Chapter 10: Killed Again

Please select the reward for this Simulation:

1, Memories at age six.

2, A random item on your person at age six.

3, A random skill mastered at age six.

This was the fastest Ruan Xing had ever died in all her Simulations, but she had already mentally prepared herself before the Simulation began, so she did not feel disappointed; after choosing option one according to her previous thoughts, Ruan Xing began to carefully watch the memory of the moments before her death.

The choices in the Simulator were all based on the instincts of her original body as a six-year-old child; even if Ruan Xing could make some minor changes with her own thoughts before the Simulation started, she still could not predict the direction of the Simulation, and the text-based version of the Simulation mostly glossed over things—only memories allowed her to see clearly and accurately what had actually been experienced in the Simulation.

You wouldn't know until you saw it, and seeing it was a shock; Ruan Xing had assumed these low-life gang members were at most physically strong and knew some rough fisticuffs, but she hadn't expected them to actually know martial arts!

This was a stereotypical underestimation of these people; they were not just tools for their backers to collect wealth for their superiors, but rather more like the jianghu forces of the Twelve-Linked Docks type found in martial arts novels.

In the memory, Qiye took Ruan Xing and boarded a carriage leaving the city, followed by dozens of burly men with knotted muscles; the carriage bore the insignia of the Red Head Gang, and in Jiangning City, no one dared to be blind enough to offend the Red Head Gang, yet this very convoy that looked so formidable was ambushed shortly after leaving Jiangning City.

Ruan Xing hid in the carriage, swaying back and forth, unable to see anything but Qiye's grave expression, but she could feel that the carriage was still moving forward amidst the chaos; the situation outside sounded perilous but had not yet reached an uncontrollable point.

However, the turn of events always happened suddenly; hearing only a shrill horse whinny, the scene before Ruan Xing's eyes spun, shaking her until she was about to vomit, and with a muffled thud, the carriage tipped heavily to one side; Ruan Xing could not control her body's balance and fell with it, rolling out from the broken door and window.

The scene began to blur, likely because she had been injured in the fall, and the pain forced physiological tears to secrete.

Her peripheral vision saw Qiye nimbly dart out before the carriage overturned.

So Qiye also knew martial arts.

Before she could even be surprised, the life countdown had reached its final five seconds; a group of masked bandits holding swords and blades fought back and forth with Qiye's subordinates with ruthless moves, as if they were martial arts masters from the martial arts films of her past life; Ruan Xing was overwhelmed, and soon a white light flashed before her eyes.

The memory ended.

She didn't even see what the person who killed her looked like.

Ruan Xing bit her lip in thought; the amount of information was truly too little, and she could not tell whether the goal of those people was to intercept and kill Qiye or to prevent Qiye from taking her out of the city; the only pleasant surprise was knowing that Qiye also knew martial arts, so why didn't he spare the attention to protect her? Was he unable to free up his hands? But looking at Qiye's expression in the carriage, although he was surprised, he did not seem to find it difficult to deal with, so he should have had the capacity.

Ruan Xing decided to try again for the things she couldn't figure out and started the Simulation; this time she hurriedly scanned the few lines of almost identical content at the beginning and chose option one.

This time, before the carriage overturned, Ruan Xing sat by Qiye's side and hugged his thigh tightly; Qiye glanced at her but said nothing, instead reaching out an arm under Ruan Xing's armpit and picking her up with one hand; his other hand grabbed the window frame of the carriage, and as the carriage overturned, he rolled on the ground with the momentum, taking Ruan Xing out of the carriage.

This time she was not injured, and Qiye did not let Ruan Xing lie on the ground waiting for death, but instead took her with him, fighting while dodging; Qiye had no weapon in his hand, but unlike everyone else present, every time he threw a punch or a palm, his hand carried a faint, visible white glow.

Ruan Xing's expression could barely hold together when she saw this; with these special effects, could it be that the Cultivation opportunity she was searching for was on Qiye? But she quickly realized that if Qiye could really practice Cultivation, how could he still be a Guan in a gang in Jiangning City? Moreover, this white glow was very similar to the flash of white light she saw before she died; she naturally wouldn't think Qiye killed her, but the person who killed her was definitely related to Qiye—perhaps it was an internal struggle within the Red Head Gang.

Steadying herself, she continued to watch.

The white glow on Qiye's hands flickered in and out, looking more like a technique for channeling True Qi externally, but it seemed it could not be maintained for long; Qiye mostly focused on defense and only used that True Qi against enemies when he truly couldn't dodge, and that True Qi did not live up to its unscientific-looking special effects—everyone hit by it either died on the spot or completely lost the ability to act.

The number of enemies was not much greater than Qiye's side; after Qiye solved seven or eight masked bandits, the combat power of both sides was evenly matched, and if things continued like this, they would likely gain the advantage and repel these thieves in less than half a quarter of an hour; however, Qiye's complexion looked unnaturally pale with the depletion of his True Qi, and several men, seeing this, consciously gathered around to protect them.

However, before they could gather around, that familiar white light appeared again; a cold glint flashed on a sword blade as it slashed toward Ruan Xing; a man beside her tried to block it with his blade, but when the sword and blade collided, the sword body glowed with a faint white light, piercing through the back of the blade as if cutting through melons and vegetables without any obstruction, and stabbed into Ruan Xing's small body.

The last thing she saw was Qiye's face full of shock, and the pair of cold eyes revealed by the masked person holding the sword. Ruan Xing let out a long breath; it seemed the masked person's primary goal was to kill her.

The number of people the other side sent was about the same as Qiye's subordinates; at the beginning, the one who knew True Qi was also hiding their strength, only choosing to launch a surprise attack after Qiye was forced out of the carriage and had consumed a significant amount of True Qi.

At that time, she was being held sideways in one of Qiye's arms; if the angle of that sword had been slightly off, it could have caught Qiye off guard, yet that person only chose to kill her; could it be that for the person behind the scenes, killing her yielded more benefits than killing Qiye directly? Ruan Xing couldn't understand, but she knew that whether it was a few months or a few years later, as long as Qiye took her out of the city, they would be attacked, and she would die in this attack; she had no way to bypass this link unless she had the power to protect herself.

It seemed she had to change her line of thinking to find a suitable solution; she knew her aptitude for Cultivation was extremely poor, so was it possible to enter the Dao through martial arts? She hadn't known before that the people of the Red Head Gang really knew martial arts, but now that she did, it was not a bad choice.

It was just that on Qiye's side, only Qiye knew that kind of True Qi, and there were probably not many people in the entire Red Head Gang qualified to learn it; it would be very difficult for her to learn this technique from Qiye.

Thinking more was useless, Ruan Xing started the Simulation again.

【Simulating...】

Age six, you gained Qiye's appreciation and joined the Red Head Gang, following Shi Shifu to learn Gambling; although you are clever and quick-witted, you are not very attentive to learning Gambling, making little progress in nearly two months; instead, you are eager to get ahead, spending your days wandering around the hall, building relationships with gang members, and watching them practice fisticuffs; Shi Shifu feels disappointed in you.

Age seven, you secretly learn the fisticuffs moves of the gang members in the hall, compiling and organizing those fragmented techniques to practice quietly every day; your behavior cannot be hidden from Shi Shifu, who is separated from you by only a wall; he admonishes you, telling you that the results of learning martial arts and learning Gambling will be worlds apart in the future; you turn a deaf ear, and Shi Shifu angrily drives you away and informs Qiye of this; Qiye does not punish you in any way, and you continue to linger in Qiye's hall to practice martial arts.

Age eight, you practice the martial arts you stole openly; everyone in Qiye's hall treats you as if you were transparent. One day, your mother suddenly comes to find you, saying that your father's broken leg needs expensive medicinal herbs to be cured, the family doesn't have enough money, and your father wants to sell your sister to raise money for the medicine; your mother asks you to think of a way to help; you have no source of income within the Red Head Gang and can only go to beg Qiye, but Qiye refuses to see you, and your mother leaves in disappointment.

Age nine, you continue to practice martial arts diligently; your limbs have become muscular and strong because of your daily martial arts practice; Qiye suddenly finds you and asks if you have any regrets; you say you have no regrets; Qiye asks again if you want to see your sister; if you want to see her, go with him; you hesitate for a long time but eventually refuse.

Age ten, you continue to practice martial arts diligently; because of the bonus of your Dance Basics, you master the use of various moves very quickly, and with daily skilled practice, you become more proficient.

Age eleven, you continue to practice martial arts diligently; one day you suddenly feel a sense of lightness in your body, and your control over your limbs is further strengthened; Qiye selects dozens of people from the gang members practicing martial arts in the hall as guards and leaves Jiangning City with a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy.

Seven days later, Qiye returns with his subordinates, but that boy is nowhere to be seen; you try to ask others, but no one pays attention to you; only a gang member named Hu San secretly reveals to you that they passed the whole way safely without being ambushed.

Age twelve, you continue to practice martial arts diligently; your skin hardness and tendon and bone strength have both increased. You see Qiye again; he discovers that your martial arts have reached Small Success and makes an exception for you to join the gang's martial arts team, becoming an ordinary thug in his hall.

Age thirteen, you continue to practice martial arts diligently; your skin hardness and tendon and bone strength have both increased, but you feel it is becoming increasingly difficult to continue practicing. Qiye's sphere of influence begins to expand, causing conflicts with areas under the jurisdiction of other Guans; the Red Head Gang gradually splits into several factions, with friction occurring between them from time to time.

Age fourteen, the incompatibility between the factions becomes increasingly severe; in a gang fight, you are seriously injured and lose too much blood; you die.

【Simulation ended】

Please select the reward for this Simulation:

1, Memories at age fourteen.

2, A random item on your person at age fourteen.

3, A random skill mastered at age fourteen.

(Note: For ease of distinction, the female lead is referred to as Ruan Xing in the reality plot, and as Ruan Xing in the memories.)

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