Zhou Yi approached, but the lancholic Bone Man doctor didn't even notice.
His head hung low, hands cradling his skull, apparently troubled by sothing.
Zhou Yi sat down next to him: "What's the problem? Talk to , maybe I can help."
The Bone Man doctor suddenly snapped back to reality: "Ah, Chairman, hello!! I was just distracted..."
"What's the matter?"
"Well…"
"Is it sothing to do with the Night God Church?"
"No, there's no issue with the church. I am just an ordinary faithful mber," the Bone Man doctor waved his hand, "It's the hospital."
He finally spoke up.
"I specialize in bone reconstruction and transplantation for Bone n. However, from my experience, Bone n deal with minor ailnts on their own—usually older generation Bone n sew and repair bones themselves, and they go directly to chanical City to find dical experts for serious illnesses."
"So this makes doctors like sotis feel awkward, in a sort of limbo."
"Fortunately, the company provides good benefits, the hospital reimburses for dical expenses, and the company's Bone Man employees often co for check-ups. Yet, outside Bone n hardly ever co for treatnt. I've been pondering on how to get them to co in."
Zhou Yi listened quietly.
"Then an idea occurred to ."
Wei Wu said, "What many outsiders don't know is that Bone n are passionate about their appearance and dressing up, but they tend to be careless and perfunctory about health. This is because Bone n have a unique structure and minor issues don't actually affect their daily lives."
"In terms of self-adornnt, male Bone n like to wear hats and clothes. So create exoskeletal armor, and others modify and enhance their own bones."
"On the other hand, female Bone n are bolder in their attempts, such as transplanting hair, tattooing, dyeing, and even insetting jewelry and the like."
"The root of this dressing up is that Bone n lack individual identification. Being one of them, I have deeply felt this myself."
The Bone Man doctor spread his gaunt palms towards Zhou Yi and said, "Chairman, dressing up for Bone n is not only a way to express themselves, but also a way to differentiate from other Bone n."
"Bone n can recognize each other, but outsiders think we all look similar."
Zhou Yi thought for a mont.
Sun Chonglai was always stylish and shiny; the Bone n of the Tad Bull Tribe all had cow horn helts and wore outer garnts woven from coconut shells—it appeared there was a reason for this.
"So... I want to set up a costic surgery departnt for Bone n."
Wei Wu said, "If it's treatnt and check-ups, Bone n aren't interested, but if it's about costic surgery, everyone starts to get ideas."
"Currently, such services don't exist in chanical City. And in Human City, there are few Bone Man doctors, let alone specialized departnts, so it's a very promising new field."
"Over the past few years, I've been trialing safe costic surgery techniques on myself."
The Bone Man doctor pointed to his own skull, "You see, my bones are much whiter than the average Bone Man, very symtrical. This isn't natural; it's the result of post-natal whitening."
"Most Bone n like this fresh white bone color, which is also the mainstream aesthetic direction in Bone Man society."
"But I have also tried other shades."
He rolled up the sleeve of his left arm, exposing the forearm within which was a pale gold color: "This golden shade, so Bone n feel is very noble and elegant, and I have mastered the safe coloring technique."
"And this."
Wei Wu rolled up his right sleeve, and his right arm was a light tan color, giving it an intense sense of age, as if the bones had been unearthed after being buried for many years.
"This is an aging technique; so Bone n like to appear to have an antique style, so this color is also popular among many Bone n."
"Moreover, there are silver and plaster hues—the Bone n like these two shades as well."
Zhou Yi's eyes widened, "Indeed, excellence cos with dedication, and it seems you have spent a lot of effort and ti in this area."
"Indeed, it took years to find these safe formulas. But Chairman, I haven't slacked off in my main job, all of this has been researched in my private ti."
The Bone Man doctor continued, "Apart from whitening and dyeing, there's also hair transplantation, bone carving, and bone augntation. I have surgical experience in all of these areas, not a problem at all."
"Within this past year at work, seeing the Bone Fish deliveryman's uniform with the light soot layer gave a massive inspiration."
"Bone n do not like being slender and feeble; we all yearn for strong, imposing bodies. So I imitated the Bone Fish deliveryman and used Light Soot Sand to create a special muscular overlay for Bone n."
Zhou Yi beca interested, "Do you have a physical product? Let's take a look."
"Please wait for , I'll bring it right over."
Wei Wu ran back to the hospital, and in no ti, he brought out a large box.
The Bone Man doctor opened the box, carefully unlocked the clasps and lifted the lid.
Placed inside the box were blocks of black material, like a suit of armor ready to be worn. It was clearly made from Light Soot Sand, with a rough, sandblasted texture.
Wei Wu took off his white coat and shirt, putting on the Bone Man muscular overlay one by one. The black artificial muscles covered the seemingly fragile bones, making him look more robust.
Then the Bone Man transford into a black-muscled man.
The finesse of the production ant you could still see the clear contours of the skull in particular areas, not hindering the identification of a Bone Man.
Wei Wu moved his arms, swinging his fists, his whole being exuding power.
"Chairman, this is the muscle overlay I've made myself."
"It also looks good wearing other clothes, or even without wearing anything at all, there's nothing inappropriate."
"Furthermore, the muscular overlay can be modified, such as choosing to completely expose the skull or just cover parts, perform tattooing and decoration on the muscle layer, or even dye it, just like the Bone Fish deliveryman."
"Additionally, it offers great protection, better than any bulky shell or armor. Ordinary grade E abilities can't break it."
"For female Bone n who need a slimr silhouette, we can adjust the thickness to make the figure look more symtrical and flexible."
Zhou Yi nodded frequently as he watched: "This is good. A great idea."
"There's just one problem."
Wei Wu took off the artificial muscles one by one.
Zhou Yi guessed: "Is the price too high?"
"It's not that. Chairman, the main occupations of Bone n are rchants and craftsn, and their average inco is above that of human enhancers. Everyone can afford it, I'm sure. Many Bone n in the cities have the spending power and definitely wouldn't skimp on these expenses."
Wei Wu sighed: "The problem is letting them know about this. It's hard to advertise. We need to let the outside world know that our hospital has opened a costic surgery departnt."
"Now that we're sanctioned by the chanical City, it has beco even more difficult to advertise. I've discussed this with Da Vinci, the dean, who is very supportive, but we haven't found a way to do the promotion yet."
Zhou Yi fell into thought.
Indeed.
Good wine needs no bush.
In the past, advertisents for costic surgery were everywhere, from streets to elevators, from buses to inside and outside shopping malls.
He asked the Bone Man doctor: "How does the hospital usually advertise externally?"
"The most effective is the recomndation from Holy Mountain, and the records on 'dical Encyclopedia' which can attract a large number of Guangna Species patients."
Wei Wu thought for a mont: "Like an ordinary hospital... When I worked at Steel Port Hospital, we spent money to buy ad space on announcent boards in various cities. In every city where announcents are posted, many people go to see them every day."
"The more populous the city, the more expensive it gets. I rember the Steel Port Hospital advertised in Liang Mountain, where the local population is about 120,000, and it cost 6 Light Seeds a year. In places with more people, it would definitely be more expensive."
Zhou Yi had an idea.
The cost of promotion varies by region.
But on the other hand.
"Daring to spend so much on advertising indicates that many hospitals are able to recover the cost."
"Yes, Chairman, as long as enhancers or Guangna Species co to the hospital for surgeries, sotis a single surgery can recoup the cost."
The Bone Man doctor said: "The Bone Man community is rather scattered. Usually, a city won't have more than a hundred Bone n, it's quite troubleso to advertise everywhere."
It was quite troubled.
Zhou Yi called Red Kestrel over: "The four regions within the Developnt Alliance should be no problem. But to further advertise, which cities have a larger population of Bone n?"
After listening to the situation here, the drone replied: "Recently, the most suitable is the Shuanghe Region, where there are more than 1,000 Bone n."
"We are already in cooperative express business with them, so this matter should be as simple as offering paynt."
Zhou Yi nodded imdiately: "Then you contact them. By the way, can we connect remotely now?"
"With the Spring and Autumn Chamber of Comrce's ch stands as agents, there's no problem."
"Wait a mont."
About five minutes later.
Red Kestrel said: "I've contacted Lin Qin, and they said there's no problem. They can provide us with a dedicated space on the bulletin boards in 7 cities for long-term use, free of charge."
"Free? What do they want in return?" Zhou Yi frowned.
"Shuanghe Region wants to purchase a large number of refrigeration boxes from us, hoping they could be shipped over imdiately for preserving dicines and cooling down. This sumr, the region suffered a great impact from high temperatures. Not only did it cause local residents to die, but wildfires also broke out, and the disaster was severe."
That's how it is.
Zhou Yi nodded: "Contact the Steel Refining Lord and distribute a part of the refrigeration boxes to Shuanghe Region first."
A mont later.
The voice of the Steel Refining Lord ca from inside Red Kestrel: "Mr. Zhou, we're also tight on inventory here, I can only spare 100 refrigeration boxes and 60,000 pieces of cooling coal at first."
"That will do. Let's handle the ergency first."
"Okay, I'll arrange it right now."
Unknowingly, it had grown dark outside.
Then Zhou Yi thought of soone who should be very capable in this area.
"Night God, Night God, call upon my heart."
The Night God, with palace makeup and shaking a small fan, appeared: "It's been a while. How have things been?"
"Not bad."
After listening to Zhou Yi's request, Night God smiled slightly: "Such a trivial matter. Just ordinary social comrce. We have quite a few in our Church who are good at running these things."
"I will help you find so cities with a larger Bone Man population to advertise, starting with a preliminary plan for 10 cities. Since it's an invention by a believer… I'll give you a discount. The cost price of 60 Light Seeds will suffice."
Zhou Yi said: "But I can't use electronic accounts right now."
"No problem, then we'll just keep a record for now."
It's a deal.
Zhou Yi turned to Wei Wu and said: "I've opened up the channels for advertising. Besides the Shuanghe Region, 10 other cities will also have our hospital's specialized promotion, you just focus on the surgeries."
"Thank you, Chairman!!"
The Bone Man doctor was overjoyed: "You are so capable! Please trust , this is very promising! It will surely bring revenue to the hospital!"
"I trust your judgnt, do well."
Zhou Yi noticed that 703 had been waiting nearby for a long ti.
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