The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 2 A Godlike Beginning
The sun sets.

Rays of afterglow fell on the ruins of the martial arts hall, the devastated floor, and rat heads popping out of the cracks in the ground, swaying back and forth, giving Lin Qi an indescribable sense of security.

"Player Fang Zhen, age 29, physical fitness test, strength 76 kg, speed 7.3 meters per second."

"evaluate?"

"Primary school student."

Lin Qi looked at the small notebook in his hand, scratched his head, crossed out the three words "primary school student", and added seven words at the end.

Kindergarten senior class to be determined.

"I have to act like NPCs, but at the same time, I have to make them obey. This team is so hard to lead."

Lin Qi put away the small notebook and couldn't help but sigh. He glanced directly at the corner below his vision, and then a translucent panel slowly appeared.

System: The traditional martial arts system has been opened. The current task is to completely repair the Obsidian Martial Arts School, which rewards the coach with a B6 training machine and increases the maximum number of players that can be introduced by 40.

Host: Lin Qi.

Age: 25.

Martial arts level: Preparatory apprentice.

Strength: 92 kg (apprentice standard: 100 kg)

Speed: 8.9 m/s. (Apprentice standard: 10 m/s)
Number of players that can be introduced: 10 (The host currently limits the number of online players to 1, and the current number of reservations is 5.)
The traditional martial arts system allows people from the Blue Star to come to this world through the game. It can also cut off the connection between the player and this world at any time. Moreover, he does not have to pay a price when the player dies and is resurrected. His ability is simply amazing.

But now.

Lin Qi felt that he had a new understanding of this system.

Although the system can bring players here, the players' physical fitness is obviously not very good.

boom!
boom!boom!
"This second-hand generator is truly unreliable. The basic power supply is intermittent, and yet they sold it to me for 500 bits. That black lizard's heart is truly black."

Lin Qi, who was in the lounge, patted the rumbling iron lump in front of him and couldn't help but complain in a low voice.

Lin Qi was originally just a 25-year-old entrepreneur from Blue Star. He had worked very hard since college and had his own gaming technology company. Recently, he finally became financially independent and could start enjoying life. However, fourteen days ago, he suddenly traveled to this world.

It would have been fine if he had traveled through time, but he didn't even keep a piece of clothing and came here in his original state. It was really too much. Fortunately, he was lucky and traveled to the abandoned martial arts gym at the beginning.

When Lin Qi was looking for clothes in the martial arts hall, he found a lot of old books and magazines, which gave Lin Qi some basic information about this world.

This blue planet is completely different from the one he lived in before. It is not only a world of advanced martial arts where all races gather, but also has a higher level of technology, and the dangers are unimaginable.

In July of 2025, the sea level of the Blue Planet suddenly cracked, and a catastrophe began.

The wilderness is filled with powerful monsters that are not afraid of thermal weapons. The beast waves that emerge from time to time can easily destroy cities, making the living space of human beings on this planet smaller and smaller.

Fortunately, humans have developed a way to deal with this problem in their later development, and that is warriors.

By learning martial arts, the limits of the human body were broken, life evolved, and for the first time, humans had the power to fight against those powerful monsters. Then all races appeared, and martial arts prevailed for hundreds of years. Even now, warriors have always been people's pursuit, guarding the hope of mankind. Even countries and races around the world have made martial arts a compulsory course in high school, and the college entrance examination depends on the martial arts test scores.

If your martial arts exam scores do not meet the requirements, even if you are a liberal arts student and have scored full marks in other subjects, you cannot even think about going to university. And if you want to go to a martial arts university, the martial arts exam is the key among the keys.

As for finding a job after graduating from university, it goes without saying that the first thing HR interviews at major companies do is to let the interviewee take a punch.

If you can take the first punch in the interview, you will take the second punch in the second round. If you pass all three rounds, you will not need any other assessments and can start work directly.

Due to the rise of martial arts, various martial arts schools have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. The Obsidian Martial Arts School where Lin Qi lives now is one of the human martial arts schools established when the City of Light was first established.

Although the place where the Obsidian Martial Arts School is now located has become an abandoned area in the City of Light, a place where even wild dogs would shake their heads when they see it, the Obsidian Martial Arts School covers an area of ​​more than 80,000 square meters. Even though it is dilapidated, there are still some places that can shelter from the wind and rain, so Lin Qi doesn't have to sleep on the street.

"It's really hard to save this generator." Lin Qi clapped his hands again. The power in the martial arts hall was still intermittent, and the lights were flickering. It was obvious that it had not been repaired.

"This is a generator, a precision instrument. Do you think it's something you can fix with just a couple of slaps?" A woman over two meters tall, with fair skin, a high ponytail, and a mechanical prosthetic hand, walked directly to Lin Qi and kicked the iron lump several times. Each kick broke the surrounding floorboards. After more than ten kicks, the lights in the hall finally stopped flickering. "Alright, your strength is still a little lacking. You need to practice more."

"Thank you." Lin Qi looked at the brightly lit training ground and couldn't help but sigh, "As expected of a licensed mechanic from the City of Light. His strength is truly beyond the reach of ordinary people."

Luo Qi, 24 years old, is an employee of a weapons store in the suburbs of the City of Light. She is also Lin Qi's savior after he traveled to this advanced martial arts world. She helped Lin Qi truly understand this world, the City of Light.

"Stop flattering me. I won't reduce your payment by a single cent." Luo Qi rolled his eyes at Lin Qi, raised his mechanical prosthetic hand, and pointed at the old car parked outside the martial arts gym behind him. "I've shipped all the stuff here. Ten alloy shovels are for you, along with three composite longbows and nine black steel arrows. These weapons are all high-end, made of A5-grade alloy. Even the young masters of the martial arts world would use them on a regular basis. It's 15000 bits in total. Do you plan to pay in installments or pay it off all at once?"

"15000 bits, so cheap? I heard the rent in the city is going up recently." Lin Qi looked at Luo Qi in surprise. "Besides, your sister is just in her first year of high school, so she's sprinting for remedial classes. If you sell it to me so cheaply, you're going to lose a lot of money this month. Did you get a big order recently?"

It takes a lot of time to make weapons. As an employee of a weapons shop, Luo Qi only makes five or six weapons a month, earning some money purely from the labor fees. The cost of A5-grade alloy is very high. Three A5-grade weapons cost 15000 bits, which is almost the cost price.

Money in the high-level martial arts world is extremely difficult to earn, and what you earn is often not enough to spend. Good jobs generally require martial arts apprentices, and ordinary people with formal identities only earn two thousand bits a month.

Luo Qi is a little better off as a mechanic, but not much better. It would be good if he could earn an extra 500 or 600 yuan. Living in the suburbs, the monthly rent would take up half of Luo Qi's income. The production cost of three weapons is equivalent to half a month's salary gone.

As for wanting to go to high school in this world, the cost is extremely high. The tuition alone is six thousand per semester, plus the various nutritional costs required to exercise qi and blood. It is difficult for ordinary people to afford it, and it is even more difficult for one person.

"The rent here is indeed going to increase recently, and it's not just us, all the other tribes are the same. I don't know what kind of luck the Half-Scale Tribe has, but they actually gave birth to several talented warriors. Their status in the City of Chasing Light has risen a lot. The Half-Scale Tribe has less rent, so naturally the rents of all the other tribes have to go up." Luo Qi's eyes revealed envy when he talked about warriors.

It is not easy to become a warrior, and it is even more difficult to become a warrior before the age of 25. On the human side, there has not been any talented warrior for almost years.

Luo Qi sighed for a moment, then looked at Lin Qi and said, "Don't worry about me. I'm a mechanic after all, and I don't need your money. How many installments do you plan to pay back in? I suggest ten years. Although the interest rate is a bit higher, you can at least afford it every month."

"No, I'll pay it off in one go." Lin Qi reached into his clothes and took out eighteen white banknotes, each worth one thousand bits.

"You've definitely taken that step." Luo Qi looked at the money in his hand and looked at Lin Qi with a complicated expression, "Which gang? How much did you borrow?"

"The Gorilla Gang at the suburban warehouse." Lin Qi did not hide anything from Luo Qi, "I borrowed 30,000 and will pay back 60,000 in two months." On the first day Lin Qi traveled to this world, he was thinking about how to become a warrior, but on the way to the city of chasing light, he met two high school students from the martial arts class. The two were sparring under a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse, causing many passers-by to fall and become seriously injured, and he was one of them.

Luo Qi was also on the bridge at that time. Before he fell, he pushed Luo Qi, so that Luo Qi did not fall off the bridge. Afterwards, Luo Qi took the seriously injured him to the hospital out of gratitude.

As an illegal vagrant, Lin Qi was completely ignored by the City of Chasing Light and received no compensation. He had no money, so Luo Qi paid him two thousand dollars first and then another thousand dollars to save him from starvation. Although the hospital cured his injuries, he still owed the hospital ten thousand bits, which was to be repaid in four interest-free installments, equivalent to 2500 dollars a month.

It is basically impossible for an illegal vagrant living in the City of Light to repay 2500 bits a month. Illegal vagrants do illegal work and their daily food expenses are no more than 5 bits. Let alone earning 2500 bits, it would be good if they can earn a fraction of it.

As for wanting to become a warrior, a basic training method book sold casually in the city library alone would cost tens of thousands of bits, not to mention that it is useless to practice the training method blindly, and you need professional guidance. The guidance fee is several times that of the training method, which is completely out of reach for an illegal immigrant like him.

"You're borrowing so much, you're not planning to go into that line of work, are you?"

"Ah."

"You're crazy! You're gambling with your life!"

"To make money, you always have to gamble a little. As for farming, I think I have a good chance."

During the days since Lin Qi came to the high-level martial arts world, he has become very clear about how difficult it is to survive as an illegal vagrant. If he wants to make a lot of money in the City of Light, there are only two ways.

One is to become a test product for major companies, and the other is to farm.

The wilderness of the high-level martial arts world is full of dangers even for real warriors. However, the major cities have limited areas and large populations, and food has always been scarce, especially food that can accelerate the improvement of blood and qi, which is even less available.

If ordinary people want to become warriors, they need to consume a lot of energy from the body to train their qi and blood, which is difficult to satisfy with ordinary food. Fortunately, the technology in the high-level martial arts world is very advanced, and many special plants have been created, including a kind of blood rice.

As long as this blood-essence rice is planted in a place with rich energy, it will not only mature in ten days, but also contains very rich energy. Major cities are generally built on energy veins, which can provide sufficient power sources for the city. Therefore, the closer to the city center, the richer the energy. Blood-essence rice has become the main food grown in major cities.

But each city is so small that the blood-essence rice produced is not enough to eat, and there are many places in the wild that are full of rich energy, so planting in the wild has become a good way for illegal vagrants to make money.

As long as a batch of blood-essence rice can be grown in the wild, even if it is only ten kilograms, according to the market price of the City of Light, one kilogram is 200 bits, which means 2000 bits. The cost of ten kilograms of blood-essence rice seeds is only 500 bits. The four times profit is enough to make many people crazy, not to mention the illegal vagrants.

"You're crazy! That business isn't for ordinary people. Even apprentices who have just entered the martial arts world wouldn't dare venture into it. You'd better give up. Putting aside the question of whether your small body can find hidden energy sites in the wild and protect the blood essence rice, you should know that this business is now controlled by various gangs. If they find out, there will be no good results." Luo Qi said speechlessly, "You really go to bars so often that you really think everyone can become an urban legend."

"Fei Jin, the jackal of the wilderness, and Qi Lan, the iron light-seeker, truly broke through the blockades of those gangs as nomads. They even became warriors, becoming legendary figures that everyone yearns for among the nomads. But among the tens of millions of nomads in the Light-Seeking City, how many such legends can there be?"

"Give up now while you can still turn back."

"I know a pretty good hospital. With your looks, if you weren't a man anymore, I believe a lot of rich men would be attracted to a beautiful girl like you."

Luo Qi's words were sincere, and even her eyes showed Lin Qi's bright future, which made Lin Qi stunned for a moment.

Xiaojiabiyu?

Lin Qi believes that he is not short. In his original Blue Star, he was a tall man with a height of 186 cm. However, in this world of high martial arts where everyone trains, the height of junior high school students generally reaches two meters, and the height of high school students is generally two meters twenty or two meters twenty or two meters thirty. His height is indeed nothing, but it is not something that should be pitied.

"Forget about this route. It's a bit of a gamble, and I don't have the mental fortitude to do it." Lin Qi looked at Luo Qi who was still trying to talk and quickly interrupted her. "Do you have a map of the distribution of the major gangs in the City of Light?"

Although there are many monsters active in the wild, there are also many relatively safe places, and these places contain a lot of places with rich energy. The major gangs generally occupy these places and use them to grow blood rice to sell in the city. If other people want to grow blood rice, they can only avoid these places.

Although the Cangjing Weapon Shop where Luo Qi works is not a very powerful one, it is also one of the top weapon shops in the suburbs. It provides a lot of weapons privately and also transports them to various gangs. It should know something about the outdoor activities of various gangs.

"Alas, you are too conservative." Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi who had made up his mind, and sighed inwardly that he was not living up to his expectations. He directly sent him an electronic map and turned to leave, but still reminded him before leaving.

"If you really can't pay the money back before the deadline, please let me know in advance. I don't think you'd want to give your body to those gorillas. I have connections here, and I should be able to sell you for a high price. Maybe even give you a kidney for future use."

"Can we still keep one?" Lin Qi looked at Luo Qi in surprise. He didn't expect that Luo Qi had such strong connections.

Sixty thousand is not a small amount. It is equivalent to two years' income for an ordinary person in the City of Light. Lin Qi estimated that his body is only worth sixty to seventy thousand, otherwise the group of gorillas would not have lent him only thirty thousand.

"How about letting 29 give it a try?"

"Sixty thousand a time. Those would-be warriors don't even make that much, and I can still keep a kidney and live. It's perfect!"

Lin Qi looked at Luo Qi disappearing into the night and couldn't help feeling moved, but Lin Qi shook his head and quickly gave up the idea.

Players are different from ordinary people. They can be resurrected infinitely. If some forces really notice the problem, there will be endless small fruits to be picked. If they find him at that time, it will be a big problem.

Two hours later, in the basement of Obsidian Martial Arts School.

"Good stamina, shows potential." Lin Qi nodded as he looked at Fang Zhen, who was still barely standing. With such stamina and perseverance, he was definitely a skilled farmer. He immediately had a much higher opinion of Fang Zhen and could even cross out the word "pending." "By the way, how are your kidneys usually? How are you feeling now?"

"How are my kidneys? How are they feeling? Does my legs feel weak?"

"Don't you feel it?"

"Brother, should I feel anything?"

Fang Zhen couldn't help but look at Lin Qi outside the iron bars with vigilance, feeling very panicked. He asked him to do 2,000 squats for two hours, and now he asked him about his kidneys and how he felt.

What the hell could this god possibly feel? What else could he possibly feel?
Good? Very good?
"Alas, the kindergarten senior class is still not good enough."

"???"

Lin Qi sighed slightly, looked at the time displayed on his watch, and then looked at Fang Zhen, as if waiting for something. Before Fang Zhen could say anything, he felt an indescribable stabbing pain in his brain and kidneys, and then a mouthful of black blood spurted out, and his eyes went black.

System: You are dead.

"Game? This is a game?!"

Fang Zhen looked at the system prompt with his eyes wide open, completely stunned.

Are today's game manufacturers all this good at playing games?
(End of this chapter)