Strange Worlds: The Sequence

  Chapter 2 Hopeless Knife

  But he said that it was a cool autumn.

  The sky is like a navy blue curtain, dotted with some lonely clouds.

  Outside the window, there is a fenced street that is bustling with people. The nursery rhyme that Chen Yuyan heard when she just woke up came from the street.

  There can only be one source of this weird nursery rhyme, and that is the Loving Mother Church.

  Even the children on the street dared to sing the nursery rhymes of the Loving Mother Sect, Chen Yuyan couldn't imagine how far Qingcheng County had been infiltrated by the Loving Mother Sect.

  Chen Yuyan sighed, took all the valuable things in the room, and then quietly left the wing.

  When he came to the corner of the wall, Chen Yuyan turned out stepping on the mortise tank, looked around, and disappeared into the crowd with his head down.

   Half an hour later.

  The shady young man in a brocade robe stood in front of the door with a pale face, tightly clutching the yellow paper dropped by Chen Yuyan in his hand.

  Thirteenth brother, you really make me worry.

   Wouldn’t it be nice to be killed obediently? It actually caused your second brother’s ceremony to fail, and he was backlashed by evil spirits!

  He lowered his head, coughed a few times, his voice was hoarse, and said to the butler behind him:

   "Uncle Liang, let the jackals go and find Li Qingsong for me, even if they turn Qingcheng County over, I will take care of Li Qingshui if something goes wrong."

   "Live to see people, die to see corpses!"

  …

  As the most prosperous land boundary of ten miles and eight townships, the middle streets and alleys of Qingcheng County are crowded with people, full of voices, very lively.

  Qingcheng County is surrounded by water on one side and mountains on three sides. The east side is slightly close to the middle section of Nujiang River.

   "Ho Ho... Yo Yo..."

   "Drag, drag, drag..."

  Tea shops and wine shops on the street are thriving in business. In front of the shops with flags hanging, guys with white cloths on their shoulders are yelling hard, attracting caravans passing by, and people come in to sit down and have a sip of green tea.

  Chen Yuyan held a wide bowl in his hand, sat upright, and drank the tea in the bowl in one gulp.

  The foundation of the force system in "Strange Rivers and Lakes" is [Sequence]. Sequence is like the trunk of a tree. Only when the trunk is strong can the branches and leaves flourish.

   Once one's own sequence is set, only people in the world can generate internal strength and use it to perform various exercises.

  The necessary thing to be promoted to the rank is called "pollution source", and it is called "secret medicine" in Jianghu.

  Martial arts combination + secret medicine + ceremony = sequence promotion

   This is the most classic formula in "Strange Rivers and Lakes", and it is also a formula that every player can memorize by heart.

  This short formula succinctly covers the basic gameplay of the entire game.

  A player once analyzed on the forum that the essence of the sequence is "pollution". Pollution gives the world all kinds of powerful abilities, but also brings the same degree of negative impact.

  For example, most of the swordsmen in [Knife Sequence] are irritable and manic.

  The musicians in [Le Sequence] are always sentimental and indecisive. Nearly 70% of the musicians committed suicide, and most of them were trapped by love.

  The essence of sequence is "pollution", so the promotion of sequence is essentially the process of deepening pollution.

  Sequence promotion is judged according to the degree of pollution, for example: initial pollution, deep pollution, heavy pollution...

  As the pollution deepens, the characteristics of the sequence will also change. The deeper the pollution, the greater the increase or impact of the characteristics.

  The combination of sequence and martial arts, and even the rituals performed, will affect the difference in generation characteristics.

  For Chen Yuyan, his biggest advantage at present is his foresight. He not only knows the general trend of the future, but also remembers most of the secret medicine formulas in the thirty-six sequences!

  The only thing that hinders him is the pre-promotion skills of the promotion sequence.

  The skills required for promotion in the later stage of the sequence are almost all controlled by the big factions and the royal families. It can be said that it is as difficult as the sky for outsiders to obtain these skills.

   "What the **** do you mean!"

   "You want to fight, don't you!"

   There was shouting and cursing from the next door, because the two parties had a conflict over the seat.

  Chen Yuyan glanced at it lightly, stroked the psychic jade pendant on her waist with her fingers, got up and left.

   Collect the anger emotions of ten people and complete.

  Come to Ping An Lane next to the pier. This is a poor area in Qingcheng County. Many trackers and fishermen live here.

  In order to deceive others, Chen Yuyan found a room in Ping'an Lane, which was dilapidated, but the surrounding houses were similar.

  Go back to the house and close the door.

  Put down the package on his back, take out various herbs, and the psychic jade pendant on his waist.

  These are the configuration materials of the secret medicine [Tibetan Knife], especially the psychic jade pendant, which can store various emotions.

   This psychic jade pendant alone cost nearly half of the silver taels on Chen Yuyan's body. In addition to other materials, he now only has a dozen taels of silver left on his body.

   But these are all worthwhile, only the money spent is valuable, and the hidden silver is no different from stones.

  Swordgrass, white-grained tree roots, tiger bones...

  Pieces of materials were roasted on the fire, and then boiled in the medicine stove. Chen Yuyan followed the steps in the game step by step, and finally put the psychic jade pendant into the boiled slurry.

  After half a quarter of an hour, the thick slurry water became transparent, no different from clear water, while the psychic jade pendant had turned pitch black and was scorching hot.

   No, it should be called the secret medicine [Tibetan Knife] now.

  Chen Yuyan tied the jade pendant with a red string and put it on his chest. The "pollution" inside would penetrate into his body subtly within a few days.

   Putting out the fire, Chen Yuyan lay on the bed with her right hand pillowed behind her head, her left hand holding the jade pendant, and she closed her eyes to rest her mind.

  Taking the secret medicine has the effect of strengthening the body, but the process is not comfortable.

   At sunset.

  The sky has dimmed, and there are scattered pedestrians on the street, most of whom are on their way home.

  There is no curfew in Nanming. For example, the Zhuque Lane where the Li Mansion is located is still brightly lit and full of pedestrians at night.

  It’s just that most of the residents in Ping’an Lane can’t even light a candle, and the light is dim at night. It’s safer to go home early and lie down.

  Chen Yuyan was dressed in black, with a black cloth covering her face, and quietly left through the back door without disturbing anyone.

   These days, apart from buying materials for configuring secret medicines, Chen Yuyan only goes out at night to buy daily necessities.

   And now, he's going to steal something.

  If you want to advance to the sequence, you need more than just secret medicine.

  Also need the pre-requisite skills!

  In the arena, exercises are divided into three categories: Acquired, Innate, Hunyuan,

   Each category is divided into three classes: A, B, and C.

  [Sword Sequence] One of the prerequisites for the initial pollution is to master an acquired sword technique.

   As it happened, Chen Yuyan remembered that a player once posted a very popular post on the forum, and the location of a chain mission was in Qingcheng County.

  The player came and went forty or fifty times for this task, and it was all about buying soju and bringing herbs.

   After maximizing the favorability of the Lin family, Mr. Lin will take out this secret book from the study and present it to the players.

  This cheat book is called "The Hopeless Knife", which happens to be a first-class sword technique acquired.

  Of course, the reason why this post became popular was not because of this acquired cheat book, which was not very eye-catching at the time.

   It's because the Lin family's additional condition is that the player must marry the Lin family's prostitute and become the Lin family's son-in-law.

  But it's not a game now, and there's no need for Chen Yuyan to run forty or fifty times to be the licking dog of the Lin family.

  Hiding in the shadows, Chen Yuyan leaned over and walked quickly, heading towards Lin's residence.

  By the time Chen Yuyan arrived at Lin's mansion, the night was already dark, except for the croaking of frogs in the ditch, there was no other sound to be heard.

  Lin Mansion is not big, it is a secondary courtyard.

  The Lin family has practiced medicine for generations, and opened two clinics in Qingcheng County. Mr. Lin is a doctor of [Medicine Sequence] and is quite famous in Qingcheng County.

  In the Lin family, only Mr. Lin has practiced martial arts and was promoted to [Medicine Sequence]. The other sons and grandsons are all ordinary people.

   Taking advantage of the fact that Mr. Lin is away for medical treatment these days, and there is no martial arts practitioner at home, as long as Chen Yuyan is careful, it is not difficult to sneak into the study to get a book.

  The full moon hangs high in the sky.

  Chou time is the time when people sleep the most, and it is also the time when Chen Yuyan leaves.

   Jumping off the wall, Chen Yuyan walked against the wall, and soon came to the study.

  He was not idle when he was collecting the materials of the secret medicine. He had already squatted down to explore the internal structure of the Lin Mansion.

  Thanks to the crooked neck tree behind Lin Fu.

  Gently pushed open the door, walked sideways into the study, Chen Yuyan took out a piece of fluorite from his arms, and quickly searched for the book "The Hopeless Knife" with the faint light.

   "Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases".

   "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic".

   "Nanjing".

  Chen Yuyan picked up a book of pharmacy to look through it, then put it down again, and finally found an ancient book with a black cover in the wooden box in the corner.

  He opened it and looked delighted.

   It is the first-class sword technique "Hopeless Knife" in Acquired!

   Putting "The Hopeless Knife" into her arms, Chen Yuyan stood there thinking for a while, took out half of the money she was carrying, put it on the desk, and left quietly.

  He dare not say that he is a man of principle.

  For enemies or heinous villains, Chen Yuyan doesn't pay attention to the methods used to deal with them, as long as it can kill the opponent.

  However, the Lin family hung the pot to help the world, especially the old man of the Lin family. He did not know how many lives and poor people he saved in his life.

  If it weren't for the haste to follow the power, Chen Yuyan would not have made such a bad move to act as three hands.

   Wait for him to memorize "The Hopeless Knife" by heart, and then ask someone to send it back after he has practiced it.

  Backing to the dilapidated house in Ping An Lane, Chen Yuyan took off his night clothes, lit a candle, and sat cross-legged on the bed.

  The moves in "No Hope Knife" are tricky from many angles, focusing on bravery and speed. They overwhelm the opponent with momentum and crush their fighting beliefs, but they are not as open and closed as the sword skills in the army.

   Summarize the characteristics of Hopeless Knife in one sentence.

Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted.

  If the opponent resists Chen Yuyan's first three offensives during the match, then Chen Yuyan has basically lost the chance to comeback.

   Taking out the inferior long knife bought from the blacksmith, Chen Yuyan got out of bed and began to practice the knife skills.

   This practice lasted for about ten days.

  …

  Standing by the bed, exhaling a breath of foul air, Chen Yuyan sheathed the knife and stood where she was, with eyes full.

   It has been two days since he started with the hopeless sword.

  After the body is strengthened by the secret medicine [Tibetan Knife], and then practice the Hopeless Knife, it really gets twice the result with half the effort!

  Although Chen Yuyan still has no internal strength at this time, his physical fitness has been improved by the secret medicine, and he is no longer what he used to be with the hopeless knife.

   "Brother, this is it!"

  With a loud bang, the door suddenly collapsed.

  Chen Yuyan frowned and looked, only to see seven or eight people entering in a file, some holding daggers or sticks in their hands, with fierce faces, obviously the visitors were not good.

  The strong man headed by folded his hands on his chest, his exposed arms were tight and full of strength.

  He has a scar on his face that runs through his right eye, and he looks fierce, so he is called the Scarface Jackal.

   "Master Li Qingsong, right?"

  Scarface Jackal scanned Chen Yuyan up and down with his long and narrow eyes, and said with a nonchalant smile:

   "Your second brother asked us to take you home, come with us."

  (end of this chapter)