Chapter 00133: The Men in Black
# The Men in Black
Chapter 133
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 133: The Men in Black
A line often mentioned in Wuxia novels is that the martial world isn't about fighting and killing, but about worldly wisdom and human relationships.
But that comes with a major prerequisite: that one's martial power has not reached an exaggerated, inhuman level.
After all, even a great hero of a generation would find their two fists no match for four hands when surrounded.
Even if they could escape, they would later be suppressed and become hated by all, like a rat scurrying across the street.
For example, look at Qiao Feng.
Even though his martial arts were considered top-tier, didn't he still end up miserable?
But the level of martial power in this Wuxia script was different.
Even demons and immortals had appeared.
It was clearly a high-level martial world, the kind where one could enter the Dao through martial arts and become an immortal.
With this inhuman level of martial power in play, it was no longer a problem that could be solved by sheer numbers.
A top-tier practitioner might not be able to shatter a mountain peak with a single kick, but they would at least be a human-shaped cruise missile.
As long as you were awesome enough, you could just go for it.
Li Chengxi's idea wasn't without its flaws.
After all, his thinking was based on pure power-fantasy stories.
The martial world was still very complex; one's fists needed to be hard, but one's reasoning also had to be sound.
But it was true that, at the very least, it was much more reliable than Yang Yiyi's naivety.
Since the passenger ship wouldn't arrive until the next day, after hearing Li Chengxi's analysis, Yang Yiyi no longer dared to wander outside.
She stayed alone in her guest room, practicing her fist techniques, basically in an idle state.
Li Chengxi turned his head to look at the other computer.
In the game, it was already morning.
But when Li Chengxi moved the camera view to the City of Academics, Audel seemed to have just woken up.
Her face was unwashed and her hair uncombed, and she was sitting at the desk in her room, praying to the Holy Emblem on the table.
This was quite a fresh sight.
Although Audel already had a Devotion of 10 and could be considered a follower, her prayers followed a principle of casualness.
I'll pray when I remember and have time, and if I'm busy, I'll just act like it's not a thing...
He clicked on her with the mouse to check the content of her prayer.
As expected, she wasn't sincerely praying.
She was using the prayer to contact Li Chengxi.
The content of her prayer was entirely her silently reciting the information she had found about the Master of a Hundred Feet.
Using prayer like WeChat, you're really something else.
The Master of a Hundred Feet was a powerful chaotic evil deity.
Belief in him was not allowed to be spread openly; after all, he was an Evil God.
This made Li Chengxi very puzzled.
He had thought that the Master of a Hundred Feet sent people to deal with Viola to facilitate a quicker invasion of the Avarus Demon Kingdom.
The status of the Master of a Hundred Feet should have been somewhat similar to the Demon God, at the level of a state religion, which was why he was so invested.
But in fact, it was not.
The faith of the Master of a Hundred Feet was an Evil God belief that could not be exposed.
Once revealed, it would face a joint suppression from the authorities.
What was even more surprising was that the great centipedes called the 'Fangs of the Lord of Hundred Feet' were no mere grunts.
They were a 'reward' bestowed only upon the most devout followers, transforming a living person into a great centipede-shaped shapeshifting creature.
They were the sharpest blades of the Master of a Hundred Feet, and only he could command them.
The exact number was unknown, but they were not something you could see everywhere.
Losing two at once was a considerable loss for the Master of a Hundred Feet's not-so-large underground church.
So, why did the Master of a Hundred Feet want to deal with Viola?
No matter how he looked at it, it didn't seem like there was any conflict of interest.
And since only the Master of a Hundred Feet could command his 'Fangs', it was unlikely that someone had paid to bribe them to come and assassinate Viola.
Analyzing from the perspective of mortal conflicts of interest, they had no reason to be hostile towards Viola at all.
So, if it had little to do with humans, could it be because of the relationships between gods?
Audel had found that the Master of a Hundred Feet was not an ally of the Plague Goddess; there was even a little friction between the two.
It was impossible that the Master of a Hundred Feet would come looking for trouble just because Li Chengxi had given the Plague Goddess a few good slaps.
Looking at it from another angle, suppose the Master of a Hundred Feet felt that the Demon God's existence was a threat to him and didn't want the Demon God to grow powerful, so he sent people to eliminate Viola, the number one follower, first.
That did make sense.
Audel had explained that things were not peaceful between gods either.
It was the kind of situation where seeing someone else's incense burning brightly was more painful than being stabbed twice yourself.
But the name of the Demon God was currently only prevalent in a small, remote place like the Leon Territory.
Many other places still thought the Demon God was just a legend.
Wasn't it a bit too early to make a move now?
Besides, if they were really targeting the Demon God, why would they plant a parasitic insect in City Lord Walter?
Audel indicated that these suspicious points were still under investigation, but the prospects were not very hopeful.
After all, what could be found in the City of Academics was merely pure knowledge.
The place was not a search engine and would not update in real-time.
In other words, why the Master of a Hundred Feet had jumped out was still a mystery for now.
All they needed to know at present was that if he dared to show up, they would just beat the crap out of him.
Finally, Audel also said she hoped to have a chance to visit the 'Divine Realm' again soon, as she was already starting to miss the taste of instant noodles.
Seeing this, Li Chengxi stuffed a few boxes of different flavored instant noodles into the screen, then picked up the microphone and replied:
"Alright."
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Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was the early morning of the next day.
Lying on the bed in the inn, Yang Yiyi had insomnia today; she couldn't sleep at all.
On one hand, it might be because the inn's bed was too hard.
Yang Yiyi had recently gotten used to sleeping on the folding bed Li Chengxi had given her and couldn't quite adapt to the rock-hard bed boards anymore.
On the other hand, it was because of what Li Chengxi had said during the day, which had left a deep impression on her.
Yang Yiyi's thoughts were simple: I want to go out and expose my master's evil deeds! I want to go out and proclaim it to the world, so everyone knows the Liu Family is no good!
But after listening to Li Chengxi's explanation, Yang Yiyi realized just how naive her idea was.
It could be said that not only was it not feasible, but doing so might even bring danger upon herself.
Yang Yiyi, who had always adhered to the simple way of thinking of just wanting to have a full stomach, suddenly realized that the martial world was not as straightforward as she had imagined.
Perhaps she even felt a little disappointed.
The thought that the martial world stories she had heard since childhood might all be hiding filthy and sordid truths made her feel a little sick.
With her thoughts turning over and over, she naturally couldn't fall asleep easily.
Yang Yiyi heard the sound of the night watchman striking his clapper.
It was almost the Yin Hour (4 in the morning).
If she waited a little longer, the sky would brighten.
The passenger ship would dock at the Mao Hour (6 in the morning), but she still couldn't sleep.
Worrying in bed wasn't a solution.
It would be better to get up and practice a few sets of fist techniques.
With this simple and plain thought, Yang Yiyi got up, dressed neatly, and began to practice her fist techniques in the room.
She first performed a set of Monkey Boxing to warm up her body, followed by two rounds of Mantis Fist.
From the looks of it, Yang Yiyi was probably going to practice every fist technique she knew.
But just then, Yang Yiyi suddenly saw a black shadow flash past outside through the paper window of the door.
For a moment, she thought it was a trick of the eye, then she thought to herself.
Could this place be haunted?
Yang Yiyi was both scared and excited.
She kind of wanted to go out and see what a ghost actually looked like, but she was also afraid that if she really ran into one, she would be frightened.
The early morning was when people slept most soundly.
Normally, no one would have noticed, as not everyone was like Yang Yiyi, staying up to practice fist techniques instead of sleeping.
Maybe it's just the waiter getting up to check the rooms.
I shouldn't scare myself.
Just as she convinced herself with this reason, she heard Li Chengxi's voice coming from the Jade Tablet in her clothes:
"Be careful, something's wrong. I see a group of men in black sneaking in."
(End of Chapter)