4: Chapter 4 The Guest Who Visited Late at Night

Inside the room.

Jiang You landed, maintaining that cool "goal-kicking" pose, standing on one leg.

But the expression on his face looked like he was about to cry.

He stiffly turned his head to look at the two yellow-haired punks huddled in the corner, trembling.

Jiang You tried his best to look friendly, revealing a smile that was uglier than crying, and pointed to his Legs: "If I say my Legs went numb and I slipped because I could not stand steadily... you guys should believe me this time, right?"

The two yellow-haired punks looked at each other, their pupils shrinking to the size of pinpoints.

Is this guy a demon?!

Kicking someone twenty meters away and actually saying it was just a slip?

"Mommy! Run! Jiang You has gone crazy!"

"Murder! Help!"

The two scrambled out the door, and because they were too panicked, they even got stuck at the doorway for a moment before finally scrambling away for their lives, wishing they had grown extra Legs.

The rental apartment finally returned to silence.

Only the wind whistled in through that large hole.

Jiang You stood there blankly, looking at his hands, then at his Legs.

Finally, he came to a conclusion:

"Sure enough, staying up late is too hard on the body."

"My nervous system is in chaos; I am actually experiencing such severe phantom limb movements."

"No, I need to catch up on sleep. As long as I fall asleep, this illness will get better."

Jiang You sighed and, exhausted, lay back down on the bed.

He pulled the blanket over himself, wrapping himself up like a silkworm chrysalis, as if as long as he did not think about it, everything that just happened would be a hallucination.

"I am a useless person... I did not do anything... I am not paying for damages..."

While self-hypnotizing, he quickly drifted off to sleep.

...

[Internal Chat Group]

As Jiang You's consciousness went offline again, the organs inside his body once again turned on party mode.

[liver] (Still unsatisfied): "Refreshing! That bit of exercise just now was not bad! I have converted another 10% of the Dragon Egg energy! Master's Blood Qi value has already broken through 200!"

"But it is still not enough! With this level of strength, how are we supposed to show off when we meet someone powerful later?"

[Kidney]: "Exactly! Master is too lazy; we cannot count on him at all. In this family, we have to rely on ourselves!"

[Legs]: "When I kicked just now, I felt my meridians were a bit blocked. We must train harder tonight! Let us go to the gravity training ground outside the city and run for the whole night!"

[Heart]: "Agreed! As long as you do not train yourself to death, train until you die! When he wakes up tomorrow morning, I am going to give Master a big surprise (or fright)!"

[All Organs]: "Get to work!! For the sake of Master's grand cause of showing off, let us struggle!!"

Just then, a cold ID appeared.

[Brain (Supercomputing Center)]: "A bunch of brutes. Stop."

The group went silent instantly. Regarding this usually reticent commander-in-chief, everyone was still a bit afraid.

[Brain]: "Relying solely on brute force is for beasts. That rich second-generation kid who was kicked away earlier—the 'Ninth Set of Middle School Broadcast Gymnastics Body Refining Method' running inside his body, while trash, has been reverse-engineered by me through retinal capture just now."

[liver]: "Holy crap? Brother Brain is awesome! Can that thing be practiced?"

[Brain]: "I have already utilized the time Master was dreaming just now, calling upon 90% of my computing power, to improve it into the 'Biological Ultimate · Fully Automatic Internal Grind AFK Method'. Now I am sending the running route to you all; liver is responsible for energy scheduling, meridians are responsible for transmission, run it according to my instructions."

[Kidney] (Moved): "Brother Brain, it really has to be you! This improved version looks like it is good for the Kidneys!"

[Brain]: "Cut the crap. Master's current Brain capacity is only enough to hold sleeping and eating; this kind of complex cultivation method can only run AFK while he is in sleep mode. Execute immediately! Before he wakes up, you must finish practicing the first layer!"

[All Organs]: "Received! Brother Brain is mighty!"

...

The night was deep and quiet.

However, the air inside the rental apartment was as scorching as a pressure cooker.

Jiang You was sleeping very soundly, even emitting slight snoring sounds.

But inside his body, an emergency meeting was taking place that would be enough to shock the martial arts world.

[Internal Chat Group]:

[Brain]: " 'Biological Ultimate · Fully Automatic Internal Grind AFK Method' Version 1.0, initiating."

"Lungs, adjust breathing frequency, enter Whale Swallowing Mode."

"Skin, open all pores, turn on photosynthesis... No, wait, start absorbing Spiritual Energy."

"Everyone pay attention, do not make the movements too big, do not wake this Slacker Ruler up. If he wakes up, he will start complaining about being tired, and that is very troublesome."

[Lungs]: "Received! Watch me suck dry everything within a five-hundred-meter radius in one breath!"

Outside, two streams of white gas suddenly sprayed from Jiang You's nostrils like two little white dragons, and the Spiritual Energy in the room instantly formed a vortex, crazily drilling into his body.

[liver]: "Spiritual Energy is here! Purify! Compress! Conversion rate 99%! This feeling is better than working overtime!"

[Whole Body Muscles]: "Performing micro-current stimulation... Muscle fibers are restructuring... Strength increasing... Toughness increasing..."

Jiang You's body twitched from time to time in his sleep.

He turned over and mumbled in his dream: "Auntie... put more sesame paste in the spicy hot pot... add an egg too..."

[Brain]: "Heh, stupid Master. You add eggs in your dreams, we make you a god in reality."

...

Meanwhile.

Jiang City First Hospital, special care ward.

Zhao Tai was wrapped up like a mummy, only revealing a pair of eyes filled with resentment.

Beside the hospital bed stood a middle-aged man wearing a Tang suit, rotating two iron balls in his hand.

The head of the Zhao family, Patriarch Zhao.

"Dad... I want him dead... that trash... beat me up like this..." Zhao Tai cried like a two-hundred-pound child.

A flash of ruthlessness passed through Patriarch Zhao's eyes, and with a "crack" sound, he squeezed finger marks into the iron balls in his hand.

"Rest assured."

"I have already contacted Viper. That is a gold-medal assassin from the black market outside the city, and also an expert at using knives, a Second-Rank Martial Artist."

"After tonight, there will be no such person as Jiang You in Jiang City."

Patriarch Zhao glanced at the night outside the window and sneered: "Anyone who dares to touch my Zhao family will only have a dead end."

...

Two o'clock in the morning.

A dark, windy night, perfect for murder.

A black shadow, like a gecko, silently climbed up the outer wall of the old apartment building where Jiang You lived.

Viper.

A professional assassin, skilled in assassination, poisoning, and backstabbing.

He looked at the room that did not even have a window, and a look of contempt curled at the corner of his mouth.

"There is not even an anti-theft window; this job is too easy."

"Heard it is to kill a student who was expelled? The Zhao family is really regressing."

Viper's figure flashed, floating into the room like a wisp of smoke.

By the moonlight, he saw the young man sleeping soundly on the bed.

Completely defenseless.

He even kicked off the blanket, revealing his white belly.

"It is over."

Viper pulled out a dagger coated with deadly poison with a backhand grip, a cold light flashed, and he stabbed directly at Jiang You's Heart!

The movement was fast, accurate, and ruthless, without the slightest hesitation.

Just when the dagger was only 0.01 centimeters away from Jiang You's chest.

[Internal Chat Group]

[Brain]: "Alert. High-risk killing intent detected."

"0.1 seconds until contact."

"Calculating optimal solution... Dodging is too tiring, counter-killing is too noisy."

"Legs, prepare to dodge."

"Right Hand, that clothes hanger looks handy, take it and use it."

In the real world.

At the very moment the dagger thrust down.

Jiang You, in his sleep, suddenly shifted his body three inches in an eerie way.

It was this three inches that caused the fatal blow to stab into the bed board.

Thud!

Viper was stunned: "What?!"

A coincidence?

This absolutely had to be a coincidence!

This kid was still snoring!

He did not believe in evil, flipped his wrist, and the dagger swept horizontally toward Jiang You's neck.

This time, even faster!

However.

Jiang You still kept his eyes closed, his head leaning backward extremely smoothly, as if it had no bones.

The blade brushed past the tip of his nose, even cutting off a nose hair.

Not a single hair was harmed!

Viper's scalp went numb.

Is this what you call sleeping?

This movement is slipperier than a loach!

"I do not believe I cannot kill you, you sleepwalker!"