Translator: Simple MTL Editor: Simple MTL
Bang.
The middle-aged man with the hat didn’t have time to turn his head back and directly bumped into Chen Yu.
“Ah…” Chen Yu came back to his senses and quickly moved aside. “Sorry, sorry…”
The middle-aged man looked at Chen Yu up and down, snorted coldly, and left quickly.
Standing on the spot, Chen Yu didn’t know what to do.
He didn’t know if he should go in…
This ‘Professor Zhen’ was too horny…
He started to panic.
“Who? Who’s outside?” Not long after, an old man wearing a trashy outfit walked out with his pants. “Who are you? Are you looking for me?”
“Oh… No, I’m just passing by, passing by…”
Chen Yu felt that this was not a good opportunity to meet, so he left decisively.
However, before he could turn around, he was pulled back by the old man’s claw, “Eh, isn’t this my Inch Collapsing Fist?”
“Ah… Yes.”
“You also came to ask me for a refund?” The old man looked unfriendly, “This book is self-made and printed. It’s not for public sale. Why are you asking me for a refund?”
“No, I’m not. You’ve misunderstood.” Since things had come to this, Chen Yu did not waste time and simply told him the reason for his visit. “Professor Zhen, I’m a student from the neighboring Beijing University. I came to look for you because I admire you.”
“Admire?” The old man was stunned and pointed at his own face. “Me?”
“Yes!” Chen Yu raised the book and said sincerely, “You don’t know that before I met this book, the future of my martial arts career was dark and I couldn’t see the light. However, when I found this book yesterday, everything changed.”
“What changed?” the old man asked nervously.
“Everything changed. Even my sexual orientation changed. The martial technique you created is simply a classic that has been passed down for generations, a treasure of martial arts! How many other martial techniques can cause harm to oneself besides this ‘Inch Collapsing Fist’?”
Hearing this, the old man looked at Chen Yu up and down. “Are you mocking me?”
“Of course not! Listen to me carefully.” Chen Yu opened the title page of the book and pointed at the introduction on it. “Professor Zhen, don’t you think that all the professors in the world have fallen into a wrong path?”
“What… What wrong path?”
“They are all creating cultivation techniques to become stronger, but they have never thought about how to make themselves weaker.”
The old man was stunned. “Is… is this a wrong path?”
“Of course.” Taking back the book, Chen Yu put his arm around the old man’s shoulder, he continued, “If becoming stronger is a positive thing, becoming weaker is a negative thing. In this world, if there is a positive thing, there must be a negative thing! If there is light, there must be darkness. And the extreme of darkness is often light.”
“It seems to make sense.” The old man seemed to be thinking. “But it seems to make no sense at all…”
“Please continue to listen to me. All the professors, experts, and scholars are developing ‘positive’ martial techniques, but no one is exploring the ‘negative’ world. From the perspective of scientific research, isn’t this a kind of failure?”
“…” The old man blinked his eyes with a blank look on his face.
Chen Yu continued to speak eloquently, “I specifically looked it up on the internet. For example, most of the force in the Xinyu acupoint will cause harm to the body. And this acupoint will greatly increase the force. Therefore, many professors have tried various routes to pass through the Xinyu acupoint, and finally found a successful route. Doesn’t this confirm what Mr. Lu Xun once said?”
The old man asked, “What words?”
“Although I failed a thousand times and didn’t know which material could be used as a filament, I know which materials can not be used as a filament!”
The old man scratched his half-bald head. “Did Lu Xun say this? Didn’t Einstein say this?”
“No matter who said it, we all know what it means.” Chen Yu waved his hand. “The Inch Collapsing Fist that you studied is similar to Einstein’s filament, isn’t it the same way? Let’s not talk about how much strength it has increased when creating a martial technique. At the very least, we know that this kind of martial technique is harmful! This is the essence of scientific research! Reverse exploration, the spirit of a craftsman!”
The old man: “??”
“Think about it. With your example, when future professors create martial arts, they won’t have to cross the river by feeling for stones. They will definitely avoid the route that you’ve designed! How much energy did this save? How much money did it save? How much time did it save? To the entire human race, isn’t your ‘Inch Collapsing Fist’ greater than the contribution of a hundred martial arts books combined?”
Chen Yu’s throat was dry as he spoke. He paused and swallowed his saliva.
Professor Zhen stood rooted to the ground as if he had been struck by lightning.
One minute.
Three minutes.
Five minutes…
He finally came back to his senses. He grabbed Chen Yu’s hand and shook it hard. “…Fate. This is fate!”
Chen Yu also shook it hard. “Professor, it’s really fate!”
“Student, you’re right. Without the ‘Inch Collapsing Fist’, ‘Immovable Body Explosion’ and other martial skills that I created, how many detours would all the professors in the world have to take?”
“Yes!” Chen Yu was excited. “You stepped on all these lightning bolts!”
“I paved the stones for them and provided them with technical support, but they turned around and attacked me. The school even cut my funding. This is unfair!”
“Professor Zhen, this is the spirit of self-sacrifice. If you don’t go to hell, who will? Lu Xun once said that there are only two things in the world that must be admired. One, the sun in the sky. Two, the lofty moral standards of great men. You, are the two!”
Professor Zhen’s beard trembled. “I am the two!”
Chen Yu nodded heavily. “Yes! You are the two! who else is more stupid than you?”
“There is no one else!” Professor Zhen patted his chest. “How can there be anyone else who is worthy?!”
“Professor, to tell you the truth, I also want to be a great man like you.”
Chen Yu solemnly raised the Inch Collapsing Fist in his hand. “I also want to be like you, creating a cultivation technique that is harmful to the body and building a foundation for the development of the entire martial arts world! This is why I came to look for you.”
“…Good child.”
Professor Zhen stood in place in silence for a long time. He hugged Chen Yu. “You are a good child. After so many years, only you have understood me. Only you have discovered my value. That’s right, although the martial techniques I created have always failed, without my failures, how could they have succeeded?”
Chen Yu: “That’s it.”
“Come, child, enter the house.”
Professor Zhen led Chen Yu into the villa. He walked past the books on the floor and pointed to the second floor.
“Let me show you my newly created martial techniques. That was the last chance that Tsinghua University gave me. They said that if I failed again, they would expel me from the school. Originally, I had already created almost everything, but after hearing your words today, I decided to start all over again! I must create a cultivation technique that has only flaws and no advantages! I want to build a foundation for other people’s research!”
“Awesome!” Chen Yu gave him a thumbs up. “Professor, if you can create a cultivation technique that can cause people to die on the spot, it’ll be a huge blow! The entire martial arts world will be grateful to you!”
Professor Zhen puffed out his chest. “That’s definitely the case!”
