls might even be more valuable than the knowledge recorded on them.

"Who else do we have but these medical books and herb classics?"

Although Li Jingzhu was only as tall as Li Li Boyang when standing, Li Li Boyang's every word and action was filled with the dignity of a teacher.

"Today we are going to learn human anatomy; you must at least memorize the names of those organs and tissues..."

"First, here is the heart, which is also the central hub for blood supply in the human body."

"It is responsible for the circulation of blood throughout the entire body; once this is damaged, a normal creature basically cannot be saved."

"And here is called the liver; although it is not as important as the heart, it bears the body's most critical detoxification function."

"These two characters are pronounced 'bladder'; it is..."

Lying on a tree branch nearby, Xi Luo quietly listened to Li Li Boyang's education of Li Jingzhu.

Unlike the carefree Li Jingzhu, Xi Luo had long known that Li Li Boyang had mixed in quite a bit of private material during the education process.

For instance, the classification of organs in human tissues, and knowledge of various meridians and acupoints.

Although the medical books brought back by E Tu did indeed contain content regarding human anatomy, and the content was so detailed and meticulous that it made one's hair stand on end.

Yet most of that content only stayed on the surface, without delving into the specific functions and roles of those organs.

Not to mention that Li Li Boyang would occasionally teach Li Jingzhu how to perform self-rescue in emergency situations.

Forcibly holding the heart to make it beat—cardiopulmonary resuscitation...

Emergency hemostasis performed through compression and pressure...

Directly piercing the trachea so that a suffocating person can breathe without using their mouth or nose...

Even though Xi Luo had never seen Li Li Boyang perform these operations in practice, she did not doubt the correctness of the knowledge he taught at all.

Sometimes, listening, Xi Luo even began to doubt.

Was Li Li Boyang actually teaching Li Jingzhu medicine, or was he teaching the other party methods of killing?

Those knowledge points in his mouth, if applied in a different way, would be excellent means of killing and torture.

Especially when combined with the various medicinal effects in the herb classics, it often created an option where "death was more difficult than living."

Fortunately, Xi Luo was not human and would not produce that feeling of pity for one's own kind; instead, she listened to Li Li Boyang's explanation with great interest.

Although the structures of animals and humans were certainly different, the basic principles were still the same.

Let alone ordinary animals, even those powerful spirits, once attacked at their vital points and weaknesses, would not perform much better than ordinary animals.

Of course, the reason Xi Luo was able to listen patiently.

Besides Li Li Boyang mocking her as an illiterate person in the morning, there was actually another more important reason—learning the Prophetic Talisman.

Li Li Boyang had actually realized this very early on.

This world was different from the Earth of his past life; some things could not be taught by rote.

For instance, the twelve Prophetic Talismans left by the Huaijiang Witch were things that did not exist at all on Earth.

At first, Li Li Boyang simply understood them as some kind of text that came with mysterious power.

After all, wasn't that how various fantasy novels in his past life were written?

However, only after Li Li Boyang began to conduct more in-depth research on the Prophetic Talisman did he discover that his thoughts were still too superficial.

The twelve Talismans were merely the appearance; the Prophetic Words were the foundation that constituted them.

Separating these twelve Talismans individually, each one was composed of countless Prophetic Words, and these Prophetic Words could also be taken out individually to function.

Looking at it from this angle, these Talismans were essentially a form of high-dimensional text.

Saying the concept of "high-dimensional text" might be a bit abstract.

It is much easier to understand if simply regarded as text that contains more information, or even energy.

Making a metaphor that might be somewhat inappropriate.

English is a phonetic script and is also standard linear-thinking text.

Theoretically speaking, English can express different meanings through different combinations of its twenty-six letters.

But the defect of this phonetic script lies in the fact that once a new thing appears, a corresponding new word must be created.

Especially when delving into the vertical domain of a certain profession, or when two regions have been isolated from each other for too long.

Those newly created words will become a threshold for mutual understanding.

This creates an invisible professional barrier that greatly hinders cultural exchange and dissemination.

In contrast, Chinese characters are ideograms combining form, sound, and rich meaning along with cultural connotations.

Each Chinese character is not merely a sound; it also contains information on history, culture, philosophy, and other aspects, possessing strong inclusivity and expansiveness.

Even for entirely new things never seen before, ordinary people can roughly judge what the new thing is through the combination of characters.

Three verticals and one horizontal look like "mountain"; adding one horizontal above the baseline is "up"; adding one horizontal below the baseline is "down".

Sun and moon combined make "bright"; two trees combined make "forest"; one more tree than forest makes "dense forest".

It is precisely because of this characteristic that harbors more information.

As long as a person has learned simplified Chinese characters, they will most likely be able to understand the corresponding traditional Chinese characters without needing to set too many learning thresholds.

Of course, the corresponding downside is that the learning threshold for ideograms is extremely high.

With English, one only needs to memorize words and their corresponding meanings, at most adding some rural slang.

Whereas Chinese must also be combined with corresponding culture and context to avoid generating too much ambiguity during reading and understanding.

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