Chapter 53 Everyone Needs to Eat

In the silence, Gu Fei ended his call with his old man.

"Everyone needs to eat..." It sounded almost comical at first, but it was indeed a difficult problem that martial artists needed to face.

Practicing martial arts was, in fact, quite a luxurious activity.

At the very least, the daily nutrition had to be maintained. Martial arts training was physical labor, consuming a great deal of energy every day, and the demand for various nutrients far exceeded that of ordinary people. You couldn't very well have people training hard on an empty stomach, could you? However, in today's society, ordinary families could manage this.

But the more advanced aspects, such as scientific nutritional diets, scientific strengthening methods, training equipment, and so on, were far beyond the reach of ordinary families.

The state often shouted about how much funding was needed to train an athlete, and this wasn't just a joke. The purpose of training athletes was to achieve results. It wasn't like raising pigs or dogs, where three meals a day and plenty of food were enough. The process required many specialized personnel and skills and equipment, all of which needed money to maintain.

The same was true for martial arts. If it was just a hobby, something to play around with in your spare time, then you could naturally get by with whatever you had. But for professionals like the Gu family and the Gu family, who devoted their entire lives to martial arts as a career and pursuit, could they just play around?

To take Gu Fei as an example, from the time he officially started strengthening his body and practicing kung fu as a child, professional technicians such as nutritionists, physical trainers, and masseurs were inseparable from him. Without money, could you afford to hire such professionals? In addition, all kinds of strange and specialized training equipment were custom-made. Without money, could you afford to make these things? Furthermore, gyms and martial arts training grounds for these equipment required a lot of space. Could someone living in an eighteen-story apartment building afford that?

On the surface, Gu Fei was a down-and-out grassroots sports teacher, but it would be a big mistake to think that Gu Fei was a sports teacher to make a living. It was just a job he had inexplicably found in his pursuit of using kung fu. If he really relied on the identity of a "sports teacher," which wouldn't even allow him to open a cram school, Gu Fei wouldn't even be able to afford the equipment to play "Parallel World."

The Gu family's current status in the world of kung fu was not unrelated to their business acumen. They had long entered a virtuous cycle, with those who made money supporting the family's expenses, and those who practiced martial arts maintaining the family's reputation in the field. However, more and more family members were more interested in making money than in practicing martial arts. By Gu Fei's generation, he was the only remaining heir.

Every family had its own problems.

Most martial arts families were embarrassed by their livelihoods. The Gu family, on the other hand, had no shortage of money, but they were facing a serious talent gap. The elders of the family were currently studying whether the long-standing rule of "letting them do as they please" needed to be changed. In today's world, with so much information, it was difficult for children to focus on one thing. Hobbies also needed to be cultivated!

Before Gu Fei left home, he heard that his uncle was preparing to take his eldest cousin's two children with him for training. Before Gu Fei left, he had seen the room specially prepared for the two children. The door had a large "武" (wu - martial) on it. Opening the door, the curtain was made of eighteen nine-section whips. On the left, where there used to be a coat rack, there was now a weapon rack. The antique vase in the corner on the right was still there, but it contained a tyrant's long spear, with its bright red tassel showing outside the vase.

On the wall facing them was a beautifully framed calligraphy scroll with two words: Kung Fu.

To the left and right of "Kung Fu" were the two children's beds, all bunk beds with nothing underneath, and no ladder to get to the top bunk, only a rope.

Then there were paintings hanging on the left and right walls. On the left were the thirty-six moves of the Gu family's boxing style, and on the right were the selected illustrations from the seventy-two moves of the Gu family's swordsmanship. There was also a large bookshelf, which Gu Fei flipped through and found filled with martial arts novels. Of course, some children didn't like to read, but they would like cartoons and video games. His uncle had also prepared early on, with cartoons and games all featuring close combat.

"I don't believe that I can't cultivate an interest in such an environment!" his uncle said proudly. His uncle had two children of his own, but both of them had no interest in kung fu, which made him lose face! This time, he was preparing to use his grandchildren to save face. Gu Fei remembered that when he was doing this, his two little nephews seemed to be only a little over a year old, not even two years old...

It was said that this kind of training was quite effective. The two boys were fighting every day, with scratches all over their faces, bodies, and arms. They hadn't even started practicing martial arts formally yet. If they really started learning, Gu Fei estimated that they would develop internal injuries and the like. He heard that the family had already made preparations, with all kinds of medicines for bruises and blood stasis. Recently, they were discussing hiring a more professional doctor, preferably one who understood both internal and external medicine, or two if necessary. This was a treatment that even Gu Fei didn't have back then.

Although this was funny, Gu Fei couldn't laugh. Even the Gu family had this unspeakable embarrassment, let alone other small families and sects that had problems even eating?

Worried about these things, Gu Fei was a little absent-minded during his evening class, which he had deliberately started earlier that night.

The next day, he entered the game at the usual time. Thinking that he didn't have to rush around today, he felt much more relaxed. Sunset City was also bustling with activity at this time, right in the peak hours of the day!

As Gu Fei walked down the street, all he could hear were discussions about yesterday's conflicts. Surprisingly, people were talking less about the great confrontation between Cloud players and the Sunset Mercenary Alliance, and more about the battle between Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun.

"Did you hear? Someone from Cloud City fought Bai Shi Jing Lun yesterday."

"I heard, it seems like there was no winner?"

"It seems like Bai Shi Jing Lun said he had something to do and left first."

"Hey, isn't he just pretending to be a wimp because he can't beat the guy?"

"Hey, I think so..."

Many players thought that Bai Shi Jing Lun couldn't beat Gu Fei and found an excuse to leave. Gu Fei could only smile wryly when he heard this, thinking how unpopular Bai Shi Jing Lun was in Sunset City, how did he manage that... Gu Fei didn't think about it, he was also a feared murderer in Cloud City, as if he was popular.

"Oh, Guild Leader Wu Shi, you haven't left yet!" As Gu Fei strolled down two streets, he suddenly saw Wu Shi Zhi Jian and his Feng Xing brother leisurely strolling down the street like tourists, so he greeted them.

The two turned their heads and saw that it was Gu Fei, and quickly greeted him, "Brother Qian Li."

"Not going back yet?"

"It's rare to come so far, just looking around!" The two smiled. In fact, Feng Xing saw that there were so many outstanding fighters in Sunset City, and wondered if there was any rare fighter equipment on the market here, so he lingered. Most of the Cloud City players had already returned home in groups of twos and threes after gathering last night.

"Is Brother Qian Li planning to go back?" Wu Shi Zhi Jian asked.

"Oh, just looking around." Gu Fei said with a smile, but in his heart, he was thinking about the fight with Bai Shi Jing Lun that he hadn't finished yesterday. Although it was very unpleasant to fight in the game, it was more enjoyable to meet someone who knew how to fight than to bully ordinary players. When he went online today, he looked at his friend list, but Bai Shi Jing Lun was not online. Gu Fei estimated that his job as a kung fu coach was probably not as leisurely as his job as a sports teacher.

"Then Brother Qian Li, you wander around, we'll go over there and take a look." Wu Shi Zhi Jian and Feng Xing greeted Gu Fei and went elsewhere.

Gu Fei felt that Wu Shi Zhi Jian's mood today seemed significantly less high than yesterday. Normally, he should still be excited today after completing the mission yesterday, but seeing his calm face, it was too unlike his style. He wondered what had happened.

Gu Fei was curious, but he didn't ask. Just then, someone in the mercenary channel asked him about the situation, and Gu Fei casually asked, and the people there laughed.

It turned out that Wu Shi Zhi Jian was extremely excited after completing the Across the Seas mission yesterday. After drinking with everyone in the tavern for a while, he actually went offline earlier than everyone else.

Everyone was very puzzled at the time, until today, Brother You brought the news that Wu Shi Zhi Jian, this showoff, couldn't burn out his excitement even with drinking. This guy actually ran to the game forum to show off, announcing what the number one guild in Parallel World was, and proudly announcing how they had completed this large mission.

As a result, this boast immediately met with ridicule from the forum.

Wu Shi Zhi Jian was so excited that he even thought of this mission as their exclusive. He had forgotten that this guild mission chain was the reward for the competition some time ago. As long as they were the guild champion in the competition, they could all get it.

Although the content of the missions was different, the final rewards were the same, that is, all the guild players who completed the mission were rewarded with experience and money, and the guild level was increased by one.

Because the Across the Seas mission was an expedition across main cities, it took many days. And some main city guild missions could be completed in one go. Although there were also failures, Wu Shi Zhi Jian claimed to be the first level six guild, which was definitely a big joke. In the few days that he was busy, three guilds had successively completed this reward mission and been promoted to level six.

Two of the guilds were even guilds in the main city they passed by. One was Yun Zhong Mu's Yun Zhong Lou in Moon Night City, and the other was Shui Tian Yi Se in Linshui City.

Wu Shi Zhi Jian had been paying attention to his own mission these days and hadn't bothered to understand the world's dynamics, so this joke was a big one. Level six guilds were no longer the focus of discussion. These days, forum players were hotly discussing the updating of the Five Little Strongs.

At the end of the competition, although countless people rose to the original Five Little Strongs' level of 41, the game's levels were ranked by the experience of the number of people, so it could still be seen. The original Five Little Strongs were still the top of each profession at that time, the top five in the entire game.

But recently, two of the Five Little Strongs had fallen from the list due to dropping levels, Shui Shen and Jian Nan You.

And the two new Little Strongs had already been hotly debated by the people.

And these two were both mages: one was called Gui Tong, and the other was very familiar to the players of Cloud City: Ni Liu Er Shang (Upstream).

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A bit late with the update ~ ~ This chapter is a transition, tomorrow will be a new volume, everyone applaud and encourage!