Chapter 2: Kung Fu?

  Two men on both sides rushed up together, while another man retreated to the alley entrance to prevent Gu Fei from escaping.

  Two guys suddenly appeared, one punching and the other kicking. Gu Fei remained calm and unhurried, taking a step back to dodge both attacks. He then lifted his left leg and kicked it straight into the face of the guy on the left, but just as he was about to kick with his right foot, he found that the guy on the right had already retreated in surprise.

  Gu Fei smiled wryly. If this were in reality, his kick wouldn't have only hit one person. But now in the game, his speed was completely limited by the lousy physical data of a mage, and he couldn't bring out this move at all, only managing to use half of it. Moreover, the power had been weakened even more cruelly, and the guy on the left who got kicked by him just covered his face in surprise and stared at Gu Fei. If this were reality, getting kicked like that would have at least knocked him out for four or five hours.

  "It's indeed a two-elemental." The leader's expression changed, but he didn't panic. Gu Fei's kick had hit its mark, but its power was apparently limited. He immediately shouted: "He's just a mage, no need to be afraid!" After shouting, he charged over and joined the battle.

  Gu Fei walked among the three of them. Although his physical strength was extremely weak due to the monk's physique, the monk's agility was barely passable. At least for now, everyone was a novice and hadn't leveled up or added any points, so the gap wasn't particularly noticeable. Gu Fei occasionally threw out a punch or kicked out a leg, relying on his rich combat experience to hit his opponents with every move. The three guys still hadn't even touched the corner of Gu Fei's clothes. The leader was getting more and more surprised: this guy wasn't just skilled, fortunately he was a monk; if it were someone with a bit more strength, the three of them would have been knocked down by now.

  Gu Fei felt somewhat helpless at this moment, as many of his martial arts moves were restricted by various factors and couldn't be executed. Looking at it this way, even if he had chosen a profession like a fighter, without the support of leveling up and point allocation, his martial arts skills still wouldn't be able to shine. On the other hand, although he was currently a mage, as long as he leveled up and allocated points in directions such as agility and strength, he would still have opportunities to showcase his martial arts skills! Thinking about this, Gu Fei's spirits lifted involuntarily.

  The three besiegers looked at each other and found that not only could they not handle Gu Fei, but he was also getting more spirited as the fight went on. Just a moment ago, he had even revealed an extremely pleased smile, which made them even more flustered in their hearts.

  This was just a street-level brick-cutting technique, and in Gu Fei's eyes, it was full of loopholes. Gu Fei didn't want to get entangled with these guys, so he took the opportunity to exit the circle and laughed: "Do you still want to continue fighting?"

  The three of them had received quite a few punches and kicks from Gu Fei, although the force wasn't heavy, but it was still unbearable after accumulating. Especially later on, Gu Fei deliberately repeated hitting the same part over and over again. At this time, the three of them, the one on the left had a black eye, the one on the right had a black eye too, and the leader in the middle had a nosebleed that wouldn't stop, speaking was also afraid of getting blood in his mouth, he tilted his head back, stretched out his hand to wipe it away, then said to the other three: "Let's go!"

  "Wait!" Gu Fei said, "You beat someone up and don't even apologize before leaving?"

  "Apologize?" The leader sneered, "You can't even kill me, why should I apologize?" This was true, after all the trouble Gu Fei had caused them, it only resulted in two black eyes and a nosebleed for the three of them. It wasn't an injury that couldn't be endured. As for death, that was even more impossible. In the game, you had to have zero health points to die. But now, looking at how each of them had been beaten until their faces were swollen, not one of their health points had decreased. This was definitely a major bug in the game.

  Gu Fei just smiled faintly and bent down to pick up a piece of broken stone from the ground, then suddenly raised his hand and "slapped" it onto the leader's forehead.

  The leader was furious: "You......"

  "If this hits you in the eyes, what would happen to you now?" Gu Fei said with a calm and collected tone.

  The leader was stunned, he originally thought that Gu Fei was just casually hitting himself, but from the tone of his voice, it seemed like he was saying "hit wherever you want"?

  "In reality, your eyes are still fine, but in the game, you'll be blind from now on... Don't forget, this is a holographic simulation game." Gu Fei said.

  The leader took two steps back in fright, but then thought again, "Can you really hit someone's eyes just by saying so? What kind of magical thing is this?" He immediately felt at ease and burst out laughing: "You little brat, who are you trying to scare?"

  Gu Fei didn't say a word, stretched out his foot and hooked up a pebble with one kick, then waved his right hand...

  "Ahh..." A miserable cry, the leader clutched at his right eye and fell to the ground, rolling back and forth, wailing in agony. The pain of having his eyes gouged out was on a completely different level from just getting a black eye.

  "You still have one eye left." Gu Fei said, kicking at the rolling figure on the ground. After finishing speaking, he kicked up two pieces of broken stone with his foot and grasped them in his fist. His gaze swept towards the other two people beside the leader: "This time I have two pieces of broken stone in my hand."

  "Ah... sorry!" The two were completely intimidated by the leader's ear-piercing screams and stammered out an apology.

  "Let's go!" Gu Fei waved his hand, and the two of them hastily dragged away the leader who was on the ground. The man covered his right eye with one hand, and his left eye was also tightly closed, trembling in pain as he stuttered out a sentence: "Go... hurry up and help me leave..." The other two guys were stunned for a moment before rushing forward to support him as they left, while the guy who had been guarding the alley entrance had already disappeared early on.

  A Fa, who was hiding at the alley entrance watching the live broadcast, was dumbfounded. It wasn't until a few guys ran away without a trace that he came to his senses, rushed into the alley, and stared at Gu Fei with a surprised face: "Teacher, you really know kung fu!"

  "Of course, Teacher has been practicing martial arts since he was a child." Gu Fei's words were no different from what he usually said in school, and even his tone and expression didn't change.

  Gu Fei is indeed skilled in martial arts.

  He was born into a martial arts family and started practicing from an early age. Family members had their own businesses outside, but inside they all shared the same goal of passing on Chinese martial arts. However, Gu Fei felt that except for himself and his old man, no one else took this matter to heart anymore.

  The uncle's generation was still quite capable, but in their own generation, there wasn't even a decent opponent to spar with. Not only that, for people like Gu Fei who had devoted themselves to martial arts since childhood, they were also filled with disdain: "What era is this? Planes are filling the sky and computers are lining the streets, what's the use of kung fu? Can you eat it?"

  Gu Fei wanted to prove it to them, but as a result, he was met with even deeper contempt.

  It's really helpless. In this era, kung fu is indeed hard to make a living from.

  In the sports world, this seemingly easiest domain to play with special skills was tried one by one by Gu Fei. Some projects were repeatedly fouled because they could not grasp the rules, such as football lifting their feet too high and basketball colliding with people; some projects had kung fu but it didn't work, such as chess projects; there were also some projects that Gu Fei had congenital defects, such as swimming and diving water projects - Gu Fei couldn't swim.

  Even if it were a project of Gongfu itself, Gu Fei still couldn't get through.

  Gu Fei's kung fu training emphasized cultivating his own abilities and combat skills. This made him have no advantage in performing martial arts projects, while the actual fighting projects that could bring out his strengths were strictly forbidden by his father.

  "We practice martial arts to temper ourselves, break through human physical limits, and not just to be brave and fight fiercely!" Father said with a serious tone.

  "Isn't breaking through human limits for the sake of defeating each other even more?" Gu Fei asked in puzzlement.

  "You're wrong, the best way to knock down an opponent is..." Old Dad said.

  “**？”

  Old dad nodded solemnly: "Right!"

  "But..."

  Before Gu Fei could finish speaking, his father responded with a punch. A family of martial artists! The argument couldn't be settled with words, so they had to resort to physical confrontation. That year, his father's body was still quite robust, and his kung fu skills were superior to Gu Fei's. Moreover, Gu Fei naturally couldn't engage in a real fight with his father, so he ended up being beaten to the ground. That day happened to be the same day Gu Fei came to Yu Lin for an interview...

  In the end, after being eliminated from all sports events, Gu Fei still managed to stay in the sports circle, if physical education teachers count.

  But because of being beaten by his father outside the school gate and being photographed and spread, Gu Fei wanted to promote Kung Fu in Yu Lin, but was given a shameful title.

  Kung fu, is it really that hard to survive in this society? Gu Fei was heartbroken. Nowadays, he rarely participates in family gatherings. In the past, the older generation would think that Gu Fei's persistence in kung fu was a good example for the younger generation, and they would use him as a role model to educate their peers. But now, seeing his peers all dressed up and successful, while Gu Fei had fallen to being just a physical education teacher, even the older generation began to doubt. Except for Gu Fei's father, no one else believed that he was the most promising person.

  But what Dad insisted on even more was the view that "Kung Fu is not for showing off or being aggressive".

  "I will never allow you to use your kung fu to harm anyone!" Father said resolutely.

  "Isn't it also useless for bad people?" Gu Fei asked.

  "No way!" Old Dad was very certain, "Bad people will naturally have police and laws to punish them!"

  "So, what's the point of kung fu anyway?" Gu Fei was worried, he hated that he couldn't see through everything like his old man did, and was always entangled in thoughts about what kung fu could be used for.