I can only beat noobs.

Chapter 2 Big Brother
"Is this a breakthrough?"

Chen Ming looked at his hands, feeling the real power within his body, and gaining many new insights into the "Iron Horse Stakes" technique. He felt a strange, indescribable emotion.

The original owner started practicing martial arts at the age of thirteen, beginning with this "Iron Horse Stake" technique. After three years of practice, he encountered a bottleneck, as if he was stuck, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not improve.

This card has been in use for four years.

Even after becoming a shop assistant in a trading company, with a busy work schedule, he still insisted on practicing stance training every day, rain or shine. He could only maintain his form.

Now, with just two experience points, I've broken through this bottleneck and reached a new level.

He glanced at the panel.

Name: Chen Ming

【Level: 3】

Current points: 0

[Technique: Iron Horse Stakes (Second Level 0/200+)]

Martial Arts Skills: Three Talents Fist (Proficient 21/200+), Eight Trigrams Saber Technique (Beginner 12/100+)

Suddenly, Chen Ming turned his head, looked at the two prisoners hiding in the corner, and walked towards them.

Hearing footsteps, the two prisoners screamed in terror, "Have mercy... I'll never do it again... Ah..."

Then came a barrage of punches and kicks, accompanied by screams of agony.

The prisoners next to them cheered, but it was too dark to see what was happening. Judging from the sound of the beating, it was a really bad beating.

……

Chen Ming continued beating them for several minutes until their pleas for mercy weakened, and finally he stopped.

Why didn't I get any experience points this time?

He began to think.

Is it because you can only gain experience from the same person once?
Or is it that because they completely lacked the will to fight, this didn't count as a fight?

More data is needed to confirm the exact reason.

"It seems I need to find a way to get out of this prison."

Chen Ming was getting annoyed by their moans and groans. "Shut up."

The two prisoners immediately became trembling with fear and dared not make a sound.

He went to a spot away from the toilet, found a relatively clean place to sit down, and began to study the new cheat device he had just acquired.

……

Before I knew it, it was dawn.

Chen Ming spent his first night after transmigrating in such an environment.

Suddenly, footsteps could be heard outside.

Two jailers called out, "Chen Ming, come out."

He took out his key and unlocked the chain.

Chen Ming felt somewhat uneasy, unsure of what he was about to face. Interrogation methods in this era were always simple and brutal; if no confession was made, torture would ensue.

He's not afraid of being beaten, he's just afraid these people will use dirty tricks to cripple him.

He smiled ingratiatingly, "Gentlemen, what brings you here?"

One of the dark-skinned jailers glanced at him and laughed, "If you had behaved this well yesterday, you wouldn't have gotten that beating."

So, it turns out that the original owner of this body was beaten to death by you.

Chen Ming lowered his head even further and said, "I was ignorant yesterday and caused trouble for you two officers."

The jailer recalled how the boy had been beaten bloody yesterday, yet he still stubbornly refused to admit his guilt, his neck bulging. He had rarely seen such a tough guy.

Unexpectedly, after one night, the kid seemed to have completely changed.

It seems that no matter how hard bones are, they are still no match for torture instruments.

He joked, "Looks like yesterday's beating really opened your eyes."

"I was indeed terrified of being beaten."

Before the jailer could say anything more, he suddenly heard his colleague cough lightly and say, "Chen Ming, the Jin family has withdrawn their lawsuit. You can go back now."

"Huh? Really?"

Chen Ming was overjoyed.

"Of course, you can leave once you've taken your things back."...

After the two jailers took the person away.

The dark-faced jailer was puzzled. "Brother Sheng, why are you being so polite to this kid? You even gave him back his clothes? The fabric was new; it's worth a lot of money."

Brother Sheng said earnestly, "You saw it yesterday too, how tough Chen Ming is. Overnight, his personality changed drastically, becoming so patient. Do you think he's afraid?"

"if not?"

Brother Sheng said quietly, "I've seen someone like that once before. He was wronged, but he was just as stubborn and refused to admit his guilt. After being imprisoned for a few years, his personality changed drastically. After being released, he disappeared. A few years later, he suddenly led a group of bandits into the city and wiped out all the enemies who had wronged him."

The dark-faced jailer swallowed hard. "Brother Sheng, don't scare me."

Brother Sheng walked inside with his hands behind his back, saying, "This person is Green-Backed Wolf."

Blue-backed wolf?
The dark-faced jailer was taken aback and felt a chill run down his spine.

This was the largest band of mountain bandits in the county. They had been running rampant for ten years, robbing passing merchants and travelers. Their infamy was so great that it could stop a child from crying.

……

As Chen Ming walked out of the prison cell, he felt a joy akin to being freed from a cage and returning to the mountains like a tiger returning to the forest; all the gloom in his heart vanished.

"Ah Ming".

Suddenly, he heard someone call his name. He turned around and exclaimed in surprise, "Big brother?"

Standing not far away was the original owner's older brother, Chen Rui.

Chen Ming suddenly realized that it was this older brother who had rescued him.

No wonder the Jin family suddenly withdrew the lawsuit, and the yamen suddenly released him.

Chen Rui looked a little tired, but his furrowed brows relaxed immediately after he saw him.

Chen Ming walked over and said solemnly, "Brother, thank you."

“We’re brothers, why are you talking about this? Come on, let’s go back. Your sister-in-law is still waiting for news at home.”

After he finished speaking, he got into a somewhat old horse-drawn carriage next to him.

Chen Ming got into the car, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

In the original owner's heart, there was some distance between him and this older brother, and their relationship was not close.

After their father passed away, Chen Rui inherited the family business, and soon after, he cut off Chen Ming's money and stopped supporting his martial arts training.

Left with no other choice, Chen Ming had to accept Chen Rui's arrangement and become a shop assistant at Jinyuansheng.

He naturally harbored resentment, and from then on, he hardly ever went home.

As a result, after the incident, only his elder brother ran around trying to get him out of prison.

Unfortunately, the original owner can no longer see it.

……

More than an hour later, I finally got home.

As soon as Chen Ming got out of the car, he saw his sister-in-law, Wei, had prepared a brazier at the door and asked him to step over it. She also took a willow branch and swept it over him a few times to sweep away the bad luck.

Nearby, many neighbors were watching the spectacle.

"Chen Er is out?"

"It's good that you're out."

"It's pitiful that a perfectly healthy person was beaten up like this."

"I knew it! We've watched Chen Ming grow up since he was a child, he would never do anything illegal..."

"..."

Chen Rui bowed deeply to his neighbors before leading his family inside.

Chen Ming had sharp ears and could hear some discordant voices in the crowd: "Chen Da has probably emptied the Chen family's coffers to save this good-for-nothing brother."

"Who says otherwise? I heard that Madam Wei sold off all of her dowry."

"It's really pitiful that Chen Rui, such an honest and upright person, is being dragged down by such a younger brother."

"If you ask me, we shouldn't have tried to rescue him..."

“Look how clever the Zhang family is. As soon as Chen Er got into trouble, they immediately came to cancel the engagement. They didn’t want to be dragged down by him.”

"..."

(End of this chapter)