Chapter 15: First Hearing Bad News

The so-called Master, in National Martial Arts, is a Dark Jin powerhouse.

Ming Jin, Dark Jin, Hua Jin, the three major external martial arts realms, each realm has a leap-style gap in combat power.

Ming Jin practitioners have two or three hundred kilograms of force in their hands and feet when they explode. Ordinary people facing a Ming Jin expert, one punch and one kick will take a person's life.

Dark Jin practitioners can explode huge power in a square inch. It looks like a light palm, but the power in this palm can explode to seven or eight hundred kilograms. So just now, Su Xing and the tiger-claw martial artist just touched, and his tiger claw was directly twisted. This power is actually equivalent to a collision hammer hitting his hand. Let alone human flesh and bones, even armor and steel would be dented.

The only flaw is that this explosive power cannot last. Now, because of the improvement of Su Xing's basic physical quality, which is equivalent to the physical quality of an Olympic champion in all-around athletics, he can explode at most ten times in a battle. Any more, and he will damage his foundation, and there will be a lot of hidden injuries in his body.

Hua Jin practitioners are almost returning to the basics. One punch and one palm do not need to explode, and the whole body has the power of Dark Jin explosion, continuous, and even has the saying that mosquitoes and insects cannot land. Any mosquito or insect, once touching the skin of a Hua Jin practitioner, is directly shaken to death. This eliminates the unsustainable flaw of Dark Jin.

Ming Jin is a martial artist, an expert in the martial arts world, while Dark Jin is called a Master, often the leader of some forces, and the Red Flower Double Stick is Dark Jin. As for Hua Jin, it is like a dragon, seeing the head but not the tail, often a top-level powerhouse of the era with legendary colors. There are probably only four or five people in the world.

As for the higher-level internal martial arts Rank Three, Dan Jin, Gang Qi, Seeing God Not Bad, this belongs to the mythological level beyond mortals. For example, the legendary Buddha Shakyamuni is a Seeing God Not Bad existence. These are land immortals that only appear once in many years.

Knowing that Su Xing is a Dark Jin Master, these dozen cultists, women in red, two half-abolished martial artists, including the young master who was arrogant before, were all low-brow and pleasing to the eye, and they answered whatever was asked, not daring to hide anything.

"I am ordered by my father, this time coming to Xuanhua Prefecture City is to meet the eldest sister of the Red Lantern Society, to discuss the great plan of supporting the Qing and destroying the foreigners." Xu Rongyu, the young master, still said with some pride.

Supporting the Qing and destroying the foreigners is the external propaganda slogan of the Boxer Rebellion, patriotism. For these horse bandits and gangsters who are as black as can be, it is indeed an opportunity to bleach. Especially now that the Qing court is in its honeymoon period with the Boxer Rebellion, if successful, they could even be incorporated by the Qing court and eat imperial grain.

Su Xing was indeed disdainful of this. He sneered and said: "If it were Lin Heier, I would look at her highly. What are you? What is your father? Forget it, it's meaningless to talk so much with you. Now take out all the money on you."

Xu Rongyu's face flushed. Usually, only he took people to rob, but now he was robbed. However, with people under the eaves, he still obediently took out the silver, silver dollars, and a stack of silver notes on him, along with the broken silver on the two martial artists and a few women in red.

Just here, there is probably hundreds of taels of silver. However, Su Xing, Yi Ya, and Xu Shilan were all indifferent and didn't care at all.

After accepting the silver, Su Xing lifted Xu Rongyu with one hand and said to the martial artists and women in red: "I have kidnapped the person. The ransom must be delivered within five days. One price, ten thousand taels of silver. If the money is not received within five days, then I will tear up the ticket."

Xu Rongyu didn't dare to say a word. The two martial artists hesitated for a while, and the tiger-form martial artist said: "Where should we find the Master?"

Su Xing thought for a while and asked Xu Rongyu: "Where do you think is the best place for your burial place?"

Xu Rongyu was shocked and angry, and finally couldn't help but say: "You want to blackmail!?"

Su Xing shook his head with a smile and said: "No, just think they probably won't be willing to part with ten thousand taels of silver, so I'll say it in advance. Tell me, what place do you want to be buried in?"

Xu Rongyu stared at Su Xing, and he said to the two martial artists: "Ask the two gentlemen to report to my father, just at the mortuary by the side of the official road thirty miles outside the city. If I die, it will save trouble to die in this mortuary!"

The two martial artists looked at each other and bowed. The crane-form martial artist said to Su Xing: "Master, you are a dignified Master, you shouldn't go back on your word. Just leave the young master's life, we will definitely bring the words to the big leader."

After speaking, the two walked away without looking back.

The dozen cultists were injured and disabled. At this time, they all knelt down and didn't dare to speak. Only the few women in red had an attitude not as intense as Xu Rongyu or the two martial artists, all because Su Xing said just now that if Lin Heier came, he would look at her highly.

A woman in red made a hand gesture within the cult and said: "Master, do you have old ties with the eldest sister? Or are you brothers and sisters in the cult?"

Su Xing waved his hand and said: "What old ties do I have with her? It's nothing more than seeing her heroic and heroic afterwards, not afraid of death. Although the route is wrong, this kind of heroic spirit that is consistent from beginning to end is really admirable. If there is time, it would be good to meet. Alright, you go."

The few women in red didn't understand, but they all kept it in mind. The leading woman in red held her hands and said: "Will definitely bring the Master's words to the eldest sister."

After speaking, the few women in red also went, leaving only a dozen cultists shivering.

Su Xing ignored them, still lifting Xu Rongyu, and took the two newcomers into the city. All three were very hungry.

Although it is a prefecture city, at the level of this era, especially the Qing court, it is not prosperous. The three lifted one person, found a restaurant that looked okay, walked in, sat down in a private room upstairs, and waited for the food to be served.

At this time, Yi Ya asked: "You seem to be very familiar with this place?"

Xu Shilan also looked over. Su Xing had nothing to hide, so he nodded directly and said: "Yes, I am a future person frozen in the 21st century. This place is not far from the era I am in. Schools all teach this, so I naturally know a lot."

Yi Ya and Xu Shilan were stunned, and then the expressions on their faces became complicated.

Su Xing's heart skipped a beat. He saw the expression that puzzled him again.

In the 156 days since he woke up, there were still seven or eight predecessors when he first woke up. When he said he was a frozen future person from the 21st century, these predecessors also showed the same expression, and he asked many times but to no avail. This really became a heart disease of his.

Just then, the waiter and a few helpers in the restaurant began to serve dishes. Because the three were extremely hungry, especially Su Xing and Yi Ya were big eaters, these dishes had more than twenty courses, and they were all big fish and meat. For this, Su Xing even paid three silver dollars in advance and pressed them on the counter.

Seeing the dishes coming, Yi Ya laughed and said: "Eat, eat, all very hungry."

Xu Shilan also nodded silently. Only Su Xing felt more and more ominous in his heart.

Before, he was facing predecessors. Those predecessors helped him a lot and saved his life several times. Otherwise, he would have died in the first few Dream Worlds he entered. Others were unwilling to say, and he naturally couldn't force it. But these two were both newcomers, and now he is the one protecting their lives.

Su Xing's face sank, and he flicked his finger on the table. A burst of Dark Jin exploded, and the hands of the two reaching for chopsticks were flicked away as if they had been electrocuted. This meaning was already very clear.

Both sighed. Xu Shilan looked at Yi Ya, and Yi Ya nodded and said: "Okay, don't regret it after I say it... All future people before the Third War, they will go crazy and die not long after waking up, uh, about a year or so... without exception... all future people before the Third War are like this."

Su Xing felt cold all over. He looked at Xu Shilan, and Xu Shilan also nodded.

Su Xing immediately said: "Why? Why? Isn't my illness all cured? Or did the Human Unified Government install something in my body? Like a micro-bomb or something!?"

Both shook their heads. Yi Ya looked at Su Xing with helpless and sad eyes and said: "It's crazy, not sick or bombed... Do you know what the original purpose of the dream network created was?"

Su Xing said: "Because after fifty years in a frozen hibernation state, consciousness will initially wake up, even in a frozen state, it cannot..."

Speaking of this, Su Xing couldn't speak anymore. Xu Shilan gently poured a glass of wine for Su Xing, and at the same time said: "The answer is actually something you already knew, you just didn't dare to face it."

"During the Third War, technology only had virtual reality means. So future people frozen from the Third War have their own personal consciousness virtual reality. When consciousness wakes up, they can continue to sleep in virtual reality, instead of being locked in a dark room. But before this... all future people were trapped in a dark room for a hundred, two hundred, five hundred years, or even seven or eight hundred years like you. Do you know what this means?"

Su Xing picked up the wine glass in silence and drank it in one gulp. Xu Shilan reached out gracefully, picked up food for Su Xing, and poured wine for him again.

Yi Ya also said at this time: "Ordinary people are locked in darkness with no perception. I'm afraid they will collapse in ten hours. Even people with firm will will go crazy after a few days. This is the most terrible torture. And you... I'm afraid you have been in it for hundreds of years. Do you know? In the era when I was born and grew up, you future people who have been away for a long time are actually all regarded as dead people, or some kind of 'things' wearing human skin, monsters in consciousness, because no one knows what your consciousness has turned into. Hundreds of years of dark room torture, saying you have turned into some kind of non-biological thing is possible."

Xu Shilan took over the conversation and said: "In the era I was in, there were thirteen singularity technology companies that unfroze future people from the 21st and 22nd centuries. The purpose of this experiment at the beginning was to pursue the limit of life consciousness, but you who woke up were like ordinary people, so scholars believed that this was a self-protection mechanism of the brain, that is, completely forgetting the indescribable pain, so you could behave like ordinary people. However... all future people before the Third War became crazy within about a year, and then died, without exception. That was when we knew."

"You, you all, are actually already crazy, or your consciousness is dead. Now you are just some kind of appearance. You might not even be the original Su Xing, but an appearance composed of Su Xing's consciousness fragments. The torture accumulated from hundreds of years of nothingness is actually always there, it's just that it hasn't exploded yet. But with waking up, these terrible tortures will emerge bit by bit. One year... after one year, you will be gone."

"Without exception!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 16 =====