When playing competitive games, you can't look at the opponent's screen, so Chen Xu leisurely lit a cigarette and grinned smugly at the three girls. Just then, a figure flashed out of the corner of his eye, and he saw a little girl coming out of the door. Ah, it's Er Ya!
The character controlled by Chen Xu immediately jumped down from the roof and pounced on Er Ya as soon as it landed.
The game's settings are highly realistic. Jumping from a three-meter-high building will definitely cause some damage, but jumping from a three-meter-high drop and hitting someone can also cause significant damage!
Chen Xu's vicious pounce instantly took away a third of Er Ya's health bar. Er Ya's skills were far inferior to Chen Xu's; after all, Chen Xu had been playing for almost a week, while Er Ya had only played for a few hours.
So Chen Xu reacted quickly, immediately launching a brutal beating. By the time Er Ya finally managed to get up, she was almost out of health. Then Chen Xu followed up with a flying kick, sending Er Ya flying... a complete victory! Chen Xu landed with less than three percent of his health remaining.
Er Ya was so angry at being defeated by such methods that her belly swelled up, and she almost wanted to challenge Chen Xu to a real-life duel.
Chen Xu was enjoying himself when suddenly footsteps sounded behind him. Startled, he turned around and saw Guan Yi's vixen deliver a beautiful scissor kick, landing directly on Chen Xu's chest.
Because this game has many attack points, hitting different locations will produce different effects. In his panic, Chen Xu didn't have time to dodge, but he was able to block with his hand. This attack only took away one percent of his health, but it also made him stagger back a few steps.
Guan Yi sprang to her feet with a somersault. Then she stepped forward and threw a punch at Chen Xu. Seeing Chen Xu block, she tripped him with her feet. Chen Xu was caught off guard and fell to the ground. The woman then fell down and attacked Chen Xu with her elbow.
"Damn, they're pretty good at this!"
Chen Xu was caught off guard and suffered a small loss because he hadn't expected the woman to have gotten the hang of it in such a short time.
In reality, Guan Yi is a very strong fighter. After all, she has trained, and she even practiced the "radio gymnastics" routine with Chen Xu. Her strength and reaction time are much greater. In the game, while real-world strength might only be enough to smash a keyboard, reaction time is extremely important. Furthermore, in combat, it's crucial to exploit openings to launch attacks. Therefore, although this woman has only been playing the game for a short time, her every move is precise and controlled; she never throws a punch when she shouldn't. This is far superior to Wang Mingmei, who simply charges in and unleashes a chaotic barrage of punches.
Her aggressive stance made Chen Xu somewhat hesitant, and he dared not attack rashly. While the two were locked in a stalemate, the character controlled by Gao Xiaojie also charged out.
Although Gao Xiaojie isn't like Guan Yi, who's considered a fairly skilled player in real life—of course, this "skilled" only by ordinary standards—when it comes to games, only Chen Xu, a veteran gamer, could rival her among those present. Unlike most girls who haven't played games much, Gao Xiaojie picks up games very quickly and easily masters the basic controls, making her even better at controlling her character than Guan Yi.
Faced with two opponents, Chen Xu immediately chose to run away!
Because this isn't reality. With Chen Xu's current strength, in real life, if he encountered two useless individuals like Wu Yuan, he definitely wouldn't be the one running away. But the game is balanced; the characters in the game are all roughly equal in strength, it's all about skill.
Just like in the real world, when a skilled fighter encounters two equally skilled opponents, even if the fighter has more combat experience and more sophisticated techniques, because their strengths are roughly equal, they cannot afford to be overconfident.
Seeing Chen Xu run away, Guan Yi and Gao Xiaojie simultaneously laughed and cursed. They then controlled their characters to give chase.
This game offers multiple perspective options. You can choose a single-player view like in Counter-Strike, or you can watch from the sidelines. However, the sideline view is only suitable for beginners, as seeing the entire character's movements is more helpful for learning. For advanced players, the sideline view is clearly insufficient because it doesn't allow them to clearly see the opponent's weaknesses.
However, Chen Xu is still in the beginner stage, so he is using an observer's perspective. From this perspective, he can clearly see Guan Yi and Gao Xiaojie chasing after him.
In a real battle, it's impossible to see what's happening behind you, even from a first-person perspective. But this is a game, and PC games always have bugs. So Chen Xu saw it clearly. Just as he was about to hit the wall, Chen Xu suddenly started typing on the keyboard, leaped up, kicked the wall, and then turned around to deliver a powerful whip kick!
The whip, one of the eighteen weapons, this sweeping whip kick was just like a whip being lashed out, directly and hard slapping Guan Yi's face!
Caught off guard, or rather, even if Guan Yi saw the attack, he didn't have time to react and was instantly sent flying, losing at least half of his health. At this moment, Chen Xu had no time to check Guan Yi's health bar; after landing, he launched a hook punch at Gao Xiaojie.
Guan Yi shouted from the side, "Chen Xu! How could you use such a bloody and brutal attack on a beautiful woman!" But at this moment, Chen Xu was already wrestling with Gao Xiaojie.
It was described as a scuffle because both sides moved very quickly.
Although Gao Xiaojie is such a gentle and delicate little girl, she has played almost all the well-known games on the market, so she can pick them up much faster than Guan Yi and Wang Mingmei.
However, Chen Xu still held a significant advantage. His character's moves were fluid and incredibly fast, with straight punches, kicks, and throws quickly rendering Gao Xiaojie powerless. Although Guan Yi had managed to reposition his character to fight two against one, Chen Xu already had the victory firmly in his grasp.
And most importantly, two against one does not necessarily mean they will have the upper hand.
In other games, or even in the real world, having more players than others naturally provides an advantage. However, this game's mechanics are different from other games; it includes a feature that allows players to harm their teammates.
Just look at online games. Whether it's Legend of Mir, Warcraft, or others, most of them have a team mode. When playing Red Alert or StarCraft, the overwhelming bullets rarely hurt your own teammates... unless it's intentional.
But this is impossible in reality, and it is the same in this game.
Attacking an opponent or attacking a teammate is the same. If you miss your opponent and hit your teammate instead without trying to reduce the force, then the damage to your teammate will be the same.
So even though Chen Xu was fighting two against one, his skillful control caused Guan Yi and Gao Xiaojie to occasionally hit each other... After all, they weren't fully familiar with the game and didn't know how to control their strength, so Gao Xiaojie was simply punched hard by Guan Yi and left with only a little bit of health, but then Chen Xu kicked him to death.
This is what they mean by "it's not the god-like opponents you should fear, but the pig-like teammates"... Chen Xu was certain that if Er Ya joined in at this moment, her chaotic punches would only cause trouble, and he would probably win even faster!
With Gao Xiaojie dealt with, Guan Yi was no longer a threat and was eventually killed by Chen Xu with a back throw.
1 vs 3, a complete victory!
After winning, Chen Xu's teeth were all crooked, but naturally, he suffered real-life retaliation from the three girls. Er Ya, like a little calf, kept butting Chen Xu with her head, while Guan Yi and Gao Xiaojie practiced the Nine Yin White Bone Spinning Ear Claw...
Oh, poor man!
However, the three girls found the game very enjoyable and addictive, so Gao Xiaojie nudged Zhan Jing and said, "Jingjing, come and play too, stop figuring it out! Uh, have you figured anything out yet?"
Zhan Jing sighed: "We really haven't figured anything out. I can't even crack a basic file. The outer shell is too sturdy. We have no idea what's inside... Who made this?"
Gao Xiaojie shook his head as well. "Who knows? The internet abroad is buzzing with speculation about who made this game. Blizzard has already clarified, stating, 'Blizzard's current capabilities are insufficient to create such a masterpiece.'"
Zhan Jing tapped the table lightly with her finger for a long while before saying, "If I had to guess, I can only think of one person..."
Gao Xiaojie and Guan Yi's eyes lit up...
Chapter 147 Wing Chun
Whether or not this game was made by SMMH is a question that not only Zhan Jing and Gao Xiaojie, but the whole world is speculating about.
Within just three days of its release, "Martial Artist" had already surpassed one million downloads through links provided by Vivendi and several major portal websites, and this number is still skyrocketing. Moreover, the number of people who found the torrent on other links and used BitTorrent to download it is still impossible to fully count.
As for Chinese players, they have also received the news. With the overwhelming promotion on major portal websites and the exposure of game screenshots, information, and so on, more and more people are starting to pay attention to this game, and the number of downloads is increasing day by day!
Both Vivendi and Blizzard denied developing the game, frankly stating they lacked the capability to do so. Over the past three days, almost every game journalist has downloaded and tested the 6GB client, and the results...
They were all amazed!
Many people, based on the groundbreaking work of "The Legend of Jin Yong: The Reunion", believe that the developer of this game must be the SMMH mastermind. Of course, the vast majority of these people are Chinese players. It can be said that nowadays, both players and media in China unanimously believe that SMMH must be among the people who developed this game, or it was simply developed by his organization.
Many European and American players share this view, as many of them have also played the game "The Legend of Jin Yong". Although there is no Chinese version of that game, many game enthusiasts simply don't care. It seems that many Chinese players will play the English and Japanese versions out of necessity, and some European and American players also play the Chinese version.
However, those who lack a certain foundation may not be able to play it well.
On the official homepage of the game "Reunion," which Chen Xu and his team created, there were often comments from netizens. One comment in particular made them laugh hysterically. The poster was an overseas student studying at a university in Washington, D.C., who also had a pretty great American girlfriend. When the game came out, this guy was absolutely blown away, ignoring his girlfriend and staying home to play. Luckily, his American girlfriend was quite understanding and started playing with him.
But he couldn't understand Chinese games. So this guy played and translated at the same time... As everyone knows, *The Legend of Jin Yong* is based on the storylines of Jin Yong's fourteen novels, namely "The Legend of the Condor Heroes," "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer," "The Deer and the Cauldron," and "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber." Since there are so many plots in the books, only a portion could be incorporated into the game. Although *Reunion* has much richer content than the original, it still differs significantly from the book's content.
If it's just a Jin Yong fan playing this game, then so be it. After all, the purpose of playing this game is to verify the novel, and the plot is already very familiar to everyone, so it doesn't really matter.
But for someone who has never read Jin Yong's novels, and is also a foreigner, playing this game will be quite a brain drain.
So the guy spent ages explaining to his girlfriend, but she only half-understood. This half-understood content only fueled her curiosity, so she insisted on reading the whole book. But after searching high and low, he only found two English translations of Jin Yong's novels online… one of which was something not mentioned in the game at all—the book "The Sword of the Yue Maiden," separate from the Fourteen Heavenly Books.
Finally, with no other option, under his girlfriend's coercion and enticement, this beast had no choice but to make a ruthless decision: Damn it, if there's no translated version, I'll translate it myself!
This guy's English was actually pretty good, and he was translating the plot without any descriptive writing, just trying to make the story clear. ...Even so, he still captivated his girlfriend. Moreover, the American knew absolutely nothing about Chinese history, but Jin Yong's novels were incredibly intertwined with history, so he had to explain the background while translating, which was truly a difficult task for him.
Unexpectedly, after his girlfriend read the translated manuscript, it spread among the classmates. It was a multinational school with students from all over the world, so one by one, they were drawn in and became demanding readers. The most outrageous thing was that their professor, after accidentally seeing the manuscript, also became a Jin Yong fan. Now, he couldn't escape it. He's already finished translating *The Legend of the Condor Heroes* and is currently working on *The Return of the Condor Heroes*…
Finally, this animal posted tearfully, "If I had known, I would have only translated 'A Deadly Secret'. To be disrespectful to Jin Yong, that book wasn't very well written, and most importantly, it wasn't long. I would have even translated 'The Smiling, Proud Wanderer'! Damn it, the Condor Trilogy has three parts, each a long novel!"
This also shows that Chinese culture isn't necessarily unacceptable to foreigners. Those well-known domestic directors insist on pandering to Western tastes while trying to capture the essence of classical China. The end result is often a hybrid of Chinese and Western styles, resembling a freakish creation. What's the point?
Therefore, although "The Legend of Jin Yong: Rebirth" does not have a large influence overseas, there is Jin Yong wherever there are Chinese people. Under the influence of many overseas Chinese, many foreigners have also played this game and have great respect for SMMH.
However, this view is not mainstream overseas, since most foreigners only know SMMH because of the Firestorm virus incident... Many people are unaware of the confrontation with Snake. And many foreign media outlets that are aware of these events, for one reason or another, have not mentioned SMMH's name.
However, on the fourth day, a post appeared on the small website "Anti-Soft Paradise," instantly attracting widespread attention from major Chinese portals and entertainment media... "The Producer of the Masterpiece Martial Artist Appears, SMMH Takes the Lead Again!" That post was, of course, made by Chen Xu, because as everyone knows, Anti-Soft Paradise was where SMMH first appeared, and that forum ID was unique to SMMH. Although Anti-Soft Paradise was just a small and low-quality website, no hacker dared to target them, dared to think of stealing SMMH's account and becoming famous... The fact that SMMH easily defeated Snake, the world's number one ranked hacker, was something no hacker could possibly be unaware of! Whether out of admiration or fear of SMMH, no one dared to do something so outrageous.
Another strong piece of evidence is a 10MB attachment that was updated below the post, containing a save file of action design plugins. The plugin's name is: Wing Chun!
This plugin gives the character Wing Chun-style action design... Actually, this is just the first martial arts action plugin released by the game company after the release of the future-era game "Martial Artist".
The plugins were far from perfect compared to later animation designs, but at a time when everyone was still figuring things out, they represented immense significance.
Among the martial arts, Wing Chun is the most unparalleled, its perfect blend of strength and gentleness moving even the gods and demons. Its sudden, swift strikes are impossible to dodge, its sharp, penetrating movements captivating the soul.
Wing Chun is one of the direct lineages of Shaolin martial arts. There are many stories about its origin, but the most popular one is that Wing Chun was created by its founder, Yim Wing Chun, after witnessing a snake and a crane fighting. It is a major branch of Southern Fist among Southern and Northern Fist styles. Bruce Lee studied under Ip Man, a grandmaster of Wing Chun, in his early years, and Jeet Kune Do is derived from Wing Chun.
While the release of this plugin was certainly a huge shock to players, it was far less impactful than its influence on the Chinese martial arts community!
Because this plugin is no joke!
The plugin automatically includes a video tutorial demonstrating the game's controls... Because this file runs within the game, it uses the game's algorithm, so external tools cannot open it, and the video is also very compressed.
Watching this video in the game was incredibly shocking for everyone, because the set of punches was so fluid and powerful, and it was definitely... Wing Chun!
The Wing Chun style, including the straight punch with the clapping hand, the horizontal punch with the pillow hand, the clapping hand with the shoulder hand, as well as the White Crane Fist and the Tiger Subduing Hand, is truly as fast as lightning and as impenetrable as wind and rain!
If this were just a CG video, it wouldn't matter, because nowadays, almost every martial arts school, except for a few secret techniques, could be made into a TV series. Martial arts today aren't as closely guarded as they used to be, with people preferring to keep their skills secret rather than teach them to outsiders… Besides, for traditional Chinese martial arts, even if outsiders learn the moves, it's completely useless. This isn't about the so-called internal strength, but about how to generate power. Outsiders who see the movements and try to imitate them will at most get a superficial understanding, which is meaningless.
But this isn't just any ordinary CG; it's a tutorial video... A tutorial video means that for each action, there are corresponding button prompts. In other words, players only need to follow the instructions in the tutorial video to perform the exact same actions!
Can this game incorporate real-world martial arts combat techniques?!
Chapter 148 Red
This means that the game has perfectly integrated Wing Chun moves and can be used in actual combat within the game!
The final sentence states: "My game needs players worldwide to discuss its gameplay. Taking Wing Chun as an example, any movement that can be performed in reality can also be done in the game. I hope players will use their imagination to make the game richer and more interesting..."
After seeing this statement, no one doubts who actually developed the game. Given SMMH's status, they wouldn't stoop to the level of mistaking someone else's work for their own.
Meanwhile, X also revealed through some channels in Western media that the game was indeed made by SMMH... They hadn't said anything before because they didn't understand SMMH's intention in entrusting them with the promotion of the game, wondering if SMMH didn't want to reveal their identity or something. X specifically established a Chinese expert group to handle negotiations with the S organization, because Chinese people have many rules and regulations that foreigners simply don't understand.
So X's people chose to remain silent before, but they didn't know that Chen Xu genuinely wanted to keep his identity a secret, because it would be too conspicuous for them to be involved in everything related to SMMH. However, Chen Xu has now revealed that he developed the game, and the reason is actually quite simple!
As the game's value has been recognized, several Korean companies have announced that they made it and are now applying for patent registration...
He's unhappy!
Sure enough, after he posted that message, no one dared to make a fuss anymore. Two Korean companies, however, shamelessly continued to claim they made the game and that SMMH copied them. Just two hours later, both companies were plunged into huge financial crises… How could Organization X, in order to curry favor with SMMH, possibly allow these people to make such a racket?
Let's ignore the antics of those clowns from Korea. What many people are more concerned about now is whether this game can truly incorporate real-world martial arts, as he claims.
Proving this is very simple. You just need to try it out.
Ordinary people may not know how to practice these boxing techniques, but now the various schools know them.
The saying goes, "The poor study literature, the rich study martial arts." Nowadays, there are many wealthy and powerful figures among the disciples of various schools such as Tai Chi, Yi Xing, Bagua, Chuo Tui, Pi Gua, and Wing Chun. In fact, the so-called decline of Chinese martial arts is not as many novels say, that it is because people cannot cultivate internal strength, which leads to the decline of martial arts and the proliferation of trashy things like Taekwondo and Karate.
That's not actually the case.
Chinese martial arts are profound and extensive. To truly master them, one must practice diligently through the coldest days of winter and the hottest days of summer. As the saying goes, "One day without practice, your hands and feet become slow; two days without practice, you lose half your skills; three days without practice, you become a complete novice; four days without practice, you can only stare blankly." Chinese martial arts are definitely not something you can casually practice like a child.
The problem is, in today's society, how many people are willing to endure the hardship and practice diligently? Most people who come to practice martial arts are just looking to improve their health or simply for fun.
Moreover, Chinese martial arts, also known as national arts, emphasize killing enemies and not performing. What consequences would it cause if ordinary people learned such things?
As for karate and taekwondo, to be fair, the authentic level of these two martial arts is truly remarkable. After all, karate, taekwondo, and aikido are all derived from Chinese martial arts… to put it bluntly, they are plagiarism. True taekwondo and karate masters are not to be trifled with. Moreover, these arts nowadays emphasize commercial packaging.