Chapter 656 Kuafu chasing the sun

The half-grown boy covered his reddened left cheek, fear in his eyes.

"I punished you today because you didn't obey the rules."

He Zi pointed to the noses of his peers in front of him and said, "Since you have joined the Tongkou Gang, you must abide by the rules of the gang."

"Clam, in the past when you were bullied and had nothing to eat, the gang would cover you up, but now you refuse to do anything? Do you still want to run away?"

He Zi lifted up the thin hemp rope around his neck, and a copper button was hung on the rope.

"This thing is not for watching."

"Now I'm here to tell you the rules, and the next time you see the boss with the bronze hand. I hope you will think about which hand or leg you're going to lose."

The boy on the opposite side turned pale with fright: "I don't dare, I don't dare."

"Quit? Have a kind."

He Tsai pretended not to hear clearly.

He grinned, revealing a missing front tooth: "I'll take you to the boss, have you prepared your ransom?"

"I'll do it, I'll do it! I'll bring the goods, I'll bring the goods!"

Hazi said tremblingly: "I don't want to run away anymore, I will definitely bring the gang's things."

"now it's right."

He Zai put his arms around the other person's shoulders: "Look, it's actually not difficult to bring what you're asked to bring, just a few seeds and some paper, put it in underwear and clothes, it's fine."

"Those soldiers don't know how to check, even if they are found, you say you don't know what it is. Anyway, you really don't know, right?"

"At worst, you can stay in prison for a few days, and you will be released in a month at most. The brothers are waiting for you outside."

The boy nodded numbly.

"As long as you abide by the rules, everyone is still a good brother. The gang will not let you stay here for the rest of your life. The last wave left at the age of sixteen. You can leave in two or three years. The gang protects everyone Son, it's fair for everyone to work for the gang until they become adults, isn't it?

He Zai smiled and patted him on the back: "Go back and wash your face, get ready, and bring the goods tomorrow."

Watching Hazi leave in a daze, Ah Zheng next to him said: "Will he go obediently? Won't he run away halfway?"

"Let him go."

He Zai shrugged, grabbed a piece of gum from his pocket, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed: "He chooses himself. If he succeeds in running away, I wish him a long run. If he is found, he will have his hand broken." foot."

"Ah Zheng, you and Hazi both joined the gang two months ago, so you are much smarter than him."

He Zi's cheeks fluttered: "How about the goods you brought last time?"

"It went well."

Azheng is a young man with a quiet face. He looks twelve or thirteen years old. Compared with Hezi, who has a wheat complexion and is wearing an adult leather vest, he looks more like a young man on the run.

The fact is true.

The first time Hezi saw Ah Zheng, he was spearing a fish with a branch. The water in that place was very shallow, with no grass and no fish, and he looked like a novice.

So He Zai first invited him to eat some fried melon seeds, and then asked him if he was out to play, or if he got separated from others.

After asking, I found out that Ah Zheng was from the Anvil Federation of the Resurrected Kingdom, and his ancestors were immigrants from Yancheng. Bewitched by the devil, his father not only dedicated all his family property to the devil, but also bled Ah Zheng as a sacrifice to the devil.

Ah Zheng beat his father until his head was covered in blood, and then escaped. He didn't dare to go back, so he could only wander in the country of secret arts.

He Zai discovered that Ah Zheng was born with supernatural powers, he could easily lift big rocks and uproot small trees with his bare hands. He invited him to join the Copper Button Gang.

The Copper Button Gang is a very small gang in the Kingdom of Mystic Arts, and what they do are all trivial things that don't come to the fore.

But no matter how small the gang is, it is a mountain in front of the children.

The members of the Tongkou Gang are all half-grown children, because children must be involved in the things that are done in the gang.

He Zi chewed gum, put his hands in his wide pockets: "How about it, is it easier to bring goods than you think?"

"Um."

Ah Zheng looked to the other side, not far from there was the main road, which could lead all the way to the city-state areas of the Mystic Kingdom.

"Just take it across the border, it's not difficult."

He Zai likes this about Ah Zheng, he just does it when he is asked to do it, and he never looks back or asks questions.

"The goods brought in the gang are not serious contraband, usually various rose seeds of the Yao nationality, and some fake bonds."

He Zai said: "Rose seeds are very common in the market, whether it is mild green roses, white roses, sand roses or cloud roses, they are all here. There are killer black roses mixed in the goods. This thing is a controlled product, it is normal It's impossible."

"These seeds cannot be produced repeatedly. If you want to get new Yao roses, you have to buy the seeds. The gang just transports the goods and makes a profit from smuggling. Even if the child who brought the goods is arrested, the jail time will not be long."

He spat out the gum and stuck it to a piece of fallen bark.

"Then there are fake bonds. This is a superb handicraft. The paper used to make city bonds is very difficult to handle. It is a mixed variety of rough-edged paper and tissue paper, which feels very special."

Leaning against a tree, he said: "There is also the printing on the facial paper. The printing technique of the Yao people now adopts specific patterns and colors, and there are serial numbers representing different cities. It is difficult to get very close. , It is also a difficult problem to deploy printing and dyeing pigments."

"I heard that Yaocheng has been gradually using crystal structure printing and dyeing, using sand elements for coating patterns, which can be identified by element crystal structure at once. If it is really fully implemented, it will be more difficult to imitate."

Ah Zheng frowned slightly: "Why did you tell me these secrets?"

"Because your appearance is so eye-catching, the soldiers at the border can easily remember after taking the goods once, so the next time you bring the goods will be at least a year later. The more ordinary the better, clam. It is the most suitable."

The Copper Button Gang needs the children of the gang to bring the goods. Usually, the vagrants are not easy to be suspected, and the goods they carry are not too much, so they are not easy to be noticed and unannounced.

The members of the gang went there on the grounds of studying and looking for work, and met people in the Resurrection Kingdom, and then brought things from there.

He Zi said: "You and I will recruit people in the rear, teach new people, and then wait until you quit the gang and get severance pay."

"Do you have to quit the gang?"

"Could it be possible that you still want to work in the Tongkou Gang?" He Zai sneered.

Ah Zheng asked: "There is no way to become the leader? Or to be promoted further?"

"Hey, you kid wants to be the boss."

He Zai took out a tomato from his pocket and took a big bite.

"The Copper Button Gang is like this. The boss of the Copper Hand was originally a boss of the Red and White Society, but later he came out to do it alone and established the Copper Button Gang. Then, in fact, he still has a certain relationship with the Red and White Society, but in fact our relationship is closer. The closest one is [Black Ring Trading Company]."

Ah Zheng showed a surprised expression on his face: "The Black Ring Trading Company is in the Resurrection Kingdom, so the goods they get are all from them..."

"Who knows? Don't think that the Black Ring Trading Company is just an ordinary chamber of commerce. It is one of the organizations split from [Black Templar]."

When it comes to the gang power in the Secret Art Kingdom, Hezi is very familiar: "At the beginning, the temple was sanctioned after the investigation bureau found out the problem. There was no way but to split the organization into several parts. The original [Black Temple] focused on sacrificial rituals. In terms of secret arts, spells, and folk customs, the split [Black Ring Trading Company] and other groups are dedicated to the secular world."

"However, we have no affiliation with these big gangs, and are more like running errands. It's safe to be a small person, so as not to encounter big troubles."

Ah Zheng remained silent.

He Zai ate the tomato bite by bite, and licked the juice from his fingers: "Let's go, I have to see a big brother."

Ah Zheng's eyes lit up: "Are you a big brother from another gang? Can you recommend me?"

"no"

A strange expression appeared on Hezi's face: "Are you really so obsessed with gangsters? The elder brother I met this time is a serious person. He is around these days and used to take good care of me. It's not what you think. "

In the group of tents by the river, Hezi found his old friend.

"Hezi, I haven't seen you for a few years, how are you doing?"

Bo Yi walked over steaming.

He has short hair, a towel wrapped around his neck, and his uncovered upper body shows well-proportioned and flexible muscle lines. The whole person is like a tiger returning from hunting, and his young male body contains explosive power that cannot be triggered.

"Brother Yi, you are stronger than before."

He Zi chuckled and handed the other party a tomato.

Bo Yi took it and took a big bite.

He Zai remembered that the first time he saw Boyi, he was being beaten and kicked by the gangsters of the Tongkou Gang, and he just squatted on the ground with his hands on his head and was beaten skillfully.

For ordinary people without any special abilities, it is basically difficult to resist a group of gangsters.

The reason is that ordinary people generally dare not attack with deadly weapons such as knives and hammers, while punks have rich experience in fighting, and they will win as soon as they come. When you are beaten miserably, you want to fight desperately, but it is too late. By this time, you are usually knocked to the ground and have no strength to fight back.

The scene at that time strengthened the determination of the Hezai Gang: Join if you can't beat it!

He didn't want to be beaten up like Boyi, but he felt pitiful for him. So after everyone left, He Zai went to help him up.

"It was intentional. I learned [Ascetic Monk] from [Theology], and I learned and practiced through pain."

Bo Yi shook the dust on his body, and said indifferently: "I advised them to disband the gang, go to the temple and library to study the "Gospel of the Gods", and reform themselves, otherwise everyone will go to jail. Then they went crazy..."

Only then did He Zai realize that this brother Yi is not that kind of soft persimmon.

He is actively finding fault.

Soon, Boyi was not satisfied with being beaten by the group, and the endurance of the ascetic monk would continue to increase. The ordinary pain was already tasteless, and he could not make any progress. So he left the neighborhood and set foot on another path.

He participated in the [Kua Fu Chasing the Sun] activity, which was an unlimited daily running practice organized by Davali.

He Zai also knows a little about running day by day.

This activity is closer to a fanatical sacrificial ceremony. Chasing the sun on the ground and recording the different directions of one's own shadow sounds weird and absurd.

There are still many participants.

There are bones ancestors from the Resurrection Kingdom, people from the Street Lamp Society, and some locals from the Mystic Kingdom.

As time went on, a large number of runners fainted and were injured, and some even died.

Gradually, the news that Davari is actually the devil Kuafu spread like wildfire.

It is said that the purpose of this activity is to burn the life of every runner and transform it into the power of Kuafu through rituals.

Bo Yi's reason for joining is very simple, he needs more intense pain to sharpen his practice.

He Zai felt that he would die in this weird run.

Because so far, the runners have either been injured and given up, or because of various reasons, there are fewer and fewer people following the demon Kuafu.

However, Boyi ran for five years.

"You may not believe it."

Bo Yi gulped down the tomato, with a hearty smile on his face: "This running practice we are doing can make every participant strong and energetic."

He Tsai laughed: "Brother Yi, if that was the case, there wouldn't be so many people running to death before."

"A question of method."

Bo Yi said seriously: "The long-term running against the sun is also very dangerous for superhumans."

"The light element will directly stimulate the whole body, which is easy to burn the body, and the water element will escape in a large amount in a short time, making the runner extremely thirsty. Therefore, it is necessary to equip enough water, and it is best to run in the morning and evening, at noon Rest and relax properly."

"Warming up before running can avoid soreness, cramps, abdominal pain and other injuries. You should also stretch your body after running to keep your body flexible and reduce fatigue and loss."

"Another one is not to blindly pursue speed, keep breathing, and pay attention to the elemental balance of your body at all times."

"Also prepare appropriate clothes and shoes to reduce body exposure and pain, and keep warm in winter."

"These are the experiences we have summed up in the past few years of running "Running Instructions". If you can do these points well, you won't be injured like before."

"God Yao's blessing and enlightenment, let me find an endless path of practice!"

He Zi murmured in his heart.

Something is wrong.

How does Brother Yi feel that he has changed from a penance fanatic to a crazy runner? Could it be that he was brainwashed and transformed by the devil Kuafu?

"Then, let me show you my achievements over the past few years. Try touching my upper body with your hands, and I will stay where I am."

Bo Yi stood quietly.

He Zi felt that he had become completely different, as if he was surrounded by an inexplicable power.

He raised his hand towards Boyi, but no matter how He Zi swung his arm, he couldn't touch his body. Boyi seemed to be able to predict his own movements in advance, moving his upper body calmly and simply, making Hezi always seem to be facing the air, unable to catch him no matter what.

What kind of spell is this? ?

Hezi was shocked.

The indescribable feeling on Boyi suddenly disappeared.

He raised his hand, spread his five fingers, and slowly closed them together: "The various forces exerted by the body are different forms of exercise."

"Mastering and conforming to the law of sports, entering the [flow] state in a short time, all the people around me will become slow motion in my eyes, and I can pass them as I like. This is the characteristic of the [athlete] profession. "

"I see through your every move."

(end of this chapter)