Invincible Copy System
Chapter Summary
After his death, countless people urged her to remarry, yet she had endured all these years without ever considering it. Besides, afterward the gap between Su Fei and Liu Ning had grown too wide, so Mother stopped thinking along those lines. Had Mother not seen that ten thousand, she would have beaten him to death; to a family like theirs, ten thousand was a huge sum.
“I'm not sure what happened either. Maybe because things were so urgent, I suddenly Awakened.”
Liu Ning had no way to explain it. Could he really tell his mother he'd Transmigrated here and had a Replication System? She would never believe it.
Tears welled in his mother's eyes as she covered her mouth. If this truly was an Awakening, it was wonderful—her years of bitter hardship were finally ending.
His mother had loved Liu Ning's father deeply. After his death, countless people urged her to remarry, yet she had endured all these years without ever considering it. But to secure a wife for Liu Ning, she was willing to endure this humiliation.
“Where did you get so much money? The Gathering Point only gives ten thousand, right?”
To hide her fluster, Mother began tidying Liu Ning's things—and found tens of thousands in his pockets.
“Su Fei gave it…”
Mother had once held resentment toward Su Fei, but women understand women; she knew Su Fei was another pitiable child. To save her own mother, the girl had had no choice.
Besides, afterward the gap between Su Fei and Liu Ning had grown too wide, so Mother stopped thinking along those lines. She never expected the girl still had such affection and integrity. A high-schooler able to produce that sum must have emptied her savings. The Su family wasn't well-off; this was her way of compensating us.
“She's a poor child too. You mustn't hold it against her. It's all because We had no ability…”
Mother was kind-hearted; having blamed Su Fei before, she Now spoke on the girl's behalf.
Liu Ning answered absent-mindedly and hurried into his room. He had too many questions right Now to chat.
Inside stood an old-fashioned computer, a genuine antique. People nowadays used virtual screens, but Liu Ning had no money, so this was all he could use.
What Liu Ning wanted to look up was the Thousand Jin Fist.
Thousand Jin Fist was an extremely common Cultivation Technique; once you became a Warrior Apprentice you could obtain its Secret Manual. From the internet Liu Ning learned every technique had nine levels. After all those years Second Wu had only reached about the third or fourth level. Online sources said that at the ninth level a Warrior Apprentice—whose standard was 200 kg of force—could punch out 1,800 kg.
Liu Ning lacked exact data, but judging from what just happened, Second Wu's strength was around 700 kg. Yet a casual punch from Liu Ning had floored him. Could he already be at the ninth level? When the Replication System copied something, did it give the highest version?
Thinking of this, Liu Ning smiled. After all, it meant he had one more life-saving card—crucial in these circumstances.
But then he remembered another problem: one replication cost ten thousand yuan. That was rather steep—his own life had only been worth twenty thousand!
If Su Fei hadn't given him those tens of thousands, he would've been exposed just Now. Had Mother not seen that ten thousand, she would have beaten him to death; to a family like theirs, ten thousand was a huge sum.
“Xiao Ning, come out—neighbour Auntie Zhang is here…”
Mother's voice drifted in. Auntie Zhang, the famous local matchmaker, found wives for Patrol Team Members and often looked after their family.
“Auntie Zhang…” Liu Ning opened the door to see a kindly middle-aged woman.
“Look at this fuss—Xiao Ning's so young and already going out on patrol.”
Seeing Liu Ning, Auntie Zhang's eyes reddened. In everyone's eyes, he was the type who would die on his first mission.
“Child, let me speak plainly. Don't care how she looks or how old she is—as long as she can leave you a child and keep the Liu Family line alive, that's enough.”
Auntie Zhang knew about Liu Ning and Su Fei, so she assumed he had high standards.
Liu Ning wanted to protest, but under his mother's gaze he shut his mouth.
Although Liu Ning claimed he'd had a Breakthrough, Mother still half-doubted; without an official document from Base City, nothing was certain. Besides, if he truly had ability, he could marry dozens of wives like other big shots—but that was for later.
For Now they had to plan for the worst, lest they end up with nothing.
“That's right. We poor folk must accept our fate. Besides, the girl Auntie Zhang found has men queuing for her! Without my guarantee, she wouldn't even come.”
As Auntie Zhang spoke, someone entered the doorway.
Liu Ning looked up. Auntie Zhang hadn't exaggerated; the woman wasn't stunning but definitely head-turning—on twenty-first-century Earth she'd be a coveted “older sister” type.
“Please sit…” Liu Ning's mother was first to react. She had expected someone much older, but the woman looked only in her early thirties and very well kept.
Auntie Zhang watched closely; if the woman sat, the deal was set.
She glanced at Liu Ning without a word, then sat down nearby and looked at Auntie Zhang with an inquiring gaze.
Liu Ning knew there had to be a story.
Sure enough, the woman's family needed thirty thousand yuan—dowry money for her younger brother's bride.
“No problem, no problem at all. It's only right.”
Mother beamed. To find someone like this was already beyond expectation, and they had planned to pay anyway; the woman hadn't asked an exorbitant sum.
What happened next stunned Liu Ning: the woman produced a phone-like device and registered the marriage contract. Only then did Liu Ning learn her name—Zhang Jing.
She had been married before, to a Patrol Team Member who had died Outside the City three months after the wedding.
For some reason, as Liu Ning pressed his thumbprint, Su Fei flashed through his mind—that girl who had given him all her money and left him in tears.
In the past he'd had no power to change her path, but from Now on… he resolved he would not let Su Fei marry Xue Ying.
The rest followed naturally. That evening they invited the neighbours; the dowry paid out roughly matched the gifts received. Most dishes were vegetarian—meat was too expensive and they couldn't afford it. Fortunately the neighbours didn't complain; they pitied Liu Ning's mother, since the boy's chance of survival was zero.
Liu Ning felt a twinge of fear.