I Can Pick Up Martial Arts Insights
Chapter 94

The Underground World

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In the temporary treatment point set up by the police officers, Chen Mochuan treated all the wounds on his body, performed simple bandages, and completed a detailed record. Several volunteers Martial Warrior who had just fought side by side came over to chat with him enthusiastically.

Chen Mochuan knew that his current state was not suitable for practicing or exploring Memory Fragment, so he was happy to relax and chat with them.

Martial Arts Hall Instructor, who had several circles of bandages wrapped around his waist and was still a little pale, came over to express his gratitude, "Little brother, I am really lucky that you rescued me in time today, otherwise I would have fallen on that wild boar cub!"

Chen Mochuan said quickly and sincerely, "My words are serious, I still rely on you to withstand the pressure at the beginning. I saw clearly the wild boar's attack path, and then I dared to fight with it."

Li Xuan, who had been coordinating the aftermath of the incident nearby, saw the lively chat here and strode in. He smiled boldly and said, "Young man, don't be too humble. I didn't expect that I misjudged you at first and thought you were just an ordinary student... If you hadn't stood up at the critical moment, we people would really be in danger today."

"Let me tell you, with your strength and character, you are definitely the seed of "The Big Six"! I have seen many geniuses in the army back then, and you are definitely one of the best! If I were from the admissions office of Yunhan University, you would have to be specially recruited by everyone now!"

Chen Mochuan is not worthy of the title.

In this way, a group of martial arts practitioners who had just experienced the test of life and death gathered together and naturally discussed the battle and martial arts concepts just now. The atmosphere was very lively. They even added each other as friends on the messaging software, and agreed to communicate and discuss again in the future when there is an opportunity.

During the exchange, Chen Mochuan also used discussions with everyone to corroborate some of his vague insights in actual combat with his theories, sort out his own martial arts, and unexpectedly benefited from it.

[You discuss martial arts with others, gain insights, sort out your own martial arts, and gain a deeper understanding of martial arts.]

[Mountain-Collapsing Fist: Proficiency(21%)→Proficiency(22%)]

[Thunder-Striding Step: Mastery(22%)→Mastery(23%)]

Although the improvement was not that big compared to the previous battle, he was quite pleased with this state of being able to practice anytime and anywhere.

Until it was close to ten o'clock in the evening, the sky was already as dark as ink. The Pedestrian Street illuminated by the temporary emergency lights, everyone's Personal Terminal shook almost at the same time.

An eye-catching official notice popped up on the screen. "Antu City, Ferocious Beast in the whole area, has been jointly cleared by the military and police. The main threat has now been eliminated, and Level Two Disaster has been officially lifted. Citizens who are taking refuge outside are requested to return home in an orderly manner. If any abnormality is found, please call the police as soon as possible."

This disaster is finally over!

The people stranded in Pedestrian Street suddenly burst into cheers, and many people hugged each other and cried, celebrating the survivors.

The police officers who stayed at the scene immediately took action, mobilized more than a dozen floating buses, and began to organize stranded citizens to take them home in batches according to the area where they lived.

While queuing up to board the bus, Chen Mochuan unexpectedly discovered that Li Xuan actually lived in the same community as him. However, Star Lake Residential District belonged to a larger residential community in East District. The two of them lived on opposite ends of the diagonal of the community. The buildings were quite far apart, and they could rarely take pictures of them, so they had no impression of each other before.

After both parties agreed to move around more and look after each other in the future, they went home at the gate of the community.

Lying on the familiar bed, Chen Mochuan completely relaxed. He remembered what Bobo said to him on Pedestrian Street before, "I will also practice martial arts in the future and become a person who can protect everyone like my brother!" He couldn't help but smile knowingly.

After taking a short rest and regaining some energy, Chen Mochuan sank his consciousness into the depths of his mind and began to examine the eight Ferocious Beast and Memory Fragment.

He first chose Remnant Spirit, a Spotted Fur Dog, to try. A similar feeling to the last time came over him, and he quickly reviewed the other party's memory from the special perspective of this Spotted Fur Dog.

Scenes flashed quickly, and he found that Spotted Fur Dog's memory was more complete and clearer than the previous Ferocious Rat, and it was similar to Wilderness Zone living in the surface world. The Ferocious Rat inside is different. The life of this Spotted Fur Dog is hazy, and almost all of its memories are of the underground world where Ferocious Beast is entrenched and never sees the light of day.

This was also the first time Chen Mochuan had truly "seen" the underground world so intuitively. What surprised him was that although the underground world could not receive sunlight, it was not an eternal darkness as he imagined.

Although some areas are indeed deep and devoid of any light, in more places a large amount of faintly glowing moss, fungi or minerals are attached to or growing on the rock walls, which does not appear dark at all.

There are even some special areas where the light source is strong and extremely bright, no less than the surface world illuminated by the sun. However, Spotted Fur Dog has low strength and limited range of activities. The number of visits to such "bright" places is limited, and the memory fragments are relatively vague. This is something that has not been mentioned in Martial Arts General Knowledge's textbook.

With curiosity, Chen Mochuan carefully observed the strange environment of the underground world, and then returned his attention to Spotted Fur Dog.

This Spotted Fur Dog is in a group with hundreds of its own kind, and has its own small territory. It often competes with other Ferocious Beasts for territory and resources under the leadership of the leader of the group.

If you win, you can keep the corpses of the dead on both sides as food rations and enjoy a period of recuperation;

If you lose, you will leave the corpses of your fellow tribesmen lying on the ground, and follow the remaining tribesmen to find new territories in a hurry, and soon there will be another bloody battle.

In relatively peaceful times, it will also go out to forage, and its hunting targets are mostly weaker Ferocious Beast or underground creatures. On rare occasions when it is extremely hungry and has no prey to harvest, it will also kill its elderly and weak kin.

All this fully demonstrates the simple and barbaric social structure and survival rules of the Ferocious Beast people in the underground world: that is pure law of the jungle, and strength is everything.

Chen Mochuan quickly skipped these slightly monotonous and repetitive daily chores and concentrated on looking for Spotted Fur Dog's unique dog life experience.

It wasn't until I browsed to the memory of Spotted Fur Dog, the last day of his life, that I saw some obvious changes.

The memory fragment shows that because the territory was attacked by another group of Ferocious Beast, Spotted Fur Dog was following the group to rise up against the foreign enemy.

Just when the battle was at its fiercest, at a certain moment, all the Ferocious Beasts on the battlefield seemed to feel some kind of call from the depths of their souls at the same time. The two Ferocious Beasts who were fighting endlessly a second ago suddenly stopped fighting in unison.

Immediately afterwards, the Ferocious Beast of the two groups, led by their respective leaders, abandoned their territories and ran in a certain direction in the underground world, joining a larger Ferocious Beast torrent and entering a special passage that seemed to have been opened long ago.

This passage is filled with countless Ferocious Beasts of all kinds. Even the sworn enemies who would fight to the death upon meeting in the past are not attacking each other at this moment. All Ferocious Beasts maintain a strange calmness and run towards the faint light at the end of the passage.

Not long after, Spotted Fur Dog followed Beast Tide out of Underground Rift, and came into contact with the warm sunshine for the first time.

Even if it finds that there seems to be a large-scale battle going on nearby, the surface world in front of it is far more colorful than the underground world, which still excites it, which has lived underground for a long time, and is full of primitive curiosity and predatory desire.

However, the leader of the group did not give it a chance to move freely, and directly led the entire group to rush in the direction of the Chengbo River not far away, despite the aftermath of the surrounding battle.

Unfortunately, the leader's aura was strong and the target was too obvious. He was quickly intercepted by a human Martial Artist and killed on the spot. However, it was selectively ignored because of its weak strength. It was very lucky to take advantage of the chaos and jumped into the Chengbo River, drifted down the river, and finally sneaked into the city.

During this period, it and two other Spotted Fur Dog were separated from the group due to the strong current, so they instinctively got close to a Steel-Backed Wild Boar with a strong aura and formed a small temporary group.

After that, they followed each other ashore and broke into Pedestrian Street, which was full of "food" in their eyes.

This memory ended abruptly until it was punched to death by Chen Mochuan.

After looking at the memory fragments of this spotted dog, Chen Mochuan finally understood why there was such a large-scale secondary disaster in Antu City.

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