Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 1587
"In terms of temperature, the human body needs to be kept around 37 degrees, but machines can work well above a hundred degrees. So, machines are not necessarily cold but can be as hot as fire!"
Catching the loophole in the Fist King's words, Liu Li blinked with a gloating smile.
The Fist King couldn't help but touch and feel his skull. It was indeed hot.
Of course, he realized that it was unnecessary after he did that because he could've monitored the temperature of the crystal processor in real time with the sensors inside the skull.
It was an unnecessary, redundant movement.
Recently, he had more and more redundant movements. Was it because of a certain new, major malfunction that had not been detected yet?
"According to my test, your breath, heartbeat, and secretion of sweat have been back to normal."
The Fist King refreshed the interface and resumed tranquility. He said, "You seem to have walked out of your coma. Are you alright now?"
"Yes, I think I am. Because of the episode just now, I think I forgot the other things!"
Liu Li was slightly stunned. Thinking for a moment, she shook her finger at the Fist King quickly. "However, I need to inform you with all solemnity that what you did wasn't right, Master Fist King. You must not simulate other people's look or voice without their permission, because it may cause major trouble to them."
"Got it."
The Fist King said, "I promise that I will not simulate Han Te's appearance without the permission of you and Han Te."
"Not, it's not just about Han Te and me."
Han Te pouted her cheeks and put her hands on her hips. As if she were the Fist King's little housekeeper, she declared, "You cannot mimic anybody else because that will lead to a mess! Besides, the Fist King is already a magnificent man. Why do you need to assume somebody else's appearance?"
"… Fine."
After a brief silence, the Fist King said, "I promise that I will not simulate anybody else without their permission."
"Really?"
Her eyes narrowed, Liu Li looked at the Fist King suspiciously. "No, Master Fist King has picked up the bad habit of lying now. You can't make a promise with nothing. Let's do a pinky swear!"
The Fist King said, "I'm aware of the pinky swear as a social custom, but I doubt if it has any guaranteed effect."
"Aya, it doesn't matter. I just want to pull fingers with Master Fist King. Come on!"
In a playful mood, Liu Li pulled the Fist King's iron arm over and curled the little finger. "Haha. We've already done a pinky swear. You must see to your promise, Master Fist King!"
"I still did not sense any effect on the spiritual energy or the soul…"
The Fist King's artificial eyes were blinking. "However, as long as you are happy and can get back to work calmly, so be it. Are you recovered now?"
"I've fully recovered, in full health!"
Liu Li waved her arms and declared, but her belly suddenly bubbled. The little girl's face was reddened again. "Excuse me, Master Fist King. I haven't eaten much in the past few days due to my bad mood. I-I'll refill a can of high-energy drugs before I get back to work."
"No."
The Fist King shook his head.
"Huh?"
Liu Li was stunned again.
"I have learned a lot from the literal works and the masterpieces on emotions. You just walked out of a major trauma. How can you eat the tasteless high-energy drugs? Such lousy rapid food will only ruin your mood and sabotage your perfect work state."
The Fist King said, "For safety reasons, you should have a decent, delicious meal."
"It does make sense."
Liu Li smiled. "It… It will take a long time. Also, I'm not the greatest cook. Han Te used to say that the dishes I made could poison people. Forget it. I think I can deal with it."
"No, your work state is concerned with my combat ability. You must not tolerate anything."
The Fist King said calmly and stood up, going straight out of the room.
Liu Li: "Master Fist King, where are you going?"
The Fist King: "To cook."
Liu Li: "Huh? Huh? Huh? Can you cook, Master Fist King?"
The Fist King: "I've never tried it before, but I've downloaded 192 recipes of multiple schools of multiple worlds that cover all flavors. I'm sure that one of them will be satisfactory for you."
Liu Li: "For me? M-Master Fist King is going to cook for me?"
"Exactly. It has occurred to me that I have overlooked your daily life and your emotional changes and regarded you as another cold machine, which resulted in your unsteady work state. This is unacceptable negligence since a great battle is coming near. Therefore, starting from this moment, I will micro-adjust the mode of our relationship. I'll have to ask for your cooperation too. Feel free to offer your opinions or suggestions if you have any so that I can modify my behavior."
The Fist King finished his words, but his cold eyes pierced through the ceiling to the sky. "Let the new mode begin with a hot meal! However, first things first—"
Chapter 2498: The Competition of Two Young Men |
In the place that Liu Li could not see, two young men were confronting each other in the midair in flames.
They were Han Te and Li Jialing.
Li Jialing's face was hidden below the golden hair, but even the golden hair that was fluttering in the wind could not cover his indifference and mockery. He said casually, "Han Te, if you keep on pestering me like this, it will make people doubt if you have transitioned and that you are even interested in men now."
"Cut the crap!"
Blushing, Han Te pointed at Li Jialing's nose and shrieked, "Golden-haired boy, just admit it. Have you been with Liu Li a lot, harassing her every day?"
Without raising his eyes, Li Jialing said coldly, "Does it have anything to do with you?"
"Stop dodging and just answer my question!"
Han Te burst into fury. "Liu Li has grown up together with me since childhood. I have never regarded her as a junior sister but as my own biological sister. I will never allow anyone to harm her! A young master from an extravagant noble family like you can't be anything good. You must be dallying and philandering with her! I will not allow such a thing to happen. So, listen up, stay away from Liu Li in the future!"
"Did my ears just deceive me?"
Li Jialing finally raised his head slightly, but it was contempt that was beaming out of his golden eyes. "As the greatest playboy yourself, you have the audacity of accusing me of tricking and seducing women? Just mind your own business with your 'big sisters'. Are you even qualified to meddle between Liu Li and me?"
"I promised Liu Li's father that I would take good care of her no matter what!"
Blushing, Han Te tried to defend himself. "You do not belong in the same world at all. You cannot bring happiness to her. So, just stop messing around with her!"
"First of all, there is nothing between her and me at all. We were just training with Brother Yao together."
Li Jialing narrowed his eyes, with the golden hair on his back rising. Wickedness suddenly beamed out of his eyes as he said with a cold smile, "Secondly, a scumbag like you is utterly unqualified to say the bulls*it like 'protect her and bring her happiness'. Are you not the person who really hurt and devastated her in the past month?
"You are also interfering with her regular friend-making under the excuse of protecting her? Hehe. You are just satisfying your own boring possessiveness. You're only angry because the girl that has been following you is taken by somebody else.
"You are truly a sucker, Han Te. You have so many 'big sisters' whom you flirt with every day, and you never care about Liu Li's feelings or tend to her daily life. But as it turns out, the moment she finds a regular friend that is me and talks to me once in a while, you can't take it anymore and jump out in a hurry?"
Han Te was rendered speechless by what Li Jialing said. Stunned for a long time, he raised his voice and shouted, "Cut the crap. Are you leaving Liu Li or not?"
"What can you do if I don't? Who do you think you are to stand between Liu Li and me?"
The wickedness in Li Jialing's eyes was more and more intense. "Leaving aside the fact that we are just regular friends, and there is no such thing as me leaving her, even if we were really together, should it be your concern at all?"
"Ah-ha!"
His eyes popping out, Han Te waved his hands and shouted, "You've finally revealed your evil intentions and dropped your disguise of 'regular friend'. You are admitting that you want more from Liu Li, aren't you? No, I will not allow someone like you to tarnish Liu Li!"
Tilting his head, Li Jialing thought for a moment and replied, "…'Tarnish', as in how you 'tarnished' your big sisters?"
"That's totally different!"
Han Te's face was so red that his nostrils were almost spurting blood. "Liu Li is different from them!"
"I'm different from you, too. I think with my upper half body, unlike certain automatic cannons that will fire at any hole—my apologies, certain rapid automatic cannons."
Li Jialing said, one word after another, "So, just rest assured. Even if Liu Li and I were really together, I would certainly make her the happiest woman in the entire universe."
"You—"
The moment he pictured Liu Li with another man, Han Te felt that he was struck by a lightning, and Liu Li was suddenly broken away from the shackle of "biological sister".
His face immediately turned pale. Finding such a scene utterly unacceptable, he demanded, "You can't be together. You absolutely can't. You can't bring happiness to Liu Li. Li Jialing, I've seen through you. I can see the real you deep in your bones. You are a cold and heartless man who does not care about personal feelings. What you pursue after is… something higher, deeper, and greater. For that, you can abandon everything, including your love!"
"Just like what I said, it's not your business."
Li Jialing smiled. The cruelty deep inside him that was inherited from Li Linghai gradually bloomed. He was like a big cat looking at a mouse when he said unhurriedly, "Did you know? I thought to be Liu Li's regular friend only, but I've changed my mind. Now that I think about it, Liu Li has such a miserable life as such a lovely girl. Not only was she born on the horrible Land of Sins, but she also has a crazy and stupid big brother whom she grew up with. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Are you planning to cage her forever to prevent her from getting in touch with men of her age?
"Such a life seems too poignant. It appears to me that the helpless, tortured girl is in dire need of a handsome, gentle, and comforting golden-haired prince to save her from the despair!"
Han Te was dumbfounded for a long time. "What… golden-haired prince? You are not talking about yourself, are you?"
"Of course I am."
Li Jialing shook his head of flying golden hair and said, "I will be Liu Li's savior. Is there a problem?"
"There certainly is!"
Han Te yelled, "You narcissist! You think you are a 'savior'? Damn it. You are even more haughty than I am. You are a pervert!"
"Hehe, whatever you say, I'm going to save Liu Li. The person she should be leaving is not me but you. She should be as far away from her sucker brother as possible, and the further she is, the happier she will be!"
Li Jialing's lips curled. "All in all, I will not let Liu Li return to the dark life where everything was controlled by you. Before, she didn't have a choice, but she has me now. I am her savior, I am her star, and I am her light of hope! You are no longer needed here, Han Te. Just get lost and play with your 'big sisters'!"
"A*shole!"
The electric arcs on Han Te's iron arm glowed brighter and brighter. The young man from the Land of Sins bellowed, "You are pushing me into this. Since you are being utterly unreasonable, let's decide to whom Liu Li will belong in the most straightforward way!"
"You are…"
Li Jialing's eyes were deep. "… asking to be killed!"
"Ahhhhh!"
Han Te roared and charged at Li Jialing in a streak of brilliance.
Of course, only one tenth of a second later, he was blown backward in exactly the same way, only three times faster with a head as swollen as that of a pig.
"Ignoring the giant difference in our capabilities in the past…"
With his right hand behind his back, Li Jialing had blown Han Te away with only the left arm. He said unconcernedly, "Let's just talk about the one month after we came to the Blue Sky Market. While I trained myself hard, you were having a good time with your big sisters. What can you use to defeat me, Han Te?"
Han Te was so humiliated that blood was almost shooting out of his eyes. He shrieked and charged forward again. Without any suspense, he was blown back again for a second time.
A third time, a fourth time, a fifth time… It was still the case for the tenth time.
After ten rounds, there was not any part of Han Te's skin that was still intact. He was like a sponge that was fully saturated with water, utterly losing the shape of a human being.
But his eyes that had been squeezed into tiny gaps were as stubborn as before!
"I've had enough fun."
Li Jialing yawned and said, "The result will be the same even if you come for another hundred rounds. Why do you have to humiliate yourself? You know as clearly as I do that you are absolutely no match for me."
"It's true that… I am no match for you right now!"
Han Te's blue-and-black face was stained with thick blood. He was so ashamed that he was almost tearing a hole in the air to hide himself in. However, clinging to his dignity, he stood straight before Li Jialing and pointed at the young lion, shouting, "However, listen close. Don't laugh at a young man when he is still poor! If you think you are capable, just give me ten years, and I will certainly become unimaginably strong after training, before I come back and blow up your head! I dare you to a deal of ten years! Let's have another match ten years later!"
Li Jialing was dumbfounded, as if he were intimidated by the daunting vibe Han Te suddenly unleashed. Then…
Shua!
Li Jialing opened his fingers and released his spiritual energy, grabbing Han Te by his neck remotely and dragging the guy to his front.
"I'm sorry. I've been misunderstanding you, Han Te."
Li Jialing said solemnly, "I thought that you were simply arrogant; it was not until this moment that I realized that you were not. You are just a pure moron. Let me ask you, why on earth would I make a deal of ten years with you and give you ten years to train yourself so that you can blow up my head after you come back when I have such a great advantage right now?"
"Well, well—"
Han Te struggled hard. "How can you do this? Where are your morals?"
"I am Li Yao's brother."
Li Jialing asked back, "Do you think I care about morals?"
"… Then just kill me!"
Han Te was both infuriated and embarrassed, but he could not erase the stubbornness in his bones. "After all, the people of the Land of Sins are born to be the toys for the young masters of noble families like you to kill. You can kill me, but I will not give in or surrender!"
"I've been tolerating you for a long time, Han Te."
Li Jialing's narrowed eyes were like two gold daggers. "Do you really think I dare not kill you?"
"Then bring it on!"
Veins protruded on Han Te's forehead. "A man can be executed but must not be insulted. Life for the people of the Land of Sins is exactly death, of which we are absolutely not scared. So just bring it on!"
"You—"
Faced with the scoundrel, Li Jialing was somewhat caught in a dilemma.
Right then, an earsplitting sound echoed from behind them. It was the sound of a storm of bullets coming close!
Chapter 2499: Exactly So Biased |
The pupils of Li Jialing and Han Te constricted at the same time. They had absolutely no time to dodge when they were blown to the ground. When they finally avoided the scourge of bullets in a haste, a streak of silver brilliance ten times faster than the bullets arrived from the sky and knocked the two young men to the ground heavily.
"Aya!"
Li Jialing and Han Te exclaimed at the same time when they were thrown into the soil, their faces swollen.
The silver brilliance gathered into a tall, magnificent, elegant, glittering battle puppet. It slowly landed between the young men and opened its arms, with two clusters of silver electric arcs in the two palms, preventing them from further fighting.
"Enough."
The Fist King's calm and nonhuman voice came from the silver puppet. Shifting the artificial eyes on the skull to Li Jialing's side on the rail, he said, "I'm sorry, no matter how annoying Han Te is, I have to ensure his safety and cannot allow anybody to threaten his life according to my deal with Li Yao."
"Who would ever waste time on threatening the life of such a sucker?"
Li Jialing wiped the blood on his lips and glanced at the Fist King. "It was he who had been pestering me. I did not bother to deal with him at all. Since Master Fist King is here, he is all yours. But I suggest you give him a good lesson. Otherwise, even if I don't kill him, he will eventually get himself killed one way or another."
After saying that, Li Jialing left without looking back.
"Hey, hey, hey, golden-haired boy—"
Han Te was more than angry. He was about to chase after the guy when the Fist King grabbed the back of his neck as quickly as a bolt of lightning and tossed him to the ground heavily.
"That's enough!"
The Fist King said, "You are absolutely no match for Li Jialing. Chasing after him will only place an unnecessary threat to your life. I will not allow anybody to do that, yourself included."
"Then help me beat him!"
Han Te rose quickly, like an unkillable cockroach, and spat toward Li Jialing's back that was disappearing. "Master Fist King, we are both from the Land of Sins. I'm sure you're on my side, aren't you?"
