Chapter 20 of 100
Chapter 20
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"Interesting, your endurance is top-notch among ordinary martial artists, ten times stronger than these weaklings in your training hall." Peng Hai also stood up, slowly stretching his joints. Bundles of muscles, like countless venomous snakes, wriggled beneath his skin, which was as white as jade, incredibly agile.
"Of course, I’m a professional! Go prepare in the sparring room first, don’t forget to use the 'Tattoo Charm' to hide your true identity." The bald man with the tattooed face spoke as he pushed open the door and walked into the strength training room.
The muscular man hitting the punching bag said to him, "Director Zhao, this gentleman is looking for you."
The bald man with the tattooed face nodded, glanced at the spider pattern on Li Yao’s face, and smiled, "You’re here? You’re clear about the price, right? No problems?"
"Clear, no problems, let’s get straight to the deal." Li Yao said coldly, putting on an experienced old hand’s demeanor.
"Good, follow me." The bald man with the tattooed face led the way, walking down a corridor and bringing Li Yao to a sparring room of about a hundred square meters.
The environment in the sparring room was rather simple. Thick straw mats hung on the walls for cushioning, and the floor was rough concrete, worn and pitted with cracks running every which way from long use.
The bald man with the tattooed face took out a protective suit made of nine layers of cowhide and a full set of protective gear from a corner, gesturing for Li Yao to put them on.
"We’re all in the same circle, no need for me to ramble. As long as you last three minutes, you’ll get ten thousand yuan. But if you can’t last three minutes, you get nothing—Brother Tian said you’ve worked in many martial arts schools as a top sparring partner. These are the rules, no problems, right?"
"Three minutes? Top sparring partner?" Li Yao blinked, realizing the other person had mistaken him for someone else.
The patterns of the Tattoo Charm were not random, with a total of 1,300 different designs. Occasionally, two people might have the same pattern on their faces, known as a "face collision."
This boss was probably waiting for another top sparring partner with a spider pattern on his face and had mistaken Li Yao for him.
"Sorry—" Li Yao instinctively wanted to explain, but suddenly had a thought.
What did the bald uncle say just now? Last three minutes, get ten thousand yuan? Being a sparring partner is so profitable?
Li Yao’s eyes lit up.
He had struggled in the treasure tomb, working hard for a month to earn ten thousand to twenty thousand yuan. Although he had made a killing from Si Jiaxue this time, earning a hundred thousand yuan, such a fat target wasn’t easy to come by. Now, he could earn ten thousand yuan in just three minutes, enough to buy a dozen or so enhancement potions. Why not?
His body had just undergone a mutation, and his endurance had greatly improved, making him tough and resilient!
And the members who came to this level of training hall were mostly amateurs, perhaps just off work and planning to buy groceries later. How much strength could they have?
Thinking this, Li Yao looked over and almost burst out laughing.
In the corner of the sparring room stood a tall, slender man. His exposed upper body had little muscle, and his skin looked pale. He also had a "Tattoo Charm" on his face, with red and black patterns forming a smiling clown.
He seemed ordinary and unremarkable, lacking any aura of a master.
What made Li Yao almost laugh out loud was that when he entered, this man was seriously warming up, doing the most basic "Fifth Set of Fitness Exercises" in the Federation!
This set of fitness exercises was developed by the Federation’s training experts for ordinary people to exercise and relax. All Federation citizens started learning it from kindergarten. It wasn’t a martial arts technique but just simple movements to stretch and relax the body.
Now, after multiple upgrades, it had evolved into the more complex "Ninth Set of Fitness Exercises" with a slight martial arts routine. The simple "Fifth Set of Fitness Exercises" was only used by elementary school students as a break exercise.
This smiling clown was doing the elementary school break exercise with utmost seriousness, each movement stretched to its limit, as if he were practicing some earth-shattering supreme martial art.
"This ten thousand yuan is like free money. If I don’t take it, the heavens will strike me with lightning!" Li Yao thought to himself.
The bald man with the tattooed face put the full set of cowhide protective gear on him, frowning, "Any problems?"
"Uh—" Li Yao pondered for a moment and asked, "Can I only take hits? Can I fight back?"
The bald man with the tattooed face was taken aback, his expression half-smiling, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world. He then took out a large number of iron plates and reinforced ceramic inserts from a corner equipment box and inserted them into the special pockets on the cowhide protective gear.
This gave Li Yao three layers of protection—reinforced ceramic inserts, iron plates, and nine layers of cowhide.
The bald man with the tattooed face said, "If you want, go ahead and fight back. But I advise you to focus on blocking his attacks first. Alright, take your time, I’ll come back in three minutes. Hope—"
He stopped, giving Li Yao a meaningful look, and patted his shoulder lightly before leaving the sparring room and closing the door.
"Really, an amateur training hall. It’s just a three-minute sparring session, do you really need to dress up so heavily?" Li Yao tried jumping a few times and swung a set of Turtle Fist, feeling the impact of the protective gear on his body.
He found that the protective gear was very well-made. Although it weighed dozens of pounds with the iron plates and reinforced ceramic inserts, it didn’t hinder his limb movements. It only slightly reduced his speed without affecting his offensive and defensive capabilities.
His opponent was still warming up leisurely, just moving from the fourth "Stretching Exercise" to the sixth "Chest Expansion Exercise." If Li Yao remembered correctly, there were still five more sections to go!
"Brother, you’ve been warming up since I came in. Do you really need to finish the entire fitness routine? Do you have to be so serious?" Li Yao couldn’t help but ask.
The smiling clown was in a lunge position, chest expanded. Hearing this, he stopped his movements and slowly said, "Don’t you need to warm up?"
"No need. In real battles, there’s no time for warming up!" Li Yao said impatiently. In the treasure tomb, he had always fought and fled on the spot. Fat Dragon, Wild Wolf... these bastards, who would give him time to warm up?
The smiling clown tilted his head and softly "hmm"ed, seemingly surprised by Li Yao’s reasonable response. After a moment’s thought, he nodded and said, "You’re right. Ready? Three minutes—start!"
"Whoosh!"
Almost before the word "start" reached Li Yao’s ears, a sharp whistling sound pierced his eardrums. The smiling clown, who had been doing chest expansion exercises from a dozen meters away, vanished in an instant!
Li Yao couldn’t see the smiling clown’s movement at all. He only felt a needle-like pain all over his chest, as if an invisible hand had instantly penetrated the three layers of protection, pierced his chest, and clutched his heart!
"What the hell!"
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