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Chapter 240 - 217: Knife and Gun, Night Walk

Chapter 240: Chapter 217: Knife and Gun, Night Walk

"I won!"

Tina couldn’t help but cry out, her face alight with joy.

Li Li’s face showed surprise. Although her kung fu was far inferior to Wu Li and Li San, she had been immersed in it since childhood and had an eye for it. Just then, Li San had unleashed a maneuver that resembled Thrust, but was not quite a thrust, deceiving Wu Li, and she was on the verge of cheering.

In her view, faced with such a marvelously deceptive thrust, Wu Li was sure to lose, but in less than a second, Wu Li had counterattacked and turned the tables.

"What a move, Bear-Eagle Strike!"

Li San, too, put away his spear, a look of reluctance and regret on his face, but ultimately it transformed into admiration.

Wu Li laughed, "That thrust of yours was also very enlightening, I’m impressed!"

Li San shook his head with a wry smile, "That thrust I just made was the one I’m most proud of in all these years, yet my pride lasted less than a second before you broke through it."

"Ha ha!" Wu Li laughed.

In fact, Li San’s thrust just now was only effective against a master like Wu Li who had grasped the essence of a technique—in gaming terms, it would be: I anticipated your anticipation.

If it had been an ordinary person, he might not have been able to predict the landing point of Li San’s thrust and would not have been tricked.

[System Message: Recognition from a Master Level Tai Chi fighter received, continuing the task "Master’s Name" completion 5/10]

[System Reward: Tai Chi upgraded to Master Level]

[Master’s Name is more than halfway complete, received an additional reward]

[Additional Reward: Rare Skill "Ultimate Killing Move" upgraded from Bronze to Silver]

A string of system messages came one after another, bringing continuous surprises.

Before coming, Wu Li hadn’t really thought he’d earn Li San’s recognition, but after just two sparring sessions, they’d completed a task, and with "Master’s Name" more than half complete, there was an extra reward as well—a truly unexpected pleasure.

[Ultimate Killing Move (Silver): You may designate a specific technique (Xingyi Fist Tiger Hugging Head designated) for enhancement. Once designated, it cannot be changed. The power of the designated killing move is increased by 40% (maximal power achievable at Master Level).]

Previously, Wu Li’s Ultimate Killing Move increased the power by 20%, the equivalent of his three years of research into Tiger Hugging Head. Of course, three years was a rough duration; spending a lot of time researching every day for three years would not yield the same results as just a little time each day, not to mention individual aptitude varies.

Wu Li had carefully studied the enhancements from the Ultimate Killing Move. If he spent two hours practicing Tiger Hugging Head each day, he could improve its power by 20% over the course of a year on the existing foundation. To improve further, he would need to master Dragon and Tiger Power.

Now, with the Tiger Hugging Head’s power increased by 40%, shown by the system as the limit for Master Level, Wu Li surmised that it must be the move propelled by Dragon and Tiger Power. To go beyond involved Innate Gang Qi, which belonged to the realm of a Grandmaster.

"Master Wu," Li San called as Wu Li seemed lost in thought.

"Shall we spar with fists and feet?" Li San suggested.

As Wu Li was about to nod in agreement, someone suddenly ran upstairs from below. It was the middle-aged man who had led him upstairs earlier.

The man hurried to Li San and whispered a few words.

Wu Li wasn’t trying to listen, but he still faintly heard the words "Xiaoze Wutian."

Li San nodded, "Understood. Tell Sixth Master I’ll be there shortly."

The man responded, gave Wu Li a glance, and turned to leave.

"Master Li, if you’re busy, we can spar another day," Wu Li offered.

Li San nodded, "Alright, let’s spar another day."

Saying this, he walked over to a nearby rack of weapons, picked up the pair of short knives Wu Li had used earlier, approached Wu Li, and offered them, "Master Wu, you helped me out that night. Although the Hongmen promised they owe you a favor, I can’t simply not express my gratitude. When traveling, it’s always safer to carry weapons to avoid accidents. This pair of short knives is part of my collection, and I’d like to give it to you."

Wu Li looked at the short knives in Li San’s hands—the materials and workmanship must have been top-notch, as during their earlier exchange, the blades clashed many times without even a notch appearing.

In fact, after taking a beating with his bare hands that night, Wu Li had considered always carrying a weapon, but he hadn’t yet had the chance to purchase a suitable one, resorting to asking Chen Gang to buy him a collapsible baton for self-defense.

He had planned to ask Zhao Lixin to help him get a suitable weapon from home and find a way to ship it, but now Li San was giving him a pair of short knives directly.

"Thank you very much," Wu Li accepted the knives without any fuss.

Li Li, standing aside, pursed her lips. Li San didn’t have many hobbies aside from martial arts training; his favorite thing was collecting various cold weapons, and the short knives in Wu Li’s hands were among Li San’s most treasured items. He had commissioned Spain’s top design teams and had a famous German cold weapons manufacturer create them. After fifteen revisions and nearly a year of work, Li San had spent close to three hundred thousand US dollars to perfect them. He usually didn’t even allow Li Li to touch them much, yet now he was gifting them to Wu Li.

Li San spoke casually as if what he was giving away were just ordinary short knives. Li Li knew her brother well enough to know he would never tell Wu Li how much effort and money he had invested in those knives.

So Wu Li’s easy acceptance of the knives made Li Li quite annoyed; she wanted to shout at him, "Do you have any idea how much that thing in your hands is actually worth, over three hundred thousand US dollars?"

"By the way, Master Li," Wu Li suddenly remembered the task he had coming up and spoke up again, "Do you have one of those collapsible spears? If you do, could you give me one too?"

Li Li: "..."

Li San was first taken aback, but then burst into laughter, "Yes, of course!"

He turned to Li Li and said, "Li Li, take Master Wu to my collection room later. There are a few long spears that can be disassembled. Let him pick any that he likes."

After finishing, he nodded to Wu Li, his face full of smiles as he left.

"You really don’t consider yourself an outsider, do you?"

After Li San left, Li Li came up to Wu Li and said discontentedly.

Wu Li smiled, "I was actually thinking of offering to buy one, but then I thought that Master Li probably wouldn’t like to make such a transaction, so I boldly asked for one instead."

"Hmph!"

Li Li huffed, but she didn’t refute, because what Wu Li said was true. Her brother wasn’t short of money, and he definitely wouldn’t sell the weapons in his collection, only possibly giving them to a friend. Over the years, Wu Li was the first person her brother had spontaneously offered a weapon to, which showed that her brother already considered Wu Li a friend, even though they had only met once before.

And then there was Tina, by her side. She had also only met Wu Li once before but was obviously smitten.

This Wu Li must be toxic, right?

The more she thought about it, the more Li Li looked at Wu Li with dissatisfaction, saying curtly, "Follow me."

After speaking, she took Tina and walked ahead.

The three of them came to a collection room. The room was spacious, with wooden racks in front of the walls on all four sides. The racks displayed various weapons: Tang Swords, Miao Knives, Ring Head Sabers, Spring and Autumn Great Blades, Seven-foot Snake Spears, Fangtian Hua Ji, Long-handled Battle Axes...

All were cold weapons Wang Li had heard of or hadn’t, which was quite an eye-opener for him and stirred his interest.

Those who practice martial arts always have a certain fondness for these cold weapons.

Wu Li walked around, picking up each of the weapons to feel their weight.

They were all made of steel, with sharp edges, and each was quite heavy, with the heaviest being a Green Dragon Crescent Blade weighing over a hundred pounds.

Reluctantly putting the weapons down one by one, Wu Li found the one he needed.

Inside an open wooden box were two segments of a weapon, one with the spearhead.

It was a long spear divided into two parts, connected by a screw thread in the middle.

Wu Li screwed the two parts of the Iron Spear together, resulting in a spear two meters thirty in length, weighing over seven pounds, with a sharp tip and double-edged blades.

He shook the long spear a few times in his hand; it hummed in the air indoors. There were two more long spears divided into segments nearby. Without trying them, just by looking at their thickness and length, he knew they weren’t suitable. So Wu Li decided on this one.

"This is the one," Wu Li said, turning to Li Li.

Li Li nodded her head distastefully, "Put it away."

...

At 8 PM, Third Avenue in the Manhattan District.

Wu Li came here alone by car. After alighting, he put on a black jacket over his clothes, pulled up the jacket’s hood, covered his face with a black mask, put on gloves, and carried a long, black cloth bag on his back, almost completely blending into the night.

Both sides of Third Avenue were private residences, with no lights visible inside the buildings. Wu Li looked for house number 34 by the address.

There was a large iron gate outside, behind which stood a dark red house with three stories.

[Optional Mission II: Enter the residence and take the USB drive from the room on the far right of the third floor]

As Wu Li arrived in front of the large iron gate of number 34, the system message popped up.

This was the second step of the optional mission, and so far, Wu Li still didn’t know who owned this house or what was inside.

He had speculated that this optional mission was most likely related to the Bill Brothers Association, but Li San’s intelligence did not mention this place, so Wu Li still had no clue about this task.

He looked left and right, seeing no one on the street, and noticed a camera beside the iron gate.

Pretending nonchalantly to continue walking, Wu Li moved a considerable distance away, ensuring the camera could not capture his presence, before he stopped and turned back to look.

The residential houses on this street were separated by walls over three meters high, not a significant barrier for Wu Li.

He took a few running steps, leaped over the perimeter wall, and landed in the courtyard of house number 36.

Then, with another run-up, he vaulted from the left side of the courtyard wall into the yard of number 35. He continued running to the left wall, listening for any noise in the yard of number 34.

No sound; nobody was in the courtyard.

Wu Li stepped back a few paces, took a run-up, and in one leap, he was over the wall and landed lightly on the ground.

He walked around the courtyard, and on the left side wall of the building, there were three external units for air conditioners that he could use to climb up directly.

Wu Li climbed up, using his hands and feet, making almost no noise, and reached the external unit of the third floor’s air conditioner.

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