Chapter 30: That Kid Finally Shows Up
Chen Wujun jumped into the sand pit, paused for a moment, then his body swayed slightly as he lifted his foot and treaded out.
His speed wasn’t fast, but it exuded a strange and steady force. Rather than treading out, it was more like gliding out, like a venomous snake swimming on the sand.
Senior Brother Li’s mind was full of “What the hell!”
In such a short time, Chen Wujun had actually practiced this “strength.”
It must be known that practicing in this sand pit was for the whole strength formed by root strength, penetrating strength, and burst strength.
Root strength is the root that takes hold upon landing, with a steady lower body; penetrating strength is the force passing from the sole of the foot to the knee, hip, waist, and spine, section by section; burst strength is exploding the body’s power in an instant.
The whole strength formed by these three strengths.
Previously, Chen Wujun learned things quickly, but this time…
Senior Brother Li didn’t even want to think about how long it took him to master it.
“I don’t believe it!” Senior Brother Li’s face flickered with uncertainty as he stood up, walked to the weapon rack, picked up the white wax rod and shield, turned back and said: “Stop!”
“What’s wrong?” Chen Wujun looked at his senior brother with some confusion.
Senior Brother Li directly threw the shield to Chen Wujun.
“See if the things you learned on flat ground can be used in the sand pit!”
As soon as the words fell, the long stick in Senior Brother Li’s hand suddenly thrust out, like a long rainbow piercing the sun, straight toward Chen Wujun’s shoulder without the shield.
This strike was both fast and ruthless. If Chen Wujun couldn’t react effectively in the sand pit, he could only take it head-on.
However, at this moment, Chen Wujun instinctively twisted his waist and hip, just like on flat ground.
And his legs, trapped in the sand, were also driven by the hip, turning slightly to the side.
Pa!
Chen Wujun’s shield solidly smacked the white wax rod, and the white wax rod grazed the shield and stabbed into empty air.
A glint flashed in Senior Brother Li’s eyes as he shook his wrist. The white wax rod spun in the air and then swept horizontally toward Chen Wujun’s exposed knee.
This change of move was extremely fast, insidious and tricky, with even fiercer momentum, directly producing a whooshing sound through the air.
If it hit a person, it could break bones.
Chen Wujun was startled by this sudden change, his waist and hip exerting force again. His center of gravity sank instantly, his body sat down, and the lower edge of the shield knocked against the white wax rod.
Pu!
The white wax rod directly stabbed into the sand.
Senior Brother Li stared at Chen Wujun for several seconds, then pulled out the white wax rod, turned around, and placed it back on the weapon rack.
“You can practice by yourself today!”
With that, he walked away with his hands behind his back.
Chen Wujun always felt that Senior Brother Li’s back looked a bit desolate.
When the warehouse door closed, he vaguely heard a “Damn it!”
“Looks like I practiced this whole strength right!” Chen Wujun withdrew his gaze and thought to himself.
He threw the rattan shield aside and continued slowly treading steps in the sand pit.
At noon, Chen Wujun came out of the sand pit. When he lifted his foot and treaded on the ground without the sand’s resistance, it actually made him unaccustomed.
He had this feeling last night too.
After walking a circle in the warehouse, he gradually got used to it.
When he walked, his hip would slightly rotate first to drive his legs, unlike normal people who rely entirely on thigh strength. His soles barely left the ground, each step like treading through invisible mud.
With a thought, his foot slid out silently, yet exceptionally steady.
Then his foot stomped down fiercely.
Bang!
The ground emitted a duller, more penetrating sound than before, and the entire warehouse seemed to shake slightly.
Chen Wujun shot out with a shock step, several times faster than before.
This time it wasn’t just the thighs exerting force, but the whole body forming a whole strength.
Then Chen Wujun dropped his center of gravity, turned direction almost without hindrance, and his footwork became triangle step.
The entire movement was as smooth as flowing water.
“Root like an old python, movement like a venomous snake… so that’s how it is.” Chen Wujun immediately understood in his heart.
Then came joy.
He didn’t expect this footwork to be quite easy to practice.
In these days, once he mastered the footwork and knife and shield, his strength would greatly increase.
Moreover, there was the old bear hugs tree stance. With practice, he felt his thighs and waist and back becoming more powerful.
Now with whole strength penetrated, whether fist, elbow tip, or knee, the destructive power had increased significantly.
Chen Wujun came to a wooden dummy, first stood in golden rooster stance, his body instantly like a bow, then his knee crashed over extremely ferociously.
Bang! Crack!
The dummy arm as thick as a child’s arm was directly broken off and flew smashing into the wall.
Chen Wujun was stunned. He hadn’t expected that with whole strength penetrated and using five bows to exert force, one knee would have such power.
The dummy arm as thick as a child’s arm was directly broken.
If this knee hit a person… it would directly break the bone.
Chen Wujun truly felt the power of this knee of his.
He looked down at his knee; it was red above the knee, but only with a slight pain.
These days of punching practice had built thick calluses on his fist peak, elbow tip, and knee. With the aid of medicine, his bone density was also increasing, becoming harder and harder.
Even his calves had become quite rough from kicking wooden stakes for so long.
“Next, I still need more actual combat!” Chen Wujun thought of those pickpockets from last time.
“One day, catch them and use them as human dummies!”
“But no need for them now! I can’t keep hiding. As soon as I show up, Li Dong’s person will come knocking soon.”
Three days later, in the evening, Chen Wujun went directly to the dentistry.
“Take the things. Your uncle will drive to pick us up soon!” Chen Hanliang took out the items from behind the curtain: paper clothes, shoes, pants, and hat, all complete, along with five-colored paper and paper money.
Moments later, hearing the car horn downstairs, Chen Wujun leaned out the window to look. A yellow taxi was parked below, and a middle-aged man with thinning hair got out of the car and waved toward the window.
“Uncle is here.”
Chen Wujun’s little uncle Chen Hanwen drove a taxi on the night shift.
The two carried the things downstairs.
Seeing Chen Wujun, Uncle’s eyes lit up: “Haven’t seen you for months, A Jun looks so spirited!”
“Feels like you’ve grown taller!”
Chen Wujun wore ordinary blue sportswear, but his energy and spirit were abundant, his eyes bright and sharp, impossible to hide.
“Still growing, so a bit taller.” Chen Wujun said.
A few days ago when Chen Wujun went to buy pants, he measured himself; in these months, he had grown two centimeters taller, now 1.72 meters.
After stuffing the things from their hands into the trunk, Uncle got in the car and asked while driving: “Heard you’ve been practicing martial arts lately, how’s it going?”
“Not bad!”
“It’s fine to like practicing martial arts, but it’s not a long-term thing. Practicing martial arts doesn’t make money to support a family. Learn dentistry well from your dad. I didn’t want to learn back then, so I can only drive a taxi! Wind and sun every day, not as good as fixing teeth for people!”
“If you really don’t like learning it, you can learn car repair! Your cousin is learning car repair at a garage…”
Chen Wujun looked out the window, letting Uncle’s words go in one ear and out the other.
He knew Uncle meant well.
But he didn’t want to live like this for a lifetime.
He had heard someone say an old phrase: A great man cannot have the five-ding feast in life, but should be boiled in the five-ding cauldron in death.
He wanted to live in a luxury house, drive a luxury car, marry a celebrity.
After Uncle said a few words, he started chatting idly with Chen Hanliang.
“Lately, the councilman keeps talking about demolishing the walled city on television. Is it real or fake?”
“The walled city has over ten thousand people. If demolished, how to relocate them? Where? Those councilmen just want this land to build malls and skyscrapers…” Chen Hanliang was full of distrust toward those councilmen.
The group arrived at Fanling and He Tu, waited near the cemetery for a while, then Aunt arrived.
Compared to brothers Chen Hanliang and Chen Hanwen, Aunt had married well and lived much better days.
Aunt’s family had a cousin studying for a master’s in psychology.
Seeing Chen Wujun, Aunt’s eyes also lit up: “A Jun looks so spirited now!”
“Like a completely different person… In the blink of an eye, you’re a young man.”
“Come to Aunt’s house more often when you have time. Your cousin is never around…”
Listening to Aunt and Uncle’s nagging, the group entered the cemetery to pay respects at the grave.
Then they burned winter clothes, five-colored paper, and paper money. After going down the mountain, they ate together before heading home separately.
Back at his place, Chen Wujun lay on the bed playing with a cow horn folding knife. The knife handle was 13 cm, blade 10 cm long, handle like cow horn, good for chopping.
“These days, whether physical quality, footwork, or knife and shield, I’ve made no small progress. Now I have some self-protection ability.”
“I’ve also used up quite a few magnetic field crystals. Can’t keep dragging this on.”
“The preparations are mostly done. I’ve hidden wooden planks at every alley entrance, which can be used as shields temporarily.”
Chen Wujun calculated his current situation and preparations.
“Five more days…” Chen Wujun still had two magnetic field crystals in hand; in five days, only one would remain.
Having made up his mind, Chen Wujun put the knife under the pillow. A few minutes later, his breathing became extremely steady.
Another five days passed.
In the morning, Chen Wujun went directly to the martial arts school. In the evening, he came out and went straight to Jin Di Finance.
“Jun Zai, haven’t seen you lately. Very busy?” Ji Xiang saw Jun Zai and greeted him enthusiastically and loudly.
The others at Jin Di Finance all looked up, their gazes strange.
Everyone knew Chen Wujun had recently offended Wen Long, and Wen Long would definitely retaliate against him.
He had disappeared for over half a month, and everyone thought he was scared.
Although Chen Wujun was just a teenager, he had come and directly followed Sha Jiu. Many were unconvinced in their hearts and now even more so looked down on him.
“Yeah, very busy lately.” Chen Wujun squinted and smiled, tilting his head slightly. Seeing the others looking at him, he took in all their gazes.
“Brother Ji Xiang cares so much about me! Thanks!” Chen Wujun smiled and turned to go to Sha Jiu’s office.
Ji Xiang watched Chen Wujun’s back with great interest.
As soon as Chen Wujun entered Sha Jiu’s office, Sha Jiu’s gaze fell on his feet.
He walked like mud treading step, completely silent, yet extremely steady.
“Not bad! So quickly you’ve practiced whole strength, and this mud treading step looks quite proper!” Sha Jiu praised.
“Practiced weapons?”
“Practiced knife and shield!” After sitting down, Chen Wujun asked:
“Senior Sister, where to buy crystals?”
“East District 9’s largest magnetic field crystal smuggling channel and black market… is our He Tu doing it. Didn’t I tell you?” Sha Jiu said with surprise.
Chen Wujun: ???
“Senior Sister, you didn’t say.”
“Really didn’t say? Maybe I forgot… I’ll take you there in a few days.”
……
In the north of the city, Wen Long was flipping through the accounts in his hand when a knock sounded, and a subordinate walked in.
“Boss, that kid hid for so many days and finally showed up today! Thought he wouldn’t dare show his face!”
“He just went to Jin Di Finance.”
“Jin Di Finance… Sha Jiu…” Wen Long snorted coldly, glanced at the subordinate, and said irritably:
“What are you telling me this for? Do I need to teach you? Send people to do it!”
That kid was just a small fry, could be crushed casually; he didn’t care at all.
Last time Sha Jiu didn’t give any face. Send people to grab that kid, and see how Sha Jiu asks him for the person.
After grabbing him, cripple the kid. Even if returned to Sha Jiu, he’d be a cripple!
