'You brat! Don't tell me that you ditched school again.'
Lin Chen, who was running on the sidewalk, rubbed his forehead before he raised his eyebrows and whispered softly to himself. "Why do I feel like someone's getting angry at me?"
After thinking about it for a few more seconds, Lin Chen shrugged his shoulders and decided to ignore the feeling. 'Well, it's probably nothing..'
He stopped running and began looking around. Lin Chen had reached Finnaway Town, which was the home of former World Rank #07 cultivator, Yanwon.
"This is it!" Lin Chen exclaimed with a bright smile on his face before continuing. "Now, where the hell was that resort located?"
Lin Chen had remembered one of his earlier interviews in which Yangwon mentioned him being an active member of an illegal underground fighting club, which he said had helped him gain more experience and rank up realms quicker than usual.
Although he did mention that the club had eventually closed down and the fights were no longer being held, the news outlets in the future would prove otherwise. The information about the club still being active would begin circulating among reputable investigative journalists, which eventually lead to a raid in the Green Bird Resorts, where the club activities were being held.
Lin Chen began walking around the town, searching for the Green Bird resort until he reached the very outskirts of the city, close to the Garjuhan Forest, where he found the building that he was looking for.
"Seriously? Is this really the place?" Lin Chen raised his eyebrows and stared at the building in front of him with suspicious eyes. The Greed Bird Resort was located in the outer regions of the city, and the building looked like it wasn't maintained properly, with small cracks visible on the edges of the structure and the paint seemed to have gotten pale. Besides that, there were cobwebs present on the windows, and the front door creaked loudly when it was opened.
'If this is some kind of cover to distract the authorities, then bravo…' Lin Chen chose to believe that the owners of the resort were only pretending to be managing a rundown resort in order to escape the watchful eye of the Protector Organization.
Lin Chen decided to give the place the benefit of the doubt and walked through the entrance after taking a deep breath.
"Welcome, young man." The receptionist at the front desk, a young woman with red hair and blue eyes, stared at Lin Chen with a beaming smile on her face as she spoke. "Will you be staying at Green Bird resort today?"
"No, no, no, actually…" Lin Chen shook his head, as he began reciting the secret code that the patrons of the club used to say in order to gain access to the place. "... I like to sit at a pub and watch something entertaining. What do you say, ladybird?"
As soon as Lin Chen finished speaking, the receptionist's expression changed in an instant, and she scanned him from top to bottom before stretching out her hand under the desk and tapping a small button, and all of a sudden..
ZAM! WHAM!
"Whoa.." Lin Chen exclaimed with widened eyes as he felt the ground suddenly shaking under his feet. His gaze then went to the door right beside the receptionist's desk, and his eyes narrowed.
The receptionist paid no mind to his curious expression and instead got up from her seat and walked towards the door beside her, and Lin Chen followed close behind.
Creak!
The door made a creaking noise upon opening, and the receptionist moved to the side and turned her gaze back to Lin Chen, who was staring at what he was seeing with a smile on his face.
'Even I have to admit…' He said to himself as he stepped inside what looked to be the interior of a secret elevator that was hidden behind a seemingly normal looking door. '... This is pretty cool.'
"Good luck customer." The receptionist spoke in a monotone voice as she closed the door, and Lin Chen was left standing alone inside the secret elevator.
ZAM! WHAM!
All of a sudden, Lin Chen felt the ground shake once again, and the elevator started moving down.
The elevator moved downwards for a few seconds before it stopped abruptly, making the floor beneath Lin Chen's feet shake once again.
'Is that going to happen every single time?' Lin Chen looked annoyed as the door creaked open, and a large fat man wearing a black suit and sunglasses stood in front of him.
"This way.." The man turned around and began walking away from him as soon as he finished speaking, and Lin Chen thought for a split second before he exited the elevator, following the fat guy.
Lin Chen looked around as he walked. The entire pathway had the appearance of an old mine. As he walked forward, Lin Chen could hear the noises of crowds getting louder and louder, and he raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah! Get that guy! Fuck him up!"
"Dang it! I bet all my money on that guy! Can't believe he got knocked out so easily!"
"Are you sure that guy was a professional fighter? It didn't seem like he could take a hit!"
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't make up excuses, bud! Your boy lost, and you just gotta accept that fact!"
The fat guy brought Lin Chen to what looked like an underground layer, where he saw a large crowd of people standing around an enormous metal cage, laughing and cheering as a bloodied and beaten up fighter was pulled off the ring.
"So this is what an illegal fight club looks like…" Lin Chen's eyes sparkled with interest as he watched the winner of the fight raise his fist up in the air, and the crowd instantly went wild.
"Betting is over there.." The fat guy said as he pointed at a pathway a few meters away from them. Lin Chen shook his head, and the fat guy looked at him confused.
"I'm not here just to bet…" He said with a smile. "I'm also here to fight!"