I am the king of fighting!

Chapter 260 Before the game starts
A week later, South Town, Bay Area Garcia Estate.

"He's a nice... weirdo."

Lin Xi, who had just met the European emperor in the restaurant at noon, sat on the sofa in the hall and gave such an evaluation.

Krauser's speech, style and actions are quite European and classical. He has elegant manners and gentle tone. He looks quite like a knight, but... it is a bit crazy for modern people to imitate the ancient knights in every move.

It must be said that Lawrence Blood, who could become an alternative close friend of such an emperor, behaved very normally in front of outsiders. He did not have the indifferent attitude of the head of the family at all.

Of course, whether in terms of status or his own talents and strength, this Dark Emperor of Europe is qualified enough to do his own thing, live the life he wants, and become the person he aspires to be.

No matter what the future holds, at least for him, he is living a free life.

“Is the heart free…” Lin Xi could probably understand the other person’s state, and it couldn’t be explained more clearly than with a sentence from the Analects of Confucius: “Follow your heart’s desire, but don’t go beyond the rules.”

He does whatever he wants, but he does not go beyond the rules. He follows universal moral values ​​and fulfills the traditions of the Stroheim family. He is a good person to strangers, a good boss to subordinates, and a tough opponent to enemies...

His mind, body, and skills all go hand in hand, making him a martial artist of extremely high level.

However, Krauser himself has no interest in fighting, just as he has no interest in sports but can do anything. He practices martial arts in order to inherit the position of head of the family and become a more perfect human being.

Sometimes the field of fighters is so cruel. Whether it is Ryo Sakazaki or Krauser, they are not interested in fighting, but because of their extraordinary talents, they can still stand at a high position in a field.

If this world wasn't a world with extraordinary powers, people like them would probably live happier lives.

Sometimes, strength doesn't necessarily bring happiness.

"It's just that you should feel more at ease when you have the power in your hands." Lin Xi could understand them, but he couldn't empathize with them. He couldn't do what Ryo Sakazaki did, who experienced the darkness of society and still maintained an innocent heart, nor was he trapped in the tragic family affection of his original family like Krauser. What he had to do was very simple.

Hold freedom in your hands with strength.

As for whether such freedom is real freedom, or how he feels about freedom that is forced, he doesn't care. What he wants is the peace of mind that he can always hold on to everything.

"Hey, are there new people coming?" He was thinking quietly when he sensed a, no, a breath as vigorous as the sun and two breaths so weak that they were almost dead entering the room.

The white-haired man in motorcycle clothes was holding a blue-black helmet in his hand and had sunglasses on his face. His eyes could not be seen, but one could tell from his walking movements and posture that he had an arrogant personality. Behind him were two little kids, a boy and a girl. The boy was about eleven or twelve years old, and the girl was older, about thirteen or fourteen years old.

The boy hid behind the girl with a look of fear and fear on his face, wearing a coat that was obviously much larger than his size.

The girl was wrapped in bandages all over her body. Her festering skin made her stink all over. Her muscles were trembling in pain with every move. But she still stood firmly in front of the boy. Her lungs seemed to turn into a broken bellows when she breathed, making a wheezing sound.

[This style...K'? ]

When Lin Xi saw it, the protagonist of the King of Fighters chapter immediately popped up in her mind, but the time was obviously wrong. At the end of 91, K' should still be serving as an experimental subject in the Nest. Similar outfits but different people? Was my memory stolen? Or are there other travelers in this world?
At this moment, his mind was full of thoughts.

K' had no idea that his appearance betrayed him. His expression remained unchanged, and his palm quietly bent. Just now, his palm began to blur, which meant that just by appearing in front of Lin Xi, he began to affect the stability of the current historical node.

[This guy...] He narrowed his eyes behind his sunglasses. His strong intuition told him that if he told the other person his name now, he might be driven away by the Earth Consciousness. So he slightly changed his original self-introduction and said, "Senior, my name is Maxima, and I am a participant in this King of Boxing Tournament."

[Sorry, Maxima, I can borrow your name for a moment.]

Lin Xi resisted the urge to complain. He used K's style, but his name was Cyborg Maxima. Could he really be a time traveler from somewhere?

It's too rough.

"Cough~cha~" After the girl coughed, a mouthful of pus and blood spurted out, and she fell to the ground. The boy anxiously wanted to help her. Her bright eyes revealed some tenderness and sadness, and her trembling hands tried to touch her -

Lin Xi had lifted her up without knowing when. The magnetic force penetrated into her body, but the collision with the internal magnetic field was extremely weak.

"Multiple organ failure, damaged nervous system, muscles." He found the needle holes all over the girl's body and her fragile skin that had been soaked in nutrient solution for a long time. He spoke calmly, but his originally gentle tone became a little low: "Where did you get it?"

【really……】

K', no, at this moment, Maxima put down a stone in his heart. Coming from the future, he knew that there was a female cyborg named Ying Luo beside Lin Xi, and he had a great aversion to human body modification. Moreover, in 1991, the bloody surgery that would shine in the future had been created and perfected. It was not until five years later that the process of the first cyborg Sudum's fight against the Kingdom of Heaven was discovered. The secret technique that originally looked extremely bloody was given a new name -

The secret art of creation.

Lin Xi, who had left the world at that time because he would cause natural disasters, had long been missing. Even though a large number of fighters had partially restored the secret art of creation with the help of the wave flow master Gangquan and the bloody battle Yuan Wudi, they still could not find out the core of the secret art of creation. Why could it be freely transformed inside the human body without any rejection, deformation and mental mismatch, and succeed in one go? In the subsequent adjustments, it even created the perfect transformed man Sudum who could continue to become stronger.

Interestingly, most of the beneficiaries of the secret art of creation in the future will be one-to-one replicas of Sudum's body, and then fine-tuned. Other transformation plans not only have a very high failure rate, but may even turn the person into a madman after success. In the crazy era of the invasion of the Kingdom of Heaven, fighters live and die in the same day, and turning into a madman is the most terrible end.

And he... is a successful case replicated by the perfect cyborg Sudum.

Knowing the other party's abilities well, he understood that if there was anyone who could save his dying sister Seirah who was ravaged by the unscrupulous transformation and experiments of the Nest in 1991, it could only be Lin Xi, the creator of the secret art of creation and the legendary strongman whose whereabouts in the future are unknown.

"As for them, I picked them up in an experimental base and was going to throw them into an orphanage." Maxima pretended to be distressed, "I didn't expect that they had so many injuries on their bodies. The orphanage would not accept two children who were about to die." Lin Xi frowned slightly. He always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong. After thinking for a while, he still lent a helping hand, infusing magnetic force into the girl's body. The bloody operation accurately removed the festering skin and muscles, and repaired the damaged nervous system.

Well, he was itching to do it and moved some things a little bit. The main reason was that he was very familiar with the transformation of the nervous system. He was so skilled that he subconsciously changed the nervous system to be more suitable for controlling the distribution of qi. Since the girl did not have much qi in her body (yes, a girl who was thirteen or fourteen years old and had been transformed actually had qi, her talent was really terrifying), he did not dare to directly replace the originally inefficient nervous system.

Organ failure is a bit tricky, but it's not a big problem. Just spend a little more energy. Other injuries, big or small, are not difficult and can be healed with regeneration.

"Puff~Puff~" The girl's condition was getting better, and her body was reborn. However, during the bloody operation, it looked quite terrifying from the outside, with flesh and blood bursting, and foul-smelling blood mixed with rotten flesh flying everywhere. The boy fainted on the spot from fright.

On the contrary, the weird fighter Maxima stared at her with a burning gaze, which made Lin Xi wonder, what's wrong with this guy? The scene was obviously bloody and terrifying, why was his eyes so fiery?

After the operation was completed, he threw the girl into a pool of blood and picked up the unconscious boy next to her. He drove one sheep and let two sheep go. He simply dealt with them both and treated it as a practice for the bloody surgery.

"This little guy..." He was surprised again. The boy looked timid and unconfident, but he actually had a lot of energy in his body. His muscle tissue had been modified, and simple stimulation could unleash the power of a fighter.

It's just that the bones, nervous system and brain seem to have hidden injuries due to the transformation. Well, this is not difficult for him. It is much easier to repair than the girl next to him who almost died.

Lin Xi easily dealt with the two patients and stared at Maxima opposite him for a long time, then suddenly said, "You want me to save them, right?" When he saw the girl kneeling on the ground just now, his intuition sensed something, but he just wanted to save her.

He would never admit that he was thinking of his own Xiaoyu.

The two unconscious children were lying in a filthy mixture of blood and minced meat, and the atmosphere seemed to become a little depressing.

After a long while, Maxima sighed deeply, took off his sunglasses, revealed a beast-like look in his eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Thank you for your help, senior."

Really?
Lin Xi still couldn't understand why he was being plotted against here. Even if he was a time traveler, he shouldn't know his secret techniques and intelligence.

"Sorry, senior." Maxima came over without any precautions, his muscles were very relaxed, with an apologetic expression on his face. He held the two children in his arms regardless of the blood stains, looked at Lin Xi deeply, and said, "I can't tell you now, but it will be soon."

"And thank you again for your help." He bowed deeply and left with the two children, leaving a mess behind.

Lin Xi looked at his back and felt that the back seemed a little unreal, but it became solid the next second.

"Such a mysterious contestant?"

"It seems like the King of Fighters Tournament is well worth the money."
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A day later, East Island, Howard Arena.

"Everyone, today is the deadline for all contestants to board the airship to participate in the competition."

Hopper, with long hair and a suit, and Ripper, with a bald head and a suit, stood on the stage and spoke loudly. The two helicopters in the field made a loud noise.

The auditorium was empty. The big screen, live broadcast equipment and everything were ready. There were staff coming and going everywhere. The live broadcast of the quarterfinals was taking place here. There were delays in both TV and Internet broadcasts. For such a global fighting event, gambling was the most important part. There was no reason for the Howard Consortium to give up such a huge profit.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the gambling process, the Howard Arena, a broadcast center with different broadcast delays and zero delay, was deliberately set up to sell tickets at high prices.

Ordinary people certainly won’t spend a lot of money to watch the live broadcast, but people from the gambling industry around the world will definitely not be absent.

"The fighters who have arrived so far are—"

"The invincible dragon of Extreme Flow, Ryo Sakazaki!" Ryo Sakazaki stood in the middle of the field with his hands folded across his chest, his face calm.

"Wolfgang Krauser Stroheim, head of the Stroheim family!" Krauser, wearing a cloak with a red inside and a gold outside and dark gold armor, stood aside and looked coldly at the huge spaceship hovering in the sky.

"Howard United's representative fighter Billy Kane!" Billy Kane, holding a red stick, was in high spirits. He took the initiative to participate in this King of Boxing tournament and wanted to prove that he was still useful in the competition.

"Lin Xi, the big devil of Hong Kong Island!" Lin Xi smiled and nodded to Klausa, then looked at the blond young man in the distance who seemed familiar but had never been seen before, especially the familiar hat.

"Andy Bogard, the successor of Shiranui!" Andy Bogard looked very heavy. Hanzo Shiranui was hospitalized due to illness a few days ago. In addition, his junior sister Mai Shiranui was missing. Now he has to face unimaginable strong enemies. It is difficult for him to be happy.

"Rising fighter Rock!" Rock Howard stood in the corner with a hat on, looking low-key. As a visitor from another time and space, he did not want to attract the attention of the natives of this time and space, especially the most important figures at the current historical node, but it seemed that the target seemed to have been staring at him.

"And the up-and-coming fighter Maxima!" 'Maxima' was still wearing sunglasses and had earphones on his ears. He seemed to be in a good mood, humming a song, and not paying any attention to what was happening outside.

As for this newcomer... those who understand will understand, and there is no point in explaining if you don’t understand.

"Whoosh~" a strong wind blew past, blowing up some dust.

"Sorry, sorry." Terry Bogard held up his hat, swept his sharp eyes over everyone present, and threw out the invitation letter between the index and middle fingers of his other hand.

"It seems that I am not late yet."

(End of this chapter)