novelzi Chapter 53
Chapter 53
Chapter 53
Five years ago.
It was late at night. As usual, Chui Yim made his way to his workshop, only to leave when the moon was high in the dark sky. He looked up at the pitch black sky, feeling how increasingly powerful he had gotten.
After some time, Chui Yim then ran towards the village. He failed to notice somebody hiding in the woods far away, watching him quietly. The figure vanished as soon as he confirmed that Chui Yim was gone. The next second, he arrived in front of the rock.
With a weird expression on his face, he squatted down and copied Chui Yims actions: tapping the rock rhythmically.
Rumble
The rock rolled aside as the man watched excitedly. Its a hidden mechanism! His level of mastery in this is much greater than mine. Where did that kiddo learn all this from! Moonlight served as the softest of flashlights, shining onto the mans face gently.
Long hair, the same old scholars hat and a sharp pair of brows. The person was none other than Chui Tin. He walked into the workshop after a short pause.
But suddenly, he felt something and ducked to the side intuitively. Whoosh! Numerous arrows as thin as cow fur shot out and landed in the walls on his right. Chui Tin was shocked. Hes trying to kill his father, huh? He thought angrily, forgetting that he was the one who broke into Chui Yims workshop. The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))
He went on dodging many mechanisms of many different types. There were twelve mechanisms hidden in the short tunnel not even ten meters long! The mechanisms were simple, but dangerous and well-planned. This was way beyond Chui Tins expectations. Even a one or two-chambered state glipher would be heavily injured if they came. If not for the legendary mechanism book he once read, he wouldnt be able to predict these mechanisms either.
How did he manage to do this?
It was from that day on that Chui Tin realised that something was off about his son. Because of this, Chui Tin never worried if Chui Yim would be unable to learn all three topics, forging, gliphism and being a glipheon, at the same time as he knew that if his son wasnt a genius, he would be a prodigy, or even a legendary man who knew everything since birth.
Oh no, hes going to reach home soon, Chui Tin muttered and with a wave of his hands, all the minerals in the racks vanished as he quickly wrote a letter. When Chui Tin left, the letter fell on the center of the table slowly.
Chui Yim looked at the walls covered with fur-thin arrows. He looked ahead to realise that all his hidden mechanisms had been activated. The mechanisms were all finely made, but it was because he had no choice. With his heart deficiency, he was unable to perform strenuous activity for too long a time. Such a small, fine but deadly mechanism wasnt too much for his body to take, and he could keep making them.
Moreover, the smaller the mechanism was, the harder it was to sense, so if Kiu Chi Gong walked into the corridor without knowing, he would definitely die. It was a short corridor, so it was obvious in a glance that there were no bloodstains present despite all the mechanisms that activated. So it showed that the mechanisms never managed to hit the intruder.
Chui Yims face fell as he stomped forward in anger. The empty racks entered his sight and made his blood boil. When he read the Field Guide Of Continents Minerals, he knew that some of the minerals he had were of high rank and important to his unconventional but wonderful forging ideas. With the mindset of making this place an actual workshop, he brought Kiu Chi Gong over.
How would he be happy when he saw that all his minerals were gone? But soon, his eyes landed on the dusty paper on the table. He wore an odd expression as soon as he read the letter.
Chui Yim rushed back to his dorm. He was unable to get used to the empty bed next to his and a kitchen with no aroma. Chui Yim smiled bitterly and shook his head after being absent-minded for a short second. Its my second time being a human, yet I still have these bad habits. Lam Ming is just ten years old, maybe ten years later, he will have already forgotten about me just like what the man said. Its best we both dont meet.
He walked to his bed and picked up a bag from the ground.