By discarding some of the most lethal techniques and then creating a semblance of a proper stance, ordinary people can achieve some minor results after practicing for a few days, which is why it has become so rampant. However, there is some truth to this.
However, this game can completely simulate a person's movements... The characters' physical attributes are naturally very strong, so you only need to allocate strength, agility, and other points scientifically in a certain way, and then modify them according to the routines, power generation methods, etc. of Chinese martial arts. Although it cannot completely simulate the effect in reality, it can still be about 80% or 90% like it.
Even if it's only 80% or 90%, it's still much more powerful than the game's default template in actual combat!
The saying goes, "The poor study literature, the rich study martial arts." While not many of these martial arts practitioners are particularly skilled with computers, they are certainly wealthy! Seeing Wing Chun suddenly become popular online, with major websites reporting on it, especially due to Wing Chun videos posted by several gaming experts… of course, there must have been genuine Wing Chun masters providing guidance, immediately sparking a Wing Chun craze online!
After all, those videos on the internet are too shocking. This game, "Martial Artist," is a highly realistic fighting game. The character models look like real people. Although the fighting is quite violent, it is also super exciting.
The immense popularity of the game "Martial Arts Master" has already dominated the homepages of major websites, especially several portal sites and video websites. Video websites like Youku, Tudou, and 56.com have even created dedicated sections to showcase exciting fighting videos and combat techniques… the traffic is truly phenomenal!
While it's said that heroes break the law with their martial arts, to be honest, which generation of Chinese teenagers didn't grow up reading martial arts novels and watching martial arts films? Which one didn't dream of becoming a great hero?
"The Martial Artist" will fulfill your dream of becoming a martial arts master!
Wing Chun, as the first official martial arts plugin developed by SMMH for "Martial Arts Master", was widely reprinted and recommended by major forums and websites. Within a few days, its downloads exceeded 100,000. Naturally, various portal websites would not miss such an eye-catching opportunity, and they all opened "Wing Chun" columns in their "Martial Arts Master" sections to allow more people to learn about Wing Chun and the authentic Chinese martial arts.
In this way, Wing Chun's reputation soared, how could others not be envious?
Alas, although it's no longer the martial arts era of yesteryear, and there's no longer the Mount Hua Sword Tournament to determine who the world's number one master is, the various schools are still formidable opponents. How can they just watch Wing Chun suddenly flourish while we remain unknown?
So these different styles couldn't sit still any longer and started looking for gaming experts to help them create their own set of game moves.
Some people want to find SMMH, but you can't be biased! You can't just give it to Wing Chun and not to our school, can you? Or is SMMH himself a Wing Chun master?
Chen Xu was certainly not a Wing Chun master. In fact, he only knew the name Wing Chun before but had never seen the authentic version. The reason he chose Wing Chun was because it was the earliest version available. Chen Xu wasn't stupid; he didn't want to release his top-notch martial arts moves so early. And Wing Chun had a lot of room for development.
Because the Wing Chun plugin released by Chen Xu was geared towards ordinary users, the required hand speed to achieve a certain effect was only 30 movements per minute, which is achievable for most people. However, the true Wing Chun, the one used by a master at WCG, requires a hand speed of up to 100 movements per minute! This is beyond the reach of most people, demonstrating the significant potential of Wing Chun for martial arts practitioners.
Other martial arts styles were quickly posted online. Although they were still relatively crude, they were much more powerful than the system's default templates. As a result, various martial arts styles soon appeared online.
Just look at the Baidu Tieba forum for martial arts practitioners: "Wing Chun is recruiting members. Join our group **** to discuss the mysteries of Wing Chun and improve together!"
"The Chuo Tui Sect is recruiting! We aim to promote and develop Chuo Tui! I am Dai Xiaolou, a true disciple of the Chuo Tui Sect. After thirty years of diligent practice, I have achieved some success and am now accepting apprenticeships in real life. The apprenticeship fee is... ten steamed buns."
"Zhang Style Tai Chi welcomes you to join us. To learn the essence of Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi, please look for Zhang Style Tai Chi. Our martial arts school is currently accepting students. For details, please call ***."
The popularity of "Martial Arts Master" was both expected and unexpected by Chen Xu. In just one week, not to mention anything else, the truancy rate at Hexie University increased by 300% compared to previous years, and the attendance rate in the evening study rooms plummeted to an appalling level.
If this were high school, the school leaders would probably have banned students from playing this game... because Chen Xu had encountered something similar in junior high. Back when StarCraft came out, the teachers banned students from going to the computer lab, and now Wudaojia is even more popular than StarCraft back then! Every night, you can hear shouting and keyboard banging coming from the boys' dormitory... because some experts online have released software that allows multiple keyboards to be connected to the same computer without interfering with each other. This means that as long as a computer has enough USB ports, multiple keyboards can be connected for simultaneous operation.
Then the sounds of fighting in the game, the cheers of the boys who won and the curses of those who lost... rose and fell, becoming a unique scene on campus today.
Chapter 149 Revenge
Chinese martial arts are profound and extensive.
However, for one reason or another, most Chinese martial arts now exist only in legends.
To put it simply, many martial arts competitions in China are more like dance competitions, showcasing fancy moves rather than real combat skills. And real combat often involves Sanda (Chinese kickboxing)... There's no way around it; if it were a real contest of traditional Chinese martial arts, it would probably result in several deaths.
To reiterate, martial arts are for killing, not for performing.
However, it's different in Martial Arts. Martial Arts is originally a game centered around fighting, where defeating your opponent is all that matters. At this point, there's no need to hold back; those unique, deadly moves can become powerful weapons to defeat your opponent!
Might makes right!
Of course, some people have said the game is too violent… That's the reality in China. Some people think Chinese gamers and ordinary people are forever children, worried that this thing will have a bad influence or that thing will lead people astray… That might be suitable for elementary school students, but adults are adults. No one can say that the general public's IQ is lower than yours, experts. Even if you're Einstein with an IQ of 160, so what? You're only 100 points higher than someone with a mental disability. Is that so great?!
This claim was quickly suppressed by the authorities.
What a joke! They have no idea about the relationship between SMMH and the higher-ups. The higher-ups said, "Hmm, not bad, it's time to promote our country's traditional martial arts," and that was immediately rejected. From then on, no one dared to say another word!
With the influence of martial arts practitioners, the practice of martial arts in reality gradually gained momentum. And indeed, Chen Xu was now looking helplessly at the burly, dark-skinned man in front of him.
"I said, how about I buy you a drink? We're civilized people. No fighting. Otherwise, let's fight on the 'Martial Arts Master' website, and I'll let you have your way with a punch and a kick."
The burly, dark-skinned man was a full six feet tall, truly like an iron tower. He had a large head and feet, and his voice boomed like a bell. "I don't care! I'm going to fight you today, or do you think our university has no one else?!"
Actually, Chen Xu was also wronged. The reason for the incident is as follows.
School had just let out today when this towering, black man pushed open the classroom door and barged in, yelling, "Who is Chen Xu?!"
The teachers hadn't left yet. A female teacher in her forties, initially thinking they were there to cause trouble, was quite startled. Her voice trembled as she asked, "W-what do you want?"
"Nothing!" The burly man walked to the front of the podium, picked up the miniature megaphone used for class in full view of everyone, and said to the megaphone, "Which one is Chen Xu? I'm Gongda Di, I've asked you to practice today."
Suddenly, everyone's eyes were drawn to Chen Xu, who was sitting at the last seat, bored and dozing off on the table. Chen Xu stood up sleepily: "What are we practicing?"
The burly man said, "My name is Zhu Wulei. I'm from the Physical Education Department of the University of Technology. I heard that you came to our school last year and took on more than a dozen of our alumni by yourself, right? You seem to be a good fighter, so I came here to have a match with you."
Chen Xu broke out in a cold sweat, thinking to himself, "What's going on here?!" So Chen Xu said, "Excuse me, Zhu, I think you might have misunderstood. Well, I was in a panic and had no other choice!"
At the time, not many people at Hexie University knew that Chen Xu had single-handedly defeated more than a dozen people at the university, and even beat the vice president of the university into a pig's head. Only Guan Yi, Gao Xiaojie, and a few of Chen Xu's roommates knew. Then, when Zhu Wulei mentioned it, the hundreds of students in the class looked at Chen Xu with admiration: "Tsk tsk, no wonder he is our Chen the Half-Immortal, he even beat up the university!"
Zhu Wulei slammed his hand on the table. He said, "Stop talking nonsense! Considering you beat that annoying vice principal into a pulp and hospitalized for three months, I won't go too far with you. It's just a friendly spar, nothing more. Is that alright? I'm just here to save face, nothing more."
Although his words weren't exactly harsh, they still managed to rouse the group of students in the Information Science department. They were all yelling, "Chen Xu! Fight him! Teach him a lesson!" "That's right! We support you in spirit!" And then there was that little girl's scream: "Chen Xu! If you beat him, I'll marry you!"... With all that shouting, do you think Chen Xu would dare to win?!
Chen Xu laboriously climbed out of the chair. Well, because he was sitting in the middle, with people on both sides, and in the last row, he had to struggle to crawl over the chair… a move that certainly didn't look like something a master would make. Then he went around to the classroom door and beckoned to Zhu Wulei with his finger: “Come out first!”
"Great!" Zhu Wulei's eyes lit up. He had clearly misunderstood Chen Xu's meaning. Chen Xu wanted him to speak, but he thought Chen Xu had agreed. So he took off his jacket, revealing a short-sleeved T-shirt underneath. Tsk tsk, the T-shirt clung tightly to his body, showing off his well-developed muscles, making the forty-year-old female teacher next to him stare with admiration...
When Zhu Wulei followed Chen Xu to the classroom door, before he was even out of sight of the group of people inside, he couldn't hold back any longer... Just like a customer who was taking a prostitute home and suddenly felt an urge to touch her a couple of times as they walked through the door, Zhu Wulei threw a punch at Chen Xu!
Hearing a whoosh of wind behind him, Chen Xu instinctively bent down and turned to the side, sweeping back and counterattacking Zhu Wulei. Zhu Wulei shouted, "Good!" He didn't dodge or evade, but instead blocked Chen Xu's leg with his hand, and then smashed an iron fist into Chen Xu's face!
If that punch had landed, Chen Xu would have been disfigured. However, Chen Xu was no novice. Although his reaction was rushed, he quickly turned and kicked back, using offense as defense. Zhu Wulei's punch immediately lost its target, and his face was in danger of being flattened by Chen Xu's kick.
Zhu Wulei shouted "Good!" and abruptly changed his move, blocking Chen Xu's attack with his arm, then launching a flying kick! Chen Xu dodged to the side, lowered his body, and delivered a sweeping kick... Hands are like two doors, but he relied entirely on his feet to fight. Without using weapons, Chen Xu relied entirely on his feet!
Previously, when playing Martial Artist, everyone had become familiar with the game's controls over the past few days, so Chen Xu's advantage was no longer effective. Furthermore, since Chen Xu's use of Xiao Min's control scheme was too conspicuous in public, they simply switched to the standard template along with everyone else.
The problem is that if this is the case, Chen Xu will have no advantage at all. In ten games, he can only win six or seven at most, even with his superior skills.
However, Chen Xu has gradually started using the first-person perspective. Based on his experience of being humiliated in the virtual reality game, he can now see his opponent's movements and weaknesses. Therefore, in order to improve his gaming skills, Chen Xu has been practicing diligently in the virtual reality game again recently, and he has also been practicing his physical techniques even more frequently.
So the hard training during this period has enabled Chen Xu to get out of the sluggish state he was in during the winter break. Now he has exchanged a few moves with Zhu Wulei and is not at a disadvantage at all!
Zhu Wulei was clearly trained; the calluses on his hands were enormous, and the knuckles on the back of his hands were almost invisible—these were obvious results of training. The knuckles on the back of his hands were definitely flattened by force; whether he used sandbags or elastic steel plates was unknown. But Chen Xu was certain that his physique probably couldn't withstand a single blow from him!
So Chen Xu used his agility to fight him, not daring to get close at all. Finally, he seized an opportunity and kicked Zhu Wulei in the chest, making him stagger. But Zhu Wulei did not dodge or avoid, and directly grabbed Chen Xu's ankle and lifted him up with force!
Oh dear, that's a really vicious trick!
Chen Xu was standing on one leg, her center of gravity unstable. If she were to flip over like that, she would immediately fall backward. But before the students in the classroom could even gasp, Chen Xu braced herself with her hand in mid-air and landed lightly and gracefully on the ground... It was like the beautiful Li Hui from "Shaolin Soccer" who stepped on a watermelon rind and then stood up steadily with an easy flip.
This sudden fall was witnessed by hundreds of eyes right at the classroom door. When Chen Xu finally fell, some girls were already about to scream in fright. Guan Yi frowned and was about to rush out, but Chen Xu stood up steadily, which immediately triggered a deafening cheer, as if it would tear the ceiling off.
Seeing that Zhu Wulei still wanted to come up, Chen Xu said with a bitter face, "Well, let's call it even, okay? To be honest, I really can't beat you. I could kick you ten times and it would be like a tickle, but if you hit me once, I can't take it. I admit defeat, okay?"
Zhu Wulei wiped his sweat and said, "That won't do! The battle isn't over yet, and it seems you still have the upper hand. Come on, let's have another match!"
Chen Xu rolled his eyes. Another fight? If they continued, he'd really end up in the hospital. Wasn't this just being unreasonable?! The force of that guy's punch had just grazed his nose, making his face burn! What would happen if he'd actually been hit?!
Just then, a voice suddenly rang out from outside the door: "Wu Lei, stop!"
Chapter 150 Nangong Lan
Chen Xu and the others looked in the direction of the sound and saw a handsome guy with long hair and a white shirt standing at the door. Upon seeing him, the girls in the class began to whisper among themselves, with Xiao Hua even screaming, "Handsome guy! So stylish!"
Chen Xu and the rest of the bastards gave the same assessment: "Damn show-off!"
Can you stop showing off?
He was dressed entirely in white, like a traditional Chinese jacket, with white cloth shoes on his feet. His hair was very long, tied in a ponytail at the back, with bangs covering his eyes... He looked somewhat like Nicholas Tse, with a face that could be called a "duck face"... a pretty boy with the potential to be a gigolo!
White clothes are pretty... everyone knows that! But look around at the university students, how many of them wear white clothes?
Don't you want to wash it yourself?!
After a semester, even the freshmen have become lazy. The dorm rooms are as dirty as pigsties. Even those who bought white clothes carefully wrap them in packaging bags, otherwise they will turn black by the next day when they are put in the closet.
In fact, men's jealousy of handsome men is no less than women's jealousy of other beautiful women. Just look at Beckham back then—why were so many women attracted to him while men weren't? People said he relied solely on his looks, and aside from his decent passing, his other skills were terrible. At that time, few people noticed that Beckham, whether for the England national team or his club, was constantly running on the field, averaging ten kilometers per match—a true "subway-like" player… It's no wonder, he was just too handsome. It easily leads to aversion.
The person right in front of me was just like that. He stood there quietly with his hands behind his back, standing ramrod straight, his eyes unfathomable… What is this if not showing off? The air of a master? Pshaw! A master, indeed! Didn't you see what happened to that master in Crazy Stone?!
His voice wasn't loud. It was steady, but carried a certain imposing authority. Zhu Wulei immediately turned around, and his expression changed when he saw the man. He said, "Young Master? What brings you here?"
Young master? What about the princess?! What a show-off!
A group of boys were internally grumbling. The girls, on the other hand, were practically drooling. Young master? Could he be the heir to a wealthy family? ...A typical reaction from watching too many Taiwanese idol dramas.
Although Zhu Wulei was reluctant when she saw the man, she obediently said "Oh" and went back. The man looked at Chen Xu and, surprisingly, cupped his hands in a gesture of respect, as if from ancient times, saying, "I apologize for what happened earlier; my brother was too impetuous. But Chen Xu, right? I am Nangong Lan. Would you do me the honor of coming out for a chat?"
Chen Xu touched his nose. "Nangong? Seriously, what a show-off! Is that a stage name he made up? Still a bit... But that's not surprising, considering the recent rise of martial artists. Many people greet each other with a thick martial arts accent, calling themselves 'Great Hero,' constantly referring to themselves as 'this humble one,' all very refined... but when they actually fight, they're all incredibly fierce!"
Tsk tsk, this world is terrifying!
Chen Xu smiled wryly and said, "You're not going to pick a fight with me too, are you?"
Before Nangong Lan could reply, Zhu Wulei glared at her and shouted, "What a joke! You can't even beat me, yet you want to fight my young master?" Then, after being glared at by Nangong Lan, he immediately fell silent.
Nangong Lan smiled, and undeniably, his smile was sunny and charming. The young woman over there was already mesmerized. He still cupped his hands in greeting and said, "Don't worry, we're all civilized people. Let me apologize on behalf of my brother first. Um, I have a favor to ask."
Seeing that he meant no harm, Chen Xu scratched his head and walked out, saying, "Um, stop with the 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry' stuff. It sounds cheesy. We're all modern people, and this isn't a time-travel novel. Can you change your tone?"
Nangong Lan smiled. She said okay, then stepped aside and left through the door. The group walked out together. Inside the classroom, everyone stared in disbelief. Guan Yi and Gao Xiaojie exchanged a glance and quickly followed... Gao Xiaojie didn't forget to pull Zhan Jing along.
As the three women reached the door, they saw Chen Xu follow the two men into the nearby grove. Gao Xiaojie asked nervously, "Won't they get up again?" Guan Yi frowned and quickened his pace to follow, while Zhan Jing and Gao Xiaojie hurriedly followed.
The groves of trees at various universities are often popular dating spots for couples, but it's only lunchtime now and most students are rushing to the cafeteria for lunch, so there's no one in the groves.
When the three women ran quickly to the woods, they immediately saw a scene that left them speechless!
Nangong Lan did make a move, but she didn't attack Chen Xu; instead, she attacked the burly, dark-skinned man!
Watching Nangong Lan, dressed in white, flutter around the burly man like a white butterfly, each time lightly striking out with a palm, though his hand exerted no force whatsoever, merely going through the motions, the burly man's repeated attacks couldn't even touch the hem of his clothes. In a real fight, if Nangong Lan used just a little force in his palm, he could absolutely defeat him!
Hearing someone behind her, Nangong Lan glanced over but didn't stop until she finished her palm strike. She then asked Chen Xu, "Did you understand?"
Chen Xu shook his head like a rattle-drum. This Nangong Lan is a master, an absolute master!
He just said he wanted to see the footwork of his palm technique. Chen Xu thought, why not? He's so smart and quick-witted, and he's the main character. He can learn it in just one glance, right?
But after he finished his palm technique, Chen Xu realized he hadn't remembered anything! He was too shocked to even look at it!
Gao Xiaojie and the other two girls stared in disbelief. Nangong Lan clapped her hands and walked over. Chen Xu noticed that there wasn't a single drop of sweat on his forehead. He looked at the three girls and said, "These three must be Gao Xiaojie, Guan Yi, and Zhan Jing, right?"
Guan Yi frowned and asked, "How did you know? Did you investigate us?"