Chapter 005: Iron Shirt Shows Its Power
Just as he came downstairs, Lin Feng saw a young thief with a vicious look on his face, holding a black bag in one hand, quickly walking out of the apartment building where Lin Feng's family lived.
The thief was clearly a habitual offender. Although Lin Jingye was shouting, he remained calm despite the panic. Seeing that Lin Feng, who was holding a mop, was just a student, he didn't take him seriously.
"Little Feng, stop him!"
Lin Jingye also chased down from upstairs holding a stool, his expression extremely panicked. That bag contained all of Lin Jingye's possessions. If it was stolen, it would undoubtedly be adding insult to injury for the Lin family, whose financial situation wasn't particularly comfortable.
Without hesitation, Lin Feng raised the mop and rushed forward.
A sinister gleam flashed in the thief's eyes. He pulled out a spring-loaded switchblade from his pocket and viciously stabbed it toward Lin Feng's abdomen.
Lin Feng was startled. Spring-loaded switchblades were extremely sharp. Although the opponent's knife was aimed at his abdomen, if it stabbed in, even if he didn't die, he'd lose half his life.
Lin Feng quickly gripped the mop tightly with both hands, using the mop head to push against the thief's chest, not letting the thief get close to him.
The thief was experienced in confrontations. He used his arm to knock aside the mop, and the hand gripping the switchblade only slowed slightly before quickly stabbing toward Lin Feng's abdomen again.
To protect himself, Lin Feng decisively held the mop horizontally with both hands, placing it in front of his body, and forcefully pulled in his abdomen, hoping to dodge the opponent's vicious strike.
Perhaps because he hadn't expected Lin Feng's reaction ability to be so fast, the thief's stab missed. However, he didn't stop there. Instead, he backhanded another slash toward Lin Feng's abdomen.
Lin Feng didn't dodge this strike.
Feeling the cold sensation brought by the blade's edge on his abdomen, after Lin Feng realized he'd been cut, the fear in his heart decreased considerably. Instead, quite a bit of fighting spirit was aroused. He thought that since he'd already taken one cut and his life or death was uncertain, even if he died, he'd drag the thief down with him. He didn't retreat, still holding the mop with both hands, blocking it in front of the thief.
The consequences of being caught stealing were extremely miserable!
The thief hadn't expected Lin Feng to be so fearless of death. At this time, Lin Jingye had already caught up. The thief finally panicked. He randomly stabbed Lin Feng's abdomen two more times, then forcefully used his body to knock Lin Feng aside, threw the bag in his hand on the ground, and fled from the courtyard in a panic.
"Xiao Feng, how are you?" Lin Jingye's face was deathly pale. He had just seen the thief stab Lin Feng with the knife. If he had known the thief was carrying a weapon, he absolutely wouldn't have let Lin Feng go forward to stop him. If something really happened to Lin Feng, he wouldn't have any reason to live either.
Scanning Lin Feng up and down, seeing that Lin Feng's t-shirt had been slashed open and the expression on his face was also one of bewilderment, Lin Jingye thought Lin Feng had been stabbed silly and broke out in a cold sweat.
"What happened, what happened?" At this time, Yang Huiru also rushed out. She picked up Lin Jingye's bag from the ground. Seeing that Lin Jingye ignored her and instead looked at Lin Feng with a worried and tense expression, Yang Huiru's body trembled. In two or three steps, she rushed to Lin Feng's side. "Xiao Feng, how are you?"
"Ah, I'm fine." Lin Feng tugged at his t-shirt. "My clothes got torn."
Yang Huiru carefully checked and, confirming that Lin Feng wasn't injured, finally breathed a sigh of relief. "These thieves nowadays are too brazen."
"Xiao Feng, are you really okay?" Lin Jingye still didn't dare believe it.
"I'm fine." Lin Feng nodded.
Lin Jingye let out a long breath. Thinking about the previous scene, he still felt very frightened. He quickly found his phone in the bag and called the police.
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After Lin Feng returned to his bedroom, he took off the torn t-shirt and looked at the white line mark and two small white circular marks on his abdomen. His emotions were extremely excited.
The white line mark was from the thief's slash, and the two white dots were from the thief's stabs. Whether it was the slash or the two stabs, they had all solidly landed on Lin Feng's body. The tear in his clothes and the two small holes were solid evidence. Yet Lin Feng himself was completely unharmed.
Although both the slash and the two stabs hadn't hit Lin Feng with full force due to various reasons, even if it didn't disembowel him and kill him, it shouldn't have just left a few marks, right?
Iron Shirt! All of this was thanks to Iron Shirt!
It was real—the Peach Blossom Manual was real!
Lin Feng was so excited he wanted to shout. He could imagine that with the Peach Blossom Manual, his future life would definitely be wonderful.
Lin Feng also established his life goal—to complete the tasks randomly triggered by the Peach Blossom Manual, find the confidantes from his nine lives, and win their hearts.
After all, since he knew there was reincarnation, no one would want to be permanently reincarnated into the Beast Realm in the future. Moreover, knowing that he had a confidante in each of his lives, and that they were all in the mortal world in this life, Lin Feng also developed a desire to meet them.
Lying in bed tossing and turning, he didn't know how much time had passed before Lin Feng finally fell into a deep sleep.
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The next day, as usual, Lin Feng and Tian Mengqian went to school together.
Tian Mengqian was the type of well-behaved girl who arrived at school right on time. When the two of them arrived at school, it was almost class time, and there were hardly any people left at the school gate.
Zhang Kaiwei, along with two delinquents, was squatting in a corner to one side of the school gate. When Zhang Kaiwei saw Lin Feng, he stood up and looked at Lin Feng with ill-intentioned eyes.
Even if he hadn't learned Iron Shirt, Lin Feng wouldn't have been particularly afraid, let alone now.
Ignoring the threatening looks from Zhang Kaiwei and the other two, Lin Feng put his hands in his pockets and continued walking lazily toward the school.
"You really do have guts, kid!" Seeing that he'd brought two people and Lin Feng still didn't care, Zhang Kaiwei resented Lin Feng even more. He turned to look at his two companions beside him, his tone carrying a hint of provocation. "Hunchbacked, isn't this kid arrogant enough? Let's teach him how to be a proper person."
A tall, thin guy with dyed red hair walked over with a hunched posture.
This was the skinny that Zhang Kaiwei mentioned. skinny wasn't actually hunchbacked, but deliberately acted that way to show his decadence and rebelliousness. He looked at Lin Feng with cold eyes and said indifferently, "I'm called skinny. You've heard my name, right?"
"I have." Lin Feng nodded.
skinny wasn't a student at Qinglan Middle School, but rather a student at the nearby technical school. He spent all day loitering around this area. Because he was ruthless and dared to fight, he was taken under the wing of a real street thug, and his reputation in the Qinglan Middle School area was fairly decent. Lin Feng had also heard of him.
"Now kneel down and apologize to Zhang Kaiwei, then go buy a carton of cigarettes. This matter will be over. If anyone bullies you in the future, just mention my name, skinny."
"I don't have the habit of kneeling to people."
Zhang Kaiwei was actually somewhat worried that Lin Feng would kneel and apologize, because what he wanted wasn't for Lin Feng to kneel, but to beat Lin Feng up thoroughly. Seeing that Lin Feng didn't know what was good for him, Zhang Kaiwei was secretly pleased and quickly said, "skinny, see? People who haven't suffered losses are like this. If you don't beat him up, he'll never know his place."
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