Birds Fly, Eggs Shatter

In the private room, Li Yinuo said to the two people beside her, "The placement matches are a tough battle for every new boxer. Right now, not only the audience is watching the Octagon Cage, but also the boxers that Qing Xiao Tu will face next. If he goes all out now, his opponents will discover his weaknesses and make it harder for him to fight."

Li Tongyun nodded to herself. After the initial tension and worry subsided, she remembered what kind of person Qing Chen was.

If the opponent isn't confident, they absolutely won't step into the boxing ring.

Octagon Cage, Wang Fu fought with increasing fervor. Outside the cage were spectators cheering for him, while inside were his timid and hesitant opponents.

In this situation, he has to play well to gain more fans.

Unlike purely competitive sports, underground boxing emphasizes popularity; the higher the popularity, the higher the appearance fee.

In an instant, Wang Fu stopped his rapid and fierce attack and retreated, then accelerated again.

He leaped up and stepped onto the wire mesh of the Octagon Cage, his body as light as a swift.

Swallows don't usually fly very fast, but on rainy days, they dart back and forth like bullets, leaving trails of afterimages in the air.

The next moment, Wang Fu's right leg spun around and came straight for Qing Chen's face, which he was covering with his arms.

He would use all his strength to break through Qing Chen's last line of defense.

In that split second, Wang Fu suddenly felt something was wrong. In the instant he turned around, he saw the boy's cold, arrow-like eyes piercing through the gap between the boy's arms and quietly watching him.

There was no dishevelment or weariness in his eyes.

He didn't even blink.

In that dark night in Prison No. 18, Ye Wan asked Qing Chen, "What do you think is the most important thing when fighting someone?"

Qing Chen thought for a moment and replied, "Power."

"No," Ye Wan shook her head.

Qing Chen thought for a moment and then answered, "Rhythm."

"That's not right either," Ye Wan shook her head again.

Qing Chen countered, "Then what's the most important thing?"

Ye Wan replied, "It's my gaze."

The incoming fists and swords will make you instinctively dodge, but you must overcome all instincts.

Don't blink, don't look away.

You must always keep an eye on your opponent and look for his weaknesses.

At this moment, Qing Chen slightly bent his knees and lowered his waist. The whistling whip leg swept past his head, but only touched his hair.

The next second, just as Wang Fu's figure swept over his head, Qing Chen seemed to unintentionally raise his arms to protect his head, and his clenched fists collided fiercely with Wang Fu's split legs.

All of this was as if Wang Fu had accidentally bumped into Qing Chen's fist.

As Mother Ye once said, this is a man's most vulnerable spot. Even if you only use one-tenth of your strength, you can easily render your opponent incapable of fighting.

With a cry of "Ah!", Wang Fu lost his balance in mid-air and fell to the other side of the Octagon Cage.

The scream of agony even drowned out the cheers in the boxing ring.

Boxers undergo rigorous training, so they don't scream even when injured.

Unless you can't help it.

The turn of events happened so fast that neither the audience nor the gamblers had time to process what had just occurred.

Why did Wang Fu, who had been in a dominant position, suddenly lose everything the moment he performed his signature move, "Swallow Return"?

The turn of events was so sudden that many gamblers in the stands felt something was wrong. But when they tried to buy back the tickets they had sold, they discovered that the middle-aged man who had just bought their tickets at a low price had vanished.

Those gamblers who had bet on Qing Chen and lost in the first round became furious. They cursed Wang Fu and then threw their tickets into the arena with all their might.

This is one of the most classic scenes in the boxing ring, with some people rejoicing and others becoming angry.

Li Yinuo, who was in the private room, breathed a sigh of relief, "Just as I expected, you see, that bantamweight boxer is no match for him at all."

"Sister Yinuo is amazing," Li Tongyun praised.

Li Tongyun praised him as she watched Qing Chen return to the locker room.

She clenched her little fists, thinking to herself that Brother Qing Chen was indeed very amazing.

When Li Tongyun returned last time, she thought she was going to be Purge Plan.

After all, she was still young and her thoughts were not yet so thorough, so she didn't try to hide anything when she helped Jiang Xue.

If her household registration information from the Outer World is brought back to the Inner World, her previous inexplicable act of helping Jiang Xue will be immediately magnified.

The little girl was on tenterhooks for several days, only to find out later that Qing Chen had already resolved the matter.

For Li Tongyun, half of her sense of security in life comes from her mother Jiang Xue, and the other half comes from Qing Chen, so of course she hopes that Qing Chen will become more and more capable.

She and Jiang Xue had long regarded Qing Chen as family.

However, Xiao Tongyun was a little puzzled as to why Brother Qing Chen would be here. This didn't quite match the clues she had found.

As soon as Qing Chen returned to the locker room and opened the alloy gate, he saw Li Shutong waiting inside with a large bag of things.

"Teacher, this is..." Qing Chen asked curiously.

Li Shutong smiled mysteriously and opened the bag, "These are all gifts from your teacher. As long as you can pass the test tonight, all this money is yours."

Qing Chen paused for a moment, then pulled out a ticket. "These are all tickets betting on my success in the game?"

"Yes," Li Shutong roughly calculated, "I bought them all at one-tenth of their face value. I roughly calculated that I spent about 100,000 yuan, because they were all loose notes, so the face value was not high."

That means the basic value of the tickets here is over one million.

"If I win, how much money can I get for these tickets?" Qing Chen asked.

"The odds were different when they placed their bets, but I estimate that the overall odds should be around 10 times on average," Li Shutong said with a smile. "Master is not short of money, so the money you won this time is all your own pocket money."

Qing Chen took a deep breath. "Master, I understand. This is the opportunity you were talking about."

Inside the private room, Li Yinuo looked at Xiao Tongyun and said, "Why don't you rest for a while?"

"No need, I'm really enjoying it right now!" Xiao Tongyun blinked her bright eyes, watching Qing Chen intently as he returned to the Octagon Cage. She turned to Li Yinuo and asked, "Sister Yinuo, what do you think he'll do next?"

Li Yinuo chuckled and ruffled her hair, "I didn't expect you to like boxing so much. You're just like your older sister in that respect. You have potential!"

Li Tongyun thought to herself that she didn't actually like boxing matches; she was simply concerned about her brother Qing Chen.

At this moment, Li Yinuo looked at Nan Gengchen next to her and said, "Baby, if you don't like watching, you can rest in the private room for a while. I'll have the boxing ring prepare some food."

"No need, no need, I'm not sleepy right now," Nan Gengchen thought to himself. He wasn't sleepy at all. He didn't want to sleep. He just wanted to watch Qing Chen stand in the Octagon Cage and knock down all his opponents.

Li Yinuo said happily, "I didn't expect you to like boxing too, baby! You were just saying you wanted to go back to sleep, but look, you're excited now."

Little did the beautiful young woman know that neither of the two people beside her truly cared about the boxing match; their minds were entirely focused on Qing Chen alone...

Nan Gengchen asked, "Yinuo, what are your predictions for what's to come?"

Li Yinuo thought for a moment and said, "I predict he will continue with his previous steady approach, which will make it easier to conceal his fighting style and weaknesses."

The three of them looked into the Octagon Cage; after bantamweight came featherweight.

The host stood outside the Octagon Cage, bowed gracefully to the audience, and then stood up excitedly, announcing, "Ladies and gentlemen, who could have imagined that after struggling for 20 minutes in the last round, our little country boxer would defeat his opponent in such a coincidental way?"

"Let's guess how long he can last this time? Will he fall to featherweight champion Yan Yu's fists, or will he step onto the featherweight champion's gold belt and head into the next round?"

However, in the next instant, just as the referee stepped out of the Octagon Cage, Qing Chen suddenly sprang up like a tiger. Before featherweight champion Yan Yu could react, he rushed in front of him and punched him in the balls.

"Holy crap!"

The announcer's voice was still echoing in the boxing ring when the match was already over...

Those gamblers who had bet on Qing Chen to fall in the second round were furious, and they threw their tickets into the arena like snowflakes.

Suddenly, a heavy white snow began to fall in the boxing ring.

Inside the private room, Li Yinuo quickly added, "But his steady fighting style takes a lot of energy, and ultimately he'll face Tigerweight opponent, who are all veterans retired from the military, so he might not be able to handle it. Therefore, I think he'll finish the fight quickly!"

Xiao Tongyun Nan Gengchen both looked at her silently.

Li Yinuo was also a little embarrassed. She muttered under her breath, "Did this kid take his meds? Why did he suddenly change his tactics?!"

However, her hindsight analysis was indeed what Qing Chen had thought.

Qing Chen knew that the boxers he was about to face were all seasoned veterans. The audience might think that the recent groin-crushing incident was a coincidence, but the Tigerweight boxers would definitely not think that way.

Therefore, instead of continuing to waste his energy, he should finish the fight quickly and reach the Tigerweight as soon as possible.

At this moment, Qing Chen turned to the referee and said, "No need to rest, let the lightweights come over directly."

As he spoke, he reached up and zipped up his tracksuit all the way.

All the spectators watched silently as the boy in the Octagon Cage took off his sportswear, revealing his perfectly defined muscles, both lean and fierce.

Those muscles were as solid as steel.

Wow! The audience in the boxing ring exclaimed in surprise. They had initially thought that Qing Chen was just good-looking but useless.

But now that the audience sees him easily defeat the featherweight champion, and with that muscular physique, it's clear he was just pretending to be weak before!

Qing Chen looked at the host. "No break, let's continue, okay?"

The host quickly glanced at the stands, where the alluring woman in the gold dress nodded slightly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, at the request of the young boxer, we have decided to speed up the pace of the ranking matches. Now, please welcome lightweight boxer Liu Rufeng. I believe that all the spectators who bought tickets tonight will feel that they got their money's worth. Tonight, we may witness the birth of a new boxing champion."

As Liu Rufeng entered the venue, the host continued to shout excitedly, "Are there any audience members who witnessed the rise of last year's King of Fighters Afan? Looking at this young, unsophisticated boxer, it's as if I'm reliving those days..."

"That night, it all happened so suddenly..."

"Holy crap!!"

The host had just finished speaking when another scream of pain came from behind.

He turned around and saw that lightweight boxer Liu Rufeng was clutching his groin and about to pass out.

"That's so damn sudden," the host exclaimed.

Qing Chen looked at him. "Next."

Upon hearing this, the host hurriedly said, "The match has reached a crucial turning point! Now, please welcome middleweight champion Zhou Mo... What? Zhou Mo has returned his appearance fee and withdrawn from the match!?"

The host unconsciously repeated the message from his earpiece.

For a moment, the audience in the boxing ring was also stunned. During the new boxer's ranking matches, a middleweight champion actually withdrew from the match?

Zhou Mo! Zhou Mo actually withdrew from the competition!

I've never encountered this situation before!

Gradually, everyone realized what was going on... Zhou Mo didn't dare to fight!

There were nearly 10,000 spectators in the boxing ring. At first, everyone was silent, but the next moment they were in an uproar.

The clamor sounded as if it would blow the roof off.

Li Yinuo stood silently in the private room, wondering if it was the same grand occasion when her Uncle Qi and that Chen Jiazhang participated in the boxing match back then.

Knight.

It seems that bearing the name of a knight means being destined to become one of the protagonists of this world.

Generally speaking, it is not common for new boxers to be ranked; there is only one match every few months.

Therefore, there won't be any boxers permanently stationed in the boxing ring waiting for a challenge. After all, the boxers and the boxing ring have a cooperative relationship, and the boxing ring can't just summon them and dismiss them at will.

The other boxers present all had matches to play and had just finished one, so they couldn't fight again.

Zhou Mo was contacted urgently by the boxing ring, and an appearance fee was paid to get the other party to come over at the last minute.

As soon as Zhou Mo entered the arena and before he could even change his clothes, he saw Qing Chen completely overpower Liu Rufeng, who was in the lightweight class.

He was a veteran boxer, so he quickly realized that the boy named Qing Xiao Tu was aiming to clear the level.

That's clearly the speed of E-Class superhuman.

In the past, even if Zhou Mo knew that his opponent was definitely stronger than him, he wouldn't mind going up and getting beaten up as long as the boxing ring paid him enough.

But this boy was too vicious.

We can't afford it!

Beside the glamorous woman in the gold dress, someone whispered, "Boss, what do we do now?"

The woman looked at the boy in the Octagon Cage with great interest. "He's really good-looking! Our boxing ring has finally got a real cash cow!"

"Boss?" the subordinate asked, puzzled.

"Let's arrange for Huang Zixian's in the Tigerweight, to fight him directly," the woman said with a smile. "Tonight is his breakout fight, so it has to be a proper start and finish."

The subordinate hesitated for a moment. "Huang Zixian is currently aiming for the Tigerweight championship and is in peak condition. Boss, aren't you worried about something happening to him if you arrange for Huang Zixian to fight him?"

This is a very simple logic: seeing that the boy in the Octagon Cage is about to gather a huge amount of popularity, at this time, you should just arrange for him to fight a slightly weaker Tigerweight, so that he can pass the level smoothly.

In this way, the image of the young boy as a rising star in underground boxing was established.

If Huang Zixian were to play, it's uncertain whether the young player could win. If he lost, it would be a big problem, as not many fans would be willing to follow the underdog.

The woman smiled and said, "What do you know? Only someone who can beat Huang Zixian is truly reliable. I need a real money tree, not a dud."

There's going to be another big development tonight; I absolutely have to finish writing this part of the story. I'm going to grab a bite to eat now.