Chapter 3: The Cursed Thing Dreams and Martial Arts
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"Excuse me, sir, there is something wrong with our credit card machine, I wonder if you have any other payment methods?"
In a palatial hotel not far from Times Square, Jiang Chuge stood at the front desk and looked at a small black narrow suit with a wry smile, and the black front desk who showed his white teeth politely returned his credit card to him.
After leaving Times Square in a hurry not long ago, he found the tallest hotel and entered, and in the center of the lobby there was a large red gold chandelier, which was far brighter than the dark sky outside, and made him feel a little dazzling.
Jiang Chuge shook his head, took back his credit card, and then took out $3,500 from his trouser pocket and handed it to the front desk, "Is there a problem with your hotel's credit card machines or is there a problem with all the credit card machines?" ”
"We don't know, sorry, sir." The black man replied with a wry smile.
The $3,500 was actually the contents of the bag that the soft-armored young man threw at him, in addition to a credit card with a credit limit of 100,000 and an identity certificate, which can be regarded as benevolent and righteous for some strangers, at least Jiang Chuge thinks so at this moment.
And for the newcomers who stay, the soft armor men guarantee that their self-proclaimed veterans will protect the newcomers' personal safety within the horror film within the scope of their ability, but the newcomers will have to pay one-third of the horror film income to the veterans at the end of the mission world, this agreement is not a verbal statement, it is bound by the book of contract in their hands.
The soft-armored man told them that the newcomer was not a title given to them by the veteran, but a title given to them by the final city. As newcomers, Jiang Chuge will contact a black iron team when they first enter this world, and get the help of the black iron team to get through the most dazed and dangerous first mission world, and then these newcomers will go through the rookie mission world two or three times, if they can successfully survive, they will become a real member of the reincarnation world, they can freely join other teams or go it alone, and then complete the mission world endlessly until you die......
As for the so-called help...... It's nothing more than the best way for those veterans to get rich.
Jiang Chuge laughed, this was the reason why Jiang Chuge didn't believe that group of people.
The reason why Jiang Chuge thinks so is because those veterans immediately asked the newcomers if they wanted to ask for help after telling them about the horror of the final city, and hinted that they kept a hand, maybe the law of survival in these reincarnation worlds, or the way to avoid these parasites, in short, if you believe that this world is really the so-called world of reincarnation, and believe that this is the world of the so-called "Blood Clan", then you can't help but give in, and obediently contribute one-third of what you get, because regardless of whether they will help you or not, The information in the hands of those veterans is likely to be the capital for you to survive.
But fortunately, the veterans did not lose heart, as long as a third instead of all, such conditions suddenly became not so unacceptable, so most of the newcomers joined them on the spot.
Thinking of this, Jiang Chuge realized that the black man was waiting for him to reply, so he smiled at the other party.
"It's okay." Jiang Chuge did not blame this wryly smiling front desk.
Because it took a little time to prepare the room, Jiang Chuge said goodbye to the front desk, and then walked to a minibar prepared for the waiting guests next to the hotel, and ordered a cocktail at random that he didn't recognize.
The minibar is next to the hotel's huge floor-to-ceiling windows, from which you can see the scene outside the hotel, the solar eclipse has pulled the whole of New York City into darkness, and the main road is lit by huge neon lights, and the hotel looks like it is night because of the back street.
Jiang Chuge took a sip of wine absentmindedly, and there seemed to be whiskey in the concocted wine, which was a little rushed, but Jiang Chuge's attention was obviously not on it, although the outside of the hotel was dim and unclear, Jiang Chuge's eyesight could still see some things clearly, but it was not clear. I don't know if it's an illusion, Jiang Chuge seems to see that in the deeper places in those lanes, there are faint figures shaking, like dark ghosts, which makes people uneasy.
This situation made people feel a little frightened, and Jiang Chuge couldn't help but think that if he hadn't refused at that time, maybe a large number of people who knew what was going to happen here would make him feel more at ease.
It's a pity that Jiang Chuge has no way not to leave them, because he has his own secrets.
The secret came from a Walkman who was quietly in his book of contracts at the moment.
When he first summoned the Book of Contracts, he saw this thing and was stunned for so long.
He remembered that he had destroyed the ominous thing, and why, it was still here, in his Book of Contracts.
The puff is not guilty of his crimes.
That's the real reason why he really had to leave.
This thing, which can be tracked down thousands of miles to his home and destroy his entire world, naturally has the potential to make these weirdos red-eyed.
Ever since he knew about the existence of the Final City, since he knew about things like skill cards, Jiang Chuge became more and more suspicious that that Walkman probably came from this so-called Final City, and the two people who destroyed his family may be the same as this group of weirdos, they are all from the Final City.
His expression changed again, and it seemed that irrepressible anger was rolling, and after a moment, it eased.
He was able to leave the group of veterans calmly, and of course there was more to rely on.
He raised his head slightly, his eyes drifting over the bartender who was busy with his back to him, but his mind went back to hours ago.
At that time, it happened to be the veterans who told them about the personal attributes of the various adventurers.
These attributes are engraved on the title page by the Book of Contracts, and include some basic attributes of being an adventurer, such as combat power evaluation, battle record evaluation, one's muscle strength, reaction speed, brain domain width, and cell activity.
The battle record represents your strength in the final city, and is generally divided into four levels: Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold, and when you kill a story character or other adventurer from a mission world, your battle record will increase accordingly.
Speaking of which, a tall and thin adventurer stared at the newcomer with malicious intent, causing several newcomers to tremble, and a figure who seemed to be their leader stopped the adventurer and explained to the newcomers that in fact, the old adventurer would not kill the new adventurer at will, because such a kill would not increase the rank of the battle and would not gain anything, and it would actually be a wasted effort.
Perhaps because of this fork, the veterans did not mention what the combat power level was, and then they roughly talked about the four basic attributes: for example, muscle strength represents your strength, including muscles, muscles, bones, skin, etc. Reaction speed, also known as your nerve sensitivity, represents your reaction time to sudden time, how much you control your muscles, and even how sharp your senses are. The breadth of your brain does not represent how smart you are, but your memory and thinking speed. Cellular activity, on the other hand, represents how quickly your body recovers after an injury.
As far as these four items are concerned, generally speaking, one hundred represents the limit of ordinary human bloodlines, and it is also the bottom line of the bronze lower rank, and more than one hundred needs to be exchanged for other corresponding bloodlines in the final city, of course, if you can break through this limit yourself, there is no problem. Then once there is an attribute that exceeds 100, according to the average strength of the final city, you have entered the bronze level, which means that you have exceeded the limit of human beings, at this time you only need to complete the task and improve your record level, you are a real bronze level master. As for how much silver level is required, the veteran did not mention it.
At this time, the lights were a little dim, and the bartender didn't notice him, so Jiang Chuge quietly took out the book of contracts, and on his title page, it was written in small letters:
Name: Jiang Chuge
Rating: None.
Combat power evaluation: the power of people.
Basic attributes:
Muscle strength: 84/100
Reaction speed: 94/100
Brain domain width: 74/100
Cell viability: 66/100
Ancestry: Common yellow humans.
Ability: None.
Reserve Equipment: None.
Jiang Chuge didn't know how strong those veterans were, but the moment he caught up with the elves, he felt that the power of the elves was actually inferior to himself.
Those veterans are just a little stronger than ordinary people.
Jiang Chuge sighed, turned the page of the book of contracts again, and turned to the task world he was in, unlike the task of the veteran, Jiang Chuge's task on this page was much simpler:
World: Bloodline.
World difficulty: Silver Medium.
Survival Mission: Survive for 30 days or kill 10 infected people. Each infected person killed will earn 100 survival points.
(Note: When killing 10 infected people before the time limit is thirty days, they will immediately leave the Bloodline world, otherwise they will leave this world after thirty days.) )
The so-called task world of bronze difficulty, Jiang Chuge is not difficult to understand, because the senior has explained what this difficulty level means. According to the senior person, in the world of reincarnation, the judging criteria for strength and difficulty are the same as the four grades of black iron, bronze, silver, and gold used.
The general world difficulty is also linked to the strength of the final boss they will face in this quest world, which is equal or slightly lower than the boss's evaluation. But for newcomers, the difficulty of the world does not mean that they need to get through the difficulty of this world.
When a person has just been selected from the real world into the world of reincarnation, his first mission is generally a survival mission, and the mission world will not be the kind of story that will destroy the city and slaughter the country at every turn, as long as you don't make a fool to meet the boss of the world, then your chances of survival are not small.
So Jiang Chuge just glanced at it, and then focused on the survival task below.
30 days or 10 infected people?
Perhaps this is a dilemma for most people, because if you don't want to face an infected person, you have to spend thirty days in such a strange world, and if you don't want to stay in this world, you have to risk being infected by an infected person.
For Jiang Chuge, it may still be a problem at first, but when he calmed down, he found that this was no longer an option, even if he rushed back, such a long stay made everything irretrievable.
So he needs time, to make himself stronger, and then to get revenge.
"Sir, your room is ready, in room 36 on the top floor, I wish you a pleasant stay."
Just when Jiang Chuge was pondering, the front desk finally prepared the guest room and walked to the bar in person and handed the key card to Jiang Chuge, Jiang Chuge nodded with a smile, and after taking the room card, he walked straight into the elevator.
Jiang Chuge's room is on the top floor, it is a suite with a living room and a kitchenette, the reason why he chose the top floor is because Jiang Chuge thought that if the whole city fell into chaos because of the virus, he only needed to destroy the staircase entrance and elevator door to be able to live here for a long time. According to the veterans, as soon as the thirty days arrive, the Book of Contracts will automatically send the reincarnator back to the Final City, no matter where you are, it doesn't matter, which saves Jiang Chuge a lot of trouble.
After entering the house, Jiang Chuge locked the door and walked to the window in front of the hotel to look down, New York from here is still a prosperous dream, but how long such a dream can last, Jiang Chuge doesn't know.
Ay......
Jiang Chuge sighed slightly, returned to the bed and lay down at once, the hotel mattress was very soft, Jiang Chuge calmed down after two times on it, and then he lowered his head slightly and took out the silver-black walkman from the book of contracts.
Jiang Chuge looked at this little thing.
The Walkman glows silvery in every ray of light, like a calm sea, and the waves on the surface cannot hide the breadth of its essence.
From the outside, this Walkman is just an ordinary music player from any angle, but Jiang Chuge knows the special feature of this Walkman, it stores a modified Qiuyue Zen Master's "Washing the Pulp Sutra", which can stimulate the vibration of the skeletal muscles of the whole body with sound, wash the essence and cut the essence, and increase the various indicators of the body. At the same time, the owner of this voice uses the gap between the sounds of the Washing Soul Sutra to add more subtle things, and uses the sound to construct a complete dream world, which is used to teach the national art that is only available in the romance of the novel.
That's right, just like those national arts in the world of "Romance of the Dragon and Snake" that can break through the wall and dodge bullets and shoot the discus.
And the owner of this voice even calls himself the protagonist in "Romance of the Dragon and Snake", Wang Chao.
After Jiang Chuge got this thing, he thought it was a prank by some guys. But when he entered that world and watched Wang Chao's projection teach the national art there, he felt that he might really bet on the treasure.
This feeling has reached its peak in the month since he got this Walkman, and he has felt that his physical strength has increased at an unimaginable rate, and he even imagined that if he tried it without any side effects, he would also give it to his parents to exercise.
At that time, he still naively thought that this was the luck of heaven that would give him a chance that one day he would learn all the national arts in it, and he would become the Green Arrow of S City, eliminate violence and peace, and reverse all kinds of ills in this society.
He didn't know at that time that this little thing was not a treasure at all, but a curse, a curse that destroyed his entire world.
Two people he will never forget in the years to come. A month after he got his Walkman, he suddenly appeared at the door of his house, killed his parents for no reason, and beat him with crushing strength, insulting him in every way.
It's just for such a small thing.
He watched his mother fall in front of him and watched his father's blood run down the ground.
At that moment, his heart died.
But he knew he couldn't just die, at least not until those guys tried to fail.
So he fought with his last strength and jumped down from his house with this walkman.
Even if he can't keep this thing, he's going to destroy it.
……
Jiang Chuge didn't know why the Walkman was in his Book of Contracts after he came back from the dead.
The Book of Contract can put items in, but if these things are obtained in the mission world, the corresponding fees must be charged, for example, when Jiang Chuge puts US dollars and credit cards into the Book of Contract, the Book of Contract deducts 10 survival points, and when an adventurer leaves the mission world, only card-based items can leave this world with him.
Thinking of this, Jiang Chuge found that not long after the beginning of this world, he had already lost 10 survival points, and if he was still negative survival points by the end of this mission world, according to those veterans, he would be wiped out by the Final City. So no matter how he planned to spend this mission world, dealing with the blood clan in the mouths of those veterans was already essential. However, fortunately, the Walkman was brought in by Jiang Chuge from the real world, and it was defaulted to Jiang Chuge's subordinate item by the Book of Contracts, and even if it was put into the Book of Contracts, the rewards would not be deducted, so Jiang Chuge was exempted from more debts. And in his opinion, the cost of constructing dreams with sound is not something that a newcomer like him can afford.
Jiang Chuge sighed slightly, because the walkman in his hand came from the story of "Romance of the Dragon and Snake", and after he got this thing, he also read the story twice.
Thinking about it at this moment, if all this is true, then what he is going to embark on is a path of national arts. Bajiquan, Wing Chun, Tai Chi, Bagua, Xingyi...... Just like Huang Feihong and Chen Zhen in the past, it is not a performance, but a real killing skill.
In that book, the realm of national art is divided into six levels: Bright Energy, Dark Energy, Transformation Energy, Dan Dao, Gang Jin, and Breaking the Void and Seeing God is not bad. Each realm is different, and it is said that after breaking the void at the end, the whole person is not much different from a real humanoid gundam, and the pistol is ineffective, because the moment you shoot, you will die. The sniper rifle is ineffective, and the master of the transformation can sense the person aiming at him, and only by using missiles or submachine guns to sweep can it be possible to contain such a monster.
However, to achieve such a realm, it is not just something that can be done by washing the muscles and cutting the marrow, and the improvement of the realm also requires a lot of fighting between life and death. There are six realms in the national arts, but there are three ways to cultivate, fighting, practicing and raising. Jiang Chuge's practice method has just started, and the previous month's training can only be regarded as cultivation method, let alone playing style.
This is also the reason why Jiang Chuge needs time the most. He needs time to learn to listen to everything, he needs time, to embark on the path of revenge.
Thinking of this, Jiang Chuge silently took out the headphones, and in the roaring and grand resonance, he fell unconscious again.
Jiang Chuge woke up after only a slight coma, he opened his eyes and looked at the barren land around him.
This was not the first time Jiang Chuge had come here, so he didn't panic, got up lightly, and looked into the distance. Ten meters in front of him, stood a young man in a purple sports shirt, standing with his hands in his hands, his back to himself, looking at the sky and the earth in the distance.
This young man doesn't look too tall, about the same as Jiang Chuge, but I don't know why, the young man looks even more majestic than this world.
"Wang Chao." Jiang Chuge shouted at the young man. The person in front of him is the protagonist in the world of "Romance of the Dragon and Snake", Wang Chao. The pinnacle master of that world, breaking the realm of the void and seeing the gods is not bad.
However, the figure in front of him is just a projection of Wang Chao in the Walkman, which is equivalent to an intelligent computer, which can only answer questions about boxing, and seems to know nothing else.
"Why is it so late this time?" Wang Chao didn't look back, and replied indifferently with the style of an old man.
But he should have such a style, not to mention that he is invincible in the world in martial arts, even his age is not that his face is so young. Because Wang Chao reached the supreme realm of national art when he was in his twenties, and since then he has seen that his god is not bad and his body is not old, so Jiang Chuge doesn't know what age Wang Chao is now.
Jiang Chuge greeted him with the courtesy of master and apprentice, and then replied, "It's just that some things have been delayed." ”
Even in a dream, Jiang Chuge gritted his teeth when he said this, as if he wanted to bite every tooth and swallow it.
It's just that Jiang Chuge didn't see it, after hearing Jiang Chuge's voice, Wang Chao's eyes suddenly flashed, and he turned his head to look at Jiang Chuge in front of him. This figure was like seeing through Jiang Chuge, and his expression suddenly softened.
"It's okay, then let's continue with the previous practice."
"Wang ...... Surpass. ”
Although Jiang Chuge and Wang Chao have the reality of master and apprentice, and have always treated each other as master and apprentice, but I don't know why, this projection has never let him call himself master, so Jiang Chuge called Wang Chao's name from beginning to end.
"Wang Chao," he repeated, and then made up his mind, "I want to learn how to play." ”
"How to play?" Wang Chao looked at Jiang Chuge, who stubbornly held his head high and looked at Wang Chao, but refused to say a word.
Time shuttled between the two of them, and Wang Chao looked at Jiang Chuge for a minute, as if he was moved.
"That's good," Wang Chao nodded, "From now on, I will teach you how to fight, the hard work is dozens of times worse than before, can you bear it?" ”
Wang Chao's voice was still so cold, but he didn't know why looking at this projection, he always felt that this young man who looked about the same age as him had something deeper than him hidden in his heart. But Jiang Chuge felt that this was probably his illusion, because the other party was just a projection.
Hearing Wang Chao's words, Jiang Chuge's dark color moved slightly.
Dozens of times harder than before?
If he can endure even the momentary fear of death, what else can he not bear?
"Even if it is hundreds of times harder, I can endure it." Jiang Chuge gritted his teeth and replied word by word.
"Well, you have a good look, first of all, my Wang Chao's original 'silk winding hand'!"
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