"What a bunch of idiots!" Murong Ping was usually very gentle and refined, but at this moment he couldn't help but get furious.
The Dark Brothers made a big scene in the Fuli Mansion, drove away the diners, and ambushed Zheng Yubai. But not only did they fail to kill Zheng Yubai, they both died. In addition, they actually had a copy of the bounty issued by Yao Qian, which caused the police to keep an eye on Yao Qian these two days, and they often came to him to find out the situation. Thanks to Yao Qian's connections in both the black and white worlds, he managed to turn this matter into a small one.
Yao Qian was so angry that he was fuming. Naturally, he was angry with Murong Ping, who was in charge of the matter. Murong Ping was scolded by Yao Qian and became even angrier. He went straight to E to complain.
"This is all because of Boss Yao's bounty. Even if they want to kill someone, there's no need to mobilize so many people. Look at those third-rate killers in Jinghai City. They're parading around like murderous devils, afraid that others don't know they're troublemakers. It would be strange if they didn't cause trouble." E said leisurely, holding a lollipop in his mouth.
"Then what do you think we should do?" After Murong Ping calmed down, he also felt that this matter was too big. Now everyone in the underworld knew that Yao Qian had offered a high price to kill Zheng Yubai, and it was a big deal. Yao Qian was a decent businessman after all, and if the matter got out of hand, he would not be able to clear himself from the matter.
"The most urgent task is to drive away those trash that come to wade into the muddy water. Otherwise, the prey will know the danger and will not come out of the cage." E said meaningfully.
"But Zheng Yubai is a very powerful guy. The Dark Brothers are top killers, but they were all..." Murong Ping hesitated.
E said unhappily, "Killing is a technical job. Do you think having more people will help? We have four of us, Killer 26, here. Are you afraid that Zheng Yubai will fly away with wings?"
Murong Ping hurriedly said: "That's not what I meant. What you said makes sense. I'll ask them to get out right now."
"Very good, wait until these idiot hunters disappear, and the prey will appear again. Whether it's for revenge or for the 10 million bounty offered by Boss Yao, our killer 26 will not let you down." E licked the lollipop and showed a seemingly innocent smile. Murong Ping saw it, but he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
A few hours later, the bounty on the killer website for Zheng Yubai was withdrawn. The killers gathered in Jinghai had already found this bone difficult to chew because of the murder of the Dark Brothers. Now that Yao Qian's ten million bounty had also vanished, they naturally did not want to do a losing business. As the saying goes, fast come, fast go. The killers swept in like a tide, and now they scattered like birds and beasts like the ebb tide. Jinghai finally temporarily restored the surface of calm.
Zheng Yubai was not aware of all this. After coming out of the Crazy Chicken Wings shop that day, he first sent Ding Beibei home and told her not to tell anyone about it. After returning to the safe apartment, this bizarre murder case was broadcast on TV that night.
However, the details of the case have not been released. Apart from the news anchor's indignant condemnation of the increasingly chaotic social public order on TV and his demand that the police solve the case as soon as possible, there are no other clues.
Under Yao Qian's arrangement, the police shelved the case, not only did they not communicate with the media, but they also did not disclose this information to the Special Affairs Management Bureau, which had been tracking the whereabouts of Zheng Yubai and Xu Jin. Yao Qian's actions also inadvertently protected Zheng Yubai's identity, which Zheng Yubai never expected.
"Yubai, I'm still very scared and can't sleep." These past two days, Ding Beibei would call Zheng Yubai every night and would not fall asleep until he coaxed her for more than half an hour.
Zheng Yubai knew that for a pampered young lady like Ding Beibei, what happened that day was too horrific. She was very strong to have held on and not collapse on the spot.
Many people always think that there is nothing terrible in the world. In fact, when facing death, something as simple as a sharp fruit knife or an iron rod is enough to scare people who live a peaceful life in the city. Many times, when people face slaughter, it is not because they have no ability to resist, but because they lose the confidence to resist because of fear.
Although Zheng Yubai is skilled in martial arts, he has also experienced fear. He is not an omnipotent superman who can fly and live forever. So he always thinks that when a cold blade cuts across his neck and a black gun muzzle is pressed against his forehead, anyone who can resist peeing his pants is already a hero.
Because of this thought, his feelings towards Ding Beibei changed a little. First, he felt that he was sorry for dragging her into this matter. Second, he also had a deeper understanding of her character and felt that she was really a good girl.
But every time he hung up the phone, walked out of the office, and saw Xu Jin chatting and laughing with other guests, Zheng Yubai was confused again. He simply blocked all his feelings. Compared with this annoying emotion, he was more willing to face the current dangerous situation with a myriad of clues.
Sitting in front of the window, watching the snowflakes falling outside, Zheng Yubai reviewed his experiences over the past few months, which seemed like a movie full of adventures. Perhaps the audience was excited, but as the protagonist, he was a little tired.
Cao Ji just got the news that the assassins gathered in Jinghai have dispersed, but Zheng Yubai always feels that this matter cannot be let go. Since Yao Qian can't wait for the game of life and death to take his life, he must be blinded by hatred. If he is willing to give up after encountering such a small setback, he is not Yao Qian.
But no matter what, hiding like this is not a solution. Zheng Yubai rubbed his hands gently. Since they were already stained with the blood of his enemies, he didn't mind teaching those who needed to be taught a lesson for the sake of a peaceful life. Besides, sometimes, it is not necessary to rely on violence to solve the enemy.
"Brother Caoji." Zheng Yubai waved at Caoji who was asking Du Bisheng for advice on gambling.
Cao Ji walked over unsteadily, smiling: "The old gambler's gambling skills are quite impressive. I won a lot of money yesterday and won more than 20,000 yuan."
Zheng Yubai smiled and said, "You better be careful not to win every game in the future, or others will not want to play with you."
"I know my limits." Caoji laughed and sat opposite Zheng Yubai. "What's the matter?"
"I have a favor to ask of you." Zheng Yubai said.
"Just say it." Cao Ji said carelessly.
Zheng Yubai hesitated for a moment and said, "I want to deal with Yao Qian."
Caoji's face changed: "You want to kill him?"
Zheng Yubai shook his head: "Of course not, I have another way to deal with him. But I need your help in this matter."
"Just tell me if it's something I can do." Cao Ji knew that the matter was very serious and he didn't dare to make a guarantee, but he still agreed with a sense of righteousness.
"Not in a hurry yet, I need to make a phone call." Zheng Yubai smiled and took out a business card from his pocket. "If we want to deal with Yao Qian, we have to use this person."
When Caoji saw the name on the business card, he couldn't help but grin: "You are such a bad boy."
"I was forced to do this." Zheng Yubai smiled helplessly.
At midnight, everyone went to rest. Zheng Yubai sat alone in the hall, cross-legged and regulating his breathing. Xu Jin came to the hall and gently put a piece of clothing on Zheng Yubai.
"Why haven't you slept yet?" Zheng Yubai looked back and saw Xu Jin's eyes full of tenderness and affection.
"I can't sleep." Xu Jin said softly, "You haven't slept either."
"I'm practicing." Zheng Yubai laughed, "My life is very valuable now. If I don't practice hard to protect myself, I'm afraid I'll be dead on the street next time."
"Don't talk nonsense." Xu Jin quickly covered Zheng Yubai's mouth with her hands. Her green fingers had a faint fragrance and were pressed against Zheng Yubai's lips. They were soft and smooth, making Zheng Yubai unable to help but gently kiss her fingers.
“What are you doing…” Xu Jin hastily pulled his hand back, his heart seemed to be beating like crazy, beating… beating…
"I..." Zheng Yubai felt awkward after the kiss and was speechless for a moment, fearing that Xu Jin would think he was a hooligan.
"I'm not going to pay attention to you." Xu Jin turned around and walked back. Although he said he was ignoring her, his face was actually full of smiles, as he was afraid that Zheng Yubai would see and laugh at him.
"Jin'er." Zheng Yubai couldn't help but call Xu Jin's nickname. Usually he called Xu Jin by her full name. At this moment in the deep night, the meaning of such a call was more than just ambiguous.
"You...what did you call me?" Xu Jin stopped and didn't dare to look back. The daring female thief who once broke into the museum alone now looked like a young girl who had just fallen in love, with a hot face.
"I, I have something to say to you." Zheng Yubai said.
"What do you want to say?" Xu Jin asked nervously.
"Just sit down and listen to me. It's a long story."
Xu Jin lowered his head, turned around and sat next to Zheng Yubai. The night was alluring, and there was only a man and a woman. Although Xu Jin did not understand the love affairs between men and women under the moonlight, he felt that this was indeed an occasion and moment where a story could easily happen.
"Actually, I've wanted to tell you for a long time, but I never knew how to start. I've been having a lot of troubles lately, and I really want to find someone to talk to." Zheng Yubai said.
"I will listen to you carefully." Xu Jin was delighted. If a man is willing to open his heart to a woman and tell her everything, it is equivalent to handing the string of the man's kite to the woman. Would she still be afraid that he would fly away
"How should I put it..." Zheng Yubai scratched his head, hesitated, and finally continued, "Before I met you, I liked a girl very much. Her name was Ding Beibei. You have met her."
Zheng Yubai recounted what happened between him and Ding Beibei. Actually, it was nothing. He just helped her get her handbag back, bought her a set of clothes, and attended a class reunion... Those were trivial things that everyone might encounter in life. Compared with the adventures he and Xu Jin experienced together, they were not worth mentioning.
But adventure has its own excitement, and trivial matters have their own tranquility. Xu Jin gradually understood what Zheng Yubai meant. She knew that he was hesitating between two girls with completely different personalities and experiences, and couldn't be sure who he liked more.
After Zheng Yubai finished talking about what happened between him and Ding Beibei, he asked Xu Jin with a guilty conscience, "You won't be angry after hearing this, right?"
"Of course not." Xu Jin smiled slightly.
"But..." Zheng Yubai scratched his head, "But she likes me, and I like her a little bit too."
"If you are a guy that no one likes, why should I like you?" Xu Jin asked back, "If you don't know how to like an excellent girl, how can you like me?"
Although Xu Jin had no romantic experience, she had been in the underworld since she was a child and had seen countless storms. Although she was a little confused after meeting Zheng Yubai, when she really faced things, her IQ and EQ were not comparable to Zheng Yubai, a young man who had just graduated from school and rushed into the underworld circle to make a big fuss. Her two simple sentences were both effective.
The two questions made Zheng Yubai feel that everything was just as Xu Jin said, and it was actually very normal. There was nothing wrong with a boy and a girl loving each other, especially when excellent men and women admired each other, it was just natural, so why worry about it
"Am I a bit like that, there is nothing to worry about in the world, only fools make trouble for themselves?" Zheng Yubai said self-deprecatingly.
"I guess so. You are such a blockhead." Xu Jin said, leaning gently on Zheng Yubai's shoulder, "In the future, whether you like your classmate Beibei or someone else, you are not allowed to stop being friends with me."
"Why don't you ask me how I feel about you?" Zheng Yubai thought for a moment and asked in a silly way.
"Why should I ask, huh..." Xu Jin raised her head, "This lady is pursued by many people. Some people are stupid and stupid, not my type."
"Really?" Zheng Yubai was surprised and wondered if his previous feelings were all self-indulgent.
Seeing Zheng Yubai's serious look, Xu Jin was also shocked. She thought that he was even more stupid than the wooden Guo Jing in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. If he was serious, wouldn't it be counterproductive? Thinking of this, she hurriedly explained, "Actually, it's not true. A stupider man is more reliable. It's not easy to find a reliable man these days. I think you are quite reliable. I can consider it."
Zheng Yubai was confused by Xu Jin's changing words, and he couldn't figure out what she was thinking. A woman's heart is like a needle in the sea. The ancients were honest, Zheng Yubai thought. Fortunately, Xu Jin couldn't hear his inner voice, otherwise she would be pissed off by this stupid person.
Anyway, Zheng Yubai said what had been lingering in his heart, and felt relieved. Xu Jin's reaction made Zheng Yubai feel relieved, and he thought she was gentle and considerate. However, he didn't know that Xu Jin was secretly thinking: Yubai, please don't abandon me. I learned this trick of playing hard to get from Du Bisheng when I saw him teaching the gambling technique today. If you really like Ding Beibei, I will strangle the old gambler to death.
After sending Xu Jin back to sleep, Zheng Yubai returned to the hall. It was snowing heavily outside the window. Although there was no heater in the hall and they couldn't have a night chat around the stove, Zheng Yubai felt warm inside. He sat cross-legged again, staring at the falling snow outside the window, mobilizing his energy. When all his mental strength was focused on one point, his four pupils flashed in his eyes and started smoothly.
After experiencing the life-and-death test at the gunpoint in the Crazy Chicken Wings Shop, Zheng Yubai has benefited a lot. The Dark Brothers not only did not hurt Zheng Yubai, but also allowed him to experience a more comfortable way to control his four-eyed double pupils in a life-or-death situation. Zheng Yubai is now like an adventurer who has opened the door to the treasure. After mastering the spell of Open Sesame, the wealth in the treasure house can be taken at will and controlled at will. Although he does not know how much gold and silver there is in this treasure house, one day, he will develop all his potential.
In the four pupils, the world became two. One was the real world, where time kept passing at its original speed. The other was Zheng Yubai's own world, which existed in his mind and could not be entered by anyone. In this world, time did not exist. All the events that Zheng Yubai had experienced in his life were stored here one by one, just like a computer database. As long as he wanted, he could call out any memory at any time to play and study it.
In addition to this wonderful world, Zheng Yubai could see that somewhere deeper, there were clusters of brain cells that were decaying and withering like flowers in winter. Among them, only one cluster showed vigorous vitality, desperately absorbing nutrients from the body. Zheng Yubai recognized that the cluster of brain cells was the center that managed the special ability of four eyes and double pupils. In ancient times, these brain cells were active. As humans evolved, they lost their due functions and gradually fell asleep. But once awakened, they would bring long-lost abilities to humans.
Maybe one day, I can activate them all, Zheng Yubai thought. He wandered here for a long time, thinking about how to wake up all these brain cells. But when he turned around and saw that the brain cells that managed the four-eyed pupils were taking nutrients much faster than other brain cells, Zheng Yubai remembered the side effects Zhang Daosheng had mentioned. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, thinking that if he really activated all these brain cells, he was afraid that before he could get the ability, the human body would be sucked dry by these greedy cells.
Considering the human body's ability to produce nutrients, it is possible to feed one or two clusters of such brain cells, but if there are more, they will become malnourished or even die. At that time, these brain cells will no longer give people magical powers, but will be killers that kill people like cancer cells.
"No wonder people in ancient times were pale and thin and didn't live past the age of 30." Zheng Yubai seemed to understand a little. "If these brain cells were active, even if we ate a cow a day, we wouldn't be able to keep them alive. So, letting them sleep is a way for humans to save themselves."
Zheng Yubai thought about this question and felt that it had some philosophical implications, so he quickly put the thought aside.
"Anything else new and interesting?" Zheng Yubai was wandering in his own world. In this new world that belonged only to him, he was the king and the master. All the complexities of the outside world seemed to have nothing to do with him.
"Hey, what is this?" Zheng Yubai suddenly discovered a strange sight. The tube that provided nutrition to brain cells was as thick as a baby's arm. The yellow substance flowing in it was the nutrients in Zheng Yubai's body. At the end of the nutrition line, there were red and blue lines, a bit like the twisted wire in a power supply.
Zheng Yubai went over to check it out curiously, and the red and blue network of lines gradually became clearer. When Zheng Yubai focused all his attention on it, a red and blue vein map covering the human body appeared in his world.
"This is..." Zheng Yubai looked at the huge human veins in front of him in amazement, and found that this was a meridian map of the human body.
Zheng Yubai studied internal martial arts, so of course he understood the meridians and acupoints, which are essential knowledge in martial arts. He quickly recognized that the red and blue lines were the veins through which the qi flowed in the body, and some of the nodes where the red and blue intersected had a faint glow, which were the acupoints.
There are twelve meridians and fifteen collaterals in the human body, which are used as channels for the circulation of qi and blood. They belong to the internal organs and connect to the limbs, connecting the inside and outside of the human body into an organic whole. The so-called internal cultivation is actually to a large extent to clear the obstacles in the meridians, connect the whole body, allow the internal force to be transmitted to every corner of the body, and give full play to the maximum potential of the human body.
In the crisscrossing meridians, there was a white hazy aura flowing slowly. Zheng Yubai stared at the flow path of the aura in amazement, and then he realized that this was the map of the meridians in his body, and the white hazy aura was the internal force he had cultivated.
Zheng Yubai knew exactly what the discovery before him meant. The most feared thing when practicing internal martial arts was going astray. With this diagram, he knew exactly where his martial arts skills were lacking. As long as he followed the diagram, he would not have to worry about making mistakes, and his practice would be twice as effective with half the effort.
In martial arts novels, the top masters can control their internal force, travel through the meridians, and achieve extraordinary kung fu. But those are just fictions after all. In reality, there are very few people who can practice internal kung fu to the pinnacle. In modern times, some people even question whether internal kung fu exists, and have organized competitions between internal and external boxers. The result was that the external boxers won a landslide victory. This further confirmed the opinion of some people: internal kung fu and internal force are simply a lie.
In fact, internal force not only exists, but also has great power. However, it is very difficult to practice and takes a long time. It is easy to get started but difficult to achieve success. It can be said that only one out of 100,000 people who practice internal martial arts can achieve some success. This is destined to make internal martial arts more and more evolved into a fancy form that only focuses on routines but ignores the inner qualities.
Zheng Yubai had only just stepped into the threshold of internal martial arts before, and had made some small achievements. Compared with thousands of people who practiced the same martial arts, he was already an outstanding master. But even so, he still often felt powerless and unable to make further progress. Now that he had a real and visible meridian map, he couldn't help but feel refreshed.
“So that’s how it is…” Zheng Yubai was immersed in the meridian map in his body. While using his internal force, he watched the white aura being controlled to run through the meridians. The originally boring internal force training now became visualized, and controlling the internal force was as simple and clear as controlling a computer game.
Under Zheng Yubai's control, the internal force impacted the acupuncture points one by one, lighting up the red and blue meridians, slowly gathering tremendous power and changing Zheng Yubai's body.
Unconsciously, this night was spent in Zheng Yubai's obsession. When the morning sun after the snow shone into the hall, Zheng Yubai opened his tightly closed eyes, and his pupils flashed with brilliance, and then hid again. He stood up in front of the window, looking at the warm sun in winter, and his heart was filled with unprecedented confidence. (To be continued)