- 2009 February 1st
I wake up, stretch, and yawn. After doing that, I walk to the bathroom, brush my teeth, and then sit down on a chair in my house. Getting back from China was funny. I actually enjoyed my time there... well, other than that one time that guy tried to scam me, but when I did not fall for his scam, he outright wanted to rob me. Funny dude...
I walk down to my basement, whose lights turn on the second I step in, and I hear Ava's voice: "Good morning, sir. The breakfast is ready in the living room," and I speak, "Good morning, Ava. I eat later; for now, I go and train," and Ava speaks, "But, sir, you can't keep doing this every day; it's not healthy," and I just shake my head and walk to a corner of the basement and open the door. It was a white room inside, which had a big TV, good food, games, and all sorts of other things...
But in the middle of the room, there was a man who looked weak and scared out of his mind... He was strapped to a metal chair and linked to a bunch of medical machines that made sure to keep him alive and also monitored his body 24 for 7...
"Ah, good morning to you too. Don't worry, this is the last day, ok? I'll let you go after this one. It is the day I am sure I'll master Chi Sipho lifeforce! This is such a good thing, right, for me at least?" And with a dark smile on my face, I put my hand on the guy's face, and then... a second later, my hand glows golden, but not from the power of Iron Fist... This was the power of life force, and, well, it was like a drug to me...
I let go of the man's face, which looked like he had aged at least 3 years, and he was passed out... but still alive... Test 306 successful! And with this, I have in some sense, mastered Chi Sipho lifeforce, and with that, the 3 scary, powerful techniques of Chi Absorption and Chi Mind Meld are all learned and mastered in their own way...
In the past month, I have only been training with these 3 techniques other then that. I have also learned a lot about Chi... First off, having the Iron Fist is pretty much like having a cheat. If you're training in Chi, doing anything feels so easy. With Iron Fist, everything about Chi just feels like breathing to me. I mean, I should have noticed this before, even when I did not know anything about Chi. A month ago, when I first got chi, even back then, I was able to learn chi healing and chi detection with little to no effort...
And even Chi healing and Chi detection, I have improved those too. Now I can heal pretty much any cut or even a big wound on my body. Unless someone cuts my arms off, I don't have to worry about getting stabbed anymore. Also, Chi detection has improved a lot. Now I can feel everyone's Chi in a small neighborhood or about a mile, but still, it's not mastered in any sense, but still, that's good since I was mainly training the 3...
Now, about the 3: first off, Chi Absorption is not as broken as I thought it would be. Once I took someone else's Chi, then I had to make it mine by pretty much playing a game of tug-of-war. If I win, then that someone else's Chi becomes mine fully, but if I fail? Then the Chi goes back to the person I stole it from, but still, even though this technique seems underwhelming, it's not because when I made someone else's Chi my own, I not only had more Chi to play with...
I also noticed while training with Iron Fist that my Iron Fist got stronger... Now, the next natural question comes: Can I just keep taking others' chi and keep getting stronger forever? Will my Iron Fist reach a level where I can punch through buildings? All questions, no answers. Need to do more testing...
Next Chi Sipho Lifeforce—now this is something that took me the longest time to train and learn, and, well, unlike Chi Absorption, I don't need to make others' lifeforce mine, so just stealing someone else's lifeforce was hard to learn and train, but what scared me was how easy it was for me to just take someone else's lifeforce... and not only that, when I take lifeforce into my body, it's like a drug—that's the best way I can describe It feels way too good, like the best feeling ever...
Not only have I noticed my skin get better, but also my hair grew softer, and also I could to some sense guess my life force, and from the looks of it, I would have normally lived to 66 years old, but after taking those 3 years from that other guy, I am now pretty sure I will live 3 more years naturally. Also, I noticed how my Chi got warm when I stole that guy's life force... Other than that, yes, there is one drawback for Chi's siphon life force: it takes a lot of Chi—I mean a lot of Chi—to steal someone else's force, but it makes sense; I am stealing life force after all...
And now at the end, the most scary and possibly powerful Chi Technique Chi Mind Meld... it was simply broken, no other words needed... When I used Mind Meld, it was like I was jumping into a pool of information and knowledge. I could learn anything just by focusing on it... There are no real drawbacks...
I mean, this does not even take that much Chi to use—no other tug-of-war games or anything! The only drawback I could somewhat pinpoint is that if the person's mind I am jumping into has a lot of information and knowledge, it might take more time to learn what I want from the other person because I need to pretty much skip through the person's mind to find what I want...
And that's how I learned a different complex language, which I did not know before, in mere minutes... Yeah, now I know Mandarin. I cannot only understand it, but I can also read and speak it. My speech is a little off because my mouth has never spoken this language... But still, after a day, I was able to speak Mandarin like I had lived in China for a few years...
Chi mind meld is pretty much a cheat on its own!
Just then, the guy locked onto the metal chair woke up with a huge gasp, and he looked around, his eyes restless. The second he saw me, he screamed... too bad no sound came out because the oxygen mask on his face was making it impossible for the poor man to scream...
Ohh, I almost forgot about him. This is the dude who tried to scam me and rob me. I pretty much kidnapped him from China to here, and I have been keeping him inside my basement for testing and stuff. I have been feeding him well. Not only that, I even let him play all the new games I made with Ava. He gets to watch movies and news, even naughty stuff too, just if he gets the need... But every morning I run my tests of Chi on this man, but still, he is pretty much getting free. Why does he scream so much?
("Hey, hey, you scream too much again. As punishment, I won't let you go today! OK? Next day, maybe I'll let you leave if you are a good test dummy.") After saying that with a smile on my face, I walk out and close and lock the door behind me, and I don't look back. I already had Ava run a background check on this man, and, well, it was not good. He was a robber and also a killer, and he had also been involved in running a drug ring, but he got caught by the cops and, well, broke out of jail, and just when this dude was looking for some easy money, he ran into, well, me...
This guy has trash luck... but still, why does he scream so much? Eh? Well, after a few tests, I learned that taking someone's Chi out of their body is like pulling someone's heart out of their body, and pulling someone's force out of their body is like pulling someone's soul out of their body and mind meld. It feels like your mind is melting and inside a fire, pretty much so, yeah, it makes sense he screams a lot...
Walking out of the testing room, I walk to the couch in my basement and speak casually, "Hey, Ava, pull out the report on the Ten Rings," and a few seconds later, on the TV, there were all sorts of photos and information, and Ava speaks, "The Ten Rings is a covert group engaged in various hidden activities and power plays. Their influence spans years and reaches worldwide, instilling fear and maintaining control. Their true intentions and ties to greater forces are largely ambiguous."
And hearing Ava and watching the TV, I say, "So you know barely anything about them? Other than that, are they a group? Well, at least you learned that they have a history of fear and control, huh?" And I smile. I never expected Ava to learn anything about the Ten Rings because, well, even SHIELD knew nothing about the Ten Rings... but Ava, who has not even been on the internet for more than a year, was able to learn so much about the Ten Rings?
I sounded like I was not happy, but I was amused by the fact of how good Ava was compared to the Shield, which has been around ever since the World War era... Shield was truly a loser, huh? Seeing everything in the MCU, if you asked me who the real losers are, it's Shield. At one point, this group had so much power, but it messed up and lost everything...
The many reasons? Lies form one man. Nick Fury fucked SHIELD up; not only that, he also fucked up the Avengers... crazy. Nick Fury had everything. A huge organization with high-tech weapons, technology, money, and everything. Not only that, he had power over a group of people who, if they did not break apart, I don't think the earth would have ever lost...
Think about it. Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and her brother—how the hell did Nick Fury mess up with a lineup like that? Plus, all of them had not even reached their prime yet, but still, Nick Fury, with his lies about this and that, and then even Hydra was somewhat Nick Fury's fault if you think about it, and after all of that, Civil War happened, and what did Nick Fury do? He did nothing; he just let the strongest humans on earth fight each other...
Stupid is what I call Nick Fury, but, well, he was not stupid because, well, Nick Fury still kept SHIELD somehow alive and kept the Avengers at work. He, after all, was the man who came up with the Avengers... Nick Fury, the best way I can explain his actions is, well, he knows how to come up with really good plans, but, well, after the plan is done, he does not know what to do...
It's almost like he knows how to make a good weapon, but he does not know how to use the weapon he made... It's funny and also stupid... Anyway, I'll deal with Shield later. For now, it's time to go raid the Ten Rings. Well, he should be somewhere in China...
Huh, will it get sus if I keep going to China? Well, who cares? I won't be going there anyway. James Lee will be going there, and this is about the time Shang's mother should be dead. Around this time, the train for Shang must have started, and Shang must be about 8 or 9 years old right now, huh? And well, the big boss Xu Wenwu? Or whatever his name was, he must still be angry, going after the killers of his wife...
It's a pretty sad story if you think about it. Well, too bad, you know what they say...
Karma is a bitch...