《KFC》Chapter 3: Rumble at the Fragrant Cloud
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Trampas and a large muscular coolie walked down the street as people stared at them. Trampas reached a hand out for a handshake and asked, "Hey brother, I didn't catch your name?"
"Ah, Young Master I am Da Hei." He stared at the offered hand not knowing what Trampas was asking for.
Trampas pulled his hand back and then asked, "Right on, you can call me TW, that Young Master shit makes me feel like you are a slave."
"I am a slave, Young Master. I will remember to call you Tea Dubuya, Young Master." Da Hei walked along without missing a step.
Trampas's eyes went wide and he sucked in a breath, "Whaaaaa? Are you serious?" He scratched his head as he shook it, "Damn, sorry man, I guess I spoke without thinking. Hey, Da Hay, why is everyone staring at us right now?"
"Ah, that would be because of your haircut, I assume." Da Hei glanced at the Young Master.
"Whaaaa? Y'all ain't never seen a mullet before? Da-amn. Well, just you wait. This here style will be popular before you know it, just like back home." He ran a hand through his hair.
"Young... Err, Tea Dubuya I am not confident I can keep you safe from a martial artist. I have cultivation at the 4th layer of Qi refining but I don't know any battle techniques. They only had me cultivate to have the strength to complete hard labor." Da Hei admitted.
Trampas laughed and slapped Da Hei on the back, "Bro you don't have to worry, I just need you to get me to the Fragrant Cloud. I'm gonna beat this dude Child Lee's ass when we get there. I don't care if he knows karate or not. I know good ol' American fistfight. I am gonna come at him like a spider monkey."
Da Hei looked at Trampas skeptically before replying, "I understand, hopefully, your spider monkey technique will overpower Childe Li. If not I will try my best to buy you the time you need to escape Youn... Tea Dubuya."
Da Hei came to stop in front of a luxurious and tall building. "This is the Fragrant Cloud."
They walked in through the doorway and Trampas whistled softly and said conspiratorially, "Dang, it looks kinda like the P.F. Chang's up in here."
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Da Hei started to get a cold sweat down his back fearing that this was going to be the scene of his death leading a madman into a battle of certain death. Da Hei tried to think of any way he could get out of this mess alive. "Tea Dubuya, perhaps instead of a fight with Childe Li, you could just apologize and let bygones be bygones."
Trampas laughed and started to look around at the various tables trying to find his adversary speaking just loud enough to be heard throughout the room over the various conversation, "So Da Hey, which one of these Chinamen is that Child Lee dude?"
All conversation stopped and everyone looked at Trampas and Da Hei. A young man on the upper floor stood up from a table and turned to look down at Trampas, "Well well well, if it isn't Young Master Long. I guess the beating I gave you wasn't enough to teach you to mind your manners." Childe Li leaped down from the upper floor landing just in front of Trampas in a show of strength and power.
"Son, I don't know why you're crowing in front of me but I'm about to open a can of whoop-ass on you cause I gotta get my face back. You know that karate shit, right? Well, I'm about to show you John Cena's five moves of doom motherfucker!" Trampas laughed as he jumped into Childe Li with his shoulder with the power of a man at the 5th layer of Qi Refining.
Childe Li was knocked backward by the sudden hit frowned as it knocked the breath out of him. As he righted himself Trampas gave him another shot with his shoulder. Childe Li roared in anger and unleashed a powerful palm attack in return which Trampas avoided.
"That was called the flying shoulder block. This..." Trampas grabbed Childe Li and roughly picked him up and slammed him on the ground, "Is called a side slam." Trampas then jumped into the air smashed a fist into Childe Li's face as he too flew to the floor, "Have yourself a five knuckle shuffle!."
Childe Li looked dazed and confused his nose bleeding from the punch. "Long Tian... You. Are. Dead!"
Trampas scrambled to his feet and picked up Childe Li raising him over his head before throwing him down onto a table smashing it in half, "Looks like you need an attitude adjustment!" Trampas picked him up and rammed a knee into his back as he brought Childe Li down, "I break your back over my knee, like so!"
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Childe Li looked up at the sky in serious pain from having his back smashed over Trampas' knee, "I don't know where you got... The guts to do this Long, but I swear to you, you won't leave this place alive!" He winced as he lay on the floor.
Trampas raised his fist and then held all his fingers out as shook his hand. He walked up the stairs and stood on the second-floor railing above Childe Li before jumping down and smashing his fist into Childe Li's face as he shouted out, "FIVE KNUCKLE SHUFFLE OFF THE TOP ROPES!"
Childe Li's head split like a melon from the force of a 5th layer Qi Refining strength slamming into his face killing him instantly.
[Mission Complete! Reward 1000 System Store Points. Would you like to Spend 300 System Store Points to open the System Store?]
Trampas looked around and finally yelled out, "Anyone got a mirror?"
A server held up a silver serving tray. Trampas frowned and looked at Da Hei, "Hey man, doesn't it look like my face is still the same?"
"Yes Tea Dubuya, your looks are still the same." Da Hei nodded in agreement.
"Well, what the actual fuck man, I was supposed to get my face back." Trampas raged.
"But Tea Dubuya, you did get your face back. Your father will be proud of you and your powerful spider monkey technique that allowed you to kill your enemy." Da Hei helped his Young Master clean up his outfit as they walked away from the death scene.
"System you lying piece of shit! Where's my face?" Trampas punched himself in the face hard enough to daze himself.
[Third Mission: Learn about the cultivation world. Requirement to attend your studies with your teacher.]
[Time remaining 30 days 23 hours 59 minutes]
[Reward for mission completion: The remedy for some of your ignorance.]
"God damn it. Fucking system." Trampas and Da Hei were just about to leave the building when several men burst through the doorway.
"Little Tian'er! Thankfully you are still unharmed... Wait, what has happened here?" One of them shouted out.
"What... What is this, why is my son on the floor." Another of the men asked. They quickly ran over and saw that he was dead. The man who had spoken broke out in tears. "Who was it, was it that coolie? I want him dead. I want him to die for this!"
The man who had shouted first stood up tall and asked, "Da Hei did you kill Childe Li?"
Da Hei kneeled down and nearly shouted out, "Lord Gu, this one was not the man responsible. The Young Master used his Chon Xina spider monkey technique to battle with Childe Li. The killing blow was called the five knuckle shuffle."
The crying man started to laugh even as he cried, "What a good nephew you have old Gu."
Lord Gu stepped in front of his nephew and stated coldly, "I'm sorry for your loss, old Li, but this was a fight between the younger generations. What's done is done. As compensation for your loss, I'll send 100 taels for his funeral."
"100 taels, 100 taels. What a good family you have what a good uncle you are." The crying man stood and then turned to Trampas, "Boy. My son let you live when you two fought. You finished your fight with him with too heavy a hand. For that, I won't let you off. You can leave today because of your uncle's face. When I see you next, I'll kill you. So if you have any sense you'll run. Run far away."
Trampas grabbed one of the pretty women serving the guests and gave her a deep kiss and then let her loose before puffing out his chest and pointing his thumb at his chest and saying, "You mess with the bull, you get the horns." He gave the server a slap on the rear and said to Da Hei, "Come on Da Hey, we're going back home. Hey, uh Gu dude? Thanks for the assist bro, come on by the house later and we can hang out. Shit son, I need a beer. There a store around here?"
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