Chapter 41 - 35: The New World, Epic Entries
The next few days.
The martial arts school was uneventful.
Zhang Feng continued his training as usual.
However.
Thanks to the island’s memories.
Zhang Feng managed to completely open all the acupoints for Hard Qigong in these seven days.
Five days earlier than the planned nineteen days.
But after finishing, it was already the seventh afternoon.
Zhang Feng practiced for a while, feeling as if his whole body was being shaken apart, then dissipated the stance, went for a night run as usual, and finished near the park as usual.
Xiaoli, seeing Zhang Feng about to leave, got used to it, nodded to Zhang Feng, and continued running.
Zhang Feng stretched his limbs, feeling the numbness of disassembly almost disappearing, he went home while practicing.
...
At ten fifty-eight.
Zhang Feng lay in bed completely sore.
’The muscle memory for fighting isn’t high, which indeed affects the practice of resonance, can’t overclock resonance for long periods.
But after shaking like this for a few days, as long as the muscle strength increases, it’s considered an indirect improvement of fighting muscle memory.’
Zhang Feng weakly clenched his fist,
’Fighting muscle memory can accelerate resonance.
Resonance can also train muscle memory.
Seeing it like this, the two can not only complement each other.
Moreover, as long as one of them is practiced, the rest will certainly follow.’
Zhang Feng gained more insights into martial arts.
Then looked at the time, it was almost there.
...
[Resurrection chances: 3]
[Adventure level: 1+]
[Type: Free, Survival]
[Identity: Chef]
[Mainline: Survive 3 years]
[Non-essential task: Find and kill ’Flying Knife’]
[Note: For every month survived, gain one reinforcement option, up to a maximum of 22 times]
...
Opening his eyes.
This is the back kitchen of a small restaurant.
"Zhang! Is the dish ready? The guest has urged several times!"
A shouting voice came from the door.
The slightly plump boss came in, looking at Zhang Feng dressed in a chef’s uniform.
Compared to the boss, ’Chef Zhang Feng’ had a noticeably bigger belly.
"Almost."
Zhang Feng quickly looked at the spatula in his hand, and the scrambled eggs with tomatoes in the pan.
In memory, it was the knowledge on ’cooking’.
He was the only chef in this small restaurant.
Then, quickly checked his personal information.
[Age: 39]
[Constitution: 13.2]
[Bone structure: 1.7]
[Martial Arts: 3.1]
Zhang Feng glanced; his age was somewhat higher, body management also somewhat ’too perfect’, but his constitution was pretty good.
Also because of often cooking and flipping pans, his arm muscles were developed, enabling him to execute some fist skill lethal moves seamlessly.
Especially these two qualifications were the highest of any ’starting character’ Zhang Feng had seen.
"Hurry up! Stop dawdling!"
At the same time, the boss urged again and then returned to the front hall.
After the boss left, Zhang Feng again looked at the text within his sight.
[Choose your first reinforcement]
[1: Peaceful living]
[2: Dangerous game (Dizziness)]
[3: Bloody Pursuit]
...
Perhaps it was ’quality improvement’, this time there were two reinforcement options he hadn’t seen before.
Zhang Feng first looked at 1
[Peaceful living: Rare, appears only in freedom-type adventure worlds]
[After selecting this reinforcement, Constitution +1, lifespan +2 (years), and obtain intermediate chef memories]
[Note: Because your identity in this world is ’Chef’, choosing this reinforcement will not change non-main tasks, but your mainline task will be changed to ’open your own mid-range restaurant through legal means within three years’]
[Completion reward 1: Intermediate chef memories]
[Reward 2: Constitution +2, lifespan +3 (years) in the current world]
[Reward 3: Gain an additional reinforcement opportunity]
...
The reward seemed good, at least choosing it immediately gives 1 Constitution.
Especially after completion, there’s another reinforcement choice.
But it sounds like doing business?
Zhang Feng felt unsure, so he looked at 2, the familiar dangerous game.
Meanwhile, Zhang Feng also flipped the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, so it wouldn’t burn.
[Current negative state: Dizziness]
[Effect: You will have dizziness for 24 hours, after which you will receive +1 Constitution as compensation, and gain an additional reinforcement opportunity]
’The reward increased.’
Zhang Feng glanced, ’Before, even if it was adding constitution, it was around 0.8, not reaching 1.’
Zhang Feng thought to himself, and finally looked at 3.
[Bloody Pursuit: Normal, Epic, appears only at the beginning]
[Note: You need to kill three people marked by the ’Bloody Mark’]
[Kill Target 1: Constitution +0.9]
[Kill Target 2: Reaction Speed -0.02]
[Kill Target 3: Constitution +0.8]
[Executed All Targets: Root Bones +0.5, Martial Arts +0.2, and gained a rare enhancement opportunity]
’Bloody Mark?’
Zhang Feng immediately fixated on the reward in this entry.
However, in this entry’s description, ’Ordinary’ appears alongside ’Epic’.
So is it the epic within the ordinary? Or the ordinary within the epic?
Zhang Feng thought about it for a moment.
Feeling that ordinary comes first and epic follows, it should be the epic within the ordinary.
Anyway, no matter what, seeing the epic there, the rewards are great.
Zhang Feng directly chose 3.
Afterward, Zhang Feng saw [Please choose the second enhancement] appearing as well.
Bloody Pursuit is unlike dangerous games that would ’lock’ enhancements.
[1: Constitution +0.4]
[2: Digestion and Absorption +30g]
[3: A glass of fresh orange juice]
Sweeping by quickly.
The fresh orange juice in the ordinary entry is really just fresh orange juice, so skip.
Zhang Feng then looked at 1 and 2, finally choosing the slightly more development-oriented 2, digestion, and absorption.
The timeline in this world is long; in one or two years, it can pay back, and it can also improve ’one breath of Inner Qi’.
After the selection, look at the next enhancement again.
[Please choose the third enhancement]
[1: Constitution +0.5]
[2: Martial Arts +0.1]
[3: Intermediate piano memory]
Zhang Feng glanced at it and directly chose 2.
After choosing.
Zhang Feng suddenly frowned, looked around, and found a slight red glow outside the back door.
At the same time, Zhang Feng also felt that they were ’related characters’ in Bloody Pursuit, but not the ’bloody mark among targets’.
Whoosh—
At this moment, the door was also opened.
Zhang Feng saw that the red glow was emanating from a man who looked like a punk.
This red glow also emitted a few faint lines.
’Is it necessary to find the bloody mark through this person?’
Zhang Feng pondered and looked towards the punk guy.
As he came in, he was carrying a baseball bat, followed by four others.
At the instant he saw him.
Memories about him surged in Zhang Feng’s mind, revealing that he was nicknamed ’Ah Hang’, a local thug who collected protection fees.
The ’Zhang Feng’ in the memories knew him but was also very afraid of him.
"Chef Zhang! Where’s your boss?"
As he came in, he asked Zhang Feng.
Thud thud—
Asking while smashing the cutting board with the baseball bat,
"Hurry up, damn it! What are you looking at? Don’t dawdle!"
After speaking, he and the others behind him leaned against the cutting board, waiting for Chef Zhang to call the boss.
Yet, contrary to the always submissive impression in his mind, Chef Zhang didn’t call the boss this time.
On the contrary.
At this moment, Zhang Feng was pondering the bloody mark and directly asked him, "Ah Hang, who are you with? I want to meet the person you’re following."
Zhang Feng thought that the boss behind him should be one of the targets.
"What? What did you just say?" Ah Hang, hearing Chef Zhang’s question, thought he misheard, "Did you just call me Ah Hang?
Ah Hang, is that who you think can call me?"
He looked incredulous and glanced at the little brothers beside him, "This Chef Zhang’s gone mad, not only calling me Ah Hang but also asking who I’m with?"
He then tilted his head to look at Zhang Feng,
"What do you mean? Want to rebel? Damn it! Do you think you’re some kind of badass?"
"I say Brother Hang, just take him out!" someone nearby jeered.
But at this moment, the boss’s shout came from outside.
"Zhang! Is the dish ready? How long has it been! Damn!"
The boss yelled, storming in aggressively.
But when he saw the few punks in the kitchen, he momentarily lost confidence and said meekly, "Brother Ah Hang... you... you guys?"
"Get lost!" Ah Hang spat, "This has nothing to do with you now!"
"I..." The boss paused and, instead of leaving, mustered up his courage, "Did my employee offend you? I apologize, it’s the bigger person who won’t hold grudges against the smaller."
"Damn!" Ah Hang got annoyed, looking at the boss’s compensatory grin, "I told you to get lost; didn’t you hear? You want to die too?"
After cursing, he looked at Zhang Feng again,
"Chef Zhang, you’re pretty wild today, huh?"
He walked straight towards Zhang Feng.
In the process of approaching, he picked up a knife from the chopping board and gestured towards Zhang Feng:
"I’m telling you, I’ve already got three lives on my hands; one more won’t matter! Do you believe I can kill you right now?"
"Kill him!"
"Brother Ah Hang, chop him up!"
The others egged on, laughing at Zhang Feng.
They thought the next moment Zhang Feng would surely beg for mercy.
However, Zhang Feng looked at the approaching Ah Hang and the knife coming his way.
In the next second.
Zhang Feng’s strong arm knocked away the hand holding the knife while his other hand grabbed Ah Hang’s hair and smashed it hard against the nearby wall.
Thud—
Ah Hang’s forehead hit hard, knocking him out.
Zhang Feng smoothly caught the nearly dropping kitchen knife with his right hand and looked at the stunned punks in front of him,
"You freaking little bastards, trying to scare me?"