267: The Attitude of the Crowd

Chapter 267: The Attitude of the Crowd

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It was a Summer evening, the clouds seemed burning, and no signs of getting dark could be seen.

Lou Cheng walked pleasantly in the twilight, slowly leaving the darkness of his room, brewing the fighting plan.

Only one more step and his mission would be completed!

Then he could tell his teacher the good news!

When he entered the venue, he went to the exclusive lounge. He saw the staff member, Fang Siqi, who served the seeded fighters, waiting expectantly.

"Hello." The white-collared beauty bent in the standard style.

"Hello." Lou Cheng nodded feeling slightly strange.

Today, Fang Siqi was barely familiar. She usually tried to make him feel at home by chatting politely, but now, she was obviously in an estranged mood.

Lou Cheng shook his head silently and without giving it another thought, walked toward his room.

Suddenly, he perceived that Fang was secretly watching him.

"What?" Lou Cheng calmly asked, he did not cover up his doubts.

"Nothing." Then Fang Siqi asked curiously, "Mr. Lou Cheng, did you not see the news?"

"What news?" Lou Cheng asked in surprise.

Was there any special news?

After the game last night, he'd browsed the forum and news, enjoyed the praise in the report and excitement of the fans, but hadn't found anything strange!

As for today, first he'd slept with the little fairy, then he'd studied the fighting videos of the remaining seven opponents, and finally he'd exchanged intimately with Yan Zheke. Indeed he'd had no time to pay attention to the news.

The news related to the Martial Arts Competition included the news from all aspects only at the end of the game, praising the winners or criticizing the losers. After a few hours, there were more in-depth reports with more technical contents. This was Lou Cheng's favorite part. It could help him summarize the game, and it helped him to find his own problems.

The next day, the vast majority of the news was just repetition, and Lou Cheng would only watch it if he had free time.

"You really don't know?" Fang Siqi was stunned, looking into Lou Cheng's eyes, dark, deep, and peaceful, "Anyway, it's not a big deal. I have to deal with other things."

She stepped on high heels and left. Lou Cheng was confused.

What news? Lou Cheng went into his lounge with this question, took out his phone, logged in and searched.

What he saw scared him. A gang of people were quarreling on his fan forum, which annoyed Eternal Nightfall and Brahman a lot.

This was just the aftermath of a hot topic, how could the main battlefield be in a small private forum?

Seeing these messages, Lou Cheng understood what had happened. The lip-reading expert had interpreted what Qiu Lin said, and then tipped-off the reporters, leading to great distrust of the Youth League Organizing Committee.

As one of the protagonists, he was no doubt mentioned. While some people sympathized with him, took pity on him, cheered for him, and unswervingly supported him, others suspected that this was his fault, to avoid a strong enemy through deliberate speculation, dressing up as the weak, and smearing the Organizing Committee as well as the high-Fen Wuchang. It was extremely vicious.

This was really lying in the gun. No wonder Fang Siqi had looked at him like that. Lou Cheng suddenly understood, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Fang Siqi was a staff member of the Budokan Association and the Youth League Organizing Committee!

He’d seen the post of the lip-reading expert "cow devil" last night, but hadn’t cared. He’d thought it was just a little controversy in their own forum, and would not spread.

His mood had not been much affected, because the focus of the quarrel was no doubt on the Youth Organizing Committee. The attention on himself was not as bad as the journalists being sprayed for lack of professional ethics.

"Do not worry about it, it's in God's hands." Lou Cheng closed his eyes, adjusting his mind.

Anyway, he hadn’t expected to have to avoid Zhang Zhu and Han Zhifei, rather he was prepared to fight against them!

...

At seven o'clock, Fang Siqi sounded the door of Lou Cheng's lounge room, and informed him that he could be admitted and sit in the first position on the left side of the second row of guest's area.

Lou Cheng patted the martial arts clothes, proudly stood up, and went to the exit, where he met Zhang Zhu Tong, Han Zhifei and Liu Xunzhen. These soldiers kept away from him quietly and seemed to want to avoid arousing suspicion.

They were the mainstay of the martial arts circle of Gao Fen.

"Do you think he did it? To ensure the first four?" Zhang Zhu asked leisurely with his hands in his pockets. No one knew whether he was asking Han Zhi Fei on the left, or Liu Xunzhen on the right.

He did not bother to lower his voice, it seemed he was not afraid to be heard by Lou Cheng, or maybe, he deliberately let him hear.

"Perhaps, the ultimate beneficiaries are the most suspicious." Liu Xunzhen said concisely.

Zhang Zhutong laughed. "He may be scared by Qiu Lin's words, and not want to encounter me in the quarter-finals, so he found people to make a big deal, to make use of his physical metamorphosis advantage. "

Witnessing Lou Cheng defeating Qiu Lin, he'd considered him as the main opponent, inferior only to Han Zhifei.

So, now the confrontation of the souls would start!

You tell the story better than Andersen... Lou Cheng mocked, but didn't reply.

Taking this kind of thing seriously could cause failure. It was easy to let it affect the state of the game.

Taking a deep breath, Lou Cheng visualized in his mind a scene of freezing water to ice.

Han Zhifei said in a low voice,

"It might not be him. He might not be the only beneficiary."

"Who else?" Liu Xunzhen frowned.

"The Organizing Committee, and television stations." Han Zhifei looked around, "Don't you think the attention paid to the game has increased a lot with this tip-off, and such a quarrel?

Those who did not watch the youth game, but had glanced at the news, and even some friends in other provinces, were now attracted to see the broadcast.

In this impetuous era, being noted was a good thing, whether it was praise or blame.

Liu Xun sulked, and didn't say anything more. Han Zhifei had persuaded him to some extent.

This type of hype was common to the entertainment circle, the quarrel was played round after round before the broadcast of some films and television dramas.

For the organizing committee, as long as the final performance was justified, was such a quarrel to increase the number of critics, not a good thing? For television stations, the audience ratings improved, the cover crowd increased, and their faces were not hurt, wasn't it great?

Zhang Zhutong nodded thoughtfully and said with a smile,

"It seems that I have misunderstood."

He said this easily, as if the previous accusations never happened.

...

Yan Zheke came to the venue once the guests had been seated.

She followed the tips, found her position, and found Gu Shuang and Xing Jingjing.

"Is something wrong?" Yan Zheke asked carefully.

Gu Shuang smiled and said, "There will be no problem, it has nothing to do with us."

After speaking, for insurance purposes, she sent the following words with messenger: [If the Organizing Committee wants to check, it should just check the television station, who deserves it for speculating.]

In Yan Zheke's proposal, she reminded the TV station and other people through a mediary, she'd finally found a public relations company that had a good relationship with the television station to coordinate it.

"Alright, I feel relieved." Yan Zheke gave a gentle smile.

This must not affect Lou Cheng's image!

While they whispered, many eyes were attracted to the beautiful Yan Zheke, including Cao Lele and Qiu Hai Lin in the back row.

"Look, look, isn’t that Yan Zheke of Class three?" Cao Le Le pulled at the sleeves of his teacher.

Qiu Hailin looked over, and saw Yan Zheke wearing a chiffon shirt with a half up hairstyle, in the noisy environment she possessed a kind of quietly blooming beauty. As a girl herself she could see a slight absence, "It is. She has also come to watch the game."

"Yan Zheke?" Hearing their words, Jiang Fei and Cheng Qili, who knew the secret love story turned around in surprise, to view the brilliant girl.

This was the second time they'd seen Yan Zheke, and after more than a year, they felt she was more beautiful than a goddess. She was more self-confident and graceful than she’d been in high school from what they could remember. They could see she really was charming.

Being looked at by others this way, Yan Zheke, with a small achievement in meditation, certainly had the subtle induction. She glanced over subconsciously, and saw a few strange, but slightly familiar men and women.

Jiang Fei ...she first recognized Jiang Fei, because Lou Cheng had shown her their group photo on his phone.

She suddenly understood that this was Lou Cheng's group of friends and relatives. The one wearing black half-rim glasses with acne should be Old Cheng-Cheng Qi Li. The guy with a wine-colored face was most likely Tao Xiaofei. The one with the large bald forehead was the class 4 leader Qiu Hai Lin. The pretty little girl was Lou Cheng Cao Lele's old desk-mate. The man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, was that Lou Cheng's father? Was the woman next to him Lou Cheng's mother?

She did not know why, but Yan Zheke suddenly felt inexplicably shy. Her face flushed as she said hello to Jiang Fei and the others shyly.

Jiang Fei knew about the relationship between her and Lou Chang, she could not be without courtesy...

In front of her were his mother and father, she could not be without courtesy...

After greeting them, she immediately turned to sit down, clutching her hot face, and complained to GuShuang,

"Why did you pick this spot?"

"What's the matter with it?" Gu Shuang looked up foolishly.

"Lou Cheng's father and mother are sitting behind us" Yan Zheke said quietly.

Gu Shuang was surprised at first, then she laughed.

"Coincidental, completely coincidental! The ugly daughter-in-law will have to see her mother-in-law…"

"Pooh!" Yan Zheke was shy.

...

"Yan Zheke knows us? To give us a greeting?" Tao Xiaofei was stunned, Cao Lele was also confused.

"Maybe, maybe she knew me," said Qiu Hai Lin, not confidently.

As the leader of Class four, she had contacted Yan Zheke several times.

Jiang Fei tightly closed his mouth, for fear that he would accidentally expose his secret, the pitiful sight of the iron chain was vivid!

"Lele, that girl is your classmate? Beautiful! More beautiful than the internet star!" Qi Yunfei and Chen Xiao Xiao also noted the waving of Yan Zheke.

Qi Fang followed by laughing, "The girl is very good-looking.'

It is your new daughter-in-law, Jiang Fei secretly mocked.

...

Sitting in his position, Lou Cheng did not care about the eyes of others. He was smiling and watching Yan Zheke telling him that his Mom and Dad were behind her.

"Should this count as meeting the parents?" His mouth upturned, pressing the keyboard.

At this point, the guests took the first player.

"No. 18, Lou Cheng."

Uh... Lou Cheng looked up toward the arena.

Yan Xiaoling and the others also focused on the lots, swearing that the results were not right, they would begin to black the organizing committee!

Guests had drawn out the opponent of Lou Cheng.

"No. 6, Meng Jiefeng."

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Chapter 268: The Fragments of the Plague Sect

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"No. 6 seeded player..." Qi Fang stretched her eyebrows and relieved a lot like putting a piece of big stone.

In her simple point of view, since her son even have won No.5 seeded player, so he definitely would win the No.6 seeded player, wouldn't he?

"Oh, I worship Bodhisattva today. It's so useful!" She smiled and patted Lou Zhisheng standing by her side.

Because no match was held during the day, the group of families and friends became a group of visitors in Gao Fen.

"That's superstition." Lou Zhisheng muttered, but the smile on her face was difficult to cover.

Cao Lele, Qiuhai Lin and others had a similar idea about it. They also thought that this lottery was pretty good because this opponent was weaker than Qiu Lin.

They became delighted and strongly looked forward to the beginning of the game. Only Jiang Fei, who felt like a fishbone getting stuck in his throat, was not as happy as them because he especially wanted to show off the fact that Yan Zheke was Cheng's girlfriend.

Why can't people just be honest?

I suffer a lot for this friendship!

...

"The No. 6 seeded player is Meng Jiefeng." Yan Zheke puffed out her cheeks. She thought that this opponent neither good nor bad.

It can only be said that this opponent is better than Han Zhiyi or Zhang Zhutong.

"Ke, your boyfriend is so lucky. His opponent is the No.6 seeded player who called Meng Jiefeng is certainly weaker than Qiu Lin, right?" Gu Shuang said that as her tone gradually became not sure enough because she found Yan Zheke and Xing Jingjing was looking at her like she was an idiot.

Xing Jingjing concisely answered her, "This opponent isn't much weaker than the former, even that this one plays more ferociously."

"Sister Jingjing, he has made a big progress in the past six months, hasn't he?" Yan Zheke asked with great concern.

The reason why she asked Xing Jingjing was that Meng Jiefeng was the rising star of Gao Fen police system. He also was a mighty one of Eighth Professional Pin. He barely took part in the Challenge Tournament except for the contest in their own system, so the videos about his contests were hard to find and he didn't fight in public since the Spring Festival this year until this youth tournament.

Xing Jingjing thought for a while and answered, "Emm, I heard that he has improved and has mastered a more ferocious play style."

She then emphasized the "ferocious play style" once again.

Yan Zheke understood what she said completely because after Meng Jiefeng graduated from the martial arts school, he joined in the army. He then even made a big contribution in troops, so he was rewarded for learning the "Cold Force" in the fragments of Plague Sect!

While his opponents were playing with him, they would usually become weaker and weaker. If they were careless for a while, they would then had a fever and had a weak body even they has won the contest.

As for the problem that except "Cold Force" whether there were other martial arts styles in the fragments of Plague Sect that he got or not, people did not know. Anyway, he has never used other play styles in the Challenge Tournament. He always fought with other fighters with the Mental-like Refined Body and the Modern Xingyi.

Thought of these, Yan Zheke could not help but worry about Lou Cheng. She picked up the phone and sent Lou Cheng the information that Xing Jingjing has revealed just now.

...

"No. 6 seeded player?"

In the living room of Lou family, Lou Debang suddenly became excited and picked up the phone next to him. He called someone and roared, "Oh, Old Liu, are you watching TV now? Ah, you are watching now. Have you watched the TV of Xing province? It's rebroadcasting the contest of my grandson, the youth tournament which is set for the young fighters in the whole province. He went into the top eight. In the next contest he will confront with No. 6 seeded player! Which grandson? The son of Zhisheng, Cheng!"

"Old Zhu, didn't I mention to you before? Watch the Xing province TV as quick as possible. Cheng is going to show up!"

...

Lou Cheng's grandparents informed their relatives and friends one by one. They were so excited that their faces became ruddy.

Wang Lili pulled the Lou Zhijiang and whispered, "Don't you tell this thing to Old Xin and your other friends? This is a glorious thing for our family. After this, Weiwei will also be more confident when he has a blind date later.

"What are you talking about? What if he lost it!" Lou Zhiqiang has never said any good words.

Lou Yuanwei sat on the single sofa next to them and felt like he was in a dream when he was watching the happy atmosphere in the living room.

Isn't the life that I am dreaming of is what Cheng lives now?

The life from which I can see hopes and see a better future...

...

In the QQ group of Lou Cheng's classmates in Senior High.

Du Liyu whose Nickname was "Little Xin" sent a link,

"Everyone should go to support Cheng. The next contest is to decide the final four fighters. And Cheng will fight with the No.6 seeded player!"

"What are you talking about?" His former desk mate, Tong Hua, asked in bewilderment.

Not until Du Liyu answered her question, Jiang Fei who has borne for quite a while answered, "Cheng he referred just now is Lou Cheng who is participating in the Youth Fighters Championship in our province! He even has advanced in the quarterfinal!"

"Really?" Xiong Tao asked with surprise.

The Youth Fighters Championship in our province? It sounds a prominent contest!

In high school, we only knew that he was good at studying but we didn't know that he was so good at sports.

"Really, I now even throw myself down at Cheng's feet in admiration." Qin Rui who sat with most of the members of Gushan Martial Arts School said.

Because he was an expert acknowledged by all the classmates, the students in class four at that time believed him a little and clicked the link to watch the video.

...

Lou Cheng's fan forum has kept the active atmosphere since this morning.

The members represented by Nie Qiqi and All Good Names Are Taken By Dogs felt so pleased to see the return of familiar funny moderator, Eternal Night and cute Brahman. They would support Lou Cheng and kept cheering for him.

The members who newly joined in this forum for against the tyranny like, "Bull Demon King" and "Innocence" showed their disdains on the lottery result, they thought it was inevitable because the tyranny has been exposed to the public. They hoped that Lou Cheng could defeat his opponent and advance in the semifinals.

But others who had the conspiracy like "Bad girl", "Scheming bitch", they used this result to debate with the people who believed in the tyranny. They said Lou Cheng made this thing on purpose. They hoped Lou Cheng had flu and became sick seriously.

Watching people debating in the forum constantly, the members who didn't care too much like Eternal Nightfall, Brahman, Unparalleled Dragon King, Okamoto's Fan sighed, they wanted to return to the previous harmonious and stable forum as before.

As the crazy fans of Lou Cheng, both Eternal Nightfall and Brahman admitted that they were so weak in debating.

...

Because it was the first battle, the dance and sing program had ended before Lou Cheng discussed a lot with Yan Zheke. After the ring was cleaned up, the referee went up. So he had to put down the phone and began to meditate to throw out of the mind and to improve his state.

"The first match, Lou Cheng vs. Meng Jiefeng." The referee glanced at the electronic clock, and made a gesture to both sides.

Lou Cheng at first had the impulse to wave to Yan Yanke in the stand, but he thought of her special reminder and sensed the camera's focus, he at last stopped himself.

I can't show off our relationship in front of the audience, or my father-in-law will bring a knife to Gao Fen to kill me tonight...

Recalling the scene that Yan Zheke offered to kiss him and cheer for him in the evening, he took a breath and walked along the brilliant road under the light of the headlamps towards the stone stage.

During this process, he was like a new car. Every step he moved was like every trip the car ran. His physical state gradually ran in his mental state. His momentum slowly rose. Until he set feet on the ring that a series of bombing sound appeared in his body which was crisp or low. Also, his muscles and bones made the rising sound.

Seeing such a strong momentum he had, the audience held their breath and felt No.18 fighters, Lou Cheng, became much taller at that time.

Meng Jiefeng was neither tall nor short with an inch-long haircut. He had sharp eyes and wore the dark blue martial arts suit which made him a little charming. He stepped on the ring almost at the same time as Lou Cheng.

He stood on the ground casually and introverted his momentum introverted so that not to fight against Cheng directly.

The referee raised his right hand and announced,

"Three-minute talk time."

Meng Jiefeng said with a smile, "You must have a lot of pressure?"

"It's normal." Lou Cheng answered with a humble attitude.

"No, you are lying!" Meng Jiefeng's eyes became sharp as if he was interrogating the criminals, "you are afraid of the influence of my 'Cold Force' which would make you sick after this battle, so you have to lose the battle next day and never have the chance to advance in the semifinal. Then your competence won't be testified, and everybody will believe that you advance to the semifinals by some other tricks. You will end up dying like a normal person and be criticized by all the people. They will charge you as a villain.

He wanted to bury the seed of hesitation in the hearts of his opponents so that his opponent would make mistakes and could not decide which way to go while he was judging something.

"I have a clear conscience, whatever others say won't influence me at all". Lou Cheng said honestly, "if I have an opponent, I will challenge him in the right way. If there are some discredits, I will also challenge him in the right way. To answer the doubt by the victories I got is my martial arts belief. Maybe it sounds a little immature, but it's my real idea."

"When I set foot on the ring, I will only consider the opponent in front of me in my heart and to defeat him with my power. This is the significant respect I have to give him. As for the next battles or the final impact, I don't care about them so much."

Because of the disturbance before this battle, he has reflected a little. With this conversation, he again summarized his thoughts.

In the actual combat, the thing that you are afraid of would happen to you more easily, so you have to keep a firm mind.

Meng Jiefeng shrank his eyes slightly and laughed, "I hope you can remember what you said just now."

He did not say anything more for he knew the standard and was afraid of having a bad effect.

After a while, the referee checked the time. He once again raised his right hand and suddenly waved,

"Begin now!"

Meng Jiefeng's muscles and fascia suddenly bulged that made his martial arts suit looked very tight. And people could say that every piece of his tendon and vessel extruding from his exposed body parts. They all looked like dark blue as iron so that the skin was as hard and cold as steel.

"Mental-like Refined Body" was a euphemism for it!

Meng Jiefeng used his back as the axis as he moved one step forward. He twitched the fascia on his side and stretched his right arm.

Crack! His neck suddenly thickened and rubbed the air to make a bombing sound. The pieces of dark blue tendon and vessel seemed to outline many frightening flower patterns on his body.

Pia! The crisp sound rang constantly. His right fist punched out with his high running speed.

Lou Cheng's heart Lake was as clear and quite as ice. In a flash, his center of gravity moved backward. He bounced his spine and ran backward.

After entering Dan stage, his Condensation Stance seemed to have improved because of the wonderful feeling he had. It didn't mean that he had the predictions or the absolute reaction to dangers, but it could help him have a clearer mind, a more intuitive version, and make a more accurate judgment.

Seeing that his opponent was moving back, Meng Jiefeng stepped on the ground hard. He ran forwards with the power coming from the precise rebound.

But just at the moment that his body leaned forwards slightly, Lou Cheng suddenly stopped. His center of gravity sank. He then exerted force into his feet and turned back to fight against his opponent within a split second. He tightened the muscles on his back and punched out his right fist. This was a ferocious counterattack!

He played this attack so properly just when Meng Jiefeng finished his punch and didn't have the time to hit a new attack. So it was an embarrassing situation for Meng Jiefeng.

Hiss!

Meng Jiefeng took a breath and slightly withdrew his force. Followed by a release which made his right fist returned weirdly, his left arm extended and hit out to the other side. The blue dark flower pattern on his neck became clearer.

This was the result caused by all the forces in his body united as a whole!

Seeing his arm was about to hit on the opponent's fist, Lou Cheng suddenly changed the center of gravity and dragged the arm which he hit out abruptly to the other side. So he disappeared from Meng Jiefeng and flashed behind him.

During this abrupt process, the force of Lou Cheng changed and rounded transparently and fluently so that his twisted movements looked very smooth and natural.

"Dan Stage!" In the TV broadcasting room, the guest host, Yu Hong, said with a praising and emotional tone.

"Dan stage!" Zhang Zhutong did not return to the restroom. He stood by the ring and exhaled a breath.

What I am unwilling to face has still happened. After so many battles, Lou Cheng kept this high growing speed and shortened his practicing time to become a real Mighty Fighter of Dan stage.

The moment that Lou Cheng arrived behind his back, he tried his best to bounce his back so that he can exert new force into his right fist. With the tight muscles and thunderclouds in his mind, he hit on Meng Jiefeng's spine.

Pia!

The fist was so ferocious that made Meng Jiefeng his hair prickled and made him feel slightly bitter.

But he looked not panic at all, he even began to laugh.

So great, you're behind me now!

Within his mind, there suddenly appeared a big vicious bell which was covered by flower patterns.

Hum!

His belly wriggled and his visceral rubbed. A sound came from his throat which was so low that others even could not hear.

While Lou Cheng's fist was going to hit on him, Lou Cheng's ear suddenly moved. His head suddenly was painful and his arms softened involuntarily.