Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 17 Pucheng
May of the 14th year of the Republic of China.

Compared to the turbulent situation in the north where the war had just stopped, the southern Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong areas were slightly peaceful, but only slightly.

With the end of the Zhili-Fengtian War, the Zhili clique fell and the Fengtian clique came on the scene. The situation of the Beiyang warlords was clear at this time. Everyone in the world knew that the Fengtian clique would have the final say in the central government. In this war of wars between warlords, the Anhui clique was able to sit back and take over some of the territory of the defeated Zhili clique and plant their own flags.

Naturally, this new official will start with three things.

However, in the turbulent times of the Republic of China, no matter which faction of warlords came to power, the three fires they started were all directed at the working people, and the three fires were all the same.

It's nothing more than what the lawyer said, winning over the gentry, making up excuses, and asking for taxes and donations.

After the money arrived, the gentry's money was returned in full, and the people's money was divided into 30% and 70%, with 70% belonging to the gentry.

Of course, there are also some warlords who want money and authority. From ancient times to the present, killing people has always been the simplest and most direct way to establish authority.

Unfortunately, a county town called Shitoucheng, about which there are not many records in later generations, became the stage for Cao Ying, one of the warlords of the Anhui faction, to kill people and establish his authority.

In order to escape the killing by warlord Cao Ying, private school teacher Bai Ling took the students she protected and escaped from Stone City to Pucheng, dozens of miles away, to seek refuge with her cousin Tie Niu who ran a beef noodle restaurant.

But when they were about to escape to Pucheng, Bai Ling could still hold on, but her students were already starving. She had no choice but to take them to a restaurant next to the official road. She used the only copper coin she had left, and with the kindness of the owner and the waiter, she and her students were served an extra-large bowl of meat noodles.

Now that they had food to eat, the students stopped crying temporarily and focused on taking care of their own stomachs. They were also sensible enough to give a small bowl of food to their teacher.

There was no other way. When they escaped from the county town under the protection of their teachers and saw their neighbors falling under the guns of the soldiers, these children already knew that they could never return to Stone City, their hometown, and would never see their loved ones again.

Bai Ling looked at these children eating noodles quietly, with mixed feelings in her heart. She herself didn't know whether her future would be good.

By the window, Wang Yi glanced inconspicuously at the table where the female teacher Bai Ling and her students were sitting. Then he turned his head and looked at the man who was sleeping on the table after eating and drinking. Some things seemed to come to his mind.

I also understand what will happen next, but it is also true that the Republic of China in the world of One Person is essentially no different from the world he lives in. It is nothing more than the addition of the element of aliens and the confirmation of the existence of alien civilizations, but these have little impact on history, and there is no need to pay special attention to them. It is meaningless.

"Little Second!"

Just as Wang Yi was sitting and watching what would happen next, the gang leader who looked like a bad guy had already entered the restaurant and sat down before the female teacher came in with her students, and he started talking.

"Here you are, sir. Do you want to pay?" The waiter secretly groaned inwardly. He also hoped that he was overthinking, so he stepped forward to ask with a fluke mentality, "The total is ten copper coins."

"Pay your mother's bill!"

With a curse, he stood up and kicked the waiter in the stomach, knocking him backwards. The younger brother sitting at another table was also smart. He took the waiter kicked by his boss and threw him out of the store. If this kick and throw were real, the waiter would not be able to get out of bed for ten days or half a month.

The other men stood up as soon as the waiter was thrown out, holding weapons in their hands, and locked the door and windows of the store. For a moment, the hotel was in chaos, and the boss then started to speak.

"Robbery! If you don't want to get into trouble, just behave yourself and leave your valuables behind."

The robbers were numerous and powerful, each of them had a ferocious face and held a weapon in his hands.

These days, guns are more useful than knives, but in this remote area, a knife can also solve the problem.

Obviously, these robbers are habitual criminals. They have used this routine many times and are very familiar with it.

In just a short while, the hard-earned money of the pedestrians and the boss who were eating in the store was taken away one by one. Even Wang Yi did not think of showing off at the first time. He untied his bag and handed a small bag filled with copper coins to the robbers.

"Humph, you are quite honest. Just sit still. We always seek wealth instead of life."

"Boss, everything is here. Except for this store, which makes some money, the rest are poor and don't make much money."

"I didn't expect these poor guys to make any money. I came here just for this store."

"Boss, what should we do over there? There's only one woman and a bunch of kids. They look like they are fleeing. They are running in a hurry. There's nothing to gain."

As they were talking, the leader of the robbers also turned his attention to the group of children who were protected behind the female teacher Bai Ling. The robbers, holding knives, looked at the female teacher Bai Ling and these children, and soon, they showed disgusting smiles.

"Hehe, it looks like today's business is still profitable. The woman is pretty, and the children are healthy. After we brothers have our fun with the woman, we can sell her and the children to the brothel, and we can get a good price for it, haha."

In just a few words, these beasts decided the fate of the female teacher Bai Ling and these students.

Listening to the loud plotting of these beastly robbers, the female teacher Bai Ling looked ashen. The pedestrians who were also robbed also cast numb and sympathetic looks at the woman who was about to meet with misfortune, and the child she was protecting.

Wang, who was sitting by the window and was being given extra care, shook his head slightly when he heard the words of these beasts.

"It seems that the filming of "The Dangerous City" is still too conservative. Nowadays, robbers only seek money and not their lives. But it's good this way. I don't have to worry about it when I take action. It's just a matter of whether it's my turn to take action or not."

Wang Yi thought so in his mind, and then his eyes turned to the man behind him, who was sleeping soundly on the table, seemingly completely unaware of what was going on.

The sound of snoring like thunder interrupted the laughter of the robbers and made the atmosphere of the robbery in the hotel a little funny.

The robbers looked in the direction of the sound and saw a big man with a beard and unkempt appearance sleeping on the table behind Wang Yi, snoring there. Just when they were loudly conspiring to sell the female teacher Bai Ling and a group of children, the robbers also looked at each other, confused about the situation.

For these gangsters who live on the edge of a knife, good eyesight is a must.

When they were robbing just now, they naturally noticed this guy who was sleeping soundly on the table, but they did not choose to wake him up to make him pay. It was because this guy looked too strong and he looked like someone who was not easy to mess with. They were after money, not life. Bai Ling and these students were just unexpected gains, so there was no need to cause any accidents in this small shabby tavern. But when the snoring sound came, they, as gangsters, had to respect their profession.

At a glance from the robber leader, one of his men walked up to the man with a knife in hand and slammed the back of the knife on the table, waking the man from his deep sleep.

When the man stood up, the robber next to him clearly realized how tall the man was, a whole shoulder taller than himself.

This guy's figure made the robbers who were holding real weapons in their hands feel a little scared, hoping they would run into a tough guy.

"Hey! Robbery, pay up! Sit down!"

The ignorant robber looked at the man who was half asleep and half awake, and was so angry that he started to yell. Wang Yi was also amused and confused when he saw this scene. This unlucky guy obviously didn't know the consequences of waking up a strange person who was grumpy, especially a strange person who started out with horizontal physical training.

Hearing this, the man who was awakened just turned his head to look at the robber, then slapped the guy in the face, knocking him to the ground. Then he squatted down and punched him one after another. The dull sound of fists hitting flesh stunned everyone in the restaurant.

Only Wang Yi sat there, watching the man's performance.

Although his punches and kicks were powerful, his strength was well controlled. He injured but not killed the unfortunate man. He just made him unable to see people for a while. But this method was too merciful. No wonder he was scolded by his own senior brother.

After a round of stretching performances, the man turned around and looked at the other robbers who were stunned by the sudden scene. But at this point, the atmosphere was so tense that it would be unreasonable not to fight.

"kill!"

With a shout of "kill" to give themselves courage, the robbers with weapons in their hands attacked their unarmed opponents in groups.

It's just that they overestimated the gap between themselves and their opponents.

In the worldview of Under One Person, the schools of extraordinary people can be roughly divided into two categories, Xuanmen and non-Xuanmen.

The so-called Xuanmen refers to the Buddhist and Taoist ancestral sites such as Longhu Mountain, Quanzhen, Shangqing, Wudang and Shaolin. Their Taoist traditions have been passed down for a long time, and the founders of the sects were all great men who ascended to immortality in front of the witnesses of the extraordinary circle at that time. In short, if you can worship under these Xuanmen sects and practice according to the things passed down by the ancestors, you have the opportunity to become an immortal, but whether this opportunity belongs to you is another story.

As for Fei Xuanmen, it refers to professional killers like Tangmen in Shu, a long-standing school.

This kind of thing is telling you clearly that the methods in our sect can only make you an enemy of ten thousand people in the world. If you want to become an immortal, go look somewhere else.

This kind of non-Xuanmen has many inherited methods, some are like Tangmen, which specializes in training assassins and killers, and some are like Yanwutang, which trains heroes and military masters. The man in front of him who is playing with a group of robbers is obviously an alien who practices external martial arts. The martial arts of this kind of alien is compared with the robbers who only know a few farming tricks, rely on their numbers, and rob with weapons in their hands and anger. It is just like an adult beating a three-year-old child.

This kind of action effect, which seemed to be in martial arts novels and movies, suddenly reminded Wang Yi that if the world view of "Under One Person" also had Jin Yong's works, it was probably that this old man had witnessed the fights between these extraordinary people when he was young, and used it as material to write into his own works.

And this is not impossible. After all, when Jin Yong was young, his family was also a wealthy family in the Jiangnan area. It's just that they didn't have a good foundation, so they moved out early. They have talent but no morals. That's basically it.

Inside the restaurant, Wang Yi watched the man treating the robbers like children. The way he teased the robbers made the students protected by the female teacher Bai Ling laugh out loud. He crossed his arms over his chest, secretly mobilizing his human magnetic field. An invisible and intangible force field immediately enveloped the entire restaurant.

Every time this man wanted to bring the robbers into close contact with tables, chairs and benches, the tables, chairs and benches would coincidentally be pushed away by a force, leaving the robbers with only the floor to come into close contact.

After a few coincidences, the man lost interest in playing tricks on the robbers.

After giving them a beating that left them unable to fight for ten days or half a month, they were thrown out.

"Thank you very much for sparing my life, thank you very much for sparing my life."

Seeing that they and others had escaped death, the robbers no longer cared about the weapons in their hands. They thanked them profusely and supported each other to escape.

The farce ended without any danger. The money and property stolen by the robbers were returned to the original owner, and nothing in the store was smashed. Even the waiter who was kicked and thrown out of the store had no injuries. He was naturally not injured at all, because from the beginning, Wang Yi had been secretly observing, and when the robber leader suddenly attacked and hurt people, he secretly mobilized his true energy to help the waiter relieve the force on his body.

The hero who did good deeds without leaving his name also took out six copper coins from his pocket, paid for his meal, and then left blindfolded on his horse. The female teacher Bai Ling also led her students to continue moving in the direction of Pucheng, while Wang Yi put the small purse back into his pocket, glanced at the direction the robbers left, and quietly disappeared at the door of the store.
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That night, on a mountain road fifteen miles away from Pucheng, the robbers who had been chased away during the day were supporting each other, sighing and staggering.

"Boss, how are we going to explain this to Chief Wang when we get back?"

"Don't worry. Leader Wang has taken a job from Boss Liu in Pucheng, so he's not in the mountains right now. We didn't get any money this time, so we can just go back and heal for ten days or half a month before we can get more money. There's nothing to be afraid of. But next time we have to be more careful, especially you. Don't be like a fool and shout robbery at everyone you see!"

"Yes, yes, Boss, I understand."

Just then, a voice came from in front of them.

"You have committed malicious robbery, deliberate rape, and trafficking of women and children. You have committed the same offenses repeatedly without changing your ways. Ladies and gentlemen, you have already received the death penalty."

"Who is pretending to be a fool?"

In the darkness, no one answered the robber leader's question. Night blindness was still common during the night of the Republic of China. On this mountain road, even if you didn't have night blindness, you could only see three or four meters in front of you with a torch. Hearing the voice in the darkness, these guys became nervous, especially when they heard the so-called way to die. They knew they had run into a ruthless person who wanted to kill them.

"One, two, three... ten, exactly ten. You have exactly ten too. Take this as your travel expenses."

In the dim firelight, Wang Yi's figure walked out of the darkness, and it was unclear whether he was laughing or crying in the flickering firelight. On Wang Yi's open palm, ten copper coins automatically floated up without wind. As Wang Yi finished speaking, the ten copper coins floating on his palm turned into streams of light, and before these things could react, they had already pierced their heads, leaving a little blood, along with a few silver dollars and dozens of copper coins they had hidden on their bodies, and fell into Wang Yi's hands.

"No wonder they say that the primitive accumulation of capital is full of blood. Old Ma is right." Wang Yi swung the copper coin in the air to shake off the blood stains. Then he looked in the direction of Pucheng. "Then it's time to meet this authentic dog warlord. I should be able to catch up with him."

Wang Yi spoke words that only he could understand, and then headed towards Pucheng.

As for the robbers whose bodies he left in the wilderness, sorry, he always killed these beasts without burying them.
(End of this chapter)