Chapter 37: Crane styled Wingchun, Euros and guns (2/2)

Outside the window was a collapsed wall. And right outside of that was a field of corn that was then followed by a giant mountain.

It was summer so the corn wasn’t fully mature yet. But the stalks were tall enough to tower of a person.

During the day, it would have been hard to see anyone, but in the night, it would have been impossible.

Cao Yi had some people surround the corn fields, but since it was so large and they didn’t have enough people so it was impossible to cover every place.

The first wave of officers that were sent to the area had already been killed.

This meant that this wasn’t any regular criminal gang.

“Hurry up….chase them….” A single officer could sense that they were close and called out weakly to them.

“I’m fine, hurry up and go!” Zhu Jia could see him too and fiercely pushed Wang Chao off her chest.

When Wang Chao saw the man jumped out the window, he could tell that he was an expert. This caused an itchy feeling to well up within his heart.

And with the moonlight shining down, Wang Chao could see that the man was holding two suitcases before he jumped out the window. There wasn’t any guns to be seen.

“Within these two suitcases has to be something good, maybe money!”

The room contained only men without the ability to fight so there was no immediate threat to Zhu Jia. With the rest of the officers coming in, there would be even less of a danger.

After analyzing the situation for a moment within his mind, Wang Chao suddenly leaped out the window like a monkey picking a fruit.

This was a part of the monkey form.

Climbing over the wall, Wang Chao arrived at the corn fields. With a motion like a snake through a field of grass, Wang Chao’s figure flickered through it in a few quick steps.

In less than two minutes, he had already traveled far from the room. The other side of the building still rang out with the occasional sounds of gunfire, but nothing too fierce.

By this point, the man with the two suitcases was already back within his sight.

The corn fields had already reached an end. There was only a mountain with no path remaining. By this point, the man had already known that someone was chasing him. Immediately stopping in place, he set down the suitcases and turned around. Extending his arms, he resembled like a crane as he faced Wang Chao.

The man’s figure suddenly transformed, his fists turned into beaks and shot towards Wang Chao’s throat.

Wang Chao could only feel a sudden gust of wind before assaulting his throat as if he was choking.

“An expert!” When the expert had made a move, he had been caught unaware. But seeing just how the mysterious man moved, Wang Chao knew that he was up against an expert he couldn’t take lightly.

His left hand formed an eagle’s claw and protected his throat to prevent it from being pecked out.

Bang! Although he had managed to contain the beak like hand, the five fingers suddenly loosened up and expanded. Wang Chao could only feel the power within the hand swell up as it clamped down onto his own.

The other man’s hand had made his pores well up to resemble a strange looking glove.

“Another internal practitioner! This guy’s Jin is stronger than mine! Not only that, but even his martial arts is stronger and more advanced than mine.” Wang Chao had a decent amount of fighting experience, so in that brief moment of contact, he had been able to understand.

Unable to feel the enemy’s potential movements, Wang Chao could only retreat backwards. Unfortunately for him, the enemy hadn’t retracted his hand. His beak hand transformed into a claw and latched onto Wang Chao’s arm before putting force onto his grip.

“Not good!” Wang Chao could sense that the power from the enemy go down his waist and into his legs, causing them to weaken and him to crouch down involuntarily.

This was the result of having his own potential movements sensed by the enemy.

Knowing that his situation wasn’t looking good, Wang Chao’s hands transformed to form a knife edge. With blood coursing through his veins and his knee resting on the ground, he pressed hard against the ground to propel him to the side.

At last he was back on stable grounding. Like a slippery fish, he was able to relinquish the enemy’s hold onto him.

“Eh?!” The enemy hadn’t let Wang Chao out from his sight. The arm that was holding Wang Chao’s arm was thrown to the side before Wang Chao’s knife hand tried to stab into his waist. With that, the man let out a sound of surprise.

Pa! Turning his body, the man slammed his fist against Wang Chao’s knife hand. Swaying to the side, Wang Chao felt his hand go numb as if he was stabbed by a ball cactus.

“Hidden Jin!” Wang Chao’s surprise was in no small amount. If his opponent had truly reached the Hidden Jin stage, then he would be no match for him.

But after some time, Wang Chao felt that while his arm had went numb, he didn’t lose his fighting strength. This had meant that his opponent had only just reached the point of Hidden Jin and was not yet fully capable of using it.

Otherwise, an expert at the stage of Hidden Jin would have been able to strike with a pinpoint accuracy of a needle and like lightning. With a single strike, the nerves would be shot, rendering the muscles unable to exert force.

But with the opponent not yet at the Hidden Jin stage, Wang Chao could be assured that he had a chance. Carefully, he began to circle around the enemy using the footwork of Bagua.

The opponent’s martial arts had been unbelievably fierce. Sticking up close and using Longfist way of fighting. He would always attack him from the front side with popping sounds from each blow like the waves slapping against the shores.

After five exchanges, Wang Chao had finally made out the man’s true identity. He was a middle aged man around 30 years old with a round face and a build that was not too muscular. However, he looked as if he was filled with energy.

But when his opponent saw Wang Chao was only just a youngster, he couldn’t help but feel shocked.

“Wingchun?” The enemy’s style of fighting was similar to Xingyi Quan, but the way of fighting was more spiral like with a penetrative amount of power. Moreover, the fists would generally come very close to the body before issuing power towards the shoulders.

“You have good eyes!” The middle aged man took a step back and let out a breath of air. Then, like a crane grabbing at a snake, he struck.

Wang Chao stepped to the side before circling around as he used the monkey stance to leap up into the air. Dodging the strike, he used the Smashing Fist to strike back.

Pa pa pa pa! Fists struck against fist four times before Wang Chao felt his arm go numb once more. A strong amount of energy transmitted through to his back and then down to his vertebrae, causing him pain.

The enemy was using Wingchun which was based off the fight between a snake and a white crane, his style specifically was focused on the white crane aspect.

Wingchun was very prevalent in the coastal areas, but the true teachings were rarely passed down. Only Bruce Lee at the time had truly learned it.

Taichi had the art of pushing hands, Xingyi Quan had the art of the twisting hands, Bagua the rotating hands, and the Crane style Wingchun focusing on the art of coiling the hands. There were others that were hard to deal with, but all focused on listening to one’s Jin and potential movement. It could even be said that all internal practitioners were interlinked with each other through martial arts.

Wang Chao had finally came across such an expert at the coiling fist. Not only was he unable to feel his potential movements, but he had nearly been swung to the ground.

“I’ve really came across a true expert this time!” Wang Chao felt a large amount of pressure and excitement within his chest. Leaping upwards, he began to go all out.

The middle age man was fighting harder and harder as well. His fists were like a hurricane and nearly covered Wang Chao via a series of combos that forced Wang Chao back.

After 10 exchanges within the corn field, Wang Chao leapt out.

“It’s unfortunate this is a wide open space.” Wang Chao thought to himself, “Otherwise, I’d have been mowed down long ago.”

The two suitcases had been kicked open, revealing bills and bills of money.

The bills were not RMB, and neither was it the American dollar. It was purple in color and had a circle of rings. On the top right, there was a 500 printed on it.

This was the high face value Euro!

The two men continued to fight, but after two minutes, the other man began to grow frantic. His attacks began to grow more frantic as his desire to kill Wang Chao and continue on his way grew stronger.

But Wang Chao hadn’t been forced by back him and instead continued to travel around him.

This wasn’t a wrestling match where there was a legal and illegal strike. If the man wanted to strike Wang Chao dead, it would not be easy.

Just at that moment, the corn maze began to snap with sounds as a figure came walking out.

It was Zhu Jia!

“Crap!” Wang Chao immediately realized the situation was going to hell.

Sure enough, once the man saw her, a sadistic smile overcame his face. Disengaging from Wang Chao, he charged at Zhu Jia.

But Zhu Jia wasn’t afraid. Lifting her hands, several pops rang out! Pa pa pa pa pa pa! A series of gunfire could be heard as the middle aged man’s body began to distort as if spinning around a pole.