Chapter 656: Kuafu Chasing the Sun

The half-grown boy covered his red left face with fear in his eyes.

"I'm punishing you today because you don't follow the rules."

Hezi pointed at the nose of his peer and said, "Since you have joined the Tongkou Gang, you must abide by the gang rules."

"Ha, when you were bullied and had nothing to eat in the past, the gang protected you. Now you won't even bother to do anything? And you want to run away halfway?"

Hezi lifted the thin hemp rope around his neck, on which hung a copper button.

"This thing is not for fun."

"Now I am here to tell you the rules. The next time you meet the boss is the Bronze Hand. By then, I hope you have thought about which hand or leg you are going to lose."

The boy opposite turned pale with fear: "I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore."

"You don't want to do this anymore? You have the guts."

Hezi pretended not to hear clearly.

He grinned, revealing his missing front tooth: "I'll take you to the boss. Have you prepared your ransom?"

"I'll do it, I'll do it! I'll bring the goods over, I'll bring the goods!"

Clam trembled and said, "I won't try to run away again. I will definitely take the gang's stuff with me."

"That's right."

Hezi put his arm around the man's shoulders and said, "Look, it's not that hard to bring what you're asked to bring. Just some seeds and some paper. Just put them in your underwear and clothes. It's okay."

"Those soldiers won't check. Even if they do, you can just say you don't know what it is. Anyway, you really don't know, right?"

"At most you'll be in jail for a few days. You'll be out in a month at most. The brothers are waiting for you outside."

The boy nodded numbly.

"As long as we follow the rules, we'll still be good brothers. The gang won't let you stay here forever. The last group left at the age of sixteen, so you still have two or three years to go. The gang protects everyone, and everyone works for the gang until everyone leaves when they reach adulthood. It's fair, right?"

Hezi smiled and patted him on the back: "Go back and wash your face, get ready, and go bring the goods tomorrow."

After watching Hazi leave in despair, Ah Zheng next to him said, "Will he go there honestly? Will he run away halfway?"

"Let him."

Hezi shrugged, took out a piece of gum from his pocket, put it in his mouth and chewed it: "It's his choice. If he succeeds in escaping, I hope he can run far. If he is discovered, then his hands and feet will be broken."

"Ah Zheng, you and Hazi both joined the gang two months ago, and you are much smarter than him."

Hezi's cheeks twitched: "How about the goods you brought last time?"

“It’s going well.”

Ah Zheng is a quiet-looking boy who looks about twelve or thirteen years old. Compared to Hezai, who has a wheat-colored complexion and wears an adult leather vest, he looks more like a young man on the run.

This is indeed the case.

When Hezai saw A Zheng for the first time, he was using a branch to spear fish. The water there was very shallow, there was no grass or fish, and it was obvious that he was a novice.

So Hezi first treated him to some roasted melon seeds, and then asked him whether he was out for fun or had lost someone.

After asking, I found out that A Zheng was from the Anvil Federation of the Resurrection Kingdom, and his ancestors were immigrants from Yancheng. His father was bewitched by the devil, not only did he give all the family property to the devil, but he also wanted to bleed A Zheng as a sacrifice to worship the devil.

Ah Zheng beat his father until his head was covered in blood, and then escaped. He didn't dare to go back, so he could only wander in the country of secret arts.

Hezi discovered that Ah Zheng was born with supernatural powers. He could easily lift large rocks and uproot small trees with his bare hands. He invited him to join the Tongkou Gang.

The Copper Button Gang is a very small gang in the Mystic Kingdom, and all the things they do are trivial and cannot be made public.

However, no matter how small the gang is, it is still a mountain in front of the children.

The members of the Copper Button Gang are all teenagers, because the gang has to do things only with children.

Hezi chewed gum and put his hands in his wide pockets: "How is it, bringing goods is easier than I thought, right?"

"Um."

Ah Zheng looked to the other side. Not far away was a main road that led all the way to the various city-states of the Mystic Kingdom.

"Just carry it across the border. It's not difficult."

Hezai likes this about Azheng. He will do the work as long as you ask him to do it, without any hesitation or asking any questions.

"The goods the gang carries aren't serious contraband. They're usually various rose seeds from the Yao Clan, and some fake bonds."

Hezi said: "Rose seeds are very common in the market, whether it is gentle green roses, white roses, sand roses or cloud roses, we have them here. The goods I brought are mixed with killer black roses. This thing is a controlled item and it cannot be brought in normally."

"These seeds cannot be produced repeatedly. If you want to get new Yao Clan roses, you have to buy seeds. The gang is just transporting goods and making a profit from smuggling. Even if the children carrying the goods are caught, they won't go to jail for long."

He spat out the gum and stuck it onto a piece of detached bark.

"Then there are the fake bonds. This is a highly skilled craft. The paper used to make city bonds is very difficult to make. It is a mixture of rough paper and cotton paper, and it has a very special feel."

He leaned against a tree and said, "There is also the printing on tissue paper. The Yao people's printing technology now uses specific patterns and colors, and there are serial numbers representing different cities. It is difficult to achieve a very close level, and mixing printing and dyeing pigments is also a problem."

"I heard that Yaocheng has gradually adopted crystal printing and dyeing, using sand elements to make coating patterns, which can be identified by element crystal structure. If it is really fully implemented, it will be more difficult to imitate."

Ah Zheng frowned slightly: "Why are you telling me these secrets?"

"Because you are so eye-catching, after you bring goods once, the soldiers at the border will easily remember you, so the next time you bring goods will be at least a year later. When it comes to bringing goods, the more ordinary you look, the better, and Hazi is the most suitable."

The Copper Button Gang needs children in the gang to carry the goods. Usually, homeless children are not easily suspected, and the goods they carry are not much, so they are not easily noticed and raided.

Gang members went there on the pretext of studying and looking for work, made contact with people in the Resurrection Kingdom, and then brought things from there over.

Hezi said: "You can join me in recruiting people in the back, teaching the newcomers, and then wait until you leave the gang and get the severance pay."

"Do you have to quit the gang?"

"Do you still want to work in the Tongkou Gang?" Hezi sneered.

Ah Zheng asked, "Is there no way to become the boss? Or to get promoted further?"

"Hey, you want to be the boss."

Hezi took out a tomato from his pocket and took a big bite.

"The situation of the Copper Button Gang is like this. The leader of the Copper Hand originally followed a leader of the Red and White Society, but later he went out on his own and founded the Copper Button Gang. Then, in fact, we still have a certain relationship with the Red and White Society, but in fact, we are closer to the [Black Ring Trading Company]."

Ah Zheng showed a surprised expression on his face: "The Black Ring Trading Company is in the Resurrection Kingdom. It turns out that all the goods are from them..."

"Who knows? Don't think that the Black Ring Trading Company is just an ordinary chamber of commerce. It is one of the organizations split from the Black Templar."

Talking about the gangs in the Mystic Kingdom, Hezi knows them all: "When the Holy Temple was found to have problems by the Investigation Bureau and was sanctioned, there was no choice but to split the organization into several parts. The original [Black Holy Temple] focused on sacrifices, mysticism, spells and folklore, while the [Black Ring Trading Company] and other groups that were split off specialized in secular affairs."

"But we have no affiliation with these big gangs. We are more like errand boys. It's safer this way. We can be small fry and avoid getting into big trouble."

Ah Zheng remained silent.

Hezi ate the tomato bite by bite and licked the juice on his fingers: "Let's go, I have to go see a big brother."

Ah Zheng's eyes lit up: "A big brother from another gang? Can you introduce him to someone?"

"no……"

Hezi showed a strange expression on his face: "Are you really so obsessed with gangs? The big brother I'm going to see this time is a serious person. He has been nearby these days and has taken good care of me in the past. It's not what you think."

…

Hezai found his old friend among the tents by the river.

"Hezi, I haven't seen you for a few years. How are you doing?"

Bo Yi came over steaming.

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He had short hair and a towel wrapped around his neck. His uncovered upper body showed his well-proportioned and flexible muscles. He looked like a tiger returning from hunting, his young masculine body containing explosive power that was ready to go.

"Brother Yi, you are stronger than before."

Hezi laughed and handed the other person a tomato.

Bo Yi took it and took a big bite.

Hezai remembered that when he first met Boyi, he was being punched and kicked by thugs from the Tongkou Gang. He just squatted on the ground with his hands on his head and took the beating skillfully.

For ordinary people without any special abilities, it is basically difficult to resist a group of thugs.

The reason is that ordinary people generally don't dare to attack with weapons such as knives and hammers that can cause death, while the gangsters are experienced in fighting and win with their momentum. When they are beaten badly and want to fight back desperately, it is too late. At this time, they are usually knocked to the ground and have no power to fight back.

That scene strengthened Hezi's determination to join the gang: if you can't beat them, join them! He didn't want to be beaten like Bo Yi, but he felt sorry for the other man. So after everyone left, Hezi went over to help him up.

"It was intentional. I learned about Asceticism from Theology. I learned and practiced through suffering."

Bo Yi shook off the dust on his body and said nonchalantly: "I advised them to disband the gang, go to the temple and library to study the "God's Gospel", and reform themselves, otherwise they will all go to jail. Then they went crazy..."

Only then did Hezi realize that Brother Yi was not a pushover.

He was actively looking for trouble.

Soon, Bo Yi was no longer satisfied with being beaten up by a group of people. The endurance of an ascetic monk would continue to increase. Ordinary pain was like chewing wax and could not make him make any progress. So he left the vicinity and embarked on another path.

He participated in the "Kuafu Chasing the Sun" event, which was an unlimited sun-chasing practice organized by Dahuali.

Hezi also knows something about running every day.

This activity is more like a fanatical sacrificial ritual, chasing the sun on the ground and recording the different positions of one's own shadow. It sounds weird and absurd.

There are quite a few participants.

There are the Bone Forefathers of the Resurrection Kingdom, people from the Streetlight Society, and some locals from the Mystic Kingdom.

As time went on, many runners fainted and got injured, and some even died.

Gradually, the news that Dahuali was actually the devil Kuafu spread like wildfire.

It is said that the purpose of this activity is to burn the life of every runner and transform it into the power of Kuafu through rituals.

The reason why Bo Yi joined was simple, he needed more intense painful training.

Hezi felt that he would die in this strange run.

Because so far, the runners have either given up due to injuries or could not hold on for various reasons, and fewer and fewer people are following the devil Kuafu.

However, Boyi ran away for five years.

"You may not believe it."

Bo Yi swallowed the tomato in big gulps, with a hearty smile on his face: "This running practice we are doing can make every participant strong and energetic."

Hezi laughed and said, "Brother Yi, if that were the case, so many people wouldn't have died before."

“It’s a matter of method.”

Bo Yi said seriously: "Running towards the sun for a long time is also very dangerous for extraordinary people."

"The light element will directly stimulate the whole body and can easily burn the body, while the water element will dissipate in large quantities in a short period of time, making the runner extremely thirsty. So you need to have enough water, and it is best to run in the morning and evening, and rest and relax your body properly at noon."

"Warming up before running can prevent soreness, cramps, abdominal pain and other injuries. You should also stretch your body after running to keep it flexible and reduce fatigue and wear and tear."

“Another thing is not to blindly pursue speed, but to keep breathing and pay attention to the elemental balance of your body at all times.”

"Also prepare appropriate clothes and shoes to reduce sun exposure and pain, and keep warm in winter."

"These are the 'Running Tips' that we have summed up from our running experience over the past few years. If you can do these things well, you won't get injured like before."

"Thanks to the blessing and inspiration of God Yao, I have found a path of cultivation that has no end!"

Hezai heard this and murmured in his heart.

Something is wrong.

Why did Brother Yi seem to have changed from a hard-working man to a crazy runner? Could it be that he was brainwashed and transformed by the devil Kuafu?

"Well, let me show you what I have achieved in the past few years. Try touching my upper body with your hands, and I will stay where I am."

Bo Yi stood quietly.

Hezi felt that he had become completely different, as if there was an indescribable power lingering around him.

He raised his hand towards Bo Yi, but no matter how He Zi waved his arms, he could not reach the other person's body. Bo Yi seemed to be able to predict his movements in advance, and he moved his upper body calmly and simply, making He Zi feel like he was always facing the air and could not catch him no matter what.

What kind of spell is this?

Hezi was shocked.

The indescribable feeling in Bo Yi suddenly disappeared.

He raised his hand, spread his five fingers, and slowly closed them: "The various forces exerted by the body are different forms of movement."

"Mastering and adapting to the rules of the sport, entering the [flow] state in a short period of time, the people around me will all appear to be in slow motion in my eyes, and I can pass them at will. This is the characteristic of the [athlete] profession."

"I can see through everything you do."

(End of this chapter)