NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Ferocious Beasts, Martial Artists, and Awakeners!
Translator: yikaii Editor: yikaii
Superhuman Awakeners?
Jiang He couldn’t help but be intrigued!
He hadn’t expected the psychiatric hospital to harbor hidden dragons and crouching tigers, including the legendary awakeners!
And these three old men seemed quite normal, not at all like people with mental illness.
“Right!”
“These three were able to kidnap Yun Yanchen, they definitely aren’t ordinary people, perhaps I can learn more about this world from them.”
He thought to himself.
“Brother Three, I don’t know why, but after waking up, it seems I’ve forgotten a lot… The only thing I remember is you three brothers. Can you tell me, what are superhuman awakeners?”
Jiang He asked, “And those monsters on TV, what’s that about?”
“It looks like you really have lost your memory.”
“But you still remember us, which shows you’re not a bad guy.”
Zhang San sighed, then said, “Losing your memory might be a good thing, it means your past has turned into a blank slate, you can forget all your troubles… Come on, let’s go back to the ward, brother is going to doodle all over your blank slate today!”
Back in the ward.
Zhang San began to speak non-stop.
“All of this goes back 30 years ago…”
“I was only 20 years old at the time, in the prime of my youth, with a beautiful and lovely girlfriend named Xiaofang… Then one day, the world changed, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, volcanic eruptions…”
“Disasters struck all over the world!”
“The calamity lasted for three days, countless cities turned into ruins, with countless dead or injured.”
“However… an even greater disaster came!”
“All over the world, many powerful monsters suddenly emerged, possessing terrifying power, ordinary firearms were ineffective against them, and many ordinary animals, wild beasts, and even plants underwent evolutionary mutations!”
People named these monsters “Ferocious Beasts”!
These ferocious beasts had extremely aggressive natures and developed high intelligence, countless birds and beasts that evolved into ferocious beasts, madly attacked human cities.
Numerous villages, towns, and even some small countries were destroyed overnight!
Especially island nations and countries near tropical rainforests suffered the most severe attacks from ferocious beasts!
Only a few military superpowers could barely resist the attacks of ferocious beasts with a large number of firearms and “nuclear weapons”.
But soon, people discovered…
Even “nuclear weapons” caused limited damage to those powerful ferocious beasts!
Instead, the “nuclear radiation” pollution caused some ferocious beasts to mutate further, giving birth to some even more powerful “Beast Kings”.
Zhang San said, “Take for example the Eight-Headed Serpent Emperor in the Pacific Ocean, it was an ancient creature slumbering in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, awakened with the strength of a King-level, it evolved to Emperor-level largely due to absorbing nuclear radiation pollution.”
“Heh!”
Li Si sneered, “Isn’t that all thanks to those little actions of Fusang? Being an island nation and managing to survive by establishing base cities is already very difficult, yet they insisted on dumping nuclear waste into the sea. Didn’t the several large-scale beast tides that hit Fusang all stirred up by the Eight-Headed Serpent Emperor?”
Wang Mazi nodded in agreement, saying, “If you ask me, Fusang had it coming. Sooner or later, they will be wiped out by the Eight-Headed Serpent Emperor.”
Jiang He said, “They’ve already been wiped out, I saw the news this morning, the 16th is gone,”
“Nicely done!”
The three old men high-fived in celebration.
Zhang San suggested they go out for drinks to celebrate that night.
This suggestion was unanimously agreed upon by Li Si and Wang Mazi, while Jiang He was puzzled, “Aren’t patients not allowed to leave the hospital at will?”
“How could a small Anning Hospital keep us confined?”
Zhang San started to enlighten Jiang He on the “worldview”.
The great changes in the world caused mutations and evolution in animals and plants, with ferocious beasts running rampant.
Similarly.
Among humans, some “awakeners” were born, and it was discovered that the ancient martial arts could now be practiced in this era… With the sacrifices and battles of these “awakeners” and martial artists, humanity gradually found its footing.
Until the establishment of “base cities”.
Humanity finally got a chance to breathe and develop in the fight against ferocious beasts.
“After some experts’ research, after the disaster that year, ‘spiritual energy’ appeared in the world. The evolution and mutation of animals and plants are related to spiritual energy, and the ability for martial artists to practice is also related to spiritual energy.”
“The situation with awakeners is more complicated.”
“Some experts suggest that awakeners may inherently contain some power in their genetic bloodlines, which awakens under the stimulation of spiritual energy, hence the birth of various abilities.”
This was somewhat similar to the settings in some “spiritual energy revival” novels.
Jiang He pondered for a moment.
He asked, “Brother Three is a fire-element superhuman awakener, so what about Brother Four and Brother Five?”
Li Si said, “Awakeners are rare, one in ten thousand. I practice martial arts… Of course, my specialty is poison, and I’m known as the 【Deadly Poison Master】 in the martial world, that’s your Brother Four for you!”
Wang Mazi leaned in, hehe smiling, “Old Six, guess why… I’m not called Wang Wu, but Wang Mazi?”
Jiang He hesitated for a few seconds, “Is it because Brother Five, you have a lot of freckles on your face?”
Wang Mazi: “…”
Indeed, his face was covered with freckles.
But that wasn’t the point.
Wang Mazi said, “Because I’m skilled with the blade, and in the martial world, there was a predecessor who reached the pinnacle of blade techniques called Great Blade Wang Wu. If I were called Wang Wu, it would be the same name as his.”
Great Blade Wang Wu?
That name sounded familiar… There was also such a person in the history of his “hometown”!
At that moment.
A knock on the door sounded.
Feng Shaoyu, along with security, arrived at Room 207, saying, “Old Zhang, Old Li, Old Wang, the dean is asking for you in his office.”
The three old men got up together.
Jiang He quickly stopped them, lowering his voice, “Don’t go, brothers… It must be the police and Martial Arts Administration people who have found their way to the hospital.”
Zhang San confidently smiled, casually saying, “Don’t panic, Old Six, those losers can’t do anything to us… Get ready, I’ll take you out for drinks when we come back.”
All the way until the evening.
After Jiang He had dinner and took his medicine.
He even went out for two night runs.
Reasonable eating, reasonable medication, reasonable exercise.
Strength +30kg!
【Strength】: 260kg
But when he returned to the ward, Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Mazi still hadn’t come back.
“Could these three guys have been taken away by the police and Martial Arts Administration?”
Jiang He was somewhat worried.
He had been hoping to get martial arts guidance from Li Si and Wang Mazi… What’s the use of having great strength without knowing martial arts?
He left the ward and sneaked into Room 209 next door.
Room 209 was inhabited by Old Wang and the male patient who ate feces, apparently named Chen Yu.
“Huh?”
Old Wang, speaking in a dialect, expressed surprise, “Why are you still here? Wasn’t it said that Old Zhang and the others got locked up in solitary? How come they didn’t lock you up too?”
“???”
Jiang He returned to Room 207 with a worried face.
Just as he entered…
Bang!
He felt a pain in his neck as if someone had hit him.
He struggled to turn around, and in a daze, seemed to see three faces wearing stockings…
Then everything went dark, and he passed out!
(End of the chapter)