Tianguanzhi

Chapter 4 Family, gauntlet, dog farm.

Gu Jianqiu opened his eyes, and the dazzling white light temporarily blurred his vision. The severe ringing in his ears and the chaotic memory fragments in his mind made him retching.

"..."

"elder brother?"

Gu Jianqiu, who was covering his chest and taking a deep breath, raised his head. His younger brother Gu Tianyu was standing barefoot at the door, wearing only a pair of boxer briefs. His shriveled body exposed his ribs, and he was staring at him with his lips pursed uneasily.

Gu Jianqiu breathed smoothly and replied: "I'm fine. Put on your shoes and pour me a cup of hot water."

"Oh."

Gu Tianyu ran away quickly.

"Jianqiu, Jianqiu, are you having nightmares again?"

Mother's voice came through the cement wall.

Gu Jianqiu cheered up and raised his voice: "I'm fine, Mom. I turned over in my sleep and didn't notice that I fell."

He took the boiling water from Gu Tianyu's hand and rubbed his brother's broken hair: "Go to sleep."

After watching his brother leave, Gu Jianqiu drank the water in one breath. Pulling off the blue blanket that had faded in the wash, he rolled out of bed, walked to the balcony with his slippers on, and let out a long breath.

Numerous memory fragments came flooding in.

The devil's mother, the surging wing-type divine machine, the corpses floating in space, and the burned-out Gushe divine man.

That is not a dream.

He had fainted in the cold space, but he woke up and was here.

Jiu Begonia two hundred years ago, Gu Jianqiu two hundred years ago.

Today is May 2, 1884. I am twenty-one years old and a second-year student in the Natural History Department of Jiangning Normal School. I have a brother and sister at home, my mother is paralyzed in bed, and my family of five is crowded into a 60-square-meter old Western-style building in Tianrenfang, Jiangning City.

On the 10th of last month, my brother Gu Xilou was beaten to death at the intersection of Jiming Temple. His body was leaning against an old hand-painted wall full of goddesses and Buddhas. Strings of blood beads slipped from the ends of his wet hair. , together with the disembowelled liver and intestines flowing all over the floor, they formed a large red pool.

Gu Jianqiu will never forget that scene.

Three months later, a fire broke out in Tianrenfang, and the fire spread and burned down the entire building. Except for Gu Jianqiu, who happened to be away from home, his mother and siblings all died in the fire...

Gu Jianqiu had suspected more than once before that the fire that changed his life was related to his brother's death. But that era was too chaotic, and there were wars everywhere in Haitang's land. Over the past many years, Gu Jianqiu had spent a lot of effort, but he only found out that Gu Xilou's death might have been at the behest of a local tycoon nicknamed Longpi Taibao.

But a few years after Gu Xilou's death, the dragon-skinned Taibao boarded a spaceship to the ancient planet Chenji during the great wave of immigration. As a result, he died on the ship halfway, and Gu Jianqiu's clues ended here.

With his thoughts at this point, Gu Jianqiu thought of something else. He returned to his room and took out a pair of blood-stained gauntlets from under the lower bunk of the bunk bed.

This arm armor weighs about fifteen kilograms. It is blue-black in color. The structure is not very precise, but it is made of sufficient materials. The most distinctive feature is that the joints connecting the fingers and the palm are equipped with dark red bearings. The elbows are equipped with unknown bearings. It was wrapped in famous shiny leather, with the words "Zijing Heavy Industry" written in white letters on it. From the outside, these are a pair of basic industrial arm armors used for crushing rocks. The manufacturer was the famous national capital "Zijing Heavy Industry" at the time, and the cost was about 2,000 yuan. This type of mining gauntlet has a low threshold for use. It only takes up two to three basic ECGs and can be used by healthy adult men. Miners who mine in Jiangning basically use this.

At the same time, this pair of gauntlets is also the only valuable relic left by Gu Xilou.

Gu Jianqiu held one of them in his hands and played with it for a while, only to realize that these "partners" who accompanied him through the most difficult days in his previous life were so heavy for him now.

In his previous life, Gu Jianqiu lived on the streets for several years without even food, but thinking that they were Gu Xilou's relics, Gu Jianqiu never thought of selling the pair of gauntlets.

This was the most correct decision Gu Jianqiu had ever made in his previous life.

He put on the pair of gauntlets, inserted his fingers into the cold-touch metal knuckles, took a deep breath, and heard a crisp sound. Blue current visible to the naked eye ran between Gu Jianqiu's fingers. He moved. He used his fingers to pick up the water glass with his right hand, but as soon as he exerted force, the glass water glass was crushed.

"Not at all."

Gu Jianqiu frowned. If he wanted to activate the gauntlets, he would need at least fifteen basic ECGs. Judging from the results just now, Gu Jianqiu estimated that his current basic ECG was between five and six, which was far from enough to unleash the true power of the pair of gauntlets.

"Jianqiu, are you still not sleeping?"

It was the eldest sister's voice.

"Just go to bed, sister."

Gu Jianqiu was a little helpless, but he still put away the gauntlet, turned off the light, and fell asleep.

After dinner the next day, Gu Jianqiu cleaned up the dishes, said hello to his eldest sister and mother, and went out early in the morning.

When he walked out of the narrow alley, he looked back at Tianrenfang. The dark twenty-story buildings were decorated with all kinds of colorful archways and clothes. The distance between the two buildings was not even enough for an adult man to open his arms. The wiring for household electric lights is tangled up in a mess and hung on the windows. Some of the wiring is old and has exposed its inner core. The fire hazard can be seen at a glance.

Let's move out first when conditions are better.

Gu Jianqiu thought.
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  Jiangning is one of the seaport cities in Haitang with developed shipping. The hotel street adjacent to the port is even more crowded with people from all walks of life, including dragons and snakes. Whether it is the Citizen people on the other side of the ocean, the Jili people who claim to represent the will of mankind, or even the Jinju people who have had constant conflicts with Haitang and have had many wars over the past century, they are all familiar here, even those from distant universes. Heavenly beings can be seen occasionally.

The streets were filled with hotels, restaurants, teahouses, martial arts studios, and drama clubs. The Yiyuan Dog Farm, which was known as the No. 1 gold-selling den in the Far East at that time, was a gambling den that many merchants who came to Jiangning talked about.

Gu Jianqiu walked on the spacious street lined with flower beds and billboards. His eyes unconsciously glanced at the large poster of a girl on the side of the road: a beautiful face, long fluffy hair, a Soviet-style black cheongsam embroidered with peonies, and eye-catching embroidery underneath. The printed font reads: "Warmly celebrate that "The Legend of Begonia" has set a theater record of continuing for five months. The final performance date is May 20, 1884 in the New Yuan Calendar. The famous actress Huo Yanling invites you to gather at Jiangning Theater Arts Society, see you or not."

However, the poster with the beautiful woman was empty. On the opposite side of the Jiangning Theater Club, in front of a large poster printed in an exaggerated villain style, a large number of people gathered around and talked about it.

The poster depicts a brown Citizen dog with protruding hind limbs. Opposite it is a man holding a chain saw and a single knife, with his tendons exposed, a green tiger head tattooed on his back, and a bearded man with calm eyes. One man and one dog are facing each other in a stance.

The Citizen dog in the painting has undergone obvious surgical transformation. Both eyes and upper jaw are covered with silver metal. The position of the right eye has been replaced by a fluorescent red crystal. Several red and green lines are exposed under the fur on the chest. Only the forelimbs have also been replaced with sharper steel components.

The title is written in eye-catching red: "The free-breeding killer pit bull versus the Tianguan reserve martial artist! Who will win?"

(End of this chapter)