Chapter 15: First Hearing Bad News

A so-called Master, in National Arts, is a Dark Jin expert.

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

A Ming Jin practitioner has two or three hundred kilograms of force in their hands and feet when exploding. When an ordinary person faces a Ming Jin expert, one punch or one kick will take their life.

A Dark Jin practitioner can explode huge power within an inch. It looks like a light palm, but the power within 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 beaten into a dent.

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 sports, he can explode at most ten times in a battle. Any more will damage the foundation, and there will be a lot of hidden injuries in the body.

A Hua Jin practitioner is almost returning to the basics. One punch and one palm do not need to explode. The whole body has the power of Dark Jin explosion, continuous, and there is a saying that mosquitoes cannot land. Any mosquito that touches the skin of a Hua Jin practitioner is directly shocked to death. This eliminates the flaw that Dark Jin cannot last.

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-tier expert of the current era with legendary colors. There are probably only four or five people in the current era.

As for the higher-level internal skill Tier 3, Dan Jin, Gang Qi, Seeing God Not Bad, this belongs to the mythological level that transcends mortals. For example, the legendary Buddha Shakyamuni was a Being of Seeing God Not Bad. These are land immortals that only appear once in many years.

Knowing that Su Xing is a Dark Jin Master, these dozen religious people, red-clothed women, two half-abolished martial artists, including the young master who was arrogant before, were all submissive, asking what they said, and not daring to have any concealment.

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

Supporting the Qing and destroying the foreign is the external propaganda slogan of the Boxer Rebellion, patriotism. For these black-to-the-bone horse bandits and gangs, it is indeed an opportunity to whitewash, especially now that the Qing court is in a honeymoon period with the Boxer Rebellion. If it goes well, they can 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 more 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, 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 red-clothed women.

Just here, it is estimated that there are hundreds of taels of silver, but Su Xing, Ya Made, and Xu Shilan were all indifferent and didn't care at all.

After receiving the silver, Su Xing lifted Xu Rongyu with one hand and said to the martial artists and red-clothed women: "I have kidnapped the person. The ransom is limited to five days. One price, ten thousand taels of silver. If the money is not received within five days, 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-shaped martial artist said: "Where should we find the Master?"

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

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

Su Xing smiled and shook his head: "No, I just think they probably won't be willing to give ten thousand taels of silver, so I said it in advance. Tell me, where do you want to be buried?"

Xu Rongyu stared at Su Xing, and he said to the two martial artists: "Please ask the two gentlemen to report to my father. It is at the Yizhuang on the side of the official road thirty miles outside the city. If I die, it will be easy to die in this Yizhuang!"

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

After speaking, the two left without looking back.

The dozen religious people were injured and disabled. At this time, they all knelt down and didn't dare to speak. Only the attitude of the few red-clothed women was 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 more highly.

A red-clothed woman made a hand gesture in the religious group and said: "Master, do you have an old relationship with the eldest sister? Or are you a brother or sister in the group?"

Su Xing waved his hand and said: "What old relationship do I have with her? It's nothing more than seeing her as a hero and martyr later, not afraid of death. Although the route is wrong, this kind of heroic spirit that runs through is really admirable. If there is time, it would be nice to meet. Okay, you go."

A few red-clothed women didn't understand, but they all kept it in mind. The leading red-clothed woman said: "I will definitely bring the Master's words to the eldest sister."

After speaking, the few red-clothed women also left, leaving only a dozen religious people shivering.

Su Xing ignored them, still carrying Xu Rongyu, and took the two newcomers to the city. The three of them were already very hungry.

Although it was a prefecture city, at the level of this era, especially the Qing court, it was not prosperous. The three carried 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, Ya Made asked: "You seem to be very familiar with this place?"

Xu Shilan also looked over. Su Xing had nothing to hide. 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, and schools have taught it, so I naturally know a lot."

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

Su Xing's heart skipped a beat, and 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 to no avail. This really became a heart disease of his.

Just then, the waiter and a few helpers in the restaurant started serving dishes. Because the three were extremely hungry, especially Su Xing and Ya Made were big eaters, there were more than twenty dishes, all of which were big fish and meat. For this, Su Xing even paid three silver dollars in advance at the counter.

Seeing the dishes coming, Ya Made laughed and said: "Eat, eat, I'm 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 didn't want to say, so he naturally couldn't force it. But these two were both newcomers, and now he is protecting their lives.

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

Both sighed. Xu Shilan looked at Ya Made, and Ya Made nodded and said: "Okay, don't regret what I said... All the future people before the Third World War, they will go crazy and die within about a year after waking up, without exception... All of them, the future people before the Third World War are all 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 completely cured? Or did the Human Unified Government install something in my body? Like a micro-bomb or something!?"

Both shook their heads. Ya Made 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 was?"

Su Xing said: "Because after fifty years in a frozen sleep 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 said: "The answer is actually what you already knew, but you didn't dare to face it."

"During the Third World War, technology only had virtual reality means, so future people frozen from the Third World War onwards all have 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, or even seven or eight hundred years like you. Do you know what this means?"

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

Ya Made 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 in a few days. This is the most terrible torture. And you... I'm afraid you have stayed in it for hundreds of years. Do you know? In the era when I was born and raised, you future people from a long time ago were 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 changed into. Hundreds of years of dark room, saying that you have become 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 thawed future people from the 21st and 22nd centuries. The purpose of this experiment at the beginning was to pursue the limits of life consciousness, but you who woke up were like ordinary people, so scholars thought this was a self-protection mechanism of the brain, that is, to completely forget the indescribable pain, so you can behave like ordinary people. But... all future people before the Third World War became crazy within about a year, and then died, without exception. At that time, 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 by hundreds of years of nothingness has actually always been 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 =====