Chapter 176
Chapter 176
“And what is your method?”
The crowd looked at him with faint anticipation.
Liu Ye clasped his hands behind his back, assuming the bearing of a grandmaster.
“As the saying goes, before you learn to fight, you must learn to take a beating! Only after you’ve been hit enough can you improve your resistance to blows and grow accustomed to the speed of other people’s fists. So if I’m training you, I won’t begin by teaching techniques. First, I’ll improve your durability!”
Everyone was speechless.
Mr. Shen, we would like to withdraw from the tournament!
Before anyone could say it aloud, Liu Ye swung his enormous palm. The man who had challenged him earlier shot high into the air.
Everyone was speechless again.
Mr. Shen and his men stared, their eyes bulging like beads. Strong as they were, even they could not send a man flying that high. They waited and waited. The man remained airborne for more than ten seconds before finally falling back down.
Bang!
He struck the ground and instantly broke into pieces. But since this was a dream, he did not die. His body gradually reassembled itself.
“Aaaah!”
Once restored to life, the man rolled across the floor in agony.
Mr. Shen had thought the people here were already brutal enough. Compared to Liu Ye, however, they were mere amateurs. The man had only complained a few times, yet Liu Ye had beaten him to death once already.
No one could truly die here, but the pain of dying was magnified many times over.
“All right, next… Huh? Where are you going?”
Zhang Ru and the others were fleeing madly. Only a fool would stand still and wait for him to hit them.
“Don’t run! Come back!”
Liu Ye hurried after them as the group sprinted ahead.
Whenever someone fell behind, Liu Ye slapped them. They immediately died and returned to life in agony, while Liu Ye continued chasing the rest.
Their stamina in the dream corresponded to their bodies in reality. How could they possibly outrun Liu Ye? In less than half an hour, everyone lay on the ground wailing.
“All right, everyone, stop lying around. Pain is temporary. Let’s continue!”
“Brother Liu, I don’t want to-”
Smack!
Before Wang Weiwei could finish, Liu Ye slapped her to the ground.
“My soldiers are not permitted to surrender! Anyone who tries will receive an extra hour of training today!”
Had he immersed himself in some strange role?
Everyone immediately covered their mouths. Tears of pain streamed down Wang Weiwei’s face, only for Liu Ye to slap her to the ground again.
“A real man bleeds, but never cries!”
“I’m a woman!” Wang Weiwei screamed in agony.
“Then you’re a real woman, and real women should bleed without crying too! Who says women are inferior to men? Keep it up!”
Keep it up, my ass!
“Waaah! I’m going to report him to the Women’s Federation for abusing women and children!” Wang Weiwei sobbed.
“Keep whining and you won’t be going to the Women’s Federation. You’ll be going to the Disabled Persons’ Federation,” Zhang Yanyan said darkly beside her.
Wang Weiwei immediately shut her mouth.
Under Liu Ye’s relentless pressure, the group spent an entire day dying more times than they could count.
Even Mr. Shen’s side began to feel afraid. One foreign man looked at the Satan tattoo on his chest, hurriedly asked a friend to wash it off, then told him to tattoo Liu Ye in its place.
Two more days passed. The trainees gradually grew numb. What was death? A life worse than death was the truly frightening thing.
Their eyes began to change. The expressions in them frightened even Mr. Shen’s men.
Those were not the eyes of human beings. They looked like monsters.
As fear crept into Mr. Shen’s group, Zhang Ru and the others discovered that their own bodies were becoming stronger.
Zhang Ru immediately looked at Mr. Shen’s men and saw their physiques slowly shrinking.
“I understand!”
At last, Zhang Ru grasped Liu Ye’s painstaking intention.
The Chamber of Brutality must be a psychological manifestation. The moment someone displayed weakness before another person, that weakness would become reflected in their body.
Conversely, if you inspired fear in others, you would become stronger.
“So that’s why Brother Liu did this!”
Excitement surged through Zhang Ru. Brother Liu was still looking out for them. If he had been alone, he could undoubtedly have passed this chamber with ease.
But the rest of them were different. Their first reaction to those muscle-bound brutes had been fear. That would only make them weaker and their opponents stronger.
It was also why those men had been torturing people when the group first arrived.
But things were different now. So what if their muscles were bigger? They might be frightening, but could they possibly be more frightening than Liu Ye?
Mr. Shen realized the situation was turning against him.
“That’s enough! The tournament will begin immediately!”
He hurriedly shouted the announcement.
Liu Ye was dissatisfied. He had only just improved their physiques and had not taught them any actual techniques, yet the competition was already starting.
Everyone else breathed a sigh of relief. They had been hovering at the edge of collapse. If the training continued, they would truly go insane.
“The first match will begin shortly! Both sides, prepare yourselves!”
Mr. Shen’s side sent out a muscular brute. Opposite him stood an old man.
The brute had been completely confident. Defeating one frail old fellow would be effortless.
Then he stepped onto the field and met the old man’s eyes, which regarded everything with cold indifference.
His heart abruptly skipped.
“Both sides, prepare! Begin!”
At the command, the brute attacked first. He swung a fist into the old man’s face.
Bang!
The old man’s dentures flew out, but his expression remained perfectly calm.
“That’s your punch? There’s no strength behind it at all!”
What a joke. That blow did not possess even one ten-thousandth of Liu Ye’s power. It was far too weak.
“You!”
Enraged, the brute rained punches down on the old man. The elderly man’s body rocked like a tiny boat in a storm, tossed again and again beneath the furious downpour.
“Huff… Huff… Huff…”
The muscular man panted heavily, growing more alarmed by the second. This was only a frail old man. Why wouldn’t he fall?
“Is that all you can do?”
The old man stared at him contemptuously. Enormous fear rose within the brute, and his body rapidly began to shrink.
The old man, meanwhile, grew larger.
“You’ve had your turn. Now it’s mine!”
Imitating Liu Ye’s motion, the old man delivered a single slap. The muscular brute flew across the arena, crashed into the railing, and lost consciousness.
The entire arena fell silent. Mr. Shen and his companions had never imagined such an outcome. Even more disturbing was the complete lack of reaction from Liu Ye’s side, as though the old man’s victory were perfectly ordinary.
“Can we really win?”
Someone swallowed nervously.
Reality soon answered the question. Mr. Shen’s side did not win a single subsequent match. Even Wang Weiwei got to experience the pleasure of being powerful.
She felt invincible.
“Moon Prism Power!”
Smack! Her opponent punched her, but Wang Weiwei continued shouting through her bloody nose.
“Sailor Moon!”
Smack! Her opponent punched her again.
“Transform!”
Smack, smack, smack…
“In the name of the moon, I’ll-”
“Stop dragging it out! Keep babbling and you’ll be beaten to death before you finish!” Zhang Ru roared from the sidelines.
At last, Liu Ye was the only person who had not fought. He looked left and right, but no opponent remained. Every fighter on the other side had already lost.
Finally, Liu Ye’s gaze settled on Mr. Shen.
“Looks like you’ll have to fight me.”
Mr. Shen was speechless.