Chapter 2

'There is hope……'

'Killing Sun Jindong, there is hope!'

Chen Mu suppressed the excitement in his heart.

In this world, dead people were a common occurrence.

Gang fights, martial artist duels, bandits running rampant, mountain bandits robbing the road……

Even the government would behead criminals at the vegetable market every once in a while!

It could be said that there was never a shortage of corpses.

And near the city, the place with the most corpses……

The mass grave!

Almost instantly, Chen Mu made a decision.

Go to the mass grave outside the city!

……

With a goal, Chen Mu worked even harder.

After applying medicine to Huang Feiyang, he accompanied others to send the corpses of the three gang members who died in battle home one by one.

These had relatives.

If they died in battle, the body was sent back, and there would be a pension of ten silver taels afterwards.

For those who were alone, the ten silver taels were saved; they were wrapped in a broken mat, pulled outside the city, and buried in a randomly dug pit.

The lives of low-level personnel were just that cheap.

Chen Mu, having just arrived, helped transport the three corpses, and there was some gloom in his heart, but it also stimulated his motivation to become stronger.

This was not only to eliminate the obsession left by the original body, but also to protect himself.

If he died again, who knows if there would be another transmigration……

……

Nanyun Prefecture had nine counties under its jurisdiction.

The prefecture city had the largest population, with a permanent population of 300,000.

Adding the floating population, it directly exceeded 500,000.

With so many people, the city gates naturally couldn't be few, and four were opened.

This didn't count the inner city where high officials and noble families lived, only the outer city where the poor and commoners lived.

Chen Mu lived in the East District of the outer city.

Coming out of the East Gate and walking northeast for several miles, you would reach the mass grave where few people set foot.

In the afternoon, the sun was still hanging in the sky.

In the forest of the mass grave, however, it was gloomy, and all kinds of foul smells wafted in the air, especially the smell of decay.

Chen Mu bit the bullet and walked through the corpses with different causes of death.

Soon……

[Corpse discovered, do you want to loot?]

"Yes!"

Chen Mu responded.

He reached into his pocket and took out a translucent card the size of a playing card, surrounded by fluorescence.

When leaving the city, Chen Mu tested it, holding the functional card and waving it in front of others, but no one could see it.

This made Chen Mu feel more at ease.

Stamina Card!

Another Stamina Card, Chen Mu put it away for now.

[Corpse discovered, do you want to loot?]

"Yes!"

[Corpse discovered, do you want to loot?]

"Yes!"

……

Walking non-stop, constantly looting cards.

Energy Card, Energy Card, Stamina Card, Energy Card……

Walking all the way, it was either an Energy Card or a Stamina Card.

Chen Mu, who had originally suppressed his fear due to the joy of constantly obtaining functional cards, was a bit depressed after this.

"It wouldn't be that I can only loot these two types of cards, right?"

Chen Mu frowned.

Energy Cards and Stamina Cards, if there are too many, they are just decorations.

[Corpse discovered, do you want to loot?]

"Yes!"

Responding subconsciously, he looted another new card.

Strength Card!

Whoa~

Finally, there was a new card!

Chen Mu stopped, holding the new card, and understood the information about the card that had appeared in his mind.

Strength Card, strengthens the physique, increases strength.

Increases strength!

"Good!"

Chen Mu was overjoyed.

Although it wasn't a Divine Strength Card, a Strength Card wasn't bad either; it could continuously strengthen the physique and increase strength.

The upper limit was temporarily unknown.

"Use!"

Thinking silently in his heart, the Strength Card in his hand immediately turned into a wisp of starlight and surged into Chen Mu's chest.

The next moment, Chen Mu's body tightened, and sweat beads slid down his forehead, face, chest, and back.

This powerful energy that entered his body was cool and gentle, instantly spreading to his whole body, limbs, and bones, every cell being tempered and baptized.

When it stopped, Chen Mu exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

Strength had increased!

This point, Chen Mu could clearly feel.

It's just that how much it increased specifically, he didn't know, it needed verification.

"Continue!"

Relaxing his body, Chen Mu stepped forward and continued to shuttle between the corpses discarded at will or simple graves.

By the time he had walked through every corner of the mass grave, he had looted nineteen more Strength Cards.

Energy Cards, Stamina Cards, several.

During the looting process, Chen Mu discovered that not every corpse could loot a card.

Only corpses that had died within about three days and had not yet decayed on a large scale could be looted.

This discovery made Chen Mu understand.

The so-called functional cards should be looting an ability that the corpse possessed before death.

Besides stamina and energy, what else do ordinary people have?

Isn't it just a bit of strength.

To loot other cards, you have to find martial artists!

And martial artists who had just died.

"It seems I have to walk around more in the city……"

Chen Mu pondered.

With twenty Strength Cards used and added to his body, he didn't know how much strength he had now.

Seeing that it was getting late, Chen Mu left the mass grave and returned to the city.

There was also a mass grave on the west side of Nanyun Prefecture City.

Go to the west side tomorrow!

……

Returned to the city.

Chen Mu took a detour and entered a street with few pedestrians.

Looking left and right, taking advantage of no one paying attention, Chen Mu walked to a corner, spread his legs, and grabbed a stone lion placed in the corner with his right hand.

"Rise!"

With a low shout, the muscles in Chen Mu's arm bulged, and he steadily lifted the stone lion with one hand and then gently put it down.

Throughout the whole process, there was almost no strange noise.

"Ha~"

Withdrawing his hand, Chen Mu rubbed his wrist, the corners of his mouth raised.

This stone lion weighed three hundred catties, and he could easily lift it with one hand; his strength was at least a thousand catties.

A thousand catties of strength!

The effect of the Strength Card was indeed significant.

Martial Dao cultivation is divided into the Postnatal Realm and the Innate Realm.

Each realm is further subdivided into one to nine levels.

The strength of the first level of the Postnatal Realm is to possess a thousand catties of strength!

Chen Mu had only run a trip to the mass grave and possessed this strength.

Of course.

Strength is strength.

The overall strength of a Postnatal martial artist also includes the sum of cultivation techniques, martial arts, weapons, actual combat experience, combat awareness, and so on.

Chen Mu had now reached the strength and successfully taken the first step.

Cultivation techniques? Martial arts?

Sooner or later, I'll loot them!

……

East District, Changping Ward, Hongzao Alley.

Taking advantage of the twilight, Chen Mu returned home.

In the narrow room where the oil lamp had not yet been lit, besides Huang Feiyang, there was a plain-dressed, gentle-tempered young woman standing by the table with a missing corner, taking food out of a basket.

Hearing footsteps, the woman turned her head to look and smiled, "Huzi is back, go wash your hands quickly and come eat."

"Okay, Sister-in-law." Chen Mu nodded, called out, and went to get a gourd ladle to scoop water.

"I told you to call me Sister Xiuxiu, did you forget again?"

The woman's pretty face flushed slightly, and she scolded, but her peripheral vision secretly aimed at Huang Feiyang.

"It will be next month."

Huang Feiyang said calmly, "Calling it early, it's good to get used to it."

These words made Miao Xiuxiu's face turn completely red all of a sudden, and the roots of her ears also became hot.

"What getting used to it, I don't know what you're talking about."

Taking out all the food in a panic and placing it on the table, Miao Xiuxiu carried the basket and ran away.

"You two brothers eat first, I…… I'll come back later to clean up."

After saying this in a trembling voice, she fled out of the small courtyard gate like an escape and disappeared.

"Brother, you finally got it."

Chen Mu washed his hands, walked over, and said in a matter-of-fact way, "If you don't marry her, when I save enough money next year, I'll marry Sister Xiuxiu."

"Get lost!"

Huang Feiyang scolded angrily, "Why are you so talkative today? Don't you usually not even be able to fart?"

"Eat!"

"……" Chen Mu's mouth raised, he said no more, picked up his chopsticks, and ate dinner.

Miao Xiuxiu, Huang Feiyang's childhood sweetheart who grew up together.

After Chen Mu was saved by Huang Feiyang, whose parents had both died, and taken in as a distant cousin, Miao Xiuxiu also took good care of him.

These two could be said to be Chen Mu's most important relatives in this world.

……

The next day.

Before dawn, Huang Feiyang got up early as usual to help Miao Xiuxiu grind tofu.

The latter had set up a tofu stall on the street of Changping Ward.

Chen Mu didn't try to stop him.

Huang Feiyang's injuries looked scary, but in reality, they were just flesh wounds.

His other intact arm could also push the mill.

Poor people are not that precious.

Chen Mu lay in bed until dawn, then washed up, went out to the street to drink a bowl of soy milk, and ate two steamed buns.

Then he greeted Huang Feiyang and headed straight for the city gate, rushing to the mass grave on the west side.

Passing by a street corner, he suddenly heard a commotion.

"Who is this person? Died so miserably."

"The person who did it was too ruthless, look, the stomach has been stabbed to pieces."

"No one in the Jianghu has a good end, sooner or later they will die on the street, isn't this verified."

"……"

Various discussions reached his ears, and Chen Mu's eyes lit up.

A Jianghu martial artist died?