Chapter 44 – Spring Roll

Chapter 44 - Spring Roll

I put all the planning forms on the table into my drawer, and looked at my watch, it was already twelve. “Why aren’t you sleeping yet? “I looked at Xia Jing, who was spacing out while sitting on…



I put all the planning forms on the table into my drawer, and looked at my watch, it was already twelve.

“Why aren’t you sleeping yet? “I looked at Xia Jing, who was spacing out while sitting on the side of the bed, and asked.

Xia Jing hung her head, her face was so red that water was about to come out. After a while, she replied softly, “Go out first, I’m going to take off my clothes.”

“Aren’t you going to sleep in the same bed with me? You’re scared of letting me see?” I asked.

“Even —— Even so you can’t, just go out first, come back in when I got onto the bed,” Xia Jing pushed me out of the door.

Ai, what’s with this woman! She’s sleeping with me, yet she’s still scared of people seeing her strip. I walked reluctantly out of my room, it would be good if there’s a hole on my door.

After a while, Xia Jing shouted from inside, “It’s okay now, you can come in.”

I pushed open the room door excitedly, and ran straight to my bed. Yi? What’s that position? She actually wrapped herself up with the blanket, just like a huge spring roll.

“You can’t be going to sleep like that right?” I asked without giving up. If it really is true, then there’s no meaning of her stripping or not.

“Of course! Although I know you’re a good person, but you see, you’re still lecherous, for my safety it is better if I wrap myself up,” Xia Jing replied craftily.

“F̲u̲c̲k̲! If you’re scared of it being unsafe, then don’t sleep on the same bed as me! What are you doing!” I shouted angrily. I felt like I was being played with.

“But-but I still hope that you can protect me from the side!” Xia Jing said sadly.

“Completely not understandable,” I turned off the lights angrily, and swiftly took off all my clothes, when I only had a pair of underwear left, I still took it off while clenching my teeth. I climbed onto the bed, and pulled over another blanket to cover me, turned my back towards Xia Jing’s direction, and didn’t talk to her.

Yet I couldn’t sleep no matter what, instead I got more and more energized. Xia Jing’s happy expression and her voluptuous body swirled around in my mind, I really wanted to forcefully take her blanket off, and see what those huge breasts feel like.

Just as my mind was wandering, a sound rang out form behind me, “Da Gege, are you angry?”

So the little beauty Xia Jing didn’t sleep yet either, I thought she fell asleep ages ago.

“No!” I replied coldly, “Also, don’t call me Da Gege, I’m not as old as you!”

“What! Da Gege, you’re definitely angry, did I make you unhappy by wrapping myself up?” Xia Jing asked in a wronged tone.

“Why are you still asking, even thought I already told you I’m not!” I said impatiently.

“You are!” Xia Jing argued.

I didn’t say anything, I couldn’t be bothered to fight over this pointless issue with her. Instead asked if I was too perverted? I already had Zhao Yanyan, but was still interested in Xia Jing’s huge breasts. Ai, where did my faithfulness in love from my previous life go, it’s been an utter failure in this life, I’m a huge pervert.

After a while, seeing I wasn’t talking to her, Xia Jing said softly, “Da Gege, I’m scared, can you turn around?”

“I have bad intentions, continue being your spring roll,” I was still annoyed at her method.

“Ai!” Xia Jing sighed, and said coyly, “How about I open the blanket, but you can’t do that to me!”

Suddenly, I felt like I was truly a b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲. It was very normal for the girl to wrap herself up, what was I angry for, were they born so you could touch them? I laughed wryly, then shook my had, and turned around. I just wanted to apologize to Xia Jing, I didn’t expect Xia Jing really opened he blanket that was wrapped around her body. Under the moonlight, I could see the embarrassment on Xia Jing’s face.

“Da Gege, is okay now right,” Xia Jing said softly.

“Go to sleep, just now it was Da Gege’s mistake, Da Gege did have ill intentions,” I said shamefully. I was messing around with a seventeen or eighteen years old girl even though I’m already thirty.

“I believe Da Gege,” Xia Jing smiled and said. Then suddenly continued shyly, “Actually, even if, even if Da Gege really wanted to do anything to me, I wouldn’t blame you…”

Could this count as a hint? It can’t be? Why is the heavens favoring me so?

However I didn’t do anything in the end, since my image as the Da Gege was still rather positive. I couldn’t bare to leave any traumas in the little greenhouse flower’s heart.

Thinking to that point, the desires in my heart also calmed down quite a lot, I gradually fell asleep.

I woke up in the middle of the night once to go to the bathroom. When I came back, I found that Xia Jing kicked away the blanket covering her, the whiteness in front of her chest appeared unrestrained before me.

This —— I didn’t know what to do, you were the one who seduced me, it’s not my problem right? Thus, my hand subconsciously wanted to reach over…

Suddenly Xia Jing shouted, “Da Gege, don’t leave me! Don’t send me home! I won’t cover myself like a spring roll anymore…”

I was shocked, and immediately retracted my hands. After looking at Xia Jing for a while, and realized her eyes were shut, and her breathing was calm. So the little beauty was sleep talking!

I reached my hand over again, Xia Jing spoke again, “ Da Gege, I opened the blanket already, you can do whatever you want to me, just don’t throw me away!”

I looked at my hand that was hanging in midair, and finally gave up. Hearing Xia Jing’s poor sleep talk, I felt like if I really did something while she was sleep, then that would be too contemptible.

The entire night, Xia Jing and I didn’t have any contact between our bodies, although I wanted to, every time I saw Xia Jing’s smiling face, I couldn’t bare to reach out the sinful hand.

Ai, it’s so hard being a good person, I kept on restraining myself, I felt like I nearly turned into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.⌈1⌋ It can’t carry on like that, staying at my home for one or two days was fine, but if it goes on for a long time, then what?

Although it felt great with a little beauty around, but I could only look and not touch, and couldn’t have any bad thoughts, that would be too difficult.

It looks like I have to find a time to have a chat with Xia Jing, continuing on like this really won’t do, if she really stays, then sleeping on separate beds would be better, or else I won’t even be able o sleep well. If I continue suffering like this everyday, I’ll definitely breakdown.

Even if I’m a good person, I will be tortured into a pervert with ill intentions.

Thinking about these random crap, I gradually became more sleep, and fell asleep, however, subconsciously, I still tried to control myself, and didn’t allow my hands to go over to Xia Jing.

Does this count as finding suffering for myself?



 


  1. The raws has 忍 which means restrain/hold back. It is the same character as the first character of TMNT (忍者神龟) 

Chapter 43 – Together

Chapter 43 - Together

“Ai! This child is so pitiful, Old Liu, what do you say?” My mom asked my dad. “I think we should call the police, we don’t know if this child comes from somewhere bad, what if something happens?”…



“Ai! This child is so pitiful, Old Liu, what do you say?” My mom asked my dad.

“I think we should call the police, we don’t know if this child comes from somewhere bad, what if something happens?” My dad said worriedly.

“What do you mean comes from somewhere bad! Look at how pretty this chick is, I like her from first glance! I’ll make the decision, and let this chick stay in our home!” My mom looked at the little beauty with eyes full of fondness.

“But ——“ My dad still wanted to say something, but was interrupted by my mom.

My mom said quietly, “Don’t but now, look at the chick’s looks, how good would it be to let her be the wife for our family’s Leilei .”

Although my mom said it in a small voice, the little beauty and I still heard it. The little beauty’s face turned bright red, but why do I feel like she was quite happy? The little beauty can’t have fallen for me right? Hero saves beauty, after that… Gaga, if it’s like that, then letting her stay was a pretty good choice.

“Girly, what’s your name?” My mom walked over, and happily caressed the little beauty’s head.

“Auntie, I’m called Xia Jing,” the little beauty replied.

“Hehe, so cute. Call me Bomu in the future. Let’s go Xia Jing, come to Bomu’s room, and tell me about what happened. Old Liu, just watch TV with Leilei for now,” with that my mom took Xia Jing’s hands and led her into their room.

Sounds of laughter kept coming out of the room, my dad and I could only look at each other.

After a while, Xia Jing ran out, and said to me, “Liu Lei-didi, I’m older than you! Heh, and you dared to proclaim yourself as Da Gege, call Jiejie!”

It looks like my mom must have told Xia Jing my real age. Seriously mom, saying everything, isn’t this cockblocking me?

I glared at Xia Jing, then in a strong tune, “If you think you don’t need me to protect you form now on, then I can call you Jiejie.”

“Mom ——! Look! Didi is bullying me!” Xia Jing suddenly shouted loudly.

Mom? Where is your mom? Both my father and I raised our heads, and looked around.

“Stop looking around, I just admitted Xia Jing as my goddaughter, so I’m naturally her mom,” My mom came out of the room with a happy expression.

I was about to faint, I can’t stay here anymore, if I stay any longer, I’m going to end up running away.

I stood up, and said that I was going to study, and returned to my room.

“Where is Xia Jing going to sleep at night?” My dad asked.

“Let her sleep in the same room as Leilei,” my mom replied.

”That’s not so good right, Xia Jing is a girl,” my dad said.

“Why are your thoughts so complex, they’ll both kids, what do they know! After all, Xia Jing also agreed just now,” my mom glared at my dad.

This idea is great, hehe I like. If I was there, I would definitely be really happy, but right now I was in my room thinking about what happened today, and what I should do in the future.

Now that I have startup funds, which wasn’t a small amount either, what industry should I invest in? Although the “Interim Provisions on Prohibition of Exorbitant Profits” was passed on January 11th 1995 in the country, its effect wasn’t great, industry with exorbitant products still existed even after the year 2000. The industries I can think of right now includes real estate, education, network cafes, domestic appliance production, communication product production and migration consultants. These are all super profitable industries, if I use my all the funds I have to invest into these, then the return would be no less than a hundred times.

Real estate not only required a huge amount of money, but had to work in on both the surface and the underworld, or else problems will occur. From the looks of it, I’ve touched both, yet haven’t touched either.

Education, in other worlds cultural schools like Shao Nian Gong. I had enough money to open a school, but what about fame and teaches?

Network cafes, it required a large investment, although the profits currently would b high, but after a few years network cafes would be everywhere.

Domestic appliance productions, this industry was rather suitable for me, and was slightly related to what I learnt in my previous life.

Communication product production, this industry was pretty similar to domestic appliance productions, and could be done at the same time.

Migration consultant? This was too terrible, for my own name, it’s better to stay away from it. At the end of the day, only real estate and domestic appliance productions was more suitable for me.

As for the computing industry, isn’t Uncle Zhao there? From the looks of it now, TIanheng Computers was essentially mine.

Just as I was thinking, the room to my door was pushed open. I said unhappily, “Did I say that don’t disturb me when I’m studying?” Ever since I had been reborn, because I had a lot of things to hide, so I made my parents promise that they will always knock before entering my room.

“Da Gege, it’s me,” I looked up, and found out that it was actually Xia Jing.

“What did you come here for?” I asked weirdly.

“To sleep with you!” Xia Jing said.

“What?? You’re sleeping with me?” I looked at Xia Jing in disbelief, after a long while, I said with difficulty, “Aren’t you scared me of doing something?”

“I know Da Gege is a good person, you wouldn’t do anything to me. If you wanted, then you would have just now outside ——“ Saying that, Xia Jing’s face suddenly became red, like a little tomato.

I’m a good person? In truth I’m just a pervert. Hehe, sleep with me? Whose idea was it! It’s too amazing!

“There’s just one bed in my room,” I said.

“I know,” Xia Jing said softly with her head down.

“When I sleep I don’t like to wear clothes,” I continued.

“Me… Me too,” Xia Jing said extremely quietly like a mosquito.

“Oh, that’s fine, then let’s sleep,” I said. Suddenly I thought of something, and hurriedly asked, “What? You aren’t going to wear clothes either?”

Xia Jing didn’t say anything, and only lightly nodded with her head down, her head was nearing in her chest.

I took a took breath, my heart was starting to worry. If I didn’t have a girlfriend, I would be infinitely welcome for Xia Jing to sleep with me, and I wouldn’t mind anything beyond friendship that happens between her and me, but the main problem is, I have Zhao Yanyan already, why was Xia Jing coming in to join in the fun?

Isn’t this troubling me? If I said that I had no thoughts about Xia Jing, that would be a lie. A beauty that didn’t lose out to Zhao Yanyan at all was standing in front of me, and her body was also more mature than Zhao Yanyan, if my heart didn’t waver, then I would have some physical or mental issues.

However now… I really didn’t know what to do, I took a deep breath, and felt helpless.

Never mind, I’ll take it a step at a time, I am, after all, someone that has been reborn, how could I be such a p̲u̲s̲s̲y? I’ll find a chance to confess to Zhao Yanyan, I’ll let her kill or skin me.



 

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Chapter 42 – Da Gege

Chapter 42 - Da Gege

“I —— Err, thank you just now,” the beauty returned to her senses after my call. “Oh, I’m actually a delinquent too, it’s just that I temporarily changed my mind,” I said. “Hehe, I know you’re a good…



“I —— Err, thank you just now,” the beauty returned to her senses after my call.

“Oh, I’m actually a delinquent too, it’s just that I temporarily changed my mind,” I said.

“Hehe, I know you’re a good guy,” The beauty looked at with thankfulness in her eyes.

The moment her and my gaze met, I immediately shuddered, and immediately looked elsewhere. This beauty’s gaze was so alluring, just looking at it caused some biological reaction for me, no wonder so many bad people have unhealthy thoughts about her.

“What are you doing so late at night? Don’t you know that there are that many bad guys nowadays?” I scolded her. Who knows what her parents are doing, but if I have a daughter that was like flowers and jade, I would definitely not let her come out to wander around at night.

“It’s —— It’s my first time traveling, I got lost the moment I got off the car,” The beauty said shyly.

“Oh, is that so. Then tell me your family member’s phone number, I’ll contact them for you,” Since it’s a foreign tourist, I’ll show off Songjiang’s good citizen image.

“I —— I don’t have a home!” The little beauty bit her lips and forcefully said.

“No home? You’re an orphan?” I asked weirdly. I didn’t believe that this little beauty could survive alone till now, and wasn’t r̲a̲p̲e̲d̲ by sex maniacs then murdered.

“My daddy and mommy don’t want me anymore!” As the little beauty said this, she sounded like she was choking.

Ai! I sighed. So she’s an abandoned child, I really don’t know what her parents were thinking, this excellent daughter can be sold for a really high price even if she was sold to rural mountains! No, what? How can I think like this, I am a good citizen.

So I said, “Xiao Meimei, what are you going to do form now on? How about I take you to the police station?”

It seems like this little beauty is older than me, but never mind, nobody made me the beauty-saving hero. I can’t say to her: Da Jiejie——. How much face will I lose. Furthermore I’m so handsome and buff, as long as I don’t say anything, who would know that I’m 16?

“Da Gege (My evil plan worked out as expected), don’t take me to the police station, they’ll send me back to daddy and mommy’s side!” The little beauty tugged on my sleeve with coquetry.

Ai, I can’t take it. This voice, is essentially a little kistune. However hearing what she said, it seems like it isn’t her parents that don’t want her right?

“Actually-actually, I ran away from home!” The little beauty saw through my suspicion, and finally said the truth.

“Ai, in my opinion, Xiao Meimei. This is your wrong, think about it, running away from home like this, how worried would your mommy and daddy be? Listen to Da Gege, let’s go to the police station!” If such a beautiful flower wasn’t sent back to the greenhouse, I couldn’t be sure if anything would happen.

“I’m begging you, Da Gege. Don’t send me back! I don’t want to return to that home! Daddy and mommy doesn’t love me anymore, they just socialize themselves, and don’t care about my stuff. They —— I just don’t want to go back! Da Gege, I really had enough!” Saying that, the beauty’s eyes got wet. Tears poured down without stopping.

I immediately found a handkerchief from my pocket, and dabbed away the tears on her face. Ai. Zhao Yanyan gave it to me, and I was actually using it to wipe tears for another girl.

“Okay okay, don’t cry. I won’t send you to the police station okay!” I comforted the little beauty, I didn’t think that she would have so much issues despite being so young. Did I have a rebellious attitude when I was her age?

“Really?” The little beauty asked happily.

“Of course it’s real. Da Gege never lie,” I said in a matter-of-fact tone. At the same time I thought, lying is what I’m best at.

“Da Gege is amazing!” the little beauty immediately stopped crying and turned to laughter. She suddenly turned around and kissed me softly on my cheek.

My first reaction was, crap! What problem is this? My poor cheeks, it must be covered with snot and tears now!

“Okay, I promised not to send you to the police station, you can leave now. I’m going home,” It’s already ten o’clock after messing around like this, I think my mom will go berserk if I don’t go back now.

“Ah? Da Gege, you’re just going to leave me here?” the little beauty pouted.

“Then what am I supposed to do? You don’t want to go to the police station either!” I had to leave quickly, if I don’t go back now, my mom would also go to the police station.

“What if I meet another bad guy?” Helplessness flashed cross the little beauty’s eye as she looked at me.

“——“ I really can’t take it, she’s using this again. Look at her, I’m having a reaction down there again.

“Then what do you want to do?” I said helplessly.

“I want to follow Da Gege, then Da Gege can protect me!” The little beauty blinked as showed an expression as if her ploy succeeded.

God! She definitely had a premeditation, and finally tricked me into it after so long. Bring her home, I was naturally happy about it. I’ll feel good just bring home such a little beauty to look at. But what about my parents? Was I supposed to tell them I picked her up off the streets?

Seeing the hesitant expression on my face which looked trouble, she said pitifully, “Da Gege if it’ll trouble you then never mind, let me fend for myself in this wilderness.”

——, although I knew this girl was bullshitting, what wilderness, this is the city! Fend for herself? Die by herself was a true possibility⌈1⌋, let’s see her survive by herself? However, I could not help but feel pity for her, I sighed, “Okay, I’ll bring you back. But let’s say it now, just for a night, after tonight I’ll help you find another place to live.”

The little beauty cheered and kissed me again. Why was she so willing to kiss others? Wasn’t she taught that man and woman shouldn’t be so intimate?
I got a cab, and let the little beauty get on first, then I told the driver my address. I am a millionaire now, I should take a cab and enjoy sometimes.

After I got home, my mom and dad were staring angrily at me in the cloud-filled living room, they were just about to explode, when they suddenly realized that there was an extra person behind me.

“Hi Uncle, Auntie!” the little beauty said sweetly.

“Who is this?” My mom looked at me weirdly.

I was just about to explain before the little beauty spoke up first, “Auntie, my parents don’t want me anymore. I was being bullied on the road just now, fortunately Da Gege save me. Auntie, I don’t have a home to return to now, please take me in.”

The moment the little beauty opened her mouth, I looked at her dumbfounded, and felt speechless, this is too…? A natural socializer? This is my home, I haven’t even spoke yet, but she already started talking.

Did she plan to stay in my home for the long term?



 


  1. Fend for yourself (自生自灭) literally translates to live by yourself, die by yourself. 

Chapter 41 – Hero Saves Beauty

Chapter 41 - Hero Saves Beauty

I don’t know why, I felt like my body was unusually powerful after getting reborn, at the start I thought it was the result of my frequent training. However afterwards, I felt like something wasn't right, I was…



I don’t know why, I felt like my body was unusually powerful after getting reborn, at the start I thought it was the result of my frequent training. However afterwards, I felt like something wasn’t right, I was never as energized as now before getting reborn. This feeling became more and more obvious after returning from Yanjing, I felt like my body held energy that never ran out. I should ask old bro Yama another day to explain what exactly is going on with me to me.

“Help ——“ A female voice asking for help sounded out from faraway, it sounded really good. I couldn’t help but stop and looked around.

“Shout? Continue to shout! Even if you shout until your throat breaks nobody will save you!” A coarse voice rang out.

Ai, I swore in my heart, what kind of education does this criminal have, can’t you use some new words.

As expected, that voice stopped asking for help, and changed to a scared tone, “Wh-what do you guys want?”

You guys? There are accomplices?

“What do we want? Birdie, have some fun with me,” It was a sissy-like voice this time.

F̲u̲c̲k̲, isn’t this so unprofessional? Wanting to be delinquents just because of their loud? They have no future!

“Ahh! Let go! If you don’t, I’ll fight you!” the woman shouted.

“Fight? Good! I, grandpa, is waiting!” the course voice responded.

Ai~ Today I was pretty happy, let me act as a hero and save… Wait, I have to see if it’s a beauty first, if I save a tigress that is hell bent on repaying me with her body then I’ll be screwed.

I followed the voices quietly and walked over, it was actually a small alleyway by the road.

Two people with contrasting physiques had their backs turned to me, a fat and a thin. Why did their backs look so familiar? They can’t be the fat and thin Buddhist monks from The Deer and The Cauldron right? I hurriedly glanced around, and made sure that no one was holding a camera.

Under the moonlight, I could clearly see the young woman that was being robbed by the two people, she was about seventeen or eighteen of age, with a refreshing look. Her development was good~ It should be said that its super good, a pair of large breasts was bulging out, almost bursting out of her shirt. His grandma, I swallowed my saliva, going out in the middle of the night with a body like that, if I was a delinquent I would r̲a̲p̲e̲ you too.

The girl’s face was pretty good, an oval face, thin eyebrows, her clear eyes had hints of anxiousness and fear, but had a beauty that was hard to describe, that made people want to spoil her. Damn, she’s a beauty~ How can I let these two monks ruin her, if she has to be mounted, it should be by me!

How did the song go, roar when unfairness is see, make a move when the time is right. I sneakily went over and tapped the thin monk’s, in other words the sissy-sounding one’s, shoulder.

“F̲u̲c̲k̲, ghosts!” The thin monk had his s̲e̲m̲e̲n̲ in his brain, and now that his back was suddenly tapped, he freaked out.

“Shout you mom!” The fat monk turned around unhappily, and suddenly saw me who was behind him, and said surprisingly, “Who-Who are you?”

“Two bros, nice interest tonight,” I said with a smile.

“F̲u̲c̲k̲ you scared me to death! Who are you? It’s none of your business here, f̲u̲c̲k̲ of!” The short monk said to me.

“Help!” Seeing that I have come, the girl started screaming crazily.

“Don’t be so loud for now!” I glared at the girl in dissatisfaction. Then said to the fat monk, “Do you even know how to be delinquents? Why are you so farmer?”

“Ai? How’d ya know that us bros are farmers?” The short monk replied.

“Shut up, what the f̲u̲c̲k̲ are you saying to him!” The monk on the side immediately stopped the short monks, then turned to me and said, “What f̲u̲c̲k̲i̲n̲g business is it of yours if the two of us are farmers or not?”

Ai! This intelligence, I’m speechless! I said gloomily, “Come, let me show the two of you how to be delinquents!”

The two people and the beauty just now looked at me dumbfounded, the girl’s expression was beyond depressing, she thought she was about to leave the tiger’s mouth, instead another delinquent came. The girl sighed, it looks like her pure body was destined to be ruined here today.

I turned around, fermented my wished for a while, and even thought about Ye Xiaoxiao’s large breasts, and finally managed to force out a face of lewd smile, and walked up to the beauty.

“Are you ready?” I suddenly thought of a quote in the play “Mai Guai”, so I said it out.

The thin monk exclaimed, “F̲u̲c̲k̲, old bro look! That’s skill, asking them if they’re ready before raping them.”

The fat monk also agreed, “Yeah! City people really are more educated, so f̲u̲c̲k̲i̲n̲g polite!”

“Okay, I’m about to start. You have the right to resist, but your resistance will only excite me more!” I reached my hands towards the beauty’s chest, and the moment I was about to touch it, I retracted my hands.

To be honest, I didn’t want to retract it, but it can’t be helped, I’m playing the hero right now, and not a pervert, I have to think about it from another point of view. If I really touched it, wouldn’t I be the same as the two monks? So I can’t do this.

“Okay, demonstration over,” I said to the monks. “The two of you can f̲u̲c̲k̲ off now.”

“Boss, you really are an amazing delinquent! How about you mount first? After eating, you do need to leave some for the bros!” the short monk said.

“Whose a delinquent? I wanted to act as the hero and save the beauty form the start, and seeing that the two of you are so unprofessional, I generously demonstrated a bit for you guys,” I got angry. They actually gave me a cap that said delinquent.

“Laoer, this brat was messing with us! Beat him up!” then they rushed up to hit me.

Ai! The fat and thin monks have really been treating themselves as the fat and thin monks, flashing this sort of kungfu in front of me. I was a sanda champion in my previous life, and I got even stronger in this one, I really didn’t want to increase the burdens of the white clothed angels.

“Wait!” I quickly shouted, and made a stop sign with my hands.

“What? Scared? If you’re scared then scram!” the thin monk shouted.

“I just wanted to ask if you brought any medical fees on you? If I made the two of you disabled, and you didn’t have any money to see the doctor, and thus delayed the illness, I’ll feel bad!” I said kindly.

“Hahahahahaha!” The fat and thin monks laughed together cockily.

I really didn’t want to waste any more breathes with them, I said everything that needs to be said, it’s not my problem if they died now. I sent the fat monk flying with a kick, and he smashed onto the thin monk with a “Hong” sound. The sound of bones cracking was heard, certain bones of thin monk probably got crashed by his big bro.

I went over to check their breath, they were still breathing, the two of them only fainted. It looks like it is unlikely for the two of them to wake up again once more, two brand new vegetables have just been born.

“Ai, okay, beauty, why are you still standing there like an idiot? You can’t be wanting to stay there until the next group of delinquents come right? I said to the dumbstruck girl.



 

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Chapter 152 – Breakthrough to Ninth Celestial Layer



The world was filled with vitality, the green divine light was bright and dazzling, as if a green sea of trees was floating in midair. However, that kind of exuberant sight was only in regards to the spectators. To Xiao Chen, who was the target of that light, it was the ray of death.

The inexhaustible life energy gathered towards Xiao Chen and gave him a huge pressure. There was nowhere to run, and nothing to use as a shield. That ray of light wanted to swallow him up.

“Chaotic Pattern!”

Xiao Chen shouted loudly. The second move of the four major techniques had finally been used in battle for the first time. The Imprint of Dao, it was just like a divine light from beyond the heavens that cleaved the empty air and the inexhaustible green light. It was as if it was being manipulated by an invisible giant hand.

The energy of life became chaotic in that very instant. In the end, it actually tore a huge hole in the inexhaustible green light. Xiao Chen broke through from the green sea. The Chaotic Pattern’s invisible giant hand also appeared at this time. It transformed into a grey plume of light and vibrated as it was launched towards the green ripple.

It was finally over. The Imprint of Dao “Chaotic Pattern” had stopped the Fist of Wood.

Xiao Chen was incomparably shocked. This Wuxing Feng was really too powerful. This was his most powerful opponent to date. He actually couldn’t gain any advantage in this fight.

The Quinctus Techniques were really worthy of its reputation as the oldest mystic art!

The Quinctus Fist in the mortal world was merely a superficial skill. It was far too inferior compared to the one in the world of immortals. In this world, the mystic arts really emerged endlessly. Moreover, they were all first-rate martial arts. The techniques handed down in the mortal world were nothing compared to this world’s.

If he had not grasped the four major techniques, it seemed like it would be hard to establish himself in this world!

Wuxing Feng was also incomparably shocked. In his imagination, not many people could resist his Quinctus Fist. This person before his eyes gave him too many surprises. The Demonic Seal, God Slayer Technique, and Chaotic Patterns Technique were incomparably profound. They were definitely not inferior to the Quinctus Techniques. If the opponent’s ability was as profound as his, he should be able to exhibit even more power.

He sent out another punch with his right fist. It wasn’t too slow nor too fast. Endless amount of water enveloped the world. It seemed like Wuxing Feng had blended into the blue rays of light.

Fist of Water!

It was as if the water ripple was omnipresent. The materialization of the Quinctus Fist was like the torrential wave, it spread far and wide over the prince’s mansion as it enveloped Xiao Chen from all directions.

This was the bizarre power of the Quinctus Techniques!

This was not a magic spell nor a spiritual spell. Rather than a “skill”, this was a “path”. A “path” completely cultivated from the “martial arts”. Specifically, it was a “martial way” tempered from a right-handed martial skill. It was the embodiment of the invisible truth.

The legendary Quinctus Techniques were capable of turning the sky and earth upside down. When this techniques were exhibited before everyone’s eyes, it had validated that this legend might not be empty words. If Wuxing Feng could manifest this technique to the pinnacle in the future, its power would be unimaginable.

A rumbling sound transmitted from the sky as if there were thousands of men and horses. That was the sound of the raging sea. Endless amounts of blue light waves rolled over and over. It fell diagonally from the sky like the milky way falling from the Ninth Heaven.

Xiao Chen shouted loudly, “Demon Suppression!”

He ran into his greatest opponent today. It forced him to reveal almost all of his trump cards. The third move of the four major techniques, Demon Suppression, was used in front of his enemy for the first time.

Black rays of light seemed to have rushed out from a hazy chaotic space. It was very quiet, but the pressure directly assailed the soul. It was rolling over and over in the endless blue ocean like a black dragon.

Like dragons returning to the sea, the Demon Suppression burst through the Fist of Water. A single word “Suppression” had threw the essence of water into disorder. But even in disorder, the power of the Quinctus was still rushing forth from all sides, about to gobble up Xiao Chen any moment now.

The black Demon Suppression technique created a dusky space. It was like a land of death. White bones could be seen everywhere and the vibe of death lingered on. The power of water was completely absorbed by this illusion.

Whether it was real or an illusion, nobody could make a clear distinction. The power was raging violently as it destroyed everything in the surroundings.

Xiao Chen felt a sharp pain all over his body. His chest felt stuffy as he was unceasingly pushed back. This time, he was forced into a disadvantageous position once again.

When all the illusions faded away, as if Xiao Chen had been struck by a thunderbolt, his body was pushed back for more than ten meters. A dozen or more footprints were left on the ground. There were huge cracks around each footprint. His body was swaying slightly, and it seemed like he could bite the dust at any moment.

Wuxing Feng stood in his original position. His expression remained unchanged. It was easy to judge who had the upper hand.

All the spectators were overwhelmed with shock. The outstanding talent from the north was really too strong. He actually steadily suppressed Xiao Chen, who was an Eighth Celestial Layer expert. Just how much more powerful could he be? Everyone’s heart was palpitating.

Just like the wind and lightning, the fabled young warrior Wuxing Feng left behind an afterimage and appeared in front of Xiao Chen. He directly sent a powerful punch. This time, he did not use the Quinctus Fist, because he could already tell that Xiao Chen was at his limit. There was no need to reveal his last move, the Fist of Fire.

“You are already very powerful. Among my peers, those who can make me use four out of five of the Quinctus Fist are only a handful.”

With pressure as heavy as a mountain, Wuxing Feng was like a sacred mountain that was too high to reach. The fabled outstanding talent of the north was not an ordinary man.

“Bang!” ⌈1

Xiao Chen was sent flying away. He bumped into a rock at a distant place. There were bloodstains at the corner of his mouth. He felt a little dejected and sour. He was actually unable to contend against Wuxing Feng with the peak power of Eighth Celestial Layer. It seemed like the opponent’s power was really higher than his.

This was the test of absolute strength, he lost fair and square.

Wuxing Feng was absolutely not an arrogant guy. Although he steadily suppressed his opponent, he did not hold back or loosen up at all. Each of his punch contained his full strength. He didn’t give his opponent any chance to retaliate.

“Bang!”

Xiao Chen raised his arm to defend, but was sent flying away again. His arm bone seemed to have suffered a fracture. A hall collapsed as his body crashed into it.

The elites who were watching at the sidelines felt secretly apprehensive. None of them had ever thought that Wuxing Feng was this powerful. Xiao Chen was retreating in defeat all the way. He was already detained by an invisible power and was forced to be on the defensive side. Each attack was like a huge hammer smashing on his chest. Who knew how much blood had already spilled from the corner of his mouth.

Although Wuxing Feng had a calm expression and possessed a bright smile, he was still very cruel when he made his move. He didn’t give his opponent any chance at all.

“I said I won’t kill you. But since you are still alive after so many punches, then I might as well finish up with the last punch. I will grant you the experience of surviving the entire series of the Quinctus Fist.”

That was not at all pretentious, nor was it a taunt. As far as Wuxing Feng was concerned, he definitely had the qualification to say this in the northern nation. It was not a disgrace for the peers to lose to an outstanding youth full of sagas. It was considered an honor if they could survive a few of his Quinctus Fist.

Hearing this kind of confident words, the elites at present all had different thoughts. Zhuge Ming, Lancelot, and the others felt a little frustrated. As a man, standing on the summit and looking down at the whole world was an honor.

As for Yan Qingcheng, Fairsnow, Katalina, and the other beauties, their eyes were flashing. Even if this guy possessed a threat to the south, the girls were still attracted to him. A man had to be this powerful and confident. The prerequisite was that they had to have enough strength to back it up.

Xiao Chen’s two legs felt as if they had stepped into the underworld. He was firmly confined by the divine power of the five phases. Even if he wanted to unfold the Undying Divine Wings and fly, it was impossible. He was forced to meet Wuxing Feng’s next attack head on.

The Fist of Fire!

The conflagration heated the horizon until it turned red. The glaring red-qi was flickering, as if it was set on burning everything in the world. It was omnipresent and trapped Xiao Chen within.

Never give the opponent any chance! This was Wuxing Feng’s doctrine when facing an opponent from start to finish. One must spare no effort in a confrontation!

Xiao Chen was very angry. To others, it might be a test of strength and a glory to receive five attacks from the Quinctus Fist. But to him, it was a humiliation!

He didn’t want to lose, he must not lose!

The peak power of the Eighth Celestial Layer, how could it lose?!

Death Blow!

He utilized the last of the four major techniques. The Imprint of Dao seemed to flow into his mind. A resplendent ethereal light burst forth along with his anger. A powerful energy burst forth.

Death Blow, it destroyed every visible thing.

The omnipresent flame was broken down into one stream of light after another. They glinted in the sky like shooting stars. The sky was incomparably gorgeous. The blaze covered the entire sky and spread everywhere like fireworks.

The unparalleled energy surged forth and fluctuated. A great pressure engulfed the entire mansion.

He actually blocked the Fist of Fire!

This made everyone very surprised. Xiao Chen already sustained serious injuries. He already lost a lot of blood in his fight with Wuxing Feng. How could he possibly stop the Quinctus Fist?

After the rays of light faded away, Wuxing Feng was standing in the field unmovingly. Xiao Chen already fell onto the ground with his back. Both of his arms were fractured, but at the same time, a resplendent divine radiance erupted from his body like a raging flame.

As if representing his anger and humiliation, a raging flame ignited on the surface of his body. At the same time, an extremely rich and powerful energy forcefully rushed out to the surface of his body. It made his entire body shrouded by brilliant rays.

His body trembled violently, as if he had broken some kind of shackles. Xiao Chen could hear a brittle noise within his body. The peak power of the Eighth Celestial Layer had broken through the shackles. It allowed him to make a breakthrough in the middle of this life and death battle.

He had been racking his brain to breakthrough the shackles, but he still failed to rise to Ninth Celestial Layer. However, he actually succeeded at this very moment. Wuxing Feng’s last attack sent him flying and broke his two arms, but it also seemed to have opened the door to a certain treasure in his body.

It was already impossible to close it now. The era of the Ninth Celestial Layer had arrived!

The joints were making noises as the bones trembled. The broken arm bones actually reconnected. It was growing, restoring, and became as good as new under that glaring radiance. The skin was as clear as the precious jade, it was flickering with splendor.

It was as if Xiao Chen had rose from the ashes. His seriously injured body recovered in an instant. In the middle of this life and death battle, he completed his transformation!

An incomparably rich and powerful energy surged up within his body. It surged on like a large river and felt like it would erupt from his body. Every inch of his skin contained an extremely terrifying energy. His body was like divine steel that had been tempered for thousands of years. At the same time, it also felt like a vast ocean that contained an endless amount of worldly essence. His entire body flickered with brilliance.

The instant Wuxing Feng sent Xiao Chen flying away, he felt that the circumstances had turned for the worst. He, who was standing calmly all along, rushed over there like the flickering light and passing shadows. Not giving his opponent any chance was his doctrine.

However, all of these just now happened in a split second, it was impossible to stop it anymore, even if he had already brandished his fist and tore the space with the all-powerful Fist of Iron.

However, Xiao Chen’s transformation already completed at this time. He unfolded the Undying Divine Wings and soared into the sky.

“Haha……” The laughing sound was deafening. The surging sound wave pierced through the vast sky. The tremor caused the ruins on the ground to shake. Xiao Chen’s messy hair was flying upward, the glints in his eyes were sharp, and his lofty figure was standing in the sky. Among the holiness, there was a huge pressure.

Without any superfluous words, Xiao Chen unfolded the Undying Divine Wings and dived down fast. His fist carried a mighty wind, as if it had attracted the heavenly thunder and hellfire. A large expanse of glaring purple-qi poured down in torrents.

It was a simple punch, but also a punch with nothing held back. It contained an extremely powerful force!

Ninth Celestial Layer. To many of the youth generation, it was a goal too high to reach. However, Xiao Chen had finally broken through to this realm. He was merciless and did not spare any effort when making his move. He did not get careless just because his strength had increased.

Two fist clashed! A thunderous roar exploded! Wuxing Feng’s figure shook violently. The ground under his foot cracked as he was pushed back. Every time his foot dropped onto the ground, it felt as if a huge mountain was shaking. He was pushed back five steps before he stopped.

Swish!

With a flash of light, Xiao Chen landed on the ground. He stood at the opposite side of Wuxing Feng. There was no need for any delirious ravings, that was too childish. The powerful pressure and formless aura was enough to explain everything. After Xiao Chen had went through the Ninth Celestial Layer’s transformation, he had the upper hand in raw power.

Tiny light streams were flickering unceasingly on the surface of his body. He was still slowly going through the last transformation.

All the spectators were incomparably shocked. The situation reversed so quickly, it was totally out of their expectation.They had personally witnessed an Eighth Celestial Layer expert breaking through to the Ninth Celestial Layer. This was the realm everyone yearned for even in their dreams.

Transforming in the middle of a life and death battle, this was something that only a warrior truly unafraid of death or a madman dared to do. Today, Xiao Chen had went through this kind of experience.

Ninth Celestial Layer expert, what did this mean? With the most conservative estimates, they could have easily ranked among the top three of the youth experts at the south.

Swish!

Leaving an afterimage in his original location, Xiao Chen appeared in front of Wuxing Feng. He brandished his right fist with all of his might and sent a straight punch.

Wuxing Feng did not panic in the slightest. On the contrary, his eyes had a divine glint and an astonishing battle intent burst out. He lifted his fist to fend off the attack.

Looking at his temperament, all the spectators were overwhelmed with shock. The outstanding talent of the north was really a Ninth Celestial Layer expert. No wonder he could steadily suppress Xiao Chen, who was at the peak of the Eight Celestial Layer.



 


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[Arc 1] Chapter 7

[Arc 1] Chapter 7

Authors Note: Okay it's the end of the combined chapters so enjoy! Chapter 7 - The Pillars Warriors (1) A serious look overcame Chu Shens face. He looked at the space in front of him. The leftmost pillar…



Authors Note: Okay it’s the end of the combined chapters so enjoy!


Chapter 7 – The Pillars Warriors (1)

A serious look overcame Chu Shens face. He looked at the space in front of him. The leftmost pillar lit up with white light before a shadow appeared before him.

The shadow had a short sword in one hand and a dagger in the other. With such short range weapons it was obvious that this shadow specialized in speed.

Without giving the shadow time to react Chu Shen swung the huge hammer down like lightning. The shadow looked at the hammer and Chu Shen could have sworn he saw a smirk on its face.

The shadow didn’t block the hammer or jump away, it merely stepped slightly to the side. Seeing this Chu Shen smiled.

The hammer hit the ground, creating a dent in the ground. The shockwave from the powerful hit made the shadow pause.

Chu Shen used the hammers recoil to swing the hammer in a circle sideways. Without giving the shadow any room to counterattack the hammer smashed into it, blunt side first.

The shadow flew sideways when it was hit, flying outside of the circle of pillars. As the shadow flew out of the circle it merged with the gloominess of the surrounding air. The pillar stopped glowing.

“Impressive, I didn’t think you actually had some skills in using the hammer” Ti Wu exclaimed.

Chu Shen grinned at his master. As far as he knew, Ti Wu was very stingy on praise. His next sentence verified this.

“You are actually able to use the momentum of the recoil to increase your strength. Good, good. It’s too bad you’re not able to control it very well. You also need to work on your speed.”

Actually, it was only natural that Chu Shen was skilled with a hammer. Since Chu Shen knew that his only hope for power was through blacksmithing he had only practiced techniques that could help him during forging.

The first martial art he had learned, quite recently too, was called . This technique let you control all aspects of your weapon. It resulted in Chu Shen being able to control the rebound of the hammer.

This was extremely helpful during forging because of the precision needed but it had one requirement that stopped most people from practicing it.

Tremendous wrist strength.

Chu Shen did not have the greatest mastery over this technique, as he was just recently able to practice it and that was only with his inborn strength that Chu Shen was able to do so.

“You’ve passed the first pillar. In order to be considered an outer disciple you must beat 3 pillar shadows. If you pass 6 pillar shadows you will be an inner disciple. If you pass all 9 pillars you would be a core disciple.”

“What are the differences master?” Chu Shen asked. He had an idea because of his own sect but wasn’t completely sure.

“Do you think all the pillars will be this easy? Dream on! Naturally there are benefits but I will only tell you if you earn them. Now hurry up, I grow anxious.”

Steadying his mind Chu Shen nodded to Ti Wu. Recognizing that his disciple was ready to start, another pillar light up to the right of the previous one.

This time the shadow warrior carried a spear. As soon as Chu Shen saw the spear he started thinking. Spears, the blade was a long range but the shaft was a short range weapon. It was the natural enemy of a mid range weapon like Chu Shens hammer.

Shadow was cautious, keeping back from Chu Shen. It constantly made little thrusts with the spear though Chu Shen avoided all these with ease.

Finally the shadow committed to a full blow and thrust towards Chu Shen’s chest. Barely avoiding the deadly blow, Chu Shen thrust forward with the hammer, almost like he was trying to punch the shadow.

The hammer was barely avoided by the shadow however it did not expect a dart to suddenly embed itself in its head.

The whole point of Chu Shens thrust was not to kill it but to put it off balance. Then when it was off-guard to kill it with an arrow to the face. When the arrow hit the shadow it disappeared just like the other one.

Ting

A melodious bell like ring sounded out as the metal arrow landed on the ground.



 

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[Arc 1] Chapter 5 & 6

[Arc 1] Chapter 5 & 6

Chapter 5 - Trials (2) In a desolate land of fire, everything was peaceful. Then all of a sudden a hand came out of the lava. Chu Shen stood on the bottom of the lava lake, looking around…



Chapter 5 – Trials (2)

In a desolate land of fire, everything was peaceful. Then all of a sudden a hand came out of the lava. Chu Shen stood on the bottom of the lava lake, looking around in astonishment.

‘Why did I not die?’ He wondered. ‘The lava wasn’t hot and it wasn’t deep either. Just what is going on.’

“Haha, I knew you were the right choice brat. “ Ti Wu appeared above him, floating like the spirit he was.

“Teacher, what’s going on? The lava didn’t kill me.” Chu Shen said with obvious curiosity.

“A test my dear boy, a test which you passed. A cultivator of the way of the void must have courage and confidence in oneself. If you hadn’t jumped within the time for an incense stick to burn you would have landed in real lava.”

Chu Shen gaped at Master Wu. So this whole thing was a test of his confidence that would have killed him if he didn’t try it fast enough. Pondering over the matter Chu Shen nodded his head.

A true test would have a consequence for failure, often on the path of cultivation a mistake meant death. This was both a test and a lesson. Do not expect anything to be easy.

Ti Wu looked at the thinking body of Chu Shen in exasperation. “If you’re just going to sit there you’re going burn to death. You still have to get the staff and the lava will become real soon.”

Chu Shen panicked, rushing towards staff. As he ran the lava clung to him like mud slowing him down. It seemed like forever and with each step the lava grew hotter. Finally he reached the island with the staff. Grinning as he saw victory in his grasp he grabbed the staff. Searing heat scorched the skin of his palm.

“ARGHHHH” Chu Shen quickly let go of the staff, waving his and around to cool it off.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA.” The grand elder of the Void Sect, respected since the ancient times, laughed at his disciple’s misery.

Nursing his hand, Chu Shen glared at him. Yes, he was his master but he didn’t give Chu Shen face at all. “I know this is the test master but at least warn me.”

Ti Wu stopped laughing for a moment and looked at him. “What, did you expect it to be easy?” Upon seeing Chu Shens face, full of fury and indignation he burst out laughing again. “HAHAHAH, it’s a puzzle, HAHAHA, find out the answer. HAHAHA.”

Realizing he couldn’t take out his anger on his floating master, Chu Shen promptly ignored him. Studying the staff he stared at it intensely but nothing was abnormal with the staff. It seemed to be just a normal bamboo staff.
‘Maybe its like the gauntlets?’ With that thought in mind he repeated what he had done with the gauntlets. Nothing happened however.

Chu Shen thought back to the voice he had first heard. “To practice martial arts is to transcend the natural order. It is to unflinchingly march forward and to harness the power of nature. Find your path to cultivation.”

‘Hmmm. The first part is simply a description of cultivation. The second part was the key to the first test. To “unflinchingly march forward” must be the jumping into the lava. Was the clue “Harness the power of nature”?’

Chu Shen shrugged.

There was only one way to find out….. but how could he harness the power of nature? His eyes wandered around looking for something of nature. The only stuff around though was a flat black surface and lava.

His face lit up. Grasping the desperate thought with both hands he rushed to the edge of the island and reached his hands into the lava. It had felt like mud earlier and just like mud it came up in a clump.

Cautiously he carried over the lava to the staff and smeared it on the handle. Carefully placing his hands on the staff he waited for a couple seconds.

Nothing happened. Overjoyed he firmly grasped the staff and yanked on it. The staff moved a little bit but no more.
Remembering his teachers reminder that the lava would become real soon made Chu Shen reckless.

He started frantically pulling and twisting and wiggling the staff before it finally came out. Chu Shen became impressed as he looked at the staff again.

At the end stuck in the ground there was unexpectedly a metal spike and on the spike was dozens of miniature hooks.

‘Ah, no wonder teacher kept laughing the more I pulled’

The ancient voice rumbled out once again after he had picked up the staff. “You have passed the test of courage, confidence, quick wit, usage of the elements, and finally determination. There is one more test, have faith practitioner.”

As soon as the voice finished speaking the world became black before lighting up once more.


Chapter 6 – Trials (3)

Blinking to clear his eyes Chu Shen looked around. He sighed. ‘Yet another cavern’ he thought dully.
This time he was in a cave and surrounding him was columns of jade.

‘When will this end?’ He thought. His master appeared in front of him.

“Okay brat, you are now in the last stage of the test. While the other tests was for me to test your character this last one is crucial for your future path.”

Ti Wu gestured behind him. “See these columns?” Chu Shen nodded. “Good. Inside these columns are formation arrays. When I activate it a phantom warrior made of heavens Qi will form.”

“Your goal is to fight these warriors. Each column’s warrior will become stronger when you beat the previous one. There is a set of weapons over there, choose one or tell me if you want a different one.”

Upon hearing those words Chu Shen looked over at the weapons. There was various swords, spears, armor, shields, bows, and various other bladed weapons.

Chu Shen shook his head at all these weapons. While he had not fought often with the other disciples when he did he tried to use his brute strength as often as possible. “Master, I am not suitably trained in any of these weapons.”

Ti Wu was stunned. “Lowly sects. You’d think they’d at least train you how to fight but nooo. I bet he can’t even swing a sword around.” Ti Wu grumbled underneath his breath.

Raising his voice he called out to Chu Shen, “Disciple, do you have any weapon you wish to use then?”

Chu Shen cupped his hands and bowed to his master. “Yes master, I wish to use a hammer and a sleeve crossbow.”

Ti Wu frowned. He had never used a hammer or a crossbow before so he naturally did not have the capability of reproducing them.

”I cannot make them so you will have to make the weapons you wish to have. They will be weapons of pure steel just like these with no inscriptions added.”

“How do I accomplish this master?”

“Merely imagine the weapon you wish to have and let me know when you have vividly captured the image. This is after all still an illusionary soul realm in the Voids Hand.”

“Yes master.” Chu Shen closed his eyes and thought of a hammer. It was to be one and a half meters long, making it a medium range weapon.

It was all metal with the hammer part being over 3/10 of a meter at the end. One end was shaped like a brick and was obviously meant for crushing, the other was a metal spike meant for stabbing into the opponent.

The crossbow on the other hand had a wooden base. It was mounted on a metal strip with leather straps to attach it to his arm.

The string though was made with tensile steel, making it extremely hard to notch letting the arrows reach tremendous speeds.There was a groove guiding the arrow to its target. Beside the string there was a curious device.

It looked like a gear with a handle attached to it that faced inwards towards the persons chest if the crossbow was worn on the left arm. Another curious thing was the arrows. They looked more like a miniature spear, they had no feathers to speak of.

If Chu Shen was able to craft a crossbow like this it would become a true marvel in the sect. It was unfortunate that though he had the talent to accomplish this he was not experienced enough in crafting to make a crossbow like this.
Trying his best to concentrate on these masterpieces Chu Shen called out to his master hesitatingly as his brow furrowed in concentration. “Master… I have succeeded.”

Ti Wu looked at his disciple in disdain. In mere moments he had come up with the style of weapons that would most likely follow him throughout his life.

“Remember that these weapons will be crucial in what I teach you, do not be hasty with their design.” Ti Wu said sternly.

“Master….I am….really….done.” Ti Wu sighed in exasperation at his disciples helplessness.

Ti Wu floated over towards Chu Shen until he was right in front of him. Reaching out with his hand Ti Wu touched the young boys forehead. When he did a glowing blue orb emerged from his head.

Ti Wu then took the orb and put it inside his own forehead and closed his eyes. After a short moment he looked at the Chu Shen in astonishment.

“He truly does have potential to be a great artificer, no wonder he was working at that place.” Ti Wu murmured to himself. Realizing Chu Shen was still concentrating hard he frowned.

Raising his voice he called out to him. “Boy, I have already received your souls image. You may stop.”

Chu Shen opened his eyes in relief. “Here are your weapons” With a wave of his hand the weapons Chu Shen had asked for appeared, completely as he had imagined.

He looked at them in awe, knowing that it would be some time before he could create anything of this perfection.
Before Chu Shen put on the weapons though he put on armor. First he put on a chest plate. After that he put on a helmet that only covered the top of his head and neck. And finally shin guards and greaves that covered a broad portion of the arms and legs though the left arm had nothing put on it.

Carefully Chu Shen strapped the crossbow on his left arm, lacing up the straps tightly.

Ti Wu looked at the crossbow with undisguised curiosity. “What does that gear do, as far as I know it has no purpose.”

“Yes master. I don’t believe I can properly explain, could I demonstrate it for you instead?”

Ti Wu waved his hand in dismissal. “Yes, yes. Just show me what it does.”

Chu Shen bowed “As you wish master.”

Using his right arm he strained at the gears handle. As he turned it in a half circle the metal string that had been
notched in the teeth of the gear was pulled back as well.

Within a matter of a half a second the metal string that someone a whole stage above him would struggle with was notched in the crossbow.

Ti Wu gained enlightenment as to the purpose of the gear. It was to allow someone weaker to notch the crossbow. With this method you could prepare a devastating attack way above your own strength, truly formidable.

Next Chu Shen strapped on the small quiver of metal arrow-spears, as he thought of them, around his leg like a belt. Chu Shen notched the arrow into the crossbow before picking up the hammer with both hands.

“Are you equipped with your weapons then disciple?”

“Yes master.”

“Then let your final test begin!”



 

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[Arc 1] Chapter 3 & 4

[Arc 1] Chapter 3 & 4

Chapter 3 – Master Chu Shen was stunned. An expert wanted him to be his apprentice, at least he supposed the voice that sounded like an old mans that was coming from the gauntlets was a great expert.…



Chapter 3 – Master

Chu Shen was stunned. An expert wanted him to be his apprentice, at least he supposed the voice that sounded like an old mans that was coming from the gauntlets was a great expert. After all, he had managed to become a soul in the gauntlets and survive. Shen had never hear of someone doing that before even in the sect.

Hurriedly he kowtowed three times on the floor. “Yes master, this disciple hears you.”

“Humph humph. If not for your void constitution I would not even be able to teach you. Now where am I, a forge? WHAT! You would dare to melt down the voids hand like some cheap tool!”

Chu Shen, upon hearing the old man, as he now thought of the voice, anxiously kowtowed again saying, “I am sorry master, I am truly sorry. I had eyes but did not recognize Mount Tai.”

“Take me away at once. No better yet, put on the gauntlets.” Hearing the stern voice and wanting to please his newfound master Chu Shen quickly put on the gauntlets.

“Now I am going to test you, consider this punishment for trying to kill me, though I doubt you could even melt the leather.”

“Wait master, what do you me-“

Inside the Chu sects best forge a young man, renowned for crafting mid-tier Dragon weapons at the tender age of twelve, collapsed on the table next to him. As bits of metal and weapons clattered on the floor, the rusty gauntlets he

had on melted inside his skin.

Chu Shen woke up inside a cave. “What is this place?” Chu Shen asked in wonder as he looked around the cavern. Pieces of jade, black iron, dragons teeth stone, and other various crafting goods were strewn about like trash.

“This is your soul kid.” Chu Shen jumped as an ancient voice called out next to him. Turning his head he saw a middle aged man decked out in warriors clothes next to him. Chu Shen was curious as to why the voice sounded so old but that was not important now.

“My soul? How is that possible and why does it look like this.?” The man rolled his eyes.

“I am not going to say it twice to a brat the can’t hear. As to how it’s possible, it’s of course through the voids hand. It’s not called divine armor for nothing. It looks like this because the things you wish for is better items to forge with.”

“Now listen up kid. I wont repeat myself. I am from an ancient sect that was extremely powerful. We converted our Qi into Null Qi, this Qi can neutralize all other types of Qi, making it extremely useful in a fight.”

“Your void constitution would have been extremely valuable to the sect simply because your body naturally cultivates Null Qi. Not only that, you will be able to strengthen your body to the extreme as well, reaching strengths so that with your bare hands you can destroy entire mountains with a single blow. “

“The reason you are in your soul is just the first step. Next you will be transported to the testing realm contained within the voids hand for the sects test. I will not tell you more until you get there.”

“Master I don’t think….”

“No! You will take this test. I have told you I would take you as a disciple but there is a catch. In order for you to be considered my true disciple you must pass.”

“If you try and fail then you will simply learn basic techniques but if you pass or succeed above my expectations then I will grant you profound techniques that if cultivated properly can shake the heavens to its core. Let us begin”

“Wait master.”

“What now brat, I can’t dawdle time with idle questions otherwise my Qi will run out.”

Chu Shen cupped his hands in apology. “I am truly sorry master, I merely wanted to ask master his name.”

The middle aged man finally smiled, breaking his stern expression which he had kept the entire lecture. “Ah yes, I truly did overlook something didn’t I? Very well. My name is Ti Wu, elder of the Void sect. Try hard disciple, I truly hope you succeed.”

Suddenly Chu Shen was standing in the middle of a small island about 10 meters across either way. Surrounding him was a lake of lava and at the other end was a staff stuck in another island.

Gulp

Chu Shen looked nervously at the surrounding lava. “I didn’t think master Wu was this crazy” he whispered.


Chapter 4 – Trials (1)

Chu Shen looked at the lava helplessly. Even now he could feel the heat, his face was even starting crack, which startled him.

It must be known that as the apprentice for a blacksmith he had long since gotten used to intense heat. He had never experienced his skin cracking even when his master had forged with the divine fire. This heat must be on a different level than what he had been used to during forging.

An ancient rumbling voice boomed out all around Chu Shen, completely unlike Ti Wu. “To practice martial arts is to transcend the natural order. It is to unflinchingly march forward and to harness the power of nature. Find your path to cultivation.”

Chu Shen flinched when he heard the voice but upon hearing the words it spoke his heart grew firm and his eyes cold.

“I have been a genius who knew I could never reach the top, that no matter what I did it would be pointless. This is my chance to reach the peak and no matter what lies in my path I shall overcome it.”

As Chu Shen said this he strode forward towards the lava. As he neared the edge he condensed his Qi towards his legs, helping reinforce them. He paused at the edge of the lava, his eyes searching endlessly for a hint in this desolate land of fire.

He sighed in regret. There was nothing out there. No ropes, no hints, nothing that could help him with this challenge. Finally he accepted what he must do. He must unflinchingly stride forwards on his path. Chu Shen knew his path was

to be unique and he must embrace without hesitation or nervousness.

It was one thing to know what you must do and another to actually do it. Breathing deeply he once more tried to pierce the gloomy land. Taking a couple steps back he ran towards the edge of the lava pool. With a tremendous leap he sailed into the sky towards the pole.

Unfortunately no matter how strong your courage was, it still is not enough in the face of nature. As Chu Shen reached the peak of his leap he knew he would fall short, not by much, but enough.

Without closing his eyes he prepared for his legs to be burnt and possibly his entire body to directly turn to ash. He got closer and closer to the lava, heat radiating off it becoming unbearable.

Then his legs touched the lava. With a splash he landed in the lava, not even two meters from his goal. Ah, such a waste.



 

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[Arc 1] Chapter 1 & 2

[Arc 1] Chapter 1 & 2

Authors Note: I am a new author and this is my first story so be kind okay? When I first started writing I didn't realize how short the chapters were so the first 6 chapters will be combined…



Authors Note: I am a new author and this is my first story so be kind okay? When I first started writing I didn’t realize how short the chapters were so the first 6 chapters will be combined for a total of 3 chapters.


Arc 1: Hopeful Beginnings

Chapter 1
Memories

Dang! Dang! Dang!

Sparks flew as a hammer repeatedly smashed into a glowing metal lump. Continuous blows struck down on the metal, not letting up for a moment. The ferocity, speed, and accuracy of the hammers blows showed the skill of the blacksmith.

Chu Shen absentmindedly wiped the sweat from his brow as he put the metal down into the water. Steam billowed up before the metal was onto a table by the forge. The metal was now recognizable as a throwing disk used by the nearby Lin sect to train them in the arts of ranged weapons.

Taking the disk along with the others he had already forged Chu Shen took them to the shops inscription master who would reinforce the disk with Qi.

“Chu Shen, you have the throwing disks ready?”

“Yes Master Lang, I have prepared them.”

“How is you’re cultivation coming along, I heard you reached level 8 of the man stage yesterday?”

Without replying Chu Shen set down the disks and quickly left for cup by the well in the corner. Master Lang watched him leave with a pained expression.
As he filled the cup with cool well water he reminisced about his past.

Cultivation was separated into different stages with each stage having 10 levels. There was Man, Tiger, Dragon, Student, Practitioner, Scholar, Warrior, Army, King, Emperor, Earth, Nature, World, Cosmos, Celestial, and Heaven stages. Each stage had a difference in the quality of the Qi until the Student stage.

Upon reaching the student stage you would have to unblock the meridians until the Earth stage upon which the meridians would be used to explore the natural laws of the universe.

All this simply compounded young twelve year old Chu Shens problems. As a kid he had enormous potential, almost to the point of disbelief. When anyone heard that he had almost reached the Tiger stage at 12 they would gasp in awe but then sigh in regret.

With his talent it would have been natural to reach the Nature or even World stage. He could never reach past the dragon stage though, simply because he had no meridians to unblock. It also did not help that his Qi was abnormal and couldn’t be used for martial arts but only for internal and bodily cultivation.

As a young kid he was treated with mixed feelings, everyone knew that one of the most prominent elders son of the Chu branch sect was a genius who had his future cut short.

Knowing he could never have the power he desired at six he threw himself into finding a suitable occupation where he could reach the pinnacle.

Upon looking Chu Shen found himself entranced with blacksmithing, where all of the weapons including the ones the elders used was forged. He knew he could be of some use by making great weapons for the sect so Chu Shen was granted the chance by Master Lang.

Chu Shen always had the heavens gift of abnormal strength, he could as a six year old pick up 80 pounds, which he used to forge. Upon finding his talent for forging Master Lang took him as his direct disciple.


Chapter 2
The Pair of Gauntlets

“Junior brother Shen, I have some scrap metal for you.”

“Okay Senior brother Lan, just leave it on the table.” Chu Lan was a disciple of the Chu Sect who often visited the shop. He would bring with him old or useless armor and weapons to be melted down into new items.

On the table was a rusted pair of gauntlets, a sword broke in two, a helm with a dent in it, and a metal dagger in perfect condition. “Was there anything interesting in this batch Senior Lan?”

“No, all this is from that old man that managed the shop down the road. He ran out of all his goods except these so he decided to leave to someplace, no one knows where.”

“I have to go prepare for the sects trials, you should too if you want to become an inner disciple.”

“…”

“Oh come on, you cannot keep being depressed like this. A frog in a well does not know the extent of the earth. There may be a treasure that can give you meridians, but unless you are a core disciple the sect wouldn’t give it to you.”

“I thank you for your advice Senior Lan, but I must forge now. Please forgive my rudeness. “ Chu Shen said abruptly as he bowed to him. As he spoke Chu Lan frowned.

“Either way consider my words carefully. Goodbye, junior brother Shen.”

Chu Shen let out a sigh of relief when he left. Grabbing ahold of the sword that was broke he started melting it down, hitting it with his hammer to drive out the impurities that had accumulated on the outside of the blade.

He continuously melted down and forged the sword into ore. Right now Chu Shen had no time to forge weapons so instead he turned the broken items into pure metal ore.

Chu Shen worked his way down the line until he had refined all but the pair of gauntlets. As he reached down to grab it Chu Shen felt his Qi resonate with the pair of gauntlets. Curious he studied the pair of gauntlets but no matter how he looked at it, it was just a rusted pair of gauntlets.

Setting the pair of gauntlets down he stared at it cautiously before a light appeared in his eyes. “Ah yes. Some artifacts you have to supply Qi to them before they work or drip blood on it.”

Doing as he had said gray colored Qi appeared in his hands about the size of a penny. Until he unblocked his meridians this was the most Qi he could use outside his body. The penny sized Qi surged towards the pair of gauntlets in a formless wave.

When it came in contact with the pair of gauntlets it sucked up the Qi and a white circle lit up on the top part of the pair of gauntlets.

“Ah finally, someone with null Qi has gotten ahold of me.” A voice said inside his head. Chu Shen looked at the gauntlets in astonishment.

“You actually have a void constitution brat?” The voice said in astonishment. “I didn’t think such a small sect would have someone like you. Consider yourself lucky then, I have decided to take you as a disciple.”

Chu Shen leaned back on the wall in astonishment. Who would have thought the gauntlets would have a soul trapped inside it and it could absorb his Qi.

Nothing else had ever been able to absorb his Qi, as a matter of fact he destroyed any other type of Qi his came in contact with, frustrating his teachers efforts in teaching Chu Shen about laying formations.

“What brat, don’t want to become a disciple of the great me? Would you rather never be able to pass the King stage? I guarantee that without my instruction you could never pass this stage.”



 

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Chapter 40 – Finally Rich

Chapter 40 - Finally Rich

“Oh! I understand!” Xu Zhongbang said disappointedly, “Mr. Liu, please give me half an hour, I have to immediately call the main office! This is too unbelievable!” “Okay,” My expression still didn’t change. Xu Zhongbang ran out to…



“Oh! I understand!” Xu Zhongbang said disappointedly, “Mr. Liu, please give me half an hour, I have to immediately call the main office! This is too unbelievable!”

“Okay,” My expression still didn’t change.

Xu Zhongbang ran out to make a call, I wasn’t interested in the contents, since the thing was in my hands, and thus I had the initiative, the price of this was entirely my decision.

After almost an hour, Xu Zhongbang finally came, when he entered the room he saw that I was playing the Linkup that came with Shuguang 95 in boredom. It was one of the most popular desktop games in offices in the future, others games that were added alongside it were Bejeweled and Puzzle Bobble etc.

Xu Zhongbang looked at it then exclaimed, “Who added this game? This is amazing! It’s far more interesting than our desktop games.”

Hehe, of course it is more interesting, if you could look within the computers of the office workers, you would know the value of these games. It’s just that I added them into my Shuguang 95 ahead of time.

“I contacted the main office, name a price, Mr. Liu!” Xu Zhongbang clearly knew the value of this operating system, when he talked communicated with the main office, their surprise was no less than his, and ordered him to buy this operating system no matter the cost, if it doesn’t work out, then not cooperating would be fine, but don’t ever turn the other party into a competitor. Microsoft’s CEO of the main office Bill Gates immediately booked a planet ticket, and was expected to arrive the next morning at Songjiang international Airport. Xu Zhongbang understood how big his responsibilities were, if this situation turned bad, then he couldn’t afford to pay the cost. Therefore he didn’t say any extra, and just frankly begun to ask about the price.

“How much do you think it’s worth?” I didn’t answer his question, and asked him back.

“Ah?” Xu Zhongbang momentarily blanked, he didn’t think I would ask this. He had originally thought that I would name my ideal price, even if I named an absurd price, as long as there was a price, there was no fear of the business being not done.

“Does Mr. Xu think this operating system have a price?” I continued to through out smoke bombs.

“Have a price? What do you mean? Unless Mr. Liu doesn’t want to sell it?” Xu Zhongbang became even more confused after hearing that.

“Yes! I can’t sell the operating system, but we can cooperate in another way!” I said in an indisputable tone.

Hearing I say that we can cooperate, Xu Zhongbang’s originally swirling heart immediately calmed down again. If the other person isn’t selling, then he can’t force it. Furthermore, as long as they can cooperate, his own mission could also be considered done.

“How does Mr. Liu want to cooperate?” Xu Zhongbang asked.

“I fear that Mr. Xu will not be able to make the decision on my request…” I really couldn’t bare to name something absurd towards my old boss.

“How about this, our CEO Bill Gates is already on the way to Huaxia, if Mr. Liu has any special requests, then you can speak to him directly.”

“Okay. Call me after he arrives,” I said. Then I took out over a hundred 3.5 inch floppy disks and gave it to Xu Zhongbang. “This was the installation disk for Shuguang 95, you can let your CEO have a look.”

Xu Zhongbang immediately took it over, he just wanted to talk about this issue with me, but he also knew that these things would be confidential before the cooperation is set, and so he didn’t say anything.

I was familiar with Xu Zhongbang’s personality, and knew that he wouldn’t do anything like stealing other people’s results (it seems like I’m doing so!), what’s more is that everything I wrote was protected, I don’t believe that they would be able to decode it with the current technology.

(Author’s Note: Writing an operating system by one person is almost impossible in real life, here is just imagination. This is a Dushi and Sci-fi novel, the main point of it is entertainment, don’t think too much into the details.)

“Mr. Liu, this is the CEO of us Microsoft, Mr. XX,” Xu Zhongbang pointed to a young looking American with blond hair.

“Hello, Mr. Bill,” I spoke fluently using English with a slightly American accent. How could I not recognize the CEO of my previous life!

“Oh? Mr. Liu can speak English?” Bill asked weirdly.

“A little!” I smiled. No s̲h̲i̲t̲, I didn’t lack communication with him, how could I not know how to speak English.

“That’s good, since it’s like this, please name your conditions Mr. Liu,” Bill said.

“I will not sell the copyrights of the operating system, but I can allow Microsoft to sell it. Furthermore, I can promise that Microsoft can participate in the development of the next version of Shuguang operating system,” I spoke about all the things Microsoft could get.

“Then what does Mr. Liu want in return?” Bill wasn’t an idiot, he knew that my conditions were for them, I didn’t mention about what I needed.

“50% of the operating system’s profit! This amount cannot be changed,” I didn’t like to negotiate the cost with other people.

“50% That’s too much!” Bill exclaimed.

“Is it? If it wasn’t the because of the current economic system of Huaxia, I can establish my own company and sell it by myself, and didn’t need to share the profits with anyone,” I said.

“But you don’t have any patent related to graphical user interfaces!” Bill said.

“Hence this is also another reason I want to cooperate with you. However it isn’t the main reason, because patent done in the US is not effective in Huaxia!” I said slowly. Huaxia didn’t join the WTO at this time, a lot of the things were not linked with the world, in other words, even if Huaxia’s products copied the products of other countries, they won’t win any lawsuit!

“Okay! I’ll agree with you, but you must show us the code!” Bill Gates decided. He wasn’t very interested in making money in the first place, money was just a number to him, he was much more moved by technology.

“This isn’t an issue, and I will keep my promise, the next version of Shuguang operating system will be developed by both of us,” I didn’t sleep properly for more than a month in order to write this system, I definitely won’t do anything like this in the future. Although I have a hundred and eighty years of life, but isn’t it more painful if half my body is paralyzed yet I can’t die. It was better to act more generously, I will only supply the key technology in the future, and let them complete the rest.

After that we decided that, Microsoft will push out Windows 95 earlier in December this year, Shuguang 95 will be pushed back to 1996, the changed version will be called Shuguang Windows 97. At the same time, Microsoft decided to give 30% of the profits from Windows 95 to me as compensation for pushing back the release date. Windows 95 will also be renamed to Shuguang Windows 95.

After signing the contracted , we got it notarized, essentially it was nearly eight when we finished everything. Xu Zhongbang offered to treat me to dinner, but I refused. I didn’t return home at the proper time these few days, my mom was already getting suspicious of me, not to mention my dad, they kept on asking in different ways if I went to the arcade.

Haha, I’m rich now. 30% and 50% A new richest man in the world is about to be born. I hummed as I walked leisurely on the road.



 

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Chapter 39 – My Old Boss

Chapter 39 - My Old Boss

“What’s the problem with you? Who did you learn it from?” I pointed towards the cigarette in Guo Qing’s mouth. This brat didn't smoke in the previous life! “Hehe, I just learnt. How about it Boss, have one?”…



“What’s the problem with you? Who did you learn it from?” I pointed towards the cigarette in Guo Qing’s mouth. This brat didn’t smoke in the previous life!

“Hehe, I just learnt. How about it Boss, have one?” Guo Qing took out a box of Hongtashan from his pocket.

“Wow, kid, you’re smoking 10 kuai smokes!: I waved my hand to refuse. I still want to quit smoking in this life.

“My lackeys gave it to me,” Guo Qing said proudly.

“Why did you hand in the paper so quickly?” I saw him hand in the paper right after me.

“My brain is completely not suited to study! I thought about it, I’ll stop studying after graduating high school. University isn’t for my kind of people to apply to!” Guo Qing threw the smoke head onto the floor, and stomped it out.

“Why can you do if you don’t study?” To be truthful, I do hope that this best friend of mine could walk onto a proper path and get into a good university.

“My kind of people isn’t good at study, so we can only rely on fighting through the society with our hands. What else can we do!” Guo Qing mocked himself.

“Hopefully you chose the right path. However, no matter what, Guo Qing, you’re always my, Liu Lei’s, bro!” I know that some things cannot be turned back once changed.

“Boss, you’re my boss for my entire life!” Guo Qing also said excitedly.

“We haven’t ate together for a long time right? “I said after a while.

“Let’s go, same old place!” Guo Qing smiled and went with me to the small restaurant we often went to when school begun —— Juyuan Snacks.

“Owner, give us a fish flavored pork, and a cold dish. Two bottles of beer!” I said.

“Boss, you drink too?” Guo Qing asked in surprise.

I laughed, but didn’t say anything.

That night, I received the call from the representative of Microsoft.

“Hello, I am the representative sent by Microsoft, this lowly one’s surname is Xu,” The person said from the other side of the phone.

Hearing this voice, I became excited. This person is my old boss Xu Zhongbang, on of the current deputy executive directors in the Huaxia region. When I entered Microsoft after graduating, Xu Zhongbang already became the CEO, and it was because of his appraisal that I could climb steadily to the top, and become the CEO of Microsoft’s Huaxia region when he retired

Xu Zhongbang, was boss and subordinate in name in my previous life, but in truth he was both a teacher and a friend. A fresh graduate from university, was difficult to achieve anything in the kind of large company like Microsoft, Xu Zhongbang would not mind the hassle and help me, guide me every single time. It could even be said that without Xu Zhongbang, there would not be the me afterwards. After he retired, I often visited his home, I always treated him like a dear teacher. However, I had to sit with him on the negotiating table, and fight for the most profits for our respective parties.

I held in the tsunami of emotions in my heart, and said calmly, “Hello, Mr. Xu.”

“I wonder if Mr. Liu is free tomorrow, let us designate a place to meet, and discuss about the cooperation over your operating system,” Xu Zhongbang said.

“Okay, let’s met eight o’clock tomorrow morning, in front of Songjiang University’s Computer Center. There is a computer there that has my operating system installed,” I said.

I have more or less finished Windows 98 in this month, and it passed the trail on Songjiang University’s computer suite’s computer 586. I named the operating system Shuguang 95.

Xu Zhongbang was a middle-aged man around the same age as my father, right at the height of his prime. When I saw him, he was still wearing the black Chinese tunic suit that he often wore in my previous life.

I walked over, and reached out my hand to him, “Mr. Xu, Hello! I am the representative for this cooperation, Liu Lei!”

“Oh? You know me?” Xu Zhongbang looked at me in surprise.

Oh yeah! Xu Zhongbang and I shouldn’t have met in this life, no wonder he would feel so weird.

“Microsoft’s Deputy Director Xu, I’ve seen news about you in the newspapers!” I explained.

Xu Zhongbang immediately replied,” Is that so, I didn’t think Mr. Liu would pay a lot of attention to us, Microsoft!”

There was clearly two layers of meaning to his words, on the surface it pointed to me paying attention to news reports, but underneath it was saying that I was only acting contrarily to Microsoft.

“Nope, nope. I just look at the technological news at times!” I faked a laugh. I didn’t think my old boss in my previous life would one day be standing against me.

“I trust that Mr. Liu already know that we will be introducing Windows 95 next year?”Xu Zhongbang asked.

“Yes, a friend got me the internal testing version,” I said.

“Oh? That’s great, Mr. Liu should have already looked at it right? Our company’s graphical operating system is the most advanced in the world right now, I believe Mr. Liu should understand my meaning,” Xu Zhongbang suddenly said.

What meaning? Arrogance? I intentionally asked in a confused tone, “ Mr. Xu, I don’t quite understand what you meant>”

“Mr. Liu, if the person that developed this system wants to join us Microsoft, we would welcome with open arms, there is no need to choose this sort of method!” Xu Zhongbang said.

Only now did I understand, Xu Zhongbang misunderstood my intention. However, he can’t be blamed, when I was in Microsoft, this sort of incident wasn’t infrequent, people often found certain directors, claiming to have developed the best system or software in the world, in order to catch Microsoft’s attention, and find a job through that. Of course, he may be testing to see my true intention.

“Mr. Xu, I think we should take a look at the operating system then make any further judgments!” I smiled.

“Sure!” Xu Zhongbang entered Songjiang University’s computer suite with me.

I turned on computer 586 that has Shuguang 95 already installed, after the familiar self-checking screen passed, a startup screen that I designed appeared —— a ray of light gradually appeared onto the gray ocean, on it was written a few Chinese characters “Shuguang Operating System 95.”

Actually my startup screen looked like an animation, however the technology used to make the light on the ocean was the same as the Windows startup screen, it’s just expressed in a different way. However mine was more eye-catching.

When it just started, Xu Zhongbang didn’t really want to look, but when he saw the interface that was more beautiful than Windows 95, he couldn’t help but become dumbfounded.

“Please try it, Mr. Xu,” I had predicted that he would have this reaction, hehe, this is an improved version of Windows 98.

Xu Zhongbang used his trembling right hand to hold onto the mouse and opened “My Computer”.

As the deputy director of the Huaxia region, Xu Zhongbang was very familiar with the specs of the Windows 95 that was about to be sold, yet the operating system he was using, surpassed Windows 95 not only by one tier in both the interface and features.

“My god! I need to meet the developer of this system!” Xu Zhongbang said excitedly.

“That is unneeded. The creator is an important official in our country’s Academy of Science, so it would be inconvenient, I believe Mr. Xu would understand the reasoning behind this,” I said.



 

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Chapter 38 – Ancestor

Chapter 38 - Ancestor

“Heh! I just feel like you don’t like me anymore,” Zhao Yanyan deliberately turned away pretending to be angry. However her round eyes betrayed her. Although she turned her face around, her gaze was still on me. “Okay,…



“Heh! I just feel like you don’t like me anymore,” Zhao Yanyan deliberately turned away pretending to be angry. However her round eyes betrayed her. Although she turned her face around, her gaze was still on me.

“Okay, okay didn’t I come back now!” I spoiled her.

“Liu Lei, I missed you. My dad and mom aren’t home tonight…” Zhao Yanyan whispered beside my ear.

I felt a sudden sense of excitement. Speaking of which, ever since we came back from Yanjiang, Zhao Yanyan and I didn’t do anything like that anymore, this chick has probably started to get lovesick.

“Ai, Boss, you can’ be like this! You didn’t come for four five days, and started getting intimate with saozi.⌈1⌋ You’re too unkind right? Isn’t this typical hoes before bros?” A voice sounded out behind me, I didn’t need to turn my head to know that it must be my best friend Guo Qing.

“How about getting intimate between the two of us?” I turned back with a smile, with a lecherous expression.

“Never mind, I don’t have any unhealthy interests,” Guo Qing waved his hand, and pointed to the people behind him, “What are you looking at? This is my boss, are you all dumb?”

“Boss’s boss? Then what should we address him as?” A bulky student asked.

“Boss’s boss? Isn’t that our ancestor?” Another glasses wearing student that looked slightly educated said.

F̲u̲c̲k̲ this, where did these people come from? And ancestor? After a while I’ll f̲u̲c̲k̲i̲n̲g be Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.⌈2

“Who are they?” I pointed to the strangers and asked.

“Them? They’re third years in our school, you weren’t here the previous few days boss, these people came to our class to ask for protection fees. I can’t just beat up Liu Kesheng whenever I don’t have anything to do, causing that brat to just ran away the moment he sees me. My fists were itching at the time, so I just beat these few up on the way, I didn’t think they would forcefully make me admit that I’m their boss!” Guo Qing explained.

“So you agreed?” I asked.

“Hehe, Boss, I’m now the Boss of our Fourth High, I can walk sideways even in front of second and third years!” Guo Qing said proudly.

I remember that Guo Qing didn’t only say once to me that his dream was to be a boss like in The Godfather, surrounded by money and beauties, cash and jewelry.

I, who had been reborn, changed Guo Qing’s personality, causing him to start developing towards his ideal self. Now that Guo Qing has become the Boss of Fourth High, what about after a while? He might even continue to development onto the society. I, who had been reborn, deeply knew that at the end of the 90s, countless underworld gangs were eliminated by the government, was this actually a walkable path? I started becoming unsure.

If Guo Qing really walk onto this path, then it’ll be very beneficial to my future business. In Huaxia, a lot of industries cannot separate from the underworld. The most obvious one is the entertainment industry, after that is real estate, logistics etc. also have certain ties with the underworld.

However Guo Qing was a close friend, and the only friend that I would spill my heart to in my previous life, I don’t want anything to happen to him. I knew that, being a godfather has always been his dream, he also said that in his previous life that if he becomes boss, even death is worth it.

What should I do? Finally I clenched my teeth, let nature take its course! Guo Qing’s nature wasn’t bad, as long as I guide him correctly, and not let him take curbed path, then we can give it a shot.

The rich bosses with power and money didn’t have to be involved in illegal business, a lot of the people were in gray areas, and had a bunch of lackeys, yet opened a guard company or other types of business and became legal.

These companies, didn’t deal with drugs, and were only tended to rule by force, as long as they didn’t harm the civilians, it wasn’t a bad path to walk down.

It looks like this would rely on my correct guidance, I can’t give Guo Qing walk down an illegal path, otherwise, something will occur. Thinking that Guo Qing had me beside him to watch over him, I let out a sigh of relief.

“Elder Zhao, according to our investigations, a large amount of funds has been transferred into an anonymous account in Huaxia Bank from overseas,” a person wearing glasses was reporting on his work in an office.

“Oh? How much money?” Zhao Limin put down the pen in his hand and asked.

“160 million USD!” the person wearing glasses said.

“What? Why is there so much money?” Zhao Limin exclaimed.

“Yes, that’s why we felt it was important, do you think we need to tell the higher-ups?” the person wearing glasses asked.

“This cannot be treated casually!” Zhao Limin frowned. Such a large some of money appearing suddenly, and it was transferred into an anonymous account, there can’t be any problems right?

After the person wearing glasses left, Zhao Limin immediately reported it to the department in concern.

After school, I randomly made up an excuse to tell my mom, saying that I wasn’t going back at night. Then followed Zhao Yanyan into her home in the development area.

As I entered the house, before I had a chance to change shoes, Zhao Yanyan grabbed my neck with both her hands, and hung onto me…

“Ya, it’s seven!” I was sleeping peacefully, when I was awoken by Zhao Yanyan’s scream.

“Oh, it’s just seven! Worst come to worse we just won’t go today!” I stretched and said.

“What! Today is midterm exams! We won’t make it if we don’t hurry!” Zhao Yanyan said anxiously.

Midterm exams?? This was really a coincidence, the second day I went back to school it was the midterm tests.
“Aiya, where are my panties? Where did you throw it, help me find it,” Zhao Yanyan ran naked around in front of me.

“Please, you took it off at the entrance,” I climbed off the bed, and started getting dressed.

Zhao Yanyan and I got to school at exactly seven fifteen, ten minutes before the exams.

I answered the exam paper without any difficulty in boredom. The final question for English was writing a small composition, an idea with a hint of terribleness surfaced in my mind. What should I write about? I don’t know why, but I immediately thought about the erotica I read only in my previous life, what should I write? Liu Lei’s epic battle with Ye Xiaoxiao? Never mind, the maiden seems pretty pure, if she has any bad reactions after seeing my composition then I’ll be finished. I should probably write something a bit more subtle, such as my class tutor and I were great friends, I loved her a lot, she also loved me a lot. Gaga, this is a great idea!

After ten minutes, I placed down the test paper in front of Ye Xiaoxiao in satisfaction, and walked blatantly out of the classroom.

“How did it go?” Guo Qing walked out from the building with a cigarette in his mouth.



 


  1. Saozi (嫂子) = Brother’s wife, and since Boss (老大) also means the eldest brother, 老大’s wife is naturally saozi. 
  2.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Xiaozhuang 

Chapter 37 – Return

Chapter 37 - Return

The approval of the input method from Zhao Junsheng’s side was more or less smooth the entire way through. Due to it being an original high tech product, the country was also going to give a bit of…



The approval of the input method from Zhao Junsheng’s side was more or less smooth the entire way through. Due to it being an original high tech product, the country was also going to give a bit of support.

At the start of November 1994, Shuguang Pinyin 1.0 was official introduced to the market, the price was set at 198 Yuan. This price was already very low in the software market at the time. Due to the copy of Shuguang Pinyin being free of charge, anyone can ask for it, a trend of using Shuguang Pinyin input method flowed through the country. Since it was easy to use, and could automatically recognize hard to pronounce words, it made a lot of people put down their original input methods, and chose Shuguang Pinyin.

A month later, checks alongside requests to buy the registered version were sent to Tianheng Computers like snowflakes, everyone at Tianheng, including the receptionists were busy taking calls or receiving checks. Zhao Junsheng couldn’t not enlarge the size of the company to deal with the lack of manpower.

For my share of the profit, Zhao Junsheng helped me open an anonymous account in Huaxia bank, this was also specified by me. Due to the arrival of the Intel and Seagate representative, I had to find an account to place the funds.

The cooperation with Intel and Seagate was very smooth, both of them were very satisfied with the data I provided. They all asked to be prioritized if I have any new research results in the future. This was just a simple favor to me, so I agreed, and told them that my relative was a high ranked official at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so it would be inconvenient for him to met in person, so all future actions will be handled by me.

After hearing that, both of them respectively gave me an extra 10 million and 3 million Huaxia currency, in order for me to prioritize considering their company under the same terms in the future. I agreed ambiguously, and both returned happily.

I looked at the 160 million dollars on my bank account, and laughed coldly in my heart. Now that I have the money, I can produce it myself, continue to cooperate with you guys? Dream on!

The sales report of the first month for Shuguang input method came out really quickly, Zhao Junsheng said excitedly to me,” Xiao Liu, do you know how much we sold? 2200 copies! We only gave out 3000 trial versions, and 2200 wants to be registered!”

I was very calm towards this result, this was only the beginning, there will be more in the future.

Seeing that I wasn’t speaking, Zhao Junsheng though that it was because I could speak due to the sheer excitement. He continued, “Subtracting the fees for approval and the advertisement, our net profit reached 330 thousand! It’s 330 thousand Xiao Liu, your profit in a month has caught up to Uncle Zhao’s profit in a year!”

“Hehe, Uncle Zhao, I think this is only the beginning! There will definitely be more money earned in the future!” I said while smiling.

“Yes! This is just the beginning! I, Uncle Zhao, will follow you from now on, I really admire you now!” Zhao Junsheng said sincerely.

Zhao Junsheng, also my dad-in-law, was trustworthy. A plan begun to surface in my mind.

That morning, I arrived at school, and was immediately called to Ye Xiaoxiao’s office by her.

“Liu Lei, why are you always absent recently?” Ye Xiaoxiao sat in front of the desk, and asked bluntly.

So she was still clear about me being absent, I thought I was neglected.

“I’m asking you something, why are you laughing like an idiot!” Ye Xiaoxiao glared at me unhappily.

“It’s nothing, it’s just when I think about having Ye-laoshi, this gorgeous beauty, thinking about me, I get really happy,” I said casually. To be truthful, I really didn’t treat Ye Xiaoxiao as an adult, her age is just a little child in my yes.

“What are you saying! I’m your teacher, who knows what your brain is thinking all the time,” Ye Xiaoxiao frowned.

“I’m just speaking the truth! Oh yeah, Ye-laoshi, do you have a boyfriend?” A crafty smile cropped up on the corner of my mouth

“… What are you asking this for?” Ye Xiaoxiao’s face immediately reddened, just like a little woman.

Hehe, it is obvious that she doesn’t have one from her reactions, there’s eighty percent chance that she’s still a little girl that hasn’t done anything. Thinking to this point, an inexplicable excitedly appeared in my heart.

“Only by understanding each other can it be easier to communicate!” I said with another layer of meaning, however Ye Xiaoxiao probably wouldn’t think that my other layer of meaning is that only by understanding each other can the possibility of becoming lovers come up.

“Ai!” Ye Xiaoxiao sighed, “Then let me understand you first!”

“So what does Ye-laoshi want to understand?” I said playfully.

“Why didn’t you come to class these few days?” Ye Xiaoxiao asked.

My god, after all that, it’s back to this again. This Ye Xiaoxiao is truly persistent.

“Something happened at home,” I explained.

“What happened?” Ye Xiaoxiao clearly didn’t believe my excuse.

“Ye-laoshi, let’s talk about something else. Such as what is your ideal boyfriend like?” My playful self surfaced again, and couldn’t help but tease.

“Definitely not someone like you!” Ye Xiaoxiao was really angry, and didn’t think about what I said and directly blurted out.

However, after saying that, she realized that she misspoke.

How can she say something like that to her own students. Ye Xiaoxiao didn’t like pursuers, those pursuers always liked to ask what her ideal Prince Charming is like, at the start Ye Xiaoxiao would answer perfunctorily, but she got sick of it later on, and directly used “Not someone like you” to reject them. Therefore, when her own student asked that, Ye Xiaoxiao also subconsciously through out such a line.
“Is that so, then that’s a shame, it looks like it’s hopeless for me. Then I wonder if I can become Ye-laoshi’s friend?” I asked with a hidden agenda.

“Okay,” Ye Xiaoxiao was still embarrassed about what had just happened, and didn’t notice what I had said, so randomly answered.

“Oh, that’s great. If there’s nothing else then I’ll leave first,” I said to Ye Xiaoxiao.

“Okay, leave first,” Ye Xiaoxiao answered carelessly.

When Ye Xiaoxiao finally reacted, the person in front of her already left the office. What happened to me? Ye Xiaoxiao muttered to herself, originally I wanted to scold him harshly, I didn’t think I’ll get tricked by a few sentences, and then even agreed to be his friend in confusion. Ye Xiaoxiao got angry thinking about it, how can a teacher be friends with their students.

When I got of the office, I joyfully sang, “That night, you didn’t reject me, that night~…”

Ye Xiaoxiao, how old are you, you’re just past twenty at most, I’m already thirty! You’re still too inexperienced to play with me.

The moment I entered the classroom, Zhao Yanyan stuck to me. I didn’t come to school these few days while busy handling the things about Intel, there’s eighty percent chance that this chick missed me.

“Not coming to school for some long, I miss you so much!” Zhao Yanyan said in grievance.

“That’s because I had proper business! Furthermore, it’s not that many days,” I clenched Zhao Yanyan’s soft hands and said.



 

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Chapter 36 – Liu Ran’s Downfall

Chapter 36 - Liu Ran's Downfall

I thanked him, than sat on Old Gao’s car and went straight to Songjiang University’s computer center. The subsequent things proceeded very smoothly, Mr. Huang didn’t ask me anything before helping me find a computer that can go…



I thanked him, than sat on Old Gao’s car and went straight to Songjiang University’s computer center.

The subsequent things proceeded very smoothly, Mr. Huang didn’t ask me anything before helping me find a computer that can go onto the internet. It’s just that the email system under DOS wasn’t easy to handle, so I took quite a bit of time to finally send the three emails.

The contact number I left was my home’s number, and to prevent missing the call when I’m not home, I specified that I can only pick up the phone between 19:00 and 20:00 of the Yanjiang time. In the email I used the status as an agent, claiming to be the relative of the expert that have achieved these results, due to the expert’s place in society, it would be inconvenient for him to do it in person, and so has asked me to handle this as I see fit.

The reason I did this was simple, I didn’t want to let these companies know that the one who has designed these plans is still a high school student. It would be hard for them not to become suspicious after knowing all this, hence may reveal the fact that I have been reborn.

After doing these things, it was already noon. Old Gao was still downstairs, and didn’t leave yet, so I got him to send me back to school. Old Gao’s was always respectful to me after knowing Zhao Junsheng’s attitude towards me, as if he has already treated me as the son-in-law of the Zhao family.

I met Guo Qing, who had just finished lunch and returned, when I just got back to school, “Boss, where did you go in the morning?”

“I had some business to deal with, did Ye-laoshi ask about me?” I asked.

“No, you’re awesome now, Ye-laoshi pretty much doesn’t care about you now,” Guo Qing said in envy.

“What’s good about this, I’m being neglected,” I didn’t know why, I actually wanted Ye Xiaoxiao to pay more attention to me. I know that I hold an unspeakable feeling towards her after my rebirth, I don’t know if this was adoration, it’s just a desire to conquer her.

“Oh yeah, Boss, there’s a huge good news!” Guo Qing said excitedly.

“What good news? You picked up some money?” I remember whenever Guo Qing told me that there was good news, it would almost always be him coincidentally picking up money from the road.

“What, what kind of good news does picking up money count as! It was on today’s newspaper that our city’s Zhonghuifa Corporation’s chairman of the board was arrested due to corruption and abuse of power!” Guo Qing said extremely excitedly.

Zhonghuifa Corporation? Isn’t that a national business that have a lot of official background? They would often get some governmental projects! Zhonghuifa Corporation’s chairman of the board is Liu Kesheng’s father, Liu Ran! Zhao Yanyan told me afterwards.

“Zhonghuifa Corporation? You’re talking about Liu Ran?” I asked in surprise.

“That’s right! Liu Kesheng’s dad! F̲u̲c̲k̲, let’s see if he’s still so pretentious later, I’ll find a chance to beat him up again,” Guo Qing waved his fist.

Liu Ran was arrested? Although I didn’t know Liu Ran in my previous life, it was impossible for me not to have known something as big as Zhonghuifa Corporation’s chairman of the board being arrested. The only possibility was that Liu Ran was not arrested in my previous life, and it should be due to Zhao Yanyan that the higher ups has paid attention to Liu Ran, causing evidence of his criminal activities to surface. History has been completely messed up after I was reborn, but hopefully the general direction will not change, or else it would have been pointless for me to get reborn. I thought while frowning.

Liu Kesheng didn’t come to school the following few days, I think that this brat got used to waving his father’s power around, and now that they’re gone he was scared of being looked down upon.

I also started my long wait, after sending the email, no one called my home in the following three days. If it wasn’t because I was clear about the technological values in these data, I would have even thought that these companies were not interested in my data. Of course, the other possibility was that these companies were intentionally dragging it on, to lower the price of the data.

Intel’s call only came slowly a week after the emails have been sent.

“Hello, is this Mr. Liu Lei?” the other person asked using fluent Chinese.

“Yes, and you are?” I asked.

“I am the representative of the Intel company, my surname is Xu,” the other person said.

“Oh, it’s Mr. Xu, I wonder if your company has seen the email I have sent you?” I asked.

“Mr. Liu, this call is precisely for those information. About the project written on the data that you have sent us, our company has already started it’s development at the start of the ear, so the value isn’t that great to us. However if the price is right, then we can also consider it,” Representative Xu said.

Heh! Trying to fool me. There is no one more familiar than me about when you release Pentium MMX. If I hadn’t been reborn, I might have actually believed your crap.

I said without tension, “Is that so, then I won’t trouble you any longer. I have already reached an initial agreement with AMD, they are very interested in my data.

As expected, Representative Xu went silent, after a long while he said, “Mr. Liu, what I said just now is only the opinions of some of the board of directors, the chair has not made the final decision. Please don’t sign the contract with AMD yet, give me a day, I believe our final price will be higher than AMD’s. I wonder if it is possible for Mr. Liu to reveal AMD’s price?”

Are you treating me like a fool, you would dare to call me to cooperate before the chair of the board has made his decision? Of course I wouldn’t point it out either.

“About this, I cannot give any specifics, but I can tell you that their price is definitely no lower than a hundred million,” I think that this price could be considered cheap in comparison to the huge profits that this type of processor will bring.

“Huaxia currency?” Representative Xu asked probingly.

“USD! One hundred million Huaxia currency isn’t even enough for the research funds,” I wasn’t exaggerating, I believe the other party was also clear about this

After that Seagate’s call also quickly came, the contents were more or less the same with Intel’s, and they were also done in by my claim to have the intention to sell it to Maxtor.

Microsoft’s call came the slowest, the other person first showed disbelief, they completely didn’t believe that Huaxia had someone that could make an operating system. I didn’t argue with them either, I just said they if they’re not interested then I’ll contact IBM, in the end Microsoft said that they will send someone over to see the truth.

19:00 the following night, I received Intel and Seagate’s call. There was no b̲u̲l̲l̲s̲h̲i̲t̲ in the calls this time, Intel directly said that they are willing to buy the data for a hundred and fifty million USD. However they needed to do the exchange in person, they will send experts to verify the validity of the data in the next few days. Seagate also said that they are willing to pay 10 million USD, but I specified that it has to be written on the contract that Seagate only owns the right to use this technology and not the patent. At the same time I cannot give this technology to a third party. This is because I know that there is a second and third generation for the Fluid Dynamic Bearing technology. These are all my capital to make money.



 

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Chapter 35 – Moneymaking Plan

Chapter 35 - Moneymaking Plan

If I release Pentium MMX’s information out, then I think their old owners would definitely be very interested in it right? Hehe, I can sell the technology that I have which is slightly ahead of this era’s to…



If I release Pentium MMX’s information out, then I think their old owners would definitely be very interested in it right? Hehe, I can sell the technology that I have which is slightly ahead of this era’s to the corresponding company, this should bring about a huge profit.

I started just as I decided to do it, and climbed up from the bed in the middle of the night, and begun to make my moneymaking plan. Everything was so much easier with the computer Zhao Junsheng gave me.

First I will claim that I am an expert a a certain academy in Huaxia, and started a project, but don’t have the funds for production, so I was prepared to give it to someone else. I then listed the technical specifications for the MMXCPU series, as well as some of the core information, this will all be rather vague, so I won’t be scared if they take it as their own after seeing it. They wouldn’t be able to create anything with just these information.

After that I followed this method, and wrote a letter to Seagate, claiming that I invented the Fluid Dynamic Bearing technology, this was a unique technology that was only introduced in 1996 by Seagate, the thought of this probably doesn’t exist yet.

Similarly, there was one for Microsoft as well, claiming that I invented a new version of the operating system, I listed all of the functions and specialties of Windows 98, and a small amount of code. At the same time, I also said that I also sent the same plan to IBM.

After this, it was already becoming white outside the window, the sky was getting bright.

I put everything I wrote into a floppy disk, and prepared to go and find Zhao Junsheng, to ask him if there was anywhere with access o internet, I had to send these out as quickly as possible.

I think that Microsoft would definitely not believe my plan after seeing it, they might even send a few people over to see if I really had the thing, it looks like I needed to write it all out quickly. Although I did participate in the development of several versions of Windows in my previous life, it was still rather hard to write out an entire operating system in a short period of time, it was lucky that I had studied the code for Windows 98 in my previous life, and so it doesn’t take that much effort.

Hehe, how much should I sell it for? Intel relied on this Pentium MMX to get big, the technology of Seagate wasn’t worth that much, as for Microsoft… Just wait for me to demand an exorbitant price!

The next morning, I called Zhao Yanyan when my mom was making breakfast, and told her that I had some business at her dad’s company in the morning, if Ye Xiaoxiao asks, then help me ask for a leave, if she doesn’t ask then there’s no need to take the initiative and tell her.

After breakfast, I went directly to Zhao Junsheng’s Tianheng Computers. Zhao Junsheng’s company name was really in front of its time, most people within the country called the PC as “jisuanji” in 1994, very few people called it “diannao”.⌈1

Zhao Yanyan probably told Zhao Junsheng that I was going there, so the moment I entered the door, the receptionist directly told me that Director Zhao was waiting for me in his office.

“Xiao Liu, why did you come to find me at the company so early in the morning?” Zhao Junsheng asked when he saw me enter.

“I already finished encrypting the input method, and came to let you have a look,” I said after I put down my backpack.

“Oh? So fast? Didn’t we just decide it last night?” Zhao Junsheng was now completely immune to my abnormality.

“To be truthful, I already had a plan for this type of encryption method, it’s just that I only put it into action last night,” I explained.

“Is that so! However, even if there was a plan, other people definitely wouldn’t be able to finish it in one night. Quickly take it out for me to have a look!” Zhao Junsheng said impatiently.

I took out a floppy disk and plugged it into the computer on Zhao Junsheng’s desk, and started running the input method software. A frame popped-up in the screen with two choices, one was “Trial”, the other one was “Register”.

“This software can only be used for thirty days without registering after installing, if registration is not done after thirty days then it can’t be used,” I explained to Zhao Junsheng.

“Oh! Not bad!” Zhao Junsheng said. “But if it is re-installed after thirty days, then can’t you use it for another thirty days?” Zhao Junsheng questioned.

“Hehe,” I laughed. “I thought about this problem ages ago, once the software trial ends, then a bit of information will be left in the main boot record, it doesn’t matter how you re-install the software, once it runs, it will recognize the information left in the main boot record, the only method is to reformat the entire hard drive!”

“That’s a pretty evil move!” Zhao Junsheng said admirably.

I copied the file for registering the computers for Zhao Junsheng, and reminded him several times that he needs to pay attention to the safety, and cannot allow it to leak out. Otherwise it would be terrible.

Zhao Junsheng was very happy, and immediately called his secretary over, and got her to contact all the related departments, and send the input method to be approved. I named the input method, “Shuguang Pinyin 1.0”.

As for sales and advertisements, I gave Zhao Junsheng’s company complete control. I don’t need to worry about Zhao Junsheng lying to me about the sales numbers, since the my objective to earn money is essentially the same. Zhao Junsheng’s purpose of earning money is for his daughter, and I was also earning money for his daughter.

“Oh yeah, Uncle Zhao, do you know where in Songjiang can I get onto the web?” I nearly forgot about an important matter.

“Get onto the web? You mean Internet right?” Zhao Junsheng said after thinking about it for a bit.

“Yes, the Internet!” I said.

“Songjiang University’s computer suite seems to be linked onto the Internet, I heard a few university students said something about going to InfoHighway.” Zhao Junsheng said.
That’s great! I thought I had to go to Yanjing to get onto the net.

“Then do you know anyone in Songjiang University? I want to borrow their computer to send a few emails,” I said.

“Oh! This shouldn’t be a problem. I know their head of computing, he bought Chinese character cards from our company before.

“Uncle Zhao, then please help me contact him, it would be best if it is today, I’m in a hurry,” I said. Time is money to me!

“Okay, although I don’t know what you’re going to do, but Uncle Zhao will support you,” after saying that, Zhao Junsheng flipped through a phonebook. After a while, he picked up the phone and dialed a number.

“Hello, is it Mr. Huang?”

“I’m Tianheng’s Zhao Junsheng!”

“Yes, that’s me, I want to ask if your computer suite can connect onto the Internet?”

“It can, that’s great! I have a friend’s child that wants to send a few emails!”

“Okay, I’ll send him over to find you!”

Zhao Junsheng hung up the phone and said to me, “Xiao Liu, I contacted them for you, go to Songjiang University’s computer center, directly find Mr. Huang, and say that I introduced you to there. I’m quite busy here, so I won’t accompany you, I’ll get Old Gao to send you over.”



 


  1. Jisuanji (计算机) and Diannao (电脑) both mean computer, but the latter is more commonly used nowadays. 

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