Aughhhh my head hurts like as if i had been hit by a truck, i thought ironically to myself, since that what exactly happened, i was just about to cross the street during a rush hour and coincidentally some truck was speeding even when the traffic light was clearly red .
But that wasn't what had me gotten hit, what had me gotten hit was my try to be a hero, trying to save a family of four that all happened to cross the road the exact same time as me, i was about to just shout at them, but i blinked and saw that the four guys were already midway crossing the crosswalk when suddenly the little girl dropped her teddy bear .
Sealing the fate of all of them to die, if i hadn't remembered my time back at the school runners team, thinking that i would be able to get them to the safety without getting hurt myself, how wrong i was, i was short of remembering an important part .
I was kicked out of the school team in the first two weeks after i joined the team, the reason was because i was too lazy .
If i had remembered that part, i wouldn't have done what i did probably, after all who would throw himself in front of a speeding truck and claim that he was sane in mind .
I used all the speed and strength i can muster and pushed all of them away using my body weight, but that was all i able to do, crashing into them and making sure that all of them were out of the truck way ended in making me lose all my speed and sealing my fate to doom instead of theirs, what a hero work that was .
At least i was able to regain conscious, i really thought that this would be the end of me, weird enough i felt that my body was actually quite fine if i took in consideration the fact that i got ran over by a speeding truck, being alive in itself was quite a miracle in my opinion .
But what's up with the strange headache, i was trying to stand up, but i felt like every muscle in my body was screaming at me not to, i guess my body was in the end still injured a bit from the incident, i can move, but it was better not to make a sudden movement that's all .
I got up from the bed that was for some reason beginning to make me feel uncomfortable due to it stinging me in my back, i involuntarily turned my head and saw that the bed wasn't a normal bed, i was sleeping on something akin to a mattress made of straws .
I panicked and first checked myself, i found my clothes were quite different than i remembered them being, i wore something akin to what the servant wore at those live adaptation shows about the dynasty of ancient china and the emperor cursing or banishing a person and not only cursing him but the whole family all the way to their eleven generation, i found that to be quite funny as some of these shows were really making an effort to make them appear entertaining .
The person acting as the emperor sometimes even weighted more than the whole audience combined, some were entering in a wheelchair instead of the usual Sedan chairs, those scenes were hilarious and for some reason i was wearing the traditional clothes similar to those actors, was the hospital i was in celebrating the Chinese Year or something .
Even though i felt this to be quite weird i still undo the buttons of my shirt and began to check my body, i was amazed by what i was seeing, i was checking if any of my organs were missing, but what i saw on front of me had me becoming completely speechless .
My body before was out of shape, i was not fat, but i had not evan basic outline of muscle in my body, but that what made me think that what i was currently seeing to be utterly incomprehensible and quite illogical too .
My body had a quite the outline of muscles especially on my chest and core area, i unbuttoned my sleeves and saw that my wrists and arms were thicker than before, i saw that in my crotch area too there seemed to be an imprint of a fist, just looking at it was beginning to make me feel uncomfortable, other than that i believe that there were no other problem with me in that area .
Was i currently dealing with the aftershock of the accident or something similar, why my whole body was giving me an alienated feeling like this, no i need to talk to a doctor or anyone that have an idea about what was exactly going on with me .
I looked around me and was surprised at how barren the room i was in looked like, this led me to lose all my remaining composure and i was now completely in panic mode .
The bed was made of straws, the barren wooden walls around me, if i wasn't transported to a hospital in the most barren hospital on Africa, then where was this place exactly, my organs seemed to be completely fine, at least i'm telling myself that .
My crotch area had a fist mark on it was bad news, but it was maybe a medical procedure, in that case it will be quite understandable, no if that was the case i will be sueing all the workers in this hospital, if this wasn't a hospital, then was i being experimented on like in the movies when the main character wake up stronger than he was before .
Was that really the case, have i become a guinea pig and was being experimented on, this isn't the way you should be treating a hero that decided to sacrifice himself to safe others, no this wasn't a way to treat anybody, please be a dream, or a prank, or both .
I stood up and still felt a bit unsteady to be standing on my feet again, my movements were a bit disoriented and i almost fell down a few times due to the ground beneath me being a bit bumpy, some places were low and some places were high, i felt like i was climbing a mountain just trying to steer my way towards the wooden door .
~rattling~, i suddenly stopped due to feeling that my leg sunk deeper in the ground, i was barefoot so the feeling was quite clear to me, i felt that i was touching something made of cloth, the rattling sound came from making contact with that cloth, i couldn't help but bent down and see what exactly it was .
It was a quite shabby cloth pouch, it was of different color before for certain, but it seemed to have been covered by mud for quite sometime that its original color was affected and it was now brown in color, a good wash should clean it up, but that currently wasn't of much importance .
I got the pouch out of the muddy like ground and opened it to see what was inside it, 4 taels of old silver shaped like paper ships were lying inside the said pouch, i was surprised at seeing them and feeling the heaviness of them in real life, i only saw them in the museum for display only .
I could have easily bought them online, but there was really no need to bother with doing something utterly useless like that, it was a quite waste of money, so seeing them laying now in my hands like that was a bit difficult to comprehend, another weird thing after another kept happening to me today, wait how many days had i been out for, i hope someone would steal and stew that glutton of a parrot i had in home, but his taste will probably be as nasty as his tongue .
My mood lightened a bit at this thought of mine, but i soon focused more on the pouch at hand, so was this really som sort of a prank, a challenges program of some kind, i said loudly :
" I'm not enjoying this one bit, so you better come out or i will destroy all of your lives .
I said it with a loud and strange voice that echoed outside of the room i was in, my tone of voice seemed to be really strange just now, anyway i wasn't joking about destroying all of their lives, a lawsuit would be able to wreck down whatever what they were doing here, not to mention the compensation i will ask for .
For scaring me like that, those 4 taels of silver won't be enough to calm my heart down, i'm able to feel that my heartbeat was quickening by the second, to the point that it was beginning to sound like the drums were being beaten in my ears, so they must compensate me for that as well .
the moment that my words fell, i felt something rustling outside my room, that in itself scared me shitless, my body began to shake involuntarily as i got more and more closer to the door, i saw the shadows of someone standing outside of the door, i silently picked a wooden chair close to me and resolved myself that whoever will come through this door, i will beat him with the chair in hand .
But then i heard the few shadows outside began to talk with each other, saying in a flat tone :
Shadow 4 ( panicking ) :
Lu Jong, he seemed to have woken up, and realized that we were here as well, what to do now, that wasn't what Deacon Lu said, i no longer want to do this, i'm leaving .
Shadow 2 said and 3 just agreed with him :
We will retreat as well, even if he was severely injured by the Deacon, he was the most promising guy to enter the Martial Way and becoming an official guard in the family, sorry but we too cherish our lives enough to retreat when we don't have any confidence in defeating our opponent, you are in your own .
I was confused about the names that were mentioned who was Deacon Lu and who was Ma Jong, what was going on here, what creeped me the most was the fact that all the names those guys mentioned were all Chinese names and they were even speaking Chinese, yet i was able to understand them clearly word by word and them understanding my words meant that i was currently speaking Chinese too somehow, there was really something was wrong with my tone of voice though, but i had no time on hand to spare dwelling on such a thing .
Even though i was fully aware of the fact that my Chinese weren't up to standards, i was beginning the possibility of this being a prank or a program slipping away from my mind more and more, my body was beginning to tense even more, what ever that would happen next, i better ready myself to retort to violence first, then finding answers to my questions later .
But who were those guys talking about, was this hut like place belonged to someone else before i appear here, i should just say that they got the wrong person and that should fix the problem, as i was about to say this, i heard another person say something that completely forced me to change my initial plan instantly and be more cautious than i ever had in my life, that voice said :
Lu Jong :
Lu Fong,Lu Fu, Lu Nan, you guys are disobeying Deacon Lu's orderers, i will be sure to tell him about that later .
Lu Nan :
We don't want to disobey Deacon Lu, but unless you were willing to be the first to enter the room, we will not throw our lives in vain just so that you can play the Oriole and reap all the benefits, Lu Jong we already know about the four taels of silver in the hands of that guy, i was told by Deacon Lu that you will even get to keep one silver tael to yourself if the mission was done well .
So unless you want to be the first to pass through that door, your dream of getting that tael of silver is pooof .
Lu Jong :
Lu Nan, you, you .
Lu Nan :
What you, we are out of here, we three have better chance in convincing Deacon Lu that you were the one who disobeyed his orders , right, Lu Fong, Lu Fu ? .
Lu Fong :
Indeed that was the case .
Lu Fu :
Yes, yes, it was all that evil selfish guy fault .
Lu Jong :
Your plan is really ruthless, but all i needed to do so i can destroy it was quite simple, i will just have to do as the Deacon ordered and deliver that guy's head and wealth to Deacon Lu .
Lu Nan :
Putting the cart before the horse, won't do you any good, but if you have a death wish, go ahead and open the door, we will wait for the good new about you tomorrow .
I was finally aware of their target in coming here, not only were they here to deal with the owner of this hut, but they were here for the cloth currently in my hand as well, all the thought about this being a prank were all swept away from my mind and if they wanted the cloth i was willing to hand the cloth, but my hunch was telling me that they won't be satisfied with me doing that .
They seemed to have fallen into a disagreement among themselves, using the sharpest voice i was able to muster, i decided to use that to my advantage, i said :
" No matter who comes first through that door, the results will still be the same nonetheless, make your move .
My bluffing words were like the strew that finally broke the camel back, the three guys bid farewell to their friend and ran out of the place, i was surprised from how high my hearing seemed to have become, but now wasn't the time to dwell much on this .
In front of the door stood a guy going back and forth, his shadow lingering outside the door for a second, then he fall back, i was nervous on what choice will he decide on doing and the chair in my hands was ready for action anytime .
I was about to try and break his moral and resolve one last time, but he surprised me with suddenly barging into the room with an unsheathed sword that gave me chills and i began to feel my body running cold, luckily i was hiding behind the door, the moment the door opened, he was surprised to see no one inside the room, the pouch was on the ground in front of him .
The moment he saw that, he smiled from ear to ear and bent down to pick it up, seeing that he swallowed the bait and everything was set, then i raised the small chair in hands, kicked the door and with a faster speed than the normal, i appeared in front of the benting guy and attacked him in the back of his head with the chair .
At least that was my intention, but due to the sudden noises i made by kicking the door, he had barely enough time to turn back his head to face me and the last words he said before eating the chair to the face and collapsing on the floor were :
Tian Long, wait ... .
Was he about to tell me something about the owner of this hut, whatever he wanted to say, he don't have that chance anymore, but i still noted the name in mind Tian Long .
After i knocked him out cold, i saw that he was bleeding, so at the sight of blood, i hurriedly went out of the room .
Without looking at where i was heading, i decided that there was no need to think deeply about it, any place was better than this one, as i ran for quite a distance, i got tired both physically and mentally and luckily i saw a pond ahed of me .
I reached the pond, regulated my breath a little then began washing my face with the cold water of the pond, the Moon was lunar today, so the water was shining brightly, as i have become a bit more calm, i began to think at what just happened while dwelling on that i involuntarily looked at my reflection in the water .
I saw a face that was quite different to what i should be seeing, so i Instinctively punched it, but other than both of the reflection and the water getting disturbed a little, the reflection stabilized and appeared once more, i was feeling my head was going to explode, so i tried to massage it a little, but as i did so i noted that the reflection of that strange person was actually imitating my movements, my eyes stared widely at what currently was taking place in front of me, then the headache become much harder to bear and i collapsed in the pool and lost consciousness while having one last thought in mind, WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH ME .