Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
Under the vague moonlight, in the dark and quiet night…
The slowly walking corpse gave off a strong eerie feeling.
Although the ghost from last night was also very creepy, he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes after all. It had felt as if there was a barrier, and he couldn’t feel anything at a deeper level.
However, this creepy corpse was just right before his eyes.
It was creepy and eerie!
Even Chen Shouyi felt that his goosebumps were breaking out instantly when he saw this.
It might be because Mister Wang had died for a day, so his corpse was a little decayed, but Shouyi could smell a faint rotting corpse smell.
A few brave figures watched sneakily from a distance in the alley but didn’t dare to get close.
Chen Shouyi guessed that they should be Mister Wang’s family and relatives.
Their entire family must be in great shock to encounter an event where a corpse started moving in the middle of the night.
Based on the customs here, when the family member died on the day, there must still be a wake held on the second night. They would only be sent for cremation before dawn on the third day.
However, with the current situation where the streets were congested and the electricity had been cut off, they had no idea how long they’d have to wait if they were to send the corpse to the crematorium.
Mister Wang’s dried corpse got closer, soon arriving under Shouyi’s window. The smell of the rotting corpse got increasingly stronger. It was nauseating.
The corpse didn’t stop and quickly headed into the distance.
Chen Shouyi looked for a while before going back to his bed. It hadn’t been that long when loud bellows rang out from outside.
“Who’s there!”
“Stop right there or else I’ll shoot!”
There was military police patrolling Dongning City’s main streets day and night since last night. After noticing how strange Mister Wang was, a few stifled gunshots quickly rang out. The silence was disturbed and it became noisy.
Chen Shouyi didn’t go and join in the commotion. He opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling quietly.
He suddenly missed Zhang Shaoyue. He wondered how she was.
It was a pity that ever since the network was cut off they had lost their only method of communication.
…
The electricity still didn’t come back the next day.
The streets became increasingly quiet. Other than the workers who were checking the circuits, there weren’t many people passing by. Everyone’s hearts were in tenterhooks.
Chen Shouyi made a trip to the school in the morning but was disappointed to find out that classes had already stopped. The school gates were shut tightly, and there wasn’t a single person in it.
He went to Zhang Shaoyue’s district, hovering around there for very long, looking at his phone that had no signal. Eventually, he could only leave helplessly.
Chen Shouyi had no idea where Zhang Shaoyue lived at.
Even if he knew, it wouldn’t be nice for him to make such a sudden visit.
He unconsciously arrived near the dilapidated building once again and realized that traffic police had stuck up notices around it.
Chen Shouyi got closer to take a look.
The notices were about road congestion.
The notices requested for all the car owners who had left their cars on the street to be in their cars tomorrow afternoon and wait for the traffic to be cleared. If they didn’t arrive, or if the cars couldn’t move, they would be disposed of.
Most of the cars here could still be driven. Only a few of them couldn’t move. However, it was these few that caused the streets to be congested.
The authorities were taking things very seriously.
However, this made sense. If they were to allow the cars to stay on the streets, the road would probably remain congested forever. Not only would it cause inconveniences, but it would also increase the difficulty of restoring the order in the city.
…
At the peak of Brightmount Park.
There was a huge ginkgo tree.
It was getting closer to mid-October, and the ginkgo tree’s leaves had started to turn yellow. As a strong wind blew, the leaves would rustle in the wind, and many of them would flutter down like butterflies that were dancing about.
Suddenly, it was as if a shadow had flashed by.
The wind blew with a sharp screech.
The leaves were all crushed by a small-scaled sonic boom before they landed on the ground.
A young man dressed in a gray T-shirt held onto a branch. He was wearing a sharp gaze as he stood under the ginkgo tree.
It was important for the sword to be accurate and even more so for it to be fast.
Compared to piercing bouncing balls, the leaves were lighter and thus their movement trajectories changed a lot more. At the same time, it was easier for the leaves to be affected by the air currents brought from the sword movements. However, quick judgmental capabilities, as well as lightning speed sword attacks had brought these interfering factors to the lowest degree.
He looked at the branch he was holding and realized that the top part had already exploded into fluffy fiber clumps. It was the result of the earlier sonic boom created from the few full-powered pierce strikes.
This place was the mountain peak of the biggest park in Dongning City, Brightmount Park.
As the numbers of military police on the streets hadn’t reduced, Chen Shouyi couldn’t head to the space channel in the dilapidated building and he had to train here.
Thankfully, this place was relatively quiet at this time, and only a few people would come here.
…
After strengthening once again, with the complementary effect from his various attributes, the speed of his sword attacks had increased by close to 50%.
After today’s practice, he realized that he had finally attained a breakthrough past sound barriers.
“However, such sonic boom pierce strikes have a huge burden on the body. At the very end, I could feel an obvious and terrifying obstructing force, as though I was piercing at a slab of metal. After performing several tens of pierces consecutively, my body felt a little numb from the counteracting force.” Chen Shouyi frowned slightly.
“Thankfully, martial force exertion is to mobilize more of the muscles to perform force exertion. The relatively counteracting forces would also be evenly distributed by these muscles.”
In fact, this was due to his physical attributes being very high. if it was another martial practitioner whose strength and agility was on par with his, they would only be able to make one or two pierce strikes at most before they’d vomit blood. If he was to practice in the Otherworld where he had the innate ability—natural recovery. These impacts would be even lower, to the extent of being almost insignificant.
Suddenly, the sound of people chatting and laughing came from the distance.
Very soon, a young couple who were cuddled up together walked over.
“It’s too quiet over here. There’s no one here at all. I’m scared.”
(I wouldn’t come if there were other people here.) The young man thought to himself.
“What’s there to be afraid of with me around? There’s an old ginkgo tree at the top of the mountain. I heard that it’s several hundred years old. I wonder if the leaves have started to fall.”
The girl thought of her boyfriend’s capabilities, and the worry in her heart lessened by quite a lot. However, she still didn’t really want to come to such places where there wasn’t anyone. “Let’s take a look and then head back earlier. I heard that public safety hasn’t been too good recently.”
“Hmmm, there seems to be someone here!” the young man said, his tone sounding a little disappointed.
The girl looked over and saw that the person looked quite handsome. However, he seemed a little young and should still be a student and not someone bad. She heaved a sigh of relief and spoke up.
“You’re right. What is he doing?”
“He’s probably just blindly roaming around!”
“So annoying!” Chen Shouyi looked at the couple and frowned. He had no choice but to stop what he was doing.
He walked over to the pavilion a short distance away and sat down, taking this opportunity to get a rest. He planned on continuing with his sword practice after the couple had left.
The couple cuddled together intimately under the ginkgo tree. Very soon, they started kissing, and the young man’s hands started to move around.
“Don’t, don’t do this. There’s someone here.”
“I’ll go chase him off. Wait a while…”
The young man whispered next to her ears.
The girl immediately pounded him once, her face flushed red.
He grinned and then walked toward Chen Shouyi.
“Brother, can you give me some face and let us have this place?”
Chen Shouyi looked at the man with a strange glance. “This place is so big, but it’s not enough for the two of you?”
The young man frowned, looking displeased. “I mean for you to leave this place and go elsewhere to have fun. Man, give me some face.”
Chen Shouyi understood what the other party meant but felt a little displeased.
“Who are you? Why do I have to give you face?”
(It hadn’t been easy for me to find somewhere I can have my sword practice. The two of you came to disturb me, and I didn’t kick up a fuss. Yet, you’re pushing things too far.)
The young man was stunned. He hadn’t expected that Chen Shouyi, who looked like a young high school student, would reject his request.
Had all high school students become so arrogant?
“F*ck, don’t you understand what people are saying? Don’t be trying to push it. Are you asking for a beating?”
Chen Shouyi’s fury seethed. Under the suppressive atmosphere of the past two days, he had been a little annoyed to begin with. Therefore, his fury was lit up very easily.
“I’ll be the one to give you a beating!”
He suddenly kicked out toward the young man’s upper thigh. The young man was clearly one who was trained in martial arts as well, and his reaction was very fast. He immediately backed off instinctively but still wasn’t able to dodge in time. A heavy kick by the tip of Chen Shouyi’s leg landed heavily on his thigh, and an indescribable feeling of numbness spread out. His right leg immediately gave way and his knee dropped to the ground.
“I was wondering why you’re so arrogant despite being of such a young age. I didn’t expect that you have a few tricks up your sleeves.” His frown loosened up by little, and he stood up, fury filling up his face. “The strength in this kick isn’t bad, but you’re still a far cry from a real martial apprentice.”