Chapter 161: Xu Wenqiang vs. Monk Wei

Standing beneath the office building, Xu Wenqiang looked around curiously.

Before him lay a vast plaza, in the center of which floated four large characters spelling out "Fantasy Park."

After scanning his surroundings, he took a deep breath, lifted his legs, and walked forward.

Walking aimlessly for a short distance, he came to a fork in the road.

To his left and right were two tree-lined paths leading into a dense jungle.

He glanced down the left path and was instantly startled.

Hundreds of meters away, a colossal beast with a maw full of gleaming white teeth was crouched in the jungle by the roadside, gnawing on the carcass of another monster. The bloody sight made his heart leap into his throat.

Would this thing chase after him and devour him?

He hurriedly retreated two steps and looked toward the path on the right.

The path was long. As he looked ahead, he happened to see two figures appearing at the distant end.

Xu Wenqiang breathed a sigh of relief and took the initiative to walk up to meet them.

When the distance between them closed to less than ten meters, before he could speak, the one leading the two—a man of medium build with a large head and big feet—smiled and asked, "Are you Xu Wenqiang?"

He knows me?

"I am indeed. And you are, sir?" Xu Wenqiang asked.

"Li Yunlong," the man said with a grin. "Just call me Old Li."

Xu Wenqiang immediately reacted: "So you are Commander Li! It is better to meet a famed hero than to hear his legendary name."

"You've heard of me?" Li Yunlong asked, surprised.

Could it be that my reputation as Old Li has already spread to other worlds?

"Mr. Qiao mentioned you," Xu Wenqiang replied. "You are in charge of the shooting range. I have much to learn from you, and I ask for your kind guidance in the future."

Li Yunlong waved a hand. "Don't be so formal. Once you're at the shooting range, we're all brothers!"

He stepped forward, patted Xu Wenqiang's body, and laughed heartily, "You need to eat more in the future. Your frame is far too slender."

Xu Wenqiang kept a smile on his face, but his heart sank.

He felt that the fellow across from him was trying to establish dominance right off the bat.

Even though he was a newcomer and should naturally be humble and eager to learn, he couldn't afford to be looked down upon. If he were, what value would he have in the future?

He needed to show a bit of muscle before acting humble.

He gave a light cough and said, "Thank you for your concern, Commander Li. My physical condition is quite all right; taking down three or four ordinary men is no trouble at all."

Li Yunlong caught the underlying meaning in Xu Wenqiang's words.

He burst into laughter and nodded toward the man beside him. "Monk, show our brother Xu a couple of moves."

Monk Wei took a step forward, wearing a stern expression, cupped his fists, and said, "My name is Wei Dayong, though everyone calls me Monk Wei. Please enlighten me, Mr. Xu."

Observing Monk Wei's formidable and muscular appearance, Xu Wenqiang inwardly looked down on Li Yunlong.

This big-headed fellow must have been too cowardly to fight himself, so he made this clearly martial-artist-trained guy fight in his stead.

Monk Wei? Could this fellow be a returned martial arts monk from the Shaolin Temple?

"Xu Wenqiang, please bestow your instruction!" Xu Wenqiang assumed a starting posture.

He had never actually studied formal martial arts, but through several years of prison life, he had fought his way through every inmate without a single defeat, believing himself to be no weaker than those genuine practitioners of martial arts.

The monk stood in place with his arms crossed, completely silent.

His gaze clearly showed he didn't take Xu Wenqiang seriously at all.

This irritated Xu Wenqiang.

He let out a low cry and threw a punch straight at Monk Wei's face.

With a loud *thud*, his fist landed squarely on Monk Wei's cheek.

Xu Wenqiang let out an "Ouch," clutched his fist, and sucked in a sharp breath of cold air.

He felt as though he had punched an iron plate, and the intense pain in his knuckles made tears almost well up in his eyes.

How on earth did this guy train his skin to be this thick and hard?

"There's this cheek, too," the monk said, pointing to his right cheek.

Xu Wenqiang managed a wry smile.

If even his facial skin was trained to such hardness, continuing to fight would simply be asking for public humiliation!

He hurriedly shook his head and said, "No need. Mr. Wei is a true master, and I willingly concede defeat."

Monk Wei gave a faint smile. "What's this compared to anyone? The Commander is the true master."

Xu Wenqiang didn't believe it, but he offered a compliment anyway. "If Mr. Wei is this formidable, needless to say, Commander Li must be even more so."

"I only practiced the Golden Bell Shield, and I've only got twenty years of internal energy under my belt. The Commander has over a hundred years of internal energy." Monk Wei turned to look at Li Yunlong. "Commander, when are you going to buy me some more Pusi Qu snake gall?"

"You damned fellow, asking for benefits before you've even done any work! You spent all those years as a monk, why didn't you learn a bit of that desire-free detachment?" Li Yunlong scolded with a laugh.

Monk Wei scratched his head and chuckled honestly, "Well, I've already returned to secular life, haven't I?"

Listening to their conversation, Xu Wenqiang gradually began to grasp the reality of the situation.

He realized he had likely misjudged the situation; this big-headed Commander Li was probably extraordinary indeed.

"Come on, work is about to start. Let me take you to check out the shooting range first," Li Yunlong said with a smile.

Xu Wenqiang followed along.

The men chatted as they walked.

"Right now, there are only three of us working at the shooting range," Li Yunlong remarked.

"Shouldn't there be three more?" Xu Wenqiang asked curiously.

He remembered Mr. Qiao telling him earlier that, aside from him, there were five other slots allocated to the shooting range.

"There are indeed three more," Li Yunlong said helplessly. "They came with serious business and have been training outside all this time. The only reason the monk is here is because I had to swallow my pride and drag him over."

Speaking of this, Li Yunlong grew exceptionally sullen. "So what if I dropped a few Alien Queens into the Japs' homeland? Nobody even knew we did it, yet they punished me by not allowing me back for half a year!"

"Besides, I wasn't the only one who did it! Didn't Kong Erlengzi join me? They told him to redeem himself through meritorious service while claiming I was the mastermind and had to be punished!"

Xu Wenqiang understood only half of what was being said.

As he spoke, Li Yunlong fished out half a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, pulled one out, clamped it between his lips, and asked Xu Wenqiang, "Care for one?"

"Thank you," Xu Wenqiang said, reaching out.

Subconsciously, Li Yunlong pulled back the hand holding the cigarette pack slightly, extracted a single cigarette, and handed it to Xu Wenqiang.

After taking the cigarette, Xu Wenqiang patted his other pocket for matches, only to realize he had been without cigarettes and fire for several days.

He looked eagerly at Li Yunlong, only to find that the man showed no intention of lighting up at all.

Holding the cigarette, he brought it beneath his nose to sniff it, involuntarily licking his lips.

Such high-grade stuff must taste wonderful!

"Commander Li, I don't have a light!" he said softly.

Li Yunlong pointed at him and laughed. "You damned fellow really are an old smoker. Too bad we have someone petty watching us here."

"Petty person?" Xu Wenqiang asked, puzzled.

"Some arrogant bastard who's let power go to his head and came up with a bunch of rules and regulations to restrict us, especially targeting me, Old Li!" Li Yunlong sneered.

Xu Wenqiang was even more perplexed. "Commander Li, you're the person in charge of the shooting range. Aside from Mr. Qiao, who else could possibly discipline you?"

"That's exactly it!" Li Yunlong fumed. "Some individual takes a chicken feather for an imperial arrow, forbidding people from smoking or spitting in the park, banning casual urination and defecation, and handing out punishments over every little thing!"

"You have no idea, I've nearly been fined ten game coins this month alone! Dammit, trade those for a rocket launcher and you could buy several of them!"

Xu Wenqiang was secretly startled. "Who on earth is that?"

"Who else could it be? It's a traitor who crawled out from our own ranks!" Li Yunlong kicked a branch flying off the path.

"Who are you talking about?" A cold voice suddenly came from beside them.